Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1943 — Page 19

NAVY DEFENDS ELK HILL DEAL

Official Refutes Langer’s ~ New ‘Teapot Dome’

Inference.

WASHINGTON, June 11 (U.P) — The navy, seeking to dispel inferences it was party to another “Teapot Dome” deal, said today that its

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agreement with Standard Oil Co.} of California for acquisition of oil

lands in the Elk Hills, Cal, oil reserves, was purely in the. interests of petroleum conservation. Senator William Langer (R. recalling that the Teapot Dome scan-

dal two decades ago involved the}

Elk Hills ‘navy oil reserve and the Teapot Dome reserve in Wyoming, charged that the navy’s deal already had yielded Standard of California 20 “excellent producing wells.” Langer made his charge in the senate late yesterday. The navy announced the signing of the condract and its details last Dec. 11. According to the navy, its contract—approved by President Roosevelt—called for the purchase of 8300 acres of Standard’s oil lands at a - cost of $1,750,000 in cash. In addition, Standard was given the right i one-third of all the oil produced the land, but the navy alone py. Sn determine how much if any of the petroleum could be produced. Standard was to operate the fields at cost for the government. Furthermore, a maximum production of 15,000 harrels a day for the next five years was agreed upon. Thus, . Standard would be entitled to 5000 barrels a day as its share during that period.

SIGN TOMORROW FOR Y. W. C. A. CAMP

Registration for the day camp sponsored by the’ Y. W. C. A. Girl Reserves, Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls will be between 9:30 and 11:30 a. m. tomorrow for girls between 8 and 14. They can register at: eY W. C. A, schools 69, 68, 48 and 67; Mayer chapel, 448 W. Norwood ave.; Keystone Community center, 7255 N. Keystone ave.; South Side Community center, 1233 Shelby st.; Irvington Presbyterian church, Spade’s park, Riley park, Northeast Community center, Watson rd.

REGISTRATIONS FOR CANNING SUGAR SET

‘Canning sugar certificates will be distributed in the community centers of Hamilton county beginning Monday and continuing through June 19. Registration places will be open from 1 to 5 p. m. except Saturday when the hours will be 7to9 p.m. Those living in the southern part of the county can register at Fishers, Carmel and Westfield. , Special application forms also will be available at grocery’ stores.

ESCAPES DEATH, "LOSES GAS BOOK

NEW YORK, June 11 (U, P).— Anthony J. Passera, called before the OPA for motoring to Atlantic City on Memorial day, said he was visiting his son in the army. .Told that there was adequate rail service, Passera said “But if I had gone on the train I would have been killed.” The train that day crashed outside of Camden, N, J. killing 14 persons. His “A” ration book was suspended until Aug. 21.

0. E. 8S. TO MEET Monument chapter 549, O. E. S., will meet at 8 p. m. Monday in the Masonic temple, North and Illinois sts. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Friedman will preside as worthy patron and matron.

Airy,

The heir presumptive to an ancient Scottish baronetcy has been discovered in Indianapolis. He is Robert Wilson Stirling, local funeral director, whose discovery keeps the family title from becoming extinct. Mr. Stirling will become Sir Robert upon the death of the present lord.

U. S. MAY TAKE PRIVATE CARS

lllinois Official Says Step To Be Taken ‘When and

If Necessary.’

COLUMBUS, O., June 11 (U. PJ). —The war department plans to take over the use of privately owned automotive vehicles: on a national scale “when and if necessary” for transport of troops, equipment and material in order to relieve demands upon the railroads, John J. Nash, Illinois commissioner of motor vehicles, said today. Nash, president of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, said that representatives of the army and state civilian war transportation committees will meet with motor vehicle administrators on July 12-13 at Ft. Hayes, Columbus, headquarters of the 5th corps area, to make plans for “taking over private trangportation when ‘and if necessary.” Nash said the plan included the use of all privately owned passenger automobiles, busses, trucks and traiiers.

