Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1941 — Page 3
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1ST SYRIAN BATTLE
~ FOUGHT AT RIVER
British Troops Crossed Litani North of Tyre, but Only After a Stinging Artillery Duel With French Trench Mortar Units.
By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN SYRIA, June 9. te (Delayed) .—Australian troops have fought their way across the Litani River north of Sur (Tyre) in the first real battle
of the Syrian campaign.
They forced the river with the aid of a battalion of shock troops, who were landed under cover of darkness up
the coast by the Navy to haras ‘Throughout this morning the rocky, hilly Syrian landscape reverberated to the _ crash of bombs and shells fired from land and from British ships at sea as the Australians attacked, to meet heavy fire from French machine-gun and trench mor-
tar units. At Sur last night, the only prisoner taken in the attack on that town—a French aviator—told me
that the Vichy troops had rallied after their first big retreat and would put up a good fight,
Then Fighting Began
This pilot inadvertently had landed his seaplane off Sur after the Australians had taken it, and he rowed ashore to be made prisoner. : ~~ His prediction as regards the fighting came true. The artillery began pounding the French positions at 5:30 Monday morning and the Australians attacked at 8:30. Thereafter there was uninterrupted fighting for hours with a barrage from land, sea and air which gradually increased to a crescendo. I had moved up north of Tyre with the Australian striking force shortly after sun-up. I watched
pontoon boats to ford the Litani because the Vichy troops had blown up the bridge.
I's a Hot Spot
I soon found myself in one of the - hottest spots of my life. Watching /& duel between British field guns ‘and the Vichy trench mortar shells which came down among the Australian reserve {roops with whom I was standing. Through my binoculars I could see the figures of French troops on the north bank of the river, seeking tq ford it at its shallowest point, where it joins the sea, in the face of a deadly Australian machine gun fire. The British artillery spotted the French troops and banged away. I could see the figures of the French troops, some waist high in the water, scrambling for €over. Some fell and picked themselves up again. - Others lay inert in the water and sand, which spurted up in geysers around them as the shells hit.
Mine Explodes Early
There is one difficult spot, where the coastal road extends along a steep cliff. Twelve picked men had ‘been sent out to seize this stretch . and prevent the French from blowing up. a e which, it had been assumed, would be there. The French blew the mine up before the men arrived. Behind the French a wheat field blazed bright for hours after the British shells set it afire. It had been intended originally f to start the attack Sunday night. But the zero hour was postponed _ because of the darkness and the fact that the French had blown up the bridge and thus had had time, after their retreat, to organize repistance After each attack along the coast, ambulances move slowly to the rear with the wounded.
| DELEGATE TO SPEAK" ‘ Mrs. Charles K. Green, Mancheser, England, a fraternal delegate of the Churches of Christ in Britain to the Infernational Convention of Disciples of Christ Church several weeks ago in St. Louis, will speak tomorrow in the Olive Branch Christian Church. The meeting will be in charge of the Rev. Wales E. Smith, ‘pastor.
S the rear of the Vichy troops.
NEW NAZI SHIP IN BREST TRAP?
Believed to Be Prinz Eugen, Bismarck’s Escort; Big Bombs Fall.
LONDON, June 11 (U. P.).—Brit-
ish planes followed up a heavy
night attack on Brest, during which officials said they may have hit the new Naz 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz
Eugen, with a daylight offensive sweep of the Dutch coast today. British’ planes bombed the mole at Zeebrugge and docks at Ymuiden and sank a small vessel off the Dutch coast. The Air Ministry said that “a large weight of bombs” was dropped upon the docks and anchorage at Brest where an Admiral Hipper class cruiser, believed to be the Prinz Eugen, had been spotted. The Prinz Eugen was the companion of the German dreadnaught, Bismarck, on her foray into the Atlantic, and slipped through the British searching parties which ran down and sank the Bismarck.
