Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1941 — Page 1

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, v4

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The first serious gas attack of the second Werld War is described in this exclusive dispatch from Betty Graham, 24-year-old Seattle girl writer who was with the Chinese forces on the Ichang front at “the time.

By BETTY GRAHAM (Copyright, 1941, NEA Service)

CHUNGKING, China, Nov. 26—Was it only “ hours io that victory had seemed so certain? 7 / In the first counter-offensive of four war years, Chinese troops had marched on Ichang. The commander, at headquarters, guaranteed Ichang would fall—a day or two and I'd be drinking beer in the city, he promised. ‘ And Ichang’s recapture would signal China’s long awaited allout counter-offensive, would herald the march on Hankow.. Its recapture would re-establish direct contact between north and south China, would give China back 100 vital miles of Yangtzse River, would

port and we toasted the success of his strategy. “Our victory will be Ametica’s also,” ‘he replied.

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More messages.

“2:47 a.m... Japanese arkllery aeross Yanctae iver opened ire +++ heavy barrage, but main force sill going forward « , The commander seemed unconiserned. : “They're fring: blindly into ‘the darkness,” ‘he axphited. we'll

have the town before dawn.” Then came a: fourth message.

“14 a.m. +. Bnemy wing gas... three betheres in our rear

opened fire with gas shells . .. ” ;

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THE FACES OF THE OFFICERS hardened. A half hour later

it was worse.

“4:43 a. m. ., . Erlemy increasing gas barrage . . . sounds of street

fighting quieting . . « fear shock {troops being wiped out . . . Japanese reinforcements bosiied crossing river, also coming up from rear...” 4:52 a. mM. ooo Making last effort capture city before dae

open up another rice area for China’s hungering millions. ves i Everyone was tense with excitement. Telephones jangled unceasingly. Messengers rushed in and out. Too’ much was at stake to notice

“These blisters

THE WAR thundered climaxes this afternoon: | MOSCOW: _ Still holding despite tremendous German’ = press “There has been one serious breakthrough on the south, abput 40 miles away. The defenders on the - north have been pushed to within 25 miles of ‘the Sepia, but aj re still holding.

new

tanks; infantry and artilles ry, S44 going on at Sidi Rezegh between. Germans and British. Outcome still’ uncertain.

JUGOSLAVIA: The

and now planning to level by aerial bombing.

# Navy Selectees |

SECRETARY KNOX reveals: that Navy enlistments have dropped off 15 per cent because of destroyer torpedoing, says that the Navy may have to draft men sooner or later.

Labor

— DR. .JOHN STEELMAN, John Lewis and Benjamin Fairless got together today to start consideration of the captive mine 'issue. Nobody knows how long ill take. * * * * At South Bend, U. A. W. voted to strike at Bendix Aviation because of negotiation deadlocks. * ss At St Louis, Cur-tiss-Wright may have to go down because of a jurisdictional fight . - among machinists at a nearby plant.

Indictment :

A RUSH COUNTY grand jury indicted Paul Connell, Glenwood ° farmer, on nine involuntary manslaughter counts in connection with. the Greyhound bus wreck near Rushville a week ago last Saturday. Nine died in the wreck.

Price Control © A NEW BARRIER to prompt price control legislation came ‘up this afternoon. House Republicans - said they’d fight any move to

license businesses to buy and sell commodities.

Sports

- BUCK JONES. of the hockey Capitals was transferred “tempo- + rarily” to the Detroit Red Wings this afternoon. His replacement here: Doug McCaig. * +++ John (Hans) Lobert, veteran big leaguer, was named manager of the Phil‘lies, succeding Doc Prothro. ® * * * This follows right on the heels of the naming of -24-year-old Lou Boudreau to pilot Cleve- - land, the youngest big league ager in history.

BRITISH VS. FINNS?

~ LONDON, Nov. 26

os Great Britain “probably” will agree

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puff out like ping-pong balls.”

STRIKE VOTED

Affected; Coast Welders Threaten Tieup.

By UNITED PRESS New threats developed today to the production of aircraft for national defense, already hampered by an A. 'F. of L. jurisdictional strike at St. Louis. Independent welders along the West Coast prepared to vote on strike ' authorization in aircraft plants and shipyards holding more

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bin ta atinarize a strike | -

Bendix Aviation Corp., plant employing 6000 workers.

a nation-wide movement by craftsmen of their trade who are seeking an autonomous union within the American Federation of Labor. The C. 1. O, threat at South Bend originated in dissatisfaction with: company = replies to contract demands, understood to include a closed shop and checkoff.

