Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1941 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 130
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1941
Fair to partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; temperature about 87 this afternoon.
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This Is Francis Hackett, famous historian and biographer, whose
latest best-seller, “What
Mein Kampf Means to America” Monday in The Indianapolis Times.
begins
Irish-born, lawyer and editor, he has produced some of the best
biographies and historical novels of recent years,
His current book,
an analysis of Hitler's blueprint for Nazi conguest of the world, is something that every American should read. It Is a elear exposition of the Nazi leader's plans for conquering
the United States.
The book has been digested into 12 illuminating
newspaper articles. They will run daily in The Times beginning Mondax.
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OPM Bans White Side -Wall Tire
WASHINGTON The OPM todax manufacture of antomobile proximately ribber a yea: fective at midnight, Aug. 23 The OPM priorities division said that the manufacture of white =side-wall consumes about two pounds more of crude rubber per ordinary black tires also will
black Say - ne 2 3 § Aa) save some zine, used in the coa-
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BOY KILLED CYGLING T0 SEE HIS PARENTS
Martin White, 13. Is 38th City Traffic Victim.
Martin White th victim of
Thirteen-vear-old is dead todav, the city traffic so far this vear. and the is traffic. He rode his bicvele to a movie in Fountain Square and back to his home, 411 Trowbridge St. last night, only find that hic parents, Nr. and Mrs. Clarence White were attending a softball game at the Softball Stadium. LaSalle St and English Ave. So. he set out for the stadium. but at Gray and English Ave he was struck by a car. He died in City Hospital a few hours later Clarence Lister 38 of 1740 S. Randolph St. driver of the car. said he did not see the boy until it was too late to avoid the accident.
Three Pedestrians Killed by Truck
MICHIGAN CITY. Ind. Aug. 9 (U. P).—Michigan State police today held Maurice Dorfman, Union Pier, Mich., driver of a light truck which struck and killed three pedestrians at New Ruffalo. Mich. north of here late vesterday. The victims were Miss Zdenka Barbaras, 235 William Lane, 24 and Elaine Lane, his 4-vear-old sister all of New Buffalo. lice said Dorfman turned left off U. 8 12 at New Buffalo into an intersecting lane which the victims. route to the village to buy ice cream, were crossing.
3 Killed. 3 Hurt
In Muncie Wreck
MUNCIE, Ind. Aug. 9 (U.P) — Three men were killed and three others critically hurt early today in a head-on automobile crash three miles south of here on State Road 3. The dead were: Willard Beaty, 39, Muncie, driver of one car: Harry C. Bush, 42, New Castle, second driver, and Car] Martin, New Castle, who was riding with Mr. Bush. The injureg men were Tollie Beaty, Wolf River, Tenn. brother of Willard: Archie Lacey, 44 Mun.
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The cars cellided about 2 a. m. on a slight curve in the road.
PRANK LANDS PLAYFUL YOUTH IN HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA Aug 2 (U.P)
Michaei Duffy, 20, was walking along a street today when he de-
« Vig fully or ex Mrs. ROGSEVEIt. 9 cided to playfully leap over a three
foot guard railing around an elevator shaft Duffy thought the 30-foot shaft was closed. It wasn't He was taken to Jefferson Hospital spine injuries,
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Finance Committee Willing To Do ‘Anything Within Reason.’
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8 (U. P). —Chairman Walter George (D. Ga.) of the Senate Finance Committee predicted today that the
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(tax bill could be increased to at least £3.500.000.000 by lowering income fax exemptions and raising surtax rates, These were two of the proposals of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr, and Assistant tary John L. Sullivan in testifying before the Committee yesterday. Mr. Morgenthau said that if all Treasury recommendations were adopted. they would provide a yield of $800,000.000 to $1.000,000.000, raising the bill's yield to over $4.000.060.000. Mr. Sullivan estimated that the bill as passed by the House would j raise $3.236,700.000. It would have vielded slightly more than $3.3500.000.000 had the House not eliminated a provision recommended by the Ways and Means Committee, to require husbands and wives to file joint income tax returns,
May ‘Let Issue Rest In this connection, Mr. thought his committee would the issue rest for this vear in view of the decisive vote in the House.” He suggested, that married taxpavers should be given in-
George “lpt
however, all the privilege of dividing famil filing which those property
returns of the states
come and on each haif, eight community have, The Treasury under such a
separate
would lose plan, but Senator {George said it could be made up iby increasing surtax rates—which begin at five per cent in the House bill to a point nearer the 11 per cent recommended by the Treasury. Senator George said he was inclined to go along with the Treasury's request for surtaxes beginning at 11 per cent. He believed the Finance Committee would “look with favor” on President Roosevelt's sug{gestion that income taxes be levied on single persons making more than $750 and married persons making more than $1500. Present exemptions are $800 and $2000.
