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MOOSE LEGION
OF U.S. OPENS!
SESSION HERE
Second-Degree Group Meets As Prelude to 5-Day Lodge Convention.
Several thousand members of the foyal Order of the Moose moved on Indianapolis today from all over the country for their five-day na-
They
tional convention beginning tomoryow in Cadle Tabernacle | Indianapolis hotels already were! jammed with delegates to the 53d annual gathering of the fraternal order. | As the Supreme Council of the Moose considered matters to be | brought before the convention, the! spotlight today was on the Legion | of the Moose, a second-degree order affiliated with the parent organiza- | tion, which for the first time in its| history is holding its convention in| connection with the larger Moose | conclave. The Legion was to hold its busifess sessions this afternoon. Hold Banquet Tonight At 6 o'clock this evening, 1400 fBielegates were expected to attend the Moose Haven Banquet in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel | to hear addresses their grand governor, Lawrence Grove of Cleve- | land, O, and Senator James Davis] of Pennsylvania, director general of the Moose for 35 years. Following the banquet Ball will be held. The Moose convention at 11:30 a. m. tomorrow at Cadle; Tabernacle with church services. The speaker will be Governor Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia, who will be introduced by Senator | Davis. 1 From noon te'1 p. m. the services| will be broadcast over National! Broadcasting Co. Stations. Following the church services,! Governor Neelv was to be rushed to Municipal Airport with a police escort to greet an 18-plane “Armada’ from West Virginia coming | here to honor him. | At 3 p. m. tomorrow, a huge parade will wind through the downtown streets of Indianapolis. In it ill be uniformed marching units |
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will open |
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North and Meridiar s., south on Meridian to Washington St., east on Washington to Pennsylvania St, and north to the World War Me- | morial Plaza. Plan Aid for Soldiers
At 7 p. m. a patriotic meeting will | be held at the War Memorial Plaza | in charge of Judge Dewey E. Myers, | master of ceremonies. Speakers will be Senator Sah Governor Neely, Governor Schricker, Mayor Sullivan and Francis J Clohessy of Waverly, N. Y., Moose | supreme governor. On Monday the order will Ee flown to business sessions. The Supreme Council of the| Moose vesterday worked on plans for a $400,000 fund for members w ho | are in the U. S. British and Canadian Armies A resolution creating %ill be presented to the national] convention when it opens tomorrow at the Cadle Tabernacle. Senator Davis said it was planned to have each of the society's 400,-| 000 members co ntri ibute $1 each to| the fund This fund, he said, would be used just as was a similar fund in the Jast war to pay medical expenses for members and to help their families.
Order 300 Autos To Be Towed In
the fund]
{night of injuries received when his {car and another collided head-on {at Troy and Arlington Aves.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT today issued affidavits against about 300 Indianapolis motorists who have failed to answer summonses to pay traffic sticker fines. License numbers of the cars were issued to patrolmen and they are under instruction to have any car bearing one of the numbers towed in. Police said that many of the owners of these cars have moved from addresses given when they got their plates, and that others gave vacant lot addresses at the time they got their plates for the | express purpose of avoiding paying sticker charges.
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53] Millett 14 Movies 2 Obituaries 10 Pegler 10 Prie 11 Radio : 10 Mrs. Roosev elt 10 Short Story... 12 Side’ Glances 9 Society .. 7 Sports vs
Churches .... Comics . Colleges ...... Editorials "Mrs. Ferguson Financial Flynn Forum .. In Indpls Inside Indpls Inside Indpls. JONNSON eevee
b The 87th victim of County-City
| Box 63, driver of the other car,
{worth and the grandson of Mr. | Mrs. R. ridge High School summer school |
been employed as assistant mana- |
‘a Sea Scout and a member of the)
Germany Is On the Down Grade, Headed For Defeat, Says Author
i —Dr.
| patients daily, died last night aft- | er a three-year illness with par-
| tinguished citizen, | alike. The fees never changed—
| $2 for the first visit and $1 for | | each subsequent office call.
10 (State Deaths. 12| and 5 the street.
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Bill Lee (left) and Jerry Smith focus the “pickup and sending” camera on a wall picture preparatory The sound transmitter panel stands directly behind Bill.
