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Udet, Nazi Air Supply Chief, Reported Suicide

Gen. Udet was not imprisoned but was guarded day and night by special Himmler men (the Gestapo). The document does not disclose

the reason for this surveillance, but it is possible that Hitler might have feared that Udet would follow the example of the erstwhile Nazi No. 3—Rudolf Hess—and flee from Germany. Gen. Udet committed suicide while under detention, but the reason

Marshal Goering . . .

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

LONDON, July 30.—Col. Gen. Ernst Udet, famous flier responsible for all supplies to the Luftwaffe as its quartermaster, has committed suicide following his arrest, according to an exelusive report in today's

London Daily Telegraph.

There is reason to believe that this information is most authentic, as it is based on a highly important secret document received here through diplomatic channels after being smuggled out of Germany through Holland to an unnamed neutral country. This document, on which the Daily Telegraph bases its story, confirms reports that Reichmarshal Hermann Goering, Nazi No. 2 and head of the Luftwaffe, is also in disgrace. It reveals Udet’s arrest and public disgrace nearly six weeks ago, which culminated in the reported suicide. Both Goering and Udet, according to the Daily Telegraph, apparently objected strongly to Germany's invasion of Russia, on the

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basis that it would expose Germany to stronger Royal Air Force attacks than the Luftwaffe could make on Britain while it was also engaged

in Russia.

Goering’s eminence and position in Germany have saved him from arrest, the report states, but he has been virtually superseded as head

of the Luftwaffe by Field Marshal Erhard Milch.

Gen. Udet, brilliant, acrobatic was said to have been second only

ace whose record in the last war to that of the famous World War

ace Baron von Richtofen, was chief of all training and reserve units of the German Air Force and latterly in charge of supplies for the

Air Force. 2 2 8 DURING COUNCILS OF state

ing Hitler's plan for attacking Russia.

” 2 2 Udet sided with Goering in opposEnraged by this opposition,

Hitler, according to the secret Nazi document, ordered Udet's arrest, and handed over the command to the Luftwaffe to Field Marshal Milch, though leaving Goering at liberty.

Entered as Second-Class

at Potsoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

for his act is not known. The Daily Telegraph credits

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him with being an exceedingly

important figure in the Luftwaffe, but it is doubtful whether he was, in fact, ever given tremendous authority. ? He was never accepted as ‘one of the boys” by the Nazis. His sense of humor and his skill as & cartoonist apparently made the Nazis feel slightly uneasy when with him. In 1937 several members of the German Embassy in London received his personal Christmas card on which he had drawn caricatures

of all the leading Nazis, with the

shown with an enormous hunting horn, being chased by two large elks.

exception of Hitler. Goering was Gen. Udet . , . reported suicide,

.S. Protests Japanese Bombing Of Gunboat At Chungking

FDR ASKS RENT-PRICE CONTROL

COURT ASSISTS BOY ‘FAILURES

AT PLAINFIELD

Lad Still Despite Confinement In State School.

This is a second of a series of articles on the treatment of delinquency by the Marion County Juvenile Court.

Br RICHARD LEWIS To conceal his- identity, you may call him Jack. He looked like a boy whose name could have been Jack. He was 16 and in the process of growing up he had got off to a bad start. Jack looked like the pictures of the “average” American boys you see sometimes ‘on the covers of boys’ magazines, tall, slender with a shock of unmanageable brown hair in need of trimming and steady gray eyes. : The only thing wrong with the picture was the setting. Jack was being taken back .to the Indiana Boys School at Plainfield as a parcle violator. For the Marion County Juvenile] Court, he represented a failure. The Court had tried to straighten Jack out, but the Court couldn't make the grade.

Not Mean or Vivicious

All other treatment methods having failed, the Court sent Jack to Plainfield. He was there for nearly a year and after he got out he slipped again. He wasn't mean or vicious. He just liked automobiles so much that one day he drove off in one without the formality of consulting the

owner snd promptly ran it into somebody's store front. How that happened Jack couldn't fathom. He had thought himself a pretty good driver. And it should

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Sheer Enuff!

Our Girls Unmoved by Threat of Silk Hose Scarcity.

FOR SOME REASON or other, probably the heat wave, Indianapolis women haven't gotten very excited yet about the possibility of a silk hosiery shortage. In some other large cities, stores reported big lineups at hosfery counters with women buying from a half dozen to five dozen pairs at a time, since the U. S. cracked down on imports from Japan. Here, however, the stores’ hosijery departments report some “interest,” with a few large sales and a slight boost in total sales, but “nothing sensational.” Most “of the stores have laid in substantial stocks, however. 2 = 2 MEANWHILE. stylists throughout the country indicated that bare legs, may offer a temporary soluticn in the event of a silk shortage but with winter coming on, the fad would be sure to die out. Cotton and rayon stockings . probably will gain in popularity: so will nylon. which remains relatively scarce, and hemlines will be lowered to make the non-silken calf less obtrusive. Skirts already have been lowered from 16 inches above tite sidewalk to 13 for fall, stylists report. and probably will drop even lower.

