Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1941 — Page 1
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RUSSIANS CRACK LENINGRAD RIN
; ‘Chutist Stranded On 865-Foot Peak
Lands on Wyoming Tower in Publicity Stunt; Can't Descend Perpendicular Shaft.
DEVIL'S TOWER, Wyo Hopkins, who participated in
was trying without any notable success today to evacuate himself from the 865-foot peak of Devil's Tower.
A wintry wind whipped around the craggy cornices of the natural granite shaft and Hopkins was huddled at the top, where he landed
yesterday by parachute as a publigi
He had some food and a rope but the wind was so strong that he dared not attempt to descend the almost perpendicular sides of the
tower,
record. # 2 2 HOPKINS, A PROFESSIONAL turned from England, where he had use ‘chutes. ‘
Hopkins bailed out of Joe Quinn’s plane, drifted unerringly onto
the top of the peak. Later Clyde Ice, a Spearfish, S. and another rope to Hopkins. By that time it had started to hazardous under best conditions.
Only 40 persons have ever scaled the tower and there was no
indication that anyone was going
Motorists from Gillette and Sundance were helpful, however, drove to the peak and turned their headlights on the mountain in case Hopkins wanted to come down during the night. They thought he
might, they said. Mountain climbers said pegs aid those foolhardy enough to scale
took more than three hours to descend. The tower is a national monument.
said; a little testily, that Hopkins’ knowledge or consent of the National
Earl Brockelsby of Rapid City, S. D., who, planned the stunt with Hopkins, said today that Hopkins thought the jump would be good promotion for his forthcoming attempt to set a new parachute jump
had been driven into the walls to
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parachute jumper, has just rebeen teaching RAF pilots how to
D., aviator dropped food, blankets rain and descending the tower is
up to help Hopkins back down. They
it, but that even the best of them
Forest Ranger J. F. Joyner leap had been made without the Park Service.
BLUE TO NAME
Staff Shakeup Expected After Conferences on Party Patronage.
By NOBLE REED Appointment of two or more new deputy prosecutors and another shakeup in staff assignments are ex- , pected to be made in the office of ’” Prosecutor Sherwood Blue within ' the next few days. Prosecutor Blue was in conference with Republican leaders several times this week, ostensibly discussing party patronage matters. He announced today that he would have “some appointments to make,” but declined to say how many or what changes in his staff were contemplated. One vacancy in the staff was created by the resignation recently of Edwin Haerle who was called into the military service more than a " month ago. It is known that Albert Ward, hief legal adviser in the prosecutor’s office since Jan. 1, has been wanting to resign for several weeks. He has said that he wanted to return to private law practice. However, Prosecutor Blue and Republican leaders have prevailed upon Mr. Ward to remain on the job a while longer. Several factional scraps have been stirred up over various administration actions in the office since Mr. Blue became the prosecutor. His nomination and election was sponsored by followers of County Chairman James L. Bradford who has plenty to say about who gets on the prosecutor’s staff.
THREE ARE INJURED IN UPSTATE CRASH
WARSAW, Ind. Oct. 2 (U. P.).— Mrs. Phillip Messerschmidt, 60, Grand Rapids, Mich.,, suffered a fractured neck, and two other persons were less seriously injured when their automobile turned over on State Road 15 near Silver Lake last night. Others injured were Mrs. Messerschmidt’s husband, and her sister, Mrs. George McSweyn, Memphis, Tenn.
LION LOSES TO ‘JEEP’
CAMP ROBERTS, Cal, Oct. 2 (U. P.). — Pvt. Dallas Poston, whose salary is $21 a month, ran down a mountain lion with an Army “jeep” and will collect $55 in bounties,
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'We Gotta Be Rescued Soon’
IN FRONT OF 1249 FARMINGTON AVE, WEST HART--FORD, Conn, Oct. 2 (U. P.).— Privates Onesime Ethier of Barre Plains, Mass., and Ellsworth Cota of Northfield, Mass., stowed away a third breakfast today and gasped that “we gotta be rescued soon.” The boys are in danger of eating themselves to death. Ethier and Cota were part of a 16,000-mian convoy of the 26th Division which passed through West Hartford -Monday en route to Maness, N.' C., from Camp Edwards, Mass. Their truck broke down. The other 15998 men whizzed past. Someone dropped word that a repair crew would double back and pick them up. The repair crew has not shown up. : Ethier and Cota might have starved had it not been for a newsboy, a policeman, and paThe newsboy gave them g paper and reported their plight to a policeman, who brought sandwiches and coffee, The story got around and from 5 p. m. Monday to 1:30 a. m. Tuesday the privates ate six meals apiece and received as many offers of beds.
