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-VOLUME 53—NUMBER 146

FDR And Japanese Envoy Start Personal Talks On Far East

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941

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| IRAN VOTES SURRENDER TO ALLIES

RECORD CROWD EXPECTED FOR INDIANA'S FAIR

Exhibitors Hover at Tents As Midway Sparkles for Opening Tomorrow.

TOMORROW'S PROGRAM

Four-H Beef Clubs judging, Coliseum, Four-H Dairy Calf Clubs judging, Coliseum. Four-H Lamb Clubs Sheep Arena. Four-H Gilts and Barrows judging, Swine Arena. Indiana University Stage Show and Hoosier Music Festival, all day, I. U. Building. Manufacturers’ Industrial Exhibits, all day, Manufacturers’ Building. Purdue University Agriculture Exhibits, all day, Purdue Building. Style Show, 2:30 p. m., Women's Building. +. Home Economics Choruses, 11 a. m and 2:30 p. m, Women’s Building, Conservation Department exhibit, 2li day. Education Exhibit, all day. Youth Group Jamboree and Fireworks, 7:30 p. m., Grandstand. Floyd Jones Choirs, 7:30 p. m., Coliseum. Johnny J. Jones Rides and Shows, all day and evening, Mid-

way. The State Fair will operate on Central Standard Time. The gates will open at 6 a. m., CST, or 7 a. m., Indianapolis time. The main section of the Fair will close daily at 10 p. m,, CST, or 11 p. m,, Indianapolis time, and the Johnny J. Jones Midway Area will remain open iwo hours longer.

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By EARL HOFF The Indiana State Fair, where “Hoosiers assemble each year for fun and information, opens tomorrow morning. Everything was in readiness today for what officials predict will be record crowds. Refreshment stands were stocked with cold drinks, hot dogs and cotton candy. Exhibits were nearly all set up, with anxious exhibitors hovering close by. The Johnny J. Jones - Midway -Carnival sparkled with fresh paint. Prize animals had been curried and groomed until they glowed. In the canvas’ tents typical of the State Fair, shiny new farm machinery awaited the inspection of visitors. Supply trucks dashed about. Officials made last minute check on exhibits.

Youth Day Tomorrow

Tomorrow will be Youth Activities Day when children 12 and under will be admitted free. They also may enter without charge, when accompanied by. their parents on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday. Soldiers, sailors and marines in uniform or bearing proper credentials will be admitted free on Sunday and Tuesday. :

Opening day will be chock full|?} Four-H Club Beef Calf}

of events. Clubs and Dairy Calf Clubs will

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In the Sheep Arena, 4-H Lamb Club entrants will be judged and prizes in the 4-H Gilts and Barrows classes will be awarded in the Swine Arena. The Indiana University stage show and Hoosier Music Festival will get under way at the I. U. Building. The Purdue University Agriculture Exhibits will be ogen. In the Manufacturers’ Building an® in the machinery field exhibits will be on display from 9 a. m. to 10 m.

Style Show at 2:30

At 2:30 p. m. a style show will be held in the Women’s

in the Women’s Building from 11 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. The Conservation fish and animal displays and the

Education Exhibits will be ready]:

for first-day visitors. Over in the amusement area, the Johnny J. Jones Midway, featuring Clyde Beatty and his wild animal show, will remain open each evening two hours after the main part of the fair closes at 10 p. m.

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It’s in Cards

Got to Get Into Series | For Young Billy, Is Southworth Vow.

By JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Billy Southworth was saying today it would be nice to get in the World Series on account of a number of things, the extra money, the distinction, the thrills and all that, and there was Young Billy, too; it would mean so much to him. Just the other day Young Billy received his wings and now he’s a full fledged officer in the Army air force. He had wanted to be a ball player like his dad and work his way up to the Big Leagues and maybe some day manage a club. He was a pretty good outfielder, nothing spectacular, but he could hit and throw and go get that ball for you. But this war business flared up and a lot of fellows Young Billy knew enlisted or were draited so

Billy Southworth

he decided to go along with them and forget baseball for a while. He had a high draft number

+ and could have gone through at

least another year, but he said, “Oh, what the heck. As. long as the other fellows are going I might as well go, too.” So he enlisted, and he's in for three years nimum. & 4 5 “I GOT A LETTER from him today,” said the little, roundfaced manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, who was an outfielder himself, nothing spectacular, but

get that ball for you. “He wrote he is arranging for a leave and that he’s going to come up from Florida to visit me in about a month and I kind of

