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COURT HEARS ‘FINAL DEBATE INRIPPER SUIT

Attorneys for Schricker And G. 0. P. Clash; Room Crowded.

Indiana’s inter-party battle to control State government went into the final round today with oral arguments before the Supreme Court

on the constitutionality of the Republican “decentralization” laws. In a crowded courtroom, attorneys representing Democratic Governor Schricker, the Attorney General’s office, and the four elected Republican State officials renewed the arguments presented in previous hearings. Frank C. Dailey, representing the Governor, and ‘Fred C. Gause, of the G. O. P. staff, were the first to present their cases and each spoke for almost an hour. The $iearing was expected to require most of the afternoon, despite an earlier agreement that each side would use only one and a half hours for arguments.

Claims Order Illegal

Mr. Gause charged that the only controversy “is over the right to -make appointments to certain administrative offices—nothing else.” He charged that the injunction, cbtained by Governor Schricker and on which the appeal hearing was argued today, should not have been issued. “We believe the decided cases and the long praktice in our State show conclusively that the statutes in question® are valid. Therefore, the (Marion Circuit) court was in_error in issuing the injunction. “Many times, when the Governor and the Legislature were not whol-. ly in accord, there have been disputes as to how certain offices should be filled. “But in each case where this court has passed on the question; it has been neld tpat the Governor did not have the exclusive right to make appointmenis to offices created by statute, but that such power could be conferred upon any one or more -elected State officers, under the section of, our Constitution which provides that all officers whose appointment is not otherwise provided for shall be chosen in such manner as may be provided by law. The Governor's Ppwers

“Since the -Constitution does not otherwise provide for the appointments to the office to be filled under these statutes, it is proper for the Legislature to prescribe by law the manner in which they shall be chosen. Mr. Dailey said that the Governor’s executive powers “are not wholly dependent on the Legislature, which might put ail manner (Continued on Page Two)

FAST TRAIN KILLS 9, AT CROSSING IN OHIO

UPPER SANDUSKY, O., May 26 (U. P.>).—Nine Michigan residents, including an entire family of five members, were killed yesterday when a Pennsylvania passenger train, the fast “Trail Biazer,” struck an automobile in which they were riding at a crossing. e dead were Billy A. Elisech, 21, ska. Mich.; his wife, Stella; their three children, Patricia Ann, "3; William, 2, and Ronald, L., 6 weeks; Helen Okraska and her daughter, Virginia, 14, of Saginaw; Edmund F. and Sally Jurczak of Hamtramck, Mich.

‘LITTLE BY LITTLE IT WILL BE WARMER

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6a.m. ....63 10a.m. .... 81 a.m. ....68 1llam...,.83 8a.m. .... 1 12 (noon) ,,. 85 9a.m..... 78 1p.m. .... 86

Temperatures are climbing to summer levels by daily “somewhats.” . It was fair and somewhat warmer today, according to the Weather Bureau, and it will be fair and somewhat warmer tomorrow.

0. Ks BURNS CITY FUNDS Times Spegial WASHINGTON, May 26 — President Roosevelt today approved expenditure of $1,280,886 WPA funds for improvements on grounds at the U. S. naval storage plant at Burns City, Ind.

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F. D. R. SIGNS PARITY BILL

Approval Based on Pledge To Reduce Farm Budget, Is Hint.

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U.P.).— President Roosevelt today signed the 85 per cent parity loan bill for wheat, cotton, corn, rice and tobacco, but made clear that he would hold Corrgressional leaders to an agreement to make commensurate cuts in cash parity appropriations: Mr. Roosevelt, in a statement accompanying his signature of the measure, said that “under no circumstances” should the sum eof

parity loans, cash parity payments

and soil conservation payments exceed the parity figure for the

five basic commodities.

