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RAF. BOMBS SET FIRES IN BERLIN

House Votes 2% Year Draft; Quick Action Sought In Senate

A Celestial Sea Serpent?

ental, Robert Murna Nets: an official eyed on: » Selestial Soa. Serpent

from atop police headquarters.

That's What That Sky Rover Here Looked Like for Sure

liberally sprinkled with soldiers in | uniform—Ilistened intently as the

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Utah), Senate manager of the leg-

| capitulation was ordered amidst

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FDR'S LEADERS STARTLED’ BY 203-202 VOTE

Tally Is Closer Than on Any Other Issue Since Outbreak of War.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P). —Administration leaders hoped today that the Senate would accept and speed to President Roosevelt tomorrow the House version of Army extension legislation passed by a one-vote margin in a iengthy, uproarious session. The climax of the tumultuous battle was reached last night when opposing forces marshalled their strength for the 203-t0-202 showdown. So close was the vote that a re-

the boos and cheers of House members. Tense, packed galleries—

| final roll was called and the tally announced. Administration leaders were that the Senate, which

accept the House version of the resolution.

Extends Draft 18 Months

Otherwise, the legislation as passed by the Senate and House

Senator Elbert D. Thomas (D. | islation, announced that he would ask concurrence in House modifications, unless some major conflict between the two versions was disclosed. The Senate and House resolutions both provide for retention of draftees, National Guardsmen, reservists and enlisted regulars for 18 months beyond their normal service.

Orders Recapitulation

Some Said It Was a Comet, Planet, Even a Zeppelin;

(P-s-s-st, It Was Seven

A. W. 0. L. Balloons.)

By JOE COLLIER

A sort of celestial sea serpent appeared in the northern skies over Indianapolis today and sent people scurrying to telephones, telescopes,! field glasses. and in some instances, prayer books. It apparently was first noticed about 9 a. m. and from then until]

it took an almost due south course and floated quietly away,

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the object of close scrutiny and speculation.

At various stages in its circular course, it was thought by astronomers that it might be an exploding star, by curbstone commentators that it was a heavenly manifestation of some sort, and by airmen that it was an aerial derelict. The latter proved to be right.

Field Day for Astronomers During its visit here, the Weather Bureau, newspaper offices and Police Headquarters were floode with inquiring phone calls. More than 150 amateur astronomers paid scant attention to their vocations but instead alternately scanned the skies and made phone calls to other astronomers and compared notes. Housewives in the northern section of the City dropped mops and dust cloths and joined their neighbors for a good long stare at the sky. Policemen erected a platform on the roof of Police Headquarters, borrowed a telescope and broadcast for a breathless populace the shape, course, and behavior of the tihng.

Descriptions Vary

Probably nothing that ever appeared here was under such constant surveillance. One woman described it as three balls of fire. A man said it appeared to be a zeppelin standing on its nose. A woman said it looked like a large white tear suspended motionless in the sky: : “I hope it isn’t Judgment Day,” another woman said when she was told that, at that time, the object had not been identified. An officer of the Indiana Astronomical Society, at a period when the object was suspended, apparently near the moon, said that 1t might be Mars, under some extraordinary atmospheric condition. Someone, evidently not famiilar with astronomy, suggested it might (Continued on Page Five)

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SURRENDERS IN FATAL ACCIDENT

“Im the Man You Want,

He Tells Police After Car Kills Boy.

+ “I'm the man you want.” Two and a half hours after one boy was killed and another seriously injured when their bicycle was struck by an auto at 14th St. and Senate Ave., a man appeared at Police Headquarters and addressed Capt. Roy Pope with those words. He explained that he was the driver of the car which fatally injured Joe Gray, 13, of 426 W. 14th St. and seriously injured Richard Coleman, 12, of 421 W. 14th St. The driver then said he fled afoot with the Coleman boy and the bicycle still on the bumper of his car. He was charged with vagrancy and held under a $3000 bond. The boys had been riding double on the bicycle. James Akard, 18, of 2951 Guilford Ave, was burned when the car he was in collided with another and then struck a light standard and caught fire. The car was driven by Francis Jackson, 17, of 3001 College Ave. Mr. Akard was treated at Sb. Vincent's Hospital.

DON'T WORRY, SUGAR IS STILL PLENTIFUL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P.). —American housewives need have no fear of sugar shortage or prices much higher than at present, Agriculture Department officials said today. Quotas for domestic sugar producers and importers have been raised to assure consumers 7,627.456

2) tons of sugar this year, more than

1,000,000 tons above consumption last year. Officials said the action of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply in setting a ceiling of 3.5 cents a pound on raw sugar probably will mean that consumer prices will not go above 5.8 cents a

pound for refined sugar,

They also include a declaration that the national interest is “imperiled” and provide for raises of |$10 per month for all classes of | troops, except commissioned officers, {after they have completed their first {year of service. The existing lim|itation of 900,000 upon the number {of draftees who may be in training {at any one time is lifted.

