Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1941 — Page 3
| FRIDAY, MAY 3,
BAIL DENIED FOR NO.1 NAZiINU.S.
Dr. Kurt Rieth, Suave and Well-Financed Diplomat, Seized in N. Y.
NEW YORK, May 30 (U. P).— Dr. Kurt Heinrich Rieth, a suave,
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well-financed German diplomat, described by Federal agents as the No. 1 Nazi agent for the Western
Hemisphere, was held without bail!
at the Ellis Island immigration] station today pending deportation proceedings. i He was charged with entering the
country illegally and under falsej-
pretenses after a visit to every South American country. He said his business in the United States was private. Department of Justice agents said that statement was false. They said he had been a German political agent for more than 20 years; that he was in Belgium greeting the invading German armies in 1914; in jenna serving as German minister when Austrian Nazis revolted and
assadginated Chancellor Engelbert|-
Dollfuds, and that his business on this side of the Atlantic was sim-
ilar to that of Nazi political and
economic “tourists” who swarm to countries Germany hopes to invade.
Stirred Peruvian Dispute
The New York Daily News said one of the fruits of Rieth’s stay in South America was a flareup of the 80-year-old boundary dispute between Peru and Ecuador, threatening a war within 600 miles of the Panama Canal. Rieth was sent from Berlin about the time Marshal Oscar Benavides, former strong man president of Peru, was recalled from his post as Peruvian ambassador to Spain, the News said. Benavides, "according to the News, is a friend of the Axis. As soon as Rieth reached Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Italian TransAtlantic airline.” from Europe, March 6, Ecuador renewed its claims on the disputed provinces of Tumbez, Jaen and Mainas, rich rubber and oil producing areas, the News said. The United States, Brazil and Argentina offered to mediate the quarrel and Ecuador accepted, the News said, but Peru, on May 13, refused to dicker over its “sovereign rights.” . As a result, the News said, troops of Ecuador and Peru are lined on their borders accusing each other of listening to German propaganda.
Had $600-a-Month Suite
Rieth was seized by two immigration officers yesterday afternoon at his $600 a month suite in the luxurious Waldorf Astoria Hotel. It was charged that when he entered the United States by commercial airline at Brownsville, Tex., by way of Mexico City, on March 22, on a four months visitor’s visa, he falsely told immigration officials that his business in this country was personal, and. that he told them he had not been in the United States before, whereas he had been here in 1928. rthermore, it was charged, he was barred from the United States under the Passport Act, which keeps out persons whose admission would be contrary to public policy. Rieth described himself as a ‘retired capitalist.”
FIRE ALARM WRITTEN
LACONIA, N, H. (U. P.).—A deaf mute, Louis A. Dozois, noticing a roof fire, hurried to a nearby fire station and told firemen of the blaze ~ by means of pad and pencil.
Here Is the Traffic Record
County City Total j 45 59
13 32° 25
Accidents J.. 33 | Injured .... . 12 6 1
8 | Dead THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT
Cases Convic- Fines paid $73 81
Violations tried tions Speeding 13 13 Reckless driving 9 9 Failure to stop at
~ through street 3 2 0
Dissheying traffic signa ; 11 11
All others 15
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20 Drunken driving. 1 0 0 5 15
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FIFTY-FIVE Indiana youths were inducted into the Army air service with spectacular , ceremonies at Municipal Airport yesterday afternoon. The ceremonies were in observance of “Army Flying Cadet Day,” with Governor Henry F. Schricker, Mayor Reginald Sulli-
van ‘and Maj. Gen. C. A. Trott, commander of the 5th Corps Area, heading the program. With upraised hands, the freshi men cadets heard the oath of allegiance read by Col. Enrique Urutia Jr., Army induction officer for Indiana. As part of the program, a new
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Flying cadets inspect new air liner at induction ceremonies.
Eastern Airline 2l-passenger transport liner was christened by Miss Harriett E. Orr, who broke a bottle of champagne over the
ship’s nose. During the ceremonies, three huge U. S. Army dive bombers were roaring overhead.
being conceded, is not to be classed lost, but not the loss of the Battle Long and bitter fighting over
a would change materially
TRIBUTE PAID TO ARLINGTON DEAD
National Cemetery Cere-
mony Includes Address By Sergt. York.
