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THURSDAY, JULY

24, 1941

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JAPAN ENDANGERS U.S.-WELLES

‘Greece In Irons’ —An Uncensored Story

Her stoic face symbolic of the tragedy that now overshadows the glory of Greece, an aged woman sits beside the ruins of her home in Piraeus, Greek port battered by Axis bombers. Beside her is a young bey, possibly her grandsen, a hint of the hope that Greece will rise again.

BOBBITT ISSUE MAY UNITE OLD RIVALS

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Gates and Emison Truce Seen as Possibility In Ouster Move; Watson, in Town,

Denies Taking Part in Dispute.

By VERN BOXELL The oust-Bobbitt movement stirred up startling repevcussions in the ranks of Hoosier Republicans today. What started cut as a drive to get rid of an unpopular chairman sponsoring an unpopular issue threatens to bring about a strange factional alliance of old-time leaders.

In the forefront of the present fight are Ralph Gates o

Columbia City, Fourth Dis-] trict chairman, and Ewing ‘POLITICS’ iN HIRING | LIFEGUARDS DENIED

Emison of Vincennes, Seventh district chairman, long-time Picked by Red Cross Tests, Says Middlesworth.

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leader of northern and southern Indiana factions. Lyons Backs Quster Supporting the Gates group is Robert W. Lyons, local chain-store lobbyist and one-time Ku-Klux

Klan official. Spurring the Emison

group is Burrell Wright, local at-| No politics has entered the choice | torney and former State Committee |

treasurer who was lambasted by Re-| BIESUaNS Tor Oy 2 dois ans publican editors a few years ba ck | beaches in the 10 years since he has! with bi-partisanism charges. {been City Recreation Director, H. W.| Both are anxious to dispose of Mr.| Middlesworth told the Park Board! Bobbitt but neither can muster goday. | SANEN JS Do In his personal; po cig that all lifeguards are | As the State Committee prepared | chosen by their grades in Red Cross’ to convene here tomorrow in a Life Saving examinations. meeting called by the 16 district] He made the statement as leaders who demanded Mr. Bob-|RBoard began an investigation

bitt's resignation, the following] ow N : courses appeared open. {the drowning in White River of 16 1. A temporary truce between the Gates-Lyons and Emison-Wright

factions 5 AT A i cuons to agree on a UEMPOIalY|vear.old Icon Ungericht, who

chairman to serve until next May. | drowned in Ellenberger Park pool 2. A sudden shift in the balance!zrondav afternoon.

of power, probably to the Wright | After hearing testimony faction because of the auto license | the Board withheld action in the branch office plums being distrib-! case of William Jackson. 28-vear-

By RICHARD LEWIS

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fices of James M. Tucker, Secretary peach. who reportedly refused to of State. make an effort to rescue the Dewey | 3. Failure to agree on a compro- hoy. mise leader or refusal of some anti-| Mr. Middlesworth told the Board Bobbitt officials to go along with|that salaries offered by the City for either the Wright or Lyons pro-|lifeguards were too low to attract gram, which would give the present applications of a capable personnel. chairman enough votes to hang onto! Because of low pay, he said, so his office temporarily. | Former Senator James A. Watson, year that no selection was possible. who directed the state G. O. P. ma- Every applicant except one was chine for several years, was back in given a job, he said. (Continued on Page Four) There were a few, he said, “we (Continued on Page Four)

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{No Reason for Indo-China

(U. P.).—The United States, in a sharply worded state-

‘denounced as

| Patrolman Julius Erdy has been

i call. He reported that it was from into!

|year-old William Frederick Dewey, | the City-supervised | {14th St. beach, and the death of 9-|

e¢ Chicago Daily News, T ATEHENS—Under the slow-motion, repeat performance of mechanized war which laid the entire country waste, Greece lies defenseless today, submitting to the immediate mutilation and continuous exploitation which Hitler and Mussolini have decided shall be the lot of tiny powers daring to defend themselves. But Greece is unconquerable. In this lean, hungry summer when the German Army has picked the country so clean of food that even the Italians have been moved to send milk to Greek babies, the Greek is as undefeated, saucy and defiant as he was six months ago when, with fingers freezing upon the trigger, he fought in mountain cold until his ragbound feet and legs had to be amputated from his half-starved frame.

