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FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1941

Entered as Second-Class at Potsoffice, Indianapol

Matter is, Ind,

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U.S. ACTS AGAINST JAPS TOMORROW

RALPH GATES MAY SUCCEED ARCH BOBBITT

G. 0. P. Leaders Confer on Strategy Prior to | Start of Session.

By VERN BOXELL Indiana Republican leaders met | here today to oust State Chairman! Arch N. Bobbitt and select a new| . party head to serve out the remaining nine months of Mr. Bobbitt's/ term, | With 18 of the 24 State Commit-| tee members on record for Mr. Bobpitts ouster, the main speculation centered on his possible successor and pre-session reports said Ralph Gates, veteran Fourth District chairman from Columbia City, was the choice.

Mr. Gates, who headed one of the party's two factions for several years, reportedly had enough proxy votes to put him over. His support-| ers indicated that the Ewing Emi-| son = Burrell Wright faction, | strengthened by its auto license bu-

reau patronage, would go along _ yesterday.

this program.

to the Russian censor. Ouster Leaders Confer Do Se

ing all attacks and efforts to capture the town of “D.”

Wreckage Left After Day-Long Fight on

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This picture, taken by P. Troshkin, the Izvestia special photo-correspondent at the front, was flashed to New York from Moscow by radio It shows the battlefield on which a Soviet regiment commanded by Col. Kutyopov fought German tank troops for 14 hours, repulsThese are some of the 39 disabled tanks left on the field by the Germans, according

Russian Front

Leaders of the ouster drive con-| ferred this morning at the Columbia Club prior to the committee's 2 p. m. session at the Claypool Hotel. At noon, the group said “no on the new chairman, but they indicated that the temporary party head would be one of the commit-

MRS. DAVIDSON She Loved Him, He Brought "WHEELER GOES Her Here, and Now He's Gone

ARMY MISSION

RUSSIA SENDS TONEW WORLD

Major Powers Are Believed Co-operating Against Japanese Policy.

War News Inside

Details of Fighting R. A. F.'s Biggest Raids ....... 3 Today's War Moves ........... 3 Far Eastern Situation ........ 3 Fifth Steele Article ............ 7

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

Japan's move into French IndoChina appeared to be heading Britain, the United States, Russia and China toward a stronger common front in the Far East. Washington took a strong line to- | ward the latest move by Tokyo to jangle Axis alarm bells in the Pacific. Britain called it a Malaya and Singapore. Russia prepared to dispatch a military mission from London to Washington. The Far Eastern shadowed the titanic battle on Russia's Western Front and the skyrocketing Royal Air Force offensive against. occupied Europe.

London Shows Co-operation

threat to

crisis over-

Russian lines seemed to be hold- | ing firm against massive Nazi break-through attempts toward] Leningrad, Kiev and Moscow. A fourth German night air attack on Moscow apparently was beaten off by Soviet defenses.

FDR MAY ORDER CREDIT FROZEN, OIL SUPPLY CUT

Public Awakening to Danger of World Situation, President Says; Senator Hints Armed Intervention in South Pacific.

HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 25 (U. P.).—President Roosee velt said today that Japan's move into French Indo-China is awakening America to full realization of the deadly peril of the international situation. : He indicated that America’s first move against Japan's expansion in the Far East may be expected tomorrow. It appeared almost certain that the initial move would be an executive order freezing Japanese credits in this country. The order probably will be announced in Wash« ington. A United States Senator, who refused to permit the use of his name, declared today that America was prepared to intervene with its Navy and Air Force should the Jape anese invade the Dutch East Indies. Another Senator, likewise remaining anonymous, denied that Washington was disposed at this time to make a mili« tary resistance in the South Pacific. Declares Opinion Is Changing

The events in the Far East, where Japan's armed forces

SEERATEE OF FUR 00, DEAD T00 LAR-FON

There was every evidence that| are moving into Indo-China and potentially menacing the

tee members. probably Mr. Gates. The committee also was to eonsider the resignation of John Book-

| They Were to Be Married in Chicago, but Last Night He |

Wife of Indiana Firm's Disappeared and She's Penniless. [Senator on Dangerous

walter, Indianapolis, as party treasurer. Mr. Bookwalter said he was quitting “in the interest of party

