Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1941 — Page 2
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vene pending a direct threat to her own interests. It seemed probable that the Bulgarian crisis was related to the resignation yesterday of Ivan Bogrianoff, Bulgarian agriculture Minister, Bagrianoff was ‘the No. 2 man in the Bulgarian Government and a great friend of Germany.
British Gain in Africa In North Africa the British at-
Report Nazis’ Friend W To Be Premier; Japanese Nearer Singapore.
By UNITED *RESS France and her far Eastern colony of Indo-China stood as worid tension points today and new signs of crisis appeaied in the perpetual-
“148 present at the formation of the
1y troubled Balkans, A No, 1 crisig in relations between
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and
Adolf Hitler was in progress, although it tcok the ostensible form
of a struggle between Pierre Laval,
ousted Vice Premier, and the Vichy Government, The real struggle centered on whether Hitler should dictate French policy in toto or whether ‘the aging French Marshal is to con“tinue at least a nominal rule in those spheres not directly covered by the Franco-Getman armistice.
Laval Wants to Be Premier
Germany has pointedly indicated ‘to Vichy that Laval must return to power if Franco-German relations are not to deteriorate further, A snag in this program appeared today when ii, became apparent that Laval demanded a much more sweeping grant [of power than Petain is prepared to yield. Laval, it was said, demands ‘that he be named Premier with the right to choose his own Cabinet and a free hand in picking the new National Assembly—a body #lready appoint.ed by Petain, Laval was said to have insisted that he must have full control of “French foreign and internal affairs and propagarida, Fetain met with his Cabinet (0 [consider these demands. Paris Press Attacks Again
.. The Paris piess, following a line approved by Germany, launched a fierce attack on Vichy today, demanding that the entire Cabinet save Petain quit. : The alternalive to | acceptance of Laval's terms was thought to be immediate establishrnent of a rival Laval Governraent, with Nazi bless‘ing, in Paris. | Petain's trump card in the situation is the French fleet and the strategic French [colonies in North Africa... It appeared that the Germans have at least hinted they would like the fleet and bases on the Mediterranean and that Petain has been employing the threat ot | fleeing with the ficet to North Africa as bargaining| point in his | dealings with Germany. Japanese Move on Indo-China (2 In the Far Edst French Indo- | China was ‘the (focal point of rapid- | ly emerging Japanesc¢ plans for ex- | pansion’ into the [South Pacific. | Taking = advantage [of France's| weakened position, fhe Japanese seemed to be moviig to develop Indo-China as a base for furthe
operations. L Saigon said that Japanese troops | “wauld land there shortly—only 648 ‘miles from the great British base of Singapore—to “guarantee” . the armistice’ ‘between Thailand and Indo-China. The Japanese | wore tightening | their grip on southern Indo-China with both land ang naval forces and in the north Wwe:e said to have | increased their troop
bases from which to launch bombing attacks on [the ¥urma Road. The Japanese wee also active, making a second landing in as | many. days on the Chinese Coast adjacent to Hongkong, ostensibly to cut off routes for the shipment of smuggled goods lo Chungking. | The second landing was just north | of Hongkong on Mirs Bay.
‘Bulgaria Has New Crisis
The new Balkan crisis was developing in Bulgaria, : London advices said that garia’s Minister .to | Berlin, Col. Parvan Dragononff, was believed have arrived at Sofia’ with new German demands (hat Bulgaria Join the Axis, This time, London (felt, Bulgaria would be unable 10 ‘resist and Russia would 1./3t intervene, Next move, it was thought, would be the marching in «of Nazi troops and a threat to Greece at Salonika. Turkey was not expected to inter-
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tack on Italian forces made headway on all fronts. British troops have pushed 150 miles into Eritrea and now were estimated to occupy one-fifth of that Italian colony. A British column was on the outskirts of Keren, enroute to the capital of , Asmara and another was pushing an Italian force from Barentu into a wilderness cul-de-sac. Keren is only 35 miles from Asmara. Cairo reported that the .routes over which the Italians were fleeing were littered with vehicles and’ war material. More prisdners were reported. captured and it was claimed that a British patrol seized an Italian post 45 miles inside the frontier of Italian Somaliland. . In Ethiopia the British had pushed 30 to 50 miles beyond the Gondar River, driving the Italians back into an area of intense rebel activity: On the Libyan front the British were driving on Barce, 60 miles beyond Cyrene and 75 miles from Benghazi. Richard D. McMillan, United Press staff’ correspondent with the British in Libya, reported that Gen, Sir Archibald Wavell's troops are storming Italian strong points with precision while the Royal Air Force operates in front of the advancing columns, blasting a pathway for their attacks.
