Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1941 — Page 1
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: VOLUME 53—NUMBER 150
Nazis Invaded Russia — —By John T. Whitaker.
~~ “American arms shipments, followed by America's entry into the war of 1914-18, proved decisive. . . . - Today the Lend-Lease Act and the possibility of American participation are the only things that lie between Hitler and the conquest of the world.” The guns of the British Greadnaught King George V guard a ‘convoy of ships carrying munitions from America to Britain.
GISLATORS ARE
+ HONORED AT FAIR
Home Economics School Girls to Entertain State Officials at Dinner; 115,960 Attend-
ance Yesterday.
5
Is New Record.
‘By EARL HOFF Indiana's legislators, adjourned sine die since March,
ened today to be guests of honor at the Indiana State ‘now in its fifth record-setting day. ; For their visit theywill have partly cloudy weather, cool temperatures, ‘and a wide variety of events, including the
‘Grand Circuit harness’ races.
on 18, SEIZED IN $15 HOLDUP
Arrested as as Sie Divides Loot With 3 Youths in ~ Parked Car.
Shlona 18-year-old indianapolis g rl and three youths early today ‘held up an East Side filling station, ‘esca with $15 and were captured : linutes later as they were parked in their stolen car, dividing the loot. ~The car, with the girl and a 17-year-old companion in the front seat ; an 18 and 20-year-old youth in Tr, pulled into the station at . New York St. at 1: 38 a. m. -youths in the rear seat got , ‘covered the attendant, Joseph , an army automatic, and him of his money. e quartet fled in the car, ving in and out of side streets finally heading for the City’s
Meanwhile, Deputy Sheriffs HowBrennen, Robert Houston and: Taylor, inboiind from a run e County, heard a police cast of the robbery. noted the license number, almost immediately saw the
the dome light on, the four Sividing the loot. The gun floor. ney said that all ad-
P.)—Three soldiers were and one injured critically
when an Army truck carry-.
men failed to make a turn “the highway oh U. 8S. No. en miles west of Rainelle ine miles west of here.
Alvin Johnson and Wil-
r. In critical condition |: p Wayne Scott. It was | they were from Indian- |. Louisvil 3
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Yesterday a total of 115,960
paid to get in the grounds,
constituting the largest Labor Day crowd in the Fair’s history. The previous high was 113,983, set in 1937. The legislators, along with Governor Schricker and Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson, Commissioner of Agriculture, will be guests at a dinner to be given by Home Economics School girls in the Youth Center. Before the Grand Circuit program, which will start at 1:30 p. m,, CST, Governor Schricker, Fair officials and Col. W. S. Drysdale of Ft. Harrison will review a parade of 1000 soldiers from the Fort. In the parade also will be the Lions AllState Band and State Police mounted on Culver Academy Black Horse Troop steeds. Harness Classic Today Because of rain yesterday, the Horseman Futurity, scheduled to bring together Bill. Gallon, Hamble-
<tonian winner, and His Excellency,
the horse which defeated him last week in Syracuse, N. Y., was postponed until today. On the program with this $6500 event will ‘be another Horseman Trot for 2-year-olds with $16,000 in prizes. The Labor . Day holiday throng yesterday refused to let the drenching rain which came in mid-morn-
ing douse their spirits or keep them’
away from the Fair. Cheerfully they crowded into concession stands and exhibit buildings during the downpour or blithely walked through the rain with folded newspapers for umbrellas. At 9 a. m,, CST, giant draft horses tugged and pulled at heavy loads (Continued. on Page Three)
Elude Police Pursuit Die in Crash
He'll Go Back To Chopsticks
WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 2 (U. P.).—A Chinese who came out of a restaurant with a stomach ache, told a doctor he had swallowed his knife and fork along with his dinner. X-rays proved him correct. At a hospital, surgeons got the fork out but are still groping for the knife. They expected the Chinese to recover.
+ OPEN ‘8’ DRIVE AT RCA"PLANT
Workers Rally in Campaign ® To ‘Beat the Promise’
On Defense Jobs.
