Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1941 — Page 1
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Catholic Church Starts To Strike Back At Nazi
Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, Sept. 27.—The Roman Catholic Church once again has collided headon with the S. S. (Hitler elite guard) and the Gestapo in the conflict: which may develop into a showdown in
the Reich.
It must be mediately emphasized that the dispute involves no church pronouncement on Nazi foreign policy or the war with Russia
and England but is confined exclusively to internal affairs.
It has
the most far-reaching implications, however. Continued persecutions of church institutions forms the background. Convents, monasteries, and schools have been closed and
their membership scattered and religious festivals. is now striking back.
restrictions have been placed on
The church, for a long time relatively silent,
The leader is Count von Galen, Bishop of Muenster and repre-
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,
sentative of an old, aristocratic Westphalian family. Whether the movement stems from a joint decision of German church leaders or the individual determination of the bishop to accept martyrdom is unknown. It is believed hardly possible that he is acting without the sanction of his superiors. : # 2 #8 ® 8 = AN HISTORICAL ACCIDENT contributed to make Muenster the center of the outbreak. During the Thirty Years’ War the city was threatened with destruction by fire but saved by a fortuitous wind. The anniversary, celebrated annually with solemn religious festival, was banned this year. That night British bombers ‘again fired the city. The devout saw this as divine punishment for failure to observe the rites.
Bishop Galen subsequently preached three powerful sermons and
addressed personal protests to ranking members of the Nazi regime,
including Hitler. Only Dr. Hans Heinrich Lammers, head of the Reich Chancellery, replied, saying merely that the protest had been referred . to the “competent official’—Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler. The Bishop returned to Dr. Lammers a full report on Gestapo and S. S. activities insisting that they be called to‘account. His first sermon on July 13 likewise dealt with Gestapo persecutions and mentioned the dread secret police by name. Its directness astounded listeners. The Bishop noted the large part the church had played in the historical development of Germany and accused Himmler's organizations of disrupting the national community (the Volksgemeinschaftun), all a sn = : BISHOP GALEN drew heavily from the so-called Fuldaer, or pastoral letter, dated one week earlier, in which the German bishops without specific reference to the Nazis had said that forces in the Reich
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Persecution were again attacking the church. They had hoped, said the letter,. that the “crusade” against Russia would mean a respite for German churches but “with great sorrow” they had found this to be untrue,’ The issues involved, said the letter, included the very existence of the church. “Recently,” the letter eontibued, “a book has been prepaioh in hundreds of thousands of copies, which expresses the opinion that we. Germans today must elect between Christ and the German volk. With flaming indignation we German Catholics deny that any such choice is necessary. We love our German people and serve them, if neces sary, to death. But at the same time we live and die for Christ sd
will remain bound to him now and for all eternity.”
Bishop Galen’s second sermon, July 27, is reported to have been a beautifully worded, powerful elaboration on a similar theme, again {Continued on Page Two)
‘MILLION REDS DESTROYED'—BERLIN
LAWYERS WILL HOLD RECORD
MEETING HERE
Largest Atteridhce Seen in History of National Bar Association.
By WILLIAM CRABB Advance reservations for the American Bar Association's annual meeting which opens here Monday are largest in the 64-year history of the organization, President Jacob M. Lashly of St. Louis announced today. The Association’s Board of Governors was to meet throughout the day to study the reports of various Sections and Committees which will
be submitted to the House of Delegates Monday afternoon.
From 3000 to 35000 American Bar members are expected to attend the meeting which will continue through Friday in the Murat Theater, Rite Cathedral.
Women Lawyers Meet
Mr. Lashly announced that the Association is inviting Indianapolis residents to hear two of the principal speakers—Sir Norman Birkett, one of Britain's leading trial lawyers, who will speak at the Murat Theater Wednesday night, and Assistant Secretary of War Robert Patterson, who will address a din- - ner meeting in the Claypool Tuesday night. Other speakers inc.ude Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who will appear before the Assembly in the Murat Wednesday morning. Meanwhile, the National Association of Women Lawyers opened its two-day business session at the Columbia Club today with reports from the group’s seven regional directors on ‘the activities of the last year. The women were welcomed by City Controller James Deery and Fred C. Gause, past president of the Indianapolis Bar Association.
