Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1941 — Page 1

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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 68

THURSDAY, MAY

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Cloudy Weather, Possible Showers Are Forecast For ‘500°

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THOUSANDS BEGIN INVASION OF CITY FOR RACE CLASSIC

Wilbur Shaw, Three-

Time Winner, Mauri

Rose and Rex Mays Installed as Favor-

ites; Field of

[ § By J. E. O ! The Speedway was given

33 Completed.

O’BRIEN the green flag again toding by

the Weatherman, who forecast warm, cloudy weather tomor- ~ yow for the 29th renewal. of the Memorial Day automobile

race.

These almost perfect racing conditions, along with the economic upturn and the prospect of one of the keenest driv-

ing battles in years, are expected to draw a record crowd of more than 150,000 to the historic track. “Some likelihood of thunderstorms,” also was predicted. J. H. Armington, Weather Bureau Chief, said, however, the possible showers probably will be “spotty,” and may miss Indianapolis entirely. No heavy rain is in sight, he added hopefully. The race itself—the last major automobile sweepstakes still being run in . the world—starts on the stroke of 10 tomorrow morning " when Starter Seth Klein waves a full field: of 33 cars away on their 500-mile trip.

* Visitors Pour Into City

Already today hundreds of .visitors were being emptied into Indianapolis by way of the Municipal Airport, Union Station and the Traction Terminal. Out-of-state: license tags were . conspicious, and the first rush of the overflow traffic was evident on downtown streets. Restaurant food and vacant hotel rooms vanished at an equal rate of speed,:while relatives came to make themselves at home with Indianapolis kin. W. 16th St. became America’s Broadway for a day as pitchmen threw up their tents and stands and prepared to sell anything from _ smoking hamburgers to smoked glasses. Before qualifying trials had ended yesterday afternoon, the queue of automobiles outside the main Speedway entrance was growing into a long line.

Expect New Records

By tonight the carefree “carnival spirit will reach its peak. Nightfall seldom slows this annual festival, and many a rabid race fan will frolic until the Speedway gates are opened at 6 a. m. tomorrow. Usually the pre-race gossip centers on the winner’s speed and the possibility of new records. But this year the talk is of the competition _ itself, the idea being that records invariably will tumble if the fast boys in the fast cars ride in good luck. It's doped -as a three-man race, with rapid Rex Mays, Wilbur Shaw and Mauri Rose cast as the principals. There are two bases for such a prediction—the finish of last year’s “500” and the trio’s performance in qualifying trials. Last year Mays and Rose drove through the rain and under the yel(Continued on Page Ten) -

OH, BLONDIE!

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 29 (U: P.) —Morris Wasserkrug suffered a knife wound last night in a raid— on his own icebox. Mr. Wasserkrug, Kansas City Southern Railroad employee, accidentally cut himself in the abdomen with a butcher knife while ‘preparing sandwiches for his midnight snack.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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Arrests Accidents seces ? Injuries < eseesas ?

DEATHS ......?7.

. Thousands of cars are converging on Indianapolis for the Speedway Race tomorrow. Other thousands are heading for picnics or week-end vacation spots. Whether Indianapolis and Marion County get through the week-end without a traffic death or serious injury hr on you. Above 5 the week-end traffic chart.

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Deacon Roars In Minus Goggles

A bird did its best to discourage Deacon Litz from qualifying his Sampson Spé- ° cial last. night just before the deadline. The bird got hit by the car, and it sprung the car hood and spattered Litz’ gog"gles. Litz threw away the gopeles and brought the car. in for an average of 123.440 miles an hour, braving the stinging air with no protecting for his eyes.

$9000 BONUSES SPEED UP ROADS

System Saves 15 to 20 Days at Estimated $400 Daily; Used First Time.

By EARL RICHERT The State Highway Commission will pay $9000 to two Indiana contractors within the next few days as an-award for doing their jobs— paving a road and building a bridge —in a’ hurry. These honuses will be the first ever paid by the State Commission to contractors for getting their work done ahead of schedule. One check for $6000 will go to the Gast’ Construction Co. of Warsaw for completing the paving of six miles of a new lane on Road 62 just south of Charlestown, 20 days ahead of schedule. The new lane will be opened to traffic tomorrow. Another check for $3000 will be sent to Wilbur C. Scheirer, Frankfort contractor, for completing the building of three new spans in the Road 36 bridge across the Wabash River at Montezuma 15 days ahead of schedule. One span in the bridge collapsed last spring and it was replaced with three. The bridge was opened to traffic last night,

so enthused over the effects of the use of a bonus system that they are planning to use it again when they feel that it is in the public interest to have a highway project completed in the shortest possible time, Fred Kellam, bridge engineer, estimated that it was costing motorists between $400 and $500 a day to make the 31-mile detour around the Montezuma bridge. He said he was confident that if a bonus had not been offered the bridge would net have been completed for another

{month or more.

