Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1941 — Page 3
Army's Claims for Prior Delivery Are Relinquished in “Order to Prevent Delay in Aid to Reds; Speed Up Tanks and Planes.
* WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (u. P.)\—Soviet Russia has first call today on munitions—planes, tanks and guns— Which were ordered originally for the U. S. Army. "The Army will have to relinquish claims for prior delivery on much equipment so that there will be no delay in carrying forward the Russian aid program, authoritative
sources said.
Some officials believed that so far as aircraft is concerned, that procedure may delay equipment for the 84-com-
bat groups which it is proposed to set up in the Army air forces. However, they said it would not hamper the
training of personnel. ‘Although no official disclosure has been made of the details of. the Russian-aid program developed at ‘the recent Moscow conference, defense officials said these were among the general understandings: . “1, United "States aid to Britain + not, to be curtailed as the result of the program to supply Russia with war materials. 2. Britain to contribute a share o its own arms production to Rus-
3.:An “open end” program, making it possible for Russia to augment its list of present requirements. There has been no disclosure of how Russian aid will be financed, but an official suggested that pres-. ent arrangements — Treasury and Reconstruction Finance Corp. loans against future deliveries of Soviet gold: and raw materials — will be continued for a while.
Nye Says Neutrality Repeal Is Certain to Lead to War
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U. P.) — Senator Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D), charged today that the first armed , American ship carrying war mate- * rials into a British port will be only “the advance guard of an American transport loaded with troops for overseas duty.” Opening the third day’s Senate debate on the Administration bill to repeal all Neutrality Act shipping restrictions, Senator Nye pictured war as the inevitable result of pass-
age. “Indeed,” he said, “there comes a Clever word from the west that the betting there is 10 to 1 that if we pass this repealer, the United States will be in the war before Great Britain is in the war.” Mr. Nye contended that no longer could Administration moves in foreign policy be described as steps . “short of war” or to "keep us out
There is a good chance that some of the $5,985,000,000 lend-lease funds now available may be used to help the Russians, the official added emphasizing, however, that Mr. Reosevelt has not yet made such a determination, The new lend-lease appropriation bill was signed yesterday by President Roosevelt, who simultaneously issued an order creating the Office’ of Lease-Lend Administration in the Office of . Emergency Management, succeeding the Office of De-
ished. ' The order redesignated Edward R. Stettinius Jr, as lend-lease administrator in charge of the new agency at a salary of $10,000 a year.
Purpose of the order, it ‘was explained, was to formalize administration of the lend-lease m. It authorized Mr. Stettinius, subject to “such policies as the President may from time to time prescribe,” to exercise any power or authority conferred upon the President by the lend-lease act “with respect to any nation whose defense the President shall have found to be vital to the
‘ of war.”
defense of the United States.” e »
The British high command, Mr. Nye said- has made it plain that without an American expeditionary force there is no possibility of reentering the European continent. “It has been well established in our experience in the last war and re-established on this very floor from the records only this week that an armed merchantman is less safe than an unarmed one. “It is not of record that an armed merchant ship ever sank a submarine, but it is of record that an armed merchant ship, headed for a belligerent port, carrying goods for a country at war, is a natural target for a submarine.
fense Air: Reports, which was abol=| -
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RAF Attacks on
HARRISO SALISBURY Bm United Press oy Correspondent
Poa attacks have compelled the Germans 0
Havre, brest, Boulogne, Calais and
Dunkirk, and ‘have crippled or halted production in several blocks of
tering ing production in the Northern France industries. More and more severe British air attacks have caused hundreds of workmen to quit their jobs, particularly in exposed factories which are
production was reported handicapping the Germans of the industrial facilities of Northern France have been geared to produce for the German armed forces. British air attacks, it was said, have reached fheir greatest effectiveness in the big Lille industrial sector where the bulk of French textile production as well as coal mines and heavy industrial plants are
reportedly oub
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on power plants,
"Hagebrouck, it was reported, 3 per cent of the workers ory in ‘war factories quit because of iG Jepeaied alr dime tn th pes 9
with direct attacks on the
Ty ie wt HET standstill
factories seven times in the
on IMPORTANCE OF THESE static 1 tis Germys wir. exnphasiaed. by disclosure ‘of the vast extent of French i the past 12 mosths have turned out’ 24,000 tons of finished o
fable Tore Germans,
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NAZIS OPEN NEW MOSCOW DRIVE
Biggest . Bombardment of War Precedes Attack, Russians Say.