The much-talked-of “B” campaign (==...) was inaugurated at a huge rally on the grounds of the RCA plant today. The éampaign, RCA officials told
the 2300 local employees, stood for “Beat the promise” on defense contract delivery deadlines. J. M. Smith. resident vice president, announced a series of contests among plant production workers, to last for three months, in which prizes of defense savings bonds and vacation trips will be awarded the departments and individual workers who speed up deliveries of defense madterials. » Similar rallise were held at four other- RCA plants throughout the country and were opened formally at 11:45 a. m. by David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of . America, who broadcast from Camden, N. J., RCA headquarters. Among the officials who spoke at the local rally were ‘Mr. Smith, Mayor Sullivan, Comm. R. H. G. Mathews, “U. S. N. R. resident inspector, and: Francis O'Rourke, agent- for the A. F. of L, Union, under whose contract the workers are organized. The rally, which lasted for 20 minutes, was held in front of RCA’s newest ‘addition in which workers are turning out several million dollars worth of equipment for the U. S. Army and Navy. The plant: is located at LaSalle and E. Michigan Sts.
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“TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1941
AMERICA, IS HALFWAY across the world: : from the Soviet Union, but America—with a free people and a gigantic industry—is “the reason: why Hitler invaded Russia.
‘American’ arms shipments, followed by America’s entry into the war of 1914-18, proved decisive when Germany made her first bid for
world domination.
Today -the Lend-Lease Act and the possibility of American participation are the .only things that lie between Hitler and the conquest
of the world. : Hitler is a realist and
While the invasion of Russia was obviously a dangerous gamble, it was Hitler's one chance of beating America and he took it. i Hitler needs time to beat. America so long as the British fleet still sweeps the seas. Hitler needs time for his fifth column to create further disunity among the American
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This is the first of a series of articles by John T. | Whitaker, famous war correspondent, who has just ~ returned to the United States,
a man of action.
people, sabotage in- their factories and defeatisnt in their training camps. - He needs time to clear the Mediterranean, cross the sea into Africa and establish bomber and U-boat bases along the ‘Whole littoral of the South Atlantic in order to cripple American gea-power in that vital area just as he has crippled the British in the North. Atlantic.
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. ” HE NEEDS TIME to bring France, Spain and Portugal into his “new order,” time to break the democratic front of the Americas to the south and time to bring in Japan. Russian invasion gives him time because even the British peeple have become complacent ‘before the dog-eat-dog spectacle of Nazi butch-
proportions.
ering Communist while the British military know that without American manpower they can undertake no immediate offensive of serious
This is the first reason why the man who
can never mark time has moved his armored
correspondent, has the British camp both.
quest of the world,
The
legions into the reaches of Russia. The second is equally clear to any observer who, like your
visited the Axis as well as and. talked with leaders in
Having decided that America, rather than Britain, is the most formidable foe to Nazi con- :
Hitler has faced with equal
realism the fact that the war must be a long one. Consequently he and his generals were in complete agreement when they counselled him: _ that the armed forces of Russia must be de-
stroyed. Germany cannot go into a long war (Continued on Page Three)
7IS CLAIM ‘VICTORY IN MUD; . ES FROM LEN INGRA
NOW
16 MI
COUNTY TAKES POLL IN STRIKE
Highway Workers Asked to|
Sign Statement Revealing Votes.
About 90 County Highway Department employees who have been Lov on strike for a week, were asked by County Commissioners today to sign statements as to whether or not they voted to strike. Each: employee ‘was called in to the Commissioners’ office separately to receive his check; | services. Dari or He was asked te sign ore of two statements. One of the statements read: “I did not vote to go on strike.” The other read: Up to noon, 65 workers had filed through the. ‘Commissioners’ ‘office. Of this number 50 had signed the statement that they did not vote to go on strike. Fifteen others refused to sign any statement. About 25
more workers were to be polled this §
afternoon. ‘Williams Silent
Six police officers were on guard :
at the Commissioner’s office.
County commissioners said that ;
when the poll was completed they would present the signatures to Teamsters and Chauffers Union officials, who called the strike. “If a large majority of the workers deny they voted to strike, we will have a bargaining: point to get the workers back on their jobs,” Commissioner William Brown. said. Commissioners = indicated those who signed the mno-strike statement would be assured of their jobs. They refused to comment, however, on the status of the workers refusing to sign any statement. Joseph Williams, secretary-treas-urer of the Teamsters’ Union, declined to comment on the commissioners’ action. The strike was called by union officials following. refusal of commissioners to sign a contract with the union. Commissioners explained they could not legally sign a labor contract which would bind their successors and also guarantee pay-. ment of wages from appropriations over which they had no control.
