Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1941 — Page 17

1

Ex- President Fears ‘Wholesale Loss of the Best of Our)

{ Race’ if Americans |

Are Sent to Europe

Or lts ‘Suburbs.’

: CHICAGO, Nov. 20. (U. P. ) —%ormer President Herbert | Hoover, asserting that “Hitler cannot be victorious,” warned | last night that an American expeditionary force will mean

the destruction of reedom” and the “wholesale loss of the

best ‘of our race.” | “The hard practical fact

_Bpeech.

That is, shall we s its suburbs?” “Our own defeees yet unprepared,” he declared. “To provide our defense|! . armies, to build a navy, to build a vast cargo fleet, to build an adequate air force so that no enemy will think of coming to the Wes Hemisphere, and to. send.. supplies to Britain, Russia and Chin all at the same time will engage our whole strength during the next two .or three years.’ Mr. Hoover ' departed from his prepared text to mention the current crisis in Japanese-American relations.

Sees War Pressure

“We must pray that the sober gense of both nations will find a solution to the problems confronting them,” he said. The audience of 1000 applauded frequently and gave Mr. Hoover.an ovafjon when he finished. Mr. Hoover said that forces| already were at work to | drive the nation into open war. - “The preliminary demand is likely to be for an expeditionary force ‘to Persia or Egypt or some other place in the suburbs of Europe,” he said. “Already the propaganda agencies are blurting it out. ; “And what is more, we are preparing a vast amount of war material, the only use of which would be for some sort of an expeditionary force.” : | The German land :armies, he asgerted, cannot bring the war to-a conclusion. “They cannot take their armies overseas. They cannot reach England. They failed even to. cross the Channel.” From the English point of view, Mr. Hoover declared that “there is no promise that Britain can bring & military conclusion to this war, either by armies,’ ships or planes for years to come.”

| Scoffs at Invasion He urged. that the United States

. “dismiss at once the bogie that ha

Hitler can invade the Western Hemisphere against the modern development of the airplane and our Navy either now| or 10 years hence. That idea is just propaganda. to create fear in the United States.” He expressed [concern over the loss of freedom in a long war overseas. “Even today our country is justly

alarmed that om is slipping in America,” he declared. “Truly under intolerance we e slipping in the freedom’ of expression, Cetyuinly we

is that we are engaged in.a | naval war,” he boa the Union League Club in a broadcast :

“From here we il ultimately face a further question: : end expeditionary forces to Europe or}

ars -

o-ocean|

costs of living we are slipping in freedom want. “And absolutely we are slipping from the fifth freedom, that is, the freedom of men to choose their jobs, the freedom to save for one’s children and old age, the freedom of} enterprise.” He called the labor conflict “the greatest disunity in America” and asked why: labor leaders do not “show their own statesmanship” to provide labor peace.

BLOND BALKED IN| 4 SUICIDE LEAPS

Seeks Death Under Train, ‘Tram and Taxi; Refuses To Explain to Police.

CHICAGO, Nov. 20 (U. P)— Betty Austin tried four times in five minutes to kill herself. She failed. The 18-year-old blond was standing on the edge of a Loop “El” platform last night when bystanders noticed she appeared ready to jump in front of an onrushing train. They pulled her back. Policeman Harry E. Smith, .who was waiting for a train, was attracted by the commotion. When the girl saw him, she ran to the back of the platform and attempted to fling herself over the rail to the street. Smith pulled her off the rail. Betty broke loose and fled down the stairs to the street with Smith in pursuit. The girl ran across the inter section and threw herself in the path of a street car. The motorman brought the, tram to a Jerking

It. Smith attempted to grab the girl again, but she leaped to her feet and ran down the stréet. She threw herself in front of a taxicab. The driver stopped. Smith captured the fighting girl. : “Let me alone,” “Let me do what I want. kill myself.” The officer pushed her into, the taxicab and ordered the driver to the police station. Betty refused to explain her action, and police kept her in custody. :

she screamed. I want to

L. S. AYRES & CO.

are slipping in the freedom from | fear. Unquestionably with disloca- | IE tions ' of employment and Hing BS

Could both of these trucks cross the Keystone Ave. bridge at Fall Creek at the same time? driver of the big vehicle in the right foreground knows it’s impossible, so ‘he waits until the truck at the left clears the span. The series of two bridges spanning Fall Creek are too narrow to permit two trucks "or a truck and an automobile to pass. In bad repair, with broken railings,’ the bridges form a bottleneck to heavy traffic on Keystone. County Commissioners have net yet considered replicing them.

