Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1941 — Page 3

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"TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1941

MOSCOW BOMB DAMAGE SLIGHT

Russians Claim 17 Planes Downed at Capital, 19 At Leningrad.

MOSCOW, July 22 (U. P.).—German airplanes, attempting a mass raid on Moscow last night, set fire to several buildings in the central district, caused a small number of casualties and left one big bomb

crater in Manege Square opposite the American Embassy. More than 200 planes, taking advantage of a moonless night and an overcast sky, took part in the raid, it was said officially. Only a few of the planes penetrated the capital area through the thick screen of anti-aircraft gun and fighter plane defenses, it was asserted officially,, and the fires which their bombs started were put out quickly by the thousands of civil defense workers—including schoolboys and girls—who now = keep watch day and night on rooftops and in the streets.

Two Paragraphs in Paper

This morning there were few]

evidences that Moscow had undergone a five and one-half hour air raid last night. The Russian capital appeared to be scarcely touched by bomb damage. Newspapers devoted two short paragraphs on inside pages to the air attack, indicating hte official view that the attack was of slight importance. The air raid alarm signal, sixth of the war but the first to be followed by German planes, sounded at 10 p. m. (2 p. m. Monday, Indianapolis Time) and the “all clear” did not come until 5% ‘hours later at 3:30 a. m. today (7:30 p. m. Monday, Indianapolis Time).

of Claim 17 Planes

It was asserted officially that at least 17 of the German planes were shot down either by gun fire or Russian fighter planes. A communique said: “The raid is considered to have failed. Defense units of Soviet aviation halted the main forces of the German planes before they reached Moscow. “Isolated planes broke through. Several fires broke out. A small number of persons were killed or wounded. No military targets were hit. A communique announced that German planes had tried persistently Sunday and yesterday to raid Leningrad, Russia's second city, and that at least 19 of them Had been shot down. Russian fighter planes intercepted the raiders on each attempt, it was said, and turned them back outside the city. The loss of four Russian planes was admitted.

Claim Control of Smolensk

Soviet forces at the front were reported holding off furious German offensives and private reports said that Russian troops still are in control of the key cities of Smolensk, gateway to Moscow, and Novograd Volynsk on the vital Kiev front. The heaviest fighting was in progress, communiques reported, in the Smolensk, Novograd Volynsk and Polotsk-Nevel sectors. Improved weathgy was said to have brought an intensification of air action on both sides with Soviet planes concentrating on supporting land troops by bombing enemy communications and troop concentrations behind the front lines. There were said to be no major military operations in progress in other Sectors of the front.

COMMITTEE ‘0. K.’S JOINT TAX RETURNS

WASHINGTON, July 22 (U. PJ). ~The House Ways and Means Committee indicated today that the $3,504,400,000 defense tax bill - will be reported soon without major revision of tentatively approved schedules. The Committee yesterday decided .to retain. a provision requiring married couples to file joint tax returns. This provision, which was estimated to yield $300,000,000, was opposed by nine states having com- © munity property laws and by churchmen, who said it was a penalty upon marriage. Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C) said the committee was advised that the tax liability of married couples would not be increased by the provision unless their income exceeded $4000. Above this amount, the provision would have the effect of requiring them to pay higher surtaxes.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County City Total

1940 ............. 31 39 70 1941 ....00000..0. 40 35 75

—July 21— .. 26 | Injured ..... 11 19 | Dead ....... 0

MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid

30 $505 10 75

Accidents ..

Violations

Reckless driving... 10 Failure to stop at through street .. Disobeying traffic signals : Drunken driving. 0 All others ...,... 17,

Totals svv0sscens kid

5 15 31 0 21 $647

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noo Rr iberan Service Club, Hotel Lincoln, on. Phalanx Fraternity, Y. M. C. A,

m. “Indian apolis Home Builders’ Association, Hoosier Athletic Club, 6:30 =

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Lions Club, noon, Claypool Hotel. Oberative Club of Indianapolis, noon, ; Columb,

Club. Kiwanis Clas, all day, Ulen Count Club, Lebano y rid Indianapo Junior Chamber of Commerce, noon, Columbia Club. Indianapolis Apartment Owners’ Associaon, noon, Claypool Hotel. iana Motor eh Association, noon,

Yo ing Men’s Discussion Club, 6 p, m,,

BIRTHS

Girls Harold, LaVerne ‘Weimer, at Coleman. : , Lois Nickel, at Methodist. Gertrude Irestone, at Methodist, at Methodist.

of a magic vest.

