Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1941 — Page 1

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CITY COUNCIL

CREATES NEW

‘TRAFFIC COURT

‘Cafeteria’ to Open July 1; Milk Hearing Set; Time +Vote Deferred.

! By RICHARD LEWIS Na. city Council set June 2 for public hearing on the milk grading ordinance and approved the final step for the cafeteria court system last night. - At & meeting in which members digressed on a variety of subjects, from criticism of the Streets Department to arrangements for hav- _ ing their own pictures taken, Councilmen: : 1. Passed. the legal phase of the cafeteria court, designating a'series of municipal traffic offenses for which motorists may pay fixed fines without trial at a Traffic Violation Bureau. 2. Decided to act quickly on the milk ordinance, following a publ ic hearing at the next session.

Defers Vote on Time 3. Struck from the files a’ proposal to authorize the City to engage in collective bargaining with sanitation plant employees. 4. Struck from the files a year-old ordinance which would have abolished all taxi-cab stands outside of the downtown district. + _ 9. Withheld actibn on Daylight Saving Time, on receipt of information from Secretary of State James Tucker that enabling legislation would not take effect until on or after June 1. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city Health officer, warned the Council that unless the milk grading ordinance is Jossed, the City will be without afi adequate inspection system after July 1. Changes in the} milk control perposal provide for the automatic expiration of the City’s co-operative inspection plan operated in conjunction with the milk industry on that date, he said. Permits Only Grade A

The proposed ordinance, which would permit only Grade A milk to be sold for direct consumption in Indianapolis, provides for the largest inspection force the City has ever had. Funds are derived from an gssessment levied on the industry, according to the ordinance. In a brief talk to the Council, Dr. Morgan said he was certain the new law would neither raise the tax rate nor the price of milk. . Following the allocation of funds to finance the cafeteria court last month, the Council took the final step in creating the new bureau by listing offenses and penalties to come under its’ jurisdiction. "Pines, are $2 for the first offense, $3 for the seccnd and $5 for. the third, with a mandatory court ap(Continued on Page Two)

NAVY WILL PATROL GREENWOOD LAKE

. Times Special WASHINGTON, May 20. — The Navy intends to patrol the 600-acre Greenwood Lake in Southern Indiana, Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) was informed today. Capt. J. C. Byrnes of the Naval Ordnance Department told him patrols will be necessary because the lake “offers a good avenue of ingress to the Burns City naval ammunition depot where a billion dollars worth of supplies will be stored.” ~The Senator inquired as to the Navy’s plans on .the appeal of J. Albert Jackson, secretary of the Federal Savings and Loan Associa- " tion, Bloomfield, who urged that the depot not be permitted to ruin recteational facilities of the only lake | in Southern Indiana.

FOLLOW COMMUNITY LIFE, MOTHERS TOLD

BOSTON, May 20 (U. P.).—Three thousand delegates to the 45th National Congress of Parents and Teachers were told today that if mothers are to hold their own in understanding current affairs they must follow their husbands and children into the community life. Representing America’s 28444 _ Parent-Teacher Associations with a membership of 2,500,000, the delegates devoted the day to a discussion of modern problems in community living.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Clapper .......13 Comics cides al Crossword ....20 Editorials ..14 Financial .....18 Flynn ........14|Rad . Forum Bop 218 Gallup Poll . Homemaking. ee In Indpls Inside ndpis. 13 Jane Jordan ..15 Johnson ood)

Mrs. I re 14 Obituaries .... 5 Pegler ........

Side Glances. 2 ..16

Sports So Deaths. . 5

'ravel News... 4!

Needy Get

Mayor's Shoes

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Goodwill Industries Ask All Other Citizens for Clothing

After spring housecleaning,’ there remains the problem of those old clothes which don’t fit any more and only add to the confusion when

you are hunting in the closet in the

morning hurry.

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, co-operating with Indianapolis Goodwill Industries, Inc., demonstrated today how to solve that problem and

at the same time benefit hundreds

CONFESSION IN 5 DEATHS GLAIMED

Sheriff Says Son-in-Law Of Elder Agrues Admits Farm Slayings.