“Super-Bombs” Perhaps In addition to the 10,000-ton cruiser, the German battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, 26,000 tons, have been reported for many weeks to be lying at Brest and have repeatedly been attacked by the R.A F. It was understood that the raid was of first importance and that big bombs, possibly including . the super-bombs which had done so much damage to Hamburg and other German targets.
64th Raid on Brest: Last night's raid, was the 64th of the war on Brest. It was believed here that the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had been crippled by previous bombs. It was assumed that they had put in ‘at Brest only to refuel and reprovision, as Brest is an exposed port and that they would have left if they were able. Now it was believed. that the Prinz Eugen, possibly’ damaged by gunfire when it escaped from the fleet late last month, also was trapped at Brest.
NICHOLSON NAMED FORUM CHAIRMAN
Meredith Nicholson, writer and diplomat, will preside at a forum “The Totalitarian Challenge to Religion” at 3 p. m. Sunday in the Indiana World War Memorial, under the auspices of the
discussion’ on
women’s division, Indiana Committee for National Defense.
Speakers will be the Rev. Fr. John J. Doyle, philosophy professor at Marian College, presenting the Catholic point of view; Rabbi
Maurice Goldblatt of the Indian-
apolis Hebrew Congregation, presenting the Jewish point of view, and Dr. Jean S. Milner, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church
and president of the Board of Na-
tional Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. presenting the
Protestant viewpoint.
Mrs. Felix Vonnegut is chairman
of the division.
HOGS $9.75 AT CHICAGO CHICAGO, June 11 (U. P.).—Hog prices on the Chicago market hit a top of $9.15 today. Highest paid in nearly three years. (In Indian-
apolis, prices held to yesterday's
$9.70 top.)
confronts the nation. informed the 425 new officers that the task of meeting this crisis “may fall in large measure upon your shoulders.”
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NO PEACE WITH NAZIS'-STIMSON
{World Too Small for Them And Democracy Both, Cadets Are Told.
P.).—~War Secretary Henry L. Stimson said today that the world isn’t big enough to hold both .the demo-
the issue between the two cannot be compromised or appeased. This, he told the graduating class of the U. 8S. Military Academy, is
He branded as “wishful thinkers” those who urge “that we can make terms with the Nazi system and that our system can peacefully live in' the same world. . . .” “There is no possibility for this country with its principles and its methods of life to live safely in a world dominated by the methods and practices of the leaders of the Axis nations,” he said. “The world has grown too small to make that possible.”
‘No Compromise Possible’
Mr. Stimson said “the very sharpness of the issue which the leaders of the Axis Powers have raised today not only demonstrates that any ‘compromise between their system and ours is impossible; but it also demonstrates by that very fact that, however powerful and effective and dangerous their entire system may seem to be at the moment, it is a system so at variance with the entire history of man’s progress that it will not endure permanently—it is
ure.” He cautioned the cadets, however, not to “underestimate the critical danger which at this moment faces our country or the courage and diligence’ which is needed by you in your preparation for its defense.” He said the threat to the United States “comes from armies which have had seven years of able, efficient and tireless preparation”; armies trained in actual combat by leaders who base their policies on “shrewd and ruthless” methods; armies inculcated with a spirit of fanaticism.
Urges Sacrifice
“Such men and such armies,” he said, “cannot be successfully resisted without equal intelligence, equal effort and superior devotion.” He told the cadets that too many young men have grown up with the belief that “the old days for sacrifice were ended and that the world owed them nothing but comfort and luxury.” While this does not apply to West Pointers, he said, still “your bodies must be continually hardened, your minds must’ be constantly stimulated and your spirit of devotion to your country. must be forever nourished.” With these factors and with the requisite material preparation, he added, democracy will produce men with a “better initiative, better lastmg power and an unconquerable morale.”
“Kindness or Cruelty?”
