Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1940 — Page 20
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LINKS BRITISH AND US IN FAR EAST
Director of bis Institute of Foreign Affairs Believes America Would Take Up Arms to Rescue England in Showdown.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—The United States “will take! : acs how] are based on observations gathered
director |
up-arms to rescue Britain” should things come. to down 1n the Far East according to Kokasu Tamura, of the Japanese Institute of Foreign Affairs.
sans ed nT BRITAIN ISSUE HEATS UP
fact that the Japanese InstiCongress Waits Fireworks
tute of Foreign Affairs is] known to reflect official opinOver Extent of Sale Of War Materials.
ion in Tokyo, especially Foreign Office opinion. ‘By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer
§
Japan, therefore, is represented WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—There
as torn between the will to go ahead with her expansion in China, will be some fireworks in Congress in the next few days over the extent |
Indo-China, the Dutch and British East Indies, and the fear that if she does go ahead she may have to face war on four sides at once— against the United States, Britain, China and SPoviet Russia: Mr, Tamura's views appear in| the September issue of “Bungei U. 8. Protests Cited of United States’ aid,” through sale | Every time the Japanese bring | or transfer of war materials, to Engpressure to bear on the British inland. Several Senate and House the Far East—whether (at Tientsin, members are preparing to demand Shanghai, the Burma Road or else- | brep 2 2 where—says Mr. Tamura, the State |
Shunji,” in Tokyo.
So “it has become common sense supplies being furnished the British. to regard Anglo-American diplo-| Senator Cabot Lodge (R. Mass.),
macy as one and inseparable, 2 far as Japan is concerned. The | Dimself an Army man and rated
United States is making the British | ‘among the best informed men in cause in the Far East its own and the Senate on military affairs, will Is pushing a parallel policy with go on the radio tonight with a London.” {speech in which the aid-to-England The Abe Cabinet, the Director of | issue will be discussed. the Institute goes on to state, tried | “I am for defending America, ” to improve relations between Japan | Senator Lodge said today, “and until and the United States. “He chose | ye have a two-ocean navy and a Admiral Nomura (long popular in! superior air force and some eight this country) as Foreign Minister (armored divisions, I can't see that expressly that he might improve | we're justified in disposing of planes them. . .. But no amelioration took or tanks.” lace. : i x P “Then the Yonai Cabinet appar- Agiation For Aid Grows ‘ently took the stand that although| There has been increasing agita-| it would be difficult to improve tion for’ more aid to England, inrelations with the United States, at cluding some of of the four-motored | least something could be done not flying fortress bombers which "are to aggravate them. Thus it would ‘believed to have greater range than be a huge success for Mr: Matsuoka anything Europe has. (present Foreign Minister) if he | Senator Bennett Champ Clark (D. prevents American-Japanese rela-|Mo.), frequent critic of Roosevelt tions from growing any worse, let foreign policy. said he planned a alone improve them.” two-hour speech to discuss the dis-
Japan Not to Blame, He Says posal of this country's war supplies
to England. The. trouble is, according to Mr.| On the House side, Rep. Edith Tamura, “the present aggravation in Nourse Rogers (R. Mass.), said she American-Japanese - relations is a | would introduce a resolution asking unilateral tendency on the part of | the President to give Congress a the United States for Which gepin statement on equipment to England. is not to blame. Japan still seeks | L to maintain friendly relations with Full Information Asked | the United States.” “The reason Great Britain has But, he goes on to explain, the made such an amazing stand against | United States doesn't like Japan's Nazi invasion, or against Hitler, is attitude towards China and it because her civilian population and doesn’t like Japan's attitude to- her Army and Navy were informed wards Britain. by ‘Winston Churchill as to what “The United States demands that | they might expect,” Rep. Rogers Japan adopt a policy towards China | commented. = “Congress and - the and towards Britain which it de- | people should have full knowledge of sires. The absurdity of the idea is vital war materials being disposed patent, Japan can not take the | | of.” American order and bow the knee | Mrs. Rogers also asserted that the to Britain lor China at this stage. House Foreign Affairs Committee, of No improvement, therefore, can be which she is a member, had “ceased hoped for in American-Japanese re- to function and is practically exlations.” tinct.” During a period in which However, Mr. Tamura observes, are occurring foreign affairs of vital the probabilities are that the United | importance to this country, she said, States “will not attempt armed in- the committee meets only intervention for the sake of China” | frequently and knows virtually nothuntil - it completes its two-ocean| ing, in an official way, as to what Navy, in 1946.” is going on.
