Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1941 — Page 3

ONDAY, MAY. 26, 1941

Zamzam Passengers Say They Ate ‘Billboard Paste’ And '‘Glop’ AGcard Nazi Raider

At dawn on the 17th he sighted the raider four miles away and the shelling began eight minutes later, at 5:55 a. m.

At first, passengers thought the noise was thunder{ As it cone tinued, most of them ran to the deck with lifebélts over ir pajamas, Mr. Laughinghouse was in a cabin with Harry Cauthone,: also of North Carolina when a shell splinter pierced his brain. He bandaged | himself and walked to the deck. A German doctor aboard the raider extracted the splinter and at last reports, according to Mr. Murphy, | fb Mr. Laughinghouse had a 50-50 chance to survive. . Mr. Vicovari was running toward the lifeboats when shell fragments | tore away the muscles in his thigh. The doctor said later an amputae . i tion might be necessary. 7 The shelling ceased when Capt. Smith signaled the raider with al { flashlight in Morse code: “Egyptian ship.” By this time several life= ! 54 boats had been lowered, and one, containing Mrs. Danielson, her ; children, and others, had sunk. The Germans picked them all up in half an hour, took cargo and baggage from the Zamzam and sank it with mines. .

(Glenn M. Stadler, the author of ‘this story, is from Peru, Ind.. He attended Indiana University from 1931 to 1933, then was employed on the Evansville Courier. He got his start in foreign eurtsepenlonts when lie reported the 1936 Olympic games at Berlin.)

Nine shells struck the ship during a 10-minute bombardment, and . "(there was one. hi oon couple ahah; 10 to 12 (also) swimming, the Germans. told Mr. Murphy that they had fired 55 shells. Two ' but not after we ed northern waters; 12, lihe up for food; 2 to 3:30 Americans, Francis Vicovari, New York, and Ned Laughinghouse, p.m. boys play with fathers; 4:30, dinner. Everyone was ordered below Wilson, N. C.,, and an Englishman, were seriously. wounded, and were decks 15 minutes after sundown.” kept aboard the raider. The others had narrow escapes. Some of "The 322 men, including the Zamzam crew of 129, most of Whom them, including Mrs. Lillian Danielson of Vilas, Kas., and her six chil- were Feypan. shared one toilet, but Germans finally agreed to let the dren, were thrown into the water and had to keep ‘afloat almost half men go deck at nights one at a time, Mr. Murphy said. an hour before the raider picked them up. Mrs. Danielson held her - Capt. Jaeger spoke English, and the survivors drew up a letter for baby in her arms and kept the other five children in line beside her him to give to Capt. Rogge of the Tamesis, demanding that they be holding hands, as they floated in their lifebelts. She told them to keep taken to a neutral port and not exposed to the perils of running the their mouths closed and to pray, and she said later that they obeyed Brish blockade. bravely. - : Ih e e letter, sGeording to ur ind Joo; “We wish to point Life aboard the Dresden was a strange existence to the mission- Out that we are not prisoners, but citizens of a non-belligerent country. aries, tobacco merchants, American ambulance drivers, and the others Lf YOu Wish to damage American relations, this seems the way to do it.” confined on her for more than a month, Mr. Murphy said. Within the As a-resull of the complaint to Rogge, the survivors got better limits set by the Dresden master, a Capt. Jaeger, the survivors regu- 1000 including meat, soup, Uruguayan eggs and once, some margarine lated their own lives. and wees, Tbe min ig £04 2 Brealan cigars gioy fo Says “When we got diarr. e doctor presc charcoal and whi “All service was done standing in line,” Mr. Murphy said. “First, arcoal » “ we were given a bowl, cup, spoon and cotton bags which we stuffed for bread, but the ch ran out,” Mr. Murphy said. “The doctor had

mattresses. We arranged the following schedule: 6 a. m., arise; 6:15, a stan f Joke: You Should ch 26 your diet

