Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1940 — Page 5
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THURSDAY, OCT. 17,
DRAFT BOARDS ARE SET UP AT K.-P. BUILDING
Begin Work of Numbering 60,782 Men in County; State Total 414,449.
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give a valid reason for failing to register yesterday, they will be allowed to register.
Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, head of the Selective Service staff, declared he was well ° ‘pleased with the “efficient manner in which the registration was conducted in every Part of Indiana.” Registration througnout the state was somewhat lighter than had been estimated. It was explained that there was no completely accurate method of estimating the number of men in the state between the ages of 21 and 36. At the time the Burke-Wadsworth bill provided for registration of men between the ages of 21 and 31, officials figured 1 per cent of each age group or that 10 per cent of the state's total population would be affected. Estimate Too High
When the age limit was increased, the same method of estimation was used which would place the state’s total registration around a halimillion. This 1 per cent figure was too high, yesterday's registration showed. The registration totals of the counties in the Greater Indianapolis area are: Monroe, 5307; Montgomery, 2905; Shelby, 2696; Rush, 1925; Putnam, 2148; Madison, 11,502; Johnson, 2731; Boone, 2350; Clinton, 3018; Bartholomew, 3485; Hamilton, 2561; Hancock, 1881; Hendricks, 2203, and Henry, 4715.
The local board offices in the K. of P. Building contain a reception room, a room for the board members and a room for the medical examiners. The rent, according to Selective Serice officials, averages a little less than $45 per month per board. It is to these offices and the office of Board 8 in the Federal Building that the young men will come for their medical examinations. These are the offices with which they must keep in contact to either notify or be notified of any change in the individual’s status.
Offices Are Listed’
1940
Little Man Who Was There
“big” guys.
technique, but especially in ways to cope with national defense matters in time of any great emergency. The results of this program arg now crystallizing into every-day actualities in that these 500 graduates are serving as important
liaison officers between the Federal
{ Bureau of Investigation and local The local boards, the floors of the K. of P. Building on which 14 of
law enforcement agencies in effecting a smooth-running operation ot
them have offices, the areas over the law enforcement program for which they have jurisdiction and|the internal security of the country.
the number of registrants in their areas are:
Board I=Second floor. 2. 4147 registran BOARD aia ‘floor. War
Wards 1 and!
539. BOARD 907. 4109. 15 SARD 5—Ninth floor. Wards 12 and ESARD 6—Seventh floor. Wards 9 and BOARD Sin floor, Ward 7 and Pets. 1. 2. 3, 8 10 and 11 of Ward 8.
D 52m 230. Post Offices Bhd; 3 25d Pets. 4, 5, 9,
ard 5466. BOARD Bo Eleventh floor. Ward 10 and Pos. 1, 3, 5, 6 and 10 in Ward 16 6 BOARD 10—Eleventh floor, yard 17 gud Pcts. To iin 12, 13, 14 and 15 in 3 BOARD 11—Fourth floor. Wad 24 and Wavne Township (outside), BOARD 12—Seventh Hoos. Wards 14 and| 15 and Decatur Township, 4801. BOARD 13—Third Noor: Wards 13 and 22 and Perry Township, 4414 BOARD 14—Eighth floor. ward 21 and Washinton and Pike Townships, 2949. RD 15-—Fifth floor. enter TownLs A cor, and Warren, Franklin and Lawrence Townships. 2109.
3—Sixth floor. Wards 4 and 20. | sons?”
ROARD 4—Pifth floor, Wards 5 and 6.|
‘| spectacular,
The question most often asked
[the FBI is—"if this fifth column
activity is known to be so wide-
ds 3 and 23.|SPread, why doesn’t “the Govern-
ment arrest the responsible per-
Counter Espionage
The answer is a simple one—the Government has chosen as its
| method of attack a comprehensive
system of counter espionage.
Vance Swift of New Albany, Ind. is the little man who was there
WILLKIE CHARGE TERMED ‘FALSE’
Morgenthau Denies Treasury Action on Tax Bill Delayed Defense.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (U, P.).— Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. said today that Republican Presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie’s charges that the Treasury has delayed the defense program are ‘‘utterly false.” Mr. Morgenthau replied in a formal statement to accusations Mr. Willkie had made at Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 15, relating to the Treasury attitude in defense tax amortization. * “I prefer to believe that it is pure ignorance that has led him to make a series of utterly false statements,’ Mr. Morgenthau said. Mr. Willkie had asserted that the Navy Ordnance Bureau had requested income tax amortization provisions on defense contracts as early as April, 1938. These provisions were enacted last week. Mr. Morgenthau said that the Navy's original request was made to the Navy Judge Advocate General, and concerned only depreciation allowances, under the Vinson-Trammel Act. : Mr. Willkie, the Secretary said, “has mixed up the act which limited profits on Navy contracts with the income tax amortization problem which was rajsed « » « In June, 1940.”
