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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 128

Rumors Of Heavy Losses Apparently Causing

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941

Entered as Sccond-Olass Matter at Potsoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

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DUCE’S SON DIES IN PLANE CRASH |

22,000 Defense Workers Idle In Eastern Shipyard Disputes

Strikers at the Federal Shipbuilders and Drydock Co. Kearny, N. J, are shown as they stopped the

aute of an emplovee trying to ente

ties up $450.000.000 worth of warships.

TIEUP LARGEST SINCE CALLING OF EMERGENCY

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‘Naval Construction Halts

At Huge New Jersey, Brooklyn Plants.

By UNITED PRESS

The C. I. O. Shipbuilders Union

| called a “holiday” for §000 members fat two Brooklyn shipyards today and declared a strike of 16,000 work5 | ers on $450.000.000 worth of defense | shipbuilding at Kearney, N. | “completely effective.” f The Kearny strike affects the : | second largest shipyards in the East f | and is the biggest shipbuilding tieup {since the President's limited emer- { gency proclamation. Seriousness of the work stoppage {was indicated by the full executive session of the National Defense | Mediation Board to consider the | dispute. The Board received the case July

r the plant. The strike, called by the C. I. 0, affects 16,000 men and

CITY TAX RATE

MAY SET RECORD

Granting of All Budget Requests Would Require $1.44 Per $100.

Br RICHARD LEWIS Outwardly, the City Hall is calm these August afternoons. Iv, however, a financial disturbance of grave proportions is building up under pressure of budge! demands. If all requests for increased expenditures next vear are met, the Civil City tax rate now $1.26 will jump 18 cents for an all-time high of $1.44 on each $100 of taxable property. The tentative City budget propriation for next year $8.000.000, about $1.000.000 than this year. At least $380000 of the increase is expected to be provided by gas tax. The remaining $620000 would | be raised by property tax levy. With one cent raising an estimated $32000 next vear, it would take at least 13 cents to provide the $620.000 In addition, there is expected to be a deficit at the end of this year totaling $311000. If this is met next year, it will require at least 6 cents in the levy. The deficit is a carrvover from the $600.000 deficit which wis discovered last vear through the City's million dollar budget error. Rigid economies enforced by Mavor Sullivan and City Controller James E. Deervy have whittled down the (Centinwed on Page Four)

Check on Health

Of Joan Fontaine

BALTIMORE. Aug. ¥ (U.P) — Joan Fontaine, motion picture star, consulted with physicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital today after having been flown here from Philadelphia by her actor-hus-band, Brian Aherne. Aherne said his wife “has not been feeling particularly well lately and we decided to hop down here from Philadelphia to have her condition diagnosed.”

JOHNSON ‘HOPES’ STATE GETS PLANT

WASHINGTON, Aug. T (U. P) —| Rep. Noble Johnson (R. Ind.), said today that he was “hopeful” that a! defense plant would be located on! a site near St. Bernice, Ind. Defense officials here had planned to locate a big smokeless powder plant there. but that plant was located | at Choteau, Okla. It was understood today that the| plant site committee of the OPM is considering “some other type of defense plant™ for St. Bernice.

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Clapper Comics ..oven Crossword ... Editorials .... Mrs, Ferguson Financial ....

FMynn Looe Forum ....... 16 Mrs. Roosevelt Homemaking . 19 Serial Story.. In Ingipls..... 3 Skie Glances. Inside ts. 15 Society ....17-19 Jane Jordan.. 18 Sports..20 21, 22 Johnson sen 18 State Deaths. T

15, Millett 25 ‘Model Planes. 24 Movies (oon 18 Pegler .. i... IS: Pyle ( icici 12 Questions .... 18 Radio

| Eugiand a campaign { the junking of “jalopies.” | providing scrap fron and steel | | needed by defense industries, Truthful.

unprecedent |

imembers.

, Was operated by a corporation and hotel on business when he was

| said.

censes of five eut-of-town liquor of Brentlinger & Hosea, Inc. and

beavers can make the Indiana State

iT and made recommendations for | settlement which President Roose- | velt declared he expected both labor iand management to accept.

