Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1941 — Page 3
By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent.
WITH THE FREE FRENCH FORCES APPROACH-
ING DAMASCUS, June
12.—( Delayed) —The Free
‘French army is closing in on Damascus and the fall of that
city, capital of Syria and one of the birthplaces of civiliza- .
tion, seems certain to occur
by Sunday or Monday.
It is a strange battle in which Frenchman fights
Frenchman, Foreign Legionnaire fights Foreign Legion-
naire, and men from the French African colonies fight other men from the same villages. Storks stand on one leg in fields near Bren gun care riers and anti-aircraft batteries. Tiny Arab children play and work in the fields, out ing straw on the backs of their fathers’ camels between
Hoosiers in Washington—
REP. BOEHNE HELPS T0 DRAFT TAX BILL
Condemns Defense Strikes,
Plant Action: Indiana G. 0. P. Committeemen Named by Chairman Martin.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Juns 14.—Rep. John W. Boehne Jr, Evansville Democrat, is a member of the tax subcommittee
of the Ways and Means Committee now engaged in writing
the new tax bill.
In a letter to a constituent, Rep. Boehne wrote: “If you think that a lot of millionaires are going to be
made again as a result of this defense effort, may I suggest
that you await the outcome
of the tax bill.” Condemning strikes in defense industry and upholding the Presi- _ dent’s action in the California avia- - tion case, the Congressman concluded: - “There have been instances where one section of our people have tried to heat down another class of people from beginning: to end. However, this has not been confined to any single group .. . “It seems to me that the President has bent over backwards in an attempt to raise labor from a commodity point of view. to a personal point of view, and I do not believe that I am very far back of the President in my record here.
“In our present predicament, it seems to me that every one of us is going to have to give and take, Jest we lose all of the advantages that have been given us in the past years.”
Pumps for Peru
. Two rivers, three railroads and three Federal highways are among the attractions which Jess L. Murden, Peru, is advertising here in an effort to get a defense industry for Indiana’s circus city. Mr. Murden, a former. Republican State Highway Commissioner, was here this week representing the Peru Industrial Association, Ine. Their slogan is “Keep Peru Ahead.” . According to Mr. Murden, who managed the Cole Brothers Circus, his town has everything and he expects to convince Federal officials of that fact.
Honor State G. 0. P. - Committeemen
Both Indiana national officers of the G. O. P. were honored this week by being selected for the new organ- ~ izational subcommittées announced by Rép. Joseph W. Martin Jr., chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mrs. Grace B. Reynolds, Cambridge City, national committeewoman, was named on the Committee on Organization. She long has been rated as one of the most able
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Upholds Roosevelt in Plane
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| work. Listed in order as her choice
during the last two national Presidential campaigns. "Ernest M. Morris, South Bend banker, who is more of a newcomer in national politics, was named to the Committee on Large City Problems. He is the national committeeman from Indiana. Arch N. Bobbitt, state chaititan. has “been prominently mentioned for a full-time post with the National Committee, but Rep. Martin points out that in the present crisis that type of organization work would be difficult to carry on. ” ” »
Mrs. McNutt ‘Beats’
First. Lady
Mrs. Paul V. McNutt volunteered for national defense service here even before Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had time to sign up. Accompanied by her daughter, Louise, the wife of the Federal Security Administrator signed up to give two days a week to defense
of activities were hostess duties, housework, canteen work, typing; gardening and public speaking.
Wilson Comes Through
Rep. Earl Wilson (R. Ind.) was being congratulated all week for the fine softball pitching he did to bring the “Statesmen” from behind to win over Lowell Thomas’ “Nine Old Men” in the ball park here. “It wasn’t anything,” Rep. Wilson replied. “Everyone in Indiana is just a natural-born political ballplayer!”
Plant to Close So Workers Can Fish
ROCHESTER. Ind. June 14 (U. P.).—A notice posted in the Rochester Metal Products Co. plant today cordially invited 100 employees to go fishing the first day of the open season in Jai ana Monday. Never mind about work, the notice reassured, the plant would be closed for the occasion. It was posted by Superintend-
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charge of Chicago headquarters]
air aids, Occasionally plates swoop done with aching < guns spitting fire and the big guns of Damascus set up
bombardments.
