Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1941 — Page 6

WORLD ‘DIVIDEIY BY TWO OPTICAL FIR

Through Secret Agreement With Bausch & Lomb,

German Zeiss Company

Knew of All U, S. Orders

And Received Commission on Sales. |

' This is the fourth in a series of articles on giant internatignal cartels and their effect on the United States defense progrium.

By THOMA

_ Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1

was easing off into the era of “normalcy pro

~~ Warren G. Harding.

People wanted to forget the war and all it Though this was supposed to have been the war to and people throughout the world looked for a long peace, there were some who were gambling that wars

‘would still recur regularly.

So, just when America was settling down to normalcy and inducting its prophet Mr, Harding in

place of the dour and disillusioned Woodrow Wilson, now an invalid slipping slowly toward death, a conference was

beknownst to : the American : people or any of its officials, which was based on the assumption that nations would continue to arm heavily and that there were ways and means of cornering some of this business. : Met in Rochester A representative of Carl Zeiss, the famous German optical instrument firm, met with officers and directors of Bausch & Lomb, the American optical-instrument firm, to outline a hard-and-fast agreement whereby they would maintain a world monopoly on military optical instruments, controlling production and suppressing competition through exclusive patents. Thus they would be able to fix their own prices. : A special military department was created at Bausch & Lomb, in which Zeiss placed its own representatives. The . strictly secret agreement signed April 28, 1921, was to continue for 20 years. It allotted the United States to Bausch & Lomb as its exclusive territory, “and the rest of the world to Zeiss. At prices maintained by this monopoly, the United States Government, during all these years, purchased from Bausch & Lomb military optical instruments which it used in periscopes, range finders, altimeters, boresights, bomb sights, torpedo directors, sights for guns, and many other devices.

Information Exchanged Through an exchange of information, the German Zeiss company was kept informed constantly of the ‘quantities of all these instruments ‘and devices which the U. S. was using, and thus had at hand a very good picture of the nation’s military and naval program. The whole story has come to light due to the activity of Thurman W. Arnold, in charge of anti-trust prosecutions. for the Justice Depart-

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A complaint was filed last July 8, and the next day Zeiss and Bausch & Lomb entered a consent decree whereby they agreed to stop all the practices by which they had controlled output and prices. The

‘way is now open for entrance of

competition into the field, for release of patents by sale to others, and for a. reduction of prices.

Not Single Case This is not a single case. Many other cartels are operating in materials vital to defense. All of them are now under investigation by the " Justice Department, and indict- . ments are imminent in cases where American corporations tied themselves up with foreign monopolies. : The operations of this opticalinstrument monopoly and its terms are interesting because the others follow the same pattern. The exclusive agreement guarded against all eventualities. If one company received an inquiry from a government in the territory of the other, the agreement provided that the price would be boosted 20 per cent to throw business to the . other. But if the bidder decided to pay the higher price, the added 20 per cent would be paid to the - party in whose territory the order originated. Under the agreement, however, Bausch & Lomb could not sell to governments other than the United States without getting the consent of Zeiss, and the record compiled by the Justice Department contains numerous examples of vetoes.

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OP, GOVERNOR TALK IT OVER’

Question of Compromise Was Approacheti Sensibly, Schricker Says. (Continued from Page One)

meet again with the Gdvernor next week,” the Senator said)

Asked if the conferénce meant that Republicans were [prepared to compromise provisions ¢f their “ripper” bills, which woul Governor of most of (his powers, Senator Jenner replied lemphatically: “No. “There was no move to| compromise our differences . .. we tiiink another conference, however, wotild be beneficial to both parties,” he said. Governor Schricker | was more definite in his reactions| to the conference. “Republican leaders showed a disposition to get a reorgaiiization plan that would be satisfactory to the people and one that wpuld be permanent and not have (0 be ripped up again in two years,” the Gover-

nor said. “I want to be fair td them (Republicans) because I realize they

have their problems, tgo.” Not an ‘Errand Boy’