Expects Budget Cut #3 He did not reveal details of his understanding with Congressional leaders., Bui it was learned that the President signed the measure on condition that Congressional farm leaders would cut the parity payment item in the pending farm appropriation from the $459,000,000 Senate figure to the $212,000,000 originally planned for in the budget. “I have taken up the construction of the law with certain legislative leaders chiefly responsible for it and have received from them letters stating in effect that for the 1941 crop the broad intention is that parity payments should, if necessary, be so curtailed as to avoid a price above parity when added to the loan and the soil conservation payments,” Mr. Roosevelt said. “I am therefore confident that in the pending appropriation bill this clear interpretation and intent will be carried out. Payments to Be Limited “I am approving this joint resolution on the distinct understanding that parity payments will be limited to the amount necessary to bring the basic commodities to parity but not beyond parity. The bill will assure farmers who co-operate in the 1941 Agricultural Adjustment Administration programs loans equal to 85 per cent of parity on the five basic commodities. The loans, combined * with - soil conservation and parity’ payments, will assure growers of the five major farm commodities a return per bushel approximately equal in purchasing power to the 1909-1914) average.

HOG PRICES HIGHEST SINGE AUGUST, 1938,

Buying by U. S.

Continuation of heavy Government buying lifted hog prices at Indianapolis today to the highest in nearly three years. As much as $9.70 was paid at the Indianapolis stockyards for a load of choice hogs weighing between 200 and 210 pounds. The practical top «price of $9.60 was the highest since August, 1938. Similar advances were made at most of the nation’s major markets today. Most hogs were sold 10 cents high‘er than they did Saturday and are about $4 a hundred. pounds higher than a year ago.

JOCKEY ARCARO’S

COVINGTON, Ky., P.).~Mrs. Philomena Arcaro, 34, was to appear in Police Court today in connection with the shooting of Pat Arcaro, 48, her husband who is father of Jockey Eddie Arcaro. The elder Arcaro was wounded seriously yesterday by a pistol shot during an argument in his cafe here. Police quoted Mrs. Arcaro as saying she. shot him because he was beating her. Eddie Arcaro rode Whirlaway to victory this month in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. He is the

DAD SHOT BY WIFE!

May 26 (U. =

son of Arcaro by a: previous marriage. Jen

Conqueror of Hood No Easy Catch,

The Nazi battleship Bismarck, conqueror of the ‘powertul Hood.

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As one man the nation is praying that something may happen to the Bismarck before she succeeds in making port again. The Admiralty kept mum and concentrated on the search, but it was generally believed that the Bismarck still was at sea, hunting for a way out of the mighty trap laid for her by the British. It is believed that she is trying to reach either Norway or France, and that the damage in the battle may have slowed her speed down to that of the British monsters searching tor ner, including the Nelson and the Roaney, both of which have nine 11-inch guns against the Bismarck’s eight. 15-inchers. “It seems to be generally agreed that the Hood sank simply because she was outclassed by a faster, more heavily protected and more powerfully armed ship, manned by firstclass sailors. What happened to this mighty battle cruiser, in fact seems little more than a duplicate of what happened to the battle cruisers, Indefatigable, Queen Mary and Invincible on the murky afternoon .of Jan. 24, 1915, when, in a running engagement between six British battle cruisers and five German, immediately preceding the Battle of Jutland, all three of .those- ships were blown up in the space of 37

minutes.

The Hood’s original plans were completely revamped in view of this experience. As ga result she was not completed until March 5, 1920. But even then her armof plating had to be reduced for the sake of speed with only one inch of protection on deck amidships and an additional three inches above the magazines. Britain’s battle fleet is not se(Continued on Page Two)

PEGLER IS ‘ASSAILED BY SEN. OVERTON

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P.). —Senator John H. Overton (D. La.) today attacked Westbrook Pegler in a Senate speech as “the garbage man of the columnists.” Overton based his attack on charges Pegler made in his column of last Saturday, and a previous column devoted to the capitol ceremonies held recently to accept a statue of the late Senator Huey P. Long (D. La.) in both of them Pegler asserted Overton allegedly was elected fraudulently. After Overton concluded his speech several senators, including Republican Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon, Senator Walter F. George, (D. Ga.) and Senator Elbert Thomas (D. Utah) spoke briefly of Overton’s integrity.

