Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1941 — Page 1

"VOLUME 53—NUMBER 222

DIGEST

Today's News In Five Minutes

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TODAY'S WAR NEWS - gvas packed with surprises. Hhere was nothing about -new British gains in’ Africa. This time the Germans have the upper hand. And, in Rusgia, there is nothing. about German advances. Today, Russia is the top dog. { The Libyan turn of affairs is pomewhat startling. The Axis forces have retaken Sidi Rezegh d renewed the siege of Tobruk. e British, however, still seem ponfident and say the present turn 4s only “temporary” and will change pgain as soon as reinforcements nove up. on In Russia, the Soviets’ were Plaiming gains all along the line— Moscow, Leningrad, Rostov. There Wasn't much doubt about the Ros- - §ov area, where the Germans are . Baking a pretty bad licking.

The Far East

THE SITUATION in the Orient was still packed with dynamite. he Japanese seem to be getting peady to drive into Thailand and thus provoke war in the Pacific. #iow serious the situation is was Indicated by the fact that a powprful British fleet appeared off Singapore today. And in Washington, the U. 8. was still talking

toughly to the Japanese negatia~

fiors. Sumner Welles called them in today, told them he ‘wanted to

+ know~right away whatisthe Jap<-|

pnese answer was to the U. 8° $tatement of last week.

Death of a Hero

AUSTRALIA TODAY gave up Rope for its crack cruiser, the Sydney, hero of a score of naval gngagements., What apparently happened was that the 6500-ton Sydney came across the bigger German raider, the - Steiermark, pomewhere in the South Pacific. The Sydney sent the Steiermark flown in a blazing battle to the @leath, then wenf under. herself, with 645 men, -

Railroad Peace

PEACE CAME TODAY to the railroad industry, when a special fact-finding board finally got management and labor into agreement after day-and-night sessions. {fhe agreement has not been made ‘public, but it is clear that it will ount to wage inereases totaling 00,000,000 a year for 1,215,000 employees,

Courts and Traffic

INDIANAPOLIS BAR toflay received for its consideration @& report from a special committee. investigating municipal court conditions. The committee = urges, pmong other things, the abolishing . of pro tem judges, better quarters, and a full-time traffic judge. ® * * + And now you can drive either to the right or left of safety gones except for a few spots on Washington and Illinois Sts. It

was passed’ last night “by City

Council,

Death in Sing Sing

LOUIS (LEPKE) BUCHALTER, who rose from petty gunman to the "head of Brooklyn's notorious “Mur= der, Inc.” got his answet today in New York for the slaying of a pros pective witness. The answer: Sing Sing’s electric chair the week of Jan. 4. , . , Crime ‘was playing a a more important news role than usual this afternoon. The FBI announced simultaneous raids in New York, Chicago and Detroit and the ‘arrest of 30, charged with -complicity- in interstate traffic of stolén auto parts. The parts were taken right out of the factories, peddled by the bucket load.

Sports’

THERE WAS A chance that the Indianapolis baseball club might ghange ownership before nightfall, # The prospective buyers: Frank E. McKinney and Ownie Bush®**** And the Brooklyn Dodgers today ‘were disclosed to be casting eager eyes on the celebrated: Johnny ‘VanderMeer, Cincy’s no-hit star, who served a stretch with the local

BAR SUGGESTS END TO JUDGE

12-Point Reform Program Would Halt Political Appointments.

A 12-point program of reform and reorganization in the Municipal Courts was recommended today in the report of a special Indianapolis Bar Association Committee investigating court practices. The Bar Association study was launched nine months ago. It was the result of frequent criticism of court practices — particularly the judge pro tem system. The committee recommended: 1. Legislation abolishing the judge pro tem system and providing for

of the courts. This judge would be charged with the assignment of judges to the courts, but would not sit unless there was a vacanc.y 2. Regular judges of ‘the courts should be appointed on the basis of qualifications only, without regard to political activities or influence. 3. Until the pro tem system can be abolished by law, pro tem appointments should be avoided except in cases of real necessity.

