Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1941 — Page 3

| OF WAR SPREAD,

American Entry May Mean | Deadlock, Spokesman At Tokyo Says.

TOKYO, Oct. 9 (U. P.) .—Japanese spokesmen and newspapers today criticized the “willful, arrogant” actions of the United States and warned that the war “is likely to spread to other regions” of the| | world at any moment. : Entry of the United States into} the "war, a spokesman said, would) “pring ruin” to civilization and might even involve America in a (The Japanese statements followed German claims that the Russian Army had. been destroyed as} a fighting force on the Eastern Front, renewing speculation on the| possibili

ty of a new move by Japan in the Far East in event of collapse

OF F.D.R. LETTER U. S. Officials. Concerned Over How German Spies Got| ~ Hold of Message to Stalin and Altered

It for Propaganfa.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (U. P.).—Officials were: concerned today about the way. Germany pbtained: a.personal| communication from President” Roosevelt to Josef Stalin,| the Soviet Premier. / aR Aide They wondered whether a spy story with the dramatic potentialities of a movie thriller lay behind the publication| of the letter by DNB, the official German news agency.

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yesterday. Late in the day, the White House released the etter that had been sent to Stalin, and said the German

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version was altered from the original to achieve “propaganda objectives.”

The two versions were nearly the same in basic content and there seemed no doubt that the Germans had obtained an almost exact copy of the President’s letter. Sent Regular Way It was learned here that the letter was transmitted through regular channels of diplomatic communications from the White House to the American Embassy at Moscow where Averell Harriman, head of the United States mission to the "Russiah supply conference, received it for delivery to| Stalin. Somewhere between Washington c either of those espionage sys-

conclusion was “Yours very sincerely.” fot The letter was written by the Chief Executive as an introduction of Mr. Harriman to Stalin. A White House statement which accompanied copies of the letter said a comparison of the actual letter with the German version made “very clear” the “propaganda. objectives of the Nazi action.” : + In the body of the letter, the President expressed confidence that supplies would be made available for the fight against Hitler on all fronts, including the Russian, and also, confidence that the Soviet armies “will ultimately prevail over Hitler.” Officials here felt that German changes in the letter were part of an attempt to show that the Chief Executive is’ ‘a warm friend of Stalin.

FLIER DIES IN LEAP "FROM BURNING PLANE

ATLANTA, Ga., Oct, 9 (U. P.)— Lieut. ‘K. E. Elliott of McChord

motored bomber ] two others last night. = Suddenly fire burst from the right motor. Lieut. Elliott shoved open the @door and dived out.. The bomber crashed in a field burned. The flier’s body was found threequarters of a mile away. His parachute had ‘opened, but so close to the earth that he might as well ‘have not had one.

Strauss Says:

THE LADIES—

New Lend-Lease Measure Comes Up for House Vote Tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, Oct, 9 (U, P.).— House Republican and Democratic leaders today predicted that the new $5,985,000 lend-lease appropriation would pass without substantial change and without serious opposition. A Leaders of both parties believed the campaign "to "bar use’ of the funds to aid Soviet Russia was collapsing. i Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.), ranking Republican member of the Appropriations . Committee, who will vote for the bill, but will seek to reduce the amount, predicted that the 'anti-Russian aid amendment would not get more than 25 votes. “At the most,” he said, “it won’t get 50 votes.” bo ; Three Oppose Soviet Aid ‘Reps. Stephen A. Day (R. IIL), Robert F. Jones (R. 0.) and William P, Lembertson (R. Kas.) planned to support an amendment that would bar lend-lease aid to Russia, but they have not decided yet who will offer it. ; eneral debate on the bill closes this afternoon. Amendments will be considered tomorrow with 4 prospect of - passage by.tomorrow night. Rep. Lambertson sajd he would move to recommit the bill with instructions to strike out its entire $5,985,000,000 . lend-lease allocation. ‘The bill also includes about $175,000,000 for defense. Rep. Taber plans to lead.a Republican fight to make substantial reductions in the size of the grant on the grounds that many items have not been justified. He will

ask that $300,000,000 be struck from

the $1,875,000,000 item for farm and industrial commodities.

