Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1941 — Page 1

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Today's News “In Five Minutes

GERMAN ARMIES were occupied on a new front this afternoon—Jugosla vi a, where Serbian resistance seems to be growing. It has been confirmed that at least three German divisions (30,000 men) are fighting guerrillas. The Germans have been having troubles in the Serbian mountains for some time, but today’s dispatches were the first to disclose the actual extent of the uprising.

Jn Russia THE NAZIS are still being held off at Moscow and are on the defensive in the southern Russian fighting. The Soviets inflicted defeat on thé Germans at Rostov and today, to release the pressure on the retreating forces there, the Nazis opened an attack on Kharkov. This is a move designed to

make the Russians move troops from Rostov to Kharkov.

In Africa

ALL IS not blazing heat on the desert. Surprisingly enough, today’s military activities in Libya were Seriously impeded by wind and rain and both. Germans and British seem to be taking the chance to repair their damaged forces before renewing the battle for North Africa.

The u. S. and the War

THE U. 8. scored today on the diplomatic front. - Mr. Roosevelt disclosed that he has ordered lendlease aid made available to Turkey, which obviously means that the

Turks have decided to string along

with the Allies. ® * * * The President was in conference this afternoon ‘with his best men on the Far Eastern situation, which remains as tense as ever. The Japanese still haven't answered Mr. Roosevelt's questions and they are still moving troops into IndoChina,

Labor

LABOR LEADERS were gathering in Washington, gravely concerned about the House's action in passing the drastic Smith antistrike bill, by a 2-to-1 margin. Free * from Administration pressure, the House took the most drastic of three bills, First reactions are that the Senate Labor Committee will tone down the bill. * * * * Daniel J. Tobin of Indianapolis, president of the Teamsters, said tersely that the House action “should be awarning to labor to clean its house : of crooks and Communists.”

Our 1942 Taxes

THE STATE TAX Board presented us with our final 1942 taxes (payable in’ two installments in 1943). The Board made minor adjustments in some rates, let the City’s $143 rate stand. We'll pay $3.25 (per $100 of property) in " Center Township inside. Washington Township inside will pay $2.98. Outside the city limits» the rates are somewhat lower.

Sports

BASEBALL'S HOT STOVE League was really toasting toes today. Big deal of the day sent Catcher Rollie Hemsley from Cleve-

team obtained Pitcher Steve Rachunok and Outfielder Jake Powell from Brooklyn * * ¢'* In football, ‘the United chose Bernie Bierman as its coach of. the year

50 000 a Year

wu AERONAUTICAL Chamber of Commerce predicted today that U. 8, plane production would reach the rate of 50,000 annually during 1942. That's just about

$1.43 CITY TAX RATE FOR 1942 0.K.D BY STATE

Board Rules Higher Costs Justify Levy; Approve All but 5 Budgets.

By EARL RICHERT The State Tax Board today approved all but five of the 1942 tax rates fixed by the County Tax Adjustment Board for governmental units in Marion County. The Board made slight reductions because of estimates of increased revenues in the tax rates of Center and Wayne Townships (outside), Lawrence Township and Wi Place. It held the Warren Township budget in abeyance, pending an agreement by township and city officials concerning fire protection for the community. The special school fund rate was reduced in Center Township (outside) from 74 cents to 71.56 cents, making the total rate for the township (outside) $2.24 on each $100 worth of property, the same as last year. School Levies Cut

The Lawrence ToWhship special school fund rate was reduced from 43 to 42 cents, making that township’s total rate $1.63. In Wayne Township (outside) the tuition fund was cut from 44 to 43 cents and the bond fund from 26 to 25 cents, making the 1942 total rate $2.10. The Woodruff Place general fund rate was cut from $1.05 to $1.02, making the total rate for next year $1.16. The Board overruled the demands of the Indianapolis Chamber of

lis civil city rate fixed by the County Board.

