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LINDBE GH HOPES NEITHER SIDE!

Where Hitler Stands Now—

German Masters

‘Stop at

Nothing’

As Horror Reigns

False Atrocity Stories of 1917 Help Germans to Fool World as Fuehrer Alone Directs Brutal

Regime That Brings

Nightmares to Life.

This is the second of a séries of articles by Wallace R. Deuel, who just has returned to America

after six years

as Berlin correspondent of The

Chicago Daily News. This article discusses “Hitler and the Nazi Hierarchy.”

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By WALLACE R. DEUEL

Copyright,

1941, by The Indidnapolis Times

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

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CHICAGO,

Jan. 23.—One of the chief reasons why

much of the outside world has failed to understand the Nazis, and what they have been doing and planning to do, is that people simply cannot liolisys that the Nazis are the

kind of men they are. A good deal of what has| happened in Germany and

The Nazis have profited enormously from skepticism. The world believed the most horrible charges

Europe, in the past CEN against Imperial Ciermany even

years, is incredible to most|

people because it is so alien to thelr | experience and even to their imag-| ination that they they just cannot| comprehend it. This is partly because the world

when they were not true, and now it refuses to believe horrible charges {against Nazi (Germany even when they are true. The result is that {the Nazis can and do commit atrocities with a certain measure of

was so disillusioned about propa-|immunity from world opinion.

ganda in the last war. The Allies— and the United States—accused the Germans then of committing the most horrible atrocities. People decided afterward that most of the accusations had -been false, and they have refused ever since to believe most “atrocity stories” about the Germans.

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So it is that still today there are millions of people in the world who simply cannot believe that the Nazis are the kind of men they really are, who cannot grasp tae vital and essential fact that Adolf Hitler and the men around him will stop at nothing — literally at absolutely nothing—to get what they want. ”

Laugh Until Too Late as Nazis

Kill Thousands of

“Stop at nothing?” The phrase has been carelessly used for so long that it has lost most of its force. When people hear it, they assume

it means that the Nazis will go to somewhat greater lengths than most other people would. But if the world is to understand the Third Reich— and understand it before it is too late—it must take this phrase at its literal and exact meaning.. 'The Nazis really will stop at nothing. Does it seem expedient to the Nazis to exterminate the Jews or the Poles. The outside world refused to believe that such things could be. It laughed at the vain and pretentious mouthings of preposterous men who could even threaten to do such things—laughed until it was too late. Does it seem expedient to throw priests and pastors into conceniration camps, and to subject them there to treatment so vile that it cannot even be hinted at in a family newspaper? Again, people would not believe it—until it was too late. Does it seem expedient to kill fens of thousands of persons in sanitariums because the Storm Troops

‘Misfits’

say they are defectives and misfits and generally useless members of society, then they will be killed. They have been killed. They are still being killed. | Their families are notified after the bodies have: been cremated. Who are the men who do these things? Whati are their relations with each other? With the army? Who really runs Germany? Upon the answers to these questions the future of the world literally depends. There is only ore man in Germany — and on the continent of Europe—who counts. That man 1s Adolf Hitler. . Inside Germany he is not anybody’s “front,” he is not anybody’s puppet, he is not anybody’s confederate, lie is not anybody’s ally. ° He is the master of the mainland of Europe today, and if Britain is beaten he will be the mast@r of all Western civilization. The men around Hitler are only technical experts — extremely able es, some of them, for all their outlandish manners and appear-

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Amendment for Home Rule

Government

A home-rule amendment to the State Constitution, permitting any city or town to choose the type of government it desires, headed a long list of measures introduced in the Legislature today. Another G. O. P. “decentralization” bill was approved by ithe House today and sent to the Senate. It was the Highway Department measure, creating a new fourman commission appointed by the Governor and two elected Republican state officials. It was lapproved 56 to 35 after a Democratic motion to place the commission on a full-time instead per diem basis was beaten. Two other G. O. P. “ripper” hills already approved by the House and the six passed by the Senate yesterday ' were started through the other chamber.

Meanwhile, “serious trouble ap-

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Side Glances | Si Society ee

Before House

peared to be brewiig over one Republican “shakeup” measure in the Senate. Action again was delayed on the Attorney General bill taking appointive power froin the Gevernor and putting the office on the ballot in 1942. Marion County Senators succeeded in holding up the bill after a conference with County Chairman James Bradford and Majority Leader William Jenner.

