Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1941 — Page 1
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THE FAR EASTERN situation blossomed into the big story of the week-end this afternoon as Special - Ambassador Kurusu. arrived in New York. “I'll try all I can for peace,” said Kurusu. ne of his entourage whispered that the ambassador was prepared make far-reaching concessions. For the next few days this is. ing to be one of the world’s big< st poker games. To avoid war, apan has to save face. And the United States can’t go back on China. Between Roosevelt, Hull oh Kurusu a formula may be rked out. ¥ not, hold your hats.
And Elsewhere—
RE WAS a dest deal of ¢ in Washington-about- the situation, but there was
glt’s rejection of John Lewis’ de ands and the decision to keep e captive mines open during
iations may be only a fore- |
nner to legislation forbidding dense strikes. As previously reported, it all depends on what Lewis does if the steel companies
“refusé his closed shop requests.
Powder Plant
THE WHITE HOUSE called Governor |Schricker this morning the Terre Haute area had been [picked as the site of a new $53,000,000 powder plant. The Governor | announced it to the State. e plant will be operated by du t. “Reason for picking Terre Haute: Abundance of coal, water, gas and electric facilities.
The Fire Dept. :
THE SAFETY BOARD is having its worries. Tuesday, the board - meets to reflect. on the Grand Jury's proposal that Roscoe McKinney be demoted as. assistant fire chief because he had firemen working on his home “on their days off.” > eR
Schenck Again
THE INDIANA FARM BUREAU was winding up its [convention here today. Hassil Schenck was
to be re-elected president for his
sixth year. The convention urged a ‘halt to all new public building construction “until the ie euntey returns to riormalcy.”
Alter the War’
‘jrusu said:
The Ark Royal
+ By ARTHUR THORPE - GIBRALTAR, Nov. 15 (U. P.).—"We reglized she wa finished. She toppled over like a tired child. Her s
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WAR IN PACIC
WILL HINGE ON
okyo Pushes Seven-Point Program as Parliament Meets Amid Crisis. By UNITED PRESS : Japan’s special envoy, Saburo Kurusu, arrived today in’ Washington negotiations which may. deterine whether ‘there will be a war the Pacific involving his country d ‘the United States. ht Kurusu.was carrying with far reaching “concessions” to th United States was admitted by
3) member of his entourage. ‘Before boarding another plane in
|New York for Washington = this
afternoon after a transcontinental flight from the West Coast, Ku“Ill try ‘all I can for peace.”
convened in special session amid the unprecedented ‘crisis and the suggested that the United States is preparing for the “worst eventuality.» Troop movements indicate Japan is preparing for drastic action. ”
Economic Blockade Hurts
Kurusu is not expected to show his hand at’ once but will commence] playing poker on a basis of the’
and Advertiser in Tokyo.
of China’s key ports. The seven-point program, effect, called for American recognition of Ja the Far
trade. The belief ‘exprasied
economic blockade 60 days unless}. there is a radical change makes a} showdown imperative. | Begin Conférences Monday Buf Kurusu must not offer too much. If Japanese leaders did anything that the people back home would consider a backdown before excessive demands—like getting out of China—it would bring on tremendous repercussions‘in Japan, with
der of the day. = : Conferences start Monday when Kurusu, accompanied by Ambassador Hichisaburo Nomura, calls’ on
| President Roosevelt and Secretary
of State Cordell Hull. The withdrawal of American Marines, from China, Britain's pledge to declare war on’ Japan “within the hour,” if she becomes involved in war with the. United States, the speeches of Navy Secretary Frank Knox, have demonstrated Anglo American readiness for anything the future may bring in the Pacific. : The American Position in principle is- unchanged.
American Policy Outlined
The outline - of American’ policy and the progress on each point reached in the Hull-Nomura talks can now be stated: 1. Desirability of maintaining peace. in the Pacific. The United States and Japan agreed fully on this point, which would bind Japan not to make war at the behest of her Axis ally, Germany. +. 2. National ‘and international self - restraint (refraining from agression). On this point Japan would not give assurance satisfactory to the United States. : :: 3. Abstinence from <the use of force as a national policy and from interference in the internal affairs of other nations. Japan made no promises. . 4, Adjustment of internation pal} problems. by peaceful negotiati and. agreement. The S2Danese agreed in’ “principle. he
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“World ‘Looks to Us After War '—Morgenthau. 3 pl ciemEs, Mass. ov 15 (©.
CAPITAL TALKS
‘Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Parliament |i
| seven-point program recently an-{ ‘|nounced by the semi-official Times} His ab-} solute minimum would be retention} int
ese domination in} and a new treaty| = American
o 50 me’ =. Japan cannot weather the present]
assassinations and suicides the or-|
'lington by airplane.
HUNGRY MILLIONS'|
her death was still a nightma realize that their ship was gone.
she bore a charmed life.
