Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1942 — Page 1

Page PDF (9.86 MB)

Back to issue view

The Indianapolis Time

VOLUME 53—NUMBER 68

Revolt A

gainst

FORECAST: Continued warm this afternoon through tomorrow forenoon.

» ® »

FRIDAY, MAY 29,

Hated Gesta

» ” ®

1942

po Spreads

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.

FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

To N

orway

# » un

MARSHALL PLEDGES AEF IN FRANCE

Sinks U-Boat

VICHY REPORTS WOUNDS FATAL T0 ‘HANGHAN

Deputy: Terror Grips

All Czechoslovakia.

BULLETIN BERN, May 29 (U. P.).—It was reported without confirmation today that Reinhard Heydrich, No. 2 leader of the German Gestapo, died in Praha late today of wounds received in an attack by Czech patriots Wednesday. The unconfirmed report of Heydrich’s death reached here from Vichy.

Here's Ensign Edward Z. Binning, of New York, the naval pilot credited with sinking the axis sub

er Blakeley in the territorial

waters of Martinique.

= 5 =

(Vichy reports of developments accounts broadcast by the Vichy radio, have proved unreliable in LONDON, May 19 (U. P)—A tacks on Adolf Hitler's Gestapo te ' while German authorities trans- AXIS PIRATES formed all of Czechoslovakia into a for the would-be assassins of Reinhard Heydrich, the No. 2 Gestapo One Sub Sunk. at Least Czech quarters here believed the attack on Heyvdrich was directed by | In U. S.-Made Planes. tion of Czech patriots, perhaps part| of the European “V Army.” RIO DE JANEIRO. May 29 (U. reported to have been slain by Nor- day promised a relentless campaign wegian patriots near Bergen and against the “organized piracy” of and sacked the entire village where been sunk and one or perhaps two the attack oecurred, according to!others reported captured by BrazilTerror was reported by Czech of-|planes. ficials here to be spreading over The catpure of an axis submarine shooting of Heydrich, known to the oil, foodstuffs and munitions off people of the occupied countries as northern Brazil also was reported cause of his ruthlessness. taleza. War for Liberty, Paper Says

elsewhere in Europe, particularly many instances. t- A L W rorists spread to Norway today concentration camp in the search leader. ‘ One Captured by Fliers a well-knit underground organiza-| A deputy chief of the Gestapo was P.).—The Brazilian government tothe Nazis, in swift reprisal, burned|axis submarines, one of which has Stockholm advices. ian airmen flving American-made their country in the wake of the supply ship loaded with torpedoes, der henker” (the hangman) be- in an unconfirmed report from ForBrazil was virtually at war with

Family of Six Slain

Six persons—all members of one

family and including two women— the axis and there was expectation!

have been executed near in diplomatic quarters that GerPilsen. many and Italy would soon underThe frontiers of Czechoslovakia take reprisals stronger than the have been sealed and no trains have sinking of unarmed Brazilian ships crossed the borders since Wednes- —possibly a shelling of Brazil's long day when Heydrich was shot, Ber- coastline lin advices to Stockholm said. “We reply to war with war.” said All Czechs over 15 years of age a front-page editorial of the afterwho fail to report to police by to- noon night will be shot, a German procla- “We are in a war for liberty at the mation warned. side of our American brothers as a ‘great world force dedicated to the defense of justice.”

already

Evidence Is Displayed

The Gestapo leaders were said in the Stockholm advices to be coh- ment said one of three axis submavinced that the perpetrators of the|rjnes, attacked by Brazilian fliers attack on Heydrich remain in hid- after it had torpedoed a Brazilian ing in Praha. ship. had been sunk.

Articles left on the road where . the attack on Heydrich occurred, Sighted 200 Miles Off Natal

including a woman's bicycle, a rain-

coat and a brown attache case, were Ruay, Joao Batista Luzardo. said at general again took the lead and |when Nicks refused to aid his geta- | displayed in the window of a store Porto Alegre in southern Brazil that! finished in front. Precinct commit- way, stabbed him in the neck and chemistry instructor, the other ac-

which torpedoed the U. S. destroy- |

newspaper Diario D'Anoite.|

An official government announce- |

HINT TYNDALL

' GROUP INSISTS BRADFORD QUIT

Observers Say GOP Chief Demands Right to Name Successor.

