Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1941 — Page 1

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Here Monday ' to Campaign to Win Labor Votes. . .

y VERN BOXELL Repu.lican Teaders began

iting touay oh organizetion preparation for the 1942 after their week-end # French Lick. session, sponsored by can Editorial Associaally designated as “just a er,” there was little open - of the party’s internal d only a few candidates prward. But ‘the informal g was much in evidence and

was passed out that fire- |

be expected at the assopting here in February. ment :by State Chairman g that “it is impossible fighting militant organyeen May and Novemterpreted - by many as re-election next May. sen fo serve out Arch N. term after leading a fight chairman this summer. , it was reported that a fight for party leaderwing, Leaders Attend .

the Gates’ program for ign is a drive for the lack of which the nan blamed for the G. of 1938 and 1940. of party leaders from! e industrial ® counties, chiefs and ‘the State Committee will be held! onday.

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| Hoosiers Fire First Shot'in wad’

Move to Read Him, Out of Party,

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.~—A group of Congressional ‘Republicans is organizing today in an effort to read Wendell L, Willkie, last year’s G. O.

party. About half a dozen isolationist members of the House have taken the initiative in the anti-Willkie movement, but they claim that ultimately they will have the support of 80 per cent of House Republicans. Over the week-end in Indiana, one Indiana Senator and four Repuktlican Indiana Congressmen fired the first formal anti-Willkie shot by pledging opposition to the Administration’s effort. “to involve this country in an undeclared war” and by seeking to make the Republican Party the standard ‘bearer of peace.

Halleck One of Signers

This was a significant anti-Will-kie move, inasmuch as one of the signers - of ‘the joint pledge was ‘Rep. ‘Charles ‘A. Halleck,” who nominated Mr. Willkie for the Presidential nomination at Philadelphia last year. (Others were Senator Raymond E. ‘Willis and Reps. Forrest A. Harness; Noble J. Johnson and Gerald W. Landis. . The five comprise a majority of Indiana’s representation in Congress. Rep. Dewey Short (R. Mo.) told

group of anti-Willkie managers believe that 80: per cent of the House Republican membership would support a resolution reading ‘the 1940 Presidential candidate. out of the party., Mr. Short said Republican Leader Joseph 'W. Martin would be|’ asked to call a conference of House Republicans and that if he refused

pel action. Feeling Is Better

“We have no fault to find with the fact that Mr. Willkie is an in« terventionist so long as he speaks for himself,” Mr. Short said, “but now he seeks ‘to’ tell life-long Republicans what to do. He has helped Roosevelt put the United States in

war and ‘now with ‘Mr. Roosevelt’s|

blessings he is Jashing the Re- | publican Party wide open.” Among promoters of the antiWillkie movement, at least, feeling is bitter. It is comparable in intensity to the anger in which Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), Senator Champ Clark (D. Mo.) and other one-time New Dealers have repudiated the leadership of President Roosevelt on f policy. But Administration po (Continued on Page Two)

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CLERK SHOT IN A TUSSLE WITH

Receives Wound in Shoulder; Police Set Up Trap Near Scene of Shooting.

A clerk was shot today when he tried to capture one of two gunmen who had held up the Lichtenberg Dry Goods Store at 1710 Roosevelt Ave. He is Charles Caplin, 28, of 52 W. 28th St., and- the bandij’s bullet went into his shoulder, painiuly but not critically wounding him. The bandits, described as 16 and 19 years of age, escaped by running down 18th St. Police immediately set up a radio car trap and hauled scores of suspects to the store for identification.

Asked to See Hats

Mr. Caplin and Mrs. David Lichtenberg, wife of the owner, and two women customers were in the store when the phone rang upstairs. Mr. Caplin answered it. As he ‘did so, two men entered and, crowding their way in front of the two: customers, asked Mrs. Lichtenberg to show them a hat. She gave them one, and one the bandits tried it on. “It doesn’t fit,” he said. Meanwhile, the other youth went through an opening in the counter. As he pushed Mrs. Lichtenberg aside his ‘companion produced a gun say “This is a holdup.”

