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JOLUME 53—NUMBER 226
‘SATURDAY, NOVEMBER: 29, 14
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Germans Evacuate Rostov;
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Today's News In Five Minutes
SHASHING RED ARE REPORTED
JAPAN GAVE ITS answer to the U. S. today. It was bombing of the Burma Road, lifeline of China. Five formations of bombing planes, operating from IndoChina, blasted away at the
road for many hours. The Japanese press was filled with- news in a belligerent tone. Tokyo was seemingly taking the position that negotiations with the U, S. had broken down completely. In Washington, Secretary Hull and Lord Halifax put their heads together to discuss the situation, refused to reveal what (if anything) they have decided.
Nazis Falling Back
THE ALLIES were improving their positions today, both in Eibya and in Russia. 5 In Libya, the British were slugging it out with weakening German and Italian forces.” There seems little hope now that the entrapped Axis forces can get away. Around Moscow, the Russians counter-attacked desperately and succeeded in driving the Germans ‘back somewhat fromthe. capital The Soviets crossed the Volga at some spots. In the south of Russia, | the situation was even more cheerful. The Russians have retaken : by flerce counter-attacks. the Nazis admitted the Russie gains. 5
Price Control
The HOUSE gave the Adminis-, tration a thumping on tle |price control bill, passed a tosthless measure. The Senate now will get a chance to put some force back into the measure.
Labor
THE LABOR SITUATION| WAS somewhat brighter today, too, Serious negotiational disputes seem to be easier and the spotlig t for the moment is on impending Con-
posals is scheduled to start | House on Monday.
Locally
THE COUNTY'S traffic | death toll was increased today, the result of a Mars Hill accident. Ray Cravens, 52 years old, fell off his horse directly into the path of an automobile. He was Killed instantly. * * * ere were three holdups during the night. In the biggest, a woman - tavern | owner was robbed of $1000 by two bandits. In the smallest, a 14-year-old North Side delivery boy for a drugstore was slugged and robbed of $16 by a lone thief. < ; Sports 7 BIGGEST ITEM of the day was the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia. More than 100,000 sée the game. ®* * * Frank Leahy was chosen coach-of-the-year by | 274 coaches voting .in the New York World-Telegram’s annual poll. The Notre Dame coach got 58 firsiplace votes, Bernie Bierman of Minnesota got 54. * * * Heze Clark picked The Times’ annual Il-state high school team. John Tech guard, was the only apolis boy on the first = \
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{Nazis Driven Back Over Volga, Moscow Claims; Winter Grips Ukraine.
(Details of Fighting, Page Two,’ Robert Casey, Page Nine) ~
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press ForeignEditor
ed successes today in Libya and on the Eastern Front. A great tank battle in the Libyan desert, where British mechanized
and air forces were slugging toe to toe with trapped Axis tanks, still
diminishing that German and Italian forces could fight their way out of encirclement east of Toburk. West of Tobruk, the British were again pushing forward in the direction of Derna but were meeting stiff opposition. On the Eastern Front, the Germans claimed capture of the town of Volokolamsk, one of the key points in the defense of Moscow, but were reported driven back across the ice-bound Volga and Oka Rivers ‘by Russian counter attacks on both the north and south wings of the defense arc protecting the capital.
{Rostov Evacuated
According to official Russian reports, the Red Army crossed the *| Volga and captured several villages, forcing the Germans to fight “rear guard actions” on several sectors around the threatened Capital.
siz2Still greater. gains. we
by the Russians in the south where a counter-attack relieved the dan-
Sebastopol and a counier- cffensive ress in the wintry Donets basin.
to relieve the city of Rostov at the gateway to the Caucasus, was Of special importance because the Nazi High Command acknowledged that its forces had been withdrawn from ‘|“the city area” of Rostov, purportedly to clear the way for “ruthless” punitive action against civilians who participated in the Russian defense, This presumably meant that the Luftwaffe was to attempt destruction of the central city as Rotterdam was razed.
