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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1941

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

STASSEN ASKS STATE UNITY ON FOREIGN STAND

Forget Partisanship, Bar Group Is Told; Patterson To Speak Tonight.

(Photo, additional Bar Association news, Page Three.)

The States—regardless of geographical location or partisanship— must unite in support of the Federal Government’s foreign policy, Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota declared today. Governor Stassen, who is a Republican and whose home, State is an isolationist stronghold, addressed the opening session of the National Association of Attorneys General meeting in the State House. He also urged that “we make every possible co-operative contribution to the effective and rapid building and production of the means of national defense, and maintain “strong and efficient State governments as one of the safeguards of the future liberty of our people.”

Federal Job, He Says

Governor Stassen said through all the years, there never has been any question but that it is the province of the Federal Government to conduct our foreign relations and determine -our foreign policy. “This has been obviously sound from the viewpoint of the people since unity in foreign affairs is vital to their successful conduct,” said the Governor. “This basic principle should be clearly recognized by all of the State Governments in the present critical hour. It should ‘be the constant effort of the Governments of the several States to support the duly established foreign policies of the

- Federal Government.

States Can Aid in Unity

“Within our states, we can do much to build that unity which will present to the world an unbroken front backed by a depth of solid determinattion. In times such as these, any policy of this nation will carry with it risks and dangers and uncertainties. Buf none of these threats would be as great as would be the danger if we became divided and torn by controversy between the peoples of the several states.” But he warned that this same vital need for unity also places an added responsibility on the Federal Government to so conduct its affairs as to make that unity easier to secure and maintain.

HEART ATTACK FATAL TO SENIOR HITCHCOCK

OLD WESTBURY, N. Y., Sept. 30 (U.P.) —Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 80, former internationally famous polo player and trainer of steeplechasing horses, died yesterday of a heart attack. : He was a member of the first American international polo team, which lost to the British at Newport, L. I., in 1886. He # survived by two sons, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., famous polo star and World War aviator of Sands Point, N. Y., and Francis C. E. Hitchcock of Palm Beach, Fla, and a daughter, Mrs. J. Averill Clark of Old Westbury. :

CLEVELAND DEFENSE FACTORY IS AFLAME

CLEVELAND, Sept. 30 (U. P.).— Fire swept through the plant of the

..National Bronze and Aluminum?

Foundry .Co. today and flames spread quickly to nearby residences

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ported afire and others were threatened. : The plant which employs 1000 men on three shifts has been pro- - ducing aluminum castings for airplane and tank parts and has other defense orders.

All fire fighting equipment on the city's east side was sent to the

factory.

FIRE DESTROYS LUMBER YARD

BEDFORD, Ind., Sept. 30 (U. P). —The J. R. Black Lumber Co. was destroyed by fire last night, wih 38

estimated loss of $35,000 to The was ignited tanks nearby. °

origin undetermined. from the lumber yard fire an abandoned warehouse which threatened : gasoline storage

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The casting plant which will house the huge furnaces.

WARNS U. S. OF ‘ARDUOUS WAR

Severe National Discipline Ahead, F. D. R. Adviser Tells Lawyers.

: By WILLIAM CRABB The United States is about to undertake an “arduous war,” and the most severe discipline in our national life will need to be imposed, Grenville Clark, prominent New York attorney and unofficial adviser to President Roosevelt, said here today. Mr. Clark, former chairman of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Bill of Rights, addressed the Junior Bar Conference in the Claypool Hotel. He said he arrived at this conclusion through the following steps: 1. That a great majority of the American people sufficiently value their free institutions to fight for them if and when they realize these institutions are seriously endangered. 2. That a clear majority already have made up their minds that the threat of a Nazi-dominated world is real and near and that there is no reasonable assurance that this domination will not come to pass unless we enter the war actively and in strength. . : 3. That the line of policy which we have adopted and are now following (material aid to democracies) is ineffective to prevent a totalitarian victory. “There is,” Mr. Clark said, “no assurance and prospect that anything but disaster to our national interests can come out of this war tinless we enter it in full strength. “It is only thus, it seems ‘plain (Continued on Page. Two)

MAYOR NAMES 7 FOR RENT SURVEY HERE

Committee Appointed at U. S. Agency’s Request.

