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FINAL HOME’

“THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1942

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postomice, : Sndisnapolis, Ind. Issued daily i Sunday.

PRICE THREE oy

At rest’ since. ast Sundyy, i

Box 319. A' ‘windshield sticker says, “Drive Slow.”

ARMY CREATES

AIR-BORNE UNIT|

Division Includes Canadian]

Contingent ‘Which Sets: . Precedent.

Formation of the army’s first complete ‘alr-borné division—described as part of the fast-moving, haidstriking elements that will be necessary to: unseat tlie Nazi control of Europe--was announced today by Unferseoretary of War Robert P.

82d and ey each with about 8000; troops each or approximately half the personnel of a Tegular Infantry ’ division. 0 Patterson alio announced creation of two ‘other arm units—th first special service force and a spe: cial - transportation corps of the services of supply. Unique Combat unt ‘The special service force is a ue combat unit composed. of men skflled in offensivé operations. It ineludes—for the first time in United States history—a contingent - of ‘Canadian troops serving as part| of aU," Ss. army unit, ‘Details of the special force's operation suggested ~ that it might be used in Alaska and Canada.

The special transportation: ‘corps | will ¢o=ordinate and speed the flow of ‘men, equipment and supplies. The air-borne divisions equipment and ‘personnel will be transportable by planes and gliders, but they will be . organized along the lines of present Antantry units.

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0. E. Boatman of R. Rs ‘11, Box ‘under chain and padlock.

of tires and a crash that moved the Needless to say, they ‘tumbled

An 18-year-old youth stepped dazedly from the car and down to the ground inquiring, “Where's Lhe road?” .. To which ‘Mr. Boatman. replied, +It sure isn’t here.” : Leaving the ‘road 40 test from the Boatman home, the. car had careened across the lawn of neighbor, tore a treet out by its “roots, ripped through a 20-foot-long lumber pile stacked six feet high with railroad ties and fhen “flew” 26 feet through the air to land on the truck bed, { And the youth—he skinned. his knee and elbow. But the car—it's quite a wreck. “And: Mr, Boatman wants damages so he is holding the car as hostage by chaining and padlocking it to the truck bed. : Ironically facing in toward the driver on both ends of the .windshield are two shield signs. They say: “Drive Slow,” V ...— and Lock Your Car.” It’s locked all right,

ACCUSED OF FIRING CIRCUS

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6 (U.P). — County Detective Chief -Charles

roustabout, discharged because he didn't “work. fast enough,” has ‘confessed seiting fire te the menagerie tent of Ringling Brothers & ‘Barnum and Bailey circus in Cleveland. Tuesday.

By ROBERT J. CASEY

: Copyrignt, it ,0 The Indianapolis Times

Chicago Dally News, s, Inc he The flags were flying. ‘The. bands were playing.

ways. The submarine stuck a pent scope above water. , , .

: Harbor the affairs of the Pacific

| ocean were covered with a : deep

and silent’ gloom,

The navy went about in mysterious ways its wonders to per~ form, so mysteriously that a lot of people were surprised to find

that it’ was agtially perform

Saga of dhe Daring Yours. % Man in the Flying Coupe

Leith reported today ‘that a circus!

copie ‘a 1939 Chetralet. perches atop fhe tuck bd of o. E ‘Boatman; R. R, 11,

379, is at war and holding a hostage

At 5:20 a. m. Sunday the Boatman family was awakened by a scream

0il stove in their house by four feet. out of doors to investigate, And

there, on the west side of thefr house, perched a 1939 Chevrolet. atop the | bed of Mr. Boatman’s hauling truck.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 w. Py—|.

KILLED IN PATH OF SPIRIT OF ST, LOUIS

d/Benjamin McKee Carried

Mile by Locomoitve. An 82-year-old man was killed this morning when he was struck at S. Arlington ave, by the Pennsylvania Railroad’s “Spirit of St. Louis.” He was Benjamin F. McKee, 82 a resident of a nursing home on S. Omer ave. His body was carried on the front of the train for more than a mile before the train was stopped. Karl Fairbanks of Columbus, O., the fireman, said hé saw Mr. McKee start to run across the tracks as the train approached .the crossing, Mr, McKee had lived here. the past 20 years.

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BATAAN’S FOOD READY

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6 (U. P.). —Sixty-nine. freight cars loaded with goods for American prisoners on Bataan today awaited loading 6n the ‘Swedish ‘ship Kanangoora, now under charter to the American

The big ship started down We -

For a long time after Pear]

Jad Gress.

up around the navy and the mosscovered censors just as you'd expecs it to. Which you may take as a * partial explanation of why at this ‘time we should be harking back to an American submarine attack on Tokyo bay early in this war. You'd be surprised at how far ‘you have to go to get news. of this war. Well anyway, one of our sub- ‘ marines. went ‘into Tokyo bay. Having reconnoitered the shipping of ‘Yokohama, ‘the com-

‘out a suitable Spot and sat dovn on B he bottom of the bay. =

that, Bits erpuing de

Court Imposes 1st Death Penalty in 152 Years For Highest Crime.