The Zamzam was traveling blacked out, th its radio silent, Mr. mass; T to 7:45, breakfast; 7:45 to 8:15, Protestant services; 8:30 to 10, M said. Its captain, William Gra th, pick clean decks and quarters, also visit doctor; 10 to 12, men visit women pny is: cab Lomi, picked up & Inesssge

"By GLENN M. STADLER * United Press Staff Correspondent © BIARRITZ, France, (via Paris) May 24.—(Delayed) ~American survivors of the Egyptian freighter Zamzam said today that the Ger‘man raider which sank their ship in the South Atlantic April 17 was

the former Norwegian freighter Tamesis, 7256 tons, and. that the merchant ship to which the Germans transferred them was the North German Lloyd liner Dresden, 5567 tons. The 330. passengers and crew members of the Zamzam were kept aboard the Dresden 32 days—the, 222 men cramped irito one 51-foot square room, sleeping shoulder to shoulder, and the 73 women and 35 children divided among the Dresden’s 35 available cabins. They complained to the German captain about the food—they called the breakfast gruel, “billboard paste” and the lunch and dinner “glop,” and the -sanitary facilities, especially for the men were bad, but the Germans on the whole treated them courteously, they said. ~~ The Tamesis, registered out of Tonsberg, Norway, came upon them ° at dawn April 17, eight days after they had left Recife, Brazil, and four days before they were due at Capetown, Africa, and opened fire without warning, according to Charles J. V. Murphy, an editor of Fortune magazine and former liasion officer for the Byrd Antarctic

Expedition, who acted as spokesman for the 138 Americans here. April 14 saying a Ieider was chasing a Norwegian 8 Ship 29 miles away.

Laval's Own Story —

HOW GREECE'S KING | - ESCAPED CHUTISTS

Geirse Forced to Climb M Cheese on Flight to

olin, in, Ride Mule and Eat Seaside After Nazis

Dropped Into Garden.

By WALTER COLLINS United Press Staff Correspondent

CAIRO, May 26.—King

George II of Greece and his

Government, in Cairo after narrowly escaping capture by German parachute troops in Crete, planned today to proceed to British territory to set up a Government in exile for continued resistance to the Germans,

* A platoon of New Zealand troops, assigned to the King, and a small detachment of Cretan gendarmes alone saved the King and his cabinet from

capture at their headquarters

southwest of Canea, in the Malemi Airdrome area, when German parachutists descended on the morning . of May 20, it was disclosed. The King and the others, including Maj. Gen. T. G. Heywood, chief of the British military mission to Greece, and Col. J. H. Blunt, assigned to the Greek leaders, clambered over a 7000-foot mountain, sheltered in a cave and a shepherd’s hut,- and embarked from Therisson on the south coast for Egypt.

King Rides Mule The King rode a mule for the last few miles of the journey to the coast. He and the others had little -to eat en route but mutton, * goat’s milk and cheese. In a statement issued here, the King)saiq, as did the British officers,

-that jthe Germans had hoped to capture him and members of his ‘Cabinet at the outset of the Cretan invasion. Hundreds of parachutists landed near the King’s house. The New Zealand rear guard under Lieut. W. H. Ryan and a small body of brave Cretan gendarmes attacked the Germans at 800 yards and fought a stubborn rear guard a’ which enabled the King to escape while the Nazis captured his headquarters. “We leave Crete for the time being and will proceed to British territory, where we have been invited,” the King said in his statement. “This is the only course which will enable us to carry out the duties imposed on us by the interests of the nation.” ' Still at Britain’s Side

The King pledged his government to continue closest collaboration with Great Britain “and share with the gallant British people both the ‘dangers which they face with such valor and the efforts which they are making with the support of the great American people for the triumph of the cause of freedom and democracy.” . King George said that after escaping the Germans near Canea, he and his party hoped to make their headquarters .at Therisson. It was found impossible, he said, ..to maintain communication. with all members of the Government or with the Allied Command. Upon advice that the responsibility for protecting him would only embarrass the British Command, he said, “We decided with profound regret to leave the heroic island where the Al'ied armies, together with all Cretans irrespective of sex ‘or age continue to fight with the most admirable courage in defense of their honor and liberty against the unsuccessful attacks of an enemy

every mechanical device at its disposal.” He concluded: “I address myself to all fighting men on the island and ask them to stand firm in comradeship and thus contribute to the maintenance of national unity which together with valor and the spirit of selfsacrifice is indispensable to the success of this great struggle.”