A NEW LEASH ON LIFE!

SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 (U. P.). —A divorce property settlement approved today gave Shandon Patrick Twomey legal custody of Maedchen, a prize-winning Doberman Pinscher dog. Mrs. Twomey, however, may see the Sop. on alternate Sundays.

By RICHARD

Laughing, yelling Maoris—the New

drove the Germans out. The battle lasted seven days.

the Germans were all young, that scene after th

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Highway Commission officials are |.

U.S. TO TRAIN 8000 BRITISH FLIERS A YEAR

Lessons in Civilian and Army Air Corps Schools To Start June 7.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. P.).— War Secretary Henry -L.' Stimson said today that the U. S. Army Air Corps and eight civilian schools will launch a program June 7 to-tfrain 8000 British Royal Air Force combat pilots and navigators annually. The initial contingent of 550 students, who will come from the British Isles, will start training that

every five weeks thereafter. The program has three phases: 1. To train 4000 British fighter and bomber pilots annually under the same course given our flying cadets. They will receive primary instruction in the civilian schools, and their basic and advance work in U. S. Air Corps establishments.

'30 Weeks in Schools

2. To train 3000 fighter and bomber pilots annually in civilian schools according ® R. A. F. instruction methods. 3. To train approximately 1000 aerial navigators. Under the first phase, Mr, Stimson said, the students will require a total of 30 weeks in primary, basic and advanced schools. The training will be identical to that given our flying cadets, but the R. A. PF. will maintain a liaison’ officer at each school. Mr. Stimson said that as new Army schools are provided under the air expansion program, American. students will be withdrawn and the civilian schools will be devoted entirely to British training. .

Civilian Schools Listed

The civilian schools are: Alabama Institute of Aeronautics, Inc., Tusalcosa, Ala., Municipal Airport; Embry-Riddle Co., Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Fla.; Lincoln Flying School, Lakeland, Fla.; Darr. Aero Tech, Inc., Albany, Ga.; Graham Aviation Co., Americus, Ga.; South‘ern Aviation School, Camden, S. C.; Chicago School of Aeronautics, Albany, Ga.,-and Lakeland, Fla. The pasic air corps flying schools to be used will be Gunter Field, Ala., and Macon, Ga, while the advance air corp flying schools’ involved . are Maxwell Field, Ala, Barksdale Field, La. Selma, Ala, and Albany, Ga. In phase No. 2 of the program, Mr. Stimson said, the 3000 students will follow a 20-week British course of instruction under civilian teachers. Schools for this group, he continued, have not been selected. The third phase provides for training 1000 British aerial navigators annually at the Pan-American Navigational School, Miami.

6-STORY MILLS BURN AT LAWRENGEBURG

17 Grain Storage Elevators Are Threatened.

LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, May 29 (U. P.)—Fire today destroyed the six-story plant of the Lawrence-

burg Roller Mills, said to be the second largest milling concern in Indiana, and threatened 17 grain storage elevators containing approximately 500,000 bushels of wheat. The plant and its elevators were valued at $1,500,000. "Firemen from units at Lawrenceburg, Aurora, Dillsboro and Harrison, ‘O., expressed fear that the elevators’ might be destroyed if the wind changed direction. One large elevator caught fire and collapsed. Workers said the blaze might have “started from ga small paper

fire along a Big Four Railroad siding. : . The mill employs 125 men.

D. McMILLAN

United Press Staff Correspondent

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May 28.—(Delayed).—German parachute troops completely covered with green paint dropped onto the Malemi airport like faceless monsters from another world to start the battle of Crete, British officers who fought there said today.

The Germans encountered even worse horrors than they created.

Zealand aborigines whose ancestors

were inveterate cannibals—butchered them with bayonets. - Crete natives pounced upon some and slit their throats. British anti-aircraft guns poured sprays of incendiary bullets into the troop-carrying German planes, bringing some of them down in flames. There was a general massacre of every parachutist who landed the first day, green paint covering even their faces, hands and binoculars. After two days the Germans were able to land some planes at the field and to drive the British airport force a mile and a half down the road. Then the Maoris counter-attacked with bayonets again and

The British Imperials finally were

soverwhelmed and a group of officers from. airport staff have arrived here with the first detailed account of the fight. One British officer, a curly-haired youth from’ Bourneméuth, said

he had: seen one only 15 years old.

