Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1941 — Page 1

~-r

"|

ih FORECAST : Partly cloudy tonight; showers and thunderstorms and cool or tomorrow.»

y SCRIPPS — HOWARD il

VOLUME 53—NUMBER 155

R.A.F. SETS M

_—

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941

\

Dritered as Second-Olsss Matter at Postoffice, Tndisnapolis, Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS |

PRODUCE MORE]

FOOD, WICKARD

SKS FARMERS

Largest Crops Ever Urged, But Corn Allotment Is Little Changed.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U. P.).— Agriculture Secretary Claude R.

Wickard today announced a 1942}

farm program calling for all-time record production to “improve nutrition in this country and meet the needs of nations that still stand between this country and Hitler.” ~ Mr. Wickard sharply reversed the New Deal farm program that has sought reduced production of most crops.- He called now for “a complete mobilization of American agriculture to adjust production to domestic needs for national defense and to the needs of nations resisting aggression.” : “The goals for 1942 call for the largest production in the history of American agriculture, but we are not going to have to plow up the hills and the plains to get it,” Secretary Wickard said. “We have adequate reserves of feed grains for increased production of livestock products and it will not be necessary materially to increase total crop acreage next year.” More Milk Needed The program emphasizes increased production of hogs, eggs, evaporated milk, dry skim milk, cheese and chickens—products most vitally needed by the British, as well as American consumers en- - gaged in all-out defense production. * . The program calls for unlimited r production, ' nearly double peanut production, slightly increased acreage of corn and other feed crops, more soy beans and potatoes, and 1,329,000 more home gardens. Wheat production would: be reduced 15 to 20 per cent below this of export demand]

tobacco acreage would be abopt the same as this year. For the first time in the history of agriculture in this country production goals for all essential farm commodities have been established,” Mr. Wickard said. “They have been established on the basis of a thorough canvas of the needs for .improved nutrition in this country and the needs of the nations that still stand between this country and Hitler. Committeemen to Call

“Every farmer in the United States will be contacted by local farmer committeemen under the supervision of the USDA defense boards and will assist with individual farm plans to determine the extent to which each farm can con-

tribute to agriculture’s task in national defense.” Announcement of the 1942 program was made in compliance with an amendment to the farm law passed in June by Congress, requiring that “whenever during the existing emergency the Secretary of Agriculture finds it necessary to encourage the expansion of any nonbasic agricultural commodity, he shall make public announcement thereof.” Secretary Wickard said that in accordance with that law the agriculture department, through loans, purchases or other operations, will support the prices of hogs, eggs, evaporated and dry skim milk, cheese and chickens at not less than 85 per cent of parity until Dec. 31, 1942. : \ : The program establishes a 1942 goal of 125,000,000,000 pounds of milk, compared with estimated 1941 (Continued on Page Two)

‘SECRET BARED, JANIE TAKES EASY WAY OUT

~~ NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (U. P). — Summer vacation ended today and 16-year-old Janie Griffin’s parents learned the secret she had kept from them since school closed last June. ” : ~ Janie, a high school sophomore, had learned after final examinations, that she would not be promoted. She had kept the secret from her parents, although her chums and the neighbors knew. School reopened today, and Janie

knew it would be impossible to keep|

her secret. She wrote, “This is the easiest way out,” on a piece of paper and stuffed it into her pocketbook. Then she jumped from the second floor landing of her home. She died in a hospital a few minutes later, r .

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Comics sseses 15 Johnson eevee 12 Crossword ,... 14{Movies .....» § ase. 30 Obituaries ees 2 7 9

Gallup Poll ..