‘PRESS HANDLED STUPIDLY’—MRS. R. NORWALK, Conn. June 11 (U. P.).—Mrs. Eleanor ‘Roosevelt told an audience of 1250 at a “Town

Hall © meeting” last . night she thought the “press was handled

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Springs’ food conference. “They should have been told that it was a fact-finding mission and that no binding agreements would be made,” she said in reply Wb a

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R. W. Stirling Next in Line For Ancient Scottish Title

Mr. Stirling was told about the title yesterday. He is the heir to the baronetcy of Sir George Stirling, 73, lord-lieutenant of Stirlingshire, Scotland, and ninth baronet. Sir George's two sons have died, ene at sea in 1938, the other of wounds received at Tobruk in 1941. When this occurred Sir George had the family line traced to determine who has the right to the title, and in a letter written to the Indianapolis Stirlings in January, he stated he believed they would be his lawful heirs.

Family Long in U. S. Further, verification proved this is so. Mr. Stirling is the great-great grandson of Sir John Stirling, who became the fifth baronet in 1791. Sir John came to America, and before returning to Scotland, married a Connecticut girl in 1771. His eighth son, Robert, was born in 1791; and Robert's son, Robert Dundas, was born in America in 1832. Robert Dundas’ son, Charles, was the father of the present Robert Stirling. Created in 1666

Mr. and Mrs. Stirling, who live at 1420-22 Prospect st., have a son, John Charles, 21, who takes his last army physical exam on Monday. He will continue the title, and at present is the last of the family. The baronetcy can be continued through his sons. The Stirling baronetcy was created in 1666, but the family history goes back many centuries earlier. It is one of the oldest families in Scotland. An invitation to visit Stirlingshire has beén sent to Mr. and Mrs. Stirling by Sir George, and Mr. Stirling says that he would like to go after the war,

Undecided About Title

“But Johnny may get there before that,” he said. The Stirlings don’t know if they will use the title, but it is theirs by birth and so they have every right to do so. Mr. Stirling’s father often stated the baronetcy should come to them. The Stirlings have family papers and histories. , John wears a ring with the family seal, given to him by his father as a graduation gift.

Title to a Scottish baronetcy will be inherited by Robert Wilson Stirling (right), local funeral director and a ‘direct descendant of the fifth baronet. With him are his wife and their son, John.

ESSENTIAL MEN FACE INDUCTION

More Than 20,000 Industrial Workers in Indiana Included.

Men who have been deferred from military service because of their “essential” jobs in war plants will be listed for induction within the next three or four months, state selective service officials announced today. More than 20,000 industrial workers in Indiana, mostly those without dependents, who in the past have obtained occupational deferments, are now being processed for induction, Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state selective service director, said.

10,000 Face Call

It was estimated that another 10,000. war plant workers will be called later within the next 12month period. Plans for induction of industrial workers were outlined at a conference of 12 state selective service appeal boards here yesterday under

the industrial replacement program schedule. "More than 300 industrial plants in Indiana have signed up for the cooperative program under which selective service officials and factory managements will work together in ordér to keep industrial inconveniences tp a minimum. Board to. Co-operate

Capt. Samuel Springer, occupational adviser to the state selective service, explained that before an

essential worker is inducted the management will be given an opportunity to find a replacement. These replacements, he said, will be men over the draft age, and women, -Col. Hitchcock said no man under 25 years of age will be deferred as a “key man” in industry unless he is an engineer or plant superintendent. : Instruct Boards

Also. draft boards have been instructed to discontinue deferments for older men in industry unless it can be shown they can’t be replaced. Of 270,000 persons employed in war plants participating in the replacement program, 168,600 are men over the draft age or those who failed to pass military physical requirements. 'THe remainder are women. Col.’ Hitchcock said that up to now about 150,000 Indiana men have been inducted into the armed services.

APOTI TOTES

War Analysis—

TIDE TURNS IN EUROPEAN WAR

Nazis May Resort to Gas As Allies Prepare for

Final Phase.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, June 11.—The European war appears to be entering a new phase with the axis completely on the defensive as far as Susiegy is concerned. The only front on which the Germans retain a possible hope, of strategic initiative is the Russian front, and where they virtually are hamstrung by threats piling up in the west. High allied quarters emphasize that this does not mean Britain,

the United States and Russia should go overboard on the optimistic side.

