Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1941 — Page 1
FORECAST: Fair and continued cool tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer; lowest temperature tonight about 45.
|Seures—sowaznl| VOLUME 53—NUMBER 171
HITLER'S OWN DRIVE SMA
Germans Ask Italy And Balkans For Million More Troops
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941
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ACT TO TRAIN WORKERS FOR
NAVAL PLANT)
Special School Will Open ‘Here Oct. 6 to Teach Ordnance Trades. A special school to train employ-
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Ordnance plant is to be established here immediately . by the Lukas‘Harold Corp., operators of the plant, in co-operation with the Indianapolis School Board. The school will open Oct. 6 on the third floor of a building at the southwest corner of Michigan St. and Capitol Ave. leased for tke purpose by the School Board. The announcement of the project was made today by Harry E. Wood,
director of vocational training for |?
the Indianapolis Public Schools. Wood said that the Federal Government will pay the expenses of the training; the Lukas-Harold Corp. will furnish the instructors and machine
and maintenance. However, Mr. Wood said, the cost to tke School Board will ‘be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Make Precision Equipment
Described as an “in service” training school, plans call for school of 60 students per day in three six hour shifts. Establishment of the unique school is believed due to the high precision type of training and work to be required of employees at the Naval] - Ordnance Plant. The plant, which is now under construction at Arlington Ave. between 16th and 21st Sts., will make precision equipment for the U. S. Navy. ‘Although there has been mo announcement as to specific type of equipment « fo be manufactured at the plant, it has been reported previously that it will include fire control apparatus and’ a secret bombsight.
Plant * Employ 2500 According to school plans made by the Lukas-Harold Corp. a New York company, the students will receive several months’ training here and then. beisent to work in the east coast plants of the LukasHarold Co. for further. training. Then by the time the Indianapolis Naval Ordnapce plant is ready to begin operations, expected within six months, the newly trained personnel will be prepared to be shifted to Indianapolis. Appreximately 2500 persons are to be employed at the local ordnance plant when full-scale operations have been reached. Machinery, described as the “most precision type” will be moved into the new school building here beginning Monday. Applicants for the school will be selected: by Lukas- . Harold representatives from certain types of skilled workers now on rolls of the State Employment Service Division.
‘FAIR AND WARMER’ ‘FOR GRID OPENERS
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m.... 47 10a. m.... 56 7a. m.... 47 11 a. m..... 60 8 a. m....50 12 (Noon).. 61 9a m....5 1pm... 63
The Hoosier football season will get underway with that good old weather forecast—“Fair and warmer,” the Weather Bureau predicted today. Cooler temperatures tonight will precede tomorrow’s perfect forecast, ' the wéathermen added.
BANK CONDITION ASKED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (U.P.). ~The Comptroller of Currency today issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of Sept. 24.
Ross Wallace, », director of the Indiana Department of Financial In--stitutions, said there would not be a State bank call at this time.
U. 8. PROBES HOARDING WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (U. P.). —Five Government agencies today instructed their 250 field offices to check up on reports that some plants are using priority ratings to obtain scarce materials for non-defense work or to build up illegal inventories.
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Auto News ... Clapper ...... 19 Gomics or pe
Model Planes. 12 Movies ....28, 29 Obituaries . MM Pegler Questions . Radio
Mrs. Roosevelt 19 Serial ....... 35 Side Glances. 20 ‘Society ....21-23 22|Sports ....:30, 31
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Brooklyn Fans
« NEW YORK; Sept. 26 (U, PJ). headache—gnd Hked it
2 BEATEN, $1800 TAKEN INHOLDUP
Restaurant Owner and His Father Slugged; Mother Is Threatened. + (Photos, Page 13)
Two masked bandits held up a restaurant operator here early today and forced him to turn over
and his 64-year-old father with a blackjack, and threatening his mother. : The victim of the holdup, Ralph Wills, 41, operates a restaurant at 577 W. Morris St.- He had gotten the money from a bank yesterday to sash patrons’ checks over the weeknd. The father, George Wills, living next door to the restaurant, was injured seriously by the bandits’ slugging, and is under the care of a physician. The blackjack cut al four-inch gash on ‘his head. Mr, Wills told police he closed his restaurant about 2:30 a, m. and started next door to his parents’ home. He was halted by a youthful bandit, wearing a handkerchief mask! and’ ‘brandishing a revolver, “Buddy, we have got you. This is a holdup,” the bandit said. The restaurant operator offered the bandit $100 wirich he had in his pocket, but ‘this was - spurned. “We want the big money,” he was told. Mr, Wills protested he had nol “big money,” and he was forced. to go into’ his parents’ heme. There a second bandit joined them. Mr. Wills’ parents heard the commotion and asose from bed to see
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Far, far into last night, yea, far, far inte this mornin tion lasted. The beloved bUms had won the pennant. were in the promised land after 21 long,: tedious years. - Men went to work ioday 50 hoarse they.
