Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1941 — Page 1

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1941

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‘Treason,’ Cry-Bums’ Fans When Native Son Takes Mound for Yanks.

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1 | By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent EBBETS FIELD, BROOKLYN, Oct. 4. — Brooklyn’s rabid fans screamed treason as Marius Ugo

Russo, the dark-eyed Italian south- :

paw who was born in Flatbush, was sent (in today to pitch the third game of the World Series for the New | York Yankees against the The crowd was estimated

“Can you imagine that Joe Mc-|'

Carthy,” moaned the Flatbush faithful, “trying to beat us with our own home town boys.” Opposing Russo was Fat Freddy Fitzs ons, 40-year-old knuckleballer and believed to be the oldest pitcher ever to start a World Series game, During the regular season Fitz won only six games and pitched only [two complete games. Russo won (14 games and lost 10 during the season.

Field in Good Shape

Despite rain yesterday and ast night, the field was. in good .condiim, The sun shone brightly and Uijed} up the field practically gveryhie except a small section from se to right field, where the as threw a long shadow. , one victory each, both managers calculated that tod v's game might be the turning point of the series, . McCarthy waited until the last er to name his start pitcher while Leo Durocher finally gave in

and named Fitzsimmons about noon after spurning earlier requests,

Boo Yanks from Bleachers

The bleacherites, who numbered about 3200, came to life with a lusty boo when the Yanks, in their gray road uniforms, started their batting practice. With Russo, a left-hander, on the mou. the Brooklyn batting order ‘was altered to get more righthanded hitters in the key spots. Howeyer, there was no change in playing positions.

The play by play follows: i FIRST INNING

. YANKS—Sturm {flied to Reiser. . Rolfe popped to’ Medwick in left. " Henrich fouled to Lavagetito near third. NO RUNS, NO HITS.

DODGERS—Reese bunted down the third-base line and was thrown out by Russo. Herman worked the _-count| to three and two and then walk Reiser forced Herman at second, Russo to Rizzuto, The Yanks tried for the double play but Reiser beat the throw by a step. Medwick lined | I to Henrich who made the catch almost in his tracks. NO RUNS, NO HITS. | SECOND INNING YANKS—Di Maggio looked at two strikes; took two balls and then singled past Lavagetto for his first hit of the series. Keller rolled out to Camilli unassisted, Di Maggio moving to second. Dickel fouled to Camilli back of first. Gordon flied to Walker in short right cencer. O RUNS. ONE HIT. DODGERS—Lavagetto had the first pitch called a strike, and then drew four straight balls to walk. Camilli hit a pop fly in front of Rizzuto, who touched second retiring Lavagetto and then threw to Sturm to double up Camilli. Walker grounded out, Ralfe to Sturm. NO RUNS, NO HITS.

sun and had to leap to make tch over hjs head. Sturm rolled | out, Herman to Camilli. NO HITS

| s batting order: ‘ * DODGERS Reese, 8. Herman, 2b re gett, 3b alker, rf

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A tw | Veneer Co, Inc, 1501 'W. McCarty battled to prevent the flames from the plant.

FLEEING ARMED GANG GIVES UP

Convicts ‘Arsenal’ Fail to Fire Shot; Two Sought In Miley Murders.

MOUL , Ga., Oct. 4 (U.'P.)— Three fugi tive Georgia convicts and their woman companion surrendered to police near here today wtihout firing a shot although the car in which they were fleeing was a rolling arsenal containing dynamite, sub-machine guns and rifles. The four were Forrest Turner, 8. J. Scarborough—both suspects in the Marion ey slaying in Lexington, Ky.—Fred Stewart and Turner's wife. Their car was trapped on a dirt road north of here. An automobile loaded with Colquitt County deputies and another car with State Police cornered the fugitives’ car, When the four saw they were cornered, State Police Sergt. J. W. Davis said “they just stepped out of their car and held up their hands.”