Ask Separate Traffic Court

4. If a pro tem is needed, some other county judge should be asked to serve. If no other judge is available, the attorney who does not ordinarily practice in the Municipal Courts should be selected. . 5. All traffic cases should be handled in a separate traffic court instead of in both courts as at present. 6. More adequate quarters fdr the courts should be provided to prevent overcrowding which interferes with the proper functioning of the Py :

prosecutor's; staff shou give ‘more attention to-the Tre Thx.

should ' be ‘provided: with better quarters. Summons Favored 8. The County Clerk also should be given larger quarters “so that an adequate system of records may be ‘adopted and the work of mak‘ing and keeping them efficiently perform 9. Law ‘enforcement bodies,

the

| Sheriff's office, the prosecutors and

the courts—should co-ordinate their activities through a voluntary committee composed of representatives of each agency. 10. The time spent by police officers in preparing papers for trial ahd in attending trial should be included in their timc on duty. They should not be required to perform this work on their own time as is the current practice. . 11. Procedure should be -installed

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PAY INGREASE ENDS RAIL STRIKE THREAT

300 Million More Yearly Granted 1,215,000.

WASHINGTON, Dec, 2 (U. P.).— A special fact-finding board reports to President Roosevelt today the terms of an agreement in the railway. labor and management wage dispute which had threatened a na-tion-wide railroad strike. The agreement was announced last night by ¢Board Chairman Wayne Lyman Morse. The terms were not officially revealed but they were. understood to include a wage increase of about 10 cents an hour, totaling approximately $300,000,000 a year, for 1,215,000 railroad employees. An authoritative ‘railway source said the agreement provides: A 76 cents daily wage increase for 350,000 members of the “big five” operating brotherhoods. An increase of 10‘'cents per hour for 865,000 members of 14 co-oper-ating brotherhoods of non-operating employees. Paid vacations of six, nine and 12 days annually. for mnon-operating employees of more than one, two and three years service, respectively. The operating unions originally ‘had asked for a 30 per cent wage increase; the non-operators for a 30 cents an hour increase.

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But He Didn't

Mayor LaGuardia

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U.P). —Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of’ New York today offered to stand on his head for news photographers. Senator Scott W. Lucas (D. Ill.) interrupted his testimony before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee on small business problems to ask photographers fo conclude taking pictures of Mr. LaGuardia as they . prevented his hearing the Mayor. “7’ll stand on my head for you fellows outside,” Mr. LaGuardia told a nearby photographer in an aside. . : A photographer, interviewed after the Mayor left the stand, said Mr. LaGuardia didn’t keep’ his promise.

LIFTS SAFETY ZONE AUTO BAN -

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Eotineil-Ends Fi in All but Two Lanes in Business Area.

tileisapolid time-honored ban on driving left of Safety zones was lifted by the City Council Fist night except: On Washington St. from. Noble to West Sts. and On Illinois St. from Maryland to Ohio Sts. Council favored universal removal of the restriction in the belief that] its retention on two main thoroughfares would cause confusion, especially to out-of-town motorists. But Traffic Engineer James E. Loer urged continuation of the ban on the two streets until suitable pedestrian . traffic control can be worked out. Fe said zones where it is permissible to drive left and those vhere it is not would be clearly marked to avoid confusion. The traffic engineer said. he believed it would be hazardous to remove the restriction on Washington and Illinois Sts. in the heart” of downtown, because pedestrians either jay-walk or get stranded in the middle of the streets. By actual count, he said, 1200 pedestrians were stranded -in mid-

‘Washington St. in a single hour of

week-day traffic. Between 1 and 2 p. m. on Illinois St. one week day, 960 crossed. in the middle of the block and total number of jaywalkers between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. reached 4740. “There were no casualties that day,” he said. ‘We've simply got to remedy that condition before we can permit, traffic to move left of the zones.” Councilman Guy Ross, Democrat, said he thought “it was just too bad we can’t educate people to cross at the corner, the way they do in Cleveland.

GREATER WAR EFFORT ASKED BY CHURCHILL

Predicts Arms Superiority With U. S. Aid; Warns Of Invasion Peril. LONDON, Dec. 2 (U. P.) —Prime

Minister Winston Churchill today called for maximum. mobilization of

British manpower and womanpower |:

to expand the nation’s war effort

to the limit and promised that with

American aid the Allied = powers

would soon be superior to the Axis

in military strength. Mr. Churchill introduced a okie to carry out his plea for conscription of all remaining men and women who can aid in increasing war production. That he said generally would move] the nation “nearer the front” in preparation for the day when Adolf Hitler, “recognizing” his defeat in| Russia, will turn his fury against the British Isles again as well as for the time when the Allies will be superior in equipment to the enemy. That day, he indicated, would be in 1942, Warns of Invasion

He ‘proposed to raise the age for compulsory military service from 41 cases of 275,000. men, and said that to 50, thus bringing under review the another 10 years might have to be added later. Men over 41 would be used for static or sedentary duties. He also sought to compel an ‘estimated 1,620,000 unmarried women. from 29 to 30 years old to join the uniformed auxiliary services. He warned that Hitler might soon turn against Britain again.

