Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1941 — Page 1
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 120
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| U.S. WRATH RISING, SAYS CHURCHILL
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COURT IS
OF ERRING YOUTH UNDER NEW SETUP
Obscure Bill Passed
Juvenile Judge Guardian of Young Wrongdoers: Boys ‘Not Bad, But Misguided.’
This is the first of a series of articles on the treatment of delinquency by the Marion County Juvenile Court.
By RICHARD LEWIS
SUT WILL END MIXUP CAUSED LET
Says Bradford.
By EARL RICHERT
he question of whether Indianapolis can have a city election next| year, as scheduled, will be placed before the courts within the next! few days, James Bradford, Republican County chairman, said today. He said that a taxpaver’s suit would be filed seeking a declaratory | § judgment on the matter. [3
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Borrows Nickel to Phone
Last winter as political parties were struggling for power at the State House, the Legislature passed an obscure bill which took the Juvenile Court Law out of the whipping
post era and brought it up-to-date to match the progress)
previously made by Marion County's socially-minded Juve-
“By filing the suit now, we can get a decision this year and we will | know just where we stand,” he com- | mented. | An error in the 1941 skip-election | law, which many lawyers believe will make it impossible for Indianapolis to hold an election until a}
nile Court. The immediate result of
early this month was the removal of four youths from the
County Jail where they had been confined nearly five months awaiting trial in Criminal Court. Under the old law, the youths whe were between 16 and 18 were old enough to stand trial in Criminal Court. The new law placed all delinguents up to 18 under the jurisdiction of Juvenile Court. Judge Wilfred Bradshaw immediately ordered their release and brought them to hearing in Juvenile Court. Why these four boys who had not been found guilty of any crime were kept in jail for five months without trial is another story. But the fact is they stayed there because they had no friends or family capable of bailing them out or insisting on a trial So nobodv bothered about them Under the amended law, the Juvenile Court became their friend and guardian. It bothered about them. Social Service Language
The new law was nothing sensa-| tional or revolutionary. It merely used the language of social service. It said that when a delinquent youngster is taken out of the custody of his family, the State through the Juvenile Court assumes the role of parent and guardian. It is the Court's duty, the law said, to give the youngster the discipline and care he should have re-| ceived from his parents, the theory being that if he gets into trouble with the lew. something was wrong! at home. i The significance of the new law, Court officers say, is that it legally! fixes the character of Juvenile] Court as a court of human equity instead of a criminal tribunal. Two years ago. the Court assumed this role on its own volition. Intent on following modern scientific procedures, Judge Bradshaw has abandoned the old idea of punishment and substituted the new technique of treatment.
Studies Background
He is convinced that there are fac-| tors in the background of every de-| iinquent child which make dehn-| quency the only course of action that that particular youngster can take. He ig a firm believer in the doc-| trine of Father Flanagan, famed originator of the Nebraska Boystown, that “there is no such thing as a bad boy.” There IS such a thing as a misguided boy, however, and the duty of the Court is to set him straight. he believes. With powers so broad that it can (Continued on Page Four)
icompany truck was en route to an
legislature passes new legislation, was discovered last week.