- DETROIT, Aug. 6 (U. P.).—The

first death sentence for treason under a 152-year-old federal law was imposed today upon German-born Max Stephan, the 49-year-old Detroit restaurant owner who betrayed his adcpted country by befriending an escaped Nazi prisoner of war, - . The death penalty was imposed ky Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle. He ordered that Stephan shall be hanged at the federal penitentiary at Milan, Mich.,, on Nov. 13: Judge Tuttle said he hoped that the severity of the sentence would

% “teach a lesson to every disloyal

citizen of the United States.” Thus unless President Roosevelt or the United States supreme court

capital punishment, will have its second execution in 108 years. The last one occurred at Milan prison in 1933 when Judge Tuttle sent Tony Chebatoris to his death after his conviction in ‘an abortive bank robbery. ‘Nazi Chief Witness

Stephan was convicted of treason, the highest crime in tie land,

l3uly 2, by a jury which deliberated

only an hour and 23 minutes. : He was Accused of Helping a flee-|.

It was the first federal treason conviction since the whisky rebellion of 1781. In each case arising fiom the Pennsylvanig, whisky re-

convicted person. : Wife Collapses Twice

Stolid and. impassive throughout his trial, Stephan quivered and tears came to his eyes when sentence was pronounced. He was removed immediately. by FBI agents for his refurn to Milan. His wife walked from the court: room in a daze and twice collapsed in the office of the U. S. marshal. ‘Tracing Stephan’s life from his birth, in. Germany 49 years ago, through his service as a soldier in the German army during the last war, Judge Little said: “It is, of course, a. dreadful thing to take a human life but ‘we must remember that the offense of treason has to do with war and we must remember that war has to do

Max Stephan, is less valuable than the lives of our loyal sons which are being given to the cause of the United. States.

“Too Soff,” Says Judge.

“We have been too soft, to the extent of being mushy. There are foo many in the sob squad and too few in the fighting squad. “If the lives of many of our 82, boys are to be taken to help such a cause, this court should. not hesitate’ to take the life ‘of one traitor if it, in turn, will help that same. Just cause.” He recommended that. steps ve mbde immediately to. revoke .the citizenship of Stephan’s Germanborn wife and that she be placed

{in internment as an enemy alien

for the duration of the war.

~~ CARGO PLANES SPURRED ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (U. P.). —WPB Chairman Donald M. Neison said today that he believed plans. for turning ‘out big cargo planes would “be worked out .in a short time” in a manner favorable to the new mass production methods proposed .by Henry J. Raiser

_ mander ‘of the submarine picked

west coast shipbuilder.

ports by the crews of he subs themselves. Le ; . SUBMARINES tom lie submerged in daylight and come. ‘up at night to Shange wir air ‘and charge batteries.

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squarely in front of & shipyard, : On ‘the ‘ways, only a few

maybe or bigger.

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intervene, Michigan a state without{

pellion a pardon was granted the].

with death. The life of this traitor,

‘No Surrender!

Queen Wilhelmina

QUEEN IS GIVEN A SUB-CHASER

Dutch Ruler Is Speaker ‘Before Congress; Busy In Capital Visit.

"WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today presented an American submarinechaser to Queen Wilhelmina of Holland as a ‘symbol of the friendship and admiration of the people of the United States” for the brave h ' people and eir fight st Naziism.. The colorful presentation cere{monies took place. at the Wash o [Ington navy yard, They were a

3 ys ly tu A ‘Ont high. point “of Fife EY b | Jast Koel. “Krug, Tater EE ‘-{Texas, was the government's ace witness,

sovereign's State visit to Washing= ton. Earlier today she’ held a press conference for. American newspaperwomen—and almost ‘wept as she described the hunger of people in the occupied homeland. Speaks to: Congress Then she outlined to a joint session of congress her nation’s war aims—recovery of lost - territory, prevention of future wars. and participation in Post-war. economic planning. Both the floor and the galleries of . the senate chamber were jammed: when she spoke. : Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes, present as a former -sena(Continued on Page Four)

HINT U. 5. TANKMEN OPERATING IN EGYPT

Believed Fighting Side by Side With British.

CAIRO, Aug. 6 (U. P). ~United States army tank €rews may have gone into action on the Egyptian desert front where British patrols are knifing out on all sectors, it was reported today. American armored . units rosenily completed intensive training in their General Grants, working and maneuvering behind the British lines, and then were moved to the front where they took: their . place ‘beside

Alamein, : “A number of American érews have been training behind the lines in General Grant tanks -and now are: > Joining: British units,” an informed source said. “Other Amer-

ican tank crews will follow.”