DEMAND KEEPS MINT 6.5755 = WORKING STEADILY,
his [thes on in August. A members of Congress were PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25 (U. P.).| —The Philadelphia mint-is making] |
d to be attempting to get de{re eh from the War and money hand over fist but at that it’s nearly down to its last cent.
Now Pebariimeis as to material disposed of, but were said to hens had, little success. Working a steady 24-hour shift, mint employes are producing 4-| 200,000 coins daily but are unable
Let 'Em Thumb Their Way Over to meet the demand tor money and replenish the establishment's nor-
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (U. mal reserve of $1,500,000. T p
P.).—The Treasury has decided Aside from the steady output, | that the American thumb tack which is shipped away as fast as| industry is not being injured by it can be packed, the mint's reserve | importation from Germany of the is only $100,000, offi¢ials said. celluloid-covered variety of tacks, “There are probably several rea-| and authorized their importation. sons for the increased demand for
( The decision cancelled a previous small coins,” Superintendent Edwin | ruling barring their importation. H. Dressel said. “The greatest, pos-
Now all the Germans have to sihly, is improved business condi- |
do is to find a way to deliver tions. Another is the greater use| them to this country through the of pennies as a result of new na- |
British blockade. tional defense taxes.”
Notwithstanding the present Yash.) IMPORTS cuT SLIGHTLY
Dressel's workmen must prepare to, LONDON, Sept. 25. (U. P.).—
meet the annual demand for coins | at Christmas, which is no small Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross
. problem. announced over the radio early to“We will continue operations ony, 'tn.t| allied and neutral ships |
the present seven-day schedule un-| ore arrivin "Tia { g with 4,000,000 to 5.-| til the New Year at least, he said. 000, 000 tons of imports monthly.
“Beyond that 1 cannot say. Normal imports in peacetime aver- |
CITY JAILER KEEPS |*"20.0m0im ton wopitly, en CELL FRIENDSHIPS
that the Administration give an ac-| Department at Washington objects. | [counting of types and quantities of
Fear Freedom, Hope America Will Stay
The following is the third of a short series of interpretative articles by Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers. They
in a 30-day 30,000-mile tour of the Far East, starting from California over the new Pan-American service to New Zealand.
By ROY W. HOWARD ESPITE the thousands of miles between Manila and the Caribbean, the deal for American bases in the British posses-
sions was big news in the Phil-
ippines. Many viewed the move as a step toward ultimate re=versal of the Tydings- McDuffie Act granting . Philippine inde-
pendence in 1946. The interlocking nature of the events is more logical than is casually apparent. Most. Filipino politicians -still
proclaim publicly their desire for |
independence, now assured them by Congressional action. In private conversation most will admit that once the American flag comes down Japan can and will take over the Islands at her convenience. In the face of such a certainty all Filipino leaders admit that Japanese dominance, which would certainly mean Japanese exploitation, would be intolerable after American administration which has developed into almost complete local autonomy. Nowhere in the Far East, not even in China under Chiang Kaishek, is local political leadership in stronger or more skillful hands than those of Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon. By no one are Japan's intentions better understood than by Mr. Quezon. But events have frozen the Filipino leaders position.
" ” ” OR 30 years Manuel Quezon
was a consistent and aggres- .
sive advocate of Philippine independence. The sincerity of his attitude was above question as long as the possibility existed of collective security—of independence to be guaranteed jointly by the United States, Great Britain, Japan and other powers with territorial and. political interests in the Pacific. The Manchurian incident of September, 1931, and Japan's flouting of the Nine Power Pact was a crushing blow to Mr. Quezon's hopes. He understood the sig-
| nificance of Japan’s conquest of
Manchuria before most Filipinos had even sensed its: relationship to their problem. Abyssinia, the collapse of the League of Nations, the invasion of China proper, and the second World War! In succession they carried away piece by piece the last hope of Philippine independence coupled with security, in a world where force ignores all treaty obligations. With the hew Commonwealth government and his own inauguration as president set for November, 1935, Mr. Quezon faced political suicide if at that time he attempted the hasty education of - his people as to why the independence he had long fought for had suddenly ‘become of questionable value. The new president, with a keen understanding of the Philippine psychology, did not dare risk the charge of deserting the independence issue at the moment when even a hollow success was in sight. He stalled and played for time.
