Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1941 — Page 1
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Tod ay's News In Five Minutes
The Government this afternoon
apparently decided it needs antistrike legislation. Speaker Sam Raylurn ‘told the House it would “have an opportunity” to pass such legislation “#at the earliest possible date.” The labor situation was coming to a head—the result of John L. Lewis sending his mine workers out on strike today in protest against the Governments refusal to give him a closed shop in the captive mines (the mines owned by the steel companies and used " exclusively for their needs). By this afternoon, the strike had spread 'to- other mines and there was a possibility of a nation-wide ‘coal strike, Against this background, Mr, Roosevelt—judging from Rayburn’s action—was moving . fast to get -something done about! it.
The Foreign News
- THE U, S.-JAPANESE situation .was not much easier. Premier Togo made belligerent; fighting speeches -to the Japanese parliament. Special Ambassador Kurusu spent an hour with President Roosevelt, saidJater they'd talked “about many things.” With all this going on, China’s Gen. Chiang Kai-shek urged Britain and the U. 8S. to “Seize the present “opportune moment” to crush Japan, Summing it up, the situation remains deldcate, a
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AFTER SMASHING AWAY for’ «more than a week, the Germans {finally -took Kerch: in the Crimea, ‘the city which is considered the bridgehead into the Caucasus. There was heavy fighting near Moscow (100 miles away) and the Nazis seemed to have made “slight gains there,
Trouble in n Vichy
La deman even more middle of gand flew Africa. | Lon
‘collaboration, gotiations, to Vichy {fro don reports
demands,
"False Colors
ON NOV. 6TH, a U. 8. came across a ship in| Atlantic, flying our flag to halt, the crew instead “plow up the ship and get lifeboats. The ship was “but the cruiser got it -the crew prisoners. would say no more thantt day, but the opinion seen that. it° was either a Jape Atalian: vessel.
Judge Niblack
JOHN! L. NIBLACK, 43 year-old
Charles - J. - Karabell. ( - Schricker appointed him yesterday. Heiss Republican, has a good rec-
Trafic c: 20 Dead
~heavy automobile “trafic, | today counted 20 dead, s ~~ Jured, One of the worst BC : was at Hughie, where a
ot’ pes State Police, Byer, the ‘arrest of all bus drivers Suseeding ..50 miles an hour. g 2icls
TIMES FEATURES. on iNSiog PAGES.
0. SJp PEACE NOT HOPELESS, | TOJO ASSERTS
But Togo Declares There Is ‘Limit’ to Tokyo's Conciliation.
(William Philip Simms, Page Three)
TOKYO, Nov. 17 w. P.) —Premier Gen. Hideki. Tojo : charged today that the United States and associated powers have launched an economic ‘blockade ‘against Japan only a step short of “armed warfare” but insisted peace might still be saved in [the Pacific if three Japanese deniands are met. Tojo addressed an extraordinary. joint session of beth. houses of Parliament... He expressed @ frank
hopes that German-Italian-Japanese plans for “a new world order based on justice” could be achieved. Foreign Minister Shigenoro Togo placed a “limit”—which he did not define—upon Japan's “conefliatory attitude. od
Outlines Three Points
Tojo asserted that the’ Government, “anticipating obstacles in our path,” has taken all preparations “to assure the Empire's. existence.” The three-point program he laid down as a basis for Pacific peace was as follows: 1. That “third “powers” refrain from obstructing the successful conclusion of Japan’s war in China. -2. That “third powers” . refrain from measures which menace Japan in a military manner, withdraw their economic blockade and resume normal relations. 3. That utmost efforts be made to prevent the extension. of ‘the European war and “distu¥ances” to the Far East. .
Still Hopes for Peace
Tojo did not state what measures Japan is prepared to take under the third point of his: proposat| in return’ for acceptance of his first two points—a free hand in China and withdrawal of the economic and military measures undertaken by the so-called ABCD powers (America, Britain, China, Dutch East. Indies). ‘He said, however, that Japan persists in her hope that peace can be secured by diplomatic means, The press reported that the draft resolution. of the two houses, drawn for approval after the addresses- of Tojo and. Togo, would be presented by Prince Tadashige
“|Shimazu with the assertion that
“concerning the Japanese-Ameri-
-lcan problem : the greatest efforts
should be made for reaching an agreement by means of diplomacy.