Founder Remained Its harmony,” but would be willing to Vice President. serve after the reorganization “if

hev sti ; BS Mrs. Sarah Davidson, vice presiein 1940. hy a HIS vat cieoen dent of the Indiana Fur Co. died : . {today at her home, 5862 N. Delaware Compromise Possible |St,, after an illness of four years. Some party leaders hinted that! She was 64 and had been in a opposition from members of both coma for the last several days. factions in the party might force a! She was born in Indianapolis Oct. | compromise and one of the pro-|13, 1876, In 1903 she married Joseph | posed “harmony” candidates sug- Davidson, who founded the Indiana gested was Homer Capehart, local Fur Co. more than 50 years ago.| industrialist and sponsor of the/When Mr. Davidson died in 1929, famous cornfield conference. {she took active charge of the firm| Mr. Capehart, however, told|Which was first located in the old|

friends outside the committee who|Pembroke Arcade on E. Washing- | was in love with him. A week later

were boosting him for the post that|ton St. and later moved to its pres: he was “not interested.” jent location, 29 E. Ohio St. i Mr. Emison also was mentioned) Mr. Davidson was a furrier and as a possible choice but was said not (established the store as a small to be interested. Walter Helmke of business. It has grown to one of Ft. Wayne, Allen County chairman, |the largest in the state. | and Don Irwin, former State chair-{ Mrs. Davidson, who was well | man, were other possible com- known in business and social cir-| promise candidates. R. Lowell Mec- cles, maintained activ® control of Daniel, deputy Secretary of State in/the business until her sons, Her- | charge of the license bureau and a|bert E. and Fred Davidson. grew leader of the James Tucker-Wright- up to take charge. One other son, | Emison group, also was considered Norman, died about a year after a possibility. {his father. : | Mrs. Davidson was a member of Bobbitt Fights Back 'the Eastern Star, the Jewish Tdu- | Supporters of Mr. Bobbitt ap- cational Society, the Indiana Sec- | peared encouraged early today but tion of the National Council of Jew- | admitted that his chances of re-

taining the chairmanship were none too good because of ithe short time given them to organize. His only hope, they said, was in winning over at least four of the com- Burke of South Bend, Ind. ard two mittee members who signed the re- brother; Hyman LeMontree of | quest for his resignation earlier South Bend and Nat LeMontree of | this week. San Francisco. Some of them based their hopes for success on reported pressure! which some Congressmen were said | to be bringing on their county and | district chairmen to call off the —Authorities believed today they | fight in the interest of unity. Sen- had a description of the man who! ator Raymond Willis also was re- attacked and murdered 19-year-old (Continued on Page Nine) | Frances Cochran of Lynn. It was! - EE {supplied by a girl acquaintance of! the slain bookkeeper who regularly |

3 HURT. 2 UNINJURED rode home from work on the same | AS SCAFFOLD FALLS bus with her. |

Beth-El Sisterhood. Besides her sons, she is survived | by two sisters, Mrs. Goldie S

GET CLUE IN LYNN MURDER | BOSTON, Mass, July 25 (U. P).|

Three workmen were hurt and two others escaped injury today when they. fall 15 feet from a scaffold on which they were working | under a Big Four Railroad over-| head at 1700 S. Sherman Drive. (T The injured were: Harlan Pottor- | off, 28, Martinsville, cuts and! bruises; David Hawn, 38, 226 N.| Randolph St, and Roy Knight, 31.! Greenwood, possible back and in-! ternal injuries. | Walter McGinty, 32, 714 W. Ninth | St, and Charles Baker, 34, 316 W._! 41st St, were unhurt. The injured men were taken to Methodist Hospital. According to | police, a rope on the. scaffold broke. |

TIMES FEATURES

fashion, it can do so by introducing

self-sufficient for eight days on the

| said. next day he said he wanted to de-

For two vears, an attractive 22-year-old brunette had known Bob, ! and for two weeks she had expected to marry him. Last night, at Maryland and Illinois Sts, he bid her a hasty good-| ! by and was swallowed up by the downtown crowds as she stood panie- |

stricken and tearful. Not only had Bob left her, but

that somewhere in his immediate; — | past there is trouble—trouble that!

makes him look upon policemen as enemies. She was a waitress in a Pittsburgh suburb and Bob was working in a hospital there when they first met. Then Bob left, without telling where he was going. Two weeks ago he reappeared, and then, she: said, she knew she she lost her job. Bob apparently was not workine at the time, but seemed to have money.