Hostages Released

The three men and. their woman companion had been sought since yesterday when Turner, his wife i|and Scarborough engineered a dar-

gang to free Stewart; convicted bandit and friend of Turner. n

Fla Li Destroy Saw Mill At Thiesing Veneer Plant

fire early today destroyed the saw mill of. the ‘Thiesing

St., as firemen from 10 companies spreading to adjoining buildings in

“The fire of unknown origin lit up the sky and drew hundreds of Pere sons who had been roused from their sleep by the sirens.

Both police and company, officials praised firemen for ‘preventing the blaze from ‘spreading to adjoining buildings in the face of intense heat which twisted steel girders. Robert Mathers, president - of the conipany, could give no estimate of the loss at this time, he said. The blaze was discovered by Patrolmen Karl Kornblum and Tom Flannery who were. cruising “in a police car near the plant, and by the. plant’s : nightwatchman, Oscar Jenkins. : Police said that the fire at first was just a small flame on the roof of the sawmill, a "200 by 75-foot structure.

Fulmer Takes Charge

“The fire seemed to spread-like a charge of gunpowder that had been set off suddenly,” one of the pelicemen said. v Two adjoining buildin a new boiler room not yet completed and a structure on the east side where veneer is cut—were not damag Fire Chief Harry Fulmer tobk personal charge of the fire fighting as nine ‘lines of hose poured constant streams of water into the blaze. Two lines of hose were still being played on the smoldering ruins as late as 7:30 o'clock, six hours after the blaze was discovered. Mr. Mathers said that the plant, wkich employs = approximately 50 men, would be tied up for some time until the machinery can be rePlaced and the building repaired.

CONGERT T0 FEATURE FUND DRIVE OPENING Jordan Orchestra to Give

Program at Murat. A free concert by the Arthur Jor-

i of the Indianapolis Hebrew ‘Congregation; the Rev. Sidney

Bin Hare, pastor of the Meridian

{for the pro-Nazi Quisling Govern-

i [Oedekerke, secretary of the com-

‘|central headquarters.

IDE OF REVOLT MOVES EAST AS POLES SLAY 30

Attempt Made to Cut Off German Supply Lines; Bomb Kills Belgian.

By UNITED PRESS

Guerrilla clashes in which 30 German soldiers were killed in Poland and a bomb explosion in Belgium were reported today to have punctuated the spread of revolt against Nazi rule in occupied Europe. With German and Italian armed forces aiding pro-Nazi troops against irregulars in Jugoslavia, the Polish Refugee . Government in London. reported that the center of resistance: seemed to be swinging eastward in an apparent effort to disrupt German supply lines to the Russian front.

Two clashes between Polish guerrillas and German troops were reported east of Warsaw and 12 cars of a freight train headed for the Smolensk sector were said to have been destroyed. Polish refugees said that at ‘least 150 Poles had been executed for anti-German acts since the invasion of Russia. .

Seven more were executed ‘in Praha today ‘ on treason charges, Berlin announced.

Dealth Penalty in Norway

- New anti-German incidents also were reported from Norway and 'in London the Refugee Government of King Haakon announced that the death penalty had been authorized

ment leaders at Oslo, phen and ih

“In ‘Belgium, the Germansdomis nated Brussels newspapers said Jean

mander of the “Rexist” organization, had been killed Wednesday by a bomb which “irresponsible” elements had smuggled into Rexist

German occupation authorities for Belgium ‘and northern France, in a new decree, prescribed penalties ranging upto death for persons who enlist in or seek to recruit others for service in “enemy” armies. "From Budapest came dispatches reporting .that Gaysin Grodza, a 21-year-old. Serb girl, had - been sentenced to death at Szeged for (Continued on Page Two)

An Inch of Rain FallsHerein Hour

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ,i 71 1002. m. +... 73 Jam ;.%7 11a m....'73 §a.m .., 72. 12 (noon) ,, 72 9a mu. 72 Ralpm i. 72

Indianapolis cont! continued its attempt to soak up all the rain so that the. World. Series could .con~: tinue, but the City reached its [rn point around noon, toay. The Weather’ ‘Bureau T that between 10:55 and 11:45 a. an more than an inch of ‘water fe ~ Massachusetts Ave., New ‘York

Side turned. into rivers. Most railroad underpasses had more than three. feet of water. in them and stalled automobiles. The eight-foot - Kentucky Ave. storm sewer refused to take all the water pouring. in and manhole covers on Senate and Capitol Aves. became fountains throwing water five to six feet in the air, Rain is also predicted for tonight and tomorrow, with little change in temperature.

