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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1941
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 139
AFL Threatens To Call Out 35,000 In Detroit Transit Strike
RUSSIA PLEDGES ‘LAST MAN’ FIGHT
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ALL MUNCIPAL Moscow Plans for Long War, NAZIS RETO WORKERS MAY, ~~ But Needs Little Things Soon WITHIN 60 MI.
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‘Odessa, Tallinn Defense to End Pledged; Reds Form Dnieper Line.
BULLETIN MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (U. PP.) Landing tanks behind the Gere man lines, Red Army forces were reported by the official Army. publication Red Star today to be throwing the enemy back in a strong local counter-offensive on the central front protecting Moscow, By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
The Red Army plunged into |a supreme test of reserve power today in gigantic bate tles to crush German offen sives against Leningrad on the north and the great war lindustries and oil fields in the 'south.
City Walks to Work: Two Hudson Plants Forced To Close.
DETROIT, Aug. 20 (U. P) —A F. of L. leaders today roared a | threat to call a strike among all of Detroit's 35,000 city employees unless a tie-up of the municipallyowned transportation system, which thas inconvenienced thousands of [Pe is settled by tonight. The threat was hurled at Mayor Edward Jeffries in a conciliation conference with representatives of the A. F. of LL Amalgamated Asso-| ‘ciation of Street, Electric Railway {and Motor Coach Employees. The junion called the walkout which has forced suspension of non-defense production at two Hudson Motor Car Co. plants. affecting approximately 9000 employees Business Agent Arthur Stringari of the office workers division of the union shook his first in Jeffries’| face and made the threat. He was | Supported immediately by other A.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 20.—To anyone here with eyes to see, it is apparent that Russia's over-all program in this battle of giants is protracted
warfare, regardless of local reverses. A prolonged war is implicit in Moscow's cordial preparations for the impending Anglo-Soviet-Amer= a ican conference on the mutual . ~ interchange of RN raw materials. | Whatever comes out of that meeting, it is suré io he a Jong-range matter. For the ime mediate critical phase of the war with Germany,
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Detroit walks. This photo shows a portion of the busses tied up by today's strike of 4000 coach operators, motormen and conductors affiliated with the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees, A. F. of L.
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Stalin Demands Creation of New Fighting Front and That Means Intensified Production in U. S.
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1 KENNEDY LEFT HIS KEY BEHIND
Made Home Accessible to Phillips While He Was At Convention.
{F. of L. conferees. C. I. 0. ‘Raiding’ Charged | All of Detroit's municipal em- | ployees are covered by contracts with various A. F. of L. unions. According to Stringari, many already ‘have declared their sentiments with Ithe striking union and have agreed to “assist in any way possible.”
Stringari also charged the mayor | mle and
with siding with Lawrence Blythe, head of the rival C. 1. O. state, county and municipal workers, who, {he said, “is a leader against the fanti-Nazi a n d anti-Communist blocs” in organized labor. : Michael Quill. head of the C, I. ©,
impending conference.
depend largely on her own resources, with such quantities of essential goods as may be available under her trade agreements with the United States and her newly condummated accord with Great Britain, There is no doubt that the Rus-
|sians deeply appreciate the Anglo-
American goodwill motivating the At the same are sternly realistic they are not letting themselves get unduly worked up with overoptimistic expectations and predictions of quick results. Some Machinery Moved In contrast to the endless columns of sensational speculation in
time, these
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Renewed Nazi offensives were ree [ported by Berlin to be smashing into |the outer defenses of the Leningrad industrial center, hammering into {the Gomel sector on the Russian [fami north of Kiev and developing into a “smashing catastrophe” for [the enemy along the lower Dnieper | River bridgeheads. But the Russians, indicating that they faced an increasingly grave | military situation, promised a ‘last |man” battle for the encircled sea= (ports of Tallinn on the Baltic and | Odessa on the Black Sea. Reds Still Fighting | The Russians reported, too, that
(Phot, Page 20 {some sections of the foreign press, Soviet officialdom and Soviet news-
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[the Red Army's withdrawal of 65 miles in recent days in the Novgorod
Br RAYMOND CLAPPER Black See
LONDON. Aug. 20 (By Wireless)—The idea is growing up around
ar { Transport Workers Union in New Fire Chief Fred C, Kennedy said| YOrK, has dispatched two agents to
here and probably also in the United States, that it can be left to Russia to win a military victory aver the German Arm be more fallacious or It must not be taken for granted that Stalin will be willing to carry the burden of all the fighting while other nations opposed to Hitler simply stand around and cheer the Rus-
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ONE CAN GO no further now than to point out that Russia has this up to the British and the Americans. dispel the idea of an easy victory achieved for every This will have a
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sians on.
