Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1941 — Page 1
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. FORECAST: Light rain this afternoon and tonight; fair tomorrow; cooler tonight; rain probable Sunday,
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the climb too hazardous, they nd start back -down with Mr. kins today. : : r.. Hopkins, 29-year-old profes sional parachutist, former instructor | the R. A. F,, and ‘a veteran of the Dunkirk evacuation, won a bet ‘ednesday morning by leaping from Sifplane ana landing on the bald that is the top of Devil's Tower. t since that moment he has en stranded. When he jumped failed to consider that he had experience in mountain climbing that Devil's Tower, which rises most -perpendicularly from the ortheast Wyoming badlands, is such a hazardous climb that only 0 persons ever have scdled it sucssfully, ©
Tries Descent in Vain His problemas similar to that of man stranded on top of a 65-story
ding. an EN Mr. Hopkins tried once last night to make the perilous descent with the aid of a drawing of the Tower ind a rope dropped to him from an airplane. He descended less than 100 feet in an hour, stopped long hough to shout that “it looks too tough” and elimbed back. ~ The airplane went aloft again and dropped a tent, firewood, additional blankets, a megaphone and a box food including a. hot steak din-
Through the night his bonfire faintly atop the tewer. The fire was dropped because the summit, like the rest of the tower, is solid granite. {a Face Perilous Ascent
Forest Ranger J. F. Joyner reqilestéd the services of the mountain climbers after Hopkins’ unsucssful attempt to negotiate the deant, alone. Park Ranger Ernest K. Field and 'arren Gorrell, two of the Rocky ountains’ best climbers, were dispatched from Estes Park. Neither ‘ever scaled the tower. Their only help will come from metal pegs previous climbers have driven into the sheer rock.
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FT. WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 3 (U. P.. Two Huntington women were killed and two others injured today pen the automobile in Which they riding skidded into the rear schodl bus which had stopped during a driving rain storm. ‘Mrs. Edna Emeley, 26, died instantly, and Mrs. Hazel Stetzel, 42, ded en route to the Methodist Hos"Dora Felts, 33, and Mrs. Helen e, 26, both of Huntington, were n to the Methodist Hospital. State police said Mrs. Emeley, jver of the car, started to pass “school bus and a car behind it. They Said one of the left wheels her car apparently slipped off the edge of the road and sent the sar into a ‘slide. It skidded past E first car and smashed sideways
STRIKES SCHOOL BUS
DODGERS GET BREAK AS RAIN DELAYS SERIES
Extra Rest Helpful to Wyatt And Davis; 3d Game Tomorrow.
By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Commissioner K. M. Landis called off the
today because of rain.
The rain began about 9 a. m,, and although it slacked off considerably in mid-morning, it never stopped entirely. Judge Landis jnspécted the playing surface at Ebbets Field before deciding to call it off: . ! The third game will be played at Ebbets Field tomorrow, starting at 1 p. m. (Indianapolis Time),
Fans Take Cover
There was a heavy shower which drove most of the 500 hardy fans waiting in line for unreserved bleacher tickets to cover, and the prediction was for continued show-
ers this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. ’
Some of the experts saw the postponement as a break favoring the Dodgers since it will give their two veteran pitchers, Curt Davis and Whit Wyatt, an extra day of rest and a better chance of winning one of the later games in the series. All square in the series with one victory each, the Dodgers and vankees will go over the bridge tomorrow to:resume, before the wildest fans in the 48 states—unless there is more rain.
Slate Clean Again
The slate is clean again. Neither team has the edge. A veteran has won a game for each club—Ruffing turning back the Dodgers in the opener and! Wyatt pinning defeat on the Yankees yesterday. "Neither! manager had made & final pitching choice for today’s game so |their problem continues, for another day. Leo Durocher of the Dodgers had decided it would be Kirby Higbe or Freddy Fitzsimmons, ang likely the latter if he felt up to starting. Joe McCarthy of the Yankees said his choice Was between Marius Rukso and Atley Donald. | None of the four has ever won a World Series game and only the 40-year-old rotund Fitzsimmons has pitched previously in the October classic. Fat Freddy, who was cast aside by the Giants four years ago, has worked three Series games and lost them all. No pitcher ever lost a tougher one than Fitz did in 1936 when he held the Yankees to four-hits only to be beaten 2-1 when he bobbled an easy roller to the box. He's itching for revenge against the Yanks.
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If the game had been played today under the hazy conditions, Durocher undoubtedly would have started young Higbe wliose blazing fast ball would: have been even harder to see than usual. Russo, dark-eyed southpaw won 14 and lost 10 games during the year despite stomach trouble, appears to be the next Yankee starter if he feels okay. If he’s not up to snuff tomorrow,
‘(then [it will’ be ‘Donald, who out-
pitched Bob Feller twice in compiling nine ' victories against five losses, this year. He specializes in an overhand fast, ball and serves up a slider as his sleeper.