He told the cadets that the issue between democratic way and the totalit way is “al ‘issue between right and: wrong, between freedom and slavery, between kindness and cruelty—such an issue is not subject to compromise.” Assailing “appeasers,” he asserted that *“the people who are urging today that we can make terms with the Nazi system and that our system can peacefully live in the same world with theirs simply have not though this matter through—they are guilty of wishful thinking.” He said the situation which confronts the world today is “exactly the same” as that which faced Lincoln 83 years ago “when he pointed out that a nation divided upon such an issue could not remain divided.”
ALEXANDRIA GETS HELP CAIRO, Egypt, June 11 (U. P.).— Huge stores of American fcod and clothing originally intended for Greece are being distributed to persons made homeless by German air raids on Alexandria, Ralph Bain
of the American Red Oross said today.
IN INDIA NA POLIS
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cratic and Nazi systems and that:
the issue underlying the crisis which | 3
Mr, Stimson| #
doomed to eventual and total fail-}’
The Curtiss XSB2C-1 . .
ARide inthe World's Fastest Dive-Bomber
By LELAND STOWE ® Copyright, 1941, by The Me: Times and The Chicago Dally News, ine.
|and scattered bombing raids by hoth
. “outperforms the world.”
BUFFALO, N. Y., June 11.—Some seven thousand feet above Buffalo Airport, Lloyd Child, chief test pilot for Curtiss-Wright, turned the world’s fastest dive bomber nose down. The earth got higger and greener a lot faster than I've ever seen it do before. We left Newton's rate’of gravitation floating far behind
us on an invisible parachute, something which the pit of my stomach seemed considerably concerned about.
It seemed to me we: were coming back to earth like the hammers of
Just the same we knew that this silver, low-wing monoplane is one of the most formidable jobs now being groomed ior war-time service. Repeated tests have demonstrated she will “out perform anything in the world.” Twice as Many Bombs
perdition, but in. reality the new XSB2C-1 scout bomber was making a mere 250-miles an hour. For her that was only coasting, and Test Pilot Child pulled her out at 3000 feet as easily as youd rein in a trotting horse.
BR |concentrate his forces elsewhere,
Curtiss-Wright officials say the |
cruising range of the XSB2C-1 is twice as great as present models of dive-hombers, that she carries twice’ as heavy a bomb load, will remain in flight four and one-half hours longer than previous planes— and reels off something like 100 miles an hour more speed than ex isting types. When you fly in this diving scoutbomber - you get the feeling of her tremendous power, although you can’t begin to feel her speed until
the old sod begins to leap up at
you. About that time you think about: her ' unprecedented performance ability. and reckon that 50 of these beauties, if only the British now had them in the Eastern Mediterranean, might be enough to rob the Nazis of their present rosy chances of taking Iraq, Palestine or Egypi before the summer ends.
A Plane With a Cannon In another year, however, squad
‘|rons of XSB2C-1’s will probably be
getting groomed or on their way with American navy units. They
are likely to become famous as one
of our Navy's most potent weapons. During one day at the two big combat aircraft factories of CurtissWright and Bell Aircraft Corp. in Buffalo we have seen a great plenty to cheer about, and, almost too
.|much to report in ‘a hurry’
Foremost of all perhaps should be mentioned the one combat airplane, now in production, which experts generally believe to be better than the Germans have got. This is Bell’s Airacobra P-39, a terrifically powerful, heavily armored “flying arsenal.” It is the only pursuit ship in the world which carries g .37-milimeter cannon in its nose. It also carries six-machine guns in its wings. By virtue of its revolutionary design, with the Allison engine behind the pilot, it affords greater combat freedom than any fighter plane in existence.
Already in Production
We saw two P-39's. strut their stuff at the "airport today. They are built like ajrgoing swordfish and they swooped down over. us at stupendous: speed—just how fast being one of those impolitic matters which are not discussed outside inner military circles. But the first shipment of these Airacobra cannon-bearing fighters has already gone to the British and the U. S. Army has sixty of them at the present time. . Unlike the dive scout-bomber, the P-39 is .already in production, and in the Bell plant we saw no less than thirty of them on their final assembly line. Lawrence D. Bell, president of Bel Aircraft, escorting us through his plant declared “we think the Airacobra can fight anything that flies, and also fight tanks or mosquito boats on the surface.” He said that this pursuit ship was definitely superior to the Nazis® Messerschmitt 109 in climbing speed and firepower.