Unquestionably Russia has opened up a pattern for victory, and she may well throw in the decisive force that will smash the German Army next year or whenever it can be done. tain that the nature of the war against Hitler has been radically changed.
has there been
sufficient and willing to do the job. But it is reported that Stalin already has put
the British and
pects them to maintain another fighting front to assist the Russian front
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Russia in calling on Iran t German ployed in key such as railways other communica pose is to insure
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veloping situation throws on the |
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United States an even greater burden of providing military supplies.
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situation in the United States.
is coming to be
1e heat for direct American intervention in the fighting is cooling ! face of the political |
It more generally
recognized that the United States
is likely to join the war only when |
events precipitate such action. But the vast enlargement of the fighting front against Germany that is now going on means a vast en-
largement in the from the United
need for supplies |
States.
Instead of easing the pressure for production, the new situation
only
increases it.
For we must
supply not only Britain but Russia with ever-increasing amounts
of material. Undoubtedly opposition in ditional
there congress Lend-Lease
will
appropria-
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Comics . .. Crossword . Editorials .... Mrs. Ferguson Financial Flynn Forum Gallup Poll Homemaking In Indpls. 3 Inside Indpls 1i Jane Jordan . 13,
Johnson Movies
| Obituaries | Pegler
Pyle Radio g Mrs. Roosevelt 11 Serial Story . Side Glances Society Sports .
State Deaths. 10
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and more than coastal raids against It is believed he has asked a real offensive effort that would engage a material portion of the German Army strength so that the n on the Eastern Front might not be so costly.
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today that he had left the Key to his house at the Fire Department paint shop while attending a Fire Chiefs convention in Boston so ‘that Lieut. Arnold W. Phillips could redecorate the chief's basement “if new he wanted to. The chief, however, said he had no idea why Alfred H. Stumm, Fire {Department painter who was injured fatally in the explosion of varnish remover fumes in the basement, accompanied Lieut. Phillips. Chief Kennedy closure today as City officials probed the fatal blast Monday afternoon which took the life of Fireman Stumm and seriously injured Lieut. Phillips as the men were removing paint to redecorate the Chief's basement.
No idea could
It is cer-
Never before in this war put against Hitler the manpower
Americans on notice that he ex-
Where that front should a military matter. It is believed asked more than British bombing the Con-
Condition Is Serious
Lieut. Phillips’ condition at City Hospital today was reported still serious but slightly improved. Meanwhile two firemen who extinguished the blaze in the Chief's {home at 1058 Congress Ave. after {the explosion said at the Coroner's inquest this moining they believed | the explosion and fire resulted from the ignition of paint remover bv a pilot light burning in a water heat-
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NAZI BOMBER OVER ICELAND IS. ROUTED
American. British Planes Join in Pursuit.
REYKJAVIK. Iceland. Aug. 20 (U. pollowing the interview. the (PD). American-built Tomahawk Mayor said that a hearing will be fighter planes and British fighting, held early xl week before the craft pursued a German twin-en- | pattt umn § ll Berson gined bomber over Iceland today! would be asked to testify. {during a 45-minute air alarm. | The exact time of the hearing
The German bomber, which flew | would depend on how soon Frank
Gs aio } B. Ross and Donald Morris, Board over the city at 7 a. m,, escaped into! members, return from their vaca-
the clouds before it could be over-! tions. | taken by the pursuit ships. Why the men went to the Chief's No bombs were dropped. (Continued on Page Four)
el Summoned from Boston where he had gone to attend a Fire Chiefs convention. Chief Kennedy arrived here late yesterday by plane. He conferred with Mayor Sullivan and | Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach last night.
