Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1941 — Page 5
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- Fireside Chat on Foreign Policy Extended to 45 Minutes.
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referendum challenge, ad a warning against “undeclared war,’ was decided on at a meeting in the Senate Office Building.
May Demand Free - Seas
Eight Senators and 22 members of the House met yesterday to discuss those propositions - while the world waited for Mr. Roosevelt's address. He is expected vigorously to state United States claims to freedom of the seas. regardless of German objections to the north Atlantic patrol and to deal sharply with “defeatists” at home. : A subcommittee of seven of the congressional isolationists meets today to draft a letter to the President. The drafting committee in-
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cluded: Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont), Senator Robert A.
Follette (Prog. Wis.) and Representatives Carl T. Curtis (R. Neb.), John M. Robison (R. Ky.), James F. O’Connor (D. Mont.) and Frank B. Keefe (R. Wis).
Referendum Proposed
Mr. Roosevelt said that it was the desire of all concerned to “translate public opinion into constructive action on the basis of what is best for America.”
continued, “the American people have had no opportunity to vote on this greatest of all issues. We therefore, propose to conduct without delay at national referendum on the issue of peace or war. 2 “The question will be worded in the clearest and briefest language so that there can be no misunderstanding. The returns will be audited, insuring a reliable result. In addition, we shall ask or chalienge all the daily newspapers in the country to conduct referenda of ihe own to double-check the results.
Renewed Assurance Sought
“We hope in your radio address to the nation you will give renewed assurance that you will take no step in this country into war without the approval of the people through their congressional representatives in the constitutional American way.” i The sharpest conflict between the United States’ conception ‘of freedom of the seas and Germanys blockade program is due to develo
tends that American merchant ships shall enter those waters with goods useful to Britain's Near Eastern forces. Germany promises to sink any ships found on such a mission there.
German relations are Grand Admiral Erich Raeder’s warning that
1| convoys would be acts of war and
official German warnings that vessels of our north Atlantic patrol would not be permitted to seek out and accompany German raiders for the purpose of revealing their location to the British. The Presidential address will provide an opportunity some persons believe has been sought by the Administration to re-emphasize to the public the seriousness with which the present emergency is viewed in Washington.
RETREAT IN CRETE FORCED ON BRITISH
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coast in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Luftwaffe reportedly sank a 3000-ton merchant ship off the British coast and damaged another. 4. In North Africa, the British reported an R. A. F. air raid on the Axis base at Benghazi had started huge fires, while other raids dam-
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6. In Iraq, the Royal Air Force bombed the Mosul airdrome' (where the pro-Axis Premier Rashid Ali Beg Gailani was reported) and German planes bombed the R. A. F. base at Habbaniya. An Iraq communique via Berlin claimed the British were being forced back after advancing to within 16 miles. of Baghdad, and also had been repelled near Ramadi. Ankara reported there were only nine German planes left in Iraq and only four in Syria and that the Arabs had been given a poor impression of German invincibility. 7. The British announced that Syria and Lebanon henceforth will be regarded as enemy-occupied territory because of the use of, Syrian airdromes by German planes.
EXPECT HOUSE MOVE ‘ON SHIP-SEIZURE BILL
WASHINGTON, May 27 (U. P.). —The House may act today on two measures linked with the defense program—the conference report on the Administration’s foreign ship requisitioning bill and extension of President Roosevelt's broad mone-
y DOWers. Administration leaders, confident
of extending Mr. Roosevelt’s mone=
interventionist effort to ban payment of more than $35 an ounce for foreign gold, also planned, to ask early floor consideration of a bill extending the powers of the President. and. the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to engage in defense industries. - The ship seizure confergnce report, filed yesterday, adopted: the Senate amendment requiring negotiated purchase of merchant ships owned directly by a foreign government.
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Bismarck: New Nazi Warship. Is Sunk in Revenge for Hood
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had been ‘reduced that the Bismarck was leaving a wake of oil behind her. * - Saturday night the Prince of Wales again brought the big German ship into brief action, but the Bismarck raced
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Further complicating American-\.,qy toward the French Invasion Coast.
Later that same night a torpedo bomber from the aircraft carrier Victorious delivered a torpedo which was seen to hit the Bismarck, but at 3 a. m. Sunday the cruisers and the Prince of Wales lost the German ships in the fog 350 miles south of Greenland. f : ; Other naval units—at least half the British battleship force—were rushed into the search. Her Home Fleet led by the King George V, sister ship of the Prince of Wales, raced from the north and the battle cruiser Renown led another force from Gibraltar. The battleships Rodney and Ramilles were detached from Atlantic convoys to converge on the Bismarck. a
- Ark Royal Supplies Planes
Planes both from Great Britain and Newfoundland joined the search. Finally at 10:30 a: m. yesterday morning a two-motored American-built Consolidated flying boat located the ship 550 miles from Lands End, England. «. The ancient aircraft carrier Ark Royal, which the Germans have time and time again said was sunk, released her planes and two of them hit the Bismarck with torpedoes. One torpedo tore into the rudder and screws and left her whirling about in circles. The British fleet closed in for the kill. The Prince Eugen had disappeared. British destroyers reached the scene first at 11 a. m. and scored two more torpedo hits, completely stopping the Bismarck and starting a fire in the forecastle. -She was still capable, however, of heavy and accurate fire, Just before midnight, Admiral Guenther Luetjens, who commanded the Bismarck, radioed from her battered bridge to Berlin: £ : “The ship is unmaneuverable. We are fighting until the last shell. Long live the Fuehrer.” : She stayed afloat for 11 hours more while the British poured shells and torpedoes into her. The coup de grace was administeredy London revealed, by the Prince of Wales, the new sister dreadnaught of the George V, which smashed the Bismarck with 16-inch guns. Apparently the Bismarck was finished off with more torpedoes from the eruiser Dorsetshire.
