Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1941 — Page 1
PLANES RENEW M HEAVY BLASTS ON NAZI BASES
Subs: Sink 8 Axis Ships in - Mediterranean; Troops Gain in Syria. By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Great Britain carried the ; attack to the enemy today by air, gea and land, while the prepared to induct a new member, Croatia, into the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo tripartite}.
military alliance. The R. A. F. extended last night's
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" By PETER EDSON . Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 14.—A drastic plan for merging United States civilian economy with the general Government procurément program and the purchase of supplies for the defense effort is gradually unfolding in Wash-
While it may be denied that the plan involves the “Economic Ministry’’—a - super-control body that would practically dictate what articles of general commerce could be produced and:sold—the idea. is - 80 sweeping that if the defense effort were to last a con-
powerful organization that it would influence every phase
® : . " FIRST STEPS TOWARD such a set-up are to be seen in the -announcement of Denald M. Nelson, director of purchases in the Office of Production ‘Management. that in a matter of weeks there may be institute an effort to simPity the number of lines of merchandise for civilian use.
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While these particular industries might | ‘not be the ; first to be affected, Nelson mentions as examples, hardware items, which require skilled labor. to manufacture; blankets, ‘which might be reduced from over a score of grades and colors to say seven or-eight; and radio ‘sets, which might be reduced from 20 models to 10. : With simplifications of specifications such as these, the extra productive capacity of all mills could. be turned to defense items or other items for which ‘there ight be a critical civilian-use shortage.
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TWO THINGS SHOULD be made clea in eonnasiion with -this breath-taking plan for the’ reform of ‘the eco“nomic patterns . “Simplification” does not mean standardization” ” That is, all manufacturers of blankets or radios would not- be compelled to make the same seven or ten lines, colors and grades. Widest possible latitude - would - be given to make any seven:or ten grades the manufacturer
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Merchandise Control May Lead 5 ‘Economic. Ministry’
2. The entire plan would be instituted, ‘at least in the beginning, on -a purely voluntary basis within any given =] industry, without compulsion or penalty of any kind, for there is no definite provision to cover any such industrial revolution as this plan involves. :
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THE PLAN HAS been under consideration in Washington for some month. It has been presented to the President: and is. supposed to have his approval. - The only
‘reason it has not been promulgated, according to Nelson, ‘is that press of immediate matters has prevented it.
- Announcement of the basic ideas of the plan came rather unexpectedly at a press conference held by Nelson.
He had not intended to reveal the plan in such detail at
* this fime, but under questioning by reporters about the speed of letting contracts and ca production, Nelson brought out this idea as one of the means by which production could be speeded—by freeing productive capacity through simplification of styles and designs. and Vv , common items of civilian use.
out the defense
tions of the more or less !
heavy Ruhr and Brest raids MAYOR DRAFTS
an offensive patrol swarmed over the English Channel and blasted German bases, including airdromes, in Northern France. The ' Admiralty junced that British submarines operating in the Mediterranean and Aegean have
sunk eight axis ships and seriously|
damaged two others, adding that some of the action took place in Axis harbors.
Increase Occupied Arta
The Middle East command reported that Allied columns in Syria “substantially increased” the area of French-mandated territory .under their occupation. A German motorized column be= pus a. Solin and Tobruk, Africa, Intersshted by, by 3 ‘British patrol, és destroyed.”
wd Tobruk alt British troops sallied ‘out to capture perimeter Positions, in a salient held by the
What might -be confirmation of British Syrian claims was seen: in from Alexandretta, Turkey, that travelers. from Syria had said Seman forces were abandoning the Sapore at . Aleppo under Tyeruent R. F, attacks. its ith Germany’s High Ce said that Nazi planes bombed port works on the Thames estuary and the south and east coasts of England and airfields in eastern England last night. England raid damage was slight. Axis attacks: also were soportel on Haifa, Palestine; Gibraltar and three villages on the island of Cyprus. Nazi submarines were said to have sunk a “large steamer” in the south Atlantic.
