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FORECAST: Partly dowdy with thundershowers tonight, follotved by fair weather tomorrow; not much change in temperature.

MONDAY, JULY

7, 1941

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U.S. ‘REGRETS’ ECUADOR-PERU

Woman Held on Murder

Charge for Grand Jury In Mattingly Slaying

Carolina Payne, Friend of Victim, Placed Near Scene of Shooting.

BULLETIN Pleading not guilty, Mrs. Caroline Payne, 43-year-old Bloomington newspaper business manager, charged with the murder of Charles Mattingly, Public Service Commission attorney, was held to the Grand Jury today in Justice of the Peace Court.

Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. July 7.— A formal charge of murder will be placed today against Mrs. Caroline Payne, 43-year-old Bloomington Daily Telephone business manager, in connection with the fatal shooting Saturday night of Charles Mattingly, 41, Indiana Public Service Commission attorney.

Mr. Mattingly, who lived at 1222]

N. Tuxedo St., Indianapolis, was shot five times as he and three other persons, including his wife, sat at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nickas, Bloomington, where Mass and Mrs. Mattingly were visitg. Mrs. Payne, according to Prosecutor Floyd Cook, has been identified as being near the scene of the shooting, as the woman who, shortly after the shooting, summoned an ambu-

lance by phone to the Nickas home, |

and as the woman who called a taxicab from a nearby filling station.

Faces Coroner's Writ .

Deputy Coroner R. A. DeMotte said he will file today a coroner’s writ charging Mrs. Payne with murder. Prosecutor Cook said he will take Mrs. Payne before a Magistrate’s Court where she undoubtedly will be bound to the Grand Jury. Since court is not now in session, no grand jury action is possible until - some time in September. Meanwhile, Mrs. Payne, who has been in custody since shortly after the shooting, refuses to talk to officials but has been seeing newspaper reporters and friends at the jail. She has not admitted nor denied that she did the shooting, Coroner DeMotte said. Mrs. Payne was injured in an auto accident in 1938 and her friends say she has since suffered a nervous breakdown. Mr. Mattingly was with her at the time, according to friends. Prosecutor Cook said that he found in Mrs. Payne's possession several letters addressed to her by Mattingly and that one of them, dated in 1939, said it enclosed $2250 and that the writer hoped this would be a final settlement of their affairs. Mr. Cook said all other letters were dated earlier than that.

Revolvers Are Tested

The prosecutor said that Mrs. Payne would discuss nothing with him. “When I saw her first,” he said, “I started questioning her and she said: “I don’t have to talk, do I?’” “I told her she didn’t, and then she said: “‘In that case, I won't.” In possession of the police, and being tested for ballistics, are two automatic revolvers, one of which has five or six shells exfloded. They were turned over to police by Mrs. Myrtle Forth, Mrs. Payne's niece. Police said Mrs. Forth told them that Mrs. Payne had given the guns to her after returning home Saturday night, and Mrs. Forth turned them over voluntarily.

Lunching in Kitchen

Mr. and Mrs. Mattingly motored to Bloomington Saturday to visit their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Nickas. They had spent a pleasant evening and were lunching at the kitchen

- table.

“We were just sitting there,” Mrs. Mattingly said later, “when the shooting happened.” : ‘Four of the five bullets went

through Mr. Mattingly’s body. They |

were fired through a screen from outside a downstairs side window. Mrs. Nickas said later that they had heard something outside, but had supposed some one was going to “pull a fire cracker trick.” “Then Mr. Mattingly slumped in his chair and looked like he was going to fall on the floor,” Mrs. Nickas said. “My husband picked him up and put him on the floor. Mr. Mat(Continued on Page Eight)

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Charles Mattingly

Wife oF Shoot!

Mrs. Mattingly Steels Self A

A young expectant Indianapolis

tragedy yesterday morning. was shot and killed Saturday night

202 RESCUED FROM STEAMER

Two Launches Brave Rapids In St. Lawrence, Ferry Excursionists.

MONTREAL, July 7 (U.P.)—Two small launches, braving the dangerous Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence River, rescued 202 .Americans and Canadians today from the grounded excursion steamer Rapids Prince. . ; The launches, their work interrupted for a while by a heavy rainstorm, finally brought all the passengers safely ashore in groups of two to 10 at a time. The passengers said their night aboard Pe 1300-ton steamer stranded in sight of Montreal was “not too bad.” They spent the time singing and dancing. The rescue attempt had been delayed until authorities devised a plan of action to thwart the dangerous currents. For a while they had considered rigging ropes from the steamer to a small island 100 yards away. It was found, however, that by going upstream ‘about half a mile to miss the island and by hugging the mainland opposite, a launch could land passengers at a point

grounded boat.