Fears Financial Injury

Henry Murray, Tax Board chairman, declared that the State Board felt that a reduction in the Indianapolic civil city tax rate would seri=ously cripple the financial condition of the city. “Costs have risén considerably since July 1 when this budget was

apolis will close this year’s business error made in last year’s budget,

added miscellaneous revenues,” he said. . “The Tax Board believes that this deficit should be met during present prosperous conditions. We believe that the rate established is a fair and just one under the circumstances, for both that unit of government and the tax-paying public. Sees End of Deficit “The rate established, if strict economy is practiced, should allow the Civil City of Indianapolis to close next year’s business without a deficit,” Mr. Murray declared. The Board turned down the request of the Marion County Welfare Department for an increase in county welfare rates from 16.5 cents to 186 cents. The County Board had fixed the rate-at 16.5 cents and the: Welfare Department had appealed for more money. The action taken by the State Tax Board on the 1942 tax rates is final. The rates as fixed will be certified to the County Auditor as the ones to be used in collecting taxes next year.

County Rate Stands

The State Board left the county tax rate at 45 cents; the school city tax rate at 952; cents; Center Township (inside), $3.25; Perry Township (inside), $3.1456; Warren Township (inside), $3.0106; Washington Township (inside), $2.9871, and Wayne Township (inside), $3.2206. No change was made in the Center Township poor relief rate which was cut 2 cents by the County Board.. In a formal statement, Mr. Murray declared that the State Board felt that the County Tax. Adjust ment Board “had acted wisely in their decisions” on 1942 tax rates. “Careful consideration has been given by our Board to every unit of the county and after a special study of the Indianapolis city, school city and Marion County budgets, we feel that the Tax Adjustment Board, which had made reductions, reduced these units to the lowest possible point consistent with good financial policy,” he.declared. ; ;

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FORECAST: Cloudy, with occasional rain tonight and tomorrows; continued mild tonight, colder tomorrow.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 1941

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BL S SOUGHT

Acting Senate Chiefs Shy From Smith Plan Passed By House, 252-136. (Other Labor News, Page Five)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U, P.).— Acting Senate leaders sought today ‘to route’ drastic House-ap-proved labor legislation—outlawing mass picketing and “minority” strikes—to" the ~ Labor Committee where a milder mediation measure could be substituted. "The initial reaction of Labor Committee members was that the Smith / bill, passed by the House 252 t0 136, was “too drastic.” - The House, voting free of any White House ‘pressure, chose by a 2-to-1 margin to approve the most drastic of three proffered measures designed to ‘deal with the defense strike situation which came to a

head * with the captive coal mine strike,

How Hoosiers Voted

Five Hoosiers voted for the bill and five against. Rep. Boehne (D.) and Johnson (R.) did not vote. Republicans Gillie, Halleck, Harness, Landis and Wilsen voted in favor. Srent and Springer voted against it ‘Democrats ‘Larrabee, Ludlow and Schulte voted against it.

Although the coal controversy!

threatening defense steel production, is now all ‘but settled, with the.

miners batk at work, it ignited the|

fuse of congressional action on the labor ‘situation which exploded late

yesterday. in adoption of the bill] | proposed by Rep. Howard W. Smith Ww

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A Blue Con :

Two sisters long before had gotten “the good” out of It. Yesterday those sisters, and a ‘brother, too, went to school in new. coats. Their plight had been listed as “urgent” by the ‘Social Service Department of the Public Schools. The Times Clothe-A-Child campaign had provided for them. That: meant. they. could keep on ging to Pehl. » Who Could Say ‘No’? BUT - WHO. could expect “a three-and -a = half year old to understand? : So when I knocked on the door and stepped inside she just couldn’t restrain herself: “I'd like a blue coat (then a pause) WITH buttons on it.

And 1 promised it then and there,

| spend would cover that and everything else she needed so badly. But who could resist those blue eyes? I waited while she had ‘her

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A Big Thrill for Little Girl

(Today’s Donors, Page 3) By ROSEMARY REDDING I DIDN'T KNOW a “blue coat—with buttons” could mean so much. But to the three-and- a-half year old it ‘did. And somehow it became an obsession with me, tao. At three-and-a-half “blue coat” was a feminine whim but “with buttons” told a story. For she was wearing a tattered rose-colored coat closed only with a safety pin. It was more than a second-hand coat.

