Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1941 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 115
WEDNESDAY, J ULY 23,1941
Entered as Second-Class
at Potsoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
FRENCH INDO-CHINA BOWS
Matter
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Bobbitt Refuses To Resign But F oes Plan To Vote Him Qut
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Guggenheim Promised Share of Estate, Say Chorus Girls.
NEW YORK, July 23 (U, P.).— Four beautiful show girls who inherit the million-dollar estate of: William~ Guggenheim, who died recently at the age of Tl, expressed no surprise today at their marvelous good fortune. Two of them, Mildred Borst and Mary Alice Rice, said he had helped them in their stage careers. and had promised to remember them in his will. The two other legatees were Lillyan Andrus, “Miss America” in 1928, and Flor-
ence Sullivan who,! according to
__title .of “Miss Connecticut” at..a bathing beauty contest in 1930,
Miss Borst, did secretarial work for the aged millionaire.
Mildred Borst . . . ‘Literary Digest caught his eye.
MISS BORST, born in New Haven, Conn., and winner of the
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said she met Mr. Guggenheim
when he came backstage while
she was playing in “Ballyhoo” in 1932. “I was reading a copy of the Literary Digest and that: caught his eye,” she said. “He talked to me, and later he financed my singing lessons and dramatic lessons.” Miss Rice, a former student ‘of Southern Methodist. and Texas Universities, said she met Mr. Guggenhein backstage while playing understudy to Catherine. Cor.
nell in “Music in the Air.” : :-
Mary Alice Rice . . . also met benefactor back stage.
AT THE AGE of 70, Mr. Guggenhim wrote the lyrics to the song, “You're a Glamor Girl.” In ‘his will, he disinherited his wife and son, saying he had made prowision for them in his life-time. He and Mrs. Guggenheim had been living apart but were not separated in a legal sense. Her attorney would not say whether she would demand a widow's share when the will is filed for probate. Under New York State law, a wife ean not be disinherited unless she and the Inishand are legally separated. Mr. Guggenheim was the youngest. son of Meyer Guggenheim, founder of the international Gug{genheim copper dynasty.
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‘DISGRUNTLED FEW BLAMED BY GOP CHIEF
Opponents Taking Steps to Call - Own Special Ouster Meeting.
By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM
Arch N. Bobbitt, Republican State Committee chairman, today refused the request of a majority of the committee members that he resign, and attributed the request to a “disgruntled few.” Meanwhile, members of the antiBobbitt group went ahead with plans for a formal committee meeting Friday at which they plan to oust him. The decision to ‘demand the chairman’s resignation was reached at a 10-hour conference of 16 of the 24 committee members at the Marott Hotel. Shortly before midnight, Mr. Bobbitt was called to the ‘Marott- from his home by a subcommittee and was handed a petition asking him to call a meeting of the State committee for Friday. . “What for?” he asked. “To accept your resignation,’ ” he
“There’s not going to be any resignation, so there’s no use to have a meeting,” he cquntered.
Ouster Attempt Planned
told the committee that he would tender his resignation only if the district chairmen who supported him in the lost cause of decentralization also would resign. With his refusal to step out, members of the group prepared to call a Special meeting themselves and vote him out. Rules of the committee provide that 13 members can call a meeting. The selection of a new chairman was left in the hands of two wheelhorses of the committee, Ewing Emison, Vincennes, Seventh District chairman, and Ralph F. Gates, Columbia City, Fourth District chairman. h From informed sources, it was reported that Mr. Gates probably will be chosen chairman to serve until the reorganization meeting next spring. , There was some possibility, however, that Mr. Emison might be the choice., Wright at Session
Party leaders hinted that one of leaders in the movement to oust Mr. Bobbitt was Burrell Wright, local attorney and a factional lead-
Gates, according to reports, who notified the 16 committeemen of the rump meeting. Whether the eight other members were notified was not learned. Mr. Wright attended yesterday’s session, it was said. A similar rump meeting was held, it was reported, a few hours. after the recent committee meeting called by Mr. Bobbitt and at which the chairman was given an indorsement. Some saw the Bobbitt ouster movement as an effort by Mr. Wright to gain control of the party for himself and Mr. Gates. Mr. Wright is a close friend of Secretary of State James M. Tucker and
reportedly using Mr. Tucker's patronage power as a lever in the committee reorganization movement. As originally planned, the reorganization was to have been a clean sweep, removing also the committee secretary, Neil D. McCallum, but plans to remove Mr. McCallum were dropped or deferred. At the conference between the|SY {Continued on Page Four)
TEACHERS PENSION “BOARD APPOINTED
By Governor Schricker.
