Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1941 — Page 5

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FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1941

‘BRITISH "CHUTISTS |

SEIZED

Rome Reveals Daring Raid As Nazis Battle R. A. F. Along Channel. (Continued from Page One)

quarters and. sources close ¢o the Soviet Embassy believed Russia neither could nor would do anything to impede German occupation of Bulgaria. Jugoslav statesmen were in Germany for possibly critical conversations on their country’s place in event of a German Balkan offensive. Belgrade reported the belief they

were conferring with Reich Foreign |’

Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop today and would meet Adolf Hitler tomorrow,

Japanese Express Surprise

The dramatic Italian parachutist report came when British attention was concentrated on the Far East because of grave indications of possible spread of the war to that area. Japanes: diplomats today were busy expressing surprise at British and American concern. They said they could not understand all the excitement. But in the Tokyo Parliament, Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka spoke on a subject intimately involved with any Japanese war plans. Matsuoka said that Japan is doing “everything possible” to adjust Soviet-Japanese relations -and that conditions favored Russo-Japanese rapprochement. He hinted that Japan might be willing to renounce the anti-Comintern pact if a full understanding could be obtained with Russia. Nazis Interested in Pact Germany has made no secret of her interest in arranging a RussoJapanese non-aggression pact and many observers have long felt that signature of such an agreement would be the prelude to a fullscale Japanese offensive into the South Pacific. London frankly speculated today on the possibility of a Japanese at- - tack on the Netherlands East In-

dies and Singapore, timed to coincide with the Axis spring offen-

sive in Europe. The British Empire was being placed in readiness to meet such an attack should it develop. In Australia an emergency meeting of the war Cabinet was’ held today. Sofia Feels Invasion Certain ° Sofia, the Capital most intimately concerned with Nazi plans, said today that the! question no longer was where or whether the Germans would move but when they would start. The Bulgarians foresaw the possibility that the German move might be directed against Greece through both Bulgaria and Jugoslavia. Sofia felt that Germany hoped that the show of force along the Greek froritier still might force the Greeks to sign a peace with Italy but that if Greece remained adamant the Germans were fully prepared to strike hard at Salonika and possibly to the Dardanelles,

Weather Holds Up Germans

However, Bulgarians still maintained that reports of huge German troop and airplane movements into their country were at least exaggerated or premature. And the terrain, Bulgarian transport and facilities and Balkan weather seemed to bear out their position. There was little light on the journey of Gen. Francisco Franco to Italy and France. Vichy believed that it had been made clear that neither Spain nor France would openly participate in a spring campaign against the British. The question of indirect aid, however, was not resolved. Two more German anti-Nazi leaders who had taken refuge in France, it ‘was learned, have failen into the hands of the Gestapo and two Spanish Republican leaders have been turned over to Franco. The fact that French Interior Minister Marcel Peyrouton participated in the Franco discussions with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain may bode ill for the remaining Spanish Republicans in French concentration camps which are in Peyrouton’s jurisdiction.

More Shipping Attacked

The Germans claimed that another smashing attack had heen made on a British cenvoy, this time by German bomber planes which spotted the ships off Peterhead, Scotland, It was claimed that six ships totaling 20,500 tons were damaged ‘following up yesterday's attack by German surface warships on another convoy off Portugal in which it was claimed that 14 ships were sunk.

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total tonnage of the sunken ships off Portugal amounted to 82,000.

~ That attack, 1s was claimed raised the total of enemy shipping

craft to aroun

In air attacks yesterday, the High Command said direct hits were scored on a fac-

\670,000 tons.

southeast Britain. In night attacks, said the High Command, the Luftwaffe destroyed hangars, encampments and grounded airplanes in Cyrenaica and also attacked military objectives in Malta, The Berlin newspaper Hannoverscher Anzeiger said today that 51 persons were killed, 90 wounded and an unknown number listed as missing as result of British air raids on Hanover Monday night. Heavy British bombers attacked Italian airdromes at ‘Tirana, capital of Albania, and Durazzo, its chief port, last night, the Exchange Telegraph Agency reported from Athens. Cairo said that British operations againsf Keren, Italian stronghold 35 miles from Asmara, Eritrean capital, are continuing. British troops are also steadily extending their area of control in Ethiopia, it was said. The British also reported that desert raiding forces, co-operating with the Free French in the southern wastes of Libya, had captured Traghen Oasis, 25 miles northeast of Marzuk. It was indicated that at least two raiding columns, are operating in the desert and possibly three. Athens said that Greek troops had driven Italians farther back into Albania and captured 400 more prisoners and large stores of rifles, ammunition and mortars. Plodding through three feet of snow, the Greeks dislodged Italians from a 6000-foot height in the northern sector, a Government spokesman said. - The Italians left 50 men, two captains among them, dead on the battlefield.

DANISH SCIENTIST T0 LECTURE AT I. U.

Dr. Henrik Dam, Danish scientist credited with discovering vitamin K, will lecture at the I. U. Medical Center auditorium next Monday night. Dr. Dam, brought here by the Medical Center research committee, will speak on “Factors in Preventing the Blood from Leaving the Vascular ' System.” His discovery, vitamine K, provides the substance in blood which induces normal congealing and curbs excessive hemorrhage. It is credited with saving the lives of many mothers and their infants found to be deficient in the substance. * Dr. W. D. Gatch, dean of the I. U. Medical School, regards the discovery as one of the outstanding advancements in physiology in recent years. Dr. Dam arrived in America shortly before Christmas after trying to reach this country for nearly nine months. Failing in repeated attempts to make the trip by way of Germany and Italy, he and his wife finally took the Finnish line from Petsamo after waiting there six weeks for the boat to hoist anchor.