_ |The tasks ahead are difficult and

may be made more difficult if the Germans chose to employ weapons thus far not applied, such as gas.

Can’t ‘Launch Drive

Even in Russia, best sources believe, the Germans no longer are capable, for instance, of launching an attack serious enough to threaten Moscow—about the only strategic possibility remaining for the Nazi eastern armies.

This does not mean that the Germans are not capable of opening a major offensive in Russia, but it does mean that the wehrmacht no longer is strong enough to knock the Russians out of action and at the same time defend itself from the west. At the moment, the situation is this: The allied offensive in the Mediterranean has been launched. It still is in its preliminary phases, such as immobilizing Pantelleria and Lampedusa in order to open a route fer an all-out attack, possibly against Sicily or Sardinia.

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However, it is obvious from a glance at a map that it would be

possible for massed allied assault craft to by-pass bomb-spattered Lampedusa, from which the axis no longer would be able to operate planes or naval forces, and launch the main attack against other islands. It also is evident that the royal air force and the united nations air force based in Britain are capable of initiating an air offensive against Germany, Italy and the occupied countries such as the axis never before has felt at the exact, moment invasion forces shove off across the Mediterranean. General agreement exists here that the weather is the chief factor in the interruption of the air offensive against Europe from the west, but the lull appears to be working out to the strategic advantage of the allies. The long rest enables the American and British fliers to prepare for hitting the enemy with considerably more strength than in the last series of attacks. The allies are not likely to ignore the obvious advantage of striking simultaneous blows from several quarters. The Germans have only a limited number of possible answers. One is gas war. Another is whatever offensive can

By-Pass Isles

| be mounted in Russia, and a third

is the employment of as many aircraft as are available against allied invasion bases, both in the Mediterranean and in the British Isles.

‘YARD BIRD JR. LOST IN BIG BOMBER ‘RAID

LONDON, June 11 (U. P.).—~Authorities revealed today that the American Flying Fortress “Yard

Anyway, Bill Can: Brag About

His Note From Gen. Patton

EL PASO, Tex., June 11 (U. P.). —Ten-year-old Bill Patton can brag today to his schoolmates about the personal letter he received from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in North Africa, but he’ll have to be content to wait his turn on the fighting fronts. The fifth grade student wrote Gen. Patton, offering his services as mascot and asking if his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Patton, could be related to the general. He explained that his ancestors came) from Londonderry, Ireland.

school.” After two months, Bill's answer arrived. Gen. Patton wrote: “My dear Bill: “Thank. you very much for your letter, but while I have the greatest admirdtion for the Irish, I cannot say I have any ancestors from Londonderry. “I certainly hope that by the time you grow up we will be in a period of peace time, but you can be sure that during your lifetime there will be more wars, and I feel convinced that being a boy from

“Please answer this letter,” Bill Texas, you will give a good account wrote, “so I can brag to the kids in! of yourself when the time comes.”

CHARGES RIOTS AT JAP GENTER

Internees Took Over Camp For Whole Week, Says

Dies Witness.

LOS ANGELES, June 11 (U. P.). —Japanese at the Poston, Ariz. relocation center held Caucasian camp employees under siege and threat of death for a week during riots there last November, H. H Townsend, former camp supply officer, told a Dies subcommittee. The Japanese held control of the camp and the riots continued because the federal bureau of investi-

gation, the U. S. Indian service and the war department would not assume responsibility, Townsend testified. The Japanese sang their national anthem, pulled down the American flag, cursed it and the government, and seized complete control from the camp administration, Townsend said, while a force of military police adjacent to the camp could not obtain authority to cross the road and quell the disturbances.

