Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1941 — Page 2

PREDICT HOUSE

0.K, ON AID BILL

Rayburn and McCormack Are Confidently Awaiting ‘Test Next Week. \

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ize the President to carry out the ’ program “notwithstanding the provisions of any other law.” They said that the phraseology is hot as broad as a repeal clause, and does not invalidate existing law.

Opponents of the bill have contended, however, that the clause would virtually nullify the statutory debt limit, the Johnson Act ban on doans to foreign debtor nations, as W=1l as much domestic legislation.

Mr. Hull had been expected to

) testify this morning at an open ses-

sion. of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But he explained that some aspects of his testimony could not be made public without injury to “our national security and defense.” However, he was on the stand in open session for only 11 minutes before the committee, on motion of Senators Pat Harrison (D. Miss.) and Hiram Johnson (R. Cal), went

. into executive session to receive con-

fidential State Department reports on the international situation. Mr. Hull previously had told the

3 Committee that a “gradually in-

creasing state of danger to this hemisphere and hence to this country” made necessary prompt action by the United States to aid other countries which are “striving to resist the forces of invasion and ag.gression.” Military Chiefs Testify

The closed Senate hearing coincided with a secret session of the “House Foreign Affairs Committee to hear expert testimony from Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. Army Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, and Maj. Gen. George H. Brett, Acting Chief of the Army Air Corps. Senators Burton K, Wheeler (D. Mont.) and Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D.) non-interventionist oppo‘nents of the Administration meas“ure, planned to introduce a resolu_tion requesting President Roosevelt ‘to demand that the European belligerents state their war aims, their peace conditions and “any and all ‘secret treaties for disposition of territorial spoils.” “Most historians and students agree,” they said, “that the Treaty of Versailles provoked the present war. Before the United States goes .any further along the road to war we should have assurances from our potential allies that American boys will not be plowed under European soil every 25 years. Mr. Wheeler's charge earlier this

month that the Administration’s money. anc “where the invadér does foreign policy was leading the coun- |hothing to ih

try to the point where every fourth American boy would be plowed ‘under brought from Mr. Roosevelt the reply that the statement was “dishonest, unpatriotic, dastardly,

rotten.”

PASTOR TO TAKE UP > DUTIES ON SUNDAY

The Rev. Wales E. Smith of Salem, Ind, known as an authority on Christian education and as a young people’s worker, will assume his duties as pastor of the Olive

Branch Christian Church next Sun-

day. . : The Rev. Mr. Smith, a native . Hoosier, was educated at Butler

! and Yale universities and has-been

* pastor at Eaton, Ind, as well as . Salem. He, Mrs. Smith and their small son, 2, will make their home - temporarily at 1307 Comer Ave.

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hungry |enough, long enough, you not only Lave gnawing pains in your stomach, but you also begin to suffer ‘rom a crescendo scries of mounting incapacities and ills.

You 5 by feeling tired and

sickly d! weak. You can’t concentrate, Vou suffer from pains like those of|a pad case of chillblains all over your kody. After awhile, your sight and hearing arg |impaired,. your gums land teeth are affected and your teeth begin to come out. You may lose all your hair, too.

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When there are laws to be made for the State of Indiana, the Miser family goes right to work. On the lef{ is 6-year-old Carol Jean Miser, one of the youngest pages in the House. father, Rep. Charles T. Miser (R. Garrett) and on all morning today, checking up on papa.

