Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1941 — Page 1

Page PDF (9.94 MB)

Back to issue view

Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Fair this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. Little change in temperature. Highest about 92 today.

VOLUME 53—NUMBER 1:

Heat Causes

MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1941

Loss Of 10 Per Cent In C

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

ounty’s Corn Crop

FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

RUSSO-JAPANESE BATTLE RUMORED |

Red Column Smashed by German Artillery Fire eo HEAVIER TOLL

LOOMS IF RAIN

This welier of shattered vehicles, dead men and horses, is the result of accurate German heavy artillery fire on a Soviet transport column, according to the German caption accompanying this radiophoto, flashed from Berlin today.

REICH'S PINGERS

TURNED ON KIEV

City in No Danger, Claim Russians: Wheat Mostly Harvested.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press S(aff Correspondent

German forces started a new pincers attack toward Kiev today and fought fiercely to break Russia’s stubborn resistance in the vital Smolensk sector, 235 miles from Moscow. Nazi reports claimed that swift German-Hungarian forces cut Soviet rail communications in the Kiev defense area and the Russians admitted that the two arms of the German pincers now are at

Nazis Execute All Men In Village That Resisted

Five Cretan Lives Exacted for Each Slain German: Boy, 15. and Aged Man Among Victims.

Another uncensored story of Greece in Irons,

By GEORG

E WELLER

ATHENS. —The harvest is good the Cretan villages that fell under it will rot in the fields. There are

this year in Christomathos, one of the German parachute attack, but not enough hands to pick it.

When the parachutists came down with their tommyguns blazing, the Cretans went out to meet them. They had few rifles. because the

Metaxas government (of the late

WAY FUND BILL

sten, 90 miles west northwest, and|

Tserkov, 50 miles south of the Ukraine capital. But Moscow indicated that Kiev was in no imminent danger and reported the destruction of additional Nazi forces in the bloody Smolensk battlefields. Some London aqbservers believed the Germans, stalled on the central and northern fronts, have staked their chances for a quick victory

Belava southwest.

over Russia upon the new Ukraine]

British military the drive thus

However, said that

attack. experts

far has not picked up great momen- |

tum. flammable Now

It was noted in Ankara that the German drive has gotten underway so Jate that the Russians have been able to garner most of the rich wheat harvest of the area and what has not been harvesied now is dry enough to burn if necessary to prevent it falling into German hands.

The Russians were putting up stiff |

opposition to the new German attack and reported that two German regiments had been destroyed in fighting on the Ukraine Front. Berlin admitted that Russian {Continued on Page Two)

DENY ST. BERNICE'S PLANT SITE REJECTED

WASHINGTON. Aug. 4 (U. P) —|

Informed Office of Production Management sources said today that a site near St. Bernice, Ind., has not been rejected as a location for a Government smokeless powder plant. It was understood the site, near Terre Haute, might be selected soon for one of the ordnance units. Reports previously had been circulated selection of a site near Choteau, Okla. for a $51,000,000 smokeless powder plant precluded selection of the Indiana site.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

9! Millett 11

15 Movies .......

Clapper «..ae. Comics

5 7

Fails to Meet Critical Needs | Of Defense, He Says.

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today vetoed a | bill authorizing $259,000,000 of dehighway construction on

ferrse grounds that it apportioned the]

bulk of the funds among the states | | without regard to actual defense needs. In his veto message to the Senate. the President wrote that critical deficiencies in highways and bridges for defense purposes ‘cannot be (reasonably related to the populaition of the states or the other {factors which enter into ordinary { apportionment.” The measure originally was intended to authorize only highway construction needed in connection with the defense program, including the building of airplane landjing strips adjacent to some of the | roads. As passed by the Senate and House the measure apporticned |$125,000,000 of the authorized funds jamong all the states on the same 50-50 Federal-State matching basis jas provided for under the regular Federal-aid Road Act. The President said this would necessitate appropriation of a far larger sum to meet immediate defense needs than would be necessary if the funds were applied to critical deficiencies without the apportionment method and that “the most critical deficiencies in some areas might not be corrected even ih the sum authorized in this

KETCHUM RE-NAMED AS BUDGET CHIEF

C. Anderson Ketchum has been recommissioned for a four-vear term as State Budget Director by Governor Schricker. The recommissioning was made necessary because of a “little ripper” bill passed by the last Legislature. Mr. Ketchum was the Democratic nominee for lieuten-ant-governor in the general elec-

Crossword ... 14 Obituaries ... Editorials .... 10 Pegler Mrs, Ferguson i0 Photography .. Financial .. 4 Pyle 10 Questions

10} 2| 9

. 10} 13! Gallup Poll... 9 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Homemaking . 12 Serial Story. § 15, In Indpls..... 9 Side Glances.. 9! Inside Indpls.. 9 Society + Hi} Jane Jordan.. 11 Sports....... 8,7 Johnson ..... 10 State Deaths. 17!

tion last fall.