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Billy Southworth Jr. think he has the World Series in mind.” Yes, there are several reasons why Billy Southworth would like to get his Cardinals in the World Series. For one thing, it would be a fine managerial triumph for him to win in his first full year. For another, he has a deep, friendly interest in his players and it would give him warm satisfaction to see them split up the bonus money. But ‘way down deep we suspect he'd like to win most of all on account of Young Billy,

THEY'VE COME ALONG in 3p last 20-odd years, more as pals than as dad and son. They had that easy, understanding, casual relationship that dads and sons like to effect. And because silly Southworth had been playing professional ball since he wag 18 years old he Fam ’t any ordinary dad to young ly. Pus Old Billy had started with (Continued on Page Ten)

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EMISON'S FOES MOVE TO OUST HIM IN SEVENTH

Capehart Tells Precinct Leaders He's Wiling to Become Chairman.

By VERN BOXELL

Another intra-party fight in the ranks of Indiana Republicans flared into the open today with an attempt to oust Ewing Emison, Seventh District chairman for more than 20 years and dean of the State Committee. Some observers saw in the fight another move to shake up the State Committee, aimed.at the new State Chairman, Ralph Gates. the opposition to Mr. Emison, Vincennes attorney, is Homer Capehart, Indianapolis and Davies County industrialist. Mr. Capehart announced at a

Republican precinct committeemen and vice committeemen at WashInd. last night that he “would be happy to serve as district chairman.”

Two-Year Tenure in Effect

been brewing for several months, growing hotter after Mr. Emison joined forces last month with his old foe, Fourth District Chairman Gates, to oust State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt. At the time of the ouster meeting it was predicted that suspension of the State Committee twovear tenure rule to kick out Mr.

for the same action to permit removal of Mr. Emison. Since the two-year tenure section also protects the G. O. P. county and district chairmen, State committee action to again suspend this rule would be necessary before Mr. Emison could be ousted. Mr. Capehart announced night 10 of the 22 county chairmen in the Seventh: Dstrict were ready to petition the State organization for a change. He told Daviess County precinct committeemen that Elmer Buzan, their county chairman, had refused to join in the movement. Mr. Buzen told him that “I owe allegiance to Mr. Emison,” Mr. Capehart said. Mr. Buzan recently was appointed Daviess County auto license bureau manager by Secretary of State James Tucker after being recommended by Mr. Emison.

Short of Quorum

Thirty-three of the Daviess committeemen attended last night's ses-

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he could hit and throw and g0 goneq a petition for another meet-

ing on Sept. 10 when Mr. Buzan will be asked to “support Mr. Capehart or resign.” A request for the State Committee to suspend the rules to permit (Continued on Page Ten)

N.Y. G. ASKS RIGHT T0 DROP 5 TRAINS

Claims Equipment Needed For Defense Haulage.

. The New York Central Railroad Co. today asked the Puhlic Service Commission for permission to discontinue operation of five passenger trains in Indiana. The company stated that these trains were operating at a loss and that the locomotives and equipment were needed for hauling defense materials. Two of the trains operate between Hillsdale, Mich, and Ft. Wayne, Ind, two between Toledo and Elkhart and one between Elkhart and Chicago. Petitions asking for the discontinuance of 24 other passenger trains are already on file before the Public Service Commission.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (U. P.). —Deputy Defense Oil Co-ordinator Ralph K. Davies declared today that “sinister and planned” sabotage may lie behind the “multiplicity of misinformation” surrounding the gasoline shortage on the East Coast. He was the first witness in a Senate investigation of causes of the shortage and means to remedy it. In a 51-page statement to a Senate Commerce Subcommittee, Davies cited “carelessly broadcast” charges that the shortage has been “created artifigially” to foster a war psychology. Statistics issued by his office, he asserted, have been chalienged in the press and by men in public life. . Mr. Davies was an executive of the Standard Oil Co. of California until he became first assitsant to Oil Co-ordinator Harold L. Ickes. ‘Dr. Davies cited unsuecessful -efe forts by the Navy to. obtain bids on 2,500,000 barrels of heavy fuel oil in June for delivery on the East

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Ha-Vah-ee

Really That’s Hawaii, Which Sends Us Winone Yap.

By EGAN LECK

IT'S FUNNY the way things happen. A few years ago a policeman met a boxer, and because of that, Butler University will have its first Hawaiian student this fall. Her name is Winone Yap, and she’s attractive enough to pose for pineapple ads. She has been in this country only a few days, and she thinks it’s wonderful except that everything goes too fast, and it's too cold. (The thermometer said 73 as she said that).

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CITY IS URGED TOHEEDF.D.R. SAFETY ADVICE

Eight Persons Die in August Traffic, Five of Them Children.

