Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1941 — Page 1
FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; continued warm.
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SATURDSY, AUGUST 30, ied
Entered as Second-Class Matter . at Postoffice, Tndianapolis, Ind.
TL, WALLACE'S { BUILDUP
sevelt SQKeering His own Princ ’“in Focus; - McNutt Is Obscured.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
HINGTON, ‘Aug. 30.—Elevaof Vice President Henry Wal0 his new top role in national
has intriguing political
Beyond the object of bolstering
defense program, it is recognized
as another step in the build-|
by President Roosevelt 5 to make the rather shy an from Iowa.his successor te House. . Wallace will get much public ce as head of the seven-man which will sit right under the ent, responsible directly to d over the whole defense It is charged with mapping for allocation of strategic raw / Venture Began Unhappily y Roosevelt ‘campaign to cast ample mantle over Mr. Wallace in rather unhappy circumat the 1940 Democratic Con- , when the President med Mr, Wallace down the pats of the delegates as his ning -mate. » n Mr. Wallace succeeded John Garner in January he immedibegan to blossom out in new aportant roles. He had ted learn Spanish, and he. became , of an over-all, good-will amassador to Latin Ameriea. He went 3 Mexico City to represent the dl ‘States at the inauguration new president. Recently he e head of the Economic De-
Board. > rious efforts to build up .a prince” in the Roosevelt have not prospersd. In the s before 1940 there were
McNutt f Ambitions
| President’s apparent political his second-in-eom-will clash with those ‘of n in particular, inside his adstration, with the intense heart irobbings of the handsome figure cefully abandoned his own for ‘the Vice Presidential on at Chicago — Paul _V. Federal Security Adminisand ex-Goxernor of Indiana. McNutt is looking to 1944 the eagerness of a youngChristmas approaches. He t the New Dealers are obto him. 'For when he stood convention to renounce he received an ovation d how easily he might upset the plans of the New amateurs who -were running
however, is no senti- [ business, as Mr. McNutt well . Some New Dealers never very strongly to him, and|: that he has been d to a comparatively obin the big defense parade.
ob Overshadowed
as Federal Security Adtor is overshadowed by figures in the defense
was llustrated by an inciMr. McNutt's first day in “office
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him ard asked for the 3 or anyone taking or bundles’ from a Govnt building. He didn't hawe w could be get one?
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j Neb, Aug. 30 (U. Py=~ (Bud) Ward of a :1-up lead over Pai
Local Youths TS First of State's Labor Holiday « Traffic Victims.
Two = Indanapolis youths: were killed in| the first of the. State's Labor. Day. week-end accidents, late last night, . and unless drivers are more careful than, they have been in.the past, 12 more will, die in traffic before Tuesday morning. Last night's dead are James R. Propes, 16, of 312 E. Washington St., and |{Angelo Persutti, 24, of 124 S. Noble St. They were killed when the motorcycle they were riding sideswi a car on 38th St. near Emerson Ave. The: ~ Governor's “Co-ordinating Safety Committee, while issuing a warning for all. drivers to exercise extra care this week-end, nevertheless estimated that the State’s toll would 14 before Tuesday morning. The estimate was based on past recgrds. Moreover, the committez-estimated that 200 more persons will be injured in accidents and that a total of rty damage accidents will oceur on state highways.
al Toll Now 93 Y State Police Superintendent Don Stiver ordered the highway patrol rged for the week-end and said that there will be 18 drunkometers and trained operators ready to ientific e¥idenes. gainst
BE the year's City-
tion by fadio Monday on the Sep
the war and may give the first
L Tries
the result “of ‘his “winning the first blue ribbon at:the State Fair yesterday.
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le you see on the face of 11-year-old Bert Wimmer, sixth-grade pupil of Rockville, is
Young Wimmer’s shert-
horned steer, ‘Sassafras II, took first prize in the. produce class. This is Beft’s second year at the Fair.