BRANDEIS UNIMPROVED

WASHINGTON, .Oct. 4 The condition of retired Su Court Justice Louis Dembitz deis, 84, who was stricken with a heart attack Wednesday night, to”

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MARY SINGLAIR GUTS RED TAPE

Merit Law Cited as Good «-Example-of How She - Gets Things Done.

By EARL RICHERT The other day Clarence. A. Jackson, State civil defense director and executive vice president. of the State Chamber of Commerce, was chatting. with a group of his aids in his office. They got around to talking about Miss Mary Sinclair, whose appointment Mr. Jackson announced today, as head. of the Women’s Division of the State Defense Council. “You: know, boys,” Mr. Jackson said, “if : Mary were only a man she'd .have a heck of a lot better job. than (any of us have.” “You're right, Jack,” replied Newt

| Goudy, ‘former secretary to. Con-|.

gressman William -H. Larrabee who is the new .information director of the council, “but. let's not tell her about it.” p ; Able to: Get Things Done Mr. Jackson’s . tribute to - Miss Sinclair is indicative of the respect for her by those “in the know” for her ability to"get things done.Political circles , especially began to sit up fand. take notice of Miss Sinclair en“ she ' succeeded, ‘as executive secretary of ‘the League of Women’ ‘Voters,” in getting a merit system bill for the State institutions‘ through the 1941 Legislature. y A lot of. people had been: trying

eported |insuecessfully to do just. that for

a number of years. ' , Miss, Sinclair, explains her success with the merit system (Continued on Page Two) —————————————————————

BRITISH, U.S. CHIEFS . IN FAR EAST CONFER

“MANILA, P.' I, Oct. 4 (U. P).— MacArthur, commander of the U. S. Army of the , and Air Marshal Sir e , British commander-in-chief in the Far East, conferred yesterday and “surveyed . the Suniegic situation .in an , |gEehingp of Jrofessionsl vi views,” an official announcement said : _—

ome Brig. Glen. John Magruder, head of | to . China, Gen.’

day remained critical.

This is the thlsd of a stxien articles on military

By. TER Li LECKRONE America today has built the four fastest and deadliest fighting lanes the world has ever

i [against the Soviet capital,

Miss Mary Sinclair

Willkie fo Arrive In City Tonight

Arrival of Wendell I. Willkie in Indianapolis was delayed today until 7:30 p. m. Mr. Willkie was to have arrived via plane at noon. It is expected that Mr. Willkie will go nmetiaiely to Kokomo to

RUSSIANS CLAIM UKRAINE GAINS

Strike Back . Along Entire Front, Report Finnish Sector Smashed. On Inside Pages

Map ' William Philip Simms ........ Lindbergh’s Speech

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

The Red Army replied to Adolf Hitler's victory claim today with

Front and a: firm defense against a strong Nazi drive apparently. aimed at- Moscow. . Dispatches, - which reported that women as well as- clerks, workers and professional men had learned to handle guns in. the Leningrad defense lines, gave this picture of Russian successes: LENINGRAD FRONT —A Red Army counter-attack on the Karelian Isthmus smashed a Finnish fortified sector, killed more than 500 enemy: soldiers, recaptured an important railroad - station and drove back the “in panic ” afte se-

| vere street and tank fighting, Bertted Russian

lin. admii counter-at-tacks both in the Karelian sector and south > the city, but. claimed an advance to within less than 10 miles of Leningrad on the west alter destroying 2000 Russians who attempted to land at Strelnja. CENTRAL FRONT — London heard that a strong German drive had been started in the direction of Kursk and Orel (where the Russians previously had broken. up three. Nazi offensives) in an effort

|to cut the railroad between Moscow

and Kharkov and swing north Prog ress of this drive was indefinite but London military Sources said there did not seem to be any break | through.

