Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1941 — Page 1

[SCRipPS ~ HOWARD VOLUME 53—NUMBER 198

FORECAST: Fair and colder tonight with s illng frost; owest temperature about 25; Sisk mers tomorrow! |

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BAILEY OFFERS BIL TO STOP WORK DELAYS

“Believes” It Would Apply To Lewis and Captive "Mine Situation. (Roosevelt-Lewis letters, Page Five)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U.P.) — Senator Josiah W. Bailey (D, N. C.) introduced legislation today to ‘define sabotage against the Gov‘ernment in a way that he believed ‘would apply to situations like the captive coal mine strike called by «ohn L. Lewis. | Senator Bailey introduced the measure 8s an amendment to the Neutrality Act revision measure now being debated in the Senate.

It would impose a maximum fine of $10,000 and 10 years’ imprison-|. ‘ment for violations. _ ‘Under the terms of Mr. Bailey's proposal, which followed President Roosevelt's third appeal ‘to Mr. Lewis to call off the captive coal Jmine strike, sabotage would be

Srvadensd to include stoppages in|’

he production of “materials or arthes ordered by any department or bureau or Cabinet omeial for the national defense.”

Congress’ Job, He Says

. He said he introduced his amend‘ment “with great reluctance,” but with the realization that control of the labor situation was “the responsibility of Congress,” rather than that of the President. Other Congressional leaders said that drastic legislation probably| would depend on the speed with which strikes can be adjusted and “production: resumed, we a | Roosevelt indicated to his

and House leaders, it was]

ini that he : now feels the

“Government's voluntary mediation]

system needs a set of sharp, statutory teeth to insure the respect of United Mine Workers President

Lewis. . Lewis Standing Firm

. That was before he received Mr. ~JLewis’ blunt. notice that the shut- , down of captive mines—those owned by steel companies—would end only after the union’s demands are met, and before he appealed “for the third time” to Mr. Lewis to reopen | the mines pending a settlement. i Mr. Lewis: declined to comment on Mr. Roosevelt's third appeal, but showed no signs of retreating. Mr. Roosevelt's -thiree public appeals to Mr. Lewis were seen as moves to give public opinion a chance to crystallize on the dispute that is heading toward a showdown between the President and his once political ally. Mr. Roosevelt demonstrated clearly in his radio address last night that. he was prepared for such a showdown. Speaking of American arms production, he said it could not be hampered either by “a small but dangerous minority of industrial managers” or by “a small but dangerous minority of labor leaders.”

Jab at Lewis Applauded

He did not mention Mr. Lewis by name but departed from his prepared text ‘to say that “our national will nrust speak from every assembly line, yes, from every coal mine. . That reference to coal mines ‘was greeted with loud and prolonged

White House correspondents a year ago that was interrupted by loud

‘applause and shouts when he made | P12ins today

his first implied public promise to (Continued on Page Two)

2 DIE IN PLANE CRASH

ALBU UERQUE, N. M., Oct. 28 (U.P.). U. 8B. Army fliers— Lieuts. W, H. Carpenter and G. W. Jones—were killed early today when their attack training. plane crashed in a Spumuely settled area near Vaughn, N, , Air Base officers

Boy Saves Five in Fire

Jimmy Piersall, 11 (center), warned his family of the fire that

swept their home at 607 S. Sherman Drive this morning. With him are his brother Charles, 17, and his mother, Mrs. Ella Piersall, -

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Jiving, 1, Smells Smoke,

uninjured from a blaze which swept a few minutes early this morning,

the temperature hovereq in the middl

WINTRY BLASTS MOVE TO EAST

Below Freezing Reported. in Central States; Killing " Frost Due Here.

