Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1941 — Page 1

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FINAL HOME

[mers _nowarn] VOLUME 53—NUMBER 167

‘ARREST COSTS

SLUM TENANT HIS “BEST” JOB

He Now|

Gets $1 a Day on Farm; Family Faces Eviction.

Walter Taylor was earning aj |

dollar today doing some farm work.

Until two weeks ago he was sup-| porting his family of eight on the|4

$20-25 a week he made as a carpenter—the best job he’s had in several years. But then he was arrested, along with a dozen neighbors, for living in a house that was condemned by the Health Board. He was taken to

the police station, fingerprinted and | !

detained for four hours. The next morning he was ordered to appear in court with his neighbors, The procedure took all morn-

g. When he went back to his job he found another man doing his work, His boss said he couldn’t have his men off duty because it was a rush job. In a word, Walter Taylor was fired.

Seek New Home .

Mr, Taylor explained. He had been arrested for living in a condemned house and had been ordered

into court. His boss laughed at him, told him it was the poorest excuse he'd ever heard. He said “nobody arrests poor people for living in condemned houses.” So Mr. Taylor has been doing odd jobs, picking up 50 cents or a dollar where he could. And in the meantime, Mrs, Taylor has been out looking for a place for the family to live. They had béen paying $8 a month rent where they are now. Since the rental firm hasn't been collecting rent, Mrs, Taylor has saved $12 for ‘the first month’s rent in the new place—if they find one.

Get Eviction Notice

This morning, Mrs. Taylor said, the rent collector told her she would have to be moved by Thursday. or an eviction suit would be filed. Several of the families in| the condemned houses at S. New| | Jersey and Merrill have moved but! Mrs, Taylor said she hasn't been able to find anything that would hold her family for less than $20 or $30 a month. She said they might be able to pay. $15 “halfstarving.” Mrs, Taylor said she had enough! money to pay their children’s school-book rental and buy . coal for her cooking stove. And Mr. Taylor said he was gfe he would have to go on reef.

FDR KIN ILL, FETE FOR DUKE DOUBTFUL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (U. PJ). —The critical illness of President Roosevelt's brother-in-law, G. Hall Roosevelt, threatened today to cause cancellation of a White House luncheon scheduled for Thursday for the Duke of Windsor and his American-born Duchess. The President’s brother-in-law is in Walter Reed Hospital here and doctors hold little hope for his recovery. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said that should death occur, the luncheon Thursday probably would be cancelled.

2 NORTHERN MINES SHUT BY INSURGENTS

HAZELTON, Pa., Sept. 22 (U. P.). —Insurgent miners from the southern anthracite fields, idle two weeks in a protest over increased union dues and assessments, swarmed into the northern region today and closed at least two large collieries in their drive to shut down the entire Pennsylvania hard coal industry. Two thousand revolting miners entered the busy Wyoming Valley by motorcade in a heavy fog at dawn. State police reported that there were no disturbances.

KILLED GOING TO FUNERAL

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. Sept. 22 (U. P.).—Mrs. Addie M. House, 77, Waterloo, Ind., was killed by an automobile yesterday when going to the funeral of her mother-in-law. The ear was driven by Eleanor Myer, 19, St. Louis.

ANOTHER TIMES EXCLUSIVE—

Plan to Test

declaring the Board's interpretation of the law. Technically, the Board was to declare that it has no jurisdiction over a City election since the 1941 law repealed a 1933 law which in turn abolished a city election board and assigned all duties to a county election board.

Test Suit Being Prepared

The repeal clause of the 1941 law is the basis of all legal interpretations since the body of the act itself specifies that Indianapolis should hold an election in 1942. The repeal clause, if held valid, -would leave no 1933 law under which a city election could be held. +, The Election Board's decision tomorrow will be the basis of a. test suit being prepared now for filing in Circuit Court. The action sponsored by both Democratic and Republican attorneys will ask ' the Court for a declaratory judgment to determine if the Board has authority to hold a city election next year.