States lacks sincerity, Japan must adopt a stern attitude. ”
'(KURUSU AND FOR
‘Many Things Were Said,’ Comments Jap Envoy.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (U.'P.) — Saburo Kurusu, who flew across the Pacific to seek a last-minute adjustment of U. S.-Japanese relations, today began that effort in a conference with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull that lasted more than an hour. Mr. Hull said at a later press conference that the first talks with Kurusu were of a general nature. He expects to see Kurusu again 'tomorrow, but said that. it was too carly to ‘sa: " whether the outlook \for U. S.-Japanese relations was optimistic or pessimistic. .Kurusu was accompanied by Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, and they were besieged by reporters when ‘they emerged. “What did you talk about?” reporters shouted. Kurusy grinned and replied: Per, many “hings ‘were Vee
However; in the event the United] : Nazis Repoit Kerch Taken;
TALK FOR AN HOUR! Smash Into Suburbs of Tula
: fighting in the, Ukraine.
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bér Moscow passed through a
capital. Some day the nistoriang,
imparted to army and corps
fore Hitler launched his greatest offensive on Oct. 2, the Soviet general staff knew.
aimed at Moscow.
Knew Hitler’s Plans Each day's air reconnaissance brought back news of German transport. columns moving into the central front. Each intelligence report showed that Field Marshal Fedor Von Bock was massing men and material in a great crescent swinging from the Valdai hills between Moscow and Leningrad through Smolensk in’ the center to Orel 200 miles southwest .of* Moscow. Backing for these reports was obtained from the British whose intelligence, A the whole ‘Russian campaigh has been excellent and from the. Poles who have
telegraph working out of their homeland. The Russians, moreover, had captured in late August a plan ‘for: the German offensive against Moscow
which. proved. almost identical with the plan which was tried in October.
Great Pincers Movement The August plan, part of Which is supposed to have been dictated personally by Hitler, was found on the body of a German staff officer near Bryansk. It called for a series of converging
~ Now It Gan Be Told
Stalin's Iron will Saved Reds’ Capital
Here is the first of a series of dispatches:by Wallace Carroll, manager of the United Press London bureau, who has traveled half way around the world to reach a censor-free cablehead from which to file the report on Russia’s fight against Adolf Hitler's armies,
By WALLACE CARROLL Copyright, 1941, By United Press
MANILA, Nov. 17.—For two fateful days in mid-Octo-
that the next blow would be| $8
managgd to keep the grapevine/
$8 =. 2
crisis of doubt and bewilder-
ment—such a crisis as Britain weathered after Dunkirk. .Then, like the Britons, the Russians pulled themselves together and checked Adolf Hitler's furious assault on their
can piece together the full
story of those two days and the days which followed. It is the story of how the iron will of Josef Stalin was
commanders, divisional and
regimental leaders, down to the humblest soldier. Mothers and daughters shouldered ‘ picks and shovels
— RAYBURN HINTS
EARLY ACTION
Bill ‘Authorizing F. D. R. To Seize Pits.
WASHINGTON; Nov. 17 (U.P) — Speaker Sam Rayburn said today
portunity to consider strike-curb legislation “at the ehrliest possible date.” Soon after Rep. Rayburn promised House action on labor legislation
of. the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a bill ex-
power to include mines and providing for a defense wage board to set wages in production facilities taken
and marched across the snow-covered plains west of Moscow to dig defenses for their soldier sons and lovers. For at least a fortnight be-
~
Josef Stalin, , .‘only his iron will saved Moscow in Hitler's mid-
(Continued on Page Two)
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
Adolf Hitler’s armed forces crashed into the key cities of Tula and Kerch on the eastern front today, reports indicated. ‘Military reports from Berlin said that German troops had captured
Kerch, in the eastern Crimea, after a nine-day battle for the “jumping off’-place toward the Caucasus. The Russians, however, had not acknowledged loss of the city. On the Moscow front, the Russian radio acknowledged that the Germans had fought their way through snow storms and strong Soviet resistance into the suburbs of Tula, a big munitions center 100. miles south of the capital and regarded as a vital “hinge” in the defense of Moscow. Dispatches from Kuibyshev sald furious fighting was_in progress in the Tula ared, where the Germans had been thrown: back repeatedly, and-that the Germans had lost another 160 tanks on the central front in addition to 6000 casualties and 113 tanks destroyed in a Week of
Octaber drive.