* Governor Schricker today named a five-man board of trustees to administer. the $24,000,000 Teachers’ Retirement Fund. He reappointed Karl V. Ammer-
High School here; Mrs. Margaret Afflis, Delphi, second district Democratic vice chairman, and Lew O’Bannon, Corydon lawyer, and named Miss Hildegarde Maehling, Terre Haute teacher, and Russell Dunbar, Sunman banker, as new members. Dropped from the board were Chester R. Montgomery, South Bend lawyer, and Z. M. Smith, Greenfield schoolbook salesman. The appointments are for four-year terms and the board members receive $10 a day salary for every day they are in session. The board will name an executive g subject to approval by the Governor. It is expected Robert Hougham, present’ Secretary, will be
SMITH CALLS ON FDR
WASHINGTON, July 23 (U.P.) — Alfred E. Smith, once a bitter opponent of President Roosevelt, but
Mr. Bobbitt said today that he
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It's Unofficial,
Elected City offisials- today cone maining in power for an extra year 1941 skip-election law.
extra 12 months. On "the record, they declined - to comment except to say officially that they were “studying the matter.¥ Beside the record, the joy at City Hall and in City Democratic circles was difficult to restrain. “Man,” said one worker who declined to be identified for publication, “that means job security for us.” “Us” referred to about 400 political workers, nearly all of whom are cogs in what is known as the Democratic political machine. Directly . affected by the “error” are . Mayor Sullivan, City Clerk John Layton and nine City Councilmen, six of whom are Democrats. The Mayor was in office five years during - his first term when the Legislature passed the 1933 skipelection law. Indirectly affected, are a host of Democratic politicos some of whom are seeking office next year. Their state of mind at the possibility of no City election - uo described as “chaotic.” For instance, there were plans for the party ticket next year, plans carefully worked out after much bickering and compromise. The Myers-Lewis Plans It was reported that Criminal Court Judge Dewey Myers is being groomed for Mayor and that former Prosecutor David M. Lewis was being considered to succeed Judge Myers to the Criminal Court bench. ‘Whether these plans would. remain intact if Judge Myers had to wait 12 montks after going: out of Slee to run for Mayor is anybody’ S
eps ‘political leaders debated these (Continued on Page Four)
ACCEPT RED CROSS OFFER
ANKARA, Turkey, - -July 22 (Delayed (U. P.).—Russia and Germany and their allies have accepted an offer of the Red Cross to act as an intermediafy for the exchange of information here on war prisoners and civilians, it was announced officially today.
There'll Be No Resignation
Arch N.
Are Happy Over Skip-Election
eded- : because of an apparent error in the
Off the record, the officials said they viewed with alarm the prospect of, retaining power and doling out Political, patronage for an
- Bobbitt
But Democrats
a fair-chance of ‘re=
126 HURT AS CAR CRASHES CROWD
Driver Who Plowed Into Movie Audience Accused Of Intoxication.
