Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1941 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 147
Hitler And Mussolini Meet For 5 Days,
FRIDAY, AUGUST
29, 1941
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JAPAN SEEKING ‘PEACE’ WITH
Governor Schricker 58 Tomorrow
ARE PROMISED AT STATE FAIR
Expect 40,000 to Attend Today; 4-H Stock ‘Awards Begun.
By EARL HOFF
The Weatherman placed his blessing on the opening of the 89th annual edition of the Indiana State | fair today with a forecast of “fair and warmer” for the next 48 hours. Meanwhile, through the gates poured the first of what is expected to be a record first-day crowd. Early predictions pointed to 12,000 paid | admissions before closing tonight. | It was Youth Day at the fair and youngsters were out early to start { collecting fans, canes, yardsticks and all the other free trinkets that go
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with the fair. Children under 12, 4-H Club members, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls were admitted free to the grounds today and Levi T. | Moore, publicity director, who is the
Governor Henry F. Schricker , , . gaining weight on a tough job.
SHEAR $100,000 He'l OFF CITY BUDGET Just the Kind He
Tomorrow will be a big day for Governor Schricker. It will be his 58th birthday and it will be especially memorable for him because he'll get a new white felt hat from his office staff. Further Cuts Up to The Governor likes white felt hats. He had two of them, but someone, probably a souvenir hunter, “borrowed’one while he was making a speech in Muncie recently. The new hat will fill the breech
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Any substantial reduction in the, theft, giving him one to wear again City’s budget requests will have to while the other is being cleaned. be made by the County Tax Adjust- | Mr. Schricker says he wears) ment Board, it became apparent to-| ¥hite hats because he likes them, |
t y S¢ day following a public hearing in| u 3 uy Te [apem
: ¥ {couldn't have thought up a better! the Council chambers last night. ode mark. |
Only 45 taxpayer-citizens attended) pneu make him stand out in a the hearing. ; _. {crowd of blue, brown and green! After wrangling until past mid-|,.¢c ang people remember that! night, Councilmen pared the budget white hat just as they once reabout $100,000, which brought total nembered Al Smith's Brown Derbv. | reductions thus far to $150.000 and gycept for the receipt of a white which will permit a 3-cent reduction at the day will be little differ- | in the proposed $1.49 Civil City aX ent from his “birthdays while he | ate next year. | was Lieutenant Governor. That brings it down to $1.46—20! ait Gib . cents higher than this year's rate, | Will Visit Fair
To ‘Step Up’ Tempo . Of Convention.
| In a resolution forwarded to | President Roosevelt, the Marine
Kind He Likes Best
FOR WAR STAND,
Await Burns and Bazooka.
Pay Increases Untouched
The Council didnt attempt to trim out any of the $550,000 in wage increases last night, deciding they didn’t know enough about where increases were and were not due. So the job is to be passed on to the Tax Adjustment Board. This board can make cuts in funds only— not in specific salaries. Thus any
He will visit the State Fair and {shake hands with old acquaintances. And when he gets home tomorrow night, therell be the customary birthday cake baked for him by Mrs. Schricker. «It will be a chocolate one this time.) Looking back over the past year —a year which saw him elected {Governor by a close margin and then saw him: emerge through the!
Corps League, in national convention here, today pledged its support of and co-operation with the President's foreign policy. The pledge declared that the question is “whether we are to follow the President along the trail that leads to security, prosperity and peace, or follow the carping critics and appeasement mongers.”The League resolved “to follow our
official crowd estimater, said he expected the free admissions to swell the total to 40,000.
$169,543 in Prizes
| He said 28896 free tickets had {been given to 4-H Club members ‘alone. | As the gates swung open in ex- | hibit buildings about three hours {after the “early birds” trickled | through the fair gates, judging of {prize 4-H Club livestock began in {the Coliseum, sheep and swine arenas. Exhibitors were shooting for $165,543 in prize money to be distributed during the 8-day fair. The first casualty of the Fair was Richard O'Conner. Visiting the Conservation Department exhibits, he got too close to the cage housing the eagles and was promptly bitten on the finger.