New Appointments

The case will be appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court for final adjudication. Saturday, Francis Thomason was appointed as new Democratic member of the Election Board, succeeding Chalmers Schlosser, and Kelso Elliott wds named as new 'Republican member, succeeding Robert S. Smith. The appointments were made by County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger, board member by virtue of his office after County ‘Party’ chairmen nominated the new members. . Mr. Thomason then was elected chairman.

DAYLIGHT TIME HERE TO END NEXT SUNDAY

Coming Back in Week.

That hour of sleep Indianapolis citizens lost last June 22 when Daylight Saving Time took effect will be made up in the wee hours Sunday morning. That's when Indianapolis returns to Central Standard Time. Beginning next Monday, citizens can turn over for that extra hour of sleep. Of course, daylight will be coming tater and the shades of night will be falling faster and earlier. And Indianapolis’ first successful experiment with Daylight time will have come to an end. The exact hour when standard time comes back will be 1 a. m. Sunday when

and step backward to 12 midnight. Citizens who are in taverns Saturday night late will notice that the closing hour will be relatively the same. The taverns are permitted to remain open until 1 a. m. standard

Maj. George Fielding Eliot, author of "The Ramparts We Watch" and "Bombs Bursting in Air," has become one of the nation's foremost military authorities. i Histimely i articles, analyz ing the day-to-day war strategy of the belligerents, ‘will appear twice a in The Times.

: Mal Eliot wesk Watch for the First Article ~ TOMORROW

time which is 2 a. m. Daylight Time. When 1 a. m. comes, the taverns will turn clocks back to midnight, still retaining that extra hour in which to sell. Daylight Time came into operation here last June with a proclamation by Mayor Sullivan. City Council subsequently ratified the proclamation by an ordinance.

DEFENSE STRIKE ENDED SELLERVILLE, Pa., Sept. 22 (U, P.)—The United States gauge Co. resumed work today on instruments for Army and Navy aircraft after settlement of a five-week strike called by four A. F. of L. unions. Fifteen hundred strikers voted at a mass meeting last night to accept a company offer of five-cents-an-hour wage increases, time and one-half for overtime, double time for Sundays and Holidays and a guarantee of four hours’ work for employees called to work.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am... ..63 10am. .... 81 7am ..,.62 lla m ... 83 Sam... 6 12 (noon) .. 87

That Extra Hour of Sleep!

suddenly time ill come to a halt |

Election Law

Francis Thomason (left), Charles Ettinger (center) and Kelso Elliott « o « Will rule against city election.

Siatule for 1942 Balloting Lacking, Board Will Rule

Passage of Resolution Expected Tomorrow; High State Court Finally to Decide.

The newly organized Marion County Election Board is expected to pass a resolution tomorrow declaring that there is no law under which to hold a City election in Indianapolis next year. The Board, which was organized today for the 1942 elections, reviewed the conflicts in the new [1941 “skip-election” law and voted to delay until tomorrow morning the passage of the resolution officially

TEACHER PAY CUTS DEBATED

Conflict in School and Tax Board Powers May Spur Recommendation. The question’ of whether the County Tax Adjustment Board legally can alter .teachers’ salaries budgeted by the School Board was raised today during consideration of the seven-million dollar School City | budget. : The School Board is mandated by law to sign individual salary contracts with the 2000 teachers in May for the school year which begins July 1. The total teachers’ salary appropriation then is reviewed by the ‘Adjustment Board in September with the entire proposed school appropriation. An action by the Adjustment Board altering teachers’ salaries automatically would invalidate connats, Adjustment Board members Sal Walsman States: Issue

“Nobody has ever decided whether the power of any board of review extends to the abrogation of these contracts,” DeWitt S. Morgan, schools superintendent, said. “The question in my mind,” said Adjustment Board Chairman Albert F. Walsman, “is whether the School

-| Board should have the power to

contract to spend money which has not yet been appropriated.” Mr. Walsman is a former business director for the schools.