$1800 in cash after slugging him|
‘Our Bums Done It
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A Dodger fan exhibits his enthusiasm on’ learning that the beloved Bums had cinched the National League pennant.
Rip Shirts
Off Their Returning Heroes
—Brooklyn: woke up: today with a the . celebra-
~ whisper. ‘Sleepy-eyed stenographers hit “0” on the typewriters ‘when they meant to hit “i” and :the boss i say a word.: He was. taking
The celebration’ began in. a mild way last night when the news came down. from Boston that the beloved Bums had clinched. the pennant by - | defeating -the: Braves. while ‘the St. Louis -Cardipals were losing to the ‘Pittsburgh Pirates,
: Breaks Out of Bounds
Toward 10 p. m. the party of 3,000,000 persons in the Borough of
| Brooklyn began to pick up mo-
mentum. At 10:30 it burst right out of the boundaries . of Brooklyn, leaped across the Brooklyn Bridge and’ landed :in Grand Central Station in Manhattan where veteran railroad officials shoek their heads tin wonderment and said they never had seen anything like it. "The Bums were due in on a train from Boston. Some 10,000 singing, yelling Dodger fans were at the statioh to meet them, carrying signs that read: “Our Bums Done It,”
“Moider de Yankees,” ‘Durocher for Mayor,” “Camilli for President.”
They Looked If, Too
* Then the Bums stepped off the {trgin, .and, brother, they really looked like. Bums. Pitcher Johnny Allen’s shirt had been torn off. Nobody’s ‘hair was combed. They had cut off each other's’ neckties just below - the “knots.” Coats and’ hats were ‘missing and nobody cared. A hundred police tried: to cut an aisle .through the mob :for the beloved Bums. It was no go. The crowd poured over the police like Niagara over the" falls, What few articles of clothing the Bums: still had on their backs were shredded. : Finally the players got into cabs and the crowd surged out of Manhattan and back to Brooklyn. A | parade started down Flatbush Ave. ” but it was just a rehearsal for the one that apparently is going to, ‘be
‘held later.
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MOST OF CITY 10 PAY MORE TAXES IN 1942
County Board Raises Rate In 4 Townships; Civil City Rate Is $1.43.
‘The majority of Indianapolis’
the County Tax Adjustment Board at its closing session yesterday. Rates approved by the Board call for higher taxes in Indianapolis in Center, Perry, Warren and Washington Townships. of Indianapolis that will pay lower taxes next year is in Wayne Township. The 1942 Indianapolis tax rates by townships on each $100 of valuation, compared to the current rates, follow:
Township (Inside) 1941
Center .....cce0:....3321 Perry sec0csnegenesee 3.13 Warren ....ceeeeeee. 2.84 Washington ....ee... 2.815 eess 341 3.2206
The Adjustment Board arrived at the 1942 tax rates after a closed session which lasted nearly all day. '1ts action cut 3 cents from the proposed $1.46 Civil City tax rate, reducing it to $143, still 17 cents above the current rate.
1942
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the already slashed Center Township poor relief rate, and one-third of a cent from the 96-cent School City rate.
BALTIMORE, Sépt. 28 (U. P.). —Governor Herbert R. O’Conor today ordered an 8-cent cut in the
for 1942 and 1943. He said that the State now has a treasury sur-
plus of more than $8,350,000.
