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SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1941

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40 AND 8 FUN | GREETS LEGION AT SOUTH BEND.

Hot Battle Is Faced Over Committeeman: McNutt Speaks Tomorrow. By WILLIAM CRABB

Times Staff Writer SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 16.— The vanguard of 10000 American Legionnaires and their families ar-| rived today for the opening of their, State Convention by that rollicking fun organization, the 40 & 8. Registration of delegates and visitors was to open at noon with the first program event® the 40 & 8's hour-long parade of funny-buggies,' locomotives and anything else that! runs. y The Michigan City 40 & 8 was scheduled to arrive on a hand-car| which they were planning to pump all the way here. They were due for a surprise, however, because South Bend has taken up its streetcar tracks.

Early Arrivals Busy | Caucuses and lobby campaigning

Water Shortage Threatens City

To conserve water against a threatened shortage, the Indianapolis Water Co. closed the Canal at

16th St.

kept the early arrivals busy as the| bottom, searching for things of value.

race for the post of national committeeman reached a white heat. The fight is hardest fought between the present committeéman. | Isadore Levine, LaPorte merchant and attorney, and Robert Lyons, Indianapolis attorney and chain store lobbyist. A third candiqate whose name will be presented to! the convention Tuesday morning is Cliff Payne of New Castle, present committeeman alternate. Legion convention leaders the contest between Mr. Levine and | Mr. Lyons was the most intense in| Indiana's Legion history. The 12th; District, Mr. Lyons’ home territory.' has gone on record in favor of Mr. Levine

2 ” 2 2

When, as a result, the water sank, thousands of persons stopped to look. Others roamed the

18-MONTH RULE New Mains Are Refused as

TO CURB CREDIT Priorities Cut Pipe Supply

«iq Year and a Half to Pay Is

Limit Proposed by Reserve Board. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (U.P) —

Some Levine supporters have said The Federal Reserve Board proposed

the “political implicatiops” of the contest will cause Mr. Lyons to withdraw from the race before the election. Mr. Lyons’ supporters, on the other hand, denied the race “was even close” and said their candidate was as good as elected.

MeNutt Will Speak

From New Castle, however, word that the backers of Mr. Payne are confident their man holds the “balance of power” and will emerge the winner when the smoke clears. The highlight of tomorrow's program will be the address of Fed-! eral Security Administrator

came

today that companies selling automobiles, radios and household" appliances on the installment plan, require purchasers to pay 15 to 33% per cent down and the balance in 18 months or less.

The board issued tentative regula-

tions to this effect in carrying out its Roosevelt selling in order to place a curb on inflation tendencies and reduce the demand for consumers goods which compete with defense requirements.’ finance companies and} Paul other financial organizations which

President

assignmenf from installment

to restrict

Banks,

V. MoNutt in the Palace Theater. ! finance installment purchases have

In the afternoon, the Drum and Bugle Corps from all over the State will compete for a lengthy list of prizes. Business sessions and a talk by State Defense Director Clarence Jackson will be on Monday mornings program with a parade Monday afternoon. A dinner in honor of retiring State Commander John A. Watkins will follow.

unl 1 p. m. Monday to study the tentative regulations and suggest changes. ,

Board to Give Licenses

is realized that it will be

“It

necessary to amend the regulation from time to time in the light of practical experience with ministration or of changing conditions,” the board said. : At the cutset, the board will grant

ad-

its

Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, 4 general license covering firms enSelective Service director, will ad- gaged in the instaliment credit or

dress the convention Tuesday.

vention Tuesday. —»

DRAFT AMENDMENTS AWAIT F. D. R. ACTION

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P). —Amendments to the Selective Service Act deferring men who were

livery 28 years old on or before this July/taxes and accessories costs.

| financing business as of Jan. 1, 1942, The election will close the con- Before that date, such firms must

The proposed regulations would

apply to all passenger automobiles, used and new, which are used for transporting less than 10 persons. A down payment of 33's per cent of the “bona fide” cash purchase price, including freight charges to the de-!

point, Federal

would

1 today awaited President Roose- pe required.

velt’s signature. i

So-called small personal loans of

He has until Monday to sign the $1000 or less made on an install-

measure, that time, the legislation becomes law automatically. Each July 1 in future years, men! who attain the age of 28 will be deferred automatically by their local boards. Besides deferring men 28 before the specified legislation provides for dismissal from service of selectees who were 28 or more on July 1. 1941, and who | request such dismissal. !