Repealed 1933 Law
The new law, which excepted In-| dianapolis from its terms, repealed | (all of the 1933 skip-election law, the] statute which set the dates and pro- | vided the machinery for the local! city election, it was found. Since the 1933 law repealed all | laws in conflict therewith,
the act when it became law
this] leaves Indianapolis without any law] authorizing the holding of a city! election, many lawyers believe. In excepting Indianapolis from the terms of the new skip-election law, the G. O. P.-dominated General Asseiably intended to give Marion County Republicans a chance to take the city administration from the Democrats next year, a “ear sooner than they would have hed an opportunity te do had Indianapolis been included in the new law. The ‘41 act added a vear to the terms of all other city administrahens, 70 per cent of which are Republican, by changing the date for municipal elections from the first He had wired Miss Mary Sleeth Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1942 to the same day in
AW ELLENBERGER POOL
The Democrats passed a similar |
Wendell IL, Willkie spe
the Hoosier drought. The G. O. P. Presidential cand
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§ ’ measure for a like reason in 1933. AGAIN IN ERVI E ' Carry Out Intent ON FALSE ALARMS East Side Youngsters Enjoy. | whatsoever why a city election can't be held here next year as schedOn the heels of three more false. t= (Is shown clearly in a law, that in-|youngsters, after being closed Suni |the General Assembly that an elec-| Sunday after broken glass had been sons convicted of turning in false ition be held in Indianapolis next found in the filtering nets. The
Judge Wilfred Bradshaw {| Some lawyers, including Wilbur Royse, local Republican leader, helieve that under former Supreme {Court opinicns there is no reason Cool Dip. Safety Board Asks Judges °° | “To Give Limit.’ | Mr. Royse said that the Supreme| 11© Ellenberger Pool was re- . Court has held repeatedly that! OPened today for the relief of hun- | where the intent of the Legislature dreds of sweltering East Side fire alarms yesterday and last night, {tent shall be carried out despite the the Safety Board today formally | repeal of some old law. day and most of yesterday. asked Municipal Court judges “to| He said that the ‘41 law showed| The pool was closed by Albert H. give the limit of the law” to per- | Clearly that it was the intent of Gisler, Park Board vice president, alarms. | year. |pool was drained and in addition The Board adopted a resolution; Some other lawyers contend, how- [to the glass, an open jack knife, deploring the frequency of false|CVEr: that legally under the phras-|.ome keys and a pointed piece of
ling of the '41 Act which excepts] p alarms, nine of which were turned | neianapolis from its ie ed [ineks! Jule SANSEUEG th & pete of
J {cork were found. in last week. then repeals specifically the 1933) water was pumped into the pool The Board's action was taken fol- | law “you couldn't tell that the G.|early yesterday morning after the lowing the death July 19, of city| 2: P. Legislature ever intended for|sides and bottom were cleaned and Fireman Leo J. Lindauer, in an ac- | Indian apolis to have another elec- the pool was ready for use last cident while a fire headquarters] on: night, according to H. W. Middles- ‘ = YYY™ worth, City recreation director. alarm that turned out to be false i Mr. Middlesworth said that in the Citing the nine false alarms last 3 LU. S. DEPTH BOMBS [future the cleaning of debris from week, and three more yesterday, | pool bottoms would be facilitated by Frank B. Ross. board sterday WARNED SUBMARINE >! vacuum cleaning equipment reproposed that the Board seek the| WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P.). cently purchased. The equipment co-operation of the courts in at-|—Navy Secretary Frank Knox re- Was demonstrated at the Riviera tempting to discourage the turning cently told a secret session of the pool this morning. of alarms as pranks. ‘Senate Naval Affairs Committee| The recreation director explained Board members expressed satis- thatan American destroyer dropped |that City pools are drained infrefaction at the conviction of a 29- three depth bombs to warn off a quently because of the expense of year-old man in Municipal Court|submarine which seemed to be refilling them. As a rule, he said, vesterday who was sentenced to 10 approaching the ship in the North pools can be cleaned without being days in jail and fined $100 and Atlantic, publication of his testi- drained and the new vacuum cleancosts on charge of placing a false mony revealed today. jer will speed this process.
POLICE SEEK CLUES
IN MUNCIE SLAYING and Mabie Sts. The days were closure, but the testimony was not|Eddie Leonard, | suspended.
MUNCIE. Ind. July 20 (U. py | Meanwhile police sought four | today.
Police apparently had no clue today Edward K. Miller, 37, as he sat on
The murder stepped on the front porch of Miller's home, took careful aim and fired a 38 caliber bulfet through Mr. Miller's heart. Then he ran across the adjoining yard and disappeared. Mrs. Miller had left the room to tend her four-month-old baby just a few minutes before the shooting. 8he reported that she saw nor heard nothing on the porch.