Norway or ad Thought Goal of Mighty Bismarck

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapelis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, May 26.—Great Britain has been shocked to the last man, woman and child by the sudden destruction of the 42,100-ton battle cruiser Hood in an engagement with the German's crack new 35,000ton battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic early Saturday morning. People were talking about nothing else yesterday and today and naval experts were wracking their brains to discover how it happened. |

5 PLACES OPEN

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IN 500 LINEUP

More Trials Scheduled for Today; Frenchmen Are Not Yet Ready.

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A four-hour qualifying period late this afternoon offered Speedway drivers a chance to bid for the five

remaining places in the 33-car Memorial Day race lineup. Although track officials set no. qualifying times other than the 3-to-7 p. m. period today, it is be-]

lieved that drivers will be allowed to|

qualify tomorrow and Wednesday. There are at least six more definite contenders for places in the lineup, anid three of these weren't ie to be ready today.

Frenchmen Still Waiting

The {wo Frenchmen, Rene Le Begue and Jean Trevoux, have said: they would prefer to wait until tomorrow, and Ted Horn is another, who would like an extra day. ; Among others still to make qualifying attempts are Shorty Cantlon in the Sampson. Sixteen, Duke Nalon in the Elgin Piston Pin’s Maserati and Joie Chitwood in the Blue Crown Spark Plug Special. Good fortune might send another two or] three candidates to. the starting line. ‘3 Three more drivers went through their trials yesterday to increase the number qualified to 28. Tony Will-! man of Milwaukee showed the best speed in the Lyons Special, doing the four laps at 123.920 miles per hour, Sam Hanks of Alhambra, Cal., qualified the Seven Up Special at

118.211, and Overton Phillips clipped}

off at 116.298. The latter two, however, are in danger of surrendering their spots to faster qualifiers. The four Saturday qualifiers were Mel Hansen in the Fageol Special; Frank Brisko in the Zollner Piston Special, Jbe Thorne in the Thorne Special and Louis Tomei in the H-3 Special.

. ‘TANK FOR TANK’ CHICAGO, May 26 (U. P.).— Williani S. Knudsen, director general of the Office of Production Management, said today that the United States must “match tank for tank and plane for plane with ag-

VALTIN TELLS

OF NAZI SPIES

Gestapo Has ‘Card Index’ of

Enemies and Friends, Committee Hears.

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U.P).— The German Gestapo maintained an elaborate card index of American citizens tagged as “enemies” or “friends” of the Nazi regime, Richard Krebs (Jan Valtin), fugitive former German Communist, told a Dies subcommittee today.

The author of the best seller, “Out of the Night,” testified that the Gestapo had completed elabo-

. {rate records on Germans living in

America, particularly those working in important arms plants. The Gestapo maintained an “ dustrial records department,” said, which trained - v0 use the information so compiled. Detailed data was compiled on friends and relatives of these workers’ still living in Germany or in conquered lands, so that Gestapo agents could bring pressure, through them, he said.

Club Over Their Heads

Mr. Krebs said that Nazis sent Gestapo ‘agents into the United States in the guise of “political refugees.” >

These bogus refugees, he said,

| were ‘sent all over the world.

“Many were actually former political prisoners whose families were kept in Germany as hostages,” he explained.