Fraud Committee Named

In the House, a committee of seven was nanied to study charges of fraud in the Nov. 5 gubernatorial election, filed by Virgil Whitaker, Hammond attorney. In the Senate, a bill to place direction of the State lealth activities in the hands of a council of 17 persons interested in public health was introducacl. Under the proposed Home Rule legislation, introducsad in the House, the way would be paved for the city manager form of government. The amendment was submitted to former Governor ‘Townsend by. a study committee created by the 1939 Legislature. It sets up two methods by which a city could | initiate an election to decide on the manager plan—initiated by a two-thirds vote of City (Continued on Page Five)

HOPKINS, EDEN CONFER

LONDON, Jan. 23 (U, P.).—Harry L. Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal envoy, anc Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, were understood to have made & thorough review of the international situation at a long luncheon conference at fhe Savoy

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| Hotel today,

2 DIE, 12 HURT WHEN AIRLINER TAKES PLUNGE

|Douglas Sleeper Falls Near

St. Louis Airport; Pilot And Mechanic Killed.

(Photo, P:ge Five) ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23 (U.P).—A Douglas skysleeper) of the Transcontinental and Western Airlines crashed near Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Field today, killing two perso:as and injuring 12. The dead were chief pilot P. T. W. Scott, 36, of New York, and J. F. Mott, Kansas City, TWA meichanic riding as a passenger. { Co-pilot Oresites Dioguardia, [New York, reiceived a broken leg. Miss Mary Esh- | back, stewardess, iwas seriously in|jured | Two passenigers were injured iseriously. They were C. W. Jurgens, Kirkwood, Mo., and Mrs. T. E. McCloskey, Los Angeles, wife of a TWA employee. The remaining | passengers, none of whom was seriously injured were Mrs. E. L. Hidden, San Pedro, Cal.; Mrs. F. E. Ekey, Philadelphia; Tom Stoddard, 1.0s Angeles; Joe Washburn, Burbank, Cal; E. C. Griggs, Columbus, !0.; C. B. Shaw, Galesburg, Kas.; J, S. Walters, Chicago, and Stuart F. Stanford, Burbank, a TWA employee. Avia tors who eyed the scene, less than a mile from the field, believed that the ship was in a steep bank preparatory to landing, and that it slipped into an almost vertical bank, causing the left wing to strike an ‘elm tree,

Debris Scattered

After striking thi elm and shearing off the top, the, plane hit two more {rees and thenf crashed into a telephone pole at an altitude of about 35 feet. The impact broke the pole, tearing cown wires which disrupted telephorie service. Debris was scattéred over an area of about 80 square feet. The plane broke in half and bédding, cushions and other material was scattered over the sod. Pilo; Scott, Mott and Dioguardia were ‘thrown from the plane. | The plane left 1.os- Angeles at 11 a. m. (Indianapolis time) yesterday, and was due in 3t, Louis at 1:34 a. m. today. It was approximately two hpurs and 45 minutes late in arriving here. This was due to weather conditions between Los Angeles - and Kansas City, TWA officiels said.

Gets Wind | Directions

Paul E. Richter, vice president in charge of operatibns of T. W. A. issuec a statement today in Kansas City. It said in part: “The plane left Kansas City under routine conditions with 11 passengers and a grew of three. It arrived over the airport at St. Louis at 4:06 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), reported by radi¢ to the control tower and was given the wind direction and the 1unway to use in landing. “The plane was bbserved over the airport heading southwest at an altitude of . approximately 500 feet, making a contact approach. It apparently went through a high tension wire southwest of the field and struck the ground. There was no fire. ” =

END TRADE BARRIERS, STATES ARE WARNED

Restrictions Impede Unity, Jerseyan Says.

WASHINGTON, | Jan. 23 (U. PJ). —The Council of State Governments prepared to end its fifth general assembly today after hearing Secretary of the Wavy Knox assert that only the British fleet stands between the United States and possible gitack by Germany, Italy and Japan, Mr. Knox spoke at last night's dinner. The day had been devoted to adcresses and discussions of defense problems. Today's prograra was on trade barriers and Robert C. Hendrickson, New Jersey State Senator, told the Council that all! interstate trade tbarriers must be removed if the Unitec States is| to maintain a “common defense on the home front in this critical hour.” Noting a decling during the last two years in interstate trade restrictions, he said states “must con« tinue the destruction of these legal frontiers within: America” in the

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interest of Dational unity and to ve. free § bo

Dr. Wishard Dead

Dr. William N. Wishard Sr. . . . “Grand old man” of medicine,

NATIVE HOOSIER EARNED FAME

Began as ‘Country Doctor’ At Southport and Rose To World Renown.

