Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1940 — Page 22

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MALTA IS BLASTED BUT FORT HOLDS

Writer Touring Reck-hewn British Base Finds Inhabitants With Spirit Unbroken by Merciless Air Raids. |

By JAN YINDRICH United Press Staff Correspondent

VALETTA, Malta, Oct. 9—Italy has hammered 150 air attacks against the solid rock of this British island fortress since the entry into the war, I found today, taking a toll of about 200 killed and 400 wounded. I am the first representative of an American news organization to be allowed to tour the bombed areas of this naval base midway in the Mediterranean. Despite the incessant Ital- : ; fan attacks I can report that in sows, indulent fever in gout and the spirit on the island is still official note paper. high and that the fortress’

Malta is only a half hour flight . from Italy, which explains the ease power to defend itself has not been shaken.

with which the Italians carry out Some 700 persons have been

their attacks. bombed out of their homes, but

Wives Interned The island is preparing to defend they have found safe shelter in ? uk g the tunnels and caves hewn in solid

itself against possible invasion with Tock five conttitic go by th the same {ferocity with which it ; 5 5 | fought Napoleon's invaders more Knights of St. John, 8 p Raids Slow Down

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than 100 years ago. Taking their lesson from that war in which the . | French Knights of St. John allowed The Italians began their attacks prench ike to me * into the by launching an average of eight fo (ress, the local authorities have raids a day against the island. That | rounded up all Italian suspects— went on for a month. During the poy 200 in all—and dispatched second month they slowed down to {em to Egypt. Italian wives of phot Tou daily raids. There has| Maltese citizens have been interned. SEH oly one Interruniion 1 tne ui Barbed wire barricades have been

tack, During one period of eight; \retched across all roads and many

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This building, in western German town, was destroyed by Royal Air Force bombs, according to Berlin censor.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __

NEW BUSINESS HIGH EXPECTED

Defense and Foreign Trade Are Credited for Rise By Jones.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U.P.).— The Commerce Department today looked forward to industrial production this winter that will reach new record highs. The defense program and heavy foreign purchases of war materials are responsible. Commerce Secretary Jesse H. Jones reported that business activ-

September, reaching levels attained in December, 1939, the highest month on record. % New business pouring into manufacturing concerns and the heavy volume of unfilled orders, he added, assured a further expansion of production during the winter months. Predicts Higher Figures

He said that defense expenditures "Ifrom July through September amounted to $596,000,000, while contracts cleared by the National Defense Commission totaled $7,600,000,000. But these figures, he said, “greatly understate the quantity of production now in process. for the defense program since the bulk of supplies are not paid for until delivery.” August exports were 10 per cent above the previous month, totaling $342,000,000 of which $190,000,000 went to Great Britain, he said. Meanwhile, Chairman Joseph OC.

O'Mahoney of the Federal Monoyou.y

Interest on Lock Systems

By HARRY MORRISON

To most of us a lock is somethitig a key goes into but to ‘Best, the lock |§ + company of Indianapolis, it’s a| scientific protection problem. ; Since national defense has made|3 the country think in terms of saboteurs and foreign agents, the Best Universal Lock Co. has made about 30,000 locks to guard the Government’s secrets. In peace time, the theft of plans

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ity continued to aavance during;

tor the slowing up of work may mean disaster to one person or a |company. In war time, such con‘tinued sabotage may spell ruin for| 'a nation. | That's why Best has been asked to install master key schemes in 'scores of American factories where lairplanes, tanks, reconnaissance cars {and munitions are being made for| the nation’s defense. } The Best system, like some other systems, can isolate a section of} a factory so that not even the pres-| ident could get into it. At the same time, the company, has patents on an ‘interchangeable core.” By making the core—the part | of the lock containing the tumblers and the key—interchangeable, a whole system of locks can be changed within a few minutes after the loss or theft of a key. As a matter of fact, one big In-|§ diana gear company who recently received Government orders changed | all its locks and keys overnight. ” Companies taking long-term Gov- | Frank E. Best . . . 30,000 Jocks ernment orders have nad to re-. to protect national defense secrets. + . | jorganize completely. When they do The girls who set the tumblers in that, they call in a lock company, {often Best. The problem is presented to a Best expert.

the locks follow a serial number. | The shipping clerk knows where the heen spent in foreign affairs with

TR NEL WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 1940 h National Defense Puts New MISS THOMPSON SUPPORTS F.D.R.

‘He Has Assets No One Can

Match, She Explains in ~ N. Y. Paper.

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (U. P)— Columnist Dorothy Thompson, a

4| consistent critic of President Roose-

velt’s policies, announced. in her column in the independent-Repub-lican New York Herald Tribune today that she was supporting him for re-election. “This column,” she wrote, “has often criticized the Roosevelt Administration, and sometimes very sharply. On the issue of the Supreme Court Bill, the manner of the spending program, on the silver policy and the production versus purchasing power theory, and on some of the tax measures and the arguments and means used for enforcing them, this column has not seen eye to eye with the Adminis~ tration. . “But I shall support the President because I think he has assets on nis side that nobody can match... .. The President -knows the world. He knows it . . . better than any other living democratic head of a state or ex-head of a state. The range and precision of his knowledge— military, naval, pplitical; his understanding of conflicting social forces; his grasp of programs—all these impress every person whose life has

He and the company officials work | lock is going, but he never sees the whom he talks. No new President

out the -best system of protecting | serial number.