ROCHESTER, Ind. Oct. 3 (U. P.). —Two persons were killed last night in a three-car pile-up on| State Road, 25, one mile south of Fulton. The dead were Fred W. Silby, 33, South Bend, and Mrs. Martha Jack-
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Richard A. Shirley
MEMBER OF ABC UNTIL YEAR AGO
Secretary of Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association At Time of Death.
Richard A. Shirley, executive secretary of ‘the’ Indiana Wholesale Biquor Dealers Association and former member of the State Alcoholic Beverage Commission for five years, died today. at his country home at Camby, Ind. Prominent in Democratic politics in Marion County and Indiana for 30 years, Mr; Shirley. first entered public fife as the Democratic member of “the Indianapolis Board of ‘Works when Charles Jewett was mayor. In 1933, he was appointed the first secretary of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission and in 1935 was appointed a member of the Comimission by former Governor Paul V. McNutt. . : s
Resigned Year Ago
Mr. Shirley served on the Commission until last October when he resigned to become secretary of the liquor dealers. He helped draft many. of the present laws that now control the liquor industry in Indiana. . He was born in Martinsville, Ind., in 1885 and after attending public schools there he attended DePauw University where he ‘became a wellknown athlete. Later he’ attended Harvard University where he studied law for a time. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. After completing his education, Mr. Shirley came to Indianapolis and became an officer of the W. H. Johns & Sons Co. ‘He bought the
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ROAD GANG OFFICIALS BELIEVED KIDNAPED
LA GRANGE, Ga., Oct. 3 (U. P.). —The State , Highway Patrol reported today that g road gang guard and inspector had been kidnaped by two men believed to be Forrest Turner and S. J.- (Slim) Scarsborough, fugitives from Dallas, Ga., prison camp. ‘ Turner and Scarsborough had been sought for questioning in the slaying last Sunday of Marion Miley, famous golfer, at Lexington, Ky. State Patrol Corporal E-B. Harbin said’ that 20 convicts comprising the Toad gang were freed by the two kidnapers. Patroimen from the La Grange sub-station were ordered out. .
WALLY’S SUCCESSOR DIES LONDON, Oct. 3 (U. P.).—Mrs. Mary Kirk Simpson, wife of Ernest Simpson, thé former husband of the Duchess of Windsor, died last night at her. country home in Wiltshire. She and Simpson/were married at
son, 50, Buchanan, Mich.
Fairfield Conn., Nov. 18, 1937,
Special Plates
Beginning next year, State employees will ‘probably think twice before parking state-owned automobiles in front of taverns or taking them on week-end trips. Secretary of State, James Tucker, announced today that a special set of license plates would be made for the state vehicles next year bearing the words “STATE OWNED CAR.” Mr. Tucker said that this was being done as a protection to the public—to let the public know how automobiles they own are being used. .-For the past several years there have been repeated complaints about State employees using State velicis on personal business and pleasure. * Mr. Tucker announced another innovation in the 1942 license plates. He said that there will be no star license plates issued except for the privately, owned ‘automo-
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there had been no clear line 'determined upon as yet as to just what State officials would get star plates for their automobiles, but that “definitely $here will be no star plates for chairmen of political parties.” ) The 1942 plates are to be gold and purple with dark numerals in honor of Notre Dame’s 100th anniversary, The plates to be sold to private automobile owners will begin at 10,000 and run upward. . This policy was inaugurated by Governor Henry FPF. Schricker before Mr. Tucker took over the department, to eliminate the annual mad scramble for low license plates. Mr, Tucker has reported, however, that there are about as many requests for low 10,000-number plates as there were before the new policy was put into effect,
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MOVE LINKED T0°HOLY WAR * AGAINST NAZI
Taylor's Talks With Pope ~ May Be Part of Campaign, Capital Hears.
By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (U, P.).— President Roosevelt disclosed today that W. Averell Harriman, chief of the American Mission to Moscow, has been instructed to take up with the Russian government the question of religious freedom in the Soviet Union. The President’ told a press conference that Mr. Harriman had received those specific instructions. He added that the overtures made through him were not the first directed toward the Soviet Government with the objective of obtaining religious freedom in Russia. He would not reveal the time or the specific nature of the prior moves, but he did say they were comparatively recent. The President's latest disclosures] on the religious question came after one of his close political associates had told the United Press that diplomatic developments appeared to be in progress with the obj#ttive of making Soviet Rusisa more acceptable to world Catholicism and anti-Russian elements in the United States, as an ally against Hitlerism.
