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FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; temperature this afternoon about 90.

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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 124

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1941

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Vichy Warned By U.S. As Nazi Pressure Stirs New Crisis

GERMAN MOVE ON DAKAR HINTED

Japan Defies American Oil Ban, Warns Of ‘Explosion’

I OVERCOME | Stocking Run FIGHTING FIRE | Silk Ru ’ on IN DRUG PLANT ere as yvomen Jam

Stores to Buy. THE GREAT SILK stocking : 1 “run” of August, 1941, was on in Battalion Chief Injured as Stubborn Blaze Sweeps Kendall Building.

Indianapolis, full-tilt catch-as-catch-can. As doors to downtown stores opened this morning, the women Seven firemen were overcome and a battalion chief was slightly injured last night in a two-alarm blaze at the plant of the C. B. Kendall & Co., pharmaceutical manufacturers, | which caused several thousand dollars damage. The fire started in the “dry” room of the Il4-months-old modernistic one-story building at 2039 Madison Ave, firemen said. The room is used to granulate and dry chemicals. Those overcome and sent to the hospital for treatment were Lieut. ! Arnold Phillips, John Carter and | John McHugh, all of Company 26, and John O'Leary of Company 17. Lieut Joseph Seyfried of Company | 29, William Ribble of Company 7! and Bernard Mullen of Company 26 | were treated at the scene of the fire. | Chief Keppel Injured | Battalion Chief Harvey Keppel received a lacerated hand and was! given first aid. ! Ten fire trucks, two battalion | chiefs and Chief Fred C. Kennedy | answered the alarm. The roar of | the police and fire sirens attracted | South Side residents, and Sergt. Michael Griffin of the Police Emer- | gency Squad, estimated the crowd of | spectators at nearly 3000. | Police averted a traffic jam by rerouting automobiles through alleys onto side streets. Extra help was called for by the police when traffic began to pile up. Plant to Resume |

The fumes from spilled and broken bottles of chemicals filled the] ib interior of the plant and permeated Store officials were forced to put

through the neighborhood when| Iain SlerS behind the Sountss firemen broke into the building. | ‘© fare for the trade and regulars and extras had a championship

Several firemen staggered to the by : {mor S 7OrK City Hospital ambulance to be re-| Morning's workout. c vived after coming out of the smok- Over the large department S stores, news of the day among

ny une rl in May. Clerks and employees in other dete bullding was x ._| bartments was the unprecedented 1940, and operations will be re- rush on silk hose sumed as soon as possible, C. B. New buying rushe wer < Kendall, 218 E. Pleasant Run Park- pected Monday Pods RAE C any president, said. He wea GURY, Seas Ine Way, company pt ¥ i first shopping day since Washingsaid he was unable to estimate the ton established the drastic sik amount of damage but that it priority r lings pT Fastic sik probably would reach several thou- y rpfuiey on mis sand dollars. st The United States consumes | about 400,000 bales of raw silk an-

! My. or 7 ¢ ol Have You Got a the world's A er ent uf Minute or Two?

comes from Japan. 2

| counters as the crow flies,

the counters were ringed with women, sometimes two deep, buying future stocks.

These legs, owned by an American Miss, are here seen wearing nylon hose. Owing to | the silk priorities, they probably will be encased in nylon or another silk substitute for some time, provided she can get the substitute. If not, chances are she’ll be a bare-legged Miss.

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Just Searing Japs? SOME OFFICIALS of Indianap-

FT. RILEY, Kas, Aug. (U. P).—A press release from the Army post here contained this story today: Two horseshoers who stuttered were making a horseshoe. After heating the metal, one placed it on the anvil “H-h-h-h-h-h-it said to his helper. * Wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-ere? » asked the assistant. “Aw, we'll h-h-have te h-h-h- | h-heat it again.”

93 WILL BE TOPS— FEEL THAT RELIEF?

TEMPERATURES

63 0am .... 8 63 Nam... ..8% 3 12 (neon) . 8% . 18 pm. .... 8%

If you regard weather with 93-de-gree maximum temperature as relief, then you are apt to enjoy two more days of relief from the heat.

have but the barest official details of the silk priority ruling from Washington, are not altogether convinced that the ruling is final and absolute. the one | Some cf them pointed out that | there are an estimated 88,000 bales

that would “weave an awful lot of parachutes.” They also pointed out that parachutes can be made from China silk and that those now made are (Continued on Page Two) i

PACKARD CELEBRATES PLANE WORK START

Notables Present as First

olis silk mills, while admitting they |

of silk in the country and that |

That's the official opinion of the Weather Bureau which predicts fair skies and about the same temperatures tonight and through tomorrow.

