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THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941

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RICE THREE CENTS

Roosevelt Drafts Program To Slow Up Installment Buying

JAP APOLOGY NOT ENOUGH'--WELLES

There's rain in that cloud hovering over Indianapolis, but the insur mountable problem for mere man is how to get it out. There is nothing more tantalising than a rain cloud over a drought and heat ridden area. Not is there anything much more beautiful,

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CLAIM RALLY 18

Meat Kills 4 Persons Here: Showers Give Short Relief

RENE

PRICE CEILINGS WILL BE BASED, ON JUNE LEVEL

Anti<Inflation Measure Also Sets Up Defense Rent Control.

WASHINGTON. July 31 (U, ed President Roosevelt today sum-| moned key Administration officials with price and credit to discuss installment eredit. which he regards as onej thing that must be controlled to prevent inflation. eel The White House conference with eon Henderson. price control administrator., and Marriner chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank, was called after provisions of the Administration price fixing bill were disclosed at the Capitol One provision of the measure, | which Mr. Roosevelt said was neces=| sary to prevent inflation that would | | be disastrous to the defense pro- | gram, would establish ceilings over | | commodity prices based on June 30, | 1041 levels. Rent Control Provided | ‘The price contro] measure drafted by Administration leaders for probable introduction in both Houses today did not contain authority for fixing wage ceilings | It restricted the President's price fixing power on agriculture prices to parity levels on the five basic farm commodities and to prices es-| [tablished under the Commodity] | Credit Act on all other farm prod-| uets The measure authorized My. Roosevelt to designate defense rental areas in which he may order stabilization or reduction of the monthly rent charged defense works ers. If his order is not complied Iwith in 60 days. the President may!

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LANE BRYANT

New Draft Head

Eccles,

Gen. Hershey

WASHINGTON, July 31 (U.P), — President Roosevelt today named Hoosier-born Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey to be director of Selective Service, succeeding ©. A. Dykstra whe resigned some time ago. Gen, Hershey has been assistant director since the draft began last October,

WALLACE HEADS NEW WAR BOARD

‘Vice President in Charge of

Economic Defense Bureau. WASHINGTON, July 31 (U.P) =

BRITISH ARCTI

U. S. ‘Expects’ Fuller Stalin Tells Hopk Russia Is No

War News on British Raids Aid Stalin

Details of Fighting ....... . Said Hopkins to Stalin

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The United States today

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at Chungking yesterday were At the same time Josef St

Arctic air attack in support of Japan offered speedy apol

ference the United States wa fuller reply.

Finnish port of Petsamo and the Norwegian port of Kirkaeneg, both adjacent to Murmansk, the chief Arctic entry point for supplies to the

Soviet.

The British planes attacked both ports severely, concentrating on

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declared that informal apolo«

gies by Japan for the bombing of the U. S. gunboat Tutuila

not satisfactory. alin gave Harry L. Hopkins &

pledge that American confidence in Russia's fight against Hitler would not be misplaced and Britain launched an

Russia. ogies in the Tutuila affair but

Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles told a press cone

s not satisfied and expects &

Britain's Arctic air action was launched by naval aire craft, presumably flown from an aircraft carrier, against the

BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, July 31 (U,) P.). Chairman Martin Dies (D, Tex.) of the House Committee Ine vestigating Un-American activi« ties, said today his agents had | uncovered sensational evidence of | an elaborate Japanese sabotage . plot on the West Coast. i

harbor works at Petsamo and a light German naval craft and sup-|.. ply ships at Kirkaenes. The attack was costly for the]

establish rent ceilings in the defense President Roosevelt today intensiareas. |fied this nation's economic warfare The measure sets up a three-man against the Berlin-Rome-Tokvo Axis emergency court appointed by the by creating an “Economic Defense

wooden construction. Soviet sources, however, pointed out that Leningrad is the most Europeanized

WILLKIE INSULT COMING TO CITY

Mail Order House Takes

Three more persons died of heat prostration overnight to bring the Indianapolis total for the current week-long heat wave to four. The Weather Bureau predicted there will be little change in tem-

