Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1941 — Page 1

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recautions Tightened In Philippines, Singapore,

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JAPAN HEAPS NEW ABUSE ON U. S.

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Today's News In Five Minutes

JAPANESE situation was more dangerous than ever this afternoon. The Japanese have been talking about continuing negotiations with the U. 8, but today they reversed their position and started talking in blunt and warlike terms. Tokvo was telling the world she

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her plans for a “new order” in Asia, U.S. or no U.S. And all along the Allied tront in the Pacific, the British, Dutch, Thais and Americans started to plug up gaps. British sailors at Singapore were ordered back to their ships, more defensive action was taken at Manila, and Bangkok made plans to move the capital in the event of war, Back of all this is the hand of the Germans, constantly striving to drive the Japanese into declaring war.

British on Attack

IN LIBYA, the British were on the offensive, gaining ground and smashing at the Axis armored forces at a great many points. It is typical desert war, spread out over a great many miles, a few tanks fighting here and a few there.

I5 Below at Moscow

COLD WEATHER came to the aid of the Russian armies today. At Moscow, the German attack was slowed up by 15 below weather and the Soviets claim many Nazi soldiers are being frozen to death. In the south of Russia, the Germans are still retreating, a badly whipped force.

The War Spreads

BRITAIN TOOK

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the long expected declaring war on Finland, Hungary and Rumania Ihe Finns answered today with a statement indicating they were going to continue fighting Russia. The truth fairly obvious—all three countries are controlled now by Berlin and have no freedom of action,

Reclassifying

SELECTIVE SERVICE officials |

indicated today they may have to order reclassifving of thousands of already-deferred men in order to give the Army sufficient manpower, may be reshuffled into 1-A, although this is still indefinite.

Shorts

THE GALLUP POLL: Shows typical U. 8. families use only half enough milk, Clothe-A-Chid: clothed. Traffic: Stalled on the Big Four tracks at Ohio St. a local couple

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leaped out of their car just in time. |

Car wrecked. Labor: Aluminum slowdown strike at Alcoa ends as union aecepts company terms Basketball: The college season opens tonight at the Feldhouse Butler vs. Franklin. Profile of the Week: Inside Indianapolis does B Howard Caughran, the district attorney. Stock Market: Prices up slightly,

headed by the biggest blue chip of |

all AT & T. (plus $225). Sonja Henle: Took over at the Coliseum last night, packed in 11,000 applauding customers. Probably will do it over the same way for six more nights

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BRITISH ORDER ALIENS SEIZED

Also List Hungary and Rumania as Foes: May Bomb Oil Fields.

LONDON, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—Scotland Yard secret operatives started rounding up Finns, Hungarians and Rumanians as enemy aliens today as Great Britain notified Finland, Hungary and Rumania that it was at war with them and thus was at liberty to exert all belligerent measures. It was understood that about 200 citizens of the Axis satellites were arrested at once.

All those arrested were taken to a clearing center here, for removal to internment camps. They will have the right of appeal. It was estimated that there were 5000 Hungarians, more than 400 Rumanians and about 200 Finns in Great Britain. Of the Hungarians about 4000 are domestics. All were liable to internment under the state of war which Britain declared in its notes to their Government.

U. S. Transmits Notes

Notes were dispatched to Washington for transmission through the United States Ministers at Helsinki, Budapest and Bucharest. Shortly before midnight last night the Foreign Office received Finland's reply to the British ultimatum, demanding cessation of the fight against Russia, which was entirely unsatisfactory. Finland's note made it clear, the office statement said, that it had no intention of complying with British conditions. Though the stage of direct active warfare gainst Finland, Hungary and Rumania lay with the future, it was reported in Turkey that Rumania was fearful, believing British bombing planes based in the Near East would soon be attacking its oil fields.

