Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1942 — Page 1
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City Fights 16 Fires In 24 Hours; Battalion
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ALLIES MASSING TANKS IN RUSSIA
THREE OTHERS ARE OVERCOME
AT ONE BLAZE
Fred Fries Suffers Heart Attack After Two-Alarm Fire on E. 9th St.
The Indianapolis fire department completed one of its worst 24-hours today with the death of a battalion chief, second-alarm fires, 14 other blazes three firemen overcome, i Battalion Chief Fred F. Fries died! this morning following a heart at-| tack shortly after turning in the] second double-alarm of the period. | He was found at the| rear of a Standard grocery storage | house, 418 E. Ninth st., where fire was raging through three buildings. He died on his way to City hospital and Dr. James M. Leifel, deputy coroner, said death was due to a heart aitack brought on by exChief Fries had been a of the department since was considered by Chief} Fulmer as one of the the department ever
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had members of the department recovered from fighting the first two-alarm fire at the Anderson Motor Service Co. 350 E. 14th st., yesterday, when the second spectacular blaze broke out at an] old storage garage and barn in the 100 block of E, Ninth st. Twelve pieces of apparatus were unable to halt the fire and it spread; to the grocery storage building.| Both buildings were destroyed and] the fire was finally put out as it! began to consume a third building at 924 N. East st. The origin of the fire had not been determined this morning and no estimate was made of the loss of] the first two buildings. Damage to the third was estimated by Chief Fulmer at $50.
Three Overcome at Blaze
Hardly
Three firemen were overcome in the two-alarm Anderson motor depot blaze vesterday. Pvt. Clarence Ofttinger of PumpCo. 23, Pvt. John Craig of Pumper Co. 5 and Pvt. Lee Fulmer, of the fire chief. were considerred greatly improved today. Ottinger was taken to City hospital vesterday and the other three were given first aid and sent home. Origin of the fire which gutted the service company building had not been determined. The flames broke out in a garage at the rear] of the building at 2 p. m. and 10 minutes later the building's roof caved in. The south wall caved in 15 minutes later.
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The interior and ts contents, including several trucks and trailers and a consignment of | more th 30,000 tons of war ma-| terials was destroyed. Chief Fulmer estimated the loss! (Continued on Page Two)
REPORT LOCAL MAN DEAD IN SUB ATTACK
William T. Howell. 967 Dorman t.. was today reported dead follow-! ing action at sea in which a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the American! merchantman of which he was a crew member Survivors told today of a U-boat commander who laughed and fired a torpedo which killed 22 crew members as they were pulling away in a lifeboat from their ship. The attack occurred May 25 in the Gulf of Mexico. Eighteen survivors were brought to New Orleans.
¥ TERECK HE ARING SET
WASHINGTON, May 30 (U. P) —~The appeal of George Sylvester Viereck, German propagandist, | trom his conviction under the for-| eign agents registration act will be heard Monday by the U. S. court of | appeals,
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Roaring Way Is Deserted— But Memories Linger On
Strange Silence’ Hangs Over Speedway Today While Many Heroes of the Past Are Engaged in Grimmer Tasks.
By TIM TIPPETT IF THIS WERE the usual Memorial day you would have spent last night in anticipation and the “dawn hours” of today in preparation for the 1942 running of the 500-
mile Speedway race. You would have bumped bumper-to-bumper out to the track and by this time have gotten your yearly allotment of sunburn, indigestible hamburgers and “pop.”
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Wilbur Shaw ends his 41 try on a stretcher. He cried from pain
and disappointment.
You would have spent all day today being miserable and all day | tomorrow licking your wounds—and loving every second of it. But there isn’t any race today and there probably won't he one next year or even, perhaps, the vear after = ¥ »
Weeds Have Own Way
TODAY THE TWO AND a half mile track iz deserted, the pits
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empty, the garages still padlocked. Weeds have sprouted in the cracks |
that spiderweb the turns and tall grass hides the traces of last year’s crowd. Just as the proverbial fire horse hitched to Mrs. Wiggins’ wagon. we got the racing fever a month ago. We covered the typewriter and headed for the track. Sitting up in the stands we watched the sun bounce off the northwest turn. We smelled the popcorn and the stale odor of spilt beer. We even heard a baby crying way up in the stands behind us. = = = x = »
Doesn't Hurt to Dream
MAYBE WE WERE ASLEEP or maybe-if’s just one of those things that happen, but down on the straight-a-way before us flashed a screaming ‘mechanical monstér. Then another and another. As they hit the southwest turn their tires sent up a never-too-be-forgotten wail.
Local Child 32d Auto Vic-
The big three drink to each other's luck . . . (left to right) Shaw, Rey Mays and Mauri Rose. Rose won.