DEATHS DELAY LINER TOKYO. Aug. 16 (U. P). — The! Japanese Domei News Agency reported today that the Liner Tatuta Maru, San Francisco to Yokohama, would be delayed in docking because of an epidemic of food peisoning aboard. Domei said three persons were reported to have died at sea and 120 of the Tatuta Maru's third class passengers were ill,

ELLEN DREW WEDS TODAY

RENO, Nev. Aug. 16 (U. P).—| Film Actress Ellen Drew and Sy Bartlett, scenario writer, intend to] be married today at Lake Tahoe, Nev. They announced the impending wedding yesterday when they obtained a marriage license here.

who were, date, the!

TIMES FEATURES | ON INSIDE PAGES |

5 Movies ...... § 14 Obituaries ... 13 Pegler .....oo 8 Pyle ...cinnne 8 Questions 9 Radio 8 Mrs. Roosevelt 8 Short Story.. 7 Side Glances. 3 Society ....4, T Sports ....10, § State Deaths.

Churches Comics Crossword Editorials .... Mrs. Ferguson Financial

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| a driving test yesterday. | a beginner's permit, and she was trying to win a conditional driv- |

5 at which 1! venged the Bismarck’s sinking of morning of May 27. three days after 2'the mighty battle cruiser Hood. she had sunk the Hood :

Fails in Test; Hits Two Cars

MISS GERTRUDE KOERS, 24-year-old” stenographer at Catholic Community Center, took

ers license. While driving on the specified test route, with a drivers’ test examiner, Miss Koers saw a car approaching on Blackford St. The other car swerved to avoid her, but the car Miss Koers was driving hit the other car anyway.

Then it bounced over and hit a | | parked car.

Miss Koers gets another chance in 30 days.

the |

She has |

Some Families Here Already Borrowing From Neighbors;

| By RICHA

| What's going to happen when Hundreds of Indianapolis resi

wells are beginning to give out after weeks of drought.

New Developments Handicapped.

RD LEWIS the well runs dry? dents would like to know They

Their

petitioned for City water, but can’t get it. Some of them are worried. They sav you don't know how much

‘water means until you start the | happens, You can’t cook. The men can't shave. The women can’t wash clothes or dishes. You have to borrow water from the neighbors, bringing it back in buckets, washtubs or gallon jugs. At City Hall yesterday, H. S. Morse, Indianapolis Water Co. vicepresident, warned the Works Board that the entire City faces a water shortage unless it rains . . hard . + in the next two weeks. The company is pumping 40,000 - 00¢ gallons of water a day from White River and another 12,000,000 te 19,000,000 daily from its wells. If ‘the wells go dry, there will be a I serious shortage, Mr. Morse said.

As for the petitions for new mains, Mr. Morse shook his head. No more cast iron pipe is available now, he said, because of defense priorities. There is about 4000 feet on hand, but all of it is spoken for.

Unless the company can get priority for pipe, the water petitions pouring into City Hall from desperate residents must wait indefinitely. But when pipe is available, he said, residents inside the City will get it first. | Works Board members predicted the pipe shortage would seriously handicap new residential developments mushrooming at the edges of the City and would delay the paving of streets.

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If he does not do so by ment basis would have to be wal FAIR AND MODERATE

within 18 months.