KUIBYSHEV, Oct. 29 (U. P.).— Reports from the front said today that Soviet forces are counterattacking at Maloyarpslavets and
other points along the Moscow de-
fense lines but admitted that a strong new Nazi attack has been
" “Under the Neutrality Act, how|launched in the Orel area after many American lives have been lost |intensive air and artillery bombardon American merchant ships? None. | ment.
“To arm merchant ships strips them of whatever possible immunity they might enjoy as unarmed craft. It in no way strengthens them, and
(Radio Moscow, heard by the United Press listening post in New York, reported that the situation at Rostov “is critical and the city
isa ig Jeopardizing of Amer- is seriously threatened.” In the
Strikes Halt Machine Guns, Stop Navy Boat Production
By UNITED PRESS
Strikes halted production on .50caliber: machine guns and on « $25,000,000 shipbuilding orders for ¥ the Navy at two Michigan plants
Ye. : The Kelsey-Hayes Wheel . Co.’s Plymouth, Mich, plant stopped tuming out machine guns when 1450 United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.) went on strike for higher wages and discontinuance of a management policy by which women allegedly are hired at lower wages. The plant is one of four devoted exclusively to 0 machine-gun production. rs disregarded an appeal of union leaders to continue at their jobs.
Navy Work Tied Up
Work on ships for the nation’s Navy, already hard hit by a strike of welders in West Coast yards, was further crippled by a walkout of 1300 members of the Industrial -and Marine Shipbuilders Union (©. 1 Os) at ihe Delos Boat & Motor Works, Hy oi , ‘Mich. . Strikers ‘a closed-shop clause in po recently negotiated agreement between the union and the company. The plant was pickged, stopping Hore on 25 subma-|, rine ' chasers, four mine ‘sweepers “and four tugs. At Seattle Mayor Earl. Millikin predicted that the jurisdictional strike of 2000 welders threatening $1,250,000,000 worth of defense shipbuilding would be settled within 48
hours. y In the East, Richard Franken-
steen, head of the aircraft division
(C. I. 0.), intimated a general strike of C. I O. workers in five states in sympathy for C. I. O. workers engaged in a controversy with the management of the Air Associates. Inc. Bendix, N. J. The Air Associates strike centered around a dispute as to whether the management had lived up to the spirit of an agreement between it and the union under Government pressire, “settling” a week old strike. t St. Louis, members of the indo 1 Tri-State Utility Workers’ Union agreed at the request of the Labor Board to postpone for one week the strike deadline originally set for 10 a, m. today. A three-man board chosen by the Board and the OFM will hold hearings on the dispu A C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee official at Buffalo, N. Y, said today that a géneral strike at all plants of the Bethlehem Steel Co. is imminent unless a satisfactory wage agreement is negotiated and Senet witpin a “reasonable time.”
TURKEY “ON VERY EDGE”
" ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 29 (U. P.). —President = Gen. Ismet -Inonou warned Turkey today that “we lve on the very edge of a holocaust” and said that Turkey is ready for all sacrifices to maintain her national integrity.
of the United Automobile Workers
Kalinin ‘sector the Germans were’ said to have suffered such serious losses, particularly to the 26th Panzer Division, that they are now regrouping their forces. In Crimea furious German attacks were admitted. Heavy German air bombardment of Moscow yesterday was admitted but it was said that no military targets were hit. Recapture of several towns in the Mozhaisk sector was claimed.)
