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_TUBSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1941
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NOVEMENT T0 OUST WILLKIE
Willis, Halleck and Harness
Say They Didn’t Sign French Lick Pledge.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—Senator Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind) and Rep. Charles A. Halleck’ (R. Ind.) returned from Indiana today to declare they would take no part in any movement to read Wendell L. Willkie out of the Republican Party. Their continued isolationism on foreign policy has nothing to do
with Mr. Willkie’s leadership, they}
and he can take the opposite position and still Yel in good standthe G. O. P Mean¥hile at his Kokomo, Jnd., . Forest A. Harness also
the group had Mr. Will- |
d when the “statement of our individual views was drawn
“Personally, I have not been consulted about and I am not connected with any group involved in an ~ attempt to purge anyone from the
party,” he added.
"Halleck Disturbed
Both Senator willis and Rep. Halleck said that the story from French Lick, Ind. that they had united in a “joint pledge” on foreign policy in opposition to the Willkie interventionist stand was based on a broadcast in which they answered various questions together with three other Republican representatives from Indiana, Reps. Harmess, Johnson and Landis, rts received here from the Indiana Republican Editorial Association meeting at French Lick over the’ ‘week-end were that all five had in a formal pledge against 1e Willkie stand. ‘Halleck was Specially con= who Put Mr, ation for "the Presi, atir delphia last year. . Willkie Not Mentioned
‘While he is an isolationist, he and : Mr, ‘Willkie are both political and
friends. Mr. Willkie was invited to that 0 .at French Lick,” Rep. Halleek said. “No formal action was taken by either the editors or the a delegation which in any way reflect oa him.” ‘Senator Willis said Mr. Willkie wasn’t even mentioned” at the
“meetings, although there was “some
. discussion of his leadership among the crowds in the lobby.” . © ‘He produced the original script of the broadcast to support his contention that there was no pledge against the Willkie leadership.
"Halleck Praised, Criticized
Rep. ‘Halleck received numerous from Indiana and Shroughout the country today, most of . which . congratulated him for splitting with Mr. Willkie. He was given a severe lecture for taking such a stand, however, by Arthur Krock in the New York Times. “Since this whoie thing is a tempest in a ‘teapot. and ‘built around something that never hap1 am not going to do anyore than let the true facts for - themselves,” Rep. Hal- ¢ The Secomd District Congressman ‘a telephone call from Russell avenport, managing editor of Forg une ‘Magazine, who wanted to set Willkie ‘ straight as to what “act happened. Like Rep. Halek . Davenport was one of the managers, on the Willkie campaign
SR Senator Willis’ office = reported only two telegrams, one from Indiana ‘upholding the anti-Willkie position and one from New York
‘upholding Mr.. Willkie. Martin Hopes 1c to’ | 8 of Revolt GTON, Nov. 4 (U.P)— h W. Martin moved today to
i off an open ‘rebellion of y ; fonists against Wendel oe
8, the 1940 G. O. P, standard-
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ABC FAIR TRADE RULES IN FORCE
Cut Rate Practices End; Stabilizing Industry Termed Goal. Fair: trade regulations designed to
day by the Alcoholic Beverages Commission. These regulations, which have the full force and effect of law, will affect the consumers’ of hard lquor by ending cut rate practices of many retailers on standard brands of liquor. ' R. J. Parrish, Trade Relations director for the ‘Commission, ' said, however, that he did not think that the regulations would increase retail liquor prices materially. Puts “House in Order” He explained. that’ the regulations were. similar to those now. in effect in New Jersey and Rhode Island where they had successfully made the liquor industry “80 per cent clean.” “We want to get our’ house in
* |order,” he said.
Many liquor dealers and distillers have believed for some time that unless the Indiana liquor industry was cleaned up that the dry forces
bill through the Legislature. Prices Standardized
By standardizing’ liquor ‘prices throughout the state, it ‘was pointed out, it will tend to kéep a customer ‘who juss wants a half pint of liquor from being persuaded by, a. retailer to buy a quart because the price, is so low. - Specifically, the regulations pro-: vide chiefly: 1. That no distiller ‘or > wholesaler shall sell any liquor to any liquor permit holder unless he ‘has filed
alcoholic’ beverages available for sale with the A. B. C. 2. The’ liquor ‘may be sold only at the price for each item asset, out in the schedule of prices. (This will keep one wholésaler from sell(Continued on Page Four)
DRIVING TO LEFT OF SAFETY ZONES 0. K.D
Exceptions Made on Illinois And. Washington.