Guests at Luncheon
The association was entertained at a luncheon this noon. at the Columbia Club by the Indiana Association of Women Lawyers. This afternoon committee chair- . men were to report, after which the delegates were to hold an open forum. The association will sponsor a chicken dinner party at the Abe Martin Lodge in Brown County this _ evening. Tomorrow's program will include a breakfast with Col. O. R. McGuire of Washington, D. C.,, as the principal speaker, and a banquet in the evening at which Albert Stump of Indianapolis will talk. : The American Bar Association convention will open at 10 a. m. Monday with the keynote address by Mr. Lashly and a speech by Governor Forrest C. Donnell of Missouri. This will be a meeting of the Assembly, which consists of the entire membership. Monday afternoon the 192 members of the House of Delegates will
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DUTCH MARK TREES FOR NAZ| HANGINGS
LONDON, Sept. 27 (U. P.).—The official Dutch news agency Aneta reported today that refugees from Holland reported that throughout the Netherlands the Dutch were marking trees from which eventually they hoped to hang Nazis. ‘Trees, it was said, were being marked with the names of well known Nazis. The agency said that according to a private letter from Flushing Dutch dogs were being trained to growl at German soldiers.
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Claypool Hotel and Scottish|
Mother and Son, Playmates
Lina Medina, Peruvian child-mother, is 8 years old.
Her son,
Gerardo Alejandro, whose birth amazed the medical world in 1939,
is now 2%.
They're pictured in Parque de la Republica in Lima,
where they live with Dr. Vargas Morales, physician at the lad’s birth. . He regards both as intelligent, capable children. .
Lost Pilot Ignores Bail-Out Order, Lands in Parking Lot
STOCKTON, Cal,
Sept. 27 (U. P.).—Army Air Corps officers today
faced the problem of what to do with Cadet Vinson Wieser of Ham-
ilton, Tex.
Wieser was so certain that the Army could not afford the loss of his advanced training ship, that he disobeyed orders last night and refused to bail out when he became lost over Stockton.
‘BIG THREE’ LIFT LID ON GRIDIRON TILTS
Irish Clash With Arizona:!’ Purdue Faces Vanderbilt.
Hoosierdom takes to football today as the curtain goes up all the way on the university and secondary college gridirons. It’s pass, pass, pass as the big three of Indiana encounter a trio of gridiron squads who score mainly through the air. The man who originated the pass, Gus Dorais, brings his Detroit eleven down to Indiana to test Bo McMillin’s “pore little boys,” especially sophomore sensation Bill Hillenbrand. Purdue and Notre Dame meet two of the South's finest passing offenses. The Boilermakers tangle with Vanderbilt while the Irish encounter Arizona University.
In the secondary field DePauw invites Franklin to its gleaming, new $80,000 stadium at Greencastle in what appears to be the headliner in the conference clashes. It is the season’s opener for both teams.
Playing under floodlights at Terre ‘Haute for the first time Indiana State Teachers collide with Manchester, 1940 co-champions with Butler in the conference. Butler, in a non-conference game Sn "Xavier University at Cincinnati last night, trailed home behind
a 49-to-7 defeat. ;
But what he did then made the Army officers raise their eyebrows and whistle through their teeth in admiration, He landed the ship in a parking lot filled with the automobiles of a football crowd. He didn’t scratch the plane or a one of the hundreds of cars. The 23-year-old student pilot became lost while on a night crosscountry training flight. He couldn’ find his way back to Sacramento and was led instead to Stockton by the glaring lights in the stadium where Stockton Junior College was playing San Bernardino College. He was uncertain whether his half hour’s fuel supply would take him to another likely spot. so he dived and -looped and wiggled his
wings over the football field.
The 4000 spectators were fascinated by his acrobatics but the football players were intent on their game and did not clear the field. He swooped low over the stadium and in doing so clipped the chimney of a nearby home with his landing gear and tore through ‘the power line furnishing light to the field. By that time he had ‘contacted Mather Field, 46 miles away, by radio. Jump, he was told. “I didn’t want to bail out,” he said later. “The Government needs the planes.” He didn’t have any choice then, anyway. His motor sputtered and coughed. His fuel was gone. So he ‘hedgehopped the plane a few more yards, spotted the block-long parking lot, and brought his ship down on its driveway. He stopped on a dime, 10 feet from the nearest car and 20 feet from a loaded bus. No one was injured. : “Holy smoke, what a landing,” said Lieut. David McNutt, Mather Field. “That used up all the luck he’s entitiedto.