It Was That Close

Rep. Andrew May (left), chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee and leader for passage of the draft extension legislation, denotes the margin of his victory to Rep. Dewey Short, opposition

leader.

The House vote on the legislation’ {was the closest any major Adminstration measure has experienced since the outbreak of the European ! For Sy After the. roll call was first an(nounced, Speaker Sam Rayburn ordered recapitulation. The recount showed the same tally, how{ever, and while bi-partisan opponents roared their objections, Mr. (Continued on Page Five)

U. S. UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (U. P.). —The Work Projects Administration estimated today that 5,600,000 persons were unemployed in July, a decrease of 300,000 from June and nearly 4,000,000 less than in July, 1940. [Y

What Mein Kampf

Russia, and only by doing so,

cannot be understood. What followed the war of 1914-1918 was not a peace.

It was a convulsion.

This convulsive Europe, seething with Bolshevism to begin with and slaked down by Naziism to follow, has developed a fury of ideology that the democrat must impartially view. What destroyed democracy in Germany, after the war of 19141918, was just this duel between Communist and Nazi. For the simple reason that these rival extremists were only too eager to lock horns, only too eager to wipe out rules, the German state ae 3

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Hitler's Poison Bait— Hate Drive on Reds

Americans, in Grasping at His Offer of Eradication, Overlooked Naziism Was Same Stuff.

ideology can be accounted for. the doctrine behind it, fall out of sight, the collapse of German democragy cannot be fathomed, and Mein Kampf

Blankets in Sudden Demand;

Surprise to Weather Bureau

Forecaster Said ‘Cooler,’ But Didn’t Expect Mercury Drop To 54 Degrees Last Night; Same Thing Tonight.

Weather notes from cold storage: Last night was the “coldest” since June 17—a low of 54 degrees, On July 20 it got just as cold—that's the only exception. Night before last was the hottest this month—no temperature lower

than 75.

The City switched to blankets at 2 a. m., or thereabouts, when the

mercury slipped from the 60's. The Weather Bureau had predicted” “cool”—but they said “it even fooled us.” The sudden drop was due to high pressure—from North Dakota and not from local amateur weathermen.

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High pressure and cooler generally brings rain—the Weather Bureau

says Indianapolis is the exception to all weather regulations.

To be strictly normal, the temperature should have been 68 at 6:30 a. m.—it was still in the middle 50's. The cool weather was in a hurry to get here—it travelled 1000 miles or so in 12 hours. The farmers love it— the crops have been damaged as much by heat as by drought. They've got their prize livestock out at New Bethel for the County Fair—but they'd still appreciate a soaking.

Means to America

-~ Mein Kampf is the accepted bible of German National Socialism, the frenzied outpouring of wild political philosophy having for its goal the domination of an entire world by the Nazi “race.” today publishes the third installment of Francis Hackett’s powerful exposure of Hitler's fanatic purposes.

By FRANCIS HACKETT It is by giving the fullest attention to the threat of

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that the intensity of Hitler's If that historic event, and

itself an umpire that in the beginning tried to mollify the combatants and in the end was at-

~ tacked by both of them and flung

out of the ring. And curiously enough, once the ficht began to go against the Communists, the German “business as usual” people joined in holding back the umpire. They said to one another, “let well enough alone!” They had no notion how short their own shrift would be, once ‘the umpire was sent to the hospital. Some of them, no doubt, were so indispensable te the Nazi scheme that they held on, and still hold on, (Continued on Page Five)

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INTEREST HIGH

IN ‘LOW’ TAGS

‘Requests Deluge Tucker,

Although No Licenses Are To Be Under 10,000.

By EARL RICHERT One of the first things Henry Schricker did when he became Governor last January was to decree: “We have had enough of this annual mad scramble for low license plate numbers. Next year, to get away from this- evil, we will begin numbering the license plates at 10,000. We will not have any below that number.” Accordingly, the 1942 plates were ordered from the State Prison to begin at 10,000. The plates were already ordered when Republican Secretary of State James Tucker took over the Motor Vehicle License Bureau this summer and he could not have changed the plan had he wanted to. But he didn't want to. He too thought low license numbers were an evil and that the “10,000 plan” might be one way to eliminate it. Surprise For Tucker But Mr. Tucker has had one of the greatest surprises of his variegated public life. Virtually scores of requests for “low” 10,000 plate numbers are pouring in to him already through the mails and by telephone. As far as he can tell. the scramble for special license plate numbers is now just as hectic as it ever was. Persons who used. to get plates like 113 and 114 now want Mr. Tucker to reserve plates 10,113 and 10,114 for them. Col. Roscoe Turner, for example who for several years has been issued license number 123 now wants 10,123. A well known Republican politician requested plate 11,111 for his niece, Mr. Tucker is filing these requests and will issue the “special” licenses

this winter to those requesting them.|.