WASHINGTON, May 30 (U. PJ). —Solemn services at Arlington National cemetery, final resting place of America’s military heroes, will highlight today’s observance of Memorial day—the 73¢ annual tribute to the nation’s war dead. In all sections of the nation and in foreign lands where American men have died in battle the graves of soldiers and sailors will be decorated with flowers and wreaths in pontifical ceremonies. The Arlington ceremonies began at 11 a. m. when a wreath bearing the name of President Roosevelt, commander-in-chief of the .U. S. armed forces, was placed on the tomb of the unknown soldier. At 1 p. m, the ceremonies were to move to the amphitheater where Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, administrator of Veterans Affairs, and Sergt. "Alvin C. York, World War hero, were to be the principal speakers. James Melton, Metropolitan Opera tenor, was to sing, accompanied by the U, S. Marine Band.
{ At 2:30 p. m. symbolic services {were to be held at the Argonne Cross for the 30,000 American soldiers who are buried in eight cemeteries in German-held France and Belgium. The services, sponsored by the American Legion, usually are held at the eight cemeteries themselves. The Arlington services are under auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic, which originated the idea of Memorial Day, or Decoration Day as it was first called, and has carried it on these many years.
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Today's War Moves
By United Press War Experts Britain's probable loss of Crete, which is almost on the point of
as a major defeat. It is a position of the Eastern Mediterranean. a wide area lies ahead. The im-
portance of Crete nevertheless should not be minimized. Its loss to the
the situation in the Eastern Medi-: terranean. In British hands, Crete afforded a valuable naval and air base. It stood as a watchdog to guard the front door of Egypt and the Suez Canal. Hitler needed to get it out of his path for the future assault on Suez. Ke Without Crete, Britain lacks a base to operate against the German threat from their plentiful bases in Greece. The British would have to fall back on Alexandria. Cyprus remains, but it is 340 miles to the east, nestled in the sea between Turkey and Syria. It is too far away to be of much practical value in protecting Egypt against a frontal attack across the sea. Hitler's problem, however, is far from solved. The British Mediterranean Fleet, while considerably damaged, still stands as a barrier at Alexandria. To get at it, Hitler has to attack across mere than 300 miles of water, as compared to the 70 between Greece and Crete. He has no fleet to help him, other than the Italian, which is of dubious value. The attack would have to be made mainly by air, and parachuting troops into Egypt would be a different matter from the operation against Crete, spectacular and successful as it was. In Egypt, Hitler would encounter the main Middle Eastern Army of the British, plus a naval force better based than at Crete, and a far stronger air arm also well based. The reckless sacrifice of men and planes involved in the attack on Crete probably would be as nothing compared to a similar attack on Egypt. It is therefore open to question whether Hitler will try such an attack. + His next move might be a flanking one. That would be to try to take Cyprus and open a road into Syria and Palestine, from which he could operate against Suez from the east while the Axis forces in Libya closed in from the west. It would be an operation of magnitude, however, and as long as Hitler is blocked by sea, the aerial transport of enough troops to overcome Syria and Palestine would be a tremendous problem. The alternative would be to go overland through Turkey, and that would be an equally great problem, even for Hitler's smashing Panzer divisions and bombers if the Truks decided to resist. The key to what may happen next in the East may be Turkey. Her attitude is the thing to watch,
U, S. PERTURBED BY IRISH ARMS PLEA
HYDE PARK, N. Y., May 30 (U. P.).—Eire’s delay in completely accepting President Roosevelt's offer of food for its civilian popula-
anxiety as to her role in the war, it was learned today. Urgent Irish requests for arms rather than food, authoritative sources said, have perturbed Administration officials. Sources close to the White House said definitely that this country will not lend or lease war material to Eire because of Mr. Roosevelt's conviction that the United States can spare the implements of war only to those nations actively opposing Axis aggression. ’
ORDER FLASHER AT RAILROAD NEAR FORT
The Public Service Commission yesterday ordered the New York
Central Railroad to install flasher signals at its crossing on Shafter Ave. a Marion County gravel road. The flasher signals were requested by Leslie Colvin, builder of the new Billings General Hospital at Ft. Harrison, because the Shafter Ave. road is the only entrance to the new hospital except through the fort.
signals be installed by Sept. 1 and that the railroad put a watchman: on the crossing from 6:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. daily until the signals are installed. °
SHIP BILL PASSED WASHINGTON, May 30 (U. PJ). '—Final Congressional approval of the bill giving President Roosevelt power to seize shipping tied up in United States ports today spurred the 21 American republics plan to
tion, is causing Administration]
The P. S. C. ordered that the |
TOKYO QUIETS |
ALARM AT FOR
Fireside Chat for Home Consumption, Official Organ Claims.
TOKYO, May 30 (U. P.) —Japa= nese decided today, on second thought, that President Roosevelt's fireside chat gave them no cause for alarm. | The Japan Times and Advertiser, organ of the Foreign Office, which
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AA GUNS GUARD PLANE PLANTS
Patrols at U.S. Waterfronts Increased; Many Army Leaves Canceled.