9| (Mike) Kelly, present coach of the

all of Indianapolis 3| Bernard and

JOHN KELLY, FORMER UMPIRE, DIES AT 47

Known in Amateur Baseball; Ill 12 Weeks.

John J. Kelly, well-known umpire in amateur baseball circles here and a former umpire in the American Association, died today in the Veterans’ Hospital after an illness of 12 weeks. A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, Mr. Kelly was 47. He attended St. Patrick’s Parochial School and served overseas during the world War. Active in| Mr. Kelly the affairs of the American Legion, he was a member of the Legion's Garfield Post and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mr. Kelly, who lived at 1901 Minnesota St., had been employed as a clerk in the Center Township Trustees’ Office since last December. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Wilma Kelly; three brothers, Bernard

Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team; Joseph Kelly, first baseman with the Kautsky baseball team here, and Robert Kelly, a member of the Indianapolis Police Department, and a sister, Miss io His p Eells.

Her Husband Slain.

just across the river from the].

Mrs. Mattingly ;

ng Vichim

Tells Parents of Tragedy

gainst Hysteria After Seeing

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mother, who had seen her husband

murdered before her eyes only a few hours before, nevertheless steeled herself against hysteria and personally informed her mother of the

She is Mrs. Lurayne Mattingly, whose husband, Charles O..- Mattingly,

at the home of friends in Bloomington.

"Shortly after 6 a. m. Sunday, Mrs. Mattingly walked into the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Oberholtzer, 1005 N. Pennsylvania St., and spoke to Mrs. Oberholtzer, who has been ill. “Prepare yourself for a shock, mother,” she said. “Are you just getting home?” her mother asked. Ayes. Charles is gone.” “Was it an accident?” “Charles is dead,” Mrs. Mattingly continued. “I wanted to explain to you because you've been ill.” Then she turned away a little and sai

“I just can’t believe Charles is dead.”

Mr. and Mrs. Mattingly were married May 5, 1940. Mrs. Mattingly had been employed until May 3, 1940, at the State House where Mr Mattingly was attorney for the Indiana Public Service Commission. They lived at 1222 N. Tuxedo St. Mrs. baby in November. Mrs. Mattingly came to Indianapolis from Angola in January, 1933, to take a State House job and worked there until two days before her marriage. Her parents followed her here a few years later and Mr. Oberholtzer operates a tobacco shop in the Circle Tower Building. Mrs. Mattingly was under a physician’s care today, but made a second visit to the home of her parents on her way to the Mortuary.

FELLER TO START

(Earlier Details, Page Six)

DETROIT, July 7 (U. P.).—Bullet Bob Feller, ace of the Cleveland Indians’ mound staff, will draw the starting pitching assignment for the American League team in tomorrow’s ninth annual all-star game, Manager Del Baker announced today.

DRAFT CHANGE CONSIDERED

WASHINGTON, July 7 (U. P.).— The House considers this. week a Senate - approved measure which would defer automatically from selective service men who are 28

tion is scheduled for tomorrow, .the House being occupied today with

Mattingly is expecting her}:

year of age and older. Considera-|

6. 0.P. TO HOLD

POST-MORTEM ONRIPPER BILL

Bobbitt’s Job Appears Safe; Rep. Martin to Speak at Parley Tomorrow.

By VERN BOXELL

Indiana Republican leaders will post-mortem their court-wrecked

“decentralization” program and begin work on the 1942 election at a State Committee meeting here tomorrow. It will be the {first state-wide

Court tossed out the Republican Legislature’s new governmental set-

‘tionality. . Arch N. Bobbitt, who steered the ill-fated program through the Assembly as State Chairman, called tomorrow’s session to hear Rep. Joseph Martin (R. Mass), national chairman, on a tour of the Midwest to build up the 1942 Congressional campaign. But Hoosier issues will occupy the headline role, with Mr. Bobbitt himself as the center of discussion. He is expected to state formally his views on the “decentralization” program and the court’s decision. His statement is expected to follow the general pattern of his recent letter to county party leaders in which he charged that “no opportunity ever was offered to work out a compromise governmental program which the Republican Party could honorably accept.”