A. F. of L. Teamsters Strike

Officials of Local 13 of the Industrial Union of Marine and Ship- | building Workers said the holiday | was called at the Brooklyn vards of

Defense Needs EARL LOCKRIDGE 2.1 CALLED TO DUTY

WASHINGTON. Aug. (U. PO. —Officials said today that wornout automobiles that are a menace | iE on the highways can be a boon

to the defense program. ; They planted to extend to New | to increase thus

Chief - Engineer for State ¥ . ? th ai . tract. negotiations. Highway Commission to = Coincident with thé declaration of the holiday at the Bethlehem Report Aug. 11. vards, Local 807 of the A. F. of L. Teamsters Union also called a strike A t A | marl B. Lockridge, chief engineer against Bethlehem and established trial campaign to reclaim steel ' scrap has been started in Ohio.

t p $ vt + the two shipyards. The teamsters It was estimated that there are | olay Was orgefeq 3o repo Sof p

— duty Aug. 11 with the U. 8. Army, Struck to enforce demands for a ee ge My las assistant to the constructing contract and wage increases from = oT TNT TET quartermaster of the Fifth Zone, !T2 cents to $1 an hour. | Columbus, O. { ‘The Bruekien yards are Shipagey i ; ..¢ Drincipally in ship repair and con- | Mr. Lockridge, who has been chief ; {engineer of the Commission since | Version Work fof the U. S. Governlast winter, holds the rank of fieu-| MeN : tenant-colonel in the Corps of En-| Protest Contract Delays gineers Reserves. His salary with readers of the Brooklyn local of ‘the Commission it $6000 annually. {the C. I. O. shipbuilders said there i No action has vet been taken for was no connection between their | the appointment of a successor. {holiday and the strike of brother James D. Adams, chairman, said unionists at the Kearny Federal the Commission regretted to “lose shipbuilding and Drydock Co. HowFor Music H |e geskuiges Servicss both a the, ever, the union protested alleged deichief engineer an an adviser | in contract negotiations both or usic all on thoroughly familiar with the varied|at Brookiyn and F-2my North Hinois. operations of the highway system.” Union spokesmen at Kearny said { Mr, Jisexriage. who lives kt SHO} their strike became completely efThe Al lic Bevera ic. Central Ave, would have completed | fective today with refusal of 0,000 Sh ph om od Rin Cums 22 years of continuous service with | men on the day shift to pass picket

PRIVATE CLUBS MUST OBEY LAW

Devine License Is Revoked

, ; the Commission on Sept. 9 of this lines. cials of fraternal clubs and informed year, | Company officials replied that them that private clubs must obey He has served in various engi- | the strike was “a clear and unthe liquor laws just as do taverns neering capacities with the Ccm- justified breach® of an Atlantic and restaurants mission, ranging from inspsetor in Coast stabilization agreement foroo, : A : ~ the bridge department to chief bidding strikes before June 23, 1943. a Te c ub nay es Were in- [., cineer. |The company, which employs 17,000 CHI hat the Commission ex- “po 0 tiv { Per a said the union had demanded dispects them to keep their establish- DD ¥ aht issal yr E ments closed on Sundays and that Served there as city engineer until Missal of any union member for their bartenders should not be al- resigning to enlist in the Army Sire 5 py Sues, lowed to sell after hours or to non- during the first World War. He| Naval Work Tied Up served in the Meuse-Argonne offen- 1 : Construction of six destrovers,

Bernard Doyle. Commission mem- SIV 0 1 : ; ber. described the meeting as net He was named chief engineer last ere the Sern bree a little session to let the club offi- Winter when M. R. Keefe, resigned uhion mised. however. that cials know that we expect them to to take a job with a construction workers pro jaunch the 000 ton follow the law to the letter. We company. ! iser Atlanta Saturdav at the handed them a copy of the law and > told them to read it. Kearny Yards. as scheduled. The Commission today also revoked the liquor license held by

