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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 144

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1941

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‘Rump Parliament’ Defies Petain; Soviet Rains Mire Nazis

KENNEDY IS REMOVED AS

HERRIOT LEADS. 100 DISSIDENTS

You Can't Do Business With Hitler

Hitler Government Must Fight—or Die |

Wars Necessary to Retain Power; Possibility of Peaceful Trade Is Thrown Away.

(This is the second of 12 installments taken from Douglas Miller's | hook, YOU CAN'T DO BUSINESS WITH HITLER. Miller was for 15 | vears commercial attache in the American Embassy in Berlin, six of | them under the Nazi regime.)

| By DOUGLAS MILLER A FEATURE of the National Socialist organization | h makes 1t dificult to oppose is the parallel structure to bottom of both the State and the Party. [hese two organizations run down from the Fuehrer the farth corners of the Reich. Almost every gov1s paralleled by an unofficial party func5

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| Courts on Sabotage Open; Anti-Nazi Leaflets Scattered. Rv RALPH HEINZEN

United Press Staff Correspondent VICHY. France, Aug. 26.—More than 100 members of Parliament have met in rump session here and formed themselves into an opposi-

tion to the regime of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, it was disciosed to- | day. Disclosure of this new organized | opposition to the Vichy regime coincided with revelation that 12 pas-| sengers were injured in a new rail- | way accident to have resulted from | An autorail and a freight | train collided at the Carneville sta- | tion south of Cherbourg. { Emergency courts, empowered to impose summary death sentences on Communists, anarchists and sabo- | teurs, went into action against terrorists in the Paris area. It was disclosed that Petain| would make an important speech 11 a. m. Sunday in the Vichy

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the German government has formally chased This nullifies apparent concession. Such cases have been of frequent occurrence The dual method of operation is particularly effective in evading the laws and regulations of foreign countr What the German Embassies or Consulates are not allowed to do, they can have done by partv representatives. For example. in the United States, the German - American Bund 1s supposed to be an organization of American citizens: and no German citizens. let alone Germany's official representatives. are supposed to have anything to do with it, but it 1s 1n close touch with the National Socialist Party crganizatior thr unofficial

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WON'T COST JOB

Governor Says Appointees Will Serve Only Until Officials’ Return.

Governor Schricker announced | today that in cases where elected | officials are called to duty in the] | armed forces, he would follow the policy of naming their successors to |,

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V4 Predatory Economy

ONE FUNDAMENTAL characteristic of all totalitarian economies is their essential unproductiveness. This arises first of all from their militaristic nature. They are economies of conflict, working toward an expansion of their territory. They can never be disassociated from the thought of war. Hitler's solution of the unemployment problem is the stimulation of war industries. This is natural on psvchological grounds because Nazi economy is an economy of conflict, and on material grounds because it seems easier | for central pianni g to operate on militaristic than on peacetime methods. Peacetime production is teo complex to lend itself to central planning, depending upon the whims of the ultimate consumer, but war production is uniform and standardized. Authoritarian regimes tend to expand their bureaucracy. The number of uniforms constantly grows: In the armed forces of the land, sea and air; in the ever- | (Continued of on Page, 1, Section 2) |

duty.

HULL HEADS STATE ts ao TEACHERS’ LICENSING contending that the jadgoship "x

(vacant because the Republican | J. Fred Hull of Fowler, president judge, Orval D. Hunter, was called of the State Teachers’ Association, |for duty in the U. S. Army last today was named assistant director | week. of the Teacher Training and Li-| The Republicans declare, however, censing Division of the State De-|that Judge Hunter was entitled to partment of Public Instruction by | appoint a judge pro tem to serve Dr. Clemen T. H Malan {until he returned—a step he took Mr. Hull served as superintendent | with the appointment of Parker of schools in Benton County until|Vosloh, Republican attorney of Aug. 15 and taught in schools in| | Bloomfield, as judge pro tem. several Indiana counties previous to | Claude Story, Democratic clerk of that for about two decades. |the Greene Circuit Court, is studyHe succeeds Miss Dorothy Hodges, ing the legal procedure to be folwho resigned several months ago|lowed and is expected soon to certify to become dean of girls at Central | to the Governor that a vacancy High School in Evansville. Mr. Hull) | exists in the In the JUOSESIID. @ is a Republican. LIKE TO SEE U.S. IN BERLIN, Aug. 26 (U. P.).—The official German news agency said] | that German bombers last night! WAR, BEAVERBROOK attacked the British naval base at! Alexandria, Egypt. “with good ef-; fect.” The attack was said to have continued until dawn,