Air Motors Are Begun. DETROIT, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—The

Packard Motor Car Co. paused to- |

RAW SILK BAN TAKES EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT

Civilian Use Prohibited: Whole Supply Goes to Army and Navy.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P).— The United States ordered today that the use ot silk in the manufac[ture of hosiery and other civilian {items be abandoned in favor of pro- | duction of silk powder bags and parachutes for the Army and Navy.

The Office of Production Manlagement’s priorities division issued the order, effective at midnight tonight, after the Army and Navy [advised that their minimum requirements for silk during the next two years would equal stocks now on hand in the United States. The order will have the effect of! {throwing out of work approximately {175,000 employees in silk mills, which | will suspend civilian production when stocks of thrown silk—a semiprocessed stage ready for weaving or knitting—are consumed.

Imports Will Dwindle

Government action to halt civilian | production was taken after it had) become apparent that imports from | Japan, America’s chief source of) supply, would dwindle rapidly or cease altogether as result of the economic warfare between the Unitied States and Japan. There has been only one shipment of raw silk from Japan since | President Roosevelt last week ordered the freezing of Japanese assets in this country, a step which subjected Japanese trade here to istrict licensing. | While the liner Tatuta Maru was unloading a $3,000,000 silk shipment, the U. S. last night moved a step further in the warfare by tightean{ing controls over oil shipments tc |Japan. It was anticipated that the [Tokyo government would retaliate ‘by shutting off silk supplies to this

‘country. | Plan Price Ceiling | Because of speculation in raw silk futures on the New York com-| modity exchange, Price Control Ad- | ministrator Leon Henderson has] asked the suspension of all tradiny| and announced a price ceiling will be imposed soon on the commodity. Silk prices, he said, moved from $3.04 to $3.65 a pound within tive days recently. Officials said that plans are under way to expand the nation's production of synthetic fibers such as rayon and nylon.

ASSIGN 25 OFFICERS | TO ISLAND DEFENSES

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.P) .— The War Department today assigned | 25 officers, ranging from lieutenants {to lieutenant colonels, to strengthen | Army forces in the Philippines under command of Lieut. Cen. Douglas | A. MacArthur, | The groip includes seven field (artillery officers, consisting of four lieutenant colonels, a major, a cap[tain and a lieutenant. Three of the | lieutenant colonels and the major ‘will sail for the Philippines Sept.

18 from San Francisco. Others will sail Aug. 30. \

Hottelet Threatened

U. S. Writer Tells of

Life in Nazi Prisons

Lights by Secret Police.

With Use of Klieg

By RICHARD C. HOTTELET United, Press Staff Correspondent

i NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The doorbell rang at 7 a. m, on Saturday morning, March 15.

of Berlin apartment

Instead of the

plumber I expected, to fix a defective sink, I found seven men in the

hallway,

They crowded in immediately, ret police and told me to get dressed

tion tabs as members of the sec and come with them. They watched every movement as I washed and dressed. Despite my repeated questions they refused to say why I was wanted. Several of them took me downstairs while the others started to go through my desk and personal belongings. Although my roommate, Joseph W. Griggs Jr. appeared while they were taking me out, I wasn't allowed to speak to

| him.

I was taken by car to the old police presidium at the Alexanderplatz in the middle of Berlinn. A member of the secret police there informed me that I would have to be their “guest” probably over the week-end, until

| certain papers arrived from an-

other department. » »

Sour Cabbage

I WAS finger printed and photographed. Then I was placed in a cell in the police prison in the same building. My first prison lunch consisted of sour cabbage. That evening I was called up for preliminary questioning. Information as to why I was being held was refused. I also was refused reading matter and my eye glasses were taken from me “to prevent suicide.” My first formal questioning did not take place until the following Tuesday. Those first three days were the hardest and longset I ever spent. I spent the time looking out the window, which I could just do by standing on the one stool in the cell, and reading the various inscriptions on the wall. I was not allowed to sit or lie on

until 4:30 in the evening. This, at first, was annoying after weary weeks of solitary confinement. However, I came to welcome the prohibition. It gave me something to look forward to every afternoon,