HOOSIER DIES AT 109

VALPARAISO, Ind, Aug. 4 (U. P) —John J. McCafferty died today at the age of 109 years. He was born at Sauk Center, Wis. Oct. 7. 1831. and served in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. For many years he was a blacksmith.

I EEE 5. a

ROOSEVELT VETOES HIGH

Koro-|

Dictator Gen. John Metaxas) had for their antiroyalist sympathies, but they had knives and sickles. | Before they were overcome, they gave as good an account of themselves as the middle ages could in fighting against the blitzkrieg, The parachutists passed on, leaving five dead. On the fourth day after the island was in German hands a detachment of soldiers headed by an officer, with a captured Greek army surgeon as interpreter, came up from Canea to Christomathos, The Germans called the village population to assemble in the little square. Almost all were wom-

{ en and children.

Round Up Village Men

“WHERE ARE your asked the German officer. “There are not many left.” “I need 25 men. I want men that are strong and healthy. None younger than 18 and none older than 42.” Only 16 men could be found within these age limits. They sidled curiously into the square, and were counted. “Not enough,” said the German officer. “I must have the full count of 25. I will extend the age limit from 16 to 55. Twenty-three were found and by including one boy of 15 and (Continued on Page Two)

Nothing Cowes These Thieves

MIDDLETOWN, R. I. Aug. 4 (U. P.).—The Newport creamery milk bar reported today that somebody had climbed to its plant roof and made off with a three-foot, gold-plated cow, valued at $100.

men?”

DELPHI, Ind, Aug. 4 (U. P). — “Raiding” planes will circle over this city tonight and bombs will thunder as Delphi citizens participate in In-

diana’s first “war blackout.” When the siren at the Armory sounds the warning of a mock air raid, all lights will be turned off. Traffic will be halted. In a silent, ark city, residents will await the “bombers.” Every precaution will be taken to prevent showing of any lights which might guide the foe from the air. For 30 minutes before the “enemy” is expected, Boy Scouts, State Policemen, American Legion members

and state guard members will patrol |

MARSH NAMED COUNTY TAG AID

Businessman Is Appointed Assistant Manager By Bradford.

W. Harrison Marsh, operator of concession stands at three city |parks, was named assistant man- | ager of the Marion County auto {license branches today by James | Bradford, G. O. P. county chairman. Mr. Bradford, who recently was | handed the lucrative job of managing all county branch offices by Sec(retary of State James Tucker, said {he had selected Mr. Marsh as his | assistant because of his wide business experience. | The new assistant manager, who {lives at 5225 N. Capitol Ave., operates concession stands at Garfield, ! Ellenberger and Riverside Parks. He thas not been particularly active in |G. O. P. affairs. Mr. Bradford announced that permanent county license branch headquarters would be set up in the offices of the Consolidated Finance Corp.. 111 N. Pennsylvania St.

Republicans Substituted

Year-round license branch offices also are to be continued at the offices of Jones & Maley, Inc, 2421 E. Washington St., and the North Side Chevrolet, 836 E. 63d St.—branches which 'were set up by the Democrats, Mr. Bradford said. Republican personnel will be substituted for the Democratic personnel at these offices. : As most auto licenses needed this late in the year are purchased at the State House, Mr. Bradford said the 20 temporary county branch of(Continued on Page Two)

| Li ‘A. F. OF L. COUNCIL © MEETS AT CHICAGO

CHICAGO, Aug. 4 (U. P).—The American Federation of Labor executive council begins its regular summer meeting today with labor problems related to the national defense program at the top of the agenda. President William Green was to |open the meeting with a report on the defense program. The A. F. of L. said its no-strike policy in defense industries had been “99 per cent effective.” The council also will consider unemployemnt caused by shortages of materials in some industries.

