Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1941 — Page 3
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British. Ti Who 1 Took Part in “Fight Says Gorman “ Craft Appeared to Be Closer to 50,000 " “Than to 35,000 Tons.
ay GE ‘GEORGE MILNE
Special Corresponden A BRITISH PORT, May 81.—A British naval officer who participated in the fight against the Bismarck said on arrival here last night that the German dreadnaught appeared to be closer to 50,000 tons than the rated figure of 85,000 tons. | The British officer said that it appeared that the Bismarck probably was considerably larger than the British battle cruiser Hood, 42,100 tohs, , Which was thought at the
time of her sinking last Sat-| * urday by. the Bismarck to be
the largest capital ship afloat. “The Bismarck was .a colossus which ‘withstood terrific “punishment,” the officer said. “She undoubtedly was abové anything we - thought of and 50,000 must have been’ necessary to ‘give her such strength. »
Planes Strike First
He said that in addition to being hit with shells, the Bismarck was hit with’ three torpedoes from aircraft and two from destroyers, another or possibly two from the battleship Rodney and another from the cruiser Norfolk. But despite this pounding. he said, the Bismarck was st the final torped
“The ppling “blows struck at the Bismarck,” said the officer, “came from planes of the ‘much sunk, Ark Royal. They reduced the Bismarck’s speed to such a point that interception was practically inevitable. : “Destroyers maintained touch and ultimately the home fleet tame Up; thé King George V in coppany with the Rodney.”
Goes Down Fighting
He said the Bismarck went down with her colors nailed to the masthead. Other officers agreed that the Bismarck fought to the end with great bravery. The officers arrived here aboard a warship which carried 24 survivors from the Bismarck, all seamen in their early 20's, clad in white duck uniforms. British officers said that British warships discontinued operations to rescue the Bismarck’s crew only after severe air attacks by the German air force . Reports spread in naval quarters today that the Bismarck had had 3000 men aboard, including 500 German - Naval Academy. When it went down under the merciless fire of the British; fleet. Officials refused comment.
Feared Quarry Lost
Describing the climax of the battle to sink the Bismarck, an officer said that the Rodney and George V feared they would never catch up with the German warship’ until Monday night they received word that the ship was moving to the west. The British commander-in-chief, they said, decided-to attack the Bismarck at dawn. The British officers said that by this time the enemy “was having a very thin time of it.” “Daylight came very slowly,” an officer said. “The water was unpleasant. At 9 a. m. came the order from Admiral J. C. Tovey of. the home fleet to the battleships to attack. fic é : "J Bismarck Is Sighted
“Soon the enemy was sighted dead ghead at a distance of 13 miles. Not long afterward the Rodney opened fire. Two minutes later the George V opened fixe. The Bismarck replied immediately. “The Bismarck seemed hardly under control, steering very wild. The ship was moving at 12 knots and yawing from ‘side to side. « “The Bismarck’s first salvo fell 1000 yards short. The second was closer and the third passed over. “It was a head-on battle with the . British ‘ships ‘moving south and the German north. Then the Rodney
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altered course to bring all her guns to bear on the Bismarck, but the target was blotted out by a funnel of gunsmoke. “The Rodney turned as the Bismarck shifted its fire to the George V.' The Rodney moved across the bows of the enemy and closed the range from 20,000 yards to 10,000 yards in eight minutes. “Terrific punishment was inflicted on the enemy in the next 15 minutes. The George V fired from the southwest and the Rodney from the northwest. The Bismarck’s foreturret went out of action with the guns cocked in mid-air away from the British ships. “Fire broke out amidships but was quickly subdued. None ‘of the multitude of hammer blows landed on the Bismarck produced the hopedfor rending crash that foretells the end. Her speed dropped to 10 knots but still she fired, although now only from one turret. Then after some intermittent fire the Bismarck’s guns were silenced, but there was no sign of surrender.”
NORRIS SEES A
TOKYO MENACE
Warns Danger of Attack on U. S. ‘Greater Than - People Realize.’
WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. P). —Senator George ‘W. Norris® (Ind. Neb.) warned today that the danger of an attack on the United States by Japan “is greater than people realize. 5 ‘Commenging on President Roosevelt’s failure to mention Far East problems in his recent fireside chat, Mr. Norris said that “one thing would cause Japan to attack—a decision that she thinks she can win.” The nation should consider carefully, he said, in deciding on disposi-
tion of the U. S. fleet in Atlantic and Pacific waters whether Ger-|
many or Japan is its greatest po-|: tential enemy. A strong “protective force” should ‘be maintained in the Pacific at any cost, he added.