A battle for control of the Marion ‘county Republican organization reached its climax {oday reported demand by supporters of Maj. Gen. Robert mayor nominee, that country chairman James Bradford resign. At a mass meeting yesterday, it | was learned, leaders of the Tyndall group decided to contact Mr. Bradford personally and ask that he step out in the interest of party { harmony for next November's elec- | tion. Mr. Bradford declined, however, it was reported, unless he could name his successor. It also was said that he favored Edwin Mecformer county committee!

| Clure,

with a

H. Tyndall,

secretary who was beaten for the |

probate court judge nomination in the May 5 primary by Judge Dan V. White.

All Compromises Rejected

Earlier. Tyndall leaders are reported to have conferred with Joseph Daniels, attorney and - litical adviser of Mr. Bradford, in| an attempt to reach an understand- | jing. They were said to have offered | a compromise which would permit | Mr. Daniels to remain as district | chairman, along with other county committee officials with the | tion of Mr, Bradford. They asked

This offer was turned down, how- | ever, and a counter proposal was] ‘made by other leaders of the present | organization that a compromise can'didate be named. This program also failed, because Tyndall leaders said | {they were compromising in ac-| tee officers except chairman. at this time, it was believed that) leaders of the Tyndall organization!

in A

{the right to name the county chair- | Captured by 0 man. |

Javanese Guerrillas Arrive in Australia

Members of a Javanese guerrilla band, armed with machine guns, kilewengs (a native sword) and gas masks, are shown as they arrived ustralia after escaping from the Netherlands East Indies. These men made desperate efforts to reach the main fighting in Java before | coming to Australia where they plan to reform their ranks and continue the fight under Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

THEFT SUSPECT Low Mental Level Keeping STINGING BLOWS

SHOT IN STREET

He Seizes Money Bags At Woolworth’s.

15 Divisions Out of Army

fficer After F. D. R. Surprised at Need for Sharpening Wits; Work spearheads

On Basic Training Program.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. P.).—Approximately 250,000 physically fit men—"enough for 15 divisions'—have been rejected for army service

| |

| so far because of illiteracy, Dr. John W. Studebaker, director of the U. S.

A Negro youth grabbed money

bags containing several hundred dol,cepting all present county commit- lars today at the Woolworth 5-and-

10-cent store, 11 E. Washington st.,

If Mr. Bradford refuses to resi@n gapped two people in a chase

through downtown streets and was

‘which defeated Mr. Bradford's can- shot and captured in the 100 block didate in the primary mayor race S. Illinois st.

would begin at once to set up their own city organization.

Committeemen Hopeful

publican precinct

The boy was Guy Sharber, 22. of 417 W. 16th st. He was shot in the

left arm and captured by Patrol-

A program to win over the Re- man Forrest W. Allison, who wrescommitteemen tleq with the robber in attempt to

would be launched in preparation take a knife away from him,

for the fall election. Several precinct workers already have con- | tacted Tyndall leaders, it is said, pledging their support. | Mr. Bradford was | chairman at a county convention | held when Henry Ostrom, the organization’s mayor candidate, was leading Gen. Tyndall.

Runs Out Back Door

After grabbing the bags from a girl who was taking money from the

re-elected cash registers at -Woolworth's, the]

youth ran out the back door, chased by Jerald Spencer, a stock man, On S. Meridian st. near Georgia

But just a st, the youth jumped into the car minute The Brazilian ambassador to uru- | few hours after the convention, the of John Nicks, of 1109 Croft st. and | exonerate him.

on the main street of Praha with one of the three submarines at- teemen, looking at the huge patron- fied again on foot.

a notice saying: “Do vou recognize tacked by a squadron of planes

these?” The gestapo leader killed in Nor- plona was Italian. way was not identified but was said The submarines were sighted in to have been “one of the principal Brazilian territorial waters near the gestapo officials for western Nor- fortified island of Fernando Noron-

M'DERMOTT DRAWS 5-YEAR SENTENCE

Convicted Broker Takes

way The Norwegian gestapo leader was shot in the now-destroyed village of Televaag on Sartoroe 2a island just west of Bergen. Before the village was sackad and burned the Germans arrested the entire population, placed 60 men in a concentration camp and killed or soid all livestock Himmler in Praha