This boy wept when he Supendesed, the British officer said. - Describing e Maoris

day. A new class will be started |

P-38s Roll Off the Assembly Line

This is the first picture of the new Allison-powered Lockheed P-38 interceptor-pursuit fighters as

| they rolled off the assembly line at Burbank, Cal

the British have ordered 800.

excess of 400 m. p. h,, according to the March 13 issue of Flight magazine, British aviation journal.

Among the mightiest fighting -planes in the world, The twin Allison liquid-cooled motors give the plane a speed well in

The

P-38’s have a cruising range of 1000 miles, carry two 50 caliber and two .30 caliber machine guns and a 23 mm. cannon; all carried in the nose.

F.D.R. CHIPS AT | JAPAN AXIS LINK

Avoided Criticism in. Chat,

On Theory Army Clique May Be Sidefracked.

By LYLE, WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 29.—Evidence of a hopefully conciliatory Administration attitude = toward Japan coincided today with President Roosevelt's abrupt challenge to Germany to interfere with our North Atlantic patrol if she dares. There was no suggestion of United States acceptance of Japanese objectives -in ‘Asia nor a desertion of the Chinese to whom Mr. Roosevelt has ‘promised more" and nore military supplies. * : But an authoritative : behind-the-scenes picture of preparation for the fireside chat .delivered by. the President Tuesday indicates that’ there is hope of improving conditions in, the Far ‘East. . : . A Congressional participant in the pre-chat conference in which Mr. Roosevelt outlined his remarks said Mr. Roosevelt had: offered an interesting explanation ‘of why Japan was not mentioned directly, although the President repeatedly pot-shotted “Nazis” and once hit at “Fascists.” The explanation was that the omission of “Japan” from the speech was intentional. Mr. Roosevelt was represented as believing - that . the Japanese business classes would not forever submit to the leadership of the military clique: Which now controls Japan. : In expectation that the latter" will be overthrown by Japanese ‘business interests, Mr. Roosevelt indicated that he did not.want to-offend those in Japan who might materially: alter (Continued on Page Two)

MINTON SWORN IN AS NEW FEDERAL JUDGE

WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.— Justice Hugo L. Black of the United States Supreme Court today administered the oath of office to former Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, who on’ June: 5 will go to Chicago to become’ a ‘judge nf the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The ceremony today was held. at high noon in the office of Edwin A. Halsey, . Secretary - of the Senate. Former Senatorial : colleagues and high ranking Hoosiers from through-

out the Government were :on hand.

lay dead in piles, sprawled out in

o. K.No Swim Top After 15 Years

THE INDIANAPOLIS male may shed another garment this summer at park swimming pools—the swim shirt, ° The Park Board. so. voted today, “breaking a 15-year-old ‘rule. The vote was taken after’ ‘Board. President Jackiel W. Joseph said: “T think it is perfectly ridiculous ‘to make ‘men wear shirts when "Women wear so little.” :

EXPECT 75.000 AT CROWN HILL

War Dead to Be Honored in Memorial Services at National Cemetery.

More than 75 ,000 persons are expected at Crown Hill tomorrow to’ visit the graves of their own loved ones and to join in the annual Me.morial - Day - services honoring the City’s soldier dead. The services will be condicied in the acre and a half National:Cemetery, located in the heart of Crown Hill’s 500° acres. The National Ceme= tery, providing the resting place for many Civil War veterans of both the Union and Confederate armies and a number of Spanish American war veterans, is owned and cared for by the Government. Henry M. Dowling, Indiahapolis attorney, will. :be : the principal speaker at the memorial rites which will start at 2:30 p. m. under the direction of the Genera): Memorial Association. : Preceding - this ceremony will be the annual ‘Memorial- Day. Parade, moving, at 9:30 a. m. The parade will break’ up on Monument Circle and’ a service will be conducted immediately afterward on .the Monument steps by the Marion County Council, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Also scheduled” for tomorrow. are ceremonies at Concordia Cemetery, 3 p. m:; Mt. Jackson Cemetery, 10:30 | a. m. and at the Maj. Gen. Henry | W. Lawton statue in Garfield’ Park, 8:30 a. m. ; Services’ are scheduled today at the Grove of Remembrance in Garfield Park at 2 p. m.,, and at ‘the Harrison and Lincoln statues in University Park, at 7:30 p. m. A public Memorial Day song fes-| tival ‘will’ be conducted at 8 o'clock tonight in Cadle Tabernacle. The program, under the direction of Mary Traub Busch, will feature Jeanne Ruth, soprano; the’ Stephen Foster Quartet ' and the ‘Harlan

Brothers Quartet. ’

Battle of Crete: Green-Painted Nazis vs. Cannibals Sons

twisted. Spell »

had handled a bayonet in their lives, lined up ‘with the Maoris,” he

said.

