Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1941 — Page 1
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‘FRIGID HENRY
IN "44, OR IS mT
OOMPH MNUTT
Senate Democrats as Cool As Cistern Water to the Vice President.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY » ©. Times Staff Writer * WASHINGTON, - Sept. 6. Vice - President Henry A. Wallace may be President Roosevelt's white-haired
boy but he hasn’t made much hay with the Senate Democrats despite the fact that he is a former Secretary of Agriculture. His office on Captol Hill is like a morgue compared with that of his predecessor, the genial Jack Garner. For Henry never says, “Let’s strike a blow for liberty,” which was the expression used by Mr. Garner with his convivial colleagues instead of the more customary “bottoms up.” ~All of this is okay with the politicos who favor Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt as the next Democratic Presidential nominee. These are quite numerous, both on the Hill and scattered throughout the various departments. In addition, Democratic leaders in every State know the former Indiana Governor, while Vice President Wallace seems about as remote to most of them as the Dalai Lama or Charles Evans Hughes.
He Likes McNutt Best
So . when Thomas - L. Stokes, Scripps-Howard polifical writer, pointed out in a Washington disDL that Mr. Wallace and not Mr. McNutt is getting the green light from the White House, one of the McNutt backers from Brooklyn, N. ' Y., promptly replied. Excerpts from his letter follow: “The President cannot push the Vice President on the people because the people do not take to his y type. “1 have mentioned the names of Mr. McNutt and. Mr. Wallace to citizens in various parts of: the country on many occasions and enthusiasm prevailed for McNuft, and there is no question of doubt that there is nothing to it but Mr. McNutt for a natural in 1944. “Prom the experience obtained at the Chicago convention I know my dear friend Mr. McNutt is not going to have the wool pulled over his eyes this time. Mr. McNutt’s background is 100 per cent. I am proud of it as is the rest of the country. “Nineteen hundred and forty-four will be far different than what occurred in. Chicago in 1940. I have been among the people of New York, amongst the poor and the rich, and they are all for Paul V. McNutt.”
Soft-Pedal on Willkie
This represents one viewpoint. The other is that right now Mr. McNutt has no more chance for the Democratic nomination than Wendell I. Willkie would have for the Republican nomination if the conventions were tomorrow. If Mr. Willkie has an outspoken champion among the Republicans on Capitol Hill, he indeed has exercised a passion for anonymity. ' The Hoosier Republicans usually are in the vanguard when their erstwhile Presidential candidate is «being given the works. “Maybe Mr. Willkie can get the Democratic nomination next time,” was the wry reply of former Republican Senator James E. Watson of Indiana when discussing. the subject on one of his rare visits to the Senate this week. -
CRUISERS LAUNCHED AT TWO SHIPYARDS
i: ‘By UNITED PRESS
The U. S. increased its defense
production today with the launching of two light cruisers and the laying of the keel for a third in eastern shipyards. The two new units added to the Navy were the light cruiser San Juan, of unannounced tonnage, launched at Quincy, Mass., and the 6000-ton Atlanta, launched at Kearny, N. J. The keel: for the 10,000-ton cruiser Wilkes-Barre was * laid in Philadelphia.