ADMITS SERBIAN DISORDER BUDAPEST, Sept. 2 (U. P.) —The newspaper Pest reported today that in a radio broadcast last night Gen. Nedic, new Serbian prinie minister, admitted ‘widespread disorder in his Jerzhieny, formerly part of Jugoslav.
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“I did vote to-strike.”}
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U. S. Goal:
policy of marshalling thé full force check its “insane violence.”
at the White House this forenoon the first Congressional reaction to his call for Americans “to do everything in our power to crush Hitler and his Nazi forces.” Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate Finance: Committee and Acting Speaker of the House Clifton Woodrum. arrived at the White House at 10 a. m. for the President’s first conference. This was followed by a protracted luncheon conference with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. ~ Asks ‘Safeguards’ The talk with Secretary Hull may give point to the reference in his Labor Day address to the necessity of providing more safeguards for war materials flowing from the
ing the Axis powers. American tankers loaded with gasoline now are en route to Vladivostok and are about to traverse the narrow waters of the Sea of Japan. On the Atlantic, dozens of vessels are threading through hazardous waters toward Britain, with food, raw materials and fabricated weapons. | Instructions issued from the White House during the next few days will determine what Mr. Roosevelt meant when he declared that unless we “more greatly safeguard it (war materials) ‘on its journey to
lthe battlefields, these enemies will ‘ {take heart in pushing shelr. attack
in old fields and new.” Calls Hitler ‘Enemy’ | White House Secretary Stephen
IT. Early said that initial national
reaction to the President's speech was highly favorable. “I handed the: President ‘a whole
mendatory and. congratulatory.” Mr. Roosevelt's — Siulalo in the
~ |Labor Day speech which was heard
United States to the nations resist- polis
To Crush Hitler
An unusually fine study of President Roosevelt as he made his radio Salute to Labor” yesterday.
F.D.R. Pledges More Effort
To Halt 'Insane Violence’
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 w. P.).—President Roosevelt begirfs a series of conferences today to’increase the implementation of his restated
of America’ to crush Hitlerism and
He returned today to the capital from Hyde Park, where he made his most forceful denunciation of Nazi Germany to date, and received
3 STORES ANNOUNCE 2 DELIVERY SCHEDULES
Changes Made to Increase Service Efficiency.
L. S. Ayres & Co., The wm. H. Block Co. and H. P. Wasson & Co. annnounce that new delivery sched-
ules will go into eftect today. The announcement Was made through Murray H. Morris, Manager of The Merchants Association, of IndianaIn the above named stores purchase made before 4 p. m. on any week-day will be scheduled for delivery the following business day, except purchases of chinaware, glassware, and bulky items that require extra time and special packing. Purchases made after 4 p. m. and purchases of chinaware, glassware, and bulky items will be delivered the second day following purchasé. Where emergency delivery service is required by the customer, the long-standing extra charge for special delivery will remain in effect. Mr. Morris stated, “that the stores are instituting these rules for the sake of more efficient service to the customers.”
the highway to
mer palace,
REDS CHARGED
Trade Union Leader Claims Britain Hopes Russia Is Defeated. r
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Sept. 2
efforts were being made to sabotage British aid to Russia was made at the Trades Union Congress today by Jack Tanner, president of the 7 | Amalgamated Engineering Union. In an exchange with General Secretary Sir Walter Citrine, who doubted that Tanner's charge could be substantiated, the engineering union leader said: : “It can.” Tanner also said that influential persons had expressed hope that the Russian and German armies would exterminate each other andy that Britain would emerge as the dominant power in Europe He said that Lieut. b, Col. John T. C. Moore-Brabazon, Minister for Aircraft Production, had expressed such a view “quite recently.” (In London the British censor withheld the Tanner speech from the British press for nearly two nours. When it was released, the Press Association in a note to editors said that “in view of the gravity of the charge we call special attention to the naming of Moore-Brabazon and leave you to decide whether to publish the last few words referring to the Minister for Aircraft Production.”
