Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1941 — Page 3
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~ FRENCH ECONO
Petain’s Future at Stake in Collaboration’ Crisis; Germans Scour Land for Food Supplies and Raw Material, Link Shortages With Demands.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
hal Henri Philippe Petain’s future as chief of the French state is at stake in a deepening , economic crisis resulting from French “collaboration” with Germany. : This picture was provided by authentic advices reaching the United Press today from sources on the European| continent. According to this information, French industry, commerce and agriculture has been geared so completely to] the Reich war machine that little more “collaboration” can|
[Leads Nation to ‘Bloodsh ‘While Talking ‘Peace, Ohioan Charges. WASHINGTON, Oct, 28 (U. - | —Senator Robert A. Taft (R. [today declared that Presi Roosevelt publicly admitted {night that “he has already de
: ‘speech ‘¢ second day's debate on’ the 4 ays Sehate on the 2 trality Aces shipping restric
expected—except some ar-
rangement to allow France, as well as Germany, to benefit from the new set-up. So far, France has received virtually no benefits.
+ With minor exceptions, the information reported, those French industries which are working are working for German account. eantime, German agents continue fo scour both occupied and unoccupied France for food supplies and raw materials, shipping such vast Quantities that France faces a winter of unparalleled suffering. +» Economic repercussions of these flevelopments, the advices said, may prove extreme in the next few months, particularly if the Germans . eontinue to manipulate the flow of faw materials to French industry, artificially provoking industrial crises to back up their demands to the Vichy Government. * Petain, himself, it was said, regards the situation SR explosive. A ation of food riots and unpmployment this winter, it was said, ht well bring down the whole ichy regime, including Petain. The situation has been so delieate, it was added that Petain has hesitated to try the temper of French : labor by introducing his eval Guild system under a new bor statute—part of the “revoluSion” by which Petain hopes to reto France something of condins which existed under the last
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The Germans are biting off huge chunks of French industry. spite of a year of dickering, there
charge of 400,000,000 francs (roughly about $8,000, 000) assessed by Germany as occupation charges.
her credit, the Germans have indirectly obtained virtual control of French finance. They now own or have large stockholdings in more than 200 of the top French industrial concerns —steel, coal, rubber, textiles and fabricating industries. The Germans buy vast quantities in the open market and requisition even more supplies. They are estimated to have acquired at least half the meat supplies available in the occupied zone, The Germans have requisitioned 6,000,000" bottles of cognac and 14,000,000 bottles of champagne, some of which is shipped direct to Sweden for export. Because of the shortage of bottles France may not meet the quota demanded by the Nazis. In unoccupied France many farmers had gone back™to primitive
They can get no gasoline or coal for mechanical threshers. Stock breeding is at a standstill due to lack of feed. Monthly figures show an average decline of four per cent in horses and other livestock. These ‘developments, it is feared,
Bourbon monarchs.
will ‘have serious repercussions.