Homemaking. 12|Side ‘Glances. 10]

5 «0:11, 13 dieide Indpls Es. “a

3} Society

Kansas City to pop the question to Miss Shriver when he graduated from the Northwestern University Ensign School last December but the Navy needed his services—im-

mediately. haa ea Sa hy EE on tne At-1 heat. Cotton and|lantic he wrote father. He asked for Amefiean Whes him to buy a diamond ring and propose by proxy to Miss Shriver—with no corny gags about Miles Standish

{| city’s all-time high $1.46 rate pro-

of gratitude to Deputy Auditor 0 Fabian | er who gave each

His Dad an

» t 4

Pops Question

Parent Gets Cold Feet at

marries tonight the girl to whom proposed

of a Navy ensign college sweetheart, Jean Shriver, 21. The youth had hoped to return to

and John Alden. The ‘elder Satterlee hought the ring with no trouble but when it came time to approach Miss Shriver, his feet grew cold. He put it off a while hoping that a leave for his son would mean a furlough for him. But then, conscious stricken, he asked for Mrs. Satterlee’s support in the arventure.: i With Mrs. Satterlee giving moral support and verbal prompting, Mr. Satterlee acomplished his objective. The answer from Miss Shiver was 4 es.” “pad did a good job,” Ensign Satterlee said. He left his destroyer on eight-day leave at New York, flew here, and will return to the ship Saturday. His bride will remain here.

GOUNTY TAX RATES - TAGKLED. BY BOARD

Figures for 7 Towns Get - Temporary 0. K.

"Like a man rolling up his sleeves carefully for a long and difficult task, the County Tax Adjustment Board settled down in’ the City Council chambers today to study the record rates proposed for next year. i Board members conferred more than an hour, tentatively accepted the rates of seven incorporated towns in Marion County outside Indianapolis, and generally prepared for the big task of whittling down rates to fit taxpayers’ pocketbooks— a job to be completed by Sept. 31. The Board, composed of four taxpayer representatives and three officials of the major tax spending units, met this morning at the office

of County Auditor Glenn B. Ralston. They elected Albert F. Wals-

ager and veteran tax adjustment board member, chairman, and County Councilman George Herr‘mann, vice chairman. | The Board tentatively accepted the rates of the following towns: Castleton, 35 cents, the same as this year; Clermont, 80 cents, same; ‘Lawrence, 66 cents," down 3 cents; Meridian Hills, 15 cents, down 6; Ravenswood, $1.25, same; Wynndale, 40 cents, up 4, and Williams Creek, 55 cents, up'15. cents. ’ Chairman Walsian proposed that the Board consider the township and incorporated town rates this week, begin the review of the Civil

posal Monday, and after that the 96-cent School City and the 45-cent County rates. fi

session was the Board's expression

member a cil which, he said,

County funds.

Ensign Charles W. Satterlee and his bride-to-be Jean Shriver,

Couple Will Wed Tonight

Contributes Timely Assist. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 8 (U. P.).—Ensign Charles W. Satterlee Ensign Satterlee, who at 21 doffed his robes as president of the 1940

graduating class at the University of Kansas City to don the uniform and thence went to Iceland on patrol, will marry his

Able Cupid

GIVEN DETAILS OF BOMB-SIGHT

U. S. Prosecutor Hurls Accusation at Trial of 16 as Spies.

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (U. P.).— United States Attorney Harold M. Kennedy charged today at the trial of 16 persons accused as Nazi spies that one of them had given Germany details of the famed Norden bombsight. : : The trial was resumed in Brooklyn Federal Court after a weeklong recess. The defendants, with 17 others who have .pleaded guilty, were charged with consipracy to provide Germany .with United States defense secrets

South Data on Gas

Mr. Kennedy gave a long, dramatic account of how the defend_|ants allegedly gathered important military information and turned it over to German authorities. He said that one of the defendants, whom he did not name, had obtained specifications of the Norden bomb sight, considered the most accurate in the world, and revealed the information to authorities in Germany in 1938. Mr. Kennedy asserted that one of the defendants, Frederick J. Luquesne, had been a “spy for many years.” He charged that Duquesne wrote the Chemical Warfare Section of the War Department asking for information as to how the United States would use various chemicals in event of war. ]