when selective service registration got under way at Public School 14, Corona, N. Y., yesterday. Standing but 212 feet high, Vance, 2 memher of the midget troupe appearing at the New York World’s Fair, had a bit of trouble making his presence known alongside the other
America Is Battleground of Foreign Agents, Hoover Says
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It is often more expedient to keep a known group of foreign agents under surveillance than it is to make arrests. Surveillance of subversive elements permits law enforcement officers to observe their contacts, establish their methods of communications, discover their sources of information, and to head off any overt act. The activities of spies and saboteurs have long been scrutinized. Their names and activities have been carefully indexed and filed
| geographically’ for future reference.
Added to these are the names of leading agitators in the GermanAmerican Bund and the Communist Party. Your Government knows their identities and their activities. It is not conducive to the internal security of the country to issue irresponsible statements with fiaring headlines as to who they are or
‘What they do. The American people may rest secure, however, in
Under this system the A thought that their responsible
3 is placed upon preventive measures. | Government agencies are alert to
They are less dramatic and non-|and aware of these fifth column
but intensively effective. In fact, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson has pointed out | that the more successful these measures are, the less the public knows about them. The less a foreign agent knows about them, the less secure he feels in perpetrating his offenses against the United States and its institutions.
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activities. FBI Makes Suggestions
Among some of the preventive measures developed and established by the FBI has been the project for the survey of the facilities of plants and factories having con-
tracts with the Army and Navy to]
determine the vulnerability - for sabotage or espionage in-such places. This project has been in operation for a little over a year, and much constructive work has already been accomplished. The personal liberties of no lawabiding citizen will suffer from the protective measures “which have been taken by law enforcement in this time of our nation’s crisis. This guarantee can be given, however, only so long as citizens leave the
[task of law enforcement to duly con- | stituted officers and do not succumb | to the hysteria of vigilante groups.
It is equally as important that our | people do not adopt a defeatist attitude as regards the handling of fifth column activities. The fact that our
| daily press may not contain state-
ments of the dragnet raids and startling exposes of subversive agents does not mean that nothing is being done by the constituted authorities to cope with this menace. Experience has taught that better results and more effective security can be attained by a quiet, intensive and. at the same time regular handling of the situation. The President of the United States, foreseeing the difficulties ahead, over a year ago recognized that combating foreign agents within our midst was definitely a technical problem and - was one that could only be handled on a national basis, through the constituted agencies of law enforcement. In 53 Main Cities At that time he designated the Federal Bureau of Investigation to act as a clearing house for intelligence information, and called upon all law enforcement and law-abiding citizens of this country to co-operate by referring complaints pertaining 1 Pational defense matters to the |
The offices of the Federal Bureau | of Investigation are located in 53 of the principal cities of the United States and its territories, and are open 24 hours of the day and night
| to receive from any source whatso-
ever information which would be of value for the preservation of our national security. In addition, the headquarters office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Washington, D. C., is likewise open at all times, and any person in any part of this land may reach it by calling Washington, D. C., National 7117. Co-operation should be the full measure of public participation in this attack upon foreign ‘enemies.
GUNS ROUT NAZI E-BOAT LONDON, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—British long range guns emplaced on the Straits of Dover today shelled a German E-Boat—motor torpedo boat—which fled after several shells fell near it. The boat was escorted by a German Dornier seaplane.
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“Mr. Willkie’s assertion that two and one-half years elapsed before the amortization problem was _disposed - of is 100 per cent wrong,” Mr. Morgenthau said. “The problem of computing costs under tne Vinson-Trammel Act, which he confuses with the tax amortizaiton problem, was disposed in February, 1939. “That was just one month after the Treasury Department received the Navy's first formal request for consideration of this problem.”
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
eau CF TAR
Simms:
~ Nazis Suspect Soviet Double Cross If Germany Ever Gets Into Corner
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—While Washington and London continue their strange flirtation with Moscow, whose word neither can trust, Germany has massed 120 divisions— nearily 2,000,000 troops — within striking distance of the eastern, or Soviet, front. . This I have from an intelligence officer representing a major European power. The exact significance of such a large force in that area, he said, remains to be seen. It might mean, he suggested, that the Nazis have definitely abandoned their plans
to invade Great Simms
~| Britain this fall.
