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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 141

‘Full Flood’ Thrown At Living Wall Before Leningrad

The Indiana

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FRIDAY, AUGUST

22, 1941

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BRITAIN, RUSSIA MAY INVADE IRAN |

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Cobwebs in Corner Tell Tale

Of a Sm

Four Blocks Away It's Different Where the Big Plant Operates.

By ROGER BUDROW Cobwebs are collecting in a corof a small Indianapolis factory. filled from steel. The clack have dimin-

ner The corner once

floor to beams with

was

and hum of industry

ished to a whisper. Few workers ae The owner may and go find

in the factor) have to lock the door job pretty soon. Four blocks away is another factory covering almost an entire city block. It is working night and day. You can hear the roar of its busy machinery ' through the open wihdows. There are gu outside because the big factory is working on defense Multiply this strange situation a al ired times. Some defense officials in Washington sav vou could multiply 5000 times and vou would strike the average for the whole country It is the spectacle of starvation In the midst of plentv—of one of he imminent casualties of the tremendous defense program.

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It is the plight of a small factory that can't get defense orders. Nor can get material—steel in this case—to go on making its regular civilian product. It — and mayoe thousands of other such small firms —are facing extinction. Supplies are needed for defense and there's not enou eft over to keep nondefense plants going. Or is there? Six years ago, to start at the beginning, IL. P. Lent was selling rub- | ber heels, shoa horns and such on the road. Then he borrowed some money and set up in business, mak- | ing shoe horns mostly. His small | plant is several blocks southeast of | the Circle—310 E. Empire St. It is] the American Findings Manufactur- | ing Co “Findings” are like shoe horns. evelets, laces and cleats which which keep heels from wearing out toc fast. Mr. Lent built up his business to} the point where he empldyed seven workers. Only last year he took over the building next door, fixed | it up, put in some new machinery | and went out after more business Last March he ordered some

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| cilman Ben Rosenberg, hit on the

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TRANSIT TIEUP MAY SNAG ALL DETROIT LABOR

‘Railways Head Demands Answer by Tomorrow | On Compromise. By JOHN M. JOHNSTON

Times Special Writer

all Factory in Defense

|of general labor warfare in Detroit Sa | intensified today as 48 hours of ne- | gotiation failed to produce a peace] formula in a transportation strike {which appeared to be settling down {into a protracted fight between the] {A. F. of L. and C. I. O. and between {government and unionism. | President Samuel T. Gilbert of} {the Detroit Street Railways set to-| morrow morning as a aeadline for {acceptance by an A. F. of L. union of a compromise proposal worked lout in conference last night. This! {proposal provided for the return of the striking transit workers pend{ing negotiations.

Demands Answer

“We stand 100 per cent behind {this compromise proposal which! iwas drawn with the heip of your fattorney,” Mr. Gilbert told the A. 'F. of L. bargaining committee headed by President Frank X. Martel of the Wayne County (Detroit) Feder-| lation of Labor. | “The proposal was made in good faith,” Mr. Gilbert said, “and it's {the only logical basis on which this Istrike canbe settled. We want {an answer on this not later than tomorrow morning. Carry it to your membership tonight.” | Mr. Martel replied immediately| {that last night's compromise pro{posal was “no longer acceptable” to the striking union.

L. P. Lent . . . “Don’t make me look like a cry baby.” {

Burned Up By (COUNTY BUDGET Matchless Rival ESTIMATES CUT

McKEESPORT, Pa. Aug. 22 (U. P.) —Here's a hard one to match. Rate Increase May No Exceed 2 or 3 Cents, passed here by the teamsters and!

John Traczynski, a grocer, Republican, and his opponent, CounIs Report. he: “and | {the building trades and culinary Indications that the 1942 County, Workers.

a ont | vo thin. 9 3 In Lansing, Gov. Murray D. Van| aX rate won't be more than 2 © Wagoner said he was “preparing| above the current rate ware

what possibie action the city would

buses and trollevs in event the proposed settlement was rejected by| the striking union. ;

Prepares for Worst

port from other cities, to bolster the!

same idea of having matchbook | contained in resolutions folders advertise their City Coun- |

candidacies for the Sept. 9

cil

: : oF They ordered the folders from t

cents

| —Film

It's a Boy

DETROIT, Aug. 22—The threat) |

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22 (U. P). star Veronica Lake, who gave birth to a six pound two ounce daughter shortly before last midnight, was reported to be “resting comfortably” in Good Samaritan Hospital today. She is the wife of John Detlie, studio art director. They eloped last Sept. 26. after she completed work in “I Wanted Wings.”