. Dismissal Is Denied

‘Mr. Kennedy said that Duquesne had said in his letter that the information would be “in good hands,” even though at the time he was in the pay of the Germans. Several motions for dismissal on the grounds of prejudice were de-| had a political future. His docnied and the ti continued after| tors told his wife, Eleanor, that Mr. Kennedy had a

ON ROADS EEE pier he Ho) ii TUE TE ri 3 3 ! ALCL AR L] : A no Roosevelt failed to determine

: n| rather C. B. ‘HARRISON IS “I her son’s future. BEAMER’S NEW AID a ©. Billard Harrison of Hammond,| Wanted Him Home a Democrat, today was named al SHE THEN WATCHED Frank-

deputy on the staff of Attorney| yj, pecome Governor of New York

General George Beamer. : He a: George Davis of State and twice elected President .of the United states. Shortly

Greenfield who was called to the Army early this summer. ' Mr. Har-| after the second inauguration, Mrs. Roosevelt, in an interview

rison, 33, is a member of the Hammond law firm of. Thorpe, Bamber with ‘the United Press, said she thought her son would not run

& Harrison. He is a former memfor a third term. She emphasized

bes of the Lake County Board of Election Commissioners and was th ors and was the that she was giving only her personal opinion, but later said she

ast Jyesicant of the ‘Hammond Chapter of the Young De ts. p § emoera would like to have him at home.

By RUBY A. BLACK United Press Staff Correspondent ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt exerted a ‘tremendous influence over her only son, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but at three crucial times in his life her wishes did not prevail. From the time the President was 18 years old, his mother filled the double role of father and mother. His father, James Roosevelt, died in 1900. : Mrs. Roosevelt supervised her son’s education and saw fo it that he traveled extensively.’ She sent him to Groton and Harvard and later, saw his sons, except Elliott, -do the same. The first time that the mother’s wishes did not determine young Roosevelt’s decision was when he was about to complete his work at Harvard, in 1903, when the President was 21. He had asked his shy fifth cousin, Eleanor RooSevelt, then an orphan of 20, to marry him. She agreed after consultations with her relatives.

2 = 3B

Sent Son on Tour

BUT MRS. ROOSEVELT thought {hey were too young to marry and took her son out of Harvard to tour the West Indies with his roommate, Lathrop Brown. ‘But when young Roosevelt returned he still’ was in love with Eleanor and after graduating from” Harvard in 1904 set" the date for the wedding to be March 17, 1905. The next major decision on which the mother’s. wishes were .overruled came in 1922 when Mr. Roosevelt was recuperating from infantile paralysis. The. mother wanted her son to retire to her

2 8 »

for Ensign;

First But Youth’s Mother

his father, with his mother’s help,

any participation in public life, even consultations with former associates, would endanger his life. But Louis McHenry Howe, the President’s late - secretary, : and other political friends believed he

STRIKE MAY END WORK

Only Five Out of 87 Employees Answer Plea To Resume Jobs.

With only five of the 87 striking County Highway Department employees returning to work today, County - Commissioners. said they may have to cancel the remaining two months’ road work for this season if the strike is not settled. The Commissioners had sent letters to each highway worker re-

Hyde Park estate. She felt that | = : : Private Services Tomorrow

~ .For ‘Mother of Presi

be helped |

| Mrs. Sara Delano elt. : Mrs. Roosevelt, 86 years old, oné of three lonig enough to see’ their sons become President of the United States,

TALK IS DELAYED UNTIL THURSDAY

Subject of Major Address To U. S. and World

man, City Hospital business man-!