JAPAN'S MOVE PERILS U.S, WELLES SAYS |

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Albania. But the next handful of olives

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Seizure, He Says: Notes Danger to Manila. WASHINGTON, July 24

ment by Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles, today “aggression” Japan’s move into Indo-China. Mr. Welles declared that the Jap- N :

anese move was a threat to United States defense supplies and ultimately the Philippines. Mr. Welles’ formal statement said that “the Government and people of this country fully realize that such developments bear directly |

upon the vital problem of our na-| tional security.” U S E D “There is not apparent to the Government of the United States Welles said. Does It Mean Sanctions?

was searched for fingerprints.

The statement said that the IndoChina move, following out Japan's announced policy of expansion, appeared to be only the precursor to additional moves in the area. any valid ground upon which the! Japanese Government would be } warranted in occupying Indo-China Engine and 14 Cars Leave or establishing bases in that area ‘ as measures of self-defense,” Mr Track Near Maywood; Crew Unhurt.

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He declined to comment when asked whether his statement indi- | cated that the United States would the State Reformatory and whose) take economic measures against | mother is confined to the Central, Japan. Insane Hospital, derailed a PennMr. Welles told a press conference |sylvanial Railroad freight train near he had transmitted the views con- | Maywood today.

a policeman so long that he used to say nothing could surprise him except perhaps a couple of rattlesnakes on Madison Ave. The rattlesnakes showed up this morning and Patrolman Erdy | was duly surprised. Headquarters | was more so—it was rattled. Quietly a man was dispatched to check on the authenticity of the

Patrolman Erdy all right. So other policemen were sent to help. During this time the | snakes wiggled four blocks. Then they crawied into a burlap sack the policeman provided and were carted off. No one knew where thev came from.

tained in the statement to Japanese| No one was hurt, but the engine Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, and 14 cars of the 65-car train left who called on hin at the State De- | the rails. partment yesterday. The boys were arrested by Stats Police officers shortly after the] * wreck. They confessed throwing a| Snakes nn N. Y. C. switch while they were on the way R #4 / p li to a grocery Bers the tracks. They have been cooking for their stepa e roliceman {father with whom they have been SE AF . {living for the last nine years. NEW YORK, July 24 (U. P).— { At first they told the officers that they noticed the switch unlocked and “just turned” it. Later they admitted they brought a crowbar to pry the switch open, according to State Police Superintendent Don F. Stiver. The locomotive came to a hissing ‘stop, off the rails and listing heavily. Engineer W. J. Clark, 1139 E. Washington St, and Fireman Benjamin Bogard, 208 N. Temple Ave. escaped injury from the steam. The train was inbound from [Spencer and most of the cars were] {loaded with coal, wheat, brick and stone. | The accident happened at Holt | ‘Road and Road 67 and held up! motor traffic.

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Since the day weeks ago, the Greeks have been fighting the same

few American-built

Because both railroad men and detectives believed this switch had deliberately been left open, it

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| few applications were received this!

WAGES INCREASED

uted by this group through the of- old lifeguard at the 14th Street,

BY HARVESTER C0.

‘3500 Local Workers Share 5 Cents an Hour Boost.

| More than 3500 employees of the | International Harvester Co. in In(dianapolis will share in wage in{creases just announced by the company for 55000 employees in the United States. Increases of 5 cents an hour will 'go to employees receiving hourly and piece work pay. Clerical and |salaried employees in the manufacturing, sales, engineering and gen-

“appropriate salary adjustment.” tive as of last Monday.

conmipany announcement said:

panies.”

eral office departments will receive over boys and girls between the ages

Trainmen said that about feet of track were torn up and that with good luck they will clear the | | track sometime during the night] | for other traffic.