Citrine Is “Startled”
“I think everyone will a Bites that such an attitude is a terrible danger and it is a crime against the people of this country and the people of Russia.” Tanner said. “If Russia succeeds, we succeed. If Russia fails, we fail. (There were cries of “no” from the audience.) Citrine said he was “startled” and that he expected Tanner would be called upon to substantiate his statement. Citrine rejected trades union cooperation with the British Communist Party, because, he said, the British Communists had been found “totally unreliable.” The Congress approved the Anglo-Russian alli-
Today s War Moves
~ By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Foreign News Analyst
Russia’s . .counter-offensives, will extend through the winter.
If it does, the emphasis of mili southeast; toward the Levant states,
India. culties . which’ Hitler's. mechanized forces would find it hard to overcome. The Russian winter might bog down the machines as effecwas | HVE ag it ‘did’ Napoleon's infantry
Was and. cavalry. If Russia {the Togieat
gspecially Smolensk, strengthen” the possibility
lds out in. ‘the north, Jiausly. for a winter cam- an
on the front ‘north of}the
4 the war on the Eastern Front).
action is likely to shift to thé] and Af] , gateway to
A winter campaign in north-central Russia would present diffi-
vert, his main strength to the. South, leaving a stalemate on ‘the Lenin-grad-Moscow fronts. The * Beltithe Russian allies obe been
(U. P)—A charge that deliberate |.
Timoshenko Leads Savage Soviet Counter! ‘Attack Near Pripet Marshes; Gomel Recaptured; Air Activity Revives.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
Russian counter-attacks brought German advances on Moscow to a halt today, but Hitler's troo drove through rain and mud to within 16 mhiles of Leningrad. A few hours after the Nazi news ‘agency had claim |a big victory in a sea of mud near Luga, 90 miles due south of the old Czarist capital, Berlin quarters claimed thap another column had reached Krasnaya Selo, the former sums ] 16 miles southwest of Russia’s second city. Berlin and Moscow appeared to agree that persistent: Russian attacks in the Smolensk-Gomel-Bobruisk sector had:
brought German forward movement in the central area to, a
SABOTAGE’ OF
halt and pushed back Nazi. lines at some points. This relieved, for the tim being, the threat of a German. push toward Moscow or a sud : den swing to cut behind Russ sian positions on the wester
banks of the Dnieper. However, Russian counter: in the sector apparently was noi powerful enough to force the mans to relax their pressure In. north. * Fight Along Dnieper : Southward, in the Ukraine, Ruse sian attempts to establish new pridgeheads on the western bank ¢ the Dnieper still were in progress; but Nazi accounts claimed they had
been repulsed with heavy losses. British reports indicated that the Soviet attack on a 175-mile sector, of the central front around is perhaps the heaviest of the war, Russian troops were said to have fought their way into Gomel at the northern end of the Pripet Marshes and to be threatening the whole German pestiien. in the Smolensly region. :
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Details of Fighting. ........Page . ; You Can’t Do Business ; With Hitler o......ccconensore 1m Japanese Talk “Safety Zone”... 1
Soviet Marshal Semyon Timoe shenko conducted a pincers’ movee ment in the counter-drive. He him self led an army striking directly Gomel, his former head The right arm of the pincers, Gen. Ivan Rakovsky, struck toward Smolensk and the left arm aimed af. : Bobruisk. Both the Red Air Fleet and the German Luftwaffe were e€: active. The Russian planes raid Koenigsberg, Danzig and Memel addition to Berlin, Sunday night, was revealed and also blasted ai German bases along the Rumanian Black Sea coast. The Germans res taliated by opening up bombarde ment of objectives in Crimea. :
New Troops Sent
According to Russian tabulations the bulk of the 170 Nazi div originally hurled info the attack 0 the Soviet has now been smash Russian reports claimed that . man prisoners reported heavy transe fers of German divisions from cupied regions of France, B and Holland eastward to the battered Nazi attack foress, The Royal Air Force engaged widespread - attacks on Axis jectives, sweeping over ae the second successive major n and carrying out big ¢ t sweeps of northern er R. A. F. planes pou tofljalian chloe ant 24. won 12 persons in an' attack on Cotrone, C and other attacks on Pozzallo, cily, and the big African Axis ‘lof Tripoli. The Axis i an attack on Tobruk. For the second night in‘ iN
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|sion the Luftwaffe arshal | fairly large scale attack
| British Isles, Target last “The z