what have you.

erties of such vests. They are worn by thousands of Siamese troops and are alleged to have turned off many a French bullet aimed at Siamese hearts. I had tried to obtain one in Bangkok, without success. traveling from Bangkok to northern Thailand that the opportunity offered. In a railway station through which large numbers of Thai troops were wont to pass, I saw one of the vests on sale. I asked its price. The little brown peddler gave me an ingratiating smile that exposed a row of betel-blackened teeth. Then he burst into-a lavish description of the marvelous attributes of his wares. It was not until the train had given a warning whistle of impending departure that he came to the matter of price and fixed a figure which was obviously outrageous. I had scarcely begun the Oriental hokuspokus of whittling him down when my train began to move out of the station. I‘tossed the old scoundrel a couple of ticals, grabbed the vest and ran for the train. My fellow passengers—all Siamese—were as pleased in their naive friendly way as I was. The man across the aisle immediately introduced himself and in middle school English asked me if I realized fully the value of what I had bought. I admitted that my knowledge of such things was a trifie vague. “It Protects you,” he said with a sweeping gesture of his arms, “against everything. But you must have faith. If not faith, vest not so good.” ® 8 ”

He Has One, Too

HE DUG INTO HIS suitcase and produced one of his own. It

differed from mine only in its color, which was white. It had been given to him, he said, by a Siamese monk. This gave it a special potency. But he. was not counting on the vest alone for protection. He opzned his shirt front and displayed a little bronze charm suspended from a gold chain about his neck. The charm ‘itself was so worn and eroded ‘hat it was scarcely distinguishable as the image of a Buddhist diety. “Seven hundred years old,” my friend informed me with pride.’

Ervin, Cloe Riley, at 1508 W. Everett. Oscar, Nona Craner, at 402 N. West.

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LeRoy, Lettie Turner, at St. Francis. Francis. es, Winifred Butcher, at St Earl, rothy Madison, at City. pn Marie Willi t James, Mary Hessler, William, Blanche Harold, Mary. Win Julius, Clara. Poindexter, at 3 Clarence, Helen Johnson, at 1 r. and Mrs. Warren E, Sail Kokomo.

DEATHS Alice Gallagher, 60, at 2439 N. Talbott, apo y. Paar Ernest Barnes, 83 at 925 N. Tacoma, cerebral hemorrhag Maggie Burnell, 70, rd “Methodist, diabetes mellitus. Florence Ellen Morris, 54, at 2840 Capitol, cerebral hemorrhage ya Boykin Sheets, 65, “at 1318 W. Washington, cerebral hemorrhage. illiam E. Ferguson, 54, at St. Vincent's, coronary 25 usion. Olitef 2 . Jefry, 61, at 211 Koehne,’ myocar William Brooks, 47, at City, tuberculosis. Darnella Hensel, 13, at Riley, rheumatic

11, at 1106 W. 31st, rheu57, at Methodist, pul57, at Methodist, pulat 450 N. Kealing, at 444 E. Market,

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apoplexy. MARRIAGE LICENSES

These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses. 5

Charles Alva Clark, 37, of 519 N. East; Juanita Fisher, 27, of 519 N. East. Marshall L.' Trisler, 31, of 512 Na Alabama; Loyce Simpson, 2, of N.

Algbam Richard er 41 BY 28, Franklin, Ind.; Mary a 27 helbyville, Ind. Gerald Colwell Flackyille, Ind.: Beity Colwell, 4, of 603 N. Alabama,

0 Louis Ostermeir, 38, R. R. 10, Bos 11; Marie Schakel, 26, R. R. 5, Box Clarence Hoymker, 56, Doteolt: * Jessie Tilson, 48. nklin, Ind. yd Hamblen, dn, Tipton, Ind.; Mary Carpenter, 25, of 2 71; Douglas ms Jennie Alexander, 61, of 101 ache Adpes Mogiaricy 0 ot Ri) Sr es arity, 0! as c ‘Bhotts, 26, of 843 Br

29, Geraldine Drake, 3, ¢ of 807 Bradsh.

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Top Sergeant at Age 2 20

Sergeant James P. Madison, 61st Surgical Hospital, is believed to be the youngest first sergeant in the U. S. Army. The 20-year-old optical laboratory technician, enlisted in 1939. He’s from Terre Haute.

Own a Siamese Magic Vest And Forget to Be Afraid

‘It Is of Cheapest Cotton, Brilliant Red and Fits Badly, But | Am Assured It Will Guard Me From All Evils.