TIRED OF IT ALL BOSTON, Sept. 6 (U. P.) —After testifying that her husband had forced her to do the pumping whenever one of their auto tires went flat, Mrs. Raymond E. Benoit, 24, of Boston, was granted a divorce in Probate Court yesterday. ’
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HOUSE, SENATE PLAN TAX TALKS
Informal Discussions Seek Compromise on Record Bill.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (U. P.). —House Ways and Means Committee members said today they ex{pect informal conferences seeking
to” compromise differences between te and House versions of the $8,583,900,000 tax bill to. stark next |
week. - “The Senate passed breaking revenue measure yesterday 67 to 5, after three days of debate. (Senator Frederick VanNuys of Indiana voted for the bill. No vote was recorded for Senator Raymond Willis, who was absent.) Biggest variation between the present bill and the House-approved version is a Senate provision to reduce individual income tax exemptions from t0:$1500 for married couples from $800 to $750 for single :persons. No formal conference action can start until the House—méeting every | thtee days under a strict “no busi-| ness” agreement—ends its vacation Sept. 15. But Ways and Means Committement plan to meet with Senate conferees and {ry to work out a tentative agreement which could be rutified when official House conferees formally are named. The Senate, on motion: of Democratic Leader Alben W, Barkley uf Kentucky, started a series of similar three-day recesses when it passed thé tax bill yesterday. There was not the strict rule against conducting business which is in effect in the House, however, and the Senate ‘can approve a conference report any time agreement is reached. The Fetiueed income fax exemp(Continutd on Page Three)
COMMISSION TO ACT ON INDIANA RAILROAD
State Calls Bowman Elder To Tell of Transfer.
The Public Service Commission today ordered Bowman Elder, former etver for the Indiana Railroad, to appear Sept. 27 and show cause why the operating certificates for the railroad should not be revoked. The Commission said that Mr. Elder had transferred the operating certificates to the Indiana Railroad when the receivership was dissolved without appearing before the Commission at a public hearing. Because he failed to appear before the Commission and get its permission at that time, Commission members say that actually the railroad is now operating illegally. Commission members said that| even in transferring certificates, -public hearings are held and the Commission goes into the financial aptitude of the company to carry on the business. Superior Court Judge Herbert Spencer ordered the receivership dissolved and ordered Mr. Elder to turn over all its assets to the reorganized company. Commission members say that the Superior Court order does not affect their = sutcelly in the matter.
ADMIRALS SWITCH POSTS
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WASHINGTON, Sept: 6 (U. P.).—
Wreckage of the Wats in ‘which three children died.
‘Keep Planes Erom Children;
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‘Army Men Pilot Ships Too
Anguish and protest: marked Kramer made public about the time another Army fighting plane was forced Sn on the nearby “ton tdust short, of a, x ing’ developmi Fh al “Maybe " y as a mother, would be interested in hearing’ of another mother’s tragedy,” Mrs. ‘Kramer wrote. > “When the vision of those children; one rushing from the flames and the other two trapped and lying in the road; thrown from the sidewalk from the explosion screaming in agony, ‘mama! mama!’ . . My little one (a blond, 3-year-old) - was . nowhere in sight; Jasper ran from the road a mass of flames; Pauline (Jasper and Pauline Cuccio were the other victims) was lying in the road. “I was frantic for my own child but something made me grab Pauline and little Georgene was underneath her, stuck to the ground, her skin burned com- _ pletely off,
WINSLOW, Ariz. Sept. § i P) ~Motor failure today was be‘lieved to have caused a Douglas C-39 Army . transport plane to crash into a residential : district, killing a woman’'who was in: one of the two houses it struck.
“Pauline had the worst burns, as: she was atop Georgene. They: were hideous. “I pushed. Pauline across the sidewalk. The butcher grabbed her as I threw my child to my husband’s arms. “He ripped the burning clothes from her--his right hand Las no skin left on it. ‘Daddy, daddy, I'm burned, burned. . ... Take me to the hospital; I can’t see!’ Her daddy was her god, who had administered to every cut finger and every: tummy ache.” The Army had announced that the pilot, Lieut. Roy W. Scott, stayed with his flaming plane, trying to land it, until it was 300 feet from the ground before he bailed out; barely giving his parachute time to open. Mrs. Kramer complained bitterly, however, of the: Army’s attitude. “About one-half hour after the children were rushed -to the hospital mortally injured and hideously disfigured (they all died in a few hours) a second lieutenant — a shavetail — came into our home,” Mrs. Kramer wrote. “He thrust a paper into the
There Is Room for Practice Fields.’ HEMPSTEAD, N. Y., Sept. 6 (U. P.y—The mother of Georgene Kramer, one of three children killed by flaming gasoline from an Army airplane that crashed in front of their home, pleaded
today by letter with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to “do something” to stop Army planes from flying low over congested areas.
