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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 170

‘THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941

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at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

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"PRICE THREE CENTS

Sen. McKellar Introduces Bill To Repeal Neutrality Act

52 MPH WIND STRIKES CITY, LEVELS WIRES

SLittle Hurricane’ Roars in From South; Traffic Lights Darkened.

{Texas Storm Details, Page Three)

The diminishing tropical hurricane from the Gulf of Mexico struck Indianapolis today, causing widespread damage to utility lines, disrupting air transportation and sending trees crashing in all sections of the city. The Weather Bureau station at the Municipal Airport said the wind velocity reached 52 to 55 miles an hour this morning. The U. S. Bureau said that a temperature drop to 45 or 40 degrees will follow. Police Headquarters and the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. were swamped with appeals to repair dozens of fallen high tension wires, hazards to school-bound children.

Traffic Lights Darkened The trees and utility poles snapped

across streets and alleys while six |#@

trafic lights went out of order simultaneously on the North Side. A complete circuit of the police alarm system also failed as the storm reached its peak. The Airport Weather Bureau said it received its first warning of the storm last night when reports from the Southwest indicated that the tropical hurricane had tttned north suddenly. The storm passed through st. Louis and Terre Haute on its way toward the northeast where, the Bureau said, it was “blowing itself out.”

Grounds Transport Plane

One TWA plane was grounded here and others were grounded before they reached Indianapolis. Southwest winds of 30 to 40 miles an hour velocity were predicted for this morning, shifting to northwest and diminishing tonight. Rain and partly cloudy today becoming fair and cooler tomorrow also was predicted. A large tree fell across Talbott Ave. at 17th St. disrupting the Pennsylvania trackless trolley service for more than an hour during the rush period. Earlier, the E. Michigan street car service was halted while workmen cleared fallen utility poles near Woodruff Place. ‘The first storm report to police came in at 4.43 a, m, and the dispatcher said they could follow the course of the storm by the telephone ‘calls. The storm seemed to sweep across the northwest and north sections and then turn down through the east side. "| Emergency Crews Swamped Police were called to the First Baptist Church, Meridian and Vermont Sts., where a large sheet of metal was reported ready to fall from the roof. Four utility poles snapped in the 1500“block of Richland Ave. near a school and measures were taken to protect the children. The Power & Light Co. called out its emergency crews, but officials said the affected areas were so widespread that some time would be required to repair all the fallen wires. New Augusta and the northwest section of the County were affected seriously.

Wires and Poles Down

Fallen wires or poles were reported at the following locations: Northwestern Ave. and 31st St. 32d and Washington Blvd.; 4312 E. Washington St.; St. Clair St. and the Monon Railroad; 435 Shelby St.; 814 E. Washington St.; 3548 N. Illinois St.; 1437 Columbia Ave.; 270 S. Ritter St., 1712 Rembrandt; 1400 S. Senate Ave.; Wisconsin and West Sts.; 1100 W. Morris St.; Bloyd Ave. near Rural St.; Parker Ave. near 10th St.; 1900 Lexington Ave.; 10th and Stirling Sts., 2178 N. Rural St.; 4037 Park Ave.; 1102 N. Oakland St.; Woodlawn Ave. and Olive St.; 25th and Delaware Sts.; Iowa and Orleans Sts.; 16th St. and Capitol ‘Ave.; 32d and Pennsylvania Sts.; 1125 W. 36th St.; 3474 N. Delaware St., and 3357 College Ave,

Chilly? Beware

CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (U. P.). —~Why a chill sometimes makes one easy prey to pneumonia was revealed to the ‘| American Association for the Advancement of Science today by Dr. Oswald H. Robertson, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. '" Here’s the way it happens: You get your feet wet while hiking and suffer a chill. Your dropping body temperature causes a little valve in your throat known as the epiglottis to shrink, The barrier then doesn’t fit and remains open. Down your throat trickle drops of liquid carrying bacteria. If you have a cold your throat is going to have many more bacteria than usual, These drops fall into the lung and the germs are free to infect the lung tissue.

Left in Storm's Wake

An orphan of the storm , . , E. Michigan St. near Woodruff Place,

to cut 10 cents-from the proposed

GILL QUITS JOB AT STATE HOUSE

Charles Lutz Is Appointed to Post as Building “Superintendent.