Times Special LYONS, Ind, July 23.—Eighteen of 26 persons injured when an auto ran into a street crowd of 400. here
last night, remained in hospitals to« day, four of them critically, injured. As every available physician in the area ministered to the injured, Greene County officials held. Pete Mengeldoht, 24, Lyons, who. is alleged to have driven his car into the crowd. Charges of driving an automobile while under the influence of liquor were filed against Mengedoht., A Linton girl who allegedly was riding in the car at the time.of the accident also was held. - The accident occurred when the car was driven around a corner into a crowd watching a film on a screen stretched across Main St. Most of those injured were children. The most. critically injured were: Rpy Morgan, 40, Lyons, who was near the screen and began: helping children out of the path of the car before it struck the crowd. Jimmie Brown, 12, Marco, whose leg was amputated. Barbara Nichols, 8, Lyons, whose legs were broken. . David Carpenter, 12, Lyons, whose arm was broken, a hand torn off, and whose back may be broken. When Mengedoht) was arrested he told Sheriff Blanton’ that he had come into town from a farm where he had been staying to get some
beer.
months—"held incommunicado hours’ '—taken- by special guard
. Greece tinder Hitler. Be sure to read George
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GREECE UNDER HITLER!
George Weller, embattled Balkan correspondent of The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, who stood his ground in Greece when the Germans came, has at last found an opening in the armorplate of Nazi censorship. Now— from somewhere in Europe—he's ready to tell the ings he saw . . . in Greece under Hitler! Weller's personal experiences have been grim. He was "quarantined" in Athens by the Germans for more than two
by Germany from no fewer than eight countries." But itis of Greece in irons that Weller writei=can incredible |
story of what happems fo a. land when German occupation
STARTING TOMORROW IN THE INDIAN POLIS TIMES
by the: Vienna Gestapo for 21| to Berlin—and finally “excluded
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CITY'S PAY T00
‘|drowning of 16-year-old William
tional drowning deaths on White
|of the memorial in honor of the fal-
POOR FOR BEST OF LIFEGUARDS
Politics in Awarding Jobs Also Helps Keep Out Capable Men.
By RICHARD LEWIS : The City is unable to get topflight personnel to guard the lives
and beaches because of its policy of paying low salaries and awarding jobs by political preference, an Indianapolis’ Times investigation showed today. : The investigation followed the
Frederick Dewey in White River Sunday and of 9-year-old Leon Ungericht in Ellenberger - pool: Monday afternoon. In the death of the Dewey boy, a lifeguard at the 14th St. bathing beach who reportedly refused to attempt a rescue was suspended. The recreation department absolved ° Ellenberger pool guards of blame in the death of the Ungericht boy. ~The Times learned yesterday that the monthly.salary of $70 paid by the City is considered so low that few experienced lifeguards try ou for municipal jobs, preiering the higher pay of private summer camps or of other cities.
Few Apply for Jobs
When the Recreation Department issued a call for guards two months ago, only 30 men and women applied for the 29 jobs. Without an opportunity to make any selection, the Recreation Department was forced to take all but one of the applicants. This situation has existed in the Recreation Department for-several years, it was learned. Last year the number of applicants was not sufficient to fill the 29 pool jobs and a second call had to be issued for personnel. Aware of the problem of geting guards, Recreation Director H. W. Middlesworth and William H. Merrill, Red Cross life saving director, asked the Park Board early this year to increase lifeguard salaries. The Park Board refused. Out of the $70 a month the guards receive, they must pay’ their own carfare, buy their own swim suits, sweaters and other equipment. The guards work a minimum of 45 hours a week, Some of split shifts, which doubles carfare.
Pay Increases Refused
A proposal that experienced guards be offered pay increases based on the number of years of service with the City have also been rejected by the Park Board. ‘The prqposal was made by Mr. Merrill on the theory that additional pay would provide the incentive for experienced guards to return each summer. Recreation officials know that no matter how good a swimmer’ and life-saver a guard is, he must have experience in order to be able to watch the myriad activities at a City pool or bathing beach. In an attempt to prevent addi-
River, City and County officials yesterday announced that swimming on White River between 38th and Michigan Sts. will be prohibited except at designated bathing beaches. Beach guards will be given special training in combatting, treacherous White River currents and will be instructed to answer emergency calls outside their stations. ~
NAZI SOLDIER LIES IN
He Was Buried Where He Died, Germans Say.
By GEORGE WELLER
Copyright. 104 The Indianapolis Times Pind ‘The Chicago Dally News. Ino.