Senator Norris said he saw no use in attempting to negotiate an agreement of non-aggréssion with Japan, adding that “I have no confidence that she would keep it if it were to her advantage to break it.” “I don’t think we can make an agreement anyway,” he added, “because Japan already has one with Germany.” In this connection, a Toyko Dei News Agency dispatch ° quoted Japanese Foreign Minister Yusoke Matsuoka as asserting that the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany and Italy was the “immutable basis” of Japan foreign policy. er —————————————
DE GAULLE WINS DIPLOMAT
LONDON, May 31 (U. P.).—Free France headquarters of Gen. Charles de Gaulle said today that the Prench Minister to Bolivia, Grandin de Leprevier, had, resigned ' and joined the de Gaulle movement in protest “against the policy of treason now practiced in full daylight
by the Vichy Government.
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‘Shattered.
DUBLIN, May 31 (U.P) ~Resous §
squads searched for men, women and children today in the twisted debris of homes wrecked when unidentified airplanes, dropp! at least four bombs on Dublin, } . an estimated 30 to 40 persons,
wounded more than 100, wrecked or |#
damaged scores of homes and blew out the windows of the official residence of President Douglas Hyde. The same bomb, which blew out windows of President Hyde's resi-
dence smashed windows in the|§
American Legation nearby. * Three of the bombs struck in the crowded northeast section of the city.
was the one which fell sufficiently near the President's home to blast its windows One big fire Yurnod for hours ‘be fore firemen could control it.
One hospital received more than | =
100 killed and wounded.
The bombs dropped between 1: 45
a. m. and 2:10 a. m. All Near Rail Station
Of those which struck in the city proper, one droppéd in the North Circular Road, & second in Summer Hill Parade and a third in the North Strand. All three struck near the big Amiens St. station, the principal railroad terminal of the capital, and the River Liffey dock area. - Planes ‘had been flying over the city since soon after midnight, apparently on their way to Belfast. German planes bombing Northern Ireland customarily fly across the St. George’s, channel, and using Dublin, which is not blacked out, as a landmark fly on northward. (Dublin is the capital of Eire, fhe former Irish Free State, which is
neutral in the war. Balfast is the |
capital of Northern Ireland or Ulster, which is a part of Great Britain. It is known that German lanes were active over Northern Ireland last night.)
2d Time for Dublin
It was the second time Dublin had been bombed and the eighth time bombs had fallen on Eire. Each time in the past Germany had accepted responsibility. Dublin
-|was last bombed- early in January
when homes on the South Side were damaged. During the past bombings, and the frequent night flights of German planes on their way to Northern Ireland, Irish anti-aircraft guns had remained silent. But they had opened up Thursday night when planes flew overhead, and they fired again yesterday when planes flew over by daylight. Anti-aircraft guns started firing heavily at 1 p. m., roughly an hour ple the first German planes were eard.
PEPPER CHALLENGES WHEELER TO DEBATE
KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 31 (u. P..—~Having challenged Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) to debater President Roosevelt's foreign policy, Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) charged last night that, “if the appeasers and isolationists can keep this nation stagnant for another five months, the Gettysburg” of the war between Germany ‘and Great Britain has been fought. ; Senator Popper telegraphed ‘ Mr. Wheeler, a foremost -isolationist, that he would speak in Helena, Mont., June 4, on the subject: “Is the President Right?” He invited Mr. Wheeler, to debate the subject with him, If Senator Wheeler could not get to Helena on that date, Mr. Pepper said he would meet him “any time, any place.”
GETS DEFENSE CONTRACT . KOKOMO Ind. May 31 (U.P.).— The Kingston Products Corp. today was notified that it has been awarded a $500,000 defense order for the manufactur of shell fuses. The company now is producing 50 shell Sases daily under an earlier conrac
IN INDIANAPOLIS
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FRIDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convi¢- Fines
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
{These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times’ therefore. is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.