Greenood Youth Wins
In 4-E judging this morning Garland Rasdale of Greenwood won {first place in the Ayreshire senior ‘calf competition and also in the Ayreshire senior yearling heifer class. In the B. Calf Club special, Bert Wimmer, Parke County, too first prize; Max Carrico of Oakton, was second and Harold E. Stoner of Ladoga, third. In the Holstein senior class Vir-
ginia Turner of Richmond was (first; Roger Jessup: of Fairmont | {second and Robert G. Strong of] | Crown Point was third. | | John Richards of Greenwood was | ‘second in the Ayreshire senior calf, | (Continued on Page Five) = = =
TODAY'S PROGRAM All Fair time is Central Stand-
John Spurgeon, not quite 3, of Salem, saw his first State Fair today. He gazed at the Ferris wheel.
Harriman to Go fo Moscow: F.D.R. Hints Speech on Japan
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (U. P.
today that he will name W. Averell Harriman to head the American
mission to Moscow for conferences war aid plans.
Mr. Roosevelt hinted at his press conference that his Labor Day radio address to the nation and the world may include an important
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President Roosevelt and new the Russian front.
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PACIFIC CRISIS
Dictators Follow Roosevelt-Churchill Cue,
Post-War World;
Germans Capture Tallinn. By JOE ALEX MORRIS
eign News Editor
Japan's Cabinet debated momentous decisions in the Pae cific war of nerves today in the light of negotiations with
German military successes on
The Far Eastern negotiations coincided with announce
ment in Berlin that Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini had met again on the Eastern Front, this time for five days, and issued a declaration of Axis war aims which “will remove the causes which in the past have given rise to European
wars.” No other Axis conference had ever lasted so long; previous Hitler-Mussolini meetings had generally lasted only
a few hours.
This meeting was obviously inspired by the rendezvous at sea between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill issued an eight-point statement of their post-war aims “after Nazi tyranny has been crushed” and the dictators today stated their own aims for the post-war New Order. “The destruction of the bolshevist danger and plutogratic exe
statement on international affairs; He refused to be led into a discus-| sion ‘of his negotiations with Japan| or to say whether he believed war! could be averted. in the Pacific. - He said the Pacific is too wide to merit a response. : The speech Monday may present for the first time some inkling of Mr. Roosevelt's reaction to the conversations initiated yesterday by the Japanese Ambassador, Kichisaburo Nomura, with the President and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, at the personal instance of Japanese Prime Minister Prince Xonoye. Mr. Roosevelt admitted that further conversations undoubtedly will be held among himself, Secre- | tary Hull and Nomura, but said no’ date has been set.
Promises Reply to Konoye
He said he would send a reply to the personal letter which Prince
cuts it makes in salary funds will pe Suit” _|fearless leader and pledge him and have to go back to the department-| iP SFC oily tee. [the nation our united and loyal al head for decision as to who gets! ful Governor in Indiana history— Subport and co-operation in the a Py i i apienl. t have & Mr. Scricker admits that it was a course he has charted to safeguard Dortch Chamber « of Commerce on | PEM eYenLI Dorin es (7g i Tet) expert, get together with depart.| BU}, characteristically, he wont|ROM Cf demheretie LLL mental heads and see where a few o> jhet = i Bs i ThE Eat th Wi ite Hous en Mari thousand more dollars can be cut|C cntul Of his life. He - remem- . "y th "Pre ident te preserve te from the non-salary items in the PETS the year he got married 2 . oe Dr Dota: [Sou ae and the seats hn" sovenfsF Rate OF Frisetny of Sheek am bein ai cniigren were ™m. ley were > re vy : i memorable years too. he savs. |e union measures unless some | i JET: J, a0 : i . grave national emergency should lic hearing brought various inter- Just Another Job make such control temporarily necpretations. | Being Governor, he says, “is just essary.” a an Ernest i Ropssy Morin job—more or rh 2 oe Meanwhile, the scheduled arrival hard for me 10’ decide heer its “I've got only one ambition,” he here today of Bob Bums BAR Jack of interest or whether it’s a Gir Be Rem i By Re af oO ea compliment to the Council on do- Jo AC fio the bird of Gov ont . i RT tian a ing the job right or whether the i 0% TQ HE Yo 56 Wikibne Cig Ve (Continued Hg gd as people just dont give a darn.” A Moe
Ashamed of People
Frank B. Flanner, president of Flanner & Buchanan, Inc., said: “The citizens of Indianapolis never should kick again about this budget when they manifest so little! interest. I'm ashamed of the people’
And being Governor seems to] agree with him. For despite his] grueling 17-hour days, he has, gained weight until he now weighs. as much as he ever did in his life. He doesnt know exactly how (Continued on Page Five)
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PLAN WAR FRONTS TOUR
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (U. P). —The War Department announced {today that a mission headed by Maj. Gen. George H. Brett, Army {Air Corps chief, will tour the African, Near Eastern Mediterranean
ard Time.) Boys’ Club livestock judging, morning, sheep arena, swine arena, Coliseum. Style show, 2:30 p. m., Women’s Building. Home Economics Courses, 11 a, m. and 2:30 p. m., Women’s Building. Boy Scout Program, 5 p. m, Grandstand. Floyd Jones Choirs, 7:30 p. m,, Coliseum. Youth Group Jamboree and Fireworks, 7:30 p. m., Grandstand. Exhibits open until 10 p. Midway open until midnight.
