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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 157

CONGRESS

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1941

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Important War Development Hinted As FD

GOVERNMENT HOARDS GOODS, BUSINESS SAYS

Cant Get Materials for Civilian Needs, State Plant Heads Claim.

By ROGER BUDROW

Indiana’s small businessmen believe the Government has bungled the job of priorities, is hoarding defense supplies itself while exhorting others not to, and is squeezing many small firms out of business by not giving them defense orders or supplies for civilian business. The meeting Rep. Charles A. Halleck held in the Claypool Hotel yes-

terday was intended to be a sound- |: ing board for the opinions of small |:

business about the defense program, but it turned out to be more like the wailing wall of ancient Jerusalem. One after another small manufacturers, store keepers and laborers went to the microphone in the packed Chateau Room to.tell their troubles. Some of them told classic stories. Repair Work Held Up.

Rudolph Scherer of Scherer Bros. Electric Co., for instance. This Indianapolis firm repairs electric motors and has one now sent in by the big Anaconda copper company.

But this motor can’t be repaired 3

until they get ,copper—from - Anaconda—which won’t send it to the Indianapolis firm until a priority rating goes through.

Harry Pedler of Elkhart said the} musical instrument industry in that | city will fold in a month or six

weeks unless it gets brass, made from copper. But the Bendix concern at South Bend has.a year’s supply on hand, traveling salesmen told Mr. Pedler, because the Bendix firm is working on defense.

A “mother hen” plan, pooling the facilities of 10 small manufacturers, was formed last night by Homer Capehart, president of Packard Manufacturing Co. here. “In union there is strength,” he said, “and now we’re going out— as one big concern—after defense business.” Details, Page 21.

Mr. Pedler declared his musical instrument firm has to spend an extra $400 a week because it is using so much more scrap than formerly. “This can’t go on forever,” he said. “When I come down to the last $400 I'm gong to buy a‘one-way ticket to Call 'ornia.” The Navy won’t even lay the keel for a boat until it has all the steel on hand it needs, even though the boat won’t be completed for perhaps two years, according to H. D. Forse of Anderson who manufactures cleaning and laundry equipment. He demanded that the Government

keep its inventories down like the]:

small manufacturer is forced to do. L. R. Rogers of the Steel Protection & Chemical Co. at Mooresville said his firm was low hidder on a $450,000 Navy contract, but because he had only 10 days’ notice to furnish a bond for that amount, it lost out. “A five-million dollar outfit got the order and we didn’t even get an explanation, not even an

answer to our letters,” Mr. Rogers|: - /declared.

John C. Johnson who works for

* William L. Steck & Co., Indianapo-

lis plumbing concern, said he was

going to be out of work pretty soon|

(Continued on Page Nine) YOU GET ALL KINDS OF WEATHER HERE

HOURLY TEMPERATURES

6 a. m....61 10 a. m....60 7 a. m.... 59 11 a. m.... 64 8 a. m.... 60 12 Noon... 66 9 a. m.... 59 1 p. m... 68

By this time tomorrow you should have seen everything in the way of weather. Yesterday afternoon the mercury hit a sweltering 93. This morning the weather was cloudy. Tonight the forecast is for much cooler. Tomorrow it is supposed to be fair. Last night's showers amounted to 32 of an inch which the Weather

Bureau said was a nice little rain.

WOMEN GET MEN’S PAY

LONDON, Sept. 10.—Women munitions workers are to be paid the

Same wages as men, according to a

decision handed down by the Industrial Court yesterday.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Johnson ..... 14 Millett .... Movies .... Obituaries ... 18 Pegler ....... 14 Radio .... . 12 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Short Story... 20 Side Glances.. 14 Society .... 16, 17 Sports ....10, 11 State Deaths.. 18 7 Williams

Comics ..... 20 Crossword .... 19 Editorials .... 14 Mrs. Ferguson 14 Financial. Flynn...

... 21 Flynn ........ 14 Forum ....... 14

Gallup Poll ..

Drive Leaders

Harry T. Pritchard

Wilson Mothershead

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SEEK $686,500 FOR NEEDY HERE

Community Fund Campaign Will Be Conducted Oct. 6 to 23.