Empty Cash Till

opened the cash drawer and took the money, estimated : by Mrs. Lichtenberg at not more than $3, apd | the : pair; maried out; of. the

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Mountains; 2 Other Fliers Die, 2 Lost.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 (U. P.). —Eight crew members of ‘a giant bomber which broke into pieces high in the sky were found alive today after they parachuted to safety in the Sierra Nevada Mountains east of here. A ninth member of the crew still was missing. One other flier was missing and two were dead in other accidents which made Sunday~one of the most disastrous days for the Army Air Corps since the beginning of its emergency expansion program. Lieut. R. E. Steckman and Lieut. Thomas Leroy Truax were killed almost instantly when: their pursuit planes crashed into a hillside 20 miles north of San Francisco in heavy fog. Mountain Top Clipped

Lieut. A. B. Dannell and Lieut. R. D. Leimbacher, missing for many hours, landed at Fresno, but Lieut. Robert E. Agnew. flying from Stockton air base to Moffett Field at Sunnyvale, was missing. Three men: flying in another bomber near Pendleon, Ore., escaped

base there and bounced 1000 feet into a valley. None was seriously. Forest rangers found the crew of the bomber whose tail

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be united behind al unity 1 authority and I maintain that those unable or unwilling to set aside political likes and dislikes are the ones who .are political in their motives and not a great organization comsposed. of all political faiths which set aside its own likes and dis-

Calls for Hitler's Defeat

Following the. Milwaukee convention, a national organization was incorporated “here to oppose what it called the Legion’s stand in favor of “another A. E. F.” Mr. Stambaugh’s speech opened the week-long meeting of Legion leaders which included an Appreciation Luncheon this noon at the Scottish Rite Cathedral: sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, At the luncheon, Mr. Stambouglh| reaffirmed the Legion’s determination that “the immediate national objective is the defeat of Hitler, with the only assurance a national defense strong enough to beat back any attack before it reaches our shores.” Harriman to Speak

Highlights of the week’s activities at National Headquarters include an |Cleo address by W. Averill Harriman, envoy to London and U. 8. delegate|year to the lend-lease conference in Moscow, Thursday night and the meet-|brol ing of the National Executive Committee Thursday morning. Lewis Lawes, former warden of Sing Sing, was to speak at the|james general session this afternoon, and Gen, lewis B. Hershey, Selective {Continued on Page Two)

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Legion Leaders Convene

Neighbors: cumio: a Jong ‘way. to get aoquainted ‘R. L. MeMillan

Shirley, South Caroling Commander, at the Commanders’ conference

Critics Guided by Political Motives, Stambaugh Says

The critics of the Legion’s foreign policy—and not the Legion itself— are motivated by political “likes and dislikes,” National Commander

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Vehicles Meet: Head-on In}! Collision at Road 52. ‘And 62d St.

For a split second," Alvin Woodam’s attention to the road, his car and an approaching truck was diverted for. some reason. early today and the Teoull ab ial. io himself and another member of party. He was on his way from Clements-

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gated, had identified the dead as Maurice Wethington, father of James and Cleo Wethington, but it later developed that the elder Mr. Wethington was not involved in the accident, Roland Adams. | Dayton, O., drivér of the truck, was cut and ‘trea Joni na Clea to City Hospital. leo. Wethington and Mr. Woodam live. ementsville and . James and his dlaughter live in Jamestown. . a, Manila,

WILLIAM THRALL, Who wea killed in x crash, in Shel - by County early today. FRANK RONEY, 89; Green field, who was killed when he was struck by a car as he was riding a bicycle south of Mohawk. DOUGLAS GILLUM, 45, and FRED SIMONS, 23, both of bany, who were killed when théir auto ‘crashed into“s

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‘Organized Resistance’ in Crimea Is Ended.

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dietirnanverciion B By JOE ALEX MORRIS + United Press Foreign News Editor The Red Army was reported smashing into German Panzer

| columns massed in the Kalinin and

Tula sectors for a new offensive

| on the frozen front before Moscow

ye. On the Crimean front, however, the Berlin radio reported that all

,| “organized resistance” by Russian

armies had ceased. The Germans reported that they

‘| had defeated the Russians with big losses

in the Crimea and were driving- toward the naval base of Rebastopol and the narrow Kerch 8 .

