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FEARS TRAGEDY FOR ALL U.S. IN STRIPPING ARM
Testimony Before Senate Committee Bared; President Refuses Compromise, Orders
Fight to Remove Limitations.
(How U. S. defense effort stacks up, Page Eight.) WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. P.).—Gen. George C. Mar« shall, Army Chief of Staff, has warned the Senate Military Affairs Committee that immobilization of selectees and _ National Guardsmen “at this time might well involve a na-
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 108 TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1941
Roosevelt Asks Power To Or er
‘KEEP DRAFTEES,
EV ENTERED, MOSCOW LINE BROKEN -NAZIS
Counter-Attack Reported by Russia, Now. Full Ally Of Britain.
On Inside Pages Communiques ..:.......... Page 3 Nazis berate FDR ... ver 3 Syrian -terms see 3 U. S. planes siymie Japan ...... 3 Ship losses
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
The .1800-mile Russo-German
& 14 Pound Pike Caught With Boat Anchor,
For the First Time, Correspondents See Women And Children Torn to Pieces.
This is the second of Robert J. Casey's notable series of his experiences through 22 months of the current World War II.
By ROBERT J. CASEY Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Ine. AND SO THE NEXT DAY after Nov. 11, 1918, was May 10, 1940. That was the day when the planes quit dropping pamphlets, and France started down the long road that led once more to the railroad coach at Compiegne—this time by way of Bordeaux.
«Editorials i Mrs. Ferguson 12
George ‘Slick (left) and Joseph ‘Stetzel « «+» a boat anchor betrayed the fish.
Both George Slick, 768 N. Riley Ave, and his son-in-law, Joseph Stetzel, 1515 N. Chester St., claim the 14-pound 1l-ounce great northern pike they brought back from Lake James. They say they lured it with their boat anchor. . Just back from a vacation, the two men today told the story this way: Fishing in the Second Basin of Lake James they decided to troll with conventional lures for pike. They were having no luck when Mr. Stetzel, noticed that inadvertantly the boat was “trolling”
the anchor; an 18-inch window sash weight. He pointed out the boat anchor to his father-in-law who started to pull it in. Then, Mr. Slick said, his eyes popped. He saw what he thought was a man hanging to the end of the rope. It was the large great northern. Mr. Slick says he doesn’t exactly remember what happened next but he does recall wrestling with the fish in the boat. Apparently the unusual catch,’ whieh had a 10-inch bass in its stomach, thought the anchor was something to eat, and had rushed at it, mouth open wide. - ‘The sash weight had smashed
out most of the fish’s large teeth and had gone through one gill, tearing out the gill and catching in the gill flap. All day yesterday neighbors and friends trooped into the basement of the Slick home where the fish was packed in ice. Last night the fish was cut up into steaks and distributed among friends. - Both Mr. Slick and Mri Stetzel swear that their story is the solemn truth and have entered the fish—and the story—in several contests. P. S—They didn't bring the boat anchor back, because they figure it was strictly a one-fish lure.
RULING pis . DISPUTED |
Beamer Clears. | Un - Doubt Over Status of State Industrial Setup.
Attorney General George Beamer today cleared up the doubt that has existed for the past two months concerning the status of. the State Industrial Board by holding the present five-man board is legal. In an opinion to. State Auditor Richard T. James, Mr. Beamer said that the present board has “ample authority under existing laws to employ assistants and make necessary expenditures.” The doubt as to the Board's status arose from the acts of the 1941 Legislature in repealing two sections of
the 1929 law which provided for the appointment of a five-member board and which gave this board authority to hire employees and spend money,
A G. O. P. hill re-creating the |
board was vetoed by Governor Henry I. Schricker during’ the closing days of the session. Mr. Beamer held that the present board is operating under the 1937 Labor Division Act and that, thus, the repeal of the sections of the 1929 law does not effect the present board, although the 1937 law does not provide specifically for the creation of a five-member board. Mr. Beamer held that the provisions for the creation ‘of a fiveman board had been “engrafted on the 1937 law by construction.” The industrial board administers the Workman's Compensation Act.
