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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1941

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Today's News In Five Minutes

. THE RRITISH DRIVE in North Africa was gaining momentum this afternoon. The English were 100 miles into Libya and a big tank battle was | developing with the Italians. : * The British have smashed to within ‘a few miles of Tobruk, using tactics apparently designed to trap the German armored forces in that area. The R. A. F. was Joining in the big push and big fires were started at Brindisi by bombers. Tripoli, too, was bombed, heavily—for seven hours,

_ France Coming In?

IT BECAME CLEAR this afternoon, that the Germans were push‘ing the Vichy French hard to come into the North African battle scene. Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan, who is known to be intensely pro-Axis, are going into Occupied France next week to confer with ‘Goering and possibly Hitler, too. ‘Best guess of the German strategy: ‘To use the French navy in the ‘Mediterranean against the British.

Arc Shows Shorter

THE DEFENSIVE ARC around Mascow was shorter this afternoon.

but the ay mr are still [ae back stubbornly.

'Wife Beating’!

"THE FAR EASTERN situation was quiet for the moment. President Roosevelt refused to come ment on the negotiations with the Japanese, was asked if there was

any cause for optimism and're« | torted wryly that it was “like ask- -m

ing whether you were beating your wife.”

The New Indiana

THE 35,000-TON battleship, the Indiana, slid smoothly down the ways at Newport News, Va. at high tide today as 575 Hoosiers cheered and waved. The Indiana will be completed some time next year. Total cost: $75,000.000.

The Mine Crisis

THE PRESIDENT made it clear he was not going to do anything about the mine tieup until after John Lewis’ 200-man policy board votes tomorrow on the President’s proposals for peace. But in .the meantime, the situation was worse. At least 12 U. M. W, pickets were wounded af Brownsville, Pa. One was shot yesterday. The 12 today

. V were caught in a gap and fired on with shotguns, revolvers and rifles, .

News stories said the snipers were non-strikers. -

New Job

. BRIG. GEN. PHILIP FLEMING who has been Wage-Hour Adminir today was named Federal Works A trator. He succeeds John M. C the u. 8. time Commission.

Big Con ntion

A BIG ; IMPORTANT convention sta in Indianapolis today. It is the 21st annual meeting of the National Council of Social

getting ready: to go annual Indianagame, The place tomorrow after-

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BAY HOOSIERS HELP LAUNCH USS. INDIANA

Center of Interest as Big . Battleship Slides Down The Ways.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Tinies Staff Writer

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Nov. 21.— A liberty-loving people launched a great battleship that was named after them here today—the U.S.S. Indiana. As the monster steel hull slid

Schricker’s daughter, Mrs. Lewis C. Robbins, -broke- the traditional bottle of champagne on the keel and said the magic words which makes a great inland state an active participant in the new two-ocean U. S. Navy. “I christen this ship the Indiana.” A great roar of applause arose from the hundreds of Hoosiers on hand for the céremony and almost

at that moment. the sun broke through the clouds of a gray day, as: though in happy augury of the great ship’s future,

Great Day for Indiana

It was a gala event, with flags, bunting, gold braid, top hats, Secretary of the. Navy Frank "Knox and the snappy blue-uniformed bond 3 lis Shortridge High School n

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With a ringing voice, he expounded the philosophy of Péiriotism which

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“The people of Thine are, above everything . else, a liberty loving people,” - he said. “They understand: full well the cost of America freedom and the importance ‘of being at all times prepared to defend: it. Despite any and all reports to the contrary, ig ite strands of plea in e tapestry of Hoosier history, or are her people disposed to lie supinely on their backs, hugging the delusive phantom of hope until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot. “They are in. all truth, a peaceloving people, but they are not unmindful that the precious pursuits of peace were made secure only by the valor and victory of America’s sons who were-not afraid of war. “I speak for more than three and a half millions of people when I say that Indiana is definitely - for the all-out defense program, and that her sons and daughters of whatever age or station, are anxious and willing to do their full part.”

