Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1941 — Page 1
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(This is the second of a six-article series.)
By John T.
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Copyright. 1941, by Tue Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. BRITISH MORALE, plus American aid, has made an invasion of Britain impossible in the ‘past, and too costly for Hitler to underiake in the immediate future. That is why Hitler has invaded Russia in preparation ‘ for a>showdown with America, and why, with the Russian - campaign once ‘terminated, he will attempt to: clear the
* Mediterranean, conquer Af‘rica and establish U-boat and bomber bales against the United States. Germans in Italy, Spain and (Portugal. are confident that America will not enter the war now. They predict that later, when Hitler is in a position to deal with America, the morale in this couniry will collapse. They ‘ say with absolute confiderice that their fifth column is paralyzing democracy - in America .giready, - and that it will ultimately force ' Washington to call for a British
_ surrender. Their confidence has already
~ * won over important Frenchmen
.. and Spaniards as well as Italians with whom I have talked—that is . the only reason why Petain went over to the German camp—and I that- it is the basis of pan’s. present policy. In short, he * ans have decided that
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the American people, not the British, are the weak blockhouse in the beleaguered fortress of democracy.
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I THINK THAT the Germans have sized up America wrong. 1 know that they have got Britain right. After spending one month with the British I marvel that any: nation in the world can achieve such morale. I found no
defeatism in. any class or groupy
in England. The heart of cit; after city is razed to the ground but instead of being terrified by bombs. the people have vered thdt they “can take it.” It wasn’t
"half as bad last winter as their
imaginations led them to expect or, as tHey add, “half as bad as it’s going to be this coming winter.” Sfanding in the ruins of . “their homes, they are lifting their ‘fists and swearing to “dish it
MTR OF
~ ir ; Bi aA SPT x ; : Ah 4 Pha oe Vis -“That is the spirit of every man, woman and child “with whom I talked—the spirit of Dunkirk.”
That is the spirit of the British aristocrat, once -pro-German, whose ldyely debutante daughter was killed by a German bomb as she drew the blinds of her London home. That is the spirit of a formerly Communi. dock worker in Ply-
mouth who sald: “Jerry, he killed my wife and child. That's’ why we workers on the docks carry on whether he’s‘ bombing now or not. : We don’t go down to the shelfefs.” There is the British bombing pilot, a former schoclteacher, who showed me a pile. of bricks under
his cot at the Bomber Command. “It's part of the masopry of the home in which the ‘Germans killed my mother,” he said. “I take a‘ brick and drop it on Germany every time I take over a load of bombs. I've dropped 132 (Continued on Page Te):
Brpearance of Vinsirics -Ffomato Queen Is Among Special Features.
By EARL HOFF na children whose gargan: appetites, unguenchable. thirst untiring legs are an annual
.gnass phenomena at the State Fair,
- fake over: the reins today.. Today. is titled “Educational and Children’s Day” and even more youngsters than were present yesterday ‘are expected to attend. The reason: ‘Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls and children under 12 were admitted free. ft A drenching rain, the kind farms ers were praying for last ‘month,
sent Fair visitors scurrying for cover |’
shortly after dark last night. . . Enjoy the Rain ii
Spectators took shelter in exhibit puildings or under the canvas eaves of concession stands. A few bravely ‘through the rain, inviting the more=timid ones to ‘come on out and enjoy -the rain.” :
The downpour put a damper on| m,
the evening pregram and dlthough “the Horse; Show went on as scheduléd in the Coliseum, the vaudeville show and fireworks before * the Grandstand had to be called off. Even so, another new attendance record was set yesterday with 52,229 paid ‘admissions. That was 2327 ~ more than last year. The previous : or a falr Tuesday was 51,704
For the special benefit of the youngsters, there/was a parade of
high school bands before the grand-| -
stand -at 10 a. m., Fair Time, today. In: the parade were the Johnson County 4-H Band and the following high eo gehuool units: Brownstown, 1s high k, Brookville, Hamilton County, Kingman, Oxford, Starke County, Windiall, Butler Township, Farmland, Greencastle, Danville, imo, Winamac, Noblesville, Switz = , Wells .County, ‘Pine - Village, Lincoln of Cambridge City, Elletts. ‘ville, Bainbridge and Rochester.
