Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1941 — Page 10

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NO HESS CODDLING, PARLIAMENT ASKS

Britain Denies Any Peace Offer Was Brought; Nazi Cheerful.

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HESS ‘DELUDED, BERLIN ASSERTS

Nazis Say Hitler Deputy Was Trying to ‘Save’ British Empire.

would be made shortly on “the flight to this country of this very | high and important Nazi leader.” The warning concerning any deal- May 18 (U. P. —Rudolf |'ings with Hess was voiced by Samuel BERLIN, y B itn |Vyvvan T. Adams, unionist member, | Hess flew to Great Britain appar-

whose concern regarding Hess’ in- [ently under the delusion that he

tentions in coming to Britain Was .oyld promote an “understanding”! and Britain,

shared bv many in the Chamber. | . Reliable sources reported that [between Germany Hess is in bed in a hospital, well Nazis said today, but they added and cheerful, except for a slight that “we shall not recognize any pain in his injured ankle, and is |ytterance Hess may make in Engwriting a great deal. Ilana.”

s bei estioned by Ivone | ] . dpiadn MOM Foreign Office expert Anticipating possibility that Hess who was acquainted with Hess from | Might make public statements, auactihe as official interpreter thorized Nazi ‘sources said that we former Prime Minister ‘Chamber- know ‘that British rulers will make lain at the Munich and ‘Godesberg aS crude misuse of this situaconferences before the war began. 10D. i ro 3 British spokesmen insisted that A Wii en Hess brought no pecae proposal in | o=0, " 180) S : behalf of dissident Nazis. On the | SOTt of a confession may be excontrary, they intimated that Hess had undergone a change of heart, that he believed that ‘Germany was

headed for disaster. Near the Place’ i

| ‘Core’ Called Rotten | Hess knew better than anyone the Hess appears to have “got re- |“sincerity” of Hitler's peace proligion,” responsible British sourres [posals, the official party statement said, and now believes that “the said, but regardless of the fate of core of ‘Germany is rotten.” the No. 3 Nazi leader the war will British spokesmen emphasized the [80 on until British leaders have idea that the reason for Hess's flight | fallen or are ready to make peace. was his desire to break away from| The Nazi statement regarding the current Nazi war policy and to |Hess’ flight by airplane said that escape responsibility for it. it was “confirmed by a London an“Hess came in defiance of au-/nouncement” that Hess had parathority. I suppose he came to ‘Great chuted to the ground in Scotland Britain because he knew that if he “near the place he sought to find,” had got to a meutral country he but gave no explanation of what would have been in imminent peril place or whom the former party

know if he actually makes any statements which may be credited to him.”

tracted from him. We cannot ‘even |

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Martin Borman (left), chief of Secretariat in Rudolf Wess’ office at Berlin, will be continued as deputy Nazi Parily leader, it was announced today in Berlin after the flight of Hess. The Duke of Hamilton and Brandon (right) owned the Scotish estate on which Hess landed and there were mysterious rumors that the No. 3 Nazi asked to be taken to the Duke, who now is in the R. A. F. ’

Beer Mug Scar Is Hess Badge; He Was 'Incorruptible’ Nazi

(Continued from Page One) be Party Chief Goering.

ceded today that Hess knew all the Should inner workings of naziism and the German war ‘machine, enough to successor will be Hess. You shall profoundly affect the future course be duty bound to them as you of the war if he became informer | have been to me ...” for the British. | Hess, the zealot, the bodyguard,

wo bouncer, unpaid secretary and poliWhen they shared adjoining Cells | ion was one of the first to use

of being killed,” an informative leader sought. source said Hitler personally took over Hess’ |

The peace proposal talk appeared duties and addressed a meeting to- | Hitler dictated every wo

in connection with mysterious ru-|day of all Nazi district leaders, but | mors that when Hess had landed |it was not disclosed whether he said | on the estate of the Duke of Ham- anything regarding Hess’ flight. | ilton and Brandon he had asked to : { be taken to the Duke's residence. Yea Or | The Duke, known as “the boxing! Papers left behind by Hess made | peer” is an R. A. F. officer and not it appear that he lived under the | in Britain now. He was a former illusion that by “his personal conmember of groups favoring co- tacts with Englishmen known to operation between Britain and him previously, he could bring | Germany and had known Hess when [about an understanding between | they were associated in a Mt. Germany and England that would | Everest flying expedition. [prevent the complete destruction of | {the British Empire,” the statement [said. The Germans said that Hess had| The Nazi statement said that it | “landed near the place he sought to | Was “clear from his actions” that | find” to make his peace proposal. |Hess did not have a clear picture Favorite theory here on Hess Of how he might carry out his plans flight was based on his deep and (to Teach an understanding with | bitter hatred of the Communists, |Britain. Nor, it added, did he have | that had always been of a fanatical [2 Clear picture of the consequences | nature and probably had been in- Of such a plan. tensified by his illness and the! The statement said it had been | strain of recent months. known within the party for a long | It was suggested that Hess time that Hess suffered greatly and | might have been prompted to that his physical suffering had led | make the break with Hitler because him recently to seek “refuge in the | of some specific plan advanced by most varied aids, such as magicians, Hitler, such as full parnership with astrologers, etc.” Soviet, Russia. It added that it would have to be Neutral newspapermen were not established to what extent these given and probably will not be persons were to blame for the “mengiven & chance to talk to the im- [tal confusion” that led to his “presprisonesd Nazi chieftain ent action.”

