Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1941 — Page 7

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| Hints Bill to Repeal

Parts of Neutrality i ~ Act Will Pass. VASHINGITON, Oct. 31 (U.P) .—

W. Norris (Ind.{

Neh), Ta learning of the sinking of | destroyer Reuben James, said

he is “ready to vote now” in| -

vr of the Administration bill to Neutrality Act shipping re-

Hi afnouncement assured the tiofi of 46 votes for the to 31 for the opposition.

Norris announced his stand]:

: the Senute opened the fifth day’s debate ‘on peutrality revision. | “Although we don’ have the de-

tails, we draw the conclusion that| C Germany sank the destroyer,” he

A ‘It is only another demonG ration, ‘in my opinion, why we got to go ahead with this legi lation, I'm ready to vote for the bill now.” ] Membership Polled

‘Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky said: “On the surface, without details, it looks as if the Nazis are determined to drive us off the high seas ‘and I do not believe the American people are ready to be driven off.” «Prior to Mr. Norris’ announcement, the United Press polled the membership and found 45 Senators definitely in favor of the Administration bill to arm merchantmen, authorize them to carry cargoes to belligerent ports and travel through combat zones. The opposition was sure of 31 votes. “Both Indiana Senators were expected to vote “no.” Senator Frederick VanNuys (D.) was definitely ' committed and Senator Raymond {Willis (R.), although out of town, has consistently opposed similar previous ‘proposals. i recess was forecast in midNovermber because of an underthat the Senate will (not act this year on the Price Control

Assuming a final vote on neutrality Wednesday, leaders said the Senate would devote a day or two to calendar bills and probably by Monddy, Nov. 10, reach a formal agreement for semi-weekly “token” meetings for the rest of the year, with members authorized to leave the capital subject to call in event Some new emergency makes legislaRion necessary. : * Foes to Speak .The opposition bloc on neutrality galled on Senators Bennett C. Clark, (D. Mo), C. Wayland Brooks (R. Il), and. ‘Rufus C. Holman (R. Ore.) to present its case in debate today. tor . Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) will speak for the Administration. . Yesterday Senators. Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah), Josiah W. Bail6g (D. N. C), and Styles Bridges (R. N. H) indorsed the removal of yestrictions on merchant shipping, while Senator Alexander Wiley, (R. Wis.) contended that passage of the bill tfemove’ the last barrier to an undeclared and unapproved

The battle of the rejected bid flares up again before a Senate committee with P. J. Currier, right, Detroit’ contractor, claiming he has been pushed around. Col. Lawrence Westbrook, left, of the Federal

Works Adniinistration, advocates throwing out all bids on the Wayne,

Mich., defense housing project including that by Currier—$500,000 lower than any other. The OPM said the Currier contract, which would

use C. I. 0. men, would cause labor strife, .

80,000 Rebel in Jugeslavia: Germans Reported at Dakar

. By UNITED PRESS Allied press and radio reports today told of severe guerrilla fighting by 80,000 rebels against Axis forces in ' the Balkans, the shooting of

saboteurs in Poland and Jugoslavia and the alleged dispatch of German soldiers to the West African port of Dakar. Radio Moscow said that foreign reports from unspecified sources told of the sending of Nazi troops to Dakar, in French West Africa, a strategic attack base on the South Atlantic coast, and claimed that these troops totaled as high as 10,000 soldiers and 5000 workers. “Several = hundred experts are directing construction of fortifications, submarine bases and air facilities,” the broadcast reported. hangars for German long-range planes are being built underground.” The French have denied that German forces are at Dakar and there was no confirmation of the Moscow claim from any other

Sour, Jugoslav spokesmen said fighting was in progress between Serb irregular. troops ‘and German forces in the Drina district and elsewhere in Jugoslavia, where about 80,000

rebels are using the rough mountain area as a base for attacks,

Three weeks in which the Germans have sent troops into the hills and attacked with dive-bombers have failed to end the revolf.

Radio Moscow also repo that Jugoslav guerrillas attac the Italian garrison of Plevle, killing 40 Italian - soldiers, while Serbian rebels have occupied and held a number of mountain towns. The broadcast estimated that 300 German soldiers had been killed in fighting the Serb rebels in the last 10 days. A British broadcast reported 93 Italian soldiers killed when a bridge and train were blown up. A London broadcast also reported that “in several Jugoslay villages the Germans have executed the entire’ male population in reprisal for guerrilla attacks.” The BBC also reported that Gérman storm troopers “mowed down” 1000 Poles near Lomza and several hundred others near Jaslo, while 20 more Frenchmen were reported imprisoned for sabotage and 28 others arrested for acts against the Germans. Nine Czechs were sentenced to death in Brun on Thursday for sabotage, Berlin reported.

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|LINDBERGH RAPS U.S. ‘DICTATORS'|

Speak at America First Rally in New York.

‘NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (U, P), — Charles A. Lindbergh told 20,000

: persons siiending an Ameria First

‘|about preserving democpacy freedom

abroad while they practice dictatorship and subterfuge at

Hel He “appealed to all all Americans +e» to unite behind the demand for a

stands squarely upon ditions . . . a YE that takes

dence.” ‘Other speakers were Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.); John

Cudahy, former United States Am-

bassador to Belgium, and John T. chapter of the America First Com-

mittee.

Fifty detectives in plain clothes

Jwere scattered through the audience

and 725 police guarded the auditorium and excluded from a block on all sides of it, all who did net have a’ ticket or could not prove business in the area.

