Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1940 — Page 11

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& : itish Rate- of: Increase i in

Losses: Much Faster Thani in

1917; Nazis Determined to Keep America

From:Supplying Lifeline.

. (This is the second in a series of articles on the role of the U. S.

n Britain’s need for ships).

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Germany begins to threaten over our shipping aid to Britain because supplies for Eng-

1d are the crux in this war

as in the last.

= This is almost the only aspect of the war on which there an common agreement in Berlin, Londo and Washington. a England cannot keep open her Atlantic life line of ar-

Bing else, including Balkan 2 African victories. é=~Hence Berlin's irate charge ha the United States is

ilty of “challenges, insults “and ioral aggressions.” £-Fence Prime Minister Winston ghurchill’s official admission that, despite American aid, this is Britain’s gravest danger and. greatest military problem: “We must regard the keeping open of this channel to the world against the submarines and long-distance aircraft, which are now attacking it, as the first of the 2=-- Mr. Denny military tasks Zire which - lie before us is at the present time.” i Loses About 3 Ships a Day *~Hence the plea of British Shipting Minister Ronald Cross for the *Pnited States to turn over to Brit“8mm the “enemy” merchant ships id rooned in our ports, as well as aftidst of our own merchant marine atid. shipbuilding yards. Za=dlence the statement of the RooseScit special investigator abroad, A001. William J. Donovan: “I acseept as the truth that shipping is oe most urgent war problem facing “Btitain now.” =+Britain’s plight in many ways is re desperate now than at ‘the gs of shipping losses in the last r, when America’s entrance into t war rescued her. al Jas So her present average #lass of about three ships a day or sadmost four million tons a year (on ap of the 1000 ships and four miln tons already lost to her) is Rnly about half that of April, 1917. = Rate of Increase Faster But the rate of increase in losses $I&“much faster now, and her present “bgsition is weaker because— £*9 Germany has more and closer marine bases than in the last in France, the

Britain has fewer bases from SWbich to combat enemy raiders on] ripping—she has lost not only her | nch and Belgain ports, but her po Irish bases. 28. The . British allied Navy is smaller than last time:lacking the It&lian, Japanese and American dieets and all .except a comsmandeered fraction of the French. +4. The smaller British allied navy “hs to spread thinner and fight in “more seas.

win Axis Navy Stronger

7 ©=% The Axis Navy available for

use against British shipping is =séronger than last time, thanks to aL, new German submarines, and i control of Norway and hence a ‘protected access to the AtHaBtic. Italian submarines are rating as: far north as Greend, and the new long-range Nazi Submarines are said to number Jom 100 to 130. #-+$. Britain requires many times 8s. much merchant tonnage as in $1te last war to deliver an equal samount of food, raw materials, or

aed

Jesmaments; because she no longer

ents ‘and food she cannot. survive—regardless of any-

WARNER URGES SOUND THINKING

Events Threaten Foundation 0f Democracy, Legion Chief Warns.

Milo J. Warner, national com-

last night talled for “sound, fundamental thinking” in the “mighty

rush of world-shaking events speeding onward to destroy the very foundation stones of our American government.” : His address over a coast-to-coast broadcast from Detroit was directed to 70,000 veterans in United States’ hospitals. “In the quiet of your hospital wards, you can adjust your thoughts and the pace of your reasoning to fundamental concepts and ideas. It would be well if we could all do likewise,” he said. Mr. Warner said that while we pray for “peace on earth, toward men good will,” we must prepare, “May God give us all, individaully and together, the strength, the

spirit of sacrifice and the ceurage as one nation to fulfill our great destiny,” he said. He said that the need for the veterans’ hospitalization and care is “a necessary resultant of our participation in the war of 1917-18. It is a part of the cost which must be paid by our nation. We must face that fact as we face other facts in this time of emergency, when we are again threatened by war ins volvement.”