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BIRTHS . Girls
Maurice, Ruth Pyle,. at St. Francis. , John, Pauline Keating, at 8t. Francis. - Earl, * Alberta McCownell, at St. Francia. J City. 1
at, City. rol Soldin, at Coleman visi, Lois Johnson at St. gleman, corhomas, Josephine Sinclair, at St. Vin‘Earl, Frances Eckard, at St. Vincent's. Kenneth, Anna Ronop. 3 at St. Vincent's. : ie Murphy HRI thodist. v a e 8 Roy, Do roth ‘Simmons, at thedist. Morris, Beatrice Colbert, at’ 2948 Tin
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Victor, Eileen Perkon, at 3639 W. 10th.
DEATHS nl Boy Anstead, 52 Veterans, pulmon-
5 70, at 4013 Rugkle: r. 66, at 807 Carlyle PL,
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Joel Winston, 67, at 2329 Sheldon, pul-
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. S.- Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS ' FORECAST: Partly
cloudy tonight and tomorrow: not much
change in temperature. Sunrise 4:18 Sunset
TEMPERATURE + =—May 31, 1940— aise sit i 5311 p. m.
Precipitation 24 hrs ending 7 a fota 1 precipitation Sjucs Jan. i ficiency since Jan
: MIDWEST VE ndiana—Partly cloudy tonight and toif aorow; slightly warmer in ‘northeast to-
Dlinois—Partly cloudy tonight toMorrow; Wn tiered -show ower ers and Pr not much change A tu don Yanight; wer Michigan—Considerable cloudiness tonight’ an amd in north. fate ro he TOW: n no T! Wariig in; oy 05 Toon on 'omerrew; th occasional showers, mostly i a apd ji OOHOW, slight ya oe an northeast por-
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This picture of bomb destruction in London isn’t as spectacular as some, yet it will come straight home to every man and woman who hears an alarm clock in the morning, gets up and goes to work. . It shows working people of Lon. don—ranging from stenographers and day laborers to highly-paid executives—making their/ way along a downtown street after one of the great city’s heaviest raids. Terror of bombing and weariness of sl on the faces of these people. But, war or no war, they must get up in the morning and go to work. Just like you and I.
less nights shows plainly
TWIN CAREERS £0 ON IN ARMY
State’s Bredewater Boys Starred at Purdue, Now Air Cadets.
Times Special ; MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 31.— Twin brothers from Indiana who have had parallel careers as athletes, “straight A” students at Purdue and high school teachers, will launch twin careers here as Army Flying Cadets. They are Arnold and Arthur Bredewater, 24-year-old Greensburg, | . Ind, youths who, because they wanted to “stick together,” have been assigned to the Spartan School of Aeronautics here for primary flight training.
point, Ifd. high school basketball team and Arthur was senior ‘class president. . At Purdue they won scholastic honors and were elected simultaneously to, Kappa Delta Pi, national honorary educational fra- | ternity. A. On Purdue’s baseball team Arthur” was catcher and Arnold was pitcher—a twin battery. Arnold,
Brooklyn Dodgers until he suffered a shoulder injury. After graduation the twins separated when Arnold went to Newpoint High School to teach and Arthur taught at Pine Village, Ind, High School. As cadets they will receive $105 a month, plus equipment and lodging, and will be commissioned second lieutenants in the
The twins captained the New- :
named most valuablé player while a junior, was under contract to the|.
training.
|Winant Home
From Britain;
‘Will See Roosevelt Tuesday
HYDE PARK, N. Y, May 31jtary
(U. P.) —President Roosevelt held a long conference by telephone today with John G. Winant, United States ambassador to Great Britain, and made arrangements to confer
| with him. in person next Tuesday in
Washington. Mr. ‘Winant, who arrived by trans-Atlantic clipper last'night for
report and consultation, talked to
Mr. Roosevelt from a New York hotel. It swas believed he transmitted the first portion of his confidential report on progress of the war and Great Britain's future position. In disclosing the telephone conference, acting White House Secre-
He Fired Twice, Turned on Light
CHICAGO, May 31 (U.’P)— Police Officer James Aman warned his brother, Albert, that burglars were working the neighborhood. Albert, a Federal narcotics agent, laid out a revolver. | A noise at the window awakened him early today. He saw a
‘man crawling in. “Who is it?” he called as he
reached for the gun. The intruder
said nothing. Mr. Aman fred twice, snapped on a light and saw a youth in the uniform of the Illinois Reserve Militia - lying seriously wounded. He carried the :youth to his car and sped to the Ravenswood Hospital. “What happened?” asked the attendant. “We’ll have to report this to police. Do you know his’ name?” “Yes,” said Mr. Amand, “ips my son, Robert. He lost his Sone key.”