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Loss of Bismarck . Worse Blow to Nazis Than Was Hood Loss to London. (Continued on Page Five)
similarly important part in the Battle of the Eastern Mediterranean, but the result there has not been conclusive. Berlin's claim that the British fleet there “may be considered destroyed” should be taken with reserve. It is worth noting that despite the German claim, there is no evidence that the Nazis have been able to land troops or supplies on Crete by sea. The British admit only the loss of two cruisers and four destroyers, with minor damage to two battleships and several other cruisers, some of which are already back in service. ' The loss of two cruisers is: not a staggering blow to the British Navy, which has about 70 of them. Previously in the war, the British have
conceded the loss of only six cruis-
ers. : There will have to be further developments In the Mediterranean before it can be suggested that British naval power has been broken there. : , . Germany has attained overwhelming air superiority, and has used it effectively, but is cutmatched on the surface. The Jtalian fleet and air arm combined’ have proved no match for the British. If the Germans could.get the French fleet, the combination of the French and Italian fleets and the Italian and German air arms might turn the balance, but Vichy has said again and again that the fleet will never be turned against the British. Leaving the French out of it, the British should be able to take care of the surface in the Mediterranean. Their danger is from the air. If the German air force eventually can overcome the British fleet there, then estimates of air versus sea power must be revised, but it must be remembered that the current action in the Mediterranean is in very narrow waters, where warships are more vulnerable than they would be in the open seas of.the Atlantic. As far as the Atlantic is con-
cerned, Germany is hopelessly outmatched. *™~ :
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COMMONS HAILS BISHARCK BLOW
ill ‘Tells of Sinking Briefly, Dramatically In Parliament. By H. L. PERCY LONDON, May 27.--Prime Min-
|ister Winston Churchill set the
usually staid House of Commons wild with: excitment today when he announced that the Bismarck had been sunk.’ ..Churchill had completed his statement on the war, telling of the pursuit of the Bismarck and promising that the warship soon would be finished off, and the House had
| passed on to other matters of rou- | tine business.
In the midst of these dull pro-
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to interrupt. He rose to his feet, poker-faced, while a over the chamber. ° '
~~ Announcement Simple He stood a moment and then be-
: |gan to read from a slip of paper.
“I don’t know whether I might venture with great respect to intervene,” he said, “but I have just received news that the Bismarck has been sunk.” : Abruptly he sat down. Members of the House leaped from their seats cheering and waving order papers. They tossed hats into the air.
The scene was comparable in excitement only to the moment when the late Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain interrupted debate in 1938 to announce that Benito Mussolini had intervened and that he had - ‘been invited to meet with Adolf Hitler at Munich.
.A Tap On Shoulder
News of the sinking had been brought to Churchill by his Parliamentary private secretary, Brendan Brasken, who hurried into the chamber while a member was speaking. Bracken pushed his way through the members and came up behind
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ister on the shoulder. Then he showed Churchill the slip of paper and the Prime Minister rose almost immediately with his announcement. ‘ Newspapers quickly appeared on the London streets with glaring headlines: “Bismarck Sunk; Scouter from U. S. Spots Her for Navy.” Londoners, gloomy at the lack of official news since sinking of the Hood Saturday, stopped each other on the streets, excitedly asking: “Have you heard the news?”
MORE THAN 3 BILLION IS ASKED FOR PLANES
WASHINGTON, May 27 (U, P.) — President Roosevelt today asked Congress for $3,319,000,000 in new appropriations * to provide more planes for the Army and Navy. The request, made in a letter to Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas, asked for $2,790,000,000 for planes for the Army and $529,000,000 for Naval planes. ; : The request reflectéd an imminent tremendous expansion’ of aircraft production schedules, but gave no details on the number and type of planes to be produced. "= It was understood the. Army request included an item for several thousand heavy bombers. Congressional leaders understood that the new Army plane request might. bé included in the pending Army appropriation bill for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1. With the plane request, the measure will total about $7,000,000,000. : The Presidents’ supplemntal request for the Army. was said to provide for more than 12,500 planes. The original Army budget for 1942 called for approximately $6,000,000,000. But it subsequently was cut down to $4,500,000,000 when some of the items were appropriated for in deficiency defense bills. for the current fiscal year. -The new plane request increased the total to $7,000,000,000.
SEEK PLAN TO TEACH RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
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in the schools. He said that the department did not want to cause any strife among church people. The idea of teaching religion in public schools was discussed at a
meeting yesterday in the office ‘of Dr. Clement T. Malan, State Superintendent of Public . Instruction, which was attended by 21 persons including Jewish rabbis, Catholic priests and officials of Protestant churches. : Mr. Bell reported that all had agred that a plan should be worked out. The next step will be the naming of a small committee by Dr. Malan to formulate a plan. Some suggestions offered were that schools could be dismissed for one or two hours each week for the pupils to go to church; that various ministers could come into the schols at regular « periods to teach the Bible, and that some schools could hire full-time teach- |’ ers of religion.
MAN AND WIFE HURT AS CYCLE CRASHES
A truck-motorcycle collision at West and Michigan Sts, today, caused injuries to a 20-year-old youth and his 18-year-old wife. They were taken to Methodist Hospital. : | Chester Smiley, N. Gray St., and his wife, Gertrude, were riding on the motorcycle. Mr, Smiley received a broken left leg and his wife
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