Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1941 — Page 3

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*ON NEUTRALITY ACT

Bloom Is Open to Argument

for Its Repeal After Attacks

By Knox and Stimson; Predict Navy

To Expand

WASHINGTON, May 23 (U. P.).—Chairman Sol Bloom

Protection.

(D. N. ¥.), of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said to-

day he is prepared -to open hearings at once on revision of

the N eutrality Act if Administration leaders “show me that there is a clear need for repeal of all or part of the legis-

lation.””

Mr. Bloom said he planned early conferences with War:

Secretary ‘Henry L. Stimson and Navy Secretary Frank Knox, both of whom have urged repeal of the act, and.that

he also would meet with Secretary of State Cordell Hull

to discuss the matter. |

= “I have an open mind on it,” T Bloom said. <The way I feel is that it‘doesn’t- make a particle of difference whether the law is repealed or not. There may be certain parts that should be re pealed-and others retained. Recent events may have changed the situation so that we should repeal the law.” . . Isolationists "Protest

His ‘disclosure that he is ready to ‘act coincided with expressions of opposition from Congressional _isolationists and predictions that the United States will expand its Atlantic, fleet protection of British shipping. The Navy foreshadowed developments yesterday with a surprise request to Congress for authority to nominate additional vice admirals to command special “task forces.” Rep. Melvin J. Maas (R. Minn), who is familiar with naval strategy, predicted reinforcement of the Atlantic fleet. He said he believed the Navy had asked for more vice admirals in preparation for organizaticn of “task forces” to undertake special missions, including the sweeping of the Atlantic north and south, and possibly extending to the Red Sea.

Convoys Termed Failure

“Convoys are a failure in this _ war,” said Rep. Mass and his werds were variously echoed by other Cabinet and Congressional sources. “If protection of arms shipments to Britain 1s to be effective, there must be major naval action such as the use of these task forces. It is probable that this program will ‘require transfers of naval strength from the Pacific to the Atlantic. It also is likely that protection of American merchant shipping in the Red Sea will require naval sea and air strength. ..“To combat enemy attack over, on and under the sea requires air.craft and heavily armed surface ships. The old system of using escort vessels of the destroyer class is ineffective against these at-

Chairman “Walter F." George (D. Ga.) of the Senate Foreign Relasiohs Committee as well as. Mr. Knox and Mr. Stimson is on record with statements that convoys probably are not the complete and final answer to the problem of supplying the’ British. And President Roosevelt has‘ re-consecrated the United States merchant marine to carry aid. to democracies “through _ the opén waters of the seven seas.” Both Mr. Knox and Mr. Stimson suddenly have begun to denounce the Neutrality Act which forbids American ships to carry munitions trough combat zones to the ports of the combatant enemies of the Axis. Therefore, Congressional isolationists and some members of Congress who go along with Administration policy. are paraphrasing a famous statement of Mr. Ropsevelt’s to read this way:

Wheeler Caustic

“Repeal of the Neutrality Act would mean convoys, convoys mean shooting and shooting means war.” But Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) who wants Mr. Roosevelt to be more aggressive in behalf of the democracies, immediately indorsed suggestions that the Neutrality ‘Act be repealed. “It is high time,” he said, “that we get back to some old fundamental American policies (freedom of the seas) that mean we are not going to let anybody encircle us and choke ‘us to death.” “So the trial balloon twins are at it again,” snapped Senator D. Worth Clark (D. Ida.). “First Knox throws the bali and then Stimson catches ‘it and throws it back. It seems to me that this new drive demonstrates that the drive - for convoys has failed and the Administration is trying a new tack.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) said: “Apparently - Stimson and Knox disagree with the President with reference to neutrality because the President as well as practically every Democratic Senator claimed that the passage of the Neutrality Act was one of the greatest achieve-

tacks.”

Nazis Claim 114,000 Tons

ments of the Administration.”

BERLIN, May 23 (U. P.) —Germany's air and sea siege of the

British Isles was tightened in recent day, when Nazi U-boats sank a total men in the battle of the Atlantic.

days, the High Command said toof 114,900 tons of enemy merchant-

The sinkings credited by the High Command to German submarines jncluded nine ships totalling 70,900 tons from a convoy en route to

England. According to - official statements, the total submarine toll . was from two convoys and also.included individual -attacks on other enemy ships. Among the njne vessels sunk fn ‘one convoy en route to England were listed a 13,000-ton ship and two others of 10,000 and 8000 tons, the latter two described as tankers. ‘In addition a heavily-laden '7000-ton. munitions ship was sunk in the same attack, the communique said. In addition, U-boats sank 21,000 tons of enemy shipping off the west f coast of Africa and 18,000 tons in =individual operations, the high com- _ mand said. Furthermore, the communique reported that German airplanes had sunk a 5000-ton British merchantman in carrying out armed reconnaissance over and around Britain -despite “extremely bad weather.”