o 2 s
N the meantime, two lobbies in Washington went into action to make certain that, like it or not, the. Islands got their independence. One lobby represented the American sugar ine terests, eager to exclude dutyfree Philippine sugar. The other ‘represented the dairy interests seeking to bar free Philippine coconut oil used in a small way in the manufacture of margarine. . Today a well-organized committee of leading Filipino business men and politicians is working for reconsideration. of the entire independence idea. The ultimate objection is abrogation of the Tydings-McDuffiie Act and establishment of some form of dominion government under the American flag. President Quezon’s hold on public confidence is so strong that
. no one doubts that he could, in
a very short personal campaign, convince his: people of the futility of a small nation so vulnerable
| as theirs hoping to defend its in-
dependence in a corner of the
werld where might is the inter-
| preter of treaties and the arbiter of the fate of small nations. Mr. Quezon has, however, re=
volume of imports was enough to meet the nation's essential needs. | EL PASO, Tex. Sept. 25 (U. P).— Ralph Howard has more friends oo jail than out—and he has no police record. He's the El Paso city jailer and is known.as “Mr. Ralph” to all city jail inmates. Howard has a knack of capturing the friendship of the prisoners, and upon being released many of them write him. . Since March of this year Howard said ne has received two dozen letters from ‘‘exes.’ One letter came from a man who had escaped. The fugitive penned ‘the following: “Hello, Old Pal: Just a few lines. Trusting you are fine and dandy. Sure hated to leave your modern hotel, but the food and those easy, soft beds just didn't agree with my physical condition. Best wishes, Jimmies.”
FIRE
Hammond
ment against the flying snow.
So, they shovelled 15 tons ot burning ‘coal out of the basement. It took them five hours, and they were, at press time, very grim about the exeprience,
EVANSVILLE STORES le ee ATTACK GROSS TAX| AND THEN, at Alexandria, the
EVANSVILLE, Ind.; Sept. 25 (U.| P) '—Constitutionality of the State Gross Income Tax Law was challenged today in a suit filed in Superior Court. by Evansville retail merchants who alleged the act unenforceable, unworkable and void. The suit asks a court order to prevent collection of tax payments | or levying upon property for de-| linquencies. Hearing was set for
perience, They were hastily summoned to the grocery store by a youth who said he. saw smoke inside the place. They made skidding tracks for the store, got in, and were confronted, ‘not by smoke, but by a fme mist blown from an automatic fly spray. A few flies had been fooled, i@o, but more permanently.
Hoosier Goings On
Fly Spray Fools
By JOE COLLIER
LOREN L. WHITNEY, Hammond, having lived long enough to know that winter can’t be far behind fall, put 15 tons of coal in his base~ |
liremen had quite a ditterent ex- |
Firemen Shovel Out Coal: | Youth
Alexandria
Then the coal caught fire informally in some mysterious way and the firemen were cailed. The firemen realized that so long | as the coal was burning in the basement, the house was menaced. |
At Huntington, Ind., they re port the discovery of a |clumsy cal which doesn’t land [on its feet but lands, almost invariably,
. on its Kisser. ?
This cat, moreover, takes it and likes 1t. It is bruised and seems to have an inferiority complex. An attempt soon will be niade to count its lives. . # n 8
THE ONE ITEM in the whole state, however, which really has us mystified is the new created. presumably. Grove Cafe, Gary, as a delicacy. It is called a (get this) *Barbicated Porkwich. »
- THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES °
. S.-British Deal Raises Philippine Hopes
mained ‘silent on the subject of independence after 1946. The reason is no uncertainty as to what he could persuade his people is best for them, but his very justifiable uncertainty as to how the American Congress would react to the suggestion of a reconsideration in favor of a dominion form of government for the Islands. 8 ® » NDER the Tydings-McDuffie Act. the subject of the future relations comes up automatically for consideration ‘at least one year” before the final grant of independence. Theoretically this consideration has to do with future trade' and tariff relations. Actually it is expected to embrace the broader subject of a continuance of tine American flag in the Islands. Those working .for dominion status hope that before 1945 the great American export industries, such as U, S. Steel, General Motors, General Foods, General Electric, etc., will develop an appreciation of the great tarifffree market they are throwing in-
STARTING THURSDAY MORNING
‘the entire Far
The waterfront at Manila . , . will America or Japan control it?