Once each year Indianapolis puts a feather in its cap and adopts a watchword—a catch phrase with a world of meaning. This time it’s “BE GLAD YOU CAN GIVE.” These five words announce that the 22d Community Fund Campaign is at-hand, but that’s not all. They remind the city that prosperity is here—for some. But for others it means that higher prices and rents bring only added hardships and greater need. So the hard-working Community Fund staff knows that the folks who

give and have set their goal at the $688,500 mark which they attained last year on the final night of the drive. That was the first time in eight years their goal had been reached. The campaign will open Oct. 6 and will close Oct. 23. : This year’s goal was set by the campaign executive committee following a careful study of the needs of the 37 agencies which will depend. on the fund for the 1942 operation, according to Stanley w. Shipnes, general chairman. Associate chairmen of the drive will be Harry T. Pritchard, Indianapolis Power & Light Co. president, and Wilson Mothershead, Indiana National Bank executive. “Although we realize our task will not be easy, we are confident that the citizens of Indianapolis will rally to the support of the drive and will give in accordance with their heir jeans, said Mr. Shipnes.

SAFETY BOARD O.K.S TAXI FARE INCREASE

20 Per Cent Hike After 1st Mile Up to Council.

The petition of Indianapolis taxicab companies for a rate increase was approved by the Safety Board at City Hall yesterday and will be submitted to City Council Monday for final approval. The cab companies proposed a new rate of 15 cents for the first mile and 10 cents for each -fourfifths of a mile thereafter—a 20 per cent increase in fare after the first| |

«i | mile.

‘The present fare rates are .15 cents for the first mile and 10 cents

T|for each additional full mile there-

after. The companies attempted to readjust rates a year ago by filing an ordinance directly with the City Council. The ordinance was eventually stricken from the files. A Council investigation of taxi cab operation then followed, but

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GET LENINGRAD AT ALL COSTS, HITLER ORDERS

Russians Pursue Nazis After Central Victory; Oslo Workers Strike.

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Details of Fighting........Page 3 Eye-witness Story of Seafarer.. 3 French Still Defy Germans .... 5 Nazis Delay Finnish Peace .... 5

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor The Red Army reported rapid pursuit of shattered German forces on the central front today, claimed destruction of half of the Rumanian Army and said that Leningrad still held out strongly against mounting air and land assault. Led by continuous heavy air attacks, the Germans were throwing

‘tremendous power into the battle of

Leningrad, reportedly under - personal orders from Adolf Hitler to Field Marshal Wilhelm. Ritter von Leeb to capture or destroy the second city of Russia before winter comes. Another reason for speed in the

{north was indicated by reports of

Finnish reluctance to continue the war against Russia and by drastic measures taken by the Germans in Norway to end factory strikes and other allegedly Communist-inspired outbreaks against the Nazis,

Strikes Outlawed A state of civil emergency, mar-

of «regulations (including a bt strikes) were invoked by the Germans in Oslo where strong army Sorves were said to surround the CIty. Norwegian factory workers simply walked out Tuesday and said they were not returning. Oslo recently has been bombed by the British who ‘used American-built flying fortresses. The Germans confiscated all radio sets, prohibited all public gatherings, closed theaters and movie houses, and forbade dancing and serving of alcoholic drinks. A strict 7 p. m: curfew was enforced, with no traffic permitted after that hour except on the railroads. All restaurants were ordered to close at 6 p. m.

German Rioting Rumored

Reports were also circulated—by the Belgian Government in exile— that there had been rioting in Berlin, Cologne and Aix la Chappelle,

bombed by the R. A. F. On the Eastern Front, the Nazis officially reported continuous and successful attacks, but Moscow dispatches said the Red Army coun-ter-offensive on the central front still was gaining ground and that the Germans had suffered upwards of 80,000 casualties. On the central sector,’ extending from Gomel north of Smolensk, the most important operations were south of Smolensk, where the Russians recaptured Yelnya- and smashed westward with tanks and airplanes leading pursuit of disorderly enemy forces, dispatches reported.

Germans Face Threat

Success of this counter-offensive might collapse the entire German front. The Russians said that they had broken up all Nazi attempts to concentrate fresh forces for defense in that sector, but the drive still was far from its apparent goal. . On the north, the Germans reported big fires and bitter house-to-house fighting along the banka ¢§ the River Neva outside Leningrad but in the extreme south the Russians said that the defenders of Odessa had wiped out half of the Rumanian army in the first month of Axis siege of that Black Sea port. Leningrad’s famous military parade ground has been reached by the German land units closing in on the city, according to Berlin, and the birthplace of the Bolshevik Revolution will’ be “destroyed 100 per cent” if it is defended 100 per cent, the Germans threatened.