Food Stolen and Stored

Townsend said a fence was constructed around the camp on orders of the war department, but the Japanese tore it down. He estimated the cost of the fence at $100,000. There were more than 1000 Japanese soldiers and officers in the camp, Townsend said, and they had stolen and stored in secret caches about the camp more than $100,000 worth of food. Loyal Japanese told him the food was stored in anticipation of the arrival of an invasion army, he said. “The mob used 5000 gallons of gasoline the first two days of the riot,” Townsend . said. “I finally obtained the keys and put the 4000 remaining gallons of gas under Caucasian guard. Later the acting director, John Evans, ordered me to surrender all the keys to the Japs. . . “1 told him to go to hell.

“A conference vas held, which

Col. Main of the U. S. army from the military post nearby .attended. “He had been sent there to settle the riot. He was denied this right and was not given any opportunity to take action with the angry Japs. “Finally after release of two prisoners who had been jailed things quieted down.” WLB ORDERS RAISES WASHINGTON, June 11 (U. P.). —The war labor board today unanimously ordered general increases averaging 4 to 5 cents an hour for machinists, firemen and oilers, and tobacco production workers in plants of the P. Lorillard Co. at Richmond, Va., Louisville, Ky., Jersey City, J., and LaCrosse, Wis.

Coal Burning Car Ends Gas Worry

PHILADELPHIA, June 11 (U. P).—C. C. Mershon, a crate manufacturer, has designed the perfect answer to an OPA agent’s quizzical glance. He has an automobile that depends only upon successful conclusion of the coal miners’ difficulties. Mershon’s 1922 Stanley Steamer, converted to a coal-burner, can make the 65-mile run to Reading at a cost. of 35 cents. It carries 200 pounds of coal and gets one and a third miles to the pound.

PLAN ACTIVITIES FOR AID SOCIETY

LEGION CLEARS EASTERN POST:

Waring Says South Fork Apology to Lewis Was ‘Unauthorized.’

National Commander Roane Waring of the Americal Legion said today no disciplinary action would be taken against South Fork, Pa., Legion post 653 for a resolu=-. tion apologizing to John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president, for attacks on him by Waring. The resolution was adopted May ° - 2. Mr. Waring said a report of a

special committee appointed by the’ Pennsylvania legion department to investigate the South Fork post's action showed the post retracted and repudiated the resolution. : Reports showed, he said, ithe reso lution was released by an “unauthorized committee of three men’ appointed after a post meeting at--tended by only 10 members.” Commenting on the miners and the recent strike, Mr. Waring said: at ‘a press conference it appeared Iewis had “jockeyed Solid Fuel Administrator Harold Ickes into an embarrassing situation which may cause considerable trouble.” Mr. Waring said Lewis now had, something on which to “hang” his’ appeal to public opinion. He said: that he believed: miners should. not be penalized for the strike, and if anyone should be punished, it" should be Lewis and the other leaders who caused it.

Children Meet

Help - Crippled Board Will Sunday.

Kenneth R. Miller, executive secretary of the state society for crippled children, will present a summary of the year’s activities and will outline plans for the coming year at a board meeting to be held Sunday noon at the Hotel Lincoln. Dr. C. C. Josey of the psychology department of Butler university, will speak on “Psychology of = the Crippled Child.” Mr. Jay Howenstine, Elyria, O., executive secretary of the national society, will be present. Mr. Miller announced today that the 1943 seal sale had reached a total of $48,000, and that returns were still coming in. The total for the 1942 campaign was $23,891.

Program Outlined

The program and objectives, as outlined by Mr. Miller, include the following services; Camp Millhouse, a health, recreation and treatment camp for crippled children, sponsored by the St. Joseph (South Bend chapter of the society; a bedside school for home-bound cripples in Ft. Wayne, sponsored by the Allen county chapter; a shelter workshop for the vocational training of handicapped persons, located in Indianapolis and maintained by the Marion county chapter, and an outpatient occupational therapy department maintained at the Theresa Blumbeg Health center in Terre Haute, under the supervision of the Vigo county chapter. Other chapters are in Elkhart, Delaware, Howard, Clark, Floyd, Perry, Harrison and Gibson counties. All inquiries. in regard to the program and services offered by the Indiana society for crippled chil-

N.|dren should. be made through Mr.