By UNITED PRESS A mass of cold air hung over a broad belt of states eastward from the Rocky Mountains today and depressed temperatures to wintry levels. | In Indianapolis the Weather Bureau predicted temperatures as low 25 accompanied by a killing frost or tonight. Last night's low was degrees in the City and 32 at the Municipal Ajrport. Snow flurries. were reported in the northern and eastern Great Lakes region and snow was forecast for the ‘Dakotas and Minnesota today. G. BE. Dunn, U. S. ‘Weather forecaster at Chicago, said the cold front was moving eastward rapidly. It passed Chicago yesterday morning and was expected to reach the East Coast before noon today. Forecaster Dunn said the cold air reached as far south as Georgia. Sub-freezing temperatures . were recorded throughout the Central States south to Missouri and Kansas. dings included 14 at Jamestown, N. D,, and Bemidji, Minn.; 22 at Park Falls, Minn., Temperatures. were ‘in the 60s in eastern coastal cities early today before the cold mass reached the seaboar On . the West Coast, readings were near normal with low points recorded in the 50s. Dunn said sub-normal temPs would continue for a week,- He said the mercury would) rise tomorrow in the Mississippi Valley, but that another wave of cold air would follow in the wake of a storm moving over the great

2 8 8 LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a.m ...3 10am ... 2 Tam .,. 3 .11a m: .:. 43 8a. m... 383 12 (noon) ,, 46, 9a. m, ... 40 1pm ...0 48

11 IN. BULGARIA DOOMED SOFIA, Bulgaria, Oct. 28 (U.P.). —Eleven persons, ' including “Turks and Tartars from the Dobritch River region of Bulgaria, were sentenced to death for espionage today. One person was sentenced to four years

in prison and another to 10 0 years,

Idle Mines Curtdil Output In U. S. Steel Subsidiaries

J IMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

U. 8. Steel, announced that The

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Because a 11-year-old ‘boy “smelled smoke,”

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Rouses East Side Family

a family of six escaped through an East Side home in just

2 The fire drove Mrs. Ella Piersall, 607 S. Sherman Drive, her four {children and a grandchild out of the .house in their night-clothes as

e 30's. Young Jimmy Piersall, who was sleeping with his brother, Charles, 17, awoke about 1 a. m. smelled smoke and . went into the next yroom to call his mother. By the time he had awakened Mrs. Piersall, the flames hdd spread so rapidly that the heat awakened Charles. Mrs. Piersall carried her grandson, Lou Plersall. Her two daughters, Mary, 19, and Mildred, 13, dlso escaped to the street along {with the. two boys.

was destroyed by the flames which gutted five of the six rooms in the

despondent because he lost $30.

Loss Estimated at $2000 But several hours later his cousin, Max Riley, 2129 N. Meridian St., was rummaging in the ruins and found a few scraps of clothing. When he picked them up he felt Charles’ billfold. The pocketbook was Ssorelied but the money was intact. qrigin of the fire was not deto and the loss was estimited at nearly $2000. Two truck-trailers were damaged badly in other fires early today. Edgar Broyles, -30, of Columbus, O., driver of one of the trucks, told police he was driving west on E. Washington St. in the 1000 block when a car tried to make a left turn in front of him. Trailer Turns Over He said his truck went out of control and “jackknifed” as he. tried to stop. The trailer turned over, struek a utility pole and caught fire. Mr. ‘Broyles was not injured. In the other ‘truck :blaze, Walter Prentice, 1210 W. Washington St. stopped his tractor-trailer. at 30th St. and Road 52 to fix the gasoline line when the truck caught fire. A large cargo of paper napkins was destroyed. Mr. Prentice’s hands were Burned

PRODUCE FIRST FOR DEFENSE, KNOX SAYS

Urges ‘Intolerant’ Rejection Of Impeding Forces.

CENTERLINE, Mich., Oct. 28 (U. P.) Secretary of the Navy Frank

production become the nation’s pri-

erant” rejection of forces.

any impeding

acre, $20,000,000 naval. plant which will manufacture anti-

night. You all heard what he had to say. It means that where we have given a part of our energy, a part of our time, from now on the program of national defense is our primary objective -to which all else must be subordinate and secondary.”

{COURT ‘CRACKS DOWN _ ON LOCAL SPEEDERS|

Bad ‘weather and the downtown

tot Suina NE 90.9 par cont of result of the

capacity” a af

Address. Believed Aimed at

{tion ‘today that the mation is

“Nearly all the- ails clothing!

house. Charles was particularly

Knox today demanded that defense] mary objective and urged “intol- st

Speaking at dedication of an 135ordnance

mander-in-Chief on the radio last

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1941.

