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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1941

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Unrest, Sabotage And Rioting Sweep Hitler's Vassal States

U.S. DENOUNCES NAZI ‘IMPUDE

CAFES SELLING T0 YOUTH DRAW. BRADSHAW FIRE

Arrest of 2 Tavern ot Ordered After Boy's | Story Is Heard. |

Tavern proprietors who permit liquor to be sold to young automo-| bile drivers are in for some severe jolts in the new traffic division of Juvenile Court Two North Side tavern owners) were to bE arrested today as the! result of the first drunken driving| case ever tried in Juvenile Court. Judge Wilfred RBRradshaw, after] hearing & 17-year-old youth testify] that an older companion took him | around fo taverns and then had him; drive a car. instructed the Proseeu-| tors office te file affidavits against] the liquor dealers.

License «x Revoked

The tavern owners will be charged | with contributing to the delinqueney| the State House. Mr. Tucker sat of a minor and in addition they may | quietly and pretty much alone in face action in Municipal Court for| nic office on the first floor. sale of liquor to minors and even-| tual revocation of their licenses. After reprimanding the youth, | Judge Bradshaw revoked his license, | making a record that may prevent him from getting another license! when he becomes 18. i Judge Bradshaw said that if the) youths older companion is not] prosecuted in Municipal Court, hej will order him held for contributing to the bovs delihquency. ! Yesterdays session was the second traffic court held by Judge! Bradshaw under the new law which, gives Juvenile Court jurisdiction oye rib iS, 18 years of age ls Thirteen other boys under 18 and | a 17-year-old girl were among the] traffic offenders in yesterday's ses-| sion.

cupied six months ago. Last spring, Mr. Dawson was as | busy as a cranberry merchant in | November. He was presiding over the Senate and drafting legislation as a member of the G. O. P. steering committee. Under the Republican program he was due to become the most powerful political figure in the state and scores of gaunt Republican job hunters formed lines in his office about like those formed outside [ioew’s when tickets for “Gone With the Wind’ went on sale While ail this excitement was going on on the second floor of

Had Nothing To Do

HE HAD NOTHING whatsoever to do with the Republican legislative program and he was not even called into party councils. Under the Republican program, he was

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Hear Safety Tak

The father of one defendant ap-| peared without his son and explained that the boy ran away from home after his arrest recently. Court officials said they would try, to locate him. : Most of the young drivers were Na charged with speeding, running red lights and making left turns in’ prohibited areas. ; Judge Rradshaw had all defendantx and their parents wait in| the courtroom while Wallace O. Lee, | safety director of the Chamber of Commerce. gave a talk on safety. He urged voung drivers to guard against thoughtlessness in handling ears,

Mrs. Louis Wins i $200 Per Week

CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (V7. P)_A court order today granted Mrs. Marva Trotter Louis temporary alittony cf $200 a week from Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, whom she sued for diveree on grounds of cruelty a month ago. Circuit Judge Michael J. Feinberg referred her petition to Master in Chancery Dwight S. Bobb and ordered that the temporary alimony begin Aug. 8. Mrs. Louis said through her attorney that she was willing to effect a reconciliation with tie boxer but that her attempts to end their estrangement had failed

CHARLES DAWSON

M-0--E-R-A-T-E IS WORD FOR WEATHER

‘And Bureau Says it Will Be That Way Tomorrow.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Sam .... 12 10a. mm .. Tam ....¥2 Ham Sam .... 5 12 (noon) Sa. m-.... 19 pth

82 . 88 89 89

Did you get up and close the windows at 6:30 this morning. That was when the temperature “sank” to TI degrees—the lowest since July 22. The eight-day heat wave which (brought 100-degree temperatures {apparently was discouraged by scatjtered thundershowers yesterday evening. The mercury dropped from 90 at 5 p. m. to 83 at 6 p. m. and

BINFORD BUYS FIRST PREPAID TAX NOTES in, declined gradually throughout

Roles Reversed for Dawson and Tucker

Job Hunters Who Once Haunted Lieut-Gov. Now Stream Into Secretary of State's Office.

By EARL RICHERT POLITICS HAS PLAYED tornado-like pranks with the official lives of the states two top-ranking Republicans. Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson and Secretary of State James Tucker. It has twisted them around, altered their course and today they find themselves in positions diametrically opposed to those they oc-

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80,000 SERBS SLAN $0 FAR NOSCOW SAYS

Martial Law Declared on Norway Coast: French Ban Meetings.