Dr. William Niles Wishard Sr. who started a brilliant medical career as a buggy-driving country doctor and ended it as an inter-nationally-known figure in genitourinary surgery, died last night at his home, 2050 N. Delaware St.

A native Hoosier, Dr. Wishard was known as the “grand old man” of Indiana medicine. | Two years ago Dr. Wishard, who was 89, retired after a practice of 65 years. He had been critically ill since Sunday. Back in the days of horse-and-buggy ‘général ‘practitioners; ‘when appendectomies were unknown, Dr. Wishard began his fully rounded career at Southport in 1874. Born at Greenwood, Ind., he was the second of three consecutive generations of Wishards to practice medicine. : A graduate of the Indiana Medical (Continued on Page Five)

New Skin Game To Be Launched

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U.P.). —You know what happens when you step on a banana peel —? Well, a ship reacts in much the same way. Observant Maritime Commission officials with an eye to the novel as well as the efficient are going to use bananas to launch a vessel. When the SS Cape Lookout slides down the ways Saturday at Beaumont, Tex., its path will be greased by 7000 ripe bananas— skins and all.

3 SPEEDERS FINED FOR 60 M.P.H. GAIT

Three speeders who were clocked ky sherifi’s deputies at 60 miles per hour in a 40-mile speed zone on U. S. 40 near Bridgeport paid fines in Municipal Court today. The defendants and penalties assessed were Charles Seibert, 3761 N. Meridian St., $5 and costs, license revoked for 30 days; Charles Crane Jr, 19, of 74 N. Holmes Ave. $5 and costs and license revoked for 30 days, and Troy Eishop, R. R. 1, Box 43A, Bridgeport, $1 and costs. Former Marion County Prosecutor David M. Lewis was judge pro tem.

DENY USING U. 8S. CEMETERY BERLIN, Jan. 23 (U. P.).—An official spokesman today denied reports that the Luftwaffe had used an American cemetery in France as bomb practice target. “We greatly regret such. a story,” he said since “thus far our relations with the United States are normal.” :

Much to the distress of boys potentially on sleds, Indianapolis has been living ‘on, “borrowed March time. For 21 days of January we've: had exactly 66 (accumiilated) degrees of excess warmth. And it looks like this luck may hold out for another day or two, since the Weather Bureau predicted little change in temperature here tonight or tomorrow, even though a snow-carrying cold wave was moving out of the West into the Central Plains region. It looks like light snow tonight and tomorrow with no cold wave in sight at least for 36 hours, the Bureau reported. J. H. Armington, the man the Federal Government pays to keep track of the weather, reached into Jus bookense a and out came these

1. The average température yesterday was 42, Tueday' s

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DECLARE THAT STATE BUDGET MUST BALANCE

Schricker, GOP ¢ ‘Not Very Far Apart,’ Harrison Says After Meeting.

By WILLIAM CRABB Proposed gross income tax relief

public schools may have to be

“sacrificed” by the Legislature in order to keep the State budget balanced during the next two years. Republican leaders in the House, who will begin study of the $110,000,000 budget bills soon, and Gover= nor Schricker, who must approve the bill finally, were agreed on this today. Both party platforms pledged the

gross tax relief for retailers and the

free textbooks. Governor Schricker recommended both, plus the elimination of the poll ‘tax, in his message to the Legislature.

Confer With Governor

Rep. Roy Harrison (R. Attica) and Rep. John Schermerhorn (R. Wawaka), chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the important House Ways and Means Committee, conferred with the Governor on the situation earlier this week. “I told the Governor we can’t do the things he advocated and what's in the platforms and still keep the budget balanced,” Rep. Harrison said. Governor Schricker said he and Rep. Harrison “were not very far apart in the matter.” “The budget has to be balanced, » Governor Schrickér said. “If certain other things have to be sacrificed, they’ll have to be sacrificed.”

Should Maintain Baldnce

He said a general fund balance of “between "$5,000000 “ and $7,000,000 should be maintained at all times because funds are needed from time to time to supplement the welfare, unemployment compensation and highway departments while Federal funds are on the way. “These funds will arrive eventually, but sometimes there is a delay of weeks or even months,” the Governor. said. Rep. Hobart Creighton (R. Warsaw), the House’s G. O. P. representative on the State Budget Committee, said if the present budget calling for a $6,800,000 increase in expenditures is approved the State (Continued on Page Three)

WILLKIE IN AZORES, GOES SIGHTSEEING

Makes Brief Stopover on Trip to Britain.