‘I's the Real Thing’

Gen, Heywood and. Col. Blunt told the story of the King’s escape from the parachutists who landed near his house. A summary of their statement follows: “There had n great German air activity over Crete for several days but not until the morning of the 20th did we realize that at last it was the real thing. About 6 a. m. German planes .came over Suda Bay and bombed anti-aircraft batteries. About 8 a. m, showers of parachutists descended southwest of Canea. “Soon the sky seemed full of bombing planes, troop carriers and gliders. “Two squadrons of Messerschmitts flew directly over the King’s house. The King, with Prince Peter (his cousin, who accompanied him to Egypt) and other Greek ministers went to sit in.the trenches nearby. Six gliders came over the house and disappeared. Other gliders landed in the King’s Garden. Troop carriers came flying in from the west in what seemed a never ending line. Parachutists could be counted by hundreds. It was a confused scene. Germans and Britons fired in all directions. “About 10 a. m. Blunt decided that it was essential that the King have a personal bodyguard. Two Cretan officers and 20 gendarmes were assigned him.

Clamber Up Hill

“Then we left. We clambered up a hill 1500 feet high. While we were climbing, the New Zealand rear guard opened on the Germans. “About 11 a. m. we reached a cave belonging to a Cretan gardener. Wa stayed there until 3 p. m. “During the afternoon, Blunt sent out patrols of the King’s house to get some of his things and hide others. Further patrols were sent out at 5 p. m. They found the house in German hands. “In the evening we reachad a village where we learned that the Premier, with whom the King had lost touch, was safe. “Blunt went to Caean, contacted British authorities, and returned at nightfall. Then we found it advisable for the King to go farther up the mountains. “It was decided that the King should leave Crete on the night of the 22d-23d, the earliest date on which we could make arrangements. “We spent the night of the 20th in a village on a 7000-foot mountain. The descent next morning was difficult, but we finally reached the sea. The King rode a mule the last

which used with its usual ferocity

few miles.

ing: successive phases of our debacle.

to obtain for France the best pos--sible peace after such a great defeat. “As soon as the National Assembly had vested full powers in Petain, I sought to reestablish relations with Germany. I did it with osbtinate faith—I couldn’t fail. Progress was slow and I knew many. difficult moments in my many journeys " between Vichy and Paris. Slowly, I gained the confidence of the German negotiators, most of whom didn’t know me and to whom I might have appeared the representative of a defeated regime. “1f I succeeded, I am sure it was because I went to the Germans as a peasant of France, determined to defend his soil but also determined to teach my fellow Frenchmen that France could regain her strength only in a unified, regenerated continent. I pleaded - with all my soul the cause of France. I never faced the Germans with the spirit of a conquered man. I never humiliated myself. Because of the way

Pierre Laval

ler was a surprise to me. I had left Paris only with the idea of meeting Ribbentrop (Joachim ven Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister). Three quarters of ah hour before arriving at the now celebrated village (Montoir), I learned the truth. I talked with Hitler for two hours.