The Safety Board today lifted the restriction on driving left of safety zones throughout the City except on Wa St. from Noble to West Sts. and on Illiness St. from Mary-|-land to Ohio Sts. The Board’s action was taken on recommendation of Traffic Engineer James Loer and with the approval Indianapolis Railways, Inc., which is most affected by the change. ‘Mr. P Loer said that driving on both sides
may be able to force a local option|
a complete schedule of prices of all(iin
PRLS, §
Director Fabien Sevitzky and Cellist Benjamin Parronchi, . . . Mr. Parronchi- was requested to ‘give.
Symphony Orchestra Holds First Rehearsal of Season
“Ciood morning,” he clipped:
first rehearsal: for: the:1 back speeches, It was all strictly business.
There were a few Scale practices violins practiced: to.see!
‘and then the-
bows across the strings. Then the orchestra started in on Mr. Seviizky’s arrangement of Fritz Kreisler’s' “Praeludium and Allegro.” (They say that the opening concert next Friday aitéernoon will. mark the first time the ‘piece ‘has ever been played by a full orchestra.) Just one more thing: When the above picture was snapped, Benjamin Parronchi, new first cellist, was playing beautifully, = “Divinely,” is the way one of the orchestra members put it. And Mr, Sevitzky was not mad at Mr. Parronchi, as you might erroneously gues® from the picture, That's just the way Mr. Sevitzky looks when the ‘spell is upon him.
NEW PANZER-PLANE TEAM GUTS UP REDS
Break Defenses in Crimea, .Dash Far Behind Lines.
LONDON; Nov, 4 (U. P.) —British sources heard today that the German break-through into the Crimea was achieved by: a, new. panzer-air-plane team which knifed Soviet defenses on the Perekop Isthmus and operated on the loose 50 miles or more behind. the Russian lines. According to this report, a very strong’ armored force, at least a division, cut through the ‘ Perekop
es. ; : ; ‘ Deep in the Russian rear it spent at least 48 hours disrupting communications, ammunition dumps ‘and’ throwing rear areas into confusion. It was able to operate, these reports said, through the co-operation of a fleet of specially fitted Junkers 52 transports which -dropped big gasoline tanks, bundles of spare parts and ammunition by parachute.
BRITISH RAID GERMANY
BERLIN, Nov. 4 (U. RB). — The High Command’ said today ' that “weak”. British forces flew into northeastern Germany . last night but gave no account of damage or casualties.
shooting up Soviet |Henry
Promptly at 10:30 a. m., Fabien Sevitzky moved across the Murat stage and stepped upon the podium.
“Good morning,” the orchestra claorused, And that’s how the: Indianapolis Symphony .Orchestra started its -42°season. There werg ho glag-to-see-you-
and) ML put ‘on gntHow slowly “they-could-draw their -* == ‘even keel” were put into effect. to-
Women Pickets. Also. Throw Tomatoes at British Ambassador.
DETROIT, Nov. 4 (U..P.) —Vis‘count Halifax, British’ Ambassador to the United States, .was the target of eggs and tomatoes hurled by women: pickets ‘today as: he entered the chancery building to meet the Most Rev, Edward J. Mooney, archbishop of Detroit's Roman Catholic Diocese. Police said that Lord Halifax was not struck but that Detective Inspector Charles’ E, Searle; assigned to the Ambassador's party, - was struck by one egg. Halifax's coat was splattered with egg when he got inside the chancery, however, and it was cleaned there. Police questioned . leaders. of . an organization known as American Mothers, a group which picketed Halifax’s . hotel = yesterday with placards reading “To Halifax with Halifax,” “Down with England,” and “Halifax is a. War-Monger.” Upon information from leaders of the American-Mothers: group police started ‘a search Tor two women, Rose Saber and Mary Decker, whom they described as leaders of another organization known - as TU, 8. Mothers: Lord Halifax proceeded with his meeting = with. the = Catholic archbishop and then kept an appointment for treatment ofan eye: injury, suffered several days ago, at Ford Hospital.
GANNETT EDITOR DIES . + Now. 4 (U. will be held tomorrow afternoon for M. V. Atwood, associate editor of the Gannett newspapers, who died at his home last night following a lengthy illness. He was 55.
ete eset ———— 200 HOSTAGES SHOT NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (U. P.).—THe Columbia Broadcasting System today heard the British radio report
for the murder. of ome German soldier in Zagreb, Croatia. be
BY DETROITERS =
that 200 hostages have been shot |
“Route. Threatened; _ 50 Ships Damaged, Berlin Claims.