HORTA, Azores, Jan. 23 (U. P.).— Wendell L. Willkie arrived today aboard a Pan-American clipper which is making a stopover here. The weather was bright and sunny but a southwest gale was blowing. \ Mr. Willkie, who is en route to Britain on an inspection tour, went to the Pan-American Hotel and then left on a brief.sightseeing trip.

A MAGIC ‘TOUCH’ TO SAY THE LEAST

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (U. P)). —Charles Nicol, 69, professional magician, has been taking articles from people’s pockets for 50 years —all in fun, of course. He recalled that today when he told how a pretty brunet asked if he would help her find her dog last night. They didn’t find the dog, but later the magician discovered that $280 he had pinned in:his watch pocket, was missing. Police said the woman

had robbed several men under similar circumstances.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ....32 10am. ....32 7am.....32 1la.m..... 32 BOI ,.o 31 12 (noon) ,. 32 9am .... 31 1pm.... 32

the temperatures of last March from the 9th on ranged between 40 and 45. That's why we say Indianapolis has been living on borrowed March time. Yesterday’s temperature was exactly 12 degrees above the normal that has been established since the Weather Bureau hung out its shingle here in 1871.

2, Precipitation last month, however, was a bit delinquent. The total was 2.58 inches when it should have been 2.95. 3. January, 1037, was a warm one, too, and thus allowed 20 inches of precipitation ' (rain, in this case) to fall in three or fo “spells” in southern Indiana. Thi

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‘Can't Meet Platforms’

Rep. Roy Harrison . . . believes budget pared about as much as possible.

Great Britain threatened today

blitzkrieg to about 100,000 with the

While their comrades mopped up Tobruk, R. A. F. fliers and advance tank units began operations at Derna, 100 miles further west in a direct line and plunged across the desert plateau almost half-way to Benghazi, capital of Libya. Snub nosed tanks pushed at outer defenses of Derna.

BULLETIN LONDON, - Jan. 23 (U. P.).~— Radio Budapest was heard tonight broadcasting - reports that fighting in Rumania continues in Bucharest and some provincial towns, :

In East Africa the thrust into Italian Eritrea went deeper and the Italians were reported taking defensive positions 60 to 75 miles from the Sudan frontier. In Rumania Gen. Ion Antonescu appeared to be getting the upper hand after a bitter struggle with radical Iron Guardists had held the country in a state of near-anarchy for several days. Fighting still was going on at some points, it was indicated, but Antonescu, aided by loyal Army troops, had recaptured many =xey buildings in Bucharest and -strategic points in the provinces which the Guardists seized.

New Nazi Minister on Way A new Nazi Minister, Baron Man-

fred von Killinger, was en route. to

Bucharest. It had been suggested in some quarters that he might exercise a firm hand over Rumania as a direct representative of Adolf Hitler. Reports circulated in Berlin that Rumanian Vice Premier Horia Sima, (Continued on Page Three)

MOTORS LEAD MARKET NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (U. P.). —

irregularly lower today. Steel and

railroad shares also declined.

This Weather's Just Clear Out of Order, That's Why We're Living on Borrowed Time

Ohio and one of the biggest news stories around here in recent times. Had it been colder, this wouldn't have happened, for some of the

have happened, for precipitation, like June bugs, doesn’t’ prosper when it’s cold.

(Don’t think we're trying to

Motor shares led the stock market|

British Threaten to Smash Italians From West Libya

Tanks Batter at Derna After Fall of Tobruk; Army Still Fights Rumanian Iron Guards.

(Today’s War Moves, Page 15) By UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT

to drive the I

talians completely o of western Libya as advance tanks and Roya] Air Force planes followed |ish up the eapture of Tobruk by starting to batter Derna.” The British brought their bag of Pascist prisoners in the desert

capture of more than 14,000 men at

Tobruk, including four Italian generals and an admiral.

WIFE TESTIFIES AT 10ZZ0°S TRIAL

Recalls Her Sweetheart Days in Italy; Daughter Says Disher Abusive.