Frau Hess Lives Near Hitler Retreat BERLIN, Mav 1

Ilse Proehl Hess, Hess, was reported

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DENIES GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO RULE RADIO

ST. LOUIS, May 183 @. P).— wife of Rudolf Chairman James Lawrence Fly of : today fo be the Pederal Communications Comliving on their small estate near mission today accused “monopolistic | Obersalzburg — site of Hitler's ally controlled sources” in ‘the mountain refreat—with her two- broadcasting industry of conjuring vear-old son and her mother-in- up “the bogey man of Government | law |operation.” Mrs. Hess, daughter of a Han-| In an address prepared for de- | nover physician, is 41 years old. [livery before the National Associa- | She has seldom appeared in pub- tion of Broadcasters, he recalled lic. previous statements in which he had said the Government has no inten- | tion of taking over radio broad-| ELKHART, Ind., May 13 (U. P). casting. i —Injuries received when their| ‘Tt seems strange that there motorcycle collided with an suto- should be any necessity to repeat

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brothers, John and James Ganger of [view of certain dire forebodings Bristol. The vouths, 21 and 18 years 'which have come recently from old, were sons of Byron Ganger, monopolistically controlled sources deputy County Treasurer. in the industry,” Mr. Fly said.

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in Lansberg fortress prison in 1924, the concentration camp as a device rd of “Mein | for dealing with dissidents. Kampf” to Hess. And in the book, | He often was cruel in enforcing ) : 4 | policy, but Hitler scarcely was in referring to how his Storm Troopers, wer when, in the fall of 183%. once ejected disturbers from a beer Hess ordered Nazi enthusiasts to meeting, Hitler said: “Like | Stop insulting visitors to Germany wolves they (the Storm Troopers) | Who did not return the Nazi salute, . ; 4 {threatening them with severe punhurled themselves in packs of eight | jchment if they persisted. or 10 on their opponents and began| He often was quoted that to drive them out of the hall. _|Nazi had “no more right to expect And at the head was my brave 8 foreigner to give the Nazi salute Maurice, my present private secre- than a Catholic should expect a tary, Hess.” | Protestant to cross himself on en“Maurice” was Hitler's affection- tering a Catholic church.” ate name for Hess. Its derivation| The quotation was typical of was a secret between them. Some | Hess’ frequent references to God Nazis called Hess “Fraulein,” but (and Teligion in his speeches. In not to his face. The term is ap-|ON¢ Of his most recent ones he plied to nursemaids and the insinu- | recited this prayer: “Almighty God! ation was that Hess was Hitler's| You gave us the Fuehrer. You nursemaid. {blessed his battle with a past vicHess’ title was “deputy leader of | Ory. You gave him power

the party, Reich Minister,” but his [Create and defend a new, great powers were manifold. (and free Germany. Now give us

He was on the six-man inner Power to help him to the limit of council for defense formed at the Our abilities by fighting and workoutbreak of the war. ing for an everlasting and beautiHe was entrusted with much of ful Germany and grant that we the “strategic” speschmaking. be worthy of your blessing. He made annual Christmas | -_ . speeches, designed, according to || some sources, to cope with the | upsurge of the German Christian spirit which conflicted with Nazi pagan doctrines. He spoke in defense of the Jewish persecutions, which he supervised as deputy party | leader, calling on historical prece- | dents to sustain him. He spoke on | the position of unmarried wa mothers, once saying: “When . . racially unobjectionable young men | who go to war leave children who | carry their blood into future gen- | erations, the children of equally hereditary healthy girls of proper age whose immediate marriage for | some reason was impossible, care | will be taken to maintain this | valuable national treasure.” Regular speeches to Germans liv- | ing abroad, an organization devoted | to the world-wide spread of naziism, | once were part of his schedule. |

Frightening Listener He was the terror of government

|departmental heads, whose reports the heard in stern, tight-lipped

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|silence, giving no hint of the rec|ommendations he would make in|! passing them on to Hitler. A heavy, determined jaw, & thin | mouth and hairy, sluggish brow | characterize his face. The evebrows meet over the bridge of his nose.