WAR- WILL ‘RECESS’
Wounded, Ill Nazis and _ British to Be ‘Traded.’
LONDON, Oct. 2 (U, P.).—For a few hours—24 at most—peace will come to the English Channel ‘this week-end. This strange interlude in the blast of bombs, the roar of big crossChannel guns, the drone of airplanes and the: foaming swish of torpedo speedboats will mark the exchange of 3000 wounded and ill British and German war prisoners. The exchange will be the first of the war and will take place across the 22-mile strip of water which has seen the bitterest fighting between Britain and Germany. During the hours of the exchange squadrons of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe along the English and French coasts will be grounded. The artillerymen who work the great cannon around Dover and Cap Gris Nez will stay in- their dugouts or lounge along the shore. The exchange will be devoid of all ceremony. Two great hospital ships will put out Saturday from some channel port and plough
ports on the French side. They will debark German prisoners there
home.
Hove to, Boys! Coast's Clear
HOVE, England, Oct. 2 (U. P)). —This verse was chalked on the walls of the Hove railroad station today: : Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, For time brings only sorrow. Girls you might have kissed today
and then pick up an equal number of British and bring them back
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Cloudy with rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight; cooler by tomorrow night and Saturday.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1941
DODGERS CALL ON ACE HURLER 70 AVERT ROUT
Estimated’ Throng Equals Yesterday's Record as Play Begins.
D’dgers 000 xxXX XXX— X Yanks. 011 xxx XXX— X
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (U. P.) —The battlefield was bathed in warm sunshine today as the cocky New York Yankees and the grim Brooklyn Dodgers started the second game of the World Series. Seeking to square the series and avert a rout, Manager Leo Durocher of the beloved Bums called on his ace pitcher—Whit Wyatt, 22-game winner during the regular season. The game became a duel between two Georgians when Manager Joe McCartHy of the Yankees selected Spurgeon Chandler, husky. righthander from Carnersville, to do the flinging -for the Bronx Bombers. His mound opponent, Wyatt, is from Chickamauga.
65,000 See Game
Chandler finished his 1941 campaign in a blaze of glory, with six victories in a row. His record for the season shows 10 triumphs against four defeats. He has lost but one game since July 11. Meanwhile, Wyatt of the Dodgers, who was shunted aside yesterday in favor of Curt Davis, was conceded an even chance by experts to stop the Yankees. He won 22 games during the regular season and 1086. 10. on ia wn There were few vacant seats when] the clubs finished batting practice, and the crowd was estimated at 65,000. The play by play follows: FIRST INNING
DODGERS—Walker was called out on strikes. Herman bounced out, Gordon to Sturm. Reiser fanned swinging. NO RUNS. NO HITS. Li VYANKEES—Sturm fanned.\ Rolfe beat out a bunt to Herrnan for a single. Henrich walked. The crow:l set up a roar when DiMaggio came to bat. . DiMaggio hit into a double play, Reese to Herman to Camilli. NO RUNS, ONE HIT. SECOND INNING
DODGERS—Camilli flied to DiMaggio. Medwick singled to left. Lavagetto hit into a double play, Gordon to Rizzuto to Sturm. NO RUNS, ONE. HIT: ; YANKEES — Keller singled to center. Dickey was called out on strikes. Gordon walked, Rizzuto grounded out, Herman to Camilli, both runners advancing. Chandler hit- a high bounder to Lavagetto and beat it out for a single, Keller scoring. Gordon also tried to score but was thrown out, Lavagetto to Camilli to Owen. Gordon knocked Owen’s mitt off in crossing the plate standing up but the Dodger catcher Dol the ball. ONE RUN, TWO HITS. ;
THIRD INNING
DODGERS—Reese flied to Keller. Owen grounded out, Gordon to
zuto to Sturm. NO RUNS, NO ERRORS, NONE LEFT. Probable line-ups:
DODGERS YANKEES
Walker, xf Sturm, Herman, 2b Rolfe, 3b Reiser, c Hepnch) LF 5 W 0, C Medwick, - If Hons If Lavagetto, 3b Reese, ss , 88 Chandler, p
Find Joke Book Near Slain Girl
CHICAGO, Oct. 2 (U. P)—A 31 - year - old taxicab driver was hunted - today for questioning after the body of his wife, a brunet dice girl, was found in her: apartment with a book named “1000 Jokes” nearby. The victim, Mrs. Irene Garswick, 21, a night club “26” girl, was discovered last night by Mrs. Gayle Collis, the apartment building manager,
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PLOT TO KIDNAP RIVERS BLOCKED
‘Avenger of People’ Ends Own Life in Trailer; Leaves 3 Notes.