‘I Was Not Afraid’

“F WAS ABLE to speak with him freely and frankly because I had no responsibility in the declaration of the war whose un happy ending I had feared and predicted. I was not afraid because I knew France is immortal and well able eventually to regain her place in the world. But I had one obsession? To find a basis for discussion to establish a clear understanding and frank friendship to terminate forever the tragic disputes which periodically had hurled us one against the other. “I didn’t know Hitler: I speak no German and he speaks no French. But I defended my country; he had his in mind. “‘You can crush us,” I told Hitler. ‘You can, .if you desire, punish us more; we can take it. But because it is a law of nature, we will one day revolt. During our history, you've whipped us. We've beaten you. Must this go on indefinitely? Can you agree to allow a tragic renewsl of our conficts at « date and under conditions which we cannot foresee? If you don’t want that, if you take into consideration our past glory and our pride, if you consent not to touch our honor or our vital interests, then any ing is pos-

sible.’

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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MEETINGS TODAY 7 WER. noon Council of Social Arebites,

omen's Taffie Club,

Indianapo! + Hoosier blatic Club, 7:30 p Scientech Club, Board of Ra noon, Service Club, Claygos] Hotel noon.

Indian sociatio £ si annelis nau damedation o Irvington bllean Clab, 5446 Washington St. Ld P. % Canary Cottage,

North Side Resor. noon. Notre Dame Club, Board of Trade, noon. Central Labor Union, Castle Hall, 8 p. m.

piliusiiel Union Council, Amalgamated

Indians University Club, Columbia Club, |VaR

noon. CE Be By Sales men’s Club, Hotel | Weshington, Association,

12:15 p maton, 130 B. m.

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Lutheran Service Club, ane Cottage,

noon Y’s Men’s Club, Y. M. Fine Paper Credit Group, Aten®s “aritle, H k Co.

Alpha Tau Omega, Board of Trade, noon. American Chemical Society, Hotel Sev-

erin, -n nid Club Board, Hotel Severin,

noon Indianapolis Teachers’ Union, Hotel Severin, 7:30 p. m. General Assembly, United Presbyterian Churches, Hotel Severin, a. m, Central Casket aon tion, Hotel Severin, 10:30 Indiana Motor Bate mm Tariff Bureau, Hotel Severin, 10 Hotel Severin, 9

:30 2. Bployaient Sorvien, "Indiana Farm Bureau, Hotel Severin, al Food Faas Credit Group, Hotel Washington, 6 p.

AR LICENSES

{These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times therefore. is not responsible for errors in names and adresses.)

Associa-

Kennet L. Willis, 31, 21, a 2426 Prospect; Marianng 'E. Sawin, 20, 0 Elmer H. He, er, sy] of 513 Sanders; Mildared .L._Arnho . SI. 4319 Guilford. Paul Lipps, 28. at Ire Hall Place; Leona M. Lasey, 19, of air m 16th. John Simpson, 26, Capit rt, Ind.; Joan Eocies 23. of ede spi Edward V. Bowm o 1824 Park; Delores 1. L. Linder, 2, Bet 280 nge. William Faulconer * 31, coh Grove; Helen on Toohey, of 2438 Walker. erman L. ely 321 of 238 N. vefferson; Kathryn E. Leonard, 1 arborn. Ernest Murray, 33, > S Tay Yandes; Jennie B. Burnett. 31. of 1307 N. West. Edward H. Johnson, 29, of 1315 Rappes; 17 ot 42 Pros B. Danford, 1 Box Catherine E. Heath, Yor. R. 10, Box Paul E. Dickens, 30 ot p39 Udell; Ma oy CR A e a; rms; Mary. V. Kendall, 32. of op ‘PennsylWilson, 23, of 1 S. Senate; Evelyn White, 22 = 1301 8. West. ichard F. Hi 23, of 415 W, 43d; Betty P. Walters. B, of 3944 N. Capito!

Geo uELcton. 22, of 825 8S. West: Bridget A." 22, 839 Chadw wick. L a 20,

. f 3114) North; Marw Ru son, of LOTR ry, Rue Dodson

123 N. Overton Che: ber 23. of 1042 N. Traub; Ida Rees se, 20. of 2631 Highland Place

Lorraine %. 8h er, 31, 503% 8S.

