Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1942 — Page 3
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1042 Rent Chief
AXIS ARMY POURS mz 10 EGYPT BORDER
l Powerful Invasion Force Massing at Frontier and
Rommel’s Big Guns Pound British: Allied Hope
Rests on Air Power.
By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY IN EGYPT. June 23.—(Delayed).—German long range guns opened on the British frontier line today and a powerful axis army of tanks, guns, mobile anti-aircraft artillery and infantry poured over the desert road at forced march for its prone offensive of the Libyan war.
TOBRUK'S LOSS SAVES SHIPPING
Writer Believes British Sacrificed Port to Save 2d Front Strength.
(Continued from Page One)
Bir Hacheim—"well (dry) of the|}
wise one’—was becoming a battle name embarrassing to the axis. The
German high command found it) §& necessary to fiy bombers all the|@
way from Crete just to bomb the free French at Bir Hacheim. Finally, after 16 days of hell, the free French and some Indian troops sent to reinforce them, had to pull out, Then the axis tackled the boxes farther north. is forces
Lambda Chi Alpha samociation, Russet cafeteria, noon lunch Indianapolis Motor SE ensportation Club Ine., Fox's Steak house, noon luncheon.
British engineers and infantrymen worked without, mined enemy until armored) it was indicated, Rommel would try, : east. s . imminentl¥, and certainly. a task so Can't ‘Figure’ Rommel Director in “in Nuerdus The allied hope was that the ish off balance, and that if his Afbusiness executive, will be the fed- | the day, with the aid of the royal] Rommel to attack Solum and Hell- © Luly 1 when rent ceilings go into] tion and had ready bombed the im-| But Rommel has never yet acted Ss o thal Erwin Rommel hopes to break|PY seeking to dash down the steep, Born in Indianapolis in 1883, Mr. desert near Fort Capuzzo at the few and extremely bad and water | Haute, the John Lees Manufacturwas moving along the new defense port of supplies and Rommel might | Supervises Farms moving rapidly east. As fast as| ‘There are grave risks in such an Corp. Miller-Parrott Baking Co. Eroper. axis flank and rear and cut off SupP- | county war price and rationing | the Tobruk n i thi SS . bruk road, which passes attack on Egypt. . Reade’s offices will be at the north of the frontier and the Brit- eng of the line. in open country, | Name Mitchell Upstate which has Ft. Capuzzo and the British main line. landlords for a later ceiling date Give British No Rest lifted against surprises,” a tank | : g p rent director for the LaPorte-Michi-man tanks with 83 millimeter (346-! interminable lines of British con- LEGION COND ward the frontier. | Hellfire Pass and Safafi. Military men here at the front| possibilities while they hurriedly | scrap rubber, visiting tire stores, Russ ans A F c d B k lections at various county places, With these places in the county ceeded officials’ expectations. pushed back the Russian army on derstood that he was using more! T emp ing to start his summer offen- |jessly pounded the Germans with its TO HEAR HARTNETT | led by 200 tanks, had resulted in enemy rear, pounding troop con-| [Fe Real Estate board toa Da tchies described the enemy fof the Russian Black sea fleet! {| Four other members of the basesome 500,000 troops massed on the vancing German tanks) Johnny McCarthy, first baseman. in June. | Apparently the Russians had | Arrangements for the meeting are | ferocity with the enemy persistent- | | Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, smeilFleet said Russian units on one a ——————i———. a majority of Washington taxicab UPHOLD DOOM OF CCC relentless pressure to fall back to priations committee said’ today the mission. Spokesmen for the Ur ited Phi Delta Pi, meeting, W ashington hotel, Po vil Nu, Columbia club, noon lunchO82 ..cicciiainiiil 19 37 36
Hersent 1 Benue paused, their endurance strained to the limit, to improvise, a defense line which would 4 © the assault] READE T0 BEGIN : hg ; _ | maneuver compared to ass hold a: jubilant and deter- to be expected on Egypt, in which, | and foot forces could be reor- to break the British line for a mass) DUTIES J JULY 1 -anized drive through toward the Marsa ganized. Matruh base and the railroad to the | The British eighth army faced, great that it did not leave much| : : room for immediate optimism. Without doubt, Rommel had been Local Firms: Has Served Shots Fired A Borde | encouraged by his quick victory at ots cross r : “ ; | Tobruk to believe he had the Brit On Ration Board. British gift for improvisation under | rika corps could