(Photo, Page Two) . LAWRENCEBURG, Ind., May 20 (U.P.),—Sheriff William Winegard announced todav that Virginius (Dink) ;. Carter, 33, has confessed that he shot and killed five members of the Johnson Agrue family on their Aurora farnr Friday. Carter, illiterate son-in-law of Johnson Agrue and his wife, has been questioned by officers since Saturday and underwent a lie detector test in State Police headquarters at Indianapolis yesterday. Sheriff Winegard’s announcement that Carter admitted the. slayings, was made from Brookville where he had taken the suspect. . Np details were given, but Wine- J gard said he would return to Lawrenceburg early this afternoon and issue a statement. Accompanying Winegard when the "confession was obtained were Arthur Voit and Ted Cook, deputies, and Lester Baker, Prosecuting Attorney of Dearborn County. Mr. Baker was expected to ask Circuit Judge William D.. Ricketts to convene the Grand Jury “as soon as possible.” . Until he broke today, Carter steadfastly’ maintained his innocence and denied being at the Agrue farm Friday, the Sheriff said. While he was being questioned, mass funeral services were conducted here for the victims whose bodies, shot in the back, were found scattered over the Agrue farm Saturday. A shotgun known to have been kept in the farmhouse is missin

g. . Victims of the mass slaying, besides Mr, and Mrs. Johnson Agrue, were their two sons, Leo and William, and a granddaughter, Mary Bregden.

WIFE SUES CUDAHY. ON HIS INDUCTION DAY

LOS ANGELES, May 20 (U. PJ).

10| —Michael Cudahy, 33,.of the .Chi-

cago meat packing family, who is to be inducted into the Army today at the regular starting salary of $21 a month, was - presented - with a

9| $600 a month separate maintenance

suit by his wife. They were married last Jan. 6 at Las Vegas, Nev., and separated last month, her complaint said. She charged he was “cruel and inhuman” and had impaired her

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of needy persons in ithe. Industries’ drive to collect old clothes and furniture tomorrow. : The Mayor rummaged in the closet and extracted an old pair of black sho€s ‘which he wore during his first Administration, in 1932. "Two representatives of - Goodwill Inductries, Inc, held open a large paper bag. The Mayor dropped the shoes into it.

Helps Both Parties

That was No. 1. citizen doing a good turn. It .was mutual. He disposed of ' the shoes which he didn’t want to throw away because he is practical and Goodwill Industries gained the shoes which industry craftsmen will make as good as new again. To Goodwill Thdustries, every article of clothing and furniture is useful, no matter what condition it is in. Acting om this theory, the Industries will send 100 trucks out tomorrow to collect the unwanted articles all over the city.

Articles Are Renovated

At ° Goodwill Industries Headquarters, Fletcher Ave. and Noble St., the gifts will be renovated by 50 handicapped men and women employed there. The articles then | will be sold at a nominal cost which

dustries. The Industries particularly needs outgrown children’s clothing, dresses, overcoats and men’s shirts as well as gas stoves, baby beds, . oil stoves, rugs, chairs, kitchen cabinets, davenports and clocks. Anyone who wants to solve the old clothes problem -may do so simply by calling the Industries at JM A+9406. A truck will come to the oor.

FOIL CHILE ‘REVOLT SANTIAGO, Chile; May 20 (U. P.).—Documents seized in a raid on the headquarters .of the pro-Nazi Vanguardia Popular Socialist Party last Friday revealed that its members had been preparing a revolution, authorities said today.

{pays the workmen at the In-

HOME DEFENSE POSITION GIVEN T0 LAGUARDIA

New York Mayor to Direct Volunteer Program for Civilians.

WASHINGTON, May 20 (U. PJ). —President Roosevelt today named Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardian of New York as director of a new Office of Civilian Defense, designed

to train men, women and young people on a voluntary basis for such non-military wartime tasks as air raid wardens, first-aid administrators and soup kitchen operators. Mr. LaGuardia will serve without pay. He will retain his posts as Mayor of New York and chairman of the Joint U, S.-Canadian Defense Board. Aimed at giving every non-mili-tary individual in the United States a chance to do his or her “bit,” the program has been long in formation. : Decentralization Stressed

The OCD will seek decentralization of home defense activities as much as possible. With local units operating through state defense councils now established in 45 of the 48 states. Further, the country will be divided into nine districts,

| {with headquarters in the nine cities

where Army corps areas have their

| headquarters.

