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MONDAY, JULY 28, 1941

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! HEAT OUTLOOK: NO RELIEF IN SIGH

SMOLENSK IS NEW VERDUN, SAY RUSSIANS

Tokyo Privy Council Gives Approval to Occupation Of Indo-China.

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Fighting Details Food ‘Queues in Tokyo Fifth of Stokes Series .. “ Last of Far East Series ....... 9

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

Russian troops fought into the sixth week of war against Germany with growing indications that the Nazi Blitzkrieg has been stalled in its tracks for the last 10 days.

While German press admitted the failure to advance, the High Command said that the “battle near Smolensk,” which has been holding up Nazi progress, was almost over. The Berlin communique claimed that all attempts of Soviet forces to break out of encirclement around Smolensk, 235 miles from Moseew, had failed and that victory was mear in that sector.

Dutch Follow U. S. Action

In the Far Bast the Dutch moved into line with Britain and the United States by applying sanctions to Japan’s rich trade with the Netherlands East Indies. Japanese forces were swinging south in French Indo-China, occupying their new bases. Emperor Hirohito and his Privy Council approved the “joint defense paet with France covering Indo-China. Nearly 48 hours after freezing American assets Toyvko announced this morning that similar decrees have been applied to those of Britain.

London Raid ‘Retaliation’

The Germans said that their air attack on London last night was in retaliation for repeated Royal Air Force attacks on residential areas of German cities. London reports indicated that the German attack, the first in weeks, was only a mild affair compared with the severe attacks of last spring. Smolensk—the last specific Russian point claimed as captured by the Nazi High Command—was said to be still in Soviet hands 13 days after the Germans were supposed to have stormed the key town, 235 miles from Moscow.

Report Gain in Ukraine

It was hinted the Red Army had scored a great success in crushing the German attack in the region of Smolensk. S. A. Lozosky, Soviet Vice Coommissar of Foreign Affairs, described the battlefield as a gigantic Verdun. The German news agency, DNB, claimed the capture of 35,000 prisoners and 750 machine-guns at Mogilev, to th esouth of Smolensk. Another DNB report claimed that a Nazi division from Bessarabia had broken through a section of the Stalin lLiine on the southern front, capturing 21 Soviet bunkers. The report did not give tne exact location of the break-through. The German High Command about three weeks ago claimed that the Stalin Line had been broken “at all decisive points.”

Moscow Has Quiet Night

Moscow went through a quiet night, with no Nazi air attack after five successive Luftwaffe bombings. The authoritative German newspaper, Frankfurter Zeitung, said frankly that ‘the Nazi blitzkrieg technique used in the western offensives would not work in Russia. Other Nazi accounts, however, contended that the Germans were now 45 miles from Leningrad and about 140 from Moscow, having captured 225,000 square miles of Russian territory.

_ LEWIS FIGHTS SEAWAY WASHINGTON, July 28 (U. P). —John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers (CIO), asserted today the “united opposition” of his organization to the proposed St. Lawrence Waterway and power development. He said the project is economically unjustified.

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Today’s War Moves—

SOVIET SECRET? I'S MANPOWER

Germans Seem Unable to Find Weak Spot; Whole Line Is Reinforced.

By United Press War Experts Tactically, the Russians appear to have demonstrated how to cope

with a German blitz attack and to have forced the Germans to improve new methods to meet new conditions. Thus the machine-like pattern worked out by the Germans, where everything goes according to plan and schedule, has been jammed. It may take a period of head-scratch-ing and trial and error before the Germans evolve a new method that will give promise of success. Even now, German experts are trying to explain to themselves why the plan which worked out so beautifully in Western Europe has run against a snag in Russia. That it has run into unexpected difficulties, they admit.

Man 1800-Mile Line

Several factors play a part in a situation which still is difficult to analyze. but which gradually is becoming a little clearer. An important one is the extreme length of the battle front, 1800 miles. Linked inevitably with that is Russia's great manpower, which admittedly exceeds that of the Germans. The Russians have been able to man that whole long line in force. Wherever the Germans have been able to shove through an advance spearhead, the Russians have had enough men to curve in from the sides and in many instances to cut the German column off. They also have been able to leave strong trained units in the rear of the German advance to wage guerilla warfare and hamper German communications. They have also been able, be(Continued on Page Two)

POLA NEGRI BARRED FROM U. $. ENTRY

Ex-Silent Film Star Goes To Ellis Island.