The

LONDON, * Nov. 20 (U. P)— Britons ‘at home, believing that at last a second front had been opened against the Axis, thrilled today to news that Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham’s Eighth Army of Imperials was smashing into Libya against Axis forces commanded by Gen. Erwin Rommel, famous 'German - tank corps commander. Military experts “said that the drive into Libya which began Tuesday with land, sea and air action, had more speed and harder. punch than the smash which last year gave the British all of Cyrenaica, a victory over Italy which faded because of .the demands of the GreekCrete campaign. The Daily Mail reported from Cairo that Cunningham issued an order of the day in .which he said, “I have no doubt about victory,” and the feeling here was general that Britain had taken the initiative in North ‘Africa.

Opens Second Front

Aside from the popular British hope of a smashing triumph against Rommel and of benefits to Russia from the opening of a second front was intense interest in the possibility that the garrison at Tobruk, which has clung tenaciously to positions since Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell was- driven out of Libya by Rommel, soon would be relieved. Britons cheered word. of the offensive as meeting a widespread clamor for action and it was considered that a second front had been opened at a most advantageous point where the Axis long has faced hazards in supplying its forces. For months the R. A. F. and the fleet have bambed Axis harbors, shipping and supply lines. The Axis now must yield in North Africa or continue to send planes, men and material to Libya, it was felt. Continuance of the Axis effort to meet the offensive would mean weakening its force on the Russian front, or perts said It was figured that whether the Axis fights or withdraws in Libya, the British offensive would aid

- Russia, Britain and. her allies.

New Bases Possible

. Conquest of Libya would give the British direct contact with the French Empire in North Africa and it ‘would give Britain new ' bases closer to. Italy and. the Balkans. These bases could be used at a later date, some observers pointed out, for a possible British invasion of Italy. Further, conquest of Libya would free forces which could be used to strengthen the Middle East Line behind the Caucasus. The British have entered the campaign with high hope of, for the

Britons Thrill to Desert . : Drive, Opening Second Front

‘marked advantage,” Mr. Churchill

jthis war.”

first time, meeting the Germans on land with the cards not stacked against them, thanks to the rapid influx of Spire forces into Egypt and the arrival of United States lend-lease materials. It appeared obvious that the offensive had long been planned and would ‘have been undertaken regardless of demands for a new front to aid Russia. But it was expected to solidify the Russo-Brit-ish alliance as further fulfillment of British promises of aid. Prime Minister Churchill de scribed the Libyan Army as “at

2 PICKETS SHOT IN FRICK MINE CLASH

BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Nov. 20 (U. P). — Two United Mine Workers’ union pickets were wounded early today when recalcitrant miners fired an estimated 50 to 100 shots in a brief clash at the Edenborn captive coal mine of the H. C. Frick

Co, U. 8S. Steel subsidiary. The pre-dawn attack was provoked when. an unidentified Negro miner fired two shots into the line of 100 pickets before the mine entrance, wouncling Ernest Metzner, 29, in the lett shoulder.

Perhaps it was the need or. {money to buy Thanksgiving dinners| |—or perhaps it was just a coinci- , |dence—but local holdup men had| {one of their biggest nights of recent : [months last night. : | | Pive robberies, ineluding two ane : |ing station holdups, and one purse| to’ police | |

Inesota St. and Tibbs Ave. The ban-

Five Robberies and. Purse

~ Snatching Reported Overnight. h

snatching were

‘|during a 12-hour ‘period ending

early this morning,

Gaseteria station at 69 N. West St, and Charles Mahan, attendant at the Wake ‘Up filling station at 1935

early today. ~

mer, 40 N. West St., who was in the station at; the time, and an unges amount of money from An Indianapolis Street Railways {bus operator, Orville Jackson, 38, of 2211 Guilford Ave, was held up shortly after 10 p. m. last night by a man who boarded the bus at Min-

dit, who used a gun, took the money changer containing about $12. Two taxicab drivers, Alvin Robinson, 36, of 1623 Nelson St. and Richard Williams, 36, of 3015 'Kenwood Ave. reported that they were robbed by passengers of $5 and $14 respectively. The purse snatching was reported by Mrs. Mayme Yarger, 60, of R. R. 12, Box 364. She said an 18-year-old youth grabbed her purse containing $11 as she was walking in the’ 200 block of N. Alabama St. last night.