Wants Aid to Industry

He said the full amount of this category was wholly unjustified, that at least :$300,000,000 of it was sheer’ “wind.” ; Rep. J. William Ditter (R. Pa.), also a Republican member of the Appropriations ‘Committee, said he would offer an amendment requiring that at least 10 per cent of the appropriation: be earmarked for contracts to small industries now facing shutdown because of priorities on raw materials. |

OPTIMISTS SET TOURNEY

The ' Indianapolis Optimist Club will hold its final golf tournament and banquet Thursday, Oct. 16, at the Hillcrest Country Club, The speaker at tomorrow’s luncheon at the Columbia Club will be Dr. Hubert Collins, who will discuss his

hobby, “BEyeless Vision.” :

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Lincoln, all day.

artillery fire keeps him warm.

This Nazi trooper, according to the repairing a damaged telephone wire in a ruined building while enemy

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Moscow:

‘Life ‘or Death for Soviet -Union,' Papers Tell Nation

of the Soviet forces.) Konoye Sees Emperor

The new warning of possible war moves in the Pacific came as Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye went to the palace to report to Bmperor Hirohito on the general state of affairs.

Comm. Shinichi Kondo, chief of the first section of the Cabinet Information Board, said that “because of developments in the past few months war is likely to spread to other regions at any moment.”

Makes U-Boat Threat

Kondo said he was intentionally avoiding comment on possible developments in the Pacific in event of war, but he asserted thateBritain

marine attacks in the Atlantic. (This seemed : to imply that submarine attacks in the Pacific also would be uncontrollable.) “American entry into the war

MOSCOW, Oct. 9. (U. P.).—The Red : Army was: reported today: to have halted -powerful German drives on Moscow from the west and south and to have taken the offensive on the northern front at Leningrad and south of Lake Ilmen.

Soviet newspapers called upon the Russian people to “realize the full significance of the danger” facing their country and -to avoid panic or depression in the “life or death” struggle against Germany.

“As the full realization of the menace multiplies so will multiply the strength of the Soviets,” a typical editorial said. °*

‘Free or Enslaved’

The citizens of Leningrad and the men and women of Odessa and other cities were cited among. the “numerous” examples of heroic action in “the war for the Fatherland.” The newspaper Pravda recalled the speech by Stalin on July 3 in which he said: “It is a question of the life or death of the Soviet State, the life

wit, should the people of the Soviet Union remain free or enslaved.” Huge battles continued on the Ukraine front as the Germans threw in fresh reserves, especially in the direction ‘of Melitopol, on the railroad from the Crimea to Kharkov, according to army dispatches.

Claim Air Mastery

In spite of the German “all out” offensive the Red Air Fleet has maintained mastery of the air, the Red: Star asserted. It reported the Russian air force constantly battering enemy air bases and panzer Solus and lines of communicaon. ; The Luftwaffe, it added, is operating in small units of two or three planes and mainly attack railroad stations or small German attacks with all types of forces, including hundreds of parachutists, were reported on the fiercely-contested Vyazma front 130 miles west of Moscow and on the

| Orel sector, 210 miles south of the

capital. Dispatches described a battle of almost unimaginable scale and ferocity in which airplanes, tanks, armored cars, artillery, pontoonbuilding engineers and ‘infantry were engaged day and night. Red Star, the Army newspaper, said ‘one of the most savage battles of the war was fought at Orel, 210 miles south of Moscow, and it took three days for the Germans, with

or death of the Soviet people, to],

greatly superior numbers, finally to capture the city of 100,000. Heavy fighting continued, a Red Star dispatch said, and the Germans attacked again yesterday, pointing northward from Orel. Russian tanks charged into the Germans at full speed, the dispatch said, while Russian artillerymen and machine gunners mowed down German infantry. The Germans fell back with heavy losses, leaving dozens of tanks and many field guns.

Exit-Laughing ! Actor Until End

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— Sam Barton, 46, made his first appearance yesterday in the matinee performance of the revue, “It Happens On Ice.” He skated and.then performed on a trick bicycle that came 2parh, piece by piece, as he rode,

It was a funny act, and the audience, including hundreds of children, left laughing when Mr: Barton had taken his curtain call. They did not know that he had fallen in the wings and died of a heart attack.