Refused Schricker Offer

Mr. Bobbitt was the leader of the G. O. P. faction which refused

point com proposal. which wouid have left administrative functions in the hands of the Governor but would have given the Republicans more than 75 per cent of the patronage. In that letter, Mr. Bobbitt said the G. O. P. lawmakers earned “everlasting respect when they refused to sell out their party for a mess of pottage.” He told his le ers that the Supreme: Court’s decision “draws the issues for 1942.” Whether the 24-member State Committee will act on Mr, Bobbitt’s report has not been decided. At least one faction is reported to favor a change in policy with a new leadership to, work out the details. For the time being, Mr. Bobbitt’s term as chairman appears safe despite the opposition. His two-year term expires next spring. His opponents have said they will ask his (Continued on Page Eight)

(WEST HEADS NEW

STATE TAX UNIT

Intangibles Department Created by Last Legislature.

Rep. Judson H. West, only Democratic member of the House from Marion County during the 1941 session, today was named head of the newly created intangibles tax department of the State Tax Board. The department was created as the result of a $10,000 appropriation made by the last Legislature to improve the enforcement of the intangibles tax law. Previously, two women in the State Tax Board had handled the collections, Two investigators, Roland H. Ditty, Gary, -and Leroy Decker, Indianapolis, both Democrats, have ‘been named to serve under Mr. West and a third will. be named Nep. West soon. Mr. Decker has been a clerk in the Tax Board for eight years. Rep. West: lives at 128 8S. Hawthorne Lane. Henry S. Murray, Tax Board chairman, said the salary had

minor measures.

By RICHARD LEWIS Times Staff Writer WILDWOOD, N. J, July T— Charles Beaven, 12-year-old Indianapolis marbles champ, entered the first round of the Secripps-How-ard National Marbles Tourney here today in competition with ‘59 boys, each of whom was positive of winning the National marbles crown. Charles arrived late yesterday with his escort, the Rev. Fr. Bernard Gerdon of St. Rita’s Parish. It was the 80-pound champion’s first visit to the seashore. After his first,

mented: of fish

long look at the ocean, he com3 iett an gel platy lin in there.” ,

not been fixed.’

Charles Beaven, City Champion, First on Beach as National Mibs Tourney Begins

started, Charles, in his blue and gold jacket and jockey cap, was down on the, beach practicing. He was the first of the boys in today’s games to arrive at the ring and after a few practice shots, he announced he was ready. It ‘was evident that the Indianapolis boy was taking this tournament in his

stride. ! t festivities opened last night with a dinner. at Which the

G. O. P. parley sifice the Supreme|

up on the grounds of unconstitu- !

Governor Henry Schricker's Ted

Soviet 'Amazon’

Acme Photo. This picture of E. Popova, best sniper in the city of Astrakhan, U. S. S. R., was made before the German invasion of Russia. Today, she may be pot-shotting at the Germans, who report that “Amazon” troops took part in the fighting east of Bialystok.

NEW DEFENSE LAWS SOUGHT

Roosevelt Advisers ‘Want Legal Force Behind “Control Orders.

WASHINGTON, July 7 (U. P.).— President ‘Roosevelt, conferring by telephone with his congressional leaders today, studied possible legislative action to put the force of law behind urgently advocated national defense ‘ policies. - Mr. Roosevelt, departing from his usual custom, failed to meet personally with the: legislators for a Monday conference. Well-informed sources said, meantime, that a decision .on possible price control legislation might be delayed for several days. Likewise. pending but apparently not ready for decision is the plea of some Cabinet members for more aggressive aid to Great Britain, including use of the Navy to sweep German raiders from the Atlantic. The Office of Production Management established © a priorities compliance division to crack down on “recalcitrants” who refuse to cooperate in conservation ‘of materials. The men upon whom President Roosevelt depends for ‘execution of the defense program are demanding legislation to put teeth in price control orders, for authority to seize property needed for ‘defense which cannot otherwise be ‘acquired, and to repeal the prohibition against use of the National Guard and selectees outside the Western Hemisphere. The Army also wants authority to keep these men in service beyond the one-year limit. There has been: somé talk here of rent control in defense ayeas. Interior Secretary Harold L. Iickes is developing an oil conservation program apparently headed toward restrictive regulations of some kind next autumn. National daylight saving time by Federal statute has been suggested as a means to conserve electric power.

SHOWERS TONIGHT, BUT FAIR TOMORROW

TEMPERATURES 92 1038.m.... aed a. mei. .... 75 12 (Noon) .. .80 1pm

88 wees 89 There will be thundershowers tonight -and fair weather tomorrow, with little change in temperature, the Weather Bureau predicted to- | The highest temperature yesterday was 89 at 1:30 p. m.