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to the sniper who shot and killed turning in an alarm at Keystone | other naval
and ' persons
a davenport in his home last night. |
5 the Atlantic have sunk 19 merchant
alarm. The man, Franklin Colvin,| Col. Knox was quoted at the Eats Rte tr Shei 207 Fulton, was convicted of turn- | time of his appearance before the FAMED MINSTREL MISSING ing in an alarm Friday at Michigan | committee of having made the dis-| NEW YORK, July 20 (U. P).— the last of the
| made public by the committee until | black-faced minstrel men, was rePublished portions were ap- [ported missing today by his wife, Secretary Knox and|who said the 70-year-bld entertainofficials in advance er had failed to return from an er{of their release. rand yesterday.
youths believed responsible for proved by
Ave. and 38th St. yesterday noon,
port, but found himself “stood up.’
Wendell Willkie . . . borrowed a nickel for the ‘phone. » o 2
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Willkie in City, Hears of . G.O.P. Shakeup and Drought
40 minutes in Indianapolis today—just long enough to find out about the shakeup in State Republican politics and
N idate landed at the Municipal Air- ' No one was there to meet him.
, the manager of his farms, that he
would be here today to go to Rushville for a week. When Mr. Willkie tried to call Miss Sleeth he found he was “out of money.” So he borrowed a nickel from a photographer. Miss Sleeth told him that she had been unable to meet him and that a boy would come after him. The boy arrived more than a half hour later. Mr. Willkie would say little about the international situation except to offer a couple of “ifs.”
International “Ifs”
“If the Germans go so far as to draw us in, then Hitler has lost his cunning,” he said. “And if the Russians can hold ‘til fall, whieh the rains begin, Hitler is defeated.” he added. Someone mentioned the ousting of Arch Bohbitt as State G. O. P. chairman, and Mr. Willkie was “all ears.” “What sort of a chap is Mr. Gates?” “Is he a good lawyer?" These were some of the questions he fired back at his questioners. He said he hadn't heard about the shakeup until today. He wondered about the drought. He has several farms near Rushville of which he is very proud. He said the temperature was 57 when he left the West Coast. It was 92 when he arrived here.
Meets Nicholson
Then a man approached him and said: “I'm one of the oldest citizens in Indiana. I have been wanting to meet you for a long time. I am Meredith Nicholson.” Mr. Willkie chatted for five minutes with Mr. Nicholson, who retired recently as U. S. minister to Nicaragua. Mr. Willkie said he would stay in Rushville about a week and then go back East to tend to his law business. He just completed a West Coast speaking tour in the interests of national defense at “my own expense.”
responsible for two) alarms around midnight last night, ! one at 18th and Delaware Sts. and | the other at 23d St. and Talbott! Ave.
21 SHIPS IN CONVOY SUNK, NAZIS CLAIM
Two Are War Vessels, 19 Merchant Boats.
BERLIN, July 29 (U. P.) — German submarines in an all-day battle in
ships totaling 116,500 tons from an escorted British convoy, the German High Command said in a special communique today.
The communique said that Uboats also had sunk a British destrover and a Corvette — antisubmarine patrol ship. § The convoy was said to have been
Jane Jordan . 14 State Deaths. 15 eden 12 | Travel ehhsae 1
protected by destroyers, auxiliary and Corvettes,
Bigger and Bigger Grows Aluminum Pile
It's getting bigger! The scrap aluminum pile at the Indiana World War Memorial Plaza, the city’s central collection point, now amounts to about 35000 pounds of metal, which will go to Uncle Sam's defense effort. The house-to-house aluminum canvass formally ends tonight and the job of transporting the metal from filling and fire stations to the Plaza will begin tomorrow.
¥ 16 at leas) twice a8 Inege alter the other pols pany are added to It, (Story, Page 3.)
The pile here is expected
‘SOME RELIEF BY TOMORROW NIGHT IS SEEN
Heat to Stay at Least One More Day; 125 Die In Nation.
“Some break” in the State's sizzling heat wave tomorrow night and Thursday was predicted by the Weather Bureau today. But for the next 24 hours at least the mercury is scheduled to maintain its lofty perch in the high 90s.” The temperature reached 99 Sunday and yesterday and was due to rise to 97 this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon. In its forecast, the Bureau added “some likelihood of thundershowers, but thundershowers have been predicted five times in the last week and failed to materialize. The Weather Bureau said it was too early. to tell how much the temperature would drop tomorrow night, but assured the City of “some relief.”