SENIORS TO TAKE LIP-READING TESTS

The fifth annual lip-reading tournament for senior high school pupils will be held at 3:15 p. m. Monday in the Technical High School social center. A similar contest for junior high * school pupils was held Wednesday. Participants in the senior contest are to be Norma Pipkin, Tech; _ Harold Freeman, Shortridge; Cornelia Rees, Washington, and Frances Hinkley, Manual. The judges will be Miss Ruth Bozell of Tech: Miss Dale M. Waterbury,

Shortridge, and . Miss Katherine Bertz, Manual.

C. 1. 0., FORD WINNER, APPEALS FOR PEAGE

DETROIT, May 23 (U. P.).—The United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.), victorious ‘in bargaining elections in two Ford Motor Co. plants,

‘offered teday to “erase all bitterness” and negotiate a contract in a

spirit .of “genuine e0-operaiive bargaining.” President R. J. Thomas of the union made this offer after U. A. W.C. I. O. polled an average of about 70 per cent of 77,188 valid ballots cast in National Labor Board elections Wednesday at Mr. Ford's River Rouge and Lincoln plants. Harry Bennett, Ford personnel director, said some time, perhaps six months, would be required to “see whether we can live with” the U. A. W.-C. 1. O. M?. Thomas announced the unior! would ask the company te start negotiations at once on a contract. It wants a general wage increase of 10 cents an hour, vacations with pay, seniority provisions, and fadequaie® union recognition, Official Labor Board results showed that the U. A. W.-C. 1. O. polled 51,866 votes at the River Rouge plant to 20,364 for the new Federally-chartered A. F. L. union and 1958 for neither. The count at Lincoln was 2008 for the U. A, W.C. I. O., 587 for the A. F. L., and 146 for no union.

DEBATED

Charles W. Speiss, 57-year-old St. Louis attorney, has been ar-. rested on charges of writing threatening letters to President Roosevelt.

PLANE WORKERS VOTE ON STRIKE

Negotiations Los Angeles Plant Which ~Employs 11,000.

By UNITED PRESS

Eleven thousand aircraft workers balloted today on a proposal to strike at a Los Angeles warplane manufacturing plant holding $200,000,000 in defense orders.

collapsed last night between the North American Aviation Corp. and the United Automobile Workers Union (C. I. O.). Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W. official, accused the company cf bargaining in bad faith. The union asked a 10-cent wage increase. Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins immediately referred the dispute to.the National Defense Mediation Board. The Senate committee investigating defense contracts opened hearay on the strike, which halted produgtion at 11 plants May 12. Governor/ Culbert Olson of California urged/ the Government unofficially last pight to operate the plants. = : Bethlehem Co. Balks Mr. Olson’s action came after a “back to work” movement of 12,000 non-striking A. F. of L. unionists apparently failed to reopen the shipyards. The 1700 striking A. F. of L. and C. I. O. machinists appeared indispensable to their operation. The strikers have asked higher wages than those provided in a master. agreement for West Coast shipyards, but Governor Olson believed the strike would have ended Wednesday if the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., which holds half the $500,000,000 in defense contracts at the San Francisco plants, had accepted the agreement. Unarmed sailors and Marines guarded 800 A. F. of L. metal trades workers who returned to two of the plants yesterday. Meanwhile, conciliators sought to end a strike of 400 workers on a naval ordnance depot at Charleston, S. C. Contractors, the Army and A, F. of L. leaders joined in a sweeping move to fight the “outlaw” strike of A. F. of L. workers on the Government’s $35,000,000 ammunition loading plant at Ravenna, O. When 5000 strikers, rejected union pro-

gotiations, the Army’ ordered ‘all work suspended until the project could he cleared of “agitators.” Today thousands swarmed outside the gates of the arsenal seeking paymasters’ windows and re-em-ployment. : * ‘Holiday’ at La Porte ’ At Washington, the Defense Me-

the dispute between Southern soft coal operators and the United Mine workers of America (C. I. O.). The Defense Board told the operators and miners’ representatives that a second shutdown of the mines would be an “unthinkable blow” to defense. A labor “holiday” of 1000 workers °| protesting . alleged company discrimination interrupted production on $50,000,000 in defense orders yesterday at the Allis Chalmers plant at La Porte, Ind. A company spokesman charged the action of the C. I. O. Farm Equipment Workers violated a recent agreement reached with the aid of the Defense Mediation Board.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record Country City Total 32 45