Rome Admits Withdrawals
Rome admitted withdrawals in Ethiopia, east of Lake Stephanie, but said that counter-attacks were launched in Eritrea on the British columns. A German air raid an Malta was reported. It was revealed that Italy is shipping large quantities of vegetable products to Germany. Warnings against food hoarding increased. The Greek radio claimed great successes north of Klisura and Tep- | lini in which it was asserted 2000 Italian prisoners were taken. Frontier reports. to Jugoslavia said that Greek troops have occupied Dorza, 18 ‘miles south of Valona on the. main Tepelini-Valona Road. Six British and Greek planes bombed Valona today, it was reported, and were attacked by Italian fighter craft. The Greeks claimed that the total of Italian troops captured since outbreak of the war has reached 20,000. Informed quarters in Berlin said that German planes and naval forces sank 6000 tons of enemy shipping and damaged other vessels totaling seferal thousand tons yesterday.
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By JOE COLLIER
John Thatcher, salty lone survivor of the No. 10 Club of Frankfort, Ind., poured the last bottle of champagne last night at a party at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, tasted it, and put down the glass. “It’s sour,” he ¢omplained. “That wine's gone sour. I won't drink it.”
Considering that this was also the last surviving bottle of an original
club in 1886, and considering that this very bottle had spent the intervening years in a. bank vault waiting for this. specidl occasion, this decision - of Mr. ' Thatcher's s€emed abrupt. “Come on, Johnny,” his friends from Frankfort said. “Come on! Jt tastes like a mixture of maple ho and cider. It's good.
He Orders a Stein
“Johnny” merely looked for a waiter, “Beer,” he ordered. And beer it was the rest of the evening for him. But: he got a laugh when he told his old Frankfort friends gathered there about the first party—the charter party—he and his now departed cronies held. “We drank the other 47 bottles,” he said. : “Yeh,” said a friend. “And did you tell them that you followed the dinner with a poker gare that lasted for seven days and nights?” “Johnny” held up his hand, with a mock frown. “Don’t put that in the papers,” he said,. “it'll make us look like we were a bunch of gamblers.”
They Were Marathons
“What's wrong with that? Whenever you had one of those’ parties you were a cinch to be away at least a week.” “And tell us,” another said, “about that fishing party you and the rest of us had on- Deer Creek two years ago.” Johnny pretended not to hear, “How's that?” 4 “Tell ’em about the fishing party.” He considered it for a while.
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turned back. The guests sat at another table. “Too many flowers,” he mused, “everything's all right except there’s too gnany flowers. Reminds me of a fW¥eral.” “Johnny” is 79. With him at the party were two of his sons, George : and Abe J. both of Indianapolis, Well, there wasn’t anything to|and both were mighty proud of We just had a little jug. their father. f “How about the story?” the others insisted. : Johnny bristled. “So you want to put the whole thing on me, eh?” And He Didn't Answer “Oh, he won't talk,” came in s chorus and the matter was dropped with no further disclosures, This and more banter went on for three “Johnny” Thatcher, now of 711 Buchanan St., Indianapolis,, honored his nine departed friends at a special table with nine chairs
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material’ aid to the nations with which we sympathize. “We cannot disregard the war because , . . upon its outcome depends the character of the world in which we are to live,” he said. “If Great Britain i$ overcome we shall be condemned for generations
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Frankfort Pals Attend 8
From Frankfort were Max Fowler, Paul -Meifeld, Cecil Shawver, John (Doc) Evans, Louis Miller, Ray Gaskill, Will G. Ross, Bicknell Blankenship and William Robison. Then someone told of the time that “Johnny” and the late G. Y. Fowler, were apprentice printers cn ithe old Frankfort Banner, The publisher, the late E. H. Staley, had been elected to:the Legislature and was in Indianapolis. “Johnny” and Mr. Fowler decided
like it hours as
military experts, and turn such properties over to unnamed cQuntries.” Specific Legislation Asked Mr. Kemper testified that the Chamber directors favor specific legislation by Congress:
flag. Transfer of the islands to the} United , States, Rep. Maas said,
concentra- | “would remove from this hemisphere States, as may have the express tions and to have ohtained two air [the ever-present danger that these approval either of the Congress or
islands might some day be used against this hemisphere as bases from which to carry on an invasion, or at least blockading operations.” He pointed out that the British | islands twice had been used effectively against the United States, by the British in the War of-1812, and by the Confederates who used them as bases for supplies from England. “These islands,” he said, “in pos- | session of the® United States and (fortified by us, with the establishment of proper naval bases, would | truly make the Western Hemisphere | | invulnerable against either Europe
With the islands in our possession, Rep. Maas said, the United States would not become involved over the question of their possible transfer to any other power, regardless of the outcome of the present war, .- “They would already be our own territory.”