{ when even the unexpected opening

of the cell door was a real pleasure. .» Cheese a Treat

THE WEATHER was cold and the heating inadequate. I wore the hat, overcoat and gloves in

which I had been taken to Alexanderplatz. The prison windows were not blacked out; therefore no artificial light ever was turned on. In this prison the daily breakfast was a piece of dry black bread and ersatz coffee. Lunch consisted of bean, noodle or barley soup or a sour brew of dehydrated carrots. Dinner was again dry black bread and ersatz coffee, with a piece of cheese added as a special treat on Saturdays only. Occasionally jam (Continued on Page Two)

FRENCH URGED 70 BLOCK NEW AXIS INTRIGUE

Deal With Japan Was Blow At U. S. Security, Welles Reminds Vichy.

showed their little metal identifica-

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Richard C. Hottelet, Brooklyn | born United Press Correspondent spent almost four months in | Berlin jails, charged with suspic- | ion of espionage. He was released on July 8, exchanged for a Ger- | man prisoner in the United States and arrived in New York yesterday aboard the naval transport | West Point.

REFUSE TO ABANDON JOINT INCOME ISSUE

the cot from 6:30 in the moming |

House Committee Rejects Proposal by F. D. R.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U. P).— The House Ways and Means Committee today rejected a formal request by President Roosevelt to eliminate the mandatory joint hus-band-wife income tax return provision of the pending $3,529,200,000 tax bill. It was reported that Mr. Roosevelt urged the committee to abandon the controversial joint hus-band-wife income tax return provision now contained in the bill and acceptance of the Treasury's decomputed only by the capital method. Experts estimated that abandonment of the joint income tax return provision would cut about $300,000,000 from the bill's estimated annual yield. Elimination of the alternative average earnings method of computing excess profits taxes, as proposed by the Treasury, would more than make up for this, howlever.

Brenda (Alligator) Dines on Shypoke but | Pat, Allezoop, Gives All Food the Bird

By JOE COLLIER

That old southern belle, Brenda, eats a full-grown shypoke at one | inelegant gulp, but she evens up | by not eating many of them. Brenda, of course, is the alli-

was to

Yesterday at 3:30 p. m. the temper- day to celebrate start of A oe compared to the! of 12-cylinder 99s ar s of the last week J Beavis zi : Yesterday only one heat victim | Rages Silane FOES Jo by 5a was reported to police. She was| British air forces, just 10 months Bessie Kennedy, Flackville, who col- after first contracts were awarded. lapsed at Pennsylvania and Wash- | An International broadcast and ington Sts, and was taken to the 2D inspection tour of Packard's new home of a relative at 1028 N. Key- $30,000,000 aircraft engine plant by stone Ave. | 500 distinguished guests, were to {highlight the program. | Director - General William S. Knudsen of the OPM, Brig.-Gen. George H. Brett, chief of the Army Air Corps, and Sir Henry Self, chief jof the British Air Commission, were [to help dedicate the plant, erected jon the same plot of earth where 10 Packard built the famed Liberty Clapper ~«vevv- Glairplane engine during the last Comics ......14 Obituaries ....12/ World War. > Crossword ...12 Pegler The international broadcast, startEditorials ; 9 ing at 5:05 p. m. (Indianapolis Fashions S Questions .. 9, 10 Time) will include addresses by Mrs. Ferguson 10 Radio 11 Lord Halifax, British ambassador, Financial 11 Mrs. Roosevelt. 9 from Washington; an RAF combat Flynn 10 Serial Story..14 pilot from London: Wing-Com-Forum ........10 Side Glances 10 mander Ernie McNabb, Canada's ace Gallup Poll ... 9 Society --4.5 of the current war, from Windsor. In Indpls .... 3 Sports .. ... 6. 7'0nt. and Packard President M.°M. Inside Indpls.. 9.State Deaths. .12 Gilman, from the huge plant,

production

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Churches

liquid-cooled Rolls!

| gator which presented | Mayor Sullivan by the Jacksonville, Fla, contingent of the Shriners at convention time, and which Mayor Sullivan lost no time in turning over to Andy Miller. Since then another alligator, Allezoop, has been entrusted to Andy's care and is the constant, but lethargic, companion of Brenda in their cage at Lake Sullivan. It has been only in the last three weeks that Andy has been able to get Brenda to eat anything. He tried hamburger, liver and fish, but it was no dice. Brenda moped and refused to budge a jaw. He tried bread and other delicacies, but Brenda wouldn't bare a fang. Then, one happy day, he decided to try a shypoke, and Brenda came to life and the shypoke came to grief. A shypoke is a little water bird which catches fish. A shypoke HAS to catch fish to live, and this ingrained habit runs precisely counter to what ‘the State Fish and Game ent has to do.