201ST REPORTED ALASKA BOUND

Officers of W. Va. Troops Stationed at Fort Decline Comment.

Troops of the 201st Infantry, now stationed at Ft. Harrison, have received orders to prepare to move immediately for a new station in Alaska, it was,.reported today. Officers of the regiment, a Federalized National Guard unit from West Virginia, would not confirm

be said to his credit that he regretted smashing up a new car. it just hurt him inside because he loved cars. In the back seat of the probation officer's car, Jack fiddled with his tie and looked unhappy as he was borne inexorably toward a destiny he did not particularly care to face.

Might Learn a Trade

Jack wondered if he could stop off to see his mother. The probation officer said he was sorry, but that was against regulations. The officer was a social worker with long experience and he knew how to handle boys. Pretty soon, he had Jack talking about what he wanted to do after he got out of the Boys’ School. Jack had been to the Boys’ School before. He said it wasn't bad. He thought this stretch he'd like to learn something, maybe a trade, that would enable him to make big money in a defense industry when he got out. Could he get out in a year? The probation officer said he thought that might be possible if Jack behaved himself. He explained that boys are sentenced to (Continued on Page Five)

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reports and declined to discuss fu{ture plans of the regiment. i The last announced plans would {have taken the 201st South for

|Army maneuvers next month, but according to the reports the regiment received the Alaska orders in the last two days, and is now hurriedly packing up and preparing to idepart, It was not learned whether the entire regiment had been assigned [to Alaska or whether only a small detachment was to go.

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BORDEN'S MAY BUY CAPITOL DAIRIES, NC.

Stockholders to Act on Offer Aug. 11.

Negotiations for the sale of the business of Capitol Dairies, Inc, to the Borden Co. of New York City, were announced today by Arthur P. Holt, president and general manager of Capitol. Stockholders of the company have been notified of a special meeting Aug. 11 to approve an offer by the Borden firm which now operates the Furnas Ice Cream Co. here along with branches in Ft. Wayne, South Bend, Terre Haute, Lafayette, Muncie and Richmond. Employees were ‘informed at a dinner last night that the present management and organization will continie under Borden ownership

g/and that no changes in personnel

have been planned. Completion of the sale is subject to the fulfillment of several technical requirements, Mr. Holt said. Capitol Dairies was organized in 1927 with the acquisition of four smaller dairies. Its plant is at 13th St. pnd Sherman Dr

TAX INCREASES THREATENED IN HIGH BUDGETS

Ask More Money to Operate in 1942.

By NOBLE REED

Indianapolis and Marion County taxpayers are in for a sizable tax increase next year, unless substantial slashes are mage in the budget requests now being prepared. On the basis of these requests, it was indicated, a levy increase ranging from 10 to 20 cents would be required in 1942. However, some reductions may be ordered by the Tax Adjustment Board.

up nearly $400,000, of which about $165,000 is for election expenses. This would boost the tax rate several cents. The County Welfare Department is preparing to ask a.rate increase of 4 to 5 cents. The School City already has asked a 3-cent levy hike, and the Civil City is going to ask anywhere from 10 to 20 cents more, largely for salary boosts.

One Hopeful Aspect

The only hopeful aspect of the picture is an almost certain reduction in Center Township's poor relief rate. Relief costs in recent months have been cut about 50 per cent under those of last year. Center’s poor relief rate for this year is 40 cents, of which 17 cents is for paying off relief bonds and interest. It’s the remaining 23 cents that will be cut, probably to 11 or 12 cents, it was indicated. Contributing largely to the increase in budget requests are salary increases.

Many Ask Pay Boosts

Nearly every County department is asking for pay boos's. The School City budget includes higher pay for some teachers. Civil City officials have been besieged with demands from firemen, policemen, and other workers for more money with which to meet rising living costs. Altogether, it looks like the County Tax Adjustment Board and the State Tax Board are in for a sizable headache in paring the budget requests to anywhere near this year’s figure.

BOOST TIRE PRICES

AKRON, O. July 30 (U. P.).— Three large rubber companies today announced increases in the dealer list prices of tires and tubes, which trade circles reported would mean a price advance of about five per cent to the retail buyer. The firms were the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., General Tire and Rubber Co. and the B. F. Goodrich Co.

How would you like to have a fan about eight feet from blade tip to blade tip and powered with an umpteen cylinder gasoline motor?

