Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1941 — Page 19
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1941
‘NORRIS WAR AIM =RUIN FACTORIES
Germany Must Never ‘Again Be Able to Make Tanks, Says Senator.
WASHINGTON, May 30 (U. PJ. —Senator George W. Norris (Ind. Neb.), the only Senate survivor of the little group that voted against war in 1917, today believes that every German factory capable of producing ships, aircraft, tanks and - arms must pe destroyed before lasting peace can be assued. He would make that Britain’s No. 1 war aim. Senator Norris made known his views as statements in Washington a=d London this week showed the two largest democratic governments to be in agreement that Hitlerism must be destroyed before peace can be considered. Mr. Norris conceded that destruction of Germany’s capacity to produce armaments and implements of ~ war would make it difficult for her to prosper, but added: “What do they expect? Germany’s policies have caused immeasurable " havoc and suffering in the world. ‘She must bear the consequences of Adolf Hitler's bloodthirsty, vengeful ambition to enslave the rest of the world.
Wants Starvation Checked
“We must not make the mistake made by the framers of the Treaty of Versailles.” They disarmed Germany, but did not keep her disarmed—and when Germany was ready to spring at the world again, she had the. factories and the tools to do it.” Senator Norris agreed with the war aims set forth yesterday by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, but believed the most important is that which would ‘“guarantee that this starvation and suffering is never again visited upon the world.” Lord Halifax, the British: Ambas- ' sador, told press conference questioners he believed Eden was proposing military rather than economic restrictions on Germany.
Promises U. S. Share
“Peace will be shaped,” Halifax said, “by the nations which we be- . lieve will have a voice in it—Great Britain, the United States, the Latin American nations and all the others which value their freedom.” . But Halifax said he thought Germany’s economic life would not be hampered by a peace imposed by . triumphant democracies. He said _ the British would not make a sepa- . rate peace regardless whether the United States enters the war. Meanwhile, an unprecedented resolution seeking to put the Senate on record as having “full confidence” in President Roosevelt's fireside chat, “lay on the table” to . be called up at the pleasure of its . author, Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.). Senator Pepper introduced the resolution yesterday and sought immediate consideration. He yielded finally to suggestions of Chairman " Walter F. George (D. Ga.) of the Foreign Relations Committee, who said consideration would immediately cause a “regrettable” debate and that “no good” would be served by * seeking official Senatorial expression on a speech.
CARELESS DRIVERS BLAMED IN THEFTS
Every time you leave keys in your automobile - while parked in the street you are potentially guilty of contributing to the delinguency of some young boy. That's the official ruling straight from the bench of Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of Juvenile Court. Judge Bradshaw said that if every motorist would take the keys out of his car every time he stops somewhere, the number of delinquency cases among boys would be reduced tremendously. “The biggest delinquency problem this court has among boys is the stealing of cars for joy rides,” Judge _ Bradshaw said. “Out of 15 cases of car stealing recently, 12 of them involved cars in which keys had been left dangling conspicuously on the instrument board. “If these 12 boys had not been tempted by keys left in the lock, they never would have been arrested because they were not the type of boys to plan thefts. Cg “These boys were never in any trouble before for petty thefts and I'm convinced that if stealing had not been made so easy by the car - owner, they never would have been in trouble.”
FLYING CADETS ADD FIVE MORE IN CITY
: Five more Indianapolis youths have been appoirted Flying Cadets and assigned to schools for the primary flight training. ‘The youths and school to which . they are assigned are: John M. Carr, 520 -N. Audubon Road, Dean B. - Lewis, 5102 W. 16th St., and Max - R. Miller, 4321 N. Park St., all as- - signed to Spartan School of Aero- - nautics, Muskogee, Okla.; Elmo F.
Huston, 2651 E. Riverside Dr., en- |:
gineering training at Chanute Field, Ill, and David G. Sims, 1128 N. Oakland Ave., Pine Bluff School of Aviation, Pine Bluff, Ark.
WAR BLAME PUT ON SUBMARINE TREATY
+ VICHY, May 30 (U. P.). — Vice Premier Jean Francois Darlan asserted in an interview published today in the weekly newspaper Gringoire that Great Britain was a victim of her own naval policy. He charged that the Anglo-Ger-man naval accord of 1935, which again enabled Germany to build submarines, was signed without warning to France that such an agreement even was under negotia- ~ tion. “England instigated this war,” he said. “We were simply a tool in “her hands.”
GORMANS WILL GO EAST Harry Gorman, executive director of the Indianapolis Boys Club, with Mrs. Gorman, tomorrow will go to New York to attend the 38th annual convention of the Boys Club Association of American convening Monday. Others from Indianapolis who will attend the sessions are William Stewart, director of the Englisl. Avenue Boys Club and Everett Kelly, director of the Lauter Memorial Boys Club.