25 51

Accidents’ ... 19 | Injured ...... 4 Arrests 21 | Dead esssevece 1 THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT ‘Cases Convic- Finés|™ rien tions paid 5 $33 20

Violations

9 0 35 12

$109 |,

MEETINGS TODAY

Hotel Severin, noon. mish cla

Exchan Columbia Club, noon.

Earnest, Betty Petrick, at St. Francis. le, R BH at St. Francis,

Clyde, * Jessie Kuhn, Vv Albe rity. SO hie ort 1 St. Vincent's. williah, harlotte Nicholson, at Methst.

‘Boy 5 2 oti Dee, Margaret McKinsey, at Meth-

mam, Marjorie Lavender, at Cole-

Lawrence. Catharine Bishop, at 8t. Vincent’s. Herbert, Ruth Gray, at City. —————————

DEATHS Chester Neal, 56, at City, pecto:

Ada Penick, 41, at Central Ind. cardiac sitio e Starkey, 38. at 1214 Congress, pulHor tuberculosis. Ene. Makela, 47, at 1434 W. 26th, carcino Sophie Shelton, 40, at 414 Good, chronic myocarditis. izabeth Davis, 78, at 726 Pleasant Run PX arteriosclerosis. ohn Rieck, 78, at 326 E. Iowa, chronic m ary “Guess, 80, at 234 Hanson, Bre letogis.

angina

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& niversit ois School of Medicine, Hotel Levitin :30 y General Assembly, United. shyterian ver i m Security Administration, Hotel Sevot

8. or honrd ot Wmerican Missions, Hotel Sev-

' MEETINGS TOMORROW. = Indianapolis Junior Hopsemen's Ass ins tion, Algonquin Club, 1 p. m. and

Pp. Gen 1 y ited Eres Aetlan|" Churches, ot ge Wi all day bE Indians C Mo "-Selenee, 6:30 p. m., Hi Sever in.

chross “myocarditis. oma Skinner, 77, at 1006 S. Sheffield, Tl hemorrhage. Loretta Means, 82, at 1140 E. Market, cerebral hemorrhage.

coronary throm

Harriet Fishel, %. at 2640 Sutherland, shionie myoca.

arditis. tt BALleY 31, at 1615 Yandes, pulmonary tuberculo Lydia A. Caldwell, 82, at St. Vincent's, carcinoma. H, at 3737 Watson Rd. ® | némorrhage. 1sion bert L. Youste, 63, at 1049 S. Shet-

John Denny, 58 tney, 5 at 40 N. West, coroncerebral hemorrh

Louis Thiesing, cerebral hemorth age age Central Ind., cerebral John Denny, 58, at Central Ind, cerebral hemorihage Pearl Whi field, cardiac dilatation. ‘ed_Perry, 1 520. E. Vermont, Claude Ie NiGik, age. at tle uremia. Ma Trisher oN Tse

Park,

eth Peterson, 20, at 1102 Sterling,

Horace Beaver, 6, at 521 N. Highland, | Chi

: Be OFFICIAL WWEATHER oC. S. Weather Bureav—— INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair tonight; tomorrow and Sunday; cooler tonight with. lowest temperatire 50 to 55; rising temperatures Sunday, Sunrise ...... 4:23 | Sunset ...... TEMPERATURE ~—May 23, 1940 6a M-c.iianse

Prescription 24 hrs. ending 7 a mda. Total precipitation since®Jan. 1l....... 838 Deficiency -since Jan.

. MIDWEST WEATHER. Indiana—Fair tol OnIght tomoryow . and Sunday; cooler tonig! t; rising temperature ‘Sunday HMlinois—Fair : tonight, tomorrow and Sunday; ‘cooler tonight; slightly warmer tomorrow in northwest and extreme north portions; warmer Sunday. Ohio—Fair and cooler tonight; tomorrow fair with moderate temperature.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M.