Stress Turkey's Position

The nearest British aerial bases) to Rumania are now at Cypres, 600 miles away from the nearest point on the Rumanian Coast. Diplomatic quarters, commenting on the extension of American

WAR ON FINNS:

WORRY ARMY

Selective Service Aid Hints At Drastic Reclassifying Of Registrants.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P).— Selective Service officials are considering plans to reclassify draft registrants deferred for reasons of occupation to provide additional manpower for the rapidly-expanding Army in event of an emergency, it

was disclosed today. Present War Department plans

lease-lend aid to® Turkey, pointed out that Turkey's importance as the key nation at the eastern end! of the Mediterranean had now been dramatically increased because planes based on European! Turkey could reach the Rumanian! oil fields in about one hour by fly- | ing over Bulgaria. | | Istanbul reported that Rumania had lined the railroads in the ofl} field area with barrage balloons.

Face British Blockade

The first effect of the British action is that the countries concerned are liable to attack by Brit- | ish air, naval and land forces if, as fand when the opportunity arises. The second is that the three] countries will be subjected to the! | full force of the British blockade. The third is that thousands of | Finns, Hungarians and Rumanians iin Britain will be interned The fourth is that at any peace| conference, the three countries will} be treated by Britain as enemy states.

S—— | OTTAWA, Dec. 8 (U. P).—Prime| { Minister W. L. Mackenzie King! called a special session of the Cab-| linet today to arrange for the proe-| lamation of a state of war against) Finland, Hungary and Rumania. |

HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 8 (U. |P.). — President Risto Ryti today jannounced that the Hangoe Peninsula, ceded to Russia at the end | {of the Russo-Finnish war, again | has been incorporated as part of | {Finland and that the Moscow peace |

itreaty of 1940 has been abrogated.

GUN CLUB MANAGER FREED BY M'NELIS

‘Rules Police Lacked Right To Seize Slot Machines.

An affidavit charging Lavell Pratt, manager of the Capitol City Gun Club, with violating the Slot Machine Law, was dismissed by Judge John L. MeNelis in Munieipal Court 3 today. Judge MeNelis said the arrest was illegal because police had no search warrant when they confiscated six slot machines at the gun club at Belmont Ave. and Raymond St The club manager was arrested | two weeks ago after police officers, | investigating a burglary at the club, {found the slot machines and | brought them to Police Headquar- ; vers. | Judge MeNelis ordered the mae i chines destroyed. Two youths had confessed that

| the Chicago Tribune, contemplates

call for a 2,000,000-man Army by next April. This will be attained by induction of some 500,000 selectees after Jan. 1, as announced yesterday. | But official Army concern over the means of obtaining additional men, if needed, was expressed by Lieut. Col. Joseph F. Battley, a selective service adviser, in an address to Army, Navy and OPM representatives gathered here to discuss questions of labor supply and occupational deferments in Eastern defense plants.

1,600,000 in Army

Col. Battley said the Army now stands at a strength of about 1,600,000 men, but that “no person knows when we may have to double, or triple our armed forces.” The $8,000,000,000 new defense appropriation bill passed by the House vesterday provides funds to equip an Army of 3.200000 men. Studies made by the Army and Navy general staffs, as disclosed by

an Army of 6745658 men, plus 2,059,000 for the Air Corps. Col. Battley, who also serves as labor adviser to Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, said the Army -has called for re-examination of all registrants in Class 2A with a view to inducting some of them for service. He added that “we are looking forward in the matter of Class 2B deferments”

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Sonja’s Tango Again Thrills Fans

Sonja Henie does the famous “Tango” number with her new partner, 20-year-old Gene Turner, as the 1941 Hollywood Tce Revue opens its seven-day stay at the Coliseum. (Additional photos and review, Page 3.)

DRAFT QUOTAS Good Times Miss Many;

They Need Clothe-A-Child

(Donors List,

Page Three)

By ROGER BUDROW

GOOD TIMES are here again—for some, In the midst of the ever-increasing defense boom, men are being laid off work. Just before Christmas, too, as the real cold weather

blows in from the northwest.

The ironical part of it is that it's the defense program that is

putting these men out of work.

2 LEAP FROM CAR IN LOGOMOTIVE'S PATH

Local Couple Has Narrow Escape at Crossing.