(This is the second of a series of unusual-features from China.)

By A. T. Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. SHANGHAI (By Clipper).—I have recently become the possessor It is of the cheapest cotton, it is a brilliant red and it fits badly. But I am assured that the mystic drawings and inscriptions which cover it will protect me against bullets, evil spirits and

STEELE

In Thailand (Siam) I had heard much of the miraculous prop-

“It is from Ayudya (ancient ‘capital of Siam) and I pay for it 250 ticals (about $100). Very precious.” By this time a little crowd had gathered about wus. Inevitably, the first question thrown at me was, “How much you pay?” When I admitted that the vest had cost me two ticals there was an immediate exchange of significant smiles. The American had been stung. This séemed to make a bigger impression on my fellowpassengers than the remarkable powers of the vest, which were immediately forgotten. I became an object of sympathy. . “One tical proper price,” one of ‘the bystanders informed me.

Only Faith Lacking

ANYWAY, I have the vest and the only thing I lack is the complete faith that is supposed to go with it. , No doubt the belief of the Siamese in these vests .accounts in part for the fanatical bravado that they sometimes show in battle. One of my fellow correspondents dared, once, to express skepticism in the presence of a Siamese officer. The officer was indignant. “I will put on a demonstration for you,” he said. “I, myself, will stand before a firing squad and prove to you that no bullet can penetrate this vest.” «The correspondent, shocked at the homicidal possibilities of the experiment, hastily recanted his doubts. Belief in charms is world-wide, but it seems especially pronounced in Buddhist lands. The Japanese, for instance, are great believers in the protective qualities of their “1000-stitch belts.” It is common in Tokyo to see women soliciting passers-by to sew on a stitch of red thread into the white band of cotton cloth they hold in their hands. One thousand such stitches by 1000 different hanas makes a 1000-stitch belt, a fine gift for some soldier at the front. With such a belt around his waist the Japanese warrior enters battle confident that the gods are on his side. In China, however, I have seen many such belts, some bloodstained, taken from the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers. They don’t always work.

- OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau ____

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Cloudy and warmer tonight; tomorrow considerable cloudiness with likelihood of thunder-

4 showers.

(Central Standard Time) Sunrise ..... 4:34 | Sunset ....... 7:08

Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation since Ja Deficiency since Jan.

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers tomorrow and in northwest portion tonight; warmer in east portion tonight. Illinois—Partly cloudy with widely scattered hier ees tonight and tomorrow; continued rather warm Lower Michigan—Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer in south' and east portions tonight; somewhat cooler in west portion Wednesday. Ohio—Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and slight- * warmer; some likelihoo of local thundershowers in northwest portion tomorrow afternoon.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Wea ’Bar. Temp.

Amarillo, Tex. ..... 8 s Bismarck, N. D. Tee 52

50 73

7 a. m...

But CI Ci Cleveland .. Denver ii Ki d odge y, Kas. «....Cloudy Kansas City, M0. ..... Little Rock, Ark. PtOl Las Angeles

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[BERLIN REPORTS RED ARMY SPLIT

Headquarters Destroyed in Moscow Raid, Says German Communique.

BERLIN, July 22 (U. P.)—The German High Command asserted

today that Russia no -longer canf maintain a unified central command or a connected defense front, and said that a great Luftwaffe attack on Moscow had started huge fires near the Kremlin and caused destruction at Red Army headquarters. The raid on Moscow last night, said the High Command, was the first which has been ordered upon the Russian capital and was undertaken in “reprisal” for Soviet air attacks on Bucharest and Helsinki. It was claimed by the communique that. German bombers set “numerous large fires” near the Kremlin, nerve center of the Soviet regime, and the Moscow River which flows through the center of .the capital city.

Red Army “Disconnected’

Destruction, it was asserted, was caused to Red Army headquarters and many other of the large Government buildings. German troops were said by the High Command to be closing in upon surrounded Soviet troops along a lengthy broken and disconnected Russian front where no unified Russian command is now operating. The High Command’s communique, issued from Hitler's field headquarters, asserted that operations “for the annihilation” of individual enemy groups are being steadily pressed by German armed forces.

-12 Hits Near Kremlin

“Hundreds of explosive bombs and tens of thousands of incendiary bombs” were dropped on Moscow in a raid which was “comparable in its devastating effect with the heaviest blows by the Luftwaffe against England,” informants asserted. Pilots observed 12 heavy bomb hits near the walled Kremlin, headquarters of Premier Josef Stalin, informants said, and 20 big fires were seen immediately east of the Kremlin. (Russia’s Cathedral of St. Basil, Historical Museum, Museum of Applied Science, Central Commercial Arcades and Commissariat for Heavy Industry. are east of the Kremlin. The Hotel Metropole, which houses many foreign visitors is just to the northeast).