Dozen Young Drivers Thank Judge for ‘Lesson’ At First Session of Juvenile Traffic Court

Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, the man | who has been working to make Ju{venile Court a “positive” rather ithan a “negative” agency, smiled | broadly today. | “I think we've got something now,” he beamed. He referred to the first juvenile traffic court held yesterday. The last session of the Legislature | {gave the Juvenile Court jurisdiction

of 16 and 18. Heretofore, an offender |

The increase here became effec-|between those ages was slated in| was right.

{police court for trial. Children be-

In explaining the increases, the tween 16 and 18 drive automobiles] together.

{with conditional State drivers’|

“The wage increase offer was) licenses. made in response to requests from | d " many plant bargaining agencies, into effect a few weeks ago, a dozerr|in each case so there would be no| “experiment and to maintain the company’s cus-| young drivers have been arrested for| “record” against any of them. tomary position as compared with! violating traffic laws. wages paid in comparable industries and by comparable com-! Bradshaw

So, since the time the law went

They appeared before Judge yesterday afternoon—

most with their parents, one with-

set bond at $500.

HUNGRY, UNEMPLOYED SOLDIERS wandering the streets ir grotesque costumes, half-civilian, halfmilitary, often burst inte uncontrollable tears when they speak of their comrades lying in unmarked ravines in what is now Greater Bulgaria and Greater

minute a crust of bread and’ a will set them singing openly anti-

Mussolini marching songs under the noses of the s patrolling the streets.

the Germans entered Athens, 12

prisoner nations all over Europe,

The Axis has locked Greece into solitary confinement where only the thin voice of forbidden broadcasts and hundreds of hopeful rumors, mostly exaggerated,

he war-shocked spirits.

bombers from Egypt

Derail Train by Throwing Switch

tigate,

Fireman Benjamin Bogard, 208 Temple Ave. sits and smokes after the wreck, while detectives inves(Another photo, page five.)

(This is the first of a series of articles on Greece under the rule of Hitler)

bombed the German-held airdrome of Greece superficially, shortly before Nazi parachutists attacked Crete, and were received with wild joy and hope. But since the Syrian campaign opened, the Greeks

have been left alone with what the

defeat and nothing but memories of Tepeleni, Argyrocastro, Pogradetz and the bloody defense of Ruppel Pass against the Germans to sustain them.

Heroes of war are obliged to

ored and heroes of occupation unknown. Greece is

held beneath the black tent of Europe where nothing comes but tidings of newborn states, plus the ruption of firing squads.

Cretans were executed by the scores when, after

being disarmed by the government John Metaxas for liberal Venizelist used hammers, sickles and kitchen

weapons they had, to meet the refined humanities of German bombing planes and parachutists armed

with tommyguns. To write the following account of the occupation your correspondent made over two months’ observae | tion of history clamoring for expression but only | part of which can be described even now because of the danger of retaliatory measures.

world calls their

THE GREEKS have been far more glorious in defeat even than they were in victory. It was miracle enough that they could fight their first war united and without party schism; it is incredible that they have been able to endure defeat without any break in ranks or recrimination. Perhaps because the government which fled te Crete, headed by King George, was largely composed of remnants of the Metaxas dictatorships—which (Continued on Page Four)

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remain unhon-Berlin-controlled

the harmonious occasional inter-

of the late Gen. sympathies, they knives, the only

NIPPON FLEET IS SENT SOUTH

Agreement for Indo-China Occupation Is Reached; Fighting on Russian Front Apparently at ‘Standstill’ Today.

By HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent

CROWBAR. Boy Saved by Clothes Line

After Tumble in Fall Creek

Youngster, 6, Slips Off Wall Into Water, but Crawls to

Rock and Waits Until Hauled Out.

A rock and a clothes line today William Lewis Smith, 914 E. 25th St He and five companions, one t

Walter slipped and fell eight or

GRAND JURY INDICTS OPERATOR OF TAVERN

Ist Report Returned Since Blue Drive Began.