LIVESTOCK TRADING PROBERS AWAITED
Local livestock men today awaited the arrival of two assistants to the U. S. Attorney General at Chicago who are reported to have been dispatched here in their probe of livestock trading practices. At the Indianapolis Union Stockyards, officials said they had not seen the investigators. B. Howard Caughran, local district attorney, said he had received no word of the extension of the livestock antitrust investigation to this city, but presumed . the investigators would contact his office upon their arrival. Stock Yards officials said they understood the probe of suspected price control activities had been going on for nearly two years over the coun-
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Clapper ......11 Comics ...,...19 Crossword ....18
Millett ........13 Movies ives d3 Obituaries ,... 4 1
- Financial : Flynn Forum Homemaking. .14 In Indpls ..... 3 Inside Indpls. 11 Jane Jordan ,.14 Johnson .,.,,.12,
Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Short Story ... Side Glances. .12
State Deaths. ‘11
| members of Congress.
2 formation to a foreign power.
Mothers fo Protest Army
__ Extension at Meeting H Here:
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All Indianapolis mothers of datices now in service or et 1 to call] have been invited to meet to organize a protest to extending the service
| period over a year and to service on foreign soil. The meeting has been called for 2 p. m., Monday, July 2i,
in the
west room of the Indiana War Memorial by a group | fof six. meiners of
draftees. . They are Mrs. Alex Clark, Mrs. Frank Fisk, Mrs. Josie Hall, Mrs. A. R. Young, Mrs. Howard J. Baum.gartel and Mrs. Ernest Milholland. “We believe that the Government should keep faith with these boys,” Mrs. Clark, acting as. spekesman, said. “My son is-at camp and has been since February. He can take it and it’s no more than right he should for national defense. “But we believe that the service period should be for only one year, as was promised, and we believe that theywshould not be required to serve any place but in this country for the defense of this country. “If the Government now. breaks faith with them on these two points, what will happen to the morale?” Mrs. Clark said that the meeting londay will be for the purpose of organizing, selecting a name, perhaps electing officers, and starting a campaign to enlist the interest of other members. If the organization grows, as Mrs. Clark says the mothers believe. it will, pressure will be brought on
JUDGE SLICK. SPIKES RETIREMENT RUMORS
SOUTH BEND, Ind. July 15 (U. P.).—Federal District Judge. Thomas W. ‘Slick issued a signed statement today spiking rumors that he intended to retire from the bench. “My health is excellent,” 'said Judge Slick, who is past 70, “and 1 have no present intention of retiring. In view of the present emergency and while our young men are being called upon to make heavy sacrifice I would not feel right in accepting a pension and giving nothing in return.”
ZUPPKE WINS CONTRACT
CHICAGO, July 15 (U. P.).— Coach Robert (Bob) Zuppke of the University of Illinois football team today won his battle with critics when the university trustees gave give him another year’s contract.
Guard Capsules
WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. P.)—A heavily armored truck, escorted by a trailer mounted with - machine guns, today transports the 800 capsules to be used in the second draft lottery to the Treasury for safekeeping. ! The order in which approximately 750,000 men who be~ came 21 years of age after the © first lottery last October, will be called to: qualify for military service will be determined when the capsules are drawn | from the. historic "olfifsn bowl” Thursday.: <
NEW DRAFT
READY IN N10 DAYS ze 2m
{Lottery Thursday to Fix]
. Position in Order List. Indiana's 20,599 new ‘draft registrants will be able to find out within the next 10 days just where they stand in the order number list of their local boards, Lieut. Col Robinson Hitchcock, State Selective
Service Director, announced today. |
The first step toward integrating the new registrants with the old
ones ‘will be taken at the nationall:
lottery to be held in ‘Washington Thursday night. Each new registrant will get what is known as a sequence number from this lottery. It works this
way: Immediately after the registration, each local board gave its new registrants what is called a serial number, beginning at one and running on up until all new registrants had a serial number, Serial numbers from one. to 800
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Reich Named Co-Plotter i in Indictment of 33 as Spies
NEW YORK, July 15 (u. P)—A Federal Grand Jury today named “the Government of the German Reich” as a co-conspirator with 33 men and women indicted on ch of espionage * against the Un States. ; J The Grand Jury, in Brooklyn Federal Court, charged 31 of the defendants, all of whom were
rounded up last month, with failure! to register as agents of a foreign]
power and the entire 33 with transmitting United States defense in-
.-In Count One of the indictment, detailing the alleged ring’s espionage
whom face : up to 22 years’
practices, the 33 defendants were|ment
accused of conspiring “with each
the German Reich” to violate Section 233 of Title 22 of the United States Code.