A. F. BRENTLINGER. 71. Thomas J. Devine for his Music STRICKEN IN HOTEL

Hall at 502 N. Illinois St. which has Albert F. Rrentlinger. retired mobeen closed for several weeks. The tion picture distributor, died in a license was revoked because Mr. dgowntéwn hotel today. Devine abandoned his permit be-| Mr. Brentlinger, who lived at 3030 cause it was found that the hall N. Pennsylvania St. was in tha

Board recommended a modified union shop. a proposal accepted by! the union and not by the company.’ but the union said the chiet stumbling block in negotiations developed over a union demand for reclassification of workmen. Officials 0 fthe National Associa- | tion of Die Casters (CIO) removed | a picket line from the Aluminum | Company of America plant at Cleveland last night but mdicated it might be returned. The picket

not by Mr. Devine alone as stated | stricken. He was Tl. on the permit. Commission members, Survivors are the wife. Mrs. Het- | tie Brentlinger: two sons, Loven J. The Commission revoked the li- Rrentlinger, Indianapolis, president

establishments, suspended three Byron W. Brentlinger. Terre Haute, permits and fined six other permit and a daughter, Mrs. Charles W. holders. | Mason of Indianapolis.

tion of dues for the union, which is the recognized bargaining agent for 4500 of the company's 5500 employ -

{ ees. Negotiations were under wav at Sandusky, O.. to settle a strike of | 000,000 munitions plant.

Drought Keeps Beavers So Busy They May Miss The Fair

By JOE COLLIER

Owing to the drought, it is extremely doubtful if any Hoosier

A. F. of L. carpenters on a $32.-

UNDER $1 STOCKINGS

the department comes and traps beavers out of their land and then

TO DISAPPEAR SOON (blows up the dams, are very cozy,

Pp . J. — | with: beavers this vear. NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (U. P)

From the water impounded by | Stockings retailing at less than $1 The State Conser- beaver dams that other years! will soon disappear from the market, wouldn't be welccme some of them hosiery wholesalers indicated to‘are watering stock. Some of the . v iittle beaver lakes are virtually the "°° . only water standing on some of the! Unbranded stockings have been farms. And the farmers don't Withdrawn by many producers and want to let go of them. ‘a general price revision was ans There are several hundred beavers nounced for most branded lines. loose in the State this year. Ivears fewer beavers than that have tail for $5 by Christmas, but most | reused the department many a!wholesalers said that prediction was ineadache and scores of pounds of premature, dynamite. But there have been very, The rush to buy women's hosiery few complaints this year. jand lingerie in anticipation of a | Thus, the department may have shortage expected from the Governstreams often [to give up on them for the fair. |ment's curbing of Japanese silk ime rods and rods from their homes | When a beaver is busy he's as busy ports spread to men's shops. Silk But the reai reason all of them as a beaver and hasn't time to go socks for men, particularly in black, are s0 busy is that farmers, who | gallavanting around to fairs, no soon may be as scarce as women's on wet years how! and holler until matter what. silk hosiery, it was indicated,

Fair this year. vation Department, which usually

has a colony of them in its fair exhibit, finds them all too busy to attend. The drought does it. ‘They are having to work pretty hard keeping up the water tables, plugging up leaks in feeder

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the Bethlehem Steel Co. in protest against company “stalling” in con-! i

lof the State Highway Commission, pickets outside the main gates of]

The National Defense Mediation |

line was established to force collec-

Other Some believed silk hose would re-!

|] | Rejected!

TOTAL I HIGH, BUT RATE LOW, ARMY MEN SAY

t's Bellevue, Not: the Altar, for Ardent Movie Suitor.

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (U, P).— Never in Laverne Mayer's 18 years had anything like that happened before. Michael Chanker. 24, saw Miss Mayer in a Manhattan movie house last night. With him, it was a case of love at first sight. He rose in his seat, went to Miss Mayer, threw his arms around her and showered her with Kisses. “I love you,” he said. “Will you marry me?” Someone called an usher who called a policeman who called Chanker and Miss Mayer to a room in the theater. There Chanker fell to his knees and repeated his proposal. Miss Mayer's answer was a definite “No.” In night court, Chanker said he had heen overwhelmed hy Miss Mayer's beauty. For the next 10 days he will eat his heart out in Bellevue Hospital—in the presence of psychiatrists.