Arrived Here Monday

He proposed marriage and was accepted. Then he proposed that they journey to Chicago for the ceremony, saying he haa a job there. She accepted, and Monday morning they arrived by bus in Indianapolis. “He said we'd stay here a while and look over the city,” the girl “We went to a hotel and the

lay his arrival in Chicago to meet some one.” So they went sight-seeing here

ish Women, Hadasssah and the and she says she was suspicious of was 88, described by J. H. Arming- aid today President Roosevelt feels

nothing until last night. “He left about 7 o'clock and said

lutzky | he'd be gone for wn hour or so. 30 and July 1 for the maximum so| {of Indianapolis and Mrs. Joseph When he wasn't back at 11, and I iar this year. iwas hungry since I hadn't eaten |

since noon, I went through his luggage looking for money. “I found none, but I did find a

| soldier's suit, and I had not known !uncomfortable 93.

he was in the Army. Soon after I (Continued on Page Nine)

TIMBROOK 1-UP FRENCH LICK, Ind. July 25—

| Henry Timbrook Jr. of Columbus

held a 1-up lead over Clark Espie of Indianapolis at the 18th hole in their 36-hole match today for the Indiana Amateur Golf Cham-

| pionship.

his is the second article of George Weller's uncensored series, filed upon his expulsion by the Germans after two months in Greece.

By GEORGE WELLER Copyright. 1841, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Ine.

ATHENS—If the U. S. General Staff wishes during its summer war games to imitate the Nazi blitzkrieg in a harmless and pleasureable

the principles of military victualiz-

ing tested by the Germans in the Greek restaurants. Much has been said of German concentrated foods, powders and juices which turn sawdust into nectar and make every Nazi soldier

hoof.

But when the Greeks—whose thousands of sidearm specialists in America know plenty about. food—discuss how the blitzkrieg can be

Ground, He Says, Quoting From Editorials. HYDE PARK, N. Y, July 25 (U.

Ce |P.).—President Roosevelt asserted | impression that Senator Burton K: Wheeler |

he gave her the distinct

: (has gone “too far” in his fight] : | against Administration internation- | RECORD HEAT FOR {al policies and is “on dangerous! ground.” Y : | The President, at a press confer-| ence, backed up the charge of his| i | Secretary of War, Henry L. Stim- | — |son, that the Montana isolationist } is “very near the line of subversive Mercury Averaging Eleven = (vet against the United States,

{if not treason.” Degrees Over Yesterday. | Mr. Roosevelt said he agreed with

{the headings appeare above edi(torials on the Senator which appeared this morning in the New {York Times and the New York | Herald-Tribune. They were entitled, [he said, “On Dangerous Ground,”

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ....74 10am... 8 T “wl lam .... 9 12 (Noon) .. 91

a.m, .. gam. .... 78 1pm... 9

I S acme... 88

| The meteorological pincers were gang “Mr. Wheeler Goes Too Far.”

(applied to Indianapolis today, and| That indorsement of th {that'll explain that “ouch” you may py. Roosevelt said. covers le hen Le heard. : |aticn, implying that in the indorse- | | It would not surprise any of the ment he had stated his case, he| | meteorological officials if the ther-|; ade no move to modify or temper |mometer would, some time today, pp Stimson's charges. (top 96 degrees and thus establish) — the day as the hottest of the year WASHINGTON, July 25 (U. P). so far. : |—Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. | And the humidity reading today Mont.), anti-interventionist leader, |

(ton himself as “uncomfortable.” |ihat anyone w

lio opposes American The mercury reached 96 on June!