By UNITED PRESS Reports of serious disorders,

JAMES TUCKER

to get control of some jobs but not enough to divert many of the job hunters from stalking the “big game” upstairs. His life went on pretty much as it had for the past two years when as Secretary of State he was allowed only to name his chief deputy and, by the courtesy of former Governor Townsend, a few others. Friends. dropping in to call, constituted about the only diversion to the normal routine of business. But the Supreme Court “ripper” suit decision changed all that, Today, the 33-vear-old Secretary of State is the most harried official in the State House, even including Governor Schricker. The lines in his face that once were grins are now just plain lines. Under the “ripper” suit decision, he was handed the Motor Vehicle License Bureau, one of the State's juiciest patronage plums, while the epublican colleagues got nothing. The lines of job hunters that stood in the offices of Mr. Dawson, State Treasurer James Givens and State Auditor Richard T. James immediately did an “about face” and unanimously headed for Mr. Tucker's office.

2 ® » Job Huniers Come Early

THE JOB HUNTERS get to his office early and stay late. His telephone, both at the office and at home, jangles like that of the desk lieutenant at the police station, So many flocked to his luncheon table in the Claypool Hotel (where he had been eating pretty much in peace for the last two years) that he has hag to start eating lunch in a “private” place, He has given out most of the 136 branch managerships—a job about like doling out five ice cream cones to a pack of children on a hot day—but his troubles are not over. The job hunters aren't (Continved on Page Five)

‘23, BLOND AND—’

sabotage and guerrilla activity in the German and Italian-occupied countries of Norway, Jugoslavia, Greece and Rumania came today from various European capitals. To these and other Axis-con-quered nations, Great Britain has] been directing her “V-for-victory”| war of nerves. Radio Moscow, heard bv the | United Press listening post in New York. reported that Germany had] tbeen forced to send 40.000 Gestapo, agents to Jugoslavia where, it said. | guerrilla bands have attacked Nazi | troops, demolished bridges and | highways and set fire to munitions | stores. An Ankara dispatch said | Germany had sent 25000 more! i troops into Jugoslavia. | Quoting the newspaper Pravda.! Radio Moscow reported that 80.000) Serbians’ had been “exterminated” for anti-German activities in the three months Jugoslavia has been! necupied by Axis forces.

199 Reported Shot

From Belgrade a. German official {news agency dispatch reported that [90 “Communists” had been exe‘cuted in the Banat region of north(eastern J avia for sabotage. Several days ago more than 100 “Communists and Jews” were shot {for sabotage in the Belgrade region. | Hungarian dispatches had reported. Despite the executions, Budapest {newspapers reported that “Comjmunists and terrosits” were conitinuing to operate in Belgrade. The German military commander jat Belgrade was said to have imiposed a blanket fine of 30 cents apiece on all residents of the cap-| {ital in “retaliation for the series of Communist actvities.”

Report Norwegian Riot

From Stockholm came reports! that a state of siege had been de-| clared at Aalesund, on the west coast of Norway, as the result of sabotage and big anti-German demonstrations. The dispatch said Norwegian patriots had damaged German communications and military establishments and that the Germans had seized 10 leading citizens as hostages. When police took the hostages to a ship for transport to Germany, the dispatch said, a crowd of about 5000 persons gathered at the dock and tried to rescue them. It was necessary for police to call soldiers, the dispatch said. Another Ankara dispatch quoted travelers from Greece that there were between eight and 10 deaths a day in Athens from starvation.

Greeks Hold Their Noses

The travelers said the Greeks were “recklessly”: pro-British., harbored many hundreds of British soljdiers caught there when the Brit|ish expeditionary foree left, held | their fingers to their nostrils when German and Italian troops passed in the streets, cheered all British war prisoners, and left restaurants and cafes when Germans or Italians entered. The Vichy French Government (Continued on Page Five)

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Yesterday this was the New York Central lines headed northwest. Today it was the Yukon Trail for 1700 Ft. Harrison lads from Mason-Dixon Country.

A few weeks ago the boys of the 201st Infantry observed the birthday of their State—West Virginia—angd sweethearts and relatives came to Ft. Harrison for the event.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U.

