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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1941

VOLUME 53—NUMBER 111

Nazis Close In On Leningrad, Resume Bombing Of Britain

REPORT HITLER SOS SENT JAPAN |

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Lebanon.

It is possible to tell now the inside story as I saw and heard it

here at the general headquarters

weeks the British Imperial and Free French troops were moving slowly

to victory.

Apparently the Germans at first intended to give the Vichy French active aid; Vichy warships fired their shells into the zir instead of

at the British Fleet; Gen. Henri Dentz, the Vichy commander in chief, changed his residence each night because of popular feeling against him; all during the war, * Free French agents were active in Vichy territory. I was told by credible persons but could not confirm, that Gen. ' Dentz shot his chauffeur on suspicion that he had revealed his sleeping quarters. In any event, the chauffeur disappeared, and was not replaced, after there had been several demonstrations against Dentz and British airplane bombs had landed uncomfortably close to his headquarters.

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' Only Half See Action

RELIABLE figures, disclosed by - Free French agents whe remained here during the campaign, were that Vichy forces totaled akdut 45,000 men, of whom gnlv_half saw action’ Of these, "HEM bs Syrians* and Lebanese; 13. ‘American colonials, 5000 Foreign Legionnaires and 15,000 metropolitan Frenchmen. }] Casualties of the Vichy forces are estimated at about 2000 killed and 2000 to 3000 seriously wounded. It seemed clear that at the : start of the campaign the Ger= | mans intended to aid the Vichy | forces against their former allies. "At least two German planes fought with ¢shem and during the first week German artillery officers arrived here by airplane. The pilot of one of these planes parachuted to earth, wounded, one and a fourth miles from my house in a mountain village. His co-pilot was killed. The wounded man left, for Turkey Tuesday with the: Vichy refugees.

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Certain Nazis Were There

DURING THE FIRST week 1 satisfied myself of the arrival of German artillery officers. Four unmistakably German officers were billeted at a hotel at which 1 then stayed, arriving late one night and departing early in the morning. : Each night German pilots stayed at a hotel in the village of Zahle and left for Rayak at dawn, until the British made the Beirut airport untenable. After the first week or so, however, German participation in the campaign was confined to a civiljan commission which had as satellites half a dozen Italians. At (Continued on Page Two)

MNUTT HOPES VISIT ISN'T HEADLINE NEWS

Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, who is in the Midwest on -a speaking tour, today visited Governor Schricker for a half hour. - - - Asked, ‘upon leaving the conference, if he had ‘ggade any headline news,” the rmer Governor replied: “I hope not.” e said he had ‘talked to the Ek. Governor about some Federal matk ters pertaining to Indiana. Tohday’s visit was his second at the Governor's office in the last two months.

+ EXPECT LONG DEBATE

WASHINGTON, July 18 (U.P.)— Administration leaders today anticipated a lengthy debate in the Senate on a modified bill which would authorize President Roosevelt to requisition private property needed for defense. . Chairman Robert R. Reynolds (D. N. C.) of the Senate Military ‘Affairs Committee which approved the measure yesterday, hoped to begin the debate Monday.

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Inside Story of Syrian War

Fired Shells in Air Dentz Changed Residence Every Night and Reportedly Shot Chauffeur Who Told.

By HAROLD PETERS United Press Staff Correspondent

BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 17 (Delayed).—Great Britain and the Free French won a strange war in Syria and

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of the Vichy French during the

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Gen. Henri Dentz . . . bombs fell too close.

CLIMAX TONIGHT INV’ CAMPAIGN

Mystery Man to Broadcast As Symbol. Appears in Axis Nations.