To the hundreds who nightly visit Municipal Airport to escape the heat and to see the sights, that’s just what a transport plane is. Instead of fending off the air backwash from the mighty propellers, people these nights thrust their chests into it, and breathe deeply, enjoying every little artificial zephyr of it. 2 2 2

At Mitchell, Ind, the Rivervale Methodist Youth Fellowship Institute took official cognizance of the fact that it is hot these days and Rights, and it did something about

Those attend ng persuaded Dean J. Soble to put the schedule back on Central Standard Time, arguing

successfully that by going to bed

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County General Fund requests, as|§ compiled in the Auditor's office, are

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VERY SERIOUS CASE,’ WELLES SAYS TO TOKYO

Hopkins Flies to Moscow, Will See Stalin at Roosevelt Request.

On Inside Pages Fighting Communiques .. Page 3 Far East Situation v3 Oil Ban May Not Last ..eeevee 2 Last of Weller Series ..

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

The United States today made formal representations to Japan on

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Outdoors yesterday the sun was firing the mercury up around the 100-degree mark, but inside the Anderson Ice Co. plant, 6315 Cornell

Ave., Jack Hunter wore a leather jacket and heavy gloves. spoke, his breath frosted. The temperature was 28 degrees.

When he Above,

Mrs. J. F. Anderson (right) balances a 300-pound cake of ice, while Jack and Mary Lou Anderson turn on a big grin to show what they think about the ice house temperature. :

Mass of Cool Air Moving In To Drive Out Stifling Heat

The heat wave is scheduled to bid Indianapolis adieu tonight with the mercury promising to drop into the mere 80's by tomorrow. The relief is coming on the heels of the season's most torrid day yesterday in which the mercury never was lower than 79, and stayed in

the 90's for more than 11 hours and

at 5 p. m. reached a high of 100.

The Weather Burueau’s prediction was for partly cloudy and cooler

weather tonight and tomorrow with the likelihood of local thundershowers. The high temperature for today was to be “near 95.” Cool Air Travels East

Masses of cool air which originated in Western Canada this morning had extended as far east as Green Bay, Wis, north central Illinois, northern Iowa, Kansas City and the Northern Rocky Mountain areas. It was traveling at a 450-mile-a-day rate. : Two more heat victims were added to the State's toll, which has reached 17 since the heat wave began last week. John S. Keith, 70, and George Hurt, both of Terre Haute, were the fatalities.

In Indianapolis seven persons were overcome by the heat. They are: Robert Bandy, 26, of 3131 N. Colorado St.; John E. Miller, 33, of 1936 N. Alabama St.; John B. Gandoff, 62, of 344 E. Parkway Ave; Denton E. Wheeler, 35, of R. R. 15, Box 436, a mail carrier; Marshall Morton. 81, of 1050 Oliver Ave.; Frank Dickson, 73, of 918 Chadwick ® (Continued on Page Five)

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an hour later, they would have more cool hours to sleep. ‘ ” = 2 Henry McFadden, who rooms at 242 E. Merrill St, solved the heat situation, all right, last

The map shows the area now encompassed by the cool air mass and the direction it is heading.

COTTON DROPS $5 A BALE NEW YORK, July 30 (U. P.).— Cotton futures broke more than $5 a bale in late trading today, following President Roosevelt's price con-

night, but the solution turned out

trol message to Congress.

Trying to Keep Cool-Some Ways Are Worse Than Heat, But Plane Propellers Do Job Well

to be more drastic than the heat. He pushed his bed as far toward the window as possible. Then he went to sleep. But he rolled over in his sleep, the screen gave way, and he fell to the lawn, breaking an ankle. 2 ” 2 And another pretty costly solution was found by Paul Ballard, 1108 College Ave. He parked his car and went swimming at the 26th Street beach. While he was cooling off, some one broke into his car and stole $21 in cash, jewelry valued at more than $100 and a camera valued at $30.

If all the water pumped yesterday by the Indianapolis Water Co. to its customers, had been captured at one place, it would have made a lake more than four times as large as Lake Sullivan. Sixty million, ninety thousand gallons were pumped.

the bombing of the American gun|boat Tutuila near Chungking as | Harry L. Hopkins arrived at Moscow to confer with Josef Stalin on United States aid to Russia. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles declined to use the word “protest” at his press conference but said that he had told Japanese Ampbassador Kichisaburo Nomura that the United States viewed with extreme seriousness the latest Japanese attack on the American flag. Japanese planes this morning dropped bombs within eight yards of the boat, damaging it superficially but wounding no one, and also dropped bombs near the United States Embassy. Both the ship and the Embassy proper are across the river from Chungking proper. The attack on Chungking was one of the biggest of the war.