SF. D. R. STILL ABOARD YACHT?

Brief Message Says He's Moving to Unannounced

| To Quiet ‘False Fears’ Of Populace.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

Berlin reports today raised a pos|sibility that Germany may have suffered heavy losses in her offensive against Russia and that rumors of these losses are causing repercussions within the Reich. A conservatively-worded dispatch by the United Press Berlin Bureau

culation in the Nazi capital for several days that German gains on the Eastern Front are possible only at a high cost in casualties. The German High Command took official cognizance of the prevalence of what it described as “false conceptions” within Germany in issu-

ques on the Russian which started yesterday. These communiques presented specific figures on Russian losses in men, planes, tanks and guns but have made no tatement on Nazi losses except to report them “moderate” in the big Smolensk battle.

campaign

Unrest in Germany?

A Nazi spokesman was closely questioned by newspapermen in : . Berlin today on the reports of heavy _ Destination, Nasi losses. He insisted that German casualties have been kept WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U. P). “within previous limits” and are in —A Navy dispatch from the Presi- the same proportion for the Rusdential yacht Potomac said today sian camprign as for previous Nazi {that the Presidential party Was | offensives, continuing its cruise toward an un- tion the greater numbers of troops announced destination and that Mr. | axploved. He said that the gross Roosevelt was being kept advised of | foyres are higher than in other the international situation by Navy Nazi campaigns but made no esti- | radio. | mate of the totals. ~The brief message did not spe- jlitary sources in Moscow and cifically say that Mr. Roosevelt was yondon have estimated that Gerstill aboard the Potomac although man losses have been high in Rus|it did refer to “all members of the|gja guesses and estimates ranging party.” A dispatch from the Po-|,, to possibly 1.000.040 men. Neu'lomac yesterday also failed to state tpg) quarters believe the Nazi cas- | specifically that the President actu= | yalties are running high, but pos!sibly not as high as those of the

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ally was aboard the yacht. | Rumors that Mr, Roosevelt and pyssian defenders which the Ger- | Prime Minister Churchill had met | ans place at 4,000,000 men. or were about to meet were kept | It appeared that of even greater (alive by the cryptic nature of the gionjficance than the actual Germessages from the Potomac and man losses in Russia was the ap-

" ; | two new bits of information, all in-| parent indication of internal repercussions within Germany.

| conclusive, Due {to the tight Nazi control

One was the fact that the Presi(dent's highest military and naval upon all channels of information advisers are absent from the concerning the Reich there was no capital. | means of telling how the German The other was a statement by a populace has reacted to the appear-well-placed official that he knew| ance of troop trains of wounded solthat the President and the Prime | diers, casualty reports and circula(Minister had desired for some tion of word-of-mouth rumors conmonths to have a face-‘o-face con- cerning Nazi losses.

No Gains Claimed

ference. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox. | : ‘Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of! However, it seemed plain that | Naval Operations, Gen. George C. unless these Teports and rumors| Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and Were widespread the Nazi High |Gen. H. H. Arnold, Assistant Chief | Command would not take cogniz-| lof Staff in charge of the Army Air| ple ot Shem A qeurmems sw eld to rigid res y ery Forces. were Mot Iv Washingion. word which they cable abroad,! would not mention them in their dispatches. Another

HEAT'S ON AGAIN! ' {was the failure of the German High Command either in its special com-| [inline series or in its regular

communiques on daily operations to jclai many new gains in Russia. And!

’ h ts of the official DNB Ger-| County $ Dry Crops Suffer an hens gl al that New Damage.

fighting still is going on in the] Smolensk area despite the Nazi | LOCAL TEMPERATURES HE Commands contention ihe fam ....66 10am... 8 | mc coincided with indications in| 3 Ree ws +s ie i a.m. ... 88 |p csian reports that the pace of the > we Ey "% (hoon) .. » battle has slowed markedly from, ad da ll Pee. the opening weeks and might add | weight to the reports within Ger-| many that advances can only be won at a further high cost in casualties.

point noted in Berlin!