‘You Can't Do Business With Hitler’ =Another Exclusive!
If Hitler should win in Europe, without touching the Western Hemisphere—what then? Douglas Miller, for 14 years commercial attache at Berlin, says that even then "You Can't Do Business With Hitler." A series of sensational articles from this bestseller, which Americans are buying at the rate of 2000 copies a day, will begin in The Indianapolis Times next Monday. Mr. Miller tells clearly and authori tatively just how the Nazis blackmail and bludgeon every country and every kind of company out of money and goeds. Hitler's military aims are being told in a current Times' exclusive, "What Mein Kampf Means to America." This new exclusive feature, by "the best-informed man on Germany in our embassy,” adds another interesting and more amaring chapter.
IT STARTS NEXT MONDAY IN THE TIMES
Mr. Miller
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| Detroit, according to Stringari, “to raid A. F. of L.. membership in the Detroit Street Railway.” ! In demanding exclusive A. F. of L, | bargaining rights with the DSR jand elimination of “C. I. O. fift ‘column activities,” Stringari de-!
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clared: Hudson Plants Closed |
“If calling a strike of city em-| nloyees isn’t enough to settle this) thing once and for all, we'll pull out workers in private employment.” Meanwhile, three top-ranking C. I. O. United Automobile Workers: |officials issued a statement con-| ydemning the “transportation chaos” and censuring Jeffries for refusing to hold a bargaining election. Hudson officials said automobile (Continued on Page Four)
LOVE AND THE LAW * SNARE LOGAL GUARD
Tired of Camp, He Says: Held for Car Theft. | MEMPHIS, Tenn, Aug. 20 (U. P) —A 20-year-old National GuardsIman from Indianapolis, today told how he left Camp Shelby, Miss, on (& 10-day furlough, stole an auto{mobile in Hattiesburg, Miss, and went on a 10-day honevmoon with! a Dyersburg, Tenn. girl whom he, married after a five-day courtship. Roy Salyards Jr. said he was tired ‘of the Army because it was “too! much like a concentration camp,” and he wanted a vacation. He had) intended to return to camp before! the end of 30 days so he would not be charged with desertion, he said.
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|21. He said he stole the automobile | lin Hattiesburg and drove to Dyers-| burg to see a boy friend. There he| [met pretty. 17-year-old Agnes | Marie Jefferies. For five days he said, they “just| rode around and talked’ and were] convinced they ought to get mar- | ried. On the sixth day they drove to Corinth, Miss.. and were married | by a justice of the peace. | Salyards said they drove to In-| | dianapolis by way of Hattiesburg. | on a honeymoon and returned to! | Dversburg last week. Meanwhile, his furlough had ex- | pired and his money gave out. He cashed several forged checks in Dyersburg Saturday and officers ar- | rested him. They found the stolen, automobile. | Salyards, 6. feet 3 inches tall, said “Whatever happens couldn't! be much worse than the Army.” |
Father Surprised At Youths Arrest
| Roy C. Salyards, proprietor of a grocery at 1530 Brookside Ave. and the father of Roy Salyard Jr. today was surprised to learn that his son had been arrested in Press)
burg Tenn, on a charge of auto theft. Mr. Salyards, said his son and| his son's bride visited here three! weeks ago and that “I had no idea anything was wrong.” “I gave him! money to return to Camp Shelby,” Mr. Salyards said. ‘The father de-| clared that his son volunteered for! service last Spring.
gigantic
| goods besides machine tools will go (a long way in this country. Rubber
coming meeting What Russia wants, and stands every chance of getting now, under her existing
agreements with the United States pp | and ‘Britain, are goods of compara-
tively small volume but enormous essential importance, necessary to round out her immediate war requirements. The need for American machine | tools, for instance, grows daily more
insistent ds the Nazis blast their way | through the Ukraine, past the im-|
portant industrial base of Nikolaev, past the iron mines of Krivoi Rog| and now dangerously close to the! power-producing, steel-! milling and aluminum-making works in and around Dniepropetrovsk.