Yermakov’s Line Holds
The Cermans, it: was reported, have been concentrating large forces in the Orel region for the past five days despite incessant attacks by the Red Air Fleet. The attacks were said to have destroyed at least 30 tanks, 30 armored cars and nine Nazi planes. The attacking forces at Orel were reported numerically superior to the Soviet defense corps under General Yermakov. Despite the weight of the Gernian attack, it was reported, Yermakov’s lines so far have held firm against all attempts by the wedges
was, reported, despite the bad terrain conditions.
Heaviest Cannonade of War
It was indicated that the Ore push was a phase of an a onslaught upon Moscow which Soviet commanders have been expecting. The.Germans are said to have brought up large quantities of artillery for the heaviest tory bombardment the ' Russians have encountered since the start of the war, The Russian counter-attacks were going forward Sulilaheously, presumably in an attempt to disrupt
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Cod Stocks Dwindle at Steel Plants
Clairton, Pa.
visit to this stockpile of the largest single steel producer in the world would be enlightening. It is no ordinary coal dump. Its capacity is the greatest in the world. It serves the largest by-product coke plant in the world—the Clairton byproduct coke works, nerve center of the Carnegie-Illinois in Pittsburgh where 36 per cent of the U. S. Steel subsidiary’s capacity is located. This stock of coal feeds 80 per cent of Carnegie-Illinois’ operations here. The other 20 per cent is dependent upon bituminous fed into beehive coke ovens scattered helterskelter over western - Pennsylvania. The mine strike already has knocked out this 20 per cent; the beehives had no coal reserves.
Beehives Are Outdated . The beehive method 1s an antique resurrected only in time of abnormally high steel operations. Beehive ovens are- located néar mines and are served directly from the. shafts. Consequently no stockpiles are maintained, Once the Clairton. coal pile is depleted, the 1482 big by-product ovens of the coke plant will stop producing coke for a score or more of blast furnaces and gas for hundreds of open hearths. All down the line the tremendous defense-busy resources of Carnegie-Illinois in this area will come to a half. Last April 1, when the United Mine Workers began a month-long
captive mines, this pile was stocked with 1,274,000 net tons of coal— sufficient for approximately 38 days.
Not Company Propaganda At that time steel companies really had an opportunity to stock Even so, Carnegie-Illinois had to bank four blast furnaces and lost thousands of tons of steel pro-
duction. As of yesterday, the Clairton coal; this
stockpile contained a 1|of 233,000 net tons of quantity is barely enough for nine days. This is not company propaganda. Men who work there, residents who have lived near it for years can gauge the supply accurately almost at a glance,
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. S. Weather Bureau ace
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and warmer tonight and tomorrow
. | with rains tomorrow.
6:11 Sunset _ crosses 4347
shutdown of both commercial and|
This pile of coal at the Clairton, Pa., works of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. looks big, but it will last only about nine days at capacity operation. Prospects of replenishing it are dim as 53,000 miners at pits owned by seven steel companies continue their walkout to enforce C. L O. demands for a closed shop.
Biggest Producer Has Only 9-Day Supply, Visit Shows
By DALE McFEATTERS Times Special Writer PITTSBURGH, Oct. 29.—If John L. Lewis continues to suspect that steel companies stored coal in crafty preparation for his captive mine strike, let him look at a coal pile of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. at
In view of the United Mine Workers president’s expressed belief that steelmakers “marshalled their forces” and “increased coal storage,” a
NAZIS CLAIM 14 SHIPS AFTER SIX-DAY CHASE
BERLIN, Oct. 20 (U. P.).—Germany claimed today that in a six
days chase, U-boats destroyed 14 heavily laden ships totaling 47,000 tons from a strongly protected British convoy from Gibraltar. In addition, it was said, a submarine torpedoed and sank a British destroyer. The destruction of the convoy was announced with considerable fanfare, hailed as a great German sea victory. :
GERMANS CLAN CRIMEAN BREAK |
Pincers Again Attempted |
On Moscow Front in ‘Seas of Mud.’