Powers in Conflict

Adjustment Board members and school officials agreed that some clarification should be made in what appeared to be a conflict in powers of the two boards. Adjustment Board members, however, indicated they had-no inclination .to.cut the $4,693,614 teachers’ salary appropriation for next year. This is an increase of $159,447 over the 1940-41 school year teachers’ salary appropriation. The’School City originally adopted a 99-cent levy for the ensuing school |g year. This was 3 cents higher than the curremt rate. Subsequently, the School Board notified the adjustment Board it will be able to get along on a 96-cent rate.

WHAT, ONLY ONE?

Indiana will celebrate Thanksgiving this year on Nov. 20, the date fixed by the President, ‘Governor Schricker said today.

MONDAY, SePfEMeEnR 22, 1941

Entered as Second-Olass

: at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

ITALIAN ‘SUICIDE BOATS’ RAID

Matter

PRICE, THREE CENTS

, SINK THREE SHIPS

{GALE GAINS IN

SPEED, SWINGS TOWARD TEXAS

Storm Roams Gulf; Signals Fly From Florida .To Brownsville.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 22 (U. P.). —A violent tropical storm veered toward the Texas Coast today with increased speed, the U., S. Weather Bureau reported. The disturbance was 325 miles south of Lake Charles, La, and about the same distance east of Brownsville, Tex., at 7 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), the Bureau reported in an advisory at 9:45 a. m. The storm “has turned westward, moving rather rapidly about 17 miles an hour a little north of west during: the last six hours,” the advisory. continued. The previous report set the storm 170 miles south

north-northwest about eight to 10 miles an hour. Precautions against gale winds on the Texas coast were urged. : Storm Warnings Up

ordered raised west of Sabine, Tex., to Brownsville, Tex. They were continued between Apalachola, Fla. and Sabine, The Bureau warned all persons in low, exposed places from Terrebonne Parish to Lake Pontchartrain on the east, which includes the Mississippi

seek safety elsewhere. But residents of the low-lying Gulf parishes, which are sparsely settled, were leaving even before the Weather Bureau issued its warning. At Point a la Hache, seat of Plaquemines Parish;“gcross the river below New Orleans from Terrebonne Parish, residents had stacked their furniture on second floors, anticipating that the tide might spill over the levee.

Move Planes Inland

At St. Barnard Parish Court House, the residents of Shell and Delacroix Islands—T700 to 800 persons—had taken refuge. At Lake Charles, La., 500 Army and Navy planes based at coastal

fields for the Louisiana maneuvers

were ntoved inland.

MIAMI, Fla. Sept. 22 (U, P)— The Tropical storm in the Aflantic, 300 miles south southeast of Cape Hatteras at -1 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), is-moving slowly toward the coast and storm warnings are displayed from Atlantic City, N. J, to Charleston, S. C., a 3:30 a. m. advisory reported. The Federal hurricane warning system, reporting that the storm was bringing strong winds and gales, advised caution against’ high tides along the north Carolina coast.

BID OF $5503 BUYS GOVERNOR'S PLANE

Anderson Auto Dealer Gets 4-Passenger Beechcraft.

The Governor's four-passenger Beechcraft cabin airplane. was sold today to D. J. Munson, auto dealer, Anderson, for $5503. Mr. Munson submited the highest of five bids. His offer, however, was about $1500 below the appraised value of the plane which is equipped for night flying. Bids were received earlier in the summer but all were rejected then because none equalled the appraised value. Later the attorney general advised the state auditor that the plane could be sold to the highest bidder and bids were readvertised for. Governor Schricker ordered the plane sold because he said he had no use for it and that the National Guard, which also used the plane, probably would ‘not be back in the

State for some time.

To Nine by

Taking their cue from Governor Schricker’s warning that drunken and careless driving must stop in

JIndiana, both State and local police

this week-end patrolled highways with new vigor and approximately halved the toll Nine were victims in the state, one of them an Indianapolis pedestrian. For several preceding weekends, the tolls have been much higher. Capt. Walter Eckert of the State Police said that all of his men were ordered to drop everything else and use double patrols on the danger spots in their districts. Capt. Eckert said this was the first time. such danger spots had been doubly . patroled on a Statewide basis. He credited this move with having helped cut down the fatalities.