£3 Auto Tax Hit
Mr. Morgenthau promised. 6 request of Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va) to submit additional suggestions Monday on how to raise 181.000.000.000 more should the committee decide to attempt to write a £5.000.000.000 bill. “It looks as if the committee Is willing to do anvthing within reason that is asked bv the Treasury,” Senator George said Mr. Sullivan condemned a House provision for a $5 use tax on automobiles, pointing out that it would mean nothing to a man who owned a $5000 town car, but would be a
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heavy burden to one who drove a)
$20 jalopy. He estimated it would require 3800 additional tax collectors to collect the levy. The threat of inflation was emphasized by Price Control Administrator Lieon Henderson in testifying before the House Banking and Currency Committee. He suggested a heavy tax program, a more active savings program-—possibly compulsory—ecurtailment of installment buving and “qualitative” control over bank credits as methods of warding off deflation. Enactment of the pending price control bill, he said, not only would aid in preventing prices from skyrocketing but also would decrease the number of labor disputes. Most wage demands, he pointed out, are predicated on higher living costs
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How to keep cool under bayonet attack is demonstrated by Col. retired. during a visit to the officers’ training class at Philadelphia. . this, says the colonel, relax, like in a barber chair.
SEEK MINORS IN Treasure and Trouble Come WILLKIE SOUGHT "= = RAID ON TAVERN Double for Junk Dealers gop RALLY HERE
Blue. Officers Take Names, Ask for Draft Cards, Make No Arrests.
By NOBLE REED The names of more than a score of revelers in a Massachusetts Ave. tavern were taken by police in the first “raid” of its Kind on record early today. Police officers and state excise police, accompanied by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, surrounded the tax ern. A few of the officers went in and quietly walkeq from table to table without interrupting any of the revelry. At every table where a patron appeared to be under 21, officers stopped and took names and dresses as the band screeched jitter-bug numbers, All the young men in the place {were asked to produce their Selective {Service registration cards but many of them didn’t have them and their names and addresses were taken Meanwhile. the customers, numbering between 73 and 100. sensed something was wrong and began crowding toward the exits. But officers were at each door preventing anv persen from leaving After half an hour all officers and Prosecutor Blue left as quietly as they came, without making am arrests Neither Prosecutor Blue nor officers would sav what thev intend to do with the names but the owner of the tavern likely will hear about it later The “raid” was part of the cam(Continued on Page Three)
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Dove Killed by Clay Pigeon Shot
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WHEN THE skeet shoot at the Capitol Gun Club ruled “dead bird” one of Dick Steinhoff’'s shots the national all-gauge event day, he really meant it. Mr. Steinhoff. a Detroit. Mich. insurance man, had broken 72 straight targets and called for another clay pigeon to be released The bird sailed out just as a dove flew over the range. Mr Steinhoff fired and the dove fell dead. Officials gave him another shot at the clay pigeon and he broke it, making “73 straight.
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Originally Owned Trunk in
Which They Found $4885 in Gold Coins.
The cares of wealth Charles Keller and Mack Winters,
24885 worth of gold coins in an old
descended
promptly and sharply junk dealers, who yesterday trunk
today on found
The most persistent care was in the form of police who spent the
morning questioning them and others in an effort to unravel the story away from its so-called “isolationist” |
of how the gold came to be in the
ACCIDENTAL SHOT KILLS 6-YEAR-OLD
Bridgeport Boy Hit in Head By Playmate.
