Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1941 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 158
‘ELIMINATE SUB, ATTACK DELIB
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A Long Way
Webihoo! Thats Fircmin
Up—or Down
Biasle, who'Is waving from ‘atop
the 100-faot automatic ladder and water tower of one of the Fire De-’
partment’s iwo. new. $19,000.
trucks, Fireman Blaize is
from No. 13 engine house, which ¢ Zot one of ‘the irucks.’ “The. other went to.No. 17. The new Pieces of: equipment are powered with ‘a 240-horse pawer. motor and the I8dder and. Wafer. tower is hydriulic-operate.
Fair Smashes: Atteiidarice Record by Estimated 15,000
By EARL HOFF
With ht year’s attendance record already aoa by a substantial margin, the 89th annual Indiana State Fair closes its gates tonight.
Although today’s attendance will total attendance for seven days up
not be counted until tomorrow, the through last night st@d at 443,506,
‘compared to the total eight-day attendance figure of 435,862 for last
OWNER GETS BACK. 5800 TAKEN IN RAID
Verdict Reversed, 11 Freed On Gaming Charges.
More than $800 - confiscated’ by police in a gambling raid last June, was ordered returned to ‘its original owner in Criminal Court: today, after 11 defendants had been found not gwilty of gaming charges. Charles Richardson, Noblesville, _ alleged proprietor of an establish~ ment at 140 E. Wabash St., which was raided June 19, was. convicted of keeping a gaming house, fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days several weeks ago. Ten -others arrested in the raid were charged with visiting' a gaming house, and each was sentenced to 10 days, fined $10 and costs in ‘Municipal Court.
Defendants Appeal
All 11 defendants appealed their cases to Criminal Court .and Judge Pro Tem Robert Carrico ordered all defendants discharged after hearing the evidence. :
Judge Carrico said there was no evidence to prove that any of the defendants were seen gambling and that a conviction could not be obtained merely on the presentation of equipment confiscated. The $800 was ordered returned to Roy Poland, 2538 E. Washington St., who said it belonged to him.
Other Jdefendants found not guilty Co
were: "John Thomas Dixon, 1802 Cornell Ave.; Frank Gardner, Princeton Hotel; Bruce Henderson, ° Colonial Hotel; Leo Kirk, 1412 E.
Rosemond St.; Albert Nunsford, 120}.
E. North St.; Emerson Lyons, 1723 N. Meridian St.; Shine Wilson, 1115 - Blaine St.; Ralph Willson, 4252 Kenwood Ave., and Victory Wray, 3502 | N. Meridian = .
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year. Fair officals said today’s rain would undoubtedly cut attendance ‘‘somewhat,” but that today’s paid admissions would bring this year’s margin over 1540 total attendance to around 15,000. Despite the rain, the horse races,
seum horseshow were to be held as scheduled.
Award Scholarships
Meéanwhile, as the eight-day event draws to a close officials announced the winners of the two 4-H Club scholarships. The principal « scholarshiff — to Purdue University—went to Myron Ruszler, 18, of North Terre Haute, whose ". activities during past six years in 4-H vegetable clubs has brought him almost $3000 in prizes. The other scholarship went to Merle Kung of Carroll County, a member of the Dairy Judging team. In addition, 36 ing } to the: Chicago 4-H Club Congress and International Livestock Show also were awarded.
Stock to Be Sold
‘As & climax to the 4-H Club competition during the past eight days,
fed with loving care all year by 4-H boys and girls, went on the auctioneer’s block at 1 p. m., Fair Time.
“royalty” of the Fair for a week, they were destined to meet the end that is one of the major aims of the annual Fair—the production of higher grade meat. There were to be 225 beef calves in the sale to be handled by Auctioneers Roy Johnson of Decatur and Carl Bartlett of Muncie in the lissum. The Grand Champions were to go under the hammer at 2 p. m., Fair Time. In addition to the beef cattle shown by the club members, the : (Continued on Page 15)
Tom Harmon Is
CHICAGO, Sept. 5 (U. P.).— Tom , Michigan's All- ‘ America halfback, awoke today to learn that his draft "board at
—liable to immediate call fo i army service.
“It's news to me,” yawned. “I'm going ho Sie anyway today : -it over with mom and dad.” « Last July the
him 3-A on Suit, tat
Grandstand stage show and Coli-|
the blue ribbon cattle, curried and fl
Champions of all classes and
Classified 1-A
Gary, Ind. had withdrawn JQis || deferment and classified him 1.A |}
RAIL WALKOUT. VOTED, MUST WAIT 60 DAYS
1,260, 000 Workers Affected By Dispute, Now Destined To Reach F. D. R.