Seeks Rapprochement
One quarter suggested that Mr. Roosevelt is hopeful of a rapprochement, between the Vatican and Moscow that might lead to an exchange of diplomatic representaSivey. in time for such a development to exert vital world-wide. influence against the Axis. * Mr. Roosevelt's disclosure of Mr. Harriman's instructions was the third statement he has made this week on the question of ‘religious liberty in Russia. At a Tuesday press conference he said that the Soviet constitution’s religious freedom provisions were essentially similar to those of our Constitution. A storm of controversy followed that remark, and yesterday the White House followed his first statement with another in which it expressed hope -that an “opening wédge” had been driven for freedom of religion in practice in the Soviet Union,
Taylor on Way Back
The President did not deny, ‘but likewise did not affirm directly, that corrolary negotiations may have been initiated through Myron C. Taylor in conversations with Pope Pius XII at Vatican City. Mr. Taylor is en route back to this country, and in response to suggestions that his Vatican envoy may have been discussing the status of religion in Russia with the Holy Father, Mr. Roosevelt $aid merely that an answer to that question must await Mr. Taylor's; return. A reporter suggested that the instructions to Mr. Harriman might represent the beginning of an active campaign to effectuate ‘one of Mr. Roosevelt's “four freedoms”—freedom of religion. Mr. Roosevelt answered sharply that one who had read his record through the past years should know (Continued on Page 17)
MORE RAIN TONIGHT, RESPITE TOMORROW
Mars Is Closer to Earth Than for 15 Years.
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More rain this afternoon and tonight was in store for Indianapolis, the weather man predicted today, with a respite tomorrow. Rain is probable again Sunday. The light rain threatened to interfere with Butler University’s game tonight with the Western Michigan gridmen. . Rain fell in’ all sections of the state today and was expected to continue over the week-end with a short recess of fair weather tomorrow. The weather man insisted the rainy ‘ weather had nothing to do with the fact that’ Mars ‘is eloser to the Earth today than it has been for 15 years or will be for another 17 years. . Mars and the Earth each revolve around the sun, neither making a perfect circle. The Earth requires 365 days for the trip, Mars only about 500 days. At times they are as far apart as 226 million miles, but today they are practically brushing fenders—a mere 38,130,000 miles apart,
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1000 Executed Since Attack on Soviet, Survey Shows.
By UNITED PRESS + Foes of the Axis defied increasingly drastic German repressive measures in occupied Europe today to spread a trail of sabotage and
terrorism behind the war front from Poland to the Low Countries and ‘the Balkans. Despite at least 1000 executions for resistance to Nazi rule, official German dispatches and underground reports to refugee governments in London told of greater violence in what appeared to be a well organized campaign to disrupt Axis communication lines to the Eastern Front and to impair Axis morale. In addition, an outbreak of terrorism that resulted in dynamiting of six synagogues in Paris added to the bursts of violence in areas under Nazi rule. Police and Gestapo agents again rounded cup so~called “Communist” suspects .in Paris and all persons found with arms were turned over to the Germans to face possible death sentences.
‘Organization’ Plans It
The spread of the underground campaign, which London sources said “could not happen without organization,” ‘was illustrated by me) : n repressive measures in Belgium and northern France, by reports of sabotage in Denmark, by the execution of the 71st Frenchman for anti-German acts and the sentencing of - the former Mayor of Praha to death. Police sources in London told of the dynamiting of railroads and bridges badly needed for German supply trains to the Eastern Front and the execution of 15 Poles in retaliation. Czechs said tha: German rail lines through Central Europe had been dynamited, resulting in an order requiring residents of villages to guard the lines from dusk to dawn on threat of execution of hostages.
‘Go Slow,” Czechs Told
Some anti-Nazi sources. in London expréssed belief that Baron Constantin: von Neurath had given up the post of “protector” - of Czechoslovakia because of illness that was due to “lead poisoning— a bullet.” They suggested that von Neurath may have been arrested by the Gestapo before he suffered his illness, but there was nothing to confirm such speculation. Czech leaders in London repeatedly urged workers in Bohemia and Moravia to “go slow” and to make “harmless mistakes” as the best (Continued on Page 17)
Laval Assailant To Escape Death
VICHY, Oct. 3 (U. P.).—Marshal Henri Philippe Petain today commuted the death senterice of Paul Colette, anti-collaborationist : who shot and wounded Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat at Versailles. Colette was sentenced to death | by a Paris court this week. Yesterday he asked Petain for clemency. Laval and Deat both have left the hospital. »
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Baron Constantin von Neurath has given up his protectorate over Bohemia and Moravia because of “lead poisoning—a bullet,” Czech sources in London hinted today.