With eight persons, including five children, « killed in Indianapolis traffic so far this month, the Cham-

ber of Commerce Safety Council today urged the public to heed President Roosevelt's appeal to check the sharp upswing in accidents. The series of child fatalities has given August the worst traffic record in Indianapolis in six months, representing an increase of 100 per cent over last month, with three

a [days left in this month.

Winone Yap. + . Shivers Here,

‘his 8’ the way things happened to bring Winone to Indianapolis. Several years ago a policeman, Robert Dennis, went to a gymnasium to take a workout. While there, he met a Hawaiian boxer named Willie Yap.

E J » 2 THEY BECAME friends. Willie came to live with Mr. Dennis at his home at 3945 E. 31st St. Through Willie's talk and the letters he recievd from home, Mr. Dennis became acquainted with Willie's family. There were eight children in the Yap family. They all lived in Hilo, Hawaii. Then Willie became sick and died. This was in 19356. Mr. Dennis continued writing to the Yap" family, and when another of the boys, Leo, said that he would like to come to this country to study, Mr. Dennis arranged it. He is now at Bradley College, Peoria, Ill. Another boy came to Indiana. He studied at the Dodge Radio School in Valparaiso. His name is Francis. 2 E 2 NATURALLY, WHEN it came time for the baby of the family to come to this country, Mr. Dennis thought that she should attend Butler. She arrived in San Francisco last Wednesday, and reached Chicago Sunday, where Mr. Dennis met her. Winone is going to study home economics at Butler, and when she graduates, she’s going back to .teach in the Hawaiian schools. The minute she gets in the shadows, she shivers and draws her jacket around her. “Oh, I'm not going to mind the cold,” she says, “but it’s going to be awful to see all the trees bare, and the green grass gone.” The temperature in Hawaii is 75 to 80 all the time. “But it’s a different kind—you know?” Incidentally, the real, authentic way to pronounce Hawaii is —HA-VAH-EE, with the accent on the “VAH.”

Sees 'Sinister Sabotage’ in Gasoline Rationing Protests

Coast as proof that g shortage really exists. “There were not enough private tankers to deliver oil to the United States Navy, which is expected to guard our shores, because those tankers were too busy carrying gasoline to motorists in the East,” he said. The Senate Audit and Control Committee yesterday voted $12,500 to make the gasoline inquiry a fullfledged Senate investigation. The resolution was expected to be taken up in the Senate today. Administration price officials today proposed maximum retail gasoline prices for 40 eastern cities. The price schedules—for “regular” gasoline only—are designed to yield dealers a profit of four cents a gallon. Officials said they placed “in the consumer’s hands the information necessary to his own protection.” - The prices ranged from 20.1 cents per gallon, including taxes, at Manchester, N. H, to 165 cents in , D. GC,

The August total thus far, exceeds last year’s August count by one, and equals the February, 1941, total of eight, the previous worst month of this year.

17 Per Cent Decrease Listed

The C#:ncil’'s report followed a National Safety Council report from Chicago placing Indianapolis seventh in a list of larger cities showing a decrease in fatalities in the first seven months of 1941, compared to the first seven months of 1940. Indianapolis was given a 17 per cent decrease. The report was made in a National Safety Council appeal for the creation of a “safety army” within the country to preserve manpower for national defense. With the addition of the eight fatalities in August, however, Indianapolis’ percentage of reduction has been lowered from 17 per cent to 11 per cent. Of the eight persons killed this month in traffic, fcur were boys on bicycles, the Chamber's group pointed out. Another was a 4-year-old girl. Meanwhile, Sheriff Al Feeney announced that in an attempt to check fatalities involving bicycles, he has ordered into his office for “lectures” several bicycle riders who have allegedly violated traffic rules in the past few days.

Urges Four-Point Program

In its appeal for a “safety army” the National Safety Council recommended a four-point program for saving life: 1. Action by Governors and Mayors setting up emergency traffic measures. 2. United action by 100 national civic organizations to reduce the loss of life on highways. 3. Revitalization of safety programs among 500 affiliates of the National Safety Council. 4. Universal adoption of President Roosevelt's call for every citizen, in public or private capacity, to enlist in the “save-a-life” program. The council's survey for the first seven months showed Boston leading in municipal safety with only 9.1 persons killed per 100,000 population. The Council reported Indianapolis, with a 17 per cent decrease, seventh among cities of over 250,000 showing improved records.

TORTURE’ ROBBERS ARE DENIED PAROLE

Clemency Commission Calls Crime ‘Dastardly.’