State High Is 102
Cambridge City and Wheatfield were the state's hot spots yesterday with highs of 102 while Columbus and Washington reported 100. Other temperatures were: Paoli and Vincennes, 99; Angola, South Bend and Lafayette, 98; Ft. Wayne, Marion, Rochester and Terre Haute, 97. and Evansville, 93. The nation’s death toll from the heat wave has mounted to 125 with four more reported in Indiana. Thomas E. Carder, 25, of Toledo, O., drowned in Lake James at Muncie; Oliver L. Hawk, 68-year-old carpenter, died in the 96-degree heat. Two youths, Henry Pace, 19, and Robert Endsley, 16, were drowned in a gravel pit near Marion. Their bodies were recovered today. Two persons were overcome in Indianapolis shortly after the mercury reached 99 at 4:30 p. m. yesterday.
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Albert Alexander, 29, of 412 =. Court St., was overcome at his home and was taken to City Hospital for treatment. Virginia Llewellyn, 317 W. 21st St., was overcome at Senate and North Sts. She also was treated at City Hospital. Meanwhile, crop experts at Purdue University reported that the heat wave had seared corn badly in northern Indiana areas and that lack of rainfall had begun to affect crops in other sections of the state. Fruit crops, especially apples and peaches, are being retarded by the hot, dry weather.
Too Hot te Work
Outside the heat belt, New England again was promised cool weather. Temperatures continued seasonal in the Far West. Many offices and industrial plants declared a half-holiday yesterday because of the heat. At Washington, 30,000 government employees, [including Weather Bureau workers, were sent home,
ROOSEVELT T0 GIVE MESSAGE ON PRICES
Congress to Get Plea for Control Tomorrow.
(Another Story, Page 18)
WASHINGTON, July 20 (U. P). —Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky said today after a conference with President Roosevelt, that the chief executive would send a message to Congress tomorrow requesting enactment of price-control legislation. Senator Barkley said that the final draft of the price-fixing bill, which alse will include rent control, has not been completed, but that Administration leaders have agreed in general on its contenis. He said it probably will be \ introduced shortly after the President's mes received, »
Churchill said today that the in rising wrath and convictio
the war for Britain.
He said: Invasion dangers are st
'MOP-UP' UNDER WAY, SAY NAZIS
Moscow Says Lines Are Still Holding.
By HARRISON. SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Soviet forces fought fiercely: today to stem a big Nazi mop-up operation in the Smolensk sector, The Nazi High Command claimed that its troops were near a sweeping victory around Smolensk where pocketed Russian forces were said to be in the process of liquidation. In the Far East Japan was reported to have landed 7000 troops at the big Cam Ranh naval base in French Indo-China and to be moving a total of 40.000 troops to the French possession. The German High Command was more expansive than in some days today. It claimed the virtual elimination of Soviet forces around Smolensk and said a “final pocket,” east of the key cily which is 235 miles from Moscow, now faces destruction. Another big Soviet pocket in the Lake Peipus region where the Nazis are attempting to advance on Leningrad, was said to face a similar fate. However, the picture painted by the Russians challenged the Nazi assertions. Moscow claimed that Nazi thrusts at Smolensk and Zhitomir in the Kiev region are slowing down and that Russian counterattacks have been launched. These attacks were believed to be designed to smash German preparations for a third big offensive. German sources claimed that Rumanian troops have captured Akkerman, 28 miles from the Soviet Black Sea port of Odessa, but made no ,other territorial claims of importance, The Nazi Luftwaffe again raided Moscow and Russian accounts claimed that nine planes were shot down. The Germans said big fires were set in the Soviet capital. The British were uncertain whether they were at war with Finland following a Finnish declaration of “co-belligerency” with Germany ‘against Russia yesterday. Finland at the same time broke diplomatic relations with Britain. Freezing of Finish assets was certain, but the British statement “spoke of the long and intimate friendship with Finland” and London’'s “great regret” at the new turn.