‘Germans and Hungirians. Capture Donets Towns
» BERLIN, Oct. 28 (U. P.).—A High mmand ‘communique asserted toflay that the Germans were purfling 1 retreating Russian forces in Donets Basin after taking the town of Kramatorsk, 50 miles north Stalino, and that the Hungarians Ls taken “additional important dustrial towns.” : An official news agency dispatch from the Leningrad front asserted rman heavy artillery had silenced e guns of the Kronstadt Island fiaval base off Leningrad, which been shelling German forces on e shore, and had bombarded Leningrad heavily. > * In its communique the High Comd said Kramatorsk was occuied yesterday. Operations on the remainder of ne front were progressing, it said. The communi said German
at the eastern side of the Crimean Peninsula, had sunk ga '3000-ton merchant ship. Official . news agency ' dispatches reported that on the southern front the Hungarians were gaining: fur-
“retreating” ‘Russian troops to defend several villages. It was related that the Hungarians stormed the villages and mopped them up in street fighting with hand grenades and Talis -AOwes. Describ the Tepurted b bombardment of official agency - said ing grad he by the sheling put a pall of smoke over
the ¢ s city. er agency dispatch said that a Ae army corps in the Leningrad region had captured 12,500 Russians, 66 guns and 297 machine guns as well as great quantities of war Waterss between Oct. 16 and |Mr
que fiona bombed the harbor of Kerch, » ” »
Reds Admit Stalino' s
Oct. 27 »
Loss,
Strike Back Near Moscow
| KUIBYSHEV, Oct. 28 (U. P.)— Boviet counter-attacks on both the Moscow and Rostov-Donets basin fronts were reported in Russian idispatches today but the situation ‘on the southern front was said still to be “most alarming.” The fighting for Rostov and the Donets industries was described as raging with unabated ferocity. One ilroad terminal, designated as ,’ was capt and recaptured several times, ‘but now was in Russian hands, it was said. On the M front, the Russian counter-attack directed by Lieut. Gen. Konstantin K, Rokossovsky in the Mozhaisk sector, about 60 miles from the capital, was reported the most successful of several Red Army blows against the German lines. The Germans were reported driven back at a point in the Mozhaisk vicinity and all of their attempts to regain ground were repulsed by Russian infantry and air attacks.
the south Ukraine, where the German chief objective is Rostov, but press dispatches said that the enemy had made no important gains in attacks on the Donets Basin and
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GROUPS LINKED T0 COMMITTEE
Setup Is Patterned After That Organized in Allen County.
A closely-knit organization of the 40 Marion County Republican clubs to work in co-operation with the County Committee was underway today. Preliminary plans were made last night at a meeting of the leaders of 38 clubs at the Hotel Washington, and will be completed by a five-member committee ‘to be se-
lected this week by Harry Yockey,
recently named co-ordinator of club activities by County . James Bradford.
Speakers to Be Named
An educational campaign, conducted by 35 speakers to be named later this week, will be the new organizations first enterprise. Emsley Johnson Jr, will head the forum group ‘which will explain the fundamentals of politics ‘and party organization to precinct workers at the club meetings. The new setup here will be patterned after the Allen County organization, explained to the club heads last night by Appellate Judge Dan C. Flanagan. Judge Flanagan outlined the block and forum system perfected in the Ft. Wayne area while he was Allen County, chairman and which now is rated the strong G. O. P. organization in the State. He ®xplained that e basic principle of the organization was “selling the party to interested buyers.” ¢
Sales Group Is Pattern
It was patterned after the sales organization’ of a large corporation in Ft. Wayne, he said, developing good salesmen and getting them in touch with prospects. He added that he found the voters were interested in local issues and were “tired of being talked at by oratorical big shots.” Other speakers on the program Jere State Chairman Ralph Gates, Eleanor Barker Snodgrass, State ®vice chairman; Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson, Women’s Republican Club chairman, and Mrs. T. B.
-1 Wright, county vice chairman.
DEBATE EXTENDING AMA WHEAT REVOLT
Plans for expanding the Indiana Marketing Quota Protest Association into a national organiza-
-presidents of Marion County Republican clubs last night af were James L. Bradford, Marion County G. O.
lon the other hand the Russians
the Crimea. (London reports said the Germans had about 2,000,900 troops: and 15,000 tanks in the Donets offensive.) The Russian dispatches acknowlthat in various sectors the Red Army had given ground, but said that the Germans had paid a heavy price—reportedly 50,000 casualties and 250 tanks at Stalino alone—for their advances and that ere Pe no important break ghs. The ‘press emphasized reports that the Germans were nearing a state of exhaustion and said that
were pouring new troops, equipment and large labor battalions into the front lines. The loss of Stalino was admittedly a severe blow. It is Russia’s great-
The situation continued grave in
est coal center, heart ‘of a 31,500Syiaresmile coal basin
tion will be discussed at a meeting of association members at the Claypool Hotel Saturday noon.