Branding their crime as “a dastardly one which deserves severe punishment” the State Clemency Commission today turned down the parole pleas of two Sullivan County men who are serving 15 years in the State Prison for the “torture” robbery of an elderly crippled man. According to the evidence before the Commission, the two men, Gerald Grable and Ebert Purcell, sent a girl friend into the home of

she had been mistreated by one of her companions. She asked the elderly man to take her home and when he went out to get his automobile, Grable and Purcell overpowered him, took him back into his home, tied him to a chair and tortured him with a pair of scissors heated in the chimney of a lamp until he told them where his money was hidden. The men obtained about $96. : A third man, who was charged with the crime, was tried in another county, and was acquitted.

TRUCK KILLS 3 TOTS PLAYING HOUSE IN BOX

PITTSFIELD, Mass., Aug. 28 (U. P.) —Three children *‘playing house” in a large cardboard box in a street were crushed to death today beneath a two-ton produce truck. The victims were: Shirley Hall, 4; her sister, Rita, 2, and Lawrence Doyle, 4. Police arrested’ the truck driver, Richard J. Herbert, about 35, a local

produce dealer, on a reckless driving charge,

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Konoye Sends Letter To Roosevelt, May Ease Crisis.

By UNITED PRESS President Roosevelt today undertook personal negotiations with the Japanese Ambassador in an attempt to better a tense Far Eastern situation. Secretary of State Cordell Hull revealed this unusual step a few minutes after Ambassador Kichisa-

buro Nomura delivered to Mr. Roosevelt a personal message from Japanese Premier Fuminaro Konoye, suggesting the possibility that Tokyo had made an important proposal for stabilization of the Pacific crisis. Mr. Hull said he could not tell whether the talks might result in a verbal or written agreement. Today's interview lasted 45 minutes. Contents of the Konoye message were not revealed, but a disagreement in the Tokyo Cabinet seemed to be ok Japan close to a turning poi Hn the war of nerves.

Emperor Calls Ministers

Shanghai diplomatic quarters reported that Prince Konoye probably would have to decide within fwo weeks whether to seek rapproachment with the United States or give way to a completely militaristic government. While President Roosevelt talked with Admiral Nomura, Japanese Emperor Hirohito summoned three Cabinet members—War Minister Hideki Tojo, Navy Minister Koshiro Oikawa and Lieut. Gen. Teiichi Suzuki, Minister without portfolio —for separate reports on the explosive situation. The Tokyo press today called upon the Government to adopt and carry through a determined policy after exhausting all diplomatic efforts to reach agreement with other nations.

U. S. Also Unbending

The United States seemed to be standing firm also, although informed officials did not consider the situation beyond hope of settlement. Only yesterday President Roosevelt tightened further the export control system to prevent leaks of foodstuffs from the Philippines which might help the Japanese war machine and Secretary Hull told a press conference that the United States stands by its policy of “freedom of seas” in the Pacific. Failure of Premier Prince Fuminaro Konoye’s Cabinet to solve the problems arising from American and British money freezing and embargo actions, or vo halt United States shipments to the Soviet port of Vladivostok were said by the Tokyo newspaper Hochi to be the poo of the Japanese regime’s irouie. It was said in Shanghai that if Konoye could not get American and British aid in reviving trade and manufacturing and in building up depleted war stocks, he probably would have to resign, letting in a militarist cabinet’ which might attempt to gain access to raw materials by force. ;

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Resigns

Robert G. Menzies

CANBERRA, Australia, Aug. 28 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies resigned today and A. W. Fadden, who had been acting Prime Minister during Menzies’ recent absence in London, was elected unanimously as coalition goverment leader, The Labor Party, which has only one vote less in Parliament than ‘the coalition, had invited Menzies’ resignation, but had demanded formation of a Labor Cabinet, It was understood that Menzies will go to England as Australian representative in an Empire War Cabinet.

LAVAL IMPROVING; WOUND IS SERIOUS

Deat Takes Turn for Worse; 3 Are Guillotined.

VICHY. Aug. 28 (U. P.).—Three men convicted of terrorism were guillotined in Sante Prison at Paris today and an official broadcast warned France that the Government intended to crush all terrorists as a result of the shooting of Pierre Laval, Marcel Deat and two others at an anti-Communist ceremony at Versailles. An official broadcast by Fernand de Hrinon, Vichy representative of Paris, said that Deat’s condition was extremely critical and that Laval’s condition continued serious. Earlier doctors had expressed the belief that Laval was out of danger. The broadcast, emphasizing that French officials and German occupation authorities were co-operating in a pitiless purge of opposition elements, said that no disinction would be made between Rightests and Leftists in the drive to wipe out (Continued on Page Ten)

deviatiors from his usual ruling without danger of disorganizing his whole system. The experience of the last

few years shows that eco-

nomic planning and a system of free enterprise cannot permanently endure side by side in the same nation. For example, the Nazi system of wage and price control must be extended to every area which they dominata2, otherwise the control of prices’ would soon get out .of line. Mr. If labor fis Miller compulsory in some areas, it must be made so everywhere or else laborers will migrate to freer regions.