LONDON, July 18 (U.P.).—AntiNazis are scrawling “V,” the symbol for Allied victory, on walls in Ger-

man occupied countries, British sources reported today. Semi-official sources said reports from secret agents on the continent said more than 62000 persons had been prosecuted in the Paris area, alone for scrawling “V” on the walls, sidewalks or vehicles. The “V” campaign approaches its climax tonight when the mysterious “Col. V. Britton,” in charge, broadcasts a program to German-occupiec countries as a preliminary to his secret plans for Sunday, which has been set for some sort of manifesta-

tion. It was reported that the Moscow

erful in the world, was preparing to jam German broadcasts by repeating the letter “V” in the Morse code, “ .,..=,” on their wave lengths. Though the “victory” campaign was intended for the occupied countries, it has spread quicky through Great Britain. “V” clubs are being formed and “V” badges are being made, : :

BERLIN, July 18 (U. P.).—A police automobile appeared on the Wilhelmstrasse today . bearing a placard attached to its radiator and inscribed with the letter “V” in red. The German radio began urging Germans and residents of countries allied to Germany and of occupied territory to display “V” signs everywhere to represent the word “viktoria,” as a symbol of confidence in

Radio station, one of the most pow-|

MORGAN MOVES

T0 STRENGTHEN HEALTH GUARDS

City Inspectors Are Told to ‘Bear Down’ on Some Slaughter-houses.

. By RICHARD LEWIS The City Health Department moved in two directions today to improve admittedly inadequate sanitary inspections. 3 1. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health officer, ordered meat inspectors to bear down on a small group of slaughterhouse operators who, he charged, are attempting to' “slip something over on us” by slaughtering inferior and diseased animals. 2. He asked City Council for more money next year to expand all sanitary inspection services. He proposed two more meat inspectors, eight more restaurant inspectors, who would be dietitians, and at least three additional sanitary district officers. : The Health Officer's action confirmed disclosures by The Indianapolis Times that sporadic City Hall economy drives have whittled down sanitary inspection services:to the point where they no ioager can safeguard public health adequately.

Orders Rigid Check The Health Officer summoned .the meat inspectors to his office yesterday and warned them not to let

In d Statement later he said: . “Our inspectors have been instructed to exercise the most rigid supervision and inspection over this small group of concerns which persists in attempting to pass on inferior, yes eased, meat to the public. “We know who these concerns are. We are going to watch them very closely. This department will not stand for the slaughtering of sick and inferior animals. Either the meat is healthy or it goes to the tanks. : . “It is too bad that some individuals try to take advantage of a situation where the price of meat is rising by looking for bargains in unhealthy animals.”

Seeks Broader Powers

Dr. Morgan said he would ask the Council for broader powers to halt such practices. He said he proposed to station one of the additional inspectors he is asking for at the Indianapolis Stockyards full time. The City does not now cover the Stockyards which are policed by State and Federal inspectors. The small corps of City inspectors have their hands full making the rounds of local packing and slaughterhouses not covered by the U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry or the State. In addition to the inspection staff increases, the Health Officer said that two iumigation experts were needed to supervise the use of toxic gases in extermination work. Two deaths were caused recently by toxic gases during the unsupervised fumigation of a building.

Need More Inspectors :

However, no specific provision was made for the fumigation in the Health Department’s 1942 budget request. The request contained a salary increase for existing inspection personnel from $110 to $125 a month. ? Dr. Morgan said he believed it was essential for the City to insure good public sanitation as a preventive against contagion, because of the greater concentration of men working in defense plants and at Ft. Harrison. “Unless we can increase our personnel,” he said, “we cannot perform this task satisfactorily.”

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REPORT 7 TRANSPORTS SUNK

LONDON, July ‘18 (U.P.).—The Admiralty reported today that, British submarines have sunk seven Axis transports loaded with troops, ammunition and oil in the Mediter-

German victory.

