Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1941 — Page 1

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Today's News |. In Five Minutes

U. S-JAPANESE. rela- | tions were almost at the:

breaking point this afternoon and there were fears in Washington that the ne-. gotiations may blow: up at any minute. Japan is believed ready to attack Thailand. : Secretary Cordell Hull gave a tiff note to the Japanese negotisitors last night. It demanded that . Japan withdraw from the Axis, withdraw from China, and cease"

. parts of China already ‘conquered. . Japan has officially made no reply, but Tokyo was in a defiant, blustering mood.

"The Actual Fighting

ON THE ACTUAL battle lines, British forces have made addition~ al gains in the African fighting: British forces battling out: of: Tobruk have joined with their fellow soldiers fighting out of Sidi Rezegh and a gap through which “the Germans: have been operating is now closed. * *' . cow. sector, the Russ was even more Germans “have gained tore Ee in thelr advance on the capital and it is now a serious. question as fo whether the Soviets can hold the city much lenger.

Train Wrecks

LAST SUNDAY a broken rail wrecked a speeding morthbound » train in the South. There were two ? more today. The Florida-bound amiami Champion” was derailed near Hortense, Ga: One dead, -14 injured. * * * * And the “Havana

Special” hit a broken rail and went -

off near Tampa: ght injured.

Price Control

ADMINISTRATION FORCES were having their troubles with the price control bill. There is much antagonism to the current ‘proposal, but there are indications the Ad‘ministration will accept wage con"trol as a part of the bill if that

is the only way of getting it

through.

— “Labor

OPPOSITION GREW this afternoon to Mr. Roosevelt's feeler for compulsory arbitration in labor troubles. Not only is labor opposed to such a plan, but the National . Association of Manufacturers doesn’t like it either. * * * * William Green, president of the A. F. of L. this afternoon urged no anti« strike legislation of any kind, but rather a War Labor Board similar to World War I's. * * * * The St. Louis tieup of machinists is ended and the threat to heii Prot is ow over.

Postal Meters,

A STATE. EMPLOYEE was arrested yesterday, charged with stealing stamps. Today there were. complaints that the practice was not an uncommon one at the State

House, Result: State officials are

now taking about installing postal

Movie Sin

THE MOTION PICTURES were back in the headlines today. Arch= bishop Francis J. Spellman of New

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7 York denounced Greta Garbo's | “Two-Faced . Woman” as sugges- |

tive and dangerous to public

morals, ruled it sinful to see. Al |

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FURTHER LEVY "ON 41 INCOME

Billion: Begin Study of 1942 Taxes.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (U. P.). —The Treasury today said that it does not plan to ask for any further increased taxes on incomes earned during 1941. Assistant. Secretary of the Treasury John Sullivan also said that the Treasury does not intend to suggest to Congress any increases in the capital gain and loss tax that would apply to financial transachions made this year. The Treasury, however, is con\|tinuing to work on new levies that would apply to 1942 earnings.

"Will Borrow Billion

000,000,000 or more in another “major financial operation” next week. He said that “barring unforeseen developments. in the international

would be included in next week's operation. He said that the Treasjury intends’ to keep borrowing of new. money and refunding separate for the time. An issue for refunding will be floated in January, he added. Neither Mr. Morgenthau nor Mr. Sullivan disclosed details of the tax program which the Treasury “R daeftine to nls and to 1942 earnings} and: corporations.

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the Federal tax Structure 10 permit greater “freedom tor capital

opi It PI aspert ted that the Present system of treating capital gains and losses freezes investments, prevents a free flow of capital and deters diversity of investments. Its program, the association said, would bring money into new enterprises, create employment and afford greater stability. of the economic strusture,

BINGO RAID EVIDENGE

Myers Acts as. Affidavits Against 4 Are Dropped.

Judge Dewey E. Myers today requested the Marion County Grand Jury to investigate evidence police obtained in the recent raid on an alleged bingo game at the parish school gymngsium of St. Anthony's Catholic Church. Affidavits against four men ar< rested in the raid were dismissed in Municipal Court ‘Tuesday just before the trial was to have started. Prosecutor Sherwood Blue explained that the affidavits were dismissed because he was Dianming to file new affidavtis Criminal Court. : New affidavits were prepared but were withdrawn when Judge Myers asked the Grand Jury to investigate. “If you find that there was a violation of the law, indictments should be’ returned,” Judge Myers told the jury. NE

LOS ANGELES FEELS QUAKE

10S ANGELES, Nov. 27 (U. P.).— A light earth shock was felt in the Los Angeles area at 9:30 a. m. today. Dr. C. F. Richter of the Pasadena Seismological Laboratory said it was a minor local earthquake.