I saw a woman, wearing a light eotton dress with a military belt, and a blue handkerchief around her head,
jumping from rock to rock and reading the riot act in a torrent of French to a Seneg4lese soldier.
re
. A French artillery captain said she was the wife of a sergeant-interpreter who had joined the Free French. In
his enthusiasm to get into the real fighting he had volun-
teered as a private and the wife had insisted on coming along. He was fighting on the hill just ahead of us.
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“Her husband can’t get rid of her,” the captain said,
“but we find her useful because she a trained nurse.” The Free French general in command did not minimize
the strength of the Vichy forces.
for 51 years.
Delivers Great-Grandson
. Dr. Walter Schussler, president of a local hospital, became a greatgrandfather, June 6, when he delivered his own great-grandson, Jerry, .son of Mrs. Jack Schussler. Dr. Schussjer has been peaetioing medicine
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STOKELY GETS ARMY FIELD RATION ORDER
Times Special ‘WASHINGTON, June 14.—A mil-
: lion cans of meat and beans field
rations were bought by the Army today from Stokely Brothers & Co. Indianapolis, for $96,042.38. : The order was part of a 9,000,000 can total costing $836,664.67, which was one of the largest purchases of fleld rations in the history of the Quartermaster Corps., according to the War Department.
Known as “Type C Field Ration, ” the food is for emergency use when soldiers are separated . from their field kitchen or mess hall. If consists of previously cooked or prepared food, packed in hermetically sealed cans, which can be eaten either hot or cold. The Miller Parrott Baking Co., Terre Haute, received a $118,606.95 order for 1,500,000 can of biscuits.
FLYING SCHOOL O. K.'D WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P.). —The War Department today authorized immediate start on a $3,415,105 construction program at the Valdosta, Ga., flying school. The buildings to be constructed will ac-
ent Jack Davis, who enjoys a spot
women in the party and was in
of angling now and then himself.
commodate 4100 officers, cadets and enlisted men.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record County od Total
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nina) EZTINGS TODAY . ‘ederntion Business and Profans Women, Board meeting, 7 p. m.,
Be Ho megs Kappa Sorority, 8 p. m., Severin| mq
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS = FORECAST: Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and tomorrow; continued cool.
Sunrise ....
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BIRTHS Girls Russell, Nola Shirrey, a Loren, Evel n Culder, at St. Ra, Baymon Marion Jiaksl, & t 8t. Pranic is. e Lowery, a v Me thodist. Virgil. Arens Jolly, a Methodist. Marion, Edythe Toliver, at Methodist.
ys = Arlie, Kathleen Ullrich,
cis Wayne, Lavina Hey, at Cit Edwin, Emma Jean Swatts, Tas Methodist, J. M., Virginia Reeder, at Methodist.
- DEATHS
James Franklin Anderson, 68, at 1710 Lex! ington, cerebral hemorrh ages Alice Dalton, 14, at 2238 Hillside,
mitral Jnagiicienc George Ni n aii, 26, at Oity, brain
umor. Helen Wilson, 18, at City, anemia. Louetta Kiley. at 833 8. fanhattan, car-
- Clint" Jacobs, 67, at City, cerebral hemWilla am Knuth, 72, at 3717 N. Butler,
chronic ' myocarditis. George T. Harsin, 66, at Methodist, mas-
toiditis. O E. Bertermann, 76, at 4428 GuilOI =. ] of lungs. oma. L. Goldsboro, §1, at City, carci-
James Horace Rowland, 4, at Methodist, | 5),
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G.A.R. Handful Camps Monday
Times Special MUNCIE, Ind, June 14—A handful of state survivors of the Grand Army of the Republic; once 28,000 strong, will hold their 62d state encampment here Mon day. ; ' When the organization met here seven years ago, 146 veterans of the Civil War answered the* roll call. Today the roster of the Indiana department contains only ‘38
names. Only about one-third of .these are expected Monday. Six allied patriotic organizations will hold their annual state meetings in conjunction with the encampment. These are the Woman’s Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. R,, Sons of Union Veterans, ‘Daughters of Union Veterans, Sons of Veterans’ Auxiliary and Federated Patriotic Societies.
