Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1941 — Page 2

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Warns Axis Against Action - Anywhere in Atlantic If It Menaces U. S.

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* pick up the Admiral's challenge. Not only did he repeat America’s determination to aid Britain, China and the other nations fighting the dictators, and reassert “the ancient American doctrine : of freedom of the seas,” but he warned that we are already “placing our’ armed forces.in strategic military position” fo implement these momentous decisions. = Keeps Axis Guessing As for the rest, the impression is that . the President is turning the tables on Adolf Hitler and his Axis partners by leaving them in the dark. : “We in the Americas,” the Presi-

dent said, “will decide for ourselves|

whether, and when and where our American interests are attacked or Our security threatened.”

. That the Axis powers have grown increasingly uneasy over the possibility of American intervention is

No one here doubts any longer that the United States is prepared to seize Dakar, in West Africa, or to take the Azores or Cape Verde Islands if that is the only way Germany can be prevented from using them as naval and air bases against the Western Hemisphere.

Latin Americans Impressed

There is considerable speculation today over the American plan to get aid- to Britain. Some believe the President’s mention of “stepi stones” across the Atlantic— Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland and Iceland—may ~~ provide a clue. By keeping the supply line moving along this North Atlantic lane ships could be “patrolled” -or convoyed not only by gurface ships but by airplanes as

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impressed by the tone of the Presi- - dent’s utterances and by the emergency proclamation. Many of them have felt thus far that the United

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size and obstruction-free clear approaches. “There will be no it,” he said. For some time the Municipal Airport has held the distinction of being the largest in

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size, with its 1015 acres of reservation. Plans for the expansion project have been handled in Washington by John Easton, chief of the technical development and airport sections of the CAA. As head of these two divisions, Mr. Easton is in charge of the CAA laboratory here, which is national center for development of radio

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strument’ or “blind” landing. Application of these developments to military flying is now the chief concern of CAA té&hnicians. “In addition the new runways and their connections with those existing, taxi and apron-ways will be constructed north and west of the CAA laboratory and hangar. Although the CAA runways will probably be markéd with large letters denoting them as government lanes. Mr. Dienhart said that they will be for general use by commercial transports, army ships and others when needed. However, transient private planes will be directed to the present runways. The expansion plans include a new 5000-foot runway, northeastsouthwest, paralleling the city’s northeast-southwest runway; a 4700-foot north-south: runway, parralleling another on city property; 1700-foot extension from -the present east-west runway to the CAA’s new 4700-foot slab; &'1000-foot extension on the present northwestsoutheast runway (passing CAA hangar) to connect to new 5000foot CAA runway; a 1000-foot linking extension to the present southwest-northeast runway and 1000-foot extensions to each end of the city’s north-south landing way.

MERCHANT 1S GUILTY INVALPARAISD FRAUD

VALPARAIS nd., May 28 (U. P.).—A Porter Circuit Court jury last night found Frank Shneider, Hammond department store owner, guilty of filing a false claim of $4900 North Township, Lake County, in April, 1937. Defense attorneys indicated they would file a petition for a new trial.

ing a false claim for 20,000 yards of broadcloth and cheviot supposed to have sold to WPA sewing projects in Hammond and East Chicago. The State, contending that deliveries of the cloth were never made, presented WPA supervisors who testified that the goods had not been received. Attorneys for Shneider contended that deliveries had been made.

CLAIM 561 AXIS SHIPS

LONDON, May 28 (U. P.).—Of-

1ficial British quarters said today

that 561 German and Italian ships totaling 2,873,000 tons had been sunk, captured or scuttled from the beginning of the war until the middle of May.

Shneider had been accused of fil-

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marine, in ‘conjunction with fighting planes and long range bombers which can take off from land bases to offset anything which an enemy controlling the sea could launch from aircraft carriers, : In the time at his disposal, Hitler could not outbuild the British Nevy. So he threw his resources into the air force, into mechanization, into land troops and into submarines— plus enough surface vessels to plague the enemy. He developed the parachute method of attack to overcome the other side’s control of the waters. Its efficacy, at least in a comparatively small operation, has been shown in the Battle of Crete, That battle, while not demaonstrating that air power alone can overcome a superior fleet, has shown what damage it can do. The Battle of Crete has not been "decided, but Berlin claimed today that British resistance there has been “broken,” while London admitted that the situation is “precarious.”