The Marion County Grand Jury today returned two indictments in its first report covering gambling and liquor conditions in the county. The operator of a tavern in the 1500 block N. Senate Ave, was named in the two indictments on charges of maintaining a nuisance and the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday. The latter charge was based on alleged failure to observe the Saturday night closing hour. The case was one of two which Prosecutor Sherwood Blue asked the jurors to investigate in his gambling and liquor cleanup campaign. No report was given on the second case. The indictments were brought down in a special report. Mr. Blue two weeks ago requested the Marion] County Liquor Control Board to] hold up the requested renewal of the license pending investigation of the case by the Jury. Judge Dewey E. Myers, who received the report in Criminal Court,

may have saved the life of Walter , a 6-vear-old adventurer. his brother Kirby, 8 were walking |

| Two brothers. 10 and 11. who are dangerously along the top of the concrete retaining wall of Fall Creek |deaf mutes and whose father is in in the 3100 block of Fall Creek Blvd. North Drive. |

10 feet into deep water at the base of the wall. His companions said he couldn't swim. But, fortunately, there was a rock at the base of the wall and he clambered onto it. His companions roused people | who lived across the street and! they came running with a clothes! line. Two men, motoring by,!| stopped their cars. They lowered! the line to the boy, standing on | the rock and bracing his back | against the wall. He carefully] slipped the rope under his arms] and tied it. Then the men hauled | him to safety. Police warned all |

play and took the Smith boy home.

A woman who lives in the neighborhood and witnessed the rescue sighed and said: “I wish all parents could have seen that. We have lived here six and a half years, and in that time there have been five little boys drown in this short stretch of Fall Creek.” The rescued boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Smith. His companions, beside his brother, were James Blaney, 11, 2530 Guilford Ave. Earl Ross, 10, of 2629 Guilford Ave.; Richard Vaughn, 9, of 2507 Guilford Ave., and David Burris, 11, of 2515 Guilford Ave. Almost immediately after the rescue, Lieut. Lawrence McCarty broadcast to all police cars an order to pay special attention to all streams and unguarded swimming

out because he was too “scared” to tell them. Sitting with Judge Bradshaw were two representatives of the Chamber of Commerce Safety Council, Todd Stoops. secretarymanager of the Hoosier Motor Club, and George Poske, vice chairman of the Council. Judge Bradshaw heard each case separately. One of the boys had been arrested for “running” a red light with his bicycle. In almost every case they admitted the officer

Then the Judge called the boys

places.

of the boys had been arrested in automobiles 8 to 10 years old. He told them that cars that old aren't safe.

Then Mr. Poske talked to the parents. He placed a large share of the responsibility on their shoulders. ; When Court adjourned, the parents thanked Judge Bradshaw and one said she wa$ “almost glad” her son had been arrested because she thought that the experience would be of lasting benefit. The youngsters also thanked the Judge and

He told them he had faith in them; that he was sure they would make good drivers, and that he was withholding judgment

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Then he introduced Mr. Stoops who advised them that driving an automobile is a privilege, not a right and pointed to the fact that most

pledged they would be better drivers. Judge Bradshaw said yesteray's court was more or less an which turned out very successfully. He will hold this court one half-day a week. “I'm going to try to have representative safety leaders attend each court session,” rd said,

the boys against such dangerous

On Inside Pages

Details of Fighting Today's War Moves .... Far East Developments Gen. Marshall's Testimony .... "U. S. Appropriations

