Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1941 — Page 1
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PLAN TO START DAYLIGHT TIME INCITY SUNDAY
Council May Pass Resolution Giving Mayor Power By Proclamation.
A move to put Indianapolis
‘lon daylight saving time hy a |Mayor’s procamation begin-
ning at 1 a. m. next Sunday will be presented to the City
Council tonight. Council members are expected fo approve a resolution asking Mayor Sullivan to proclaim daylight time in effect pending the. publication of
been delayed. . Until the acts are published the Council cannot act on any daylight saving ordinance and a majority of members have agréed to use the proclamation method to establish fast time for the summer.
Stresses Voluntary Angle
Mayor Sullivan said he would proclaim daylight saving time on an unofficial basis if the Council asks him to. .City Council President Joseph G. Wood, one of the sponsors of the ‘move, emphasized the legal point that the proclamation would estab-
{lish the extra hour of daylight only on a voluntary and co-operative
basis. “All legal tr
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on standard. ye cussed by a group of councilmen over the week-end, primarily as a means of staving off criticism that the Council was - stalling. on the issue.
view of the delay of the promulgé-
[tion of General Assembly acts, no
k | other method could be found to give,
There was many a cold wave in the City’s swimming pools, today, but. a few hardy vacationing school
children braved them.
The hoy at the top was diying, not flying south, at Rhodius'pool. Also at Rhodius
« pool, watching,-but not 3¢ Swimming, ¥ were Dick Morris’ (left) and Carol Hawkins, guards, Other pusls also
‘ were: open.
FOOD STAMP PLN _ T0 BE. TRIED HERE
Wayne and Center Trustees + Accept Program.
By: LOWELL B, NUSSBAUM The trustees of-Center an Wayne Townships today notified Government officials they are ready to adopt’ the Federal food stamp plan of distributing surplus commodities in their respective townships. Represeitatives of the Federal Surplus Commodities agency are éxpected to ‘arrive here within the next, few days to.arrange. for inauguration.of the plan, Announcement of the decision to accept. the stamp plan was made by Trustees Henry Mueller of Center Township and. Herbert McClelland of Wayne ‘Township. These two townships carry nearly 95 per cent of the total direct relief load in Madion County. . recent. conferences, Paul H. Jon, Milwaukee, stamp plan regional director, agreed to inaugurate the:plan here: without the co-opera-tion. of all nine townships, providing
those participating represented at least 80 per cent of the relief load.
Under the arrangements made in|;
previous conferences, the Governor's. n, on Unemployed . Relief, now a division of the State Welfare ent, would serve as the certifying. agent for the stamp plan in the county. In announcing their decision, Mr. McClelland and Mr. Mueller de{Continued on Page Five)
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ATTENDS CHURCH, * BARES CAR THEFT
Incident Recalls 0. Henry's ‘Cop and Anthem.’
Cop and the Anthem,” one of his best. known short stories. = Yesterday, in Indianapolis, that story
Satie to life except for niinor Yuriy ons. * Patrolman Charles O'Donnell Was on traffic duty at the Second Presbyterian Church and he noticed a man loafing about. From the open doors: of the church swelled’ an organ anthem. ‘The man spoke: : “Isn't that organ music beauti-
“Yes,” said Patrolman O'Donnell.
go into the church. You don’t have to be rich to go to church.” “I believe I will,” the .man ‘said, and started over. He hesitated.
to you.” = Patrelman O'Donnell agreed to meet him and after services the man came over. “I've got something on my con= science,” he sald. “I stole an auto ., Friday and drove
“11 have to avrest you, won't I” |M “Yes. It’s all right.” The man, who said he came from Richmond, Va. was charged with vagrancy. Detectives recovered. the [firm car from a downtown garage,
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RALPH HANNA QUITS ASP.S. G. ATTORNEY
Had Been Public: Counsellor: " Enters Law Practice.
Ralph E. Hanna, public counsellor with the Public Service Commission since February, 1937, today oubmitted his resignation to Governor Schricker, effective July 1. Mr. Hanna, who was reappointed by the Governor on April 30, for a four-year term, said he was quit-
‘ting to enter private law practice] Jat Lafayette. '
“I have been planning to get back in priva eactice for a long time,” Mr. H Sal In ing. Mr. Hanna is giving up the best paying 4degal job .in .the State House, next to, the Attorney General and, the Supreme. .and Appellate Court judges. The counsellor, a position once held by Sherman Minton, now (Continued on Page Five)
Frederick E. Matson Rites - To Be ‘Held Wednesday
Seriiow for Frederick E. Matson, one .of Indianapolis’. most distin
| guished attorneys who died Satur--
“When I come out, I want to talk Say #3 be held at 2 3 Tense dngee
in the Flanner * Moktuary. Officiating’ at the: services Dr. Jean S. Milner, pastor Second Presbyterian Church. body will be cremated.