In Czechoslovakia, the reign of News in Court Caimly. terror, directed by Henrich Himmler, No. 1 boss of the Gestapo who flew Russell W. McDermott. Indianto Praha to supervise reprisals for 2polis investment broker, was senHeydrich's attack, had begun tenced to five years in federal Six persons—all members of a Drison by Judge Robert C. Baltzell single family—were shot to death today. at Rotkitzan, near Pilsen for “con-/ McDermott had been convicted cealing persons known to be en- by a federal court jury on 14 counts gaged in activities against the Of violation of the securities and Reich.” Two of the victims were eXchange act and use of the mails women and one was a vouth of 17.!to defraud. He was charged with swindling a local woman of betwéen $35,000 and $50,000 in market transactions. He took the sentence calmly and told the judge he had a “clear con- | science.” He said at no time did he date &/back letters with the intention of 5 “fooling” the woman. 14 Judge Baltzell gave McDermott 14/10 days to dispose of his house. 3 TR

: FEAR 6 FLIERS KILLED

10. GREELEY. Colo. May 28 (U. P.). eS 10. _Six men were reported killed and Radio 5 one injured today when an army Real Estate 8 bomber crashed about five miles 2 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 south of here. (At Denver army Serial Story = 13 officers at Lowry field said they had Side Glances 10 received a report of the crash from Society . - 4, 5 the Greeley fire department. They In Services .. 3 Sports ..6, 7 said. however, that the plane apInside Indpls. 9 State Deaths. 8 parently was not from the Dehver

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Eddie Ash Business Clapper Comics Crossword ... Editorials .... Edson Fashions Airs. Ferguson Financial ...° Forum Freckles Hold Ev'thing Homemaking In Indpls.

! Jane Jordan.. Millett Movies Music Obituaries. 2, : Organizations Pattern Pegler .. Questions

| age list which goes with the mayor's

reach some sort of settlement.

BETTE RESCUES GIRL WHEN CANOE UPSETS

LAKE ARROWHEAD, Cal, May 29 (U. P.).—Actress Bette Davis today rescued 12-year-old Janis Wil-! son from possible drowning when their canoe overturned in Lake Arrowhead. Miss Wilson. working in her first picture, and Miss Davis had gone canoeing a short distance from =a movie company location. The canoe overturned' in deep water about 40 yards from shore The girl, barely able te swim. was helped ashore bv Miss Davis while her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Wilson, watched from the shore.

! |

]

VINELAND, N. J., May 29 (U. P.). —This South Jersey town, chosen by |e United States treasury to test a [retail merchants’ war bond sales

plan, set a swift pace for the na- | tion today. The sun had scarcely taken the jmorning chill off the main street ‘when the post office and two banks of the town, shopping center for a population of 28,000 farmers and industrial workers, announced that |sales of bonds and stamps had reached a total of $375,000 and still {was climbing. So many crowd:d {the banks at the opening of “Vine‘land for Victory Day” that tellers |stopped issuing bonds and instead |passed out receipts for the money which flowed in. Tom the

commanded by Capt. Oswaldo Pam- office, now are reported anxious to st. toward Illinois st.

| |

hand. - Lok

As Sharber ran west on Georgia orocached by Spencer. He stabbed Spencer in the stomach.

Loss Not Estimated

Then on Illinois st. Patrolman Allison overcame Sharber and when he refused to give up his knife, Allison shot him. The youth is believed to have grabbed about nine money bags, some of which he lost in the chase. Store officials were unable to determine the amount of tempted robbery but said it would amount to “several hundred dollars.”

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

ow ci 33 “4 . 8

10 a. m. .. a mr. 12 (noon) . I pe ...

Vineland, N. J., Test Town for Bond Sales, Tops Quota at Start of Drive

announce only the total for the sale of stamps alone up to 10 a. m. By that time stamp sales were $44,251 and Mr. Hall sent out an emergency call for three high school girls to help him count the bonds sold, money for which was stuffed in packing boxes. The Tradesmen's Bank & Trust Co. announced a mid-morning total of $192,000. At the Vineland National bank the figure was $138,000. The “victory” goal of $250,000 set by A. B. D’Ippolito, local jeweler and chairman of the drive, was passed before the sale had well begun. Townfolk hurried up and down Landis ave, the main street, waving fistfuls of bonds. One of them, Louis Silbe, proudly displayed $9500 worth, fanned out like a poker - Riel 20-year-

he was ap-|

the at-|

office of education, disclosed today. Mr. Studebaker made the disclosure shortly after President Roosevelt had told a press conference that a startling number of Americans i : e | lacked the necessary literacy, edu{cation or mentality for service with the army and navy. The education director, who conferred with Mr. Roosevelt about the problem on Wednesday, said that a program is being worked out with War Manpowe: Commissioner Paul V. McNutt *

ALGER AND PALS GIVEN LONG TERMS

Gene Tries to Clear Alford But Implicates Dentist.