After an overnight dip into the iow 60s, the mercury in Indianapjolis gained altitude again and | threatened to break 95 this after- | noon. Fair to partly cloudy skies were forecast for through tomorrow, with continued war weather. Both the | lack of rain and the returning heat will have further bad effects on {county crops, with the corn taking |the worst beating, according to | Horace Abbott, agricultural agent. | XR

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TICHENOR IN SEMI-FINALS CULVER, Ind. Aug. 7 (U, P).— Charles Tichenor of Indianapolis went into the semi-finals of the National Boys Tennis Tournament here today with a 6-1, 0-8, 6-1 victory over Charles Oliver of Perth Amboy, N. J.

City Abandons Plans for

Vacuum Cleaning Its Pools

The City swimming pool situation was complicated by the following developments today.

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4. Although no one appeared to have an idea where to purchase such a helmet, the board ordered | 1. The Park Department found H. W. Middlesworth to get bids by that a $435 vacuum cleaner for the next meeting. pools would not work without the : 5. Because the diver could not see | |aid of an additional gadet cost- if the pool water were dirty, Pool] ing $100. . Engineer George Adams was or- | 2. The vacuum went back to the dered to have pumps and filters in

good shape. manufacturer. an: aliiuetinidbody it the, 8 diving fa OE ete omy oard or in wis Recreation Depart- | make ment thinks th time! to regular descents into all ere is enough time

left, to buy such a diving helmet be-| the pools to pick up debris andifore the pools are closed for this sweep the pool floors. se Pe :

‘Berlin's Communiques Seek |

said that reports have been in cir-!

ing its series of special communi-

as |

taking in to considera-|

{ French Indo-China and Thailand. |

| claimed

mhe during the night, and a “con-

| been followed by daylight offensive

Glorious Dosh 1 FD) IN TEST OF 4MOTORED BOBING SHIP

‘Capt. Bruno Mussolini, 23, Volunteered for Try; Two Aids Dead.

ROME, Aug. 7 (U, P.).— Bruno Mussolini, 23-year-old son of 11 Duce, today met a

“glorious death” in the crash

of a new type of war plane near Pisa.

The death of the young air cape tain was announced officially this afternoon. He was killed at 10 a. m. while attempting to land a new four-motored bomber he had vole {unteered to test. | Il Duce flew at once to Pisa. He [visited Santa Chiara Hospital where {his son's body was and then -ine spected the scene of the crash near San Giusto Airport. The official communique said the youthful airman who had seen service in Ethiopia and Spain as well as in the present war, met “a glorious death.”

Five Others Injured

BYSUNITED PRESS With his older brother, Vittorio, | Far East tension over Thailand | who once described bombing as and a possible Japanese attack on «exceptionally geod fun,” Bruno was Siberia mounted steadily today. 'a member of Italy's famous Dis

Authoritative sources in Wash- | poiaia Air Squadron, commanded b /ington said that the United States | Gount a Ciano, Foreign (and Great Britain have pledged \finister and son-in-law of TI Duce. | war Two other officers died with young

supplies to Thailand with | fo GFR UE ee | Mussolini and five other crew mem- | >Seniac. h - " rere iniur 4 retary of State Cordell Hull and | iraq with 11 Duce’s son were Lone | |Foreign. Secretary Anthony Eden pio pranceseo Vitalini and Motere were said to have urged Thailand |. Angelo Trezzini. to take a firm stand agamst | = ne communique announcing the | Japanese demand for military bases. : | Indications mounted of impending | death: |Japanese moves both in Thailand| ‘This morning at 10 o'clock Capt. {and against Siberia. Shanghai re-|Pilot Bruno Mussolini (II Duce’s 'ported rumors that Japan has de- son) met a glorious death near Pisa 'mand®d that Russia demilitarize| following an accident which oe[Vladivostok and the Siberian fron- curred during the test flight of a [tier, grant economic concessions in| New type of plane.