This week the order came: “Depart for maneuvers.” But it is pretty certain maneuvers will be in Alaska. At least, that's what the train rails seemed to click— A-L-A-S-K-A,

RUSSIANS PUSH GERMANS BACK

Counter-Attacks Dominate Whole Front, Berlin Reports Admit.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

The Nazi drive toward Moscow | appeared today to be stopped for the | least and the Russians claimed that the German forces had even heen thrown back slightly. Persistent and fierce Soviet coun-ter-attacks, particularly in the vital Smolensk sector, ‘were reported to-

day to have stemmed forward movement of Nazi troops along the Russian front. In London the Germans were thought to be reorganizing for a third offensive to attempt to break the Red army's stiff resistance. The Soviet Air Force was giving heavy support to Russian land troops. It blasted at gasoline trucks rolling up to the front to refuel stalled Panzer divisions and at German ships in the Baltic. reporting a German destroyer sunk and two other ships damaged.

Claim - 35,000 Prisoners’

The German official news agency claimed a great (erman victory had been scored in battle with “encircled” Russian troops south of Smolensk. It sdid the Russians lost tens of thousands killed. 35.000 men and 243 guns captured. The Nazi High Command reported again that all is going “favorably” but German propaganda reports made plain that Russian counterattacks are beginning to dominate the action all along the front. particularly northeast of Smolensk. German accounts uniformly claimed the counter-attacks have been beaten off. For many days Nazi propagandists have been claiming that the High Command is on the verge of issuing a big statement on the so-called “Smolensk annihilation battle.”

Berlin Shows

By EDGAR ANSEL. MOWRER Copyright, 1841, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. —If anything could make officials in this city feel that all is not going well with the German offensive against Russia, it is the reawakening of German propaganda in the last few days. For this propaganda is of the defensive or defeatist type. It starts with the hypothesis of a German defeat or at least of Ger- sovereignty, many’s incapacity to score a victory by defeating the Soviets.

Up to now all the German propaganda has been of the bumptious type. It has been based on the assumption of an irresistible Germany with which democracies, if they wish to live, must come to terms. The latest German propaganda frankly admits the possibility that Germany will one day have to come to terms with its present enemies and it aims at gaining pledges from America that these terms will be liberal.

The German thesis is something as follows:

FDR: ‘Russia Magnificent’

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U. P).—President Roosévelt said today that

Russia’s “magnificent” resistance h military leaders of Nazi Germany.

Authorizing direct quotation of his press conference comment on Russian resistance, Mr. Roosevelt said:

“It is magnificent and frankly Germany thought it could be.” He was asked whether that included “Germany's outstanding military expert,” a direct reference to Adolf Hitler. The President replied that the reporter who asked the question was threatening to spoil the story. Mr. Roosevelt emphasized that U. S. assistance to Russia is strictly

on a payment basis and that he sees:

no prospect of the Soviet receiving aid under the lend-lease progranrs. Russia thus far has not come under the lend-lease category, he said, adding that the reason is simply that they have the money

Siam Next for Japan?

By UNITED PRESS :

Far Bastern tension was dropping today: despite some féar that Japan will follow up her occupation of French Indo-Chinese bases with

Defeat Fear

P.).—Acting Secretary: of State Sumner Welles. today; denounced as barefaced ime pudence the reported German note to the Mexican Governs ment demanding that Mexico protest the United States blacklist of Axis firms in

Latin America. Mr, Welles bitterly denounced Germany for instructing the Mexi« can Government in regard to .the blacklist and for the Nazi Governe ment’s reported threats of reprisaly No country in the world, Mr, Welles said, hag shown more jeale ousness of its sovereign rights than the Government of Mexico. He said he did not believe tliat the Govetne ment and the people of Mexico’ oF any other American governments

Even if the Soviets hold the Germans, or the United States throws its full weight into the war, the Germans can, if necessary, hold out for a terribly long time and kill a great many tens of thousands of adversaries before being definitely crushed. Far better for the adversaries to come to terms and make a ‘negotiated peace.” j Admittedly, no one can consent to make peace with Hitler and the chief Nazis; they must be eliminated. But that is precisely what the great bulk of the Germans, and (Continued on Page Five)

as been a complete surprise to the

better than any military expert in

to pay for the assistance they seek in this country. He then said that he has not looked intr the question of whether Russia could qualify for aid under the Lend-Lease Act. Mr. Roosevelt did not deny the possibility that Lend-Lease Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who now is in Moscow, may have flown there from London in an American airplane.’ In response to a direct question on this point, he replied that for the sake of safety, movements of men, like movements of ships, are much better kept. secret,

need be told how to

“Bare-Faced Impudence”