‘although I wasn’t sure . whether the $10 I had planned to -

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large—but that means it will do for next year, too. And she liked it—which was so important! ‘That took $5.98. And we spied a pair of peasant mittens. They were 69 cents and ones to keep hands warm can be bought for half the price. But after all it is Christmas! :

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She Struts Proudly

AT THIS POINT the three-and-a-half year old was almost

strutting in her new coat—tighte ly buttoned although the store was warm. Was there anything else she would like, I asked, holding my breath -and remembering the $5 doll she was reluctant fo leave behind in the toy department. “No.” “Sure?” © “Candy.” She picked out. a phnkaze ot suckers for a nickel. And so back home she ‘went to show the sisters and brother a “blue coat—with buttons.”

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what I had spent, as most women do. It totaled $10.37. I marked a jew ‘dress off my own shopping After all, Tm remember that dress. I know now what it means to

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30,000 Nazi an Fighting Against Rebel Forces.

LONDON, Dec. 4 (U. P). —A report broadcast by the Moscow radio today claimed

recaptured two Jugoslav towns despite an “offensive” by three German divisions designed to crush anti-Axis forces in the Serbian moun- | tains. Pro-Nazi authorities and agents, according to the broadcast, were driven from Cacak and Uzice, where the Germans had acknowledged that a depot explosion on Monday took “about 2000 lives.” The explosion at Uzice was blamed by the German news agency and by the Belgrade newspaper Obnova on “Communists” who had established a large munitions depot in the vaults of the former Jugoslav. National Bank at Uzice. 30,000 Nazis Fight Revolt

According to the Jugoslav middle east headquarters at Cairo three German divisions of about 30,000 men were reported fighting on a “third front” against guerrillas in the valley of the Western Morava

The statement said that Serbian under Gen. Draja Mikhailo-

{troops .|vitch were “successfully resisting”

the Germans in their main strongholds, but that they had been compelled to withdraw south of Uzice because of Nazi tank attacks.

German Losses Heavy

The Moscow broadcast would ldicate that the guerrillas made a recovery later in the Uzice sector,

that they could hold out for any protracted period against heavy German air and artillery attacks except by hiding in the rugged mountains from which they make sudden raids on Axis-held towns. Germans were said to have suffered heavy casualties. New acts of sabotage were reported in Norway yesterday when the Gladtvit hotel at Hoenefos and the Stroemmens timber works near Hamar were destroyed by fire. Three persons have been exeeuted for sabotage and espionage at Sandefjord.

Charge Belgian Veterans Plot Against Nazis

BERLIN, Dec. 4 (U. P..—German occupation authorities in Belgium dissolved the Belgian National Legion of War Veterans today and lordered 61 of its leaders courtmartialed on the charge that weapons, munitions and anti-Ger-man propaganda had been found at legion headquarters. . It was intimated that the Germans suspected the legion of a widespread anti-German plot, supported by many officers of the regular army. The. German-controled Brussels newspaper quoted authoritative informants that the legion, founded after the last war, had adopted an anti-German policy and since the German occupation of Belgium last year had secretly carried on antiGerman activities, directing its efforts toward “Belgian nationalism.” It was added. that - the Ilegion’s work had caused “a certain degree of confusion.”

FOG BLANKETS EAST

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (U. P.)—A thick fog caused by an invading mass of Polar air blanketed the East today from Bangor, Me., to southern Virginia and west to Tninois. LaGuardia Field reported visi-

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A Double Play In the Deri

WITH THE BRITISH, Dec. .3 (U, P.) — (Delayed) — The most embarrassed man in the desert is the German prisoner who tells this story: “I had a group of 20 British prisoners to take to the rear near Tobruk. It was about | dusk. They kept spreading apart. I'd round them up but they’d start spreading again. “Finally two made a break, Sunning as hard as they could. red a blast with my tommy gun over their heads, yelling to them to halt. “Up leaped the whole crew of an Malian gun ahead, and surs rendered to the running Tome

mies. The Tommies took the Italian guns and captured me.”

VISION DEFENSE AT 150 BILLIONS

‘Victory Program’ Costing 5 Billion a Month by 1943 Approved.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U. P.).— Top-ranking defense officials have approved. details of a $150,000,000,000 “victory program” defeat the Axis and said ody theéy have agreed to build up the defense spending rate to a peak of $5,000,~ 000,000 a month by June, 1943. Such a program is more than ce as much as Congress has auorized or is contemplating spendg. If approved, it will bounce the national debt toward $100,000

although it was not believed here |000,000.

