Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1941 — Page 13

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Washington Observers Also See Move Into Portugal in ‘Negotiations’ With Vichy; De Gaulle Gains

Favor as New

French Leader.

By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER Copyright, 1941, by The Mmdianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine

WASHINGTON, April 29.

ingness to “negotiate” with

the Vichy government on a

“basis of equality” does more than anything else to con-

vince people here that the moment is approaching when,

Adolf Hitler will make the

long expected new move into

Spain, Portugal and French North Africa. Details of the new “negotiations” are hard to obtain, but apparently matters between Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and German Ambassador to Paris,

Otto Abetz, are back where they were last December, when the Germans abruptly broke off discussions in order to show their love for the deposed Vice Premier Pierre Laval. Since then the Germans have merely “ordered” Vichy to do this and that And for the most part Vichy, sad to say, has obeyed But not in respect to turning ove: the French fieet. Despite Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darian the French fleet, when it is not "protecting” French food ships against the British, is rigorously neutral Though American Ambassador, Admiral William D. Leahy has not succeeded in influencing’ French naval eireles in a way favorable to

Britain, he has gained the outspoken respect of the French Navy.

Popularity Limited

Marshal Petain's belief that he has been called not only to “save France’ from Germany, but from democracy, liberalism and “Anglo-Saxon influence” as well-—has led him to accept honors aS a Most unusual type. But nonetheless, there are limits to the Marshal’'s popularity, A fairly recent attempt to substitute a bust of Petain for the bust of liberty exhibited in every French town hall and many schools created such a hubbub of protests that “instruetions” were withdrawn and disL ownred. Nor have the efforts to bring the piich “war eriminals” to trial been successful. The French public understood too well that whatever the technical errors of Reynaud, Gamelin, Mandel, Blum and other former leaders, their patriotism shone like a star compared to that of Laval Darian, Huntziger and the “men of Vichy.” There are obviously increasing limits to what the venerable “hero” of Verdun can accept in deference to German wishes. Sometime in March, the French under German pressure arrested the Czechoslovak Consul in Marseilles, Dr. Valdimir Vochoe. The only real charge that could have been made against the Czech was his vigor in K2eping alive the spirit of opposition to “co-operation” with the Getmans. In this work he was ably assisted by others in Marseilles. There was great protest against the ave rest of Dr. Vochoce

De Gaulle Wins Faver The fundamental fact seems to ba

complex — the |

FRANCE LEANS | 70 NAZIS" SIDE

Impressed by Advances; Vichy to Decide on Stand Soon. By PAUL GHAI

Copyright, and The Chicas ews, Ine

VICHY, April 29. — Assumption that Great Britain has all but lost the battle of the Mediterranean and presumably will succumb in its death struggle with Germany, and America’s decision to insure that its war aid safely reach British shoves, are two factors in Vichy politics; which, many observers believe, will] influence French developments in the immediate future. Vichy France is at the crossroads. | It inclines inexorably toward BerIin, and if it finally enters Germanys orbit as a silent or active partner in war, while America sides’ with Britain, these two trans-At-| lantic friends may soon glare at each other from opposite camps. Lean to Germany Britain's defeat in Greece, unexcelled as anti-British propaganda in France, has served to hasten this denouement. Frenchmen are resighed. They feel there is no other choice, although they regret the inevitability of their nation’s fate. Frenchmen are too polite to admit this, but trends are obvious enough Even recent addresses of British and American statesmen have left no impress here. Winston Churchill's Sunday broadcast failed to con- | vince Frenchmen, who disbelieve, for instance, that Gen. Sir Arehibald Wavell, Middle East comman-der-in-chief, acted wisely when he interrupted a meteoric thrust into Libya to divert forces to the Balkans Decision Is Near Another proof of Viehy's enforced attitude may be found in the way French newspapers have handled declarations of Secretary of State Hull and Navy Secretary Knox in the last week. These statements came in the midst of the greatest wave of propaganda for Franco-German collaboration Vichy has experienced since France's collapse. Nevertheless, they were published, for the sake of “objectivity,” together with reactions of the Nazi Foreign Office.

Germany's newfound will-

1941, by The Mmdianapolis Times | 5 Daily News |

As Army Rookies Ra

By PAUL

HARRISON

Times Special Writer FT. BENNING, Ga. April 20.—A soldier's rifle is a personal and vital arm. Especially for a U. S. soldier, it is a symbol of his national heritage—of wars and wilder-

nesses won.