“I'd be a punk public servant if I didn’t, to the best of my ability, give the public what it wanted,” Mr. Tucker commented. Now, since the 10,000 scheme is apparently a failure, Mr. Tucker is pondering a plan of his own which he thinks might improve on the present situation. Has Anether Idea He is contemplating having the 1943 plates made for. each county, with the counties to be designated by a letter or combination of letters. Then, he would hand the plates to county license branch managers to sell, thus probably causing a scramble for low numbers in each of the 92 counties in place of the present state-wide jam. Under his idea, Marion County plates might carry the letter “A” and thus would start, A-1, A-2, and so on. Stark County, for example, might be designated with the letters “AD” and thus would start AD-1, AD-2, and 50 on.

But he is just thinking about it, he says.

‘ladd on their own initiative that

REICH FEELS BRITAIN'S MOST SWEEPING RAIDS; FDR MYSTERY GROWS

Cologne and Essen Also Taste New

British Power.

LONDON, Aug. 13 (U. P.).—The Royal Air Force, co-operating with the Red air fleet in an pincers” offensive against Germany, blasted Berlin during the night and left parts of the city in flames, the Air Ministry said today. Other British bombers smashed at Magdeburg, Hanover and the big Krupp armament works at Essen, cutting a swath of death and destruction through the heart of industrial West Germany. Airfields in Holland, the docks at Le Havre and shipping in Norwegian harbors also were attacked,

13 Fail to Return

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France's Czar

The Air Ministry reported 13 bombers missing, indicating the extent and intensity of the British operations. The attacks were carried out despite bad weather, it was said. Great fires started in Berlin were “increasing and taking hold” when the British bombers turned home, a communique said. : Berlin and the industries at Magdeburg, Hanover and Essen were the R. A. F.'s chief targets, the Air Ministry said, but attacks also were made on Stettin, Kiel, Bremen, Osnabruck, Duisberg and’ Cologne, which had been bombed earlier by daylight. Two Days and One Night

It was Britain's turn in the closely co-ordinated bombing offensive against Berlin. It was the third straight night Berliners had been sent to air raid shelters, the fifth in the last six nights. But aside from the Berlin attack, for two nights and one day British planes had maintained their most widespread offensive of the war over German and German-occupied territory. Hundreds of bombing planes, including great Americanbuilt Flying Fortresses, and even more hundreds of fighting planes, had taken part. It was estimated that nearly 2000 tons of explosive bombs—4,480,000 pounds—had been

Admiral Darlan

DARLAN IS GIVEN MILITARY REINS

There’s No Question as To His Desire for Taking Sides With Nazis.

By DAVID M. NICHOL Copy?) in 1941, by Tae Lidienspely Times nd T The Chicago Daily News,

BERNE, Aug. 13.—Vichy, France, today began a new era of quasitotalitarian rule with a defense czar in the person of Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darlan. That it was the forerunner to additional moves bearing on both internal French problems and the nation’s external relationships with its Axis conquerors and its former Al-

dropped in the attacks, in addition to tens of thousands of incendiary bombs. Russian planes had raided Berlin four nights out of five since late last week. Last night, the sixth, a big fleet of British hombers flew the 500-odd miles from British bases over German-occupied and German territory to give Berlin a taste of what the Germans had visited on British, Russian and other European cities.

Berlin Raid Heavy

Berlin dispatches indicated that the British night raid was one of the greatest of the war and a communique said western, central and northern Germany also were attacked. (The German communique said that so far at least 15 British planes were known to have been shot down, which alone would indicate a raid in force. (United Press correspondents, in reporting the raid, -adhered closely to the wording of the communique in compliance with censorship rules but did not, as on some occasions,

there was no activity over the center of the city.)