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COSSACKS NIP AT NAZI HEELS; UNREST GROWS |
Germans Execute Three in Paris to Retaliate for ‘Attack on Soldier.
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Russian Aid Speeded. . Page 3 You Can’t Do Business With |
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
The Red Army reported slashing
‘advances. on four vital sectors of
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Commissioners. S¢ Send Letter To Employees Who Have Been on Strike.
‘More than 80 County Highway Department employees, who have been out on strike for 10 days, received letters from County Commissioners today, demanding that they all return to their jobs Monday orang. In the letters to each worker,
Commissioners announced that the back-to-work order: was ‘based upon
Department of Labor which stated
authority to sign a: labor contract with: a'union. Union officials countered; by saying that any attempt. by the County to break picket lines may result in a sympathy strike of the 400 to 600 drivers for the City of Indianapolis. Emmett J. Williams, sec - treasurer of the local, said that he partment of Labor. “County Attorney John Linder is incorrect in his njerpremtion of the law. The Commission: is’ trying to (Continued on Page’ Three)
Garbo Sets Pace For Short Bobs
CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (U. P).— Because women copy Hollywood
swing ‘to short bobbed hair. That forecast was made today by the American _ Cosmeticians ‘Association, which’ quoted Hollywood reports that shorf haircuts: had increased 100 per cent in the last two months. 3 “New hair coiffures for the immediate future call for a swing to shorter hair as a result of the
of the association, said. whose long locks have been copies by the younger set for several years, is the ‘pacemaker.. She
badly burned hands of the. doc(Continued on Page Three)
Drinkers More
EVANSTON, Ill, Sept. 6 (. P)— The reasons why people get soused,
were laid bare to the Psychological Associatio Dr. Theodore PF. Lentz who self.
acter Research Institute at Wash-
flington University, St. Louis, said ‘he; classed - himself as a non-drinker| .
“mainly because I'm allergic to
Jquor. and seldom drink except for : ] that he had| |
1 reasons.” Lentz
“bob.”
pickled or just happily ny sy By he took a nip ‘now and then him- ,
now ‘affects a “definitely short
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the eastern front today, but Axis
-| dispatches said German long-range
guns blasting arms and power plants, had sent up a pillar of smoke over the beleaguered city of
Leningrad. The Russian armed forces, aided by an intensified ‘air offensive, a fighting Peoples Guard and Cossack guerrillas roaming deep behind the front, were said in Moscow dispatches to be seizing the initiative on almost every sector. In the occupied countries, especially France -and Norway, there were new evidences of growing unrest. In Paris, three prisoners or hostages selected from an estimated 40,000 seized since the Tall of France, were shot by the Germans in retaliation for the wound: ing of a German non-commission officer Wednesday. : Quisling Warns Norse
In Norway, the pro-Nazi government leader, Vidkun Quisling, warned the people in a speech at Oslo that terroristic methods would be used crush future opposition by “clerical, intellectual or marxist’
elements. admitted that there was the ‘Nazis
regretted that “his followers m fight ‘their countrymen but pet it “cannot be helped,” because Norway must come within the European new order as set up by the Axis. “Terror must be broken with terror,” he said. These widespread signs of trouble within the German-held sphere of Europe were the loudest echoes of unrest, sabotage and summary shootings in other occupied countries, including Belgium, Holland and "Jugoslavia.