“Y” COMMITTEE TO MEET
“1, To sell, lease, or give such military properties as now or hereafter may belong to the United
to devote most of our activities to the maintenance of a huge standing Army and a super-Navy.”
Hull Enters Halifax Debate
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, replying to an inquiry from R. Douglas Stuart Jr. of the America First Committee relating to the Empire | Propriety of recent visits of British { Ambassador Halifax to Congres-
themselves from aggressor nations, Sional leaders, said the new Amsuch credit or cash as the Congress! Passador was merely conforming to may specifically approve. : | the established precedents of paying “3, To give to such? democracies courtesy calls. . such further and additional aid as, Z Ihe Visits of Tord Halifax had may be possible, consistent with our|drawn comment in House debate.
own defense requirements, subject| “According to information avail-| to the express limitations.” able to the Department df State,”
Mr. Kemper said the measure|Said Mr, Hull, “the British Amnow before Congress “creates the|bassador, who has but recently arpossibility of this nation entering rived in this country, made a series into this war without further action|0f proforma courtesy calls a few by Congress. . ol Jays sg0 in and shou the Capiiah : in the course, of which he visited Educator Opposes Bill the chairman of the Senate ComAnother witness before the Sen-|mittee on Foreign Relations and the ate Foreign Relations Committee,| Chairman of the House Committee Dr. Alan Valentine, Rochester Uni-|sn Foreign Affairs. The Departversity president, charged that sup-|/ ment does not consider that such porters of the bill actually would|calls constituted a departure from have the United States go to war.
any bi-partisan committee thereof, to the British Empire and other democracies now or hereafter fighting aggressors without committing any recognized act of war, “2. To give the British and other democracies defending
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jieine diverted WPA ‘funds, and labor in connection with road-build-ing projects on Ritter Ave. and Minnesota, St. in the Silver Hills area’ south of Irvington. Judge Robert C. Baltzell has under consideration defense motions for directed verdicts of not guilty, Yesterday Mr. Jefferson testifieq that he had no financial interest in the Silver Hills development and that the idea of the Ritter Ave. and Minnesota St. projects was conceived as a means of providing work for WPA workers. Mr. Eickhoff testified that the Ritter Ave. project actually was damaging to the natural contour of his holdings in the area, but that he consented to the projeat because he thought to do otherwise would be to stand in the way of real estate progress. His Silver Hills holdings, he said, had been out of the .path of the City’s growth for 25 years and for 10 years the Eickhoff Realty Co. “had been ready to dissolve.” « “I once offered it to .the Board of Park Commissioners for cost/ and later I offered it for $1 to the State as a site for the State School\ ior the Blind,” he’ skid, “Both offers were turned down.” On , cross-examination he was asked why, if he did not want the projects in the first place, he had sought out former County Commissioner John Newhouse when the work slowed down and asked the reason. He said that when something was started he liked to see it finished. He also testified that he and Mr. Jefferson never had reached a deflnite understanding about the Eich= hoff Realty Co. and Mr. Jefferson's possible interest in it, saying that their negotiations always had been on a “when and if basis.” Mr. Jefferson’s character, witnesses were James A, Ross, attorney; Fred I. Willis, Indianapolis Scottish Rite secretary, and Glenn’ D. Crawford, American. Legion na-
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that ‘it was time for Frankfort to have a daily paper and, using Mr, Staley’s paper, ink, press, and type, started the Morning Call. It ran for three issues, until Mr. Staley came home for a recess, discovered his new “competitor” and fired the two. That was Dec. 27, 1884. Max Fowler is the’ son of “Johnny’s” partner in (hat venture. Then “Johnny” toasted his ‘departed comrades thus:
“‘Here’s to the boys who have gone
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Aid to Italy Is Meager
His submarine attacks against British® shipping have detericrated. His daylight air raids over Creat Britain havé slowed down to visits by occasional planes, His night bombings. of British cities have been very considerably ifelaxed.