WEEK-END FORECAST

Further Rain Unlikely for Awhile, Bureau Says.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

1 8am .... 66 Tam .... 66 Sam .... 68

gam. .... ¥

0.8. mn: .... Mam ...:. 80 ipm.... 81 12 (noon) .. 82

Fair skies and moderate temperatures were forecast for Indianapolis |

and the State for today and tomorrow. There will for awhile, the Weather Bureau says. Yesterday iinch of rain fell, partially relieving {the crop, lawn, garden and water i shortage situations.

a total of 31 of an

Plane 'Shadowed' Bismarck

InBarrage, U.S. Aid Reveals

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P) —

d shadowed the German battle-

Secretary of Navy Frank Knox

British naval units

re-|

The observer, whose name was not

{An American naval observer aboard |revealed, related that the Bismarck's a British flying boat which found RDti-aircraft barrage tossed one of

the flying boat's crew out of his bunk and shrapnel fragments punc-

ship Bismarck before its destruction tured the plane's fuselage in two by British naval units disclosed de- places. 2 tails today of the search during! The g Which the plane was struck many built PBY twin-engined plane enJ umes by the Bismarck’s anti-air-/gaged in regular Atlantic patrol T.¢ re.

flying boat was an American-

duty. The Bismarck was dodging ‘toward the French naval base at

7 made pulilie ihe Ts Rest (Brest, after having sunk the Hood 14 from an American observer regard- off the coast of Greenland, when! gemen aced v i 8 ing the historic naval engagement the PBY caught sight of her. | § today pl yatadium, a

The Bismarck was sunk on the

be no more rain

AUTO KILLS BOY, 11,

pump some moening and nothing ) it

~ BICYCLING TO PLAY

3d Recent Wheel Victim

{ . | In County Traffic. An 11-year-old boy, riding his | bicycle to Brookside Park to play. {today was struck by an auto at Nowland and Jefferson Aves, then | fell striking his head on the street curb, and almost instantly died. | He was Morris Elwood Higgins, son of Mrs. Florence Higgins, 1045 Tecumseh St, a widow who works as a phone operator at the Mer|chants’ Bank. ! The boy was the 18th Marion County child to die this year in county and city traffic accidents. Three of the most recent have been {bicycle riders. He was the 42d traffic victim in the city and the 86th in the county. | With him at the time of the acci-

{dent, on another bicycle, was Billy | | Brown, 2330 E. 10th St, his cousin.

| Billy was not injured. | Police said that the driver, | Walter Imel Jr, 24, of 2614 E. 13th St. was apparently not to blame for the accident. Besides his mother, the victim is survived by

A Cow? That's

What She Said |

WHEN MISS DOROTHY

KNISELEY arrived at her office in |—The House today began a series|

10% REDUCTION

| reduction pian, which also involved

IN GASOLINE IS JUST 15T STEP

Order to Be Supplemented By More Drastic Action, Officials Say.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P)). —Defense officials said today that | the order requiring a 10 per cent {reduction in deliveries of gasoline to East Coast filling stations will {be supplemented by more drastic [restrictions on consumption. | Administrator Leon Henderson of [the Office of Price Administration {and Civilian Supply ordered deliveries cut by 50.000,000 gallons a month at the request of Defense Oil Co-ordinator Harold L. Ickes. He said that the order was in(tended only as an “interim” move ‘which will be followed by a further plan for allocating distribution and consumption of gasoline—which inmost officials interpreted to mean that consumer rationing is imminent, The stop-gap action was taken when the results of a voluntary

Matter is, Ind.

U. S., ENGLAND, SOVIET TO POOL ALL RESOURCES

Stalin Speeds Plans for. 3-Power Talks; Nazis Claim Red Army in Ukraine Crushed in ‘Night of Horror.’

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor

Josef V. Stalin today speeded plans to unite resources of the world’s three most powerful nations in supplying aid—especially warplanes—for the Red Army's increasingly desperate battle against German invasion. Plans for high officials of the United States and Britain to confer immediately at Moscow were welcomed by Stalin and the Soviet press as guaranteeing triumph over the Nazi forces now battering with reinforced power against the Ukraine, Moscow and Leningrad fronts. The American and British officials, expected to fly to the Soviet capital, probably will consider first the question

a 7 p. m.~7 a. m. blackout of filling |stations, were “disappointing.”