Some Tools Saved
To what extent Russia's scorchedearth policy is being carried out is very difficult to know. But that part of precious equipment in over-run cities has been saved and transported eastward is evident, I myself have seen substantial quantities of uprooted machinery on the move. However, the task is a herculean one, considering the pace of the Nazi drive. Small. amounts
of other vital
and tin, if only by occasional shiploads, will make it possible to keep,
[running the factories where these
essential ingredients are needed. | Diamonds from South Africa, though minute in bulk and easily | transported, are necessary to Soviet! industry. Hides must be had in| quantity.
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RAF DROPS. TWO LEGS, FOR IMPRISONED ACE
LONDON, Aug. 20 (U. P).— metal legs yesterday for Wing Commander Dougias R. Bader, legless pilot who is a German prisoner, The R. A. F. ignored a German offer of immunity to any pilot flying legs to Bader. The legs were dropped from a combat flight.
n | quests | municipal budget for 1942,
over
Two months of the Russo-German conflict have swept bhy—the
first, one of qu Russia last year the Germans ha
set in on Napoleon.
Cool Weather
To Sta
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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THERE'S NO in the immediat
pleasantly cool weather will con-
tinue, the Weat dicted today.
CITY BEGINS STUDY OF BUDGET TONIGHT
Public Can Sit in, But Won't Be Heard Until Later.
City ight to study included
The budget,
The public may
{be heard until the councilmen have ‘had several study sessions. Meanwhile, the County Council|troop morale, ! (continued its County budget ‘prun-|draftees and National Guardsmen, | Salyards left Camp Shelby July Royal Air Force pilots dropped two |ing with a hearing on the Welfare took two significant steps to imbudget requests for next year. Welfare budget would require a 20cent levy, an increase of 4'4 cents|release of draftees and National say [Guardsmen after they have served they hope to make sufficient budget between 14 and 18 months instead cuts to hold the levy down to 18 ‘cents.
this year.
Councilmen
ick German victories in the buffer area seized by i the second, one of slow advances. Behind schedule, ve only two more months until winter sets in--as it
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Up Minds Nazis Must
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her Bureau pre-
in Army training camps.
Fresident Roosevel: used
| i ; ivi] war. will meet to] Hh during the Civil
departmental rein the $8,677,000] as submitted
attend the muni- |
The Army, under criticism
especially The prove the situation. Instructions were issued for
Councilmen
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HAS WAR TO WI
(Calls on Americans to Make
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (U.P.).— (The Administration was embarked in that sector. British experts be [today on & campaign to make lieved the Germans would attempt ' Americans realize that “they have to cross the broad, swampy river by
a war to win” and to bolster morale
the words of Abraham Lincoln, the nation's Civil War leader, in his appeal for an “all out” effort, explaining that he felt the situation exist-|troop ling today “after all is parallel” With Jaunched on Crete, were under
He held forth the possibility that the European conflict, now nearing the end of its second year, might cipal budget hearings, but will not extend through 1943. : or
failure to maintain a high level of among
the
of the full 30 months authorized
Corp. Layton Electrocuted in Louisiana
As He and Brother Move Phone Line
CORP. GORDON M. LAYTON, 20, Indianapolis National Guardsman, was killed yesterday during the Third Army maneuvers in Louisiana when a temporary telephone line he and his brother, Paul, were removing contacted a 2300-volt power line. A brief telegram giving virtu-
| ally no details of the tragedy was | received at 1 a. m. by Mr. Layton's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman D.
Layton, 2060 Rochester St.