Broad details may be announced within the next three weeks, one high defense official said. He said sponsors of the program are confident of winning President Roosevelt’s approval and that they already have received the “wholehearted approval of Vice President Henry A. Wallace, head of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board which formulates defense policies,

House Takes Up New Bill

The existing defense program, including an appropriation of $8,243,839,031 approved by a House committee yesterday, totals $67,990,254,The House will take up the new bill today. It includes money for increasing the Army to 2,000,000 men and acquiring huge stocks of guns, tanks and airplanes. But the “victory program” envisages appropriation of at least $75,000,000,000 more, a well-placed defense official said. Appropriation of such an additional sum would not, of course, add that much to the national debt which now is above $55,000,000,000. Part of the new funds would be covered by taxation. Most of the new funds, if made available, will be spent for tanks and: other combat vehicles, planes, anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns. A large portion of the funds it is proposed to allocate for planes would be for four-engined bombers,

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Paper Says Army-and Navy Prepare ‘War Plan.’

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U. P.)— White House Secretary Stephen T. Early today -neither confirmed nor denied a published newspaper dispatch saying the Army and Navy High Commands have prepared a confidential “war plan” envisioning an American experitionary force of Ske ,000,000 men as necessary to defeat ers

A ne tory Secretaries of War and Navy “undoubtedly” would ‘make their own

VERGE ON SHANGHAI DRAFT WAR PLANS; SERBS SEIZE TWO TOWN

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~ By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

Nazi efforts to | | bolster. Japan’s hand in the Pacific were reported from Shanghai today as Axis armigs werg rocked by stiff =r couns ter-attacks on the eastern front.

German diplomatic agents wers reported converging on Shanghai in an effort to offset the eastern front reverses and to stiffen the Japaneses stand against America and Britain by discussing the extent of German “aid” to Japan in event of a Far Eastern war. The movement of Capt. Prita Weidemann, Heinrich Stahmer and Ernst Wendler—all top-notch Hite ler diplomatic trouble shooters—to= ward Shanghai was, significantly, disclosed by German and Japanese sources, presumably as part of the intensified war on nerves in the

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the use of force to carryout Tokyo! I“new- order in east Asig are China and the Vg, newspapers already charging thé United States with age gressive aims in thé Far East. : The Germans chief aim is to die vide British and American armed strength between the Atlantic and = the Pacific and for that reason they. are believed to have been the Japanese to prolong the cure rent Pacific crisis, which has drawn part of the British fleet to Singas pore. What, if any, aid the Nazis give Japan in event of war was ni suggested, other than the fact the Allied powers would be kept as busy as possible in the Atlantic.

Might Sacrifice Japan

For the time being, however, Germans were kept extremely b by the Red Army and by paraly cold which was intensifying on he Moscow Front. Some diplomatic quarters - ex pressed the opinion that the ] range German program was averse to destruction of Trad power so that Germany would he able to control the wf of Far East in event of victory Europe. Meanwhile, Japanese Minister Shigenori Togo said “an unprecedented crisis” co the nation and the controlied intensified its attacks on the U States. Red Army successes were reporte ed gaining momentum on the . ern Front, which was ablaze Leningrad to Moscow and the Sea. The Russians reported enemy was in “full flight” on ime portant sectors, Other war cludeg:

1 Berlin acknowledged heavy: Russian pressure in the ° and said the Saviets also wi counter-attacking the Axis sie lines at Sevastopol and Lening: but that these attacks were ken up. The Germans launcked | desperate offensive east of Kh in an effort to lift pressure their retreating Sea of Azov

The Japanese appeared ‘to o. continuing their efforts keep the Far Eastern crisis s and frustrate Britain's efforts force a showdown at once in wi Tokyo would be required to di whether she would veer away the Axis or fight.

President Roosevelt confe for more than an hour congressional leaders on the East situation. The capital b Tokyo must immediniely its policy of aggression” to save the Japan-U. a Thai

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