A bewildered 24-year-old mother, expecting another child, appeared before Municipal Court Judge ‘John McNelis today, charged with grand larceny. She told this story: Her husband left her more than a week ago and she has no notion where he is. = Her 10-month-old child ‘has ‘been ill, running a fever, and she has had to provide medical care for her. Shewas invited to share an apartment with a girl friend, which she did, but the girl friend is out of a job. The mother sold her three rooms of furniture for $75 to another couple and used the money for food and medicine. * But she discovered she didn’t own

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Deserted Mother Faces C ourt For Selling Her Furniture

she was charged with grand larceny, was buying it on a conditional sales agreement. When the people she sold it to found that out, they demanded their $75 back. She now has only 50 cent of the money.” Judge McNelis continued the case and released the woman on her own recognizance, He called the Marion County Welfare Board and tried to arrange for some assistance, but the Board, Judge McNelis reported, said rule ‘is not to help deserted wives until their husbands have been missing -a year. The new baby is expected in October. Judge McNelis set about getting help for her, : ; 5 ehow,” he told her, “I'm go-

she ed_when) that sick child of

‘get some help for you and

any siaughterhouse “put anything Jover on this department.’ ;

YOUTH IN STATE TAKE IT CALMLY

20,000 Young Hoosiers Join U. S. Army Reservoir; _ 3000 From Here. ofA et 12 Mathes. in loos draft board lists, Page 5.)

By EARL RICHERT

Twenty thousand 21-year-old Hoosiers, 3000 from Indianapolis, today were given formal yanking in the huge reservoir of men from which Uncle Sam is selecting his greatest peacetime Army. The order in which each of the youthful registrants will be inte, grated in the old order number lists was determined. by last night's national lottery in Washington. Just as youth might be expected to do, they took the all-important event calmly. They left any worry there might be about the luck of the draw up to their parents and went to the movies or on dates. Today they went about their business as usual, The draft board telephones were practically silent and only a handful called at their local board offices to endeavor to learn what their status was.

Fifteen Are No. 1

And it was just as well that they did, because the local draft boards will have to wait until they get official copies of the sequence number lists from Washington before they can begin integrating the new registrants with the old. Because of the time this work will take, none of the new men are expected to be called before Septemer. Each youth was given a sequence number in last night’s drawing— that number being determined by the order in which his serial (or registration) number was drawn from the historic “goldfish” bowl. The sequence number will determine where he will be placed in the old order number list, the new registrants being integrated with the old in the proportion of the number of remaining old registrants in each local draft board to the new ones. Serial No. 196 was the first number pulled from the bowl, giving 11 Marion County men Sequence No. 1. As. four local draft ‘boards, Boards 1, 3, 14 and 15 did not have as many as 196 new registrants, the men with the second serial number, drawn, No. 98, . got Sequence No. 1 in those boards. ; The 15 men who got Sequehce No. (Continued on Page Two)

WEATHER BUREAU HITS IT ON THE NOSE

LOCAL TEMPERATURE

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uttered a prediction of thundershowers for today than the skies muttered and stirred one up. There may be more before the day is over. :

fair and cool, the Bureau said. Lh —————————— eee 666 WAS THE 666th A sidelight of the second national

draft lottery: . ; Registration number 666 was the

its 666th number drawn from the gold-

fish bowl. -

IT'S CORP. STEWART NOW MOFFETT FIELD, Cal, July 18 (U, P.)~The U. 8. :

for promotion. Included was James Stewart

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The Weather Bureau had no more.

But tonight and tomorrow will be

WASHINGTON, July 18 (U.P).—|

school here today listed 74 soldiers

2 1-Year-

No. 1 of Board 1 Smiles at Draft

Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Jennings and Phyllis Ann,

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Has Wife, Two Children

Thomas Jennings: Guesses

Uncle Sam Will Defer Him

From Service Quite Some Time—He Hopes.

Thomas Quentain Jennings became No. 1 draft registrant of Draft Board No. 1, in the selective service lottery last night, but Mr, Jen-

nings isn’t expecting to be drafted And he hopes he won't be. Although he reached his nings has enough of a family.

REDS CLAIM GOERING FRIENDS WATCHED"

Report Discontent = Among Influential Nazis.