How Hitler Stands Now—Germans Using Disease to Exterminate Conquered Foes

|Czechoslovakia and Poland | was

typical in this respect. [ Besides protesting their undying friendship for both peoples, up to the moment when they struck|them down, the Nazis skillfuly stirreil up internal dissensions in both cpuntries and between both courtries and their allies. They split Czechoslovakis off from its friends and allies, France, England, Russia, Foland and the other members of the Little Entente. They set Sudeten Cermans against Czechs, Czechs against Slovaks and Czechs against Czechs. | In the case of Poland, they spwed distrust of Poland in France and

If you s:ill can’t get enougl to eat, you may be stricken by confusional| insanity—you may near | voices, for lexample—and evén paralysis. | And in the end, you may fall victim to pellegra or bheri-beri| or any dive disease, for all diseases | breed in| hungry peoples. Science dan combat these things if it has| time and money and doctors lenough. But where there is not emouzh food, there are usually not enough doctors, or time, or

, or even does what he can lo make things worse, then nothing | avails-a} all—except, of course, driving out the invader. Some |of the starvation and disease in Burope exists in spite of the Nazis. [The Nazis, for example, do what they! can to protect (3eatile Germany-—:2xcept for their political and other opponents—from sickness and privatipn. Some | of [the starvation and disease exists partly because the MNazis do not pare much whether if exists or not, {except insofar as it might interierg with what the Nazis themselves want to do. This is the case in Spain and France and Beigiim.

me of the starvation and exists because the Nazis want it to exist and help bring it about.; This is notably the case in Poland.

There are limits to what the Nazis could do tol improve conditions, even if they were prepared to share and share slike with all the peoples of Europe. i b The continent must import foodstuffs from overseas to live, ancl the British blockade prevents these foodstuffs from reaching the continent, just as the German counterblockade tries to prevent them [rom reaching England.

But|the Nazis are by no means ed io share alike, On the ry, they have said oiten , and clearly enough, that her peoples of Europe canpermitted to live as well as the German people.

They, have appropriated all available surplus stocks of foodstufis in the cquniries they have invaded. They are turning the whole na‘ional economies of these countries into sources of| supplies for the Reich, and in| the case of Poland they deliberately bave set out to use starvation, freezing and disease as implements of a national policy t¢ destroy the Pglisk people. a Nazis have developed a new

and |characteristically thorough technique for destroying an entire people--not just the Poles and the Jews, but any_.and every people the Nazis decide they wani to cestroy. i

The worid has had some inkling of how this technique has beer: applied to th: Poles and the Jews If Germeny wins the war, or if the war lasts too long, the world will learn more ¢f this technique—much, inuch more. | | The, Nazis had done much to paralyze its victims even befors the armed forces struck, as described in an earlier article in the present series. German policy teward

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England, and distrust of France and England in Poland, and they set Germans against Poles, Poles against Lithuanians and Ukrainians and White Russians, and Poles against Poles. And the Nazis doubtless could have done even more in these respects had it suited their purpose to do so. The shock of invasion and defeat still further paralyzed the occupied countries.

But the effective destruction of whole peoples has begun in real earnest with the occupation of their countries in the war and the pre-war period. | The Nazis are, Of course, using the old-fashioned methods of destroying peoples, tho—the annexation of territories, the levying of tribute, the taking of hostages-—and the shooting of hostages, too. | More important, in the long run, are the new methods the Nazis have so highly perfected. The Nazis continue to stir up internal strife, evel» more than before. They try to force Nazi regimes on their victims, as in Czechoslovakia and Holland and Norway. They alternate bitween prosestations of friendship-—even ncw.—and threats of horrible reprisals if| their friendship on their own terms is rejected. The Nazis do |these things by means of a carefully worked out technique which they begin to apply the minute the | German [armed forces occupy & country—at the moment when the defeated peoples are at their lowest point of resistance, and, in many cases, of their selfrespect.