Her Aim Is Perfect

The event began as scheduled and went off with the precision necessary to catch the backlash of high e Dressed in his Zod braid ceremonial .uniform, Rear Admiral O. L. Cox presented Mrs. Robbins, who took the mike to say “Hello, folks”

‘| before swinging the bottle with great

zeal and perfect aim. It smashed into hundreds of pieces, the liquid splashed down the sides as the great: ll slid down the ways without a quiver, Mrs. Robbins was dressed in gold and brown and wore a white orchid. Her maids of honor each wore purple orchids. They were Miss Lucella McWhirter, Indianapolis, and Miss Nancy Biddle, Bloomington

down the ways, Governor Henry L.|

ying “Anchors Aweigh,”

ernor made this point quite clear:}”

: ‘& great factor ;

Will jd Survive World at or

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Nov. 21 (U. P.).—Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, speaking at ' the launching of the 35,000-ton. battle-

one can say when the actions of our avowed enemies may idrag us into complete belligerency.” . The Indiana, which slid into the James River at high tide, is the third battleship to be launched this year. Two .others were launched last year and have since been commissioned. Col. Knox, the principal speaker at the launching attended by high naval officials and prominent Hoosiers, cited the completion of the Indiana six months ahead ‘of schedule as proof that “when our industry and labor are united, there is nothing on earth can stop them.”

‘Our Side Shall Win’

“We all-know that. we have need of record-breaking speed,” he said. “We. all know that the dangers which confront the United States today are as deadly as any in our nation’s history. The perils which loom across the seas today are not merely threats to our national security, for this is no struggle between rival powers but a’ "conflies between hostile ideas. “We know ‘on which’ side of this fight our hopes and interests lie, and we have proclaimed our resolve that our side shall: win this struggle which shakes the world. No one can say when the actions of our avowed enemies may drag| . ys into complete belligerency.’ v“But should that day come the burden upon our Navy will be the greatest in our history. And in the struggle which would follow, this great ship here would be a tower

of strength to our battle! line.”

ship Indiana, said today that “no.

Teams Ready to Clash for ? «| tomorrow. from Mr. Lewis, and the

‘As Governor's Party Left for

Launching

| tified man opened fire with a shot-

{flung themselves to the ground under

| deadly outbursts.

“| were reported suffering from re- | volver wounds. They were taken to ‘ {Uniontown Hospital. The others had “ {been peppered with buckshot.

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UNION WARNS OF MOVE FOR SELF DEFENSE

Another 150 Trapped in Line of Gunfire as Pennsy: Violence Flares.

BROWNSVILLE, Pa. Nov. 21 (U. P.).—At least 11 C. I. O. United Mine Workers pickets were wounded and 150 or more trapped in a gap between slate piles as non-striking miners opened fire with shotguns, revolvers and rifles at the Edenborn ‘mine of the H. C. Frick Coal & Coke Co. today. A 12th picket was wounded at the Clyde mine when .an uniden-

gun. The hidden sharpshooter opened fire on the assembled pickets at the entrance to the Edenborn pit, where one striker was shot yesterday in a similar ambush. Caught unawares in a gully between the slate piles behind which the snipers were hidden, the pickets

their automobiles and to the floor of their machines to escape. the

Three in Hospital At least; three of the wounded

Brownsville Hospital reported that seven or eight” men had been reeived there ftom. buck-

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The shootings brought a : Jnion

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Silvery Tune |

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.;. Nov. at; (U. P.y. —1It. takes more than a |" bugler: to wake the Alabama State, Guardsmen stationed here in the ‘event: of labor trouble, : _ It also takes a 50-cent piece. s nen, M. Smith said ler, whose name

s+ places the |.

.wouldn’ half-dollar in his ‘mouth to hold up ‘a i00se upper plate. © “Without the coin,” Smith said, “it - sounds like hell.” - .

ALUMNI GATHER FOR |. U.-PURDUE CLASSIC

Old Oaken Bucket.

Times Special

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 21.— The private 44-year-old football war of Indiana’ and :Purdue resumes here tomorrow for “The” old Oaken Bucket.” This time the bucket is Indigna’s to defend and ®Purdue’s ‘to win. fang no matter how up, and Sows oth teams ve been during the season so fad this is THE game of the year. Hoosiers big and. Tittle will: attend. - ‘Governor Henry - Schricker and Lieut. ‘Gov. Charles M. Dawson, in Newport News today for the ceremonies launching the new battleship U. 8S. 'S. Indiana, will hurry

back, arriving in Indianapolis at|d 1

1a m. They will Sok out immediately for Bloomington and the Governor and Lieut. Gov. Dawson. will head the delegation of state officials, which probably ‘will .depopulate’ the Bate House at In Among Hoosiers from Wash who are scheduled to attend. the game are Federal Securities Administrator Paul McNutt, and Congress= man Charles Halleck." Judge Sherman Minton of the U. 8. Circuit

Court of 'Appeals, Chicago, will ‘be -

down.

Charging that the tunnel under the Big Four ‘Railroad in the 900

and safety hazard for. school chil-

today asked the Works Board to close it permanently.

with their children going over the tracks and asked that gates, a watchman or ‘police : protection be furnished.

