Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1941 — Page 1

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smprs“rowars] VOLUME 53—NUMBER 156

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CHURCHILL WARNS OF NAZI U-BOATS IN U.S. PATROL ZONE

Prime Minister Says German Casualties May|

Be Three Million in Russia, Calls Winter War ‘Certain.’

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Prime Minister Winston Churchill raised the possibility today that Adolf Hitler—faced with certainty of winter war in Russia and an increasing flow of American supplies to

his enemies—will directly challenge American control of the

waters within the U. S. naval safety patrol zone. Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons, said that Hitler doubtless would prefer to defer a new challenge to the United States until-—and if—the day comes when he has finished with Russia. But the Prime Minister said, the Russians have massed a well-equipped force of 10,000,000 or 15,000,000 men against Germany, they already have inflicted possibly 3,000,000 casualties on the Wehrmacht and have made a winter campaign in icy Russia a certainty.

Into American Patrol Zone?

Faced with this prospect, Churchill said, Hitler may well extend the zones of the Battle of the Atlantic westward “into the zone where the U. S. naval patrol is successfully protecting “immense sy lantic” against attack. es British shipping losses have Been reduced sharply, in July and August, to a level only one-third of the tonnage lost by the Axis. This was achieved, it was revealed, despite Nazi employment of a new type of acoustic mine, apparently detonated by the sound of a ship’s propeller.

Russians Make Fast Counter-Drive

Churchill's speech coincided with these developments: A great Russian counter-attack was developing on the central eastern front where Moscow said eight Nazi divisions have been crushed, a Nazi army virtually surrounded and forced into disorderly retreat as the forces of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko recaptured Smolensk in an advance of eight miles a day. The German Luftwaffe launched what ‘may be an all-ou$ attack against the defenses of Leningrad, now completely isolated, in an effort to fulfill Berlin predictions that the former Russian capital and Odessa will fall to the Wehrmacht before snow flies.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1941

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THIRD AMERICAN SHIP SUN ‘ALL-OUT’ WAR ON U

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New Speed Trap Tested

Arproacking the 113-foot speed tame, the car crosses the white

MOVIES STIR U. 5. TO WAR,

If Britain Is Defeated; Urges Full Probe.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (U. PJ). —Senator Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D.) charged today that motion picture producers have a financial stake in a British victory and that this may be influencing them to put propaganda into their product designed to get the United States into war. Senator Nye, the first witness at an investigation into alleged propaganda in movies and radio, presented a statement asserting that the motion picture industry “has a

pean war.

Names Eight Pictures

He said that without undertaking to name all the pictures he considered to contain propaganda, he

| suggested the following would “bear|

investigation.” “Convoy,” “Flight Command,” “Escape,” “I Married a Nazi,” “That Hamilton Woman,” “Man Hunt,” “The Great Dictator,” and “Sergeant York. He urged a Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee, before which he appeared, to recommend Senate approval of a full-fledged inquiry into the situation. The

| series of ‘hearings starting today|

technically concerned a resolution

'|by Senator Nye and Senator Ben-

nett C. Clark (D. Mo. calling for|such an investigation. The rgsolu-

:| tion has not been approved by the Senate,

FL Complnties Fie Loss

Senator Nye asserted that Ciood=

body & Co, ment house, recently studied the

movie industry and reported to its

"| clients “quite. directly that if Britain

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Judges Approvel Sought On 'Marked Course’ Plan

By RICHARD: LEWIS . . . At precisely one minute and one second past 10 o 'clock this morning,

Iran Accepts Allies’ Terms

‘| Patrolman Marion Ostermyer drove a big police sedan at. high speed

over the first of two white lines painted across an unidentified boule-

Iran agreed to Anglo-Russian terms designed to safeguard that strategic Middle Eastern state against Axis threats and to make it the key route for delivery of American supplies to the Soviet. ‘Britain, it is indicated, has established a force on the Arctic island of Spitzbergen as a northern anchor of the vast war front and possibly preliminary to operations against Arctic Norway and Finland. British long-range bombers ' spread death and destruction throughout western Germany, while 100 planes bombed Cassel,” where a locomotive plant was turning out motive power for the long-haul supply route to Russia. The British Admiralty reported that four enemy ships had been sunk or badly damaged in an attack on an Axis convoy in the English Channel last night and Berlin admitted the loss of the training ship Bremse protecting a convoy in north Norwegian waters.

