Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1941 — Page 22

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 194|

The Indianapolis Time

Hoosier Vagabond

(Editor's Note: Ernie Pyle returned from London a few days ago by Clipper. Following is one of several articles based on material he gathered while there.)

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' WOULD BE HARD fo say, | ea, cartoonist in the world many people think it is David wouldn't be a bit surprised myself. Low draws for Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard. He draws, at the most, three cartoons a week. Occasionally he gets a “dry” spell, calls up the office and says he’s tired, and drops down to one a week. When he does this he finds it just as hard to produce one cartoon a week as three. And yet 1 think this respite from the daily grind must have some bearing on Low's greatness. As he himself says, nobody in the world can produce a good cartoon every day. I went to see Low with fear and trembling, since great names affect me that way. But I needn't have. Low is pleasant and companionable, and you feel at ease with him, His cartoons are the most powerful, often the most scalding, that I have ever seen. LoWw’s own philosophy is toward the socialistic, and he is pugnacious and caustic in his thinking. Yet he sits in front of his fireplace puffing at his pipe, and his voice is soft and his manner gentle, and he reminds you of a very young “Foxy Grandpa.’ Low is 50. He is neither big nor small. is nearly gone on top. His eyebrows are black extremely wide, He has a grand little smile. Born in New Zealand For many years Low put himself in his cartoons and then, in just a few quick lines down in the corner, It was mostly evebrows. You wouldn't think it, could be anybody. Yet when you see Low, he looks exactly as in those cartoons, He wore a beard until a few months He finally shaved it off because it made him a marked Everybody recognized him, and he couldn't get any peace. He is no recluse, however. He loves to walk. and is out a lot. He has many friends and goes out often to dinners and entertainments. Low speaks with the confidence of one who knows he is a master in his field, yet he speaks with the quiet of a professor. and not as a braggart. And he has a nice sense of self-ridicule too, for he says: “A cartoonist has it over newspapermen who write, because if somebody doesn’t like your cartoon you always sav, ‘Well, you just don’t understand it. » Low is a New Zealander. He has always been a

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Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)

WE ARE INDEBTED to the Butler Collegian for this survey which hardly could be entitled “Happy Landings.” It concerns the ups and downs of the University's civilian pilot training students. Dick Fruechtenicht, Junior Class president, started some place but not where he finally wound up — in a grain field. “What a corny place to land!” said Dick. And Madge Rutherford, Butler's first queen of the air, started for Seymour. She landed—at the Terre Haute airport which is farther from Seymour than is Indianapolis. Ettajane Jordan found Seymour, right. “But,” added the Collegian, “she must have thought she was flying a humming bird because she tried to taxi her plane between two markers that were much too close together and the results .were not all that could be desired.”

The Indispensable Man

is much less self-confi-

all

One young businessman dent as a result of the draft. His job is securing contracts for a trucking firm and he had been wellpleased with his progress. Then came his draft questionnaire. In the place where the draftee may ask for occupational deferment, the young man wrote: I am indispensable to my firm.” A few days later the questionnaire was returned to him. Under the above notation was written: Who says so?” The young man recognized the handwriting. It was that of his boss who is a member of the draft hoard. The “indispensable” vouth will report for his physical examination April 16.

Washington

WASHINGTON, March 28.—For the time being at jeast. the new Defense Mediation Board is to be regarded as a kind of heavy backstop to the Conciliation Service of the Department of Labor. The board will not be sitting continuously but only when one of the larger situations is placed in its hands. After the first meeting this week, the members scattered to their homes. Chairman Dykstra is returning to Madison, Wis., where he is president of the University of Wisconsin. He will be here only part time, The board will reassemble here next week for a day or two. For a while the board will operate on a commuting basis, subject more or less to call. That is not exactly what many have expected, but that is the way it is. Much has been written to the effect that the hoard will work only when Secretary of Labor Perkins assigns it a case. That is true only on paper. Secretary Perkins is not the key figure in this and has had practically nothing to do with the whole matter. The key person is Dr. John Steelman, chief of the Conciliation Service of the Department of Labor. He advised in the drafting of the executive order setting up the Mediation Board. He has been in close touch with the board since it was named. The board officers will receive reports from him continuously. and these evidently will he forwarded to board members between sessions so that they may keep informed.