City Pi made drive on

Week-End Traffic Toll Cut

Double Patrols”

day until 6 a. m. yesterday, drunkometer tests were given to 17 drivers, and from 6 a. m. yesterday to late last night nine more were given. Roderic Rae, head of the police laboratory, said this set an all-time record for tests. Only one driver was found not to be drunk, he said, and the tests showed that one had drunk 13 and one-half ounces of whiskey. In court today, Patrolman ' Roy Conway testified that he had to drive his car 80 miles an hour to catch Herbert Hardy, 19, of 1552 W. Washington St., after he drove| recklessly at Sherman Drive. Judge John McNelis fined Hardy) a total of $131 and sentenced him jo 20 days in jail on charges of enness, drunken driving and having no drivers license. The victim was Thomas . 323 N. Temple Ave. by bt

of Burrwood, La. and travelling]

Northeast storm warnings were] |

River banks below New Orleans, to

shadow, ‘northern Caucasus through Kazak-

‘hstan toward China.

How Blues Te the War’

Troops of the 124th Infaniry of the Third (Blue) Army rake an attacking armored tank car unit with fire on a road outside. of Montrose, La. during the mammoth mock war between the Second and This type of defense helped the Blues to defeat the Reds’ tank army during the first week of the maneuvers.

Third Armies.

AMERICAN SHIP

AT ARCHANGEL,

Far Northern Route Likely To Supplement Sailings To Vladivostok.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (U. P.). —American supplies already are be-. ing shipped to Russia over the North Atlantic as well as: the Pacific, official sources revealed today. A Panamanian freighter with a

cargo of petroleum products and|.

other supplies purchased here Ly Russia was understood to have reached Russian waters near the Arctic port of Archangel after a three-week voyage from an Eastern United States port. ;

The route to Archangel is expected to be used increasingly durings the next few weeks before that port becomes ice-bound, for the Russian needs have become urgent and for the time being this country is concentrating on helping the Russians rather than the British. To reach Archangel, the Panamanian vessel had to travel over the North Atlantic to the Norwegian Sea, passing between American-oc-cupied Iceland and German-occu-pied Norway. The U. S. Navy now protects all friendly shipping at least as far as Iceland. From the Norwegian Sea the vessel followed a route into the Barents Sea and then into the White Sea, on which the port of Archangel is situated. The voyage covered a distance of about 4700 miles. The ship, involved in what amounted to a pioneer movement of American supplies to Russia via the North Atlantic, is a former American freighter. It was transferred to Panamanian registry recently, and then made a voyage to the British ports of Liverpool and Glasgow. It was believed to be carrying motor fuel needed by the Russians in operations supporting the heavily attacked city of Leningrad.

FOUR COMMUNISTS | SENTENCED TO DIE

YICHY, France, Sept. 22 (U. P.).{

—The new state tribunal at Paris announced sentencing of four alleged communists to death and 31 others to prison terms today. Nine women were among those sentenced. Twelve persons tried by the: court, which was set up to hear cases involving the “real instigators” of terrorism, were acquitted. One of those sentenced to death was Jean Cathelas, a former deputy. Fresco Foscardi, hd has not been arrested, also was sentenced to die;

the two others. were Adolph Guyot}

and Jacques Woog. Two others were sentenced to life terms, one to 20 years at hard labor and the rest, including the women, to one-to-ten-year terms at hard labor.

TIME OUT FROM WAR

MOSCOW, Sept. 22 (U. P.) —Russian scientists, working with elaborate equipment, observed a total solar ‘eclipse yesterday. The eclipse cast a 63-mile wide which traveled from the

LAUNCH WARSHIP TOMORROW QUINCY, Mass., Sept. 22 (U. P.).

| play.

Oh Shah, Where Are the Jewels?