JERSEY CITY, N. J, July 28 (U. P).—Pola Negri, star of the silent motion pictures, was barred from entering the United States today. Her five-year permit has lapsed and has not been renewed, Immigation authorities said they took her to Ellis Island. Authorities took Miss Negri into custody when she sought to leave the American Export liner Excalibur which arrived from Lisbon. Miss Negri, a Pole, has spent the last seven years making pictures in Germany and France and was often reported before the war as having been a favorite of Hitler. In 1935, Hitler to her aid by overruling a German Propaganda Min-

: istry order prohibiting her from

working in Germany on suspicion In 1939, Miss Negri won a libel suit against a Paris weekly which linked her with Leni Reifenstahl and others as “mysterious women of the Third Reich” who were friendly with Hitler. She testified that the Fuehrer was not a friend of hers. “After the war broke out I lived with my mother, an aunt and an uncle on the Riviera,” she said today. “But America is my second home. I plan to take out citizen-

ship papers now.

Uncensored

Conquered People Pay Hitler's Bills

Occupied Countries Looted of Supplies by Nazis Who Pay Worthless "Funny Money"

This is the fourth of a series of articles on the conditions in Greece

BY GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1841, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

ATHENS. —The mystery of how Germany is able to pay for her wars is no mystery at all for citizens of occupied countries. For the actual tools of killing and its training the German people have paid, but as soon as the Reichswehr crosses a new border by force, the invaded people begins meeting its hills. The payment is not always effected by the crude device of postbilling through giant indemnities, used by the Allies in the World War, with huge multiciphered figures that cause popular an-

The new and gentler plan, which has exactly the same effect, gradual systematic inflation of the national currency through Reichswehr-created money, backed by force instead of gold, and circulated only from the same German origins which fabricate it. The mechanics are simple. They consist of two hooded German army trucks, backed up together so that the combined printing plant operates in a

calls for forced payment through

Army purchasing’ power, is limited

only by the supply of paper and ink. The Germans fix the rate of the new currency—Reichskreditkassenscheine, national treasury notes of

credit, at any exchange which seems convenient. Because the supply is unlimited, the rate does not matter. In Greece the exchange happens to be 50 drachmas per occupation mark, as the notes are usually called. Besides his salary, every soldier on leave in Athens was given 100 such marks, or about 5000 drachmas, the equivalent of a month's salary for a Greek civil employee of the middle class. (A parachutist earns 250 marks monthly.) Large illustrated posters appeared in all banks and shop windows by German order, showing the marks and their Greek SOUivalents, from one mark to

Buy Out Greek Shops

THE SOLDIERS quickly spent their allotment — worth approxi-

mately $40 if the currency were not being simultaneously inflated —for clothing, soap, pajamas, silk stockings for German womenfolk, all the many things in which Germany is deficient and which Greece had stored by. Multiplied by an army that from soberest neutral estimates numbered at least 350,000 men, the mass purchases swept Greek shops clean of the few things "eft over from the war. Tailor shops, particularly, were left bare. The mass purchases would have been serious in peacetime, but in (Continued on Page Two)

CASE OF: NUTS TO THE GERMAN ENVOY

Argentines Find Nazi Notes In Walnuts.

By ALLEN HADEN

Buenos Aires is enjoying a laugh today at the setback of the Nazis in sending secret messages in hollowed walnuts through the Argentine mails. Discovered by the Argentine postal authorities in a small bag sent by parcel post, each nut had been carefully cut open, the meat removed and the two halves glued back together and secured by small screws. Inside each walnut were instructions to Nazi officials in Argentina. The affair is becoming known as “The case of nuts to the German Ambassador.”

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BOARD WARNED CITY MAY FACE MILK SCARCITY

Raise Price Will Divert Part of Supply.

Indianapolis will be threatened with a serious milk shortage unless the dairy farmers get more money for their milk sold for bottle purposes. This was the gist of testimony offered by more than a score of dairy farmers at a public hearing before the State Milk Control! Board in the State House today in support of a petition asking that the price paid farmers for Class A milk be raised from $2.50 to $2.80 a hundredweight. This increase, if granted, would raise the cost of a bottle of milk to the consumer 1 cent, making delivered milk in Indianapolis 13 cents a quart and milk bought in the grocery 12 cents a quart.