At least it should be. Military leaders know

it would be a bad thing if men lacked pride and faith in their rifles, and there were some misgivings about replacing the simple and reliable Springfield (Model 1903

with the more intricate and frankly less dependable

Garand, a semi-automatic.

But nobody was quite prepared for the hullabaloo that arose about a year ago and which has been fanned again by publication of unfavorable excerpts from a report of competitive tests made by the Marine Corps. Visiting camps in the south, this reporter heard selectees and National Guardsmen, who had not fired the Garand, wondering whether Washington bureaucracy was about to hand them an inferior weapon. They said they had séen no answers to eriticisms they had read. Here at Ft. Benning, home of the Infantry School for Officers and of the policy-shaping Infantry Board, are all the answers about the new primary arm of our fighting forces. Theyre not exactly official, but you could call them authoritative, because the officer I interviewed is Col. T. S. Wessles, rifle instructor at the mfantry School, test officer dur ing part of the Gatand's 15-year development, and an exceptional marksman who several times has gone to the National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, O.

Easy to Fire

SITTING IN his office, Col Wessles rapidly took apart a Gare and (mow known as the Mi, meaning Model One) and explained how it works. This is the main idea: About two inches from the end of the barrel, and at a

right angle to it, is a hole smaller than the lead in a pencil. Part of the expanding gas which is drive ing the bullet goes through this vent, whams into a tiny piston, which in turn pushes back the breech mechanish, ejects the old shell and puts in a new one as it closes All quick-like-a-mouse. The rifleman doesn't have to work a lever or bolt; he just aims and squeezes the trigger.

The reason the Army and Marine Corps adopted the M1 is that it can fire fom two to three times as many aimed shots per minute as the Springfield. Every phase of modern warfare 1s a race for superior fire power, and no foreign nation has an infantry rifle that can throw anything like the amount of lead that the Garand does.

Down to the last serew and spring, the Garand has 71 parts, the Springfield 94 But Col. Wessles said there are more important parts in the Ml, and that it really is more complicated. Hence it is somewhat less reliable. “But you just ean't get the same standard of absolute dependability In a semi-automatic that's possible in one you operate by hand,” he added. He probably wag thinking of tests by the Marine Corps board in which guns were doused in gooey mud, dragged through sand

Springfield still could be fired. The Garand, with more intricate parts and closer tolerances, often jammed. Regarding actual breakage of parts, though, the officer declared that ordnance mechanics on the range are no busier making repairs than they were when the famed Springfield was used. The front end of the Garand recently has been altered slightly to avoid a wabbling flip that was given to the tails of bullets as they passed the gas vent, The M1 is about as accurate as the Springfield and was especially

NEE SRR

and the 1903 Springfield, showing radical

The Garand rifle (top) differences in breech mechanism, slows down firing speed. Garand and reloads chamber, the Springfield's five,

commended for accuracy by the sharpshooting Marines. There is noe trouble with fouling. Col Wessles said that in a test of the new front end, a rifle was fired 5000 times without cleaning. Naturally, any fast - shooting hand weapon gets hot during sustained fire. The colonel said he has shot the Garand until the wood around the barrel burst into flames, but it kept on working all right. = » » HE NAMED some specific advantages: 1. M1 uses a clip of eight rounds instead of the Springfield's five At the last shot, the clip is ejected with a resonant bong. 2. The M1 is easy to take apart and clean in the field 3. The sights are in every way stronger and superior. Adjust ment is closer and easier. Elevation and windage are changed by thumb serews that eliek. and each click represents one inch to each 100 yards of range 4. The trigger stays in adjust ment beter than the Springfield's 5. The shell ejector is sturdier,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Garand Rifle Tests Are Proving Its Superiority pidly Qualify as Marksmen

“Performance of the M-1 in the hands of troops should settle the controversy.” Garand rifle aimed by this sergeant throws more lead faster than the infantry rifle of any foreign nation.