TOMORROW'S PROGRAM
Boys’ Club judging, morning, swine arena, poultry building, Coliseum. Purdue Students judging contest, afternoon, Coliseum. Harness racing, afternoon, track. Style show, 2:30 p. m., Women's Building.
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who haven't got the spunk to come up here and say the kind of things they say behind these men's backs.” Defense of the wage increases in the budget was made by Walter Frisbie, secretary-treasurer of the Indiana State Industrial Union Council. The budget reductions made by
Council after the hearing included |
elimination of provision for 15 new policemen and two firemen, and of provision for a pest and rat extermination program. :
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and Atlantic war fronts “to promote the development and procurement” of all types aircraft and aviation
Axis foes.
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McAlpin and Hill.
The state Medical Board today revoked the licenses of a local physician and a naturopath following a public hearing on charges of gross immorality filed by the Better Business Bureau. The physician, Dr. Robert B. Mc- | Alpin, of Greenwood, formerly was | associated with Dr. Heil E. Crum, {drugless physician whose licenses | were revoked by the Medical Board {last summer for his use of a ma{chine known as the “etherator” in | diagnosing cases. | The license of Dr. Carl D. Hill, {730 Virginia Ave, to practice {naturopathy was revoked, Medical | Board members said, because he | prescribed medicines fer his pa- | tients.
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DON’T BLAME DOMINGO ANDORRA, Aug. 29 (U. P) —The tiny republic of Andorra has lost its last prisoner. Domingo Lardiez,
8 | e I Action Taken Against Drs.! Twas a Shootin’ as Sure as Shootin’ on Barth Ave. Today
"Twas a real-for-sure shootin’ that confronted police today. On a report at 6 a. m. of “some
sort of trouble” at 1548 Barth Ave. headquarters dispatched a squad car
A few minutes later, police at the scene called for additional help. The dispatcher sent another car. A third call came in and the dispatcher, alarmed, called out the emergency car. The fourth call was for a patrol wagon, and a short time later the police squads came back to headquarters with a 45-year-old man and 11 assorted highpowered guns. Sergt. Kent Yoh said that when he arrived at the scene, many of the man’s neighbors were hiding under beds. He learned from one person that “there is a man in that
walked away. Authorities believed | he got lonesome since Andorra has no jailer and he was entirely alone. A 5
After deploving the police around the suspected house, Sergt. Yoh
| seized a tear gas gun and cautiously proceeded
house with a lot of guns and he's
Home Economics Courses, 11 a. m. and 2:30 p. m.,, Women’s Building. WLS Barn Dance Broadcast, 6 to 11 p. m., Coliseum.