Mayor Reginald Sullivan today named. a Fair Rent Committee of seven to study the Indianapolis rental situation. The committee was appointed at the formal -request of the Fair Rent section, Office of Price Administration and Commodity Supply, at Washington. The committee will serve six months so that any changes required by legislation now pending in Congress on fair rents can be applied. The Mayor appointed the Rev. Frank 8S. C. Wicks, retired pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church, chairman. Other members are Miss Mae Belcher, secretary of the Phyllis Wheatley branch of the Y. W. C. A; Adolph Fritz, State Federation of Labor secretary; Thomas E. Grinslade, Indianapolis Real Estate Board member and Republican member of the Legislature; Remer, O. Jefferson, housing committee chairman of the United Automobile Workers of America, Local 226; W. R. Sinclair, president. of Kingan & Co. and William P. Snethen, Apartment Owners’ Association secretary.

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The Mayor said the committee probably would not begin to function until a representative of the Fair Rent Section comes

in the next two weeks to instruct it.

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Sales Spurt on Eve of New Tax

Local merchants reported today that there has been “a noticeable increase in sales” in the past few weeks due to the pending 10 per cent Federal excise tax which becomes effective tomorrow. The greatest increase was reported in fur business. Fur dealers reported a 400 per cent increase. However, liquor and jewelry salesmen, while reporting that there had been heavier purchasing in the past “several weeks,” said that the trend was “just noticeable.” In New York .a just-before-: Christmas atmosphere prevailed. Dealers estimated they sold. 31,000,000 worth of whisky yester-

Ye. Stores reported total sales in taxable items ranging from 50 to 100 per cent greater than last year - at this time. :

ENGINEER KILLED IN TROOP TRAIN WRECK

Marines on Board Escape With Slight Injuries.

CHARLESTON, N. C,, Sept. 30 (U. P.).—An Atlantic Coast Line train carrying more than 500 Marines, ran into a freight near Oakley, S. C, today, killing the engineer of the troop train and. seriously injuring two crewmen, the railroad reported. Except for bruises and slight cuts, none of the Marines was injured, according to. the railroad. An empty wooden coach between the tender and the troop cars absorbed the shock of the collision, the railroad said. : . Engineer G. J. Glaus was the only fatality, dying from burns. The contingent of Marines was en route from the Parris Island, 8S: C, Marine base to New River, S. C. The troop train engine plowed into the rear cars of the freight, which was stopped waiting for a siding switch to be opened.

DENIES BUDENNY KILLED MOSCOW, Sept. 30 (U. P.)—~— S. A. Lozovsky, ‘Soviet press spokesman, scoffingly said tonight that a German report of the execution of Marshal Semyon Budenny, for having been defeated in the Ukraine “contains less truth than Goebbels has conscience.”

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By HARRY FERGUSON . United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—This is a cosmic essay, written from a dynamic stance with the assistance of the laws of gravity. : ‘It is cosmic and dynamic because the typewriter is firmly anchored and cannot move. You cannot use the cosmic punch and the dynamic stance if your opponent moves. How do I know that? Because Lou Nova told me so. Yes, sir, the man who made the cosmic punch and the dynamic stance famous sat on a table in his dressing room after last night's

Louis had been churlish enough to put one foot in front of the other, swing his arms occasionally, duck, sidestep and, in other ways, move around the ring. . Sabotage, that’s what it was.

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PROUD WORKERS HOIST U.S. FLAG

Expect 3000 to Be Punching Out Cartridge Cases Early in April.

By SAM TYNDALL A small American flag waved today from atop. one corner of the sprawling steel framework that is to be the giant new brass and cartridge case plant on Holt Road, The steel workers -themselves planted the flag there to express their pride in completing the structural steel job two weeks ahead of schedule. This “ahead of the deadline” progress at the Bridgeport Brass Co.’s mill, %was reported today by officials of Stone & Webster Engineering Co., the construction boss, who disclosed — for the first time — details about the city’s newest defense industry. Work Began June 5

The severe timetable for the plant construction—set by the Army Ord-. nance Department—begins last June 5 when a steamshovel geuged out the first scoop of dirt at the weedcovered fleld down near Mars Hill. Last Sunday night workers swung the last steel “I” beam into position completing the steel job two weeks in advance. As is the custom out there when the boys strike a blow for Uncle Sam—however small— workers scaled the steel structure early Monday and hoisted the flag. It will remain there for a time to remind other work crews that now their job, too, has been moved up two weeks. . Sc today—as the steel hoisting cranes began leaving the plant site —workmen began closing the gawking plant skeleton and Stone & Webster officials say it will be closed in by Nov. 1—two weeks ahead of the timetable. . Then the biggest job will begin— (Continued on Page Two)