WOMAN SLAYER MUST, DIE

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal, Nov. 20 (U. P.). — Mrs. Juanita (Duchess) - Spinelli, 52, leader of a small-time gang of brigands, goes to the gas chamber tomorrow for the murder of one of her young henchmen.

Phillip Smith, fttendant ‘at the :

. | Shelby St, were held up by an| ~ |armed bandit about an hour apart| . (above); +The Pandit obtained $18 from Mr.|

‘| Smith and $10 from Edward Far- “has named as commander of its

American. Eagle Syuadeon, snce once a

LAW CATCHES OP | WITH GREEN HORNET

Chesley Gordon Peterson 21-year-old Utah farm boy who the Royal Air; Force

ran away from h parents took away rifle. In the seven years since, he has become ‘an expert’ pilot and : marksman,

CHICAGO, Nov. 20 (U. P.). —The law caught up with the “Green Hornet,” braggart leader of the “North Side Terror Gang.” His ‘gang,’ said the Hornet, who identified himself as James Rini,| 23, could boast of this record for the past 10 months: Robberies—1500. Burglaries—1000. Car thefts—250. a * Loot—$100,000. Rini was Prrehended at a filling station yesterday hy police who spotted him in a stolen: car. He readily admitted, police ‘said, that he had participated in a long Ist of holdups and burglaries,

dressing, | berry sauce, sweet potatoes, nuts, 3; rolls, ete.

‘but there were By go were off

‘mashed potatoes, cran-

The men on duty at the Naval :

armory also. were to have turkey with trimmings

A TIMELY WARNING

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. P).~

—Secretary of th L. Ickes announce native Thanksglving—"is in dan termination unless i conservationists ts to r

ceed.”

least equally as well armed and equipped” as its German enemies. ‘ “We have gained positions of

said. “Our offensive was long and elaborately prepared. ; t “We waited nearly five months in order that our army should be well ‘equipped with all the weapons which have made their mark in

“We don’t know yet whether a trial of strength has yet taken place between heavy armored forces, but. it cannot be long delayed,” Mr. Churchill said.

Meet Germans Equally

“The object of the British and Empire offensive is not so much to occupy this and that locality but it is the destruction of an army, primarily the armored forces of the enemy. “This is the first time that we have met the Germans at least equally as well armed and equipped. “If in this case enemy armor is destroyed or. seriously defeated and his air. power is dominated, the plight of his infantry and artillery Hn a crowded coastal region evidently would become serious in some respects. - “One thing is certain and. that is. that the British and Empire troops are animated by a long pent-up, ardent desire to engage the enemy, feeling as they do that this is the first time we have met the Germans at least -equally well armed. “Generals Auchinleck and Cunnirigham have made a brilliant and successful strategic approach. and have gained positions of marked advantage. It all depends now on the battle which follows.

PRIVATE KILLED IN ACCIDENT

CHESTER, S. C.,, Nov. 20 (U. P.). —Army officials today announced ‘the death of Pvt. Bernet. IL. Eato Skowhegan, Me., of the 43d D Dini sion. He was killed when his accidentally: discharged and fired

blank wading into his head: \ oa

Alter Than

A

Beginning Tomorrow at 9:30

#

7”

Special Purchase Sale! New ‘Farred Winter Coats

Furred - with Persian Lamb,

London-Dyed Squirrel, tein Sable, Tipped Magellan Kit Fox.

~ . '<~AYRES'—COATS, THIRD FLOOR.

MounSkunk,

$55

In the Budget Shop :

ksiivi

Interior Harold today that, the

wild ey x8 J

Collogibnne Dress ere

7.98 to 12.95, now, .

* Collegienne Furred | Coats, were 69.95, n

"Beautiful styles, richly |: ment of sizes 9 to 15. |

Collegienne Furred’

{ |

$999900303s0004

$54

lavishly furred. Broken assort

Budget Shop Dresses, were orig. 10.95 to 19.95, TOW ss sssarasnssnde se

N

4.90 were 79.95, NOW. ee Ceserresbiee 64.00 ! Collegienne Sport Coats and Suits, bo

OWeoeeaneerashonnnnnn 18.90

~—COLLEGIENNE SHOP. §ECOND FLOOR.

