Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1940 — Page 5

~ PRESIDI NT AND } ES CONFER ON

FIFTH COLUMN

Texan Firm in Demanding , ‘Fearless Disclosure’ of F Propaganda Groups.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (U. P.).—| }

President Roosevelt and Rep. Martin Dies (D., ‘Tex.), met at a White House conference today to thrash out long - standing disagreements over the Dies Committee’s investigation of un-American activities. Before going to the conference Mr. Dies said he was willing to co-

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anti-Fifth Column drive. He said, however, he” could not agree to cease publicizing propaganda groups. He called for: “fearless disclosures” of their activities. “If we should sacrifice that,” he said, “we would be going contrary to the Congress and the people.” Accompanied by Aids He was accompanied by James H. BSteadham and J. B. Matthews, both investigators, for his- committee, and Robert E. Stripling, committee secretary. It was only the second ti that Mr. Dies has conferred with Mr. Roosevelt since Congress created his commitiee two years ago. The President has criticized the commitlee severely many times. Mr. Dies has repeatedly: accused the Administration of shielding Communists and of failure to deport C. 0. Leader Harry Bridges. Today’ S meeting was requested by the President who asked Mr. Dies to return from his home in Orange, Tex., to discuss co-ordination of all the government's anti-Fifth Column activities. | Feud With Jackson The request followed a bitter ex- ~ change ‘of - statements between Mr. Dies and Attorney General Robert H. Jackson over the merits and efficiency of the| Justice Department’s campaign against subversive eleiments. A few hours before the conference Mr. Jackson announced that he was studying a 2500-page “factual report” on the Bridges case which he ordered reopened last Aug. 24 to determine whether there were grounds for deporting the C. I. O. leader. for his alleged Communist affiliations. The report was filed without recommendations by Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover.

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HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 29 (U. P)). .—Paulette Goddard today confirmed her marriage to Charlie Chaplin, but gave no details. Mr. Chaplin jntroduced her at the New York premiere of “The Great Dictator” as his wife, but did not elaborate. The confirmation came in Miss . Goddard’s answer, filed" in Superior Court here to a suit by Joseph R. Levee of New York, her father, seeking $150 weekly support from her. The answer said Miss ‘Goddard admitted a section of her father’s suit “wherein Levee had alleged that the defendant is a motion picture actress and the wife of Charles Chaplin, an actor by profession and a man of great wealth, means and income.”

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who usually starts her Christmas shopping a year early, finished the job this year with nearly a month to spare. Here she is before a New York toy counter, where she made her

War Moves Today

last few purchases.

Pressure on the British Government by a section of British public opinion to deliver a “knockout blow” to Signor Mussolini by heavier attacks on southern Italy and in Albania is based on belief that a collapse of Fascist morale is imminent. More evidence than is yet available, however,

of Italian war '.coming before that course.

Mr. Mason

fatal loss of morale at this time.

Great Britain have that purpose in view; but the British Government

considers it more important to attack military objectives and thus weaken the fighting power of the enemy.

Thus, although Southern Italy has

been brought within easy reach of the British air force by operating from Greece, nevertheless, attacks on northern Italy are being given preference. That plan of campaign is consistent with the British éonviction that military damage is mare frightening ciivilans. In north Italy munitions and industrial plants are largely concentrated. The Fascist installations of hydro-electric plants in the northwestern mountain regions are the sources of 50 per cent of Italy's power. Railways entering northern Italy from Germany carry constant streams of coal and other supplies. British strategists believe that if these strictly military centers can be destroyed or seriously disrupted, the effect on Italian war effort will be much greater than if bombings were concentrated -on southern cities. ! An eventual break in morale among the sturdy northern Italians

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weakening probably must be forthGreat Britain would be justified in

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that might follow grave damage to factories and.power plants and railways would have more practical meaning than a collapse among southern wine growers. If Great Britain had more planes air offensives against Italy could be scattered over different areas; but, for the present, it is necessary for the British to concentrate their attacks. A shortage cf ships’ for transport also compels the British to limit the movement 8f troops to assist the Greeks in the Albanian fighting. However, large British infantry help to Greece is not yet import ant. The Albanian mountains impose limits on the number of troops that can be used. Cautious tactics by the Greeks have become advisable in the face of stiffened Italian defense, and a large increase in Greek strength might lead to their reckless use in the mountain defiles. British planes are more important at present in Albania than troops. The British can spare only a limited number from their other

DIGI RUINS 0R ‘LIVERPOOL DEAD

After Eight-Hour Nazi Blast at Big Port.