SOCIAL NOTE

, MOSCOW, Sept. 10.—The ballet season opened here this week.

. Any of the thousands of ’teen age boys and girls who have been bitten by the “puppy love” bug and are thinking seriously of getting married, were given a scathing lecture today by Judge Henry O. Goett of Su rior Court. + ese child marriages must be stopped,” declared Judge Goett after wo wives who had been married at e age of 15 appealed to him fou divorce decrees. Both of the child brides told

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Mass Output Ordered for Improved Flying Fortress

The new and deadlier version of the famed Boeing “Flying For tress,” high-speed, high-altitude heavy bomber whose raids over German territory under the aegis of the R. A. F, have earned it one of the most awesome reputations of all warplanes, is shown during a test flight over Puget Sound. The War Department has ordered the new planes, called B-17E’s, into mass production with contracts totaling $347,156,674. The new fortresses are five feet longer and six tons heavier than their predecessors, and include a power-driven gun turret just above and behind the cab. A similar turret hangs from the ship’s belly. The former “flying pencil” silhouette of the fuselage has been altered by a fin similar to that which surmounts the fuselage of Boeing’s Stratoliner passenger planes.

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STATE WARS ON DRUNK DRIVERS

tial law and decrees imposing sum-| . ‘|mary death sentence for 4%

‘Licenses Is Weapon Against Accidents.

The - State today joined -forces with « “Marion County officials in their drive to cut down the auto accident toll. Suspension or revocation of drivers’ licenses will be the State's weapon in an effort to cut: down drunken and reckless drivers. Mahlon Leach, chief hearing judge of -the drivers’ license enforcement department, said he had conferred with Judge John McNelis and Judge pro tem George Rinier of Municipal Court; Police Chief Michael Morrissey, Sheriff Al Feeney and representatives of the Prosecutor’s office and that they had agreed to co-operate.

Morrissey’ to . Open Files

Chief Morrissey has ' agreed, ‘he said, to open his arrest files to representatives of the State bureau, and ‘an -immediate. check will be made to obtain a list of repeated violators. Regardless of court action in their cases, they will be cited to appear before Mr. Leach to show cause why their licenses should not be suspended. - ‘Traffic court judges alo.agreed to hand out stiffer penalties to drunken drivers, chief targets in this campaign, Mr. Leach asserted. The .police and sheriff also will strive for better evidence in. these cases by obtaining signed affidavits at the time of arrests; he added. In the past, several alleged drunken drivers have escaped punishment wken prosecuting witnesses have refused to testify at court hearings:

Act in Other Cities

“This is not just another safety campaign,” Mr. Leach said. “It will be a continuous effort, and if the local officials produce the co-opera-tion they have promised we will make Indianapolis streets a very unsafe place for speeders, drunken and reckless drivers. “Most motorists do not appreciate the value of their driver's permits until they have been suspended. We expect early and decisive results.” Mr. Leach added that his check of violators would be in addition to the routine lists submitted by law enforcement officials for drivers’ hearings. This program ‘ already has been started in Gary, where co-operation of city officials has produced outstanding results, he added. It will be introduced in other

cities soon.

riage and then their husbands couldn’t or youldn’t support them and “a-home. They both had to go back to their parents with their families. It was the same story as told by ‘most of the other married children in the divorce courts. ‘They are all too young to understand the responsibility of and ing said.

Suspension of Motorists’|

Movie Theaters Hold War Mass Meetings, Clark Says

Clique-Seeks to Stir Hate for Germans, Senator Asserts; Probe Aimed at Foreign Policy, Willkie Claims.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U. P.).—Senator ‘Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo.) charged before a Senate investigating group today that a “handful” of men have transformed the 17,000 American theaters “into 17 000 daily and nightly mass meetings for war.” Senator Clark was testifying before a Senate Interstate Comirierce

subcommittee investigating alleged

PRESIDENT GETS | BULK OF ESTATE

Mother Leaves Him Hyde Park Home and Most Other- Property .