BYRD ERRS IN |

FIGURES -- FOR

Senator Sold Down River, Says President Citing Arms Output.

HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 22 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt asserted today that charges of Senator Harry F, Byrd that the defense proon almost completely sold the Senator down the river. On the average, defense production is up to estimates, and in some

cases actually exceeds estimates, Mr. | | Roosevelt said at a press conference. importance and had resulted in one Mr. Martel said the strikers were While he said he still is not satisfied |of the fiercest battles of the war. i receiving offers of money and sup- with armament production, he cited |

War Department figures to show

{threats of a general labor holiday that Senator Byrd's charges were] already | considerably wide of the actual pro-

duction records. The President's break down follows:

Refutes Other Figures

PERSIAN

‘Successive ‘Attempts To Cross Dnieper Fail. By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Germany claimed new successes today as Adolf Hitler's offensive ‘surged to “full flood” against Russia but the Red Army reported it was “crushing” the main Nazi ldrives against embattled Leningrad land across the lower Dnieper River 'in battles of increasing violence. An epochal battle appeared to be |developing rapidly in the fortified zone around Leningrad, where the Germans unofficially reported in|definite progress. But the Russians |said they stemmed the enemy with] a living wall of defenders and had | turned back the Lutfwaffe so furi- | ously that not a single bomb had (fallen on the huge industrial city. | Moscow also reported that German ‘attempts to cross the lower Dnieper | had been repulsed with severe losses. |

The German High Command,| supplemented by official Nazi war

|Army’s ability to carry on the war| had been greatly impaired by loss of 1.250,000 prisoners, vast quan

tities of equipment and large industrial

Mr. Gilbert did not elaborate on gram was bogging down were based and farming areas. inaccurate take to insure operation of its 2600 statistics and added that somebody |

Timoshenko Driven Back

In this connection, the High Command emphasized that a thruss through the Russian central defenses at Gomel was of unusual

Descriptions of terrible slaughter near Gomel were contained in Nazi war dispatches which said that the [town (headquarters for Soviet Mar-

'shal Semyon Timoshenko) had

been reduced te flaming ruins as the|

Germans pressed througn for flank- |

of Russian troops on a single hill

REPLY ARRIVES BELIEVED ‘INADEQUATE NAZIS STOPPED AT RIVE

Marshal Leeb,

Wilhelm Ritter commands

grad.

von German Army |dispatches, claimed that the Red] “battering ram” aimed at Lenin-

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‘English Deny Wavell Has Moved Troops

From India.

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U. P.). —Iranian Minister Mohammed Schayesteh declared today after a conference with Secretary of State Cordell Hull that Iran will fight any aggression, “even if the opposing force is to 10 to one-against our force.”

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copvright, 1941, by The Indiarapolis Times and Tne Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, Aug. 22.—Re« ports of heavy British troop movements toward the frone tier of Iran were neither cone firmed nor denied in London today on the grounds that military dispositions could not ‘be revealed. There are insistent indicae tions in London that British and Red Army troops will shortly be participating in joint action.

PLOT IN FRANCE CHARGED TO U. §

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Du Ponts and Ford Backing

‘Synarchy,” Parisian Press Claims.

By RALPH HEINZEN United Press Staff Correspondent

VICHY, France, Aug. 22.—Reports | day {ing operetions against either the appeared today in the German-con- 1

All that authoritative circles would

{say “on the subject was to deny .

Note Arrives Today

At the same time, nobody here makes any secret of the fact that the Iranian situation is taken very { seriously and deserves close atten= [tion. All morning newspapers toe give prominent display to ‘umors of impending developments,

16 S¢ al n and when Mr Tanks—Senator Byrd said not an + Ukraine fronts. Fine iy i the same salesmen and when Mu. or B Moscow or UKraine fron [troled Paris press of the “uncover-| The most recent joint Britishe

steel from a mill over in Ohio. He didnt know 1t time, but at Was an occasion. The mill they sell him any more after that—shoe horns weren't to defense.