BORINSTEIN BEGINS $1-A-YEAR OPM JOB

Named Administrator of

lies, was generally indicated and believed by {foreign observers here how these would be received in France itself and in the colonial empire whose defense is now the responsikility of Darlan, was one of the principal question marks. A Rome dispatch to the Tribune of Geneva, anticipating Marshal Petain’s announcement of Darlan’s elevation, said that Italian circles believed France could no longer escape its second involvement in the war. In Berlin, however, according to all the accounts in the Swiss press, such reports were denied as ‘trial balloons” and as efforts to disturb the delicate negotiations between Vichy and Berlin, The Wilhelmstrasse's record for (Continued on Page Five)

Nazis Spring

about to break in the Pacific.

isolating Odessa and -striking to bend of fercely resisting Red Army forces. But both London and Moscow reported that the Nazi gains had been achieved only at tremendous cost in men and materials. Dispatches from Moscow, which described the war front as “quiet,” indicated that the German drive might have been brought to a temporary halt by strong Soviet coun-ter-blows in many sectors, which

Scrap Steel Section.

wiped out or routed three crack

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Louis J. Borinstein, Indianapolis, national president of the Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel and former president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, is at work here as administrator of the scrap steel and iron section of the OPM at $1 a year. He is the first Indiana citizen to be drafted at $1 a year in the defense effort. His job will be to stimulate the collection of scrap metals throughout the country.

He said that the need for scrap iron and steel is so urgent that the collection campaign, to be successful, must include even so small and relatively insignificant items as old door hinges, the little pieces of metal that can be collected around

enemy divisions. A local counter-attack resulted in the recapture of one unidentified city, the Russians said, adding that a Red Army detachment which had been encircled for 32 days had killed 3000 German soldiers in fighting its way back to its own lines. The Russians also reported that the Germans were attempting to force Bulgaria to send two divisions to aid the Axis drive against the Soviet Union, but that the Sofia Government objected to the plan. Perhaps adding to Bulgarian hesitancy was the Russian story of what damage had been done by the Red Air Fleet in Rumania. Latest claim was that Bucharest and most of fhe interior were virtually cut off from the sea and the main oil line sev-

a farm and the old auto graveyards.

ered as a result of Russian bombs

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BULLETIN LONDON, Aug. 13 (U. P.).=— Clement R. Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, will broadcast an important. announcement in behalf of the Government at 3 p. m. (9 a. m. Indianapolis Time) tomorrow, it was announced today. The broadcast will be carried over all Brite ish stations.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Speculation on an epochal meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister

(Churchill flared up with ine creased intensity today with indications of an early solue [tion of the international mys«

tery. The question of whether the two government leaders met somewhere

in the Atlantic zone still was offi« cially unanswered, but speculation on such a conference increased and assumed greater importance hourly as a result of the German drive deeper into the Ukraine and new threats of Japanese and French ex plosions at either end of the war zone. - There were mounting hints that important developments might be expected, probably by this week-end, ° and in some quarters belief that President Roosevelt had seen the British Prime Minister at a secref: rendezvous was mounting despite continued official silence.

Hint Break Near

In London, there was still no offi= cial word regarding Churchill’s whereabouts, but Washington expected the President to land somewhere on the Northeast Coast later in the week. Meanwhile, private advices ree ceived by the United Press indie cated that a break in the mystery might be expected by the weeks end, or perhaps sooner. These ade vices gave the impression that the official explanation of the absence of the two leaders from their capie tals would be of intense interest. There was little in the speculae tion on the Roosevelt-Churchill mystery to suggest a place of meete ing, although some sources pointed out that the President might desire to visit Iceland following the occue pation of that island by United - States forces and that it would be handy for Churchill,

May Land Friday

There has been no word from the President's yacht Potomac since Saturday. On the basis of plans announced at the outset of his cruise a week ago Sunday, he is due within a day or two. At Swampscott, Mass., where the White House secretariat and core respondents were awaiting the President’s landing, there was no indication, except that there ape peared to be no likelihood of the

yacht putting in before Friday.

Ukraine Trap

By UNITED PRESS Germany reported the Nazi offensive rolling back the Red Army in the heart of the Ukraine today and Japan warned that a storm was

On the military front in Russia, the Germans appeared to have made big gains south of Kiev and along the Black Sea coast, apparently

clear the entire Dnieper River

which destroyed a railroad bridge. over the Danube. German versions of the Eastern Front painted a picture of complete success in the Southern Ukraine, with large numbers of Soviet troops trapped or captured in the Odessa and nearby areas, while others ate tempted to flee by boat across the Black Sea. The Berlin dispatches also reported tightening of traps around enemy forces on the central front and said that gains had been made by Germans and Finns on the northern sectors after repulsing Soviet counter-attacks.

In both the Near East and the Far East, meanwhile, the threat of new explosions continued acute. Japan’s diplomatic and military operations were still geared to the tempo of the German war against the Soviet and seemed to slow down with it. A Japanese naval spokese man, however, warned that any ule - friendly nations — obviously the United States and Britain—that underestimated Japan's strength would be inviting “unfortunate results.” . He described the Pacific crisis as merely the calm before the storm and said the Japanese people must

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