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Navy officials Enpervise mounting of a gun aboard the United States Maritime Commission's. 5000-ton freighter at the Hoboken, N. J., shipyard. Scheiluled for service within a few days, the ship, the first to | be armed under the neutrality act revision, will mount anti-aircraft guns and have vital deck points pro-

REVOLT FEARED | Ve

“Control Differences Loom As Obstacle.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (U.P) .— Administration House leaders, victorious in their first major battle}. on price control legislation, tnday feared that mounting Democratic opposition -might result in recommital ‘of the pending bili to .com-

Despite that possibility, Speaker Sam Rayburn believed “We’ll-get by all right.” The Administration is ready to accept some form of wage regulation in the bill if that will help it pass the House. It is proceeding cautiously, however; and will not

the bill. Rep. Wilbur Mills - (D. Ark) is framing ‘an amendment to bar wage| increases found to be “inflationary,” but said that he had not decided definitely whether to offer it. He said he “wouldn’t do a that might hurt the bill.” He conferred with Rep. Rayburn yesterday. and pointed out that approximately 120 members of the House represent labor districts and are opposed: to any wage controls. The. House is in recess today— 1/ Thanksgiving in some states—but ‘will resume consideration, of the bill tomorrow with two-major fights expected .on amendments that have solid Republican opposittion. ‘By a landslitie vote of 218 to 63, the House yesterday rejected. the substitute proposal of Rep. Albert Gore (D. Tenn.) to “freeze” wages, prices and rents at their present

{levels until June 30, 1943. The Ad-

ministration bill in its present form provides for “selective” controls on prices that threaten inflationary rises, and exempts wages completely,

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‘ents 4 man they ; George Skrjabin, 22,

cheslav. M. Molotov.

seas army cap in his

boyish in appearan: was. close-cropped.

which were put to the prisoner by an. iienister

from Viazma where, he said, he sérved as a private in the 48th Infantry Corps. He said his station was at Rostov.

ONE DEAD, 14 HURT

Rails in Georgia.

—One

John “Carroll, - . of

south of Hortense. man was reported “critically in jured.”

to hospitals in Waycross. William Ward, of Lawrence, Mass

the train window” as the train the track.

by a broken rail,

lleged wa € son of Soviet Foreign Commissar Vias:

The prisoner wore #& heavy khaki army greafcoat over an infantryman’s uniférm, heavy: Russian boots and carried an over=

ce R «He was His hair A German official read questions

The. prisoner said he was Mol-. otov’s son. He said he was captured last Oct. 16 about 20 miles

IN WRECK OF TRAIN| Florida Streamliner Leaves}

HORTENSE, Ga,, Nov. 27.(U. P). passenger ‘was killed and 14 injured today when the Floridabound streamlined train “Tamiami Champion” was derailed near here. Worchester, Mass,;. was killed instantly. . when seven cars of the Atlantic coast line train ‘were derailed about two miles,

At least one other unidentified The injured were removed

Mr. Carroll's seat companion, said Mr. Carroll was “thrown through

he| The streamliner was enroute from go ‘Florida west coast Siemmpe

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pa vana Special” of the Atlantic Coast line was derailed at Suburban Dover}

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| Sohricker Considers Use to Prevent Thefts by - State Employees.

‘By EARL RICHERT

The arrest yesterday. of a state employee. for - allegedly stealing ‘| state-owned stamps. today focused the attention of state officialson the acknowledged common practice of state employees: using state-pur-chased stamps for their Pritaie use.

learned, ‘has under consideration a proposal that. postage: meters be purchased’ for state departments using large quantities of stamps. The meter system, eliminating the use of stamps, has long been recommended v usly by State Auditor ‘IRichard 'T. James - and. Deputy Auditor Ross Teckemeyer as a sure means of stopping “stamp stealing.”

Reaches Peak at Christmas Mr. Teckeméyer estimates that at least $5000 of ‘the $200,000 worth of stamps purchased annually by. the state are used for personal business, Many employees, he. said, “appropriate”. ‘enough state stamps to keep themselves and their friends in postage the year-around. The thieving reaches its Peak, he said; just before Christmas when, greeting ‘cards are mailed. Mr. Teckemeyer said that another form of “stamp stealing” had been stopped Foon 3 by getting the postmaster 'to sign a receipt stating that the state official or employee buying stamps had procured ‘ the amount of ‘stamps provided for in the warrant which was issued for that PR “He said: that previously, for example, a Ses pes with a warrant for the purchase say of

clerk was to. meet postage due

But the $5 probably wouldn’t be turned back to the state, Mr. ‘Teckemeyer added. s uw

STAMPS TRACED Bo

{were “fArmly”

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$25 worth of stamps would get $20] left {worth of stamps and $5 in change which he wotild tell the postoffice{:

important Soviet Town “of Klin Falls Desert ~ Battle Rages. On Inside Pages | Today's War Moves .....Page 4 Desert Eye-Witness Stories... i Lahr iar ra sas ress saree AD0.1Y Stimson Denies Tank Failures 5By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United | Press Foreign Editor

Creat Britain’s Eighth Army]. broize the seven-month-old siege: lines around Tobruk and battled jor a knock-out blow on thé Axis in Libya today. = Cn the eastern front, German parizer divisions reported they had crashed through the main Red Army

! defense system ‘around Moscow.