VANNUYS TO RENEW |

SMITH .OUSTER MOVE

Times Special : WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—New moves in the effort of Senator Frederick VanNuys (D.- Ind.) to oust Will ‘H. ‘Smith as Internal Revenue Collector at Indianapolis are expected today as the result of a conference here between the Senator and Glenn VanAuken, Indianapolis attorney. The latter has been recommended by the Senator as Mr. Smith's successor, but so far the Treasury has refused -to remove Mr. Smith.

Champ a Foe of Science, Wa Joe Smashes His Cosmic Punch to Atoms

plane or throw a brick at Edison’s first light bulb.

development of science he should have stood there, rooted like an ancient elm, and allowed Nova to develop his theories on a stationary target. Nova sat on a table while they cut the laces off his shoes and stanched the blood that flowed from above

his right eye.

an old meanie cracked: “Say, Lou, how about the cosmic punch and the dynamic stance?”

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Bridgeport Brass Co. Steel Structure Completed Two Weeks Early

Looking down from the roof of the fabricating plant.

Find New Prints Of Lost Child

CONWAY, N. H, Sept. 30 (U. P.) .—Additional tiny footprints were discovered on the shores of Iona Lake today and Mrs. Joseph E. Hollingworth said this gave her “new hope” that her 5-year-old daughter Pamela would be found alive despite two days’ exposure in a frosty mountain wilderness. : “Perhaps it is a forlorn hope, but both my husband and I are still trying to be optimistic,” she said. . “It’s been pretty cold in the woods since Pammy got lost Sunday, but the weather hasn't been too bad.” Despite the words of cheer sent the mother, chilled possemen doubted Pamela could have found «any shelter that would protect her against the 24-degree cold.

SAYS COURT HOUSE FLOOR MAY FALL

Harding Warns Council of Tons of Records.

County officials were warned today that there is danger of part of the fourth floor of the Court House collapsing under the weight of many tons of record books. William M. Harding Jr., County

the section housing the books was in bad condition and that “something should be done before these records crash all the way down through the building.” This led to a general discussion among Commissioners and Councilmen regarding a possible plan for the construction of a new wing to the present building. Commissioners and Councilmen also discussed the possibility of building an underground vault on the north side. a. : County officials generally agreed, however, that no plans for a new wing could be started this year because of lack of funds.

‘A GIFT,” ANN SAYS

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 30 (U. P.).— Actress. Ann Sheridan today wore a diamond ring given her by actor George Brent, but that doesn’t mean, she said, that she is engaged to him. . “It's simply a gift,” she said. Mr. Brent had no comment, : &

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This ardent student of science repaired to Louis’ dressing room to inquire whether Joe had taken up the practice of Yogi. . One Yogi exercise is to stand on the head so the blood can circulate freely.

five or six seconds.

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ITALIANS SHELL SLAVIC REBELS

Thousands of Czechs Are Arrested and 24 Are Executed.

LONDON, Sept. 30 (U. P)— Mounting unrest in Axis-occupied Europe brought Russian reports today that Italian fleet units had bombarded rebellious Montenegrin towns ‘and coast and that thousands of Czechs Lave been arrested by Nazi secret police. ; : * The Moscow radio broadcast reports that Fascist warships went into action to quell sporadic rebellion in dismembered Jugoslavia. Italian warships, it was reported, med along the coast, shelling centers of dissidence while Fascist warplanes attacked inland villages. Some villages were said to have een wiped out.

New Nazi Troops Move In

The Italian action, the Russian radio said, followed patriotic uprisings in which several Italian garrisons were wiped out and local officials appointed by the Italian authorities were killed. The Russian reports said Jugoslav unrest was so widespread the Germans moved in three fresh divisions of regular troops, approximately 45,000 men. : Travelers arriving in Istanbul from Belgrade were said to have reported that the main Serbian rail line between Belgrade and Nish has been disrupted by guerrilla action and that other railroads were operating under great difficulties,