“They were ordered to file month- |

ly- reports to the Gestapo. If the reports did not come in, or if they were misleading, the families would arrested. It is impossible for anyone to be released from a Nazi concentration camp unless he signs a pledge to serve the Gestapo.” The witness testified that the agents were instructed to take out final citizenship papers so they would be admitted to jobs in key industries in the Merchant Marine, the Coast Guard and even the Army. Those who could get accepted by the ‘Army, he added, were told to use this opportunity to get full (Continued on Page Two)

DENIES UKRAINE LEASE

MOSCOW, May 26 (U. P.). — A newspaper report published in Finland that Russia planned to lease the Ukraine to Germany was attacked by the Communist Party newspaper Pravda today as “nonsense or a plain lie.” B. Y. D. Zaslavsky, political commentator sometimes = called the Russian Westbrook Pegler, said the Finnish correspondent who wrote the story-had “the innocence of a three-year-old child and the sophistication ‘of a battered Bour-

gressor nations.”

|'1 geois journalist.”

Woman's Seven - Story Death Fall ~ On N. lllincis St. Termed an Accident

Police today termed as an accident the seven-floor plunge from the Link Apartments, 401 N. Illinois St., that killed 21-year-old Gertrude Hatch last night. Miss Hatch, they say, fell through a bedroom window screen during a party attended by 14 men and three other women and was killed when a she struck the Miss Hatch ‘concrete pavement helow. } The accident oceurred shortly after 8 p. m. Fourteen men, all either members or former members of the U. S. Marine Corps, and four women, three of them wives of men in the party, were in the four-room apartment with Miss Hatch. Wayne Simpson, commander of the Marine Corps League, was the party host. Miss Hatch had been escorted by Charles Depka, 42, of 2419 N. Gale St. At the time she fell, she was in| a rcom with a Mr. Cox, according to Police. The first intimation. that

s she had fallen came when Mr. Cox rushed from the room and cried: “She's gone out the window.” When other members of the party saw Miss Hatch’s fully clothed body lying on the concrete pavement below, they left the apartment. When police arrived, they found only Mr. Depka. He said that when he was informed of the accident, he had rushed down to the body and had raised Miss Hatch’s head in his arms. Seeing that she was dead, he returned to the apartment. When police arrived Mr. Depka was washing blood from his hands and had discarded his blood-stained shirt. Robert Tardy, elevator operator, substantiated his story about g to the aid of the dead woman and about having blood stains on his shirt and hands when he made : the return trip to the seventh floor. Neither Mr. Simpson nor Mr. Depka was able to give police much information about the dead woman. Police said her mother, Mrs. Anna Hatch, lives in Buffalo, N. Y., and that, Miss Hatch was born in England. They said she lived at the Link apartments and had previousi¥

Dr. Wesley Ward, deputy coroner, after a post mortem examina-

|| tion, said death apparently was due

to the fall and that Miss Hatch had a fractured skull and. internal injuries. No other bones were broken, he said, and there was evidence oi liquor in her stomach.

It had been previously reported that a Mr. Goodwin also was in the room, but Charles Goodwin, 30, of 146 N. Pennsylvania Sty made a statement to police today that he was not. He told police that he was at the apartment‘ when the accident happened, but that he had just arrived and that he was in another room. He said that a man he doesn’t know appeared at a door leading to another room and said: “She jumped out the window.” He said he then left the apartment. Mr. Simpson and Mr. Depka were to make statements this afternoon to the coroner. Guests at the party said they heard no indications of a struggle before the fall. Police said the window sill is only 18 inches from the floor and that the screens fasten

lived in another downtown hotel.

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TYPICAL RUSE HULL SAYS OF RAEDER'S TALK

Destruction of Hood May Spur U. S. Reinforcement Of Royal Navy.

WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P). —German threats will not discour. age United States determination to give Great Britain short-or-war aid, it was indicated today as White House sources charged Grand Admiral Erich Raeder was attempting to “becloud” President Roosevelt's forthcoming fireside chat. Mr. Roosevelt will address the nation and the world tomorrow night at 8:30 (Indianapolis time) on international affairs. Secretary of State Hull described statements by Raeder as threats designed to induce the Americas to refrain from defense efforts until Germany controls the seas and the other four continents.