On the eastern front, the Germans said that they had captured the important town of Klin, 51 miles northwest of Moscow, and holding the railroad lows of Tikhvin southeast of Leningrad. ‘There appeared to be little doubt on the basis of both Russian and German reports that the Axis offensive against Moscow was making slow, steady : progress toward encirclement of the capital, but in the battle of Libya lines of conflict

moving reinforcements and if they can hold that line they may have

in the conflict. ~ Wew Zealand armored forces and infantry drove along the coastal road from Gambut and tien apparently cut across the desert and recaptured Sidi Rezegh—which had been taken by the British and then lost—after which a tank column pushed farther west to join up with{ga the Tobruk, garrison at Ed Duda. The Tobruk garrison instead of being “relieved” in the normal sense of the word had been supplied with tanks and fresh troops so that it was able to fight its way out over 14 miles of Hard contested desert. . New Base of Supplies

‘Thus the junction between the Tobruk ferce and the New Zealanders—who left a trail across the sand dunes littered with the wreck~ age of German and British vehicles —gave the British a new base of supplies at Tobruk, close to the battle still raging on a fluid front around Sidi-Rezegh. ‘fhe British navy can move supplies and reinforcements : through Tobruk much more easily than they can be moved across the desert. On the eastern front, the Germans continued in their encirclement drive against Moscow, gaining at a tremendous cost, Russian dispatches reporting isolated battles on the central and southern sectors listed 27,000 German casualties, mostly dead. The Russians said the Germans

lost .13,500 mien ‘in fighting around Kealinin, to the ‘northwest, and sev-

eral thousand on the front south-

west of Moscow, presumably around

Tula and. Stalinogorsk.

through which the. Axis had been|

gained a vital strategic advantage]

WASHIN GTON, Now.

the next few days.

the Burma Road in China.

TOKYO BEAICYE

TOKYO, Nov. 27 AU, Py. — - The adopted a strong stand against Japan, which aggra tion in the Pacific, the Japanese Domei news agency said today, and terms handed to Japanese envoys by Secretary of State Cordell Hull offer “litle hope of bridging the gap in Japanese-American problems.” In the most pessimistic semi-offi-cial statement issued since Japan sent Saburo Kurusu as special en-= voy to Washington in a “last "attempt” to preserve peace in the Pacific, Domei said room for prolonging” the Washington conversations. “The Hull document indicates that the United States has come to a decision regarding negotiations,” Domei said. “Judging from circumstances; no optimistic views can be allowed.

ing a ‘strong stand against Japan, thereby suggesting aggravation ' of the situation. Domei said that reported British optimism regarding the outcome of Japanese - American conversations in Washington was merely evidence that the British hoped to maintain the status quo in the Pacific.

SHANGHAI, Nov. 27 (U. P.).— The er President Madison sailed today | the Fourth ¥.-S. Marine regiment, The departure two days ahead of schedule ‘of the ‘President Madison: with troops which for 14 years have stood .guard at .the International Settlement was believed here to indicate possible aggravation of the

United States. and her allies have| vates the situa«

“there is little|,

America and her allies are adopt-|

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Secretary and F. D. Ri 2 Meet Again With Twa Tokyo ‘Envoys as Troops’ Mass i 9 North and South Indo-China.

27 (U. P.) — Authoritative sources today expressed fear that Japan's answer to Amers ican demands that she withdraw from the Axis and ge out of China may be a Japaese attack: on Thailand within

This disclosure came as ‘White ‘House Sebretary St 2 T. Early announced that President Roosevelt has arrang d to confer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Japanese envoys this afternoon, Other information reaching Washington ieforted that the Japanese were massing troops in north: and south IndoChina, apparently for an offensive against both Thailand and

It was assamadehereid the troops would be prepared fo ve in: ‘ease the Ua S. : ory

Supply ships ‘have. arfived with materials ‘of war and trucks have been rolling out of Saigon toward the frontiers, it was said. ! At Haiphong, in the north of Indo-China, other men, artillery, and: anti-tank guns have been put ashore. Boats have been purchased by} We Japanese up and down ihe

SO acials. declined: to: diseuss what the United. :States “would do in event of a Japanese drive inta Thailand. i

throughout his talks with Kurusu and Nomura. It was believed that whatever course might be taken, in event of a Japanese military mi it would be carried out with the oe ; i aa

tlement of U . S.-Japanese diff ences would be possible unless: 1, Japan withdraws from her alt withdra her troops ws pa Ja

3. Japan ceases to support the Wang Ching-wei regime wEich she: established over the parts of China she had conquered. ~ TN

MANILA, P. 1, Nov. 27 (U. B) ~ Lieut. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander in chief of. the U. s Army. of the Far East, Admiral Thomas C. Hart, chief of the U. 8. Asiatic fleet and Francis B. Sayte, 1. 5. High Ooms missioner to the Philippines, con

Pacific crisis.

ferred here today, ; 5