Brunnemer, 45, of:1309 E. RayRy Bertha L, Cooley,’ 30, 1307 Kelly. Waldemar ter

Ralls” Columbus, K. of C. Club:

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Nichol. 22. of 109 W. St. Clair; oemak

Charles K. Harris, 45, of 628 N. West; Jobniie Mo Srigley, 28 "22 of 956 W. North, R. Bra 34 N. LaSalle; Mabel E. Mitchell, 2. Oa Central 0! cge Olin E. Baker. 50, Elkhart Ind.; Lula V. Molebash, 51, Elkhart, Ind. C Sievers, 30, of" 615- N. Oakland; Krentler, 35, of 615 N. Oakland. y 0 :

Helen R. Bentley, 24, of 701%

E. Souther Milton Mendelsohn, 36, of 141 W. Washington; Doris Graze. 22, Seville Apis. Ralph T 26, of 633 E. 10th; Anna Mt Green. ity of 8115 a oadwey andt E 1, of 5? i S. Noble; Viola M. Sharks. Rr) 3 524 S. Noble 21. of 734 N. Ne iSont; Elizabeth Whitaker. 18, of 746 N. Tremont.

BIRTHS Sie

uff. at St. o Eugene, Pear! Carlisle, at Methodist. Charles, Maxine Da at Methodist. Clarence, Gertrude Laws at. Methodist. Otis, Lavon Scott, at Methodist, Dapon. Myrtle Harris, at 701 Waldemere. Oscar, Leat| Cubel, at 545 Centenniel. William Alice Brown, at 918 W. No rth.

t, Vincent's. J Betty Canup, at St. Vincent's. ceStephen. Marjorie” Lantz, at’ St. Vin9° Charles Bw Mary Speer, St. Francis. po Hassell, = Winefred_ itt at St.

cis. Norman, Aline Pender, at 3. Francis. Charles, Alma H Hampton, City.

DEATHS Cline, 72. at st. Vincent's, cere-

Olive bral’ hemorrhage. ro ADha ShibD, “36, at Central, arterioscle-

osis. TO Wtilie Rums, 31, at City, bowel obstruc-

n. Clifford C. chronic myocarditis. e oa en Neill, 73; at 730 N." Tibbs, carei-

oped Jorens, 85, at 3423 Salem, chronic myocarditi Silas H. “johnson, 93, at 660 E. 46th, ar“Raph Lemicke, 61, st St. Vincent's, m , 0= carditis. a

omerding. 23, f 340 N. Addison: No Norm Zimmerman, 30, of 328 Lockburn, ’ Re

Fannie Wilson, 173, at: Central, chronic

! aephritis,

‘No Revenge Peace, FranceWas Promised

Former French Vice Premier Asks U. S. to Let France Join ‘New Europe.’

By RALPH HEINZEN COPS 1941, by United Press.\

PARIS, May 24.— (Delayed). ~—Pierre Laval is talk“Last June, I watched powerless and broken hearted, the swift,

“Even in the darkest hours, I never gave up hope for my country. I was guided solely by the desire to do everything possible to attempt

I spoke, my interview with Hit-

Historie Story

The accompanying dispatch is one of the most amazing to come out of the war. The man who helped bring about France’s capitulation to Germany and who arranged for her to “collaborate” in defeat with her former enemy, explains his motivations and details his activities. In all previous wars, historic revelations by the major participants have come many .years after the fighting ceased. Pierre Laval summoned United Staff Correspondent Ralph Heinzen from Vichy to Paris and talked to him with apparent frankness. He wanted to send a message to the American people. The message was that America should not intervene in the war, for her . own sake and for the sake of France which, he said, without American intervention, could play a: part in the construction of a “new Europe. » America could have a part in that new Europe, if she didn’t intervene, he said. © Since Paris is occupied by the German Army, Mr. Heinzen could not have crossed from Unoccupied * France, without the approval of German authorities,