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U, P.).— The United States today sharply | warned the Vichy Government that (future Ameriacn relations with { France will be guided by the degree lof resistance which France shows {to the Axis powers in French terri- | tories. | Acting Secretary of State Sumner | | Welles sounded the warning in a| formal statement which he read to] la press conference. | Growing out of the French pact ‘which gave Japan access to Indo-| [China, Mr. Welles described that!

{move as a threat to American se-

| curity. The statement also apparently |was aimed at preventing. if possi- | ble, any | situation.

HITLER LOSES

2 DIVISIONS OF

PRIZED

TROOPS

‘Annihilated,” Reds Say in Claiming Break-

down of Blitz; Norway Under Martial Law as Unrest Spreads.

War News on Inside Pages

Italians Issue Funny Money Details of Pighting .....c..cc:0 wie Tokyo Angry

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

Adolf Hitler—his blitz forces bogged down after six

change in French African weeks’ terrific battle in Russia and facing rising tension in

| There has been agitation in the Occupied Europe—today appeared to be touching off new alarms involving French naval bases in Africa and Japan's

{inspired Paris press that Vichy turn! |over bases in vitally strategic North | land West Africa to some other European power—presumably Germany. | Recalls French Pledges | The Welles statement recalled the pledges of the French Government! (to maintain its territory against any aggression. It recalled aiso that

role in the Far East.

Smashing battles were r

in which Soviet reports said

eported on the Russian Front that two Nazi infantry divie

sions of about 30,000 men were wiped out and two regie

‘ments, one an armored force,

French forces had not resisted the]

|activities of Italian and German | troops in Syria but had resisted] (when Britain attempted to take de- | | fensive action there. “This government, mindful of its traditional friendship for Franca.” ithe statement sympathized with the desire nf the French people to maintain rheir [territories and to preserve them intact. “In its relations with the French government at Vichy and with the local French authortiies in French territories, the United States will {be governed by the manifest efiec{tiveness with which those authori-| |ties endeavor to protect these ter-| |vitoris from domination and con-| {trol by those powers which are seeking to extend their rule by force and conquest or by the threat thereof.” | The United States, the statement /said, has now received definite in- | formation of the terms of the agree- | {ment between the French and Jap- | {anese governments for the so-called |

Developments:

were crushed.

A strange new crisis gripped Vichy with indications the

bases in Africa, presumably

| Germans may be demanding control of strategic French naval

including Dakar, and possibly

said, “has deeply return of Pierre Laval to the Government.

Japan’s Attitude More Menacing

Japan's attitude took a suddenly more menacing tone, A Cabinet minister said only a “spark” was needed to touch’

off an explosion.

London reported heavy Japanese troop movements to

front facing Siberia,

Such maneuvering contained the threat of an attack

on Vladivostok, the Russian

port to which any American

supplies for the Soviets presumably would be shipped.

There were indications Thailand (Siam) has already

that Japanese infiltration of started.

German accounts insisted that a great new “annihilae

tion” battle had started sou

th of Kiev and that Russian

{“common defense” of French Indo- forces encircled east of Smolensk are being further come

China.

U. S. Security Involved “In effect, this agreement virtu-|

pressed. The Official News Agenc

y admitted heavy new Soviet

lally turns over to Japan an im- tank attacks have been launched on the Central Front.

{Mr. Welles said. | That means, he added, [France has given territory

| portant part of the French Empire}

that to a country with definite territorial as-|

{the vital problem of American security.” The action of France in permit-| ting foreign troops togenter an ‘‘integral part” of her ‘empire is “beyond the scope of any known agree- |

| its Japan to occupy bases whence she might conduct operations di-

Russian reports said the

mands that excess profits taxes be Pirations and it creates a situation | armored division. invested | Which “has a direct bearing upon

Leningrad was said to danger.