A couple mctoring on Ohio St. last night got directly on the tracks of the Big Four Railroad when their car stalled suddeniy. Looking down the saw a Speeding locomotive approaching and both leaped out of their car a moment before the crash, They were Mr, and Mrs. Jack Sullivan, 823 E. New York St, who escaped unhurt but their car was wrecked. Miss Viola Harney, 24, of 243 Trowbridge St, received a possible fracture of her hip last night when the car in which she was riding with Robert Mahoney, 18, of 1856 N. Warman Ave, and one driven by Reynolds Alderman, 18, of Brownsburg, Ind. collided at 16th St. and Holmes Ave.

LARGEST BOMBER IS READY FOR ARMY

SANTA MONICA, Cal, Dec. 6 (U. P.) - The Douglas B-19, world’s largest airplane underwent minor adjustments today preparatory for delivery to the Army. After testing the huge bomber for almost six months, Army officials announced that it had been accepted from the manufacturers and would be delivered formally next month. The four-motored bomber, a city block long, during test flights yesterday took off without difficulty with a record load of 17 tons of dummy bombs in addition to its

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gasoline supply.

Power Projects

By S. P. A. B.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P)—

| The Supply Priorities and Alloeca-

tions Board announced today that! it will withhold priorities aid from new power projects, either public

ot private, which are not essential

to the national defense, public] health and safety. SPAB, which recommends policy to the OPM, ruled at the same time “every effort” should be made to aid completion of power projects now substantially underway. This aid would extend to the Rural Electrification Administration and many private lines which already have their poles set up but lack copper wire. REA, under a SPAB-approved plan, will receive 1500 tons of copper in the next seven months. This

they broke into the robbed (he slo, machines of $19

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a number which are less than 40 per cent complete, SPAB said that its whole private and public power program will be reviewed after three months have elapsed. SPAB earlier had asked the OPM to initiate public hearings Dec. 12 as a means of clearing up “conflicting reports” on domestic copper production. REA officials had charged that the OPM was “sabotaging” its program and, at the same time, was aiding private comPakiits in obtaining materials.

extensions, whether

by public or private power compa nies, SPAB said, must be submit ted to OPM for “approval, disapproval or modification” The policy does not apply to low tension afeh lines from existing g, bu SPAB sald feeder lines inte unserved agriculture areas “usually represent a use of copper less es-

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The companies where they worked haven't been able to get defense orders yet so they are cutting down expenses by letting employees go. Go where? That's the trouble. Few places will hire them. They are unskilled workers, They couldn't get a job making airplane engines or parts of shells or bombsights. They've never been trained for that highgrade of work.

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RECORDS SHOW that between 400 and 500 workers are being laid | off in Indianapolis every week | now. And the number is becoms= ing larger. Every time the OPM defense chiefs in Washington decide some civilian or non-defense

industry should curtail its pro« duction in favor of defense pro= duction, what happens? Hundreds of workers must hunt new jobs.

A worker in a lumber yard lost his job a month ago when home-

$6 a week in a poultry store. How far does that go toward feeding and clothing three growing children.

A molder in a rubber factory was let out two months age when the Government began cutting down on the crude rubber supplies allocated to the factory. There are many such instances. Yes, the defense boom is fine for some but it's a hollow mockery for many. ” ” s

POSSIBLY OVERLOOKED als0 is the fact that there are still several thousand right here in the city who have been without jobs since the last depression. A $14.40 check from the WPA doesn’t buy many warm clothes for a big family.

Nor does the $11 a week one part-time truck driver makes. Only the $18 a month his daughter gets from the NYA keeps a roof over the heads of his family of 10 children. These are facts one is prone to forget in “prosperity” times like these. For meny it is a depression again, no job, no money.

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YES, THERE are those right here who are actually victims of the war. And so many of these victims are small, too small to understand why their fathers aren't working anymore, too small to realize why there is no money to buy clothes for school. But grown-ups understand. And those who know what it means to Clothe-A<Child never forget. They come back, year after year, to bring warmth and happiness again to those less fortunate than themselves. They send money or Clothe<A«Child themselves. You can, too. Just call Riley 5551-today.