FOR HITS FEAR AT LAUNCHING
OF 14 SHIPS
Full For Merchant Marine Against Attack.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt, scorning Americans “who preach the gospel
lof fear,” today promised full pro-
tection against attack for the American merchant marine.
‘ He bade godspeed to 14 new ships
. {which slid down the ways of ship-
yards on all coasts in the largest mass launching sinc the first World War, The President’s address, transcribed in advance and then played for shipyard workers and launching guests at Pacific, Atlantic and the
"|Gulf shipyards, was the high spot
of “Liberty Fleet Day,” sponsored by the U, S. Maritime Commission
in observance of the first launching |#
of the 312 new emergency type Liberty cargo ships.
Recalls Dependency on Sea
“We Americans as a whole,” the President said, “cannot listen to those few Americans who preach the gospel >f fear—who say in effect that they are still in favor of freedom of the seas but who would have the United States tie up our vessels in our ports. “That attitude is neither truthful nor honest. “We propose that these ships sail the seas as they are intended to. We propose to the best of our ability, to protect them from torpedo, from shell or from bomb.” A transcription of his remarks was first played for guests and workmen attending the launching of the C-2 cargo vessel, the Surprise, at the Chester, Pa., yards of the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. It later was to be reproduced for similar gatherings at shipyards on both coasts and the Gulf. The President recalled that the growth and prosperity of the nation had been heavily dependent on high-seas commerce and general freedom of the seas, and described the current shipbuilding program of the Navy, as well as the Mari-
“| time Commission, as “one of our
answers to the aggressors who would strike at our liberty.”
Quotes Patrick Henry
. With : every new ship, he added, shipworkers of America are “strik(Continued on Page Two)
CLEAN SLATE ASKED .FOR JAILED TENANTS|
The Indianapolis Citizens Housing Committee today petitioned the Safety Board to expunge all records and fingerprints of the nine tenants of condemned property who recently were arrested on charges Jf violating. the housing act. The Committee said that the charges against the persons “do not warrant the treatment of these people as common criminals inasmuch as their ‘crime’ consisted of inabiting dwellings unfit for human abitation for which they paid full rent.” The resolution said that the customary procedure is to notify such tenants of their charge by summons instead of jailing them without warning.
Protection Promised |}
35,000-Foot Leap
Arthur H. Starnes, who plans to make’ a 35,000-foot parachute jump” from the stratosphere at Chicago in a - week or two, tries on his heated suit loaded down with radio, movie camera, oxygen tanks and two parachutes. The jump is being made to record the effects of the leap on his heart and respiration, they being transmitted by radio to an elec"trocardograph which will be located near the site of the jump.
DAYLIGHT TIME TO END TONIGHT
Clocks Will Be Turned Back An Hour Here at 2 A. M.
Indianapolis citizens, in concert with 50,000,000 people in 25 states, will return to standard time tomorrow after nearly four months of daylight saving time. Here, as in most of the other sections of the country which adopted fast time, clocks will be turned back at 2 a. m. Sunday. Although Indianapolis did not start the time change until June, other sections turned the clock ahead the last Sunday in April. Indianapolis Railways announced Lthat vehicles in regular service late tonight will ‘complete their sched-
‘lules on daylight savings time, after
which extra service will be provided to fill the gap between the regular service and owl buses, yah will operate on standard Under the present Cit, rdinance. the City will go on daylight time April 28 next year. Throughout Indiana, cities adapted the change of time to their individual needs. In the northern part of the State, Gary, Hammond, East Chicago and Whiting will remain (Continued on Page Two)
U. 5. ON BRINK OF WAR-KNOX
Position Depends on ‘Will Of Avowed Enemies,’ Secretary Writes.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. P.). —Secretary of the Navy Frank
| Knox said today the position of the
United States in the war might be changed at any moment to belligerency depending on “the will of
® | our avowed enemies.”
“The United States stands today
E | on the threshold of world War No.