Ruling Due Soon

The Milk Control Board is expected to rule on the petition within the next two days. D. E. Long, secretary of the Independent Milk Producers Association, asserted that a milk shortage would result, if the prices are not increased, because the dairy farmers can get more money by selling their milk to contienseries or by switching to other agricultural lines. He pointed out that this would be “not to the interest of Indianapolis consumers” because if a shortage develops, milk will have to be shipped in from outside the local area with additional transportation costs and increased milk prices. He also said that such milk shipped in from far distant points is “not of the best due to deterioration in shipment.” At present, local @diry farmers are getting $2.28 as the blend price for a hundred pounds of milk. They can sell milk to condenseries who are swamped with orders from Great Britain, for $2.39 a hundred,

Hay Cost Increased

Several farmers testified that they needed more money for the milk because of increased labor and equipment costs. Howard Boegerholtz, Johnson County farmer, said that last year it had never cost him more than 50 cents to put a load of hay into his barn. Now, he said, the lowes? price is $1.10. : “Last year,” Mr. Boegerholtz continued, “I could get all the labor I wanted for 20 cents an hour. Now I am lucky to get any kind of labor for 35 cents an hour and I have to use boys or elderly men.” Several dairymen testified that at the present milk price they could afford to feed their crops to hogs much more profitably than to dairy cattle. Cost of Feed Up

Mr. Long stated that the cost of feed has advanced approximately 25 per cent during the last year and that labor costs have doubled. He suggested that the Milk Control Board adopt a schedule of prices for the purchase of fluid milk purchased from the farmers by distributors based on condensery prices. Mr. Long said that prices had gone up for all other farm products except milk, which is under State control. Representative of several labor and civic organizations were expected to testify late today against the proposed price increase.

SAFE YIELDS $1200

Some one entered the BE. J. Gausepohl Co., 51 Monument Circle, over the week-end, broke open the safe and escaped with $1200 cash. The burglars pried open the front door,

then nailed it closed from the inside. They left by a rear door:

Farmers Claim Refusal to|

DOUGHTON HINTS AT SALES TAX

Ways and Means Chairman Also Suggests End of All Exemptions.

WASHINGTON, July 28 (U. P). —OChairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. 0.) of the House Ways and Means ..Committee predicted today that next year's tax bill probably would impose a general sales tax and drastically reduce present income tax exemptions. “I'm not sure we shouldn't eliminate income tax exemptions entirely and make everybody pay,” he told the House Rules Committee in seeking right-of-way for House consideration tomorrow of the $3,529,200,000 tax bill for this year. Asking the committee to authorize a closed rule which would permit no amendments except those approved in advance by a majority of his committee, Rep. Doughton said: “This does nat close the door (to further taxation). There will be another tax bill, possibly reducing income tax exemptions or imposing a general consumption tax.”

His ‘Own Idea’

Rules Committee members objected to the pending $3,529,200,000 bill because it does not lower present exemptions of $800 for single persons and $2000 for married couples. ‘ ce In arguing for a closed rule, Rep. Doughton said that a “bill of the magnitude of the tax bill we have presented cannot safely be written or rewritten on the floor of the House.” The Rules Committee agreed with Rep. Doughton and voted to send the huge tax program to the House floor tomorrow under the closed rule. Three days of debate were allowed. Bob Doughton said that he had received no recommendations from the Administration regarding a general sales tax. He said that it was his own idea but that he thought it probably would be approved by Congress. i Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. presumably speaking for the Administration, . has opposed a sales tax on. the necessities of life as a tax on “the poor

man's table.”

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They're You Swelter,

Laying

the street with molten asphalt and a successful conclusion.

E. SIDE POOL CLOSED BY BROKEN BOTTLE

Ellenberger May Reopen Toinght After Cleaning.

City Recreation Director H. W. Middlesworth said today that every effort would be made to reopen the Ellenberger Park pool late this afternoon or this evening. The pool was closed yesterday after broken glass was found in the filtering nets. Pool Engineer George Adams reported finding fragments of a soft drink bottle yesterday after investigating the report that a boy. was apparently cut by glass in the pool Saturday. ' Park Board Vice-Presi-dent Albert H. Gisler immediately ordered the pool closed for draining and cleaning. Mr, Middlesworth said after that when the pool was drained and cleaned, pool workers found in addition to the glass, an’ open jackknife, a flashlight, a ring of keys and a pointed, four-inch metal tube sticking through a piece of cork. “As soon as I heard of glass being found in the filters, I ordered the pool closed and drained,” Mr. Gisler said. “I don’t believe the glass was thrown in intentionally since we never have had vandalism there. I am inclined to think it was simply an accident or carelessness.”

AIDS ALUMINUM DRIVE

* NEW YORK, July 28 (U. P.)— Jascha Heifetz came here by air from Los Angeles today to present a. $100. aluminum violin to Mayor F'. H. LaGuardia in connection with the national aluminum drive. Mr. Heifetz had used the instrument in practice.

North Star Guides Two Americans fo Safety After Leap From Train Window to Elude Nazi Guards in Occupied France

George E. Kidd of Brazil, Ind., United Press Staff Correspodent in Berlin, Zurich and Relgrade during the last four years, returned to the United States today on the S. S. Exgalibur. On the way over he interviewed two American ambulance drivers who escaped from the Germans in occupied France.