jcould acquire this knowledge in

The Best company was founded | Weeks or in months or in four

Committee made public a summary | €ach segment of the factory, both | | years ”

of a report prepared by Labor Sta-|from outside sources and from otheriin 1925 at Seattle by Frank Ellison tistics Commissioner Isador Lubin | employees, who, having access to Best, the inventor of the interwhich held that employment and |those segments, might inadvertently | changeable. core, who is company production are retarded by rigid|give away important secrets. | president. Europe's 1940 wheat crop- (excluding | prices which are maintained collu-| There would be scores of keys,| It was moved to Indianapolis two Russia), but said that it did not|sively at unduly high levels. Mr.|each opening locks to successively | years ago to provide a more central foresee any pronounced curtail-| O'Mahoney. said the report, entitled fewer. sections oi a factory. |location and a factory was estab-|merly of Cleves, O., died today from ment of food tinis winter because “price behavior and business policy,”| The lock combinations and the lished in the old Cole Motor Car|complications of injuries suffered other cereals promise to be abun-|does not represent ‘committee find- [ultimate locations of the locks are Co. building at 730 E. Washington July 4 in an automobile accident | kept separate at the lock factory.| St. : :

PREDICTS WHEAT DROP ROME, Oct. 9 (U. P.).—The In- | ternational Institute of Agriculture | today forecast a 16 per cent drop in

deys no lialian planes came over. |,.10", the island. Stone build-|

The Ttalian attack has cost them jpg have been converted into block- | a steady stream of pilots and planes, | pauses and every effort has been the Maltese say. Italian losses! iaqe to meet the possibility that were estimated at 35 planes and 46 {pe Italians might attempt to land

pilots. parachute troops.

Touring the bombed areas and McMillins' Home

EPISCOPALIANS | OPEN SESSION

DIES OF AUTO INJURIES

ANDERSON, Ind. Oct, 3 (U. P.), —Mrs, Margaret Swaltney, 75, for=

ings. near Cleves.

the air raid shelters I saw scenes Life Featured

that recalled vividly the havoc Times Special

wrought in Spain by Italian fliers during the Spanish Civil War. BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Oct. 9. —The family life of Indiana

I was told that on some occasions University’s football coach, A. N.

as many as 60 planes have attacked (Bo) McMillin will be told in the

the rocky fortress, which has an November issue of the Ladies

area of 90 square miles and is mhabited by some 250,000 persons. Home Journal which goes on the news stands today. McMillin and

The Italians usually come over at a height of about 18,000 feet. At that altitude: they can not be heard from the ground. Only rarely do they attempt dive-bombing tactics. his family were chosen as being: representative of American families living on incomes ranging from $5000 to $10,000 per year, “Bo” has a salary of $10,000, a

- Bomb Fells Gateway Ironically enough the first bomb 10-vear contract at Indiana, a $14000 home, a family of four

to tall on Malta dropped near the children, all of which 1s the back-

magnificent old stone gateway of the Porte des Bombes at Valetta: It ground for the intimate story of the McMillins told in the current

fell June 11 and made a crater In the street two feet deep and six feet across. Two persons Were killed by that bomb. A nearby government power station built of solid blocks of Maltese stone was hardly| jcsue of the Journal. Jarred by the explosion. There are two boys and two The greatest.damage, I found, was' girls in the McMillin family. They inflicted on the poorer quarters, bought their home out of savings where the houses are fairly modern,| and the largest item in their but are not built of the huge hewn | budget is $1800 for insurance. lens of Sone as Bre Sia ‘historic| The sum of $1020 is spent for food uildings o e island. : hes. I i through streets, lined] ee $0 1) Goes, with abandoned houses and shops, housekeeping is explained in the along which no automobile could | article. ever travel because of the narrow- | oo hess of the passage. Spared of One Terror ‘REPORT JIMMY HAS Malta has been spared one ter-| tor. There have been no great fires CALL INTO SERVICE This is because of the general stone | construction which is impervious to : inp p | Daily Variety, film trade publicaincendiary bombs. : fe The stone is so strong that it can|tion 0 ni fash ig t that the resist anything but a direct hit. 1 22d Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps saw several houses which had been | Reserves. in which James Roosevelt, struck directly, but even in these son of the President, is a captain, cases damage wits onfined io that | 12s been ordered mobilized for duty 2 L , : part of the house where the bomb | ype 23ee9 Now 3: ke hotion hit. Snag shrapnel merely | picture director, has received the, pocks he wa 15 : _.,_|orders to prepare for service, the he a Wi Vien the JA1US| paper said. The battalion is com2, et 1s indica y theiposed mainly of film workers and fact that the Government Council oy been drilling weekly since its finds time to discuss the respective | formation by Maj, Van Dyke several difficulties of treating tuberculosis|months ago.

‘Mission Crisis, Proposal to

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|in Japan—including St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo and

| HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 9 (U. P).—]|

Alter Divorce Canons Face Delegates.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 9 (U, P.)—The 53d triennial convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church opens today, faced with a crisis in its international missions and a highly controversial proposal to change its strict canons on marriage and divorce.

In its two-week meeting—the first since 1937—the church will consider a war-time policy for its far-flung missions, most of which operate under difficulties imposed by dictatorial regimes. Foremost will be the problem facing the church's 60 missionaries, 125 parishes and endowed institutions in Japan, where a recently enacted law forbids foreign missionaries or contributions. The church stands to lose a vast spiritual and financial investment its. $10,000,000

famed St. Paul's University. Executive Secretary John Wood of the Department. of Foreign Missions, was virtually in constant session with Bishops Shirley Nichols of Japan and W. P. Roberts of Shanghai planning an Oriental policy to be presented to the delegates. The war emergency will bring a proposal from the Church of England that the U. S. institution take over its West Indian and Canadian missions for the duration of hostilities. Most controversial issue expected to come hefore the convention was an investigating commission's proposed liberalization of the marriage and divorce canons which now forbid remarriage, in the church, of divorced persons. ’ The commission studying proposed union with the Presbyterian church planned to ask the. convention to continue the study for another three years.

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