‘Never Fully Occupied
For several days the Russians had been reporting their counter-of-fensive in the Donets Basin—now swept. by icy winter winds—was gaining steadily and at one point surged forward about 90 miles. Furthermore, the German communique indicated that the Axis forces never had fully occupied the city of 500,000 population, which is of tremendous importance as an industrial center, a terminal for oil pipe lines from the south and as the Don River key defense of the road eastward to Astrakhan and south to the Caucasus. Still other developments on the World’s distant battlefronts emphasized the more likely reasons behind the German withdrawal that left Rostov in Russian hapds.
Tough Battle for Moscow
The Nazis obviously were still facing a tough battle for Moscow. On ‘the northern sector of Klin the Russians reported that they had stopped the enemy with loss of 70 tanks and 2000 killed after a Nazi advance won a bridgehead over the Moscow-Volga Canal. Any . important ‘reverse in the Rostov sector, might force the Germans to shift troops southward andj thus relieve the defenders of Moscow who, aécording to the Communist newspaper. Pravda, were fighting 735,000 Axis troops. Both Rome and Berlin reported that ‘Axis units still were fighting back strongly in Libya. But both Cairo and London expressed satisfaction with the “satisfactory progress” of the campaign, which is now centered chiefly on cleaning up the Axis mechanized columns and infantry caught between Tobruk and the Egyptian frontier.
EIGHT GERMAN SHIPS \ SUNK, BRITISH SAY
| 2 Re | Murmansk.
“LONDON, Nov. 29 (U. P).—The || Admiraity said today that two Brit}|ish submarines in Arctic waters sank ‘at least eight German troop transport and supply ships and damaged six others en route ‘to the Murmansk se€tor, | The German ships presumably were carrying reinforcements to the north Finnish sector in an effort to close the Murmansk supply route to Russia from Great Britain and the United States. The announce-
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Now a Citizen
The British and Russians report-|§
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 29 (U. P.). —Olivia de Havilland, 25-year-old film star who was born of British parents in Tokyo, became an American citizen today. Miss de Hayilland came to the United States as a child. She was among 500 ailens seeking naturalization papers.
STATE PLANNING BOARD NAMED
Prof. Lommel of Purdue to Head New Body for
Resource Study. A new State Planning Board,
headed by Prof. George E. Lommel
= se: Bniversity, w s named; oday by RE ey CRecEeT ‘and |
will meet here Dec. 9 to outline its ger to the Crimean naval base of activities.
For the last two and one-half
was reported making further prog-|years, the Planning Board has been practically non-existent because of
The Donets basin drive, designed heavy reductions made in the ap-
propriations ‘by the 1939 and 1941 Legislatures.
“I feel that even though the
funds for the Board are very limited that the organization is badly needed now in the State, with the rapid development of defense industries and the changes taking place in the life and work of our Indiana people,” the Governor said.
“We need planning now and we \
will need planning later in the post-war period even more than we need it now. The Planning Board can fulfill this need better than any single agency we have under our present statutes and I am sure can render a highly valuable service to the State.”
Seek No New Funds .
First organized in 1935, the Planning Board functioned -until 1939, publishing a comprehensive report on the human and natural resources of the State and laying out a plan for future development in each county.’ The Governor's office indicated that the Board's work would be of a long-range nature and that no additional funds would be required. Members of the Board named today are: ’ Hugh Barnhart, - Conservation Department director and Rochester newspaper publisher; S. C. Hadden, Highway Commission chairman and Indianapolis engineer; Dr. -John Ferree, Department of Public Health director; Dean Harry J. Reed, Purdue University and State geologist for many years; Lee J. Ninde, Ft. Wayne realtor and Indiana Civic Association president. Mrs. Oscar Ahlgren, Whiting, Indiana, Federation of Clubs president; Dr. Burton D. Myers, dean emeritus of the Indiana University School of Medicine; Stephen Noland, Indianapolis News. editor; Charles J. Lynn, Ingianapolis, Eli Lilly & Co. vice president and director and owner of large farming interests. Prof. Lommel, renamed chairman, is a*member of the Purdue School of Civil Engineering faculty.