Pilot Well Protected
It gives the pilot unprecedented freedom of vision and its tricycle landing gear is the safest in existence for night landings. But above everything else its 37-mili-meter cannon promises to inflict
unparallelled punishment upon Ger-
man aircraft. We saw ‘the three-quarter-inch armor. plate which. protects the Airacobra cockpit and engine, together with the two-and-one-half-inch bullet-proof glass which shields the pilot. - In every t this is a most impressive job. its heavy armor the P-39 can climb vertically at a mile a minute, Altogether it is a perfect example of the American military tradition of
18! emphasis upon heavy fire power. 13
n months ago Bell Aircraft had constructed only 13 planes and these all test models. The firm also employed only 1000 men at that time, but it employs 8000 today. In
|only’ 13 months the Airacobra has
been put into American Army servi and production is beginning to
Thousands of New Workers
ess of |
Lloyd Child
into full production they will tur out more than 60 planes a day, if all are fighters; somewhat less if bombers are also produced. I went through the new Curtiss plant. It is more than 500 yards long and 200 yards wide, equipped with bomb shelters and for blackouting. Of greatest importance it is built so flexibly in its layout that any kind of machinery and production can be established there. At present Messerschmitt 109s and British Spitfires and Hurricanes possess higher altitudes for full-power operation than the Curtiss Tomahawks or P-40s do. But the Curtiss fighters will later he equipped with the new Allison 1350horsepower engines. Curtiss engineers say confidently that with this
equal the foreign fighters in altitude range. One more item which commands your ear. The chief-designer of Bell]. Airacobra is 34-year-old Robert J. Woods. He told me that 120 Bell engineers worked for one year to perfect the design of the P-38 Cobras. Nevertheless the main credit goes to Engineer Woods. When he was in college he flunked out in. engineering. . Someone whispered to me that Mr. Woods is too much of » genius to direct office routine organization. “They don't let him do anything but think,” my informant said. “But what he thinks out is incredible.” It seems that Engineer Woods today is one of the most valuable “flunked-out” = ex-collegians the United States can claim,
EAST INDIES TALKS HALTED BY JAPAN
TOKYO, June 11 (U. P.).—The
Government today ordered its economic delegation at Batavia to break off economic negotiations with the Netherlands East Indies. The - decision to withdraw the delegation was taken after a. fourhour - discussion by high Government officials. about ‘the status of the negotiations with the Dutch. It Ti that a course of action to ZIollow the delegation’s withdrawal’ has - been in all aspects but there was no revelation as to what Japan will do. “Further action,” it was said, a be held in abeyance in the that the Dutch officials migh jo consider.
FREED AFTER BARING PLOT
LOS ANGELES, June 11 (U. P). —Al ‘D. Blake, an ex-sailor, was released from jail today and
exposed an alleged - plot. by two Japanese with whom he was arrested, to steal U. S. Naval secrets and information on the British Far Eastern fleet.
an enthusiastic audience acclaimed the artistry of Leopold
| Stokowski and his Youth Orchestra : Jasi pight in Butler Flekihouss, Sone
siderable legal action was taking place in the boxoffice. The orchestra’s share of the ,6vo8 anes. approximately
ly presenting merly re Inc, and the orchestra: suit filed .
=| Today's War Moves—
EXPECT RESPITE J
|was a prelude to the Balkan cam-
.|Rumania. It does not imply a move
ranean still is ahead of him.
| [through Turkey, either by Turkish
‘|feasible than an air-borne attack
engine their fighters will at least
) praised by Federal authorities for having|
T0 BE BRIEF ONE
Experts ‘Say Axis Inactivity In Near East Is Lull Before a Storm.