;a man sitting between the kitchen and the living room with a rifle across his lap and a cartridge belt around his waist. Sergt. Yoh opened the door and crept across the room. The man with the rifle turned around and the sergeant disarmed him quickly. He was hustled off to jail while | police looked around the house. The living room was pocked with bullet holes, and the officers collected an arsenal consisting of a doublebarreled and single-barreled shotgun, two 22-caliber rifles with telescopic sites, one standard 22-caliber rifle, a 45-caliber Springfield rifle, two 38-caliber revolvers, one 22caliber repeating rifle, one 22-caliber bolt action carbine and a muzzle-
loading musket. It was the 45-caliber rifie that the man had on his lap when Sergt. Yoh seized him. At headquarters police said they learned the man’s name was Boyd Casey. They are holding him in jail on charges of vagrancy, dis-
Konoye sent him yesterday through the Ambassador, but he gave no hint what might be the nature of the reply. } A reporter reminded Mr. Roosevelt that Labor Day will be the second anniversary of the present world conflict and asked whether he had any comment on the occasion. Not today, replied the President, pointing out that he will speak Monday, The President said that it might be assumed safely that Mr. Harriman will go as head of the mission to Moscow, and that his formal appointment would be made next week. He said he was uncertain on the number of persons who would comprise the mission, but did say that he supposed it would consist of about a half dozen men,
Biggers to “Fill In”
He gave no indication, however, as to how soon the mission would leave for Russia. But he made clear that his appointment yesterday of John D. Biggers as Minister to London and assistant there to Harriman was to permit Mr. Biggers to fill in there while Mr. Harriman was gone. In preparation for the mission, Mr. Roosevelt had a luncheon conference with Mr. Harriman and Harry L. Hopkins, who only recently returned from Moscow, where he conferred with Josef Stalin and the Soviet High Command.
V. F. W. REPRIMANDS ISOLATIONIST BACKER
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29 (U.P). —Earl Southard, suspended as commander of the Illinois department for alleged subversive activities, was restored to his former status today by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Southard was court-martialed because of his activities as secretary of the Keep America Out of War Committee. The credentials committee’s report refusing to seat him prompted a near-riot at yesterday's sessions of the 42d national V. F. W. encampment. He was reinstated and seated as a delegate today after being reprimanded publicly by National Commander Joseph C. Menendez of New Orleans,
N. Y. U. DEAN DIES
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Aug. 29! (U. P)—Dr. Irving Husted Berg,
% the porch. He saw orderly conduct and )
Dean at New York University, died! today.
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—William S. Knudsen was expected
President Roosevelt's creation of a new Supply Priorities and Alloca-
NEW DEFENSE BOARD CREATED
Wallace Heads Supply Body, Knudsen Expected To Direct Production.
War News Inside
ploitation will create the possibility of a peaceful, harmonious and fruitful collaboration by all the peoples of the European continent in political as well as economic and cultural spheres,” the communique on the meeting said.
How Far Will Japan Go?
The two dictators met at German headquarters at both ends of the 1800-mile Eastern Front and carried on their discussions, which ended today, “in the spirit of comradeship and the community of fate of the Axis partners.” The Cabinet emergency meeting at Tokyo, with experts on military, naval and American affairs present, was described officially as devoted to seeking permanent peace in the
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U. PJ).
today to take over personal direction of the production of planes, tanks and munitions in a new drive to speed the defense and British aid programs. : This was one of the most important developments arising from
tions Board—in effect a “ministry of supply’—which will determine how raw materials shall be rationed among the armed forces, the “countries resisting agaression” and civilian needs. Mr. Knudsen was named a member of the new board, which is neaded by Vice President Henry A. Wallace, and he also retained his post as director general of the Office of Production Management. But in the reshuffling of top executives, the directorship of the OPM’s key production division was left open. Former OPM Production Director John D. Biggers was appointed by the President to work in London with the rank of Minister, with W. Averell Harriman, lend-lease expediter. as a production expert. The British had wanted one. Authoritative sources said Mr. Knudsen, former president of Gen(Continued on Page Five)
CONTINENT RAIDED BY R. A F. ARMADA
10 British and 10 German Planes Shot Down.
LONDON, Aug. 29 (U.P.).—Ten British and 10 German planes were destroyed during Royal Air Force offensive operations over northern France, authoritative quarters said today after a great armada of British bombers and fighters had roared out in a cloudy dawn to attack obJectives on the European coast. The daylight offensive operations were conducted after a night in which British bombers blasted Duisburg, Germany, causing heavy ex-
3 | Pacific and to discussion of the]
causes underlying tense relations with the United States. Japan yes-
with President Roosevelt presumably in an effort to reach an understanding. There still was no definite indication as to how far Japan might go in further loosening her ties with the Axis or compromising her program for expanding Tokyo's domination in East Asia but for the time being it appeared that efforts were being made to avoid a showdown with the British-American front in the Pacific.