Miller, 621-622 Lemcke building.

RITES TOMORROW FOR LEROY SNYDER

Services will be conducted at. 3 p. m. tomorrow in the Little & Sons funeral home, 1916 N. Meridian st.,. for Leroy A. Snyder, 252 S. Rural st., who died yesterday at Sunny-' side sanatorium after an illness of six years. Burial will be at Crown, Hill. ‘Mr. Snyder, who had been an electrician with the Skillman Electric Co., for 20 years, was born in Indianapolis, Dec. 31, 1898. He was a member of the Eagle lodge, the. Union of Electricians and of the Presbyterian church. He'is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ola Snyder; a son, Leroy Jr. and two sisters, Mrs. Ruth Colen and Mrs. Marie Kautsky, all of Indianapolis.

SEEKS TO PROVE NON-EXCESS PROFITS

CHICAGO, June 11 (U. P.).—John T. Cahill, attorney for E. H. Rollins" & Sons, seeks to show. today that the firm did not realize excessive profits while handling the accounts of the board of missions Methodist church south over a four-year period. Cahill will attempt to show secur-: ities and exchange commission examiner, Henry Fitts, that the company made a total profit of only $345,078 while handling board of missions’ transactions involving $11,613,319 from early 1939 through 1942,

CHURCHILLS SEE ‘BLIMP’

LONDON, June 11 (U. P.).— Prime Minister Winston Churchill made one of his rare public appearances last night when with his’ wife he attended the premiere of the: movie, “Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” at a west end theater. In, one of his jolliest moods, Churchill’ gave the V-for-victory sign repeatedly in response outside the; theater both before and after the

show.

Bird Jr.” was lost in enemy terri-| {

tory on May 29, the day on which United States heavy bombers in the strongest force employed so far raided St. Nazaire, Rennes and La Pallice. Cecil E. Craft of East St. Louis, Ill, was radio operator aboard the plane and is listed officially as missing.

Drape-Shaped Males Droop,

Zoot 'Auxiliary’ Carries On|

LOS ANGELES, June 11 (U. P.). ~— Dark-eyed ‘“cholitas” packing razors in the tops of their black mesh stockings took up today street fighting where their male zoot-suit counterparts were being forced to drop it. Garbed entirely in midnight black, with an above-the-knee version of the hobble skirt, they grandiosly vowed to carry the battle against servicemen and police “until one side or the other is wiped out.” Three of them attacked a waitress coming out of a downtown tunnel, knocked her down, and slashed

.| her with a razor.

Her assailants fled when an unidentified man ran to her aid. The victim, Miss Betty Morgan, 22, bore several cuts and was bleeding profusely. Taken to emergency hospital, she was hysterical. There was no apparent reason for

|-the attack.

“The cholitas, auxiliaries to the

zoot suit:gangs which for months.

have made walks on dimly: lighted streets a risky affair, stoutly insisted they would not be diverted. Although service men have been ripping the zoot clothing from the male mobsters, such treatment of the female branch presented a problem. “Nobody is going to take my outfit off me,” a cholita advised police.

Angeles is faced with the humiliat-'-

ing fact that the navy has found it , necessary to declare the city out of

bounds.”

By UNITED PRESS Radio Tokyo yesterday seized upon the Los Angeles disorders between service men and zootsuited young gangsters to criticize U. S. armed forces.

Tokyo, heard by the United Press at San Francisco, blamed the soldiers and sailors for the demonstrations. “The ruffian-like behavior of the American doughboys and sailors is so well known that it has almost become a tradition in the American armed forces,” the broadcast said.

Both army and navy authorities held an off the record session with State Attorney General Robert W. Kenny.

Another investigation by the office of inter-American affairs was under way, but so far had not passed the “report” stage. Zoot attacks; , meantime scattered. At Pasadena, a mob of sailors and civilians pursued fleeing zootsuiters through the downtown dis-

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