One of the defendants, all of}
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front blazed today with Soviet counter-attacks reported in progress from the Bobruisk sector south to
the Kiev" region and hammering Nazi assaults from Vitebsk north towards Leningrad. Reliable but unofficial German quartefs claimed that Nazi troops have reached Kiev, adding that they have not yet captured the entire city. This report came almost 72 hours after g statement by the Nazi high command last Saturday evening that German troops now “stand before Kiev.” Both the German and the Russian high commands were reticent) in their reports of the battle: But official Nazi and Soviet reports” told of encounters between tanks, artillery and infantrymen.
Churchill Admits Alliance
In London Prime Minister regarding the exact status of Russo-British relations with a declaration that the two powers ¢ are
and Berlin as follows: NORTHERN = FRONT: Berlin claimed German troops are. pushing aggressively toward Leningrad bu
communiques merely said
ENTRAL offensive was reported by Berlin to have cut through the last Stalin defenses east of Vitebsk, supposedly leaving the path fairly clear toward Moscow 300 miles distant; in the southern part of the central sector the Russians reported a counteroffensive east of Bobruisk had swept He Germans back 20 miles west of River, perhaps the ee Soviet ‘counter offensive of
the war. admitted at ‘Russian tank as- | saults B an attempt to-plug holes in fortifications protec
indicated to have been one of the war's biggest attacks and Rome said British planes bombed Messina, Sicily. ~ Moscow claimed a great victory in what appeared to be the biggest
DONT WORRY ABOUT | ALITTLE RAIN TODAY
Bureau Doesn't | Believe in St. Swither’ $ Tradition. |
Winston Churchill ended speculation
did not specify their exact iad a s ussian
clarified by today’s’ communiques. German statements Conflict, they do ee that the “Stalin Line” may have been punctured in spots, but has not been broken, as Berlin
has —
In Nancy, headquarters of the army group holding the north end of the Maginot Line, a lot of war correspondents had been sitting around for several days waiting for the war to begin. They had assembled this time just as on Oct. 14 1939, Nov. 11, 1939, Jan. 6,/1940, and Jan. 13, 1940, purely as a measure of precaution. Hitler sO frequently threatened to attack and so seldom did. | . On.the other hand it must be admitted that few of these talented watchers were surprised when the fire came down on Lorraine that morning. It was one of ise things that, on one day or another, had
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to heppen.
. A French nun comforts a little girl machine-gunned by German Planes—that was the day the planes quit dropping pamphlets.”
An old A. E. F. Legend Recalled
NANCY HAD AN important place in American reminiscence long before the Nazis started to blow it down. Out in front of here in the old war the A. E. F. took over the line and struck up into the Meuse Valley to assist in what they thought was the winning of the war. You remember that, as you sat in the little dining room set apart for the press at the Hotel Thiers and assayed the evidence you had just brought ih from the banks of the Moselle in Luxembourg. * Somehow, you felt that Nancy would presently be in the middle of battle and devastation as in 1914-1018. And you also felt as if you had
“never gone away from Nancy. You'd been there since first you saw the
place, when your battery was going in under Mount Sec and Verdun was still being pounded to bits, and it was not yet evident that Heinie was going to wait 22 years before getting on with his program. You expected at any minute to be greeting Phil Newman, who once lived in this hotel—or Lieut. Tournier of the French artillery. You felt somehow that no matter who had gone from Lorraine, Tournier must be about somewhere. It was legend in the A. E. F. that once he had saved this town with a slide rule and he would always be linked with it in legend. “Lieut. Ecochard, the press officer from G. H. Q, came in just before dinnertime to arrange what advanced posts we wished to see tomorrow. Four of us, probably because we had more faith in our own
| instincts than the others, asked to be taken to some artillery post near
Longwy on the Luxembourg frontier. - Three days later Capt. Raulet of the Tnieltigene Section was’ re- . ] (Continued on Page One, Second Section)
Today s War Moves
By United Press War Experts
The military situation on the Russian front was, to a slight extent, as usual, the Russian and
oc amy, Sut the Fed Au Jo wis’ that
PRESIDENT ASKS FAST TIME LAW
Indicates He Will Not Move Up Clocks in All Districts.
WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. P). —President Roosevelt today asked
Congress for -authority fo esta
saving time for all'ex parts of the nation and of the year
|as he deems practicable.