HOUSE ADOPTS PRICE CONTROL LACKING TEETH
Regulatory Features Desired by Administration Are Eliminated. (How Hoosiers Voted, Page Two)
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (U. P.). —Administration leaders today looked to the Senate to put back into the anti-inflation price control legislation most of its “teeth” which were extracted by the House last night when it approved a drastically modified measure. Before the final 224 to 161 ‘vote, a solid Republican front and a substantial bloc of dissident Democrats virtually eliminated regulatory features of the: bill and wrote their own version on the floor. Administration efforts at ‘compromise were in vain.
Eliminate Licensing
Three major blows were dealt the bill before passage: 1. Elimination of the controversial provision to permit the Govern-
to force compliance with price regulations. Price Administrator Leon Henderson claimed this provision was the “backbone” of any control program. 2. Creation of a five-man board of review with power to overrule
‘| regulations laid down by the price .| administrator.
3. Restriction of the Government’s power to buy and sell commodities to stimulate production in marginal or high-cost industries. The Adiinistiaiion wanted the} to buy and sell world com
an prices. Reject Wage Clause As opposition to the measure mounted, Administration leaders abandoned plans to offer a modifled wage regulation, fearing "that it would only precipitate stronger measures against the bill. Rep. A. Willis Robertson (D. Va.) offered an amendment to bar any wage increases which the Government found to be “inflationary.” With Administration and Republican - opposition, however, the ymendment was rejected, 102 to 53. However soundly the Administration was trounced, it at least has a bill number and enacting clause for the Senate to work on, Senate action awaits the return of Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, No plans for hearings have been made, but Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) of the Banking Committee, said he expected at least two or three weeks of hearings.
Sets Up Riview Board
When debate opened at 11 a. m. yesterday, Mr. Steagall informed the House that the committee had decided to revise the licensing and buying and selling provisions in order to meet previously-voiced objections. But the House .decided otherwise and proceeded to write its own bill. As it finally passed, the bill authorizes the price administrator to prescribe commodity price ceilings using the Oct. 1 to Oct. 15, 1941, period as a yardstick. But his regulations can be overruled by a fiveman administrative board of review, Wages specifically are exempt from regulation, and the administrator may set no ceiling on farm prices below the highest of three alternative bases—110 per cent of parity; the general level of prices for Oct. 1, 1941, and the general 1ével of prices from 1919 to 1929,
REPORT RED CARRIER SUNK
. ROME, Nov. 29 (U. P.). — The newspaper Giornale d'Italia .reported ~ rumors from Sofia today that. the Soviet aircraft carrier Stalin had been sunk in the Black Sea. (Janes’ Fighting Ships list the Stalin as a former 9000 ton cruiser converted into an aircraft catrier.)
ment to license businesses in order| -
WOMAN HELD UP,
Tavern, -and Grab - ‘Day’ s Receipts. Mrs. Stella ‘Mead, 36, of. 3536 'W.
her purse, the day's receipts from her tavern, and started home shortly after midnight in an automobile with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Adkins, 6410 Carrollton Ave. As Mrs. Mead drove fio the driveway, two: men with guns fook her purse, forced her and Mr. and
escaped. : Mrs. Mead, who operates the Blue Diamond Tavern at 3451 W. 10th St. said the purse also con-
cashed for customers. George W. Cooper, of West Pensacola, Fla. reported to ‘police that a man and a woman, both carrying guns, held him up on N. Alabama St., early today and took $76 from his purse. Robert |Lazanchy, 14-year-old ‘delivery boy for the Steeg Drug Store, 2502 Central Ave., was struck on the head by a bandit who took $16 from him: He was returning to the store
bandit ‘stepped out from an alley and struck him with an empty bottle.