The Allis-Chalmers Case

Whether a case is to be hrought formally before the board is likely to be a matter of judgment arrived at in private consultation between members of the board and Dr. Steelman Some have made the point that under this system conciliators will be reluctant to turn a case in for certification to the Mediation Board because that

My Day

VALDOSTA, Ga. Thursday—The sun has not been very kind to us. Yesterday, Miss Thompson and I walked around Middieton Gardens in the early morning bemoaning the fact that no sunlight danced upon the water, or played through the leaves of the trees. However, nothing can 3 really speil the beauty of those gardens and we enjoyed our walk and came back to thank Mrs. Smith, who had invited us into her house.

I always think that it must seem very odd to have strangers wandering around your garden. But she told us that thougn they marked with care ‘private residence” outside the house, people come in if they leave the doors unlocked. Ome morning the maid heard some people in the dining room and, on coming in, found them examining some Sliver Of course, in Europe certain houses with wonderful collections of paintings, prints and furniture were open fo the public at certain times, but never do I remember the families’ living quarters open while they were at home. When one owns works of art, there is an obligation to let the public see them. But It seems to me, that the public has a certain obliga-

By Ernie Pyle

cartoonist. He went to England 22 years ago. via the] United States, and has never been back to New Zealand, He has a sentimental feeling about his homeland, and fears that a return to the old scenes and old friends after all these years would be disillusioning. Low says he has never felt thoroughly settled in London. He feels that an Australian or New Zealander is more at home in America than in England. His last visit to America was in October, 1936. He saw Jack Dempsey and Father Divine and President Roosevelt. The Lows subscribe to many American magazines, including Life and The New Yorker, Mrs. Low scans the new fashions in the ads. “We can't buy anything,” she says, ‘so the next best thing is to look at the pictures.” The only thing they don’t like about American magazines these days is that so many of the cartoons are on the war, and they see enough war cartoons at home. Low is not well acquainted with American cartoonists, but feels that Thomas Nast was probably the last great one. Low drew for Collier's a while last year, but had to work so many weeks ahead that he felt his cartoons lost their punch, so it was dropped.

Does His Work at Home

He has two daughters—Prudence and Rachel—in their late teens. Both are political-minded. In fact the whele Low family is a very important part of Low’s greatness. Their breakfast is literally a conference. The four of them thresh over the world news for cartoon ideas. As Low says, “We digest it, argue it, analyze it, sing it, act it out, and balance it on our noses.” Out of this inteliectual jamboree usually comes a cartoon idea. But not always. For like all great| men, Low finds his head nothing but clay sometimes.! The day of my visit was an example. I was to arrive at his house at 5 p. m, “I got up this morning a complete blank,” he told me. “Here historical events by the hundred were] just crashing about us, and I couldn't get a thing. Didn't have anything by lunchtime either. Finally at 2 o'clock I got an idea. “You can always work when you have to. 1 started at 2, and the cartoon was finished by 4. But I'm not going to look at Monday's paper.” Low works at home, and the paper sends a messenger out for his cartoon. He has had a tough winter. Because of air raids, the Standard’s engravers wouldn't work after dark. So he had to have his cartoon in their hands by shortly after lunch. “That meant getting up at 7, two hours davlight, and trying to be funny,” Low says. ought to try that sometime.”

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(More About Low Tomorrow.)

Two On the Mayor

A memorandum was issued to his secretary, Ruscell E, Campbell, by Mrs. Frata McCabe, assistant secretary. “Mayor called and asks you that luncheon Friday some time Thursday,” memorandum read. When you get that cleared up, listen to this one: The Mayor was seated at his desk signing bonds. The phone rang. The Mayor was heard to say: “Hello.” “What's that? The church roof’'s on fire? don't you call the Fire Department?” “Oh, all right, I'l call them.” He did.

