Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1941 — Page 1

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J ap HR Takes Over Army; Russia Gets R:

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FOR TO GIVE ‘COLD, HARD FACTS

Slum Families Hunting Homes After Arrests for Ignoring Order to Move

Judge Orders Owners to Appear at Hearing In Court.

By RICHARD LEWIS The folks who inhabit the slums at the northeast corner of S. New Jersey and Merrill Sts., were looking frantically for other quarters today after being arrested en masse, jailed and fingerprinted for failing to Syacuste houses condemned by the Ly. The charge against the tenants was violation of the City Health Department order to vacate the property which was condemned as unfit for human habitation Aug. 6. The Department took condemnation action after receiving repeated complaints about the condition of the slums. In Municipal Court 4 yesterday, the cases against the, tenants were continued until. Saturday by Pro Tem Judge George G. Rinier who expressed surprise that the property owners had not been ordered ‘into court by the Health Department. - Tuesday night, just after Supper, the police came knocking at the doors of the tenement: rows at 535-45 8. New Jersey Sf., around the corner at 400-12 E. Merrill St. and in the adjacent alley, 534-36 Adelaide St., with warrants sworn to. by health officers for the tenants’

“Unfit for human habitation”

_ arrest.

BN couldn't believe it .at first. .

who lived here despite

Sondemnation By the Board of Health were. arrested.

Dodgers Take: hin Question: Can They Bounce?

By JOE WILLIAMS ST. LOUIS, Sept. 11.—-We have a new problem to consider in connection with the mad and maddening dash of Our Bums for the National League pennant. It concerns the quality of resiliency, or Just how much bounce they have in them. They took two crushing wallops on the chin from the Cubs over in Chicago yesterday and had their cushioned lead “of three games cut to one game. It now remains for them to demonstrate whether they have enough elasticity to bounce back. The doublé kayo wasn’t considered impossible, but it was thought to be improbable. Unfortunately. or otherwise, there is no way you can peel the shirts off ball players and tell’ what a disastrous adventure does to their tickers. 4 As the situation has developed the Brooklyns are now placed in a spot where they must prove one of two things, very likely both: namely, their courage and their ability. FJ ”n # COMING OVER HERE on the train with the players we failed to perceive -any symptoms of panic. Medwick was talking about color movies he had made of his two children, Owen was pondering the purchase of a couple of show dogs, Walker was talking about a contract debate he either had or intends to have with MacPhail. We wondered at: the time iw wouldn't have liked it better there had been an angry show of disappointment. There was good’ reason. for disappointment, especially in the first game. That's a game they shouldn’gghave lost. Indéed, you are almoSl tempted to say it took genius to 1%e it. In their own way the Brooklyns are a power team; they have the hitters and they can make runs.

THEY HAD TWO or three innings in which they should have taken complete charge of the game with their bats. That they didn’t makes you worry about them. ‘Coming down the stretch you

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can’t afford to blow the type of game that is made to order for the type of team you've gotf Of course, they never were in the second game. Young Erickson, of whom you are likely to hear a great deal about in future years, simply overpowered them. He was too much pitcher. It wasn’t the type of game you would complain about losing. & s ” BROOKLYN is now in a des‘perate ' position where it. must make it’s own breaks. That's How you win pennants. If you can’t do that then we’ll have to say you don’t deserve to win. It should be added hastily for the Flatbush who may have been tempted to jump off high buildings when the bad news came in last night that there is still time and opportunity to win the pennant. : After all the Brooklyns came in here today still out in front. The Cards still have to catch them— and this is:the big series.

POLICE ACCUSED OF BEATING PRISONERS

Trio Asks Hearing in Peti“tion to Board.

A petition was filed with the Safety Board today demanding a public hearing on the charges that six police officers were involved in an alleged beating of prisoners at police headquarters recently. The petition was filed by Attorney Frank Beckwith in behalf of Hazel Weathers, 1470 E. 24th St, who charged that she and her husband, Clovis Weathers, and her. brother, Elmore Fepper, were beaten with riot sticks by several policemen on Sept. 7. The petition charged that ithe three were accused of assault and battery, and that each was placed in a dark room and beaten severely on the head with riot sticks. Police Chief Michael Morrissey said he knew nothing of the case. The officers said to be involved

in the alleged beating were not named in the petition. However,

Municipal Court by Mrs. Weathers and her brother against Sergt. Kent Yoh asking $500 each for injuries they alleged they received

Had Paid Their Rent =.

The.. householders said they

thought it was some kind of prac-

“tical joke.