$895,000 PAID FOR WABASH RIVER SPAN
CHICAGO, June 14 (U. P)—A check for $895,000 was passed to the owners of the New Harmony Bridge across the Wabash River between
NMinois and Indiana late yesterday aid in 10 to 12 years the bridge is expected to pay off its bonds and become a free thoroughfare. Officials of the John Nuveen Co, which purchased the bonds, passed the check to the White County (Ill) Bridge Commission, which in turn handed it to Roy. Clippinger, Carmi, Ill, representing the private owners of the toll structure.
BACK HOME AGAIN IN . INDIANA PRISON
CARTERET, N. J. June 14 (U. P.).—Because he got drunk and talkative, Paul J. Herrell, alias John Nelson McManus, 49, was in jail today awaiting transfer to Indiana to finish out a life term for murder. The drunkenness charge was filed by his wife. Taken to jail, McManus boasted to his guards that he killed Bartholomew Kempell in Peru, Ind, March 24, 1920, and -that he escaped from the Indiana State Prison in 1934. Authorities telephoned the Indiana prison and
CHARLEY'S | "RESTAURANT |
144 E. OHIO ST.
Will Close on Sundays
Through: the Summer Season From June 15 to August 10
tained confirmation of his 8 Soy.
BES
“They & are heen all igh hig he id, “and their equip-. ment, including airplanes, is first rate. ‘But we fight better. The men of Vichy have no morale and do not want
to fight anyone.
“For instance: we took with surprising ease the other
day a hill which offered splendid possibilities of defense.
" “I hope that before long my troops will have cap‘tured the last series of heights before Damascus.”
‘In the center of the territory worst affected by the
bombing and shelling. the Arabs, including small children, patiently load their camels which they drive ‘ih ‘long, awkward caravans along roads which Vichy planes are
attacking. -
There are strange contrasts. On the lava-covered
plains the villages are black,
FRENCH TIGHTEN
SEMITIC LAWS
Put in Line With German
Policy; Vast Plot Charged By Commissioner.
VICHY, France, June 14 (U. P).
~New: laws were invoked today prescribing the same treatment for Jews in unoccupied France that they are in Germany and in Ger-man-occupied countries. The laws were enacted because Xavier Vallat, High Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, said he had uncovered a vast Jewish plot to prevent collaboration between “France and Germany. The laws will be effective for both occupied and unoccupied France, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria and all other colonies. All Jews must register before July 15 under penalty of a year in prison and a fine. The laws parallel closely Germany’s Nuremberg Jewish laws, 12,000 in Camps ~s Vallat said there were 140,000 Jews in the Paris area and that 6000 of them were foreigners. He said 12,000 already have been sent to concentration camps.. Thousands of Jews in unoccupied France have been as-
| signed “a fixed residence” for their
part in “anti-French maneuvers,” e said. Vallat said that a strong Jewish colony in Vichy had been co-oper-ating with “anti-French plotters,” and that it had engaged in “black market” traffic to defeat the government’s price control laws. “The French Jewish laws which formerly have been easier than those in any other European country will now be aligned with those generally established and eventually will be co-ordinated with the European statute which Adolf Hitler intends enforcing uniformly through the continent,” Vallat said. The government is preparing supplementary decrees, Vallat said. Another statute for Jews living in French North Africa will be published later. Barred From Certain Fields
Under the new laws only 2 per cent of the Jewish population may practice law and medicine and preference will be given veterans of ch wars. Not more than three per cent of the total enrollment at universities will be Jewish. Jews
|will be banned from certain pro-
fessions which might permit them to influence public opinion and from banking, real estate, stock brokerage, pawn brokerage and gambling .businesses. ' Exceptions will be made for families of Jewish officers and soldiers killed in wars and for veterans of French wars who have won the Legion of Honor award, the Croix de Guerre or a military medal for bravery in action, and for Jewish war widows and orphans.