For a country like Germany, which, he said, has violated ‘the sovereignty of other countries and has destroyed the sovereignty of many of them, to tell an Amerigen Government where its sovereignty was involved could only be re, as a piece of bare-faced inpudence. At the same time Mr. Welle praised the measures being taken: in many Latin American countries to thwart pro-Axis activities, He said all this action has been in line with the policy of inter-American solide arity and the resolution adopted as the consultation of foreign minis= ters in Havana last year,” = .

Mexico Rejects German Warning

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 1 (U.- By, —The Government - revealed las§ night that it had rejected a Gere man diplomatic note warning Mexe ico of the dangers of the Unf States “blacklist” of ness firms. Mexico replied that,-in: the place, it was unable to admit insiniie ations that the blacklist violates Mexico's freedom of trade op sovereignty. ; The Government informed Gere many that its policy was governed by the principle of inter-Ameriea

pro-Nazi busi -

co-operation regarding the presens

international conflict. , The Government said it regarded Germany's threat that Mexie might jeopardize its chances conducting trade with the { after the war as “unacceptable prege sure.” K

If Really Wasa Co-op Station’

BURGLARS BROKE infos

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ROME, Aug. 1 (U. P) Helsinki [reports to the newspaper Pepolo | D'Ttalia said today that among Rus-

DRAFT COMPROMISE

However, no such statement has been issued nor has the promised announcement that Leningrad is

co-operative filling station at 616 Kentucky Ave. last night and

a quick move into Thailand : (Siam). : There was noticeable lessening of the tension between the United

States and Japan due to prompt and full Japanese apologies for the

CHICAGO, Aug. | (U. P) —Frank|, The Weather Bureau predicted f. Rinford, Indianapolis lumber [air to partly cloudy weather with

company executive, today t the first tax anticipation note sold in the Seventh Federal Reserve District.

te temperatures through to-

isian captives

taken by Finnish

He bought $1200 series A and|

son who suggested prepayving taxes in this manner.

SEIBERLING PRICES UP BARBERTON, O, Aug. {1 (U.P). —The Seiberling Rubber Co. today announced a 5 per cent increase in the price of tires and tubes to dealers and consumers alike.

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Auto News .. 14, Jane Jordan. 18 vooos 15] Johnson ..... 18 aave BSiMovies ...... 12 a i 24/ Obituaries sv |

Fashions .... 18 Pyle Ciivir cit 1s Mrs. Ferguson 8 io - Financial .... 17| Real Estate .. 10 Flynn ....... 16 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 Forum ..«« 18]Serial Story .. 25

William Rhodes Davis, Famed Oil Operator, Is Dead at 52

, Tex, Aug. Rhodes Davis, | world over for his gigantic dealings! {in oil, died of a heart attack today.

morrow.

Alvin Patton, 18. of 441 WwW. dist. was the only heat prostration vie- | looking.” He | $10000 Series B. Mr. Binford jr] Khilé at work and was taken to City credited with being the first per. | Hospital for treatment.

tim yesterday.

H —William

He was 52

He aftracted national attention four fortunes during his career.

recently when he figured dealings with the Nazi government and Mexico.

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in 19 Society Indpls .... 3 Sports Inside

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... 18, 19/outbreak of the 2, 21: War, the million{State Deaths. 22 aire maintained

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| troops was a woman parachutist de'seribed as “23, blond and good The prisoner, it was said, was |powdering her face when she was {eaptured.