can get iron and armaments from Sweden, lumber from Norway, fats from Denmark, etc. ships to England: than by remaining at anchor in home ports remains to be seen. Many members lof Congress believy he may. Some hope he will. Others say it would mean war between this country and Germany and Japan. Lord Halifax is probably better qualified for this task than any other available man in Britain. Tall, gaunt, very religious, democratic, he is a somewhat Lincolnesque figure. He is not unlike our.-own Secretary of State Cordell Hull in appearance and demeanor. He is quiet, but stubborn, a believer in peace but a fighter when aroused. It is probably. because he hoped and worked for European peace that today he is said to be among Britain’s most ardent advoeates of war to the hilt. As Foreign: Minister, Anthony {Eden may get along with Moscow | better than Lord Halifax has done. It is highly important that the Soviet Union aid the Axis as little as possible. Trusting Eden somewhat more than she did Halifax, she may be inclined to believe him when he tells her that a Nazi victory would doom her as certainly as it would the rest of Europe.

mander of the American Legion,

; Honor Roll—Mabel Mohr with 1 points, led the high honor roll at Washington High School for the second grade period, ended just before the Christmas vacation.

Spends Christmas at Home— Charles E. Martin, reservist now “in active duty at the Great Lakes Navel Training Station, ‘is . spending Christ mas with his mother, Mrs. Cora Weber, 217 N. Gray St. Mr. Martin attended Techincal High School and enlisted in .the Naval Reserve at Chicago. He is a signalman.

Mystic Tie Lodge to Install—Installation' of officers of the Mystic ‘Tie Lodge 685, F. & A. M. at Lawrence will be. held at 1:30 -p. m.

. Mr. Martin

|saturday. New officers include Will-

iam Mowry, worshipful master; 'Gallie Moore, senior warden; Leland Wright, junior warden; ‘James L. Houston treasurer; Eugene Watson, secretary; Charles A. Garrison, senjor deacon; John F. Linder, junior warden: Harry L. Huffman, senior steward; C. S. Bournarus, junior steward: Harvey. G. Knight, tyler, and the Rev. Lemuel G. Carnes, chaplain.

- Spurn Present for “Better Gift"— Eddgewood Grade School pupils for the last several years have received a “treat” of candy and fruit at Christmas time from the P.-T. A, but this year they turned the “treat” down. “Use the: money that would be spent for the annual gifts to clothe a child in the school,” the pupils asked the P.-T, A. They all agreed this was the best Christmas they had had at the school.

PERFECTS NEW WAY T0 WORK ON EYES

NEW YORK, Dec. 25 (U, P.). — A new technique for locating splinters and glass imbeded in the eye, said to be so_ effective that the patient’s sight in most cases is not injured when the foreign body is removed, has been perfected by Dr. Raymond L. Pfeffer, roent-genolo-gist at the Eye Institute of Presbyterian Medical Center here. . While the patient wears a special surved contact lens over the injured eyeball, two X-ray pictures, profile and frontal, are made of the injured eye. The gontact lens used has four lead dots on its surface ahd the X-ray passing through the eye-ball and the lenz reveals these dots as white “spots on the negat ‘The foreign body is then charted by comparing its position on the film with - the tiny white spots. - The side view reveals the depth to which the splinter has penetrated. “Metal: splinters in the eye are removed with the aid of electric magnates weighing 15 to several hundred pounds. Large magnets are used to draw particles from the back of the eyeball to a point near the surface of the eyeball where they can be removed more easily. Bits of glass must be removed by forceps,

Lonely Fuoifive Returns to Cell

JOLIET, Ill, Dec. 25 (U. PJ). —Homeless and friendless, Irwin Hawley, 62, returned. today to the scene | of his most enjoyable Christmas. in more than two decades—The Illinois State Prison. Sentenced from @hicago in the * fall of 1918 to three years imprisonment Hawley escaped from the prison honor farm the following June.. Since then he has supported himself as an itinerant. sign painter in Nebraska and

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FISHING IN ERIE SHIFTS The curtailment of Canadian fishthe European war has caused a considerable increase in autumn fish-

ing on the American side, commercial fijlermen report.

TOLEDO, O., Dec. 25 (U. P.). —

ing operations in Lake Erie due to

GETTING SHIPS FROMU.S. 8 JOB OF HALIFAX

Expected to Appeal for Loan of Warcraft to Guard Sea Lanes.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

' WASHINGTON, Dec. 25. — The shift of Foreign Minister Lord Halifax to Washington and of Anthony Eden to the British Foreign Office is regarded here as one of Prime Minister Churchill’s. shrewdest moves to parry Adolph Hitler's plan to knock out Britain, if he can, arly in the ring. At the time of his death Lord Lothian, Bri< tain’s Ambassador to Washington, was moving heaven and: earth to obtain - ships, planes and credit from - the. United - States, and in that order. . as the time being, > Britain does not Mr. Simms need money. And, having held her own with a relatively small number of planes up to the present, she will probably manage for another 90 days or.so. Buf unless she can keep her sea lanes open so that food and material from abroad can reach her, her situation will quickly become desperate.