Straddle Berths at Brest
In last night's raids heavy British bombers .. straddled .with high ex- * plosive bombs berths at Brest at], which the = German battleship Scharnhorst and a cruiser of the Hipper. class were lying, and blasted a trail of déstruction through the German ‘industrial Ruhr in what the ‘Air called development of the greatest, aerial offensive of the ur. bom! er bers attacked Calais and Boulogne ‘on the French invasion coast. If was third attack in three nights on the Ruhr, center of Germany’'s heavy war industry, and the -seeond ‘in two nights on the: Brest dock area where the 26,000- . ton _ battleships ' Scharnhorst and: Gneisenau and the fhe new 10,000-ton heayy - ‘cruiser : Eugen had taken refuge. The , was believed vonseNiraied on the Prinz Eugen. of Germany's two remaining pocket battleships was torpedoed by British bomber yesterday, and ah nd ‘her accompanying five destroyers were sent limping-back into the Skagerrak. - Berlin said it-had no confirmation of the claim. chusive, from Syria still ‘was. inconusive. ’
*, Troops Belived Encamped
The British indicated that Allied columns now have’ taken Kissoue, 10 miles south of Damascus and it appeared likely that Allied troops still ‘are encam in the outskirts of that ancient city awaiting the outcome of negotiations said to be under way between emissaries of Sir Henry: Maitland Wilson, Allied com-1| gander, and Gen. Henri Dentz,
Syrian -High Commission ;peacetul entry into the city. Fighting - ‘still was' in ‘progr, Stund Saida, 2 miles south of
Visi claimed. ‘however, that .
Bem Bag : reported: ‘French ‘forces in Syria are Belding their lines Quplie Afied stiacks
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BUILDING PLAN
Move = Designed to Ease Shock of Post-War Unemploymen
A two-fold post-war build program has been announced for Indianapolis by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. - ~The program is aimed at the assimilation of the city’s post-war unemployed and its need for Severs!
specific. pu imprdvements. ; will be aides “Federal funds, “he
said.
his office yesterday, the Mayor said
eventuality. ? Stating that almost every city department had some “must” improvement ' which must .be done sometime soon, he outlined proposed improvements for Indianapolis. They include the construction of a new police station; the long sought after South Side track elevation;
C%y Hospital and the extension of South East St. to Madison Ave, and new U. S. 31 and the general widening and resurfacing of main thoroughfares in the city.
Attend Conference
It is expected, the Mayor said, that this work will employ the thousands upon thousands of national defense workers who will no longer be needed at the war’s end. In a conference’ with ‘national defense leaders at Columbus, O., last week the Mayor went over, future plans of this city with "Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New. York, national defense co-ordinator ‘working now on‘the defense for Eastern and Mid-Western cities. ‘After reviewing the OCc'umbus conférence, Mayor Sullivan tod de-' partment heads: “The war may be, ended soon and
must be prepared for whatever the future holds for us. Our biggest problem is going: to be that of finding work for men now engaged in national defense :industry- in the post-war period.” U. S. Will Assist The Federal Government has, according to the Mayor,” set up machinery to assist large cities in financing post war public improvements. . Although Mayor Sullivan has discussed the protection of the ‘City from bombing in case of invasion,
plans public. As an immediate effect of the war, the Mayor instructed his de- |! year’s budgets‘ on: the assumption
that economic war conditions in the | nation will not have abated. EERE TT
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Motorist howtos Assessor of Failure to Stop. | A shares of failing to Sop. after
Cunningham, 48 N. Dearborn St. Center Township assessor and Dem-
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that “we .must prepare for any war | §
the construction of new buildings at :
it may ‘continue indeiinitely. We|
he did not make any proposals or’
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ocratic candidate for Mayor, will be| 5 BE ob ‘Municipal Court July 10.|
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SUN TO BE BASHFUL ALL DAY TOMORROW
main Awhile.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m....61L 10 a. m. ... 65 7am ... 62 11am... 66 8a. m ... 63 12 (noon..) 65 9a.m ...65 1p m....66 The last two weeks will continue over
Weather Bureau, which predicted cloudy skies and continued’ low temperatures. .. Since the first of: this. month we have had 649 inches of rainfall,
3.62 inches. That puts us 4.76 ‘inches ahead of normal for this time ‘of the month. : Even 'so, there is no prospect for serious flooding at this time, except
in ‘lowlands where some crop dam-
.age _has been , reported, - Weather ‘Bureau officials said.
afternoon poured another .05 of an
‘inch on the City but there was no ‘rainfall here last’ gn. a?