Not a single wage. increase at the City Hall was touched by the Board, the 3-cent rate reduction in the Civil City budget being effécted by eliminating funds to wipe out the municipal budge? defiicit. In cutting the Schools’ rate, the Board told School officials to make the cut—approximating $20,000-in any fund except the teachers’ salary appropriation. School officials said it would have to be deducted from maintenance or materials appropriations since the school budget does not provide for a balance. : The Center Relief cut ‘was based on a correction in Center Township’s method of financing relief for next year. All Marion County tax rates are subject to -automatic final review by the State Tax Board in November. Before the Adjustment Board went into executive session, Mayor Sullivan protested the Chamber of
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England Fines Arliss $18,000
LONDON, Sept. 26 (U, P.)— The stage and screen actor, George Arliss, was fined $18,000 today after. pleading guilty in police court to charges that he failed to register holdings of American securities worth $52,640. Re was ordered to pay costs of
The Lord Mayer gave the actor 14 days in which to pay’ his fine, saying: “I have dealt with the case on the basis of negligence but it is ‘gross negligence in a matter which should have had Mr. Arliss’ closest attention and the
Penalty must be severe.”
taxpayers will pay higher taxes]: next year under rates adopted by| :
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Gene and First Applicant
Gene Tuaney and Howard Curtis, ‘who wants to be a Navy physical instructor
Sir UNDEFEATED former world’s heavyweight champion, “Gentleman Gene” Tunney, ar= rived in" Indianapolis today to recruit physical instructors for the States Newy,- " Hiny applicant was ‘Howard . curtis, Ann. Arbor, Mich, who is in the Naval Radio School at
White River Armory. A former : Wrestling. instructor at Michigan
State Normal, Mr. Curtis seeks a transfer to the physical instruc~ tors’ school. os Mr. oe and . Lieut, W. I + R., who accomied ! here, were honor 2 inirion at noon at
. Mr. ey will be here tomorrow, at the Navy recruiting station, Room 464, Federal building.
Britain Ponders War on Finland.
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LONDON, Sept. "26 Unless the United States Government through the Finnish Minister ‘in Washington is able to persuade
the Finns to conclude peace with |
Russia, it is understood that the British and Norwegian Governments will be forced formally to declare war on Finland. Today’s Comuiumigue from the Finnish J h Command speaks. of Finn ps oi reached the er Svir_ where: they have cut off the’ power stations - which . supply Leningrad.’ This is the first Finnish indication that the Finns have not only reached the former Finnish-Russian frontier but have crossed it. - ‘Actually it’ has been known in Iondon for the last 48 hours that ‘Finnish troops - had penetrated into Russia past the 1939 frontier. ’ 4 5 oe ne
OPM SUB-GONTRACT OFFICE ‘OPENS SOON
Agent From Chicago Ig Here to Arrange Details.
A representative of the OPM’s Defense Contract Service: in chicago was in Indianapolis today making arrangements to open an office here within a few days to stimulate
sub-contracting. The location has not been disclosed. Its purpose will be to enable primary contractors with Government defense orders to make Silicon
tracts with other firms. .
paying for conquest in the East.
of the Russian campaign to Sept.
Of the 82 death notices listed
Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, Sept. 26—Out of death notices in the German newspapers come glimpses of private tragedy and some idea of the price the Nazis ‘and the rest of the German people are’
In seven days the Hamburger Fremdenblatt printed 82 such grim | reminders of the Russian fighting. Most of them followed ‘the standard pattern: “We have received the shocking news that our brother, son, husband (as the case may be) has fallen in the East.” Only about a quarter of them added “for Fuehrer and Fatherland.” : Hamburg’s population numbers more than 1,000,000 persons, roughly 1-80th of that of the modern Reich. It: the same percentage holds true throughout, Germany is losing 650 soldiers a week or about 85,000 for the 13 weeks of the Russian war. This | figure is curiously’ close to the announced German losses. of 86,000 from the begmning
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Closer examination discloses this total as far below actual levels. For one thing, death notices are published only when a family is financially able to buy advertising space. Secondly, the proportion ‘of ' officers among the listed dead is abnormally high,
in the Hamburger Fremdenblatt 87
were for commissioned or non-commissioned bfficers in the Nazi
State Deathis,. 37) Armies. Oply 13. were: classified -as soldiers, gunners or cannoneers.