- President Paves Way

There ‘is reason to believe, therefore, - that “Viscount Halifax will come to Washington with positive instructions to get the ships. He will try to get warships for con-

to replace those destroyed by the] Nazis. President Rbosevelt already has paved the. way for Lord Halifax. Last week he proposed.to lease or lend implements of war to the British without advance payment. If and when the implements are returned, undamaged, that will be the end of it. If they are not returned, Britain will replace thems Our weapons, he said, would serve our defense needs better in the hands of the British than if kept in storage here. : True, the President denied that warships were included in his plan. He also indicated that he was referring to future production, not to munitions on hand. But once the crisis at sea arises, Lord Halifax is expected to say to the President something like this: “Mr. President, Britain’s back is to the wall. Nazi bombers, submarines and raiders are concentrating against shipping around the British Isles. Unless we do something about it quickly," we can not guarantee to hold the fort much’ longer.

Warships May Be Asked

weapons would serve your own. interests better if in our hands than if left to rust in storage in the United States. : : “Apparently. you meant planes, tanks, - merchant ships, machine guns and weapons like that. But now we need ‘warships to clear the Atlantic. If we can’t get them, the Germans will soon sirangle us at sea. “In which case, all the other aid you promised may come too late,

row’ or lease some of your warships as well as all the merchant ships you can let us have.” Whether the President will consider that the American Navy can serve America better by convoying 7. Ditto because closing of the Mediterranean lengthens the long haul for oil and strategic materials from the middle and Far East. 8. Even more “devastating than the foregoing "is emergenc of aircraft 4s a coramerce raider.

- British Ports Damaged

9. Besides sinking naval convoys and freighters, including those carrying American planes, German bombers are destroying British ports and distribution facilities upon

| dependent. 10. Finally the Nazi bombers are wrecking British shipbuilding yards and ways, reducing. more and more the possibility of vessel replacement. Even. before’ the recent concentration of bombers on shipyards, Britain ‘was able to laurich new vessels only at a rate of an. estimated 1,500,000 tons'a year. Now: the annual ‘replacement capacity is reported ‘less than one million tons, | compared with the present sinking rate of four million. It is easy to. see why Mr. Churchill considers the shipping problem the gravest military problem of the entire war. ;

———— "Next: How much shipping aid can Britain. get fiom us?

To Feed Con

Christmas Eve broadcast that the United States is

delays sending food to the con-

| quered nations of Europe.

The wife of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh appealed to Americans “to

and ask ourselves, can we refuse to help?”

of the American Friends Service Committee of Philadelphia over a National Broadcasting Co. network. “To act in the spirit of Christmas is good business,” she said. “The spirit of Christmas at the very core is to remember and act.” s Mrs. Lindbergh. praised Great Britain for its fight to ‘uphold

it ‘showed during wartime. She re- | ferred {o negotiations now in prog-

Britain < for shipment of food | to “Spain.

NEW YORK, Dec. 25 (U. Py) Anne Morrow Lindbergh said in a

: making more enemies. for democracy each day it

drop our prejudices, hates and fears.

Mrs. Lindbergh spoke on behalf

democracy and for the compassion}

ress between the United States and

Anne Lindbergh: Makes Plea

quered’ Nations

She sald" ‘the groups seeking to send food .to Europe were not asking Britain ito break the blockade, but to make some exceptions to it. “We want to be sure our action does not prolong the horrors of the conflict raging in Europe, or weaken’ the defense of those principles in which we believe,”. she said. “Can Christianity still survive in those starved, suffering countries if we abandon them? Even if we send only a token, it is’ worth while to ‘keep these people turned toward us instead of against us.” The wife of the noted aviator said that food had been sent successfully to ‘Belgium under Herbert Hoover's direction . during the World War, and to conquered Poland in the present war, without its falling into the hands of the conquerors. 1 believe humanitarianism is practical,” she said. “More than ‘that, Christianity has survived, a. practical world for more than 2000 ‘years ‘and ‘men still find. a transcending- power’ nur: :

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