By F. H. ATKINSON United Press Special Correspondent

LIVERPOOL, England, Nov. 29.—

search of bodies or persons possibly alive and trapped beneath tons of ebris 9 It had resulted. from one of many heavy bombs dropped in last night's eight-hour concentrated German raid on Liverpool and two other northwest towns. " The building up until shortly after midnight had been an instructional center for civilians assigned to war work. It was not known how many persons had been in the building when bombs started crashing down. The raiders came over the Merseyside district in. waves, some from the Irish Sea, and an endless curtain of ‘anti-aircraft shells shot into the sky in an effort to bring them down or chase them away. Shrapnel fell in the streets. like ra

Destruction Widespread

A tour of the city shortly after daylight revealed widespread destruction and rescue squads were digging into the ruins of many buildings for bodies and trapped persons. One bomb crashed into a | police station, but there were no casualties. . A block away a motion picture theater was half demolished. Two persons were known to have been killed and many were injured when a high ‘explosive bomb struck a public shelter. ‘An apartment building in one district was badly damaged. A bank on the opposite side of the street was wrecked. Many homes in the working elass district were wrecked as the bombs showered down on Britain’s second largest port to which come ships of the world with food, munitions and war equipment. Start With Ince@idiaries The raiders first showered the city with incendiary bombs, starting fires in widely scattered areas. fighters and air raid precautions workers battled the flames despite bombs and shrapnel. In some (districts violent machine gunfire could be heard above the roar ‘of the low-flying raiders as ground defenses shot at flares lighting up large areas. The path of tracer bullets also could be seen. For the first time in many weeks searchlights were turned on to light the heavens for anti-aircraft batteries blasting away at the Nazi bombers. In one residential area a high explosive bomb crashed near an apartment house, shattering all its windows and injuring some of its residents. Many persons were trapped under debris of toppling homes in another district but were rescued and few required hospitalization.

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Destruction Is_ Widespread Nazi Warships Chased Back After Foray Inte Channel,

London Reports.

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destroyers shelled the north coast of sen Corfu. According to the Greek ac-|cates extreme shortage on. the Rescue squads dug feverishly into|count the Italian warship or war- islands, according to the British. | what had been a building today in|ships fled at the approach of British

The Italians said a successful carried ~ out against Greek batteries at San Salvatore, San Stefano, Cultura and

Demands for a whirlwind offensive

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portant outpost of « empire n the eastern Mediterranean. Water, gasoline, oil, munitions and food are lacking on the islands ~| which the Fascists had hoped to use as an important base in the air and sea offensive against the Suez Canal, the British said: e fact that the Italians are g lubricating oils by air indi-

FAR EAST

The Far Eastern sensation of the day was the wrecking of a train carrying Japanese and Chinese

BALKANS

The situation in Rumania was tense. Al sorts of rumors circulated in the Balkans to the effect that Premier. Gen. Ion Antonescue and his Iron Guardist Cabinet member, Horia a] po resigned or would

resign, that new murders were occarring, that the Iron Guardists had split, that the Germans might take over the country and that indignation within Rumania - was

nearing the boiling point. | 1 Bucharest said the Government ; still had “firm control” of the situa- |:

against Italy were: led by Leslie Hore-Belisha, former War Minister. A major point of these advocates was that if the Italian fleet could be completely smashed, British fleet concentrations in the Mediterranean could be freed for .the vital task of

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treaty between Japan and the puppet regime of Wang Ching Wei.

tween Thailand and French Indo-|Bucharest and a crisis may come China. The French admitted Thai|Sunday.

morrow marking signing of al|¢jon put admitted that special military precautions had been taken. More fighting was reported be-|Iron Guardists were flocking to

face raiders.

protecting . Britain's harassed sea routes against Nazi U-boat and sur-

planes bombed the strategic railheads of Thakhek and Savannakhet, but hoped the conflict might be localized.