The Governor's office announced today that William Gill, State|2 House building superintendent since 1933, has resigned, effective Oct. 1. He will be replaced by Charles Lutz, 4528 Winthrop Ave., who lost the Democratic nomination for Sheriff in 1938 to Al Feeney in a recount. The announced resignation of Gill followed publication last Saturday of a statement by M, J. Stewart, operator of the rent-free State House lunch stand, that he had paid $270 to Mr. Gill during the early years of the Townsend administration and $125 to Dick Heller, former executive secretary to Governor Townsend. Mr, Gill said that he had turned whatever money he had actually received from Mr. Stewart into the State General Fund and that the money paid to Heller had been turned over to him and that too placed in the State General Fund. Officials in the State Auditor’s office said that the only records they could find of money being turned into the state treasury for the State House stand was $120, which was turned in on March 10, 1937. Mr. Stewart has receipts from Mr.

; |Gill for $120. He said he did not

obtain receipts for the other money which he gave Mr. Gill and that the $125 paid to Mr. Heller “was for the good of the party.” No rent was charged on the State House lunch counter, which is to be discontinued Oct. 1 at the request of Governor Schricker, because there is no provision in the law whereby a portion of the State House can be rented for any pur-

Se. : . Po The Board of Accounts, it was learned, is making an investigation. Mr. Lutz has been active #in Democratic politics for several years. He was a member of the State House of Representatives for two terms in 1935 and 1937. The superintendent’s job pays $2500 annually. Mr. Gill reached today for comment.

STUDY P.-T. A. CURB FOR YOUNG DRIVERS

Recommendations of the Indianapolis Council of Parent-Teacher Associations for stricter enforcement of laws for juvenile traffic violators will be considered this afternoon in a conference in Juvenile Court. : Attending will be Jack Gunnell, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Safety Council; Dr. R. N. Harger, chairman of the enforcement committee of the Safety Council, Judge Wilfred Bradshaw of the Juvenile Court, Police Chief Michael Morrissey and Mrs. Sheldon Goodwin, the P:-T. A. council's safety chairman. The meeting has been arranged by the Chamber of Commerce Safety Council, The P.-T. A. Council’ yesterday urged specific action by the police

|and courts in a series of resolutions.

The council re resents 30,000 parents

could not be

Mayor Predicts Big Deficit If Proposed '42 Tax Is Cut

Defending the record high Civil City budget for 1942, Mayor Sullivan today told the Tak Adjustment Board that the proposal by. “theorists”

$1.46 rate would leave a deficit of

“many hundreds of thousands of dollars next year.” The Mayor replied ‘to the 10-cent rate cut proposal outlined to the Adjustment Board yesterday by the Chamber of Commerce.

His defense of the budget began when the Board resumed its regular sessions after conferring for two hours last night and two hours this morning in executive session on the reduction proposals.

Farm Bureau Asks Cut

In addition to the Chamber’s demand, the Board also considered an 8-cent rate reduction proposed by C. R. Benjamin, representing the Marion County Farm Bureau Federation. ' As the Board reconvened in open Session, detailed explanations of how } cents could be cut from the rate by eliminating some: salary increases were submitted in writing by Carl Dortch, C. of C. tax analyst, and Fred Schmidt, property management representative. The Mayor took the position that the proposed rate cuts would not work out in actual practice. He reiterated statements made last week that a major reason for next year’s proposed rate being 20 cents higher than this year’s was the City’s failure to fix its rate high enough last year to meet all this year’s obligations. . Calls Old Rate Low Even so, he said, the “theorists” attempted to pare another 5 cents from the $1.26 current rate which already was deficient by at least 8 cents. : “Those charged with the administration of the City of Indianapolis,” the Mayor said, “have a great responsibility and those who have no responsibility are the ones who present figures showing how we can cut the budget.” . The Mayor admitted a Chamber of Commerce contention that the City possibly can save $150,000 this year through economies. He said, however, that this saving would ‘not represent a true balance because revenues will not measure up to expectations. .The City needs at least a $1.43 rate to operate municipal services and 3 cents additional to pay its back debts, he said. Three cents could be taken off the rate, but

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By JOE COLLIER Indiana’s organized medicine today officially acknowledged that the defense effort will make heavy new demands on the profession, and planned for a possible general mobilization.

To avert chaos and confusion in

the profession by the indiscriminate absorption of doctors into the armed forces, the House of Delegates of the Indiana Medical Association voted to prepare a plan for any eventuality in which civilian physiciahs may advise on who of their number is to go into service and who remain to care for civilians. The House of Delegates also elected Dr. C. H, McCaskey, 3551 Washington Blvd. a leading Indianapolis physician, president-elect of the Association to take office Jan. 1, 1943. Next year’s convention will be held at French Lick.