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, July 23.—In the great cemetery at Belleau Wood, where lie sleeping hundreds of American Marines who died in the last war, there is a new
arrival—a German. With a helmet - - decorating his buried
len’ Marines, A member of the American Cemetery Commission discovered the new German grave during a tour of inHe’ requested
of children using municipal pools
AMERICAN CEMETERY
3 FIRMS HERE GIVEN
burying | Mrs, Ferguson
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'Army . Stymied'
Gen, George C. Marshall
SEES SABOTAGE IN DRAFT FIGHT
Gen. Marshall Says Petitioms of Selectees Used As ‘Political Club.’
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, July 23 (U. P.). —Rep. J. ‘May (D. Ky.), sald today, after hearing secret testimony by Gen. George C. Marshall that the international situation is “more serious than the' genegal public understands and rapidly is getfing more so.”
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WASHINGTON, July 23-(U. P.). —Gen, George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, today described efforts to have selectees petition Congress against extending their service beyond one vear as: “sabotage of the most dangerous character.” “We must treat these men as soldiers,” Marshall told the House Military Affairs Committee. “We cannot build an army if it is to be used as a political club.” He warned the committee that Congress would be guilty of a “colossal error” if it depended on voluntary enlistments to maintain the nation’s armed forces at this critical hour. Marshall's appearance before the committee coincided with these developments: 1. Secretary of Navy Knox said that “there is very little doubt that Japan will-immediately make some move in the Far East.” 2.-Speculation increased on the possibility that a Gelman, thrust toward Portugal. or. Spain may compel President Roosevelt to occupy the - island possessions of those countries in the Atlantic to prevent Nazi: encirclement of the Western | Hemisphere. 3. President . Roosevelt disclosed at his press conference that ‘Japan has imposed a complete: censorship. on radio and cable; communication facilities." 1 4. Reliable quarters in London reported that. the ‘British and American governments: have agreed upon the steps they will .take" in event Japan attempts the occupation of southern Indo-China. 5. Chairman Walter ‘F. George (Continued on Page Four)
BIG ARMY CONTRACTS!
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23.— War Department contracts today included $1,800,500 to the Indianapolis Drop Forging Co. . for shot; the Schwitzer-Cummins Co. of Indianapolis $526,320: for cartridge cases and the Grapho Products, Indianapolis, $947,200 for shells. Also awarded were a $561,000 con- |, tract to Servel, Inc, of Evansville, for cartridge cases and one for|gi.n« $552,500 to the Faltiess Caster Corp., Evansville, for fuses.
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anese demands for temporary Vichy Government said tonight.
naval bases in the Saigon area, said China against attack by British,
move in the Far East.
of seven large men o' war, three airplane carriers, '55 destroyers and 30 troop trans-
ports had moved south. Secretary Knox told a press conference that Japan “has not yet showed her hand” to indicate whether the move would be toward Indo-China or northward to Sie
beria. He added that the United States Navy is “in a position to do whatever is necessary to carry out our
.| policy in the Far East.”