Ready for Hitler

all ready for him;™ he SED 2 goods, fo Hii. When?

pu comes, an day or night, with far

“greater. forces and every modern

Frsoveiment. We must always be re. ” A riiriy that Britain was now prepared to meet thé Axis armies on equal terms, he continued: “We have been at a disadvantage in having to fight a well-armed

enemy with ill or half-armed forces.|

That phase is over. In future our men will fight on equal terms in technical equipment and a little later on superior terms.” ’

HOOSIER TIES FOR CORN KING: CROWN

Floyd Hiner, Rush County,

Honored at Crivegs: ‘CHICAGO, Dec. 2 .P.) —Two cosn kings were chosen at the 42d International Livestock Exposition today, an unprecedented award that resulted when the four judges were tied twice in their balloting. The winners were Floyd Hiner of Lewisville, Ind., and E. W. Doubet of Hanna City, ‘. They will share the annual trophy, each holding the cup six months of the year under a special ruling of the management. Mr. Hiner exhibited a sample of Indiana 844D hybrid developed from Purdue University botany depart ment stock on his Rush County farm. Mr. Doubet’s corn was Illinois single cross utility. The corn prince title, awarded for the championship in the junior competition, went to Everett Smiley, Milford, Ill, who displayed Hybrid U. S. 13. “The reserve junior championship went to Hubert Meyer, Greensburg, Ind, who showed Hybrid 608.

Entered as Second-Cisss Matter .. at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind, 3 ;

Listing heavily, the Great British aircraft carrier Ark Royal begins its death plunge into the Mediterranean Sea at Gibraltar, victim of a German torpedo. As the big warship, which was being towed to port, starts sinking, a destroyer draws alongside to take off the crew members, some of whom are clustered at edge of the carrier’s deck (arrow), The Admiralty reported only one life lost.

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Going Down!—First Picture of Ark Royal AXIS BREAKS |

OUT OF LIBYA

DESERT TRAP

Red Army Claims Smash«

ing Triumphs Against Nazis on 3 Fronts. By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor i Prime Minister Winston Churchill called for conscripe tion of British unmarried

{|women between the ages of

20 and 30 as both Allies and

| Axis reported striking trie ‘|umphs on the world’s scate | tered battlefronts today.

Churchill ' asked ' the House of

“| Commons ' for maximum mobiliza« | tion of British man and woman

EARLY ANSWER BY JAPAN ASKED

Welles Questions Envoys About Indo-China Moves; War Cabinet Meets.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—

to have asked Japan today for an early answer to last week's state- |

and to have renewed its inquiries regarding the movement of Japa-

The request was said to have been made by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, who called to his office: the two Japanese diplomats who have been conducting conversations with the United States. A spokesman for the Department said that Mry Welles, by direction of President Roosevelt, had requested Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, the Japanesé Ambassador, and Saburo Kurusu, the special envoy, to call in order "to make certain

ment for the information of the President.

War Cabinet Meets

At the end. of the talk, Nomura said tersely: “I can’t reveal anything. (Welles) talked and we listened.” There have been indications in Washington that the United States does not intend to permit lengthy procrastination before the official attitude of Japan is made known to this Gove t. President Roosevelt arranged a noon meeting, meantime, with his so-called war cabinet—the Secretaries of Navy, War and State, with Mr. Welles scheduled to sit in for the Secretary of State, who has a cold. White House Secretary’Stephen Early said the conference was called for a. “checkup” and would deal in general with the Far East situation. The President’s preoccupation with international developments also was reflected in a luncheon engagement scheduled with William C. Bullitt, former U. S. envoy to Rus-

He

become Mr, Roosevelt’s personal observer in the Middle East. Late yesterday the President and Mr. Hull conferred for an hour with Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of ‘naval operations. i

The United States was understood |

nese troops in French Indo-Ching.|

inquiries of the Japanese Govern-

sia and France, who leaves, soon to|did

Proxy's'l Do's" Carry 2000 Miles

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 2.— Mrs. James McLaren was not honeymooning, today. The man she married yesterday is 2000 miles away in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Marjorie Verne Gaskill of Pittsy burgh, Pa., was married by proxy and. will. join her Canadian husband in Ecuador, as soon as she can optain a rt.

passpo: Roland. Granat, attorney; served as. Mr. McClaren's proxy for the

“were getting married again—me, with a wife and three children. 1 said & lot of ‘I do’s’ for that fellow in South America and I hope he lives up to them.”