By Victor JLT
PRESIDENT ROOSE--
VELT, his face stern and his voice hard, proclaimed an unlimited national emergency this week, climaxing a series of spectacular events along world fighting
fronts.
Practically, the United States economy ‘vas placed virtually on a wartime footing; psychologically, the nation was given a shot in the arm.
The President’s summons to citizens to take part in the common work of a common defense forewarned of radical changes in the individual way of life; tous events that may include a United States actually at war. Mr. Roosevelt: 1. Warned Germany that the United States would actively resist every attempt by Hitler to extend Nazi domination to the Western Hemisphere.
2. Hinted at .use of the Navy’ to deliver the goods to Great
Britain. 3. Reasserted the “ancient American doctrine of freedom of the seas.” 4. Declared strikes and lockouts must cease.
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OUTLOOK—
THE VAGUE SHAPE of things to come took more tangible form in a press conference of Interior Secretary Ickes, who proposed priorities be established on distribution of electric power. Mr. Ickes spoke of gasoline-less Sundays, national daylight saving time and: “I consider it more important to have aluminum than to have neon lights or to play baseball at night.”
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REACTION—
REACTION WAS typical but not world-shaking. Berlin charged Mr. Roosevelt was cramming war down the throats of Americans. London interpreted the speech as a final warning that the United States is ready to fight for freedom of the seas. Rome called it bombastic and alarmist. Tokyo said the President still hesitates to lead his country into war.
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Congressional non-intervention-ists renewed their discussion of ways to hold a national referendum. Senator Wheeler, in Indianapolis, charged the President had made a “virtual declaration of war.” Senator Pepper said: “He served notice on the dictators that England shall not fail.”
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NAVAL VICTORY—
THE BULLDOG tenacity of England followed traditional lines when an apparent defeat was turned into victory. The story started when a British plane spotted the 35,000-ton dreadnaught Bismarck, pride of the German navy, leaving Bergen, Norway, toward Iceland to raid Atlantic shipping lanes. A strong British battle force trailed the Bismarck, engaged it in battle off Greenland. The Bismarck, in the words of the British, scored an “unlucky hit” in a magazine, and down went Britain’s 42,000-ton battle cruiser H.M.S. Hood, largest warcraft in the world. The Bismarck, damaged, limped toward France and safety. For 1750 miles and 72 hours the British fleet trailed her. Four hundred miles from haven an American-made plane spotted the Bismarck. Torpedo planes and destroyers stopped the ship and started a fire. For 11 -hours more shells and torpedaes poured into her. ‘A torpedo from the cruiser Dorsetshire administered the finishing touches. Casualties: All but 3 of the 1341 aboard the Hood lost; all but 100 of 1500 on the Bismarck dead.
momen-
President Roosevelt as he delivered his historic fireside chat.
CRETE—
THE TIDE of battle swung to the air-borne Nazi invaders of Crete and the island seemed to be within German grasp. Nazis, numbering around 30,000, were driving from one fortress to another, aided by Italian forces" reportedly landed by sea. A fight to the finish on the part of British and Greek allies appeared probable as harbors for possible evacuation were under Nazi control. Casualties were heavy—for the British, ships; for the Germans, men. English losses were three cruisers and four destroyers; Greeks estimated Hitler may have, sacrificed 30,000 men; 20,000 in land fighting and 10,000 drowned when transports were sunk. 2 - 2
New Zealand sources reported Max Schmeling, greatest German fighter of all time and former heavyweight champion, had been killed in Crete. Schmeling, a parachutist, reportedly grabbed a rifle of a wounded man and tried to escape but was killed in the attempt. German sources retorted that Schmeling was not dead, but only ill—in a German hospital.
First Lieut. Oscar Newton, 95,Is G.A.R.'s Lone Representative in Memorial Rites
By JOE COLLIER The “carriage” this year contained only First Lieut. Oscar Newton Wilmington. He alone ceremoniously represented the Grand Army of the
Republic at public Decoration Day |;
ceremonies in Indianapolis. Lieut. Wilmington is 95 years old, growing serenely on 96, and it was no particular effort for him to attend the celebration. There's hardly a day of his life that he doesn’t take a walk. Generally he goes from his home, 1516 Brookside Ave. downtown. Three winters ago he went
downtown and got a shave when the |}
temperature was 18 degrees below zero.