Saad whe was 12, died
will be of the The
Indianapolis daylight time before the’ middle of next month or .the first of, August,
Wood andiDeluse Signers
Hastily drawn this morning,. resolution was: filed with City: Clerk. John Layton just before the noon
Council tonight.It was signed: by Mr. Wood and Councilman: Albert O. Deluse, both Democrats. . ‘The resolution said that bepauge “adoption of daylight sav in Indianapolis is being hier temporarily by the continued delay in ‘publication and distribution of the official acts of the:1941 General Assembly, that the' Council resolve to urge the Mayor to establish daylight saving time here by proclamation or executive order on an-un-official basis. Until the General "Assembly acts are’ published, the 1941 law repeal-
had. prevented Indianapolis . from daylight time will not take effect.
ICKES SAYS ALCOA IS ‘RECALCITRANT’
&® ‘ WASHINGTON, June 16 (U, P.). —Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes today charged the Aluminum Company of America with “recalcitrance” in co-operating in the defense program. Testifying before the Senate Defense Investigating Committee; Mr, Ickes was asked by Chairman’ ‘Har-
-|ry 8. Truman (D. Mo.) to explain
the cause of the aluminum shortage which he said existed. The Secretary replied: “When the story of this war comes to be written—if it has to he written that it was lost—it may be because of the recalcitrance of the ‘Aluminum Company of America.”
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Sir Stafford Cripps LONDON, June ‘16 (U. P)— The Daily Telegraph said today that Sir Stafford Cripps, British Ambassador to Moscow, is expected to return to Russia, but the Daily Mail ‘said he would not go back unless Prime Minister Churchill urgently asked him to.
MOBILIZATION IN USSR | RUMORED
Italy. seizes U. U. S. Funds;
(Today's War Move, Pree Three)
By HARRISON 8 SALISBURY United Press Staft _Correspendent : “The | Giefman-Russian “war of nerves” produced .a new crop of rumors today—among them one from Ankara that the Soviet has launched virtual general mobilization. ‘The ‘Axis at the same time strucky
' {pack against President Roosevelt's ‘taction in freezing Italo-German asthe |sets in the United States.
On the fighting front: Great Britain's Imperial ‘Army of Nile 'launched ‘a hard-hitting 40-mile drive into the Libyan desert that carried halfway to besieged Tobruk. Allied columns in Syria occupied Saida, the ancient Sidon, and Kisswe; these two towns are the keys to Beirut and Damascus. At Beirut, however, French destroyers drove off British warships from the entrance to Beirut Bay. The first Axis retaliation against Washington's order freezing German and Italian assets in this - country came from Italy. Similar steps are expected shortly from Berlin, where reaction to the . closing of German consulates in America was impatiently awaited by’ newsmen: Italy froze American funds and today Americans found themselves unable to daw money from their Italian bank accounts. Some 1000 Americans in Rome and possibly 5000 others scattered through the country were affected by the Italian action. Many U. S: citizens found that proprietors were reluctant. to : advance credit and restricted their charge accounts. The © Germans criticized she President's freezing order as “g} lutely unjustified” and. indicated that the Reich would retaliate in due order. The Nazi press did not ‘mention that American action on the closing of the Consulates The SRuS Cioran Situation was no less confusing’ tod The grist: of Tos ‘included these, besides that of mobilization. That :the ‘Russian battle fleet in the Baltic has been put on the alert. That German shipping in nepal ; (Continued on Page Five)
|GHEER UP, ANBLERS;|
MERCURY RISE DUE ©
Records Show Rain o on 4 o y
Last 16. Days.
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5 ROBINMOOR
VICTIMS SAFE AT GAPETOWN
By British Ship; All Now Accounted For.
CAPETOWN, South Africa, June 16 (U. P.).—The missing 385 passengers and
- |crew of the torpedoed Amer-
ican freighter, Robin Moor,
‘|arrived here this afternoon ;
aboard a British ship.
Official announcement of the arrival of the seven missing passengers and 28 missing members of the crew was made by Capetown authorities.