KIWANIS OFFICIALS ATTEND CONVENTION
George Lilly, president of the Indianapolis Kiwanis Club, and R. P. Oblinger, secretary of the local chapter, left today with their wives for Atlanta, Ga. for the 25th annual convention of Kiwanis International. The convention opens Monday for a four-day session. The party was to go to Cincinnati where they will leave for the convention. aboard a special train for Atlanta.
DRUNKEN DRIVING ‘CASE IS DISMISSED
Municipal Judge Pro Tem George Rinijer today dismissed charges of drunken driving and reckless driving against Ray Barnes, 1310 N. New Jersey St., for “insufficient evidence.” Judge Rinier said that a drunkometer test was taken more than an hour after the arrest and that it might not be accurate, and that other testimony was simply one man’s word against another,
5 HURT AS BLASTS
because the black lava rock
alone is available for building. As if the torried heat we unreal, majestic Mt. Hermon, snow-capped, stands in
distance a perpetual sentinel.
1 slept last night at the village of Kuneitra, quite! near the front. It was full of fleas and mosguitoes and flies. In the middle of it was the “Stadium Petain,” cons
structed by Senegalese <In the village, Ara
sauntering about full of confidence.
oops a few months ago. policemen with their guns were.
The Arabs work as
if nothing was happening and nothing ever was going.
to happen.
This morning, as I stopped to see the officer com=
manding the forces at Kuneitra, an Arab woman stopped to ask if she could do my laundry.
A Feller Has a Friend
Rowdy doesn’t know it, but the foot and shovel he's watching are busy digging what may be his grave.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 14 (U. P.) —A “Rowdy Defense Committee,” which includes two city officials and four judges, today had joined the fight to save the life of Rowdy, a fox terrier whose misrecs ‘condemned him to die in her w The defense committee—headed by Dr. J. C. Geiger, San Francisco Health Department Director —circulated petitions, urging that the dog's life be spared.
The petitions will be presented in court next Thursday, when Superior Judge T. W. Harris of Alameda County decides whether to make permanent an injunction forbidding Attorney Cyril F, Marelia to have Rowdy killed. Rowdy’s mistress, the late Mrs. Clara Edgarton, feared he would be lonely and friendless after she died, and she wrote in her will a clause directing that he be “pain-
lessly” executed.
RIP DOCKED TANKER
PHILADELPHIA, June 14 (U. P.). —A series of explosions ripped through an unloading oil tanker docked at the Gulf Refining Co. pier today injuring five members of her crew and threatening valuable oil stores. The blast, believed to have occurred in three compartments of a vessel unofficially identified as the 3164-ton Caroni of the Mene Grand Oil- Co. . Venezuela, was heard throughout the southern and western sections of the city. The vessel arrived yesterday and was partially unloaded when. the explosions occurred. It was the second blast at the plant within the last three months, a 1000-gallon still having been destroyed by another explosion March 24. Police began an investigation but crew members believed the blasts were caused by gas accumulations in the three compartments. The conditions of the five injured men were “not serious.” The Caroni is registered out of Maracaibo, Venezuela.
EAST SIDERS’ SLEEP DISTURBED BY BLAST
Sometime carly today, steam accumulated in the cupola of a casting furnace of the International Harvester Co, on Brookville Rd, exploded and brought a flood of calls from Irvington residents to Police Headquarters. It was more than an hour before police discovered what had happened. Company officers said there was no damage.
F. D. R. HAS SORE THROAT
WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt remained in his residential quarters -at the White House today because of a continued sore throat and a slight fever running about a half degree
above normal.
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Diapers Give FDR ‘Laugh King' Title
' CHICAGO, June 14 (U. P).— President Roosevelt's confusion about innovations in diapers won him 1941's “Laugh King” title today. Seven hundred Chicago advertisin men voted, 4 to 1, that the story about the President was the year’s funniest. The story told of Mr. Roosevelt’s dismay at what seemed’ an excessive diaper order for his grandson. Then he learned the new. models were used once and destroyed.
