Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1941 — Page 4
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SAYS LONDON
Press Sees America Marching Down the Road to
War as the Result of th¥ Sinking of the | Reuben James by a U-Boat.
ONDON, Nov. 1 (U. P.).—The torpedoing of the destroyer Reuben James was viewed by the Brit-
ye London newspapers prominently published dis“that the ‘new outrage” had stirred American the breaking point and that the challenge would by blows of the United States Navy against
U-boats. “This Means Open War, ys U. S.,” was the headline in the Daily Express. “The United States tonight is marching down the last mile to a declaration of war,” the New York correspondent : 92 th ‘the Daily Mail reported. “The sinking of the destroyer... rocked the nation on its heels. The ' American people, Congressmen and the pr are shouting that a un blow has been struck at _ the national honor and warn that fallure to strike back will be rearded by the world as a great me humiliation.” Quote Nazis as ‘Glad’
The Daily Express’ noted President Roosevelt's statement that the ng would not alter American and added: oe other words, America’s reply ven by guns and depth : the Atlantic fleet.”
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Sketch headline / ‘said the “arouses the U. 8. A. to to end neutrality bill.” An ( in the Telegraph said ' the “new outrage” would be answered » the American people and avy.
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sen for New Factory Wil Be Built on City Property.
he Pu Board yesterday apgd the construction of a private
nd of the project will be apmately $250,000, it was announ-
erence of Park Board commissioners and representatives of the LukasHarold Corp. plant operator. Ofers said a test well would be im immediately near Woollen’s dens on Fall Creek Blvd. near Drive. , en adequate supply of be available, five large wells drilled ‘and the water would d to the ordnance plant. The of the agreement are that £ would be sipped 0 Woolies
ie wells will be drilled on an «acre plot of unused park ‘which, according to Jackiel Park Board president, be used for park purposes. g the “national emerthe waterworks property is to the Park Board under the agreement. -
GRENADE FOUND
i grenade was found yes7 Mrs. Florence Hendricks ttic of her home, 2340 ColAt first she thought it weight and tried to open neighbor told her of its es” and it was sent to intific laboratory at police ry. -
, identified it as a gren-
SENATOR CLARK ATTACKS KNOX
Neutrality Revision Would Lead to ‘Limitless War,’ He Charges.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (U. P.). —Senator Bennett Champ Clark (D. Mo.) charged today that the Administration’s neutrality revision bill would lead to “limitless” war around the world and said he opposed “peddling the blood” of young American men to participate in it. In a Senate speech, Senator Clark attacked Secretary of the .|Navy Frank Knox, picturing him ‘| “like one suffering from rabies, ‘| without any constitutional authority whatever, declaring war on nation after nation and solemnly announcing a 100-year alliance with Great Britain.”
Wants Ban Lifted
Senator Clark spoke after Senator Theodore F. Green (D. R. I)
had advocated repeal of the shipping restrictions of the Neutrality Act as necessary in defense against Hitler. Senator Green said the isolationists who believe Hitler will leave us “in peace and quiet” if we do not interfere with him do not realize that it will be the “peace and quiet of occupied France.” As the sixth day's Senate debate on the pending bill opened Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky sought unanimous consent for the Senate to meet at 11 a. m. Monday, an hour earlier
“{than usual.
Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal), a leader of the opposition bloc, blocked it with an objection. Senator Barkley then served notice that at the conclusion of today's session that he would move formally- for an early session Monday.
Sees War Decision
Senator Clark, like other memrs of the non-interventionist bloc, contended that ‘the pending issue transcends the restrictions of the Neutrality Act and involves a decision on war or peace J for the United States. He charged that the American people have been led to their present position by little steps in the name of “kee)jing out of war.” “So in all candor,” said Senator Clark, “I. pose this proposition with regard to national unity. If the President in the high responsibility of his great office believes that the safety and welfare of this nation demands that the United States should enter this war and be forced to send expeditionary forces abroad, then he should send a message to Congress asking for n declaration 0. war. ”» .
ARMY DOCTOR'S JOB IS GETTING TOUGHER
The modern army surgeon must be as tough as the soldiers, Col. Harry L. Dale of the Billings General Hospital at Ft. Harrison told
members of the Indiana University weekly medical seminar last night. He said that the present-day army doctor has a harder job because % is impossible to work from great bases behind the lines, as was done during the last war. Others who addressed the seminar last night were Lieut. Col. Chauncey E. Dovell and Lieut. Col. Douglas H. Mebane, both also of the Billings
e in Indianapolis and found ‘unloaded.
Hospital.
making the alloy.