LIMITED WAR SEEN FOR U. $. BY PRESIDENT

(Text of Address, Page 11)

‘By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U.P.) — President Roosevelt's emphatic statement . that “the shooting has started” was spectacular notifica-

moving beyond short-of~-war boundaries into the field of limited naval hostilities. - America has been attacked, Germany fired ‘the first shot, Mr. Roosevelt last night told his werldwide radio audience and the total

heard him in person at the Mayflower Hotel here. His address revealing Nazi plans to abolish religion and to take over

America, including the Panama Canal, seemed significantly fo combine with a dramatic reminder that the dead and injured aboard the destroyer Kearny were the sons of many states. -

" Calls Neutrality Outmoded® The whole appeared to be a sum-

in the Vatican to join the crusade against Hitler. Mr. Roosevelt's own estimate of his speech was that the

worthy. He called again last night for the speedy arming of our merchant Ships, insisted that they must be free to carr British “p

the Navy Gieit protect our shipping. The Neutrality Act has been “outmoded by force of violent circumstances.”

Mr. Roosevelt was interrupted 12 times by applause but the. big out oburst of whoops and ¢ when he directly denied the Tight of President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America to shut: down production in captive coal mines.

“. Inserts Stab at Lewis

In 1'6 razor-sharp words, the five most significant of which were wholly extemporaneous, Mr. Roosevelt dealt with business and labor obstruction to national defense. » “Yes, our nation must speak from every assembly line—yes, from every coal mine.” The President began but was interrupted by a burst of cheering at the interpolated reference to coal—“and in the all-in-clusive whole of our vast industrial machine. Our factories and our shipyards are - constantly expand ing. Our output must be multiplied. “It cannot be hampered by the selfish obstruction of a small but dangerous minority of industrial managers who hold out for extra profits, or for ‘business as usual.’

selfish obstruction «of a small but dangerous minority of labor leaders (more cheers and shouts). who are a menace—for labor as a whole knows that the small minority is a menace—to the true cause of labor itself, (more cheers) as well as to the nation as a whole.”

He said that we must supply the

16 HOOSIER HUSKERS

Schricker Starts Contest on Woodburn Farm.

defense and Navy Day diners who

South America and parts of Central{

mons to the hesitant at home, in| - Latin America and, perhaps, even|:

religious phase was the most. news-

And it cannot be hampered by the|

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FOE EXHAUSTED, RUSSIANS CLAIM

Goebhels Foresees Long ..War; Tojo’ Reported Asking Terms. By JOE ALEX MORRIS « United Press Foreign News Editor Axis armies on the: muddy fighting fronts before Moscow and the Donets Basin made little progress against the Red Army today. The German drive by perhaps two million men and 15,000 tanks into the industrial Ukraine seemed to have slowed down to a crawl 10 or 15 miles from strategic. Rostov. The Germans. claimed the capture of torsk, 50 miles from Sta-

lino and. said that Hungarian troops had captured several towns.

Report Exhausted

Russian dispai es said that. the German attacks toward Rostov, the Crimea and in the Kharkov sector were ‘being contained and: that the Red Army. was ‘making successful counter-attacks in ' the ‘Mozhaisk sector before Moscow. Soviet dispatches put great em-

phasis on reports that the Axis of-

fensive - was exhausting itself ‘in some sectors, due partly to mud and severe winter weather, and the Riussian press called upon ‘all citizens to fight bitterly to complete this exhaustion.

SEEK STATE TITLE:

“FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE cexts

AN SWER T0 RO

oT he Shooting Has Started’

Asis Will Criish fe U.s.,

- Duce Tells

50, 000 Italians

mosh Oct. 28 w. P) ~ Premier Benito Messolini| speaking from the balcony of Venice Paltice, told a cheering throng of 50,000 Fascists tonight that the: United States and other .anti-Axis forces will be crushed

by the Axis.