National Railway Mediation Board announced today that attempts to avoid a strike of 1,260,000 railroad workers by direct mediation have ended and that thé board is considering its next step, reference of the dispute to President Roosevelt. Ninefeen railroad brotherhoods announced thrée hours earlier that their memberships had voted almost unanimously to paralyze the booming carriers to reinforce their demands for wage increases ranging from 30 to 41 per cent and other concessions. The 14 non-operating unions agreed to start the strike with a walkout of 900,000 men at 6 p. m. Sept. 11. The “Big Five” operating| unions—the men who actually run the trains—will announce their deadline at Cleveland within three or four days.
Deferment Automatic :
Under the National Railway Labor Act, intervention by esident Roosevelt would defer possibility of a strike automatically for at .least 60 days, and possibly 90, while a special fact - finding commission studied ‘the dispute. - David J. Lewis, chairman of the board, said he would not notify
strike votes of the 19 unions. Mr. Léwis revealed -that as late as esterday the beard had atto prevent a stalemate on ithe ‘brotherhoods’ demand for 30 ‘to 41 per cent wage increases by suggesting arbitration.
. Yssues Listed,
Bert M. Jewell, head of the A. F. of L. Department of Railway Labor Employees, said that authority was being mailed to the various unions throughout the ‘country today to strike at 6 p. m., Sept. 11. He listed the "points at issue as wages, vacations with pay and “efforts by ‘some of the carriers tor make changes in rules governing
working conditions.” .
FBI NABS TELLER OF TERRE HAUTE ‘BANK
Charged With Embezzlement of $14,000.
The arrest last night in Cleves land, O,, of John E. Stein, 64, Terre Haute bank’ teller, on charges of embezzling $14,000 of bank funds, was announced here today ‘by Spencer Drayton, agent in charge of the Indianapolis FBI office, ' Stein, who was assistant cashier and discount teller of. the Terre Haute First National Bank, was charged « formally with embezzlement in a Federal warrant issued by the U, 8S. Commissioner here. Mr. Drayton said he did not know when Stein left Terre Haute. "The alleged sh covered by Federal ‘who reported the g funds disappeared over a 10d of many years, Stein, who is: married, has been employed by the First National ‘Bank and its predecessors for more than 37 years.Agents of the Cleveland FBI ofce made the arrest and U. S. marshals. from Indianapolis were i return Stein to Indianapolis toay. 5
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CHICAGO. Sept. 5 (U. P.)—The|
President Roosevelt until the board | had been informed ‘officially: of: the |
‘while on duty.
Nazi Mata Hari :
| Hitler's . | panic” and with heavy casualties.
Eighteen-year-old Lucey Boehmler of Maspeth, N. Y. pleaded guilty in New York to an indietment that she was a Nazi spy. The Government charged that she had made the friendship of soldiers, questioned them on meorale and equipment of American troops and given the information to two men confederates to be ‘transmitted to Germany through Spain and Portugal,
CALL FIREMEN INJURY PROBE
Blue Opens Inquiry Into Department Activities “Over Several Years.
Investigation of defiyities In Indianapolis. Fire Department: a period of several years. was started today by the Marion County Grand Jury. - Seven witnesses,-five of whom are. members of the Fire Department, were subpenaed to appear before the
jurors this morning, presumably to|
testify regarding reported ‘“employment” of firemen by superiors while on duty. Those called to testify were LeKeach, president of the Safety aka; James E. Deery, City Controller; Capt. James A. Moore, head of the paint department of the fire department; Harry B. Duncan, Harry Doughty, Howard Robinson and Ward Storm, all members of the fire department assigned to the paint shop. The Grand Jury action followed two weeks of investigation by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue of circumstances surrounding the fatal explosion at the home of former Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy last Aug. 18. Alfred H. Stumm, a fireman, was fatally, burned while removing paint in ‘the: basement of the Kennedy residence.
$ Blue Non-Commital Prosecutor Blue declined t¢ make public the‘evidence being p: ed for the jury and refused to discuss what kind of indictments, if any, would be re “The whole matter is entirely within the province. of the grand jurors and any action growing out of the probe will be entirely up to them,” Mr. Blue said. © It was indicated, however, that the jury may hear evidence regarding all reports of city employees doing « private work for superiors
The Safety Board last week Temoved Mr. Kennedy as chief of the department and made him an acting captain pending further investigation of the explosion. Later Mr. Kennedy was given a 30-day. leave of absence without b pay at his own
BIG NAZI GUNS
| THROW SHELLS
ON LENINGRAD
‘Reds Claim Victories In Counter- Blows.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor ‘The Red Army reported today that sustained counter-attacks before Leningrad and Odessa and on the central front had driven back legions, sometimes “in
The great battle for Leningrad appeared to be the key to immediate military developments on the
The Germans . reported their heavy artillery was shelling the birthplace of the Bolshevik revolution. The Russians said their artillery, tanks and infantry attacks had recaptured four villages and broken up a number of enemy units, including a heavy artillery battalion used in the attack on the city.