Toast? Adieu?
—The next time you're catching. a quick one in McGillicudy’s. Bar and
‘Unusual’ Weather to Re=!
“unusual” weather of the| We week-end, according to the|:
with the normal for ‘the month only}
Yesterday a shaip shower in thel|
A color sward at Ft. Harrison in Flag Day feview,
Symbol of Liberty Third
Oldest of
World Bomar
. Tadinnapolis joins the. nation Soday in ‘paying especial tribute to the American Flag—the symbol of victory and freedom to the American people since it first appeared on the field of battle during the Revo-
lutionary War.
Today the American Flag is 164 years old—the third ‘oldest of the
First No Cable, Then No Wife SAN: FRANCISCO; June’ 14 (U. P.).—A' steamship company: broke
up his home by failing to send a cable to his ‘wife, Edgar-M. Grind-
staff complained today in de-
mandirig $75,000 damages. ’ Mr. 'G filed the action ’ against © the McCormick Stéamship Co. ‘He said his wife was in Rio De Janeiro’ on. a vacation trip - in December, 1939, when ‘he gave the steamship offices here money . for her ‘home’ and .for a cable to Rio that her passage was.
paid. “When Mrs. Grindstaft failed to receive the cable, he said, she ‘considered herself abandoned: ail
‘ deserted, and divorced Jum.
A Greeting?
Army Urges ‘Keep’ em Flying =
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. BJ. qe stot as Jet as to aire}
national standards of the wprld, older. than the Union Jack of Great Britain or the Tricolor of France.
Authorized by Congress, June 14, 1777, the: American ‘Flag was first flown from Ft. Stanwix, on the site of the present city of Rome, N. Y. Today it will be flown and displayed ' from thousands of ‘hordes and’ office buildings at a time when| its symbolism takes on a new mean- | ing ‘ and Teverence. : ‘ Proper. Display Methods . With the increased display of patriotism on the part of ‘thé public through. use of the Flag, American Legion officials and other authorities on the national colors are asking the ‘public to ‘become more f r with the . proper methods of digplaying. lle Flag Inder various
gamisation
C. 1. 0. RAIS AF. L. RANKS
Drive Is Launched Among ‘Teamsters Despite Plea By Roosevelt. By UNITED PRESS °
Industrial Organizations and the American Federation of Labor burst
{into ‘the open today, 24 hours after against|
a Presidential warning inter-union ‘raiding. Two 2.0 1. O. leaders, A. D. Lewis Lee Pressipin, announced in~ arkir pon an oramong teamstersf tern states where the A. P. of L. teamsters union said the C. I. O. already has: attempted to wean away members. Mr. Lewis, chairman of .the United Construction Workers' Organizing Committee and brother of former C. I. O. chieftain John L. Lewis,
members whether they were now unorganized or members of an A. F. of L. group. He said “talk of anti-
‘| raiding” would not stop any organ-
izauional drive
Fail of Agreement President Roosevelt had warned against membership raids - among rival unions in nse to a complaint of Daniel J. Tobin, international president of the A. F. of L. teamsters, who harged that subversive groups were trying to destroy his o tion because he supported the Administration. C. I .0. officials declined to say whether the trip of Mr. Lewis and Mr.’ Pressman was made with. approval’ of C. I. O. President Philip Murray, who was meeting at Washington with lieutenants reportedly|® planning a cleanup of left-wing indjviduals blamed for strikes in defense industries. The Defense Mediation Board announced it was unable to reach an agree: 1:ent between the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. of San Francisco and Metal Trades Council heads who are deman ac shop
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WATER G0. TO
lutity Asks ‘Permission 0]
~ Issue 500,000 Shares.
tay revealed plans for distributing a portion of its ownership and control to the public through the sale of stock. The utility, in a petition filed this
‘Rivalry between the Congress of |-
said his group would welcome new’
% STOCK T0 PUBLIC clear. These, he said, are
‘the: high seas engaged in Peaceful
The Indianapolis Water @o.. to-|
BY 5TH
, WASHINGTON, June 14 today froze more than a half
Swedish,” Swiss and Russian
FUNDS TIED UP 0 PREVENT USE
COLUM
Assets of Invaded or Occupied Countries Als Affected; Action Robin Moor Sinking.