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WASHINGTON, “Oct. 4 Cordell Hull today denounced

part of a plan to drive people Mr. Hull added that the

SAVE 35 ABOARD TANKER, 4 LOST

All Except One on Vessel

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l.attend. annual reunion of . World War I unit, the 325th Field

To Be Americans.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 4 (U. P.). ~The American steamer Del Norte has rescued’ 17 survivors of the American-owned Panamanian tanker I. C. White, which was. torpedoed and sunk inside the American neutrality zone, presumably by an Axis submarine, it was announced today. * Eighteen other survivors were saved by the American freighter West Nilus. Survivors rescued by the Del Norte included Capt. William Mello of Everett, Mass., Chief Engineer Jens Christensen of Brooklyn, the third mate, the radio operator, the first assistant engineer and the third assistant engineer. Both the Del Norte and the West Nilus are due.in Rio:De Janeiro Tuesday.

Four Still Missing

The captain of the freighter Mormacrey, which arrived here this morning, said that though be had passed close to the route taken by the West Nilus- he had sighted no trace of the I. C. White or her survivors. Capt. Mello of the I. C. White reported by radio that four members of his crew still were missing and might be drifting on a raft. All of the members of the I. C. White’s crew were, , reported to be Americans except one, a Canadian. Early reports had indicated that in all there were 37 men aboard the ship,. 35 of whom now have been

rescued. Since the I. C. White's captain has reported four men still it was possible that two more men than were originally reported were aboard the tanker. It was said in New York that the tanker was one of 80 put in use to carry supplies for the British.

PLANE PRODUCTION

September Output . Triples “That. of July, 1940.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 fh P)— Preliminary reports from the \airerat industry ‘indicated today that

. | nearly. 1875 military airplanes. were

- Authoritative sources said this was Toss than 10 per cent behind the

of the general movement of world conquest. strongly in support of a policy of self-defense as agains¥ ordinary interpretations of international law. Speaking at greater length and more forcefully tham usual, Mr. Hull made clear that the attack on the I. C. White

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sists America Has Right to Speed Supplies to Britain.

(U. P.).—Secretary of Sta 4 the sinking of the Americans

owned tanker I. C. White as apparently “another act lawlessness, piracy and attempted frightfulness” which id

from Atlantic sea lanes. i act apparently was also par§ He spoke

was viewed more seriously) than previous sinkings. Reporters asked whethest © the fact that the ship wag under the direction of the British Government, a bellige erent; might not alter the si uation under internatio law. ‘Mr. Hull replied that had not obtained detafled formation on the incident &

‘missing | meantime, that the

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Stresses Self Defense He added, however, that the m point to consider in such a situse: tion is that when someone is m ing toward pegceful people with f gun, the EP , persons m defend themselves, The cannot invoke the law person acting in self-defense, said. In response to further questi he said that the policy of selfs fense was closely tied in with American policy of British aid

that they must go up or down to gether,

MOSCOW, Oct. 4 (U. P.) —S, Lozovsky, official Soviet man, said in an official sta today that his Government r firmed constitutional roaTantoe of freedom to worship as well a to conduct antiereligions ganda. }

It is our right, he added, unde this policy to get as much ald possible to Britain as q possible and when a vesel cartye ing these supplies is attacked . 4 torpedoed, the United States is ti mendously concerned, If the Government were to 1 back and say nothing could be @ because some of the shipments h h been torpedoed by a German marine, it would be the end of ti American policy of British: aid. Administration Senators believ sinking of tl I. C. White would strengthen Pre dent Roosevelt's hand in any Ni trality Act revision proposal whic he may ask Congress to approve. She was the eighth American fi or American owned ship to bes by Axis action in this war. She was torpedoed, presumably b an Axis submarine, between B: and the western bulge of Sept. 27 3 Another Warning, Hin Says Senator Lister Hill (D. Ala.), jority whip in the Senate, said the sinking “shows the plan and ae termination of the Nazis to

{the war to the Western B

It is just Jone more waming to us that’ we ought to quit take every p

trality Act, Mr. Til wid he lieved “the wise course is the course~-outright repeal.”

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