Maj. Gen, Joseph Cummins, commanding the Sixth Corps area, and other defense officials (on platform at left) watch the first pouring from one of two new electric furnaces installed in the South Chicago works of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. Their output of 100,000 net tons annually doubles the previous output, and makes the plant the greatest producer of stainless steel in the United States, In the glare above the furnace (upper center) can be seen the giant elecirodes that produce the intense heat necessary in
Tomorrow is the 24th anniversary of the Balfour declaration and the birth of the Jewish National Home in Palestine. Created during the first World War, the second now threatens to destroy it. This is the last of two articles explaining how and why.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—~Having escaped from Iran where for a tite he halted in his flight," the British-hating ' fugitive, Haj Amin Al Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem, is now in Rome plotting an Arab revolt ¢ against the AlE lies. . t Coinciding as it f does with the Axis ¢ drive toward the #5 Caucasus and the gE oil flelds of tae Middle East, the grand mufti’s arrival in Mussoey . cant. Mr Simms For Il Duce styles himself the “protector of Islam” and an Arab uprising just now would be a godsend to him and to Hitler.
One of the chief causes of the first World War was Kaiser Wilhelm II's ambition to dominate the Middle East. His dream was a railway from Berlin to Baghdad which would tie Islam to Germany, cut Britain’s empire in two—by land, sea and air—and eventually destroy her. Today Hitler is dreaming the same
American aid to the British in the Near and Middle East goes largely via the Red Sea to Suez. AngloAmerican aid to Soviet Russia more and more is dependent on the route via the Persian Gulf. If Hitler and Mussolini could stir
U. S. Concerned Over. Nazis’ Threat to Jewish Homeland
the Arabs to revolt and open up bases for Nazi bombers in Syria Arabia, Iraq and Iran, these routes might be blocked.
The dream of the Kaiser and the Puehrer at last might approach realization.
In the path of the approaching typhoon lie two small, non-Moslem “islands.” One is Palestine and the Jewish national home. , The other is Christian Lebanon. * If the Axis wins, the Jews will be wiped out. That is fundamental| Nazi-Fascist policy. The Christians cannot forget the massacres of 1860 when the Druses butchered some 2500 of their men, women and children. The United States, hardly less than Great Britain, is concerned over the fate of these “islands,” particularly Palestine. On Nov. 2, 1917, Arthur James (afterwards Lord) Balfour issued the now historic Balfour declaration, favoring establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. This was issued only after consultation with President Wilson. In 1922 the House and Senate adopted a joint resolution, which was signed by President Harding, saying almost precisely the same thing. Later, Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt endorsed the idea, and this year a huge American Palestine Committee, composed of Christians, was formed still further to support it. This committee takes the position that never in modern times has ‘there been greater need for a Jewish asylum than now. ; Millions of Jews have been or are being driven from their homes in Burope and their absorption by other nations is creating a serious problem.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair and colder tonight with frost; lowest temperature about 35; tomorrow fair with rising
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SCORES IN BELGRADE SLAIN BY ‘AGCIDENT’
By UNITED PRESS
The execution of “several score” Axis adherents in Belgrade by “mistake” was reported today by the British Broadcasting Co. The broadcast said German authorities in Belgrade had “made excuses” for the shooting of a group of Hungarian, German, Ital-
been. mistaken for Serb guerrillas: Serbian police sympathetic to the estimated 80,000 guerrillas fighting in Yugoslavia, were ported to have seized the Axis adherents- and substituted them for Serbians who had been ordered executed. The Serbians were per-
10 MAKE SWEATERS
ACCIDENT RATE TOPS 1 AN HOUR
| Pedestrian Hurt Fatally;
.Others Are Treated At Hospitals.
At the rate of more than one an hour from 4 p. m. yesterday to 8 a, m, today, pedestrians were injured in Indianapolis traffic, and one of them died of his injuries. The dead man is Frank Anderson, 72, of 105 N. New Jersey St. He was struck by a car at Market and New Jersey Sts. at 8 p. m. He died at 10:45 p. m. in City Hospital. Paul Remmetter, 23, 3307 N. Capitol Ave,,
driver of the car, was arrested on a charge of reckless driving.
Here’s the Toll
The other accidents, in the chronological procession in which they were ISporied to police, were: 4:09 P. M.—Billy Jones, 6, of 1315 W. 32d 8St., was struck at 1302 W, 30th St. Injuries slight. 5:15 P. M—John L. Wild, Bridgeport, was struck by a car at Capitol and Kentucky Aves. In Methodist Hospital. Condition air. 6:03 P. M.—Mrs. Mattie Morgan, 50, of 2633 Northwestern Ave., who was struck by a car in front of her home. Injuries slight. 7 P. M—Harry T. Toph, 80, R. R. 14, Box 222, was struck by a car at 63d St. and College Ave. His Soridition is critical in City
7:20 P. M—Ross Gluff, 12, of 821 N. Dorman Ave. was struck by a car at 10th and Edison Sts. Injuries slight.