Considering his age, he Is a spry |
man whose principal occupations are walking, doing cross word puzzles, reading all the news about the current European war—just anything to keep awake. He has a full and lucid memory of his own war, in which he saw a great deal of action. “The man who took count of the battles said we were in 21,” he says, “and the man who counted the miles we marched said it was 4000.” He was wounded twice but managed in each case to evade hospital care, This was because the last
-lwords of his mother as he left for
war were: “You'll. die within four months in a hospital.”
Lieut. Wilmington reasoned that
for two years, was transferred to
LOCALLY—
MORE THAN 25,000 Hoosier youths who have reached 21 since last Oct. 16 will register for Se-
lective Service July 1, the second registration day. . . . Members of the Columbia Club ‘sang “For He's a Jolly Good Fellow” to honor Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, retired. . . . Col. Enrique Urruita, in charge of Indiana Army recruiting
Pittsburgh. . . . Supreme Court judges began final study of the Republican-Democratic Battle for the State House. . . , The Safety Board made it plain to James E. Loer, newly appointed traffic engineer, that the board would have the final say. . .. The South Side demanded a new high school as beautiful as Irvington’s Howe. -. . . The State Department of Public Instruction sought to work out a method to teach religion in Indiana public schools.
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DEATHS—
Ralph A. Lemcke, prominent Indianapolis Republican leader,
Silas H. Johnson, a lifelong resident, at 93. Deputy Sheriff John R. Dora, director of the Marion County Accident Prevention Bureau, at 47. Herman . F. Backemeyer, Superior Court bailiff, at 58. "Stuart A. Coulter, veteran Indianapolis lawyer, at 60. : E-4 ” ”
ODD ITEMS—
Five Kansas convicts worked for a year on a 30-foot tunnel, carrying the dirt away in their
pockets, and escaped. . . . A rubber company introduced a chemically riveted sock with the claim that it ‘would last three times as long. . The War Department ordered commanding officers to put “realisin” into modern combat, including all nerve-wracking sounds and noises, to toughen the Army for the first shock of battle. . . the Diorine quintuplets, celebrating their seventh birthday, clapped hands at their first glimpse of a Canadian kilted pipe band. . .. A divorce property settlement in Califcrnia gave the man the custody of the family dog, but the wife may see him (the dog) on alter-
at 61.
First Lieut. Oscar Newton Wilmington , . . represents G. A. R. alone.
he never could die in a hospital if he never allowed himself to get into one, and he still is a little pleased at the proven logic of his reasoning. Escaping hospital care involved, in one instance, braving the wrath of his captain, and in the other
nate Sundays.
other man who later was killed in action. Lieut. Wilmington also feels that the statute of limitation is in. effect on a lie he told at the beginning of the war. He hiked his age a year when he enlisted, which accounted for his being the commanding officer of his company at 19. After the war he lived for a while in Lawrence and was a contractor. Later he was employed at the U. S. Postoffice here and he has been retired for nearly 20 years. He lives with his son, Elmer Wilmington, and his son’s wife. The most embarrassing experiernice he had during the war was when a shell exploded very close to him and tore out the seat of his pants. This is the first time he has given his permission for this story to be told. His son said it would be all right.
| JUDGE FACES NEW TRIAL - | PHILADELPHIA, May 30 (U. P.). —-Retired U. 8. Circuit Judge ‘J. Warren Davis and Morgan S. Kaufman, Scranton attorney, today faced a new conspiracy trial after a Fed-
eral jury disagreed on charges that they conspired to obsfruct justice and defraud the United States in connection with the bankruptcy of
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HOLD EVERYTHING
SLAVERY COUNT
Plantation Owner and His Lawyer First Accused by U. S. Since 1911.
CHICAGO, May 30 (U. P.).—A Federal grand jury has indicated a Georgia plantation owner and his lawyer on charges of conspiring te place and hold Negroes in bondage. The indictments named William] Toliver Cunningham Sr., Lexington, | : Ga., owner of the Sandy Cross Plantation, and Hamilton MecWhorter Sr., Atlanta and Lexington attorney. McWhorter was said to be a former president of the Georgia Senate. “img They were charged with conspiring to deprive six Chicago Negroes of their civil rights under the 13th (slavery) Amendment, and to re-| |, turn them to peonage after they|: had escaped from the plantation. Federal authorities said the case was the first of its kind since 1911. The indictments charged that the Negro laborers were held in bondage by threats of force—“by striking, beating and lashing of the person, and other forms of bodily abuse.”
U. $. PAT. OFF. “Junior is mad at us—he says he’s going back to the hospital!”
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Cunningham and . McWhorter came to Chicago in September, 1939, with burglary warrants against three Negroes they sought to return to Georgia. The indictments charged that their real purpose was to return the Negroes to peonage. The Negroes were charged with stealing two bushels of corn from Cunningham’'s barn in December, 1935.
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