Across the center of the track on the east straight-a-way we
| caught a glimpse of a lean bellied Maserati overhauling the field.
A large “2” was on its hood. Wilbur Shaw, dapper, blue jacketed Shaw, the hero of every ’teen aged boy, the guy who made ‘em eat dust every year was romping around the track once more. Our mind went back to that hot, muggy day a vear ago when Wilbur was lifted as gently as rough, oil stained hands can do it. from his smashed mount. Tears washed streaks in his face. Tears of pain and disappointment. Ahead of the field, Shaw had lost control of his car and spun out of the race.
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Remember Last Year? THEN THE PICTURE OF 1941 flashed back to the pits. Mechanics
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no handles and held in hands spotted with blisters. A fire that morning had burned half the garages and most of the stables equipment.
Sitting on the pit wall was lanky Joel Thorne, the California |
boy whose daring driving had won the respect of all the grease monkeys.
DRAFT T0 TAKE TWO MILLIONS MORE IN 1942
U. S. to Have Largest Army In History by Year's End,
Marshall Reveals.
| WASHINGTON, May 30 (U. P). | ~The army, preparing for eventual (invasion of the European continent, /may call to the colors as many as 2,000,000 more men during the rest of 1942, it was indicated today. An army of 4500,000 men—the
To the Heroes
greatest in the nation’s history— | was promised by Gen. George OC. | Marshall for the end of the year. {This will be nearly 500,000 larger than the army of world war I.
Simultaneously with Gen. Mar-! | shall’s announcement, selective serv- | ice officials disclosed that the army {has started calling small groups of
men heretofore deferred in class| killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor last Dec, 7. {1-B for minor physical defects. They | _Diamend Head can be seen in backgrouna.
{will be given limited military duty, | releasing physically fit men for ac-| | tive duty.
| A. E. F. in France Pledged
Marshall, army chief of | staff, disclosed the proposed army |strength in addressing the West | Point graduating class yesterday. He also gave first official confirmation to reports that this country | will participate in an offensive | | against Germany on the European {continent, by saying American sol|diers “are landing in England, and | | they will land in France.” His statement does not necessarily indicate a second front in the immediate future. It would take | considerable time fo British isles bases a sufficient number of American troops and neces- | | sary supplies and replacement to! take a major part in a land offen- | sive. Inductions Speeded Up The chief of staff indicated a | sharp speed-up in the induction of | selectees, disclosing an increase of 300,000 men in the last four weeks alone. This is an average of 75,{000 inductions a week, and if kept
2 until the end of the year as|the Chamber of Commerce, work- |
Gen. Marshall promised it would! bring more than 2,000,000 men into service. ! The induction rate now is ap-| proaching the peak - attained in world war I. In only three months during the last war did the month-! | lv induction figures exceed 300,000. | That was in May, June and July |cf 1918, after the spring drive of the Germans brought urgent calls from France for unlimited numbers of men. The largest monthly {induction in the last conflict was | (Cofitinued on Page Twa)
|GIRL, 5, DIES OF TRAFFIC INJURIES
tim This Year. |
Five-year-old Shirley Koser, of 3112 E. New York st, became the city’s 32d traffic fatality this year! |whenr she died today at City hospital. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. {Robert Koser, Shirley was crossing | New York st.
| industries,
Enlisted men of the naval air station at Kaneohe, Hawail, place leis on the graves of their comrades
0DT MAPS CITY
TRAFFIC PLAN
‘Staggered Hours, Streetcar Stops Part of 12-Point Program.
A 12-point trafic overhauling program, half of which probably jwill become effective here July 8, | was announced today bythe fice of defense transportation. The plan was announced by Joseph B. Eastman,
Providing staggered hours for workers, fewer stops of railway) vehicles and schedule revisions, the program was drawn up by an emergency transportation .committee of |
ing with the ODT.
Many Groups Assist
Represented on were stores, office buildings, war schools, and the city government and defense agencies. The program follows: 1. Staggered Hours — Working hours will be rearranged so that no great majority of workers will be going to or from their jobs at the same time. 2. Full Use of All Street Railway Lines—Duplication of transportation services are to be eliminated.
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3. Diversion of Traffic to Street Railway Routes—Sehedules will be altered wherever possible to divert passengers from bus lines to street railway routes. 4, Turn-back Service — Shuttle
| services may be provided in outlyling districts to eliminate lightly-
loaded veRicles making too-frequent| trips.
Fewer Stops—Transportation |
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lan Indianapolis traffic club dinner {last night at the Claypool hotel.