Is Gas Next?

The conclusion is inevitable, It is that the fleet.of a nation which has vulnerable shores to defend is no longer enough. It must be backed by an air force equal to the ‘enemy's, and beyond that, by an efficient, swiftly moving land army. The lesson seems to apply equally to the United States as to Britain. This country is not a mere 20 miles from German bases, as in the case of Britain, but it can be attacked if an enemy gains a foothold in South and Gentral America, or in Canada. The Navy is powerless against the next weapon which is likely to be employed in this war. That is gas. It was used in the World War in battle, not for invasion against civilian populations. If the invasion of Britain comes, most experts look for the use of gas to demoralize not only the defending troops but the civilan population on a scale never dreamed of before.

COX, DAVIS, SMITH BACK FDR' POLICY

NEW YORK, May 28 (U. P).— Three former Democratic Presidential nominees, James M. Cox, John W. Davis and Alfred E. Smith, speak tonight by radio in favor of the foreign policy outlined by President: Roosevelt last night. The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies is sponsoring the program over the Columbia Broadcasting System from 6:30 to 6:55 (Indianapolis Time). Theme of the program is “unity.” “Mr. Smith will speak at New York, Mr. Davis at Albahy, N. Y,, and Mr. Cox at Dayton, O.

“WE'RE IN IT,” POLL SAYS NEW YORK, May 28 (U. P.).— Fortune magazine said today that its latest survey of public opinion indicated that 79.5 per cent of the people in this country “now {feel that the United States is so much involved in the war that we are in it for all practical purposes even though we are not actually fighting.”

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SEIANGHAI, May 28.-—Asia’s first flush of reaction to President

Rootevelt’s speech is that it presages convoys and perhaps war 'in the Atlantic, but that in the Pa-

Japenese retreat from Axis com‘mitraents should such a possibility still exist. The renewed Presidential assurances of ever-increasing Ameri= can help to China brought expressions of gratification in Chungking.

Expectations Spoiled _

However, the President’s restraint in refraining from singling out Ja-

viewed significantly as a sign that’ Washington has not abandoned hope of inducing Tokyo to follow the course of caution. Among Japanese and Axis adherents the opinion had been held that the sinking of the British battle cruiser Hood, the German landings at Crete, and the epidemic of warlike speeches and press comments in Japan might regard the American draft toward more active

Charges Low Assessment on

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assessments placed on other utili ties, should be $43,800,000, a little over $400,000 more than that fixed for 1941. er : He said that the Public Service

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$42,000,000, an increase of over $600,000, and that the Northern Indiana Power Co. should have heen assessed at $11,000,000 which is $800,000 over the figure set for this ‘year. Henry Murray, Democratic Board chairman, said that “it’s just a difference of opinion.” He pointed out that the Board, composed of two Democrats and one Republican, had assessed more than 800 utilities for the 1942 tax-paying period and had disagreed only on five of them. Peter Beczkiewicz, the other Democratic Board member, asserted that the Board had upheld, on the major power companies, the final assessments made last year and had added substantial increases to the ones they felt were assessed too low. He said that to settle any controversey on assessments a much more detailed system of appraisal would have to be put in effect next year. : The Board fixed the total 1941 assessment of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. at $36,986,735. This is an increase of $312,870 over the total assessment for 1940, Ma-

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jority members of the Board said

they had proposed to increase the total assessment of the local company by $262,870 but that Mr. Benjamin had proposed, an increase of $545,430, a compromise was reached. Mr. Benjamin also charged that the Board has over-assessed the Indiana’ General Service Co. of Muncie and the . Indiana Service Corp. of Ft. Wayne. The total assessment of the former was fixed at $10,062,650, an increase of $331, 650 over 1940, while the total assessment of the Ft. Wayne utility was fixed at $7,653,515. The total assessment for this company last year was $7,316,460. 3 The Board fixed the 1941 total assessmept of the Indiana Gas & Electric Co. of Bvansville at $12,« 090,000; the Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. of South Bend at $21,800,000, and the Chicago District Electric Generating Co. of Ham mond at $19,660,880.

AWARD CONTRACT ON DOWNSTATE DEPOT

WASHINGTON, May 28 (U. P)— The War Department today awarded contracts totalling more than $7,000,000 including a $154,500 award to S. E. Dockstader, Inc., Washington, D. C., for construction of a

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