Nazi Party. Moves In |

For the Nazi party moves into the occupied countries immediately after the army and goes to work at once. There are four principal categories of party agents who do this work: the Gestapo; officials for setting up a civil administration; a propaganda agency, and ‘purchasing commissions.” | These party agelicies have learned how to achieve a maximum of results with a minimum of ostentation, except when ostentation is desired. | The Gestapo, fcr example, do not have to arrest thousands of persons in a town to paralyze the will of the town to oppose Naa rule. Instead, they arrest a doen or two of the most important people. Hatitually they do so as inconspicuouysly as possible, usually just before dawn. And instead of | advertising what they have done, they say nothing about it. The r¢sult is thai when the news leaks out, as it| always does, it conveys added horror by the mystery which surrounds it. The officials who set up the administration are usually the soul of friendliness—although sometimes of the bluff, downright kind of German friendlinesi which so many other people never understend—as long as they get what they want. And since the thing these officials want the people bf the occupied territories also want, like starting public utilities agail, relations in this sphere are more apt to be iriendly than not. i 2 The propaganda officials, for their part, are respongible for winning as much good will {dr the Nazis themselves as they can, but, abpve all, for sowing dis¢ension within the ranks of the coriquered peoples, and between the coriquered peoples and their allies, notebly Britain, |

The Reich isthe true friznd of the conquered country, the propagandists say, ard France and England and America and “world Jewry,” and the conquered peoples’ own form¢r leaders are their real enemies. Germany will ido all it cari to improve conditions, the propagandists claim; if there are hardships, this is due to the unavoidable dislocations of a war which the Allies, not Germany, willed, to the incompetence or rascality or both of the peoples’ own former leaders and to the British blockade. No pains nor ingenuity ar: spared in these campiigns, and they are

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often extraordinarily successful. This is especially so because of the skill and discretion with which the “purchasing commissions” operate. Ordinarily, the commissions do nothing so crude as taking petty stock from retail shops, where they would obtain little in any event, and where their operations would be observed by the masses of the people. Instead, the commissions take over large wholesale stocks and reserves of all kind, “pay” for them in script or “currency” at the actual expense of the occupied country, and ship the goods out quietly so that almost nobody even sees them going and almost nobody understands how they really have been “paid for.”

Gold, oil, gasoline, wheat, meat, canned goods, fruits, vegetables, textiles, clothing, pig iron, stéel, chocolate, silk stockings, tobacco and champagne—all these and a thousand other things are quietly gathered up and shipped to the Reich and most of the people are really none the wiser.

People Believe Tales

The result is that often enough, when the pinch begins to make itself felt, the people, exhausted, disillusioned, helpless and looking for

a convenient scapegoat, are inclined to believe much of what the Nazis tell them, and to blame anybody else rather than the true authors of their misfortune. The manner and degree in which the Nazis have set out to destroy whole peoples, and the reactions cf their victims, vary. The destruction of the Poles has ... eeded the furthest, that of the Dutch, the Danes and the Norwegians hardly has begun, and that of the French, the Belgians, the Czechs is in a status between these two extremes. The Poles’ morale is amazingly good, considering the circumstances, but the circumstances are so awful that there is little the Poles can do. The Dutch, the Norwegians and the Czechs are putting up the strongest resistance.

Danes Suffer Least

The Danes, who are suffering the least, are biding their time. The French and Belgains have only just begun to recover their senses. The casualties and destruction of Poland by the war itself were frightful. The country has lost its richest provinces, and its access to the sea. Its territory is being used as a base for further military operations look ing toward the East, and as 8a hunting ground for hungry Nazis on the make for plunder. Its stores, which were not de-

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WILLKIE PLANS AIRPLANE STUDY

Seeks to Co-ordinate British And U. S. Production; Talks to Churchill.

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partly destroyed by a German fire raid Dec. 20. He walked through the area around St. Paul's Cathedral, passed police barriers, and picked his way through the rubble of the Guildhall banqueting hall.

Shown the burned remains of its historic relics and books, he exclaimed: “My God, what a terrible mess they made here. Gee, it’s awful.”