The admission that the Germans had penetrated the outskirts of Tula did not mean that the city was | necessarily ‘lost. There has bees
fierce fighting of a similar nature
in ‘the Kalinin sector for two weeks. In occupied Europe, the Vichy Government of France appeared to be closer to an importdnt decision on relations with Germany, which has been demanding ouster of Gen. Maxime Weygand, pro-consul for Africa, because of his opposition to the new order. Gen. Weygand
was in Vichy confering with Mar-
shal Henri Philippe Petain. : ” ® # On Inside Pages
Details of Fighting William Philip Simms Vichy Gets New Demands .... “On Burma Road” by Stowe.. Today’s War Moves .... Axis Ship Captured ..
HIGH PRICED CIGARS LONDON, Nov. 17 (U.P.).—Ten cigars sent to a Red Cross auction by Ptime Minister Winston Churchill Ypday were sold :for $2010.
over by the Government. Senator Connally’s measure,
ers under the Selective: Service Act, extended the President’s authority “to any. plant equipped, for the manufacture, production or mining of any articles or ‘materials which may be required for the national defense.” The bill provides that plants taken over by the Government shall be operated under the same terms and conditions in effect at the time the plant was seized. This would effect a freezing of open or closedshop conditions at the plant. 1
" Only Remarks Recalled
‘Rep. Rayburn was asked at a press conference about; the -confusion in the: House over” whether labor legislation actually will stent from the captive coal mine strike and other labor disputes. ; “I can say,” Rep. Rayburn replied, “that I would not have said
“what I did last’ week, if I did not ‘tbelieve that ‘the House will have “lan opportunity to pass on Jabar leg-~ . rr + Shevgaligg logy | Rep. Rayburn referred to. isis re- | {marks in support of the neutrality
revision program, ‘in' which he Pledged to lead or follow any move to get sound legislation that will keep defense productior: rolling. .. The question of whether the Administration actually would bring a bill. into Congress was raised : by
“|Rep. B. BE. Cox (D. Ga.) in the
House Rules Committee earlier toa Stating that Mr. Roosevelt was still in the “talking stage,” Rep. Cox asserted that ‘Congress would have to act if defense labor legislaHon jn ay ever to be put on the statute S.
WARNS BS DRIVERS NOT TO EXGEED 50
20 Die as Motorists of State Jam Highways.
(Photo of bus crash, list of vic‘tims in traffic accidents, Page 3.)
The arrest of all ‘bus drivers caught driving more than 50 miles an hour on ‘Indiana highways was ordered today by Don Stiver, State Safety Director. , The instructions to Stste Police
officers ‘followed’ a weelt-end' of heavy traffic in which 20 persons were killed, nine of them in a bus accident near. Rushville. “The tendency of ‘bus drivers to speed up on some of the runs in order to.make their schedules: is increasing and it must be stopped,” Mr. Stiver warned. specifically - prohibits busses‘ from being operated mote than 50 miles an hour.” - Road 52 took a heavy toll at the peak of traffic yesterddy with two dead ‘and seven injured in two crashes, The Marion County tratBi. toll for this’ year stood . 119 as against, 128° for this’ far st year, :
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mile or: more. there is a center’of population. @ - C. Smith could walk- the eight furlongs over a field of wit ; hundred acres. of pasture, .
He moved ‘it from a £0
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sessed J | / Loose 18 3
ovies bones! !
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t on tHe farm of jposto middle ‘of a 30field on the farm ‘Senator
fornia.
A week ago the Bureau of Outeus re =:
| inves’ Staff Writer
' CARLISLE, Ind. Nov. 16.—After moving leisurely westward for 166 years, the U. 8. center of Population turned rapidly north today—for a
And, as.a. result, all the Carlisle townspeople are sure of is that
“The center of population didn’t move as fast as you can say it, but | "{iust as fast as County Surveyor W.
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Collins;
: Carlisle, isn’t it?” queried the visitor.