Charles got off to a headstart by winning his first game against Vimmy Blake of Rochester, N. Y. 7 to 5. Following breakfast this morning, the champions paraded along Wildwood’s three-mile boardwalk, escorted by the Junior American Legion band. When the parade reached Ringer Stadium, beach site of the tournament games, the boys stood at attention for flag raising ceremonies. Mayor George W. Krogman Wildwood and city officials welcomed the Ro 50 the nation’s Sreaiest juvenile s ng event.

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TAKE CERNAUTI IN BESSARABIA; TANKS HALTED

Panzer Forces Driven Back In Big Night Battle, Moscow Reports.

BULLETIN MOSCOW, July 7 (U.P.).—S. A. Lozovsky, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, said today that Russia is enrolling a people’s army “numbering millions” to reinforce the mobilized corps of the Red fighting forces.

On Inside Pages British spike Nazi pears. ; Details of fighting. . Syria conflict Eye-witness in Poland .

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

The Red Army was reported counter-attacking or repulsing German mechanized armies with big

losses on the entire central front guarding Moscow today but in the south the Nazis claimed a breakthrough in the Stalin Line forts of the Ukraine. Neither Berlin nor Moscow officially reported sufficient details of hard fighting—including a big night tank battle—along the eastern front to give a positive picture of operations. But in general both communiques agreed that the German offensive toward Moscow had been blunted if not driven sharply back in some sectors. On the central front—Moscow reported the enemy’s mechanized forces had been repulsed with heavy casualties on the Latvian border, southeastward to the... Berezina River, and that the Russians were on the offensive in the Lepel sector. That would indicate that the Germans had been stopped on the so-called Stalin:Line in their drive on Moscow. The German communique omitted reference to this front except for a generalized statement that Nazi troops continued to advance, thus tending to support the Russian claims.

Report Break-Through On the Southern Front—The German official news agency claimed a break-through on the Stalin Line in the Ukraine, apparently in the No-

vograd Volynsk sector about 120 miles from Kiev. The news agency used the word ‘“durchstossen” or break-through but gave no details to indicate that the Nazis had done more than capture a few fortifications, which would be far short of breaking through the main defense works which’ are possibly 75 or 100 miles in depth. The German High Command did not mention the purported break-through but said Ger-man-Rumanian troops had captured Cernauti and advanced to the Dniester-Sereth .rivers. The Russian communique was in sharp contradiction to the German clams in the south. Moscow said that Nazi mechanized forces had suffered heavy losses when they were repulsed in the Novograd Volynsk sector and in Bessarabia. Being thrown back to their original positions. On the Far Northern Front—The Germans reported their forces were advancing with Finnish support in the direction of -Murmansk. The Moscow communique made no specific reference to the Far North.

British Are Pleased

The tone of Moscow's .two most recent communiques was considerably more optimistic than any recently issued: and in London there was a marked lessening of pessimism over the Soviet’s chances to engaging the Germans in a lengthy war. The British military opinion was that the Russians have fought well thus far, forcing the Germans to pay heavily for all gains, preventing the Luftwaffe from winning full air superiority and harassing the Germans constantly behind the lines. A German parachutist attack on tl.e Estonian island of Dagoe was reported by Stockholm and Helsinki went through a Soivet air raid in which light casualties and damage were

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1627 CILLED IN NATION

DURING LONG HOLIDAY

Indiana Ranks 5th; Autos Take High Toll.

By UNITED PRESS The nation recorded a heavy loss in human life over the holiday. Late reports showed at least 627 had been killed in accidents in 43 states. Automobile mishaps caused 403 deaths; airplan

reported the highest

| such success in Western . Europe.

fireworks, fn crashes and other acei-| of |dents’ caused 224. California

individual state total of 63, inelud-| accidents

olicas and indicated suspicion fomented by outside sources.

PERU TO BLAME. ECUADOR HOLDS

Artillery Firing Across Border Continues; Nation Is Excited.

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, July 7 (U. P.).—Frontier dispatches reported today that Peruvian artillery was bombarding the Ecuadorian village of Haquillas as Ecuador and Peru engaged in undeclared war, shattering the pease of the Western Hemisphere. President Arroyo Rio was expected momentarily by well-informed

Government quarters to assume extraordinary powers to deal with the situation. Official dispatches meanwhile denied earlier reports that Peruvian forces had occupied the frontier towns of Chacras, Balzalito, Buagillo, Aguas Verdes, Quebrada Seca and Carcabon. = Ecuadoran troops were said ‘to be holding out strongly at those points. Patriotic demonstrations swept Ecuador. The president, in a fervent manifesto, called upon the people to rally around the flag and pledged his Government to “comply with its obligations without weakness or timidity.”