Tall Figure Feels As If

Telescoped Into Ordinary Corset (50) Budget Shop Dresses, were 7.98

The tall ‘figure and the average = = || to 10.95. Misses’ sizes. 00s 0scensdectenson 3.90 3 In the Gown Room | nn too much ho) ? ; bags = (140) Gown Room Dresses were 19. 95 to #9. 95,

can think of. There's too much on 14.90 - 34 90 : ® 2

figure-length; too little corset cov-|: ; : ot erage and the two never meet even| i: ae with the slightest degree of satis-|| In the Sports Shop dinner and evening pes. women’s and misses —GOWN "ROOM, THIRD FLOOR.

4

Rich rayon crepes, fine wools to wear now, through :

the holidays and all winter. were 22.95 to 29.95,

Tachion. ‘ The uncomfortable (and ? ; : s most uncomfortable) result is ; elms nina | : (30) Sports Dresses, were orig. were sitting out of her corset from|} 1485 to 19.95, now only, sevevseseases "| phe waistline down; and as if she|f ere stuffed into it from the Waist- fo line up. g To ‘add to ‘the difficulty, a tall woman may not know she is tall. JHer top-of-her-head: to. the tip-of-her-toe measurements may look and be just pleasantly average, But| it is in the middle of the torso]: —the only part of the figure with which the corset is :

Day, afternoon, Assortment of

Tailored . for general daytime wear. Excep-

. tional values in a Broken size range.

vt “Boxy” Pullover, and Cardigan 4 Sweaters, were 3.50 to 4. 50, now : 2.29

Excellent gift suggestions for college girls, sportswomen. New: longer and looser styles in winters best colors,

In the Budget Hat Shop hop H Jase tee '3 25

Wide variety of different types to wear now and all winter. olose,

A ha wre rh % 3 900 Pairs ~ x 3 ¥

é

CHILDREN’S WEAR 0) Wash Frocks, were 2 00, broken sizes 3 to 6x, now. .

Boy's. Garduioy. and Gabatdine Oyergls. were 2.25, discontinued.

olers votes esevenenanesanss

all SubDeb. Shetland Sweaters

assreesenanifen

fsa Ma ‘128 i : i Wore Originally os 8,

me - NESEY |

ROW. esos anpven

»

or Sunn Sn Ee that she has exira inches. Pee if| | : Cire fede Jara Eos Tom the. ecitlie tthe ; —SPORTS SHOP, THIRD FLOOR. - MEN'S GLOVES [EE Or So 1 : oe per fitter will, and , accordcare of those extra inches in the} # ‘| middle of her figure. : erally a slim figure. She buys a : corset to fit her width; pays no : Ce j it, she can’t understand why her|? 1.69 1 © Mockas 0 Snedes | ngure immediately feels like Jack’s|® : 8 * Copes. ® Pigskins | ogy | Pr Py The. third thing that tall figures| 1.39 > must be most careful of is shrinkthe proper middle length to it. She| If te ‘8 te 16x Werassereranse : ortably | Bry > a famous maker , . . “his sample line at exciting savings. Some styler are lined. Choice of browns, - .

tne cnily. long from the) FES il ha oe waistline to the ‘hipline. | She may] : 4 : 1). es gr ee ingly, give her extra inches right SRI pn in the middle of her corset to take 2 29 : Another thing of miijor Amportance vedvey Pr. is that the corset-tall figure is geniy ; Ee : .. |attention to its length; when \ ; WEE she gets it home and starts fo wear}? beanstalk—as if it were growing out} of its foundation. eo dei ny dartan 0 ; : |age.. The tall woman may know |they went in! It is 12.50. me f ¥ 2 ha Dewaol shottslesve alfjvers- the mosh nooepl- : sist a eg . < she is tall. She buys a corset with ‘with longer: skirt, . + | | .. able gift for every girl on your list. ‘ Christmas Our once-a-year gift event! - Only 900 pairs from an “White, pastels ~ meturals, blacks, grays and cream. Siipen or clasp a Sims 3 to 0 a La

avnms, rourTa FLOOR.

washes it she finds: that either her} Bgute has stretched or the Sorget Es ; has shrunk .and thé two do 0 not|- ~ {meet at all. 5, CRE One of the. best solutions we. have| fa found to the corset-tall ~ figure|: “Af | problem is the Gossard Gossamour| ¥ 1 | sketched here. It has a good long| bo Jskirt (waistline-to-hipline measure-| . ment). ts aiided Jength in the],