entry into the war goes “too far.” Q | But today, temperatures during 30 JAPANESE SHIPS {the morning averaged 11 degrees! {above yesterday on the hour, ana SHUN U. S. HARBORS ‘yesterday the maximum was a very | SAN FRANCISCO, July 25 (U. (P.).—At least 40 Japanese ships | The forecast, moreover, is fou bound for Pacific Coast ports today continued hot and humid weather were believed to have hove to at tonight and tomorrow, and after sea, fearing possible retaliation from |that the Bureau isn't talking.|the United States for Japan's move | These conditions result from alinto Indo-China. | “stagnant” condition extending| Shipping circles believed the ships | from the plain states practically to were waiting to see whether the the Atlantic seaboard, so don't be-| United States would freeze Japalieve any of those “sleeping under nese assets, and whether Central | blankets” stories from friends, nojand South American nations would | matter where they are in that area.| follow suit.

Uncensored: Deadliest Nazi Weapons Are Knife, Fork and Spoon

To some people the most

Greek campaign was that British officers, suffering continuous unprotected bombing and machine-gunning by Nazi: planes upon exposed roads, stubbornly continued to travel country-club style in American-

built station wagons which have doors invariably jam at the mome ditch is protection against death.

AS A RESULT the proprietors of Athens’ most aristocratic and expensive eating places, Kosti's and Maxim's, both have been in jail. They are now forced lo keep their doors open, accepting Axis funny money—worthless occupational marks printed by the millions in an Athenian suburb, and phony Italian-made drachmas—for wines and foodstuffs which cost thousands of gold-backed drachmas when bought.

the anti<Japan program was proceding with close consultation between the major interested powers. | This collaboration was shown] most fully in London. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden made a formal statement denouncing the Japanese move as a threat to British interests and said defense precautions had been taken. The So-| viet Ambassador, Ivan Maisky, con- | ferred with John G. Winant, U. S. Ambassador, and Harry Hopkins, Lease-Lend administrator. A little later Eden met with Maisky and Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassa-| dor. Bombers to Vladivostok?

It was revealed that Russia is sending to the United States a military mission headed by Lieut. Gen. Filip I. Golikov, top member of the mission which Moscow dispatched to London immediately after outbreak of the Russo-Ger-man war. It was presumed arrangements are being discussed for co-ordination of moves to halt Japanese expansion in the Far East with the drive] against Germany in the west. In Washington talk was heard of the terrific striking power which would be wielded against Japan by 250 heavy U. S. bombers based on Russia's Siberian port of Vladivostok within easy flying distance of the inflammable and crowded Japanese cities. But there are no American bombers now at Vladivostok and there was no indication that the United States has any such number of heavy planes available for dispatch to that point. However, developments indicated that the possibility existed for the first time of achieving a solid, common Far Eastern front among the chief powers interested in opposing further aggressive action by Japan.

INFANT FATALLY HURT WASHINGTON, Ind. July 25 (U. P.).—Eldon Smith, 18-months-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Ray Smith of Cannelburg, was injured fatally last night in an automobile crash five miles east of Washington.

disillusioning feature about the

no overhead visibility and whose nt when only a quick dive into a

Straits Settlements and British supply lines, are bringing

to the American public a greater awareness to the danger of the whole world situation, the President said. > Leaning back in an easy chair in his library, Mr. Roose

'velt said that public opinion is swinging rapidly to a more

complete realization of the dangers in which this country is involved. But as yet, he added, the public is not sufficiently, cognizant of the perils of the situation. The country as a whole, he said, is no more completely, aware of the dangers inherent in the Far Eastern situation than it is of the dangers of the war in the West—Britain’s death struggle with Nazi Germany and Russia's stand

‘against the Nazi blitz machine.