Delphi Will Fight Off ‘Bombers’ Tonight In Indiana's First War Blackout Test

the city to enforce the blackout order. Every citizen of this city of 2000 persons has received printed instructions, telling him just what to do when the town is “attacked.” But when the raiders “discover” the town despite the blackout precautions, and they fly over the’ city, huge 75 millimeter guns from Purdue University will blast shells into the sky as searchlights on the courthouse lawn pierce the darkness in an attempt to spot the planes for the gunners. Realism will be added when dynamite bombs will be detonated by (professional dynamite handlers at the edge of the city.

DOESN'T COME

General Outlook Is Good in| Mid-West, But Moisture Is Needed Soon.

Heat and dry weather have] caused a loss of about 10 per cent of Marion County's 40,000 acres of corn with another] 65 per cent suffering varying degrees of damage, County Agricultural Agent Horace Abbott said today. At Lafayette, Purdue University statisticians began revising their State corn crop estimate which on July 1 predicted a bumper yield of 47 bushels an acre.

M. M. Justin, Purdue chief statistician, said the July 1 estimate depended on normal rainfall the last two weeks of last month, and “we didn’t get it.”

General Outlook Good

From Chicago, surveys of the entire Corn Belt showed that the outlook appeared the best since 1920 “if rain falls within 10 days.” | If the rains do come, the chances are favorable for a bumper return of $2,000.000,000.

TEMPERATURES ‘%0 10 a.m. .. tam ....88 12 (noon) ..

The survey showed that soil moisture reserves in the Corn Belt states were near exhaustion. Heat | damage also was reported in southern Illinois, southeastern Nebraska and east-central Missouri. These sections also need rain “immediately,” while the others must have it within 10 days. Mr. Abbott said continued drought would increase the 10 per cent “loss” acreage because the crop is in its most critical stage—the stage in which the development of the ears| is at stake.

Many Hauling Water

But the Weather Bureau was not encouraging. It predicted fair weather today and tomorrow with not much change in temperature. July was added to the list of months | deficient in rainfall, showing a total] {of 1.22 inches against a normal of {3.34 inches. Mr. Abbott explained that the damage to Marion County corn has varied with the fertility of the soil. In some of the most fertile land there has been practically no damage whatsoever, he said. Continued dry weather will make the ears smaller and the grains tinier, he pcinted out. The acute

stage will continue for another | month, Mr. Abbott said. The farmers, however, were reported to be worried more by the dried wells and the resulting lack of water for their livestock. Many have been forced to haul water to their farms.

38 REPORT AT FORT FOR ADVANCE TEST

New Plan Gives Draftees 30-Day Notice.

Eighty-eight men from Marion and Howard Counties reported to Ft. Harrison today for the new type of Selective Service physical examination designed to give draftees at least 30 days notice that the Army wants them.

may be extended later to other parts of the State. . The 34 Marion County men being examined today are all from County Board 12. A total of 108 registrants will report for physical examinations at the fort tomorrow and 137 Wednesday.

State-wide interest has been aroused in the plans for the blackcut test here. Citizens in charge have endeav-

ored to make the event purely a defense effort, avoiding the appearance of a show or celebration. A crowd of visitors is not wanted, but a large one is expected. Despite the mock warfare, it was pointed out, the Army has nothing to do with the test. At the controls of the “bombers” will be Bob Kemp of Lafayette and Capt. L. I. Aretz of Purdue University. The fliers will report on the effectiveness of the blackout.

Merle Oberon in Hot Water After Broadcast in Canada

Australian Actress Returns

Without Permit; Faces Ellis Isle Quiz.

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (U. P).— Merle Oberon, Australian-born film actress, was ordered to appear at Ellis Island today because she failed to obtain a re-entry permit when she went to Toronto for a radio program. Miss Oberon was questioned by immigration officials at La Guardia Field after her arrival from Toronto at 2 a. m. She was permitted finally to go to her Manhattan hotel with instructions to appear at Ellis Island later in the day. Miss Oberon participated yesterday in a broadcast designed to stimulate Canada's war effort.