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Across. that strait, in the North Caucasus, Turkish dispatches said the Germans would be opposed by a British Middle East army using American war materials. Radio Moscow, however, claimed that the Russians had not given up the fight in Orimea but ese being massed in the mountains to defend both Sebastopol and Kerch and that big guns were hammering {the Nazi tank columns On the Moscow. front freezing weather appeared to have partly released the Germans from a sea of

ported in the Tula and Kalinin where the Red Army Stated an initial Advantage.

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were reported in Kuibyshev dispatches to have pushed the Ger‘mans back through the suburbs with loss of 5000 men including Lieut. Gen. Otto Ernst Otteribacher. The London radio reported this morning that Red Army forces had “virtually” surrounded Kalinin but other dispatches said that the Nazis had massed heavy reinforcements both there and in the Tula sector, -{south - of ‘Moscow, ‘for a new: offensive that prokably is, already in

In the Crimea; the Germans re+ ported that they had completely “broken” the - Russian defenses, | sweeping to the Yaila Mountains within 30 air miles of Sebastopol, which already has been made alie oy nao heen made alof heavy Nazi dive-bomber attacks. Hitler's High Command said that the Russian army of some 250,000 was attempting to evacuate by sea. Rostov Lines Hold

on the Rostov front, and north-

ward along the Donets River, the ' [Russians .

reported they still were Baling off she Naals with the aid of muddy roads, The German High Command said iy the city : of Kursk, mid-way between RHarkoy and Orel on the hinge of er oats arr: fronts had been

Sng 4 [taken Turkish reports today insisten Bi if the Germans pass Rostov they would meet a joint BritishRussian force that is rapidly becoming ‘a United States Army as far as materials are concerned. This would be the first time that American war’ weapons on a large scale had come into direct contact with the Germans’ war machines. There was, however, no sign of a

ted | British drive into Libya such as has

been indicated by heavy British d [bombing ‘of communications: . be‘Italy and North Africa.

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OVIET OFFERS CONCESSIONS, HULL REVEALS

Hull Presents Alternatives:

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Lose American Friendship: Britain May Enter Baltic Conflict.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 Cordell Hull today revealed

(U. P.).—Secretary of St: : that the Soviet Union hag.

offered to negotiate peace with Finland. The Russian offer to Finland was transmitted by the

United States.

Secretary Hull accompanied this disclosure with a strong

statement urging Finland to

stop her military operatio

against Russia if she desires to retain friendship of

United States. Secretary Hull's stateme

nt, made to a press con

ence, said that the discussions had been going on for s time and that he had told Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope of the Russian offer on Aug. 18.

At that time, Secretary Hull said, he told the Finnish Minister that the United States had learned the Soviet Union was prepared to discuss a Finnish-Soviet peace on the basis of territorial compensation to Finland. No spokesman of the Finnish Government, either here or in Helsinki, Secretary Hull added, has subsequently indicated a desire to

inform that: if States: inn it. must give satis-

factory evidence that it intends to discontinue promptly military operagainst Soviet

again reminded ernment of the possibilities bringing about a Peaceful settlemen The United States, Secretary Hull continued, is now awaiting ihe Fin-

In the meantime, apparently 3 4 cause of the lack of Finnish pe sponse to the overtures, Russia |

war on Finland, and also on Rus mania ahd Hungary. These three nations were assisting drive into Russia,

terpreted by observers as a , last ment effort: to persuade the Government and people. to’

till by their traditional friendship’ the United

States. ecretary y Batt Sxpresged the

tall, the Secretary of State s continuation of offensive 1a

nish Government's reply to these latest Representations.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. Ba (U. P.)—~Senator Chan Gurney ® 8.

declaring that Germany has become an actual rather than

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enemy of the United States, urged the Senate today to repeal the Neutrality Act. He contended it has not only prolonged but

start the war. Mr. Gurney, opening the seventh day’s Senate debate on the Administration bill to authorize arming of : merchant : ships and sending them into combat zones and beHigerent ports, said that isolationism is the greatest present impediment to national defense. He classed “labor leaders who put the | personal power above production” as isolationists and noted that enough man-hours have been lost to have built 150 submarines. He said that if the nation continued “along the road we have followed during the a’ two years—

the road of half measures, the ra of appeasement to labor, the Toad timidity and caution—I tell

Did Nazis Ask Jop . Aid?

BERLIN, Nov. there was “no doubt” that the official Germany” has “found and

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