from defense duty. In accordance with this policy, | he named Harry T. Grube, Democratic attorney of Decatur, to serve as prosecuting attorney of Adams] County, succeeding Vincent Kelley, Republican prosecutor, who called to the army last week. Mr, Kelley was a lieutenant in the re-| serve corps. The Governor said that Mr. Kelley had come In to see him and had! brought Mr. Grube, a close personal! friend, with him. Mr. Grube, the Governor said, had made a gentle. man’s agreement to resign if Kelley is released from the Ph before his term expires Jan. 1, 1943 | The Governor said he would try to work out the same sort of arrangement with the Greene Circuit | Court judgeship if he is notified by the Greene Circuit Court clerk that a vacancy exists in that office.

Wants to Be Fair He said that he wanted to be fair to the officials who are called to!

ALEXANDRIA IS BOMBED

‘Matter for Americans to Decide,” Briton Adds.

. LONDON. Aug. 26 (U. —Lord | Beaverbrook, Minister o Soo | | said today “I would like to see the

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1 ed that “that is a question which g| the United States People must de4 cide for themselves.” 12] Beaverbrook returned from Wash11| ington, where he conferred on sup7. plies for Britan after sitting in on 11! the Roosevelt-Churchill conference

11; Millett ... 19 | Movies 18 Obituaries 12; Pegler 12! Pyle 6 ‘Radio 12 Ars. Roosevelt 12!Serial Story.. 19,at sea. 15 Side Glances. 12] “I am nct going to be hypoeriti3 Society ‘ 14 cal” he said at a press conference. 11 Sports 8-9 “I am one of those who would like 14 State 4 to sed the United States taking a 12{ Travel LEAR R RNY 16, higher part in the war.”

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Observers said the Parliamentary formidable | of the oppohimself ad12 speech to |

which Petain in his Aug. the nation.

Terms Expire in May

The rump Parliament of more |

‘their mandates expire next May. The present Chamber was elected | Front

the Popular landslide |

a, swept Leon Blum and his |ing he nominated Governor M. M.| [ors

Socialists into power. The mandates should have expired in 1940! {but former Premier Edouard Dala- | dier extended them to May,

to avoid a war-time election. The to the highest elective office of the|the Smolensk sector,

rump Parliament has established a | permameint organization {former Premier Edouard Herriot, | {who was president of the Chamber lof Deputies.

The Senators and Deputies have | a well organized grapevine system

INFLATION NEAR

100 Senators and Deputies Sylvania, 'decided to maintain opposition to Loyal Order of Moose, today Petain's efforts to eliminate them dicted that monetary inflation — | completely from national life before |this country is “in the making.”

Sees Money Peril

in Occupied France| .

Senator James J. Davis

DAVIS PREDICTS

‘U. S. Unlikely to Avoid i Tells Rotarians.

By JOE COLLIER Senator James J. Davis of Penndirector general of the

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The Senator took time out from the annual convention of the Moose |

in Jes. 1936, amidst general strikes |to address the Indianapolis Rotary armies in

Club. In lodge sessions this morn- | Neely of West Virginia for the office of Supreme Governor.

Others nominated in the “line of

order were Frank Lavell, Boston, for |

under | supreme junior governor, and Mark | second city.

Gray, Indianapolis, for prelate.

This afternoon all drill teams and

supreme |

{bands were to perform at the In-

|dianapolis Motor Speedway, where

| for communicating bad news of the a special auto race will be run for

Vichy regime to their constituents, |the visitors.

Most of them are ‘refugees” and will

in Vichy as keep other |

(developments in their home dis- | tricts.

Partisanship Disappears | | Parliament

Members of

dress, serve only until they are released | Gorges and Deputies informed of | Without exception in other countries

Senator Davis, in his Rotary adsaid that “the experience

is that few people recognize infla-

[tion until it was too late to do any- | thing about it.”