PRO-AXIS JAPANESE (LEADER ASKS FORGE

Fears © Compromise Will

Invite Downfall.

TOKYO, Dec. 2 (U. P.).—Seigo Nakano, pro-Axi% leader of the Tohokai Nationalist organization, attacked the Government for sending special envoy Saburo Kurusu to the United States today and said that any compromise settlemen with the United States would FR Japan’s downfall.

Addressing ‘a public gathering in Tokyo’s Great Hibiya Hall, Nakano demanded that Japan resort to force, such as sinking American transports, in. event the United States refused to .dccept Japan’s terms for peace in the Far East, which include cessation of American aid to China. Against the bellicose background provided by the meeting which Nakano addressed, the Cabinet met under Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo and continued its discussion of the Washington conversations, Details were not disclosed. Indicating that the government not ‘expect any immediate break with the United States, the crack liner Tatuta Maru sailed on schedule for Los Angeles, wkere it was expected to arrive Dec. 14, and

the United States:

Door’s Always Open for Those With Open Hearts

‘At the Times Clothe-A-Child Headquarters

(List of Donors, Page 3)

By RICHARD LEWIS :

GUESS 1 wandered inside because the door was open. The door always is open at the Indianapolis Times: Clothe-A-Child headquarters.

It was the first day of December and it still was warm. So they had the door open and inside you could see children sitting ‘on the folding chairs beside their mothers. It’s hard for children to:be quiet on straight backed chairs. But these were quiet. They were waiting for something. - They had a 1 p. m, appointment to be clothed at the stores. It was only 11 a.m. They said they had wait. early because they couldn’ wait * They were average Jooking ds, the kind you'd seé running. around) anywhere, except— Some wore tennis shoes. . Most were barelegged. The litle “girls wore flimsy dresses without coats.

One wore a. Sweater. two sizes too}!

big for her. mother with

next to the mother, who held the

bab The baby’s name was Elizabeth and she was wrapped in a thin, cotton blanket, lined with newspapers. This family was different from the others; the Clothe-A-Child people said. The roof of their house leaked so ‘badly that keeping dry.the new clothes they were to get was a major problem, ; So the ‘mother had made arrangements to store the clothes atl; a nearby service center until it became Hetessary to wear them. They wanted to save their new clothes

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for ‘the colder weather to come.

. 2:8. -8 4 r was something to see the light of anticipation in ‘the eyes of those youngsters. A few were bashful. And the older ones shied away from the younger ones and sat together. It was more seemly that ‘Way, perhaps, :You don’t really get the idea of Clothe-A-Child campaign un-

agine that|V

RES who have no clothes—one a human

, 11 11iag or

the Jou go down there and ses how ‘Th

o Pollost, gst: ol elementary;

have no clothes. I found out why. There were- plenty of - children there, retarded in school, simply because ‘they couldn't go to school for lack of shoes. 8 = = HEARD about the middle-aged, well-dressed gentleman, who came in and handed the workers at headquarters a $10 bill. He said he; wished he could clothe a thousand more youngsters. The workers take the youngsters out to the stores in groups of and 20. The at the Eo ner halts trafiis un the parade goes by. And when the shoppers return,

, YOu | in bene. quite believe ‘ wR youngsters ‘being

vestigation into their needs by the Schools Social Service Department or other. social agencies, the mother

takes the child by the hand: and

tells the interviewer:

“I hope you can get her the clothes she ‘nee Sometimes, they don’t say anything. They Just leave and they hope silently. - You don’t really know how it is unless, you: sée it. And th want fervently to do 50 ething| about it: | h !

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Hee ‘what you can do| about it. 1. If you wish fo shop person-

ally, call Rlley 56561 and ask for “Clothe-A-Child.” You can as an appointment to meet the child at the campaign headquarters, 46 S. Capito] Ave., and go directly to, the store. 2, "If you want The Times to act

f for you, mail a check or money or-

der to' “Clothe-A-Child, The Indianapolis Times.” Experienced shoppers will do the rest. Z 3. Or you can join with others

|in your office, club, athletic team, |iand hurch, sorori

by, fraternity or lode 31" several ;

pick up Japanese nationals leaving |.

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BRITISH FLEET OFF SINGAPORE

Steams Toward Navy Base Headed by New Warship; Johore on War Basis.