‘We ‘Can. Take It, He's Told

Accompanied by John Cowles, one of two American friends who accompanied him here, and Herschel Johnson, charge d'affaires of the American Embassy, he persuaded police to let him walk among ruined buildings whose walls are tottering. To a air-raid precautions worker, he said: “You must have had a terrible night when all the fire bombs were dropping.” . “We can take it,” the man replied. “We are giving it back. Hitler can’t beat us this way.” “You got to win,” Mr. Willkie said. “I know you will. You people are wonderful.” Mr. Willkie then returned to Downing Street for his luncheon date with Churchill. Mr. Willkie conferred with Churchill for two hours and then left the Prime Minister's home smiling and waving farewell, Then he went by automobile to the Labor Ministry where he conferred with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin. They discussed production problems, particularly manpower.

Plans to See De Valera

At his press conference, he said he planned to, go to Eire to talk with Prime ister Eamon de Valera if he could. Britain urgently needs naval bases in Eire, such as those she returned to Erie before the war. There have been reports in the United States that the American Government has aided British efforts to persuade Eire to let her have them. ; In Dublin, Mr, de Valera said he would be “very pleased” to see Mr. Willkie. He told the newspapermen that he wanted to talk to everyone from officials to the man in the street, that he wanted to talk to the heads of other democratic governments, such as Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and King Haakon of Norway which are established in London because their countries are in the hands of Germany. “I see London is still standing and I think you people are great,” he told a reporter. “I find it is sometimes difficult to understand some of your accents,

but I suppose you have the same trouble with me and my broad Indiana accent.” He had no plan to meet Harry

Hopkins, President Roosevelt's personal emissary in Britain. “I never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Hopkins,” Mr. Willkie said, “although in America I knew who he was.” : Also he had no plan to visit continental countries.

Arrives in West Coast Train

Mr. Willkie spent the night in a suite in the Dorchester Hotel which was formerly occupied by Lord Halifax, the new Ambassador to the United States, and Lady Halifax. He dined in the suite last night with members of the American Embassy staff and his friends, Landon K. Thorne and Mr. Cowles. He and his friends arrived at a west coast town in an Americanmade plane manned by an all Dutch crew yesterday afternoon after an uneventful flight from Lisbon where they had been deposited by a Pan-American clipper plane. Another plane flew them here. There was no air raid alarm last night and Mr. Willkie had a good night’s sleep. He was in fine fettle for the press, his first business of the day. The British correspondents, impressed, asked him if all American politicians handled conferences as well as he did. One

stroyed, have been taken away. ItS|pritish correspondent told an Amer-

industries have been seized. Most of Leaders Killed

Most of its leaders were killed in the war or have fled, or have been executed by the Nazis or are in jail or concentration camps. Many of its workmen are in the Reich. Hundreds of thousands of Poles, both Gentile and Jewish, are being dumped into a territory incapable of supporting the millions who were already there. Its universities are closed, its art treasures are in the Reich. Starvation, the bitter cold of winter and disease stalk whole provinces. v

If Germany wins the war, or if it lasts too long, the Poles in their own country will perish as a nation. All that will be left, in Poland itself, will be a starved, diseased and decimated race of serfs.

Poland, in such a case, will be the first martyr of the Nazi conquests. But it will not be the last.

NEXT-—Hitler’s Relations With Russia and Japan,

FRENCH SONG WRITER DIES

VICHY, France, Jane 27 (U. P.). —Death of Louis Bousquet, author of the famous song, La Madelon, which was as popular as the Marseillaise with the French Army during the World War, was announced

ican colleague: “If Roosevelt is any better, he must be terribly good. He (Willkie) is what you chaps call a great guy.”