“Price inflation that lasts and

have does everlasting harm to the wage

dropped their partisan quarrels and |earner and every man who works

(CHRYSLER MAKING FIVE TANKS A DAY

Company President Urges, Orderly Car Output Cut.

DETROIT, Aug. 26 (U. P.).— Chrysler President K. I. Keller revealed today that the corpora- | tion’s $20,000,000 tank arsenal was] producing five $28.000 tanks per day | and would triple that output by the end of the year. Mr. Kelier disclosed the produc- | tion figure during a tour of Chrysler | defense plants with Army and! Government officials and news- | papermen, | Praising the work of the automobile industry in the national! defense program, Mr. Keller advocated that “car production be curtailed if it has to be. But let's have pi progress.”

Was have all but formed a solid bloc of and saves arises from monetary dis-

turbances now in the making,” the Senator said. “At present we have many monetary factors which threaten to bring | jon dangerous price inflation. These (Continued on Page Five)

Famed Dietrich Leg Is in Cast

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26 (U. P.). —One of the famed Marien

Dietrich legs was in a cast

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Carrying a seven - month - old baby yesterday on a film set, she tripped over a miniature fire engine. As Miss Dietrich fell, she turned to avoid landing on the child. Her ankle was fractured, her shoulder bruised and she was dazed. The baby was not hurt. Physicians said it would be a month before she could return to work.

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Senate Group Orders Hearings On East's Gasoline Shortage

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U. P). —The Senate Commerce Committee! todav ordered an investigation of the Atlantic seaboard gasoline shortage, starting with public hearings Thursday. Meanwhile Price Administrator | Leon Henderson announced that the Government would act “within 48 hours” to stabilize retail gasoline prices on the East Coast. He ‘informed President Thomas P. Henry of the American Automobile Association that some filling stations “are wilfully profiteering.” Senator Francis T. Maloney (D. Conn.), author of a resolution creating a special Senate oil investigation committee, which the commerce group also approved, announced that the g e shortage inquiry

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| whether the full Senate acts on the | resolution. He said that a commerce subcommittee had been appointed to start the investigation pending

Senate action on his resolution and |

appointment of a special five-mem-ber committee by Vice President Henry A. Wallace. If the special committee is named, the sub-com-mittee will turn over the inquiry to it. Members of the Commerce SubCommittee who will start the gasoline shortage inquiry Thursday are: Mr. Maloney, chairman; Senators George L. Radcliffe (D. Md.), Lee O’Daniel (D. Tex.), Harold H. Burton (R. O.) and W. Warren Barbour (R. N, J). The Commerce Committee also approved Mr. Maloney's gesolution for an investigation of defense priorities system. :

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BIG CITY FALLS OIL CENTERS IN IRAN CAPTURED

Diierroneleavosk Taken By Nazis; Gomel May Be Russian Prize.

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A. T. Steele on Russia Details of Fighting U. 8S. Maneuvers........ Ludwell Denny

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News Editor Air-borne, mechanized and naval |forces of Great Britain and Soviet |Russia seized important oil and transportation centers in Iran withJoe serious resistance today as the German offensive in Russia strug- | gled in rain and mud under battering Red Army counter-blows. The German High Command, in| a special communique after two | days of silence regarding operations | in Russia, claimed that Axis forces | had captured Dniepropetrovsk, im- | portant industrial city of 187,000, | and seized a bridgehead across the | Beran, the first claimed by the] The communique, how-| ny id not say whether German troops actually had crossed Dnieper. |

Rains Come in North

Dispatches from Moscow reported | that a strong Red Army counter- | | offensive on the central front had | led to a bitter street battle in which] a large but unnamed White Russian city was recaptured. The front line reports did not indicate whether the city Gomel, which the Germans took recently in a thrust endangering (the north flank of the Russian the . Ukraine, a threat which the central front counter1sive was designed to relieve. { German advances also were re- | the Leningrad front, |

| ported from rainstorms such as |

where severe

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were reported | aiding the Russian defense of their | i

Following the Russian evacuation of Novgorod, south of Leningrad, the Germans reported capture of the rail junction of Luga, about 90 miles west of the old Cazarist capital. Only the first phase of BritishRussian operations in Iran was reported but it was indicated that progress of two Russian columns from the north and of British forces moving into the southwest was satisfactory against slight opposition.