Mother, Daughter Hurt
7:42 P. M.—Selma Ellis, 8, and her mother, Mrs. Eula Ellis, 34, of. 1612 Yandes St., who were struck by a car at 14th and West Sts. Treated 2 Wo Hospital. 8:08 P. M.--Robert Moore, of 45 8S. Bolton Ave.. who was struck by a car at Ritter Ave. and Washington St. Injuries slight. 8:12 P. M.—John ‘Taylor, 53, of 540 Ww. 25th st, who was struck by a car at 2227 Northwestern Ave. Condition critical. 9:52 P. M.—Beatrice Boozer, 24, of 522 Patterson St, who was struck by a car at Michigan and Patterson Sts. Injuries slight. 10 P. M.—Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, 74, of 19 N. Alton Ave. who was struck at Washington St. and Alton Ave. Condition serious.
Man Slightly Hurt
P. M.—~Thomas Costello, 470 8. Meridian St, who truck by a car at Meridian uth Sts. Injuries not seri-
P. M.-~Anna Fletcher, 14, 5 James St., and Thomas av 18, and Melvin Mc-
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| Welders Dispute May Tie | Up West Coast Factories;
End Shipyard Dispute.
spread today to two major ireratt
blasting peace hopes for the
-day walkout ended at the s Drydock: and Repair Yards Brooklyn when C. I. O. ship-
{builders ratified an agreement pro-
viding for wage gains. Some 5800 men will resume work Monday.
Disputes at Two Plants
As striking A. F. of L. welders at shipyards from Puget Sound to Los Angeles. gestured for peace in the tieup of $1,000,000,000 in defense contracts, independent union welders called for strike action at the Lockheed-Vega aircraft plant at Los Angeles and at the huge Consolidated aircraft plant at San Diego. The aircraft welders, members of the United Aircraft Welders (Ind), ordered a strike vote to force the National Labor Relations Board to order a bargaining election involving the A. F. of L. machinists union,
{which now holds a contract at the
two plants. Consolidated alone holds government orders totaling $750,000,000. Karl V. Morris, national - presi-
| dent of the United Welders, Cutters
and Helpers’ Union, independent,
'|said the West Coast strikers were
willing to resume work if they were assured protection against discrimination and were not forced to join another union.
Calm at Bendix Plant
Army officers who directed the seizure of the Air Associates, Inc., plant at Bendix, N. J. expected to have the factory in complete operation today. One thousand of the 2100 soldiers, who commandeered the plant under President Roosevelt's orders yesterday, left when there was no indication of trouble. Officers supervised re-employment of workers. The National Defense Mediation Board selected an 1l-man panel yesterday for hearings on the dispute between the United Mine Workers (C. I. 0.) and steel companies, whose “captive” mines were reopened under a truce promoted by President Roosevelt, The hear-
charged today that the Administration’s failure to adopt a “forthright, understandable labor licy” was “responsible for the great majority of work stoppages generating political hysteria.” Riverboat Pilots Strike
Steel production in the Pittsburgh area was threatened by a strike called at midnight by the Masters, Mates and Pilots Association (A. F. of L.) on 13 riverboats of the Carne-gie-Illinois Steel Corp. The union demanded wage increases and shorter hours. Carnegie-Illinois resumed operations at its Homestead plant in Pittsburgh after the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (C. I. OJ) called off a strike of 100 crane operators. The company had demanded that the strikers return before negotia’ing wage demands. At Chicago, the Packinghouse Workers Oi’'ganizing Committee (C. I. O) called for Government seizure of three packing plants, the P. Brennan Co, IHinois Meat Co.
C. sent its proposal to the Defense Mediation Board and charged the company had failed to abide by an agreement to arbitrate the cases of discharged workers.
Talks Strategy
Nazis Try fo Cut Route Of American Supplies; Advance in Crimea.
BERLIN, Nov. 1 Le P). = The German Army, a powerful Luftwaffe dh oo Soptuted ait an important strongly defended town northwest of Moscow (possibly Volokolamsk, 60 miles distant) and is pressing a flanking drive against
ii la new Red Army defense line on
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MACKENZIE KING CALLS ON. D. h
Every Phase of War Situation to Be Discussed, Says Canadian Chief.