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Hand-operated bolt on Springfield automatically ejects empty cases

The Garand uses clip of eight rounds against

6. A riffeman can conceal hime self better with the Garand because he doesn't have to raise a hand above the level of the barrel to operate a bolt 7. The Garand has about onethird less recoil Performance of the M1 in the hands of troops should settle the

controversy about it, but the Army |

has no official statistics so far

At Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, I was | told that more than 90 per cent of |

selectees and other qualifying as marksmen or better with the Garand. That is a proportion previously undreamed of. Here at Ft. Benning, the score is even higher among classes of of« ficers — many of them reservists who haven't fired a rifle in years. Col. Wessles said that of his last class of 188, who had scarcely any practice because of bad weather, 70 rated expert riflemen, 52 sharpshooters. 63 marksmen, and only three failed to qualify

» » »

16 Shots a Minute

WHEN we went out on a range

recruits were

its advantage in rapid fire, which is the part of the record course which used to ruin the scores of most novices who shot the Springfield. With the old rifle, you were

supposed to shoot 10 times in a minute at 200 yards. The new rule, for the Garand, is 16 shots a minute, Colonel Wessles, though, began by loading and firing four clips of 32 shots in 60 seconds, and scored 154 of a possible 160. At any slower rate of fire, he seemed never to miss, My best target was 15 bull's-eyes and one in the adjoining 4-ring-—two clips fired in 44 seconds. As one who used to like to shoot the Springfield, I was especially impressed with the Garand’s soft recoil and the way it kicks straight back

H states that | program will amount to at least $1,040,000,000.

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DEFENSE COSTS STATE BILLION

Each Hoosier’s Share $304, Indiana Chamber Stresses; Wants No Frills.

The 40-billion-dollar national dee fense program now under way will cost each man, woman and child in Indiana $304.44, or $1217.76 for a family of four, the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce reminded in a special bulletin today. The bulletin, “Facing the Facts," Indiana's share of the

Clarence A. Jackson, executive

{| vice president of the state chamber,

said the figures are presented to

Slemphasize the chamber's position 1 that j{funds for national defense, {always carefully scrutinize all such

“Congress provide adequate but

~ {|requests for appropriations to ascere

|| tain ‘|actually needed for total “(and are not being urged by their .| proponents for social or political reasons under the guise of national i| defense.”

.| lined

whether or not they are

defense

Only Essentials Wanted

Chamber directors, he said, oute this policy because of “the

a growing tendency of proponents of

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with very little wavering of the sights from the target. Presently Lt, Col. G. A. Pollin and his son came by. George Pollin is a normal-sized 13-year-old who never had fired a .30 caliber rifle. He lay down and, with one clip at slow fire, plunked off six bull’'s-eyes and two 4's. Some other visitors were Lt: and Mrs. C. B. Wolfe. She wasn't dressed for the muddy firing line, but she stood up and blazed away with the 9-pound rifle and didn't mind the recoil. Incidentally, having heard various Army men pronounce “Garand” in every possible way, I asked Colonel Wessles, who knows the inventor, Proper pronunciation is with a hard “G” as in the first syllable of “garage,” and with the accent on the “and.”

various schemes for the expenditure of public funds to dress up their ‘pets’ in soldiers’ uniforms and climb on the bandwagon of national defense—even though their pro= posals, when tested, contribute nothing to the nation's prepareds= ness program." The bulletin expresses the convice tion that national defense is a big job that must be done and that the Indiana taxpayers are willing to make the necessary sacrifices, but that the expenditures must be held to essentials, with no waste and no frills, and that all non-defense exe penditures must be held down.

Interest Costs High

The interest charge, alone, on Ine diana's share of the program, financed at 8 per cent, will amount to $31,200,000 a year, Mr. Jackson said, only slightly less than the $31,« 564,699 collected in Federal income tax in the state in 1939-40. Indiana's $1,040,000,000 share of (the national defense cost, it was added, is 26 per cent of the total assessed valuation of taxable prope erty in the state, the equivalent of 41 years’ collection of State Gross Income Tax at the 1941 level, and more than four times the total ane

nual cost of state and local govern ment.

that the French people, both within and without the German lines, are Fs oming increasingly favorable to Gen. Charles de Gaulle. Gradually but surely, the 80 per cent of the French, who did not hate the republic and who accepted Petain pore for his venerable military past han for his insistence on submitng te the Germans last June, are ming to see that the honor and future of France, are, for the time being, in the hands of Gen. de Gaulle.