Mr. Roosevelt would not discuss the nature of the move expected for tomorrow but he did say definitely that he bee lieves there will be something out of Washington tomorrow

on the situation. Question ‘Too Iffey’ at the Moment

There no longer were serious doubts that he would act soon to freeze Japan's credits in this country—a move which almost certainly will bring similar retaliatory action from

Japan. ; It appeared obvious that Mr. Roosevelt was determined

to feel his way cautiously in developing measures to counter the Japanese expansion. “What does the Japanese move mean to the neutrality, of the United States?” Mr. Roosevelt was asked. That question, the President replied, is difficult to ane

wer. ; There are so many things that have not happened in the » Far Fastern situation, that the question at the moment is too “iffey’” to merit reply. If there were one single line of Japanese policy that this

country could be assured of

being followed, he said, then definite from Saigon today that Japanese American moves might be predicted, warships, “double the number of | But, he said with emphasis, we British warships in Asiatic wWa- |cannot now say what tomorrow will ters,” have already arrived in |pring. Indo-Chinese waters. The President refused to ampli #.58 8 fy his statement o Jesjeruay 33 3 D | which he admitted that Japan has SINGAPORE IS STRENGTHENE been permitted to procure oil in the LONDON, July 25 (U. P).— Iypjted States to lubricate her ware Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden |...chines simply as an ‘“appeasee disclosed today that Britain has |,,.nt» measure to prevent the war taken defensive steps at Singa- fon spreading into the South pore and Malaya to counter the

Pacific. He refused to indicate potential threat of Japan's move |yhether he would order Japan cub into French Indo-China and it

off from American oil supplies. was learned that the British Do- ee my

minions and, probably. the Dutch |} GF] AG REPORTED ON NAZI PRISON SHIP:

jcan retaliatory measures against Japan. . An early announcement is ex- LONDON, July 25 (U. P.).—The pected in London aligning the | Admiralty revealed today that a whole British Empire squarely German prison and supply ship, with the United 'States in any flying the American flag and call~ commercial and financial sanc- |ing herself the Dixie, accompanied tions against Japan. the Admiral Scheer during the Nazi pocket battleship’s raiding in the Atlantic early this year.

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JAPAN'S FLEET ARRIVES

VICHY, July 25 (U.P.).—The newspaper Cri du Peuple reported

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stopped, they answer, “close em up the restaurants.” For when German meets German in Greece, the first thing they | do is to enter a Greek restaurant and eat. | From the experience of the Balkan campaign the Greeks believe that the Nazi advance toward Moscow has been slowed down because there is not a lunch cart, tea room, or Greek nut sundae spa in Russia. The true secret of the lightning Nazi advances, according to the Greeks, is that every moment that can be spared from strafing is used in | diligent, continuous eating, It took some time for the Greeks to understand that the first thing the German Army does after bombing a city is to eat everything in it. When they grasped this epicurean feature of the blitzkrieg it was already too late to close the restaurants. Instead they raised the prices. &

But the German occupation revealed an even more prosaic fact: That the deadliest weapons in the Nazi arsenal are not the bomb, flame thrower and machine gun, but the knife, fork and spoon. While the British conscientiously imported almost all their food from Egypt, the Germans brought almost nothing but enough ersatz to tide them over between towns. The “Agoranomia,” or food control section, was first captured everywhere. In Athens the Germans asked where the food administration was even before they demanded the surrender of hidden arms. All Hellenic eating records collapsed from the time ‘when the first German Feldwebel (sergeant-major) planted his feet under a table at Zonar's and pounded for gttention, The record of 16 chocolate cakes consumed at a single sitting

When German meets German,

We frst thing they dois eat. , vy. 3

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two fliers who were in the pidae.

SECOND U. S. BOMBER CRASHES AND BURNS

DAYTON, O., July 25 (U. P.)~— A Lockheed-Hudson bomber, bound for Canada, crashed and burned during a takeoff today at Patterson Field. Officials said the pilot and co-pilot escaped before the ship caught fire. The plane was being ferried across the country for the Royal Air Force. Yesterday a plane of the same type took off from Patterson Field

The Admiralty quoted prisoners. aboard the Dixie as saying the ship was similar to the Nazi prison ship" Altmark which the i boarded off the Norwegian t last year, (The Admiralty statement did not make clear whether the Dixighas fallen into British hands.

NAZIS WARN SOVIETS AGAINST USE OF GAS

BERLIN, July 25 (U, P.).—Gers many warned today that should

and crashed a short time later near|the Russians use gas in the Eastern’ Cardington, O., burning to death the Front fighting, Germany at ones.

J“will make appropriate pugwer.