Hull Assails Raeder

-In response to a press conference question, Mr. Hull said that Raeder's statement that U. S. convoys would be an act of war resembled the procedure which has been used against European nations to cause them to refrain from real efforts at self-defense until Hitler is ready to act. He referred directly to Hitler, without using his first name or title. : There was widespread specula-|* tion whether British loss of the] Battle Cruiser Hood and reports of other sea reverses would lead to transfer of additional American warships to the Royal Navy. In an interview, Raeder said assighment of United States naval convoys to British shipping would € be “an open warlike act.” Other German officials said that German naval command®rs would not submit tamely to constant attendance by the American North Atlantic patrol in which United States vessels are understood to be under orders to report the position of German raiders.

Suspense Mounts

These indications of a showdown on Mr, Roosevelt’s North Atlantic patrol combined with news of Britlish sea reverses and unfavorable reports from the Eastern Mediterranean to create a condition of tremendous suspense and interest in connection with the fireside chat. Presidential Secretary Stephen T, Early intimated that tomorrow night's address will be one of the most significant the President ever has delivered. “I have an idea that Berlin is trying to do anything it can to becloud the President's speech and precipitate something for you gentlemen between now and Tuesday night,” Mr. Early said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the Raeder interview is only one of the things you will be querying me about as coming from Berlin between now and Tuesday night.” Mr. Early did not amplify this hint that Germany may be seeking an opportunity to create an incident of some kind, possibly in the North Atlantic, in view of warnings from ‘erlin that “responsibility for possible conflict lies with those who are not heeding German warnifigs and are ignoring the attitude of a majority of the American people by proceeding to danger zones.” Japan’s attitude seemed to stiffen (Continued on Page Two)

NAZIS SAY RAEDER

Naval Chief Charges.

BERLIN, May 26 (U. P.)., «= Authorized Nazi quarters said today that Grand Admiral Erich Raeder laid “all the cards on the table” in an interview in which he said United States convoys to Britain would constitute “an open warlike action” and would provoke Germaw attack. The statement by Raeder, made in an inferview with the Domei (Japanese) news agency, “lays down in precise terms what the world public already has known from some of the “Fuehrer’s word,” a spokesman said. “Certain quarters in some countries seem nevertheless to have misunderstood what constitutes convoying, patrolling and warlike actions.” Raeder issued an urgent warning to the United States against the extension of American naval patrols, which, he said, already are-of an aggressive nature. “German naval forces would he justified in taking action against these goods-carriers according to the rule of international law and in case United States warships attempted* to hinder these measures they would be forced to reply with

force of arms,” Raeder was reported as saying. hs

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Nazi Threats

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Crete

British Imperials, aided

Crete today.

FIGHT

RAGES ON ISLE;

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Germans Claim Almost All of British Eastern Mediterranean Fleet Has Been Sunk; °

Rome Reports Landings from Sea. War News on Inside Pages

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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

once more by the Royal Air

‘Force, battled furiously today to crush advancing German. air infantry and air-borne tanks on the western end of

Axis powers claimed they were finally landing reine

forcement by sea after destroying 25 British Warships in the

last six days.

troops had counter-attacked line before Canea and Suda.

from Malemi, on the western sources said that their forces

Retimo sectors. On the second important

In Africa, the British said they had taken thousandsvef additional Italian prisons, including two divisional generals, in their drive to end

the war in Ethiopia. The. British revealed that the R. A. F., which had previously been withdrawn from Crete because the Germans had captured the airfields, had come back to the strategic

{island over the week-end to destroy

at least 24 Nazi aircraft and damage many more. The R. A. F. attacks seemed to have been at night and it was said not a single British plane was lost. London revealed that the Germans have provided some tanks for their air invaders of Crete. The tanks are thought .to be small affairs, presumably landed by plane. The British said that the arrival of air invaders had slackened somewhat, possibly because of the terrific losses suffered by the Germans. Istanbul estimated that the Germans have lost 20 per cent of their invading personnel and placed the size of the Nazi force at 25,000 to 28,000 men.

fleet.

naval squadron was doing in the

PUT GARDS ON TABLE

Patrols Already Aid British,

waters where the action occurred.