Let Youth Be Served

Three-year-old John Bruhn Jr. watched the dog exhibit at the Sportsmen's Show from his father's arms. There was a crowd in front of them and young John could see none too well. The dogs had just performed one of their prize tricks, the crowd had applauded and silence fell. Shouted the youngster: “Do it again, I didn't see it.” The Political Arena From the Political Stew: Governor Leon Phillips of Oklahoma has only one picture on his office wall— not President Roosevelt's, but Paul V. McNutt's . , . They're quoting two-to-one odds at the State House that Judge James Emmert of Shelbyville will be appointed interim Attorney General—if they get to appoint. one. State Senator William E, Jenner lunched with Secretary of State James Tucker, strengthening rumors of a Tucker-Jenner-James-Givens bloc and a Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson “isolation.”

to remind him of the

Why

By Raymond Clapper

would, in a sense, be an admission that the conciliator | had failed to bring about a settlement. The answer | made to that is that Dr. Steelman, the chief of the; service, and the board will be watching all trouble- | some cases and will arrive at their own conclusion as to when the board should step in. The disposition within the board appears to be to} deal only with a few major cases from time to time, | as against becoming immersed in a continuous stream | of minor cases. This raises a difficult question of | where the board should start in, At the moment the Allis-Chalmers strike in Milwaukee is the most Hgenh situation but the board is not taking it on for the moment. Meantime the Navy is making a try at it. | This is a tough case,

Pos Many Agencies

. Knudsen hag tried everything he can think of. | Ti is the possiblity that if the Mediation Board] undertook to adjust this dispute and failed, its use- | fulness thereafter would be seriously impaired. On| the other hand, the only reason for existence of such | a board is to tackle the tough ones that have defied settlement by other agencies. One finds some complaint that too many agencies are trying to adjust disputes.

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Review of the

By VICTOR FREE

Indianapolis Times News Editor

On June

28, 1914, a Serbian student murdered the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo.

Their

assassination provided the pretext for Germany to pre-

cipitate World War 1.

On March 27, 1941, Serbian patriots, alliance with the Axis, executed a bloodless revolution.

resentful over Jugoslavia’'s And thus the

hottest spot in the hot-headed Balkans may become a definite turning

point in World War II. Steps during the week leading up to the coup that tripped Hit ler’s goose-step through the Balkans were: TUESDAY-—The German squeeze on, Jugoslavian leaders capitulated but won a concession barring transport of troops to the Greek border. WEDNESDAY—The Serbs, the Croats and the Slovenes, intensely nationalistic and united only in their desire for independence, balked, demonstrating wildly against the Axis. THURSDAY -— Oppositionists, aided by the anti-Nazi army, seized control. Prince Regent Paul fled. Peter II, 17, was proclaimed ruler.

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POSSIBILITIES—

Reverberations were in the making, but what the rebellion would mean in military terms remained uncertain. With pro-British elements in power, there were indications that the whole pattern of the Nazi spring blitzkrieg may change. Possibilities were: 1. Hitler may attempt to subdue Jugoslavia by force of arms, which would involve defeating a well-trained army of nearly a million men. 2. Revolutions have a habit of spreading. The entire Balkans may burst into flame. 3. If Jugoslavia fights, Britain may win its objective of a common Jugoslav = Turkish - Greek front.

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REACTION—

German officials who had called the pact a “diplomatic Dunkirk” remained silent, but the coup threw a pall over elaborate propaganda demonstrations arrahged for Japan's Foreign Minister Matsuoka. Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's mouthpiece, charged that the British had fomented the plot. Britain's Churchill said: “Early this morning the Jugoslay nation found its soul.” Greeks in Athens beamed. Acting Secretary of State Welles of the United States announced that the United States would help the new regime in any fight against aggression. 5 ” ” Since March, 1938, 12 nations have fallen under com‘plete or partial German domination. Jugoslavia was to be No. 13.

ON THE GREEK FRONT—

Concentration of a big British fleet at the western end of the Mediterranean indicated that transport of troops and supplies to Greece had been completed. Madrid suggested that English men-of-war were preparing to reinforce the defense against German undersea and surface raider attacks on shipping. The battle lines in Greece as now drawn: Germany—300,000 troops massed on Greece's northern frontier; 200,000 nr 300,000 reserves in Rumania. Allies—100.000 to 150,000 crack troops of Gen. Wavell's Army of the Nile; 200,000 to 300,000 Greeks. ¢ ” ” ” Greek report on Albania: “The Italians are still rushing headlong into disaster, littering the ground with their dead without making any gains.”