Mussolini appeared in response to the shouts of the uniformed Fascist demonstrators who carried colored placards and posters denouncing

. | President Roosevelt and United States aid to Russia,

The demonstrators marched toward Venice Palace about 5 p. m. “The

balcony of the palace was decorated:

with flags and the Fascist colors and symbols. A few hours earlier Premier Mussolini spoke to Fascist leaders at the: palace on the 18th anniversary of the Blackshirt march on Rome in 1922, He called upon Italians for more and harder work. The demonstration materialized after Virginio Gayda, Fascist editor, ‘had denounced Mr. Roosevelt's Navy Day address in ‘the Giornale d'Italia as a challenge to Japan ‘as well as to Germany and Italy. (Japan was significantly silent ® 8 »

today in the Axis chorus ‘of denunclationi against Mr. Roosevelt). Many of the posters carried by the Fascist marchers depicted Mr, Roosevelt as garbed in a frilled col lar and a fool's cap. The carica~ ture was labeled “clown.”

Another poster showed a black-

““*Tambition to go down as the g

Or Criminal,’ Germans Cry.

On Inside Pages Nazis Tie Up France Details of Fighting...eqseys...s War Analysis yrosensenarereis i Berlin Diary Gebsasesuessetins os Maj. Eliot . sevedbesessnssnssees

BERLIN, Oct. 28 (U. By, —Nazi: spokesmen stron denounced - President Roose velt’s Navy Day speech todayy The authoritative Hams burger Fremdenblatt charged that the chief executive’s ads dress last night was “in morg than one sense a final step

[toward an undeclared shoots

ing war by the United St

. |against Germany and h

ed rage, directing their fire larly at his charges that - contemplates creation of a Neate dominated . hegemony in America and iin wide de shin

has » liar and faker in world history,” The reaction came with un speed.

for a period of 24 to 36 hours, Only the most brief extracts from Mr. Roosevelt’s speech were lished in the afternoon ne but long columns of den were printed.

‘The Warmonger Spoke’

The printed quotations from Roosevelt speech dealt with 8 charges regarding Nazi mtontione toward South America and ON, The Lokalanzeiger headlin, “Roosevelt's silly forgery” and editorially; “Roosevelt has not tated to libel Germany with regue lar forgeries in order, by these un: believable methods, to create some thing like a moral alibi for criminal plans. Roosevelt

shirted arm, bare to the arm and|said

shaking its fist. The caption was “This for Roosevelt!” Another ‘placard showed - Josef Stalin receiving American ald in the form of oxygen tanks.

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Fighting Speech, Britons Say; Papers Stress Defiant Tone

LONDON, Oct. 28. (U. P.). —Government quarters received President Roosevelt's “damn the torpedoes” Navy Day address enthusiastically today, describing it as a fighting speech.

. Unofficial “men ever, that Mr. belligerent tone. The fact that the Far Easern situation was considered an indication that hope of easing the Pacific tension has not been abandoned. Newspapers printed the speech under banner headlines, emphasizing the “damn the torpedoes” quotation.

en in the street”

“It tells Hitler, (Admiral Erich) and the world that they are prepared to shoot their way across the Atlantic—~whetheér to Britain or Archange

1.” ews used a head-

expressed velt disclosed no new action

The Evening N line, “U. 8. A. at Bt Battle Stations,” # » 2 :

some disappointment, Dow President omitted references to the

and. accompanied the dispatch with an editorial, “The Hare and the Tortoise.” ;

“Last night President Roosevelt called on his countrymen for one more step along the road that inexorable logic is drawing them,” the editorial said. + “It should be stated realized by all before too late: that during this winter we must race against time for our: lives.:. . .. Our whole solace lies in the belief that all hares become drowsy. The Hitlerian hare is ‘no such animal. He declines to run the race according

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|Flood of Messages Supports

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shown. One can only ask if Roosevelt is a criminal or a lunatic” The first official Statement taken a light tone, This s said the speech would cause greatest amusement in Germ and that the charge regarding 8 America was “the high point int Roosevelt fantasy and the em Sion ofa Sre7y and absurd magi on.” The second statement called

Address; 8 fo 1, Early Says: Ae

_ WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.

P) ~White House communication ‘reacting tary Stephen T. Early

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radio survey indicated

-the radio audience in the |