By UNITED PRESS
All over the nation today guards |
around vital defense plants and along strategic waterfronts were reinforced and leaves were canceled in Army posts. | Official explanations were “maneuvers,” and “official tightening up” but intelligence officers indicated the precautions were based on a reported plot for scattered outbreaks of sabotage Memorial Day weekend. ; Anti-aircraft guns were suddenly set up last night on the roofs of
| every major airplane factory in
Southern California — Douglas, Lockheed, North American, Northrup, Vultee and Consolidated. Each
was manned by detachments of}
from 20 to 40 men. Six extra guards were stationed at the Republic Aircraft Corp. at Farmingdale, N. Y. : Marines, sailors and extra police guarded the waterfronts at Los Angenes, San Francisco, New York and Buffalo. The Brotklyn Navy Yard, where three new U. S.. battleships are under construction, was under specially heavy guard. Detroit police were ordered to visit all defense industries frequently. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that it had been asked to check workers’ fingerprints in most vital indystrial plants to ferret tut. criminals and fifth columnists. Memorial canceled at Ft. Custer, Mich. at Ft. Brady near the vital Sault Ste. Marie locks, at Ft. Dix, N. J, Alameda, Cal, police closed to civilian traffic for three days, a street skirting the new $15,000,000 naval air station there. :
Hoosier Seaman Enjoys Hawaii
. SEAMAN ARTHUR YOUNG, attached to the U. S. S. Flusser, | stationed at’ Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, has recently arrived at his new post from his hometown at Trev-
had said yesterday that the speech |
brought the United States to the
brink of war with Germany, as-| serted today that Mr. Roosevelt was |
speaking more for home consump- | tion than tor Germany’s benefit. The speech, according to the newspaper, was “a calculated endeavor to implant in the minds of the American people a fear of Germany which will impel them over the edge into the war, in an assault upon so-called Hitlerism.” The newspaper said the speech was directed to “at least half the people of the United States who are undecided about the country’s entry into the offensive-defensive
It characterized Mr. Roosevelt's assertion that “the nation may disregard the few citizens of the United States who contend that we are disunited,” as “machinery for a white feather campaign.” “It was a statement for home consumption and for fashioning opinion in South America, as will be seen in the alarmist reference to the enemy being only seven hours away from Brazil,” the newspaper said. “Roosevelt . . , was convinced that America wasn’t psychologically ready for war and that it was necessary to arouse and ignite it. . . . The American public as a whole has built up what is called ‘sales resistance.’ There are considerable numbers of ‘yes men’ in the United States but also a vast host of ‘no men,’ who are either residents of or psychologically connected with that place known as Missouri where they have to be shown.”
STATE ASTRONOMERS ARRANGE QUIZ SHOW
A “stellar” quiz program of the “Information, Please” type, will be conducted at the meeting of the Indiana Astronomical Society at 2 p. m. Sunday in the Cropsey Auditorium. - Paul Richey will be master of ceremonies. The board of experts is to include Russell. Sullivan, Dr.
war, according to a Gallup Poll.” |.
B. C. Getcheli, Dr. W. A. Cogshal and Clark Hicks.
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Jac, Ind. Seaman Young was graduated from Helmsburg High School last year and enlisted in : . the Navy. Seaman Young He wrote his.
father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Young of Trevlac, “Boy, the Hawaiian Islands are the most beautiful place in the world I know.”
BIG ITALIAN LINER
ROME, May 30 (U. P.).—The Italian lingr Conte Rosso, 17,879 tons, laden’ with troops, has been torpedoed and sunk by the British south of Syracuse, Sicily, the Italian high command said today. A communique claimed that most of the troops aboard were saved. (Two days ago the admiralty in London announced that a British submarine had torpedoed and sunk an Italian transport of about 18,000 tons carrying at least 3000 troops to North Africa while escorted by an Italian warship.) The high command said the Conte Rosso, which was built in 1922 and was one of the best known of the Italian liners in the far eastern service, was torpedoed and sunk while in convoy service.
STATE GETS CONTRACTS
WASHINGTON, May 30 (U. PJ). —New War Department contracts include: ‘ Glascock Bros. Mfg. Co., Muncie, Ind. mines, $246,000; NoblittSparks Industries, Inc, Columbus, Ind., mines, $244,000; Faultless Caster Corp. Evansville, Ind, fuses, $331,500; Kingston Products Co. ——————————————————————————————————
TURKS TO BUY U. S. ARMS ISTANBUL, Turkey, (U. P.).—A Turkish technical commission . will leave soon for the United States to purchase weapons, it was made known today.
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