William D. Hassett made it clear that Mr. Winant will not come to Hyde Park house where Mr. Roosevelt is spending the week-end. “The President has had a long conversation by telephone with Ambassador Winant,” Mr. Hassett said. “Mr. Winant will spend the next two days compiling his report and checking on certain information he must obtain over here. He will see the President in Washington next Tuesday. The President also conferred by telephone this morning with Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. at Washington. Mr. Morgen-
-| thau informed-him that the sale of
defense bonds has “been very satisfactory,” and said he will report in detail next week on total sales for May. From Atlanta, Ga., a special board named by Mr. Roosevelt telegraphed that a threatened strike on ‘the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad has been averted. Invoking powers of the Railway Mediation Act, Mr. Roosevelt had frozen the controversy for 60 days while the Board investigated points at issue, and attempted to conciliate the situation,
QUADRUPLETS BORN; ONE STILL IS ALIVE
PITTSBURGH, May 31 (U.P.).:— Physicians labored today to keep alive a three-pound, nine-ounce baby Boy, only survivor of quadruplet pei born yesterday to the 30-year-d) wife of an unemployed Pittsburgh carpenter. . Three of the four boys born to Mrs. Raymond Waterkotte at Mercy Hospital were dead on delivery, but doctors said they had an excellent chance of keeping the fourth baby alive. The mother was doing well today.
Losses Make Small Dent i in British Navy
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ARMY CURBED IN ALUMINUM USE
Defense Office Finds Service " Has Ordered Thousands ‘Of Pots, Pans.
WASHINGTON, May 31 (U. P.. —Despite defense officials’ efforts to conserve all aluminum for aircraft construction, they discovered today that- the Army has been’ ordering thousands of aluminum pots, pans and dishes—even 100,000 aluminum syrup pitchers. Office of Production Management officials have estimated that the aluminum in 60,000 coffee pots would make one heavy bomber. OPMo fficials are worried about a threatened shortage of aluminum and have imposed strict priorities precluding its use for anything but essential defense production, - Nevertheless, the Army Quartermaster Corps has been signing contracts in Yecent weeks for aluminum utensils. Seek Subctitutes
When brought to the attention of defense officials, the Army immediately agreed to seek substitutes. But many of the contracts have been signed, a survey revealing that the Army recently has contracted for 50,000 aluminum - pots, 5000 aluminum coffee filters, 50,000 aluminum water pitchers, 100,00 aluminum syrup pitchers, 3900 aluminum plates:::and an undisclosed number of cooking utensils valued at $203,000. All contracts were signed’ after’ invocation of aluminum priorities. : The OPM begins a salvage cam=paign in Richmond, Va., and Madison, Wis., today to collect aluminum cooking utensils and other scrap metals. If successful, it may be expanded to a nation-wide pickup? campaign to begin about July 4 ‘Plan New Containers
Plans also are under. consideration by the OPM'’s conservation section to have private industry produce plastic-lined containers to conserve tin and steel used in cans. The plastic, which is elastic, would fit in paper, wooden or cardboard outer containers like “a bladder in a football.” The OPM said. the new materials would keep canned goods for at least five years. It could be used for oils apd other bulky products. It could be folded up and returned to the shipping point to conserve
OPO Priorities Director Edward R. Stettinius Jr. late yesterday announced a modified form of priority control to give defense and civilian industries preference on: all forms of steel.
NAZIS PLAN TO BOMB U.S, MAGAZINE SAYS
LONDON, May 31 (U. P.).—The authoritative aviation magazine, the
many was making plans to bomb the United States and that the naval clash off Greenland last week-end might have been associated with such designs. “Canadian and United States factories and cities on the Atlantic Coast from Quebec to Panama must look to their defenses and give air invaders ‘just such a reception as they met in the Battles of Britain last summer,” it said editorially
magazine-had given excerpts of an article by Peter Masefield asserting that several types of German planes, and the Italian Savoia-Marchetti, could bomb the United States. The full text of the article showed that Masefield wrote that a program of long-range bombing of the Western Hemisphere by Germans would be unprofitable and that the number of bombs which could be dropped -would be limited unless bases were established in Greendand. “But the Germans probably would consider that the propaganda value of such raids would justify the risks,” he wrote. “However, there
mass attacks Such as Great Britain has endur
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truck near his home today.. He was taken to City Hospital where it was said he had a fractured skull
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HALLECK MA
COURSE FOR GOP
| Favors Capcellation of an
Old Power When New One Is Granted.