Dr. A. M. Austip Anderson pre

CLUTTERS UP BAD SITUATION SENATOR SAYS

Measure Opens Campaign

To Eliminate or Modify Law.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U. P.). —Senator Kenneth McKellar (D. Tenn.) today introduced a bill to repeal the Neutrality Act, which he termed a “mistake.” Senator McKellar told the Senate he Lad two chief reasons for seeking repeal of the law: “We made a mistake in passing the law, as it has done us no good and merely cluttered up a situation that was already bad. “It is in direct conflict with our age old policy of freedom of the seas which we have pursued for more than 100 years and for which we fought two wars.”

Would Arm Ships

This was the first bill to be introduced in Congress bearing on the Admijnistration’s imminent campaign to repeal or modify the

| Neutrality Act so that American

merchant ships can be armed and, perhaps, can carry war: cargoes directly to the British Isles. Senator McKellar, speaking only briefly. on his bill, also contended that the law has been adhered to in the Atlantic and disregarded in the Pacific. He apparently referred

‘to the United States Government’s

failure to invoke the act in the conflict between Japan and China. “Besides,” he said, “by retaining the law we are indirectly consenting to Germany’s claim that she controls a part of the Atlantic “Ocean.”

Recalls Act’s Passage

Senator Styles Bridges (R. N. H.) recalled that he was one of six Republican Senators who opposed enactment of the Neutrality Statute. He still feels it was a mistake, he said. Senator Bridges’ colleague, Senator Charles W. Tobey (R. N. H.) asked Senator Bridges if it was not true that the Neutrality Act was “enacted under the whip and spur of the present Administration.” Senator Bridges agreed.

MULL REPLAGED AS

Durgan to Succeed Former Associate of McHale.

Harold Mull, formerly associated with Frank McHale, Democratic National Committeeman, will be

replaced as secretary of the Public |. . | Service Commission Oct, 1.

Succeeding him will be George R. Durgan of Lafayette, former Second District Congressman: and ‘ former mayor of Lafayette for 16 years. Mr. Durgan long has been a close friend of Governor Schricker and was “an original” Schricker-for-Governor man.” Prior to his becoming Mayor of Lafayette he was engaged in the piano business. The position of Public Service Commission secretary pays $3600 a year. The replacement of Mr. Mull is believed in State House quarters to mark the end of the purging of persons in executive positions closely connected with the old McHaleMcNutt group by Governor Schricker.

Bums' Rush—

If Brooklyn beats Boston today and St. Louis loses to Pittsburgh, the Bums will be “in” with the National League pennant. ‘Details, Page 23.

{conducted by Capt. J.C. W&

_—~

Dies in Capital

G. Hall Roosevelt

FIRST LADY'S

Former Vicar Here Expected To Conduct Rites for - Hall Roosevelt.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U. P.). —G. Hall Roosevelt, 51, only brother of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, died early today and President Roosevelt arranged for funeral services to be held tomorrow afternoon in the White House. : Hall Roosevelt, a war veteran, died in Walter Reed Hospital. The First Lady was at his bedside. She had been keeping vigil there for several hours. The services in the east room will ge Agi on 4 ey pro y WwW e 5 Tinsley, | Army chaplain at Ft. Myer, Va. "The Rev. Mr. Linsley is on a year’s leave of absence from All Saints’ Episcopal Cathedral at Indianapolis. He went to Indianapolis from the Cathedral of Manila, P. I, in 1939, when he was appointed vicar of All Saints. After the services, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt will leave tomorrow night by train to accompany the body to Tivoli, N. Y., for interment. Tivoli, 26 miles up the Hudson River from President Roosevelt's family seat, Hyde Park, is the family home of Mrs. Roosevelt's parents. Mr. Roosevelt canceled all engagements ‘for today except a brief informal meeting with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at noon. He also canceled his regular press conference. Hall Roosevelt always has been an intimate member of the Franklin D. Roosevelt family. He hunted with his brother-in-law in Louisiana after the unsuccessful campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt for Vice President in 1920. He frequently sailed with the President. He was one of the family members who attended the otherwise strictly official

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HINTS DIVE-BOMBING. IDEA STOLEN IN U. S.

NEW YORK, Sept. 256 (U. P.).— Testimony at the trial of 16 alleged Nazi spies indicated today that the German Luftwaffe stole its famous dive-bombing technique from the United States long before the war. : William G. Friedeman of the Federal ‘Bureau of Investigation testified that he overheard a conversation between one of the defendants and a counter-espionage agent in which it was disclosed that Ernest Udet, who later . developed Germany’s parachute troops, witnessed a demonstration of dive-bombing in California years ago. Equipped with the knowledge he had obtained of dive-bombing us practiced. in the United States air force, Udet went back. to Germany and helped in the development of the now famous Stuka,

State Doctors Prepare for Defense Calls;

C. H. McCaskey of City to Be 1943 Head

1942, succeeding Dr. A M. ‘Mitchell, Terre Haute. Repeated warnings that this country’s position in international affairs was more critical than some assumed, precipitated a two-hour long debate by the House of Delegates. At the end the House ordered the Association council to formulate plans and work with all other interested authorities for an orderly method of calling up more of Indiana’s doctors. One who warned them was Dr.