Gene Alger, Hoosier bad-boy., was | sentenced to 12 years in Federal |, cine, Mr. Studebaker said. | penitentiary today—10 years for | | postoffice robbery and two years Debate How to Sharpen Wits for breaking out of the Marion | At his press conference ‘county jail last March. {Roosevelt remarked that governThomas Alford, local restaurant | pep experts were studying plans (proprietor, and one of AIGer's ac-'¢, sharpen the wits of these people | complices in the robberies, was given | la 10-year sentence despite a last-| | attempt by Alger to]

and |

reading, writing and arithemtic.”

military use. Mr. Studebaker said that 433,000 men who would have been placed in {Class 1-A have been deferred be{cause of inability to meet the army’s literacy requirements. At least 250,- | While the three men stood for 300 Ee er hysicglly fit more than an hour before Judge The 1940 ERGs disclosed that | Robert C. Baltzell, Alger claimed |, per cent of the nation's total {that a deputy sheriff had smuggled population over 25 years of age had | narcotics to him while he was in the | [I% 0 00 P08 Sop ay jail and provided him with the SAW! requires fifth grade or better for with which he escaped. induction | Investigators and Sheriff Poeh VY! Recalling that his conference with exonerated the deputy and a IOr- ..."p,,ccvelt also was attended by mer convict is under indictment for Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey selecaiding in the escape. ~~ tive service director, and Dean WilAlger said that Alford liam PF. Russell of the Columbia

i nocent. Crore : «I didn’t know him well enough university teachers college, Mr. to go out and steal things with thim,” Alger declared. | He said Dr, Enyart manufactured {the nitrosglycerine used in blowing the postoffice safes and showed him | how to use it. | Dr. Enyart denied any connec[tion with the robberies and charged | ' Alger was telling only “half-truths.”

Dr. Hugh Enyart, dentist

{complice, was sentenced to five

| years.

was in-

doubtedly would participate in the projected educational program,

Not Morons, President Savs

Mr. Roosevelt said that illiteracy, in a broad sense, has kept multitudes out of the army and navy. It's not because these men are

{cause of lack of opportunity and |lack of education. : | The president suggested the men[tal level through a manual, voca{tional training process. He also offered improved nutrition as one method. :

"HERRINGTON HOME

FROM TRIP TO INDIA FiSnRlin Lani: special consult, OL & y Herrington, president of ant to the treasury’s retail mer- armon-Herrington Co, was back chants advisory committee, who at his desk today after serving two suggested that Vineland, his home| months with American missions to town, be chosen as the test town,| India. expressed the hope that the suc-| All he would reveal on his return cess of the plan here would spread | yesterday was that he had “been in across the nation and make com- | India.” : pulsory savings unnecessary. | “I can make no statement until Merchants not only trained clerks the missions return and make an to suggest the purchase of bonds | official statement,” said Col. Herand stamps but took large adver- rington. tisements in a special 24-page| He walked through the plant three-section edition of The Vine-|greeting all the employees. land Times Journal, 4000 copies of, Col. Herrington served on two which have been bought by the|missions, the American Mission and

old waiter in a lunch wagon, pressed $600 into D’Ippolito’s hand. “Sock her in,” he said. my life’s savings.”

“That’s

Studebaker said Mr. Russell un-|

WEST POINT’ CADETS HEAR FIGHTING TALK

U. S. Army of 4,500,000 Men in ’42 Seen by Chief of Staff.

WEST POINT, N. Y., May, 29 (U. P.).—Gen. George C, Marshall, army chief of staff, declared here today that American, troops are “landing in England and they will land in France.” Addressing the graduating class of the U. 8. Military Academy, Gen, Marshall said that Americans are fighting in all parts of the globe and then made his cryptic reference to future action in France. His statement seemed especially significant in view of the U, 8S.