The ‘informant said that if the Americans had not: seen action yet, Sey soon: would. :

LOCAL TEMPERATURES Ga. m ...65 10am ... 7 Tam 68 1 am .,. 78 8 a. mi. was 68 12 (noon) ., 78

hundred yards distant, was a big ship—a liner like. the await, | solved ;

Jam. 1A 78

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You Don't Toss Torpedoes Onto Dry | land So the Ski

very nearly shed ® tear. To sink a ship like this one would be worth the trip across the Pacific. But you don’t toss’ torpedoes up ‘onto dry: land. You can’t sink ships with no Water under Lem.

‘BY MORNING be Siobiom was still unsolved. The sub went

Wm | back to ihe bottom.

So went the. routine tor quite a: time, el ‘the * commander Tooked,

Jone. count 0

the British tankmen "west of El}

PELLEY FACES

220 YEARS AND $110,000 FINE

Silver Shirt Founder and Two Associates Convicted of Sedition.

By EARL RICHERT William Dudley Pelley, the man who once ‘said his Silver Shirts meant to “save” America as Hitler

many, today faced a possible prison sentence of 220 years and fines of $110,000 or both for publishing sedi-

while it’ was at war. He is 52. ‘A federal court jury of farmers and: small businessmen last night found the goateed founder of the now formally - disbanded Silver Shirts guilty on all 11 counts of an indictment charging him with criminal sedition. Pelley’s two associates, Miss Marion Henderson and Lawrence A. Brown, were found guilty 'on- only ame 1l-count indictment against them, the count charging them with conspiracy to violate the sedition law,

20 Years Maximum Penalty

Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment or $10,000 fine or both. * * Judge Robert .C. Baltzell said he ‘would pronounce sentence on the trio at ID a. m. next Wednesday.

‘new. trial within: the. next

federal courts. The jury deliberated for three hours ‘and 15 minutes, returning their verdict at 9 p. m. When Court Clerk Albert .Soge-|’

“}meier read the verdict, handed to ‘thim ‘by Jury Foreman. Joseph ‘An-

stead of Sullivan, not one of the defendants showed a trace of emotion. . After he left the courtroom, Pelley said he was making no comment on the case in accordance with instructions given him by his attorneys, Floyd Chrisiian and Oscar F. Smith.

Pelley Back in Cell

Pelley. was returned to the county jail and the other two defendants were allowed by the judge to remain under their $5000 bonds pending seniencing. The. jury also found the PFellowship Press, Inc., of Noblesvile, the corporation that published. the magazine, “The Gealilean,” edited by Pelley, guilty on all 11 counts of the indictment. ges on which Pelley slong convicted were of making false

7 hiv. ements in “The Galilean” to in-

terfere with the operation and success of the U. S. armed. forces, causing and attempting to cause insub-|. (Continued on Page Four)

On the War Fronts

. Allg. 6 1942

MOSCOW—Gérmans smash deeper into ' Caucasus north of rich Maikop oil. fields; Ughten pincers upon Stalingrad,

BOMBAY—Gandh! ‘tell foliowers passive resistance campaign. will bring Indian independence ‘within month; Cripps warns of chaos if attempt is made to drive out Britis

AUSTRALIA—MacArthur’s Spokesman says Japanese forces in ‘New Guinea are in “most exposed po sition” against = possible allied counter-offensive,

LONDON—British lose five bombers’ in second straight night of

attacks on Ruy ipdustries.

pper Stuck Around Awhile

‘He gave orders to ease the big ‘ship toward the surface. They say that was a gala day for Japan, The - officials of the arid ‘were there—and a couple of admirals, as anybody could see from their flags.

And there was a brass band. At the proper moment some‘body knocked out the: blocks, The big ship started down the Ways. Just then the submarine came up. : re periscope edged. above wae "The commander lodked at the

scene for, one ih zou Aunbes

and his Brown Shirts “saved” Ger-|#

tious statements about his country||

Nationalists Abandon Hope Attorneys for Pelley and his asso-}| clates said ogeg that they ‘would | :

(file: mation for j - rs as the firststep|

in ‘carrying the case to the. higher

Widespread violence among India's

‘with Mohandas K. Gandhi, aban-

paign against’ British rule.