} His beard is heavy. The beer mug

made a hainess spot on his head. t Hess is 47. He was born in Bgvpt, | [the son of & German importer. He {went to school at Alexandria. at 'Godesberg, Germany, and at a | lcommercial school in Switzerland. | {He enlisted in the infantry during 'the World War, was wounded twice (and gassed once and then commis[sioned and permitted to take up (flying. The Armistice cut short his Imilitary flying career. | When Hitler moved from the |Army into Munich beer cellars {preaching revolution, in early 1919, ‘Hess was there helping overthrow ‘the Munich Communist regime. They joined forces in 1920. Hess was absent from Munich on {party business at the time of the (Nov. §, 1923, beer hall putsch but the was arrested a few days later land imprisoned with Hitler. | He helped dispose of some of the Nazi degenerates in the blood purge ‘of 1934, and later served as Hitler's personal representative in ocourt‘martial proceedings against some of the lesser victims. | Hess was married in 1927 to the {former Tise Proehl, daughter of Dr. {Fritz Proehl of the Army Medical | Corps. A son was born Nov. 11, | 1337. ! After he had precipitated the war by the invasion of Poland, Hitler's first act on Sept. 1, 1939, was to £0 before the Reichstag and declare: | | “Should something happen to me | | during the battle, my successor will |

SHIP LOSSES NEAR WORLD WAR PEAK

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

LONDON, May 13.—British shipping losses for the entire war show an average monthly loss almost &s great as that of the most disastrous month the whole four year of the great war. In the year ended May 1 nearly |

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They had one child, Margaret E. H. Mason. He started his journalistic career | as a reporter for the Harlem (N. Y.) Local Reporter in 1898. Eventually | he became European manager of | the Scripps-McRae and Publishers’ | § Press Associations and served as European manager of the United | § Press in 1907-08. In 1914-18 he was the United | (Press’ war expert. After the World | | War he wrote on foreign affairs for La Prensa of Buenos Aires and {other newspapers and traveled ex|tensively on foreign assignments. | He made a special study of West{tern and Far Bastern philosophies | {and religions, lectured widely, and | was made an officer of the Order of | |the British Empire and a member | {of the Order of the Rising Sun, | | fourth class, of Japan.

| Student of Strategy

Mr. Mason had been a student of | Imiiitary strategy ever since the | [Boer War. Since the end of the {World War he had observed closely {all phases of the European situa- : tion as they developed in both mili-| Lupescu, on their way tary and political ways. | vama, Cuba. Above, | Travel on the continent and in | the British Isles and many inter- | views with statesmen, soldiers and | prominent industrialists in all the countries now at war gave him an insight into the aims and purposes of their leaders and a first-hand knowledge of their military preparations His study of ‘German, British and | French military strategy and tac- | tics and the development of the ‘new form of warfare, together with a knowledge of the military terrain of Europe qualified him to elucidate and translate the significance and importance of the day by day military moves of the war. Wrote Numerous Books jan address He was associated with many so- | jcieties and clubs in India, Japan, New York, Washington and Loondon

base, was a momentary

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P) Rudolf Hess saw, “the handwriting on Lord Halifax, British to the United States, night. He took extemporaneous zance of Hess’ chute descent

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Lupescu's Smile

Bermuda, British Atlantic outposi and site of a U. S. leased haven for former King Carol of Rumania and his consort, Magda to Hashe smiles for the cameras on their ar-

HALIFAX: DID HESS SEE HANDWRITING?

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 13 (U perhaps, wall,” | Ambassador

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1941

SHIP POOL FOR

2,000,000-Ton Goal Predicted Next Month; FDR Cancels Address. (Continued from Page One)

directors of the Union had suggested postponement in view of the President’s indisposition and that Mr. Roosevelt would deliver a fireside chat May 27. The President, for the third time in eight days, cancelled his regular semi-weekly press conference today to remain in residential quarters of the White House. White House Secretary Stephen T. Barly said, however, that the President is “in great shape” and (“everything is all right.” | Although dispensing with the {press conference, Mr. Roosevelt [scheduied four engagements in his White House study. Among them was a conference with Rear Adimral Ernest J. King, commander in-chief of the Atlantic fleet.

May Be Holding Back Fire One theory concerning the can-

cellation of his address tomorrow night was that Mr.

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bill. votes to pass the measure. But any significant Presidential statement of policy might further arouse and aggravate the opposition and, perhaps, delay enactment of the legislation which is desired as soon as possible. Another theory is that reaction to last week’s addresses by War Secretary Henry L. Stimson and other Cabinet officers, directly or indirectly urging all out aid to Great Brit- | ain, made it advisable al this time to avoid a Presidential statement | of policy. There had been hints that = world shaking pronouncement last {could be expected although Mr. | Roosevelt had expressed amazement

| that such reports had currency.

2 BODIES REMOVED FROM MOUNTAIN TOP

LEWISTOWN, Pa., May 13 (U.

| He was ‘author of Commercial I believe it was said in Germany, Police today brought the bodies of Progress in the Philippine Islands, |that he was mad before he left Ben Brewster and his wife down

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BUDAPEST, May 13

ITALIAN TO RULE CROATS? |

Creative | Germany. If he is, he is not the from the mountain peak on the edge

of “The Graveyard of the Alieghenhas jes,” where they met their death has (while on an airplane flight from

and The Seen the handwriting on the wall, |New York to Warren, O. and if so. it is a matter of deep

The fast, private plane of the | Brewsters, who left New York Fri|day, crashed into the side of rugged Shade Mountain, 20 miles northeastd

(U. P.) — of here, killing them both instantly.

|was connected with the British Diplomatic quarters reported today The plane gouged out a hole 100

| Broadcasting Co. and now is em- | that an Italian prince would become |yards

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pt, preferred to hold his fire until the Senate has acted on the ship seizure | The Administration has the