SAY SERBS KILL 150 REDS

ERLIN, Dec. 6 (U. P).<The cficial German news agency D. N. B. reported from Belgrade today that, according to the newspaper Obnova, 150 alleged Communists

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Capital Waits Reply To Hull's Note Of Nov. 26.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (U. P). —The delicate Far Eastern situation generated mounting suspense today despite the temporing answer by Japan to President Roosevelt's in-

quiries on troop movements in French Indo-China which appeared to be threatening peace in the Pacific. Any act of aggression by those troops probably would participate a general war in the Far East. Japan, however, denied that the troops were there for aggressive purposes—an attitude indicating a desire to keep that situation from boiling over, if possible. But Japan's attitude may change if Russia suffers serious defeats at the hands of Germany or if the Libyan campaign goes badly for Great Britain.

Answer to Hull Awaited

Of more importance in determining the future of U. S.-Japanese relations—unless the militarists in Indo-China get out of control of the central Government — will be the answer Tokyo makes to the memorandum by Secretary of State Cordell Hull of Nov. 26. That document set forth the basic American principles and their application to the Far East, including demands for Japan to get out of China and French Indo-China. Japan's two envoys, Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura and Saburo Kurusu, indicated yesterday that the reply to the memorandum was being prepared carefully by Toyko.

Trouble Indicated

Japan's formal reply to Mr. Roose= velt’s request for an explanation of the Indo-China troop movements said that Nippon’'s troops in IndoChina were being assembled as a precautionary movement against a threatening concentration of Chinese troops on the northern border. It also described reports of the number of Japanese troops in Indo-China as “exaggerated” and said that the stationing of troops there had not violated the Vichy-Tokyo agreement for joint defense of the Far Eastern colony. The opinion of a sizable segment of official Washington was summed up by Senator Styles Bridges (R. N. H.), who said: “The situation is extremely critical and may mean trouble at any moment.”

DR. SILVER NAMED

Under New Board Jan. 1.

Dr. G. P. Silver, a Republican, has been appointed Marion County dentist. He will succeed Dr. Leo Commiskey, a Democrat, Jan. 1. The appointment of Dr. Silver, who has practiced in Indianapolis for 12 years, was announced by William T. Ayres, president-elect of the Marion County Commis= sioners. Dr. Silver is one of several Republicans appointed to posts by the new Republican majority of the County Board. During 1941 Mr. Ayres was the Republican minority member of the Commissioners. William Bosson, a Republican, will become a Commissioner Jan. 1, succeeding William Brown, Democrat, thus giving the Board a Republican majority,

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The fuse box of the Oriental powder keg.

MANILA KEEPS CLOSE WATCH

Non-Residents in Danger Areas Advised to Return To Home Provinces.

MANILA, P, I, Dec. 6 (U. P.) == The Philippines Cabinet, meeting in emergency session with President Manuel Quezon at the summer capital of Baguio, decided today to cancel plans for inaugural ceremonies for Quezon’s second term. Other emergency measures decided upon in view of the Pacific crisis included advice to all nonresidents in danger areas to return to their home provinces. Quezon will confer tomorrow with Lieut. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander in chief of the United States Army of the Far East, regarding proposals to close Philip pines schools.

SINGAPORE, Dec. 6 (U. P)) Naval, Army and Air Force personnel was suddenly recalled to duty posts today in view of the Far East war crisis. Naval officers and ratings previously had been recalled abruptly from shore leave, Considerable activity was apparent throughout the island of Singapore tonight and observers noted that a machine-gun post on the Singapore waterfront was manned. It was announced that the biggest parade of troops ever staged in Singapore would be held on Dec. 10. It was estimated that the troops, including Britons, Austra lians, Indians and Malayans, would form a column three miles long and would take an hour to pass a given point.