Study Mine Dispute

At, New York, an arbitration board of three appoiuted by the President went to work on: a solution of the United Mine Workers (C. I. O) demand for.a closed shop in -the captive mines. ‘A. F. of L. machinists at the Burgess Bdttery Co., Freeport, Ill, ended a six-week walkout. St. 'Lpuis, Curtiss-Wright Aift . Corp. officials feared the i strike of. ‘machinists throughout the metropolitan area may force a complete shutdown of its plant today. Production was reduced sharply yesterday when most of the employees joined the strike.

. Keenan Is Hopeful

Joseph D. Keenan, labor.consultant for the Office of Production

| Management, was conferring with

union leaders in an effort to settle the three-way jurisdictional dispute which caused the strike. A. F..of L. machinists, carpenters and hoisting engineers all claimed jurisdiction - over employees of a St. Louis small arms plant and a Wen Springs, Mo., = munitions n : Optimistic about prospects of ending ‘the strike, he said he would present @ settlement ‘formula pro posed by officials of the machinisth. on.

| Rail Talks Resumed

Railroad labor and management officials - expressed little hope that the fact-finding board's re-hearing|.. of wage disputes involving 1,125,000 railroad workers would bring about a compromise settlement.

handlers returned to their jobs on 250 loading platforms after a twoday strike. A four-day shutdown’ of the Columbia Steele Co.'s plant at 'Pittsburg, Cal, largest on the Pacific coast and currently busy with $5,000,000 in ‘defense orders, ended today as members of the Steel Work-| was ers’ Organizing Committee (C. I. O.) Tetusngd, to work under a temporary Truce.

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IN SOUTH BEND

16000 Bendix Workers Are

than two billion dollars of defense

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{Indiana University, already with-'

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the Japanese bombers rampant overhead or to hear the heavy can-

nons roaring on all sides. » » . NOTHING MATTERED BUT

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the wireless messages from the

troops at Ichang’s wall. They sounded wonderful at first: “3:10 a.m. , » Bue troops enter: the city . . . heavy street fght-

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ing continues-. «+ . “3:28 a.m. ... Three regiments No one doubted the outcome.

U. S. to Take Pick Out of Toothpick

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 wu, P). —The ‘Department of Comtherce thinks that toothpicks of differing lengths “confuse the |consumer” and’ a conference ‘will convene here Dec.’ 3 to Sapgiardize them. © The flat toothpick will be standardized at 2.375 inches, the round toothpick at 2.5. Most of the flat ones now are 24375 inches. The question of clothes pins also will be taken up. Slotted clothes pins will be standardized at four inches instead of the present four and one-half. And the slot will be 2.3125: inches deep.

FEARED HOLDUP, S KIN

Allison — Wounds Brother-in-Law Playing Midnight - Prank.

A 20-year-old youth was in a critical condition at City Hospital today with a bullet wound in his stomach as the result of what police say was a prank to “scare” his brother-in-law. The youth, Francis Dwiggins, of 3809 W. 10th St., was shot by his brother-in-law, Edward E. Fguuts, 25, of 3548 W. loth St.,. who, according to his statement to police, mistook his wife’s brother for a holdup man. Mr, Fauts, who works on the night shift at the Allison Engineering Co., told detectives that shortly after midnight today as he was preparing to retire, “something hit the front door.” Someone Yelled ‘Wow’

“I picked up a revolver I always keep in the bedroom in case of prowlers dnd went to the door: to investigate,” he said,~according to his statement to detectives. “I slipped open the bolt on the door and swung it open quickly and as I did so, someone pushed his hands at me and yelled ‘wow’ and I fired. Then he said, ‘Oh, Ed,’ and I recognized the voice as that of my brother-in-law.” Police quoted Mr. Fauts as saying that he helped the youth into: the house.and ‘ Mrs. Fauts helped give first aid treatment. ‘Mr. Fauts said he ran to the street and hailed a passing automobile and took young Dwiggins to City Hospital. Detectives quoted the youth as saying that he “banged on the door to scare his sister and brother-in-law.’ Hospital attaches said the bullet went through the youth’s arm and stomach. His condition is reported “very critical.”