Those who are expected to volun-

| teer for training in the essential {non-military tasks fall roughly into {two categories:

1. Men who are exempt from the Selective Service Act but wish to

i gs their part in the national de- |° a foe ®2 Individual women and women’s |

lorganizations which #lst desire to

help. Asks Volunteer List

The War Department has heen instructed by Mr. Roosevelt to forward to Mr. LaGuardia the names of men, exempt from the draft, who bave expressed willingness to serve in the volunteer activities. Women’s activities will fall into a subdivision of the OCD known as the Volunteer Participation Committee. Mr. Roosevelt refused to discuss whether his appointment of Mr. LaGuardia would give the dynamic Mayor: anything approximating cabinet rank.” He said he felt that this point was a very small question to be raised in view of the importance of the new program to the nation’s defense effort. Mr. Roosevelt said he did not know how creation of the new agency would affect the OPM Division of State and Local Co-opera-tion now headed by Frank Bane. ~The OCD will be organized under the Office of Emergency Management on a strictly voluntary basis, the President said. Wayne Coy of Indiana heads the OEM and was understood to have drafted the OCD setup as his first major contribution in that ‘office. He was advised by Budget Director (Continued on ontinued on Page Two)

FORD DELIVERS NEW 6-CYLINDER MODELS

Cost $15 Less Than Eights; Have 90-Horsepower.

DETROIT, May 20 (U. P.)—The Ford Motor Co. today announced it was making deliveries of new 90horsepower 8-cylinder Ford avitomobiles. The engines are interchangeable with the 90-horsepower V-8 cylinder mofor now used in all deluxe and super deluxe passenger car body types as well as commercial cars and trucks. The G6-cylinder Ford will cost $15 less than the eights. The company said that “owing to priorities given to defense work, normal production of 6-cylinder cars probably will not be in full swing until early fall.” Originally it was planned to get them on the market early this’ year but several shipments were recalled to the factory

for changes, it was learned

Heads New OCD

Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia

F. D. R. AVOIDS CONVOY TOPIC

Capital Hears British Fleet Slights Other Areas to Guard Atlantic.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 20.—Great Britain is concentrating sea power in the «North Atlantic at the expense of other maritime areas and that fact explains the relative safety of ‘ aid-to-Britain goods en route from North American ports, it was indicated today oy a well informed source.

the security ef the seas in general, although the situation in the North Atlantic unquestionably has improved. President Roosevelt at: his regular press conference today appeared indirectly to support the foregoing information when he was asked about a statement by" te Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley to the effect that the goods were getting through to Britain Mr. Roosevelt expressed disbelief that Senator Barkley had made such a statement. But the President brushed aside questions regarding possible use of American Sonvoys to deliver defense materi Mr. Roosevel disavowed any intention of sending a special message to Congress soon on international affairs, but acknowledged he had discussed the possibility with his Congressional leaders yesterday. But reports persisted that he shortly would assume a more positive leadership of defense activity, (Continued on Page Two)

90's Next Stop; Relief Is Coming

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

.. 65 10am .... 80 «+09 1la.m....8 ... 7 12 (noon) .. 86 .18 1p.m.....86

THE MERCURY climbed toward the 90’s this afternoon, passing the season's previous high of 86 shortly after noon. -The war spell was due to continue through tonight, but the Weather Bureau predicted cloudy weather, thunderstorms and cooler temperatures tomorrow. .

HEAVY FOOT ARTHUR RUNS AFOUL OF LAW

DES PLAINES, Il, May 20 (U. P.) —Arthur Koester Jr. couldn’t understand today why the traffic cops made such a fuss about him. “I've been driving a year and never had an accident,” said Arthur, who proudly wears a safety button. Arthur thought he was driving carefully, even though the speedometer showed 65 miles an hour when the law caught up with him. “Once we hit 80,” he admitted.

Arthur is 7.years old.