Inside War News

‘German Tank Losses....Page 4 China’s Morale Weakens, .,,.s 4 4

Maj. BOL ouoicssassvosasonee 12 British Expect Pacific War... 12

SINGAPORE, Dec. 2 (U, P)—A strong British fleet, including the new 35,000-ton Prince of Wales and another mystery capital ship, ar-

ain’s Far Eastern precautions against a clash with Japan. < The Prince of Wales, now the

flagship of the British Far Eastern

fleet, Admiral Sir Tom Phillips commanding, was laid down in 1939. It carries 1500 officers and men, A proclamation .today established a state of emergency in Johore. Thus all of Malaya and the Straits Settlements were prepared for action at any time. Volunteer troops and defense corps were called up in the Settlements and the federated Mat|lay states yesterday. Officials here said they had no knowledge of Manila reports that a Japanese fleet had. been seen near the Japanese mandated islands in the South Pacific—near the United States island of Guam. The reported nationality of the fleet, however, was questioned, since it was belived that the bulk of the Japanese fleet was in home waters.

~ BATAVIA, Dec. 2 (U. P.) —Netherlands Indies authorities are planning new preparedness measures in co-operation with America, Brit-|Th ain and China, the Dutch news agency, Aneta, reported today, while Japanése remaining in this territory chartered fishing boats in their haste to return home.’

DUCE REMOVES 21 IN' FASGIST GOUNGIL =:

| Names 28 New Members

: the Burm line supply Toe,

In Big Shakeup.

ROME, Dec, 2 (U. P)—An ¢fficial decree by ‘Premier Benito Mussolini today announced the largest shakeup ever made in. the Fascist National Council. * The decree named 28 new 'mem-

bers, removed 21 and confirmed 40 others. New ‘members include Ezio Garibaldi, grandson of the Italian hero, Guiseppe Garibaldi, and former Undsisectetary, of of War Gen. Al uzzoni.

INDIAN DEAL uP. TO.

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JACKSO NVILLE, Fla., Dec. George M. Trautman, American | sociation president, today laid

lis Indians baseball club back in the hands of Owen Bush and Frank E. McKinney. The two Indianapolis men are rewg pte 0

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rived today to bolster Great Brit-|

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question of who gets the Indianapo- | ~,

“| power to assure superiority of arms

by 1942 On the wan fronts, the Axis armored forces battled their way out of a British trap in the Libyan desert, recaptured Sidi Rezegh and Bir El Hamed and renewed the siege of Tobtuk. = On the Eastern front, the Red Army reported smashing triumphs on the Rostov, Moscow and Lens ingrad fronts, South of Moscow, the official Soviet news agency said, the Gere mans failed in their repeated ate. tempts to break through the Tula sector and were driven back. Japs Commandeer Ships A Russian counter-offensive cons tinued to threaten the Germans falling back from Rostov through the Taganrog sector. Six strategic positions were taken by the Soviet troops on tne Lenin«

a clash a with pri and British forces, the latter were strengthened by arrival of the new battleship Prince: of Wales and other British fleet units ‘at Singa= pore. Developments included: Churchill ‘asked for extension. : of conscription to men up to 50 years of age to bolster the nae tion’s war production, and of une married women between 20 and 30, but declared that the production crisis had been passed with American aid and that Allied armed power “would be superior to the Axis in 1942.

A -warning to the Japanese - Government that force must be used against United States aid to China to avoid the downfall of Japan and to end “futile, hypocritie cal talk” by Washington was issued - by Seigo Nakano, pro-Axis poiltical leader and head of an organization similar to the Nazi Brown Shirts,

British sources said that the United States now had strong naval forces in the Far East, Ruse sia was reported to have declared the a ‘around Vladivostok 8 prohibited zone. Radio - Hsinking reported that o ie two Russian soldiers had been d and several others repul after another alleged EEE : hey ‘Manchukuo frontier near: i appeared to

g operations, designed to be Son into enemy strength.

The famous Australian cruiser

Sydney, a 6830-ton terror ware ship that had. knocked out an Itale ian destroyer; one or two new Itale ian c rs and the 9400-t6n Gere man merchant raider Steiermark, was give up as sunk in the South Pacific. The Sydney’s last battle was : with the Steiermark, which had been credited with sinking at least 10 British ships.

Japan will continue to Homb Road, China’s lifee whenever weather conditions permit, Col. Kunio AKkiy=

ama, Japanese military expert mn Shanghai, said, ;

my Nazis disclosed that’ vie y 5 ; Marshal Henri Philippe Peta:

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‘land Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer.

ing had discussed the fight against Russia, the British blockade and the “intervention” of the United States in the European war, indie

would deal with French aid in the war. The“Nazi-controlled Paris press that Vichy must now “act” and that France must get in the war on the side of Cerman®s