He i the won of Mr. and Mrs. |China.

Harold T. Dwiggins of 3809 W. 10th t. :

. FRENCH LEADER DIES

MONTREAL; Nov. 26 (U. P.).— Minister of Justice Ernest La Pointe, deputy leader of the Liberal |: Party. .and spokesman: for the French population of Canada, died today in Notre Dame Hospital. He

Daily Student Withholds Criticism of Bo; - Hints Publication Blocked by "Persuasion

; been. filled with|

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Nov. 26; .U. P.).—Unprinted editorial opinion on the “Football Situation” at

held for two days, foday aroused. keen interest imong = students and -reprisals amo

Student, campus paper, determined to print gy ial Je 1 morrow, ?

“Said to be critical of the policies |T've

16} of Bo McMillin, head football coach, | scheduled {n

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ordered rush forward enter diy sed

The commander opened a bottle of

HINT DELAY IN JAPAN TALKS!

U. S. Favors ‘Breather’ to Prevent Breakdown; Evacuation Urged.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (U. P.). —The United States was understood on good authority today to be favorably disposed toward a plan

for a three-montl: “breathing spell” |:

in the Far East to provide time for more extenfled discussion of critical issues . between this eountly. and Japan.

It was reported hat a proposal

4along those lines was ready for

li pane resume bn with Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

Secretary Hull said today that he.

was giving attention to the possibility of. early resumption of the Japanese talks.

"Vision Later Settlement

“The temporary arrangement pro-|

posal was taken in diplomatic quarters as indicating hope that if present discussions could be pre-

vented from bieaking down a more |

permanent settlement of Far Eastern questions might be possible later. The American proposal for a temporary agreement ‘which would prevent further aggravation of the situation was understood to include a limited relaxation of the U. S. economic blockade against Japan, provided ‘Japan pledges herself against further aggréssive’ moves either to the south: or against Rus-

SE also would be required Sto rearrange her oud dispositions “so that she could not threaten the Burma Road, over which American supplies are going to China, for the duration of the proposed agreement.

TOKYO, Ndv. 26 (U, P.)—The Japanese Domei News Agericy today predicted that the next few days will reveal whether JapaneseAmerican negotiations in Washington will end in success or failure. “Japan is. not in a position to waste her time conducting negotiations with the United States, as was declared at the recent Diet session by Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo,” Domei said. * Tojo said that the Government was determined to | establish: a greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere. He asked for co-operation of the bankers. As he made this statement, ‘the United States: Embassy, acting on orders from Washington, made a new urgent appeal to all Americans to evacuate Japan and occupied

FOR BOMBING

nch Indo-China, Nov. A Government apology today to the United he bombing of its conA report ‘by the ese Agency that the - carried out by an Chungking GovernSally, denied.

Domei Jap bombing w: agent of

Leroy Sanders, Indianapolis, ‘president of the university’s pin Men's Association, offered strong rebuttal to Daily Student: opinion today. *

OWI am ‘strong for Bo." he; sald. 3 such senti-| ever

“I believe: that if any such ment exists ‘against him among the student editors it is; ‘only because they: havent, investigated ‘the situa-

‘| office was blown ’up in September.

morale high despite continued gas attacks Tae casualties heavy.

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5:03 a nm o 00 Ordered attack Tehang cease . . . concentrating )

holding positions oe -

Still they came, these messages of horror.

“Gas barrage continuing.” , ; bombs.” . . . “No sounds ahs casualties, one-fourth result gas.”

. “Sixty enemy planes released gas |

within city.” “Estimate 3000

We could deny it to ourselves no longer. The Japanese had saved (Continued on Page Five) ?

‘Russian Defenses German Penetratio

Winter on the frigid Moscow front ‘launching smashing new offensives. - in a Russian defense arc of men and

o Rostov 500 Miles

has failed .to keep the Nazis from: ‘The map shows how three bréaks machines imperil the Soviet capital

eight weeks after the Germans opened a big drive here.

POSTAL BURGLARY CHARGED TO ALGER | Thomas Alfred Also Named In U.S. Warrants.