Thanksgiving Experiment Was a Failure, So

WASHINGTON, May 20 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt decided today that his experiments in changing the date of Thanksgiving have been a failure and that beginning in 1942 the holiday again will be established on its traditional date—the last Thursday in November. ~ The President said that Thanksgiving Day this year will be proclaimed for the next to_ last Thursday in November because it. now is too late to revise previous commitments to calendar makers and other groups. : But next

proclaim Thanksgiving Duy for the final Thursday of November, the day on which the holiday had been celebrated until 1939. The President was frank in admitting that his shift in dates had ‘proved a failure. His original move, he said, was made at the t solicitation of retailers and retail agencies who" felt that That g and Christmas fell” too together. By advancing the Thanksgiving date a week, they felt that retail sales eonld be increased con-~

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F. D. R. Will Go Back to Old Date in '42

merce and the U. 8. Conference of Mayors have conducted sur~ veys to discover whether retail business actually had been assisted. In general, Ihey, ‘found that the large majority of retail stores reluctantly agreed that the

. change had not made much dif-

ference, he said. The personnel of the U. S. Conference of Mayors was about evenly divided in the controversy over the ‘holiday date. mo That the he “said, he conclu didn’t oe

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WINGED ARMY FAILS IN TEST, BRITISH CLAIN

|Night May C! Chane Outlook;

May Be Practice for Channel Blow.

By JOE AlLLEX MORRI United Press Fcreign News Editor

Adolf Hitler launched an unprecedentec. offensive in the Middle East today by

| |landing parachute, glider and

air-transport troops on the Mediterranean island of Crete, but Great Britain reported that the German invaders were being overcome in severe figliting. * Prime Minisier' Churchill, announcing the invasion in the House of Commons, indicated that the first major air invasion of the war may have failed as tae British have said any invasion of England would fail. He admitted however, that a

“fairly strong” enemy party still was battling or Crete.

Estimates of Numbers Vary

The Prime M nister said only that 1500 Germans iad landed, wearing New Zealand b: ttle dress but he described the invading force as “in great strength.” Earlier reports had said that an entire division (probably. 10,000 men) had been landed at the same time British land and air forces were pessing an offensive against pro-Axis troops in Iraq. The fact that one force of Ger-

=| mans still was nolding and that the

Axis planes constantly are attacking Crete mac: it possible that the Nazis may be able to forcements ‘tor ight by parachute if their troops c=n command an area of any size on Crefe. - The Germar attack was believed to have been launched from the Greek mainiaad, 70 miles away, and possibly from the Italian Dodecanese Islands, about 50 miles away. This is twice to three times the distance across the English Channel.

Airdrome Believed Seized

The British at Cairo first admitted that ‘he air-borne forces had landed, ‘hus indicating that they were in possession of at least one air base, sut that communique said that “a rumber” of the enemy already had b:en “accounted for.” British warships were presumed to be in control of the waters around Crete. which is vital in the defense of Siuiez and Palestine. If the Germans had seized air superiority it might be because the British were on the offensive in Iraq and were forced 0 use a great many other planes ia North Africa to hold back the Axi: threat from Libya. South Afri an troops that participated in t Je cohquest of Italian Ethiopia, however, “were rushing north tn join in the defense of the Mediterranea: area and help offset any gains tre Nazis make in the battle for Cree. The Britisk' ofiensive in Iraq got under way -iumost simultaneously with that of :he Germans in Crete. London repoc:ted that a powerful land and ai; offensive was under way and tht troops, presumably advancing from: Habanniya Airdrome, had :rossed the Eu phrates to enter Fallijah, 35 miles i of Baghdad.

U. S.-BUILT PLANES IN AFRICAN AGTION

Bombard Nazi_ Positions, London Reports.