Sent by Roosevelt

Mr. Welles revealed that Mr. Hopkins’ dramatic flight across war-torn Europe to Russia was at the direct request of President Roosevelt. The fact that Mr. Hopkins suddenly flew from London to Moscow, cancelling engagements, including one with a member of the British royalty, to do so may indicate en Anglo-American decision to move swiftly and forcefully to Russia's aid. Mr. Hopkins’ arrival at Moscow coincided with a stream of reports indicating a trend favorable to Russia in the 39-day-old war with Germany. Developments included: Russian reports of effective coun-ter-attacks around Smolensk; German admissions that heavy fighting still is in progress in the Smolensk sector, and a revelation that Soviet troops still are resisting strongly, deep in Latvia. Arrival at Moscow of Hopkins by airplane from London, accompanied by Brig.-Gen. Joseph T. McNarney and First Lieut. John R. Alison of the United States Air Corps.

Eden Warns Japan

New British economic sanctions against Japan, closing British coal-

to Japanese ships and a warning from Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to Japan to reconsider her foreign policy before it is too late. Precautionary guarding of American property at some North China points by Japanese troops, apparently acting under the new Japanese freezing restrictions. The signing by Russia and Poland of an agreement ending their technical state of war and providing for co-operation in a common fight against Germany, including? establishment of a Polish Army on Soviet soil. A proposal by Fascist editor Virginio Gayda that Axis warships fire on American warships because of their alleged belligerent action against Axis vessels. A warning by Britain to Iran (Persia) against the danger of a large infiltration of Germans.

MILK INCREASE SEEN

A 1l-cent increase in the price of bottled milk in Indianapolis is to be expected, C. Winfield Hunt, executive secretary of the Milk

ing stations and inter-Empire traffic|

LEAVES WAGES T0 PATRIOTISM |

Urges No Profiteering by Capital or Labor, Declares Rising Costs Threaten to Undermine Defense Effort.

Text of Roosevelt message! Page 5; taxes and other Congressional news, Page 3.

WASHINGTON, July 30 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt. today asked Congress to enact legislation permitting ceilings on prices and rents in order to ward off inflation that would be disastrous to the defense effort. Wages, he said in a special message, should be regulated by co-operation between labor and industry rather than by legislative or administrative fiat. But he warned that unless “we act decisively and without delay” to control already« spiralling price and rent levels, the nation faces inflation “and the specter of future deflation and depression.” He said the Administration has ‘sought to maintain a stable level of prices by enlisting the voluntary co-opera tion of business” during the last 12 months but that the authority to do this has been “indirect and circumscribed and further weakened by “evasion and bootlegging.” In: some cases, he added, the Administration “has been openly defied.” : He said that the facts of American economy today are “frighteningly similar to those of the World War ‘period.

Defense Threatened, He Says

Warning that inflationary price rises and increases in the cost of living “are today threatening to undermine our defense effort,” he asserted that “legislative action can no longer be prudently postponed.” The President’s message, however, did not recommend that wage ceilings be established by Congressional act. He admitted that “there will always be a need for wage adjuste ments from time to time to rectify inequitable situations. “But labor as a whole will fare best from a labor policy; which recognizes that wages in the defense industries should not substantially exceed the prevailing wage rates in come parable non-defense industries where fair labor policies have been maintained. “I recognize that the obligation not to seek an excessive profit in the defense emergency rests with equal force on industry and labor, and that both must assume their respon sibilities if we are to avoid inflation.”

Acts With Henderson

In asking Congress for legislation, Mr. Roosevelt was working in close collaboration with Leon Henderson, chief of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply. Specifically, Mr. Roosevelt called for authority extending for the duration of the emergency, to: 1. Establish ceilings for prices and rents. 2. Purchase materials and commodities when necessary, to assure price stability. 8. Deal more extensively with excesses in the field of installment credit.

Today's War Moves

By United Press War Experts

In January, 1940, Adolf Hitler assured the German people of come plete victory in 1941. In a New Year's message to the armed forces he said: “Soldiers of the National Socialist armed forces of the Greater Reich? The year 1941 will bring the completion of the greatest victory of our history. It now is almost the beginning of August, 1941, just 27 years after the start of the first World War. Victory for Hitler is far from being in sight and certainly much less so than when he made his boast more than 18 months ago, or in the dark days of May and June of last year when France fell and the British evacuated Dunkirk. Tidings from the Eastern Front indicate most strongly that the war will extend into 1942. The German blitzkrieg for the first time appears

The Maginot Line was a stone wall and Hitler crushed :t. The Russian line is not a stone wall but a fluid, flexible defense which so far has frustrated the mathematical German plan of ate tack. It gives way and rebounds like a rubber band. The Russian forces, numerically superior to the Germans, have been taking it but giving it back. It is not safe to say that the Russians definitely have taken the initiative and are beating the Ger=

Foundation of Indianapolis, said to-

mans back, as- Moscow claims, but (Continued on Page Five) Ld

to have run into a stone wall. The figure of speech is not ye apt. »