BRIDGEPORT, Aug. 9 (U. P..-Six-year-old James Lee Morris, son | of Mr. and Mrs. Scott H. Morris. | killed late yesterday when a 22-caliber rifle fired dentally by a plavmate, struck him
Was
bullet, acci-
in the head The boy was playing in his yard with Frank Wright, 13, when the accident occurred. The older boy, holding the rifle his hand, had climbed a tree He slipped and the gun went off The bullet struck the Morris boy just above the ear Hendricks Couniy M. BE. Frantz, of Danville, said he nad returned no verdiet vet but it “probably will be accidental death.”
EX-BROADWAY STAR DIES IN POVERTY
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 9 (U, P).— Dakin, who died povertystricken, blind and alone among files of vellowed clippings that told . 1 of her triumphs Bertie Fowler | on Broadway half a century ago. be buried in Potters Field. Miss Dakin, 75. was found dead last night in a cheap rooming house. She had been living on public relief Detectives said they found newspaper clippings in her room which told of her stage success and ranked her with such favorites of the "90's and early 1900s as Sophie Tucker and Eva Tanguay
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Storen Is Appointed to Liquor Commission
Hugh A. Barnhart, State Excise i Director and chairman of the Aleoholic Beverage Commission for four years, today was appointed State Conservation Director by Governor Henry F. Schricker. | At the same time the Governor appointed William Storen. vice president of the Security Trust Co. land former State Treasurer, as a member of the Alcoholic Beverage {Commission, succeeding Mr. Barnhart. { Frank N. Wallace, who has been acting director of the Conservation ‘Department since Virgil M. Simmons resigned that post last January, will return to his former job as state entomologist in the Conservation Department. | The appointments will effective next Friday,
become Governor
_ Schricker said.
Mr. Storen’s appointment to the Beverage Commission does not automatically make him the chairman. The Commission must elect a chairman to succeed Mr. Barn‘hart. Governor Shricker explained that
{servation Director, he first consult-
Hugh A. Barnhart
ed all members of the State Conservation Commission and received
with In appointing Mr. Barnhart Con- their unanimous approval.
| Mr. Barnhart, who is editor
Rochester, Government
News-Sentinel at
entered State
the Ind.
State Highway Commission by former Governor Harry Leslie. Later, | at the beginning of the McNutt administration, he was elected di-| rector of the Highway Commission. | He was appointed State Excise | Director on May 1, 1937, by former Governor M. Clifford Townsend and! was re-elected chairman of the] Commission when the new Stout! Liquor Law became effective last May 1. Mr. Storen formerly lived Scottsburg, Ind, where he | cashier of the Scottsburg State] Bank from 1913 to 1930.
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(the : service first in 1932 when he was Ship Canal today promised a stiff [When the will goes to the confernamed Democratic member of the|fight to eliminate them from the ence Where the Senate and House 11942 omnibus rivers and harbors bill, | Versions will be reconciled, they'll
trunk, where the trunk came from, who originally owned it and the
|gold, and who has title to the gold
now, Mr. Keller and Mr. Winters claim that the trunk had been for more than six months at their place of business, a shed at 405 Prospect St. Edward Crossen, 818 S. East St. a second hand dealer for whom Mr. Keller and Mr. Winters do hauling,
claims that the trunk was hauled {for him last Tuesday from a stor-
age place at the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Admit Hauling Trunk
Keller and Mr. Winters admit they hauled some things from there for Mr, Crossen last Tuesday, and admit that one of the objects was an old trunk. They admit, also, that they asked for and received the trunk from Mr, Crossen. Mr. Crossen says they asked for the trunk and he gave it to them, but said he wanted the contents. He also says that the Mother Superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor has a record of a trunk that had been in storage there for 20 vears which might have contained the gold. This trunk belonged to an elderly lady who came to them 20 years ago from Madison, Ind, to live and brought a trunk with her, which was promptly placed in storage. The Mother Superior said that she recalled that at that time rela-
Mr
tives of the woman told her that]
the woman hoarded gold but that they never had been able to find it.
Foresee Civil Action
Police, thus far along in their investigation, are inclined to think the case is a civil case and will wind up in the civil courts, They may be right, at that. Indianapolis law firm has notice on Mr. Winters and Mr Keller to make no disposition of the gold until further notice. Thev represent Me. Crossen. Meanwhile, the gold is in the hands of Federal officials and Mr. Winters and Mr. Keller have only a receipt for it.