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THERE'S NO RACE, of course, | but early today it looked as if In- | | dianapolis would enjoy the usual | race day weather. The weather bureau predicted “continued warm today and to- | night.” ! The record temperature for to- »| day is 94, set in 1895, and judging by early mercury readings, the i
{ mérk might be equalled or even | topped. Morning temperatures were running two to five degrees ahead of those yesterday, when the mercury reached 91 at 3 p. m., only two degrees short of the | record for May 29.
CZECH PATRIOTS HUNTED DOWN
Dozens Die in Reprisals For Attempt to Kill
Nazi Hangman.
LONDON, May 30 (U. P.).—The Germans, were expected to shoot four more Czech patriots today— making a total of 25 martyrs—in reprisal for an attack upon Reinhard (The Hangman) Heydrich. It was not known here whether Heidrich was dead or alive. The German Trans-Ocean agency, in a dispatch from Praha, broadcast by radio Berlin, said a court martial had condemned four persons, among them a woman, for possessing firearms, Twelve persons were shot in Brunn yesterday, the dispatch said, for having hidden persons “known
of Pear| Harbor
uninterrupted. [living ‘halted and in silence offered
‘tribute to the men who have fallen : {struction had been done to theses
day. It was a day to work fast and
to have participated in activities | against German authorities,” na
| vehicles would stop to load pas- | their property was confiscated.
sengers only about every 660 to 1200 Of the patriots were women.
feet. : Full Loads Sought
6. Standard of service in non-
in the 3100 block! {rush hours—Schedules would be soto appear yesterday when she was struck by| revised as to provide busses and!and
Three persons were shot for having sheltered Czechs who had not) (obeyed the Gorman ediet, handed |down alter the attack on Heydrich, at police headquarters
obtain identification ecards. |
|a car. She received head injuries, |trolieys full loads even during non-| They were the first to be shot for
ja fractured leg and knee injuries. She was with her sister, Marilyn, 8. | The city traffic toll now stands two above last year’s of this date.
John Barrymore, the Man Who Lived Full Life for 60 Years, Dies Without Regrets
He sat there rubbing his shin and raged at the luck that had smashed |
him into the southwest wall and out of the race.
Emil Andres, the quiet, big man of the track, had lost his mount | | and almost his life in the same spill. | tore past him with no time to wonder at the broken cars piled on | the curve apron.
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Time Marches Backwards ALL THE RACES OF ALL the past years flashed before the stands
that afternoon. Time ran backwards to 1926 and down the bricks pounded wild Frank Lockhart, reputed to be the best driver that ever
| slid behind a taped wheel.
He grinned as he smoked past the grandstand, one hand raised
| in a daredevil salute. It was Frank who two years later was burning ! up the sands at Daytona Beach in an all out effort at a world’s record.
He tried twice and failed. On his' third attempt and while Mrs. Lockhart watched, one of the huge tires exploded on his super-powered Stutz Blackhawk, hurling him to the feet of the lovers of speed. He died before they could reach him. = = = = » » THE CALENDAR FLIPPED ahead a decade and over on the back stretch flame and smoke shot skyward. The funeral pyre of jovial,
chubby Floyd Roberts. v Around and around the track streaked Ray Hatroun, Joe Dawson, (continued on
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He stood, wordless, as the field |
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, May 30. — John (the great profile) Barrymore, who for the last four decades charmed the ladies, including his own quartette of ex-wives, died without regrets late last night in Hollywood Presbyterian hospital. The pain - wracked Barrymore, suffering from half a dozen ailments, announced during his final lucid moments that every one of his 60 years had been exciting, that he had seen everything there was to see and done everything there was to do—and that he was ready [to go. | “Ali T want to do,” he said, give ‘em the greatest death ps ever.” That was days ago. He lapsed into unconsciousness then and never
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'rush hours. 7. Extension of bus service—Bus services would be extended to war] factories, ete, but only in such, (Continued on A Page Two)
had made more big, black head-
| that “crime.” Six patriots had been eseeuted | { previously. | Though axis radios were generous | i (Continued on Page Twa)
eight hours after a Catholic priest had administered the last sacrament and thus took him back into the church he had deserted years ago. None of his one-time wives was at his bedside. With him as he died were only his brother, Lionel, and Dr. Hugo M. Kersten. His daughter, Diana, was in the hos« pital, but not at the bedside. Outside were three of his boon companions, Gene Fowler, the novelist, weeping unashamedly; John Decker, the painter, and Alan Mow« bray, the actor. They joined the watch of newsmen, friends every one, who took Barrymore's death as a personal and professional blow. Well they remembered that he
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WAYS OF PAYING TRIBUTE DIFFER
U. S. BRITISH HELP POURING TO EAST FRONT
R. A. F. Blasts Paris Sube urbs Again; Fierce Libyan Fighting Continues.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The massing of great nume bers of American and British tanks for action on the Ruse sian front was officially dis closed today as the Soviet army kept up a steady hame= on axis positions along the eastern front and the R. A. F. smashed at Nazi war factories near Paris. New and shining tanks sent from the United States and Britain— called Mathildas and Valentines were demonstrated to American cor= eset after they had been through north Atlantie re Dy the Germans have been | desperately attempting to interrupt
!with air and U-boat attacks.