FOR READY ON NEUTRALITY ACT
Revision Program -Will Be Given Senators at Meeting Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt will communicate his Neutrality’ Law revision program to a bi-partisan delegation of Senate leaders at a conference
next Tuesday, he disclosed at a press conference today. Apparently preparing to attempt to bridge party lines for the crucial decision in international policy which will be posed by his recommendations, he said that Republican as well as Democratic leaders of the Senate will be invited. Chairman Sol-Bloom (D. N. Y.) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee will be present. Mr. Roosevelt would not indicate whether he plans to ask:.repeal ot the Neutrality Law or piecemeal modification.
Discusses Danger Zones
But he made clear that he is convinced that to arm American merchant vessels, he will need no specific authorization from Congress other than a repeal of the present act’s specifies prohibition against such a move. He said he felt it would not be quite right to wriggle out of this specific prohibition by executive action. Mr. Roosevelt discussed the difficulties of determining what constitutes a danger zone on the high seas which should be clgsed to American shipping under the present law. - He said he had not read or hear of a statement yesterday by Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) suggesting that the President revoke his neutrality proclamations and thus per(Continued on Page 17)
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industry. It would be a heavy blow a scale as this one.
Conquest of the entire Southern Ukraine also would lay the Cau-
casus oil fields open to attack, Their loss would be almost a crippling blow. to Russia. Those -are the objectives which Hitler would like to attain, Whether he can attain them is open to question. Leningrad, for instance,
a month and as far from falling as it was when German “encirclement” was completed in September. The lack of any large scale German drive and the German failure to make any im t advances in the last week leads London to be-
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By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst likely to be shaped by military events %f the immeHitler’s problem is to stabilize the front in north ‘wrest the important Leningrad and Moscow areas from the Russians and concentrate on taking the
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perhaps within the next few days. There is much speculation as to where he will hit, and guesses run all the vay from Leningrad and the Moscow front to the Southern Ukraine, A concentrated drive in the north or center or Both would not be surprising. It is essential for Hitler to improve his position there before winter. Consolidated titere, he could concentrate his main forces on the southern Ukraine and the Crimea, where weather conditions
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Fuehrer Forsees Long War, Asks for® | Sacrifices.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
Adolf Hitler defiantly claimed victory over Russia and all possible other enemies including the United States today but war dispatches ree ported that the Red Army had smashed Axis attacks on four fronts.
The Nazi Fuehrer, speaking for the first time since the invasion of Russia, tcid the German people by radio that for two days a :igantis operation had been in progress to complete the assured destruction of the enemy on the Eastern Front, Although the official version of the Hitler address did not include thq phrase, radio listeners heard the Fuehrer cry that Russia “is already beaten and will never liff its head again.” He insisted that the defeat of the Red Army was céftain and that the billions of dollars thrown into the fight against Nazlism by the United States—which he did not directly name—would be fiitile, but he gave no specific new information on tha Russian war to support his claims, Back for a ‘Day
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palast upon his return for one day from the Eastern Front, dispatches from: other capitals gave a different version of what the Fuehrer called the greatest struggle in history. Moscow: reported that the Gers mans had been pushed back on the Leningrad front’ in heavy fighting and that Soviet marines had won a foothold on Nazi-occupied islahds at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland; where a big battle involving aire planes, coastal ‘batteries and at least five German destroyers, still was raging. Berlin admitted strong Russian counter-blows led by tanks on the Leningrad front. . ' Axis Forces Circled
Moscow also reported new ade vances by the Red Army ‘on the Central Front, north and west of Smolensk, and said that in the Ukraine a strong Russian countere attack had smashed Axis efforts to split the Soviet armies, possibly near the Crimean peninsula. Strong Axis forces avere reported encircled and the Rumanians were said tQhave lost at least 10,000 men. The Moscow radio broadcast § report that the Red Army had beate en off a direct German attack upon Murmansk across the Liza River with a loss of 1000 Nazis killed and several thousand wounded, Hitler's speech did not mention late military developments excep for his vague reference to gigantic operations. He did admit, however, that the war might last a long time (possie bly referring to possible American participation) and that the conflict in Russia was “a life and death” battle, which had made it impossie ble to hurl the full strength of the German armed forces, especially the ° Luftwaffe, against Britain,
Asks Sacrifices
The Fuehrer also called upon the German people for greater sacris fices on the home fron! and proms ised them again that’ “after the war” he would return more than ever to the program of the National Socialist Party so*that there would be “justice” for all Germans. : Breaking a 103-day silence, Hitle# said that the Russian war had been made inevitable because Russia had massed 22 divisions of .troops om the German frontier against thre€ Nazi divisions in East Prussia. 4 He said also that Russian Fore eign Minister V. M. Molotoy had demarided of Germany: (1) a free hand in Finland, (2) similar come trol* of Rumania, (3) the right tw send Soviet troops into Bulgaria, and (4) Russian control of the Dardanelles. : ” os oy
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POPE HITS STERILIZATION
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