Sidesteps on Politics

A British correspondent asked him if the United States would enter the war. “I can’t speak on that,” Mr. Willkie replied. “I have no connection with the Government in any way. The American people decided that.” Explaining his reluctance to discuss American politics, he said: “I am now in another country and though I opposed the President in the last campaign, he is my President and the head of my Government and I shall not engage in ahy political controversies which he and I are entitled to have within the shores of the United States.” He hoped to remain in London for the next three or four days and then tour the provinces. “I want to go to Manchester and see all the industrial centers—those towns that are particularly devas-tated-—and as many other places as possible,” he said, adding that he hoped also to visit Army, Navy and air units. :

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permit the State Highway Department to transfer $300,000 in funds from construction to administration, enabling the department to continue operations, hire niore engineers and increase salaries for engineers about 15 per cent. If the measure had not passed, Highway officials said it would have been necessary to lay off all engineers for five months or close down the department for one month. They said pay increases were necessary to halt the heavy flow of engineers from the State department to defense industries at higher pay. The Senate passed five other bills. One was an anti-nepotism measure barring State officials from hiring relatives. Another would raise maximum old-age pension payments from $30 to $40 a month. This Republicansponsored measure would add a maximum of $126,000 a year to these benefits. The third provides that a judgment against a county can not constitute a lien against county property. ; - Another provides. that elected ‘County officers shall not collect fees from the county and the fifth would make it possible for a change of venue to be taken from Posey County to other than the adjoining county. A bill introduced in the Senate today by Senator John W. Atherton (R. Indianapolis) would permit the maintenance trucks of utilities, such as the Indianapolis Street Railways, to carry police radios. This is prohibited by present law.

G.O.P. Submits New Bills as 'Backstop’ for Ripper Laws

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Senator Atherton said the bill was introduced at the request of Police Chief Michael F. Morrissey. Repeal of the “full-crew” law for railroads is proposed in another bill, which ‘faces strong opposition from organized labor. A bill introduced in the House today by Rep. H. R. Evans (R. New Castle) would place the Governor and U. S. Senator candidates on the primary ballot. Meanwhile, eight G. O. P. “ripper” bills passed by the Senate and three by the House awaited action in the other chamber. : They probably will be rushed through this week as the Republicans strive to meet their tentative Feb. 1 deadline for this legislation. Governor Schricker is expected to veto most or all of these measures taking away his patronage and administrative powers. Then they will be returned to the majority required in each House to Legislature for action, with only a pass them over his veto. Republican leaders tonight will draw final drafts on their bills for a state-wide merit system and an expanded Department of Agriculture. They also will discuss their much-debated liquor bill, but introduction of this measure is not expected for some time. Settling down into their routine as much as possible, the legislators have four public hearings scheduled this week. Heading the list is a 3 p. m. session today in the House chamber, in which House Judiciary A members will hear debate on three important child welfare measures.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Events in Italy, the Balkans and North Africa are causing Hitler grave concern lest his life-or-death plan to invade England this spring be seriously interfered with or blocked altogether.

Hitler's thesis has always been that Germany was not militarily lefeated by the Allies in 1918, but was “betrayed” by the folks at home. The Kaiser's legions were com-

quest because the people of Germany cracked up. Reports reaching interested embassies and legations here intimate that today Hitler may be sitting on top of a similar volcano. Stories have reached Washington of widespread unrest pretty much through-

Like Rumania, it is said, Italy might blow up any moment. Every scrap of information received here indicates that the Italian people are increasingly fed up with a war which, from the beginning, was anything but popular, Despite Fascist propaganda and an airtight censorship they are beginning to realize the extent of their defeats in Albania and Libya and to sense the fact that henceforward their Duce will have to jump through the hoop whenever. the Fuehrer cracks the whip. They are beginning to see that, under the circumstapces, an Axis victory would really an Italian defeat; that it would spell the end of Italian independence. On top of this there is confirmatory information that the confer. ence between Hitler and Mussolini largely concerned Italy’s predicament, the necessity for an early victory over Great Britain, and the question of American intervention in the war—three topics which really constitute but one. ‘That is to say, Hitler is currently believed to have told Mussolini that, thanks to the ever-increasing aid to Britain from the United States, the earliest possible invasion of Britain has now Lecome imperative and Italian weakness can not be permitted to stand in the way of Nazi plans, however humiliating this might be for the Duce. The Nazis, therefore, are believed virtually to have taken over Italy,

pelled to forego the fruits of con-|-

out the area surrounding the Reich.