William Dudley Pelley

Lawrence A. Brown

Marion Henderson

CIVIL WAR IN INDIA FEARED

For: Any clang. *“Compromise,

BOMBAY, India, Aug. 8 wR —

masses as ‘predicted ‘today when nationalist leaders, meeting here

doned virtually all hopes of a lastminute compromise averting’ a na-tion-wide civil: ‘disobedience cam-

‘Members. of the All-India congress, summoned into session to approve Gandhi’s call for “sastygraha” (non-violent resistance) in support of demands for Intia’s immediate independence, said a resolution adopted yesterday constituted the congress’ “last appesl” to Britain and the united nations,

However, British reaction to this new resolution which promised that India will fight wholeheartedly on the ' allied side if. British rule. is removed was said to have made it ¢lear. that Britain will nof. go beyond its - offer of post-war ‘independence. Three-way iviehoe which ‘may approach : the proportiors of civil war with the Hindus, the Mosleins and the British as the chief protagonists was. said ‘in informed quarters ‘to be inevitable if Gandhi’s call for “satyagraha” is ap‘proved by the, full committee of the congress here tomorrow and put into action. : The Indian Moslems who number about: 80,000,000. and claim ‘to be the most democratic of India’s

(Continued on Page Four) COURT ORDER BLOCKS HUSBAND’S INDUCTION

le SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 6 (U.P.). —A Testraining order to prevent a draft board from inducting Grant

into the armed forces was-handed down by Judge Thomas W. Slick in what is believed: to be the first action of its kind in Indiana. . Walter's wife, Mrs. Lois Waller,

board ordered Walter to report for induction. Walter: had been classifiled as 1-A despite his marriage

and one child. Judge Slick set the hearing for Sept. 1. :

‘The commander of the: sub stuck his face to the ‘telephone." As the carrier hit the water the American sub put two tin fish into it. The carrier continued straight on down.. It was the most complete launching: ever seen in: Toye. oe .» “JUST AS WELL we're mov-: ing,” the commafder is quoted:

about this story. .

Walter, of North Manchester, Ind.,|

filed the petition after the draft

“That ship took over our: spot on |-

“Roialdomn if you ask ahy questions | | ¢ 3 But one fecalls that : mr | 4 unique | the sink=~

IS WEAKENING IN CAUCASUS

Stalingrad; Oil Fields Are Threatened. By EVERETT E. HOLLES United Press Cable Editor Stalingrad, the Pittsburgh of Russia, was threatened. to day by a German pincer from two sides and Nazi forces penetrated deeper into the

{Caucasus against what ape 8 peared to be a weaker Soviet

resistance.

Successive Rugéian defense lines: gave way before the weight ‘of the

| | Germans’ superiority in manpower ahd weapons and there was nothing gin official advices from Moscow to. {indicate that ‘Soviet army reserves .|were available for an offepsive at

any key. point.

the Kletskaya area 70 miles. northe west of Stalingrad—although’ they battled a Nazi drive that has edrried 45 miles. to a point about 90 miles southwest of the metropolis,

Superiority of ‘the German air force—muasses of dive-bombers, level bombers and fighters—which is 80« operating closely with German tank and.infantry forces was said By *

‘Novorossisk railroad. a claim ort if true meant that the Nazis have - penetrated more than 200 Tiles into the. Caucasus.

German-controlled Paris radio broadeast ‘a report today | that German advance ¢roops. already arésin contaet with Russfan forees in the area of Maikop, important center in the Caucasus. .

Allied military observers in Lone don, taking note of ‘developments and also of the absence of any Nazi claims of big encirclements, debated whether Marshal Semyon Timo= shenko might be withdrawing’ his forces intact under some master plan which has not yet become ape parent. ‘Worried Over Russ Morale

The London observer also) pressed concern with urgent a oa by the Soviet press to the defend. ers of the Caucasus to maintain their morale and wage. a victorys or<death battle. Latest advices from Moscow gave. this grim picture of the struggle:

The . Germans are pounding southward along ‘a 70-mile front between Kuschevka and Bee layaglina, moving dowh upon the great Maikop oil fields, which proe vide the bulk of Russia’s airplane fuel, and toward the Black ‘5a naval base of Novorissisk. The Ruse sians acknowledged ‘retreats south of Belayaglina and Kuschevka. Stockholm - reports said that the Russians ‘already had begun a scorched earth destruction of the great Maikop oil installations to prevent them from falling intact to the onrushing Germans.

Northeastward at the .great bend of the Don =» pincers of steel was closing upon Staline grad, great war industry city sprawling on both banks of the Volga and without which Marshal "Fimoshenko’s armies of ‘the south would be stripped of their source of supply. The Russians asunowlédged a German advance to Kotelnikovski, 90 miles southwest of Stalingrad, lover flat terrain ideal for the Nazi tanks. ~

the entire southern. front, the: mans said that their mobile fore |had cut the railroad running southe eastward to Baku and the Caspian sea soutlr of Voroshilovsk whic: they claim to have captured.

Call far Blood! |

An urgent call “for donors was issued today | Red Cross- plasma ‘quota. I was doubled. + In.order to meet the" qu

RUSS DEFENSE

Pincers Are Tightened on

| During the last 24 hours’ the Rus= sians have been in fighting retreat on all but one important sector—-

Telling of a steady advance aloig