On Inside Pages Kearny Survivors’ Story ...... 3 Today's War Moves. . 5 Berlin Diary .. casessssssss M1 Maj. Eliot a. vee 1d
- ‘By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Hitler's armed : forces - were reported aiming a great new offensive toward the Caucasus. route for American supplies to Russia today. In the Far East there were mountsigns of an early Japanese thrust against the Burma Road supply line for American and British aid to China. The Germans claimed a sweep by Panzer and dive-bomber forces over the Crimean Peninsula with the capture of Feodosiya, an advance to within perhaps 25 miles of the bomb-battered naval base of Se-
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‘| bastopol and within 60 miles of the
Kerchenski straits on a short cut to the Caucasus oil fields. Russian sources estimated the Axis has suffered 90,000 casualties in the Crimean fighting. At the same time, reports via both, Berlin and London sald that a new Axis advance was getting underway in ihe kaise n an apparent m close & pincers on Rostov, Es the oil Dpe line line essential to Russian forces and cut the main aye cations routes to Iran. Reports of the Ukraine fighting | 5 were meager but indicated that the Germans were putting increasing pressure on the new Red Army defense line long the Donets and
were on the offensive on the Leningrad front and reported they had defeated a y ‘attack on the Tula sector of the Moscow . front after . receiving 200,000 reinforcements from the east: At sea the Germans claimed to have sunk or damaged a total-of 50 British and Russian vessels in Atlantic and Black Sea battles. The Nazis said that. their planes were continually hammering Soviet forces attempting to escape & “new Black Sea Dunkirk” in the Crimea. In the Far East, Australian dispatches quoted Prime Minister John Curtin as saying that the British Empire was holding discussions of “immense importance,” apparently in regard to Japan. Still another field of battle appeared likely in Finnish waters as a result of Helsinki’s apparent refusal to negotiate ‘on a Russian peace offer despite urging by the United States. The result, it was believed in London, might be an
against Finland, Hungary and Rumania, ‘as requested by the Soviets.
Claim 48 Ships Damaged
Berlin reported that German sub-. marines and airplanes operating| against enemy forces from the Atlantic to the Black Sea and in the Mediterranean had: Sunk 11 ships totalling 53,000 tons and one destroyer in the: Atlantic,
all torpedoed three other ships and one destroyer, all torpedoed. Sunk three ships of 20,000 tons off Scotland, all air-bombed.
Shetland Islands, air-bombed Sunk or damaged 30 Russian ships, mostly tankers, in the Black Sea in two days of aerial attacks on Soviet forces attempting to carry out another “Dunkirk evacuation” of the Crimea. Sunk a British submarine in the Mediterranean. (Claimed by Rome.) At the same time, the Germans formally acknowledged the loss. of three of their most famous U-boat commanders, including the youthful commander Guenther Prien, who
—President Roosevelt cast his Bx today in a township and county
the Netherlands, Juliana, looked on with interest. ‘As Franklin D, ‘Roosevelt, Hyde Park farmer and
elaction while the exiled Prinses of |
'Farmer F. D. Roosevelt’ Casts Vote As Exiled Princess Juliana Looks On|
JE¥DE BARE, N. ¥. Nov. 4. (U.,
‘N.Y. ar Polls
. NEW YORK, Nov. 4.U.B), —More than 2,200,000° voters | decide today whether ‘fo re-
- which. disregarded party lines, could not ‘participate in the ew] “York méyoral election. i. Elue Dave
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Sunk or. damaged one ship off the}
{executed for alleged political and Royal military crimes.” :
Czech spokesman Soerh, have been executed, including 124 in one day in Praha.
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1) PIRACY
Lift ‘Resielotlors Neutrality Act, . He Pleads.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (U. P.).— Senator Scott W. Lucas (D. II.) called on the Senate today to approve repeal of Neutrality Act shipping restrictions as a reply to Adolf Hitler's “piracy and murder” on the high seas. “When we gave up freedom of the seas in combat areas, we made
a tremendous sacrifice in national dignity and: position” in the affairs of the world,” Mr. Lucas said. “The passing ep the Neutrality Act was Germany's gain. But when
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swered that he and not we would
should be.” Mr. Lucas opened the eighth day's Senate debate on the Administration bill to arm merchant ships and authorize sending Wem to belligerent ports.
Bilbo Favers Arming Ships
He was followed by Senator Theodore G. Bilbo (D. Miss.), who pported the proposal fo arm meroe ships but opposed lifting the 8 | prohibitions against vessels entering e- | belligerent ports and combat Zones. Lucas recalled how Hitler out Bis own combat
“Conquerors are never satisfied,” said Mr. Lucas. “The lust for power feeds upon itself and will not be curbed until it runs bang into some mountainous structure which: sobers the aggressor before he batters out: his brains. The Hitler revolution is of world-wide proportions.