He displayed. the. reserve grand champion last: year.:
Sassafras II weighs 1230 pounds.
2. That's’; ‘at registered Hampshire Ewe :lamb that 14-year-old Robert “E. White of Carthage,’ Ind., is hoHiing." LTE was presented to him by Governor. Schricker. (right) for displaying the best pen of three
Hampshire: Syeavling ewes at the Fair yesterday.
The gentleman with the hat is L. T. Dwyer of Indian
apolis, ‘who’ gave “the lamb and also donated a trophy’ te the 4-H Club boy and one to Chatles Ray, 18,
of Rushville, for the. best single
Hampshire -yearling “ewe.
ED Having a good time? Just ask 8-year-old Roma Jean Stevens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ‘Spencer Stevens of tLiberty, who has her hands full with that: big box of popeorn.
4. Here is a glimpse of the famous Sperry - bombsight.
it into the: Aviation Exhibit at the State Fair. .
220,000. Bipacted to Attend
F, D. RAND HOPKINS TALK AT. HYOE PARK
Conferences May Develop ‘Aid-to-Russia Plan.
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 30 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt and Harry L. Hopkins. today began a series of week-end conferences which may develop the outline of America’s aid to Russia ‘and its effects on Japanesé overtures .for a “permanent Pacific peace.” Mr. Roosevelt addresses the na-
ond anniversary of the beginning:
inkling of the objectives of United States-Japanese discussions initiated this week by a personal letter from Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye of Japan. The President, arriving here from Washington this morning, makes a speech this afternoon to the Roosevel; Home Club, an organization of neighbors and friends. - It was expected to be chiefly of local interest. ; : The President, in response to a
\sions expécted to soar
Fair on Labor Day Week-End
The soldiers are - ever-so-carefully taking
By EARL HOFF
Promised fair and warmer weather, the Indiana State Fair today prepared for a Tod Satine Labor Day week-end with paid admis-
220,000
Attendance figures for yesterday showed 10,757 paid admissions as
compared to: 9318 on opening day week-end record was 197,213. It was Youth Day at the Fair
again today with Boy Scouts, ‘Girl
Scouts and Campfire Girl uniforms proper credentials for free entrance. Children: under 12 with their parents also were admitted free. Crowds began coming early today. They swelled through midday,
and ‘indications were that things|’ ‘were going: to be “in a jam” by this
f| evening. Tomorrow will be War Veterans’ Day, with veterans and men now in service entering free, as ‘well as: children. Monday, when the all-time record of 113,803 set in 1937 is expected to be: beaten, will be labor’s day. The much-heralded $600,000 National ‘Defense display’ opened this afternoon in the Education Building, with Lt. Col. Wharton G. Ingram in charge. He is assisted by Lt, Col. William E. Corkhill.
last year. Last year’s Labor Day
Sots Stuff
Several days ago, Andrew | Robinson, who handles the snakes in the Johnny J. Jones Shows now on the State Fair Midway, got careless and ‘let one of the show's two moccasin | snakes ‘bite him. {Given quick
easy days, but has Sevbvered: But the upshot. of the ev was that the. snake bit hi self on the" same day. The : ‘snake died. :
- | pension plan.
| submitted revised estimates on yield | as follows, covering a full year’s op-
medical aid, he had a few un- |
QUICK ACTION ON TAX BILL SEEN
Early Passage Aiter Short Debate Predicted by Senate Leaders. *
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U. P.) — Senate leaders today predicted passage -of the biggest tax bill in history—$3,672,400,000—after two or three days of debate. They expected no major changes in the bill recommended by the Finance Committee. There appeared to be no organized opposition. « Two Republican members, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio and_Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, Ihdicated support of the measure. Senator Sheridan Downey (D. Cal) plans to offer an amendment to incorporate a $30 monthly
The bill will be reported formally Tuesday and Senate debate will Wednesday. Before the committee completed ‘action on the measure, the
eration: Corporation income taxes; $1,394,,00.