By D M. KIDNEY , JANIEL M Writer WASHINGTON, May 3. Rep. Charles A. ‘Halleck, dean of the Ine diana Republicans in Congress, has a8 new idea of how a. militant minority party might aid in preserving democracy during the war crisis.
- He presented his proposal during
; the debate in the House this week
and although it ‘lost the first test he: expects to try again he said. The plan is briefly this: Whenever the Administration asks
|for some new power to be cons.
ferred upon President Roosevelt; the : G. O. P. should demand the repeal of some previously conferred power not now in use. “Since much of the old blanket wers were conferred when the ew Deal was trying to solve the problems of the depression, it seems to me that they can be canceled out in the current’ war boom,” Rep, Halleck - explained. “If we find that all the depression powers must be prepetuated during boom days also our hope for democracy js in rather a bad way, it seems to me. A Task for “the G. 0. P. “Of course I realize that this Ad- . ministration is no more interested in. surrendering any extraordinary powers than in trying to affect governmental economies, but here surely is a task for the Republicans and a fine test of the.two-party sys tem which is so essential to our form of Governement.” The Indiana Congressman put his new theory to the. test by trying to eliminate from a House Bill a sixyear extension of the Disaster Loan Corporation and the Electric Farm and ‘Home Authority. i The Bill passed without these eliminations, S18 to 116. Pointing out - that the measure increased the powers of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Rep. Halleck declared: “Now, the Disaster Loan Corpora= tion, I think, started in 1937 because of some floods that struck the country.
Local Credit Was Poor
“I have an idea that it was started primarily because local credit was breaking down; bécause times ‘were hard and the depression was upon us. The intervention of the ‘Gov ernment was called for. But are we to say by the passage of this: legis lation, coming at this time of great, crisis—which I say demands sacrifice and toil and sweat on the part of everybody—are we to say that in this very bill where we extend and. increase the powers of the R. F. C, in one direction, we shall not in. any manner decrease them in any. other direction? “That is the thing that finally disturbs me. | “When we had the Lease-Lend: Bill under consideration some‘ of my friends came to me and spoke about it. I had, ‘It grants tremendous power to the President® and I am concérned about.’ Thess asked why and I told them, A No Power Given Up “One thing is that this Adminise tration seems so reluctant ever to give back ‘any power ‘once ‘it takes it. “The thing that® disturbs me most is that as we go along and ‘grant these additional powers, which I suppose in large measure we must grant, there is no real relinquishment of power. “I feel a little hesitant .about approving ‘some of these measures when I reflect on the fact that these tremendous powers over the. lives of the people and these in--vasions of private enterprise and local government, concentrated here in Washington, either in the hands of the President or in Congress or in bureaus and agencies downtown, are seldom, if ever, relinquished to thé people when the need for them has Serminsiod: »
Willis Pushes Bill
SENATOR RAYMOND BE. willis (R. Ind) has introduced a single bill since taking his seat in the Senate Jan. 3. That measure was presented Feb. 6. It is entitled: “A Bill to require that periodicals. sent through the mails or introe dused into interstate commerce con< tain the name of the publisher, the place of publication, and. for other
purposes.” 3 While the bill is identical to one which was introduced in the House last year by Rep. George W. Gillie (R. Ind.) at the behest of the Legion of Decency at Fi. Wayne and was primarily designed to pree - vent the mailing of lewd literature, it would be useful now in tracing down subversive documents, Sena- : tor Willis has pointed out. He may urge its passage on this new additional grounds, he said. | The bill provides fines up to $2500 and imprisonment for one year.
HITLER OVER: ROOSEVELT
TOKYO, May 31 (U. P.) .~People don’t want the freedom ‘by President Roosevelt so'much as they
want the organization, systemiza= tion and rationalization offered by. ° Hitler, the Japan ‘Times and Advere tiser, organ of the Forelin Office, said today.
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