Louis Sheffield, 218 S. Summit St. of school 7 P.-T. A., the delegation charged that drunks and moral deand had an unwholesome effect on the ® Sdn.

Mrs. Shefleld said th t last May bottle of-

block, Bates St., is a serious moral}... dren, a. Parent-Teachers delegation{)

They said they would feel safer|

‘Through their spokesman, Mis. |

“1 Would rather have my girl

at happen to her,” yid, and other womlegation of 15 nodded

assent; “Children + at that impressionable age do mot get over such things. When‘ they are. subjected to immoral influences they in turn become bad influences at their school. “The teachers in schools around there believe that the tunnel is the most demoralizing agency in the neighborhood,” Mrs. Sheffield. said. “Not only is it a hangout for adult Joaters, but it also is a hiding place 0 children playing ‘hookey | Jom

bers of the. delegation. .said| ga tunnel is a safety hazard since

Parents Call Bates St. Tunnel Moral Harard: Demand Works Board Action to Close I

They said both aPbtUiches to the tunnel are hazardous in freezing weather and thatthe Street Department left it up to. parents in the neighborhood to buy salt and carry ashes to combat "the ice.

‘The parents charged also ‘that the tunnel was a, health hazard be-

cause sewage backed: up in it dur-|

ing heavy. rains. They told the Board that they regarded. track . elevation as the

eventual solution but had given up re

hope for that now. :

LEWIS ANSWER

Army. and Navydniorse’ Bil “For U. S. Seizure of - Struck ‘Mines.

WASHINGTON, ‘Nov, 21 (U.P.). —President Roosevelt indicated today he will withhold further action ,|in the captive coal mine strike until. after John L, Lewis, president of the .C. 1. O. United Mine ‘Workers Union meets with the U.M. W. policy committee here tom: As he waited, the Army an Navy indorsed legislation for Government seizure and operation of strikebound.’ mines. The President toid a press ¢onference ‘that he expected .to hear

policy committee on his request for

‘| settlement of the’ strike by freezing

open shop conditions in the captive pits for the: duration of the: emergency or by. submitting. this issue to arbitration, agreeing in advance to accept the arbitration decisior, as final. Meantime, Undersecretary of ‘War Robert P, Patterson gave full approval tq ' legislation. that would authorize the Government to. seize

secretary o Es James Vv. Forrestal also: approved the Connally. - ring beto te a hea; re a Sena udiciary subcommittee,

'S ba mally. would set up a ‘wage board to determine compen‘sation’ for the ‘workers during the ‘emergency, “i - While Mr, Roosevelt was awaiting official ‘word from ‘the U,

‘Administration reported that the Chief Executive

might take “dircet action” in the captive coal strike within 48 hours. tion, reports

velt has set Sunday. as Sar deadline.

PARALYSIS SPREADS

cial Miners wil Strike.

strike spread ve & fields today. :

“| bodies of the automobiles.

Ww. policy ' committee, an’ or ; labor official

IN SOFT COAL FIELDS)

Predict 200,000 00,000 Commer:

de-

gunmen.” The violence came as the strikes were ‘reported by the United Mine Workers’ union to be spreading to Kentucky and Ohio. The hidden ' non-strikers opened fire on the pickets. without warning before dawn. = Intermittent flashes of flame pierced the darkness, and buckshot. rattled against the metal

‘The pickets immediately turned out their car lights and crouched behind fencers as the gunfire continued. : . Stiikers who had escaped the initial - outbursts paused to help|tq their wounded comrades out of range and rushed them to hospitals. The wounded pickets taken fo Uniontown Hospital were:

ter, wounded in the ace. Mike - Febete, 21, of Ric wounded in the right hand by a|thori revolver shot and pe in the left. leg and right groin by buckshet. Albert Fauvie, 25, of Coal Center Road 1, wounded in the face with buckshot.

Two Have Naren Escape

Robert Shubert of the United Press and Photographer Howard Moyer of the Pittsburgh Press almost drove into the trap set for the pickets.

approaching the mine when a truck load of pickets appeared. “They were traveling away. from the mine,” said Mr. Shubert. “The truck lights were out. When the | pickets saw our car, they shouted: “‘For God's sake turn out. those lights. Do you want to get shot.” ‘Directly ahead we could see the blue flame ‘of shotgun fire directed toward & blacked out gap between the slate piles. Men were: scream- |‘ ing and cursing. “We lost little time Racking out of the place.