‘Fred Rankin, Lexington, Ky., presi-

. Association,

dent-elect of the American Medical who last night told them that our “early and active participation may be necessary to end the war.” He spoke at the annual banquet at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Dr. Charles M. Bird, Indianapolis,

chairman of the Indiana Associa

tion’s’ M-Day committee, wa. min the breakfast ok

BROTHER DEAD

‘close friends of [9€

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REICH DRIVEN BACK 6 MILES AT LENINGRAD

Berlin Answers Red Claims By Asserting Suburban Guns Are Silenced.

On Inside Pages

Details of Fighting ...... Page 3 Argentina Plot Denied ....... 3 The Wounded Don’t Cry

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Hitler threw more and more dive bombers, artillery and storm troops into battles at Leningrad and the gateway to the Russian Crimea today, but neither side seemed to be able to gain definite advantage. Both sides admitted the most in-

casualties, the battles generally. -dispatches several sectors around

—as much as six miles in one place. Even, London Says

Nazi spokesmen said that the Germans had broken the back of the outlying Russian land and naval gun resistance but that the inner fortress of Leningrad was fighting furiously. London believed that the honors were about even so far in the Leningrad battle but believed Germany may have an eds'e in reserves of fresh troops which can be brought up to attack after the Soviet defenders begin to weaken.

' Stukas Blast Highway

The British reported that a German force of 70,000 men had been detached from the main Nazi drive in the Ukraine to attack the narrow land gateway which attaches the Crimean Peninsula to the Russian mainland. Berlin reported that squadrons of Stuka planes are leading the Crimea attack, blasting relentlessly at highWass) railroads and defense positions leading down into the peninsula. e strength of Crimea’s defenses is not known but it is believed that Marshal Semyon - Budenny reinforced the Crimea garrisons with troops from his southern army before the Nazi advance, cut Crimea’s land communications, Troops also may have been brought in by way of the Black "Sea.

U-Boat Victories Claimed

The big Russian Black Sea naval base of Sebastapol would fall into| German hands if the Nazis succeeded in overrunning Crimea. Large naval stations and shipbuild- | ing yards also are located on the peninsula and the Germans would obtain an advance base for striking across the Black Sea to the Georgian coast and the BatumBaku oil region. ‘The German High Command claimed another big submarine success. This time, it was asserted, 11 of 12 ships in a British convoy west of Africa were sunk. Tonnage of the shipping was estimated at 78,000 tons. ‘The British scoffed at the claim. Ankara heard that Germany is bringing pressure to bear on Hungary, Rumania and Italy to supply more troops for the Eastern Front. Germany was said to desire 150,000 troops from Hungary, 150,000 from Rumania and 500,000 from Italy. Efforts to increase the dispatch of French volunteers to the east also were underway.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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"TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

tense fighting and the highest without claiming any finite change in the progress of

1%, 20! ain feels si 24

over occupied Europe.

German regulars, Stuka plan pro-Nazi premier, Gen. Milan

DRAFT LAW FOR CURBING PROFIT

Morgenthau Says He Wants 6 Pct. Top Bill Ready For Congress.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U. P)). —Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Assen that the

told a press conference today that Treasury experts had started draft-{on ing a bill to carry out his plan to limit corporation profits to 6 per cent for the duration of the emergency.

A selling-wave broke out on the New York Stock Exchange as the result of Mr. Morgenthau’s proposal. Tickers were behind time for the first time in months as prices broke as much as $3 in some “war baby” stocks.

Mr. Morgenthau suggested his 6 per cent limitation of profit yesterday in testimony before the House Banking and Currency Committee on Price Control Legislation. He said today that his staff of financial and legal experts had started work drafting proposed legislation “so that if and when Congress’ wants it, we will have if ready in legal form.” Mr. Morgenthau said he had studied the 6 per cent plan for some months and kad suggested it yesterday because “the complacency of this country called for something like this from me.” “I have been wanting to say for some time that we ought to remove the profit motive in war—eliminate it completely,” he said in reiterating his belief that by limiting corporation profits to 6 per cent of their invested capital, an inflationary trend in the national economy (Continued on Page Seven)