Says Invasion Imipractieal

Outside the restricted zone, young “Volunteers” of the First to Fight Division” of Fight for Freedom, Inc., passed out tracts denouncing Mr. Lindbergh. Continuing his attack on the Administration, Mr; Lindbergh said: He was convinced in 1938 that war between Germany on one side and England and France on the other could only end in a German victory or “a prostrate and devastated Europe.” He said modern aviation had made it “impractical, if not impossible” for an expeditionary force to invade the western hemisphere. Charges War Date Set « Mr. Wheeler charged that United States and British staff officers at joint talks had set the date - for American entry into the war, although the date now had passed. “The real purpose behind the stripping of the Neutrality Act is to create a war psychology or to make an incident possible that would plunge the nation into war,” he said. Mr. Cudahy said it would take an American expeditionary force. of 8,000,000 men—of whom 2,000,000 would be casualties—and _$50,000,000,000 to defeat Germany. He suggested that the United States use its control of 85 per cent of the world’s gold to make a permanent peace.

Use Gold to Bring Peace

“Let us offer this gold as a peace settlement as a stabilization of international currency,” he said. “We can re-establish the gold standard by lending this gold to foreign countries and lodging it in this country under direction of the international bank of settlements—these loans to be paid off ovér a period of years by goods and commodities. “In this way we can set in motion forces which will inaugurate a great period of trade expansion in an economy of abundance which will liquidate the real issue of the war.” - Mr. Flynn attacked radio net-

: works, which, he said, “arbitrarily

shut from the air the voice of this great gathering.” He said the three major radio chains had offered 127 broadcasts devoted to “interventionist propaganda” against six for the “isolationist side” in the last three days.

U: S. MAY GET AIR DEPOTS IN. BRITAIN

Chicago Daily News, Inc, LONDON, Oct. 31.=Tentative plans are being made for two American depots in the British isles—one in North Ireland and the other in West Scotland. If approved, American technicians will eventually take over the repairs and servicing of Americanbuilt aircraft used by the Royal Air Force. Gen. George Brett, ‘chief of the United States Army air corps, who arrived here a few weeks ago fol lowing a tour of the Middle East, has inspected the depots which are stood that his mission in the Middle stood that his mission in the middle East was partly concerned with the establishment of similar depots there. The depot sites in North Ireland and Scotland have been under construction since. July and are presumably those which gave rise to suggestions in Congress that the United States was establishing bases there. Whatever uses they might later be put to, the present intention is use them as maintenance ns + pair ao for American planes ferried to the R. A. F.

LIVED AS IF POOR, LEAVES $100,000

SAN A] 31 (U.P).

Wheeler and Cudahy Also wi

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the American people into its confi<| Tay

Flynn, chairman of the New York | ‘oY

The browed one, perhaps, did ‘most of the sugaring, for he said: “Seven years ago . « « I sald that Mr. Taylor was an A statesman of far-seeing vision. I reiterate that today.”

ey Taylor sugared - back, a en undignified pu him the question, “who won?” he replied - with frigidity, “don’t ask me any questions.” Unintentionally, Mr. Lewis kicked the stuffing out of the pretty tale that he and Mr. Taylor met for the

ter’s interesting eyebrows. According to Mr. Lewis, they sat in the same hotel seven years ago and settled another coal strike. One thing not announced in the is-Taylor fiesta was that the worker leader has made another strike threat with a Nov. 15 deadline. t is the limit he set fog the Na Defense Mediation Board to decide the issue of whether the. United Mine Workers get a “union shop,” with a dues checkoff from all the miners, in the coal ,| mines that supply the steel mills. The Nov, 15 deadline was announced three hours later from U. M. W. headquarters here, and it was in black and white to William H. Davis, chairman of the NDMB. The NDMB announced a proce= dure that appeared peculiar. The 11 original - members and the alter-

Lows Now Decides Taylor Is Sialeman After r Calling Him Morgan Puppet Monday

nates subsequently named to tha body total 39. It was oD oat that about 30 would appear today to study and advise on the record of the captive-mine case. But only 11 will vote on the issue. Their names will not be made public. This arrangement, if carried] through, ' means that the issue in management-labor relations will be decided anonymously, When Board spokesmen were queried on why the voting members will not “stand up to be counted,” they explained that under the secret procedure some management members might vote in favor of the labor side of the argument, and some labor members might vote for the management. side —1if their names are not made how. On Capitol Hill the anti-Lewis members who thought they had “Lewis on the hook” were frankly skeptical of everything, -

THREE HURT IN CRASH

Three persons were injured when a car struck the Illinois St. safety zone at Washington St. early today. Richard Simmons, 28, Waveland, the driver, was slightly injured. Mrs. Combs, 42, and Mrs. Jeannette Trior, 39, both of 401 N. Illinois St., are in ‘Methodist Hospital where their conditions are described as fair,

Torpedo Boat Damaged," Official Quarters at Berlin Claim. :

| BERLIN, Oct. 31 (U. PJ) Six merchant ships totaling 27,000, a 2 : destroyer and two naval patrol boats have been sunk recently by German submarines, official quarters said today.

Latest accounts of destruction by U-boats followed a claim by the German High Command two days ago that 14 British merchant ships and a destroyer had been sunk in a six day battle between submarines Lewis and a large British convoy en route from Gibraltar to England.

Today's claims included a torpedo boat damaged heavily.

Yesterday the official news agency reported that Wednesday night German long range bombers sank a British freighter of 2000 tons north=. west of Gibraltar and severely damaged paothes ship, also of 2000 tons, Last night small formations of German planes bombed Great Yar« mouth and Falsmouth, England. The British, official quarters here’ said, attacked Crete from the air

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