Seward, 60, at 1426 King, |

“And the chancellor replied: ‘I will not make a peace of revenge. I will not fall into the errors of Versailles. But do you want to sollsliorated 2” » » “DID I WANT to collaborate? It was because I did want to collaborate that I was there. That's why we were able to draft rapidly the broad outlines of a collaboration plan and agree on the capital fact that France in those conditions could, after peace, play a great role in the construction of a new Europe. “It would be incorrect to say more now about those talks. What I can say is that neither then nor later was I .ever asked to surrender anything which I would be forced to refuse in consideration of the interests I ,was then charged with defending. : “Montoir has permitted France

to enter voluntarily into a new

system which will be created in Europe when the war ends. It is evident that France's fate will be determined to a large extent by the attitude she has taken during the remainder of Germany’s war with Britain. Those here’ and

-abroad who believe my country

can calmly await the end of the war, make a great mistake and prepare France for a rude awakening tomorrow.

Asks U. S. to Stay Out

“DOES THAT PEACE wherein I have hope and confidence, since I met Hitler, appear incompatible with the idea. America has of France? ' I cannot believe that. It is, nevertheless, that peace and no other which collaboration must bring to my country. Would the ‘United States -want to push France into a contrary peace—a peace of destruction and division —by urging her to spurn the extended hand of Hitler—-a hand extended in a gesture quite unique in history? “And there’s another thing. You don’t seem to realize across the ocean . that this isn’t a war like other wars; it’s a revolution from which a new Europe, rejuvenated, reorganized and prosperous, must come. Liberty will remain. Liberty cannot durably be menaced in a country from which the original ideas of liberty spread to the world. Democracy? If it’s the same democracy we know, the de-

mocracy which caused us so much

trouble and to which we owe our present collapse, we don’; want it and we don't ask you to fight for that democracy. But we want a new republic, stronger, with better sinews, more reality, and we are determin ‘public. “That’s the message I want to send to America. Does the United States really want to paralyze our nation on the road to national recovery? Is the United States go-

Ine by cruel, bloody intervention: to delay

‘the hour when France can step boldly forward to the future?

“In the rebuilding of Europe, you Americans can play 8 magoe role. But you can do it only in peace. France may some-

day become the link betvieen your.

continent end ours. Trade with 3 si ‘be resumed. We need of your natural wealth and you need ours. But you must unFr fulfill

gangplank old World and the New, unless She to the policy

ed to make such a re-

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7IRISH ANGERED

AT DRAFT TALK

DeValera and Cosgrave Say Vester Conscription Would Peril Relations.

DUBLIN, May 26 (U.P. .—Great Britain was strongly warned against extending conscription to Northern Ireland today in speeches by Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and Opposition Leader William T. Cosgrave, who said that “every proper step should be taken to avoid disaster that would follow a conflict with

|Great Britain and even with the

United States if she should enter the war.” Both speakers repudiated the right of ‘Britain to conscript Irishmen in Ulster, urged that such action be avoided and warned that it happy relations” between Britain and Ireland. Northern Ireland (Ulster) is governed as a part of Great Britain and is the only part of the Empire to which conscription has not been extended. It is claimed by Eire and there are several hundred thousand supporters of the Eire regime there.

Claims Rights Attacked

“We must. honestly hope that the proposal which ‘may well prove ‘a catastrophe for us as well as an occasion of damage to Britain will not be persisted in,” Cosgrave said. He said it might involve the very existence of Eire. Speaking to a crowded session of Parliament, de Valera, recalled that

| he previously had opposed conscrip-

tion before the war when it was proposed td extend the draft to

| Ulster.

“There could be no more grievous sliack on any fundamental human right than to force an individual to fight in the forces of another country to which he objects to belonging,” de Valera said. “It was that feeling that united the whole Irish people in their resistance to conscription in 1918.

Claim Third of Population

“It was the realization of that fact and, because of other issues involved which caused the British Government to exclude the six counties of Northern Ireland from the conscription ‘act passed prior to the war.” “Their inhabitants are Irishmen,” he declared. “No act of Parliament can alter this fact. In the six northern counties there are more than a third of the population who have protested against being cut off from the main body of the nation and who were so cut off agains: their own will and against the will of a majority of the whole Irish people. + “It would be an outrage to compel them to fight in the forces of

them and continues to do them this grievous wrong.”