TEHRAN, Iran, Sept. 20 (U. PR.) ‘(delayed) —Parliament sought the crown jewels today while diplomatic sources speculated whether part or all of them had been sent to the United States. The. jewels are. the . principal ‘backing of Iranian currency. Former Shah Riza Khan Pahlevi was said to have more than $100,000,000 on deposit in the United States, and it was believed President Roosevelt might freeze his assets on the supposition thatthe crown jewels might have been sent to America. The former Shah is a virtual prisoner at Isofahan, pending diswovery of the jewels. Demands lave been made for his trial on malfeasance charges in connection with promises to break up monopolies said to have yielded ‘him more than $12,000,000 annually,

LONDON, Sept. 22 (U, P.).—Ra~ dio Brussels, in a broadcast heard here, said today the Iranian Government had decided to bring the former Shah to Tehran for trial.

CARDS IDLE, BUMS AGAIN MEET PHILS

Schedule Favors Dodgers In Stretch Drive.

Destiny’s Dodgers, take on baseball’s stepping stone, the Philadelphia Phillies, again today while the St. Louis Cardinals are idle.

Brooklyn appeared in the bette position as both teams hit the i] stretch in the final week of pennant The Cards reduced the Bums’ lead to one game yesterday as Brooklyn split with the Phils and Rookie Sta Musial stole home to give St. Louis a double win over the Cubs. But Brooklyn has only five remaining games, three with the Phils and two with Boston, while the Cards have six contests to play and four are with Pittsburgh and two

Ukraine today,

British bastion of Gibraltar.

aged beyond hope of repair a

A special high command

RUSSIA TO GET

Roosevelt Asks Lend-Lease Speed; Hull Favors Neutrality Change.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (U. P)). —Immediate American assistance to Soviet Russia's armies will be accomplished by diverting airplanes, tanks and other weapons from the British to the Red forces, it was indicated today. It was estimated that up to 500

airplanes a month might be consigned to the Russians if British authorities would ‘ waive their prior rights to such equipment. There

ministration military advisers would be reluctant to agree that any large proportion of aid-to-Russia ma-

ishing deliveries to the United States Army. Ultimate decision on such matters rests, however, with President Roosevelt and his Cabinet. Mr. Roosevelt asked his Congressional leaders at a White House conference today to speed enactment of the new $5,985,000,000 Lend - Lease appropriation and House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack said he expected the bill out of committee by the week after next. Administration Congressional leaders are confident that they will not have to contend with a serious effort to bar the Soviet Union from aid under future Lend-Lease apr | Propriations. Even if the Red Army were excluded from the benefits of the new bill, it would be possible to give the Soviet Union help from last year’s Lend-Lease appropriation. Both Mr, McCormack and Speak-' er Sam Rayburn sdid that the question of neutrality revision or repeal was not mentioned, although Secretary of State Cordell Hull said at his press conference today that he favored substantial modification of the act. Mr. Roosevelt returned this morn-

with the Cubs.

ing from a Hyde Park week-end.

the campaign. Mr. Keemle

vanced German lines.

War Moves Today By LOUIS F. KEEMLE |

It was three months ago today that Hitler's armies smashed inte Russia, and as the fourth month of the war opens, the Russians appear to be in a more difficult position than at any time during

Allied military observers admitted Russia's situation to ‘be perilous but did not concede that it is hopeless. The Russians still are holding well in the Leningrad area, at Smolensk fronting Moscow, and at Odessa, the Black Sea stronghold far to the west of the ad-

Otherwise, the position in the Ukraine is distinctly unfavorable to

the Russians. The situation in the region east of captured Kiev, is none. too clear, and the sweeping, conflicting claims of Berlin and Moscow do not tend to clarify it. The unknown quantity in this Ukraine area is the disposition of Marshal Budenny’s forces and their ability to break through the Germans east of Kiev and fight a rearguard action in a slow retreat towards Kharkov. It is a favorable Russian’ method against:

—The $75,000,000 ‘battleship Massawill be ig at the

superior}

force. The rapidity of the German

German sweep towards the Don. It has been suggested in London that the swift fall of Kiev in the

fina] days of the German drive in-|

dicates Budenny withdrew his main body of troops intact, forseeing the

fall of the city and seeking to void |

British, Germans Also Claim Naval Coupsj Berlin Reports 30 Red Divisions Broken;

Bulgarian War Entry Seems Near.