30 Killed in Berlin The Red air fleet made a night
‘| Eastern’ Front.
‘attack on Berlin and Moscow re-
ported that big fires and explosionk had been set in the German capital. Berlin said the raid was “ineffective,” but admitted that 30 persons were killed and 72 wounded, some so severely they are expected to die, because they did not go to" raid in Wednesday night's
er Gommyiique a Berlin’s Side of the war William Philip Simms ... You €an’t Do Business With HItler ...3 i. iii 19
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, The Leningrad battle may hinge on other Russian operations intended to. relieve the defenders, which include a fghting Peoples’ Guard. On the front. at an unspec.fied point, the Red Army reported a successful drive in which the Germans suffered 7000 casualties, that may have been designed to weaken the Nazi siege, Moscow also reported that “more than 100” German bombers lay in ruins on the cliffs of a north Russian naval air *base, presumably the Island of Kronstadt, off Leningrad. The Russians also were fighting to keep open their lines in the Arctic
Army was making progress in a sea and land drive near the port of Petsamo.
. Front Is ‘Fluid .
Capture of ‘Petsamo would give the Russians another major entry port for supplies from Britain and the United States and also would afford an advanced base for future operations towar possibly in co ish sea operations. On the 175-mile jagged sector of front in the Smolensk-Gomel area the Russians still were . attacking and, according ,to reports, forcing the Germans back. The Germans claimed that the front was “fluid” in this area and that at some points they had rétired as much as 15 miles for purposes of “trapping” the Russians. Along the Dnieper the Russians an® Germans had similar crossriver operations in progress. Under cover of night. each side attempted to send landing ‘parties
ration with Brit-
request.
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Across: the broad stream.
"No one in London Town surrender. / no one is crying. The wounded don't cry.”
famous book entitled simply:
. famous book.
giving Monday, Sept. 15.
death.
is prepared fol : London has been hurt. . . . But Not even the" wounddd.
So-wrote Quentin Reynolds, one of the greatest of all foreign correspond. enfs. It became part of a book. A"
"THE WOUNDED DON'T CRY" The ‘Indianapolis Times has obtained the exclusive newspaper rights to this §
The Times will publish it serially, be-
Quentin Reynolds! book is not jutt an excit"ing record of countless bombings. a story beyond mere reperting—the ‘story of human beings, challenged by danger. and
‘THE WOUNDED DON'T CRY’
He tolls the story of these peopl in \ France as well. French . general
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the front. , . . Like the pilot, Douglas, who found that the best way to bail out of a flaming Spitfire was the plane on its back and ' | FALL OUT! nd
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JOHN T.
T to Hitlér
The most important of the two
tary sources feared that it would be into the war,
“My friend, we have Je war said the German’ egbine _ minister who suddenly burst fears in aD ihe idst of a v
inate oo else. “You must forgive me. You can write in your ‘diary that we lost the war the day the American Congress voted the /Lease-Lend Bill. I cannot sleep because of that measure, : rt “I bear a grave responsibility. before my Puehrer. I told him that Britain’s Empire could, not mobilize enough gold. We. ‘had a Seve en years’ advantage in rearmament. fe SUE \
‘Filthy Americans’
“1 SAID THERE wast enough gold in the British Empire to buy enough arms to overcome that advantage. I made a careful study of British resources, not only her gold assets but. her export capacity.” The German - cabinet: minister blew his nose. straightened himself in his chair and continued, according to my informant:
sell Britain arms, of course, but we never dreamed that America would give arms.: The Lend-Lease Bill gives Britain the arms she didn’t. have the resources ‘to buy. That bill saves Britain and it saves
A hears the defeat of Germany. These ' filthy Americans. . . « We knew that they would sell for gold and gain. We never: believed that so materialistic a People would give arms.” ¥. 8 = Cry Over Tough Going
THE GERMANS are notorious--ly unstable emotionally, especially since the mystically religious experience of National. Socialism - which offered them the vision of a master race standing as the con-. querors of the world. This cabinet minister’s bad mo(Continued on Page Five)
ASSASSINS PURGE GOLLABORATIONIST Ex-French Deputy,
~ Wound 3 Germans. . VICHY, France, Sept. 5 (U. P)—
Kill
| Three additional members of the
German army of cosh: wounded and a French colla tionist was killed in new ou this week in the occupiefi to reports received foday. | Marcel Gitton, formér Communist
"The other victims, believed to bé
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This is the fourth of a six-article series.