So the farmes: reluctantly
should be some “official” wa
“How do ‘you Know,” asked’ Mr. “This is two miles southeast of :
“Just about, a 1 answered Mr.- Col belonging i cot lms, Charles Garrison ‘of Cali- hosed | for pictures—he had an idea there ||
Carlisle's Population’ Center Shifts Mile fo North.
. By, WILLIAM CRABB
IN MINE TIEUP
Senator Connally Sponsors
that the House will: be given op-|
Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) |
tending the President’s plant seizure| .
amending Presidential seizure pow-
“A state law|
g Simmons;
Judge Niblack
John L. Niblack
Succeeds Karabell; Study Rotation for Criminal
And Civil Cases.
(Another Story, Page 11)
A conference of the four Municipal Court judges * with Governor Schricker may be called soon, it was learned today, to discuss a rotation system in handling the criminal and civil cases. This| followed the surprise. appointment yesterday of John L. Niblack, prominent. Republiean attorney, to the unexpired 13-months term of the late Judge Charles Karabell in Room 4. For several years, the Municipal Court has been operated with two judges handling civil cases at the Court House and the other two sitting in criminal cases at the Police Station. Under the proposed new system, the judges would rotate at specific intervals, moying from court to court.
‘Gets Commission Today
Myr. Niblack, a former State Senator and deputy prosecuting attorney, will receive his commission to-
e 40 -eandidates for the post, he was. called to the Gevernof’s. office yesterday ‘and asked to accept the post.” His appointment: followed four days of searching in which factional leaders of both parties had brought considerable |:
| pressure on the Governor to name
their choice to the bench. The new ;udge is 43 and a former Indianapolis newspaperman. He re= ceived his A. B. degree from Indiana University in 1922 and was graduated from Benjamin Harrison Law School in 1925. He served in the Navy during the World War, was a deputy prosecutor under william H. Remy from 1926 to 1928 and was a member of the State Senate from 1928 1932. - Another to Be Appointed In the next six weeks, Governor Schricker must make another appointment to the Municipal Court. The four-year term of Judge Johir) McNelis, :Democrat, expires Dec. 31 and Democratic party leaders are united in a campaign to secure his reappointment. Conduct of the Municipal Court, criminal branches, has been under study by civic and professional groups for several months and thej proposed rotation system is - being considered by the Governor to eliminate the alleged abuses found in these surveys. Presiding in the civil division are Judge Dan V. White, Republican, and Judge Louis Weiland, Democrat.
TWO DIE IN CRASH OF ARMY BOMBER
Five Others Parachute tol Safety in Utah.
PARK CITY, Utah, Nov. 17 (U. P).—Two Army airmen—a major and "a sergeant—were ‘killed today in the crash. of an Army bomber in the rugged Wasatch Mountains, three miles west of here. Five other
Maj. E. L. Pirtle, 34, Council Grove, Kas., was: killed: when his i {range apparently caught on the tail surface a$ he jumped from-the B-18 type Douglas’ bomber as it got ost in a snowstorm. . The ‘chute ripped and Maj." Rittle fell to the ground a mile" and a half . from
‘where the plane itself hit.
Sgt. J. D. Anderson, Ogden, Utah, was trapped in the plane and burnéd
|to death as it crashed into the side
of '9000-foot, snow-capped Iron Mountain, The bomber burned. .Ifs wreckage was scattered over a wide area. “Those safe were: Lieut. WwW. E. Baysie, ‘the pilot; Second Lieut. M. Second . Lieut. C. A.
58 surg BY. Byouml.
bc of Sedation for the
War Departmen
Jate_enixy in. the field -of|{
crew members parachuted to safety. |.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17
mercial mines, , | President. Roosevelt faced
of production. , ~ Four instances of skirmis
clashed with pickets at four on a restricted basis by the other captive mines were re strike call by President John Workers’ Union. Mr, Lewis charged that captive mines are banking on
Prepared to Break Walk ut.
(U. P.)—The C. I. 0. stri
| a crucial decision on the Gov
ernment’s’ next move in its effort to obtain a Fesumnpti
hes in the captive mine wall
out were reported from Gary, W. Va. ‘where | ‘min
mines of six being ope U. S. Coal & Coke Co. ported operating despite L. Lewis of the United M
the steel mill oe of the Army to br ak the stri
pr apparently had resulted n a walkout of most ‘of the 53,000 miners employed in these pits.