‘War Moves Today

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

_ London’s announcement of the sharp drop in shipping losses during and July and August makes important news for the British people, who recall that the submarine campaign almost brought about Allied defeat in the World War. . The announcement does not necessarily mean that the U-boat menace has been licked, but it does Mr. Keemle indicate that it is being brought under control. The British discontinued issuing figures on shippin loses Kier May 31, so that their version of the extent of the drop is no

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However, the Germans themselves admit a sharp drop in those

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vard in Indianapolis.

Speed-Time Chart

This is the speed-time chart which translates seconds into miles-per-hour. It is worked out mathematically. Seconds M.P.H. 3.7 20 : 3.6 21 3.5 214 34 22 33 23 3.2 23.4 3.1 24 3.0 25 29 26 28 27 28 29 30 31

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YOU HAVE T0 CALL FOR YOUR TAX BILL

Fall Installments Due at

Treasurer’s Office.

Whether you want to hear about it or not, County property tax paying time is here again. County Treasurer Walter Boetcher

Exactly one and OR-half seconds later, the speeding car’s front wheels. touched the second white line 113 feet from the ‘first stripe.

And at that instant, Sergt. William Tremp standing nearby with a stop watch in his hand pressed the stem with his thumb. The slender indicator of the watch rested at 1.5 seconds from zero. Sergt. Tremp consulted his speedtime chart. It translated the time it took the speeding car to cover the 113 feet between the two white lines into miles per hour. The chart showed that the big car was traveling exactly 50 miles per hour. On the boulevard, the speed limit. is .30. To Sergt. Tremp, it looked like a clear case of speeding by Patrolman Ostermyer—and .in Police Chief Morrissey’s car at that. But it was speeding in what the Police Department believes to be a good cause—a new and comparatively foolproof method of catching speeders so neatly and 3 sa accurately that they can’t talk:bac Sergt. Tremp and Dak Iman Ostermyer were testing the new method. They liked it better than the present technique of trailing a speeder on motorcycle and clocking him with the speedometer. Both policemen saw the system work in Cincinnati a few weeks ago. They watched one Cincinnati policeman stand at the side of the road between the white lines with his stop watch and speed-time chart

while a partner sat on a motorcycle

nearby. “Then in a swirl of’ dust they saw the speeder approaching at a ter(Continued on Page Two)

review of the first two years of the war in the newspaper Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Rear Admiral Cadow gave the German figures. He reported that up to the end of June, the German Navy and Air Force sank 12,400,000 tons of British and Allied tonnage, an average

of 563,636 tons a month for the 22|SpiPPINE

months of the war to that.date. The, total, he said, was increased to 13,000,000: tons by the end of August, or 600,000 tons for the two months, reducing the average. to 300,000 tons 8 month,

The British considerably lower. that up

on losses are “The Admiralty to June, total

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losses were 7,118,123. Adding a hypo-| bans for July andives

August, the British total would be under 8,000,006 tons, about onefourth of what Britain -had at the start of the war or has acquired since. Thus Britain would still have about 75 per cent of her shipping capacity. The stepped-up British war on in the Mediterranean probably accounts for London’s parallel that British and Allied losses oy ‘July and August were only about one-third those of the Axis. The reduction in British losses may be attributed “in part to a strengthening of her convoy forces, new defense methods and the United States patrol of the western Atlantic. The latter, for instance, released badly

announced today that tax duplicates for the fall installment of 1941 taxes are available for payment at his office in the Court House. The deadline for payment to avoid delinquent penalties is Nov. 3. For the benefit of new residents of Marion County who moved here before March 1, 1940, Mr. Boetcher| conrad explained that no tax bills will be ‘Brownstown. : man Beck, Seymour, was injured.

mailed to taxpayers. “gn TURES

2 KILLED AS HEAVY TRUCK CRUSHES CAR

SEYMOUR, Ind., Sept. 9 (U. P). —Two men were killed and another

complained that they never knew

how much taxes they owed until] 6 a.m.

Iost this war, a number of the leading motion picture companies would be wiped out.” “Now it follows,” ‘Senator Nye continued, “that I feel that this

<|selfish interest’ in dollars may be

playing a considerable part in prompting some of .the picture producers in visiting. film propaganda upon a people with a view to getting America into that frame of mind which will make certain that America will not let Britain fail. “This, I acknowledge, is.a terr.bly cold statement, but I cannot escape this conclusion, nor, I am sure, can anyone inclined to be fair escape this conclusion.” Probe Invalid, Willkie Says Wendell I. Willkie, counsel for the movie interests, contended in a brief filed with Chairman D. Worth Clark (D. Ida.) that the subcommittee’s inquiry was “unauthorized and invalid.” He asserted that the inquiry violated the First Amendment of the Constitution which guarantees free speech and a free press. The brief expanded contentions] f made last night in a letter in which Mr. Willkie, the 1940 Republican Presidential candidate, asserted to Mr. Clark that the subcommittee

authority.” Mr. Willkie said that the method _ (Continued on Page Two) \rhataimal mtr lr Si

CHIEF FULMER GIVEN

Kennedy Fails to Appeal Demotion by Board.