Meeting Cancelled After Protest by Elwood Businessmen. Br WILLIAM CRABR

Times Stal Writer ELWOOD. Ind. July $1. —Mayor George Bonham today cancelled the “anti-war” scheduled here | 8 delegation of Elwood businesmen attacked: it as an “in- | ' to Wendell © Willkie | few hours earlier Mr. Willkie, who ik vacationing in Rushville had refused to debat® war iseues with Socialist Norman Thomas as an “added attraction” of the |

LEE. LONDON 0008 170 3 ON 1941 AXIS DEFEAT

have been Rep. Forest Harness who Wagering Started 2 Weeks

had asked for an opportunity to Ago at 1 to 10.

meek: his new congtituerits: Madison County was added to Rep. Harness’ district by the last session of the Legislature. Thomas Accepts LONDON. July 31 (U.P) —Bookmakers here are accepting bets on a 1 to 3 basis that the Allies will defeat the Axis before the end of this year, the most optimistic view |

Mr. Willkie, in declining the invitation., said “My views oh the foreigh policy are well known—t of Britain's prospects since the early days of the war, it was learned to-| day.

have stated them many times” Mr. Thomas had accepted the invita. Two weeks ago some Stock Exchange dealers here

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tion. The businessmen did not wait for daylight today to journey the 10 miles to Yellow Creek Lake where Mayor Bonham has been recuperating from an operation. A few hours earlier at least three impromptu meetings of civic leaders were held to map a course of action to stop the meeting. They charged the meeting was (Continued on Page Four)

4 APPOINTED FOR

WAGE-HOUR STUDY

Four members of a six-man committee created by the 1041 Legis. were lowered to T to 1. lature to study the need of wage-| Anh even sharper downward ree

announced |

chances of an Axit defeat by the close of 12941. The wagering started with the odds 10 to 1 against such eventuality, Last week, with Russian resist | ance to the Nazi advance greater than had been anticipated. the odds |

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hour legislation were named today |vision was made today when these by Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Daw- | dealers cut the odds to 8 to 1. ton and House Speaker James M. | se nett ae cali Xhapp L Mr. Dawson appointed Walter 1 SCHRICKER NAMES ongsworth, Indianapolis Chamber | o Ranmetee Blecient, and James | MONUMENT BOARD . ROBY, regions t . i G iy Re a tne Governor Schricker today named Charles Kern, Indianapolis labor|d three-man board of control to leader, and Charles Kemp, Frank. Dave charge of maintenance of the fort lawyer and business man | Soldiers & Sailors Monument. The remaining two members ot| They are Aubrey D. Porter and the committee. which is to submit | Wison Oren, both of Indianapolis, ° ; and William Kreke, Terre Haute. a report to the 1943 Legislature. are | ny to be named by Governor Schricker | MY: Oren is state adjutant of the [United Spanish War Veterans | The Governor named John DD. | Friday, acting adjutant general. as [Fikersnbendenn of the building. The {appointments were made under an {old law which became effective again {with repeal of the McNutt Reorganization Act.

Books ........18| Johnson ......18 Clapper ......15] Millett ....... 1% Comics (......25 Model Planes. 9 Crossword |. 4 Movies ...10, 11 Editoriale \ 16 Obituares. . 6 13

Fashions . 18 19] Pyle 15!

NAMES ICELAND ENVOY WASHING ION, July 81 (U. PO. —President Roosevelt, in a move to fe. eypleiatie relations with and, ay sent to the Senate Mrs, Ferguson 16| Questions 15, 18 the nomination of Lincoln Mae. Financial ....12 Radie ...... 14 /Veagh, pre-war minister to Greece, Flynn... 18 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 jas minister to the sub-Aretie PASE oie 16, Serial Story. 25 island. Establishment of diplomatic memaking 18] Side Glances 18 relations with Iceland fulfills part Indpls. | jof the agreement under which this

Squally rain storms spotted the city last night, bringing nine-degree | relief between 7 and 8 p.m. and dropping the temperature to 74 de-|

grees, lowest in six days, at 6:45 a m. But the mercury climbed rapidly and soon was nearly abreast of vesterday, which had a maximum of 09 degrees, one short of the years] record. The dead are:

CHARLES BADE 57 RR. 10, - Wor Re] as | oe Motor Works Building at the Ds price fixing order may be appealed | will serve as a broad planning “min-isponsible quarters as in pursuit of

to the emergency court end within| istry” and which presumably will| Prime Minister Winston Churchill's 30 days after that agency acts the maintain contact with the British warning that Britain will strike at | Supreme Court may be petitioned economic ministry, was created by|the Germans wherever she finds to review

Indianapolis, who died in St Vincent's Hospital near midnight. |

JOHN JACKSON. 65 who was stricken at his home, 303 Bright | St, and died a short while later at City Hospital,

DENNIS WILLIAMS, 63, of 817 Ogden St, who was stricken Tuesday, died today in City Hospital, ROBERT W. BANDY, 26, of 2072 Forest Manor Ave, died yesterday at City Hospital, Overcome here by the heat yesterday were Edward MeKinzie, 816 N. Keystone Ave, Clarerce C. Green, 36, Muncie: Valda Powell, 32, of 1420 Roach St, and George C. Bridgford, 59, of 139 & California St.

{ The rain last night appeared to

a few minutes and then settled into a gentle rain for nearly a half hour | The downtdwn section of the City also was treated to a heavy rain] but in many neighborhoeds no rain |

| fell at all, while a few blocks away stout women.

there would be a downpour i

[the owner of the property, in ar-

| during October and November,

Long Lease on Cole Motor Building.

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Lane Bryant, Ine, a nationally

long-term lease on the old Cole west corner of EE. Market Davidson Sts. and is preparing to make Indianapolis its shipping headquarters, Myton Green, Indianapolis Cham: | ber of Commerce industrial comstoner, said the firm would employ about 600 persons, all but the executives and key employees being hired here, W. A. Brennan, Ine, downtown realty brokers,’ represented both Lane Bryant, Ine. and Cole, Ine!

ranging the ease. The leased building, it ie ex: pected, will be remodeled and ready to receive merchandise and fixtures | The | first shipments to customers from|

hére will be made in December. A

thave been especially heavy in Irv- part of the mail order shipments ington where it was a qownpour for will be handled from the present

headquarters in New York next March, when the entire operation will be centered here, Mr. Green said Lane Bryant, |t which specializes in apparel for|g decided to move its] shipping headquarters here to be |

chief justice of the United States from among the judges of the Fed-| eral district ang eireuit courts,

May License Sales

After the issuance of a price

order by the President, persons af fected may appeal within 60 days

and know mail order firm, has signed aj qo

the President must grant or their petition within 30 days At the end of that time the

the case The President also is empowered

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REPORTERS TALK TO GEN. UDET IN BERLIN

nterview Arranged After Report of Suicide.

BERLIN, July 31 (U, P) ~The

Propaganda Ministry arranged tountil qay for foreign correspondents to

nterview Col. Gen. Ernst Udet, air

ace of the last war, who according

0 reports abroad had committed uicide while in “protective custody.” Newspapermen were ushered into

| Gen, Udet's office at the Air Min-

The temperat Yesterday re- nearer the center of population. | istry and were permitted to speak

that they would accept bets on the mained 90 or above for 10 straight The company ships an average of

hours. Reports of other rains throughout the state were received | from many communities,

t S000 parceis of clothing a day. | The company’s designing, buying)

and and advertising offices will remain | alleging that | Wherever they occurred they were in New York, but when the local | suicide after heing relieved of his

o him for 15 minutes.

Puffying on a cigaret, Gen.

Udet read copies of foreign reports

he had committed

valuable to erops, desperately in headquarters is ready for use, all| office for supposedly opposing the

need of moisture,

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Russian campaign,

‘Air Condition Your Blood, Hat or Shoes—

Inventors Even Patent an Umbrella Cooler

Times Special WASHINGTON, July 31 -—You may find comfort, during the heat wave, in the knowledge that for a small investment you can have your bed air-cooled, your hat ventilated, or your blood ‘“‘sube limated” (air conditioned).