By UNITED PRESS The Moscow. Radio continued today. “its . statements that Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Nazi No. 2 and official heir .of Adolf Hitler, is in disgrace and under house arrest because he opposed the German attack on Russia. Broadcasts picked up by London and New York listening posts quoted © Stockholm advices ° that there was much discontent in influential - German- industrial quarters because of the elimination of Goering, who has been regarded as leader of the conservative Nazi wing. | Moscow said Goering was closely associated with the greatest industrial corporations, including Krupp’s, and said his collaborators were being watched closely by the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.

EIRE STIRRED BY SPEECH

DUBLIN, Eire, July. 18~(U. P.).— Government. leaders were disturbed today by a speech of J. M. Dillon, deputy leader of the Finegael Party, urging that Eire give the United States and Britain air and naval bases to “insure success against the

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time, he Besides his wife, he has fwo youngsters, tow-headed: Phyllis Ann,

any time soon. ih vy 18, Mr." Jen-

feels.

3, and: 1-year-old Shirley Mae.

the chances of being drafted to sit around the radio last night at his home, 1928 N. Adams St., and didn’t learn that he had drawn No. ‘1 rating until he got home later in the evening. :

Married at Age 17

Mr. Jennings, who has lived here all ‘his life, got ‘his “first good job” last month with the Chevrolet Commercial Body Plant, but is in his second week of a layoff for inventory now. He and Mrs. Jennings “ran off and got married” at Greenfield when he was 17 and. Mrs. Jennings even younger. If he had his choice, Mr. Jennings said, he’d rather serve in the Navy, but “I guess they don’t ask draftees what .they- want to serve in”

Was in Naval Reserve

Last May 11, he was discharged from the U. S. Naval Reserve after serving out his four-year : enlistment. The “hitch” ended just as the various units of the reserve were being called into active service. Mr. Jennings has four brothers, one of whom has served an enlistment in the Army. He and | his family live with his mother, Mrs. Miles Jennings. ;

The Jennings’ youngest daughter, Shirley Mae. missed all the excitement of his distinction. She was visiting for a couple of weeks with

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coming between Order No. 1633 and 1634 in the old list. A The man getting Sequence No. 2 in Draft Board 1 will be placed 14 more men down the list and ‘thus he probably will get Order No. 1647-S Coming between Order No. 1647 and 1648 in the old list. Registrants in Draft Board 2 can figure, from the above given ratio, that they will be placed in the old number list after every 13th man. And so on.

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attack on Siberia.

ARMY GETS FOR AID IN CONGRESS

President to Ask Support for Service Extension “In Message.

WASHINGTON, July 18 (U, P.).— Sentiment developed today for a Congressional declaration of a national - emergency, as -President Roosevelt, reiterating the U. 8, intention of keeping Atlantic sea lanes open, said he would back the Army's plea for service extension with a message to Congress. “Talk of a declaration of national emergency was heard in the Senate Military Affairs Committee. It would be substituted for proposed legislation to remove the limitations on the service of draftees, National Guardsmen and Reserve officers, Mr. Roosevelt,” with greatest emphasis, repeated the determination of this country to keep the sea lanes open to Iceland—a determination which brings this éountry into direct = opposition with - Germany, which has proclaimed a war area around the island. He told a press conference, however, that his proposed message, which he said he would give to Congress next week, would not . deal with another "Army suggestion to permit the use of citizen-soldiers outside Western Hemisphere and U. S. possessions: But the President said firmly he was not going to discuss ways and means or go into detail on troop movements involving Iceland, adding for direct quotation: “I 'do not think it is right that I should pull a Wheeler.” He was referring to the isolationist leader, Senator. Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), who was criticized by the White House and by| Prime Minister "Winston Churchill of Great Britain for disclosing America’s Iceland plans while the (Continued on Page Two)

TAFT'S WHEAT BILL

Favors Measure to Lift 49-

Today's War MOVES ........covs ies “All velvet now,” by Robert J. Casey ceceosesesssssssssssvee White plague threatens Europe .... F. D. R. blacklist tests “Good Neighbors” “ese ReINs RRR Other war and defense stories ......