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC—

Germany claimed a “battleship squadron” had pierced the Brit-

Britain's concern over mounting shipping losses provoked the first direct plea of a London newspaper urging that the U. S. cone voy its supplies across the Atlantic. Said the Daily Sketch: “We need every American ship that America does not need for herself. We need every American captain, every American ship, every engineer, every seaman who can be spared from America's own war effort.”

WAR ITEMS—

Russia, though quiet, pledged to Turkey her “complete comprehension and neutrality” in case the Turks go to war against aggression and in defense of their inde= penden 8, Mussolini accepted the “resignation” of Marshal Gra=ziani as commander-in-chief in North Africa. Gen. Italo Garie boldi succeeded Graziani in the bizgest Italian shakeup since the retirement of Marshal Badoglio because of Italian failure in Greece... . Britain, tightening her belt another notch, cut the meat ration to the lowest level of the wai. ... Vichy revealed a “trade” of food supplies, allowing shipment from occupied to unoccupied France of staples in return for “surplus’ stocks in the occupied zone. . . . London sanctioned shipment by the U. S. to France of two rargoes of wheat. . . . German raids on England eased after new attacks on Plymouth but the R. A. F. bombers dropped 10,000 incendiary bombs and high explosives on Berlin. Other assaults took place at Kiel, Bremen and Undon. . . . The Chinese claimed the Japanese had suffered 20,000 casualties in 10 days of fighting. . The British captured Keren, besieged Italian fortress in East Africa, and Harar, second city of Ethiopia.

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BRITISH AID—

President Roosevelt's signature on the S$7,000,000,000 war aid bill, affixed aboard a destroyer off the Florida coast vesterday, was the signal to start a stream of all-out aid to Britain and her allies. Harry L. Hopkins will administer the law in conjunction with a presidential liaison committee. The Senate, which debated the Lend-Lease bill for 18 days, passed the war aid bill the same day debate started, 67 to 9.

LABOR—

Clashes between pickets at International Harvester plants in Chicago and Richmond, Ind., and at Bethlehem Steel and a Government demand that Allis-Chalmers in Milwaukee be reopened brought the defense-labor situation rapidly near a climax. Developments were: 1.0. 1. O. President Philip Murray challenged the action of Navy Secretary Knox and OPM Director Knudsen in ordering reopening of Allis-Chalmers. The company pledged “full compliance.” The union said the 65-day strike would go on until the union determines its attitude tomorrow. 2. Move than 30 persons were injured and 82 arrested during the disorders in Richmond. 3. The OPM turned over four major defense strikes to the new mediation board which met for the first tim» this week. 4. War Secretary Stimson urged states to speed formation of home guard units which would be available in event of serious labor dis- _ turbances.

The New Deal's gigantic Grand Coulee Dam over the Columbia River in Washington was ready for

business this week after the $200,000,000 power generator’'s “unveiling.” First customers to contract for the power were the Indians on the Colville

dent Roosevelt messaged.

“A fine job well done,” Presi-

reservation north of the dam. Critics charged that if it weren't for the Indians and the rearmament program, the dam would have nothing to show for the investment,

POLITICS—

Indiana Republicans and Gov=ernor Schricker rapidly neared a showdown over “decentralization” and state patronage. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox issued a temporary injunction, restraining State officials from enforcing provisions of the G. O. P. “ripper” program pending a hearing on a permanent injunction Monday. Republican leaders said today they were ready for an “all-out” defense of their program following a suit by Governor Schricker challenging its constitutionality. The Governor's suit attacked the “big ripper,” which sets up four boards of elective officials to administer the State government, ” The Republican National Committee rejected the resignation of Chairman Joseph

W. Martin Jr. Suggested as new assistant to aid Martin was Arch Bobbitt of Indiana.

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BUSINESS—

U. S. Steel reported British and American armament orders helped lift 1940 sales and earnings to new post-depression records. Consoli= dated net income of corporation and subsidiaries $102,211,282, a 10year high. Sear & Roebuck, with net income of $36,082,668 and net sales of $704,301,014 in 1940, reported it was “glad tu pay $32,650,033 in taxes” during the period. Hog prices at the local stock=yards declined from $8.25 on Mon=day to $7.90 yesterday when demand weakened.