A light moment of the opening|&

questing them to return to work to-

day. The Commissioners’ back-to-work request was based upon their report of an opinion from the U. S. Department of Labor that Commissioners had no authority to sign any union labor contracts. The major work remaining to be done on County roads before cold weather consists of blacktopping 10 miles. The five returning strikers along with nine non-strikers won't give the Department a sufficient staff to carry out the program, officials said. - The strike was: called Aug. 27 by the Teamsters & Chauffers Union as a protest: against the Commissioners’ refusal to sign a contract. Commissioners, in their letters to the workers. indicated that those who refused to return to work would be replaced and would be taken off the County payroll permanently. : Union officials Saturday countered the Commissioners’ ultimatum with a threat to call a general sympathy strike of all teamsters drivers in Indianapolis if the picket lines at the County yards were violated. Joseph Williams, secretary of the local Teamsters Union, said the union was not asking a closed shop but was merely seeking a contract to protect the men from loss of their jobs” through the political spoils system.”:

John T. Whitaker—No. 6—

last of a six-article series.)

By JOHN T. WHITAKER OTE eR Se IF THE UNITED STATES were in the war today Hitler's days would be numbered. Russia would turn ‘as bleak for him as it became for Napoleon. Our two fully prepared panger divisions would bring French Morocco with 200,000 crack French soldiers into the ‘democratic camp and that would steady

(This is the

mifteeman in Hammond. , His salary will be $250 a month.

U. S.-BUILT PLANE

German submarine, severely damaged by bombs from an Americanbuilt Lockheed plane, surrendered in the-Atlantic yesterday and has been brought into a British harbor, the Admiralty announced today.

Russians have captured the German submarine U-73, an oceangoing craft of 517 fons, in the Barents Sea of the Russian Arctic coast, a war communique said today.

Adolf Hitler has had to abandon his special train and now about in a fleet of lorries” from his ‘headquarters on the Eastern Front, the British radio, heard by OBS, reported today.

Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox Jonay advised Navy personnel that onuses ranging from $200 to $600 will be paid to those who re-enlist rather than take the higher paid | jobs in private industry. :

Germany Could Be If U.S. Gets Into War, Experts Believe

© —our ‘Army, like

He is a Democratic pracinct com-

CAPTURES -U-BOAT

LONDON, Sept. 8 (U. P)—A

MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (U. P)—

NO SPECIAL TRAIN? NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (U.P).—

“fits

NAVY OFFERS BONUSES WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U.P.).—

She added that she would -not oppose a third term “if he could do good by - being President again.” It was obvious that she wanted her famous son to come back to the Hudson Valley estate, which he loved so much, during her last years. = But when that hope vanished last January she smiled as any mother would have done who was watching an unprecedented honor bestowed upon her son—the first President to take the Presidential oath a third time.

SHIFT BANDIT CASES

cases. He waived

Beaten in.

sweep through the Mediterranean, - take Sicily as a boniber : base against Italy—a pushover when hit — and establish sufficient strength in the Middle East to"

bring Turkey into the war. Hitler. would flounder between two fronts, his air force caught in an inferior position for the first time and his communication lines

' over-extended. s

Such a move. calls for boldness all . armies, is never ready—and it means” also that the democracies at last: would - “the initiative from the Nazis. y Be TRE ls

€ that way and why.

uding - talked,

serious to handle in

12 Months

vasion of Britain would become - impossible if Germany were los- ‘ ing planes in an unsought Medi-

terranean struggle while Ri still remains intact. “ie 2 ” ” 2 JAPAN'S © BLUFF would be called in all probability, and if it

: ‘were not: America could take a

defensive position in the Pacific with absolute safety. Once Hitler is crushed, Uncle Sam and John Bull can take care of Japan between cocktails. : g In this way the war could be

won within, 12 months, in the

opinion of military experts of

- half a dozen nationalities—in-

el Germans with whom I who were’ out of their . wits when they

- feared America might do just this.