An served
PROMISE FIGHT ON SEAWAY PROJECT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P).— House opponents of the St. Lawrence seaway and power project and highly -controversial Florida
The authorization measure still is being drafted and probably will not come up for floor debate until late in September. Both projects were
{tentatively approved yesterday by
the Rivers and Harbors Committee which voted to lump them with other projects in the authorization.
BAILEY NAMED PSC RAILWAY EXAMINE
Clayton M. Bailey, of Garrett, to-
Mr. Willkie ‘o speak.
FINAL HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
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RITAIN, RUSSIA ONTINUE RAIDS
| ON KIEL, BERLIN
rm ———
‘Germans Claim Capture of Key Rail Center) Channel Air War Renewed; French Discuss Reich Demands.
By HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff Correspondent
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| The Nazi High Command claimed today that a shattere ling defeat has been inflicted upon Soviet armies southeast lof Smolensk and that Korosten, 85 miles northwest of Kiev, ‘had been captured. For the second successive night the British and Russian ‘air forces combined to blast Berlin, the Kiel naval base and ‘other strategic centers of the Reich. ussia cleared up the mystery of Thursday night's raids ‘on Berlin by reporting its planes had made the flight. The Germans claimed that with the capture of Korosten, the attack upon the Ukraine is moving at blitzkrieg pace. The Russians have estimated German losses at about 1,500,000 and give their own total of killed, wounded and -—__ taken prisoner at around 600,000. Unofficial German estimates have placed Russian 1,000,000. Neu-
tral military experts believed casualties on both sides have heen high and possibly about equal A British spokesman warned that the German victory reports should Extend be taken with a grain of salt, but |admitted that indications are the {new Nazi blitz offensive in the | Ukraine still is making headway, | Soviet reports admitted no signifi. change in the fighting front, Insist Kiev Fall Near stand reaches an advanced stage to-| Nazi spokesmen insisted thas the Ss > by “fall of Kiev and Odessa can be exra ti +111 | | morrow when a large delegation will | 0 64 soon if the present pace of (ask Wendell Willkde so Speak at 2 | the German drive is maintained patriotic rally in Indianapolis next’... indicated that Russian ability | month. teadodisah to defend the rich agricultural and A large motor cavalcade has been jndustrial area of the Ukraine is {organized to leave Indianapolis at 3|peing crushed systematically. |p. m, tomorrow for Rushville to call| Against these reports London and ‘upon the former Presidential nom- nfoscow revealed that for the first inee, time since the start of the Russo- | The Indianapolis delegation will|German war a co-ordinating night be joined by motorcades from other |bombing attack on Germany is be= | Indiana cities. [ing Tegel by fas, Royal Air Force The trip is being sponsored by an he Red air fleet. the Indiana Committee for National! The RAF concentrated on the Defense. great Kiel naval base, the North The delegation plans to present| Sea port of Hamburg and the armMr, Willkie with a large plaque, aments center of Essen. Red planes bearing the portrait of Abraham raided Berlin again. Lincoln and an inscription of one| Fighting Continues of the emancipator's many refer-| Russian reports, said to be based anes so figedom 3g democracy. J German medical records seized so featuring the program al in the fighting. claimed that some Rushville will be an exhibit of one Nazi armored and infantrv divie of the new type British 25-ton tanks gions have suffered losses of as high manufactured at Hammond, Ind. las 30 and 40 per cent of their efe The delegation will ask Mr. Will-
| [ectives > fe y + . kie to set his awn date for the On land operations, Moscow said speech which is to be his views on |
; SD timerely that fighting continues in national defense and aid to Britain.| gstonia. on the Finnish fron$ Attorney General George Beamer|arqaund Smolensk and in the vicinwill present Mr. Willkie with a let-|ity of Korosten and Belaya Tserkov ter from Governor Schricker and| ip the Ukraine. Russell Campbel secretary to] Air war was renewed along the
Delegation ~~ Will | Speaking Bid Tomorrow At Rushville.
| cant Organized effort to turn Indiana
poeil.