BERLIN, Oct. 29 (U. P).—Ger-
man reports said today that Nazi forces have punched their way]
through Soviet Crimean defenses on Perekop Isthmus and are slowly forging ahead north and south of Moscow in a great pincers
move- | ment despite “Incredible” weather | i
handicaps. Luftwaffe units, it was Yeportad, are striking heavily at retreating
Kerch Narrows where only a narrow strait separates Crimea from the Georgian coast. The mud, these quarters said, is the biggest handicap to - German operations since it prevents the movement of many heavy artillery pieces “and impedes the transport of ammunitions and other supplies.
Admit. Counter-Blows \ It was admitted that the Rus-
|$ians have launched several heavy
counter-attacks, particularly in the Kalinin sector, but these are said to have been beaten off and some German progress southward of Kalinin on the Leningrad-Moscow rail line was claimed. The southern end of the pincers, the Nazi sources said, also has made some progress and is moving toward Tula about 100 miles south of Moscow. Tula is believed now to be coming under direct threat,
Nazi Propaganda Shifts
Following up an admission by the High Command that weather is impending the offensive on the Russian , front, Germany sharply changed its technique in its decriptions of the situation by warning that heavy fighting is ahead “in storms and bad weather, in cold and snow.” The argument was advanced that a German victory had been won against Russia but that the RussoGerman phase of the war had entered a second stage in which “peace must be enforced in additional hard and heavy fighting.” The newspapers, in chorus, played up the “peace by force” angle, making it plain that there - would be much Sghting in the winter months,
organizations opened here,
The directors of the Indians Library Assoclation and of the Indiana, _ Library Trustees’ Association met today as the annual sessions of the The Library Association officers are Mrs, Clarabelle Dickey, Terre Haute (standing, left), president; Miss Florence Allman, Hammond (standing, right), vice president; Miss Amy Johns
son, Vevay (seated, left), secretary, and Miss Taste Snow, Elwood,
treasurer.
Just 50 years after it was formed with an attendance of nine Indiana librarians, the Indiana Library Association assembled today at the Hotel Lincoln with 400 delegates to plan its next 50 years’ program. In attendance will be public librarians and library trustees, oldtimers and those just entering the profession. Many important speakers have been scheduled for the three-day session. The delegates represent most of 233 public libraries in the state which make available more than five million books to Hoosiers. Since it was organized, the Indiana Library Association has been instrumental in getting the State Library and Historical Building, here, and it has helped bring about legislative reforms that have extended and improved library service throughout the state. It will be the general business of this convention to plan for new laws, to further elevate the standard of library service, and to discuss ways and means of inducing
Improved Standards. Aim of 400 Convention Delegates
more citizens to use the library services. Among the prominent speakers will be Harold F. Brigham, ‘of the Louisville, Ky., Free Public Library, who will talk about the Association’s future; Virginia Kire kus, literary critic, who will tonight on “Forecasting in the Book World”; Carl M. White, University of Illinois librarian and director of the Library School, whos will speak" on “Future Education for Librariane ship. ”» Among the other speakers will Ye Mrs. Jeannette Covert Nolan, Ine dianapoiis author, who will talk on “Children’s Literature,” and Ralph Munn, director of the Carnegie ILi= brary of Pittsburgh, who will make the address at the birthday dinner tomorrow on “What of the Days to Come.” ! “Special industrial 1 1s will - NOW
have their own sess with the increased d made on technical volumes by. those engaged in defense work. 3
TEMPERATURE Oct. 29, 1940—
Precimiation 4 24 si singe Jai. 1 . m.. Deficiency pitas Jon
MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—~Cloudy and warmer, occasional light rain Somoriow and in northw west-central portions late tonight. 1llinois—Cloudy warmer tonight and
and tomorrow, with occasional light rain, Lower Mic ) tonight, followed by rain OrTOwW; warmer, : Ohio—Increasing cloudiness, Jolowed oy ites rain In northwest
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