Italy Claims Naval Victory.... 3,

Japan went into action in the South Pacific today with forces appeared to be fighting to a standstill along the long Soviet front. There were indications that the Indo-Chinese move 18 only the opening gambit of a far-reaching Japanese program 'which includes threats to the Anglo-American-Dutch hege2 Chungking regime of China. At least one object of tha STIMSON RAPS Japanese program—whether planned or not—appeared to SEN WHEELER be to raise war threats in the i many a freer hand in the west by preventing full concentration of 4 i ’ | American attention upon the Euroe Close to ‘Subersive,” He RE : i se warshi eared alon Says of Cards Mailed | Japanese warships appestey along i | maneuvering off Saigon and the To Men in Service. great but uncompleted French naval base of Cam Ranh Bay. ) 24 (U. P).— WATHINGION, July 0 ¥ | “The strict censorship in IndoSecretary of War Henry L. Stimson | 0 was lifted to reveal thas Wheeler (D. Mont) with conduct | eached on the details of the Jape that “comes very near the line of |, .ce occupation. subversive activities against the Shanghai understood that the United States, if not treason. Japanese would move into Indoe He made the charge in accusing China on Monday and Saigon bee cards to American soldiers, urging | rt them to protest against Unad | be forthcoming States entry into the European war. . Mr. Stimson made his attack on the anti-interventionist leader at a cards he said had been sent to the War Department by soldiers who claimed to have received them from Senator Wheeler, Mr. Stimson said that Senator various anti-interventionists and urged the soldiers to “write today to President Roosevelt at the White House that you are against our entry into the European war.’ London indicated that the United pending legislation to keep selec- close consultation to deal with the tees, National Guardsmen and re- new Japanese threat. It was be= servists in service for the duration|jjeved that economic and fiscal of the emergency. [sanctions of some sort might be ap< “The President, as a chief of plied. Freezing of Japanese credits now said that it is necessary to| talked of a complete trade embargo. keep this force in existence and in| The Japanese occupation howe training because the peril not only ever, was expected to run off still exists but is getting very much smoothly, placing the Japanese more grave,” Mr. Stimson said. forces in the possession of strong

a move into French Indo-China as German and Russian mony in Malaya, to the Russians in Siberia and to .the Pacific that would give Ger< the French Indo-China coast today, today charged Senator Burton K.|joreement now has apparently been Senator Wheeler of sending postal | eq that a formal announcemens press conference. He exhibited post Wheeler quoted the statements of Mr. Stimson called attention to/sStates and Britain are moving in staff, and leaders of the Army have | was mentioned and some quarters “Just at this moment a circular is| bases from which to threaten the

sent out which will necessarily have the effect of impairing that discipline and impairing that training and thus impairing our defense against the dangers which now confronts this country.

“Without expressing legal opinions, T will simply say that I think that comes very near the line of subversive activities against the United States, if not treason.”

U. S. NAVY TO ASK CABLE CENSORSHIP

WASHINGTON, July 24 (U. P). —The Navy will. ask Congress shortly for legislation authorizing establishment of an office for international censorship of outgoing cables. Admiral Ben M. Moreell, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, told the House Appropriations Committee, in testimony made public today, that the President’s proclamation of an unlimited emergency “will necessitate the establishment by the Navy Department of offices for national cable censorship in some naval districts.” | He said it was “a confidential item” approved by ‘the President. When informed of the testimony, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early sald he had not heard of such a censorship plan. Ww

Burma route of supplies to China, Thailand, the big British naval base of Singapore and, ultimately, the Dutch East Indies and the Phile {ippines. The indicated extent of Japanese mobilization of manpower and cone centration of shipping facilities, however, made clear that Tokyo has other projects afoot, too. These presumably are a strong effort to finish off the four-year war in China and a blow at the Russians along the lengthy Siberian frontier and at the big port of Vladivostok.

Front Little Changed

In Russia the fighting lines seemed to be fairly stabilized at the: moment with hostilities in constant progress on a front as much as 150 miles deep. { The Germans complained of great

difficulties, chiefly due to stubborm { Soviet fighting, the existence of \

large pockets of Russian troops far behind Nazi spearheads and une favorable terrain. The Russians had little to say beyond an assere tion that fighting lines were little" changed. The Royal Air Force made two daylight sweeps of France. It was indicated that Germany may have shifted some of her crack pilots back to the Western Front. Bere lin claimed a record total of 54 British planes shot down yester« day. London admitted loss of 10.