‘By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Sea war stole the show from the German mop up in the

The Italian High Command claimed that a fleet of tiny, one or two-man suicide torpedo boats had slipped over the massive booms and other defenses protecting the great

Rome's extraordinary communique claimed that Italian torpedoes sent three British ships to the bottom and dam-

fourth ship.

The Gibraltar attack apparently was a sea maneuver of daring almost equaling the feat of a Nazi submarine coms |mander in slipping into the Scapa Flow in the early weeks of the war, It was conducted on identical lines with an Italian torpedo attack on the British Central Mediaterranean sea base of Malta July 25. The British scoffed at the Italian claims of sinkings in the Malta attack and asserted all of the fase cists torpedo crews were killed or captured. The Admiralty London mage no immediate comment on the new Rome claim,

Report Successes in Atlantic

Berlin claimed new successes against British shipping in the Atlantic, particularly around Iceland and started an all-out attack to sink the Russian Baltic and Black Sea fleets,

British Home Fleet base of

communique claimed German

‘| submarines had attacked two British Atlantic convoys, sinks ing 13 ships, including two tankers, for a total of 82,500 tons; the German DNB news agency placed the week's sinkings at 250,300 tons, including 164,000 tons in Iceland waters and a big tanker sunk 1000 miles off the French coast, apparently close to the U. S. security zone, by a Nazi bomber. German sources said about 13 Russian warships—there

may have been some duplication in the reports—have been damaged or sunk in the opens ing of .an offensive to crush

the south Balti ond {Black Sea fleets. w The toll was said to include dame age to the 23,000-ton battleship Oce tober Revolution and the fast 8800-

a cruiser, two destroyers and other: Russian warships were reported sunk.

British Attend Convoy The British also made claims of

was some reason to believe that Ad-

terial should be obtained by dimin-|.

air-sea victories. The Admiralty announced that submarines in the Mediterranean had attacked last Thursday an Italian convoy carrying reinforcements to Libya and had sunk one ship “similar to” the 24,469-ton luxury liner Vulcania, sent another almost as large to the bottom and demaged a third. Royal Air Force headquarters at Cairo claimed a successful bombing attack on an Italian destroyer and said that two large Italian schooners had also been. blown out of the water.

On Inside Pages

Details of Fighting Boom Bringing Growing Pains 3 The Wounded Don’t Cry. The Gallup Poll.........co00..

In the Baltic Sea, German naval landing parties finally succeeded in capturing the Russian islands of Muhu and Oesel and, according to Stockholm, were today attacking Dagoe, the last Soviet stronghold: Zi ihe enfrance to the Gulf of Fine d :

In land fighting, the Germans reported that 30 Red Army divie sions, possibly 300,000 to 450,000 men, have been destroyed in the big Kiev campaign and that violent Russian attempts to escape from the encirclement area have failed,

Bulgaria On the Spot

The “cutting up” of four Russian es trapped east of Kiev was vid to be proceeding rapidly despite persistent Russian: efforts, backed by tanks and other heavy weapons, to crush the Nazi steel ring. London believed that the Gers mans were reinforcing and reorgan= izing their Ukraine spearheads at the fastest possible speed in an at= tempt to crush Soviet powers of resistance before American and British aid can become effective. Reports indicated that Bulgaria may be teetering on the verge of entry into the war, either to join Germany in a new Black Sea ate tack on Russia or in a Nazi move on Turkey. These reports apparently resulted from the ‘successes scored by the Nazis in the Ukraine. Some British rumors said that King Boris of Bul= garia had just returned from a cone ference with Hitler and that Bul= garia had decided on some kind of fuller co-operation with Germany, This was denied in Berlin.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

being trapped. The fate of Bu-|F:

denny’s army should have an im-

portant bearing on the line-up for|Financial

this winter.

Unless Leningrad and Moscow fall, the line ign extend southeastward

ton cruiser Kirov. In the Black Sea .