Mr. Lewis made the charge before a public session of the U. M. W.’s 200-man national policy committee, which was convened here last Friday prior to the final conferences which Mr. Lewis held with steel company executives at the President’s request.
__Three-Day Talk Fails
‘The steel and union executives met for three days, and yesterday afternoon. Mr. Lewis reported that the negotiations had colla )
first shift was supposed to’ go ta work today. The steel men reported to Mr. Roosevelt at 11:30 a. m. and at about the same time, Mr. Lewis made public a letter to ‘the Presi-
the collapse of negotiations. Mr. Lewis’ letter repeated that the UM. W. was unable to get a union
shop agreement with the steel companies.
Mr. Lewis told the President that) he and other negotiators for the union had no authority to accept less than a unior- shop contract. Lewis Assails Grace
Mr. Lewis told his 200-man policy committee that the three
|major steel company heads with
whom he conferred were divided in their opposition to the union shop —the only issue involved—and that they are relying on Government assistance. Mr, Lewis said the U. M. W. was determined © to “see this thing through to victory—the obtaining of our. just rights.” He declared that the union had the backing of 5,000,000 C. I. O, workers. He charged that Eugene Grace. president of Bethlehem Steel and ‘one. of the negotiators in the dispute,” is “the sinister figure that bars the portals to a just settlement.” Frank Purnell, of Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Benjamin Fairless, president of U. S. Steel, are ready to accept the Appalachian
commercial mines’ agreement for a
unien shop, Mr. Lewis said. After the steel men ‘had called at
C.|l 0. Parley
Miners Closed Shop: De
Rising to unanimous ap executive -council. James O’Leary; fepresentative of the U. M. W. A. and a member cf the council, presented the, resolution ‘shortly after ‘President hilip| Murray had’ denounced A. F. of L. members’ of the National Defense
for a closed w agreement in the
yoting against the closed shop propesal. Vote on the resolution was ob-
ment authorizing a president to offer. sarvices as liaison
proposal was suggested by: President |
Workers Union.
a mak- i
dent in which he formally reported|s
Mediation, Board ‘as “traitors” in| [
tained by Mr. Murray when he re-| jected consideration of an amend-| .C. 1. O. vice|
between President: Roosevelt and| U."M. W. President. ‘John L. Lewis| {in settlement of negotiations. This
Michael J. Quill of the Transport : public might Set a armay | | de: , split in ,
—
the White are however, 1 Grace, . expressed resentment ov reports that the steel compe were not in unanimous.agreeme: ‘Told that Mr. Lewis had that U. 8S. Steel and Youngs Sheet & Tube were willing to 8 a union shop. contract, Mr. G thundered: “That is an absolute falsehood. * “That goes for us to,” said
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the strike.” “Mr, Fairless. reve: pled. in the co ference that a week ago last urday night, two days before Mediation Board had made its d sion (against; the union shop), he was wakened from sleep to receiv a demand from’ the military org ization to deliver maps of s owned coal mining properties other documents having to do military strategy in the communities of the comps Mr. Lewis said. | ir . Besides the Gary mines, the. ti other captive pits reported st work were the R ale ‘mines Bethlehem: Steel, near Johnsto Pa., and a Jones & Laughlin Ste Co. pit at Bobtawn, The lg already is operating under a. shop contract with the U., M. and was not affected. by the stril call. = . Sympathy walkouts, described “a holiday” by uni men, v staged by U. M. W. workers in s commercial coal mines in wes Pennsylvania and northern We Virginia. Five tho d miners | West Virginia commercial pits v reported taking a “holiday” by I. O.-officials. The number affects in ‘western Pennsylvania: was
known. K. o anc
Roars 0.
DETROIT, Nov. 1m (U. P) ~The’ fourth annual conv tion of Congress of Industrial organizations today threw -th al support” of 5,000,000 members behind the United Mine Wor ers’ demane
captive coal mines.
eir feet amid a crescendo of “ayes,” the dele tes oval of the resolution indorsed Yesterday b She C.
—definite treason, » shouted. The 500 assembl shrieked and applaud 1
At 4 IL
Corvpntion—, /
ional at : will be the. most i | olis Times". cover ® | - clude not only the ices of the United:
prize-winning and Richard Lamb, a ist on labor ‘