Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1941 — Page 20

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Eaypt and Middle East Back to Duce as Peace Propagandists.

i By JOHN T. WHITAKER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

LISBON, June 10.—To the British Middle East Com-

£3 ound Italian war prisoners

and internees are one of the

_Berious problems in the defense of the Suez.

~ Italians and Greeks have

always outnumbered English-

fen in Egypt and Fascist organizations have made them

otentially dangerous as fifth ) 90,000 prisoners of war in fhe Middle East it is esti‘fated that the British hold 110,000 Italian civilians there * gnd in Ethiopia. : ¥ Back to Italy? | A radical solution has been suggested to London, it is learned on

; authority today, by one of Ehe British groups charged with the ng, welfare and surveillance of this numerous horde. It has been ‘Buggested that they should all be Jeturned to Italy. . The British Government may not pprove the suggestion or may not $ able to arrange for Mussolini's _@o-operation through the Vatican, or the International Red Cross, but Bary quarters in Cairo think it an eal solution. : There is no fight left in Italian Ayer prisoners, it is said, and their geturn to Italy with the Italian ci- _ gilians would confront Fascism . with 200,000 propagandists for a . Separate - peace—propagandists who gould not be: silenced and who sould be listened to in every vilge square. Mussolini's refusal to mccept them would be difficult to ‘Keep ‘secret, moreover.

i ° British Have Goodwill

% The British have the goodwill of hese prisoners because they have _ been treated well, and their officers even paid salaries. The only group discriminated against are officers oo the Fascist Blackshirt Militia. hey are not treated as army officers but must dig ditches and work “ like common foot soldiers. This in. _ Mtself has aroused enthusiasm among the Italian regular officers who long suffered at the hands of: these poditically minded Fascist amateurs. Fifth column activity in Egypt becomes a serious possibility now $hat German bombers fly from

Crete which is only 330 miles away

~ #nd kill hundreds of persons in a single raid on Alexandria.

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VICHY BEST NAZI ALLY, NOT ITALY

Yet Year Ago Today Il Duce s Declared War on France; Finished Nothing.

By RICHARD MOWRER Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News. Inc.

CAIRO, June 10.—A .year ago today Benito . Mussolini declared war against Great Britain and what was left of France, yet it is only now, 12 months later, that the real battle of Egypt is beginning—and it is the Germans, not the Italians,

who are running it. Italy has proved more of a liability to Germany than an ally. The Fascist Navy has stayed at home mostly and even there has suffered badly: Witness Taranto. The Italian Air force has proved weak, mostly outdated. The Italian Army in Libya showed bad morale when a small, hard-hitting BritishAustralian force smashed across Cyrenaica. ~ Now Ethiopia, the acquisition of which caused II Duce to proclaim Italy an empire, practically has ceased to exist as Italian territory— and the Italian invasion of British Somaliland of last year has lost all its significance. Now, one year after Mussolini stepped into the war, Germany has taken over the conduct of the Mediterranean and African war from the battered Italian Fascists. It is strange that whereas Italy stabbed Republican France in the back a year ago and became Germany’s military ally, today it is Vichy France rather than Italy that has become Germany’s best ally.

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SHIPS OFF CRETE

But ' Claim Total Number Of Troops to Escape Was 17,000.

LONDON, June 10 (U. P.).—The Admiralty has revealed the loss of three more warships in Cretan waters, - but reported that 17,000 troops were evacuated from the Greek’ island. The new losses brought the total of warships sunk around Crete to 10, including four cruisers and six destroyers.’ : The losses admitted today were the anti-aircraft cruiser, Calcutta, 4200 tons, and the destroyers Hereward and Imperial. ; “The losses admitted today brought British naval losses in the Crete campaign to four cruisers and six destroyers sunk and two battleships and a number of lesser craft damaged. These appeared to be the heaviest losses suffered in any action of this war. |

229 Survivors Captured

The admiralty reported that the Hereward was last seen headed for the coast after being damaged by an enemy air attack. It noted that the Italian High Command has announced that 229 survivors of this ship have been landed as prisoners of war. The Imperial was said to have been sunk by British forces after damage by an enemy air attack. > Reporting the evacuation of 17,000 troops, the Admiralty said: “The withdrawal of .troops from Crete had to be carried out from places with inadequate port facilities and which were within easy reach of the enemy forces. The necessity of carrying out the embarkation by night meant that each load had to be taken across the 360 miles to Egypt during the whole 14 hours of daylight. ; “These voyages were carried out in the face of extremely heavy enemy, air attack.”

FORMER SEC AGENT GIVEN YEAR AND DAY

NEW YORK, June 10 (U. P.)— Federal Judge Robert Inch today sentenced Jacob Gruber, former assistant chief trial counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to one year and a day in prison and fined him $1000 for wiretapping after he left the SEC. Judge Inch suspended sentence on Elizabeth Miller, former chief switchboard operator for the SEC who pleaded guilty, and placed her

under one year probation.

ONERS i BRITISH LOST |

BE FIFTH COLUMN?