Dodge Reports said Indianapolis construction, both public and private, amounted to $3,828,000 in January and February, far above the total for the same months last year, The N. Y. stock market moved in narrow fractions most of the week, but turned up sharply yesterday on news of the Jugoslav coup and what was construed as good news of efforts to halt defense labor strikes.

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ABOUT HOOSIERS—

Construction of a $30,000 addition to Municipal Airport was tentatively agreed upon. , . .Plans were pushed for the expansion of technical training courses in schools and factories to offset an increasing shortage of skilled labor. . . . The Harrison Memorial Commission recommended establishment of a forestry reserve in memory of the Hoosier President. . . . Indiana University opened its new $1,170,000 auditorium in a week of ceremonies. , . . Milk dis= tributors announced deliveries on Sunday would be discontinued beginning April 13. , . . Ten firemen were overcome and another in=jured in fighting a fire at Rural and E. Michigan’ Sts ., .. Formation of an Indiana State Guard of 230 officers and 2279 enlisted men

“to be ready for any eventuality” was announced under authority of a law passed by the last Legislature. ... The State Supreme Court reversed the relief fraud conviction of Dan R. Anderson, Indianapolis grocer, and ordered a new trial The court ruled that the evidence was insufficient.

SPORTS—

The Wisconsin Badgers, Big Ten basketball champions, defeated the Dartmouth Indians in the Eastern N. C. A. A. finals and earned the right to meet Washington State for the national title, At a coaches’ conference in New York an amendment of the present three second piv-t rule in basketball was recommended, On the Hoosier front, southern Indiana was toasting the state finalists. The champion Hatchets of Washington and the runner= up Madison Cubs shared the hon= ors. Don Lash, famous Indiana University and State Police distance runner, announced he had paced his last mile and would retire from track competition,

Wilbur Shaw, three-time winner at the Speedway, was found safe in a Mexican village after being missing 12 hours on an airplane flight,

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Movie Star James Stewart, winner of the 1940 Academy Award, was inducted into Uncle Sam’ssarmy as a draftee this week. “I'm sure tickled,” said Stewart, who dropped a $13,000 a month salary for $21. Also tickled were a crowd of women and girls who were at the induction station to bid him farewell.

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MARCH OF TIME—

City Council, conducting its first hearings on Daylight Saving Time, heard the pros and cons for three hours and decided: To take its time before making a decision,

ish blockade.

GROUP STUDIES

President Roosevelt has been urged to take all labor American Paecting Com-

matters out of the hands of the Army and concentrate them in the Conciliation He has not done that yet but he apparently | sought to increase the prestige of the Conciliation Service by making it the only agency which would. through the Secretary of Labor, certify cases to the! Mediation Board. Congress is growing more impatient every day at defense strikes. Unless the Mediation Board begins! to show results with .reasonable promptness, anti-| strike legislation in some form is certain to be at-| tempted. The Mediation Board has asked for public support and undoubtedly the public is ready to give, support. But the public will have nothing to support] until the board moves into some disputes and takes’ its stand.

adjustment and Navy Service,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

tion in return to respect the privacy of the owners. Mrs. Huntington drove with us well on the road to Savannah, and then we pulled up under some trees and ate a delicious picnic lunch. She feels as I do, that food eaten out of doors always has a better flavor. I always rejoice when the time comes when we can have breakfast and lunch on the porch at the White House We practically always eat on the porch of my cottage at Hyde Park. The President likes to go even one step further and has the table put right out on the lawn. It may be a trifie disconcerting if it begins to rain or, if towards evening, the mosquitoes begin to bite. From Savannah to Valdosta, we went through the turpentine country. 1 can not heip feeling that the big slashes made in the trees must be harmful to them, but they tell me that the same trees are used for a number of vears. We drove through much swamp land. 1 find this country rather gloomy, but! perhaps that is due to the fact that the sun has stayed away from us. | We were late in arriving vesterday, but with true | Southern hospitality, nobody hurried us. Miss Thompson and I dined with the girls at the college. They sang some Stephen Foster songs, which I much enJoyed. After dinner, boys and girls from a nearby colored training school, led by a young woman who sang for the President once at Warm Springs, came in and sang some spirituals for us.