Representatives of farmers’ or-
ganizations in Ohio, Illinois and Kansas who are fighting the AAA marketing quota on wheat have been invited to attend, according to Alva O. Bitner of Rushville, association secretary-treasurer.,
The meeting will be open for all
farmers and wheat producers who are affected or may be affected by te AAA regulations, Mr. Bitner ded.
One of the topics to be. discussed
will be the procedure to'be followed by the farmers who have not yet paid the 49-cent tax imposed on above their quotas.
bushel penalty m for producing
bes IN INDIANAPOLIS
{Bere Is the Traffic Record County City Total
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108
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MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT
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MEETINGS TOMORROW
Indiana Association of Insurance Agents, 115 iadians Hotel, all day India) Lib brary V association, Hotel Lincoln, all day. Indiana State Conference on Social Work, Claypool Hotal, all day. . Firestone Tire Rubber Co., Hotel Severin, all day. ‘Purdue Alumni Association, Hotel Severin, 12: 15 Pp. y.B0¢ atin’ Labor Party, Hotel Severin, Yon Club Claypool Hotel, noon. , A. Camera Club, Y. M. C. A,
40 po. Motor Truck Association, Hotel Sseurit Divisio Hotel + S02 Bouton Oleh, ¥ Discussion Club, Y. M. ©.
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Kiwanis Club, Columbia Club, noon.
_ MARRIAGE LICENSES
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Columbus - Holt, 56, of 128 Cora; Bridgadell. Northinger, . of 128 Cora, oa, Ot 3508 Boer
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William 8t. Vincent
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phcpna Coleman, at 333 Minerva, Jones, at Lahrm
Boys Thomas, Frances Sheehan,
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Windsors fo Dine With FDR Today
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U. P.). —The Duke and the Duchess of Windsor returned to the capital today to keep a long-postponed luncheon date with President Roosevelt at the White House. Mrs. Roosevelt will not be present at the luncheon .because she must leave the city late in the. morning fo keep .a. sjx-months-old speaking engagement in Chicago. She arranged at the “last minute to receive the famous . visitors at her office of Assistant Civilian Defense Director just before she leaves to take a plane. The luncheon originally was scheduled for Sept. 25. The fatal illness of G. Hall Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt's brother, caused it to be postponed. The Duke and Duchess did call on the President in his office then, however.
C10 AUTO STRIKE LOOMS IN EAST
Linked to Long L Dispute at Air Associates; Shipyard Trouble Spreads. - -
By UNITED PRESS~ One of the most strained overall labor-management situations since the beginning of the rearmament program was complicated further today by. the threat of a general eastern walkout of United Automobile Workers (C. 1. 0) stemming from the prolonged dispute at Air Associates, Inc, Bendix, N. J. The moftled defense labor pice ture across the mation included: 1. Spread of the bitter, week-old A, F of Li fight to involve 10,000 Pdcific Coast welders and more than a ‘billion dollars worth of defense shipbuilding orders. 2. Shutdown of the ins Drydock and Repair ‘yards at Brooklyn, N. Y,, repairing 15. crippled - merchantmen, mostly- British, by a C. IO. shipbuilders’ strike tht forced 58)0 men into idleness. 3. Increasing demands in Con-
gress for drastic: legislative action
to control defense labor strikes. 4. A recommendation by the Federal Works Administration that all bids on a defense housing project at Wayne, Mich., be re-|mili
the contract were awarded to a
C. 1. O. labor.
the east came from Charles Kerri-
a 24-day walkout.
join the week-old jurisdictional strike.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. S. Weather Buresn | INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair and colder tonight with killing frost; lowest temperature about 25; tomorrow fair with rising temperature and increasing clondiness.
Sunrise ...... 6:10 Sunset ...... 4:48
jected because of a threat of widespread A. F. of L. strikes if
low-bidding contractor employing it
The threat of a general walkout of C. I. O. automobile workers in
Welders at three large San Francisco shipyards and many smaller plants vote tomorrow whether to
The strikers already have crippled - yards -holding| ily quarrel last night m which John
. chairman; Appellate Court Judge Dan C.