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LAKELAND, Ga., Oct. (U. PD. —Police said today that in the automobile trailer where the wouldbe kidnaper of former Governor E. D. Rivers had killed himself with a pistol they had found a shotgun, rifle, three German-English diction~ aries and a letter from Oslo, Norway, written in Norwegian. A book at first thought to be a code book turned out to be a book on knitting, police said. -All contents of the trailer were held for the arrival of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. He left two letters. ~~ ~~ =~ One demonstrated that he had planned to kidnap Mr. Rivers for ransom, leaving Mrs. Rivers and anyone else who had been in the
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Threatened Torture
The other indicated that he was a political ‘crank and had planned to “avenge the people” for what he fancied were the political misdeeds cf Mr. Rivers and other political leaders. Both letters revealed considerable personal animosity for the former Governor. Mr. Rivers was threatened with torture and death. The man was identified as Horace W. Bikle Jr., former Miami, Fla., and Pittsburgh school teacher. In New York, Mrs. Bikle said that her husband had left a month ago to go South to work for the “America Pirst Committee.” He is 38 years old, she said, and was employed as a substitute teacher in the Miami, Fla., public school : system until six weeks ago when he came to New York. ; . Yi
Rivers Were Alone
The Rivers retired just before 10 o’clock last night. They were alone in the big, rambling house. Soon afterward there were heavy footfalls on the porch, loud knocks on the door. “Who is it?” asked Mr. ‘Rivers through the closed door. The man. shouted back that he had a special delivery package for (Continued on Page Six)
SENATORS APPROVE TELEGRAPH MERGER
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U.P).— A Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee recommended today that Congress permit the merging of domestic telegraph companies, with provisions to protect workers through dismissal pay and pensions. The subcommittee, headed by Senator Burton XK. Wheeler (D. Mont.), also recommended that American International telegraph companies be permitted to merge. But it recommended that there be no merger between domestic and international carriers.
ITALY BOOSTS SUGAR PRICE ROME, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—The Government today announced an increase in the price of sugar of a cent a pound, effective immediately. Before the increase, sugar sold at 18 cents a pound.
Are Taxes Still
By ROGER BUDROW
Most persons know that new Government taxes went into effect yesterday on a long list of articles ranging from kitchen matches to mink coats. : But does this tax apply to a fur coat, for example, bought before the tax went into effect but left at the store until cold weather? Does it apply to. jewelry being paid for on the installment plan? These and similar questions apparently have created a good deal of confusion. Stores have written and telephoned their customers, ad-
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have asked hundreds of questions at the counters. And both have galled the Interna] Revenue Bureau ere. ; The Internal Revenue Bureau, being the Government’s tax collector, has “the last word in all this, It says there is one way, and actually a very simple way, by which you can determine whether you have to pay the tax. It is this: If you took the article home before yesterday, even though you still owed money on if, then there is no tax. If you didn’t take the article out of the store but could
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CITY'S PRO TEM JUDGE SYSTEM CALLED WORST
Plan Responsible for High Traffic Toll, Says Ohio Jurist.
By RICHARD LEWIS
A Cleveland traffic court judge today branded the judge pro tem system in the Indianapolis Municipal Court “as one of the worst that could possibly be put in use” from the standpoint of traffic law enforcement. : ; The judge is Perry A. Frey who came here today to tell the Chamber of Commerce Safety Committee why Cleveland’s traffic toll has gone down while the slaughter here has gone up.
tem is unknown. When he heard last night that any attorney could sit as a criminal judge in Indianapolis, Judge Frey thought at first someone was joking.
Never Heard of It
“I never heard of anything like that,” he said in an interview. “When a judge is appointed or elected, he takes an oath and is responsible to the public. What kind of responsibility would a pro tem judge have?
no responsibility, He answers to no one. : “It is an avenue where many abuses can creep in. And from your trafic record in Indianapolis, evidently abuses crept in.