to the lap of Japan. It is hoped and believed that, once they realize that withdrawal from the Philippines means withdrawal from Eastern market, they will launch a campaign in Congress to offset the efforts of the relatively unimportant sugar and dairy lobbies. In the meantime, an effort will be made to urge upon Congress and the Washington Administra= tion the formulation of a clearcut Far Eastern policy—something we have lacked since the Japanese exploitation of Manchukuo nullified the Open Door policy of John Hay. It is in connection with a new American policy in the Far East, which they believe may grow from the present tendency of British and Americans to draw together for common defense, that Filipinos opposed to independence base their hopes. ‘If the United States intends to
{ adopt a purely isolationist policy
and interpose no objection to Japanese domination and ploitation of everything beyond Hawaii, our day in the Philippines is obviously near its close.
ex-
So also is the era of complete local autonomy which the United States has developed under the Philippine commonwealth.
o ” » UT many Americans in the
Far East believe that isolation will be found impractical, if
not impossible, and that before it is attempted consideration will be
given not only to American export markets in the Orient, but also to our import needs in the form of rubber, tin, quinine, etc. If in the light of such considerations the United States adopts a policy of maintaining its political and economic status quo, the extension to the Pacific of the same basic formula of British-Amer-
ican mutual defense that has been
established: in the Atlantic would alter the entire picture for the British, the Dutch and American interests. Recent straws in the wind have been the settling, by negotiation between Washington and London, of the status of necessary island bases for Pan-American Airways in the South Pacific. More recent-
ly there has been the increasingly
recurrent suggestion of the use by the American Navy. of the great Singapore base. Should American use of the Singapore base develop even as a temporary measure, the move would ‘alter the whole pattern of the Pacific, at ‘least insofar as Japan is presently attempting to reshape that pattern in her own interest. An American or a British fleet: at Singapore would definitely affect any plans Japan might have for a southward thrust in the direction of the Netherlands Indies or Australia. It might even hasten a fair and just Sino-Japanese peace in a war which obviously has become deadlocked. But before any of this must come annougcement of a definite and long-time American policy in the Pacific, a policy broad enough to respect the legitimate needs and aspirations of every other nation, Japan especially, but at the same time clearly defining and limiting the rights which America regards. as legitimately hers, and the mainte-
nance of which she is prepared’
and willing to protect.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1040
CLEAR ALIEN IN MATTSON CASE
California Prepares to Try Muhlenbroich Only for De Tristan Kidnaping.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25 (U. P.) —Federal authorities prepared today to surrender Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich, 40-year-old German alien, to state authorities for trial on charges of kidnaping 3-year-old Marc de Tristan Jr. They inferentially had cleared him of complicity in the’ kidnaping and murder four years ago of 10= year-old Charles Mattson of Tacoma, Wash. Muhlenbroich had confessed that he had kidnaped the de Tristan child last Friday for $100,000 ran=som, According to Earl J. Connolly, as= sistant director of the FBI, Muhlenbroich, at the time of the Mattson kidnaping, was operating a barber shop in Willows; Cal. Muhlenbroich was to be removed to San Mateo County Jail to await trial under California’s “little Lindbergh” law. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment. The death penalty is mandatory only if the vice tim is harmed. The de Tristan child was not harmed. Cecil Wetsel, and Ellis Wood, the woodsmen who captured Muhlenbroich and rescued the child, were taken, from the FBI offices yester= day to call. upon the Count and / Countess de Tristan at their Hills borough home. Mr. Wood, 32 and father of five children, blushed furiously when the Countess ducked her ‘head toward his shoulder, and, holding each by the hand, beamed upon them, Mr. Wetsel, 220-pound former football player, who has three children, insisted that Mr. Wood had more to do with the capture than he did. “This is all a lot of bunk,” he said.
HELD ‘IN DRUG ROBBERY NEW CASTLE, Indy ept. 25 (U, P.).—Ralph Sylvester, 19, of Green= field was held today af allegedly confessing the robbery of a drug store in which he was employed He told police he took $25 from soda fountain re= ceipts and fled.