[Siberia and Sakhalin Island, and Held Speed Records

p e Vv ited + HERA, OO Siva, the Unter In December of last year when = Bruno was flying with his squadron in Greece it was reported that | The Japanese were said to be he had been killed in combat, but [pouring steady reinforcements into | the reports later were denied, | Manchukuo and Korea. The offi.{ Despite his youth, he was a veteran [cial Russian Tass News Agency,|in Italian military aviation and he ‘however, issued a sharp denial that ireld numerous records. lany clashes have occurred. | In 1937 young Mussolini was | Tokyo declared that Japan's rela- credited with having established ‘tions with Thailand are peaceful Speed records for land planes carry« and that the warnings of the Unit- ing 500, 1000 and 5000 pound loads ‘ed States and Great Britain are not |oVver a closed circuit. In 1938 he was warranted. However, Shanghai | Pilot of one of three Italian bombers heard that Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Which flew to Brazil by way of

Capt. Bruno Mussolini

DOUBLE TOKYO BLOW FEARED

U. S. and Britain Offer Thailand Aid; See Peril to Siberia.

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Report Reinforcements

has concentrated 50 Chinese divi-| Dakar, French West Africa, Married Two Years

sions in southwest China to meet | any possible Japanese drive to cut | In October of 1938 he was married the Burma road from positions in to Signorina Gina Ruberti, daughter ; of Prof. Guido Ruberti, theater critig Australia Worried and head of the Education Minise The Japanese Finance Ministry | try’s division of contemporary art, vaguely that the Dutch |Il Duce, Donna Rachele Mussolini East Indies wil] permit continuance and high members of the Fascist of certain business activities ‘with | hierarchy attended the ceremony. A Japan despite the stringent freezing | daughter was born to the couple in orders. February, 1940. In Melbourne, Australia's Navy| Among the posts held by young Minister, William Hughes, said that Mussolini was a directorate in Lati, unless Japanese leaders “have taken| Italian airline operating across the leave of their senses they must South Atlantic to South America. realize that their policy of aggres-| Bruno adopted his father’s motto, sion” gravely endangers Pacific| “live dangerously.” and he was a peace. great admirer of his older brother, British sources estimated that| Vittorio, also a military aviator, who Russia has 1,000,000 troops in Siberia | once described war as the “quintese available to meet a Japanese strik- sence of beauty.” 4 J - ing force which presently was esti War Is ‘Fun’

mated at 350,000 men. After Bruno and Vittorio had

, served in the Ethiopian campaign 4 AF BOMBS GERM AN | Vittorio wrote a book. entitled *“Flye

{ing Over Ethiopian Mountain British Fliers Also Raid

Ranges.” Vittorio, describing a boms bardment of Ethiopians, wrote: Along Invasion Coast. LONDON, Aug. 7 (U. P.).—The

“We arrived upon them unobe served and immediately dropped our Royal Air Force paid a return visit to the German industrial cities of

loads of explosives . . . I remember Frankfurt, Mannheim, and Karls-

‘that one group of horsemen gave me the impression of a budding rose as the bombs fell in their midst, It was exceptionally good fun.”

HITLER SNEERS AT APPEASEMENT

You have his own word for it, in his own book, Mein" Kampf.

siderable weight of bombs were dropped on each,” authoritative quarters said today. It was the second consecutive night of explosive and incendiary bombs for all three cities. In Tuesday night's raids, which were carried out in a gale, tremendous damage was wrought, according to the pilots. Four motored planes and Britain's most powerful bombs were used. The Royal Air Force also was raiding along the invasion coast last night, consentrating on the docks at Calais and Boulogne. The air ministry announced that the aerial offensive was agaih on a 24-hour basis, Tuesday night's raids having

But you don't have to read: Mein Kampf to verify the fact. Just read the series of 12 newspaper articles—

What Mein Kampf Means to America Beginning Monday,

Aug. 11, in The Indianapolis Times

patrols of the fighter command over occupied France. Large numbers of RAF planes were heard roaring across the channel at Deal early today. They were flying so high they were nviae.