Russians Nearing Tabriz

British land, air and naval forces moving along the ancient trade] {routes of Asia Minor seized seven| { Axis ships at the Persian Gulf port} |of Bandar Shapur. They also overcame opposition at Abadan, where the Buphrates and Tigris flow down to the Gulf, and struck at the main Iran oil centers with occupation of Qasr-I-Shirin {and the pipeline town of Naft-I-Shah. From the north, the Red Army estimated at more than 100,000 sup- | plemented the operations of almost as many British troops by advancing on Tabriz, the old caravan trade center in the mountains. Both of the occupying forces appeared to be moving cautiously, except for swift flights by British transport planes that landed troops to protect Britons in the desert oil pelgs, oo

SIMPLIFIED FORM FOR TAXES 0. KD

Charts Would | Levy Up to $3000 Income. |

(Tax Comparison Chart, Page 3) WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (U.P.).— The Senate Finance Committee today approved use of a simplified tax | form which will permit small taxpayers to compute income taxes at ja glance without filling out detailed blanks. The simplified system of computation would be optional, and any taxpayer would be entitled to fill out a regulation form and compute his own tax if he desired. The simplified chart could be used only by those whose incomes did not exceed $3000 a year. The plan is designed to aid some 6,000,000 persons*who would file tax returns for the first time next year under the new lowered exemptions voted by the Senate Committee— $570 instead of $800 for single persons, and $1500 instead of $2000 for married couples.

DISPUTE CONVOY CLAIMS LONDON, Aug. 26 (U. P)—A

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voy off Portugal last week resulted in the loss of six merchant vessels and a tug, totaling 11,094 tons, authoritative quarters said today. It was said that German claims of losses inflicted were 11 times the actual loss,

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FIRE CHIEF

DEMOTED TO CAPTAIN AS

SAFETY BOARD APPOINTS FULMER ACTING CHIEF

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At the Safety Board meeting (left to right)—Board President Leroy

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Acting Chief Harry H. Fulmer.

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Former Chief Fred C. Kennedy.

Clapper in London

Britons Begin to Feel U. S. Can Aid Best by Production

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

LONDON, Aug.

26.—There is developing over me, a much more realistic attitude toward the United States and the |

here, it seems to

part it may be expected to play in the war.

As an American I am glad to find that, and I find that Britishers

to whom I talk are glad of it too. A false relationship was growing up. For many months, I am ay the 'Etnglish people gathered the

idea that active American intervention was just around the corner. Some American speakers coming here suggested as much, although they were no more typical of the vast bulk of American opinion than are Lindbergh : and the other : extreme isolationists. § The British | press, by emphasizing reports of interventionist speeches from the United States, built up high expectations. Every - thing pointing American intervention | was seized upon and stressed, while contrary indications were played down or ignored. Now it is coming to be realized that this was false expectancy. Prime Minister Churchill was not able to bring back from the.Atlantic conference with President Roosevelt public commitments by the United States which the British public would have welcomed. There was a sense of letdown when the eight points were announced, and I suspect Mr. Churchill's radio address Sunday has accentuated that sense of letdown.

” o ” BUT IN ONE PHRASE Mr. Churchill made the whole situation clear. He said that the United States and Britain are facing the same dangers “in different degrees.” There is the key to proper understanding of the American position. Mr. Churchill said that if American negotiations to preserve peace in the Pacific fail, Britain will be ranged unhesitatingly on the side of the United States. This suggests a question: Why is Britain not already at war with Japan? British interests #&re menaced, (Continued on Page Five),

Mr. Clapper

GEORGE R, WILSON DIES AT LOUISVILLE

State Life Manager Also Known as Historian.