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Death Announcements Show Price of German Gains
NEUTRAL MILITARY OBSERVERS differ sharply in their esti- | mates of the ratio between officer and private soldier casualties. The
the Eastern Front, appears to be
about 15 per cent officers. On such a basis, with 67. officers announced killed in one week, Hamburg lost more than 1000 privates in the
‘The same figures, carried further, give the loss figure for the whole Reich in one week as almost 86,000 and for 13 weeks of war more than 1,100,000. The total is again amazingly close to neutral esti-
Of 67 ratings listed killed among the ‘Hamburg nolides, 20 held
commissions, including one major-general, one major, two captains, ‘and 16 lieutenants. Forty-seven were non-coms, with mortality the | highest among lance corporals, 26 being listed as killed in that class. Bitterness. was scarcely concealed in some notices. Several spoke of % son killed “as his father in 1916.” Many clung to tradition with the words “hero's death.” One candidly began, “we must also suffer.” , Another referring to an only son declared; “Our entire efforts were only for. him, It was.our life's duty to make him free and happy.” Many mentioned loved ones who survived-the Bolish and Western campaigns [1°
PRIORITIES PLAN CHANGE SOUGHT
Direct Allocation Favored by ~ Nelson to Protect Small * Businessman.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (U.P.). —Priorities Director Donald M. Nelson declared today that the entire priorities’ system must be changed to: avoid. the “national disaster” of destroying small businessmen. He told the House Banking Com‘mittee, which is studying price control legislation, that instead of issuing priority certificates ‘the Government will find it necessary to
‘materials to. manufacturers. - Under the priorities system, com-
ratings still are not assured of materials, but must - scramble: among themselves to obtain them. So many priorities have been issued that the system is breaking down. “We are going to have to allocate from the top as well as the bottom,” Mr. Nelson said. “Up to now we have infringed too strongly on small business. “We. are beginning to solve the problem now, but up to the present the little businessman has been hurt more than he should have been. We are now giving his, deep ‘problems very serious attention. Mr: Nelson urged enactment. of the Administration’s' price control bill as a means of avoiding “an inflationary period that will completely destroy us.”
CONGERT TO OPEN COMMUNITY FUND
Sevitzky to Direct. Free Program Oct. 5.
The annual Indianapolis Community Fund campaign will be opened this year with a‘ special concert at the Murat Temple Sunday night, Oct. 5. A special contert orchestra’ under direction of Fabien Sevitzky, conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, will present a program for the hundreds of campaign workers and the public. The concert is to be broadcast over all four Indianapolis’ radio stations. The orchestra will be
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, members of the orchestra of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, withy the two groups
American Federation of Musicians, Local 3. The concert will begin at 8 p. m ‘and will be free to the public. Mr. Sevitzky and members of the orchests are Sonrbing their Sery-
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Dispatches reaching Moscow told of severe fighting in rain and mud on important sectors and reported tens of thousands of German casualties from Leningrad to
Odessa. The picture given both by Moscow and London indicated that the Red Army was battling everywhere to seize or hold the initiative, The Germans, although claiming prisoners taken east of Kiev now total 492,000 men, admitted Russian counter-attacks in various sectors and the Axis made no definite claim of successes except for aj Helsinki radio report that Kharkov was threatened directly. ‘A detailed German report on the lines around Leningrad indicated that the Nazis have made little gain recently in‘ pushing their positions closer to the metropolis. They sill appear to be 15 to 20 miles away from the city proper at all points.