AL SIMMONS’ WIFE

MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, Feb. 14 (U. P.).—The six-year marriage of Al Simmons, slugging outfielder of the championship Philadelphia Athletics from 1929-31, was headed today for divorce court. His wife, whom he . married in 1934 after her graduation from high school, obtained a circuit court order directing Simmans’ Milwaukee bank to show cause why the baseball star’s holdings should not be held intact pending a divorce trial. The petition estimated Simmons’ estate at $150,000. Consel for Mrs. Simmons said they had prepared a divorce complaint.

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Policeman Dies

Roy Daniels, 57, Became Il While on Duty; Served In 1937 Flood.

‘Patrolman Roy Daniels, assigned for many years to the downtown area, died early this morning at his home. He had complained of feeling ill while on duty earlier in the night and Capt. Roy Pope had suggested he go home for some medicine. Mr. Daniels and his partner, Patrolman Golden Reynolds, drove to the Daniels home at 728 N. East St., No. 12. Patrolman Reynolds waited about 45 mintites for Mr, Daniels to return to the squad car and then investigated. He found Mr. Daniels face down on the davenport, dead. Mr. Daniels was one of 25 Indianapolis officers who served in the Ohig ‘Fiver area during the 1937 flood. ‘A hunter and fisherman, he was 57. He was born in Jacksonville, Ill, and appointed to the police force on July 129, 1926. Two sisters, who live at 1711 E. Michigan St. survive. They are Miss Ada Daniels and Mrs. Mary Crain. His body was taken to the Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel. Mr. Daniels was a member of the Ancient Landmarks Lodge, F. & A. M., the Scottish Rite and the Murat Shrine. The funeral will be at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Harry W. Moore Peace Chapel, with the Ancient Landmarks Lodge in charge. Burial will be at Washington Park.

LADDIE TO BE BURIED AT W. COAST FORT

FORT ORD, Cal, Feb. 14 (U. P.). —Private Everett Scott buries his old dog Laddie today on this military reservation, 2000. miles from the Kansas prairies where they hunted rabbits and herded cattle four months ago. Laddie died yesterday of what doctors termed “old age, gastro-en-tritis, heart lesions and anemia,” despite blood - transfusions, intra - vénous injections and a 2000 mile airplane flight to his master, Whatever the cause, it was brought on by loneliness. Laddie went on a

hungér strike when Mr, Scott joined the Army and left him behind in Chanute, Kas.

BRITISH USE OF | YARDS IS HINTED

Repair of Destroyers ‘America Suggested as Solution to Dispute.

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stuck to his contention. that the U. S. could not spare any. And White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said that despite these seeming conflicts of opinion, no real controversy existed. It was suggested elsewhere that some misunderstanding may have occurred in hasty conversations among the men involved, but that when a course of action finally is determined upon, it will fit the views of all concerned. . Foes Seek Restrictions

The confused status of the matter at this time was seized upon by Senate opponents of the British aid bill. Senator Robert A. Taft R. 0), and others said they would renew their fight in the Senate to put into the bill a restriction to make certain that no present U. S. Navy ships can be sald, ‘leased or given away. At his press conference this morning, Mr. Roosevelt refused to amplify Mr. Early’s statement on the destroyer question. The majority of the Senate Committee filed its report last night. Immediately, opponents of the bill centered their fire on the Administration’s refusal to guarantee against “further depletion” of the fleet or to offer reassurances that American soldiers, sailors and fliers will not be sent outside the Western Hemisphere to fight.. The majority report said the bill was not “a war measure, but a practical safeguard aimed at keeping -us out of war” ‘and that it contained no authority for “sending American troops, under any circurmgiances, to fight on foreign soil.”

Nye Protests But Senator Gerald P. Nye (R. N. D.) asked why the majority had turned down the Ellender amendment declaring that nothing in the bill authorized the sending of U. S. armed forces outside the United States, "its territories and possessions, and the Western Hemisphere. “Obviously, there is thought in some minds at least that the course outlined in the grant of power contemplated in the present bill contemplates the possibility of the need of troops or for our naval establishment in an aggressive way in parts of the world remote from this hemisphere and our possessions, in=cluding the Philippines,” Mr. Nye said. “There can be no other construction than that to the opposition to the Ellender proposal.” Senator Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo.), another opponent, denounced as a “fake” the Administration’s concession to limit to $1,300,000,000 the amount of armaments and defense equipment the President can send to foreign powers. Additional aid would require congressional action. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky predicted

passage within two weeks by a two-

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Klotz Is Dance Chairman—Philip

|Klotz has been named general

chairman of the Butler Indoor Relays Dance to be held March 14 at

the Murat Temple. Herbert Schwomeyer, Thoraas Markin and Max Armer were named to the ticket committee; Robert Jacobi and Quentin Covert to the decoration committee; Wilbur Schumacher to the hall committee; Jack Flynn to publicity, and Richard Fruechtenicht to the permits and shiaperons committee.

Chauffeur’s Job Open—The United States Civil Service Commission announced today that applications will

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the Army Medical Service at Ft. Harrison. Applications must be on file by Feb. 26.

Hold Sweetheart Dance—The St. George Progressive Club will hold its third annual Sweetheart Dance tomorrow at their clubhouse at 2747 N. Sherman Drive. The committee in charge includes William Joseph, John C. Kafoure and Edith Mesalam,

EX-HOOSIER EDITOR

editor, died today at the Cleveland, 0., home of his son, Burr N. Darling, according to word received here, Mr. Darling was prominent in Democratic editorial circles until he retired in 1924. He gained nation-

ing the Belle Gunness murder case in La Porte in 1908. . He also was a member of the Indiana Parole Board. Funeral services will be in La Porte Monday.

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