Partial Reply to
(U. P.).—President Roosev billion dollars of German a
Italian credits in the.United States in a general freezing European credits hitherto not subjected to such action. The order provided, however, that general’ licen | would be issued for the use of Finnish, Portuguese, Spani
funds “conditional upon t
receipt of adequate assurances from the governments of such countries that the general licenses will not be employes
by them or their nationals to evade the purposes .of this
order.”
The President's executive
WELLES RAPS.
2 i se as PA x
U. S. ie. to Such Tactics, He Says; Fears 35 Set Adrift Perished.
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P). —Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, replying to German threats
{to sink all ships carrying contra-
band to the British, said today that “throughout the history of the United States the peopie have never been impressed by what they regard as bluster and threats.” : The German threats were made in connection with the sinking of the American steamer Robin Moor, although authorized Nazi quarters would not ‘admit that the vessel was sunk by one, of .their submarines. Mr. Welles permitted repo to quote him directly on his reply, but added that what needs to be done is to view the situation created by the Robin Moor incident dispassionately. Mr. Welles » declared, however, that the submarine comniander’s lack of proper precautions to insure the iives and safety of the Robin Moor’s passengers and crew. was
contrary to international law, mo-
{rality and humanity. He said. it appeared tragically certain that 35 of the ship’s complemént of 46 had perished. Eleven were rescued by a Brazilian ship. ; : “Certain facts, he asserted, are the fact Sha, an American merchant vessel | 8% with the historic
accordance wn of the United States; was on
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NAZIS ‘BLACKOUT’ NEWS ZURICH, Switzerland, June ‘14 (U. P.).—Germany apparently reImposed _¢ 3, ews hlackout, tonight when ne. operators Teported Indianapolis
lat 12:45 p. m. (
ihat | they were unable to ot
Vichy Selling
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P.) Mounting {féars that France
WASHINGTON, June. 14
NAZI THREATS
The order, in its application to the *Axis, was aime frankly at preventing the use of German and Italian “loot to finance subversive activities in the United States. The move also was a partial reply to the sinking of the American steamer Robin Moor by. a German submarine.
order gave the Treasury com plete control over property; and property interests owne {by Germany and Italy their. nationals-in this-co try. > : Statement Explains Action t A statement accompanying th executive order cxplained that the action was designed “to prevent the use of the financial facilities of the. United ‘ States in ways harmful to's national defense and other Amerie’ can interests, to prevent the liqui: dation in the United States of asse looted by duress or conquest and f curb - subversive activities in ‘th United States.” : . Simultaneously the assets of al invaded or occupied European tries not previously frozen—the of Albania, Austria, Czechoslove Danzig and Poland—also were questered. Previously, the Presid had frozen the funds of 14 ¢ European nations occupied or pletely dominated by Germany. Today's action raises to appre mately $5,000,000,000 the tot
amount of frozen foreign assets 1% the United States. ;
Prevents Transfer from U, 8: :
The effect of the order is to pre vent transfer of Axis funds out the United States without the
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| press permission of Secretary of
Treasury Hen'y Morgenthau Jr. Mr. Roosevelt also approved re lations providing for a census of foreign-owned property in United States. It will apply to all countries and their nationals. ; Government sources . 3
of direct holdings in the U. 8. Gites holdings were believed on te at least another $100,000, i ese figures, however, may- be considerably reduced now as the resyl of withdrawals in anticipation - freezing. Since the. outhreak of .war, An icans have been unable to take. either their investments or. eg from Italy or Germany because rigid monetary controls. ~ The order was expected. to have,
man profits from: widely-held p t ent rights in this country. Germat ) | firms control some: of the more prof itable Patents . used in Americ
industry. : VI
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former , ally—Britain-—
DE monrainat Ter re: Cordell Hull's blast against the Vichy Government's. collaboration, with. ‘accused dite V Vichy regime's “Darlan-Laval