Governor at Dinners
Another special feature of the day Te Pa or Mise ary van , who was crowned queen of as State T Tomato Picking Contest held es top home. town. presen tamato Prodor _Schricker;
M. Dawson, State et ,- Superintendent of Public on Page Five)
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day, Educational Building.
‘ lgroup in 1935. We have given them
x xs ‘Today's Program EDUCATIONAL AND CHILDREN'S DAY
“Parade of high school bands, 10 a. m., Grandstand. Judging 6f horses, cattle, sheep and swine, . morning, Coliseum, Sheep Areria, Swine Arena. Style Show, 10:30 a. m. and 2:30 p. 1u.. Women's Building.
a.m. and 2:30 p. m.,, Women’s Building. National Defense’ Exhibit, all
Grand Circuit Racing, 1:30 p. m.,, Grandstand. “Music on Wings,” stage show and fireworks, 7:30 p. m., Grandstand. Horse Show, 1 3 m, Coliseum.
Tomorrow
FARMERS AND FARM ORGAN-' IZATION DAY Parade of Farm Organization Bands. and Floats, 10 a. m., Grandstand. Cattle, Sheep, Swine judging, g, : Coliseum, Sheep Swine ‘Arena. National Defense Exhibit, day, Educational Building. Style Show, 10:30 a. m. and 2: 30 p- m.; Women’s Building. Home Economics Choruses, 11 a. m. and 2:30 p. m., Women’s Building. ‘Grand. Circuit harness racing, 1:30 p. m., Grandstand. “Music on: Wings” astage Show oly fireworks, 7:30 p. ms Grand-
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Horse Show, 7 p. m.,, Coliseum.
U. S. SUES CAPONE | ON PROHIBITION BEER
Gang gambles on : ‘Proses cutor’s Forgetfulness.
CHICAGO, Sept. 3 (U. P.).—The Federal Government in a surprise action today sued retired Gang
associates for. approximately $250,000. taxes and penalties on beer confiscated from stocks they pedJdled during the Prohibition era. Government attorneys revealed that the gang had gambled boldly on forgetfulness and confusion due to changes in prosecutors to carry Shem past expiration of the statute of limitations—just 10 days hence. “This outfit still thinks it is big-|,
District Attorney J. Albert Woll. “We levied this tax against the six years-in: which 0 make ment.
pay-
Home Economies Choruses, 11 }
Chief Al Capone ‘and 14 ‘alleged |:
ger than Uncle Sam,” said U. 8. |ha
{ “The statute of limitations runs| The police fen
18 MORE DIE IN STATE TRI FFG) os =
Collision; Toe Women Crash Victims.
. Eight persons. died in Hoosier traffic accidents overnight, six of them in two head-on collisions. men were killed early today when a truck loaded with fresh tomatoes and a tractor-trailer loaded with -whisky and paint collided head-on on State Road 29 in Boone County. The victims were: HARRY GORDON SANFORD; 35, Cincinnati, river of the trac-tor-trailer.
GARTH DUCKWORTH, 25, of Clinton County, driver of the other truek,
DONALD DUCKWORTH, 21
Three women, one of’ them living in Marion County, died in a headon collision of two cars last night ‘during a blinding rain. - The accident occurred on State Road 67 in Hancock County, just a half mile beyond the: Marion. County line,
The dead are:
MRS. CLARA MCcKINNEY, 47, AEE, CLARS mE
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MRS. BEN MOSIER, 48, Martinsville. ;
GEORGE GRUBER, 70, Los Angeles, was killed instantly and. his wife, “Mrs. *C. Gruber, was injured critically last night ‘When he lost: control of his car and: it left the road, turning over four US: 24 the Sosident jest of Rey- ; fe wes Re - nolds,’ Ind. = o y
Mrs. Wade Duckworth, Martinsville, driver of the-car in which Mrs. Burkhart and Mrs. Mosier were rid- , is_in. a critical condition in Methodist Hospital. * .