| Palestine has been a

mittee to Meet in Capital Next Month.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, March 28. More than 300 government officials, legislators, educators and churchmen have joined to establish the American Palestine Committee whose goal is the settling of thousands of Jewish refugees from Europe in the Holy Land. U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner is chairman of the Committee. The group is endeavoring to win public support for the project in Palestine, which Senator Wagner described as “an outpost of freedom and social justice.” Senator Charles L. McNary has been named co-chairman of the Committee. William Green, American Federation of Labor president; former Senator William H. King of Utah and Monsignor John A. Ryan are vice-chairmen. Indiana members of the Committee are Gov. Henry F. Schricker and U. S. Senators Fredick VanNuys and Raymond E. Willis,

The Committee's activities will

be launched with a dinner in Wash-| mgton next month. In discussing the

Commitlee's objective, Senator Wagner said: “The Jewish national home in world-sanc-tioned experiment in democracy. “Its continued upbuilding must | be a vital part of a just world order |

when the present conflict is over.

The American Palestine Committee

will aim to give expression to the interest, sympathy and moral support of the American people for this humane and statesmanlike cause.” ?

State to Sit Tight on Faulty Truck Fee Law EXILE : REFUGE And Let Operators Test Legality if They Will

By EARL RICHERT After weeks of perusing law books

to find some way out of the truck]

license fee dilemma, State officials have hit upon what they believe is an amazingly simple solution. They will just do nothing. They will treat the new truck license fee law, which evervone ad-

| mits would be

held null and void by any court because of a defective title, as if there were nothing wrong. And the Motor Vehicle License Bureau will begin collecting the increased fees provided for by the new law when it goes into effect next Jan. 1.

HOLD EVERYTHING

COPR 184) BY NEA SERVICE INC. YT M. REG U. 8. PAY. OF.

“They wouldn't give me any rest until I made 'em a mechanized unit!”

This strategy is based upon the presumption, of course, that no trucker will find it to his interests to file a test suit against the law.

BEd Stein, commissioner of the Motor Vehicle License Bureau, pointed out that if this law were held illegal because of the defective title, there would be no truck license law for Indiana and as far as this state is concerned trucks could operate without license fees.

But this would harm rather than

‘help most of the truckers, he said, |since under the reciprocity agreeiments with other states they would

then have to buy licenses in each of the other states on whose roads their vehicles travel. And Indiana's license fees, even under the new law, are cheaper than those of its neighbors. The State certainly is not interested in taking the new law to court and having it thrown out since it is expected to bring in $1,200,000.

And to keep the matter from | : reports specifically, said that they

{were aware that experiments have

“coming to a head” as far as the State is concerned, Mr. Stein has withdrawn his request for an attorney general's opinion on the status of the law. The truck license fee dilemma resulted from a legislative blunder. The Legislature passed one law specifically repealing the 1937 truck tire tax law which netted the state $1,600,000 annually. Then it passed another law, also repealing the 1937 law, but substituting an increased license fee system to make up for most of the revenue to he lost by repeal of the existing law, A joint House-Senate conference committee forgot to amend the title of the latter law to include specifically the provision for increased license fees and this important error was not discovered until after the close of the session. Courts hold that the title of the bill must cover all provisions in it.

NAZIS TEST NEW SMOKE SCREENS

Cloud Made by Contact With Either Air or Water, Reports Say.

By DAVID M. NICHOL

BERLIN, March 28.-— German armed forces, according to reports here today, have carried out maneuvers recently involving the extensive use of new types of smoks screens, which have been developed in the laboratories of the Reich

{Defense Council,

While the use of smoke as a cover for troop movements is not new the German technicians were said to have made considerable

{improvement on earlier forms. Neu-

tral experts, unable to confirm tha

been conducted on a large scale. One of the forms is said to ke a gray, sandy material with particles of differing sizes that is stored in airtight containers. It can be strewn from airplanes and develops a heavy screen on contact with the oxygen in the air. The larger particles fall farther and it 1s thus possible, according to the reports, to control the depth of tha shielding cloud by varying the sizes. A similar principle has been suce cessfully used in the United States, it was said. Another type, these reports went on, is in the torm of pellets, which nay also be dropped from airplanes and which give off smoke when they come in contact with water, Experiments have also been care ried out, it was said, with colored smokes more blinding than the usual gray.