Cites 15 Fallen Countries
“Not only is there convincing proof of that point in the writings of Hitler before the war started, but his every act and deed since that time gives every indication of what this mad man has in mind. Fifteen countries in Europe are now under his domination. “The probabilities are that that
at the throat of Egypt. The Mediterranean or a great portion of it seems destined eventually to fall under Hitler's domination. Military roads are now being constructed in Spain by German engineers for the ultimate thrust at Gibraltar. “If Russia falls and the Mediterranean route to England is closed, (Continued on Page Four)
MASS EXECUTIONS GHARGED BY GZEGHS
3% Leaders Slain in Five ‘Weeks, Spokesman Says.
LONDON, . Nov. 4 .(U. P.).—A Czech Government spokesman claimed today that the Germans have executed 335 Czech leaders in the five weeks since Gestapo leader Reinhard Heydrich undertook a campaign of JepHissls to halt Czech passive resistance co-operation with Germany, The spokesman also claimed that | 1096 persons have been sentenced to life inpHSonment by special Ger- sea man courts “The number of those executed, “the spokesman said, “is. undoubted ly much higher but: we definitely have confirmed that 335 have been
se. November ‘1939, said the , ‘some 529 Czech
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the winter will find a German Army?
pr make peace with Ro sriogunt demand, by the Washing: ghetto gangster.”
Gets Defonse Job
"Maj. Gen. R. H. Tyndall
TYNDALL NAMED COUNTY LEADER
Schricker Appoints Sullivan
Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall today was appointed Marion County Director ‘of Civilian Defense and Mayor Regimld. Sullivan was named Indianapolis defense director. Both appointments were made by Governor Schricker under provision of the State Civilian: Defense Act. Clarence Jackson is State Defense
Director. Gen. Tyndall and Mayor Sullivan
will co-ordinate all the defense ac-| Tp {tivities of local organizations and
law: enforcement agencies.
Elkhart Youth On James Safe
ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 4 (U. P.). —A celebration that carried. into the: wee morning hours today followed an announcement received
from the Navy Department last night by Mr. and Mrs. Delos Niece Sr., parents of Delos Niece Jr., one of the crew of the torpedoed Reuben James. The message said: “Happy to inform you your boy is alive and uninjured.” Delos Jr., 17 years old, is one of the 45 crew members who were .rescued. The 39-year-old father comsmented: “We extend our sympathy to the parents of the boys on the Reuben James who aren't as lucky as we are, and we realize ourselves how they must feel.”
. FLIERS RESCUED AT SEA
HONOLULU, T. H., Nov. 4 (U. P.). — Lieuts. Charles Chapin and Minar Murray Derbage, both from r Field, parachuted into the terday and were rescued by a fishing sampan a mile and a half off Haeliwa after their single-seater pursuit ships collided. They were not injured.
4th nr: Shi. Attacked Near Iceland. .
(Reuben James Toll, Page Three)’
WASHINGTON, Nov. P.) —The Navy disclosed day that another Ameri naval ship—the big Salinas—was torpedoed
“seriously damaged” in
"the hunting grounds southwest of Iceland the day before th
destroyer Reuben James Val
sunk.
There was no loss of ‘life or<se 'rious injury among the Salinas complement of 107 officers and men but new Navy announcements | i cated 97 of the Reuben James’ ( plement were lost. i The Salinas reached an un closed port safely. She ‘was’ fourth U. S. naval ship atti southwest of Iceland by sub The destroyer Greer was af
and the Reuben James: Oct. 30-31.
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 Rho ol that gz ing the 95 missing be J the Reuben James crew has abandoned. The Navy announcement, that it is possible Shas: he ) ing ‘men perished in i. sion caused when the touched off the destroyer’s pow magazine, : :
Just what the ‘damage | Salinas was, the Navy said it not reveal becausé it would : no value except to the Nazis” e Salinas is one of the: largest. auxiliary units. She casei a battery of anti-aircraft guns. two five-inch guns. .She has pacity of 11, 145 tor tons of ® has traveling in a convoy. Presumably she” was J for either the United States peirol or for. the American b 2. Iceland. ‘ There never been indication that American na sels are operating east of I to Great Britain. ; Commanded by Texan :
The tanker was under ‘comm of Cmdr, Harley F, Cope, a ni Texan. Two men on the Reuben Ja are known: to be deatl, hope “is held for: 95° ad 5 officers and 88 men—still m There are 45 survivors. Bent of |
Havana, Cuba, with a logs men and precipitated the § American War. Publication of the: actin
capital and country. a Virtually - all hope! had abandoned as the days passed. out word of the 95 since their was sent to the bottom of the Atlantic, near Iceland, last day night by a German tol The list of missing men | all of the ship's officers, the skipper, Lt. Cmdr, Hey, Edwards. “la gang Earlier last night’ the Navy {Continued on Page Four)
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‘abled to use Murmansk ice-free facilities to bring supplies from Britain . United States and the enc ‘of Leningrad would be