Individual ‘income taxes, $1,197,-
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Details of Fighting Allied and Axis Aims Compared .. Clapper in London The Free French ....... vai
matic front today.
pushed the Germans back on the Central Moscow front. Continued heavy fighting was reported all along the
eastern front and especially
around Leningrad and Odessa. Today’s developments were:
1. Tokyo spokesmen and Secretary of State Hull in Washington, agreed that reports the U., S. and Japan had reached an understanding in negotiations to relax tension in the Pacific wre probably premature. British subjects were to be evacuated soon by ship from the Japanese empire. 2. A declaration by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that all aid would be given ‘by Russia and Britain to Turkey in event the current threats of a German blow to the southeast develops and that British and American war production must be speeded up to meet the victory demands of a conflict engulfing the world. f 3. An authorizéd German statement that the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Benito. Mussolini at the Eastern Front emphasized that British and American influence must be eliminated from the European continent. Virginio Gayda said in Rome that the Germans intended te go only as far as the Urals in Russia, 1500 miles beyond the present front.
Center on Gulf of Finland
The Red army reported that in the central sector its counter-offen-sive was beating into the German secondary defenses, forcing the Nazis to dig in and bring up reserves. Moscow said the enemy had lost heavily in fighting on the cen{ral sector and in repeated vain attacks ongthe “impenetrable” defenses of Odessa. German claims centered on fur-
had trapped large . Russian army units in the capture of Viipuri. The Nazis said that there had been a new “Dunkirk” as Russians sought to evacuate Tallinn but ran headon into a German mine field and were - simultaneously attacked by heavy bombing squadrons. The said 60 ships, including 17 warshi were sunk and 54 others damaged. Flames were reported roaring in the heart of Tallinn, as well as Viipuri, which for centuries . has been a frequent battlefield in the north and which Russia took from Finland in the 1939 war. Axis sources also reported that the fall |of Hango, isolated Sovie naval
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ious fighting around the Gulf of| finland, where the Finns reported ey
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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
A pasic understanding between Japan and the United States was persistently reported on the Far Eastern diplo-"..
On the military front, Axis armies claimed the capture of Viipuri and the blasting of 114 Russian transports id oh warships in the Gulf of Finland. The Red Army countered ' ; with claims of important successes in an offensive which
pase on the southwest Finnish coast, was expected soon. 8 Although the Luftwaffe continued heavy assaults: and the Russians reported heavy fighting all along the eastern front, the German en= circlement of Leningrad seemed to be still virtually stalled by fierce” Red army resistance around the city which yielded ground only &t a high toll.
Press Counter-Attacks
Elsewhere on the eastern front, the Red Army was pressing. counter offensive in the Gomel area of the central sector and reported steady progress, which Germany's lack of news regarding Nazi thrusts southeastward. from Gomel. seemed. to confirm,” "The Russians-reg three important victories in which they said that six German divisions of perhaps 90,000 men had been des feated with heavy losses, but fi : to give details of positions. The reports from Tokyo seemed. to indicate more than ever that the Japanese were ‘seeking an agrees ment but were still uncertain whether they could get together with Washington and London with: out surrendering the program for a greater sphere in East Asia. The desire of the Japanese range a settlement or aif least. & breathing space if possible was indie cated, however, by the Tokyo res: ports and by a Tokyo radio broada. cast, heard by CBS, saying that the: American oil shipments to Vladi= vostok were not important after all. Previously,/the Japanese had ly protested the shipments of supplies to Russia and threatened halt thems President Roosevelt, in his Labor Day radio speech, generally is ex= pected to indicate the present state of the Pacific crisis.