Mr. Roosevelt explained in a letter to Speaker Sam Rayburn that
.|the need for saving electrical en-
ergy for the defense program varies from section to section and that a flat year-round national daylight saving time would work unnecessary hardships on industry and’ individuals. The President said that the conservation of electrical energy is “a prime” requisite to the defense program, He reviewed the savings in various industrial sections that would accrue by adoption of widespread daylight time. The President said his request was made after lengthy consultation with the OPM, the Federal Power Commission and the Interior Department. The President's message was accompanied by a draft of the proposed legislation.
JURY TO HEAR VICE. EVIDENCE THURSDAY
Blue Gets Church Approval; Nine Arrested So Far.
All was quiet on the Marion County vice clean-up front today,
with the next important activity
scheduled for Thursday, when Prosecutor Sherwood Blue will call in the Grand Jury to investigate gambling and liquor law. violations. So far, nine arrests have been made in one raid last Saturday, and the Prosecutor has asked the County Liquor Board to co-operate in ending liquor law violations. The Indianapolis Church Federation, meanwhile, gave its approval to the anti-vice drive in a letter to Mr. Blue. “It was the unanimous opinion of 4 the executive committee members that we should like to commend you for your stand and urge you to continue this effort to stamp out vice and gambling,” said the letter, signed by the Rev. Howard Baumgartel, executive secretary.
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TON, July 15 (U.P).— ; .of State
sponse to press q po a statement by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York that peace had forwarded to an American ‘peace organization in Washington, Mr. Welles said that the State Department from time to time had received reports of such purported _| German offers, but that there was nothing +official in their character.
— 'FLIERS ESCAPE FROM NAZIS ~NEW YORK, July 15 (U. P.).— young Belgian aviators have arrived in Great Britain after escap-
tional tragedy,” it was disclosed today. Gen. Marshall's warning was delivered at an executive | session of the committee last Wednesday, pRpr to the Ad. ministration decision to press for legislation to keep selec~ tees, guardsmen and reservists in active service for the dura-
tion of the emergency. President Roosevelt “has supported the Army in this move, despite apprehension among a few of ‘his Congres« sional leaders that he may suffer a setback, especially in regard to the retention of selectees. :
Gen. Marshall, in his testimony before the Senate committee, said that legislative restrictions against use of selectees and guardsmen oute side the Western Hemisphere had prevented the army from sending
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NAZI PEACE FEELERS
guardsmen are integrated with Reg= ular Army men in practically all units. He added that to immobilize them would virtually destroy the ef« ficiency of many units.
“It is difficult at this time to des ; termine the exact requirements of"
the national interests with respect to the military personnel,” he said.
Claims “Emergency”
“However, in view of the interna« tional situation and its rapidly increasing threat to our security, I submit, on the basis of cold logie, that the virtual disbandment or immsbilization of two-thirds of our trained enlisted strength and three fourths of our trained officer pere sonnel at this time might well ine volve a national tragedy.” He emphasized throughout his testimony that the Selective Service Act called for 12 months of active
iid “except that whenever the
Congress has declared that the nae tional interest is imperiled, such 12 month period may be extended by the President to such time as may be necessary in the interests of nae tional defense.” “That act,” Gen. Marshall said, “set up a peace-time training tem whereby we would be able train a large reserve of soldiers. Each soldier] after 12 months of ae« tive service, would be transferred to a trained reserve, unless a national emergency existed.” “In the opinion of the War De partment such an emeérgency now e A
Older Men to Go
“The President has deemed it ‘exe pedient to declare an unlimited emergency concerning civil funce tions, and the War Department, and I personally, now believe it urgently necessary in the public interest for Congress to declare the existence of a national emergency.” He said that the Army planned to release some selectees, particularly those 28 years old and more, at the end of one year of service if Cone gress authorizes an extension. “Men on whom an undue harde ship would be imposed could also be released as many now are being so released—that is transfer to the re. serve,” he said. He pointed out that “the publis and the Congress have accepted the » and
logic, demands that
Ne meet situation rather than drift along from day to day | he said. “
mobilization of selectees guardsmen would affect Army efficiency, Gen. Marshall cited dee fense problems in Hawaii, He said it has been necessary to send a national guard anti-aircrafé (Continued on Page Eight)
C10 AND REPUBLIC BIGN
WASHINGTON, July 15 (U, P.) = The National Sabor Relations Be y announced the signing agreement between /the Republi Steel Corp. and the Steel Organizing Committee
He pointed out that selectees an
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