¥ i r ¥

TOKYO CLAIMS SIBERIAN WAR 1S INPOSSIBLE

1500 Are Reported Killeds Nipponese Halt Ship Sailings to U. S. By UNITED PRESS } Persistent though uncon firmed reports circulated toe day that Japanese and Ruse sian forces engaged in larges« scale fighting along the Amuz River frontier of Manchukuo

Merle Oberon

Up and Over in Wild Auto Ride

AT 6:30 A. M. yesterday two pedestrians in the 1400 block Massachusetts Ave. saw a car go out of control, skid 140 feet along the pavement, go up on to the Big Four tracks and then roll over and over down the 155-foot embankment on the other side. Then they saw Arthur Nash, 22, of 2146 N. Gale St., get out of the car, look at it a moment and walk rapidly away. Police later found out that Mr. Nash, who owned the car, was not even scratched.

BLUE REQUESTS AID OF CHURCHES

He's Convinced That Some Enforcement Officials Are Negligent.

Prosecutor Sherwood Blue has called upon church and civic groups to assist his office in the “campaign to rid Marion County of vice conditions.” In a talk at the Brightwood Methodist Church yesterday, Mr. Blue urged the people of the community “to make right living a part of their personal obligation.”

“Those persons among us who ig- state

HOUSE ACTS ON TAX BILL TODAY

Committee Won't Back Down on Joint Returns, Predicts Victory. -

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P.. —The House Ways and Means Committee today rejected proposals to substitute higher income surtaxes for the mandatory joint husbandwife income tax return provision of the $3,529,200,000 tax bill, should this requirement be eliminated by the House. Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) announced after a special meeting of the committee that no plan will be offered to raise the $310,000,000 that would be lost in new revenue if the mandatory joint return provision is defeated. He predicted, however, that the House would retain the provision despite the opposition of President Roosevelt and the Democratic leadership.

Shun Dingell Plan

The Committee considered and defeated a proposal by Rep. John D. Dingell (D. Mich.) to give all taxpayers the benefits accorded those in the nine community-prop-erty states, where a family income may be divided in half and one each reported by husband and wife. To extend this benefit to all the

s would have so reduced the

nore and disregard law violations yield from the proposed new inand who refuse to notify enforce-| come levies that surtaxes far in ex-

ment officers of all violations are as morally culpable for the violation as are the original transgressors,” Prosecutor said.

“I am convinced that within our |provision and three minor own county some law enforcement| mittee amendments will be the only]

| cess recommendations would have had

of the original Treasury

the to have been levied.

The vote on the mandatory joint com-

officials have been guilty of negli-| ones allowed before final action is gence. I believe they have known of [taken on the tax bill, possibly late

liquor violations and have deliber-|today.

ately ignored the offenses. It seems impossible that there can exist places known is bootlegging establishments, gambling places and houses of ill fame without law enforcement egencies knowing about them.” In Municipal Court today, Judge ro Tem George Rinier disposed of two cases resulting from vice raids by police yesterday. John Puolos, 34, of the Stubbins Hotel, who was charged with keeping a gaming house, following a raid in the 100 block of S. Illinois St. was released by Judge Rinier because the “affidavits were not signed.” Eleven other persons charged with visiting a gaming house also were released. James Presley, 41, was convicted

of violating the 1935 Beverages Act

F. D. R, AND ADMIRAL

and was fined $200 and costs. A large quantity of beer was confis-

cated in the raid in the 1700 block

of Boulevard Place. The case of Tom Dillon and 12 others, charged with violating gam-

The new plan is being tested in jyjing jaws June 21 when police raid- | central Indiana during August and ed a club on W. Maryland St. was continued again until Sept. permit one of the Prosecutor's staff

10 to

to return from his vacation.

Housewife Wins Novel Contest

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (U.P) .— Mrs. William D. English of Beverly, Mass, who started writing six years ago in the hope that she

would earn enough to pay a maid to do her housework, is the winner of the $10,000 1940-41 Harper Prize Novel contest. She writes under her maiden name, Judith Kelly. Her prize winning novel, “Marriage is a Private Affair,” is her second published work. Her first, “It Won't Be Flowers,” came out, in 1936. “I remember how when I began writing, I promised myself that I would efficiently stagger babies and books—one of a kind on alternate years,” she said. “Six years have passed and there are only two children and two books. My hope is to do much, much better in the next six.” Mrs. English’s husband is a Bosfon lawyer,

The joint return proposal is the only cue in controversy.

Roosevelt Loses Plea

Besides his request for modification of the joint returns provision, Mr. Roosevelt's last-minute appeal asked lower personal exemptions and computation of excess profits taxes on the basis of capitalization rather than average earnings. All three of his suggestions were rejectéd by Rep. Doughton. Mr: Roosevelt asked a lowering of the exemption for single persons from $800 to $750 and for married couples, from $2000 to $1800. He believed that low income groups “are willing and proud to chip in” on the cost of defense.