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Sept. 10 (U.. P.-—President Roosevelt will receive the greater part of the estate of his mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, her will filed in Dutchess . County Court revealed

today, . The ‘entire Hyde Park estate of some 1200 acres and nine-tenths of his mother’s personal property, cash, securities . and bank deposits will go to the President. 2 One-tenth of the personal property, including cash, securities and bank deposits will be divided in six equal trust funds for the President’s wife, Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, and their five children. The will was filed less than 24 hours after the President’s mother was buried near the Hyde Park church. where she worshiped most of her life. The will made a bequest of $5000 to the church, the interest of which is to be used for “repairing and improving said church.” The President is named one of the three executors of the will and one of the two trustees of the funds set up for his wife and children. The will did not include any estimate of the estate’s values.

HELP FOR REDS MAY CUT AID TO BRITAIN

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U.P.).— Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones said today that the flow of American ' supplies to Great

.|Britain may have to be decreased to some extent if United States

help to the Soviet Union increases.

Stop 'Puppy Love' Weddin gs, Goett Warns; Child Brides Never Sorta Judge Says

culties.” Judge Goet found one ’teen age husband guilty of contempt of court after his child-bride testified that he had failed to pay her any support for their child. The jail sentence was withheld to give the Youth a Shane 1o.1e. a job and start making weekly payments to the 17-year-old mother of

his child. li}

“If you don’t make fee se_payents every week, you be

propaganda activities by motion pictures and radio. He said a small clique of Hollywood executives have opened theaters “to the idea of war, to the

glorification of war, to the glorifi--

cation of England’s imperialism, to the creation of hatred of the people of Germany and now of France, to the hatred of those in America who disagree with them.” .

Asks; Limit to Probe

As Senator ClarR spoke, Wende'l L. Willkie, counsel for the film industry, filed 3 statement asking thav the inquiry be limited to an examination of pictures alleged to constitute propaganda. Mr. Willkie insisted that the investigators have one prime function—to report to the Senate whether there is reasonable ground for an authorization of the film and radio inquiries. Hence, he argued, it must be shown first that an “offense” has been committed. That is impossible without an evaluation of the films themselves, he asserted, demanding that the committee discontinue hearing witnesses and look at the pictures. In a statement to reporters Mr. Willkie also charged that the investigation, which is in the hands of a group.of Senate isolationists, is an attempt to sabotage the Administration’s foreign policy and stifle free speech. He demanded that the committee call Lowell Mellett, director of the Office of Government reports, to answer accusations that the Government is influencing Hollywood in (Continued on Page Nine)

SHIPS OPENED TO AMERICAN CITIZENS

Vessels of Belligerents Can Bring Them Home.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Copyright, pT The Tndianapons Ti Times LONDON, Sept. 10. — American citizens resident in the war zone are now to be permitted to travel to the United States on belligerent ships. For the first time since the outbreak of the war the State Department has lifted its restriction on the use of British or Canadian ships by Americans returning to the United States, according to the official notice received by American -citizens today from the United States consulate in London. “Passports of American citizens may be validated for return to the United States, either direct or via

Canada as well as via Lisbon,” the| that the

notice reads. In the past it was possible for Americans here on business to get

validation for a plane from Britainjy

to Lisbon whence they could travel

home by either clipper or ship. No|H: permission :

U. S. AND JAPAN NEARER ACCORD

» Shanghai Hears Tokyo will

Gradually Slip Out of Ties With Axis.

- TOKYO, Sept. 10 (U. B.).—Hope surged’ suddenly in | Japanese official ‘and business quarters today that an important Japanese-United States agreement was near. The nation awaited a statement by Prince Fumimarg Konoye, Premier, on foreign policy. The Emperor’s. Privy @ouncil met for: two hours to hear ‘coafidential reports on the general war situation, especially on the Russo-Ger-man campaign, by Gen. Hideki Tojo, War Minister, and Gen. Heitaro Okamoto, of the Army General Staff. | It was reported that this meeting and the reports given at it were closely related to the negotiations which, it is now known, are being conducted between Japan and the United States on Pacific problems. (There have been indications that Japanese leaders are inclining toward the view that Germany is going to lose the war, and diplomatic quarters at Shanghai reported today that in any agreement between the United States and Japan gradual Japanese withdrawal from its alliance with Germany would be contemplated.)