UNITED PRESBYTERY RETURNS 1ST CHURCH

Church, of Indianapolis, 22nd St. and Park Ave., today was restored to the roll of the Indiana Presbytery | po

erica.

assembly voted also to appoint a United | Presbyterian minister to serve the church soon. The First United Presbyterian Church has not had a United Presby-

and last September the Indiana

from its roll. The Assembly will end its sessions tomorrow.

CADOU. WINS $64 ON

Eugene (Jep) Cadou, head of the International News Service in Indiana, and, Blanche Martin, 2440 N. Talbott St, a stepographer, last night won $64 each in Bob Hawk's “Take It or Leave It” radio program |W broadcast from the Murat Theater. George Henderson + and Pete Fleming, also, of Indianapolis, shred the $62 Jack pot for giving the correct answer to the question, “What country in Europe or Asia begins with ‘A’ but doesn’t end with ‘A’” The answer was Afghanistan.

would mean revival of the “old, un-|

another country because it has done l

The First United Presbyterian De

ht. by ms) ‘General Assembly of North wa asls.-Fa Meeting at the Severin Hotel, the n

terian minister in about three years|. + Presbytery voted to drop the Sushi Boston

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT" E35;

are settling around the various plants in hundreds of newly built homes. One ward chairman estimated that approximately 1400 new voters had settled-in his district since the November election. G. O. P. leaders are not kidding themselves. They realize that a majority of the 1940 labor. vote went to the Democrats. They also know thai the new crop is largely Democratic, especially since many of them are coming from the South.

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Committee to Help

FOR THE TIME being, the precinct and ward leaders are handling the problem. Before long they will be getting some important help from the County committee and a reorganized group known as the Republican Wage Earners League. This organization is busy now preparing its program. Eventually it hopes to set up operation in the various plants as well as in the precincts in co-operation with the regular organization. The big drive won't start until next fall. By that time, the County leaders will have had an opportunity to check over the registration records. . Then they will go to work. Of course, the Democrats aren't going to sit idly by and let these new votes slip through their fingers. So our new. citizens probably will be talking a lot of politics during ine inter months.

Peak Yet to "Come

BUSINESS OFFICIALS say the influx of new citizens has not yet reached its peak. They point out that several plants have been contracted for but still are under construction. Other new industries are reported considering Indianapolis as a possible plant site. This is only one of the problems confronting county party leaders as they begin tightening up their organizations for the primary and general elections next year. But it is an important one about which they can do something. . And it’s one_ of the reasons, along with the local factional dispute, why a high G. O. P. official

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

. U. S. Weather Bureau INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair tonight and tomororw; somewhat warmer tomorrow.

Sunrise

4:21 | Sunset TEMPERATURE . —Ma 1940— 6 a. m 1

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m...30.09

Precipitation 24 hrs. end Total precipitation since ficiency since Jan. 1

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MIDWEST WEATHER sca Aiana Fatt tonight and tomorrow; mewhat warmer in north and central

warmer in north and centonight; tomorrow partly e Michigan by

wer Michigan -— Partly cloudy Yih thundershowers in north and central tions late tonight or tumorrow inorn og: warmer in south and ea:t-central portions tonight, cooler in north and central portions tomorrow.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. piney 5

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Tam a, Fla. 1 ington, D. C..... Bieiay 3018 SHIP CONTRACTS SIGNED ‘WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P). ~The Maritime Commission announced today that contracts had Jbeen signed for the construction of

which will cost approximately $312,-. 000,000.