Today's War
By United Pres
prove to be the turning point of the the issue in Western Russia hanging are enormous.
Near East, the Mediterranean Basin The opposing forces on those fronts are almost marking time until it becomes apparent how the tide of battle turns in European Russia. It is a broad canvas, with mighty stakes at issue. The future moves of Japan, Britain and the United States depend to a large extent on the outcome, as do the future moves of Germany. There are at least three possibilities. Germany might win before autumn, in accordance with the original objective of the Blitzkrieg. Russia might be able to hold out until fall and perhaps into the winter. Russia might—which at present seems a remote possibility —drive the invaders back across her borders. A German victory within the next two months would greatly strengthen Hitler's hand. Even so, it would not be all velvet for Hitler after such a costly and erervating campaign. Unless Russia Sapitulaed
Claim Odessa Threatened;!
globe would be affected, regardless of the outcome.
WARNS BRITISH TO WATCH FOR FALL INVASION |
America ‘Advancing to Verge of War’ but England Must Win Own Battle, Says Prime Minister to Commons. LONDON, July 29 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Winston
United States ‘is advancing n to the very verge of war”
but warned neither Russia nor the United States would win
Churchill spoke in the House of Commons, opening a full dress debate on British war production.
ill acute and British armed
forces have been ordered to be in a state of full prepared-
by Sept. 1. Russia is fighting off the German onslaught with “ime
mense strength.” Britain is slowly “but impressively” forging ahead in the Battle of the Atlantic, aided by ship production far in excess of the World War period. ’ Germany's air superiority “has been broken” and Britain has doubled her bomb discharge on Germany, will double it again in three months, and redouble it in the fol lowing six months. Churchill made his statement in categorically rejecting demands that - he..appoint.. a. single Minister. of" Production to coordinate (he entire task of Britain's war-time output. . He said he would willingly risk a vote of confidence on the issue, asserting that such an appoint ment would add an additional bure den to the war effort and cause delay,
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“T hope,” he said, “to sliow that production in all its forms has gone on steadily not only in volume but even at this high altitude even in momentum.” Germany still retains vast strike ing power as a result of her ine tensive military preparations” and conquest of territories containing vast resources, Churchill said, “I think it is my duty,” said Churchill, “to give a serious warne ing to the House and this country to be on guard equally againsg pessimism and optimism. “There are no doubt temptations toward optimism. It is a fact that the mighty Russia, so treach y assaulted, has struck back with such magnificent strength and courage and brought prodigious and well-de-served slaughter on the Nazi armies. “The United States, the greatest single power, is giving us aid on & gigantic scale and aivancing in rise ing wrath to the very verge of war. “It is a fact that German air superiority has been broken and air attacks on this country for the time being have almost ceased. It is a fact that the Battle of the Atlantic, though far from being won, is, parte ly by American intervention, move ing progressively in our favor.” “But it would be madness to sups pose that Russia or the United States are going to win this war foe us. “We stand here still champion, “1f we fail, all fail. “If we fall, all fall.”
Moves
s War Experts
The German campaign against Russia, the way it has developed may
war, It is too early to tell yet, with in the balance, but the potentialities
Every one of the far-flung battle fronts encircling the
That applies to the , Western Europe and the Far East,
to consolidate his gains and keep the remaining Soviet forces penned behind the Urals in Asiatic Russia, He also might not gain as much food and oil as he hopes. It is ree ported that the prized Ukrainian wheat crop is now being harvested and will be all gathered within two weeks for removal eastward to safety, leaving only bare fields for the conqueror. It is possible that the oil wells could be blocked and the refineries destroyed so that it would be a long time before Hitler could derive benefit from them. As to the second alternative, if Russia holds out through the fall® into winter, Hitler will have suffered a costly setback. He would either have to withdraw, leaving Russia the victor on the field and as great a menace as ever, or accept a winter stalemate which still would tie up an important part of
his armed strength. It is not likely abjectly he he would risk an active ‘thrces) in trosen