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to a television broadcast.
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By SAM TYNDALL *4
WHEN THE cook at the Smith home, 2712 W. 30th St, isn’t using the electric stove, young Jerry Smith and his pal Bill Lee can go on the air from the library room. The stove causes static, but the cook's bothersome habit of switehing con the electrical “nuisance” before mealtime is the only remaining problem to the perfect operation of Indianapolis’ first electronic tele-
vision broadcasting station: YOUTH, I KILLED In fact, WOKBG is the first and
at present only amateur electronic television station in the Robert Hollingsworth 87th In County-City Toll.
Middle West—and one of fewer A 14-year-old boy was reported
than 10 in the whole country. killed and three persons were reported injured when two cars crashed at W. 21st St. and the Country Club Road this afternoon.
ts Jerry and Bill—a couple of super radio “hams” to whom new developments in the intricacies of the radio world don't remain mysteries very long. Jerry, son of the head of a pump manufacturing plant, is 19, and Bill, who works at a radio supply shop, is 23. Both claim they started tinkering with radio when they were about eight. They got acquainted about a year ago at the radio shop where Jerry bought much of his equipment. Not content at mastering the ordinary field of amateur radio— building and operating .a shortwave telephone “rig”—the youths decided to take a crack at television. Last fall they began to assemble old radio parts, buy new ones, preparatory to building a television transmitter. They searched for experts who could help them, and found several. One to whom they are grateful 1s Robert T. Thompson, a television expert with the Zenith Radio Corp. in Chicago. Among others who helped in the unique
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traffic this year was Robert Hollingsworth, 17, of 837 Berkley Road. He died at Methodist Hospital last
His companion, Jack Cole, 19, of 334 E 38th St. was injured slightly and Albert Abde, 55, R. R. 10, was unhurt. Mr of Mr. and Mrs.
Hollingsworth was the son Vern H. Hollings- | and | M. Gwin, all of whom sur-| He had attended Short- |
| vive him
‘and had intended to enroll in In- | diana University this fall. He had |
ger of the Lyric Theater.
He was born in Indianapolis, was
{Methodist Ob Ovary ch.
Noted Eye Doctor | Dies in Michigan
NILES, Mich. Aug. 23 (U. P). Fred N. Bonine, 77, world
BOSTON, Aug. 23 (U.P) — | Douglas Miller, former United
famous eye specialist to whose | States commercial attache at musty offices flocked hundreds of | Berlin, believes Germany will be beaten. Author of the book “You Can't ; Do Business With Hitler,” which most dis- | will be published in The Indiantreated rich | apolis Times beginning Monday, and poor, bankers and laborers | he writes in the September issue | of the Atlantic Monthly: “Germany can be beaten. It is | treason inside the country to say { So, but every German . . . is pre- | paring himself psychologically to accept it. Germany will be beaten. The long story of humanity's | rise. will ngt come to an end
alysis.
Dr. Bonine, Niles’
It was impossible to buy an ap- | pointmen it and frequently the line of patients waiting to see him stretched out through the corridor
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‘Shoot’ Pictures Into Space
‘LAST OFFER’ TO STRIKERS MADE
Detroit Mayer § Says He's! ‘At End of Patience’ In Transit Tieup. DETROIT, Aug. 23
Mayor - Edward Jeffries today
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{lyzing four-day strike of A F. of LL
{ transit
{ the next few hours” the home-made product of |.
workers is settled . “within
‘broadcast his position to the people
1 {of Detroit.’
“1 patience,’
have gone to the limit of my Jeffries said,
be made. The Government must remain supreme and the people must be informed of the situation.”
He ‘said he will make his broad-| unless the)
cast “early this evening” strike of the A. F. of L. Association of Street. Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees were settled by then. Mayor's Last Offer The hardship caused by
the A.
F. of L. walkout was somewhat al-|
leviated today because many of the city’s vast defense industries were still on a five-day week and a majority of the transporattion system’s 600,000 daily customers re-
{mained home.