maintain its pace| perpert J. Reade, Indianapolis | desperate handicap and at the mo- Eres. Viokonles were to OG he obvious course wou e for ment of greatest peril would save eral rent administrator for Marion | air force and the great United fire Pass, at the point toward which county. States army air corps Consolidated his main forces were now presting! His duties are expected to start B-24 planes which were now in ac- at forced march from Tobruk. portant axis base of Benghazi. ‘on orthodox lines, and it was sug- {effect in this area. Mr. Reade oy The opening shots of the battle ‘gested that he might try to by -pass receive $5600 a year and have a of Egypt. in which Nazi Field Mar- the anchor point of the defense line | staff of lawyers and investigators. | through to Suez, whined over the escarpment to the southeast. | Reade has been an official in a frontier this morning, from axis! Lis would entail crossing the in: number of concerns, including the batteries newly emplaced in the, terior desert, where the tracks are | Miller-Parrott Baking Co. of Terre northern end of the British line. is non-existent. ing Co. here, Rub-Tex Products Co. | They smashed down in an area Migh Take Grave Risks and the Wheeler-Schebler Carburein which a column of British tanks! It would necessitate heavy trans- tor Co. line. hope that his supply columns could | ; Since > It was evident even to the ground elude the British in the wild wil-| Se ot int. Supervieen) forces that Rommel's artillery was [SDetation o: jis lafms. He jt how | a derness of scrub land. {a director of the Vonnegut Molder the batteries arrived. they were adventure. sien into position for the bom-| A reorganized eighth army might [er arise oD, a He, Har i ment opening the battie have forces available to attack the nas been a member of the Marion] Reconnaissance planes came back plies by sweeping out from desert with reports that a very powerful forts which® had been unoccupied | JR on unkee JouNion, Sines axis army was on the march, along since the early days of Italy's first 8 yy B |W SSunlan boulevard. through Gambut slightly in from| Another line open to Rommel " the coast and has i's terminus at would be to rush several columns sate OPA ofice in he Muah Bardia, now in axis hands. just gyer the frontier at the southern b . | ett ig 8: F Cups, and organize a break there while, On July 1, Indianapolis rents reThey were Butsen toward the his main forces created a big scale twin to the levels existing on July, coastal end of the British line giversionary attack against the j last year unless an appeal by Solum-Hellfire (officially Halfava) ge 1B 3 d Surprises Expected is granted by Price Administrator! pass for its key points, {Leon Henderson. “You've t to kee your eves gO P Audley W. Mitchell was named | Great guns, moving on tractors, officer said. “This moment is criti-| ‘te Be ’ z heavy as well as light anti-aircrat|cal” [Son City area where rent control guns, all highly mobile, huge Ger-| We were driving through almost, comes effective July 1 also. | inch) guns and dusty columns of|voys as we talked. Italian infantrymen were in the! The men in the convoys were virtual parade of axis forces to-|taking up positions east of Solum. CAN It was evident to us here that! The tank officer summarized the! VASS FOR RUBBER Rommel had given his forces no | situation. It was necessary now | American Legion workers started | rest after their triumph at Tobruk. | for the British to guard against all|a canvass of the county today for said the ferocious attack on Tobruk regrouped and reshaped a badly junkyards and auto graveyards. was likely to prove nly a miniature | scarred but unbroken army. Phil T. Williams, county ecam8 § 4d 4& £4 paign chairman, explained that coloutside the city, were not included | lin the first week's report of 500! At Sevastopol and Kharkov “vir hee Pp ar ov still unreported, Mr. Williams said. MOSCOW. June 24 (U. P) —Axis fantry, masses of tanks and clouds 4 SxDected the second halt of drive tank. air and infantry attacks Of planes against the hard-pressed © equal the first week's, which ex- | fende .