Acting Fire Chief Harry “H. Fulmer today became. just plain Fire Chief Harry H. Fulumer, The Safety Board removed him| from the “acting” classification as the deadline for Fred .C. Kennedy |. to appeal his demotion from chief to acting captain has passed. At the same time, the Board made Otto J. Petty the full fledged Assistant Chief and promoted Capt. Fred Fries as acting battalion chief, to the rank formerly held by Mr. Petty. The Board postponed its scheduled public’ hearing into the fatal explosion and fire in the basement of the Kennedy home which resulted in Mr. Kennedy's demotion. The accident resulted in the death of Fireman Alfred H. Stumm and |the serious burning of Lieut. Arnold W. Phillips, Fireman Stumm was on duty and Lieut. Phillips off duty. They had gone to the Chief’s home to repaint the social room, The scheduled public hearing was postponed, on motion of Board Member Donald S. Morris, until after the Grand Jury concludes ‘its te investigation. Various rec- . of the Fire Department, inSluding: the paint shop work sheets, in the ‘hands ‘of the Grand en

Among witnesses before the jury today was Fireman Stumm’s widow,

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after they had become delinquent. lam... : the Treas

needed escort | Taxpay

NYE CHARGES

Claims Industry Faces Loss

very selfish interest” in the Euro-| :

a Wall Street invest-|.

was proceeding “with doubtful legal | *”

PERMANENT RANK

Joins Mourning

The State of Indiana officially joined President Roosevelt in mourning the death of his mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt. This was expressed by the State House flag at half-staff today. (Story, Page three.) :

HALLECK OPENS BUSINESS PROBE

Offers Sounding Board for

| Little Fellow, | He Says;

Bars Politics.

‘Indiana's small businessmen, unable 'to get “defense ‘orders “or civilian _supplizs, and - their employees this afternoon’ aired their troubles here before a Congressional investigating committee. It was the first of a series of “fact-finding sessions” to be held throughout the ‘nation by: Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana’ and his, committee of 20 Republican. Congressmen named to draft .legislation’ to protect small enterprises. “As. memhers of Congress, we have been urged to see to it that small business over the country is not ruined needlessly,” Rep. Halleck said in opening: the session at the Claypool. “My observations of the past few days convince me that the people of the country are just beginning to realize the tremendous impact of the defense: effort on small business. There can be no question but what the problem rapidly’ is becoming acute." “Of course, all of us are for a strong’ national defense ‘ and will make any ‘sacrifice for national defense:. But there is an’ increasing number who are insisting that our domestic economy be’ not disrupted beyord the needs of national de-

CWhile the committee of which I am chairman is made up of 20 Republicans, it shall be our constant purpose to avoid partisanship . and political ' prejudice’ in evervehing (Continued on Page Two)

Intruder Ges ~ A'Broken Jaw

A 48-YEAR OLD would-be assailant nursed a broken jaw in City Hospital today, not able yet to explain to police why he ‘entered the kitchen of Mrs. Etta VanStan, 334 Blake St. yesterday. and wrested a cleaver from her hands. ‘Mrs. VanStan screamed when the man approached and grabbed ‘the cleaver which she was using ‘in preparing the evening meal. ' Her. screams brought, her. ‘hus‘band, John VanStan, running from the front of the house. He ‘knocked the intruder down with

Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Tndianapolis, Ind.:

. S. AID HINT

Details of fighting ...... Churchill’s speech

American naval aid. The Sessa was torpedoed

vessel.

the Red Sea.

today fixed the earlier date.

PUPLS DEMAND FOR TEACHER REFUSED

Small, Says Morgan.

“Enrollment figures to date do nok warrant assignment of an additional teacher to School 86 at this time,” Public School Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan said today. His statement was in reply to’ a demonstration yesterday at the school, located at 49th St. and Boulevard Place, by 17 seventh graders. The pupils, parading with signs, demanded that a seventh grade]. teacher be hired at the new school. Enrolled at School 86 last year, they were instructed to enroll | in School 43 or 70 this term. Mr. Morgan said that no seventh or eighth grade teachers have been hired for School 86 yet, although there are empty classrooms, because of the small number of pupils. “This is an economical problem,” Mr. Morgan said. “We want to establish a junior high school there, but we can’t until the enrollment

justifies the expense.”