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden warned Japan to keen hands off Thailand, but his warning significantly did not include ‘IndoChina. "Usually well-informed - financial quarters in London received intimations that Great Britain and the United States were making preparations to freeze Japanese assets, either arbitrarily or as a reprisal in event of a Japanese attack on IndoChina. Eden denied that Britain has designs of any sort upon either Thail-
Slowdown Is
By HA
man offensive against Russia nad
original German drive. Italian Editor Virginio Gayda warned Fascists not to expect an end to the German-Russian war
soon. Russia charged officially that Germany, foreseeing the “inevitable failure” of the Blitzkrieg against the U. S. 8. R., has prepared poison gas shells and mines and given elaborate instructions for their use on a large scale. The Nazi Luftwaffe attacked Moscow for the second straight, night. In view of the ferocity of fight-|80 ing on both sides there would be little surprise if both Germans and Russians turned to the employment of gas which thus far in the war never has been widely used although occasional charges of isolated employment of gas have been made. ! The Russians submitted’ lengthy alleged documents seized from German military field headquarters in support of the allegation that gas would be used ‘soon. . On. the fighting fronts the Rus: sians admitted a German advance to the Zhitomir area, 80 miles west lof Kiev, and to the Petrozavodsk region, 190 miles’ northeast of Len-
he Germans indicated that Russtill hold. Smolensk (which Bonin claimed a week ago today) and admitted that both their drives north : of the Ukraine have been
IL the, Lani one rons tie Neds attemp their goal by encirclement. drive from Esthonia having bogged down, they started a new push from Finland which took them past Lake
| is the capital of the et Republic uD Finnish, war mired from Leningrad. to ‘Mur
VICHY, July 23 (U. P.).~France has no objection to occupation of military bases Indo-China if French sovereignty is not impaired, a spokesman The statement, regarded
sion that the French have accepted Japanese demands for air
BERLIN ADMITS TWO DRIVES IN RUSSIA SLOWED
Chinese Say Large Tokyo Fleet Is Moving 5 South; Britain Gives Nippon Warning; wes ~ U. S. Fleet Reported ‘Ready.’ ¥
lo grasiting § for
that Japan desired to protect Indo= Chinese and Free French foroes,
By UNITED PRESS Navy Secretary Frank Knox said today that “there is very little doubt” that Japan will immediately make some
Chinese military intelligence officials reported that a Japanese fleet was already moving southward, apparently, bound for French. Indo-China. Washington announced that it had received a report that an agreement had been reached between Japan and the’ French Vichy government relative to Indo-China. Chungking reported, however, that France had refused Japanese demands for strategic naval bases, and that a fleet,
The Japanese Embassy in.
and (Siam) or Indo-China. Japanese newspapers yesterday charged that Britain and China had agreed d upon a joint attack ‘with Tree en on Indo-China a Britain and the United States made economic demands on and. The Em it had no terms of the reported but Ambassador Kichisaburo scheduled a conferénce with Secretary of State Sumner In possible preparation for gressive action in the South or Siberia, Tokyo ordered all fore eigners to list all their assets--even clothing — by. July 31, : There was a strict Japanese cene sorship and much chafing in ships to transit the Panama due to “re The big typhoon which hit Jopun yesterday by-passed Tokyo “but
inundated 76,000 homes and caused important crop damage.
SON SALISBURY . United Rress Staff Correspondent . Berlin sources tonight admitted that German advances on: grad and Moscow have “somewhat slowed down” due to terrific southwest of Novgorod and around Smolensk. Authoritative British sources believed that the second great
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battles
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unremitting attack, the same, umount of time required tb check the and it was said that
Smolensk, bloody fighting had occurred when the Russians counter-at fiercely in an attempt to ‘cut through. \ Best progress for the Germans ab
the moment seemed to be in the the
drive on Kiev, capital of Ukraine. Here too, however, it was admitted that the German head up the Dnieper River at
about alleged American Taras tion in refusing to allow J
was the second heaviest in 60 years;
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mor had left “substantial soi 1 forces™ behind them. Zhitomar'
80 miles from Kiev. Odessa, Moscow Bombed
Odessa, the Ukrainian ceaport, was - heavily bombed yesterday.
The second German air attack on
Moscow was said by the Soviet munique to have been attempted about 150 Nazi war planes. official account described it as 0 more successful than the first, ing that no military objectives hit and that 15 German planes shot down, 10 per cent of the mated number of attackers. However, the highly censored counts permitted to be filed Henry Shapiro, United c ent, seemed to that damage was inflicted upon. Soviet capital and. that the a was at least of moderate severity.
Claim ‘Major’ Damage
veral dozens” of persons and wounded. Among" bombed buil were those of ¢ Polyclinic Hospi - Berlin's account’ of the air indicated that it was of great ity and that major damage was flicted. Berlin accounts that heavy attacks also were. upon the network of roads, kb and. railroads of which Moscow. the hub. The British Royal Air Force ed Frankfurt-am-Main and Ma daily offensive,
ing to make a wide detour: around |German
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