TI Try’
STILL HOPEFUL
Promises to Do All He Can In Keeping U. S. and Japan From War.
“ BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (U. P.). — Saburo Kurusu, Japan's special envoy, arrived here today and said that as long as the American people remained sympathetic - he thought ‘he had a “fighting chance” to succeed in his mission. ,
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (U. P).— Saburo Kurusu, special Japanese envoy, said today “I'll try all I can for peace’ while stopping off here briefly before going on to Wash-
“A single man’s effort is too small,” he declared. “In this, we must all pull together, . In the his-| tory of diplomacy there have been very few! completely irreconsilable situations.” He indicated he hoped for success. pointing ‘out: “My daughter is about to get married and my brother is dying in a hospital in Tokyo, yet I made the trip.” “You all know how difficult my mission is. I will do all I can to make it a successful one for two countries—Japan - and the United States. 2” He said the Japanese people were; as full of fight “and feel just the ‘same as you people” do. \ :
a torpedo fired from an Axis submarine. To the nearly 1600 officers and men of the Ark
So many times had they seen the great ship safely through great peril and so many times had they - heard false Axis claims of her sinking, thiay they | belieyed
CLAIM NJ ON 20 WARSHIP
.Nazis Claim Sub Vi tory
ya, which was extensively r
MANY~OF US were near tears when we. heard that after a struggle of nearly 12 hours against the gaping
Arthur Thorpe, British | newspaperman, was aboard . the. British alroraft, onttier,. Ark Ravel, when she Was
. hole amidships She finally had sunk.
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re. They could hardly"
The ‘captain and senior officers of ‘the engineering staff. Temained aboard during that’ heroic 13-hour fight ' to bring her into! ‘Gibraltar: At 4:30 a. m. yesterday Capt. L. E. H. Maund sadly realized she could not be saved and ordered her abandoned. Two hours later the Ark Royal plunged.
I was in’ my cabin washing up before tea When the
Sorpedo | hit, amidships on the starboard side.
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British Malaya] Damaged, Berlin Says; Axis on Defensive in East. On Inside Pages U. 8S. May Use Bri ish, Bases. .., Page 2 Russians Report Ta k Advances 3
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By JOE ALEX {ORRIS + United Press Foreign News Editor
German: submarineg operating in today claimed tq;
Soviet capital after Ha the Germans. It was however, that these | were intended prim up German prepara newal of their offensive
Report 5000 Na In the Far North
acknowledged,
rily to - break ons for a re-
e Red Army.
were counter-attac GermansPinnish driv headed toward M fighting continuing Russians were using in this area. The Russians also were holding the Germans on the southern front, ex¢ept in the Crimea where it was [said that terrific fighting was in| progress for Sebastopol with ‘the’ battlefield littered with thousands’ of dead soldiers and wrecked. hines. They claimed to have push back Italian forces in the Donets Basin. : In the Kalinin sector the Russians were teported ‘ to have Soniinued local advances. Weather Grows Worse
Weather conditions| were getting | — steadily worse before Moscow
'mansk, with fiercely. The British tanks
reported they
constantly attacking. ‘On the ‘sea front, [the Germans said that two of th submarines which reinforced I
nean pedoed ‘and sank the battle-scarred British aircraft carrier Ark Royal, which went down east of. Gibraltar. ‘In addition, the British 31 ,000-ton battleship Mala-
last summer in the
By WILLIAM TUCKER s United Press Staff ‘Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. emphasis note: Plainfield (N. J: ),| br Teachers College has abandoned], football,
of the “Flying Pigments” is nipped in the bud. No: more will ‘their stellar ‘Chinese ‘halfback, Johnny
teed |Clung, partake of wild. rice at [doing part-time
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The ‘unbeaten and untied streak
8 Wall - md pranisters did
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the Mediterranean fo: the first time|
“Radio Moscow rep dried that the B Russians Were coun “attacking. on|. [PAE , ‘before the| ° stopped |
reported that ‘5000 Germans oma)
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counter-blows|
sponsor of one relay event.
Tis 2 Keep His Post Ea ous
. DEC NED 5 i “Thurs, 38,
lights went out. I was
‘Toppled Over Like a y Tired Child
THERE WAS A sudden shuddering ‘crash and the
flung against the wall. For fully
‘a minute the ship shuddered. I knew we were torpedoed.
Grabbing a lifebe}t I ran out along the passageway in
the dim light.
as if they were going “Damned hard luck on
"us forward but every
"1 saw officers and ratings filing. up the jakider a as ln
down the gangway at Gibraltar. the old lady, sir,” one said.
On the quarter deck a score of officers were. pumping re up lifebelts. The Ark was listing alarmingly to starboard with white waves flowing past.ominously stained with dark brown oil. The fuel in the engines was still driving ' . minute the deck slant Increased: :
until it was difficult to stand upright.