— WIEDEMANN IN S. AMERICA RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 9 (U. P.). __Adolf Hitler, it was revealed today has sent Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, his ace Western Hemisphere diplomat, to South America with in-

Argentina, scene of mounting anti-

his fist and when police arrived, was sitting. on him. ; ;

Mrs. Ola ° Mahurin, Indianapolis mother of 13 children,’ who was sentenced. last January to a term: of oné to 10 years for grand larceny, was paroled’ ‘today by the sState Clemency Commission. tascoMling to the evidence before e Commission, Mrs. Mahurin, and fhe daughter, Marjorie, 17, accom=panied Wayne Mahurin, a son, and Leroy Masterson, Marjorie’s finance, when the two youths made into, adjoining counties and stole meat and chickens from farms while the farmers were absent. Marjorie: was committed to the Indiana Girls’ School at Clermont while the two youths received two- : Stat® ‘Reforma-

Mother of 13, Serving Term ‘On Larceny Charge, Paroled

Nazi activity.

of: the Women's Prison, 'who reported that Mrs. ‘Mahurin “is mak-|’ ing a Ys) good institutional record; under -the conditions which

surround her, I am inclined to be-|, lieve she has’ done the best ‘shel:

could.” The Commission also paroled Joseph Kukarsky, who has served 15 years of a life term for the murder of his landlady. Kukarsky told the Commission that his landlady had swindled large sums of money from him. He engaged in a fight with her and she died later as result of knife wounds. Kukarsky had a dist| tinguished service record during the World War and is to be given emPlophent in Terre Haute where the urder occurred in 1926.

gave a parole to

nk Corley, who was con-|]

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By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The State Department to

School 86 Enroliment Too

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‘Editorials

In Open Red Sea Zone. War News on Inside Pages

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west of Iceland, coincident with warnings from London t : Germany would force naval warfare on the United States and a statement here that Britain had been promised furth

Aug. 17 with a loss of 24

sons, including one American, of her complement of 27. three survivors were picked up Sept. 6 by an American naval

Owned by U. S. Firm Secretary of State Cordell Hull said at his press contd 4 ence that the Sessa, while flying the flag of Panama, ‘wag owned and operated by American interests. : In response to inquiries, he said he thought there no question about the author of the attack on the Se but that he preferred not to discuss that phase of the 8 tion until more complete facts were The Sessa announcement followed by about 12 hot announcement that the American freighter Steel S& had been sunk Sept. 5 at the entrance to the Gulf of S

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Follows Greer Attack : “Capt. J. D. Halliday and the crew of 35 from the Steel Seafarer escaped in lifeboats after their vessel was hit by. 8 bomb from an unidentified airplane. First reports said the vessel had been hit Sept. 7, but the Maritime Commi

the U. S. destroyer Greer a German submarine in whi€ the Greer’s: officers reportes that she counter attackes after torpedoes had been fired at her. Berlin charged that

the Greer fired first.

- These developments streng belief here that the Navy wi meet force with force in Amer waters in challenge to any Gen effort to cut the British life lin President Roosevelt may outline the Navy's responsibilities in the world wide broadcast that was pos from last night to Thursday bes cause of the death of his mother: Shortly before the loss. of thi Sessa ‘was announced, Prime Mins ister Winston Churchill told House of Commons’ in London tk Adolf Hitler might force naval ware fare on the United States in effort to cut off the broad str of aid-to-Britain war supplies. = Pledge More Aid h Senator Elbert D. Thomas ( Utah) told questioners that fi

ing the Greer incident and th& instructions had been sent to American fleet. “Further American Naval aid already been promised as a Te

|of the Greer incident,” he exple

“Qur ships are out to find that subs marine and if they run across Bs other one they might mistake 3 Carried No Arms es

Cargo of the Steel Seafarer hi ad not been revealed at mid-day, bi the State Department said Sessa was carrying foodstuffs, luf ber and othér general cargo but,

| arms, ‘ammunition or implements @

war. The Naval vessel which pi up. the Sessa’s three survivors not named. The Sessa was tre porting for the Government of Ic land supplies owned by that G 0) ernment. | J Of the Steel Seafarer’s crew, landed at Shadwan Island, 12 m , (Continued on Page Two)

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Clapper ..... a1 Millett .... Comics ...... 19| Movies ,

++. 12| Pegler .. Mrs, Ferguson 12! Pyle .... Financial . 8 Questions Radio