United Press War Experts i The comparative inactivity in the war, aside from the action in Syria
sides, probably is the lull before - A storm. Hitler undoubtedly mapped out a to Mussolini when. they
lowed usually by renewed action, but not always immediately. = Their consultation last Jan. 20, for instance,
paign, which began diplomatically two weeks later when Bulgaria joined ‘the Axis and did not reach the military stage until April. 6,
Summer Heat
This soldier at Atlanta, Ga. is wearing the Army’s new cotton cap, part of the official summer uniform. Regulations say the brim must be turned down in front and
0. S. GIVING UP, 'DARLAN HOLDS
Tells Petain America Will Abandon Britain in - Next 10 Days.
By JOHN T. WHITARER a=
Copyrigh 33 104) by The Indi apapolis 1
e Chicago Daily N LISBON, June 11, — Siang the concessions to the Germans which brought the British inte" Syria and virtual war between the two former Allies, Vichy's Vie’
“|the remarkable story that America : is Pispering to abandon Great
up in pack.
when Hitler invaded Jugoslavia and Greece. What strategy Hitler outlined this time no one can tell yet, but it must have been concerned with North Africa and the Near East. The first tiny straw in the wind may have beeh Mussolini's announcement, in his speech yesterday that Italian troops are taking over the occupation of Greece.
More Men for Bulgaria That may mean Hitler wants to
leaving to Mussolini the chore of policing subjugated Greece. Hitler’ would be adding the men and equipment released from Greece to his forces in Bulgaria and
into the Russian Ukraine, although such a step has been persistently rumored. Hitler is hardly likely to take on such a formidable foe as his Soviet. ally when the job of driving the British out of the Near |P East and the Eastern Mediter-
Could Go Either Way
A massing of forces in Bulgaria gives Hitler two advantages in action against the Near East and North Africa. Without traversing the difficult land route of Greece, he can move men and material by sea through the Aegean to Crete, and thence to Africa. Should Hitler desire to move
consent or by force, its route would be through Bulgaria. If Hitler wants to make a direct attack on Syria, or outflank the Mosul oil fields and Syria from the east, he might have to go through Turkey. It would be difficult, Ee the difficulties of Jugoslavia were overcome in an amazingly short time. It probably would be more
from Crete, more than 500 niles away. :
U3, ARMY LAUNCHING GLIDER PILOT GOURSE
(Al Williams, Page 11) DAYTON, O., June 11 (U, P)— The Army Air Corps today announced inauguration of pilot training program in the construction and operation of glider and sailplanes. Although Wright Field headquarters refused to comment on the subject, the new study apparently was hastened by the recent success of Germany using glider-borne troops to capture. the island of Crete.
officer at Wright Field, said that 1 pilots will be assigned to take glider courses at civilian ‘glider fields near Joliet, Ill, and Elmira, N. Y. The announcement said that each pilot will receive 30 hours’ gliding time in a two-place plane in’ addition to ground courses in the theory of soaring, sailplane construction and allied subjects.
gliders to help the trained pilots maintain their proficiency after the schooling period is completed. Col. Miller said that the Air Corps since 1922 has accumulated technical data on glider theory, construction and operation. Observers have ‘been assigned to important glider movements in the U. 8S. Two-place gliders were tested expes imenially this spring af Wright eld.
DOG THREATENED, HE "CONFESSES ‘SLAYING
NEW YORK, June 11 (U.. P)— Pietro Picatello, a handy men, confessed ‘today, police said, that he killed a young mother with ‘a cleaver and transported the nd to Staten Island in a trunk. Detectives, who had found the weapon in Picatello’s apartment, broke his denials by threatening to kill his pet dog, they said. This so unnerved the 46-year-old : prisoner he made a statement that led to his arrest on a homicide charge. “In a re-enactment of the crime, Picatello showed how he struck Mrs. Rose Siegel, 23, on the head after a quarrel on May 31, stuffed the body into a trunk, covered it with a blanket and tied it with sasheord. The body was found Sunday.