Mayor Sullivan, wil' present a let-| English Channel front during the
ter from the Mayor, both inviting day. The British claimed 11 Mess= |erschmitt fighters were shot down Kenneth Ogle, head of the In- with a loss of five British planes. diana Committee, will preside at Berlin claimed eight Spitfires were (the program and John Hughes, shot down with a 10ss of one Gere Rushville city attorney, will be man plane.
master of ceremonies. . . Australian Cabinet Called
| A special committee will be] present representing the Marion| Australia reported that the cabe County Building Trades Council. It inet had been ordered to stand by (Continued on Page Three) (for an urgent session Monday. nr EE —— | American warships left Brisbane for an “unknown destination.” In Vichy, discussions, presumably relative to Nazi demands for a share in “proe tection” of the French African eme pire, were under way. A meeting of the Council of Ministers was dee layed fo allow discussions to cone tinue over the week-end. Washington revealed that the first |shipments of American fighter |planes are en route to Russia. Tokyo claimed that the United | States is building up oil reserves in | Australia for use by the American fleet. Shanghai was torn by dise orders instigated by the Chinese,
HOUSE MAY REDUGE DRAFT EXTENSION
Added 18 Months Might Defeat Bill.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P).— Administration leaders believed to‘day that they may have to accept
a shorter military service eXtension 4 king the fourth anniversary of ian We 19 Jpor hs hg By : the} the outbreak of fighting between the S 0 get the legisla-| chinese and Japanese at Shanghai. tion through the House. | Rome reported new British land It was learned that they are attacks at Tobruk and in the Sollum ready to take any extension they area and air raids on Benghazi and lean get in the House, believing that Tripoli.
Fear
Report Discussions Ankara expected that the diploe matic tug of war between the Anglobe able to work out a form accept- | Russian diplomats and the Germans [able to the Army and the President.|in Iran would come to a climax bee The House leaders were repre- | fore the end of August. Reports cire {sented as feeling that a down-the-|culated that Turkish-German dise line fight for House approval of the cussions of unrevealed nature have Senate's 18-month extension would been under way for three days. involve the risk of defeat. { The Egyptian Ministry of Interior | The bill will be debated an hour|reported Axis raids on the Suez and a half Monday and then read|Canal during the night killed 11 for amendments. Leaders hoped! persons. that the final vote would be taken| late Monday. | | The first big floor fight probably | will come when Republican mem-|—The Mexican Naval
MEXICAN CADETS IN U. S.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9 (U. P), Transport
He was day was appointed chief inspector bers of the Military Affairs Com- Durango, carrying 148 cadets from
elected to the Legislature in 1926 and examiner of railroads for the |Mittee seek to eliminate selectees the Mexican Naval Academy on an
for two terms and served as a member of the State Budget Com-| mittee. In 1930 he was elected State Treasurer on the Democratic ticket and was re-elected in 1932. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of Centra: State Hospital!
Public Service Commission. He succeeds Ray C. Gilbert who
ing Martin Miller, Mr. Bailey, who was appointed by
[treasurer of the Commercial In-| Commission members, has been as- discharged in any one month. demnity Casualty Insurance Co. and sistant to Mr. Gilbert for more than |
[from the extension entirely. They instruction cruise, will arrive at the [propose that guardsmen, reservists| Philadelphia Navy Yard tomorrow
| resigned to accept a post as legisla- | and regulars be retained in service|for a three-day visit. [tive representative of the Brother- but that selectees be discharged at! —————— | hood of Railway Trainmen, succeed- the end of their alloted year. The
ARMOUR DISPUTE ENDS |Army would be permitted to limit] WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (U. P.) = (to 45000 the number of selectees The Defense Mediation Board toe |day announced an agreement to end Various proposals will be offered the dispute between approximately
director of the Standard Enamel & a vear. Mr. Bailey for many years by both Republicans and Democrats 14,000 members of the Packinghouse
Paint Co, of Indianapolis.
of at 4451 Park Ave.
He lives was an employee of the B. & O.|to cut the time of the extension be-
Railroad.
| Workers Organizing Committee (C
low 18 months. 10) and Armour & Co. Chicago.
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