- "They told Judge Rinier and newspapermen that they had been. advised by the rent collector that the

did not mean a thing. ‘They said they had paid their monthly rents of $6 and $8 after the houses had been condemned on the assurances of the rent collector that “nothing would happen” as long as they kept their rent paid up. But the arrests became real enough, they said, when the police herded nine residents—six men and three women—into the pairecl wagon with three drunks picked up earlier, and took the wagon-load of meh and women to jail. At headquarters, the residents, most of them unaware of the charge, were searched, fingerprinted and locked up for two hours. Then they were released on their own recognizance by Police Capt. Michael Hynes after several tenants said they could not provide bail.

Subpena for Owner When the tenants told their stories in court yesterday, Judge Rinier issued a subpena for Obie J.

| Smith, president of the O. J. Smith

Realty Co.,, 114 N. Delaware St., and secretary of the County Real Estate Co. (also 114 N. Delaware) which is listed as owner of the properties by the City Assessment Bureau. “I don’t know why the owner wasn’t brought in here as well as tate ‘Deon; » Juige Dinter said. go et a of this nT 2 fe beitom Judge Rinier released the tenThay on their own recognizance. ey immediately began a search "or Dee dwellings. City Hall, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health officer, said (Continued on Page Four)

OIL SHORTAGE DENIED BY SENATE PROBERS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U. P.). —The Senate Oil Investigating Committee unanimously reported today that there is no oil shortage on the East Coast and that Federal petroleum officials had created “unnecessary alarm.” The committee, presenting a preliminary report to the Senate concluded that there is no shortage of petroleum products or transportation to carry the commodities to the East Coast. It said the only possible shortage that exists is a lack of a “desired” surplus. “Paradoxical as it sounds, the shortage, as we see it, is. a shortage of surplus—and not a shortage of products or a lack of facilities to transport them,” the report ‘declared.

RECORD FLYING BOAT PUT THROUGH TESTS

BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 11 (U. P.) ~The Navy's XPB2M-1—largest flying boat in the world—was viewed by newspapermen in the first time today as experts of the Glenn L. Martin airplane factory put the winged battleship through eering tests in the plant. - XPB2M-1 has a wing spread of 200 feet, weighs 70 tons, is powered by four 2000-horse power du-

be reached for |plex

engines, and its two "| Rok Boe 101 Joe ogy gre bai

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condemnation and notice to move|:

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1941

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ITALIAN CITIES AFLAME AFTER ‘BIGGEST RAID

Germans Threaten Leningrad With ‘Fate of Warsaw’; Finns See Snow.

.On Inside Pages’

Details of Fighting ...... Page 3 Senate Movie Probe sere S Planes Selected for War Games 13 William Philip Simms ........ 26

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Edifor

Great Britain and the Soviet Union struck the Axis war machine from Italy to the blazing Eastern Front today and there were indications that Japan might be clamping down on extremists in the Far East. a With every capital of the world awaiting President Roosevelt's speech on Ame.ica’s policy toward the Battle of the Atlantic tonight, developments on the world. fronts included these highlights:

1 Royal ‘Air Force bombers struck 800 miles to northern Italy to bomb Turin, Genoa and Milan war factories, arsenals and other targets, causing extensive damage and starting 34 fires in Turin alone. Other British planes:from the Middle East bombed fhe Sicilian city of Messina and left “fhe biggest blaze ever seen by Royal Air Force pilots.

In Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito took the Japanese Army out

general staff and swung his support to Premier Fumimaro Konoye’s attempt to keep Japan out of further

from the Axis. The developments in Japan. were obscured by’ the ' customary . Nipponese euphemisms and vagueness, but it seemed likely that there had been a showdown before the Emperor between Konoye and the army extremists eager to push Japanese expansion regardless of whether it results in war with the United States, Britain or Russia. If moderate. Japanese elements

would be hard to overestimate the importance of the development. The Emperor not- only placed the army under: his direct. control, but he ousted Admiral Nobumasa, a radical of strong Axis leanings, from the chairmanship of the fledgling Japanese totalitarian party.

The Red Army reported the smashing of Nazi assaults on Kiev ‘with 30,000 enemy’ casualties, a gain of 12 miles and recapture of 10. towns on the vital central front around Smolensk, the , defeat of enemy attempts to cross the Dvina River and recapture of Starina village, and the defeat of Axis forces on the mid-Finland front, where the winter's first snow was reported falling.