Unrest Hints Hitler's Help To Il Duce May Be Too Late

reducing the Duce and his military commanders to ciphers. The British and the Nazis, therefore, are now engaged in a race against time in the basin of the Mediterranean. Unless the trend is stopped by the Germans, military observers here believe. the Italians caa be knocked completely out of the war within 60 days. The Nazis, therefore, are said to have taken over, not only Sicily, where the British inight soon strike, but the direction of the Italian fleet as well,

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Cafe Owner Convicted of Manslaughter in Death of Young Disher.

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lots were taken during the time the jurors were out.

After the verdict was brought in, the jury was polled at the request of the defense attorneys. Clyde Keeler, R. R. 7, Box 5086, hesitated a few anxious minutes. When asked: “Is this your ver= dict?” he answered: “That's the way I voted.” “Both sides were at fault,” he said on further questioning, “and I tried to look at it the best I could. Yes, that’s my verdict.” The jury had to be sent back to the jury room after they had re= turned the verdict the first time because they had forgotten to fill in Tozzo’s age in the especially-pre-pared blank. A score or more spectators stayed through Saturday night hoping for a verdict, but there were only about 15 people in the courtroom aside from the principals when the verdict was read. Iozzo sat flanked by his defense attorneys, Floyd Christian and Russell J. Dean, while behind him were his two sons, Dominic and Vincent, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dom=inic Iozzo. Iozzo, who has been Buddha-like during the trial, did not change his expression when he heard the verdict.

CONVICT GARY MAN OF RELIEF FRAUD

GARY, Ind. Jan. 27 (U, P.), = Sentence will be passed Wednesday on Jack Shonfeld, Gary depart~ ment store owner, who was convicted in the first of a series of trials involving fraud in administration of Lake County poor relief. He was found guilty of having a notary falsely attest a signature on a claim for clothing against the Calumet Township Trustee. He

also was convicted..of conspiracy to perform the act. a Evidence at the trikl disclosed

that his department store received $140,000 in relief business during

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THE SCARLET POPPY

From earliest times flowers have been invested with symbolic meaning. To those who profess an understanding. of this mystic language, the scarlet poppy stands for consolation. Whatever the type of flower, we know that beautifully arranged sprays ‘make for a more beautiful and consoling service. And bécause every Harry W. Moore service is designed essentially to console the living, particular attention is always paid to the care and arrangement of floral tributes received at Peace Chapel. :

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Awake at the Switch for 1941

Down the track, head on, comes a bright new train numbered 1941, full of power and possibilities. All we can see is the front of it. What's behind that engine wouldn't we give a lot to know! It may be a year of joy or a year of tragedy. It may bring us progress and prosperity or dash our hopes. For the railroads, as for the nation, this is a time for planning and for prayer. There are so many things we cannot

BUT THIS WE DO KNOW; On our railroad, as in our nation, there is the calm confiderice of ability to meet the needs of 1941. We on the Illinois Central have in our hearts and minds the fruits of neasly ninety years of railway operating experience. Crises are’ nothing new to an organization and a plant like ours. We have carried through them in the past, and we will continue to carry on. We have just completed a year in which, besides meeting all traffic demands, we continued our preparation to handle future needs. We modernized approximately 100 freight locomotives, bought more than 3,000 and rebuilt more than 5,700 freight cars, reduced our percentage of temporarily unusable freight cars to 1.6, added notably to our diesel-electric switch. ing and transfer fleet, installed one long-distance diesel-electric streamline passenger train and had in use or under construction three smaller units for shorter runs. SO REMEMBER THIS: Whenever 1941 approaches a turning point in Illinois Central territory, it will find a railroad ready for action and wide awake at the switch.

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