,. Drive Invaders Back
diers, factory workers and pilots united to push the Germans back from several strategic river and village positions, according to Moscow , reports, while dive-bombers were credited with destroying crack Nazi air reinforcements rushed to the northern front. The German pressure, although
against Leningrad, however, and
| Berlin said that artillery fire direct-|! ed at railroad lines, power planis| . subsequently upset the German | time table. Dr. Boemer was placed
and arms factories had been effective. Helsinki dispatches told of great confusion in' Leningrad and of |
Berlin said that there|| was no information available to support the conclusion that extensive fires were burning in Leningrad. On the Sentral {F front, the Russians | re only - that their counter-| attacks ny hat to gain. The Germans said heavy fighting , was in progress. Claim Dead Unburied
On the Kiev sector the Russians
said they ‘were pushing Germans back so rapidly that they founda “piles of unburied dead” in
on the lower Dnieper, the Rus- |" ~ sians said that their troops had |TuB smashed across ti€ river in a surprise attack and driven back in a “disorderly”
the Germans retreat. The Russians also
fore Kiev. ‘The Russians also put great emphasis on the operations of guerrilla forces, led by Cossack cavalry, as much. as 300 miles behind the Geztnan lines. : carefully |
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apparently stalled, was not relaxed| capital of the Ukraine, July 25,:
smoke clouds over the city, but the spokesman
reported | * that they were holding firmly be-
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‘Hess Fled for His Life Alter He Purged 1000
Will German or ‘United States Morale Break First? Answer Is Vital to Nazi Operations
, (This is the fifth of
a six-article series.)
By JOHN T. WHITAKER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.
Faced by a long war, will German or American morale
break first?
If Americans are not pondering and studying this . vital question, the Germans are. That is why such a large proportion of ‘their available gold is being poured into this country and South America.
That is why their best agents have flooded the
United States.
That is why they have taken such faf-reaching measures within Germany to tighten discipline. A wave of defeatism swept Germany in May and June, ministers trembled" before the consequences of the Lend-Lease Bill and the threat of America’s immediate entry into war.
Simple, men and women feared the increasing punch of. British bombers as they comprehended that marching to England was a song and nothing more for the moment. In preparation for the invasion of Russia, Hitler and his generals “cracked down.”
In a few weeks Hitler shot 1000 and imprisoned an equal number of Nazi Party members. I have no figures for arrests among nonNazis; they go on all the time. These men weren’t big shots, but sergeant majors in the party organization. They were arrested for lack of discipline, too obvious corruption or defeatism,
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THE ARREST of Dr. Carl Boemer ‘is typical. One of Goebbels’ right hand men, Dr. Boemer was: sent to the United States to study in one of our best, schools
soul: ‘of 'a/ gangster, a first-rate brain and an encyclopedic knowledge of the wealtnesses of Americans. ‘For some years he had been virtually the “chaperon” of American correspondents in Berlin. To fools Dr. Boemer used to explain patiently how Hitler loved America and how the two countries could live together as joint masters of the world. To realists he used to -explain ‘what Hitler would do when he had conquered America. Dr, Boemer got drunk at a reception in the Bulgarian Legation in Berlin, He talked. A Gestapo agent among the . guests overheard him. In mid-May Dr. Boemer said that Hitler was going to invade Russia in’ June, that Alfred Rosenberg would become gattleiter for the Ukraine, and that he, Dr, Boemer, would
| go out as Rosenberg’s secretary.
Dr.- @oemer said that he and Rosenberg expected to be in Kiev,
which is interesting, incidentally, as revealing how the Russians
in a concentration camp for this (Continued on Page Three)
WOMAN IS KILLED ‘BY WIT-RUN' DRIVER
Two Others Die on Way to Cayuga From Fair. Mrs. Lena Flory, 60, of 84 8.
| Her an was the 95th traffic faity in Indianapolis and Marion
Jin AT on U. §. 36, last night. |The dead are Mrs. Ted Bishop Mrs.. Coy. Swain. Injured were Richard Donald, ver of. the automobile; Miss. Isa-
1h elle e Bishop; 23-year-old Jack Baker, : f Mrs. ..and
Cabinet
of “Journalism. “He combined the’|
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NAZIS CAN LOSE, JAP PAPER SAYS
a A is Sabie,
Hitler Erved in " Belief He Could Beat Britain by Air, Weekly Adds.