The mayor's last offer to settle the dispute was made early this (morning. He told representatives of the A. F. of L. and of the rival
{C. I. O. State, County and Munici-
| pal
Workers union that if they {would agree ‘to a collective bargainfing election among the employees of the transit system, he would reclognize the union which obtained a (Continued on Page Three)
because of the insane delusions of a single individual . . .” The fact that the Germans were defeated in the World War makes it easier for them to be beaten again, according to Mr. Miller. y “This summer of 1941 quite definitely marks the turning point of the war,” Mr. Miller wrote. “From now on Hitler is on the down grade. True, there niay be several years of fight still left in the German Army and the German nation, but that fight can be knocked out of them. It is going to be another long pull just as in the first World War.” The Russian campaign, Mr. Mil-
P).—| announced | that unless the city’s para-|
“and I now | believe that a public statement must |
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CLAIM 87,000 CAPTURED, 2 ARMIES BROKEN
Moscow Report Counter-Attacks
Drive Invaders Back.
BULLETIN
BERLIN, Aug. 23 (U. P.).— German troops have smashed a center of Russian resistance on the Leningrad front and in the Gomei sector north of Kiev have broken up the bulk of two Soviet armies, taking 87,000 prisoners and large quantities of booty, German sources said today.
(A. T. Steele, Page Three) By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor German armed forces claimed progress in fighting around the beleagured cities of Leningrad and {Odessa today Nazi break-through on the eastern [front threatened to flank the Red Army defense line on the Knieper [River in the Ukraine. On the central front before Moscow, dispatches from war correspondents said that week-long Red Army driven the Germans back with 'heavy losses while the Russian air fleet, battered the Nazi's famed pan{zer coluunins and routed reinforce[ments. The recapture of nine villages was claimed in the last two days.
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rus
Correspondents
Warned?
King Aimone I of Croatia ... reports from Europe say the Croat Government has refused to guarantee his safety.
and reported that a}
BLAZE CAUSES $1,000,000 LOSS!
Sabotage Hint Probed as
counter-offensive had |
ght 1941 bv The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc LONDON, Aug. 23.—While the British morning newspapers devoted much space to maps of Iran and lengthy dissertations on that country’s military Ristory, the British official spokesman had nothing to say on the subject at this noon’s press conference. He refused to discuss Iran’s reply to recent British-Russian representations against the presence of German fifth columnists in that country.
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The Nazi claims of gains—largely indefinite——came on the second an- | niversary Inon-aggression treaty.
| Moscow asserted that the fighting
{power of the Germans was diminishing due to heavy losses in the Soviet Union and a chaotic situation created by Hg warfare in conquered Europe. | Finns Claim Break-Through On the Leningrad front,
reported to have! the Russian de-| and |
Isthmus was broken through fenses on the Vwoksen River made a ‘‘considerable” southward toward the second city of the Soviets. Previously, the Finns had been about 45 {miles from Leningrad, but facing a deep. strongly fortified zone.
the Germans had made some prog- | ress toward Leningrad after taking] 'Kingisepp and Novgorod. The | Soviet communique, instead of re-| peating for the fourth day that fighting was in progress at those (Continued on Page Three)
Report 1st Lady to Fly to Britain
Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Reports are growing here that Mrs. Roosevelt will fly to England in a bomber.
One report—for which confirmation could not be obtained in either the War Department or the Rritish Embassy—is that arrangements are already made, and that the flight will occur in September Mrs. Roosevelt recently expressed a desire to visit England.
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ler thinks, was begun to remove the further menace of a Soviet attack from the rear when Hitler expects to be busy defending his
Western gains. Miller contends the campaign was impelled for reasons of long-term strategy rather than speedy economic returns. “Hitler's adventure in Russia is merely a prelude to his (hoped for) final world victory,” Mr. Miller writes. “It only makes sense when considered as a part of such a scheme. If Hitler didn't believe he will fight America, he never would have needed to invade Russia.”