TWO ARE NAMED T0 BUTLER BOARD

Mrs. Minnie Joyce Spaan, widow of Ralph M. Spaan, Indianapolis attorney, .and Kenneth Woolling, active in Butler University affairs for many years, have been named to the Butler board of directors. . J.” W. Atherton, secretary-treas-urer, said that university financial conditions are reported to be the best in the history of the school and reported gifts of $142,000 in the last year. oh Mrs. Spaan, who fills the unexpired term of Mrs. A. M. Robertson, who died recently, is a member of the Propylaeum and the Episcopal Church. She is active in the Indiana Symphony Society, the Red Cross, Bundles for Britain and British Relief. : Mr, Woolling succeeds Judge John A. Titsworth wlio died a year ago. He is a member of the Indiana Democratic Club and the Baptist Church,

would bring ruin to civilization and would interrupt maritime commerce apd invite a deadlock even for America, which is blessed with plentiful resources,” Kondo said. The newspaper Hochi said that Konoye had been trying to remove, through negotiations with President Roosevelt, the “cancer of the Pacific” but that the real cancer was “nothing other than the willful, arrogant intentions and actions of the United States.” >

HOME COMING LEADERS NAMED

Committees Arranged for Butler Celebration; Students Aid Forum.

Frank Kendall, president of Butler University’s Independent Association, today appeinted chairmen for Butler's homecoming week-end, Oct. 23. Alfred Brown and Frank Parkhurst are co-chairmen in charge of arrangements. Others are George Stelle, Ruth, Downey, Harold Van Treese, Betty Parkhurst, Mary Alice Logan, Robert White, Charles Marlett and Leonard Judd. Miss Nancy Overstreet and Herbert Hinton have been appointed room committee co-chairmen. They will be assisted by Russell Sheffer, Searly Charles, Kay Reeder and Evelyn Stutzman. ” ” 2

Group Aids Forum

A new junior committee has been formed at Butler University to work with the Catholic Forum. The very Rev. Msgr. Henry F. Dugan has appointed three students, Deette Marie McGrath, J. Robert Dietz and Albert Ajamie, to speak before groups in the parochial high schools about the lectures. )

FT. WAYNE BID ACCEPTED

The Hagerman Construction Co. of Ft, Wayne has been awarded a contract for construction of ordnance storage buildings at Baer Field near Ft. Wayne on a bid of $139,190, according. to word from the War Department in Washington,

Here Is the Traffic Record) County City Total 1940 ese sst esse 42 62 109 1941 ....c00000.. 49 52 101 Oct. 8— Accidents ... 26 | Injured ..... 8 Arrests .....432 | Dead WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Violations Tried tions Paid Speeding ......... 13 12 $109 Reckless driving .. 3 2 Failure to stop through street... 4 i traffic 3 4

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‘Totals ,........ 66

MEETINGS TODAY Associated Lutheran Charities,

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"Indianapolis Camera Club, 110 E. Ninth St.. 8 p.m.

Beta Theta Pi, Canary Cottage,” noon.

These are lists from official records in the County Court House, The Times, therefore, is not responsible for names and addresses.

Herman ‘W. Sodan, 20, of 2750 N. Chester; Marjorie" Moore, 17, of 2223 rker, ; William O. Brown, 25, of 38 E. -16th; Lucy - V. Renwick, 23, of 20 W.. 28th. Robert E. Golab, 21, of 1546 Broadway; Winifred A. Galt, 18, of 5865 Central. Albert L. Carlisle, 26, of 1202 WN. Sapo; . Clark, 25, of 1202 N. Capito Darrel B. Hosmer, 25, of 1911 W. Wilcox; Ruth W. Buchanan, 31, of 1209 Bellefontaine. Charles B. Stone, 23, of 1815 N. Pennsyivania; Mary P. Tharp, 23, of 2925 N. ew. Jersey. Arthur Jackson, 37, of 2240 Columbia; Elizabeth Hood, 30, of 1542 N. Arsenai. Charles Overton, 20, of 703 Fayette; Re iatn 1 Of BG RIE, . Clark H. . n Blvd.; Martha Jones, 22, of Baltimore,

Sherman Hylton, 17, of 1 Maxine E. 23, of 05% by. Paul Watson, 35, Waldron, Ind., R. R. 1: Bernice LaMasters, 36, of 216 8. Pike, Shelbyville.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Showers and thunderstorms tonight; warmer to-

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BAROMETER TODAY . 30.07. Precipitation 24 hrs end Total precipitation since eficiency since Jan. 1 . MIDWEST WEATHER. Indiana—Showers and thunderstorms tot; tomorrow partly clou to fair; oT tonight ; cooler i Illinois—8Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and in east-central ‘and extreme south portions early partly cloudy to fai t and tomorrow; somewhat warmer in extreme east and extreme south portions tonight; cooler tomorrow. at

cloner Michigan_Showers and scattered

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