LONDON, May 20 (U. P.).—Amer-ican-built w.r planes went into action for th: first time in North Africa on Sinday, when they bombarded eneniy positions around Ft. Sopa. the Air Ministry said toThe Air M inistry said the American craft wore used to dump heavy. bombs on German tanks and mechanized vehicles which were Slispessed near the old Capuzzo air-

Srome. Mini try did not reveal if the American panes reached the Middie East by ships through the Red Sea, but tere had been recent indications 1at American war materials were arriving by that route.) The squ: iron that used the American pines has an American sergeant ai’ gunner on its "rolls. He was: aw rded a Distinguish Flying Med: | for gallantry in Ethiopian ca npaign. ASKS. PO VER OVER ALIENS WASHING: TON, May 20 (U. P.).— Attorney Ger eral Robert H. Jackson! today appesal:d to Congress to give the Justice I)epartment authority to “deal vigorously with dislozal aliens,” He pointed out that his pl ea for addition:il powers was on the rp thet She ® depaita

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RAIDER TAKES 323 OFF LINER, THEN SINKS I

Passengers and Crew Carried to ‘Occupi Territory,” Berlin Reveals; Labels Cargo Contraband.

War News on Inside Pages

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BERLIN, May 20 (U. P.) ~All the passengers of the Egyptian liner Zamzam, including 142 Americans, and all of its crew, were rescued by a German warship which destroyed the ship in the South Atlantic, it was announced officially today. In all the Zamzam carried 323 men, women, and children, including a crew of 120 men. She h d been missing since she cleared Recife (Pernambuco), pril 10, due Capetown April 21 or 23. The authorized spokesman asserted that the Z though flying the technically neutral flag of a -non-belligera : ent ally of Great Britain, was carrying contraband . therefore was sunk in accordance with international blecl ade rules. i ‘Operating From Dakar? He refused to disclose what type of ship sank the § zam, but pointed out that it could not have been a submaz since the warship had taken 328 persons aboard. The sengers, who included missionaries afid ambulance drivers, and crew are now safe in “occupied territory,” he said. (London authorized quarters suggested that a German surface raider might be operating from the French W S African port of Dakar. The phrase “occupied territory” suge gested that the passengers and crew were in a French pot and that the German warship was not a converted merchant : raider, but | a cruiser, since a merchant raider, once at set, would be likely to remain at sea, refueling and revictu from its prizes, rather than risk an encounter with British! : warships near the Continent.) 3 The United States State Department cabled the Ems bassy here asking for details of the sinking and Whereaboutdf of the passengers. 3 =

Calls U. S. Comment Wild

British and American comment on the Zamzam is will agitation by our opponents,” the spokesman said, “and you can call that official.” “The Zamzam carried contraband,” he continued. was sunk in strict accordance with international bl regulations after the crew and passengers had been take; aboard a German ship. “Passengers and crew are now safe and will be loo after somewhere in occupied territory. : “Not a single life was lost. “This is an exemplary case of carrying out" contraband)” regulations.” Of the 202 passengers, 142 were Amehiuas most a them missionaries bound for posts in Africa or Palestine. 1

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Once World War Transport Ra

Of the 142 Americans, 24 were members of a Britishe | American ambulance corps unit bound for Kenya with $35,000 worth of equipment, including 20 ambulances, &§ field kitchen, and an X-Ray trailer, for service with: Freq French forces. Fal "The ship, once the British World War troop transporf F Leicestershire, left J ersey City, March 20.

many of the passengers, judging from letters mailed af Recife, realized they were headed Tor dangerous waters.

Today's War Moves

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By United Press War Experts The Germans, in attacking Crete, have struck at one of the strategic British strongholds in the eastern Mediterranean. It is a. stroke, one of the boldest the Germans have yet made in that ares. hia attack looks more like a gamble than Hitler ¢ tom y undertakes, because he has the British Navy to contend. Ww It is because. of the British Navy that Hitler did not attempt to tr: port troops by sea, even across the|narrow 70 miles which separate the from the Greek peninsula. Instead, he sent his troops by air and landed them by parachute. That in itself is evidence of, the air strength Hitler has been sable to mass in the eastern Medi ean to match the Royal Air Force in the struggle for the Near East. It is thus the air versus fleet issue which has been raised again. Hitler is banking on his air force being capable of overcoming the

supply or communication except

Hohe obvious reason for. Hitle! move is that Crete, occupied : the British and Greek. forces

from which British ships and can operate over comp short distances from the & enemy Oper! A look -

handicap of the fleet, which is 0 ting th d