‘Machines of War Industry Hum While City Bows At Graves of Dead.
Memorial day provided Indianapolis its greatest contrast in 24 years today. In sonié parts of the city the ma~ chines of war industry roared on In other places the
fighting for America. For many, today was not a holi-
bring an end to the war—fast, Downtown Parade Held
For others, though, the day was observed in the customary manner. Veterans of America’s wars and patriotic organizations marched in a downtown parade this morning, followed by services at the Monument. William H. Ball was parade marshal. The general memorial association | of Indianapolis was to conduct mass services at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at Crown Hill.
Services at Riley Tomb
This morning the Masonic burial grounds association sponsored services at Crown Hill near the tomb of James Whitcomb Riley and the Sons of Spanish-American war veterans paid tribute to the statue of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton in Garfield park. A tattered wreath lay at the foot of the Lincoln statue last night in University park. One stroller walked by, noticed
the wreath and raised his hat as he went on. Today had special meanings for | Sveryone,
CAPITAL TO SEE
MILITARY PARADE
Thousands in Armed Forces |
Join Celebration.
WASHINGTON, May 30 (U. P.). —The capital's first big-scale mili, tary parade since Pearl Harbor, with martial music and thousands of marching soldiers, sailors, marines and coast guardsmen, will highlight today's observance of Memorial Day. All fighting equipment that can be spared—roaring planes, rumbiing tanks and massive guns-—will be displayed as a glowing symbol of American might. Paced by six colorful bands. the parade will start south of the Capitol grounds and along Constitution ave. to the official reviewing stand south of the White House. The war department and other government agencies have promised to excuse their employees well before the parade is scheduled to get under way. Similar demonstrations in the past have been earlier, but Washington is foregoing the usual Memorial day holiday to “get on with the war.” Across the nation, too, thousands upon thoysands of workmen will be at their machines turning out the materials vital to victory. Produc~ tion Director Donald M. Nelson rr
The Russians praised the new tanks and said that some already (had been sent, into action, although
| reports on their performances still
were lacking, R. A. F, Raids Paris Area
At, the same time, the R. A. F. re« newed big scale raids on the Ger= man war machine in western Bu-
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an pm works (now seized for Nazi use) the Gnome-Rhone war factories im the Paris area for the third time. Vichy dispatches said great de=
war plants, some whole districts be= ing razed by the heavy aerial one slaught. Meanwhile, on the Libyan frong, tank battles continued south of To=bruk but both the British and Tialian communiques indicated that the axis forces under Gen. Erwin Rommel had failed so far to make ime portant progress.
Mile-Wide Line of Tanks
The Germans attacked along & 25-mile front, using a mile-wide line of tanks at one point, dis=~ patches from the fighting front said, But after penetrating east of To=bruk to the El Gazala road, the enemy tank columns were brokem up or forced back by British air, tank and strong artillery forces. A major British counter-attack was reported developing today. In Russia, the readiness of the American and British tanks to move into action and the continued aggressive operations of the Ruse sian army, not only on some sectors of the Kharkov front, but in the Orel and Kalinin areas was dis ciosed at a time when the Germans were claiming a triumph in the | Ukraine fighting.
Nazis Pour in Reserves
A German communique claimed that the Russian 6th, 9th and 57th armies had been annihilated—that
jk Drokeh up for the time being— prisoners were taken wy = tanks, 2026 guns and 538 Russian planes knocked out, But the Russian dispatches said Wi 1406 more Germans had been ified out. of 4000 attacking on one ector of the Kharkov south flank near Izyum, where 27 enemy tanks were destroyed. It also was reported~that, aftee 19 days of fighting, the Russian lines were holding and that new thrusts appeared to be develope ing near Orel, north of Kharkov, and in the Kalinin sector, northe west of Moscow, Germany, Moscow reports said, is pouring reserves into the front lines and after the failure of mas« sive panzer attacks to crack the (Continued on Page Two)
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On the War Fronts
(May 30, 1942)
RUSSIA: American and - British tanks massing in Russia for ace tion on eastern front. :
LONDON: R. A. F. heavily bombs Nazi war factories in Paris suburbs.
LIBYA: Tank battles continue south of Tobruk, but Germans fail te make important progress.
CHINA: New Jap offensive pushing out from Nanchang,