All you need do it go to the files of the Patent Office. where the world’s inventors have piled up ag wacky an array of cooling devices as mankind could hope for. And plans for the most complicated can be purchased for 10 cents, For instance, there is an air-

$i Society 17, 18 10 Inside Indpls. 13| Sports 20, A, 22 hAtich assumed protection of that 8lisland. : &

Jane Jordan, .18!State Deaths. .

conditioned hat, especially con structed with By a in the

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crown. Fitted with a motor and bellows, it's guaranteed to outcool an ijcepack on your perspire ing pate. There are shoes that contain rubber bulbs within the heels, exhaling blasts of cool air to your feet with each step.

If you find it difficult to sleep on sultry nights, there is a neat device which-—with the aid of $500 worth of gears, belts and pullies—can be attached to the head of your bed to wave feathered plumes over your sweltering hones.

Probably the oldest of the hundreds of cooling devices on record belongs to one A. R. Traber, who in 1861 patented his rockingchair fan. The contraption was so devised that the rocking motion sent huge strips of burlap spinning above the chair. In the 1870s there were grotesque devices to whirl wooden paddles over the dining-room table. Usually, one unhappy diner had to pump a concealed pedal. Other items of the era:

bellows: an “umbrella blower,” that captured rain-cooled air from the top of the umbrella and sent it down a tube to cool the owner. Not all the coolers belong to the multiple<petticoat era. Only 16 years ago Albert IL. Widdis of Harrisville, Mich, patented an elaborate mechanism of long metal tubes that encircled the body, draped over one shoulder and expitied down through the wearer's shoes,

One Karl Lark-Horovitz finally attained the acme in personal refrigeration with his “sublimator.” Invented in 1031, it clamps a ele} of Sry to jn arteries of , thus cooling the blood throughout the body,

Board” headed by Vice President

Henry A. Wallace as chairman, The President also acted to integrate more closely inte the Administration current efforts by this Government to solidify the Western Hemisphere. He created the office of co-ordinator of Inter-American | Affairs, selecting Nelson A. Rockefeller to head the new agency. The new Economic Board, which

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It will be essenbut its

{executive order, tially an advisory board

| to police commodity speculators in recommendations will be translated | from Helsinki. the same manner that he may en- into action by the various executive |

departments, the President himself, and the Adniinistrator of Export Cantrol, Besides Mr, Wallace, the Board will consist of Seeretary of State | Cordell Hull, Treasury Secretary | Henry Morgenthau Jr, War Secre[tary Henry IL. Stimson, Acting At-

torney General Francis Biddle, Navy’ Secretary Frank Knox, Agriculture)

Secretary Claude Wickard, and Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones,

No Alternate for Wallace

Mr. Roosevelt's executive order made clear that Wallace is to serve actively as head of the new board. It specifically prohibited his naming an atlernate. Placing the Vice President in a position of administrative planning activity is almost without precedent. All other members of the hoard are empowered to appoint alternates from their department personnel, The executive order the board te: 1. Advise the President on economic defense measures; 2. Co-ordinate these measures: 3. Develop integrated economic defense plans; 4. Plan post-war economic refonstruction to protect the trade of the United States, and 5. Review or recommend proposed legislation on economic defense,

ASKS EASTERN GAS STATION GUT HOURS

instructed

Seeks Oil Drums for Soviet.

WASHINGTON, July 31 (U. P.. —Defense Oil Co-ordinator Harold L. Ickes today recommended that 100,000 gasoline filling stations in Eastern states be closed from 17 p. m. until 7 a. m. every night as B means of restricting oil eonsumption. Earlier Mr. Ickes recommended that the Office of Production Management grant priority on the manufacture of 10,000 steel drums in which aviation gasoline and other oil may be shipped to Russia. The OPM priorities division said that steel plates needed to produce the drums for Russian would be given a high priority rating, possibly ahead of some American detense orders

| British, who admitted the loss of 16] {planes in the action. The Germans claimed 28 British aircraft,

mostly Hurricane fighters, were]