- defenders of Sevastopol. It was un-| “rye rive ends at midnight next he a - and sry Ee than 2000 planes against a consid- | J THesisy. ay and the intensity of the bat- erably smaller Soviet air force. tles indicated Hitler again was at-| The Soviet Black se~ fleet cease- REAL ESTATE BOARD | sive toward the Caucasus. big guns, and supplied the SevasFront line dispatches said that topol garrison, Red Fleet said. Its Charles Leo (Gabby) Hartnett, the enemy onslaughts, sometimes g jair arm ranged far behind the] {manager of the Indianapolis InRussian withdrawals but # added centrations and supply lines. glans, will address members of the that the reinforced German col-| (The British radio, heard by umns had suffered high casualties. % jmorrow noon in Hotel Washington g C. B. S. in New York, said sailors at the last meeting of the group tacks on the Kharkov front as fought the attacking German troops, [URI REpterver. tre second offensive” this year by|by tying land mines to themselves II club will attend. They are Al the Germans. who reportedly had! h ba y and throwing themselves under ad-| Schlensker, secretary; Bob Logan southern front and perhaps 500,000 Last midnight's communique ad- and Walt Tauscher, pitchers, and others in reserve at the time of mitted that the new German drive ; their first unsuccessful thrusts early on the Kharkov fro Manager Hartnett will relate i | ¢ B front had gained. some of his experiences as a player The army publication Red Star fallen back in the Izyum-Barven. | 2nd manager. said that the Kharkov battle, now|kova sector south of Kharkov, where| in its third day, was “growing in|sector of the Sevastopol front had 'in charge of Robert P. Moorman, ly attacking and ignoring immense ing an impending German offen- TAXI MEN ON “VACATION” losses.” |sive, had struck first and pushed WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P). The Soviet navy newspaper Red back the Nazi lines. —DMinor violence occurred toaay as ig of the Sevastopol front, where drivers took a “vacation” in prothe battle was in its 18th day, had] WASHINGTON, June 2¢ (U. P).| |test against a new rate schedule been forced by overwhelming and | —A member of the senate appro- | ordered by the public utilities comnew positions. |group had voted, 15 to 9, to uphold | Taxicab Dricers, Inc., claimed that Col. Gen. Fritz Erich Von Mann- | the action of the house to end the less than 100 of the city's 5000 cabs stein hurled more divisions of in-|civilian conservation corps July 1. |were on the streets. Here Is the Traffic Record) Sit Meh, hdusttial group, Washing. County City Total| A B.C Service Bureau, Inc. meeting, 1941 SEAR ARR RRRN LES “wh 37 nr Indiana Motor Traer associatian, Ant~—June 23 lers hote rl lune ..28 | Arrests
Indiana lis f Ent neers,
° Anene aus i 30 p Indianapolis Real. Estate Joan, Washmeton hotel, noon luncheo parel da
ginners Indianapolis
XX. M. Camera Fab, meeting, ident central Y . 2 A. 7:30 p. Accidents Lions club, Claypool hotel, ah luncheon.
[njured TUESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid
9 7 $60 ? 1 11
diana Women's and Children: s A PY convention, Ci, 1 hotel, iana League of Po tmasters, tonven-
tions, overin hotel, all a Carriers of Indiana, meeting, Severin’ Rotel, all day.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
These lists are from official records in the .county court house. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.
noon |. Herbert AM. French, Mn no 4636 Collage: [Hua F. Tousey, 23, of 416 E. Vermon Jake A. Day, 19, of at S. nl viremia Tucker, 18, Acton, Ind. a E. Lee Jr, 23, of Ju Hoyt; Louise onde 25, of 340 Prospe 19. yD. Samuels, 40, Linden Hotel; Kathor “Lynch: 35, Linden Hote George Ames, 29, Le Ind.; Eileen Payne. 18, Martinsville, Ind. Fred Bennett, 38, of
Drake; Mildred Robes] 24, of 444 s H. Cha amness, 52, of S142 Chelsea; Bae Hatten. 81, 330 Donald > Davi son,
Young Alene i club, dinner, YMCA, 6p Purdue hy hotel, noon luncheo Sigma Moving Epsilon, Board of Trade, noon lunch i Delta Theta Tau, Seville restaurant, noon Tuncheon. Co-operative club of ndianaposis, Columbia club, noon luncheo Junior Chamber of Commerce, Canary 0 Cotta noon luncheo 40- us club, meeting. Chamber of Com-
merce, 7:30 p Perud: Columbia club,
Riwanis | luncheo TRdiawipoiis Bar association, Woogtiock Country club, all day roperty Management Division, Indiana lap Real tate board, Canary Cottage, noon luncheon
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MEETINGS TOMORROW
MEETINGS TODAY a avertising fe *3 Wmdiamapely, Indis etic club, noon lunc! Indianapolis Women's and Children's) *75HC club, tin hotel, pon luncheon.
Apearel club, convention, Claypool hotel, Construction League of Indianapolis, 231
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{tank guns. which overwhelmed the British and
| favor of the axis.
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rolled up the minefield and pressed | ™
northward. The box defense system | was broken up, principally by the! axis throwing great weight against one place at one time.