The .war is not going to be won there is :

oe

FROM JUVENILE COURT

Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of Juvenile Court toddy invoked for the first time a provision of the 1941 Juvenile Court law permitting him to waive jurisdiction in certian

jurisdiction in the cases of three 17-year-old youths, charged with a series of: holdups «| along with five others. ‘Under the new law Judge Bradshaw was giver jurisdiction over youths between 16 and 18. But was given the right to waive jurisdiction and transfer the cases to Criminal Court where the charges are regarded as too children’s

frightened half

Roosevelt.

died yesterday following a collapse of ‘her. circulatory system brought about by old age. Death came in a bedroom of the ancestral Roosevelt estate here with her son and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, at her bedside. Funeral services, which will be private, will be held at 2 p. m. (Indianapolis: Time) tomorrow from the home and she will be buried on the left side of her; husband, James Roosevelt, who died in 1900, in the family plot in the yard of St. James Episcopal Church here. Only -fembers: of the ‘family and intimates will attend and friends and the public were specifically requested not to send flowers. Thousands of messages’ of condolences were arriving at the temporary -- White House offices ; in Poughkeepsie and the: White - House in Washington. They came from the world’s great- who, since ‘1932, when

‘ther son became - President, have

known “the grand old. lady of Hyde Park” as both an impeccable aristoerat and a proud mother, and from simple folk to whom she symbolized the maternal virtues. The home in which she died was the home to which she came in Oc¢Ctober, .1880, at the age of 26, as the bride of James Roosevelt who was 26 years older thai she. There her only child, Franklin, was born. It was the scene of his childhood. From there she watched his first essays -into politics, of which she didn’t altogether approve and there sie watched over him while he fought back from the affliction of infantile paralysis. And there, in her last years, she (Continued on Page Two)

JEWISH HOSTAGES ARRESTED IN PARIS

Prominent Lawyers Seized - “To Maintain Order.’

- VICHY, Sept. 8 (U. P.).—~German authorities today arrested 100 prominent Jews and held them as hostages for maintenance of order in the city. The drastic action by the Nauzi occupation officials came as execution of another French citizen for alleged anti-Nazi acts was revealed. The Germans already hold be‘tween 10,000 and 12,000 persons, many’ of whom are regarded és hostages for good behavior of the

populace. The official French news agency reported that the occupation authorities had arrested “100 or more Jews belonging to liberal professions, principally the bar.” The arrests were called “preventive.” . Among those held were Senafor Pierre. Masse, Theodore Valensi, a famed lawyer, and Arthur -VeilPiacard, a well-known race : horse owner, : gonid ~The latest execution was revealed by ‘the newspaper Le Phare de la Loire, which said that Marin Pirier, la resident of Nantes, has been executed by the Germans on a charge of aiding French war prisoners to escape into Unoccupied France. -

By ‘SANDOR S. ~ United Press Stall Corraspo 3 K, N.Y. Sept. 8-—An American flag fluttering at half “Franklirr 'D. Roosevelt library, symbolized today the and his family “over: the deathvof his “mother,

CHARGES NAZIS Early Marriage One of Few Times When

Mother's Will Did Not Prevail

The late Sara Delano Roosevelt admiring a photo of her son. SE ss a

IN dent

Over F.D.R.

dent|

women : who ‘have lived

NAZIS REPORT ENCIRCLEMENT OF LENNGRAD

Biggest

German Capital's Raid Brings Retort of ‘Lout’s Trick.

On Inside Pages

Details of Fighting ....... Page 3° Willigm Philip Simms ......... 8 Reporter Rides in M-3 .e0cc..0 8:

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

A great fleet of British

' {heavy bombers smashed at

the heart of Berlin today as

completed the encirclement of Leningrad. ah

Force planes bombed a raile road station and started many, fires in “the heart of Berlin” in a new offensive that exe tended from Oslo to Sicily over the week-end and was des scribed officially as the greats est aerial attack of the war against the Reich capital.