HYDE PARK, N. Y. Nov. 1 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King of Canada began conversations today which the Canadian war leader admitted probably will explore every phase of the international situation. In two days of conferences at Hyde Park House, Mr. Roosevelt's Hudson Valley home, Mackenzie King and the President will discuss economic and strategic matters which may tie the United States closer to the war effort of the Dominion.
Parliament Meets Monday
The Canadian Premier admitted that he would advance the understanding between the two great North American powers which already has produced a joint defense agreement for North America and an economic understanding integrating the economic structures of the North American “good neighbors.”
Significance of the meeting was emphasized by the fact that the Canadian Parliament is convening at Ottawa Monday. Mackenzie King will leave here late tomorrow, timing his departure to arrive back at Ottawa Monday to hear an address by Maj. Clement Attlee, British Lord ivy Seal, before the Canadian Ul .
The Prime Minister would not discuss, but did not deny, reports that the United States Navy in the North Atlantic has guaranteed the safety of the great Canadian sea base at Halifax to permit Canadian and British fleet units to concentrate in the Atlantic east of Iceland.
Reports Denied by F. D. R.
Mr. Roosevelt has denied : reports that the American Navy has taken over responsibility for protection of the Halifax harbar. But his denial did not preclude the possibility that such strategy had been mapped by the joint Ca-nadian-United States board for the defense of North America. The President said he supposed joint defense of Halifax and even Ottawa and Clricago had been discussed by this- beard, which is headed by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York. Mr, King’s conference with Mr. Roosevelt today and tomorrow may produce practical measures for effectuating board. strategy mapped out by the joint defense board. The President has “shooting has started” and yesterday's sinking of the destroyer Reuben James gave substantiation.
RULING IS ASKED ON WAREHOUSE CLAUSE
Attorney General ue Beamer will be asked for a ruling to clarify the warehouse section of the Indiana liquor law in connection with the Indianapolis
Heard yesterday, the case involved charges that the brewery had violated the section by leaving loaded beer delivery trucks parked overnight off the brewery premises to continue deliveries the next day. It was charged before the Alcoholic Beverages Commission that the brewery sent delivery trucks to Southern Indiana on more than one day delivery trips and parked them overnight while they contained unsold beer. The company argued that the secof the law ‘never had been clarified and the Commission decided to ask for the Attorney General’s opinion before ruling in the case.
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the Donets is River, it was announced officially toda A big-scale V offensive all along the front from Murmansk to Mos~ cow and southward to the Crimea was hammering at Russian communication lines, apparently leading an attempt to cut the route for British and American supplies to the Red Army. The Russians were. reUkraine fronts, but sleet and snow continued to hamper operations on the Moscow front.
Tula Break Indicated
An official news agency Qispatch; however, said the Germans broken through a strong oa field position 30 miles long and averaging three miles in depth and that a town northwest of Moscow was taken by tanks despite stubborn Russian resistance “with every weapon at their disposal.” The reported break-through was believed to be in the Tula sector. The agency sald three days of fighting ending on Oct. 28 the Germans had “rolled up” Russian fortifications before Moscow despite elaborate stone and concrete defenses. One German division was reported to have taken more than 1000 pris-
equipment in smashing across a
lish “an important bridgehead
sian counter-attacks.” Moscow, Leningrad and Mur-
German bomber squadrons. reportedly sank a 3000-ton trans« port off the west Crimean coast. Two Russian destroyers, one heav= ily-laden transport ship of 6000 tons and a small tanker, were re damaged off the Crimea, indicating that the Germans were now ing at the Soviet Black Sea fleet and attacking Russian forces see ing to flee by water from the IM vaded peninsula.
Attack Near Leningrad The main German effort appeared
hiewey to the Caucasus oil elds The Nazi reports said that Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt’s’ armies are pushing eastward across the Upper Donets River in the Kharkov area in a deep spearhead which may be designed to sever forward communications lines tween the Central and South sian fronts. South of Leningrad, forces were credited by
zones west of Volkhov, about miles south of Leningrad. It was reported. that the Germans: tured 533 Russian bunkers and : fortifications in this region.
an air battle and 17 others were destroyed on the ground. Railroads and air fields were heavily attacked. In the far north, Stukas were
mansk rail line and attacked sup= ply centers with “good resulta.
buying their homes through us have done so.
reported treating on both the Crimea and
which was held against many Rus-
to be directed at the south Ukraine
1 So planes were shot down in
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oners and destroyed much enemy river and seizing a village to estab- =
mansk were the main targets of They
reported to have bombed the Mur-