8. On June 13, the British tank |
| forces suffered a disastrous and un- | fortunate reverse and lost heavily. They attacked the Germans and were lured into an ambush of antiIt was not axis tanks
American tanks, Rommel c¢onsiders it stupid for tanks to attack tanks when this can be avoided. It was anti-tank gins which did the damage.
Rommel's Dream
British tank attack was what anti-tank gunners—and Rommel probably—dream about: Tanks, and nothing but tanks, rushing headlong, unknowingly, into a horseshoe of anti-tank guns, so well concealed that they can hold their
pine till their range is short and
deadly. Thus the balance of tank strength, which hitherto had been roughly equal, was drastically changed in From then on the 8th army had to fight a desperate rearguard action, pull out its forces from Garzala, and quickly ‘fall back to the old Capuzzo-Sol-lum-Hellfire positions on the fron- | tier. The fall of Tobruk was more or less expected, though perhaps not SO quickly. It had been virtually | decided, months ago, that if ever it came to the choice of abandoning Tobruk or keeping it going, though besieged as last year, the first alternative would be taken.
Navy Paid Heavy Price
The primary reason for this was
the price the navy had to pay previously to supply the Tobruk garri‘son. The navy should get a large share of credit for the defense of | Tobruk last time. It was the British navy that kept the men of Tobruk going so they could keep Tobruk going. A new siege of Tobruk would have required much equipment which the 8th army did not have on hand to pour into Tobruk and would have | required many destroyers and many | cargo ships. While Tobruk is a sad loss to the | British, partly because of its previous epic resistance, not to mention bs Hg attack power against the uring last winter's British ofrotor it is also a blow because of its value to the axis.
Axis Gains Port
Axis convoys can now unload at Tobruk (at risk, of course) instead of or as well as at Benghasi and Tripoli, thus reducing the axis over land lines of communications. However, the decision of the British not to risk shipping to hold Tobruk again may mean they intend to risk shipping for other things—the opening of a second | front, for example.
FINNS SINK RUSS SUBS
HELSINKI, Finland, June 23 (Deee (U.P). — Finnish airplanes land warships have sunk six Russian submarines and two torpedo boats and seriously damaged seven submarines and five motor patrol boats in the Gulf of Finland during the past two weeks, a special communique said tonight.
County, Lagging for June, Urged to Buy Extra Bonds
With only five buying days left in the month, Marion county today { had bought only 51 per cent of its June war bond quota, war savings staff officials said today. To fill the gap, buyers will have to double their pace if the goal of $3,347,200 is to be reached. “Investment in an extra bond by
every bond buyer will do it. Nothing else will,” County Administrator James F. Frenzel of the savings staff said. “By an ‘extra bond, just that is meant,” Mr. Frenzel said, ‘an extra
—~MEETINGS—VITAL IN INDIANAPOLIS
B of 108 8. Bradley; H Woodland drive.
E Kenthan, 18, R. R. 4, Green old.
A. Steinhilber Jr, 22, of 3633 Roberts, 22, of 4051
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BIRTHS
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Richard, Nieta Smith, at St. Vincent's, Robert, Mary Messersmith, at St.
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V. Somes and Herman Teetor.
MUNCIE BANKER NOT CANDIDATE
Personal Business Keeps
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A new member is sworn in , ., (left to right) Walker W. Winslow, Walter B. Smith, Father Joseph
BY EARL RICHERT
Sunderland Out of
Treasurer Race.
By EARL RICHERT
State Senator Marker Sunder-| land, Muncie banker, today indicated that he would not seek the Democratic nomination for state treasurer at the party's convention here next Tuesday. He gave press of personal business as a reason for not entering the race. Senator Sunderland had been mentioned frequently’ in Democratic circles as one of the most likely party leaders to enter the wide open treasurer's race. Harry McClain of Shelbyville, secretary of the Indiana association | of insurance agents, is the only an-| nounced candidate as yet for the] treasurer's nomination.
Opposition Expected
But it seems sure that party leaders who are opposed to him be- | cause of his close friendship with Pleas Greenlee, former kingpin in the MeéNutt administration, will bring out someone in opposition to! him. - | These leaders do not regard Mr. Greenlee “too highly” and they | are reported anxious to keep him from getting a persona! friend elected to a high state post. However, Mr. McClain, state insurance commissioner during the McNutt administration, has many personal friends of long standing in the Democratic party and may prove so strong that opposition to him may not come out in the open.