16 Executed
In France, the German military authorities suddenly stepped bolster the drive of Vichy
of 16 persons coi {victed in man courts: martial-—as guished from the French courts—was ordered by Germs
, | gium. Seven ¥renchmen and a Duli subject were executed in Paris . charges of aiding the enemy and participating in Communist der onstrations against the Germ: Army. At Liege, Belgium, ef Belgians charged with saba
were ordered executed and the ore der presumably was. carried out.
You Can't Do Business With Hifler—No. §
Would Bring
~ Long Night of Siege to U.S
By DOUGLAS MILLER Author and Former Com mercial Attache in Berlin’
THE IMPOSSIBILITY of isolating the whole of the Western’ Hemsiphere from a victorious Germany was discussed
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in the precec
, traffic. toll to 93, which is t than last year at this
Dr. pet Collins, deputy coroner, said that: the youths were killed when ‘motorcycle sideswiped jan auto driven by James DeWalt, 31, of 1405 E. 15th St. DeWalt was injured t four persons in-his car escaped injury.
Bombgights Displayed
Popular features. of the display are four Indianapolis-built V-34-20 Allison airplane engines. One is the 24-cylinder engine which hasn't gone into production as yet. There are two examples of the bombsight used by the Army. These are delicate instruments, and were
press conference inquiry and a re-| quest for comment on the approaching anniversary of the war, remarked pointedly that he is making a speech on the anniversary day. His conferences over the week-end with Mr. Hopkins appeared certain to develop strategy. The President early next week will anounce the
f Pacific Palisades, Cal,
2 final match for the Amateur Championship
AFTER om ;
Caesarian ‘Operation - Bab ‘To Live, Say Doctors. A
The Caesarian. birth of a two minutes after the ‘mo Sa
© | instalment. : Another line of opinion favors an American defense of the qu sphere, That means the defense block in the Western t0| north of the Equator. A defense line running across’ the no per} South America would involve a =| good many difficulties. We have ar “yet to receive permission from [past more likely there: will
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pther Died in Traffic ropes youth is survived by his widowed mother, JM Ida : this year, her husband and father was killed in a
survived by four half-
{ Mrome and Mrs. May n, utti is survived by his and Mrs. Paul Persutti; jo ir Persutti, Ann Pergse Persutti and Lucy Per-
sutti, Mrs. Adeline Hickson and Mrs. S| Louise
, and brothers, Tony
Persutti;, James Persuiti-and Joseph Persutti. ; pep}
. | mission to Moscow.
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full personnel of the Unite States
AMMONIA GAS ROUTS 16 IN APARTMENTS
Ammonia’ gas from a broken refrigerator pipe routed 16 persons from an apartment building at 2063 N. Meridian St. last night. Police were told that Jack Welch, ,|who lives in Apt. 12, was attempting to loosen an ice cube tray from the refrigerator with a screwdriver when the pipe was punctured. The gas quickly spread through the building and police with gas masks carried a 93-year-old woman, Mrs. Mary Escott, from her apart-
ment. The others; nd able to make’
moved with great care. The display will be open every day
fram 10:30 a. m. until midnight, Col. bi
Ingram said. Henry Ostrom, civilian aid for
Air Corps Cadet Training, was in-|t0
strumental in - bringing the exhibit to the Fair. It is sponsored by Stokely Bros. & Co., who show some
uma on Page Three) BIG' LOCAL CONTRACT |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U. P.).— Link-Belt Co., Indianapolis, y was awarded a $4,999,850 : contract from the War Department to manufacture shot, Shot is a solid shell that does not.
explode after being fired. It is par-|
ticularly used to pierce armored
fo, 45d in guns of the antlpenif [7
South American states 0 i up “naval or alr fag
(in the Western republics,
| a good deal.of latent host: . tween Latin-American ¢ {that it might be very. easy | upon the suspicions, rivalries
"| jealousies down there ‘and -
about an actual seperation ‘continent into two op
x; | camps.
Some commentators even.
* | gentina as heading one camp
‘Brazil the other. There ‘general agreement as to just: other Hates might line up. | the banner of these main | he anger