24 Czechs Executed

Authorities were said to be sending hundreds of Jugoslavs to concentration camps and to have warned that between 50 and 100 of these hostages will be shot for every German soldier killed. An Exchange Telegraph recording of a radio Praha broadcast reported that two members of the Czech Cabinet have been arrested, the Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister M. Krejci and the Interior Minister Dr. J. Havelka. This action followed execution of 24 Czechs yesterday on charges of plotting revolt against the German authorities. Radio Moscow, in a broadcast heard here, said the Germans had (Continued on Page Two)

READS DECISION IN ALUMINUM GO. SUIT

U. S. Judge Says Task Will Require Three Days.

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (U. P).— Federal Judge Francis G. Cafley began reading his decision today in the Government’s anti-trust action against the Aluminum Co of Amerlea, ial of which started June 1, 1 3 . Judge Caffey announced he would require three days to complete the reading He did not say whether his findings would be made public before that time, - The trial was based on the Government’s charge that Alcoa had conspired with 26 other corporations

late Andrew W. Mellon, to build an aluminum monopoly. : Accentuating interest in the decision is Alcoa's role in national defense. .

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‘NAZIS SHORT OF PLANI PREMIER GIVES MOST HOPEFUL SPEECH OF WAR

Atlantic Losses Cut Two-Thirds Since J ulyd Soviet Orders Universal Military Service; | American Arms Diverted to Russia. |

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Russia and said that the Germans would get through the coming winter war in the east better than the Red Army. German ' sources disputed the British reports that shipping losses had been reduced, reporting unofficially that 662,000 tons of enemy shipping had been sunk in September, compared to a British claim that only about 150,000 tons Imad been sunk. Churchill's speech was the most cheerful since he became Prime Minister, although he warned of great sacrificé# to come. The Chur statement of British position came- as British, American and Russian delegates to the Soviet war conference at Moscow met in technical committees to draft with utmost speed specific plans for supplying the Red Army’s war needs. On the East Front the Russians reported that their counter-action around Leningrad is punching forcefully in German lines and that Soviet.forces at many points around the beleagured northern city retain initiative of action. Some 263 German planes were claimed as shot down in 24 hours with a loss of 59 Russian machines. : London was considerably encouraged by the developing Russian counter-action southwest of Bryansk, believing a soft spot in Nazi lines may have been uncovered. The British said there was no. indica-

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By JOE ALEX MORRIS ; United Press Foreign News Editor "

_ Great Britain today reported a more favorable picturd of war on the Eastern Front, in the air, on the seas and in the Nazi-occupied countries of Europe. 3 There were dark and dangerous parts of the picture, as ‘outlined by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the. House of Commons, where it was emphasized that Hitlen

and perhaps swing back west to strike with full power at Britain, North Africa and the Suez Canal.

But on the encouraging side were listed:

1. A statement by Churchill that the Luftwaffe was sufféring a “very serious” shortage of warplanes for battle on two fronts simultaneously, that Britain had cut losses

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has met the full requests of Russia for war aid in an all-out campaign to divert American and other goods to the Eastern Front. : ro 4. Berlin reported strong Russian counter-attacks on the Ukraine front (although claiming continued progress) while Nazi newspapers belittled American-British aid ta

quence in the last 24 hours. re ever, the Ukraine threat still e considered most urgent. Reports sai that a second Royal Air Force squadron has gone into action .in Russia, shooting down 17 of 20 Nazi planes brought down ina joint operation with Russian planes,

210 Forts Captured

Berlin reports from the Eastern Front were skimpy. The High Come mand - claimed that Italian troops. had destroyed a “fairly large” Russ sian force east of the Dnieper ¥ several thousand prisoners. os Leningrad the Germans were said to have captured 210 bunkers in the past few days. Tae

A Nazi spokesman said reports of the semi-encirclement of Kharkov, claimed by the Finnish radio yess terday, were premature as were res ports Nazi troops have reached the Donets River. The Royal Air Force carried out one of its heaviest attacks of thi war on the German Baltic port © Stettin, supply base for German operations in the Russian Baltie, From 200 to 300 planes participates Hamburg, Cherbourg and Le Ha also were attacked and new raids were made on Italian air bases af. Caghiar, Sardinia, and Catania, Sige y. a 1 The British Admiralty admitted that the battleship Nelson suffered some damage .from an Italian aire plane torpedo in the Mediterranean, The Turks were said to have ree fused to sell chrome to Germany.

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Churchill suggests that Hitler 1 consolidate his gains and go on defensive while he exploits the ri Russian territory he has gain However, it does not -seem :