2,” Mr. Knox wrote in the Foreign Commerce Weekly, a Commerce Department publication. Urges Sea Trade Protected
“In this position, which at the will of our avowed enemies may be turned at any moment to belligerency, it is imperative that we take every necessary measure to preserve our foreign commerce and the lives of our merchant seamen from destruction by commerce raiders.” He again called for repeal of “the various neutrality acts,” saying they are “a continued obstacle in the way of successful aicl to those countries upon which our future so depends.” He also called for thorough protection of this country’s three chief ocean trade routes, which he listed as the North Atlantic route to Europe, the sea lanes southward to both coasts of South Anerica and those across the Pacific to Australasia, the East Indies and India. There are, he said, two general methods of keeping these major lanes clear of interference—ofIensive and defensive.
More Bases Desired
Both methods, he said, rely heavily on bases of which the United States does not have enough. He said the north Atlantic and Carib-
“we still lack bases from which we can operate surface craft in the south Atlantic.” He said recently established seaplane bases on Johnston Island, Palmyra Island and Samoa will partly remedy this deficiency by “enabling us to use our giant patrol planes in this area.”
CENTRAL AMERICA IN PATH OF HURRICANE
* MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 27 (U. Py i The Caribbean hurricane probably will strike the coast of Nicaragua and Honduras at or near Cape Gracias a Dios late this afternoon, the Federal Hurricane = Warning System reported today. The storm center was about 150 miles east of the Nicaraguan cape at 7 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), moving westward or slightly north of west, at about 17 miles an hour, the system reported.
Biggest Midwest Gas Model Plane Contest Expected to Draw Throng Here Tomorrow
By DAVID MARSHALL ‘The largest gas model airplane contest in the Middle West." More than 200 of the tiny ships with some 20 of them in the air at once. Model planes which take off, loop, dive, bank, climb, and land under their own power. The appearance of some of the nation’s top-notch - model plane builders and pilots. : That's what Indianapolis will see at Troy and Ritter Aves. tomorrow anytime between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. The event is the Indiana Gas ‘Model Association's third annual Mid-States Gas Model Contest, sponsored by the Sahara Grotto. : Last year more than Soto persons jammed the Municipa dberg Pot
WHO: Some 200 model airplane pilots from throughout the Mid- : dle West. WHAT: The Indiana Gas Model Association’s third annual MidStates Gas Model Contest, sponsored by Sahara Grotto, WHEN: Tomorrow from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. (Central Standard Time). . WHERE: Troy and Ritter Aves.
crowd was 16,000. So you can understand it's quite a show to see. It's quite an important contest to the builders, too. The model pilots consider it one of the finest run meets in the country.
Certain entries include builders |
from Chicago, Muncie, Hamilton, 110., New Castle, Rushville, Ft. Wayne, St. Louis, . Lebanon, and
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Mr. Goldberg, the nation’s No. 1 model designer, will be back. Bill Gibson, who won both open events in Class A and B at the Nationals, is coming. So is Jim Cahill, of Connersville, one-time Wakefield International Trophy winner, and Pyare Beeler, the state champ of hio. Besides, the cash and merchandise awards there are five trophies—the
. | William Clifford Rogers Trophy in {Class A, the Comet Trophy in Class
B, and the Col. Roscoe Turner
Trophy in Class C, and the Sheriff]
Feeney Trophies (one to the boy with the longest single flight, another to the girl with the highest three-flight average). There will be plenty of parking space so that everyone can see everything and a public address system will keep the spectators and contestants posted on hats going on.
bean outposts are adequate, but that |,
survivors of the Panamanian steam-
Soviet troops in the Ukraine. Great Britain sought to
as to speed up the supply line Crimea.
tities of war materials were
peared to be in the Lake Ilmen sector, where a diversion attack in the Novgorod sector resulted in a severe battle and a ‘substantial’ success, according to the Moscow Red Star.