‘London reported that the Gerans seemed to be starting a new offensive of importance on the

Russian Arctic coast foward Mur-|

mansk, in an effort to cut off ‘war supplies from Britain, but the Germans. were .said to have suffered some reverses in this sector and Prime Minister Winston Churchill said ‘hundreds’ of British’ fighter planes had arrived or were en route to Russia. Berlin threatened Leningrad with “the fate of Warsaw” if civilians failed to surrender, but the second city of Russia still held out.

Signs of unrest and violence against the Axis new order continued to come from Norway, France, Greece and other scattered areas of occupied Europe. Extension of martial law in Norway was predicted following execution of two labor leaders and spread of strikes against the pro-Nazi‘ Government. Berlin - dispatches said that alleged communists near Lille shot a police official, presumably a Frenchman.

By JANE STAFFORD Science Service Writer

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Sept. 11. —“A marked darkening” of previ0 hair ‘and growth of ‘new BL A r- hairs” In 30 human beings has been achieved by small daily doses of-one of the newest of the viens B group, para- ~-amino-

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CHURGH VETOES CUTIN DISTRICTS

Methodists Reject Bishop’s Suggestion but Favor Rearrangement. - By SEXSON HUMPHREYS

suggestion by - Bishop Titus Lowe that the number of administrative districts in the southern half of the state be reduced. The conference, in session at the Meridian Street Methodist Church, accepted instead the recommendation of a committee headed by the Rev. W. C. Patrick, of Connersville which continued the present seven districts but instructed 'the bishop to rearrange them to provide ' for “more equitable, support” of the dis-. trict superintendents. The bishop’s suggestion that the number be reduced was made to last year’s conference and resulted in the appointment of the Rev. Mr. Patrick’s committee. The report was read at this morning’s session by the Rev. R. O. Pearson of Columbus, committee secretary. There is a difference of about $2000 in the salaries of the various district superintendents; it is this condition which today’s action is aimed at changing. The adjustment (Continued on Page Four)

REPORT BOMBER FOUND

TACOMA, 'Wash., ‘Sept. 11 (U. P.). —M¢cChord Field officers received a report today that a missing U. 8. Army bomber had been found in the foothills of the Cascade Moune

claw. It was not known whether

New Vitamin B Darkens Gray Hair, Scientists Say |=

| daily dose is 100 milligrams {about the|Dr.: Martin warned that it oa

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the: six men aboard were still alive.

min, although there have been. a number of reports of the darkening’ of gray hair in rats and mice with doses of both para-aminobenzoic acid and other B vitamins. Like the other B vitamins, the para-aminobenzoic acid is - found in yeast and liver. For tho treat hrs ment of gray-haired

humans the| synthetic vitamin, which costs about ;

10 cents a pound, was used, two-hundredths of an ounce)

be taken only under a physician's direction because this chemical has other effects some of which are only just It counterple, and might

The Indiana : Conference of 'the| Methodist Church today rejected a}:

tains 18 miles northeast of Enum- |‘ appropriation for fire equipment is Justified.

being d'scovered. ; acs the Guraive elec of the ula

Tank Cocktails Get a 'Spiking']

FORT ORD, Cal, Sept. 1m (U. P.)~—The post quarter‘master today ordered ' 1500 more 32-ounce bottles with | which to fashion “Molotov cocktails”—improvised inflammable hand grenades designed to stop enemy tanks. The first 1500 bottles recent-_ ly delivered won’t do, it has: been discovered. They were: made of duraglas, a patented: non-shatterable - glass which bounced harmlessly off a tank's surface.

TAX RATES REDUCED IN THREE TOWNSHIPS

17-Cent Increase Approved For Pike by ‘Board.

The County Tax Adjustment Board today tentatively fixed the 1942 tax rates ‘of four townships, three of which were reduced below the current rates. The townships where taxpayers will pay a lower rate next year are Franklin, where the rate was set tentatively at $1.15, down 7 cents; Lawrence, $1.05, down 20 cents, and Wayne, $1.557, down 12.3 cents. Pike Township taxpayers face a 17-cent rate increase next year as the result of mandatory increases in the appropriation for the township school bond: fund. The Board tentatively fixed the 1942 rate for Pike township at 97 cents, compared to the current 80-cent levy. It withheld action on the Wash-

Board members said they wished to study a method of redistributing the cost of fire equipment mainlenance in townships. where part of taxpayers also have the protection of Indianapolis and Speedway City fire departments. ‘The Board members said that in Washington Township, for instance, a large proportion of the taxpayers are protected by Indianapolis fire | 80 fighting equipment and that it would be unfair to. assess these taxpayers for the purchase of township Syubment Ww. ich “would not serve

NEW FORDS x P.).—Henry Ford unveiled his 1942 t| model cars today at a preview during which newspapermen were

and, bomber building plants.