By GEORGE E. KIDD United Press Staff Correspondent JERSEY CITY, N. J, July 28 (U. P).—The stage was all set. The only thing between the two Americans and freedom from their Nazi guards was an open window in the railroad ccach—an open window and 40 miles of unknown countryside swarming with German saldiers. Two “drunks” went through the window into the dim night. Four days and three nights later, after much physical suffering, the fugitive Americans crossed from occupied into unoccupied France and made their way to Marseilles, Lisbon and freedom aboard the S. S. Excalibur. They were James Stewart, 36, of Oneonta, N. Y., and Thomas Greenough, 30, of Charlottesville, Va,

Egyptian liner Zamzam when it was shelled and sunk without warning by the German raider Tamesis last April 17.

On their arrival here, they were sun-tanned and: in good health, both - fully recovered from the series of adventures which saw them confined 33 days on a German supply ship at sea and imprisoned a month in a Biarritz hotel before their escape. They planned to join a new ambulance unit sailing for Africa Aug. 28.

Stewart is a stocky, bespectacled owner of an ice plant in private life, and Greenough, blond, iv a six-f8bt-two assistant headwaster at a boys’ school. On June 28 they were put aboard a train bound for Bordeaux. About 9 p. m. they arrived at Bordeaux and transferred to a third-class coach on the Paris Express. The 21 Americans were alone in the coach with six armed Germans in uniforms of the military field police. They were being taken to the Black Forest in Germany. “Our escape plan was to feign intoxication,” Stewart said. “We

members of the British- can Ambulance Corp nit ag the

d a small bottle of. . Between’ Tune. Inspections By the

guards, Greencugh and I changed from our ambulance corps uniform piece by piece to the civilian clothes in our rucksacks. “Shortly after midnight the train stopped at a station between Bordeaux and Paris. Greenough started through the window, but I jerked him back when I heard a guard coming. The guard looked in, then moved on. Greenough jumped. I whispered a ‘so long’ to the others, and followed. “We slipped through the station yard shadows. Greenough's foot caught in a heap of scrap iron. German soldiers guarding the station hurried up, their flashlights playing over the iron heap, but we managed to slip away unnoticed. “Taking our bearings from the North Star, we set off to the southeast. A German soldier appeared as we were crossing the town. He challenged up with ‘halt; have you any identification papers?’ in German. Greenough replied ‘nein’ then in rapid French said we were railroad workers on our way home and had forgotten our identity cards. The German let us pass. - “No one else

‘on us from aati, ate Seburdhr night, unk

the following Wednesday morning when we crossed into Free France. Those next four nights and three days were a night mare. “The nights were cold. I had a coat but Tom was in his shirt sleeves. Blisters”on my feet made every step an ordeal. “We didn’t dare ask for food or water. We rationed ourselves to a daily sandwich of black bread and sardines we had brought from the train. From Saturday until Sunday morning we were without water. Then the croaking of frogs led us to a pond.” : The exhausted pair Wednesday morning determined to ask a woman outside a farm house if] they were in Free France. The woman replied, ‘none of France is free; and that is all they could learn from her. Within a few minutes, however, they met a peasant, who assured them they were in Free France. That was July 2. Local French authorities gave them friendly advice to hide their identity until they contacted Unitea States authorities at Marss. This they did without further misadventure, 9

Found: The Hottest Job in Town

Asphalt and

Just Watching

The Foreman Says It’s Much Easier in Hot Weather And Would Be Better This Afternoon.

By RICHARD LEWIS About mid-morning, we came upon a crew of City workmen repairing

concluded our searchehad come to

We had been looking for the hottest job in town. If this wasn't it, we were satisfied anyway. We stood there and sweltered just watching it. The men wére raking the steaming stuff over the intersection of

Park Ave. and Walnut St. on the north side of Massachusetts Ave. That is the neighborhood where the corner druggist reported he had sold out his stock of packaged handkerchiefs yesterday and narrowly averted an iced-soft drink shortage. Not satisfied with thins as they were, the crew had brought along a portable furnace which they referred to as a “fire pan.”

Since Early Morning

Onee every few minutes, the workmen would walk out of the pall of blue steam to the fiery furnace and bask in its gentle radiations

as he warmed a smoothing iron for the hot asphalt underfoot. It was like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. The men had been raking superheated asphalt since early morning. When the men had to stand by a few moments to wait for another load of aggregate, they automatically gravitated to the pathetic shade of a utility pole. In the vicinity of the portable fire pan, not even a thermometer was safe. Standing near it was like putting your, head in an oven, except that the soles of your feet were hot,

‘too.