The spot is far to the north, between Iceland and Greenland,-and uncomfortably close to the nonhostile waters of the Western Hemisphere. It is well out of the lanes used by merchant convoys bound for Britain. The supposition that the German ships were out to attack Greenland is hardly tenable. Unless the Bismarck, and whatever Warships which ‘accompanied her were convoying troop ships for an invading expedition, there would be little practical advantage in such an attack. If British-occupied Iceland were the objective, the same thing would be true, and the Bismarck moreover would not have gone west of Iceland, past its objective. Important units of the British Navy also would not normally be in those barren waters. It is not impossible that the American patrol spotted the German ships and warned the British, which caused them to go to the scene. The object of the German expedition, under conditions of wartime secrecy, must remain a mystery on this side of the Atlantic. It could: be that the Germans were feeling things out for later action on this side of the Atlantic. They obviously were not seeking an engagement with the British (Continued on Page Two)

BLACKOUT IS TESTED BY NEWARK OFFICIALS

NEWARK, N. J, May 26 (U. P.). ~—Newark’s 428,000 residents underwent the first experimental black-

Today's War By United “Press War Experts The significance of the engagement in which the British nattle:

cruiser Hood was sunk by the German battelship Bismarck goes quite beyond the intrinsic loss to the British Navy of such a large unit of its

out held in an Aflantic: seaboard

A British communique issued at Cairo said New Zealand

the Nazis after the defense Bay was penetrated, but the

outcome of the hand-to-hand fighting was still unknown. The German High Command said that operations were ‘continuing successfully” after the launching of an offensive

tip of Crete, and other Nazi. were advancing “everywhere

—presumably meaning toward Canea and in the Candia and

Middle Eastern front —Irag—

Rome asserted that Italian speede boats had protected a number of small fishing craft which managed

from each boat. If German High Command claim3

craft around Crete are to be bee

sunk virtually the whole of thé Eastern Mediterranean fleet—a most unprobable development, L

Some London reports said that a third Nazi convoy: attempting to land men on Crete had been smashed by British warships.

possibly 250 German planes have been smashed. in the air invasion. In Iraq the British reported signs of disintegration h the Raschid Ali Government. Some of Raschid Ali's. ministers were said to be fleeing and Iraqi natives were reported to be rebelling in some regions. The Royal ‘Air Force carried out raids on German shipping along the Dutch, Danish nd German coasts, sinking 600-ton vessel and damaging others.

Moves

* Aside from the blow to British naval. prestige, it raises the disturbing question for Britain, and for the United States, too, of what a German:

MORGENTHAU AT SEA WITH FLEET

Treasury Mum on Purpose of Trip.

WASHINGTON, May 26 .(U. P), —Sceretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. is at sea with the U. S. Atlantic patrol, it was dise closed today. This was revealed when the Treas< ury announced that the secretary would not hold his regular Monday afternoon press conference.

The Treasury would not discuss’ the purpose of the Secretary's trip,. =

But it was understood from other quarters that he desired to observe operations of the naval patrol which _ has heen protecting American neutrality as far out in the Atlantic as . 2000 miles.

‘MAD BUTCHER’ AGAIN?

PITTSBURGH, May 26 (U.P) — =

Following the discovery of a man’s leg on the bank of the Ohio River, county detectives today studied the

other victim of Cleveland's “mad butcher.” The leg was cleanly amputated ab. the right hip and the surgery work resembled that performed. on the mutilated bodies of in freight cars at McKees Pa., a year ago.

to slip through the British fleet," landing 50. to 60 men on Crete

that the British have lost 25 ware"

lieved, Axis airplanes have so far

The British estimated unofficially that .

appeared in

fee men fot : ‘Rocks,

that the pro-Nazi regime of Pres. mier Rashchid Ali Beg Gailani may be crumbling under thé

blows of British bombing planes and mechanized land forces,

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