Seek Ft. Wayne Entry
The anti-Greenlee party leaders have been hopeful of getting a candidate in (he treasurer's race from Ft. Wayne. But there they are reportedly being blocked by friends of Samuel Jackson, former attorney general, who is eyeing the 1944 gubernatorial race. The Jackson forces feel that by leaving the fourth district without representation on the state ticket this year they will be better able to bargain for the governorship nomination two years hence. Meanwhile, the Democratic plat- | form advisory committee met today jat the Claypool to receive suggestions from various groups. Representatives of more than 20 organizations, including labor unions, farmer and teachers groups, were to appear before the committee headed by Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox during the day. Fred F. Bays, Democratic state chairman, said he would ask the group to adopt a short platform, pledging the party to “all out” effort in the winning of the war and peace and support of the present state and national chief executives.
war bond above what you normally have been buying.” The county's 51 per cent-of-quota purchases compared with a 71 per cent>sale in the state outside Marion county. Mr. Frenzel urged war stamp purchasers who have almost filled their albums to complete them immediately to buy the “extra bond.” Total sales in the county for the first three weeks in June were $1,728,700. Total 8ales by 53 selling units out of the state's 116—the 53 including the county—total $5,277137 compared with a combined quota of $8,460,632.
PARAL Allabell Mathis, at 835 N.
morrow evening in Room 124, English hotel. shown.
| DUE TO BE brought out soon, possibly at the Democratic state convention next week, is an economy-motivated proposal to abolish the sixeman state appellate court at the next session of the legislature. This idea has been given careful study by Governor Schricker and his aids and they are definitely in favor of it. If the Democratic platform is not kept short, as Chairman Fred
Bays desires, party leaders may make this proposal one of the principal features of their platform. (The Democratic platform advisory committee is meeting here today to discuss the platform.) It is not the governor's idea to pass all the load now being carried by the appellate court onto the supreme court but to provide for the election of two additional judges to the latter court. »
Means: 7-Man Court
THIS WOULD make a supreme court of seven members. The sev-en-man court could, if necessary, divide itself into two sections of three men each to work on difficult cases, with the chief justice assigning cases and working with either group, the governor says. Abolition of the court would wipe out the $10,000 a year job of six judges and the $1800 a year job of their clerks. Proponents of the move esti mate that, including the addition of two judges to the supreme court, it would save the state around $75,000 and $80,000 a year. The appellate court was created by the legislature many years ago to help the supreme court catch up on a huge reservoir of pending cases.
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Not a Political Move
BOTH COURTS are up on their cases now and have been for some time. And high state house officials, including some judges, say that the number of cases now appealed from lower courts, are not too many for a seven-man court to handle. The governor, it is believed, will make this proposal one of the principal features of his message to the 1943 legislature—regardless of the political complexion of that body. No political motive can be charged to the proposal for the present, at least, since four of the six judges are Democrats. The four seats held by Democrats are up in the fall election, however, and if the Republicans should win all four seats the party would bitterly oppose such a move. ® » ” »
Two in Speaker’s Race
DESPITE the fact that they are not sure the Republicans will have control of the house of representatives during the next session, two Republicans are definitely “out in the open” already in the race for the coveted speakership. They are Glenn Slenker of Monticello, who reportedly has the backing of organization leaders, and Hobart Creighton of Warsaw, a member of the state budget committee. Friends are placing the name of George Henley, Bloomington lawyer, in the race, but as far as it is known he is making no personal effort along that line. Howard Hiestand of Kentland is reportedly seeking support for the position of floor leader. The Democrats say these Republicans are “acting prematurely.” :
TOWNSEND 48 TO MEET Townsend club 48 will meet to-
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Moving pictures will be
Robert, Hilda Koser, at 3112 E. New
Boys
Charles, Geneva Vaughn, at Coleman, Homer, Dorothy Garland, at Methodist, Buren, Maxine Gentry, at thodist, jude, Martha Scott, at Me hodist,
ethodist. incent's. Anderson, at St. Vincent's. Leo, Nedra Mahon, at st vincenes. J. Viola Wine, at St. Fran Norval, Pearl Sullivan, at 12010 ® 10th.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. S. Weather Bureau ed
(Central War Time) 5:17 | Sunset