Ickes Urges Night Closing;

shot down. | It was the first military opera- | [tion launched by Britain against [Finnish territory but was not regarded in London as an outright act of war against the Finns. Rather, it was described by re-

| them. | There was no immediate reaction There was a tone of optimism in reports from Moscow, Hopkins’ arrival and the message he brought from President Roosevelt ta Josef Stalin promising immediate aid re- | ceived great prominence in the press, Dispute Possible Damage

Hopkins was engaged in a round of conferences and expected to talk with Stalin for a secord time late today. He had his initial experience of a Moscow air raid during the night and after touring the city today expressed surprise at the small damage. The communiques on the fightigg fronts emphasized battles in the vicinity of Porkhov, 145 miles south of Leningrad. This reference—the first of the week--was taken to be the Soviety reply to Nazi claims that Leningrad is in imminent danger of capture. The Nazi claims said that German forces have smashed ahead to the outskirts of the Soviet city of three million people and that it faces capture or destruction by hombing and shelling if the Russians attempt to defend it street br street. A Stockholm newspaper, frequently unreliable, carried reports of fierce fighting at Leningrad, but sald the Germans had not yet entered the city. The Germans claimed that destruction of Leningrad would be easy because of the large amounts

Today's War

By United Pres From the military viewpoint, t

the United States. The military stage of the strugg

items of the week was the report that the grain harvest of southwestern Russia is being harvested and should be safely moved far into the interior well before mid-August. Hitler's motives for abruptly turning Russia from a friend into a battling enemy were hard to explain and several theories have been advanced. One was that his propaganda of a German “crusade” against bolshevism was intended to increase peace sentiment in Britain and the United States. If that entered into it, the plan failed, because few believed it. Another supposition was that Hitler regarded Russia as a potential enemy and wanted to eliminate

danger from bya rear while ba g-)

really important issue, which is economic.

of Russian cities and probably has a larger proportion of stone, brick and steel construction than any other Russian metropolitan center, However, the reports eminating from Nazi propaganda sources re=

garding Leningrad were not borne nut by the German High Command,

which had nothing to say what= ever concerning operations on the

[immediate Leningrad front,

Censorship Veil Lifted

The Royal Air Force carried ous attacks on Aachen and Cologne and made a daylight raid on a big Gers man convoy off Helgoland in which four ships of 4700 tons were dame aged or sunk, As Japan apologized for the Tutuila incident, her fighting planes, men and naval forces poured into French Indo-China and took over strategic bases, including Pnome Penh, capital of the ancient kinge dom of Cambodia, bordering Thaie land. News oi Japan's apology for the damage to the Tutuila in the great air raid in Chungking yesterday was transmitted only after repeated vigorous protests by U. 8S. Ambase sador Joseph Clark Grew agains a blanket censorship upon all news concerning the affair. The apology was made by Fore eign Minister Admiral Teijiro Toye oda to Grew when the latter called upon him to deliver American repe resentations against the action. Japanese Still in Dark Expressions of regret previously had been made by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Vice Minister of Navy. The Japanese public still was ige norant of the latest crisis in U, Se Japanese relations as the censorship forbade any mention of the incie dent in Japanese papers. Toyoda advised Grew that new and urgent orders had been de livered to Japanese forces in China to avoid any injury to American property. Such orders have pee riodically been given the Japanese forces in China, usually after some such incident as the Tutuila affair,

Moves

s War Experts he slowing down of the German

blitzkrieg and the successful resistance of the Russians is the important news. The longer it goes on, the more advantage accrues to Britain and

le leads up to what is probably the One of the most significant

posed of Britain. Still, Stalin made SO many concessions to appease Hite ler that there was no visible sign. that he even contemplated attacking his partner in the immediate fue ture. Besides, the Russians hise torically have been great fighters in defending their own soil and nog so good on invading others, A more tenable theory is that Hitler really is hard up for raw ma= terials and attacked Russia to gel them and keep his war machine going. Oil, food and minerals are Germany’s primary needs, and they exist in large quantities in the Ukraine and Caucasus. : It looks at this date like a costly

enterprise by Hitlen,