Fred Iozzo’s family—Rosie, his wife for 34 years; Mary, his 23-year-old soft-spoken daughter, and

Vincent, his eldest son—went to his aid in Criminal Court today where he is on trial on a first degree murder charge. Mary testified that Virgil . Disher Jr., for whose slaying her father is. on trial, and .Olin .Smith, who was with Disher, followed her into the kitchen at the Iozzo Cafe and insulted her. “They said they wanted to in-

spect the kitchen,” she testified.|

“I told them it was closed and they'd have to leave. Olin Smith shcved me against a door and both of them called me a dirty name.” . ° Then, she testified, Dominic, another brother, came to her aid and the fight that ended fatally fcr Disher started. “Virgil Disher picked up a beer bottle and hit dad,” she testified: “I said® ‘You hit an. old man’ and he said, ‘I'll hit you, too. “Then he hit me on the shoulder and ‘I became unconscious.” Dressed in black, Mrs. Fred Iozzo took the stand and told in broken English of years long ago when she and Iozzo had been childhood sweet~ hearts in Italy. 8he told of their coming tothe (Continued on Page Three)

BILL TO RAISE DEBT LIMIT BEING DRAFTED

Measure, Would Tax U. S. Issues.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (U.P.).— Chairman Robert Doughton (D. N. C.) of the House Ways and Means Committee said today that he will introduce “in a day or two” a bill to raise the debt limit, and provida Federal taxation of U. 8S. securities. ' A definite limit for future debt increases has not been agreed yor Rep. Doughton said, Oy rea added The present 7 of

“there has been some § $65,000,000,000.” tory limit is $45,000,000,000, plus 34.500.%00,000 for national defense ebt The Federal securities taxation feature of the bill, he said, will apLo to all future issues.’ A bill ar-

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Measures ‘Beyond War’ Are Needed to Win for. - England, He Says.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (Us P.).—Col. Charles A. Linde

|bergh said today he believed |that even American entry : linto the war with Great |Britain could not bring vies

tory without an internal cols

|lapse in Germany.

Testifying before the House Fore

‘leign Affairs Committee against the

Administration’s British aid bill, Cok Lindbergh said he did not believe the measure could enable Britain A

| to win,

“I don't think anything short of

war, or beyond war, will win this

war on the present basis,” Col. Lindbergh said.

Hopes Neither Side Wins

Earlier, he told the Committee and 500 spectators who applauded his statements several times, that he hoped that neither Britain nor Germany would win the war; that neither a British victory nor the preservation of the Royal Navy was essential to American security. “Even with the active help of the United States, Britain could not ine vade the Continent and win unless = there is a German internal collapse,” Col. Lindbergh testified. i While he was on the witness stand Senators Ed C. Johnson (D. Colo.) be Robert A. Taft (R. O,) inf ut duped in Ie Selate substitge

a Gift Urged Mr. Johnson's bill would authors "ize outright. gift of $2,000,000; worth of war. materials to Bri 3 provided that nation give America complete information on performs ance and would agree to make all of its purchases in this country. = Mr. Taft’s measure would authors ize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to lend $1,000,000,000 to Great Britain; $500,000,000 to f and $50,000,000 to Greece. “I don’t believe we can te peace on Europe,” Col. Lindbergh said. “I think it would be cof structive if the. attitude of ws. country were for peace.” ; He told Rep. James A. (D. Conn.) that the pending" would be a step toward “projection of the Unita States into European quarre

Doubts Nazis to Collapse

Col. Lindbergh said he saw no signs as yet of German collapse. . “In other words,” Rep. Joe Li Pfeiffer (D. N. Y.) asked, “The Germans are sure to win?” “She already controls the Contie nent,” Col. Lindbergh replied. “I don’t say she can invade England.”

“The only thing that will sop i aggression is suffiflent strength to stop that aggression. I think ‘we can build sufficient strength to stop it. “I'd like to see a negotiated peace. I believe a complete victory for either side would result in the prostration of Europe such as we never before have seen.” Col. ‘Lindbergh expressed ‘his 4 view when Rep. Luther A. Johns son (D. Tex), noted that Col (Continued on Page Three) =

HOOSIER INJURED AS: ENGINE OVERTURN

CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (U. P).~The engineer of a northbound Baltimore & Ohio Railroad freight train ws injured today when the locomoti

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and overturned after hitting open switch. Engineer Fred Hensel, 45, Chicago, Ind., broke both legs he jumped as the engine over. He is in St. Luke's Hospi The fireman, Carl Zellers, 34, mond, Ind, also jumped, but

Nearly Ready, injury

Golden Gloves Show on Tonight

The second of the TimesLegion Golden Gloves 3 shows will be held tonight .the Butler University eid house. J The program starts ati: p. m. More than 20 bouts:

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