“Not Doing Duty”
“When you get only 67 per cent convictions or less, the answer is obvious: Your courts are not doing their duty or the police are neglectful or careless in making arrests.” In Cleveland so far this year, 98.5 per cent of those arrested for traffic violations have been convicted, he said. In Indianapolis, it is 67 per cent. Judge Frey expressed bewilderment at the well-known police court phrase here of “judgment withheld” which he found recorded as the disposition of one-sixth of the traffic cases here this year. “Never heard of that either before I came here,” the Judge said. “What does it mean?”
: Always Give Decision
In the Cleveland courts, sentences are suspended after conviction in some cases, but a definite judgment is given invariably, he explained. What Judge Frey was prepared to tell the Chamber of Commerce group at luncheon was simply this: In Indianapolis, a motorist arrested for speeding, running a red light or preferential street has a 67 per cent chance of being convicted to a 33 per cent. chance of -getting off. In Cleveland, the chances of getting off are just about 1%. per cent. “On this basis,” the Judge said, “the Indianapolis motorist hasn’t got much to worry about. “The answer to traffic safety i not the severity of punishment, We (Continued on Page Five)
MISS BOOHER LOSES BEAUTY BOARD POST
Schricker Keeps Two Others Fought by Hair Dressers.
The Indiana Hair Dressers and Cosmetologists Association. won a partial victory today in its fight to oust the present State Beauty Culture Board when Governor Schricker announced the replacement of Miss Lucille Booher, executive secretary, by Miss Ethel D. Staples, Greensburg. > . The Governor reappointed “the two other members, Dr. Daniel L. Bower, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Edith Wedekind, Logansport, president and vice president of the board, respectively. Y Miss Staples, who has been an inspector for the board since 1935, is a member of the Beauty Culturists’ Union 247 B, &n A. F. of L, affiliate. Miss Booher also was a member of this organization. The Hair Dressers and Cosmetologists Association won a major point in its fight to change the present procedure of the board
Governor, that hereafter all physi cians who are members of the In diana State Medical Association would be eligible to make examinations for beauticians, who are required to have an annual physical examination. : Heretofore, certain physicians had been designated in each locality to give the examinations and a flat fee of $4 was charged. Under the Board’s new ruling, there will be no set fee fop the examination, re —————— A SSS
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130 CZECHS DIE BY FIRING SQUAD
Britain and Russia Seek to Create More Unrest Inside Italy.
, By UNITED PRESS Firing squads boosted the total of executions in Czechoslovakia to about 130 today as Great Britain and the Soviet Union sought to intensify opposition to Axis rule in Italy and occupied Europe. : ‘The toll of dead due to executions and punitive measures in Nazi-held areas was mounting into the hundreds, apparently . without diminishing oppositionist activities, and it was reported that London and Moscow believed a special: effort should be made to organize resistance to the Germans in Italy. A Moscow broadcast, heard by the Columbia Broadcasting System, said that one of the largest textile mills
burned and that cotton warehouses were destroyed by the fire. Thousands of arrests and repressive measures that included execution of political and military leaders in the Czech protectorate indicated growing threats to the Nazis in the Balkans, but there also were two more executions of Frenchmen for “espionage” and of four Dutchmen for sabotage. : The Italian-newspaper Resto del Carlino reported from . Sofia that “a few dozen bandits” were attempting to terrorize the population of the Greek - Macedonian town of Drama. « These guerrillas were dispersed by Bulganian Army detachments which suffered “insignificant” losses, the dispatch said. : It added that “for reasons of prudence” the Bulgarian police had searched all private homes at the Bulgarian seaport of Varna, reportedly used as a German Black Sea base, and arrested 543 persons, including 138 who possessed forged or (Continued on Page Six)
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was calculated to keep hope alive in the breasts of the vanquished. Now Britain and.Russia are organizing the campaign on broader, co-ordinated lines, which is the pur-
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Comment? Not Even on Series, Justice Jackson Rules Here
Rohert H. Jackson, who made some of the biggest headlines in the: nation while Attorney General, has “muzzled” himself since he-took 2 seat on the Supreme Court, he told reporters today. Here to address the Bar Association convention son declared in an interview in his room in the Claypool Hotel that the only thing he could say for the record was:
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“You can say that I am having a fine time, think Indianapolis is a fine city and that the Bar Association convention is. a great success.” ‘ Mr. Jackson said that as a Supreme Court justice he could not comment on the international sitj1ation except to such an extent ‘as he would do in his speech before the Bar Association tonight. “Well, Judge, what do you -think about Mr. McNutt’s chances for the presidential nomination in 44?” one
"| reporter queried. .