The father, a lineman for the Indianapolis Power & Light Co., took the news stoically. The mother was reported near collapse. Other members of the 38th Signal Co. said the accident occurred when a wire that Paul Layton, a lineman in civilian life, was removing from a tree, fell across the line held by his brother on the ground. Artificial resuscitation failed. Corp. Gordon Layton, an auto mechanic in civilian life, enlisted in the National Guard three years ago and, with his brother, went
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with the Guard to Camp Shelby last January. Born in Montgomery County, Corp. Layton was brought here by his parents when he was 2. He attended the Flackville grade school and started in the Ben Davis High School, later transfering to the New Augusta High School.
Described as a “natural born mechanic,” he had worked up quite an auto repair business at his home before the Guard was mustered into the Federal service. He was home about three weeks ago on furlough when his halfbrother, Lee Head Layton, Bloomington, fell from a tree he was trimming on the I. U. campus and was injured seriously.
He is survived by two other brothers, Lycester Layton and Albert Layton, both of Indianapolis, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Lee Layton, Indianapglis, and Mrs. Elizabeth Tate, Craw{fordsville,
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sector defending Moscow and the retirement of the Ukraine main {army east of the Dnieper had been {carried out in good order and that {intense fighting was in progress to | block the enemy drives. | On the north, the Germans still
“| were about 60 to 70 miles from Lene
|ingrad and in the south the Ruse |sians still were fighting at bridge= heads on the west bank of the Dnieper, although Berlin claimed [{inoffiqelly that Nazi troops had | |
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crossed the river in some sectors, {Moscow reported that all attempts | to cross had so far been frustrated. Although the German threat to | Leningrad was grave, the biggest immediate problem for the Red Army was reformation of the Uke [raine Army of Marshal Semyon Budenny to protect the war induse tries and the oil fields east of the (Dnieper. Both Berlin and London (predicted a tremendous new battle
use of a great parachute army or by [naval operations on the Black Sea,
Sea Power Tested The German parachutists have had small success so far in the war lin Russia but if a big-scale para= offensive, such as was
‘taken in the Ukraine it might be
Mr. Roosevelt called upon Amer- effective in co-operation with ine icans to face the grim realization fantry attempts to cross the river that they are confronted by & War ang to flank the Russians from the ‘that won't be won by strategy, but | nopi), tied 1t0|hy “hard, tough fighting"—in the] Council, would require a Civil City |words of Lincoln. (tax rate of $1.49-—-23 cents higher| | than the current levy.
The Axis naval forces on the Black Sea also have been testing out the Red Fleet strength in the |South by thrusts on the coast east of Odessa. Moscow reported these attempts to land forces by sea had been turned back and two transe ports sunk, but further progress by the Germans in the south might make new sea-borne attacks on the Crimea or even the distant Batum oil fields a logical development. Germans have claimed that a Nazi submarine fleet of considerable size was based at Rumanian ports, chiefly the heavily bombed city of Contsanza. There has been little, however, to indicate that the Axis could muster a naval force come parable to the Russian warships in the Black Sea, even though the Germans claimed to have captured | eight warships at Nikolaev this week |and destroyed 30 ships in bombing | Odessa.
| Pressure Put on Iran |
{ In connection with protection of [the Russian oil fields, London and | Moscow were putting increased prese (sure on Iran, “back door” to the Caucasus petroleum area, to oust Nazi agents and British sources said a reply to the demands was expected within a few days. Franz von Papen, German Ame bassador to Turkey and chief Hitler diplomatic “fixer,” was ree ported by the London press ta have visited Iran to “give orders” to about 4000 Germans working there and the London Dajly Herald said that Iran's Army was being boosted from 120,000 to 200,000 men. There was a general belief that the Iranian Government was ate tempting to stall a final decision une [til there was ore definite indicae | tion of the success or failure of the |Nazi offensive through the Ukraine ‘toward Baku or Batum, but Lone 'don also believed that the British and Russians were going to move in with force if they did “early satisfaction. Yi LANE
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