Drastic Cut Necessary

The distribution cut is effective | oN

in Maine, New Hampshire, Ver=| ER 3 q | N a \ |

mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, |

| River) | lumbia.

have

You can’t build a house without a sister, Florence, 13, and a brother, | and State water unless you dig a well and you George, 17.

and the Distiict of Co-

SRRSRRRRRERRRS | |

{ “While we are hoping that the voluntary co-operation of gasoline users in our conservation program will not only continue but will become intensified, we know further steps are mandatory if we are to escape a more critica] situation,” Mr. Ickes said. He said that the effect of the rationing might be felt in the Midwest as Fpiltoed facilities are Jaw upon to help meet the shortage on . TO the East Const. : | Stiffen U. S. Activity Henderson said that commercial . . vehicles, farm machinery, ta] Against Axis. operated for public health and] safety vehicles of Federal, state and] ROCKLAND, Me. Aug. 16 (U. P.). local governments will be given first | President Roosevelt comes to shore call on available supplies, leaving today to stiffen American resistance motorists to bear the burder of the|to the Axis powers and set up| 110 per cent éut. Officials estimated! forceful opposition to Japanese am-| that supplies available to motorists | pitions for a new order in the Far | would decrease 20 per cent, | Rast. Ration Cards Possible Aboard the Presidential yacht] Filling station operators were Da mal) Wi reso asked to make sales to customers one between noon and 2 D | > { (Indianapolis daylight time). A spe-|

a “proportionate” basis. The 7 p.m.| . ct fe | to 7 a. m, blackout will remain in cial train Wil be walling .at he,

effect | docks, to hurry him to Washing-| Gasoline deliveries to stations will| ton where he arrives tomorrow. In| be made on a 90 per cent basis of ® Series of executive and legislative July consumption which was esti- conferences there he will implement mated by officials at about 470.000.- the decisions reached in his sea 000 gallons. conference * with Prime Minister | Mr. Ickes’ aids said that future]

Winston Churchill of Great Britain. | restrictions might take the form of |

It was believed that Mr. Roose- | specific gallonage allocations ana

velt would hold a press conference | eventually might lead to the use of Upon coming ashore and perhaps some sort of ration cards. Mr, reveal more details of his meetIckes has sent President Edwin W.|ings with Churchill. Pauley of the Petrol Covp. to Eng-| Scores of correspondents were] land to make a study of the British here awaiting his arrival. rationing system. ({ During the final hours of his! we AS SOS | rtiins, the Fresident conferred with | L. Hopkins, Administrator |

| Harry of the lend-lease program. i

VAGATION STARTED CUBA TO EXPEL NAZI | BY CONGRESSMEN AND ITALIAN CONSULS

| : | HAVANA, Aug. 16 (U. P.).—All| Series of Recesses Planned German consuls and consular agents | ' must get out of the country “in| Until Sept. 15. conformity with high national and! y : {American policy,” Minister of State | WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P.). jose Manuel Cortina said today. He said he would notify the Ger-

the Murat Temple today she of recesses scheduled to continue man Charge d'Affaires, Stephan |

heard what she reluctantly identi-

| fied as a cow mooing in what she developments become so threatening

Just as reluctantly identified as a banquet hall

Miss Kniseley, press agent for for a rest after being assured that

the Indianapolis Symphony Or‘chestra and as such somewhat of an expert in noises, recalled that the American Veterinary Medical Association had only last night ended a convention there. She ! thought that they must have torgotten a cow. She discovered that, sure enough, a Jersey cow was mooing | for dear life in a banquet hall | near her office. But it had not { been forgotten. It was merely | recovering from a minor operatipn | performed last night. It was to be called for today.