The safe arrival of the 35 Robin Moor survivors here accounts for all the ship’s passengers and crew. Ten crew members one passenger had been rescued by a Brazilian steamer and landed at Pernambuco, B
razil. Details Are Lacking
There was no immediate official statement on details of the rescue of the. remaining Robin Moor survivors. The ship: was torpedoed May 21 by a German submarine. Eleven other survivors, including one ‘passenger, had been resctied from a lifeboat by the. Brazilian steamer Osorio after they had been at sea for 19 days after the Robin
was, torpedoed. were. Yo. Perriambrics, $i ‘and ‘United States diplomatic repre-
[sentatives the ship had been tot-
petioed id shélled' by a German
4 rit of Passengers
The United States is expected to. demand damages, an apology and reassurances from Germany. The 11: survivors were transferred to an--other ship which will land them at New Orleans June 25. Among those landed at Capetown were: Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cohen. of New York, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Gemmell, British subjects; Mr. and Mrs. R. W. McCullough and their 2-year-old son—all ‘the’ missing ‘passengers. Mr. McCullough and his son are Americans, his wife is believed to be a Dutch subject.
NAME LOCAL FIRM INU. S. INDIGTMENT
as Pea ‘Canners With Price Fixing.
CHICAGO, ‘June 18 (U. P.)~—-A Federal Grand Jury today indicted 69 ‘companies and individuals on charges of conspiring to fix prices and, acreages in the pea canning industry. Included from Indiana were John B. Stokely and Stokely Bros. & Co.
ell, Inc, of Windfall} The’ indictments were the first returned in a’ Government investiga-
_|tion of prices and marketing prac-
tices in the sale of meats and vegetables, They charge viglasicn of ‘the Sherman Anti- Law against Canned Pea Marketing - Institute, Inc; Canned Pea Marketing Co-
operative, - Inc:; Stevenson, Jordan
& Harrison, Inc. 31 canning com‘Ipanies, and : 35 ‘officers: and employees of the companies. The indictments charged that since 1938, the defendants had agreed upon a plan to -reduce acreages,: to determine the amount leach canner was to pack, and to fix prices charged to consumers.
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Mr. Kerrick, who lives at ‘2034 E. 19th St. has been connected with
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ORDER T0 TAKE EFFECT JULY 10; ITALY LEFT 0
Weidemann and Spiegel Ousted by Decree, Charging Violation of Diplomatic Rights; Retaliation Expected.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 16.—President Roosevelt today ordered closure of German consular and propaganda offices in the United States and the explusion of their German
welfare of this country.” The order does not break relations between Berlin and Washington because the German Embassy here was not affected. The order is effective not later than July 10. The expulsion and closure order affected 24 consular offices, including that headed by Fritz Weidemann, German consul general in San Francisco, and Baron Edgar von Spiegel consul at New Orleans. . Both have been accused of propaganda activities.
DNB Not Affected }
The propaganda offices ordered closed and their Gers. man employees removed from the United States were the: German Library of Information, New York, Germany rails: ‘way ‘and tourist agencies and Trans-Ocean News Service, DNB, the official German press association’ which is repre. sented here, evidently was not affected by the order.
BERLIN, June 16 (U. P.).—Authorized Nazi quarters expressed surprise when told tonight of Washington’s order to close all German ' consulates in the United States, ‘but declined flatly to comment on : the action.
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The closure-expulsior demand was the second blow. of &7 diplomatic one-two. Mr. Roosevelt impounded and froze all German and Italian assets in the United States Saturday as well as the assets of some captive states. There was immediate similar reprisal in italy. Coincident with the order directed against consular and propaganda officers, Assistant Treasury Secretary John We Pehle revealed that funds of the German-American Bund = and other “Fascist” organizations i in the United States were subject to the funds freezing order issued Saturday. :
Italians Escape Order
The Treasury, meantime, issued | general licenses for the | use of some Swiss and Vatican City funds affected by the freezing order. None was issued for Russian funds, how= 1 pending assurances from Moscow that such a license” At not be used to evade the purposes of the freezing: order. : It was remarked, but without explanation, that today’ s order was directed only against German offices and nationals and not against Italians. The charges made in a cominiinication delivered today, to ‘Wilhelm Tannenberg of the German Embassy were gen< eral in character but suggestive of grave offenses against, the United States, Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles referred to the Justice Department questions regarding the. investigations preceding the order’ and whether there had been evidence linking German consular or other offices with sabotage. “It has come to the Knowledge of this Goveriumient; ” the commission said, “that agencies of the German Reich in this country, including German Consular establishments, haw (Continued on a Page Five)
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employees on charge of improper activities “inimical to the