U.S. 31 T0 BE 2-LANE DEFENSE HIGHWAY
SEYMOUR, Ind, June 14 (U. P.). —~Coincident with ceremonies dedicating a new $412,000 bridge over White River here, State Highway Commission Chairman James D. Adams announced last night that U. S. 31 would be made a dual-lane highway from Indianapolis to Jef: fersonville as a defense project.
Mr. Adams said that a surveying party set out yesterday to plan the dual-lane road, which he indicated would be completed within two years. The highway will be built from Indianapolis to Columbus in 1942 antl extended to Jeffersonville the following year, he said. Military importance of the project, Mr. Adams said, lay in the road's
linking Ft. Harrison in Indianapolis
with Ft. Knox near Louisville, Ky. He did not estimate its cost. 3
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OPPOSE SUDDEN AUTO REDUCTION
Defense Officials Approve, ‘Urge Gradual Curtails ment to Save Jobs.
WASHINGTON, June' 14 (U. PD. ~Defense officials today approved the War Department's request for further cuts in automobile produce tion to conserve defense materials but believed an immediate curtaile ment inadvisable on grounds it would throw thousands of men out of work. Undersecretary of War Robert P, Patterson asked for the reduction— the second in less than two months —in a letter to OPM Director Gen= eral William S. Knudsen. He said auto production should be curtailed during the current model year and
beyond ithe 20 per cent alieady ine voked. ; Although details of his proposal were not made public, it was bee lieved he asked for a 40 to 50 per
‘| cent reduction of autornobiles to
be produced after Aug. 1. This would allow the industry to produce approximately 2,645,000 units next year, as compared with 5,290,000
this year. 5 Defense e officials said a reduction in output was necessary but would have to be inaugurated gradually since thousands of men would lose their jobs in any sudden move. They pointed out that the autos mobile companies would be given more Government contracts calling for the production of aircraft parts, machine guns, tanks and other vital defense equipment. Shortages of steel, iron, nickel, chromite, magnesium, - tungsten, zine, copper, rubber, aluminum and other materials used in the autoe mobile industry also will curtail their output.
PRISCILLA LANE TO WED NEWSMAN
HOLLYWOOD, June 14 (U. P.)— Actress Priscilla Lane's engagement to John Bay, publisher of a weeék= ly newspaper at Victorville, Cal, is scheduled to be announced today. Miss Lane's friends said her mother, Mrs. Cora B. Lane, would announce the engagement at a ree ception. She met Mr. Barry while vacae tioning at Victorville, in the desert, It was not learned when they would be married. J It will be her second marriage, . and Mr. Barry's first. Miss Lane eloped to Yuma, Ariz, several years ago with .Oren Haglund, an assiste ant director. She left him after one day, and divorced him. The decree became final a- month ago. '
WILLIS IMPROVING, WIFE GOES HOME
Times Special WASHINGTON, June 14.—With Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.)
‘recovering from a minor operation
at Sibley Hospital here, Mrs. Willis today began an automobile xp back to their home in Angola, 3 A wheel-chair invalid, Mrs. Willis has an especially constructed car which is being driven by Mark Gross, assistant Secretary to the Senator. Miss Caroline Niblack of the Senator's secretarial staff also is making the trip.
HOOSIER BOY DROWNS | EVANSVILLE, Ind. June 14 (U, P).—Falling from a. rope tied to a tree limb, Kenneth Krodel, 14, was drowned yesterday afternoon im Pigeon Creek. The youth had been swinging above the water from the
rope. Firemen soon recovered the
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MODERNIZATION LOAN by JUNE 0
@ If you wish to improve your property on a convenient payment plan, we yrge arranging your loan now. FHA (Title I). Modernization loans will be discontinued after June 30, une less Congress extends the Act. Loans are made for modernizing bath rooms, kitchens and basements, for roofing, insulate . ing, weatherstripping, plumbing, wiring, decorating —for all kinds of alterae
1942 model production should be cut =