Guerrillas Keep Up Fight
‘Behind the fighting lines, Hitler was: reported -in Turkish dispatches to be encountering trouble in raising an army of ‘1,000,000 men in Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia and Italy and to be meeting with continued guerrilla opposition. : Rome newspapers said that German and Serb troops had “mopped up” Communist bands in the Sava River sector of former Jugoslavia after a wave of sabotage and an attempt to capture the city of Obrenovate. ‘The Turkish reports claimed that German diplomatic representatives are working overtime, seeking to recruit new Balkan levies. Germany: was said to desire that Italy send about 500,000 men to the east in addition to the Fascist Expeditionary Corps now in Russia. Italy is believed to have about two divisions now fighting the Russians.
Rumania Discontented From Rumania, the Reich was said -to have asked 150,000 troops, from Hungary 150,000, from Bulgaria 150,000 and from Slovakia
ALLIES OF AXIS MUST MAKE UP REICH LOSSES
Guderian, Victor in Poland and at Sedan, Loses 20,000 Men in Attempt to ‘Break Through’ to Moscow.
‘By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
The Red Army reported today the crushing of a powers ful thrust of élite Panzer troops toward Moscow, which had been personally directed by Adolf Hitler. Neutral dispatches told of Hitler's efforts to raise a Balkan-Italian army of one million men to bolster the Nazi
The Russians said that their airplanes, tanks, cavalry and infantry had joined to break up an enemy drive toward Orel, on the main railroad line from Moscow to the key Donets Basin city of Kharkov. Gen. Heinz Guderian, who was credited. with having made the German break-through at Sedan and in Poland. The Germans were estimated to have lost 20,000 men in the action, which was reported aimed at Moscow: The battle for the Russian Crimea was reported continuing furiously, with an estimated 70,000 German troops seeking to break through the narrow isthmus: leading toward the Black Sea naval base at Sevastopol but London illitary, a sources indicated that the Nazis had not yet made any i
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meeting considerable difficulties in this effort. The Rumanians have four ta six divisions in Russia now and it is known that considerable sentiment exists in Rumania for the withdrawal of these forces now that Bessarabia has been recovered,” Russian reports claim the Rumane ians have suffered heavily in operas tions against Odessa. © The size of the Hungarian force in Russia is not known and thers have been no reports of disaff of these troops. Ankara re that Bulgaria had Peleried the Nazi request for troops to fight Russia and had suggested, instead, that Bulgarian troops be used for occue pation purposes, elsewhere in Europe. 2%
Duce Calls Council
The suggestion that Germany wants more Slovak troops cons flicted with previous reports that Slovak units had been withdrawn from Russia and sent back home because they fraternized with the Red Army. . Italy’s attitude toward the res ported proposal is-not known, The Fascist Council of Ministers will meet with Premier Benito Muse solini tomorrow. Some reports have suggested that Italy would prefer to use her troops in Africa or the Balkans rather than Russia.
WEIKEL GETS NEW JoB
Gus Weikel, a Democrat who. lost his job as assistant director of the State Printing Board when the Res publicans took over. that department last spring, has been given a poe sition in the State Alcoholic Bevers ages Commission. ® He will have charge of the stationary and tax stamp rooms for the. Commission, Bernard oo chairman, announced. Mr, W
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‘War Moves Today
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Prem War Analyst
Unrest and smoldering revolt in subjugated | Europe seems to be adding an increasingly
problem to Hitler's already numercus
The movement in Jugoslavia.
difficulties, is approaching open armed revol§ Mass arrests and executions from
_ Norway. to. the Aegean Sea have failed to force the
STere "| people to “co-operate” with the conqueror vara
Mr. Keemlo war.
‘have to every foot of soil. ual military situation m.|being as obscure as it is, it would be “idle to s
a new order under Naziism. Hitler's problem is this: against Russia, he must finish the job or he is in danger of losing 108 But Russia proved to be a monkey wrench in the the fourth month of the war, Russia still is holding, ' | Germans have been slowly driving) them’ bagk, the
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to Russia, the British evidently have strong hope that Russia will h out for many months.
That impression is stren
on how long|by today’s statement of Minister.
speculate this will keep up, or how far and Bevin, Labor
how fast the Russians will be forced |that Russian industrial “However, as pointed has been hard hit, he in connection Briiish workers for ur