CITY PARK VANDALS SHIFT TO WEST SIDE

Vandals responsible for violence at the City’s parks, have moved into the West Side. Pat Kinney, custodian of Indianola Park, at W. Washington and Neal Sts, called police today to investigate damage to that park. A large slide had been pushed over and damaged, a smaller one hung high in a tree, and swings had

I'S.

VANADIUM RATIONED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (U. P.. |—The Office of Production Man-

| essential meta] for manufacture of |alloys of high speed and heavy duty Steels neéded for defense, under full

N control, &

pean wrapped around their support!

until Sept. 15 unless international Tauchnitz. of the order, and. that | {he already had notified the Italian] |Minister, Giovanni Persico, that | (Amadeo Barletta, who was Italian] |Consul-General here until the Con(they would be recalled by Speaker sulate was closed recently, must get Sam Rayburn if the situation be-!gut of Cuba bv Sept. 5. No time

came critical. It was the first ex-|}imit was set for the Germans to g0. | tended vacation the legislators have! |

di Ra CT in the ECUADORIAN CABINET | | RESIGNS EN MASSE

| House included two major administration measures. The Banking and! Currency Committee postponed un- | til mid-September work on the con- | | troversial rent and price control bill, | sented its collective resignation to! key measure in the anti-inflation President Enrique Penaranda, it was program. announced today. |

as to interrupt the vacation. Members returned to their homes

QUITO, Ecuador, Aug. 16 (U, P).| —The Ecuadorian Cabinet has pre- |

Clapper's in London— First Column Monday

Raymond Ciapper has arrivad in England for a month's tour of the island fortress. Because of the historic RooseveltChurchill meeting, he will start cabling his observations from London a week earlier than orignially scheduled. His first column will appear in The Times Monday. When he departed he told interviewers that "a turn.in the tide of this

war is coming—probably developing

Me. Clapper now." It appears that he has called

the turn accurately again.

President Lands Today to

{reported that the luftwaffe had in-

‘of rushing fighting and bombing planes to reinforce the

Red air fleet but their talks also will cover the urgent ques tion of keeping open the Pacific supply line in event of any,

new move by Japan and will] / ots ered failure of their eight-point declarae be something like a revival ot gp

the allied supreme war council The need for speed in maintaining y y the eastern front was emphasized by of the World War I. | developments on the fighting front— British sources took the view that where there were many contrae the Moscow conierence would mean|dictory reports but where the Gers 1e pooling of industrial, military mans were still threatening the and naval resources potentially | Russian Ukraine armies—and on the greater than anything the Axis bloc far-flung diplomatic fronts from the might hope to achieve! | Atlantic to the Pacific. In the Far East. Japan ordered all foreigners out of Manchukuo by

News of Fighting Conflicts

News from the tighting tront was Monday. The gates to that potene

| , | contticting but emphasized that se-| tial fighting front against Russia |

vere battling was in progress on were closed, well-informed quarters |said, to facilitate military moves ; ./ments. Recently there had been IN THE UKRAINE, the Germans... tered clashes between Russian flicted a “night of horror” on re. | and Japanese forces on the Siberian treating Russians by bombing roads, | ea d ne. 30% Rose Deonis rains ah ing 2d ps |war was more acute than ever. ny Os pig Rod Apcry The British made no effort to hide strength in the south has now hoon AS, depnnins fon ig Chek East, crushed, the Nazis said, although] | Ti { ; the Russians are attempting to SoL{SIPOnly If Tuo Sushi Slogke up a hew defense line east of the ft... with American-British war Dnieper. shipments to Russia by way of the The British and Russian versions | Pacific. were that the Red Army still was| 7 ses . : U. 8. ? fighting strongly west of the Dnieper | Guards Pacific : : as the main forces fell back intact| The outstanding impression in to the east bank to protect the main London that the United States was Soviet industries. {largely responsible for guarding the