Hochi Fears the Dollar

The newspapers’ almost ceased their recent campaign of antiAmerican editorials, though a wellknown commentator wrote in Hochi, in discussing Japanese-American negotiations: “If Japan allows herself to play into the hands of the United States the American dollar will dominate East Asia and an irretrievable fate will overtake Japan. . .. Let us not lose the aims of our crusade. Let the thousands of lives sacrificed in this crusade be worthy of their death. This is the outcry of the nation.” (It has been reported that reacVionaty Japanese elements, led by the Army, are still trying to prevent a Japanese-American agreement on any terms acceptable to the United States. Hence the Mochi article might reflect reactionary views, and the newspapers generally might have stopped their campaign, as they do sometimes, on Governmental suggestion.)

Report - Roosevelt Revising Address Scheduled at 9 P. M. Tomorrow. :

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS 4 Times Foreign Editor : :

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, —The United States today stands perilously near the spot it occupied in 1917 wh President Wilson let it known that the coun awaited only the “actual ove acts” before declaring w )

against Germany. % President Roosevelt himself \ make this clear when he addresses the people of the United States anf the . rest’ of the world tomorrow night at 9 p. m. (Indianapolis Time). Indication that an important velopment may be forthcoming 1 seen toddy when Mr. Roosevi hurrying back-to' Washington from his:mother’s funeral, had the Houss of Representatives summoned : back a week early from its er The Senate is in session. 7

Calls Avisers ;

He called his three leading ade visers on foreign affairs—Secreta of State Cordell Hull, War Secretar; Henry, L. Stimson and Navy tary Frank Knox—tfo meet him toe night or tomorrow and arranged & meeting tomorrow morning A Congressional leaders. 2 Speaker Sam Rayburn asked members of the House to retu Monday instead of Sept:-22, buf was not revealed what business th

‘will be asked to transact. i)

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (0. P.).~The American -operated freighter Sessa sank within two minutes after it was torpedoed without warning, it was revealed today in accounts of the survivors given to the State Department.

The President extended from’ to 25 minutes the time for ‘his speech, which apparently was : revised in light of the further redations on American shipping.’ On Jan. 31, 1917, Germany told United States vessels to stay of certain specified zones. If failed to do so, Berlin warnad, they, would be sunk on sight. Four days later, Mr. Wi.son res plied. He handed Count Berne storff, the German Ambassador, his passports, recalled Ambassador Gers ard from Berlin, and announ : that if American ships were s and American lives were lost he would ask Congress for power” # take the necessary steps for the protection of American rights. He would, he said, await only the “age tual overt acts.” Nor had he long to wait. March 16-17, three American ships —American-built, American-owned and American-manned—were sent to the bottom by German U-boats while on their way home. There were the Vigliancia, the City of Memphis and the Illinois, ;

Fuel bu! Not a Spark

On April 2-the President asked Congress for a declaration of wars Now, as then,sevents are mo swiftly toward showdown, . The feeling is universal here that thers is. ample powdew lying around that. only a spark is needed—the clear-cut “actual overt act.” F one of the jthree “incidents” of e last few days just happens be that kind of a case. p - The destroyer Greer was a ( off Iceland by a Nazi submarine, bu it was not damaged. Moreover, there seems to be some slight doubt as: who fired the first shot. The Seafarer, carrying war supplies the Allies through the Red Sed, wa bombed. But the President himself had once placed the Red Sea ou bounds for American shipping. Sessa, sunk in the North Atlg

was: Danish built, American operat: ed. bus under a Panama flag,

War Moves Toda

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE

United: Press War Analyst

Hitler's desperate drive for Leningrad and promise to take it “before the snow flies” sm more of waning than of growing strength in Russian campaign.

While he is

concentrating on

taking indi Leningrad and the Kronstadt naval base inan

to present the German

people with a

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_achievement before winter sets in, the Russians.

pear to be: driving There seems little doubt that the Russians are adva

and south.

his armies back in the

in the © Bryansk Smolensk-Gomel area, even discounting Russian

Germans in some sectors Budenny is holding ‘the Dneiper River lf in the south and is even

accepted that paign

ted to take|in en sou Russia.

are in disorderly retreat. able to reach Moscow and Ki

a et 's prospects un interesting possibili