BATTLE OF BRITAIN

Bangkok claimed three French planes were shot down in an attempted raid ‘on Nakornphanom,

The Germans added Liverpool to

Thailand. The French denied they had granted an air base to the Jap-

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the list of major British cities against which raids of the Coventrytype have been attempted. Berlin claimed that vast fires swept Liverpool's warehouses, oil tanks, wharves,” grain elevators and power plants but the British said that brave and efficient fire fighting aid air rescue squads held damage far below what might have been expected.

Germans hurled 200 to 300 bombers against Liverpool, most of them heavy types which can carry large loads ‘of big bombs. German attacks—in less force—were made on other parts of Britain, including London. The British replied with sweeping attacks on Dusseldorf, Mannheim, Antwerp, Boulogne, Le Havre and German points as far east as the port of Stettin on the Baltic. Five enemy planes were ‘ shot down over Britain today, the War Ministry said. Two British craft were. lost but both pilots landed safely.

ITALO-GREEK WAR

According to reports reaching the Jugoslav frontier, 11 more Italian transports landed fresh troops at Durazzo and they were rushed into the front lines as the Fascists sought to block a Greek attempt to drive west from Pogradec and cut off Italian units falling back on ‘Elbasan. Frontier reports said that the Italians were in danger of being caught between Greek forces southwest of the Mokra Mountains and the northern end of Lake Ochrida. In addition, a new Greek advance on the central front was reported to have resulted in capture of the village of Hezxseka. Italians Counter-Attack On the southern wing, there was no further news of the. fate of which border reports said the Greeks took yesterday but which Rome said was still held by the Italians. Athens said that Greek troops had dispersed the Italian “a la morte”’— to the death—regiment in Epirus, Rome said that counter-attacks and large-scale bombing raids had been carried out against the Greeks. The Italians admitted British bombing attempts on Brindisi and Taranto and claimed an Italian submarine sank a 10,000-ton British transport in the Atlantic. London said British planes bombed Port Laki on Leros Island in the Dodecanese and Triroli in North Africa. British sources in Athens disclosed capture of an Italian “flying oil tanker” en route to the Dodecanese Islands ‘and said that it indicated the fate of those Italian bases in the eastern Mediterranean had been sealed. The islands are Italy’s most im-

2 NAZ| FREIGHTERS

TAMPICO, Mexico, Nov. 290 (U. P)—Two German freightiers—sS. S. Idarwald and S. S. Rhein— steamed out of port today in another apparent attempt to elude the British Atlantic blockade. There was general belief that the departure of the two German ships —part of a fleet of a dozen Axis merchant vessels stranded here— might be seeking to make contact with a. German sea raider or sub-

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two of the four German vessels that ran back to port when they met warships—apparently United States destroyers on patrol—off the Mexican coast two weeks ago. On that occasion one of the four, the Phrygia, was scuttled. Considerable mystery surrounded today’s departures. The Idarwald cast off at 6:20 a. m. and started down stream and at 7 a. m. the Rhein followed. A Mexican tugboat turned both into the current of the river, after which they proceeded down stream under their own power. A Mexican gunboat was waiting to escort them nine miles out into the Gulf of Mexico, the end of Mexican Territorial wateis.

ported oft the mouth of the river, but they were not sighted from shore. Both vessels cleared “in ballast,” indicating they had no cargoes. - The destination of the Idarwald was given as Vigo, Spain, and of the Rhein as the Canary Islands. |

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In London, seven members of the Rumanian legation staff telegraphed to Bucharest their resignations from the diplomatic service as a protest against the proNazi policy of Gen. Ion Antonescu and the reign of terror in Rumania. The resignations included that of Baron Starcea, first secretary]

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