1 | | | George R. Wilson, Hoosier

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X Fi and Indiana manager for the

State Life Insurance Co., died yes|terday in a Louisville hospital where | |he had gone for treatment. He had | lived in Indianapolis 38 years, al[though he maintained his legal | residence at Jasper. Mr. Wilson was one of the oldest {associates in point of service with [the State Life Co. He joined the | firm in 1903. He had been for over

25 years a constant member of the]

$200,000 clubs of the company. Mr. Wilson had earlier been active in politcs. He had been County surveyor six years and was a county superintendent of schools for 14 years. In 1910 Mr. Wilson wrote a history of Dubois County, which is held to be one of the outstanding county histories of Indiana. In 1919 he wrote “Early Indiana Trails and Surveys,” which was published by the State. He was recognized as an authority on Indiana boundary lines, trails and surveys. Mr. Wilson was a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. Surviving him is his wife, Mrs. Carrie Kuebler Wilson, and a sister, Miss Margaret Wilson, Jasper. Services will be held Thursday at Jasper.

Sh-h-h-h! BERLIN, Aug. 26 (U. P.). —. Informed German quarters said last night that the question of whether or not it is raining in Russia is a military secret. If Russian reports of rains on the battlefront are true, the informants said, “that certainly would nog affect the actions of the German mili-

tary leadership.”

‘Mayor Signs Order Citing sUnbecoming’ Conduct.

The Safety Board today removed Fred C. Kennedy as chief of the Fire Department and named Assistant Chief Harry H. Fulmer as acting chief. Mr. Kennedy was reduced to the rank of acting

captain. The action was taken with the full consent of Mayor Sullivan, who attended the Board meeting. Mr. Kennedy has 10 days in which to appeal for a trial before the Safety Board. His attorney, Edward N. Fillion, declined to say whether a trial would be sought. A few hours after his appoint ment, the acting chief, with Safety Board approval, named Battalion Chief Otto J. Petty as acting ase sistant chief. It had been expected the Board would conduct a public hearing today into the explosion and fire last week at the chief’s home, in which one fireman was burned fatally and another seriously. The two firemen were engaged in preparations te paint the basement. Instead of having the hearing today, the Board set Sept. 9 for a hearing.

Formal Board Order

The demotion of Chief Kennedy was effected in a formal order by the Board which made no mention of the tragedy at the Chief's home, but said Mr. Kennedy had been found guilty of “conduct unbecoming the office of the Chief of the Fire Department” and ‘‘conduct affecting the effectiveness and morale of the Department.” The fatal blast occurred Aug. 18. Killed in the explosion was Fireman Alfred H. Stumm, while Lieut, Arnold W. Phillips was burned seriously. Investigation revealed they were using paint remover on the walls of the social room in the basement of the chief's home. Fumes from the paint remover became ignited by the pilot light of a water heater, Subsequently it was admitted by Chief Kennedy that Fireman Stumm | had been “assigned” to help paint the basement and was on duty ag | the time. Licut Phillips. it was said, was doing the work on his | day off.

Withhold Compensation

| On the suggestion of Oscar Hagee meier, Assistant City Attorney, the | Board voted to order the City Controller to withhold the payment of any compensation due Chief Kennedy pending an investigation into the possibility that “Chief Kennedy | may owe the City some money for 'the use of the services of the two [firemen involved in the explosion.” Mr. Hagemeier said that if it | should be found that any money is owed to the City by Mr. Kennedy, the Board might order it deducted |from his salary. The Board agreed to follow this procedure. The Sept. $ meeting was set after [Board Member Donald Morris said | he wanted to know “whether any|one else is involved in the case.” | Mr. Morris asked that the. records land evidences obtained in the pri« vate investigation by Mayor Sullie van and Board President Leroy J, | Keach be presented at the forthe (Continued on ad ory Page Tem

BALL STATE COLLEGE BOARD REAPPOINTED

The four members of the board of trustees of the Ball State Teach ers’ College at Muncie and the Ine diana State Teachers’ College at Terre Faute were reappointed for four ye: * terms today by Governor Henry Schricker. They are John A. Heller of Dee catur, father of Dick Heller, pa= tronage secretary during the Towne send administration, and William F. Cronin, Terre Haute, Democrat, and Robert M. Critchfield, Ander= son, and Frank C. Ball, Muncie, Republicans.

MILLIONAIRE SUICIDE

LAKE FOREST, Ill, Aug. 26 (U, P.).—Charles H. Schweppe, 60, mile lionaire president of the Lee Hige ginson Investment Corp. and a die rector of Marshall Field & Co., and - Fairbanks, Morse Co., shot himself to death today in the bedroom of. his suburban estate.

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