NEW ELECTION TEST SUI SUIT DUE
Action - Now ow. Poriiiitg Stirs _. Factional Dispute in Democratic Ranks.
‘New action ' is being considered in the legal maneuvers to: determine if Indianapolis will hold a municipal election next year. The test suit filed in Circuit Court last Wednesday stirred ‘up such a rumpus among Democratic factions that attorneys who brought the suit are reported to have decided to withdraw it and file a different kind of action in another court. The present suit, prepared by both Democratic and hepubliohn attorneys, asked a mandate to order the Election Board to proceed ‘with an election in 1942,
' Factional Dispute Seen
However, Edward Knight, City Corporation .Counsel, a Democra filed a motion to remove Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox from'the bench in. what was interpreted mainly as a factional dispute. Mr. Knight also attacked the suit as being the wrong kind of action to obtain a decision on the validity of the 1941 law which postpones until 1943 municipal elections in all Indiana cities ‘but Indianap0. he
* Called ‘Out of Order’
It repealed the 1933 law, thus leaving no-act under which Indianapolis could hold an election next year or anyother time. The present mandate action wou declared “out of order” by Mr. Knight who said it is impossible to mandate any one in a political suit ‘unless ‘some : parties. had -suffered Attorneys who prepared the suit now are reported. to be considering another asking a declaratory judgment on the 1941 law eventually to determine its - constitutionality.
GERMAN SUPPLY SHIP ARRIVES IN SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, Oct. 28 (U. P.).—The former German merchantman Quito, reported in foreign naval quarters to be a supply ship for South Sea raiders, arrived today, camouflaged, with its. name . painted. out and manned by a German crew but flying the Japanese merchant and military fla
gs. The 1230-ton. Quito came . here from Yokohama, reportedly because of a shortage in Japan of supplies needed. Naval men could see no signs of guns which a raider or a supply ship might use, but eabree belief that after getting: supplies it might put out to seek a rendezvous with German raiders
‘TERRE HAUTE COUPLE HELD AFTER SLAYING TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Oct. 38 (U. P).—Police held Wayne Brannin,
43, and his wife, Eva, 33, on charges of murder today, following a fam-
W. Guess, 34, was shot to death in a suburban tavern.
a brother-in-law of Mrs. Brannin.
Others, on the program (left
Hotel Washington. Among the speakers Irvington Republican Club; Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson, Women’s Republican Club of Indianapolis, and Carl Wilking. Flanagan; Mrs. Ernest M. Henricy, co-ordinator for women, and Harry R. Yockey, co-ordinator for men. named to prepare a preliminary co-ordination program.
This fact, cou . of the German
not. officially confirmed, that the
of Rostov-on-Don and are a desperate effort to surround the city by throwing in innumerable small shock groups of infantry supported by tanks. These units strike out into the. blue, and keep on going until they are -either annihilated or captured, or capture strong points where they can await reinforcements. “The loss of Kharkov is very impor-
sia’s key railway junctions and the home of one of its greatest tank and tractor factories, an aircraft
t, | factory which produces more than
1000 planes monthly, important machine tool plant, electro-techni-cal works and a locomotive plant. With the industrial production of Leningrad, Moscow and Kharkov isolated, exposed or lost, the Russians will do/well to maintain onethird of their previous production level. The loss of Rostov would mean another severe, direct blow to production but would have even greater indirect possibilities. Beyond Rostov -lies North Caucasus, with Astrakhan and the - oilfields of Grozny and Baku in the background. An advance to Astrakhan, at the. mouth of the Volga, wéuld threaten communications between the British in the Near East and the center of Russian resistance on the Middle Volga and would make better utilization or ‘actual possession of the Caucasian oilfields al-
War Analysi By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN «. Cepyright, 1041, » The Jpaianapoli Times and The Chicago LONDON, Oct. 28.—Snow, driving rain continue to impede movement on the . Russian front from Kalinin south to the Black Sea. ‘ferocity of Russian resistance, has made the advance again given rise to the hope that they may be stopped . at Moscow, or, if that ‘proves impossible, - at least far west of the Volga on the central front. As for whe: south ‘the news is not so good and it is believed, though
Kharkov. Farther to the south they are certainly within a few miles
sending equipment to the Russians.
tant for it is one of modern Rus-|.