By Science Service z ’ WASHINGTON, May 26.—Exposed to violence of Nazi parachute war on Crete are some .of the world’s most significant ruins and museum

cally everything left to show a Crete’s magnificant civilization | was like, when it dazzled the world for many centuries, prior to 1100

Chute Raids Bare Invaluable Cretan Relics to Danger

serpent. goddess of ancient Crete were. discovered, and scientists eagerly pored over 1600 clay tablets

these ancient highly civilized people. Golden axes and ornaments added to the glitter of their world. "Among Sir Arthur’s discoveries in Crete, reported about 10 years ago, were ruins of an church-like building. world’s oldest Sheen, this little building has been called, for although it has no known link with Christian church

nd [architecture and was used in’ Crete’s

religion 1600 years before Christ, the structure has many features of modern church architecture. Not many miles from Knossos, an

| ntaltan archaeologist, Prof.

Luigi Pernier, pushed theater architecture back to 2000 B. C., by finding ruins of “the oldest theater in the world,”

‘123 more new merchant ships, |:

containing the forgotten writing of |

AS IF THE REPUBLICANS didn’t have enough worries right now, another rapidly growing problem is causing them no little concern. It’s the thousands of “new voters who are pouring into the county as the expanded national defense industry swings inte stride. There are no accurate figures on the number of new citizens pouring in, but estimates range from three to 10. families daily. They

said publicly that “if the election were to be held tomorrow, we would lose this county by 15,000.” ”® 2 ” !

McHale Boosts Fansler

A SPLIT IN the Indiana Democratic high command may flare into the open soon. The oft-ru-mored resignation of Federal Judge Thomas Slick of the Northern Indiana District is reported on its way to the President. Judge Slick has passed the retirement age and is eligible to leave the.

“bench on full pay.

Frank McHale, ' Indiana National Committeeman and Paul McNutt’s political cnief, has been in Washington recently boosting Judge Michael Fansler of the Indiana Supreme Court for the Federal appointment.

State Chairman Fred Bays, who broke with the McHale-Elder crowd and the Two Per Cent Club during the last election, is reported opposed to the naming of Judge Fansler. A He hasn't designated his favokite from a long list of attorneys and judges who are seeking the post. It’s the first Federal judgeship open to a Democrat in Indiana for many years and there is a wild scramble for the spot. Senator Frederick VanNuys will have the final word of Hoosier Democrats before President Roosevelt makes -the appoiritment and Washington reports are that he hasn't indorsed Judge Fansler. Mr. McHale believes that his man will get the honor, however. Some of Senator VanNuys friends are hinting that he may surprise everyone by naming someone who hasn’t been mentioned yet.

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NAZIS REPORTED | RULING IN SYRIA

Pro-British, Diplomats | In Turkey Hear.

ANKARA, Turkey, May 26 (U.P.), — Germany has obtained almost complete, if indirect, control in Syria

Henri Dentz, French High C sioner, diplomatic quarters here. as< serted today. When Dentz opposed the German

drive for control and appealed to

Vichy, he was told that if he did not approve he might resign. Dentz then submitted to the Germans. : A former Syria, Baron von Roser and. & Nazi agent called Chapeau-Rouge (Red Hat) headed an informal Gere

even before the outbreak in Iraq supplanted the Italian armistice commission and took over actual authority from the French, diploe matic advices said.

Free French elements in the Army and the civil administration and all who did not resign ‘were transe ferred to Vichy, it was said. ;

LAST. RITES HELD FOR MRS. RUTH M. OLIVER

Mrs. Ruth M. Oliver, for 40 years a dressmaker for North Side Ine" dianapolis families, was buried to= day - Funeral services were at 10 a. my in Shirley Brothers’ . Central Chapel.

day at her home, 1646 Hall Place, She was born in Boone County near Lebanon, and had lived in Mise souri and Kansas before coming to Indianapolis 59 years ago. She had belonged to the Methodist Church in Lebanon. Survivors are three sons, Arthur and Claude Oliver of Indianapolis’ and Charles Oliver of Los Angeles, Cal, and a sister, Mrs. William E,-

Harrison of Bluffton.’

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