Station: _ eather Bar. Temp. Boston N. D. ... +g ear 2055. L357

cago ssvse : cincinnati ...... iaveland

Den Dodge. City, Kas. Jacksonville, Fla. .....Fo, Kansas. City, Mo, ... Little Rock, Ark. . PtCld; Los Angeles

i, Fla. 5.-St. Paul . cnsees ai edsses sn. + Clear «.Cl

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Voting began after negotiations| °

posals to resume work pending ne-|

diation Board reopened hearings on}.

7:00 |

OUT AID URGED BY WOMEN'S CLUBS

" ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, May 23

(U. P.).—The General Federation of Women’s clubs: today adopted a resolution indorsing all-out aid to the democracies. Extensive and acrimonious debate preceded the move by the 5000 delegates representing more than

.{2,000,000 clubwomen in the United

States. Another resolution, caling for a strong national defense program, was adopted. A proposed amendment which’ would have placed the Federation on record as opposed to

Bl |strikes in defense industries was de-

feated. Asistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. told the Federation

that “self-interest” requires the United States “to join our efforts with those of other free peoples” to meet the issues of the present: Furopean ¢ conflict.

a man's financial set-up: NY the customary 30-day a is (b) JUNIOR = * GHARGE ACCOUNTS; (c) accounts tailored | to special needs; (d) NO oi "CARRYING CHARGES.

State Draft Head Appeals Ir Deferment Of Men ‘More Useful as Civilian Workers’

All local Selective Service boards in Indiana were urged today to make certain ‘that no man more useful as a civilian worker than a soldier be called to arms in the national defense effort, Lieut. Col.. Robinson Hitchcock, state director:.of Selective Service, pointed out to the boards. that the Office of Production ‘Management and other national defense agencies have surveyed ‘the labor fields and found that there are growing shortages of, skilled mechanics and in the vital professions. He also urged the boards to defer students in certain specialized professional ‘and technical fields. 7 “While - recruitment of ‘a ‘large | peacetime army ‘is essential to national defense.” Colonel Hitchcock said, “it is equally. important - that there be ‘no inter erence ‘with the production of defense “supplies and material. -We must arm, feed and! clothe the military forces of democracy and we must also maintain

the morale of the civilian population by protecting public bealth land general welfare. “To do so, we must make intelligent ‘and careful investigation of every registrant to be sure in each case that a to military -training will not interfere with equally important civilian work for national defense.” Three major results should be accomplished, he said. They are (1) « the prévention of avoidable ‘shortages of necessary workers in defense production; (2) deferment of individuals in training or preparation for a vital occupation or employment, and (3) antieipation of possible shortages of highly

skilled workers and deferment of

such men not now employed in the

defense effort when ‘such men but

for seasonal or temporary interrublibn would be so engaged. He said that national surveys show there may be shortages in the near Ausure in 17 Egolassional and

technical fields. The eight most critical are civil engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, mining and metallurgical | engineering. mechanical engineering, chemistry and dentistry.’ . The other nine are agricultural engineering, : sanitary engineering, pharmacy, physics, ‘biology, bacteriology and the four branches of geology—geophysics, meterology, hy--drology and cartography. :

WORK EXHIBITED AT. SOUTHWEST CENTRE

The Southwest Social Centre, 1907 W. Morris 8t., is exhibting the year’s work done*® by “the women’s, boys’ ‘and - girls’ clubs there from 2 to 5 and-7:to $ p. m. today. Miss Mary Rigg, formerly of the American Settlement, is executive director: She has as her assistants Miss Gretchen Huetter and William

C. Baum.

“FRENCH COLONEL IN

SYRIA JOINS BRITISH

‘BEIRUT, Syria, ‘May 23 (U. Ply -~Col. Collet, one of Syria's veteran desert fighters, has led 200 of his Circassian , fighting squadrons . across the Palestine border to Join ‘the. British and Free French forces, |it° was revealed today. SS It was denied .that there hag been any. penetration . of Syria by. troops of Gen. Charles de Gaulle or any French withdrawal ‘from the borders of Syria -loward Lebanon. ‘According to official broadsasts, Collett told his picked Circassians that they were to engage in a night maneuver, and then attempted - to lead them across into Palestine. The radio claimed that when the troops. discovered that they. were beitig taken into Palestine “85 per

cent of them returned” to Syria.

The officer was a self-made soldier. - He formerly served as adjutant and assistant to the French High Commissioner and represented the High Commisisoner during the

_Sanjak plebiscite of 19837.

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