U. 8. TC BUY 26 SHIPS WASHINGTON, June 11 (U. P). —President Roosevelt has asked Congress to appropriate $100,075,000
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S. C. GRINSTEA, VETERAN, DIES
South Side Mail
Served as Officer in World War.
Silas C. Grinstead, retired Army officer and for 16 years a carrier on the South Side, died to-. day in Methodist Hospital after an illness of seven weeks. He lived m Southport. Mr, Grinstead enlisted in the United States Army in January, 1801, and served continuously until June, 1925. He served in the Philippine Islands from November, 1903, to October, 1905, and. in Cuba from October, 1906, to February, 1909. He was appointed a first lieutenant during the World War, and was retired in 1925 at Ft. Benning, Ga. In 1926 he .came to. Indianapolis and took ‘a position: with the Post He ‘was a member of the Sons of American Revolution and the Blue Lodge of Scottish Rite, Columbian Lodge 579, at Ft. Ben-
Survivors are his wife, Martha; a daughter, ‘Miss Thelma Lorraine Grinstead, and two sons, Silas C. Jr. and Benjamin F. Grinstead, all of Southpert. Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. George A. Frantz, pas- * Presbyterian Church at the G. H. Herrmann Funeral Home at 3:30 p. m. Friday, and there will be military servicss in Crown Hill, where he will he buried.
of the First
MASON EULOGIZED
IN JAPANESE RITE
TOKYO, June 11 (U. P.).—Hun-
Carrier
dreds of Japanese friends of J. W. T. Mason, United Press war analyst who died din New York May 13,
Ambassador
Lisbon today. Darlan has sworn to the United States is un ay 0 colla in Middle East and hems fui. he: sequently, to go isolationist. Dar lan tells the Vichy crowd, accord:
Petain that.
formant, that President will tell Prime Minister Churchill - bluntly, in the next 1 days, that the game is up. : This picture of the American situation, with the prediction thas President Roosevelt will prove is treacherous as Darlan himself, is based, “confidential reports from America,
into every detail.” Shocked by ‘Knavery’ Darlan says to his colleagues,
consistently predicted that Roose=-: velt will not enter the war—now
Britain.” My informant is a Frenchman of: importance who has tried to play." the Vichy game but is shocked by:
lan and the infirmity of Petain. While trying to decide whether to break with Vichy and go over to the Free French, he asks Amerie cans to help Frenchmen against themselves or against Vichy. . | Darlan’s confidential sources, he’: believes, are the German Embassy in Washington and the thousands: of German agents throughout America, as well as Vichy Ambase sador to the United States Gaston Henry-Haye.
Urges Recall of Envoy
“You would be doing Frenchmen as well as Americans a service,” he 2 said, “if you would immediately de-*
send him home. I am in a position J to declare that his reports have’ consistently falsified the true pice: ture in America. In your own des
only what he and the Ge want heard at Vichy.” This source added that American® Admiral’ W
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Col. Lester T. Miller, commanding
The Army will purchase several]
attended Shintoist memorial. services for him today. He was praised “an American exponent of Shintoism (Japanese ethnic. cult)
and a sincere friend of Japan.”
Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, unable to attend because of the pressure of Government business, had a eulogy to Mr. Mason read at the services: by a foreign
office official.
As a correspondent in Japan, Mr. Mason studied oriental religions
and wrote extensively on them.
STRAUSS SAYS: [NEXT SUNDAY IS FATHER'S DAY] |
Leahy has tried desperately to. suade Vichy that ™ United States production is real and that Siatess ican help to Britain is both sine cere and effective. Darlan A consistently retorted that he does
less America actually enters the.
the Germans. have invented for him, on the eve of a probable final peace effort by Hitler, the story that" America is preparing to abandon
and betray Britain.
So deep-rooted is his -preference—that Father is apt to think it “funny” — if his gift doesn't come from The Man's Store!
This feeling s indicated
by the impulse, “He Will Open His Strauss Gift
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