John Stetanick, 25, of Coal Cen- on neville, ™

Mr. Shubert and Mr, ‘Moyer were|

Awaits 'Orders'

Marshal Henri Philippe Petain ? # nn = :

PETAIN CALLED TO MEET HITLER

Vichy Chief Will Confer on New Demands With Fuehrer Next Week.

NEW YORK, Nov. 21 (U. P).— Adolf Hitler was reported in advices from Europe teday to have arranged

Petain next week in Occupied France in an attempt to force a quick agreement with Vichy France

have renewed demands for use of

French “naval: forces, for. . French military patrols Toes the

transit © of Axis reinforcements through; French ‘territory ‘te Libya, Other advices.said that Petain ani Vice: Premier ‘Jean: Francois Darlan would © meet Hitler and Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering next week, presumably for a showdown on closer collaboration gnd the price that France miist pay for any German concessions. The. journey will mark the “first time * Pefain hus left Oecupied France sitice he met Hitler at Montoire Vieng a ‘year ago and agreed vy collaboration with Ger-

yen fi 2 a as o] -in<chief in French North ; Africa.

Infortaution, reaching Allied au-

otha that Hitler will attempt to conclude a swift agreement with shy for the dispatch of German orces to Tunisia before the British driving across Libya can reach Tripoli. Darlan was. ready to support the German demands for the sending of German troops to Tunisia, Allied authorities ‘believed, Following the ouster of Weygand it was expectéd there: soon be a “purge” in the French ecivil administration in North : Africa in | order to eliminate persons of doubtful loyalty to Vichy.

- 10,000 GREET SANTA

An estimated 10,000 children jammed Municipal Airport grounds today to see Santa Claus arrive in Indianapolis by airplane. nta, boarding ‘a sleigh at the airport, was escorted by police to{in ‘Wm. H. Block Co. toy department

children.

“I was lucky.”

tory as far west

for the job and with minute care

where a program was given for|lialy

War Analysis

: By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN - Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicags| fo

: LONDON, Nov. ot Der or iklation dor aif the ua Axis forces in North Africa and capture of all terri-

as French Tunisia are the

e grandiose : Objectives of the present British offensive in North |g The British are inderstood to have ample means|"

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to meet Marshal Henri Philippe Bri

channel and ‘Atantic coasts. and for|:

Vichy's |

ties in London re J convinced |

Tealy

In ———

BRITISH PUSH

MANY MILES PAST TOBRUK

Reds Fighting Desperately To Halt Fierce Nazi Drive on Moscow.

On Inside Pages

William Philip Simms .. Page 5 Details of Fighting ....... Sens HE

‘By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

A big battle of tanks des veloped in the Libyan desert as British spearheads slashed south and west of the bes sieged garrison at Tobruk tos day but on the eastern front the Red Army again was fighting desperately to stave off a great new German offen sive ainied at Moscow and the >

Caucasus.

Official British sources said a : the off naive Qesigned to knock the Axis out of No ca a; rently had swept “many miles” west .of Tob: and that a battle was in progress against a large Italian tank force th ofethat. port, where the have he held out for more than

The spearheads of the offensive, however, a ed struck | still f

patches from London, the Gernians :

3 0 avis south of Tobruk, are the Phd. of. defense in North Africa. | Major Battle Starts =

The clash of tanks south of Toe bruk was regarded ‘as the begine ‘ning of a major battle in ‘the strong | British forces, using. many | Ame -built tanks and airy hope to force a’ decisive test of strength with the Axis and perhaps to push. on westward to French territory or even to the Atlantic coast. Cairo dispatches ‘said that the Royal | Air . Force continued wi es, spread attacks throughout’ . editerranean area and on Supply : bases {in Italy in support of ‘the

offensive. A unique said that the 'R, A. F. destroyed 24 enemy ge in Libya yesterday and bombed Tripoli, M:

, Benghazi, Naples and Brindisi. Nine Bri Planes were missing,

oscow Pressure mi

The growing intensity | of the North| African battle was com; to the increased pressure of a t German drive on Moscow tov, at the gateway to the Cal olf Relee. : e Russians acknow! : man gains on the fs inis and Mozhaisk - sectors ‘of the fensive arc before the Soviet C#p‘hut said the Red Army wa continuing stubborn resistarice in

also appeared g planes to combat the in in North Africa, trantan. v by or

|of French Medite - | cilities.

Head for ‘Dakar?

The British offensive was believed by observers in Ankara to be di= rected toward an ultimate goal on” tlantic ' coast—a drive that - would not only clear out Axis forces Libya and open the way for closes bombing or an invasion of ut would bring a showdown with te French, in Algeria and Ar 3

their preparations have been made th

The only chance of » lp seems tol in the