* Earl McKinney, 49, driver of the other car, is in a critical condition In City Hospital and his children, | Ollie McKinney, 8, and ‘Alfred Mc-, |Kinney, 4, are in Riley’ Hospital, Ollie in ‘a gritical condition and Alfred in: a serious condition. | At Evansville, MRS. LOIS MAUCK, 5s Quensville, Vie killed when the whic e was a passenger collided: with a truck. 8
By JOE COLLIER Maybe the: story of ‘why blond, 15-year-old “Thelma Dailey is. now in the Marion County jail begins a couple, of years ago when she
Publicity Routs Binge at Fair
ture rs mei in’ Choe of conces= , explained today that the: re concessionnaire tarily” offered to ‘close. “because of the publicity.” . ° “He told us: he was trying to run’ a nice clean game,” Mr. Brouse said, “and didn’t know that the game was in disrepute’ here in Marion County.” - . ;
FIRST WORLD SERES GAME SET. FOF FOR OCT. 1
Opener Given to to Yankee Stadium by . Landis.
NEW YORK; . Sept. 3 (U. P)— The World 1 open; at Yankee Hg es Wednesday, Oct. 1, it was annoyned: today after a meeting: of 'K..M.; Landis, commissionen of DS with representatives of the interested clubs. The - Yankees: -have not .yet clinched the. American League. pennant, but no other. clubs sent representatives to, the meeting. . Three, National League clubs—Brooklyn, St. Louis and’ ‘Cincinnati—were represented. . The first two games will be played in the Yankee Stadium. If St. Louis wins the National League pennant, the third, fourth and fifth games will be played at Sportsman’s ‘Park, Oct. 4,.5 and 6, and the sixth and seventh games, if necessary, -at. Yankee Stadium, Oct. 8 and 9. If Brooklyn - or ‘ Cincinnati’ wins the it, there will be no day allowed for travel, but there will be an interval of one day between the sixth and seventh: feats ‘to allow’ for sale of tickets.
OPM ACTS 70 SPEED NEW DEFENSE’ ROADS
WASHINGTON, ‘Sept: 3 (U/P.)> The OPM’s Priorities Division today
| announced a_ broad. program to provide materials needed for. the con-}
struction of strategic. roads.in. the United States, the Inter-American
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Hitler Tactics Used By Commissioners. - :
County. Commissioners were “accused today by an official of the Teamsters: Union of . resorting to ‘| “unfair means” to break the strike of 80 County. Hgnway Department employees: The Commissioners, calling. the striking employees in, one by one, to receive August pay" checks, ‘have been asking each to sign a statement as to whether he did” or did not vote to strike. : The . Commissioners report 58 signed statements they did not vote to strike; 2 refused tousign anything. “When ‘Adolf Hitler holds’ an: election_ you vote ‘ja’ no ‘matter what your real wishes may be,” Emmett J. Williams, secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters’ Local 135,:said in a statement today. “This seems: to be the case in the poll taken by Commissioners. “By calling cath - of the: striking highway . employees: in separately to’ receive his pay check ‘and by askitig each to sign a- statement as to whether ‘he had voted to strike
{or not, the’ ‘Commissioners: have re-
sorted to the sort of coercion that trade unionism has béen. fighting Ra ay a “You te worker to reveal su to his employer; “that is ‘why we have collective : and unions. to represent the ‘employees, The employee and employer do not * (Continued on Page. Five)
45. CENT COUNT Y TAX RATE FORMALLY 0.K.’D
An ordinance fixing the 1942 County property tax rate’ ‘at 45 {eents, 2 cents above the current ‘levy—was adopted formally “today ‘by the -County: Cana bi 5
‘the average information
The general
224,430,
an ein over the 1941
of meme of ny
+ 1$366,000 below the department's re-
quest for next year. : . The entire County Budget is. sub
{sect to review: the ‘County Tax rons Boa.
Members of the Adjustmedit
~. | Board will receive proposed budgets » | which would require {otal Say rate
Hos Indianapolis residents - 88 Tol ows: Center Township, $3.32, ao 1
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Air Bombers to Hammer| Reds During Winter; Finn Peace Seen.
By DAVID M. NICHOL . 1d Cong 94,2 Top Tpsapaposg Time
GENEVA, Sept. 3—Reports reach-|
ing here from unusually well informed military observers recently in Berlin disclose that Hitler’s plans| . for the third year of the war have been altered and expanded on an almost unbelievable scale. y The fact that England still stands, plus the. courage and stubbornn
poy and [us Ax to the program as’ ft 1s accounts
dispa newspapers today
already of the ew Strategic situa~|
tion” which faées the German general staff.