British military talks now going on in London. These talks have given rise to strong speculation that a second Eu ropean front is being planned-—when

STRUCK AT AXIS

in Libya and China Blunted * by

Allied Forces. By JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign Editor Armed forces of the united na- | tions struck damaging blows at axis | offensive spearheads on Libyan and | Chinese battlefields today and re|portedly opened a new thrust against the enemy in the north | Ukraine sector of the Russian front. | In China, a communique said that Chinese troops had struck suddenty |

{

one of the deepest points of enemy |

Ten poirts in the outskirts were | captured and heavy losses inflicted | the Japanese there and in|

| { |

jon

|the communique said. Kinhwa Still Holding

Chekiang, the Chinese still |

| |

where enemy casualties |

|repeated Japanese attacks on near{by Lanchi, were counted in the thousands. Unable to take Kinhwa, capita |of the eastern province of Chekiang, the Japanese left a force of 40,000 to continue the siege while the remainder of an estimated force of

100,000 by-passed it to attack Lan|chi, Taneki and Kienteh, all in the [same area. | The Japanese coiumns were sup|ported by waves of planes, allegedly dropping poison gas bombs, a Chi(Continued on Page Eight)

JUDGE SENTENCES 3 OF JEHOVAH SECT

Accused of Draft Evasion; Not on Approved List.

Three members of the Jehovah]

| 1 |

| court were sentenced to 2'2 years) lon charges of violating the Selec[tive Service act. The three youths were Anton Ervin Klein, R. R. 10, Box 419; Herschell Jewell, Martinsville, and Emil Edward Spencer, Indianapolis. They claimed exemption on the grounds that they were “ordained ministers of the Gospel.” Judge] ‘Robert C. Baltzell pointed out be(fore pronouncing sentence that the: Jehovah Witness sect had presented the government lists of their members whom they thought should be exempt and “the government had respected that list and these three boys were not mentioned in the] list.” ] The judge, before sentencing, gave | the three boys almost an hour to! decide whether they would go to a camp for conscientious objectors or, receive a prison sentence. Before | being indicted, they had refused to go. The judge on pronouncing sen-| tence said, “This is an unpleasant

5 dst A oe

for distribution around the the mien He was

treasury

| RUSSIA—Bafttle of Kharkov a

the time is ripe—to ease Russia’s war burden by diverting German forces somewhat in western Bu«

pe. Army Raises Its Goal

This is not expected to be for some time, however. The first phase doubtless will be American air attacks on Germany in co-operation with the British. | Gen. Marshall also disclosed, for the first time, that the grmy had

Iraised its goal for 1942 and that

there would be nearly 4,500,000 soldiers under arms by the end of the year rather than the 3,600,000 planned at the start of the war. He revealed that during the past four weeks alone the army's strength has been increased by 300,000 men. The largest part of the army's {expansion is taking place within the air forces, he said, praising American airmen as among the fine est in the world.

Progress Despite Confusion

“They are consumed with a dee

..'e the “func- into the outskirts of the important termination to carry the fight inte tionally illiterate basic training in Japanese military base at Ichang,| Germany and Japan—the same dee

termination that inspired Jimmy

| The program is designed to im- Penetration west of Hankow and | Doolittle and his gallaut band,” prove the situation as rapidly asabout 300 miles east of Chungking. Gen. Marshall said.

Gen. Marshall recalled the dife ficulties of preparing the army in the period prior to the Japanese

Mr. | Chekiang and Yunnan provinces, | attack on Pearl Harbor.

He said his most difficult task was to ‘progress with the mobilie zation and training of the army

to the point they might be of some pel Kinhwa and had thrown back | despite the confusion, to express it

mildly, that was spread throughout the ranks by a nation-wide debate regarding the necessity for military preparations and as to the policies to govern our national course of action.” 1.

On the War Fronts

(May 29, 1942)

LIBYA—British break up axis cole umns in battle south of Tobruk.

ppare ently dying down with Russians still holding initiative.

GERMANY Nazi propaganda broadcast claims 17 ships sunk in American-British convoy of war supplies to Russian port of Murmansk.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA—German Gese tapo extends reprisals for wounde Jing of “Hangman” Reinhard Heys drich.

'morons, the president said, but be-| Witnesses sect today in federal NORWA Y—Nazis burn Norwegian

village in reprisal for killing of Gestapo official.

CHINA—Chinese repulse Japanese attacks on Kinhwa, in Chekiang province.

AUSTRALIA—American and AuSe tralian planes smash 11 Japanese aircraft in Rabaul, Lae and Porg Moresby battles.

SUB DISGUISED AS LIFEBOAT IS DECOY

NEW LONDON, Conn., May 29 (U, P.).—Capt. George Hazeleaf, 60, of Oakland, Cal, said today that a German submarine disguised as a lifeboat with a sail lured his medium sized freighter almost within strike ing distance before the masquerade was discovered.

The freighter finally was tore 3

pedoed by the submarine May 21 about 200 miles off the Atlantis coast and 30 survivors were landed '

duty—but in time of war we must here May 26. Only man lost in the : sinking was Second Mate