In his message to the Legislature, Governor Schricker, discussing the G. O. P. “ripper” bills; vjarned legislators that he would not be content to be “an errand boy.” Other cevelopments that led observers to believe that (he compromise idea is gaining impetus included the slowing up of legislative action on the “ripper” billi and a general tendency of Republican leaders to sidetrack all controvirsial issues in the Legislature that might cause further (riction. - Significant is the temporary “pigeon-holing” of the Senate resolution authorizing a sweeping investigation of the last twd Democraitc state regimes since 1933; The resolution had beg¢n scheduled for quick action in the fouse, but it was suddenly sidetracked. It was reported that some of the House leaders wanted if} to “cool off for a while” before debite. Also outside pressure against patronage-grabbing tactics has Come o the surface 4 haunt the

Businessmen Pi qued

Business leaders, Jabot and other

groups are demanding| an end to partisan bickering. Republicans quickly rejected the Democratic substitute | reorggnization amendment in the |Senat®§ yesterday- but this was ndt considered a flat refusal to considér any compromises. Republican leaders, if they have to back down on some bf their provisions, want to infrodute their own amendments.

Fire Department Beats Him {Home

SO FAR AS John puesenterg of 333 Jefferson Ave., is concerned the Indianapolis Fi'e [Department is speed, personified. He was with his wile and baby in the front room of [heir double: house yesterday, when his wife smelled smoke. She tan upstairs and found a fire in| the front room. Mr. Duesenberg rush alley to the fire dep Beville Ave. and told them about it. By the time he. {ot back to his own home, ‘the fire truck was there and the fire was almost out.” At that, he said, the contents of the room, in which his father-in-law, Edward Sprihger, lived, were completely destioyed. The fire was confined to the one room.

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Broadway productions describing the style, content and mea. of the shows. A Broadway critic for 11 years, Mr. Brown studied at George Pierce Baker's famous dramatic workshop at Harvard University. He is a former head of the summer dramatic schoo. at the University of Montana and a former associate editor and drami critic of “Theater Arts Montaly.” He has taught at Columbia and Yale Universities for the last three sumniers and is the author of several works on the history of American (rama, dramatic, criticism and personalities in the world theater. Th: open forum question period will follow the lecture.

INVESTIGATORS AT FRAUD TRIAL

U. 5. Is Expected to Rest ‘With Testimony of Federal Agents.

All the special Federal agents whose investigations led to WPA

now are being tried Court are expected to take stand for the Government today. With their testimony, it is ex-| pected that the Government will rest its case. Judge Robert C. Baltzell has ordered several times that the case be speeded. The defendants, charged with promoting a WPA project on Rit-| ter Ave. and Minnesota St. to their own profit, are Carl Kortepeter, former Marion County WPA co-| ordinator; Arthur E. Eickhoff, real estate man, and Charles E. Jefierson, former Marion County Flood Control Board member.

Charge Private Profit

It is charged that the improvements made with WPA labor anc funds profited the Silver Hills real

Eickhioff Realty Co. ‘Two witnesses testified this morn-| ing. They were Edward C. Lah monn, County WPA superintendent, and H. Kenneth Cooper, former WPA area supervisor who workec| with Kortepeter. . Mr. Lahmonn reviewed various

‘projects proposed, including the Rit:

ter Ave. one. Mr. Cooper testified that he had seen Jefferson and Kortepeter conferring in the latter's office. Yesterday Ross E. Hawes, WPI bridze construction superintendent, testified that a bridge built on th: project contained two key ways, slots in which to fit a dam. It previously had been testified thet a lake had been included in the plans for the development.

Benckart Testifies

Bernard Benckart, assistant supervisor at the time of the projects, testified earlier that he began construction of the project upon oral orders from Mr. Kortepeter. e testified that Mr. Eickhoft supplied the easements necessary on the project and that he once talked with Mr. Jefferson shout | a lake on the project.

DRIVER FREED AFTER $5000 SETTLEMENT

VALPARAISO, Ind. Feb. 1 (J. P.) —Porter County authorities today dismissed a charged of reckless homicide against Aloysius Biuske, ¢

| Posen, Mich.,, whose truck struck

and killed Dorothy Brocksmith, 9, as she walked along U. S. 12 near Porter, Ind. last August. Parents of the girl asked thiat charges be dropped upon receipt 4 $5000 settlement.

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Report ot Ft. He Harrison to Begin Year’s Service As Draftees. Fifty-nine Hore Marion County craftees from three local Selective

fiervice boards reported at Ft. Harvison reception center today for in-

E |cluction into the Army.