{TY Per 100 Pounds

the vieal Yical

couldn't

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been able to get any steel since. He called up a local] jobber the other day. The price was $7 for 100 pounds (last March] steel cost $484). Mr. Lent said he would be glad. very glad. to pay $7. “Now. Lou.” the jobber said, * can't let vou have any of that RCA has a priority rating I've got to let them have it.” Y av Mr. Lent was going to demonstrate how a shoe horn is stamped out of a piece of cold-rolled steel—but he couldnt find a single piece in the whole plant. There are three men still working {Continued on Page Nine)

He hasn't

just steel and

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EMERGENCY BALKS ACTRESS’ MARRIAGE

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22 (U.P) — Actress Anne Nagel would have been married today. but the national emergency intervened, and she can't be a bride before 1943 “Of course I'll wait for him. After] all. I'm in love and hes the man” she said when she learned that her fiance, Ensign John Robertson, a naval flier stationed in Java, couldn't get home for 17 months. She booked passage on a PanAmerican Clipper a few weeks ago to join him, but the State Department refused her a passport.

| tolled | Tracyzyski.

for the worst.” He conferred with] seen today as County Councilmen Capt. C. J. Scavarda of the State single tank had gone to England.| The tone of the German reports! — 3 neared the end of budget- Police and Col. E. M. Rosecrans, he said. Actually hundreds of tanks without making definite claims, was | Ing of a world-wide revolutionary TY commander of : the State Home have been turned over to the Brit- 'designed to give the impression that | plot, said to have American finanHynes Moe Guard. He advised both, he said, ish—American tanks of modern de- {he offensive had now reached a cial backing. While no definite to be prepared in the event of a sign which have been produced climax and that the Red Army was | Rumors of a “plot,” circulating for | been revealed by the Council. it was] (Continued on Page Five) within the last year in this coun- | acking up on the important fronts. days, finally were published by the reported that roughly $117,000 will try. He added that some of these | a{ {he same time there was increas-| Paris weekly, L'Appel, which added be sliced from the County General tanks have been in service in EBYPL 0 discussion in Berlin of the pros-|a wierd touch by associating the {Fund budget request and from { $200,000 to £300,000 from the County Welfare request. This would mean

Traczanski’s 20.000 folders arrived, he in distributing

them

) en

lost no time

the

the covers were ex-

virtues of candidate have

figures Belatedly. he opened one of the matchbooks and to his horror read: “Vote the man, not the

name.” Below was the picture of Councilman Rosenberg.

FINNISH FREIGHTER BURNS AT NEW YORK

First Mate’s Body Found FBI Investigates.

Russian representations, which wera (made at Teheran last Saturday, | pointed out for the second time that the presence in Iran of large numbers of German “technicians” constituted a menace to that country’s independence and urged the advisability of expelling them. The Iranian reply was received in London today and was taken under immediate consideration.

Turkey May Be Affected

Iran's answer to the latest British and Russian approacies, however, does not promise to be satisfactory, Indications in Teheran are that the Iranians, for the second time, will refuse to take definite adequate action. Insistent reports received here ine dicate that German and Bulgarian troops are massed on the Turkish

{where

homeland.

{Photo, Page 3)