Sunrise 8:18 TEMPERATURE «June 24, 1941—
hv avaiaes 85
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DEATHS Carey Glass, 79, at 623'2 Eugene,
Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation Sites} Excess since Jan. 1
x 30 m. an 24
Lena Oa acute cardiac dilatation Mary Nolan Pavey, 38, at “City, hyperne RYOma yelitis. irginia Robertson, 81, at 2104 N. Pennsylianis, coronary ocelus Minnie L, Patterson, Fo t 5721 N. Illing” carcino Edwa Vincents’,
4] Be "Noblitt, 63, at St. CATE Michael "J. Seitz, 84, at 2007 N. Capitol, carcinom william Truman Tryon, 78, at City, arteriosclerosis. Daniel Stull, 76, at 1355 Roache, coronary occlusion E. Stewart, 50, at St. Vincents’, Hodgkins disease. Rosa Patrick) "84, at 1202 N. Illinois, ma Emm arnes Jackson, 68, at 2115 Bellefontaine cerebral hemorrh age. (oo M Sevenish, 37, at Oity, peri0! ebe Owens, 66, at 858 E. 15th, corthrombosis, io
in other citie
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Chicag Cincinnati Gieveland
Kansas
The joriowing table shows temperature 8:
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RAF DROPS MINES IN ENEMY WATERS
LONDON, June 24 (U. P.).—British bomber command planes, flying in weather which prevented raids on Germany proper, laid mines in enemy waters during the night and fighter command planes attacked enemy airdromes and railroads in Holland and northern France. Two bombers are missing. fighter planes destroyed two enemy planes. In their operations yesterday, the alr ministry announced, British Spitfires escorted by American built Douglas light bombers made a most successful raid on Dunkirk, on the French invasion coast. The crews saw their bombs burst among docks, dock buildings and railroads and about a big enemy supply ship.
POUND TO PROVIDE DOGS FOR DEFENSE
The safety board has announced it will co-operate with Dogs for Defense, Inc., which has asked for the right to get dogs from the city's pound for training as watch dogs at war plants. The request for dogs was made by Albert G. Meyer of 2645 Madison ave. in behalf of Mrs. W. Jim Roberts, regional director of Dogs for Defense, Inc.
Safety board members said a city]
ordinance regulates disposition of the pound’s inmates but that they would co-operate with the organization to the limit of the law.
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PELLEY IS TWICE JOLTED BY LAW
Denied Abatement Plea Here, Loses Appeal in
North Carolina.
William Dudley Pelley farad badly in his conflict with the law during the last 24 hours. The leader of the Fascist silver shirts was jolted in federal court here yesterday when Judge Robert C. Baltzell denied his plea of abate=
ment which challenged the validity of an indictment charging him with sedition in connection with articles in his magazine, “The Galilean.” Today, the North Carolina supreme court rejected his appeal from a state prison term imposed for violating conditions of a prior suspended sentence.
Convicted in 1933
The North Carolina case grew out of a conviction in 1935 for vialation of the state's blue sky laws. In 1941, Pelley was ordered to serve two to three years of the suspended sentence but was released on bond pending the outcome of the supreme court appeal. In affirming the sentence, the North Carolina court rejected Pelley’s plea that he had been the victim of “gross and palpable abuse of judicial discretion.” Although the verdict makes Pelley liable for a prison term in Bone combe county, N. C. the question of prior jurisdiction of federal and state governments remains to be decided. Federal officials here indicated that the North Carolina decision would not affect Pelley’s trial on sedition charges. If he appeals to the U. S. Supreme court, the situa-, tion will remain the same. If he is taken by North Carolina, he could . be brought back here under guard for the trial. In overruling the plea of abatement, Judge Baltzell told Pelley’s attorneys he “frankly couldn't see much to the plea.”
Challenged Indictment
Along with Lawrence A. Brown and Miss Agnes M. Henderson, his associates in the Fellowship Press and co-defendants in the sedition case, Pelley had challenged the indictment on the grounds that there were no women on the grand jury and that Special Assistant Prosecutor Oscar Ewing and Deputy Attorney General Henry Schweinhaut were not sworn in properly. Judge Baltzel] remarked that “if your contention followed through, it would be necessary to try a farmer with a jury of all farmers.” Meanwhile, the defense attorneys have until Monday to file demurrers and motions to quash the indictments with the trial here set for July 28,
THE DIFFERENCE IS—
WASHINGTON, June 24 (U, P.). —Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who has become quite an old hand at entertaining royal visitors, summed up her experiences this way today: “The only difference between royalty and other guests is that they take up more space. We have to provide them with a sitting room, - as well as a sleeping room, so they - can receive their own guests.”
STRAUSS
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a logical Sibjest for
a "report to the public" . These are they!
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