They are part of 200 men called irom seven Indiana counties for incluction today. | Marion County youths inducted {oday were: | BOARD 1—Jule Orvel Haase, 3827

1E. 14th St.; Pershing Williams, 2850

Wood St.; Charles Elmer Bruck, 2042 Adams St.; Norbert George (Catellier, 2202 N. Station St.; James (Clemis Puckett, 3410 Forrest Manor; Robert Joseph Sears, 1107 N. De Quincy St.; Fuston Powell, 1609 Massachusetts Ave. Herbert Joseph Uphaus, 2233 Staion St.; Gilbert Smith Dunn, 2412 &. 16th St.; John Robert Schilling, 1201 N. Drexel Ave.; Billy Paxton ‘McCoy, 1117 N. Arsenal Ave.; Robert F. Geddes, 3507 E. 22d St.; La ‘Verne Fout Stewart, 1117 N. Gale i3t.; George Matouk, 18042 Brookside Ave.; Merrill Lamar Ashley, 2022 Adams St.; William Marcellous Kitchens, 2823 E. 16th St.; Frank Edward Noffke, R. R. 10, Box 240-B; Bernard Allen Welch, 1106 N. Ewing St.; Fred Eugene Cox, 2350 N. LaSalle St. and Robert Carl Fallis, 1302 N. Gale St. From Board 5 BOARD 5—Cleo Thompson, 102415 'W. New York St.; David Orvel Apgar, 1002 N. Drexel Ave.; Malachy Joseph Costello, 261 N. Rural St.; Andy Lochkovic, 1201 Sharon Ave.;

‘William Milo Nikolin, 1105 W. New, Donald Anthony Joseph |

York St.; Litzelman, 418 N. Exeter Ave.; Harlan Clifford Bailey, 1412 Knox St.; Allen Arthur Lindsey, 1234 N. Pershing St. Dale Thomas Crittendenm, 1134 N. King Ave.; Donald Olin Keith, Herbert Blaine Allen, 705 N. Rochester. St.; James ‘Edward Wilson, 1432 Everett St.; Melvin Theodore Cunningham, 206 IN. Pershing St.; Charles George

'Schorling, 256 N. Miley St. Rufus

Moore Cline, 725 N. Sheffield St.;

‘{Estle Dale Case, 1107 S. Fleming St.;

Russell James Hutchinson, 1134 Groff St.; Nadilia John Gerbick, 956 N. Holmes Ave.; Chester LeRoy Songer, 1816 W. Washington St. BOARD 6—Donald Trump, 18 N. Sherman Drive; John Delbert Underwood, 3141 Clifton St.; Max Eu-

fraud charges on which three men; in Federal | the| iAllyn, 314 N. Linwood St.

han, Francis Murphy, 5320 Lowell Ave.

Gladstone Ave.; Lyday, 756 N. Arlington Ave.; Myers Cheney, 5819 E. New York St.; |Dewey St.; Richard E. Long, 220 N. [|Gray St.; Clyde Holman Knapp Jr., [1519 N. Wallace St.;

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gene Ress, 5965 Oak Ave.; Walter Brandon McDonough, 435 N. Gladstone Ave.; Robert Francis Vollman, 902 N. Chester St.; Robert William

Wallace Allen McDonald, 5206 E. Washington 'St.; George Claver Robbins, 946 N. Bosart Ave.; Wilbur Edward Kramer, 5527 University Ave.;

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Where Hitler Shands a

Disaster Waits Whole World if Nazis Win:

Plan Based on Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Alliance|

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dustry, the manufacture—and bearing—of arms and of radio, the press and all communications.

The roads and railways of the continent will be centered and controlled from Berlin.

There will be no use for gold in this regional economy unless and until the Nazis might get some of

it from somewhere else. Pending such a time, the German mark will be the dominating currency, at a rate of exchange against other currencies fixed, naturally, by the Nazis. Customs unions will be set up with such of the countries of Europe as have standards of living higher than that which previously obtained in the Reich. This will naturally cause the higher standards to sink to that in Germany.