WESTERN UNION AlD and ihab: NOWSpaper reporis have pects for winter war in Russia. plotters with the mysterious deaths /indicated their general excellence of the engineer, Jean Coutrot and {in actual combat conditions. Baitle Fury Increases a few days later, of his secretary. ! A ’ S Y, a 5 or B-cent cut in the proposed SLUGGED IN HOLDUP! ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS—Sena-| 1, prief, the rival communiques |Albert Thealet. 5156-cent County total tax rate. | tor Byrd charged that the program geceriped the fighting fronts as fol- | L'Appel said Coutrot commited [The current rate is 43 cents, | jealis or ape PE i | lows: hepa hPL Siieide > Ser” and said he was pg | ‘ " Sy 4 $ 3 , S\1 NORTH—The battle for Lenin- ounder of the new revolutionWPA Jtem Slashed Bandit Takes $100, Strikes he said. Actually, he continued, the oya4 raged with steadily increasing ary movement known as A | Meanwhile. City Councilmen after ; |program for this year calls for an f,.¢ as the Germans, aided by Fin- Which, according to L'Appel, hiss its /more than three hours’ study and Woman in Face. |average delivery of 61 such gunsiy ish troops, sought to close in from [roots among graduates of the |argument list night effected cuts (monthly, and the War Department t,o west, the south and the north-|French Polytechnic Schoo, who totaling $3575 in the $8,700,000 Civil} A well-dressed and masked gun- believes that quota will be jchieved. west The German attack by Stuka [comprise most of the technical offic- . City budget. ‘This was ‘the second man entered the Western Union! THIRTY -SEVEN MM. ANTI-| give bombers, mechanized units and [ers of the French Armv. * trimming session, a saving of $200 branch at 935 N. Capitol Ave. today, TANK GUNS—Mr. Byrd charged |, tijlery was described as like a| The plotters, L'Appel said, have resulting from the first. The Coun- slugged a woman employee, and es- that only 15 such guns Were pro-| sheet of flame” threatening the de- |connections in Britain and in the cilmen will meet again tonight to caped with about $100. (Continued on Page Nine) industrial | United States. make further cuts. . Entering shortly after Miss Hazel | — | Of last night's reductions, $2800 Jackson, 30, of 2645 E. Riverside! NEW YORK. Aug. 22 (U. P).— Was in City sponsor funds for WPA. Drive, an operator, had opened the! wn hi ’ % a4 $22 os i ia- she had opene e safe, the ma rora was destroy ed by fire today at page ytility bills; complete elimina- pointed a at her and said: 5 her anchorage in the Hudson River tion of a $75 fund for ice at the ga-| “Hand over the money.” she had lain two weeks rage, and $500 from the Works Board, afiss Jackson complied and the awaiting orders from her warring request of $1750 for repairs to public |pangit ordered her into a closet : buildings. : |He turned to go and Miss Jackson Policemen ir: motorboats rescued The City Council's consideration came out of the closet. The bandit all but one of the 21-man crew. The thus far has been on items other | returned and struck her in the jaw body of First Mate Conrad Frecse than personnel. Requests for sal-| with his fist “pushed her into was pang Hosnipg mn the water. ary increases will be taken up later.| closet again. ri) escaped a \ as s st e- 1 Ries Von y ee or he er ny Few Raises Allowed Miss Jackson, extremely nervous New York and Cuba Mai] Inne; At last night's session, the sug- ng Sheu from Hie bow, yo freighter Panuco burned Monday in gestion that part of the cost of| mained in the closet this time for a Brooklyn waterfront disaster that operating the City Plan Commission |* IMOIeRL OF 140, Inkl one of tie killed 30 men. be defrayed from gasoline tax funds | : Policemen aboard a comman-/was made but officials questioned | 14 police. deered pleasure craft fished the whether this would be legal. On Aug. 2 a gunman held up the Aurora's master, Capt. Albert Bjork-| Practically all salary increases

{ame office at the same time of dav

CRITICALLY HURT AS CAR HITS ABUTMENT

G. E. Frazier, 36, of 5937 Broad-|

way, office manager of Denison Service, downtown service and parking company, was critically injured early today when his car struck a bridge abutment in the 3200 block of N. Sherman Drive. Police said that he was wedged

under the steering wheel of his car

and that he was unconscious when they arrived. Motorcycle Officer George Hughes,

{1223 W. 32d St. received shoulder messengers arrived. Then she noti- injuries today when he was thrown

{from his motorcycle at 10th St. and {Pershing Ave. while chasing

| speeder.

TEMPERATURES

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The motorcycle then struck a trolley pole and caught fire.

{and escaped with about the same

[luf, 59, out of the water after he sought in Countv depar ; { laf, artments have : 3 Parilnonts hav jfamount of money.

10 a. m. had jumped overboard. He was been eliminated by (he County 11 a. m. ] \ 12 (noon) ..

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taken to a hospital suffering from. Council, it was reported. The only | (burned hands. Four policemen who exceptions were the Sheriff's office V on ef u | M . | d D e st rovs overcome by smoke, | pay boos a * : q y ! The Federal Bureau of Investiga- [os JUSts i's 10 be granted I tion was notified immediately. FBI | r. FB AN JOHNSON'S WIFE Master's Art Treasures burning of the Panuco all week and | were reported to have found no | IS DEA . NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (U. P) —An $4000. The third picture was a por- | evidence of sabotage, although they | u AT SPENCER y ne | i gw ; i... | known, artist, insured for $15,000. 18 for the bodies of missing Panuco —Mrs. Sara Jane Johnson, 73, the discovery that a maid, seeking According to police, Fooly Sickles’ 12/ crew members and longshoremen is | Widow of Buron Bancroft Johnson, vengeance, had destroyed three irre- maid. Marie Hauser. slashed the ‘early this morning. raising the list of baseball clubs, died at her home collection of Capt. Daniel Sickles old-fashioned strai p ' . ‘ -fas ght razor and “ -13 BY Shown dead to 19. : here early today. | The paintings were insured for burned them in his country home at . | Since arriving from Buenos Aives,! Mrs. Johnson was born in Free- $44,000. Two of them were by the Hampton Bays, Long Island, to 20 oil, rye, grain and hides, the Aurora son in 1892 when he was a news- One of these was “Black Boy,” a Ye, 8 S.. s - y,” a|Savoy Plaza apartment to prepare 2 had awaited orders. Finland had paperman in Cincinnati, O. {companion work to his priceless| for week-end Ey DSP 27 gone to war with Russia, Britain's! Mr. Johnson became president of “Blue Boy,” and was alone insured She gave several different reasons 18 subject to seizure bv British war- and continued as president of the to- be worth much more h i i t ) : S S - . er with grand larceny, said she 23 ships had she ventured into the At-| American League until 1927 when The other Gainsborough was “The first had ies suicide by drink24 lantic. {he resigned. He died in 1931. {| Wayfarer,” a landscape insured for ing poison. ;