MAY MEET AT SEA

President's Yacht Cruises Off New England.

NEW LONDON, Conn., Aug. 4 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt rode the Presidential yacht Potomac through smooth seas off southern New England today on the first leg of a vacation cruise that may terminate with a sea rendezvous with Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, commander of the Atlantic Fleet. When the Potomac slipped out of the submarine station at New London last night, its whereabouts be- | came secret. Mr. Roosevelt was at sea for the rest, seeking long, unbroken sleep and deep sea fishing.

NEW BABY RETARDS . NATIONAL DEFENSE

NEW BRIGHTON, Minn. Aug. 4 (U. P.).—A baby has retarded work on an important national defense project. Residents. of a tract on which a $30,000,000 small arms ammunition plant is to be built were ordered to evacuate by midnight Sunday. But Army officials gave Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Tiller, to whom a son was born last week, until Wednesday to

and Siberia. Foreign military intelligence offie (cers in Shanghai heard the reports, | Which included a story that the {Japanese had suffered 1500 casuale ties during the week-end. Up to this afternoon, however, they had not been able to confirm

the rumors and a Japanese Army spokesman caid such a clash was “impossible in present circums= stances.” The foreign military men, hows ever, did not consider fighting ime possible, since it had been known that Japan was heavily reinforcing its army along the Amur River and a series of scouting operations by both sides, which might lead to clashes, had been regarded as likely,

Many Americans Stranded

There was no doubt about a sece ond story from the Far East—that Japan had suspended all ship sails ings to the United States indefie nitely. This order virtually isolated many Americans and other fore eigners. More than 100 Americans who had been scheduled to sail Thursday on the liner Nitta Maru had already disposed of their homes, furniture, automobiles and reserve food supplies. They were faced with the probe lem of living in Japan with their credits “frozen” and with a food situation which reports through strict censorship indicate is bee coming sericus,

Tatuta Maru Speeds Home

On the American West Coast, the much-delayed Japanese luxury liner Tatuta Maru sailed for home today with 350 passengers, mostly Jajanese, and no cargo except 1577 barrels of lubricating oil. She was in such a hurry te get faway that the Government ordered | ner to unload a three-million dole {lar silk cargo for which no paye iment can be remitted to Japan bee cause of the Government's “freeze ing” orders. Eighteen court suits had been filed against minor items in hep cargo by the firms to which they had been consigned and to prevent delay in her sailing, Tokyo ordered the entire cargo unloaded, adding a month’s normal supply of | silk to low and frozen U. S. stocks.

More Silk at Seattle

A $830000 silk cargo was dumped at Seattle by the passene ger freighter Heian Maru, which is sailing for Japan with no cargo and just enough oil to get back. Ten Japanese oil tankers were ree ported hove to off the coast and there was no word from the 17,000« ton Asmara Maru, which left Hono lulu Friday with 140 passengers and another $3,000,000 silk cargo. Shipe ping men feared she would turn back to Honolulu, put off the pase sengers and take her cargo back to Japan. ! It was understood that Japanese sailings would be suspended also to South America pending clarification of the attitude of South American republics toward Japan.

Newspapers Pessimistic

Japanese newspapers took an ine cerasingly pessimistic view of Jape anese-American relations and eme phasized alleged British, American and Chinese attempts to “encircle” Japan with Russia's aid. The newse paper Asahi took the view that there was no room left for improvement in Japanese-American relations. The rising food crisis in Japan ape parently was aggravated by the sees vere’ typhoon which hit the country a fortnight ago. Agriculture Minister Hiroyasu Ito, after a tour of the flood zones in Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures, said he was much surprised at the extent of the crop damage.

2 DEMOCRATS GIVEN STATE LABOR POSTS

State Labor Commissioner Thomas R. Hutson today announced the ape pointment of Charles Lahrman, 733 E. 11th St., as a boiler inspector, and J. Roy Bolds, Anderson, as a statise tician in the labor department. Both are Democrats. Mr. Lahpa man headed the labor division of the Marion County Democratic Central Committee during the last election and was a candidate for State Repe resentative.

NAVY BEGINS 63 NEW SHIPS WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U,. P).~= The Navy announced that lask month 34 naval vessels were launched and 63 new keels were laid,