TOKYO, Sept: 6 (U. P.).—A sensational article predicting the defeat of Germany was published today by Japan News Week, which often : reflects - the views of high Government quarters. Several hours after the publication appeared on the news: stands, police had made no attempt to suppress it. The publication said that the situation ushering in the third year of the European war was such that “although it does not indicate that the Nazis and their ill-founded pians have been defeated, it does mean that by the end of the third year, the finish of the horrible carnage should be within the grasp of the allies.” - However well Adolf. Hitler may have thought he planned a march to - world: domination, “it is now quite ‘apparent that even he is fallible,” News Week said. It said the second year of the war proved that Hitler erred in believing the German air force could blast Britain into submission. “The end of the second year finds an expanded Royal Air Force attacking at will vital spots in Germany and occupied France,” it said. “While the Chancellor may well view ‘with alarm .the military situation he now faces, it is perhaps less immediately disturbing to him that the growing evidences of complete rejection by the conquered countries of the Nazi scheme for a new world order.” .
TOKYO, Sept. 6 (U. P)—The newspaper Yomiuri said today that Admiral Sankichi Takahashi, former Commander - in- Chief of Japan's combined fleet, had said in an interview that United States partici-
pation in the war was a question of |.
time which had ‘been advanced by the Greer incident.
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F.D.R. TRYING TOINCITE WAR
Washington Repeats Origle. i nal Statement, but Has No Official Comment.
BULLETIN. : HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. & (U. P.)~William H, ns : White House Secretary, said today that comment was unnecessary on the German charge that the U. 8, destroyer. Greer attacked a Gers man U-boat off Iceland, “consid« ering its source.” }
By UNITED PRESS ; German official quarters in Berlin charged today that the United States destroyer Greer had attacked a German submarine southwest of Iceland on orders of President Rooses velt in an effort to “incite America toward war with
Germany.” Washington met the charges with reiteration of the Navy's original statement that the Greer had ree ported that “a submarine had ate tacked” her and that she counters attacked. There was no official coriment. from the Navy on the Berlin charges, but spokesman called ats getition to the first announcement Ssday night. It was indicated that any direct comment could come only from President Rooses velt, who is spending the Week-gnd) at Hyde Park, N. Y. Berlin's statement confirmed § everyone in Washington had taken .| for granted: but had not ‘said (of ° ficially—that the submarine in ques= tion was German. It also indicated that the Greer and other American = warships had been unsuccessful in their efforts to “eliminate! the sub marine. nr
Navy Order: Keep Lanes Clear i
The search was presumed to be continuing. However, there was no indication whether American wars ships would venture beyond Iceland waters in seeking their quarry. > The Navy's standing orders since the American occupation of Iceland in July are to keep the sea lanes between this country and Iceland clear of. any interference. In Reykjavik, members of the Greer’s crew expressed belief that their depth bombs had damaged the: submarine but cited no definite ine i, dications. 3 The Germahs, in an official statee ment distributed by the DNB ne agency, said that there had an encounter between a U-boat and’ a destroyer on Thursday, about 128 miles southwest of the Icelandio capital of Reykjavik.
. Destroyer ‘Unidentified’
The destroyer was officially dee scribed as “unidentified,” but the statement was issued in connection with the Greer incident. i The German charge was that the Greer initiated the encounter by attacking the submarine at 12:30 p. m, that” the ‘submarine later returned the fire and that the American destroyer. continued to drop depth bombs until midnight but failed to hit the U-boat. =. This incident, the German states ment charged, provided “proof” that Mr. Roosevelt, contrary to his assertions, actually had ordered U. S. destroyers not only to report the positions of German ships : the Atlantic but also to attack them. Citing official quarters, the Gere man news ‘agency charged Mr, ‘Roosevelt was seeking by all means at his disposal to provoke incidents and incite the United States toward war against Germany.
F. D. R. Hints Attacks Deliberate.
The .. American Navy Departs ment’s statement regarding the ‘Greer incident—charging that the U-boat attacked the’ destroyer—was issued merely to attempt to justify what actually was a destroyer a tack on a German submarine, the statement said.
the } Siete 6 identity. As reported. agency; quoting ign ocial ter began at 12: minutes