“It’s Easier”

But the men kept working as though they didn’t care that today was likely to be the hottest day of the year. Clement J. Grave, foreman on the job, said the heat didn’t bother him much at all. Glancing up at the soft, brass sky, he explained that asphalt is easier to lay in hot weather. He predicted it would be even better asphalt-laying weather this afternoon. We figured that would hold you, It Stopped us.

8 DROWN IN STATE OVER HOT WEEK-END

Four Die as Boat Upsets In Ohio River.

Eight persons were drowned in Indiana over the sweltering weeikend. .

VIRGIL OLINE, 21, and IRVINE OLINE, 17, his brother, both of Corydon, and ALBERT COOPER, 36, and his son, RICHARD COOPER, 10, Valley Station, Ky. drowned when their boat overturned in the Ohio River, :

GENE PORTER, 17, Owensburg, drowned when swimming in White River six miles south of Bloomfield.

KENNETH HELMKAMP, Chicago, drowned while swimming in ‘the Dunes State Park. ROBERT IRWIN, 15, Portland, who was drowned in a gravel pit near his home. FRANKLIN DAVENPORT, 38, Auburn, who was drowned in Clear Lake, near Angola.

JUDY GARLAND WED LAS VEGAS, Nev, July 28 (U. BP) Judy Garland, young movie actress, and David Rose, composer and musical arranger, were mar-

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MERCURY NEAR 100 DEGREES IN TODAY'S CLIMB

Jrostrations Cause 2 Deaths In State; High Humidity Will Continue.

Today waged a nip and tuck battle to beat yesterday's 99 degree maximum and thus set a new heat record for the

year. A 100-degree mark would equal the all-time high for July 28 and a 106-degree mark would equal the all-time high for any day. J. H. Armington, meterologist, said that a veil of clouds or a vagrant breeze might vary the temperature two or three degrees and keep it below the record, but that in any case today would be little dif=ferent, from yesterday and tomorrow will be about like today. Two died in the state from heat over the week-end and three per= sons were nvercome in Indianapolis,

No Immediate Relief

The humidity was far into the “too high for comfort” brackets, and until the possible arrival of thundershowers tomorrow afternoon, he promised no relief. Both today and yesterday, the température entered the 90s at 10 a. m, and yesterday it remained in that bracket until after 9 p. m, reaching 99 at 4 p. m,

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Mr. Armington said that tests so far made have iindicated that air temperatures at street levels are nearly the same as those of the official thermometer, housed in :a& shaded box on top the four-story Federal Building.

Heat Causes Deaths

He said, however, that the paves ments reflect heat onto pedestrians and that this reflected heat has been recorded at 114 degrees on days no hotter than today. Thomas Cree, 83, of near Loganse port, was overcome when he was tending a grass fire and died Saturday. John Demerly, farmer, also of near Logansport, died of a heat induced heart attack while he was threshing near his home. : Daisy Cline, 102415; Virginia Awxe., was overcome today at her work in the Kinbel Glass Co. She was taken to Methodist Hospital where her condition was described as not serious. Two persons were overcome by the heat yesterday, but neither ape peared to be seriously effected. They were Leon Reynolds, 11, of 236 N. Summit St.,, who was overs come on the Circle and taken home in ‘a police car, and Charles Fitchey, 28, of 3115 BE. New York St., who collapsed in a taxicab and was treated by a physician near his home. While Indianapolis was swelter= ing last night, some parts of Brown County were treated to thundershowers which brought welcome, if abbreviated, relief.

105 At Cincinnati

Indianapolis and Indiana have not been“singled out for special ate tention in this prolonged heat wave, because it extends from the plain states to the Eastern Over all that territory hangs @ spongy and steamy air mass, stag= nant and static. There is some slight hope for relief seen in a mass of cool air now pushing into the Dakotas. Other high temperatures reports ed yesterday were 105 at Cincine nati, 103 at Cleveland, 100 at De« troit, Mich., and Toledo, O. 99 a Louisville, 96 at Chicago and 93 at New York City. Marion County crops, while nog yet seriously affected by the scorchie ing heat and lack of rainfall, may be damaged unless rain comes soon, Horace E. Abbott, County Agricule tural Agent, said today. “ ‘He said the condition was gene eral throughout the state. : Corn, pastures, alfalfa and .the seeond crop of clover are progresse ing satisfactorily, he said, with the corn a little ahead of last year. But unless rain comes soon the crops may suffer, he said. The soil in the county is show ing very seriously the lack of

seaboard,