253d and 137th German infane

try divisions have been smashed as well as the 11th motors ‘ized regiment and the anti-aircraft regiment of the 16th

be in no immediate military

Censorship Is Heavy at Vichy

Events at Vichy appeared to have reached a state ment,” the statement said, and per- unique even for that recurrently crisis-stricken capital.

Censorship was so heavy

the correspondents could only.

rected against “other peoples friend- hint at the nature of the trouble but it was strongly suge

|1y to the people of France.”

SECRECY ASKED FOR |

FOR OGEAN CRUISE

Trip to Be Considered as

tive demands for an arran

| ested that the Germans have submitted virtual ultimae |g

gement to “protect” French

African bases in the same manner that Japan is “protecting”

French Indo-China. (Columbia Broadcasting System heard a British radio report that Germany is seek-

4000 STOP WORK ON

‘ iin? ing to induce Vichy to hand S Naval Operation. lover the French fleet and iY OHIO WAR PLANT WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U, P).—! African bases of Dakar, Casa-| i White House Secretary Stephen T.| . { clanca and Algiers.)

Brenda and Allezoop . . , enjoy a good laugh.

It has to keep fish. So the Fish and Game Department kills the shypokes to save the fish and Brenda eats the shypokes. In all, Brenda has eaten two shypokes, at a quarter of a pound each, and one shiner, which couldn't have weighed more than a quarter pound. Thus, her diet has been three-quarters of a pound in nearly two months. That, ladies and gentlemen, is not quite a diet.

But, compared to All J op, she's

a glutton who very soon will have tail gout or die of intemperance. Allezoop, given the City by Edward May, 1827 Singleton St. hasn't eaten anything since last fall. Not a bite! What's more, Allezoop can look a shypoke full in the face and not make so much as a dietary pass at it Andy says this isn't so good. Allezoop must eat. And if he doesn’t within a day or two, Andy is going to force food down his gullet,

| Early said today that the public will] not be kept informed on details of An unusual feature of the

President Roosevelt's vacation cruise off the New England Coast. Mr. Roosevelt will make the cruise aboard the Presidential yacht Potomac, Mr. Early said, and “the movement of the ship will be a confidential] naval operation” from the time it leaves New London, Conn. tomorrow, until it returns. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox simultaneously made the same assertion to a press conference, and appealed to newspapers not to attempt to follow or molest the chief executive during the trip. “I can assure you that it is a purely rest or vacation trip,” Mr. Knox said, “and I ask the newspapers not to display any enterprise in attempting to follow him or speculate his whereabouts. Mr. Early said the President will cruise on a day-to-day basis and | will be ready to return to Washing(ton at any time should new de- | velopments in the tense international situation warrant. The PresiJent’s special train will be held at! “=r london readyy:ito bring him - wv va S03 - 4

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Vichy crisis was the presence there of Eugene Deloncle, a firebrand direct-actionist supporter of Germany who once

played a leading part in the notorious Gagoulard Fascist conspiracy before the outbreak of the war,

The most notable sign of unrest on the Continent came from Norway where the German occupying authorities were forced to declare a martial law, due to the turbulent state of the population, There have been increasing signs of Nazi nervousness over Norway where the populace hds been most restive against Nazi occupation and where the danger of British raids onto the Continent is considered greatest. The British “V” campaign took a new turn when citizens of occupied countries were urged to buy up all stocks of food and goods in ~.ores to keep them out of the hands of the Garmone, 4

‘Ask Double for Overtime And Wage Increases.

SANDUSKY, O., Aug. 2 (U. P.).—= Shortly after 2000 construction workers at the $32,000,000 ammunition plant near here started a “‘labop holiday,” officials at the nearly coms pleted $40,000,000 shell loading plant a Ravenna, O., about 125 miles southeast of here, reported that 2000 workmen had quit work there.

All participants in the work stop pages are members of Building Trades Crafts of the American Fede eration of Labor. - William Everett, president of the Carpenters Union Local (A. F, of L.) at the ammunition plant, said 600 union members had been ore dered to take a “vacation” to ene force demands for wage increases, but denied there was a strike, Capt. Frank N. Ray, construction quartermaster on the project, said 1400 other members of A. F. of L. building trades organizations had refused to work on Saturdays and Sundays unless they were paid double time for all in excess of 49 | hours weekly A