: By Copyright, 1941, by The ircapclts Times and The EE ies Daily News, Ine.
UNITED STATES has dealt two crippling blows which have upset the grand strategy of the German general staff and gained time for Uncle Sam. |trying to hunt down a Germans appreciate the true significance of these moves better than Americans. Both were bold, both were based on a comprehension of strategy and both knocked
the German timetable haywire.
This measure baffled the imagination of the Gérmang and confronted Hitler's generals, for the first time in their carefully prepared war, with the likelihood of German defeat. : Indeed that likelihood seemed a: certainty when my German mili-
German reaction to this measure can be Hlustrated best. by quoting Hitler's most important cabinet minister. This: individual’ ‘spoke: frankly :t0-a leading statesman of one of the:Axis: ‘sate I have known for years, a man I vouch for as entirely trustworthy.
inte : ation. “I can think }
+» arms.”
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WHITAKER
is undoubtedly the Lend-Lease Bill.
followed by prompt American entry
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SEVERAL’ ATTACKS MADE—BY DAYLIGHT, ~~ ROOSEVELT DECLARES
Be John T. Whitaker—No. 4
as Dealt Nazis Toe Crippling Blows
[Vessel Resembled
British Craft, Others Hold.
By LYLE C. WILSON : United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5i=a President Roosevelt indicate his conviction today that tl submarine attack on the U.; S destroyer Greer was delibete ate and he disclosed ish American naval. forces arg
“eliminate” the attacker.
The Greer, en route to ‘Icel encountered the submarine yesters day on what: Roosevelt scribed as the American sige of ti Atlantic. He told a press conferetice more than one Black was by' the submarine. self dropped ‘depth “results unknown.” can warships have joined the se for the submarine. The ;Bresident sei that the : ‘occurred in. daylight, duris
: of an cfg re
“We knew that America would |
3 : in" Tere “We knew that America would sell Britain arms . . . but we never dreamed that America would give Here machine guns are
being inspected at the Springfield A z. BIDDLE CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (U. P).— The Senate today confirmed the
nomination of Francis Biddle to | be attorney general.
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many and the gw States. Tn Atlantic, He dismissed the que
"| tion as too hypothetical. Nor did
specifically say what nationality | believed the submarine to be.
Location Is Uncertain
He emphasized that the incid definitely occurred on the ican side of the Atlantic. ' As whether the exact location of ‘t attacks might, nevertheless, hav been in the blockade zone
replied that the United ‘recognized no such zone. A German zone extends tw American-occupied Iceland: to the shores of Greenland. * The President would not what he meant when he said submarine had made more than one
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| attack on the Greer, leaving up
the air the question whether “he was referring to the launching of more than one torpedo at about the same time or repeated attempts by the submarine to sink the destroye over a period of time. 3 The terse announcement of the
| incident issued last night by the Navy Deépartment had said:
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“The U. 8. S. Greer, en route to Iceland, with mail, reported this morning that a submarine attack her by firing torpedoes’ w missed their mark. The Greer et mediately counter-attacked ; depth charges. Results unknown.
Built in 1918
The Greer, carrying nine officers and 113 men, is a World War vinte e destroyer, having been built 918 and recommissioned in 1 She has four stacks and is come manded by Lieut. Comm. Laurence . The Greer is the sams type of destroyer as were’ the. traded to. Britain: in exchange air and naval base sites. Both interventionist and a interventionist . Senators - took
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Today s War
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE
United Press The war in Russia has eclipsed
Mediterranean but important activity is going on there.
Moves
War Analyst 3 activity in the Eastern and
cent
The unbearably hot summer weather ‘of North Africa, which slowed land action in Libya, is approaching its erfd., Latest disp: suggest that if the Russian campaign is bogged down for the winter, British and Axis forces will have another test of strength there.
If Britain is to. ‘attempt a -continental expedition, Selly and
[Hitler cobstder.
‘ing just south of Sicily. Now word of greatly increased activity, in which supply ships
{vessels used for troop tran ports:
Africa are mentioned. The British cl
¢ | Italian ships, including ‘in Ean large
other su and ® 10 Ser 2 PY. sHip o