On the other hand, the troops would be safer from British bombers there, and if required for invasicn purposes they could be Srinied to the coast in short orer. But of one thing the officer was positive. The Nazis, he said, are known ito suspect the Russians of harboring plans for a double-cross if Germany ever finds herself in a corner. Far from working together as quasi-allies should, each is moving independently with little or no advance notice to the other. There is reason to believe, he said, that the only occasion when Berlin and Moscow synchronized their movements by prearrangement was at the outset of the war. As the price of walking out on the socalled Anglo-French “peace front,” Russia was to have Eastern Poland and a free hand in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Since then most of Moscow’s moves, even in Finland, have irked if not surprised Berlin. Accordingly the Nazis are said to be taking Moscow less and less into their confidence. When Moscow. is informed of some contemplated Nazi move, only the briefest possible notice is given and then with little or no detail. The Vienna award of the Rome-
Berlin Axis restoring half of
Transylvania to Hungary was, to all intents, a surprise to Moscow: And the Kremlin, for some 24 hours, is said to have angrily contemplated a public protest. But it seems that Berlin had complied with the letter of the Berlin-Moscow agreement, though not with its spirit, by giving a few hours’ notice. Hence it was thought better not to make an outcry. It would look to the .outside world as if things were not going well with the Nazi-Com-munist entente. : But now the Nazi move into the Balkans seems to have been a little too much for the Kremlin. It
#¥ quite bluntly denies receiving any
advance notice that German troops would be sent into Rumania. Few, however, expect an early break between Berlin and Moscow. Hitler has gone to great pains to make certain that Russia remains neutral while he destroys the big and little democracies of western Europe and probably matures his plans for an invasion of the Near East. It is thought, therefore, that Russia has been offered something, perhaps all or a part of India, and an outlet on the Indian Ocean, if she will continue to play ball with Germany, Italy and Japan. That the new triple alliance does not trust Russia, however, is no longer a secret. Nor is the fact that Germany and Italy had Russia largely in mind when the alliance was negotiated. Russia is the one big country that both Germany and Japan can get at if she shows a tendency to kick over the traces. Neither of them can get directly at the United States. Such is the situation as the United States and Great Britain pursue their amazing courtship of the Soviet Union. Those who know their history wonder. Stalin and other Soviet spokesmen, they point out, have .made it very plain that Moscow wishes this country no good.
EXPLAIN COOGAN REJECTION
OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 17 (U. P.).—Jackie Coogan, former child screen star, was rejected on medical grounds when he tried to enlist recently in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Air Ministry sources revealed today. Mr. Coogan took his medical examination in Vancouver.
‘AID BRITISH AT ONCE'--WILLKIE
Eggs Tossed at Candidate Before Speech to 12,000 In Evansville.
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The New Deal has had eight years in office and has miserably failed to solve our economic problems. We have more than 9,000,000 unemployed today, as many as we had four years ago when the third-term candidate was running for a second term.
Contrasts Two Promises
“We know the record of the New Deal, and now we have its promise. Its promise’ is more unemployment. That is its frank and shameless L.promise. Our promise is more- jobs. “America must choose between two. promises. The young people of America must choose. between a party that promises them a career on the relief rolls and a party that promises them jobs. People of America, faced with these alternatives. if you elect the party that promises jobs, what have you got to iose?”
Ohio campaign last night at Cin-
New Deal relief policies before an applauding, flag-waving crowd in partially filled Crosley Field. Police Chief E. T. Weatherly estimated the crowd at 14,000. He charged that “our modern society and the New Deal” had created “a new form of slavery unemployment—that does not shut men in— it shuts them out.”
Charges Voters Coerced Speaking over the blue network
votes,” cheering relief vote the New Deal ticket and to contribute to campaign funds. Mr. Willkie pledged that his Administration “will continue, and will reinforce, Federal relief as long as any man in America is out of a job.”
than the Works Progress Adminis-
of the National Broadcasting Co., he|} asserted that ‘the New Deal has; looked upon unemployment as an opportunity to exchange bread for} workers to|§
And will -seek other methods §
tration to aid the unemployed. He said Republicans will “investigate carefully the usefulness” of Dpro= posals that “all the functions of res lief be turned over to the states, supported by Federal grants-ine aid.”
Lists 5-Way ‘Relief Program But until a new and better meth« od is developetl, Mr. Willkie said he would continue the present Federal
relief system, improving it in these
ways: 1. Placing greater emphasis on de= veloping “valuable public . works projects under private contracts,” including barracks, airports, bridges and highways. . 2. A merit system for WPA ade ministrative employees and Congres= sional allocation of relief funds te states in accordance with the nums= ber of employed so “no official im Washington would have the right to withhold money from one locality while increasing payments to an= other.” ; 3. Work relief employees should be treated as Government employees and not “as a class apart.” 4. Conferences of A. F. of L., C, I O. and other groups to develop a national apprentice training proe gram. 5. Establishment by Congress of machinery to co-ordinate Federal, state and local relief efforts.
Mr. Willkie climaxed his southern | fF
cinnati with a sharp attack upon|g§
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