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent bolt

Germany appeared to be throwing crushing power into her drives upon Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev today in an effort to break stubborn Soviet resistance which London reported had brought a Nazi SOS to Tokyo for a Japanese

ever, caution seemed indicated choice of a Navy rather Army man for Foreign Minister. Navy officers, for the most part, are considerably more conservative than the fire-eating Army war party.

ARMY AND NAVY DEMAND UNITY "OF NIPPONESE

Konoye Completes New Militaristic Cabinet,

Vladivostok Mines;

London Expects Attack on Siberia.

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There was little specific detail on the Naiz drives which were believed to be closing in upon Leningrad and Kiev and

pounding hard for a breaks through toward Moscow from

the Smolensk region. i At the same time { Sera wim man Afr Force, bid in Tonk lle 4 in its operations agaist Brita with an attack on the port of Hull which appeared comparable to ‘the big-scale raids of early spring. : Japan's plans still were obscure but there was little doubt that a crisis was rising. A new Cabinet was formed by Prince Fumimaro Konoye, dropping Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, who was attacked in the v la press for his signature of the Russo= Japanese pact. The same papers hammered at what they called “the Siberian question.” " The Japanese Army and Navy issued an extraordinary joint states . ment calling for the nation to unite in strengthening Japan's “war-tim# structure.” oh This highly unusual and possi unique sort of thought to indicate that Japan had embarked upon a momentous proe gram,

Cabinet Semi-Fascist There was no plain indication that this program necessarily meant an attack upon Siberia but in London the view was advanced that such an offensive appears more and more: likely. British sources claimed that Germany, finding « her " against Russia meeting far more re Sistante Shas} expected), had sent an urgen the Ja tack ‘Siberia. Panessrto tle The Governrient was a

nationalistic, nuilitaristic combina-

tion of semi-Fascist nature. Howe 8 possible note of Japanese by the than an.

Admiral Feijiro Toyoda, who suc-

ceeds Matsuoka, is a close friend of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Japanese Ambassador n.

to Washing« On the Russian front, the German

High Command was believed to be making an all-out effort in a desberate attempt to score quick pres tige victories by this week-end.

London, however, reported that

the Russians had ‘been unabl Fheck the Nast offensive So any point on the long front but was confident that te Red Army still was battling fierce) after 27 days of blitzkrieg.

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WASHINGTON, July 18.—Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) is ready to support the Taft bill for lifting the 49-cent penalty on excess quota wheat,*he declared today. This decision was reached, he said, after a conference with Vice President Henry A. Wallace. “I told Mr. Wallace that Indiana wheat farmers were up in arms about this penalty, but he gave me no en ent as to the possibility of solving the problem through Department of Agriculture rulings,” Senator VanNuys said. ; “Since such an authority feels that it cannot be dealt with admin-

latively and will support the Taft bill to reduce the penalties to 15

crop year,” Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.), who issued a statement blasting the New Deal because of Js

in hard drive miles away;

60 def, elense positions around Smolensk after four days of flerce fighting claim main Nazi attack is here,

SOUTHERN SECTOR—Germang claim they have reached a ter on .150-mile front,’ oe ml whole Bessarabian say no Taruciar es. Germans claimed to - ing into the Kiev fort be Jus

sian fronts was reported as follows: NORTHERN SECTOR—Germans report advance guards have fought their way to “the region of Lenin. grad,” the Estonian coast; from

Russian reports say that Germany's second most powerful offensive is

under way here.

CENTRAL SECTOR—German ree ports place Nazis beyond Smolensk 1 toward Moscow 238 Germans say they are. 4 miles beyond Stalin Line; ms A report Soviet forces still hold

overrunning area; Russians change in fighting

yesterday they claimed

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