“Talk about their finest hour!

It gave you a queer kind of

tingling feeling to watch the Maoris. Death meant nothing to them. . . . The Greenish parachute troops went down screaming in agony. The Magpris sliced through their bodjes, laughing, cheering and shouting. Our amateur bayoneters took quite a toll, too.” By parachute, glider and transport plane, the Germans contintied to come, sometimes. a plane a minute. At one time they had rounded

up 40 British prisoners.

fh “They .drove the prisoners ahead of them to. the. British Yings, where Australians were waiting with-their fingers on their gun trig-

gers,” the British officer said. “As they approached, the R. A.

F. men called outa WaTing, then

all fell flat on their faces.. ‘The Germans tried to fire but the Aussies ‘beat them to the triggers and every German there di The British told of another incident in which the. Cetramns. dr ye a British prisoner out info no-man’s-land- with a white flag, keepi

their

“He marched. toward. our-lines,

information + the Germans bad told him to give. One of our fellows

guns ‘trained on him to proceed a certain distancerand then pi to the British lines that the Germans had landed 20,000 troops.

stopped as ordered, and.shouted the. 40. ’

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MAX SCHMELING KILLED IN CRETE

Ex-Champ Captured, Slain Trying to Flee, Say New. Zealanders. (Photo, Page Three)

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May 29. (U. P.).—Max ‘Schmeling, greatest German prize fighter of all time, and former world heavyweight champion, has been killed in Crete while fighting as a Nazi parachute soldier, reliable New. Zealand military sources said today. Informants ‘said Schmeling had

{been ' made ‘a: prisoner and was

killed when he seized the rifile of a wounded man and tried to escape. The report was not official and hence could not be confirmed but {it was told cireumstantially By field ambulance men who said his body thad - been .identified positively. Informants said Schmeling was .|wounded slightly and captured during the first days of the fighung in Crete. \ Schmeling was taken to a field dressing station and showed papers bearing his name, it’ was said. At the same time, informants asserted, he said in English, with an American accent, that he ‘was a boxer. Informants asserted that Schmeling became truculent and threatening when he was sent from the dressing station to a prison camp. The New Zealand soldiers in charge were calied out to mop up a newly landed group ‘of German parachutists, it: was asserted, and Schmeling, grabkinhg the rifle of a wounded man nearby, tried to escape and was: killed in’ the attempt. '

RESTAGTED USE OF ELECTRICITY HINTED

Ickes Says There Won’t Be Enough for Defense.

. WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. PJ). —Secretary of . the Interior Harold {L. Ickes said today that priorities ought to be established on distribution of electric power. He also warned that persons living on the East Coast “may be comjag “to -gasoline-less ‘Sundays’ unless the shortage of transportation facilities from Southern oil fields is alleviated. Secretary Ickes-told a.press conference ' that “we might very well consider now going on a daylight saving time ,basis for ' the whole country because in the near, future

Ha : ) h powe “Some members of the ground staff of the hirdrome, who never thete n't Soing io be Shouz p T

to meet defense needs.” “I consider it more important to have aluminum than to have neon lights. or to play baseball at night,” he said.

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BRITISH WAR AIMS: ‘FOUR FREEDOMS

War News on

Debate Intense on Foreign Policy U. S. Isolated, Berlin Claims

William Philip Simms

establishment everywhere of

Mayor of London. : Eden presented this outs]

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line of Britain’s war aims: |

1.°A peace based upon President | Roosevelt’s ideals of freedom of|v speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from féar. 2. “Political and military terms” designed to place Germany ‘in a postion where she never again could challenge world peace or again become “the worst master Europe has yet known.” 3. Establishment of social security abroad as well as at home, through co-ordinated efforts of Britain, the Dominions, the United States and South America to stabilize currencies, feed starving peoples, avert fluctuations of employment, prices and markets.

4, Extension of this new “moral

“New European Order”’—to the Far East. once the Sino-Japanese: War has been liquidated. . 5. British support of the independence of Syria and a unified Arab world. Eden asserted that Britain would seek achievement of these ideals “in ways which would interfere as little as possible with proper liberty in each country over its: own economic fortunes.”