of the Russian-German
sabotage and guer-|
Defense Materials Burn In Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23 (U. P) —A five-alarm fire destroyed the J. H. Sykes lumberyard in North] Philadelphia today, spread to adjoinling plants and homes and caused 'damage estimated at $1.000.000 be- | fore it was brought under control. It was the second $1,000,000 lumberyard fire within four months, the first, last May, having destroyed the Wilson H. Lear yards in Ken-| |sington and threatened the nearby [Cramps Shipbuilding Corp. Beth vards housed defense matevalued at approximately
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rials $500,000. Four Factories Damaged
Eighteen firemen were injured fighting the blaze, which broke out in several points of the yard simultaneously. Edward Ranieri, night watchman, said the fire appeared to have been “touched off” but company officials - refused comment on the possibility of sabotage, which is being probed by local police. Residents of one entire block were forced to evacuate their homes during the fire. Oniy a few of the
the Ger-| homes were damaged, however. man-Finnish army on the Karelian |
The flames spread to four plants, one of them engaged in national de(fense work, before firemen could bring them under control. The
advance | plants are the H. Bolfield & Co, smbattled | manufacturers of steam valves used
in the defense program; the Counties Construction Co., the King Bedding Co., and the C. Coolktaugh & Sons Tile and Linoleum Manufac-
he planned to] There were indications, too, that turing Co.
The machine shop of the Bolfield plant was Was demrevel, oo
ARGENTINA SEIZES
‘Nine Others Are Hunted in
‘Judicial Blitz.’
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug. 23 (U. P.) —Thirty leading Germans in Argentina were held incommunicado at the central police station today charged with subversive Nazi activity Police scoured the city for six others for whom warrants had been issued, while the German Ambassador, Dr. Edmund von Thermann, waited upon the Premier’s office for an explanation of the ‘judicial blitzkrieg.” Among those rounded up in a series of raids on warrants issued by Judge Jose Vasquez, co-operating with a congressional committee investigating anti-Argentine activities, were: Enrique Wolberg, president of the German Winter Relief Fund, director of the office for the development of German trade with Argentina, and a representative of the German railways; Heinz Frohling, secretary of the Argentine Nazi organization; Enrique Korn, said to be acting leader of Argentine Nazis; Ziegele, alleged member of the board directing Argentine Nazi affairs; Wilhelm Wieland, secretary of the German Culture and Welfare Federation and alleged member of the Gestapo, and George Bein, delegate to the Leipzag Fair and alleged gobetween for the delivery of funds to German-subsidized publications. Karlenig Sanstede, a German diplomat whose status is the subject of a heated debate, was ordered detained, but it was understood that he would not be molested because of his diplomatic credentials. The arrest of Alfred Muller, known as the Argentine Fuehrer, also was ordered but it was understood that he was in Germany and
Korn was Sostifubing fur him,
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. ‘other.
UERRIL CRETE,
Hostages for “Cri
capture means death, is ope tiveness throughout mountai according to reports reaching The entire interior of
Australian and New Zealand At the Italian officials ordered more ures to combat an apparent discontent in much of Europe. In Vichy,
ures to suppress “Communist otage and terrorism in line orders that “Communists” pi
against criminal acts special military courts to mete and the Cabinet was advised] ‘that the Ministry of Interior
had taken additional measures
to end oppositionists activities. i Such sentences must be carried | out immediately. with no appeal. | serman occupational authorities in Paris ordered that all Frenchmen | arrested hereafter be held as hostages, to be shot In number corresponding to the gravity of criminal acts. The order followed assassination of a German officer in Paris Sunday. The Prefect of Paris Police reported that 16.000 French police-
Communist microbe.”
Choice Up to Germans The threat to shoot hostages was regarded as a considerable one, since it left the choice of those to be shot and their number entirely to the judgment of German authorities. Some observers believed the 7000 “Jews and Communists” rounded up in Paris this week might be classified as ‘“‘shootable hostages.” The gravity with which anti-Ger-man and anti-Vichy demonstrations were regarded in the two zones of France was growing daily more apparent. Recent acts of sabotage were believed to have caused the Germans concern over the west while they are heavily engaged in Russia.
Italy Acts
Italy put the entire Croatia coast from Fiume to Montenegro under military occupation. This action followed by two days reports from Stockholm that Italian forces occupying Croatia were meeting strong resistance. Other reports included one that the head of the Croat Government had | warned Italy that he could not | guarantee the safety of the Duke | of Spoleto, who was designated King Aimone I of Croatia when that country was recognized as ‘“independent” by Germany and Italy. It is asserted that tens of thousands of guerrillas are active in Poland. Sabotage is increasing in Czechoslovakia. ‘In Norway, Holland and Belgium the Nazis are meeting with new troubles every day, in addition to their being boycotted by the people at large.
in Croatia
‘isoners in the occupied zone should be held as hostages on German troops.
men are being used to “counter the!
ed, Germans Declare
LAS IN GREECE
HARASS NAZIS
Germans to Hold Arrested Frenchmen ag
minal Acts’; Lost
Battalion on Island Joins Cretans.