That France must choose today and that its choice is indicated on Europes map, is Viehy's official outlook

BEGIN PROBE INTO RACE TRACK ATTACK

State Police today began an investigation into a disturbance at the auto races in Greenfield Sunday which resulted in serious injuries to N an Indianapolis mechanic Gen. de Gaulle is not a man of pe nity Don Peters. 38. of 309 flaming temperament such as the x panecroft St. is reported hear ech love. De Gaulle is & re- geath in the City Hospital with a ctionary and believed to be a rove pactured skull list. And de Gaulle alone chose palice were told that Mr. Peters he hard path of uncompromising wae strick in the head with a ational honor: he remained faithe patehet following an argument with 1 to the alliance with Britain, 1 ywo men at the races. He appeared french military traditions, to his|ypnyrt at the time but became ill 0 position to the Nuzit and the yesterday at his home

ascists. Today there is hardly a ti ce VENEZUELA ELECTS MEDINA

phich village but harbors lads) dreaming of a military career with] CARACAS, Venezuela, April 29 (U. P). President-Elect Isais Me-

de Gaulle. dina, former Minister of War, pre-

and sprayed with salt water. The surer than the Springfield's.

Hoosier Who Was Captured by Germans Would Send U.S. Pilots Abroad With Planes

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY jpointing out that it would only be|fort They are Miss Margaret Times Stalt Writer a matter of time until they took Vesey, chairman of the Red Cross at | WASHINGTON, April 20.-—There | over Siete ut Dass of the er Ft. Wayne, and Mrs. Lucille Line- | . hh y | Program 0 aominate the woriaq. (back of Ft. Wayne who is with the| a Te a “They intend to rule the world National Red Cross headquarters | convoy atime to England now, but/fTom Paris, and America had bets here, that we also should send over avia. | ter help England keep the war over| ny Wehrle went back to Part tors with our airplanes. Shere than » have NY Fight it alone lang the Nazis let him have a room This is particularly odd, since Ft. "i here, At Po Sat foe of 0 his own hotel. The place had | Wayne is the heart of isolationism | ° ail i re at the V ce Of iheen taken over by 40 doctors and | in Indiana and Rep. George W. Gil. | Rep. Gillie, but his personal experi 13 pygiestant ministers from Ger | lie. the CG. O. P. Congressman from ence was such that he no longer many who were serving the ocoupa- |

h : | hesitates to speak his mind despite | A ar at he calle he “Rootes the contrary views held by the wb. (MULINDS 0 0 el a or yolicy - 3 Wayne Congressman [table v t, ti y 1 " y 2 the | A a bs who wants America to| Born at Berne, Ind, of Swiss par. IN 3 al a , a Rivas raw he help — the. war is Louis W.| ents, Mr. Wehrle went to France to| azl salute and sald “Hell Hitler". Wehrle. He spent 100 days in a

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The Germans realize fully this (he settled in Paris as owner and] a State R any longer. Sef b 3 pe \ § | i ( a passpor 0 1e nite situation. Perhaps this is not the pared today for his inauguration the Polish-French border and knows \OnAR of the Grand Hotel de May 5. He was elected yesterday Nazis first hand. In faet they tried |

Lis a Versailles. |States where men are still free and | $ he reasons why they are , {I hope that we will fight, if neces«| again eager to resume negotiations) for a five-year term to succeed Gen. to bribe him to become an advance | £€ Sieh Fetur ned 2 le , ica le) Arr to keep it that with the Vichy government IEleazor Lopez Contreras. agent for them in this eountry— |, "0 oie livin g. But he would like] “My partner gets 60,000 franes to return to France after Paris is/monthly rent from the hotel. It is | freed from Nazi domination. {collected by the Germans from the] | Mr. Wehrle was with the Ameri- French and then most of it is taxed jean Ambulance Corps, headed by right back again, But it doesn’t I Miss Ann Morgan, sister of J. P. mean anything because it is just Morgan, when the Nazis broke some money they print up and you through the Maginot line. It was can’t buy much with it anyway.” then that he was captured and sent| “The common worker followed to the prison camp with 6000 French | Communist leaders and they sabo- | | officers. {taged the war effort with the idea | There was little food and great that they could handle things later,” suffering, he said. Mr. Wehrle said. “But when Hit At last he was freed, his case hav. |ler's troops took over Paris and the ing been brought to the attention Communists tried to stage one of of the American Embassy in Berlin [their protest parades they were through the Red Cross. During the taken out and machine-gunned. The weekend, he met and thanked two |Stalin-Hitler pact didn't save women who inaugurated that ef- them.”

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