“What has Germany to offer on her side?” asked Eden. “Absolutely nothing. . ” “Five times in the last century,” he said, “she has violated the peace. She must never be in a position to play that role again.” “Under a system.of free economic co-operation Germany must play a part. But here I draw a firm distinction. Our political and military terms of peace will be designed- to prevent repetition. of Germany's misdeeds.” Eden said that as soon as the war ends - Britain. will make “such relaxations of war-time financial ar-

Fireside Chat Approved, F. D. R. Says

order”’—as opposed to Adolf Hitler's by

EDEN PLEDGES HARSH TERMS FOR GERMANY

Accepts Roosevelt's Outline of Peace; Urges: e ‘Security’ for World, Arab Unity, Far East ‘Moral Order.’

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By WALLACE CARROLL

United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 29.—Great Britain today placed ler war |aims before the world for the first time, aims calling for the

President Roosevelt's “four

freedoms” and stern military and political terms to prevent Germany from ever again aspiring to the mastery of Europe, The statement was made by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in an address at Mansion House, residence of the Lord,

|of international trade on the widest 2

possible basis. : “We shall hope to see the de-~ velopment of ‘a system of interna tional exchange in which the trad ing of goods and services will be the central feature. . . . However io. meet the problems: of “the-immie= diate post-war period action in other directions will also be Ri quired.

Speaks of Food Reserve ,

“The liberated countries and maybe others too will require: an

initial pool of resources to ‘c

hop, through the transitional pes. i riod.” - This transition, he said, will re=. quire the collaboration of the United States, Britain and all free countries which have not been Tavaged, war. “The Dominions arid ourselves can’ make our contribution toward this because the British Empire will acs. tually possess overseas enorm

are accumulating so as to ease the

ing the war and of reconstructed Europe after the war.”

Praises Roosevelt Speech

Eden began his speech by saying; “My first words must be to welcome the great message broadcast a few.

United States in which he described with an incomparable breadth of vision the scope of the struggle: in. which we are engaged.” “By his words the President has:

powerful nation on earth: ‘We don’t accept and will not permit this Naz shape of things to come.” - Britons were told by their newss: papers today that the United States: is practically. in the war. Banner lines over Washington dispatches read: “We are in, America says

rangements as will permis revival

uy S. Declares Country Already at War.”

Nazis Near Crete Victory:

By JOE ALEX United Press Staff Cg

German air power today was slowly—but apparently ineviably—s winning control of the strategic island of Crete. Both British and Gérman communiques indicated plainly that: the. tide of battle had swung to the air-borne Nazi invaders and barrir an unlikely 11th hour reversal the island seemed to be within G grasp. The Germans—perhaps 30,000 of them now—were driving

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hard-pressed British forces’ from one stronghold after another, aided by almost unchallenged air dominance which enabled them to bring in heavy and . constant reinforcements. The British admitted that they had been driven from Canea, capital of Crete and Suda Bay, the British fleet anchorage, and fighting was ‘now reported in the vicinity of Retimo. The Germans claimed their forces had swept on b ‘cap-

After Crete, what?

It is the familiar pincers movement, in this case a. two-pronged drive around Turkey to the Near East and ‘across the :mid-Mediter-rgniean toward Egypt: . "The object would be to get into a position to close in on Suez and

Alexandria from - two: sides. The Near. East and its oil fields then wo be ‘easy prey. The present actions in Syria and Iraq are diver-. 4|sions, part: of a long range plan. Nothing decisive is sought there

them

hy the Clermars f0F the Hing JOIng | ttend

ture Candia, largest. city on the: land. Both Rome and Berlin said wa Italian forces had been landed by. sea on the eastern end of :the iss land and that they were moving: 1 meet their Axis allies at the va st of the island. If these reports are correct, Axis now controls virtually (Continued on Page: wo &

Today's War. Moves

By: United Press War Experts 5:

The British have not yet definitely lost the battle for the island’ : they admit that their position ‘there is most grave and it is doubtful that their depleted Navy, with a vastly inferior air force, can hold it. If the Germans take Crete, their next move would be to the of Cyprus, 350 miles to the east, to complete the encirclement vf

Eastern Mediterranean and British fleet rendered impotent. The reason the Germans cho the costly attack on Crete instea the presumably easier way th Turkey is fairly obvious. To 1 the Near East through might have been even more and taken a longer time. The Turks, encouraged by sia, might pave put up stiff

stocks of food materials which we: oS

problems of overseas producers dures

hours ago by the President of the

given complete expression to thé de