“No comment,” he replied smilingly. . “Maybe you could talk about the World Series,” another reporter said. “Which team do you think will win?” “Well, boys, I can’t talk about that either,” the justice grinned. “I haven't had a chance to follow baseball closely. What team do you think will win?” Justice Jackson gave the impression that he enjoyed his work on the Supreme Court and that he probably would not give up the bench for a political career, as it has been rumored that he might.
ANTI-ROOSEVELT PROPOSALS BEATEN
Bar Refuses to Collect Impeachment Data..
By WILLIAM CRABB The Ameri Bar Association today ‘rejected ‘two anti-Roosevelt resolutions and awaited an address by Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court at the 64th annual meeting’s banquet tonight. The two resolutions drew catcalls and boos when they were presented Monday. One would have set up a committee to collect evidence towards the impeachment of President Roosevelt. : The other would demand an immediate referendum of association members on whether they favored war on land, sea or air without the approval of Congress. A resolution asking for the re(Continued on Page Five)
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War Moves Today
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst
The wave of unrest, terrorism and sabotage in Europe already has been likened to another “front” on which Germany has to fight. ‘sia have now recognized it as such and are prepared to go into “baftle” to nourish the campaign and help get it in shape for a concerted uprising when the time is ripe. ; ~The two allies were: quick to seize the-oppor-tunity when ‘the smoldering hatred of the conqueror first began to show scattered flickerings in the occupied countries. The propaganda machines were turned in that’ direction and every effort was made to encourage discontent. The “V” for victory campaign
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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
. The Red Army defenders of Leningrad today were reports ed to have seized the initiative from the besieging Germans and to have smashed across the Neva River, routing 15, 000 Nazi troops. Reports from Stockholm and Lon= don indicated that for the first
time since the Nazi Wehrmacht started to roll across Europe &
porarily—turned the tables on the attacking German forces. . British military experts ems phasized that the Germans may at any time bring up new and larger forces for the attack on Leningrad but indicated that for the moment the Russians seem to have scored a fairly substantial success.
Five Regiments Routed
Reports relayed from: Stockholm | said that the Russians sallied from | their defenses east and southeast of Leningrad in a sharp attack across the Neva River near Schlisselburg. Moscow reports, presumably de tailing the same action, ‘said’ that five German regiments, units of the 291st Infantry Division, had been routed. The force was estimated to number about 15,000 men. : ‘London reports indicated that the Russian , forces cut t h the German spearhead which had inter fered with or severed communicae tions between Leningrad and Mose cow and had formed a juncture with the substantial force of Soviet troops operating south of Leningrad in th area just east of Novgorod. :
Germans Are Silent There were few German reports
on developments, but Berlin said that the Soviet attack mentioned by London and Stockholm had been stopped after heavy casualties: had been inflicted on the Russians. = i On the Ukraine front, the official ' German news agency indicated a | partial recovery of the forces of * | Marshal Semyon Budenny by indie cating that some of them were still as far west as the Dnieper River. : London military sources said that the Germans were making some progress in their offensive against the Crimea, having pushed about half-way down the narrow 15-milee long isthmus leading to the penine sula. 3 The Royal Air Force carried out | attacks on suthwest Germany, cen= tering around Stuttgart, and also bombed © Calais, Boulogne and Ostend. | The Germans revealed that 24 persons were killed and 10 are missing in an R. A. P, attack on Hamburg Monday night. : 3
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FT. WAYNE, Ind. Oct. 2 (U. P.), —Charles A. Lindbergh, isolationist spokesman who will address an America First Committee rally here |. tomorrow night, will be joined on | | the platform by Senator D. Worth | Clark (D. Ida.), the committee ane nounced today. 3 The announcement followed & charge by the Ft. Wayne Industrial | Union Council (C. I. O.) that Lind= | bergh was “using the weapons of | Hitler.” The council went on record | as condemning .“the invitation of Lindbergh to speak in our com munity.” ; i Miss Vera Sessler, local commite = tee chairman, said headquarters for | the rally have been opened at's | Ft. Wayne hotel.
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U. S. WARPLANES: THE TRUE STORY— |
Reports of American plane | production - have: been contradictory and con- | fusing.
Walter Leckrone, a sea- | soned reporter, set out to ascertain, if he could, the ’ truth of the matter.
His first article an what he discovered appears ‘today on :
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