Prices to Be Manipulated

Price levels will be manipulated so as to adjust living standards in general to the levels the Nazis consider desirable. The German standard will, of course, be the highest. The other nations of the continent will be “reconstructed” into colonies for the Reich. They will provide raw materials, markets, a cheap labor supply, army, navy and air bases and good governing jobs for the Nazis. The economic bloc which the Nazis will create out of all Europe will trade as a single unit with all the rest of the world. At the same time the Nazis will refuse to do business with any other regional economic bloc.

It will decline, for example, to buy from or sell to any Latin American bloc, to say nothing of any bloc including both Latin America and the United States.

Each individual firm, in the rest of the world, in other words, will have to bargain with the combined, united buying and selling power of all Europe, wielded by the Nazis. “After the victorious conclusion of the war, we shall use the same methods in economic policy that have brought about the great economic successes of the prewar period, and more practically those of the war itself,” Dr. Walther Funk, Nazi president of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, has publicly stated. Nobody could ask for a fairer warning. Morally, religiously, socially and politically, Europe will ‘also be forged into a single bloc, equally Nazi in character.

Jews will be rounded up, usually with the Nazis’ standard half hour or 45 minutes notice, loaded into trains and shipped off to concentration camps. Iater the survivors will all be sent to whatever “reservation” the Nazis finally decide to set up—all 6 million of Europe’s Jews. All others whom the Nazis dislike or distrust, or whose property or wives or daughters they want for themselves, will also be liquidated in whatever ways seem most efficient and most entertaining to the Nazis in charge of this mission: Liberals, pastors, recalcitrant pastors, labor union leaders, bank presidents, the personal enemies of individual Nazis,

|The Swastika gradually will replace. the cross in Europe's churches, both literally and figuratively, as it has been doing in Germany’s own - churches for almost eight years. Christianity, as the world now knows it, will go into those modern catacombs, the concentration camps, on the continent. Labor unions and employers’ and manufacturers’ associations alike will, of course. disappear. In their places, the Nazis will set up labor fronts run by party agents. Businessmen will suffer at least as much as labor, as they always do under Fascist rule. For some time labor will at least have jobs at ex-

istence wages, which is all that millions of workmen ever had. But capital will lose, not only its freedom, but also its wealth. Regimentation will be applied to all Europe on lines essentially the same as those on which it has already been made effective in Germany. The Nazis will decide everything for everybody. The Nazi Europe will, of course, rule Africa as well. It also will rule the Near East and reach intp the Middle East. Japan will control the Far East; the Germans and possibly the Italians will inherit a small part of the positions the white race has won in the remote Pacific. The other white peoples will be evicted.

The power of this alliance will be staggering.

The partners of the international Bund will have fleets to rule the seven seas. They will have shipyards to outbuild the United States six or seven to one. They will have an arsenal of tyranny greater than any arsenal of democracy the United States could build in half a generation.

Their subject peoples will be denied the right to bear arms at all and will be ruled by a secret police which will be doubly effective because it will stop at nothing.

And the partners will naturally.

devote this power to the securing of their world positions against the cnly nation left on earth which could constitute a threat to them— the United States.

What will happen in the Western Hemisphere if the Nazis win in Europe? Something like this: Local Fascist movements in Latin America will thrive. They will be given aid and comfort by Germany, Italy, Japan and Spain.

Germans, Italians and Japanese (they number several millions) will be openly organized in Latin America as states within states, with a standing of virtual independence similar to that enjoyed by the Germans in Hungary and Rumania. The partners of the “world bund,” armed with their enormous purchasing power and their staggering arms, will move into Latin America and buy up surplus commodity crops at prices which look too good to be true. Only later will it develop—when Latin American countries have become utterly dependent on European and Asiatic markets

and scores of other categories of

the unreconstructed or tHe happy.

controlled by the alliance—that the prices are expressed in terms of

aspirin tablets, factory and harbor installations and flying fields, which must also be paid for at prices too good to be true.

Controlling the high seas, the “world bund” will be able to smuggle arms, men or anything and everything else they want to into Latin America in preparation for “Der Tag.”

There will be revolutions here and there, ostensibly in the older tradition, and advertised as such, but actually revolutions incited, financed, organized and directed from Berlin, Rome and Tokyo.

What does the United States do? The American fleet is necessarily divided between the Atlantic and

the Pacific. If the United States has a two-ocean fleet and a great army and air force, it is only by virtue of an effort which has involved taxation and regimentation beyond the worst nightmares of an economic royalist to date. And what does America do with its armed forces, assuming it has them?