(aided in the crew's rescue Wereland Juvenile Court where some agents have been investigating the’ are still assigned to the case. Search| SPENCER. Ind. Aug. 22 (U. p). | ittembted suicide today led police to trait of Charles the Bold by an unstill under way. One was recovered | Who founded the American League! placeable art masterpieces from the paintings from their frame with an .28 Argentina, with a cargo of linseed | dom, Ind. She married Mr. John- great English master, Gainsborough. which she had been sent from the 16! ally, hence the ship presumably was of the old Western League in 1900 for $25,000 although it was believed for her act and police, who charged Hitler,’ iter, b y L.,

{struction of the great lcity, while the Russians reported that the military and the 3,000,000 people of Leningrad formed a “living wall” of defense. | The Russian communique said |

(ever in the Kingisepp and Novgorod | areas, which would indicate the] Germans still were 60 or 70 miles | from the city, but Berlin reported | ‘that the Nazi spearheads had ad-| | vanced beyond those areas. | | SOUTH—The Germans, who pre- | viously had claimed domination of | all of the Ukraine west of the] Dnieper, admitted that they still] { were fighting furiously in that area | but the High Command reported | that “the last” Red Army positions lon the west bank were being wiped {out with huge casualties inflicted on (the enemy. Germans reported the capture of Nokopol, site of rich manganese deposits, and said the Luftwaffe was bombing the big Dniepropetrovsk industrial area and Cherkasi, both on the river.

Fail to Cross River The Russian communique said

big river, presumably the Dnieper near Dniepropetrovsk, had been crushed with loss of 800 German | soldiers, 26 boats, a number of pon--toon bridges and much other war equipment. Odessa still was holding out under German air and artillery bombardment, as was the capital of Kiev where Moscow said a new vaudeville show was opened last night. CENTRAL — The Russians admitted the loss of Gomel, where Berlin previously had claimed a big victory in an important sector about half way betwene Kiev and Smolensk. But today's Moscow communique said that fighting was continuing stubbornly in that area.

Douglas Miller, Begins Monday in

that fighting was more furious than | |

American du Pont

ests. “Synarchy" leaders, accordin

(Continued on Page Nine)

Clapper

Glasgow's

especially with the! frontier and Ford inter

Mayor Is No Pacifist

Munich Changed His Mind and Now He Insists on No Stoppage of Production.

and speak of a meeting - | between Adolf Hitler and the Turks g ish Ambassador at Berlin in which | (Continued on Page Five)

mn London

Socialistic

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

that German attempts to cross a 0

GLASGOW, Scotland (by wireless). —A day with Sir Patrick Dole lan, Lord Provost (or mayor) of Glasgow, taught me some more about democracy over here. : An old friend of his, an' American motion-picture executive, had suggested that while I was in Glasgow I lodgk up the Lord Provost, “How should I address him?” I asked my Ainerican friend. “Oh, you don’t address him, just call him Pat,” my friend replied. “He's just like Mayor La Guardia.” On. arriving in Glasgow I found an invitation to luncheon waiting for me. When I showed up at the Lord Provost's chambers, before I knew it he had nie over at his corner cupboard pouring a spot of his best scotch.

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A DOZEN OR SO people were there. One was a former stevedore, James Spencer, now a million aire, who went to America as a hand on a sailing ship several years before I was born. He made 8 fortune here as a contracting stevedore, and he just presented Glasgow with a canteen to provide hot lunches for dock workers. The luncheon was in his honor. ! Another guest was a tall, smooth gentleman, D. C. D’Eath, director of the Rhodesian copper mines. On the first day of the war he notified the British Gov-

Mr. Clapper

ernment that he would not raise the price of his copper during ths war. At this luncheon he ane (Continued on Page Five)

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