By UNITED PRESS An intrepid guerrilia army, whose members know that
rating with increasing effec nous Jugoslavia and Greece, London today.
Crete was reported held by Greek and Cretan guerrillas and a lost battalion of British,
troops
same time, French, German and stringent meas-
rising tide of
the cabinet of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain ordered drastic new meas-
activity, sabwith German Marshal Petain Petain created out summary death sentences
agency reported yesterday that the German anger has most recently been aroused by Dutchmen who slowly and ostentatiously sip orangeade in public, or stand on street le corners and eat oranges as a sign of their loyalty to the Royal House [of Orange. Dutch householders are | erowing red, white and blue flowers {in their gardens as a display of the {national colors. Report Rumanian Sabotage It was reported yesterday from Bucharest official sources that 200 men had been arrested in Rumania for sabotage. Istanbul heard that many members of the powerful Ru=manian national peasant party have been sent to concentration camps for distributing a circular denouncing conditions which the Germans have brought to the country. It is reported from Sofia that Bulgaria is seething under the surface with opposition to the Germans, that many Army officers have been dismissed because of their open opposition to German occupation and that secret societies are springing up daily. Most romantic, however, was the report of the Guerrilla fighting in Crete. Maj. Gen. Sir Iven Mackay of the Australian Imperial Forces, returning to Australia from the Near East, said yesterday that many Australians held out in Crete. Investigation of the statement brought reports from Cairo that about 1000 British, Australian and New Zealand troops, led by a Brit= ish officer, left behind when the Germans captured the island, had formed themselves into a fighting force and were operating in the hills.
Operate From Hills
It was said that the imperials had dyed their hair and beards so as to be indistinguishable from the Cretan peasants and shepherds, and had joined with Cretan and Greek soldiers and civilians to fight the Germans. The imperials, and the other ale lied guerrillas, live in caves in the inaccessible hills. Each night they descend, guided by mountaineers to harass the Germans in every way, ambushing, sniping, stealing supe
The Netherlands official news
plies, sabotaging.
Great Britain and the United today,
a war with Japan as a result of Japanese aggression, Britain automaticaily will declare war on Tokyo. Churchill alse promised, it was said, that Britain would give the U. S. the utmost possible assistance. These reports were taken to mean that Britain and the U. S. had advanced far in co-ordinating their strategic powers in the Pacific for defensive purposes. Meanwhile, advices reaching wellinformed British sources declared Japan might have decided not to push its strategic outposts farther south. Latest American pressure came as President Roosevelt ordered that duties on crab meat imports be increased from 15 to 22% per cent. Crab meat is one of the principal exports to the United States. Of his conference with Mr. Hull, | Nomura said: “We spoke not as diplomats, but as one man to anMr. Hull outlined the posi-
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Jap Envoy 'Optimistic’
By UNITED PRESS
States increased pressure on Japan
even as Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Kichisaburo Nomura emerged from a conference with State Secretary Cordell Hull to say that differences between the two nations can be bridged. Diplomatic sources in London declared that Prime Minister Churchill had given President Roosevelt a pledge that if the U. S.
is involved in
tion of your Government, which we know well, and I outlined the posie tion of my government. No cone clusions were reached.” 2 A reporter then asked if he bee lieved that the gap between the two countries’ policy could be bridged,
“Yes, I believe s0,” he asnwered, “It would be folly of the worst king to do otherwise. I have a very strong conviction that it will be done, but I don't know just how.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Hull indicated that a means of repatriating Amer= icans stranded in Japan is being found. A number of American cone sular officials have gone by boat ta Shanghai, and Mr. Hull said thas further small movements of repatri=
ating nationals might be anticis
pated. However, he insisted that no gens eral settlement with Japan on the subject had been reachgd.