The onslaught came a year after the first. mass Luftwaffe bombing of London, and was viewed by Brito as a symbol of the changing tide of aerial warfare. 2 The chief fire was in the vicinity of an important railway station, sa

ed that the full moon outlined Bere lin “like a map.” an Admit 27 Dead nL

The official German news agency admitted that 27 civilians had been

~

nounced the attack as a “loutls trick” and a “crime.” Civilidh dee | scriptions of the “fearful crash” o Beh “bombs “Were” described, an the raid called “one of the rotte est, most disgusting” yet. i Although the Gérmans claimed

Still Unrevealed.

that “at least 17” British planés had been shot down, the British admitted that 20 had failed to re< turn, ‘but said that “hundreds” of planes had participated in the raids, Seek .Two-Front War The R. A. F. attack, which ine’ cluded Kiel and other Nuzi targets, indicated that the British were pute ting increased power into their ate tempt, to establish a great western aerial front in support of the Red Army on the Eastern Front and thus force the Nazis to wage real

HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 8 (U. P.).—Because of the death of his mother, President Roosevelt's “important” address to the American

public and. the world on foreign policy * has been postponed until Thursday night. ‘ In announcing the postponement, the temporary White House offices gave no hint of the subject matter, but reiterated that it would be of “major importance,” directed not at the United States alone but at the whole world. - ita Mr. Roosevelt will speak from the

p. m. (Indianapolis Time) over the three major networks. - His speech will be translated into 14 languages, including German; for rebroadcast to all parts of the world. He is expected to speak about 15 minutes." i ; P It had been the impression here that the address would deal with the attack of a German submarine on the destroyer Greer, but William D. Hassett, a White House secretary, said he did not believe that the sudden disclosure of Mr. Roosevelt’s plan to address the country and the world, which was made

charged that the Greer a the submarine, had any co

tion with the Greer incident.

White House in Washington at 9.

war both in Western Europe and Russia. % In the East, dispatches from Bers lin and Moscow showed there was no abatement of the struggle. While the Luftwaffe pounded ree lentlessly at Russian defense lines, railroads, and highways outside Leningrad, the Finns rushed Easte ward, cut the Leningrad-Murmansk Railroad and blocked the entire Karelian Isthmus. In the South, the Germans themselves claimed to have pushed around to the lash railroad connection between Lenine grad and the rest of Russia. “The Fight Goes On” . The Russians reported they were turning back every direct however, on the three beleagueree cities of Leningrad, . Odessa and Kiev, by “Listen, Russia!” the pre radio said this morning. “This is Leningrad speaking—the heroic city of Lenin. The fight goes on. .. .” Over the week-end, the G 1

ermans rushed aerial reinforcements into

on

Leningrad battle in what Lone experts said was an attempt to force their way through before wine ter slows fighting in the north. The Germans apparently were

Saturday soon after Germany had |prepared to sacrifice any number ked|of men and machines to break

through the Russian “wall ‘of steel” around Leningrad. ra

Today's

nearly all the occupied countries.

the discontent and bitterness against the conquerors. °° Norway, Holland, Belgium and the Balkans @ave-been particularly affected. The first executions in

when three persons faced a Nazi firing squad for sabotage. Las week, Vidkun ‘Quisling, ' Norwegian Nazi leader, announced that terror would be met with terror and .there would be more trials and executions. The food situation in Norway, because of the requisitions by the Germans was described as serious. In Holland, the situation is not dissimilar. Fifteen Hollanders were executed this year as spies and

saboteurs. The city of Amsterdam

War

Moves

., . _ By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

Aside from Russia and the air war in the to fight on a third front. . The growing underground. reflects a similar movement which exists to a greater

West, Hitler is beginning or lesser extent

It has been in progress for months, but latest reports ndicg that it is spreading as winter approaches and hunger and cold add

Norway occurred ‘in mid-August,

for disorders al

Jugoslavia, not only against Germans and Italians but bet the Serbs and Croats themsely In a radio-address last week G Milan ‘© Neditch, Serbian warned: : ; ; “Rivers of blood are flow Brother fights : brother. © houses and forests .are bi Public works are destroy civilians ‘killed. I ask you all of this will lead if it con Do the Serbian people want

the Germans claimed to have

Hundreds of Royal Air

returning British pilots, who reporte

killed and the Berlin press dee

0