Government - warrants charging burglary of the Lawrence, Ind, postoffice were filed today by postal. inspeetors: and city detectives against Gene Alger, 33, and Thomas Alfred, 38, held by Delice Since Cctober. Detectives also claimed they - bad found eight ounces of nitroglycerine belonging to thé men in, an East

Side private garage Nov. 4. The safe at the Lawrence post-

In October, Alger, who served two years for the shooting of an Indianapolis policeman in 1925, was arrested on séveral minor charges after an automobile accident. He was taken to City Hospital with an injured jaw, where he still remains. A few days later, Alfred also was arrested and held on advice of postal authori Alfred also has a record, and served from 1917 to 1925 for murder, police sald,

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Duce May Visit African Front

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (U.P.). —The National Broadcasting Co. today heard Radio Rome | broadcast that Premier Benito Mussolini soon may go to the Libyan battle front Yet eneourage Italian troops.”

HOOSIER IS INDICTED IN FATAL BUS CRASH

Glenwood Man Accused of Driving While Drunk.

RUSHVILLE, Ind, Nov. 26 (U. was | P.).—-A Rush County Grand Jury indicted Paul T. Connell, Glenwood, Ind., farmer, on ‘nine counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the deaths of nine persons in a Greyhound bus crash near Rushville Nov. 15 : “The Grand Jury found Connell

| was intoxicate¢l when his automobile struck the Cincinnati-to-Chi-

cago bus, causing it to plunge down a :20-foot embankment into a ores and burst into flames. od t5 persons were burn death and the driver, Andrew Hansen of Cincinnati, died a few hours}

ty | C. Cooper said he ould ask Cir PF. Marshall to

| SELECTEES FACE

: Secretary of the. Navy Frank

“The pain became "Sm

K KNOCKOUT I LIB k NAZIS CLOSER TO

Germans Reported 25

British Hurl Tank Reinforcements at Axis Forces i in Desert.

‘By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Preis Foreign News Editor

Great Britain rushed tank, infantry and artillery reins

~ forcements into the Libyan desert today in a bid for a. deci

sive victory in North Africa but on the eastern front

Army defenders of Moscow.

=I armies again were threatening encircl ment. of {

Intensive fighting was renewed o on all sectors of ] Libyan and Russian fronts in’ ‘battles that seemed: likely

affect the whole course of the

war at a time when Germany

officially was promising victory to her allies even if th

United States enters the confl

ict.

The promise was made by Nazi Foreign Minister

Joachim von Ribbentrop in a Berlin speech promising to “des stroy” the British Isles and claiming that Axis Europe could

fight for 30 years is necessary.

Furious Batt Developments on the war,

nature, especially in the great battle for Sidi Rezegh in the,

les Continue front were of a more defini

Libyan desert south of Tobruk.

The Libyan battles were no more intense thany the

fighting for Moscow, where

the Russians acknowled

gains 'by the: Germans both north'and ‘south’ on ‘the ma

defense arc which apparently

was pressed back to. hii

25 miles of the capital in the Klin sector on the nort

SERVICE IN NAVY ==

Sinkings ‘Cause * Enlistment Drop, Knox: Reveals. r WASHINGTON, -Nov. 26 (uv, P.).

Knox, revealing that naval ‘enlistments had dropped. about ‘15° per cent as a result. of -the torpedoing| of the destroyers Kearny. and Reu-| ben Janfes, said ,today that the Navy. eventually .may-have to’ use selectees to: ‘help man the expand-| ing fleet. “Up to the present ‘time we ‘see no need for selectees in the Navy,” he told reporters,

would’ like to maintain that they (enlistments) be on a voluntary basis, but with the swift expansion ‘we may have to resort to selectees.” Admiral C, W. Nimitz, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, said the Navy needs 13,000 volunteers a month. Until the Kearny and ‘Reu-}: ‘ben: James . incidents, volunteers were coming in“at the:rate of 10,-000-11,000 a month, . he said the rate now is 9000. He added that: ‘commencing’ next

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however, was on the near Tul, where - the G

miles’ to the: gaa as oo effort to. encircle the Soviet.

“ The main Libyan still Was at Sidi

held :the ; ground: may by | ‘British tanks and: 2: Joined

“but we can’t|fury foretell :the future. We hope and|.

- OL thr p< ¥ “ 5 outcome still was. in doubt.

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