For the “world bund” continues to strike from every direction:

A new revolutionary leader comes in “Ruritania,” in Latin America. Having consolidated his position, he announces his esteem and affection for the “world bund” and proclaims his allegiance to it. He also finds some semi-plausible pretext for taking over all American property in “Ruritania” and arresting or expelling all American citizens. A German-Japanese-Italian squadron pays a “courtesy visit” to the principal harbor of “Ruritania” at just this time. Siiaultaneously, however, the main Japariese fleet puts out to sea and disappears in the general direction of the Philippines—and Hawaii.

At what point in this process does America fight? Which blow does it parry first? Does the United States intervene to protect the liberties of pastors, liberals, labor union leaders and women and children in Europe? Does it act to put down the revolution in “Ruritania”? Does it send the battle fleet toward the Philippines and Hawaii or toward the principal harbor of “Ruritania”? The enemy, of course. has superior forces at both places. Or doesn’t the United States act at all? ‘And if not, how long and for what issue does America wait?

Until the World Bund is at the Panama Canal? Until the Japanese beat American women and search them in the streets of Shanghai? Until an American battleship “blows up following an explosion and sinks”? Until Key West is shelled from a cruiser or New York bombed from an aircraft carrier? Or doesn’t America fight at all? , There are perfectly sincere and unequivocally patriotic Americans who ask in all honesty, “what will the world be like if Hitler wins the war and what difference will it make to Jhe United States, anyway?’ This, very briefly. is the answer.

THE END

ASPERGER RITES TO BE MONDAY

German Lived in U. S. 35° Years; Belonged to Liederkranz.

Gottlieb Asperger, a native of Gere many and one of the oldest ranking members of the Indianapolis Liedere kranz, died yesterday. He was 60, Services will be held at 1:30 p. m,

Monday in his home, 910 Greer St., with. burial in Crown Hill. Born in Wirtenberg, Swabia, Ger= many, Jan. 9, 1881, Mr. Asperger came to the United States 35 years ago. He was associated with the John Guedelhoefer Wagon Co. more than 30 years. He was a member of Schwaben Verein, the Hermansohne, the Ger= man Benefit Society and the Lieder kranz. . : Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Sophia Asperger; three daughters, Elsie, Marie and Margaret Ann Esperger; his brother, Otto Asperger, all of Indianapolis, and two sisters and.2 a brother living in Germany.

Mrs. Anise Marley

Services will be held at 2 p. m. toe morrow in the Mooresville Method ist Church for Mrs, Anise Marley, who died Wednesda) near Monrovia. She was 76. Born in Morgan County, Mrs

Marley spent most of her life in that vicinity. She was a member of the Mooresville Church. Survivors include her husband, Charles; four sons, Justin Marley of Mooresville; Kenneth Marley of Miami, Fla., and Clarence and John Marley of Indianapolis, and three daughters, Mrs. W. M. Tincher of Mooresville, Mrs. Wilfred Cummins of Indianapolis and Mrs. Everett Cook of Mattoon Ill.

Mrs. Mary Zuckerman

Mrs. Mary Zuckerman, 1047 BE, Market St., died yesterday after a long illness. She was 44. A resident of Indianapolis 13 years, she was a native of Austria, She is survived by a son, Joseph Zuckerman of Indianapolis and two daughters, Mrs. Sara Skaggs of Ine dianapolis and Miss Bessie Zucke erman of Cleveland, O.

500 DAYTON TRUCKS KEPT IDLE BY STRIK

DAYTON, O., Feb. 1 (U.P). — A strike of 1500 Dayton truck drivers, which tied up an estimated 500 trucks, kept all but one of the city’s hauling companies from operating today. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs and. Ware=housemen (A. F. of L.) called the strike last midnight to enforce dee mands for a 10-cents an hour ine crease and a 57-hour work week, The union also asked trucking companies to enter into a one-year agreement. Strikers and ‘truck operators were to confer at 1 p. m. today.

11 HELD IN FOOD THEFTS

GRENOBLE, France, Feb. 1 (U., P.).—Police today arrested 11 per=

sons for stealing food and valuables from a restaurant. {

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