Today’s Moscow war communique said that in the last few days more than 4000 Germans had been killed and that 66 enemy planes, 34 tanks, 130 guns and large quantities of other war materials had been destroyed at the gates of Leningrad. Both sides were reported throwing reinforcements into the fighting around Leningrad. Italy to Ration Bread There were many reports indicating the difficulties facing Naziheld Europe this winfer. An Ankara dispatch reported that the Germans indirectly had sought to initiate efforts toward an armistice on the Eastern Front and perhaps a separate peace with the Soviet Union, but that Moscow had quickly squelched such suggestions through neutral diplomatic chan-
nels. In Italy, Premier Benito Mussolini ordered rationing of bread generally, starting Oct. 1. Corn meal
CLA PANAMANIAN SHIP SUNK BY NAZI
Survivors at Portugal Say Sub Shelled Craft.
LISBON, Sept. 27 (U. P.)—Ten
ship Trinidad landed ‘in Portugal and said today that their ship had been sunk by cannon fire from a German submarine while en route to Dublin. (Lloyds register does not i 3 Panama ship named Trinia The survivors said their ship was
Finisterre. They were landed at Leixoes and Oporto from the Spanish trawler Moderno Aguillar and the Portuguese schooner Groenlandia, which picked*them up in two boats 60 miles from Cape Mondego. Three of the survivors were taken to a hospital. J
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST?
. MOSCOW, Sept. 27 (U. P.).—The Government newspaper Izvestia today published a dispatch charging that German “elite troops preparing to cross a river on the Lenin-
sunk 386 miles northwest of Cape
BRITAIN PLANS TO SPEED AID AS RUSSIA FIGHTS ON
Crack Hitler Units Smashed in Drive On Leningrad, Moscow Reports; Italy Rations Bread.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
Red Army reinforcements reported the smashing of crack German units in the battle of Leningrad today. Mos« cow claimed thousands of enemy dead littered the battlefield, The Nazis claimed destruction of more than 1,000, 000
rush aid to the Russian de<
fenders of the Crimea and the Caucasian oil fields as welt
through Iran.
The probability that British Imperial forces would move into southern Russia to fight beside the Red Army appeared to be mounting as a result of the German offensive in the Ukraine and. against the narrow isthmus leading to the
Berlin dispatches said that 70 Russian divisions of probably 1,050,000 men had been destroyed in the encircles ment battle east of Kiev with not even small units able to escape the trap in which 665,000 prisoners and vast quan
taken.
There still was no official word regarding progress of the offensive which London said 70,000 German troops had launched against the Crimea, but on the northern front Moscow reported that the Red Army was holding its lines and making gains in some sectors in the battle of Leningrad, The most important Russian success in addition to smashing several elite German units around Leningrad, ape
also was rationed because the whea® and corn crops, while higher than last year, were less than had been forecast. As a result, the Premier said, there was not enough for both Italy and the Italian-occupied ters ritories. The communique emphasized that
‘(the Premier himself proposed the
pill for rationing, thus putting Muse solini’s prestige with Italians’ bee hind the order at a time when there were many reports of unrest and low morale in Italy. Despite their claims of new suCe cesses the Germans prepared to carry on the war on the Eastern Front through the winter, insisting that the coming of cold and snow would cover the battle quagmires and facilitate fighting.
Terrorism Continues
There were new reports of widee spread sabotage, terrorism, armed resistance and executions in Axise occupied territory. Dispatches from Budapest said that German dive-bombers had de<« stroyed the entire town of Uzice, in former Jugoslavia, in retaliation for guerrilla warfare against the occupation forces. The town of 12, 000 was regarded as an intellectual center of Jugoslavia and was the home of many political figures. At Doboj, 300 ‘*‘rebels” were ree ported killed and 20 pro-Nazi sole diers met death in a series of ene gagements but dispatches to Budae pest said that the outcome of the fighting still was uncertain. At Rozanci, 14 persons were exe
ecuted by the occupation authorities
and 26 guerrillas were reported slain in fighting nearby.
British Send More Planes
In Belgium, 20 alleged Communists were executed on charges of sabe otage, chiefly in conection with dee struction of railroads used by the German troops. Indications that Britain expected to send troops to the Eastern Front increased as dispatches told ‘of greater numbers of Royal Air Force planes, including the new multi= gun Hurricane fighters, in actiom with the Russian forces. Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, Brite ish commander-in-chief in India, went from London to Iran to talk with the Red Army leaders about “measures for joint defense of that part of the world,” it was stated: authoritatively in London.
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