Herbert Spencer, above, Indianapolis junior at Butler University, has been elected president of Blue Key, senior honorary fraternity for men. Mr. Spencer is a member of Phi Delta Theta, social fraternity, Sphinx, junior men’s honorary society, and was business manager for the 1941 Butler Yearbook. Other officers of the Blue Key include Jack Evard, Indianapolis, vice president, and Quentin Covert; Indianapolis, secre-tary-treasurer.

MEMORIAL SET FOR MISSIONARY

Miss Minnie Vautrin Who Died May 14 to Be Honored Here.

Robert M. Hopkins, president of the United Christian Missionary Society, will preside at a memorial service at 11 a. m. Thursday in the Graham Chapel of the Missions Building for Miss Minnie Vautrin, internationally known missionary, who died here May 14. Ong Hwel-lan, an alumna of Ginling College in Nanking, China, now studying at the “University of Chicago, and Dr. Searle Bates, professor at the University of Nanking, will speak. Others speakers will include Mrs. Clarence H. Hamilton and Mrs. Robert A. Doan, a member of the board of trustees and vice president of the missionary society, respectively. E. K. Higdon, Oriental secretary of the society, will give the closing prayer. Miss Vautrin, who is well known for her heroism during the occupation of Nanking by Japanese troops, spent many months in China protecting the refugees who came to the university campus for. protection. Her health broke and she had returned to this country a year ago.

MRS. LULU HARBISON DIES IN BLOOMINGTON

An Indianapolis resident 55 years, Mrs. Lulu Harbison died yesterday in City Hospital at Bloomington following a two-week’s illness. She was 74 and had been visiting a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Davidson. Mrs. Harbison, who lived at 923 Pleasant Run Parkway, was born in Missouri and came to this City after her marriage to Joseph E. Harbison. She formerly lived many years in Tibbs Ave., 500 block. Besides Mrs. Davidson, she is survived by three other daughters, Sister Elizabeth Cecile Harbison and Josephine Harbison, both of Indianapolis, Mrs. Lulu Mountjoy of Chicago and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in the Kirby Temporary Mortuary, 2238 N. Meridian St. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

TRAPS 2 JAPANESE CHARGED AS SPIES

LOS ANGELES, June 10 (U. P.). —Al D. Drake, an ex-sailor working as a counter-spy, trapped two Japanese who are being held on a charge of obtaining United States Naval secrets, it was reported today. The Japanese are Itaru Tatibana, 39, a commander in the Japanese Imperial Navy, and Toraichi Kono, 56, former chauffeur and valet for Charlie Chaplin, the movie actor. A year ago, it was said, Kono contacted Blake and asked him whether he “would like to make some easy money.” Blake pretended to fall in with a scheme to sell them naval secrets, but informed on them to the Naval Intelligence and the FBI. : Tatibana, it was reported, paid Blake's expenses on two trips to Honolulu, and gave him several thousand dollars for “Naval secrets,” which U. 8. officers provided. The money was turned over to Federal authorities.

PLAN SUBWAY HANGARS WASHINGTON, June 10 (U. P.). —Col. Frank M. Kennedy, chief of ‘buildings and grounds for the Army Air’ Corps, has advised Congress that the Air Corps has under way a program for construction of underground hangars at its outlying ' bases. Present standard hangars cost $140,000 each, but comparable facilities ‘underground would cost $1,900,000, he said.

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Photography—

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With Tinfoil Does the Trick Easily.

As you' know, bright summer light is contrasty light, especially for outdoor portraits or figures. So, you have to have some method of filling in those shadows. Not too much, or you'll get a phony, studio effect, but enough to get some detail in the shadows. : The School of Modern Photography in New York has been doing some research on the subject and has found that a bent reflector works better than a flat one. The school has a couple of silvered boards (use aluminum surfaced cardboard or cover any heavy cardboard with tinfoil). about a yard high and two feet wide, hinged together. This is bent at a right angle, or a little wider, and boosts light into the shadows. - For heads, or smaller objects where you can come closer with the fill-in device, the school has found nothing better than a chromium ferrotype tin, curved so it catches and reflects back the light something like a lamp reflector. If you were going on a trip it would not be much trouble to slip such a tin into the suitcase and have it handy for shots that you wanted to have extra good.

Wooden Sinks

Of course the best way to have a darkroom sink is to have a rich uncle give you the price of a Monel metal one. It’s the last word, guar-

But if streamlined metal is out, build yourself a wooden sink, joining up the cracks as neatly and tightly as you can. Then put slate in the bottom, or paint with Duocoat. This is a special paint, very thick and gummy, absolutely resistant to photographic chemicals. Put on three coats and you're set. It oozes down into the cracks and fills them up, and people who have used it say it really is something in photography. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to repaint now and then.

WILLIAM J, LADD IS DEAD HERE AT 58

Il three weeks, William Joseph Ladd died yesterday in City Hospital. He was 58 and lived at 1201 W. New York St. : Mr. Ladd, who was a native of Harriman, Tenn., had spent most of his life here and was a member of the Garden Baptist Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mary Ladd; a son, Henry E. Ladd; four daughters, Mrs. Bernice Mae Drury, Mrs. Laura Hope Tharp, Mrs. Grace le Mrs. Elsie Englert, all of In apolis; a brother, George Ladd, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Kasper, Mrs.- Kate Goddards and Mrs. Alice Davis, all of Harriman. Services will be held at 2 p. m.

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