His promised aid to Italy, so enthusiastically welcomed by the Italians several weeks ago, has had only meager results, The Mediterranean still is controlled by the British fleet and Germany has done nothing about it. : In North Africa, there has beh scarcely any mention of German aviators coming to the relief of Premier Mussolini's retreating forces. The British press onward, and day after day passes without Swastika squadrons appearing in the skies. In Italian East Africa, ‘man help for that isolated area impossible. In the Greek war, Germany still holds aloof, uncertain of ‘consequences. Some German planes are vaguely reported now and then to be active in Albania, but to no purpose. The Italians are making no gains and what changes occur in the fighting favor the Greeks,
Petain Resists Pressure
In France, the Fuehrer has not succeeded in bending Marshal “Petain to his will, The aged Marshal and Admiral Darlan both have informed Hitler that ‘he cannot have the French fleet and cannot trespass on French African territory. More gnd more Pierre Laval is being marked with the Nazi brush identifying: his policies for all Frenchmen to see if he eventually is restored to some official post. Bogrianoff, the strongest pro-Nasi member of the Bulgarian Cabinet,
_. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1941
War Moves Tod
By J. W. T. MASON
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Once more the uncertainties and fluctuations that beset Adolf Hitler's war policy have become emphasized as reports of renewed German pressure on Bulgaria are circulating today in European: capitals. The resignation from the Bulgarian Cabinet of
minister of Agriculture, Ivan Bopreted to mean another impending ans, but more fundamentally it
points to confusions and hesitancies in Berlin, Nowhere are'events moving smoothly for the Fuehrer, who seems to
find a way where present obstacles
can be removed without causing greater ones to appear elsewhere,
Bogrianoff visited Berlin and Rome last October; reportedly to discuss . military problems, and it was rumored at rhe time that he might become the Quisling of the Balkans. More than three months have since elapsed auring which time Hitler backed ajay from Balkan embroilments when faced with the resolute stand of King Boris and his Government. Today, however, the fluctuating Nazi search for a place of agtion seems to be swinging from western Europe back to the sowtheast but with the same uncers= tainties of outcome prevailing,
Checkmated at Moment
There are reiterated reports from Rome and Berlin that when spring | comes, lightning strokes will appear, = with devastating effect. But, the increasing complications in Europe arouse legitimate skepticism about future blitzkriegs. : By every standard of realistic strategy, Hitler stands checkmated, at the present moment. The Fuehrer's much publicized intensity of purpose and relentless pursuit: of his objectives are not now _in evidence. iy : Instead, tentative movements fol= lowed by ambiguous hesitations appear from day to day. There is none of the hard, sure ‘pressure of one who is certain of his power 40 dominate. : i The Fuehrer’'s task in seeking to control the continent of Europe already seems to be proving too heavy, That would appear to be the reason for his variability, coupled with the ° natural inconstancies that are always associated with an overplus of ambition.
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Johnson Protests Language
Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal), dean of the Senate isolationist bloc, protested against Mr. Barkley's language but was cut short by the angry Kentuckian. “I won't ask the permission of the Senator from California to say what I think.” he snapped. Chairman Walter F. George (D. Ga.) of the Senate committee said he would ask the State Department whether it had received from Britain “assurances” regarding the British fleet in connection wtih the pending bill. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) quoted newspaper columnist Dorothy Thompson as saying that certain ‘assurances’ had been given. Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney | (D. Wyo.) announced his support. of | the Administration bill as the best!
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