150 Rs See Mothers in Film
ROCHESTER, N. Y. Nov. 29 (U. P.).—Approximately 150 English refugee children sat in a darkened room at the Eastman
motion pictures of their mothers whom they had not seen in over a year. The. audience consisted of .children of Eastman employees in Harrow, England, who were sent here for the duration of the war. The children displayed surprisingly little emotion. None shed tears but loud smacks were audi~ . ble as the youngsters sought to return kisses blown by the moth-
ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN children—children who had missed school because their shoes and coats and dresses were ina quate—were clothed yestérday on the opening day of the 12th annual Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign. These youngsters were clothed | by Clothe-A-Child’s most faithful contributor—the loyal group of fans and athletes who give so generously of money and energy to make The Times-Legion Golden
Gloves tournament a success. It was las, January that The Times and the -Bruce P. Robison Post of the American Legion conducted the 1941 Golden Gloves t. Out of its proceeds, A total of $1524.65 was turned over
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Golden Gloves Outfits 114 Youngsters On First Day of Clothe-A- Child Campaign;
YESTERDAY Clothe - A - Child shoppers took the 114. children to stores and bought them the warm cl g theyll need to make their Christmas a happy one and permit them to attend the rest of the winter. But the Golden Gloves conte bution soon will be exhausted. There are hundreds of other children in Indianapolis who face the bleak prospect of trying to go through the winter with scanty clothing. Many of these, too, have had to stay home from school because of their lack of clothing.
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Mrs. Adkins into the house and
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that the Japanese air force had launched its first attack: in many weeks on ‘the Burma Road—vital supply life line to Nationalist China. Lord Halifax declined to discuss details of his talk with Mr. Hull, but he reiterated that the United | | States and Britain are working
inflammatory situation. Mr. Hull said there was nothing to be said about the Far Eastern situaiton urtil the Japanese Government indicates its attitude toward the American terms, which he presented Wednesday night. Asked if, in his opinion, a Japanese move into Thailand would start’ a general war in the Pacific, Mr. Hull said he would prefer to refer that question to the Army and Navy. The Japanese have been reported massing troops in. French Indo-China. Blockade Discussed
. There appeared to be little doubt here that ‘a full-fledged Japanese ‘attack. on the Burma Road or a drive into Thailand would bring immediate action by the United States and the so-called ABCD powers—Australia, Britain, China and the Dutch. One possibility widely Afscused in informed quarters was a blockade of Japan, designed to cut off {the island empire from her sources of supply for many vital materials. Another was the “convoy” of supplies for China along the Burma Road. This program would call for an armada of American warplanes to fight off Japanese air raiders. attacking war-aid shipments or attempting. to damage the road itself. ; Highest Government sources made it plain: that whatever happens in the Pacific is squarely up to Japan and that the United States will not compromise its basic principles in dealing with the problem. . Status Quo Sought These principles call for Japan to get out-of China and French IndoChina and to preserve a tem
East. An attack on Thailand would jeopardize not only the Burma Road but place the Japanese in a
blows at Singapore, the East Indies or the Philippines. One explanation, ‘advanced in responsible quarters, was that the Thdo.China. display of force by the Japanese armed services was for the purpose of influencing American public opinion toward adoption of Sn appeasement policy in dealing apan Japan’s militarists have misjudges American public opinion in the past, nowably when Japan’s en-Tri-Partite Pact
doing it again. | DIOGENES IN REVERSE
CHICAGO, Nov. 29 (U. P.).— Diogenes—minus the lantern—today searched for a dishonest man. Christ © Diogenes, an insurance broker, told police the man broke into’ his home and stole Jewelry valued at $1300.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
outstanding differences might be found in Tokyo dispatches reporting
harmoniously in dealing with the
POrary status quo in" the rest of the Far
was calculated ow intimidate the| United States, and they might be
A spectacular airview shows China's Burma Road, tail of the dragon still untwisted by the Japanese. The arrow points to a ‘truck negotiating a hazardous turn, el
Quick U U, Ss, Action Expected If Nipponese Attack Thailand:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (U. P3.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull : the Far: Hastérn situation for nearly an hour. | British Ambassador Lord Halifax, y lously for developments in the Orient. : Some sourdes: believed - # hint.pf Japan’s answer to stiff terms laid down by the’ United "States ‘as ‘conditions for a’ peaceful settlement of
‘today: with as the. Administration watched anx- ;
Tokyo Orders Nationals in New York Home as Crisis Grows in Far East.