DE GAULLE HEAD OF FRENCH COMMITTEE

LONDON, Sept. 256° (U.P.).—The new French National Committee announced today that Gen. Charles De Gaulle, leader of the Free France movement would serve as President. Ten National’ Commissioners also were named.’ The committee, whose formation was announced by De Gaulle Tuesday night, will serve as a provisional government for the Free French Empire.

profit motive: must be .eliminated| . : grad [from this nation’s defense effort, ‘the Russian counter-attacks with infantry, tanks, armored trains and cavalry had pushed back the enemy

ERMANS FIGHT 12,000 REBEL SERBS NAZIS HURRY SOLDIERS

TO BATTLE GUERRILLAS AT HISTORIC SARAJEVO

N orway Uneasy on Anniversary of Quislingsy Rome Completes Croatian Occupation; France Convicts More ‘Terrorists.’

By UNITED PRESS Unrest in Scandinavia, spreading sabotage in Bohemia

and France and a flare-up of extensive guerrilla war in Jugoslavia today disturbed the uneasy rule of Nazi troops

Budapest reported that 12,000 to 14,000 Serbian: of the Chetnik organization have fought a pitched battle against

es and Serbian troops of the Nedic. . Dispatches of the official German news agency admits ted the fighting in Jugoslavia

| but claimed it was on a small

scale and now under control,

Berlin sources admitted that two battalions of German regulars—

' |roughly 2000 men-had been sent

to reinforce the Serbian troops around Sarajevo, scene of the as< sassination that touched off the World War and center of the prese ent uprising. Reports that Italy had been forced to send in a whole division, about 15,000 men, to aid in quelling the outbreaks were said in Berlin to have been “exaggerated.”

Blamed on Mageow in The Germans blamed the uprising ori “Communist gangs, whipped. up by the Moscow radio.” It was ads mitted that other guerrillas were operating in Bosnia and Croatia and along -the Sava River in Serbia.

There were Sther pin - pricks against the Nazi rul In Rome, Gen. Vittorio Ambrosio reportéd to Mussolini that he had

at the end of August of the Croat zones onthe ‘Dalmatian coast, stat ing that there were no incidents: “worth mentioning.” Mussolini said the: occupation was to prevent dis<

‘| orders by “British-Jewish elements.”

Rome reported that the pro-Nazi Serbian Government has decreed a death sentence and summary exe= cution for all saboteurs and dise seminators of “Communist propaganda.” Sentences will be carried out ,within 24 hours with no ape peal. Skoda Works Blown Up?

Another Rome item told of an unexplained railroad accident which tied up service on the Florences Bologna line‘two days ago. Russian sources reported a big ex= plosion .at a large arms plant in Czechoslovakia which the British radio identified as the Skoda works, Hundreds were said to have been killed in the blast and troops were . reported guarding the scene. Trouble continued in France. Twelve more persons described as Communists were sentenced to prison terms in Paris by the spes cial French “anti-terrorist” court, An explosion at_a large. Bordeaux arms plant was reported.

"AHEAD IN MISSISSIPPI

JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 26 (U, P.), * —Rep. Wall Doxey won the closest Senatorial race in Mississippi's hiss tory, it was indicated today on the

returns from ‘Tuesday’s election. Rep. Ross Collins’ headquarters would not admit defeat, however, and it was rumored that a recount might be sought. With only 5 of the State's 1678 precincts missing, Rep. Doxey had 59,146 votes to Rep. Collins’ 58,380, a difference of 766.

Latest war

‘point,

; exist a month Mr. Keemle

sented as real.

serve to keep Russia fighting well into next year, at least, even if she does have to abandg® much of her western territory in a slow retreat. The disclosure in London” of the extent of Britain’s present and contemplated shipments of tanks to Russia is illuminating. A “substantial” proportion” of production has been allocated to Russia for months td come. Britain also has sent precious airplanes and pilots to the Eastern Front. That suggests several things. Brit-

War Moves 2s Today :

developments indicate that Great

Britain feels stronger and believes that Russia has a chance to hold out for a long time. Britain’s fear of .invasion has receded to a low. The stand the Russians are making Las created secret optimism which certainly did not

ago. Publicly, the British do not

admit such a feeling on either point, because they do not want to create a complacent attitude or slacke ening of the war effort. The threat of German invasion is still pre

London apparently hopes that British and United States aid may.

year; she does not ‘contemplate an early invasion of the Continent, bug will attack, in co-operation with Russia, from the east instead of the west, Even a year ‘ago, the British would have hesitated to planes and equipment for a ally. It is a far ory from the st of the war, before war pro g got under full way. Even Boer Ww rifles were then being issued to

carried out the occupation started @

basis of nearly complete unofficial