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coupled with the high. quality and armies tedious and costly and has
Germans have in fact captured
This again raises the question of what the British can do to help and what, if anything, they are do to help at the present’ time beyond
It-has been rumored time and again that Gen. Archibald P. Wavell, British commander-in-chief in India and Iran, has been in Tiflis and that the British are sending troops to Southern Caucasus. Without contradicting the former report, it is probably safe to question the latter for the time being. Any expedition of that kind would have to be agreed upon by the two parties—the Russians ‘and the British—and one is forced to ask oneself if the Russians, even now, are in sufficient peril, in their own es« timation, to welcome the presence of foreign troops on their soil. One thing that is certain is that neither the Russians nor their wellwishers, Britain and. the United States, can. plausibly continye to agitate for the formation of a ‘“second front” by Britain until and unless Moscow: has deeply considered the formation of a front in the Caucasus—which appears’ the most practicable of all—and unless it has agreed to such a plan. ~ At the same time, talk of a British expedition to either Norway, France or the Low’ Countries tends to grow more and more absurd to experts who have full knowledge of such things as the shipping situa-
most impossible for the Russians.
tion and the minimum requirements for any such expedition. .
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U. P.). —The American-born Duchess of Windsor called on Mis. Franklin D. Roosevelt today for a discussion of U. 8. civilian defense. preparations and American and British welfare work ‘in this country. The Duchess visited Mrs. Roosevelt at her’ headquarters in the Office of Civilian Defense, where the First Lady is an assistant administrator to A National. Director Fiorello H. LaGuardia. ‘ A White House automobile took
to greef the visitor. : Wearing a ‘black: velvet cost. with
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Mrs, Roosevelt ‘and the: Duchess then motored tothe White House) where the Duke was awaiting them. The Windsors had: luncheon at the
he can to plunge the nation ints a shooting war. “He has given unqualified roboration to those who have to ‘convince the American: for months that he was them down the road to- bl while constantly repeating of peace. yi “Now Mr. Roosevelt informs | ‘the shooting has started.’ He says: ‘Very simply and very bluntly, we are pledged to pull our own oar ify the destruction of Hitler.’ Pledge Up to Congress ' “By what authority does the President make that statement Who gave the pledge? Unless. President is willing to admit he has assumed final, unconstiti tional and dictatorial powers, them his statement that such a pledge has been given is not worth L paper it was written on for Congress can make such a pledge.. “Mr. Roosevelt says again: ‘Our Navy has been instructed to on sight. There is no Stated Limi. tation upon those orders, By wi ay oly et hr. Roos oi sod ©! n._you i the oceans in quest of ow ling: fare? Only Congress can con stitutionaly order our ships and boys into an offensive war. Mr. Roosevelt contend then that es. has assumed Hitlerian Sutherlty over the United States?” Senator Taft contended that one step toward war remains the passage of the trality bill—“that is an open tion of war ‘and the Jending : American troops to- Africa, Asta Europe.”
MARINE SENTRY IN | PEIPING ATTACKED
PEIPING, China, Oct. 28 (U. P) A man who rode past the United States Embassy in a ricksha late last night fired four pistol shots at the embassy gate, wounding a U. 8. Marine sentry in the foot. ; The sentry, whose back was turned when he was fired upon; fired five shots: at, I who--escaped in the’ darkness an who. apparently. was not Rh otal (In Tokyo
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————————————————————— CLUB TO HEAR ROBB Jumes Robb, director: .of Steel Workers Organizing Committee, will speak to menibers of the Mun: cie Rotary Club tonight. His topic
White House with . the : President.
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