IN THE LENINGRAD AREA. ihe democratic fate in the Pacific was

Finns reported important gains that Strengthened as a result of the drove the Russians from almost all |€i8ht-point peace aims declarations

points on the west shore of Lake | 20d the impending conference in Ladoga, but the Russians said they [MoSco¥, Rehibusi fr i had halted the enemy in that sector | n ihe Agh ng 3 ronts, Russian with henry lowes, planes again struck at Berlin and . the luftwaffe was reported turned back from Moscow, but on the bate

IN THE SMOLENSK AREA. de- tlefield there appeared to be ine fending Moscow, the Russians said CTeasingly severe fighting. their defenses were intact but there] RAF planes swept across the were conflicting reports as to|Dover Straits again today to renew whether the Germans had been | assaults on German and Germans halted or were renewing their drive occupied territory. The RAF last with strong reinforcements. | night raicled Sicily heavily. There was speculation that Lord| The British also said that in Beaverbrook, now in Washington, or sweeps of the Mediterranean Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden|Thursday and yesterday an Italian would represent Britain at the destroyer and two merchant ships meeting in Moscow and that Secre-| were sunk by planes and that two tary of War Henry L. Stimson or|tankers and two schooners were Secretary of Navy Frank Knox | hit. The RAF said it believed the would represent the United States.|tankers were sunk too. Authorized German quarters dis-! In Vichy, Marshal Petain ordered missed the Churchill-Roosevelt let-| cabinet ministers and members of ter to Stalin as “nothing but an at-|the armed forces to swear fidelity to tempt to cover up the complete!the head of the French state,

Hitler Doomed Now ?

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Inc.

LONDON, Aug. 16.—Nazi Germany today faced the most colossal assemblage of power and potential power ever amassed by any group of allies. In the opinion of the British and their allies, Soviet Premier Josef V. Stalin's acceptance of the invitation addressed to him by British Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt, to lay aside old suspicions and to join wholeheartedly in a three-powered bloc, has| pings of such a plan must have been sealed the doom of Adolf Hitler roughly formulated for the first time and everything for which Der at the Atlantic conference. Yet, Fuehrer stands. | without Russi#’s full co-operation, Incidentally, they feel that it such a plan could scarcely have ine provides the promise of a postwar cluded a feasible scheme for beating world in which, for the first time|Italy and Germany on land during since the dawn of history, the three the immediate future. greatest powers in the world will], In the opinion of British milie be working as one for the mainten- | tary experts, with Russia's full coe ance of security and the improve- | Operation and with skilful utilizae ment of the material lot of world | tion of Russian, British and Amer humanity. |lcan resources, according to a welle The announcement that Mr. calculated plan, the actual defeat of Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt had in-| the Reichswehr in the field within vited Stalin to form what amounts |the next year or two should become to a three-power bloc for the anni-| an actual possibility. hilation of Naziism, struck London| The long-term implications ef as the most. important single out-|complete co-operation between Ruscome of the Anglo-American At-|sia, on the one hand, and the United lantic conference. Whatever the|States and Great Britain on the technical position, the message to|other, are so tremendous that peoe Moscow definitely associated the!ple are almost afraid to contemplat® United States, which is technically |them. They promise to affect Rus= a nonbelligerent, with the two lead-|sia herself as nothing else since the ing belligerent powers opposed to revolution has done. Germany. | In%¥the view of people who have As the immediate result of the in- been intimately acquainted with the vitation and Stalin's acceptance, Soviet experiment and the Soviet Britain, Russia and the neutral regime, honest and frank co-oper-United States will, for the first time ation between the Soviet Union and since September, 1939, be able to the Western democracies in this conceive and very possibly to execute war may eventually give to Russia a clearcut, hard-hitting complete a greater measure of freedom in the plan for the actual military annihi-!British-American sense of the term lation of the Axis and any other na- than she had ever had in her histions which may join it. The kggin-|tory, ‘

| | three main sectors:

Claim Defenses Intact