Tallinn Captured
Indications that Japan's Axis the loss of Tokyo was given in the Radio Berlin report that a Nipponese spokesman had said that an “agreement with the United States” alheady had been reached. On the Eastern Front, official Nazi reports said that German forces had captured flame-scarred
partners were already discounting |
| Tallinn and another Baltic port in Esthonia, crashed through Russian defense positions southwest of Len= ingrad and pushed eastward to cut the Leningrad-Moscow railroad at several points. While the Moscow communique said only that fighting continued all along the front, reports of the Nazi official news agency told of gains on both sides of the Gulf of Finland and progress in the land campaign to encircle Leningrad.
Seek “Cause of Trouble”
These German military blows as well as the Russian admission that they had blasted the great Dnieper River dam south of Dniepropetrovsk and destroyed some $250,000,000 worth of property as they fell back from the German advance were part of the war picture viewed by the Japanese in their negotiations with Washington. Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, in the message de= livered to President Roosevelt yesterday, sought to “locate the causes of trouble in the AmericanJapanese situation in the Pacific,” according to the official Tokyo vere sion. Thus, the Japanese indicated that Tokyo was seeking a general settige ment of Pacific question, ranging perhaps from Japan's opposition to American war shipments to the Russians via Vladivostok to the broad statement of Prime Minister Winston Churchill that aggression {in the South Seas must stop.
Japanese Cabinet Disagrees | A crisis was reported to have de-
| terday had opened negotiations veloped in the Tokyo Cabinet this
week, apparently as a result of op= position to Konoye's efforts toward a settlement. In the negotiations now getting started, it was believed that the United States, with British support, would maintain a firm line against further Japanese expansion. Obviously, no concessions will be made to Tokyo protests against shipments to Russia. On the other hand, the chief de= sire of London and Washington at present is to maintain the status quo in the Pacific and keep Japan {from any further aid to the Axis. The main stumbling block to a ‘settlement of some sort probably will be China. The United States and Britain are committed to full aid to China against Japanese ine vasion. Japan cannot withdraw from the Chinese adventure withe out at least the appearance of vice | tory.
You Can't Do Busines
|Latin America
Could we not, however, live by ourselves across the ocean barriers that separate the Old World from the new? Could we not draw imaginary lines from pole to pole in both oceans and preserve the 21 American republics in a self-con-tained democratic block? The answer to this is, “No!” * Hitler would undoubtedly be kept very busy at first in consolidating his Old World power, but he has numbers of agents throughout the Amerifcas who could keep on doing
Mr. Miller
plosions and great fires. Docks at
Ostend also were attacked during
the night. The roar of British planes flying to daylight attacks r aweokened people in coastal
| what they are doing now—prepar- | ing the way for Hitlerism on this | side of the water. Some three million Ge!
live in Latin America, Many™o
s With Hitler—No. 5 ‘Explosion’
Would Follow Nazi Victory
By DOUGLAS MILLER
Author and Former Commercial Attache in Berlin. WE HAVE SEEN, in the preceding instalment, how victory for Hitler would mean the rapid extension of Nazi power over all Europe, Africa and part of Asia; how a huge scientific slave state could be erected upon the helpless, though unwilling people of the conquered nations; how this new European order could become the senior partner in a working agreement with the Japanese, until further notice.
them now are avowed agents of the Nazis. Many more would join the movement as soon as Hitler's success in Europe seemed certain. The culture, language, religion
and governmental structures of .
Latin America do not come from Anglo-Saxon roots, but from the Latin nations of Southern Europe —Spain, Portugal, Italy. Everyone of these coun-
tries would be included in the
New Hitler State. Every influence
they could bring to bear upon
Latin-American republics would be placed at Hitler's disposal. In addition, Europe has been the market for the bulk of Latine American products. An average
value of $1,200,000,000 worth of
these goods went to European consumers every year, or twice the amount usually shipped to North America.
Such products are now piled up : in warehouses awaiting possible
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