Suddenly the. vibrations of the engines beneath -our feet died away. They restarted for a moment, then
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Joan and Dad to See Game
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‘NO PROGRESS,
Hints Army May Take Over Coal Mines.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (U. PJ. —President John L. Lewis of ‘the United Mine Workers’ reported “no
A progress”: today in his conferences
with ‘steel mill executives on the
mand for a union shop in captives coal es.
- Previously, President Roosevelt
“|conferred for an hour with two -| ranking |circumstances that gave
military officials under rise | to} 4
on the m
‘coal mines in event of a NOTE stop-
page. There was no confirmation pppy of this, however. ‘The President met with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Maj. Gen. ‘Robert 'C.: Richardson, commarider of the Seventh Army Corps with ‘headquarters at Birmingham, | Ala, one of the captive pit regions.
Stimson ¥s Silent
Mr. Stimson was asked whether | the conference had any bearing on the captive coal mine situation. “That’s a question,” he replied. Gen, Richardson, who, was carry-~ ing a large bundle of documents,
. | told newsmen he | was, ‘sworn to
Because it's Dad's Day, Joan Fox and hor father, Ray ©. Fox an Indianapolis sporisman, - will: see today’s football game at Butler together, Joan was queen of last year's Butler. relays and her father was
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- Allison Employee Is Killed; Pinned ‘Against Tree in Crash.
A -10-year-old | * Altison employee died today in; City Hospital. two hours after he was pinned. between an automobile and 8 Gree in. two car crash at 8. Lyndhurst: Drive ‘and ‘W. Morris: St. ‘The vigtim was ‘Freeman Charles: ‘Wisely of Suthvile, Ind. He ‘was the 117th City-County traffic victim of 1041. Depty sheriffs 4 said. the. youth. was riding it a car driven south
on Lyndhurst Drive by his cousin,
‘|Harold McCainmon, 19, Blooming- § wn, nd Their: car was in collision |
‘oft Mortis. St. Firat, Bridgeport,
‘McCamton's car turned over and The: Wisely
Hurst on were slighty in-
ammo was ‘charged © with|
[crashed against a tree. ,
boy was thrown qut.
secrecy.” : “Mr, Lewis resumed hig conference with the steel men today after promising Mr. Roosevelt to do so at a meeting called by the chief executive yesterday. :
. Reports to F, D. R. Monday
work at least until’ the direct ne-
cluded and a report made to Mr. Roosevelt not - later than Monday. - Administration - leaders, meantime, were _ considering immediate action on . anti-strike’ legislation ‘unless the negotiations between. Mr.
if Segyiiations break down.
On W. New York St.
630 W. New York St. from A. 0% Brown and W, C. Brown, who have
T. Brown, in 1937.
LEWIS CLAIMS
| FDR Meeting With Stimson
controversy over the U, M. W. de-|’
Informed officials said there sibly would be no interruption of of |
Lewis and the mine owners yield al. 7. .| settlement of the dispute. A special} message from the President asking]. _ new laws.to curb strikes is expected
Thee BRothers, Indianapolis bus- 22a: inessmen; have announced. the pur|chase of the Century Biscuit Co.,|
operated the firm since the death] of one of its original founders, H|
Options Taken on Prop In Vicinity of Newsat ~ Vermillion County.
A new $53, 000,000 pow plant for Indiana has approved by President Ri velt, it was announced to by ‘Governor. Schricker g a call from the White | Hoy It probably will ‘be | g Vermillion County, north of : Haute, around Montezuma, Sd] r be known -as the "Wabash Ordnance Works. : Army officials already are options .on iands in. the viei Newport, the Governor but the exact location has not k definitely determined. Governn engineers’ will ‘arrive from: W ington Monday to begin cons tion surveys, he said, a Du Pont to Operate It : The plant will be sok J E. I. du Pont de Nemours, w also operates the Chatlestown ( Smokeless . Powder plant, and | rival the Charlestown and bury works in size. No _estim are available on\the number of sons who will be employed in ons
plant will employ a minimum} 3400 persons a day and will ocolp; 18,000 acres. Rep. Johnson aid © tracts are to be let soon, Efforts to land a defense 1 . the Haute
erk for. the Soverior has been pe : This district has been of id unemployment, problems. iz Indiana for several years an new._construction is expected to sorb considerable surplus’ labor. The district was hard *hit by ‘closing down: of many of the so western Indiana coal mines, which employed ' approximately 8200 es in 1918 and only 2000 now. | Relief Load Heavy
After the 1929 depression § st the slump spread. The Verm County . relief load is one of | heaviest in the State—33 per Sullivan, Clinton and Vigo. Counties also: were hard hit. killed v ers began leaving Terre Haute defense orders created employs ent demands in other parts of ‘the State. i While construction "and
gotiations between the steel exetu-|abo tives and mine workers are.con-|}
area being GOLDBERG BROTHERS 55 255
Take Control of Century. Co. 3 ity, ang the