Call Peru Aggressor

The fighting began on the frontier Saturday, was intensified yesterday, continued today. Artillery and airplanes were engaged. The Government, in a detailed statement, charged that Peruvian forces had attacked Ecuadoran border guards, invaded Ecuadoran territory, and had been the aggressors throughout. (The Peruvian Government charged in Lima, the capital, that Ecuadoran forces had heen the aggressors and said Peruvian forces had fought defensively only.) The newspaper El Universo charged that the hostilities were launched by “Fascist Fifth Columnists who operate with the Peruvian Government.”

Accepted Mediation

The outbreak of fighting was another in a long series of skirmishes, battles, and wars between Ecuador and Peru that date back almost 100 years over a strip of territory along their border which both claim. As recently as May 13, both Ecuador and Peru accepted the good offices of the United States, Argentina and Brazil to mediate their quarrel, the only threat to efforts to unify the Western Hemisphere into continents of good neighbors. News of the fighting stirred patriotic nationalism throughout the country. Twenty thousand demonstrators charged through the streets here yesterday, shouting “Viva Ecuador” and denouncing Peru. Demonstrations and mass meetings were being held in every city.

FOMENTED' BY ALIEN GROUPS,

Outbreak Threatens Hemisphere Solidarity§) Acting Secretary of State Denies

Brazil Is Not Co-operating.

WASHINGTON, July 7 (U. P.).—Acting Secretary i State Sumner Welles today said that hostilities between Pers and Ecuador is/a matter of profound regret to all the An

exists that the trouble

Asked at a press conference whether he believed soma outside influence might be behind the outbreak, Mr. Welles. recalled an od Spanish proverb:

“Very often in muddy waters fishing is good.”” He said he did not have sufficient information to coms ment further on that bility. A He said that the incident pars

ticularly was regrettable in view.of the present critical international

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{situation and in view of the fach

of the recent offer of friendly serve ices to both countries by Argentina, Brazil and the United States. H® said the offer was made in the hops.

of avoiding what apparently happened. « Mr. Welles added that it will be the desire of every one of American republics-to prevent kh tilities from continuing. He that there were numerous in ments set up among the Americ to meet situations of the sort. deplored reports that Brazil not collaborating fully in hen ispheric defense and was report to have put in jail American fl ferrying planes to Africa. He described the reports as ©¢ pletely and absolutely untrue: Other officials indicated that United States may begin nSu tations at once with Argentina Brazil in an effort to seek an ear! truce between the disputants. Argentina and Brazil, with this country, have heen tempting to mediate the century dispute for the past two months. It was stressed in some that the outbreak of Peruviandorian hostilities, if continued, 3 become extremely embarrassing the policy of inter-American darity and hemispheric defense.

Ecuador Blamed For War by Peru

LIMA, Peru, July 7 (U. P.).~ government today blamed a for fighting along their disputed border, asserting that Ecuadoran forces haa attacked three Peruviall

border posts. The Chancellory announced communique that the Peruvian m ister to Ecuador had been ins ed to enter an “energetic pro It extended the Government's fe! tations to Generals Yanez an Ureta for repelling “the dow aggression” of the Ecuadorans. President Manuel Prado sent + congratulatory message to the gen erals in which he declared that tl country, was devoted to peace reaffirmed Peru’s “incontestable in tention to defend and maintain fae spect for our national integ He called the generals “guardians the national honor.” "An authorized spokesman said Government believed that Ecuade had prepared the attacks in © to provoke new intervention by United States, Argentina and Bra favorable to its territoricl tions, the spokesman said,’ failed in the on of Pery’s “rea able attitude” toward the first.n diation proposals. Peru couldn't blamed for the fighting, he because she had proposed a ne

aggression treaty to Ecuadar..: spirit of friendship and c¢

Today's War

the high command had hoped, and demoralized and shattered according pected fury and efficiency.

with the campaigns on the same lines which were conducted with

Moves

By UNITED PRESS

It is apparent from the tone of the latest Russian and G communiques that the German blitz has not made the progress

that the Red Army, far from b el to plan, is fighting back with u

The early forward progress was fairly rapid, comparing favo

Had he done so, his strength might have been t