Was overcome

i (U0. P) loil offices throughout Europe. His known the refineries were located in Sweden, {Finland and Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Davis made and lost at least

Several months ago Mr. Davis] was named in Congressional debate as the bearer of peace proposals from Adolf Hitler. The story Shar a furore in diplomatic ecircles. After charges were made in the Senate that he had acted as an oil agent for the Axis powers and had returned from Berlin with a peace proposal Mr. Davis demanded a Senate . investigation. A hearing had been set and was pending be-

lof selectees. National Guardsmen

* OFFER IS SURPRISE

Two-and-Half Year Limit May Be Worked Out.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U.P) — Senate Administration leaders today worked on a compromised military service - extension measure that would authorize the Army to require a maximum of 2!¢ years’ service from selectees. : The compromise was advanced before an unscheduled meeting of the Military Affairs Committee as the Senate began its third day of general debate on a resolution declaring the national interest to he imperiled and authorizing retention

and reservists for duration emergency. ¢ Assistant Democratic leader Lister Hill (D. Ala), a member of the ‘Committee, told reporters that the proposal under discussion entailed retention of selectees for 18 months after their first year of service, making a total of 21; years. “We are trying to work out a time limit which will meet the needs of the present situation but which

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Mr. Davis

fore a committee at the time of hit death,

about to fall been forthcoming. For nearly a month German troops, according to the Nazi High Command, have been *“s but recently there has not even been any mention of fighting there,

- Follow-Up Prevented

What has happened, it now seems apparent, is that Nazi spearheads of armored columns cracked through to the advanced positions mentioned so frequently in Nazi war communiques until about three weeks ago. Then, the follow-up columns of infantry attempted to move in the path of the Panzer divisions and found the way blocked by big, intact Soviet forces. The German press which in recent days has been shifting its ate tention tore and more away from the Russian campaign to other topics, such as bitter attacks on President Roosevelt, today unleashed a scoffing blast at London, demanding to know why the British have not invaded the continent.

STUDY SOVIET PRIORITY WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U. P). —Administration officials are studying a: plan to give Russia priority on deliveries of certain types . of American munitions originally

will still be acceptable to the Army,” he said. ¥

ordered by this Government and Great Britain, it was learned today.

nding before Kiev,”

bombing of the gunboat Tutuila a Japanese effort may be under way to improve American relations. However, London indicated concern over Thailand. Tokyo announced that Thailand has granted diplomatic recognition to Manchukuo, part of the Japanese East Asia sphere and a Japanese spokesman attributed great significance to the action as indicating Thailand is falling into line with the Japanese bloc. British reports said that the Japanese hau offered Thailand the Indo-Chinese province of Laos and the ancient Cambodian capital of Angkor in exchange for military and naval bases and a virtual monopoly on Thailand's exports of rubber, rice and tin, However, a Thailand spokesman has denied any agreement with either Japan or Britain concerning military bases. The British issued lengthy statements on the reinforcement with American-made Brewster - Buffalo multi-gun fighting planes’ of their bases in Burma which would be threatened immediately by any Japanese move into Thailand. Japanese diplomats arriving in Japan from Moscow reported that

nd Tokyo reports indicated a quiet

FORESEES DOOM OF U. 3. SILK INDUSTRY

Textile Union Aid Urges Use Of Synthetics.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1:(U, P).— Representatives of the Textile Workers Union (C. I. O.) told defense officials today that the cur-

rent strained relations between Japan and the United States probably will kill off the silk industry in this country. Emil Rieve, president of the TWU, called upon a meeting of 60 labor and management representatives of the silk industry, the Army and the Navy, OPM, and the Office of Price | Administration and Civilian Suppy to explore possibility of making the United States non-dependent on Japanese silk imports by using American synthetic: yarns. He charged that Japanese inter=

Russian troops are being moved east to the Siberian front, .

ests have victimized American processors for years,

Ind., for casings:

found it to be just that,, They opened the cash registef and found & key to an automatie soft drink vendor, and they looted its cash box. 3 They looked further in the reg« ister and found the combi . to the safe, written on a piece o paper. They opened the safe and got $100. . ; an

MILK PRICES GO UP CENT A QUART TODAY

Milk prices went up a cent.§ quart in Indianapolis today. 3 Delivered milk went up from 12 t¢ 13 cents a quart and over-the-couns ter grocery milk went up from 11'te. 12 cents a quart. One-cent’ ine creases also went into effect om, milk pints-and cream half-pints.: - The price increase resulted fro an order of the State Milk Control Board increasing the prices diss tributors must pay dairymen fer. their Class 1 milk from $2.50 $@ $2.75 a hundredweight. x

GREENWOOD GETS C cp WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (U. PJ, —War Department gontracts: included an award of $677.396. t Noblitt-Sparks, Inc, Greeny