‘At Bend in River’

“Heavy destruction” was caused at the bend in the Moscow River, informants said, and also near the “Red Army headquarters” and the radio headquac-ters. Nine intense fires were seen in the bend of the river, it was asserted, and it was “believed” that the “electric works” were hit. (The river takes an “S” course through the city. There is one big bend opposite the Kremlin. Buildings near this bend include the Museum of Fine Arts, the New Palace of the Soviets, the Lenin Public Library, the Government House, the Central Electric Station, the Kalinin textile factory, an electrical appliances factory, the Night Sanitorium, the Tolstoi Museum, the Museum of Modern Western Paintings and the Academy of Fine Arts.) In agdition to raiding Moscow, informants said, German planes had disrupted several railroads west of Moscow and had heavily attacked barracks and troop concentrations south of Leningrad, in the path of the German drives at the northern part of the battle front.

HERE’S WAY TO. BEAT PENALTY ON WHEAT

WASHINGTON, July 22 (U. P.). —The Agriculture Department announced ° yesterday that farmers who under-plant their 1942 wheat acreage allotment may market excess wheat from this year’s crop without a penalty. The provision will enable the growers who exceeded their acreage this year to escape the 49 cents a bushel penalty on wheat grown in excess of their AAA allotment. Any farmer who over-planted his 1941 allotment by 10 acres, for example, could market all his wheat free of a penalty if he underplanted next year’s crop by the same number of acres, officials explained.

ABANDON CANAL USE

PANAMA CITY, July 22 (U. P)). —Five Japanese vessels at anchor off Cristobal for a week awaiting authorization’ to go through the Panama Canal, were reported reliably to have sailed for the Pacific by way of Cape Horn. Three vessels sailed Sunday and two yesterday, it was said. (The Japanese Government protested to Washington last week Br delay in permitting Japanese vessels to sail from American ports. The Japanese press charged United States authorities had refused Japanese ships use of the Panama Canal.)

FIRM IN FT. WAYNE

Continuing its crackdown on liquor law violators, the Alcoholic Beverages Commission today suspended for five days the wholesale liquor and wine permit-of the Columbia Liquors Co., at Ft. Wayne. The Ft. Wayne firtn was penalized for allegedly having unstamped liquor on its floors. This was the first wholesale firm to be punished by the State liquor board in several months. The Commission today completed the naming of 13 district investigators with the appointment of Charles W. Heritage, Anderson Republican, as investigator in District] 7. He will have charge of nine counties. Investigators receive salaries of $180 a month.

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BULLETS FOIL RED PLOT BERLIN, July 22 (U. P.).—An official news agency dispatch from Belgrade said today that “a great number of Communists and Jews” attempting |

sabotage” near Valjevo, Jugoslavia, 45 miles south west of Belgrade.

New Subjects of Germany Increase Spying in U.S.

By THOMAS M.- JOHNSON Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, July 22.—The war of spy and saboteur that smolders like forest fire beneath the surface of American life, is being fanned by two recent events: The Russo-German war and the clos-

ing of the Nazi consulates here. Many Nazi undercover activities .in the United States have been entrusted in recent weeks not to Germans, but to members of races subject to the Nazis— Hungarians, Bulgarians, Slovaks and Ukrainians.

STRAUSS SAYS:

Most dangerous of these are a small Ukrainian terrorist group. Fanatically patriotic and brave, they are suspected of responsibility for the bomb explosion in the British World’s Fair Pavilion and serious sabotage in New Jersey, where they are strong. They have direct connections with the Ukrainian Fifth Column Hitler has long prepared in Central Europe, headed by Ataman Skoropadsky, whose son is believed to have come here lately to establish liaison with ‘a Chicago group. The Nazis now manipulate with

promises of “freedom” not only the Ukrainians but two other

. formidable secret terrorist groups:

The Macedonian Imro and the

‘notorious Ustasha whose head,

Ante Pavelitch, assassin of King Alexander. of Yugoslavia, now is dictator of the Croat puppet state. He has established in Hitler-dom-inated Slovakia a copy of the notorious Hungarian “murder farm” to train terrorists, and some of those terrorists now are in this country.

It is believed they are to lead,

Slavic pro-Nazis here in sabotage attempts more extensive than

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