BISMARCK’S NEMESIS SINKS A NAZI RAIDER

LONDON, Dec. 6 (U. P.). — The Admiralty said today that H. M. S. Dorsetshire, a heavy cruiser, had intercepted and sunk a German commerce raider in the South Atlantic. * The Dorsetshire was the cruiser that delivered the coup de grace to the German battleship Bismarck by driving home a torpedo in the North Atlantic after the Bismarck sank the British battleship Hood. The Dorsetshire, a vessel of 9975 tons, carries a normal complement of 650 officers and men and is armed with eight 8-inch guns, lesser armament and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes.

REPORT GUERILLAS SLAIN BUDAPEST, Dec. 6 (U. P.) ~The Belgrade newspaper Vreme reported today that 38 Chetnik guerillas had been killed and seven taken prisoner in battles with “volunteers.”

(Japan and Vichy France have

of 50,000.) The informant said that most of the estimated 75,000 Japanese troops in southern Indo-China were concentrated in Cambodia, especially in the Sisophon area whence a railroad leads to Bangkok. He asserted that these troops were a powerful striking force with tanks, armored cars and artillery. Though Japan has asserted that

Shanghai Reports 100,000 Nipponese Enter Indo-China

SHANGHAI, Dec. 6 (U. P).—A reliable and well informed foreign military source asserted today that Japan had 100,000 men in French Indo-China and that 75,000 of them were in the southern and western areas where they could strike at Thailand. \

asserted ‘that the total of Japanese

troops in Indo<China does not exceed the authorized treaty strength

Chinese frontier had no tanks and little artillery. The informant said the Japanese had almost completed a s of air bases across Cambodia and Laos adjoining Thailand and that Jape anese army men at Saigon openly boasted that when they were ready to move aerial bombardments of

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Peace Left to F. D. R.} British Resume Libyan Drive.

(Details of Fighting, Page Seven)

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

Japan stiffened its opposie tion to the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union today while further

‘| emergency precautions were

taken in the Philippines, at

Singapore and in Thailand.

Renewing bitter attacks against Washington as “insincere” in peace negotiations, the Japanese declared that they were going ahead with creation of a new ore der in East Asia regardless of ace tions by hostile powers and that it now was up to President Roose« velt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill whether there would be war in the Pacific. ! The Tokyo mewspaper Hochi also attacked Russia and charged that troops had been shifted eastward to boost the Red Army to 840,000 men on the Siberian border at a time when the Soviets were ree porting improvement of the Mosw cow front and continuing attacks .. along the Mius River against Gers nan forces driven back from Ros« Ve

NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (U, P.) == The Columbia Broadcasting Syse tem today heard the British rae dio broadcast that “the Russians are reported to have broken through the German lines along the highway to Leningrad.”

The sudden shift in Japan's ate titude from a desire to continue nee gotiations at Washington to an outburst of abuse against Allied powers in the Far East coincided with developments all along the war front: In Libya, ‘he British again were on the offensive ‘in swift raids against Axis forces in the desert, reporting strong attacks on four enemy columns which were scate tered with heavy casualties. In Singapore, all British naval, airforce and army personnel wag suddenly summoned to fighting posts.” Philippines on Alert

At Manila, the government of President Manuel Quezon took new emergency steps, including prelimie nary civilian evacuation measures and regulations designed to bolster defense preparations. At Bangkok, the Thai Governe ment was said to have plans for removal of the Capital in event of war, The Japanese -sponsored East Asia economic council meeting in Tokyo was told by Lt. Gen. Telichi Suzuki, president of the Cabinet's Planning Board, that Japan is “tensely watching whether Mr, Roosevelt and Mr, Churchill come mit the epochal crime of further extending the world upheaval” to the Far East.

Near End of Patience

He declared that Japan's patience would be exhausted if any new dise turbances were caused in the Far East by Britain or the United States and the press reported that British “pressure” on Thailand was being increased so sharply that a change in the Bangkok Governe ment’s neutrality position seemed “at hand.” The Tokyo press accused the U, S. of insincerity in negotiations with Japan, with organizing Britain, the Netherlands, China and Russia against Japan and with ree fusing to seek a peaceful settlement, That was in contrast with the words of the Japanese Government spokesmen who insisted that Washe ington’s tears of Japanese aggrese sion or conquest in the Far Eas$ were due to a “big mistake.”

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