TOKYO, Nov. 29 (U. P.) —The Domei news agency, reporting that Japanese w planes had attacked th Burma Road for the first time in many weeks, said toda that if the United States ate tempted any patrol of the highway Japan would regard it as “a very serious matter, possibly legal, but hostile Japan and without precedent
in international law.” Japan would “not be able to ove look” any American patrol of the Burma Road, Domei’s political obs server said. He added that such patrol “would be the most daring challenge against Japan” and’ would involve the danger of an a
clash. The. Domei comment followed
‘| publication of reports from Wash
ington that the United States wi counter any Japanese thrust X Thailand with increased aid to China and, if necessary, would con: voy war, materials to Chung over the Burma Road. . Nationals May Quit New York Reflecting increased belief Japanese-American Felations. nearing a crisis, the new
in New York were preparing evacuate. It said the Japanese Club.
PRESIDENT ARRIVES AT WARM SPRINGS
Length of Stay Depends on International Affairs.
(U, P.).—President Roosevelt ar-
on the crisis in the Pacific.
he left his special train.
“little White House.” Washington, -
retired. Mr. Roosevelt plans to remain here at least until the middle of next week, but his train is being| WV held in readiness in case developments force a quick return. *
4 SOVIET TANKERS REACH TURKISH DOCKS
ISTANBUL, Nov. 29 (U. P.).— Russia's ‘folar largest * Black Sea tankers, loaded with oil for Turkey and escorted by nine Russian warships, arrived at Turkish docks
The arrival of this convoy gave rise to rumors that Russian fleet units from submarines to the battleship, Paris Commune, were planning an attempt to force the Bosphorus. Actually, the Russian naval units merely brought the tankers up to Turkish territorial waters. Three of the tankers carried .crude oil, gasoline and lubricants. The fourth was fitted out as an ice breaker.
BLACK OUT CAVITE BASE
MANILA, P. I, Nov. 29 (U, P.)— Nightly blackouts of Cavite City, the area surrounding the United States Cavite Naval Base, headquarters of the 16th Naval District, were inaugurated tonight as a “precautionary measure.”
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. Nov, 29
rived here today for a brief vacation, the length of which depends
Mr. Roosevelt reached here: after driving 40 miles in an .open automobile from Newnan, Ga., where
As -the President drove into the grounds of the - Warm Springs Foundation, he was greeted by a large crowd of patients. Mr. Roosevelt waved, then drove on to the
On the overnight train trip from special telephones were made available at all stops: in event new international developments’ warranted communication with . the’ chief executive. After. checking with Washington early in the evening, however, the President
Japanese Institute in New ve would close and that Japanese tionals would sail on the liner tuta Maru from Los Ange Dec. 14. In New York the Japanese late-general said that no evacuation instructions had been received from Tokyo yet. : Newspapers were pessimistic ree garding Japanese-American negoe tiations in Washington. Asahi said it would be impossible for the: ne gotiations to be successful unless the United States abandoned its “basic principles.” Asahi said Japanese-American negotiations should be based on “realities.”
Blast Burma Road 5 Hours
Domei, quoting “competent politi= cal observers,” said that “Japan cannot continue negotiations if the. United States upholds the fuhdas meal principles of the nine Power pac ” The nine power treaty, to which Japan was signatory, was suppose to have guaranteed Chinese ft torial integrity and maintenance: the “open door” in China. 5 In New York, the National Bro casting Co. heard the Tokyo broadcast that ®although Roosevelt declared Japanese-Am ican negotiations still were in pr ress “the United States, in pres senting its terms practically as an i i has spoken the last ord.” Domei reported that five formas tions of bombérs, operating fro; bases in northern French Indos China, blasted the Burma supply route to China for several hou yesterday afternoon.
Attacks Center on Kunming : The attacks were centered upon military objectives: in the reg around K , Chinese mi ‘of the highway, while truck ce ny on the road south of Ew 1] were heavily strafed. The way and military supply it was claimed, were da An American volunteer air £0 of 500 pilots and mechanics and | war planes is standing by in ¥ nan to protect the Burma Shanghai reported. It was known whether the planes went into action against the Japanese | raiders. Foreign military sources Shanghai thought the planes sures at garry out 6 gear patrols of the roa
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