Exploit Occupied: Areas
Behind this line, if it can be attained, theses reports .continue, the Germans pian to set up three ads’ ministrative units for the. exploitation of the rich southwestern portions of Russia. These would include Georgia; the Ukraine and the Caucasus, out of which the Nazis hope to salvage at least a fourth of this year’s produce tion and open the way for systemalic development next year. A ‘parallel step, it is Tpelieved, would be an offer of peace on a {Continued on Page Five)
CHINESE RECAPTURE
FOOCHOW SEAPORT|"*2:3
Japan Admits ‘Withdrawal’; Blockade Continues.
CHUNGKING, Sept. 3 (U. P)— The Chinese Military Council said| today that Chinese troops had driven Japanese forces of octupation out of the important port of of PoocHpw, south of Shanghai, that heavy casualties were beg inflicted on retreating Japanese. (The © Japanese Domei News agency said that Japanese froops had withdrawn in order from Foochow after plugging supply routes through the Loe to Chinese forces. Domei said t the Japanese Navy| would continue to blockade the coast off Foochow and that the army would not hesitate to return to -Foochow if the Chinese resumed military or . smuggling Sefivity in
Sinks 92 Axis Ships Russians Report. 7 :
32-Mile Central ‘Front Aldvanes ‘War News on Inside Pages
+ Details ¢f Fighting .
military machine today with.
enemy shipping at sea.
front.
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Early Says No vs No Invitation} For Ocean Conference Has Been Received. | WASHINGTON, ‘Sept. 3 (U. By
| White House Secretary Stephen T.
Early. ‘denied - today that Bagunier Fumimaro Konoye of Japan vited . President Roosevelt to cis on .Japanese-American relations at a high seas conference in the| Pacific, Mr. Early made this statement after discussing with Mr. evelt the New York Herald Tribune’s report that such an invitation had been extended: oy The, President has no invita-
“a, 1 the Herald-Tribune- had seen fit ‘to check with the White House before publication of the I would have told them that. “3. The only plan the President has involving a trip on the water ini the immediate future is a cruise from Annapolis on the Chesapeake Bay ‘and on the Potomac River. | “If the Herald Tribune cares to fellow the President to Annapolis, they will readily see the falsity of
this story.” “Responding to a° question, Mr. Early added that he did not believe “Prince Premier Konoye ud be coming up Chesapeake Bay.”
tion for a sea conference, simulating
“{the: historic = Churchill - Roosevelt
meeting in the Atlantic, followed two weeks of important conferences between, Secretary of State Cor: Hull and the Japanese Ambassado Kichisaburo Nomura. «
Last ‘Thursday Nomura, Acooth | 1!
panied by Hull, conferred with: Mr. Roosevelt and delivered 8, pérsonal message to him from Prince Konoye. | « The eonients o that note have not |
been reveal
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‘By LOUIS F. KEEMLE
War Analyst
The German-Russian war shows signs of developing into. one of
position rather than of niovement.
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Great Britain and the Soviet Union struck at the Nag
counter-attacks all along the
Eastern Front, air raids on Berlin, industrial Germany and
- On the Eastern Front, the Red Army was reported plunging into German lines behind bomber squadra and 40-ton tanks after driving back the Germans three mi in: a battle before Leningrad and 32 miles in an onsla : that “cluttered the road m with enemy dead on the cen
Marshal Klement Voroshiloy personally commanded ; vance troops in the Leningrad counter-attack, according 8 thie: army. vabliontion Red Star, which said that Rus
drives were in progress on: | Dnieper sectors.
tral. front counter-oftensive. B admitted continuing attacks” said they were being broken up.. ~The British aerial offensive -] by giant R. A, F. bombers “hit at Berlin, ‘setting German capital on the second. versary of Britain's declaration of , | war, according: to official. storeménct
clair/disclosed that in the first t weeks of August British planes
dropped three times as many bomb
on Germany as in the same a year ago. 2
"Now Axis Ships Sink
He 4150 said that the R. A. F. “turned the tables” on the ne at sea by sinking 92 Axis ships 468,000 tons in July and by contin attacks on enemy ships in the’ Sea, the Adriatic and the Medigere ranean. The raid on Berlin was the s0th of the war and the German com: munique used the word “strongish.® ‘London‘said the raid was not’ tis biggest of the war on Berlin but that it was one of the hardest and ‘most. ‘effective. . New: and’ larger bombers and bigger bombs ‘were used in the attack. )
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ed Bremen from the ube stratosphere. . The Russian counter-offensive’ on the central front, if continued, ap<
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