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You Can't Do Business With Hitler—No. 4

U. S. Would Be at Mercy Of Bandits, If Nazis Win

By DOUGLAS MILLER

Author and Former Commercial Attache in Berlin IF HITLER WINS, the economic organization of the New Europe must necessarily be centralized in Berlin. Nazi planned economy must extend over the whole area which Hitler proposes to dominate. He cannot allow

a uniform system of handling foreign exchange. Otherwise holes might develop at certain points through which capital might drain out of the country. All this means that economic planning must be made on a Continental scale.

All transactions with the outside world must pass through a central bureaucracy, probably the German Ministry of Economics. All financial transactions must be lined up under the German Ministry of Finance and the Reichsbank.

In recent months a European clearing system for financial transactions has been proclaimed. Production, consumption, transportation and finance will be handled from Berlin for the entire area, extending from the North Cape in the Land of the Midnight Sun as far South probably as the tip of South Africa, and east into Asia. Obviously no one knows whether Germany and Japan will (Turn to Page One, Section Two)

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RUSSIANS STRIKE BACK AT CRUCIAL NAZI DRIVE: TOKYO FA

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War in Persia Seems Over, but British

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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Iran apparently capitulated to occupation by Great Britain and Russia today as the Red Army counter-attacked Hit ler's armies on the Eastern

Front.

The Iranian “token fighting” seemed ended with formation of & new Cabinet to deal with British and Russiafi* demands. The new Premier, Ali Furughi, was given a vote of confidence ag the meeting of the Tehran Parlia« ment, which also approved an order to cease firing and permit peaceful occupation of strategic ports, rail lines and oil fields. The pro-German Cabinet of Al Khan Mansour resigned last night, but its passing did not stop the rapid Allied advance. The Russians advanced 70 miles southeast of Tabriz to take Turke manchai and Danhargan. They also occupied Kachan, on the Caspian sea, which is 120 miles from the Soviet frontier.

Shah’s Home Captured

The British forces, fanning out in the western frontier area, pushed their way through the strategic Pa« I-Tuq pass to Shahabad, the country home of Shah Riza Pahlevi, 60 miles from- the Iraq border. Nazi spokesman said that Iran had been forced to give up because she had no weapons to battle “gangsters who broke into her home” and charged that President Roosevelt was an “accessory” to the aggression. In London and Turkey, it was agreed that hostilities seemed near an end although there was consider< able suspicion on the part of Brite ain that the governmental change might turn out to be a trick. The

British pointed out that the Iran army had been fully mobilized and that the 21-year-old crown prince, Mohammed Riza. Pahlevi, was ree ported in command.

Ankara sources reported that the United States had informed Turkey that the British-Russian advance had been approved by Washington, Turkey, much alarmed hy the invasion, had worked hard to obtain a compromise,

Russains Battle Hard

On the Eastern Front, the Ruse sians reported that they had smashed five enemy divisions in scattered battles and that the Cene tral Front offensive led by Gen. I. A, Konev was smashing through heave ily fortified German lines. The Konev drive, as reported by the army publication, Red Star, may be the most important operation on the entire front and dispatches from Berlin admitted counter-blows in that sector as well as attempts by the Russians to strike back across the Dnieper : Gen. Konev’s objective is Gomel, but his main purpose is to defeat the German offensive through Gomel and east of the Dnieper. If this Nazi thrust succeeds, it will sweep behind the Red Army in the Ukraine and might collapse the whole front south of Moscow. Both Moscow and Berlin indie cated intense fighting in the Gomel region with the outcome in doubt. Pressure also continued on Lenine grad, but the Russians said they were stalling the enemy drive there, In the Novgorod sector south eof Leningrad, where the Nazis claimed without confirmation to have’ cut the Leningrad-Moscow railroad.

NAVY AIR CHIEF NAMED °

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (U. P), —President Roosevelt today nomie nated Artemus L. Gates of New York City, a distinguished World War naval aviator, to be Assistang Secretary of Navy for Aeronautics,

1890—And Now

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, "Aug. 28 (U. P.).—Time there was when a tavern refrain used to plead, “Father, dear father, come home with me now.” Now the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, alarmed by the number of women in taverns, is urging its 67th annual | convention here to adopt a paraphrase: “Mother, dear mother, come home with me now.”

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