“UNVEILED” DEARBORN, Mich., Sept..11 (U. Hitler

escorted through his huge aircraft|® 5

Father and Seven Sons in the Navy

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CONGRESSHEN OF RADIO TALK

Speech Tonight to to Leave Na Questions Unanswered, Early Declares.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U. P.)" —Usually trustworthy sources said today that President Roosevelt’s world-wide address tonighf will declare that the United States will take whatever action is neces fary to protect shipments to Enge nn .

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt in a momentous radio address tonight will give the Amer=

§ |ican people the cold, hard

Hoisted on. the shoulders of his seven sons: after c olntig the U. S. Navy, Clarence Patten Sr., waves this salute: from the deck of the U. S. S. Nevada. Left to right: Ted, Ray, Al, Clarence Sr., Gilbert, Bruce, The photo was taken after the Nevada docked in Los Angeles. ’

[B16 SHAKEUP IN

~ FBI REPORTED

250 ‘Agents Shifted After Brunet’s Parties, Says ‘New York Paper.

A number of agents of the Federal

‘| Bureau of Investigation ‘have. been

‘| dismissed - and _ others transferred, ‘lit was reported: today, as the after-

math of a series of parties staged by a mysterious brunet and attended by : bevies : of * beautiful models. The Daily News sald that more than 250 FBI agents in key cities had been discharged or transferred in what it called a .‘“‘shakeup,” but B. Edwin Sackett, in charge of the FBI office here, indicated that figure was too high. “That’s bunk,” he said. Earlier he had said. the story “doesn’t Justify comment.” FBI officials also scoffed sat Teports that girls at the parties pumped agents about their work. It was understood, however, -that Agent Roger Gleason had "been assigned to investigate the parties and that two or three agents had been ed. for i with (Continued on Page Four)

Mr. Keemle communiques

on land and in the air.

Hitler's was, until it was too late halt his attack on all Europe. gle 0 has been made of the assertion that . “purges” ‘in’ the’ army command ten -the best officers, and that morale was poor, Everts have disproved that, Milifrank in their admiration of the tactics employed

Zr, time, Hier Bas TUD up against

effective opposi hs Shel sed di-

|facts of the

NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (U. P)—

The military since 1925 may Hitler will crash. Much has been written about the sheer wi ] of ‘Russian manpow: «Hitler. It is a vital factor, but not the only one.

The progress of hostilities in 2% months of and the position of

demonstra, been intelligently directed and is "backed by efficient fighting mach

by the: Russian command. For the|hard

international crisis in simple English which

swered, Secretary Stephen T,

Early said today. Working on the final draft of the message he will deliver at 9 p. m,

(Indianapolis Time) Mr. Roosev: conferred for 90 minutes this morne ing with Congressional leaders of both parties, giving them a “pres view” of the address. He arranged to talk later with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Soviet Ambassador Constantine A, Oumansky. That conversation also

| was. éxpected to inclufie a preview

tof the speech. Because Mr. Roosevelt believes speech will leave no immedial

| questions unanswered and

he feels no important addtional news will develop tomorrow m

ling, he cancelled Friday's

weekly press conference. “Need No Translation”

While the Congressional confers ence was in progress, Mr. Early told . reporters that Mr. Roosevelt is pres pared to give the American people a cold, factual statement on the ine ternational situation.

will not need translation.”

All four Indianapolis radio tions and WLW, Cincinnati, a; scheduled to carry President Roosevelt’s speech tonight. The : program will go on the air at 9 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) for 3

half hour.

The address, Mr. Early said, wil}: be “complete and all-covering” on all developments up to the hour when Mr. Roosevelt goes on the radio networks. Mr. Early said that the text of the 3000 word address had been virtually completed this mo but pointed out that it was subject to modification as a result of the conference with Congressional leads

ers. Expect No Repeal

As the Congressmen left the White . House they were reticent about their conversation with Mr, Roosevelt. ; There was a tendency to discounf earlier speculation that the Presi dent would ask modification or peal of the Neutrality Act. The last time leaders of both parties were summoned to White House was May 27—a few Hours before the President's lash (Continued on Page Four)

War Moves Today

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

machine which Russia has buil turn out to be the rock on wh

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tes that i ind

It now seems that Russia’s ghting power "was under-rated, just

and Marshal Budenny in the have worked like a Riples h backfield on a football team. "As the situation stands today, main German effort is concentr: against Leningrad in an sffor - achieve one important fore winter closes in. Vor

To tne sou, Budeny 1s ] ing at the Germans alo

will leave no questions unans