Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1941 — Page 12
MOSQUITO” BOATS
PROVED
AT CRETE
They Sank Three of Four Grack British Cruisers; | Daring Seamen—to Regain Honor— Ride on Torpedoes Almost to Target.
By JOHN T. WHITAK Copyright,-1941, by The Ian rans Times and The ER obs Daily News, Inc.
LISBON, June 17.—Three of the four British cruisers
‘sunk in ‘Suda Bay during the defense of Créte were tor- ~ « pedoed by Mosquito boats—sinall speedboats of a type with - which the Italians have :been- experimenting for 25 years. (The British admitted loss of four cruisers in the evacu-
ation from Crete. One sinking, that of the York, was defi-
“nitely placed in Suda Bay, and two others were implied to “have taken place there. In each case, however, the British gave the impression that the Sinking were the result of
air attacks.) The Fascists have been try‘ing to perfect the ‘Mas’ boat ~ever since World War days, when Comm. Rizzo, acting on orders of Admiral Costanzo . Ciano (father of Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano), made three daring attacks on the Austrian battle fleet in the Adriatic. (The battleship Wien was sunk .and the Budapest disabled in Trieste Harbor. The harbor of Buccari was penetrated and six torpedoes fired into Austrian warships there, Then the battleships Szent Istvan and ‘Tegethoff were disabled off Pola.) ~ The small boats are called ‘Mas’ ‘boats by the Italians from the initials of “motoscafi -anti-sommer- * gibili"—that is, anti-submarine seasleds. After Italian-made models proved successful in the Spanish Civil War, a number were ordered by both the United States and Great Britain. . The Italians’ Suda Bay success was revealed today in informed quarters and it is now possible to publish details: of a thrilling and gallant action by a few individual Italian naval officers which some‘what redeems the tarnished reputa- - tion of their navy. The boats used are driven by airplane engines which at 60 M. P. H. lift them to the surface of the water. However, they can be throttled down to 30 M. P. H. and with mufflers cut in can approach relatively quietly. They generally are put into the water by large warships at some distance from their prey.
One Man On a Torpedo
Skimming the surface in inky blackness they slipped over the British torpedo nets, it is understood. Once inside the barrier, each - speedboat put overboard a selfpropelled torpedo, held in a conning . tower frame accommodating one man. This individual steered his curious craft to the proper distance from a cruiser. Then he released the torpedo and sank the engineless conning-tower. Each of the one-man torpedo “crews” had a life preserver and it was up to him to swim ashore, Whether any of them succeeded in reaching shore my informants do not yet know. The Italians tried out this new weapon three months ago against British warships at Gibraltar. That effort failed ignominiously with half their craft sunk and the other
I half captured by the vigilant defending forces. The British, consequently, ridiculed the weapon as another Italian freak—for the Italians have a fatal weakness for braggadocio stunts. Under the more strenuous conditions of .the Suda Bay fighting and with the protection of a perfectly black night, the Italians succeeded, however. It would be interesting to compare the cost of these airplanemotored speedboats and torpedoes in conning-tower frames with the three crack British cruisers which they sank. To has always been a mistake to underestimate the heroism of the individual ‘Italian. With 'a chance to distinguish himself personally and wifh a title or even a medal, he will: attempt prodigious stunts. Men of the Royal. Italian Navy, moreover, are anxious to redeem the honor of the service, which they think has been compromised by Fascist inefficiency and Mussolini's personal interference. The men who carried out this stunt were certainly professional naval officers and not Fascist politicians. If they were professional officers, they were pro-British. The whole Navy is. They acted to redeem their own honor, but, like scores of their fellow officers with whom I have lifted a glass, they probably drank to the health of King George of England before sinking three of his cruisers.
JUDGES PLAN NEW TAX BOARD CHOICE
Superior Court judges are expected to convene in general session this week to make a new appointment to the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board. Their appointment of Russell V. Sigler, Shortridge High School teacher, to the board two weeks ago has been potested by several business organizations. The protest was based on the ground that Mr. Sigler’s appointment gives the School Board two representatives. The School Board will be represented by:one of its own members. A letter sent by six business organizations to the Superior Court judges stated that “the fact that Mr. Sigler is employed by the school city compels the belief by the undersigned that his deliberations on the adjustment board cannot be those of an unbiased and disinterested taxpayer.”
NEWS MINISTRY | FAGES SHAKELP
Churchill May Be Criticized |. Rk In: Parliament for Delay |&&
In Information.
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN
Co « ht, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times" AH The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
LONDON, June 17—The Parlia-
‘ment’s next job of linen washing | will be at the expense of the In-| i formation Ministry and those re- :
sponsible for its poor performance during the first 93 weeks of the war. Information Minister Alfred Duff-Cooper will get off lightly: compared to the people in the Service departments who have hamstrung the efforts of the Ministry ape to distribute reasonable qu ties of interesting and intelligent news about military operations. Also, probably, Prime Minister Winston Churchill will be personally -criti-
cized for his failure to do something ;
about the situation. ,
Yesterday's London Times charges|
the Government with having failed
to decide upon a policy for the| .
Propaganda Ministry to follow and demands that in future it be given the status of a “fighting service.”
Timidity Criticized
“More damage has been done to the national interests by a fumbling timidity in the release of news—of which the world has often been put in possession beforehand from enemy or neutral sources—than by the disclosure of what should be military secrets,” it says. “Qver and over again some admirable opportunity for a stroke against the enemy has been lost, people here confused and exasperated, or friendly countries filled with unhelpful speculation, because the news has been mishandled with extreme and excessive professional caution by men who knew nothing of the normal machinery of publicity here and overseas or of vital requirements of public confidence.” No one has ever attempted to offer reasons why the machinery of propaganda should be broken up and divided’among the various authorities, more or less competitive, and why it should not be concentrated and articulated under one control responsible to the Cabinet.
U. S. May Take Over
“One authoritative direction from above would be enough to end this unnecessary dispersal and dissipation of force and to give the Min-
hte Tour prospetivs fenchers realy swim. hut ‘at lhet fhe ‘a, Battilsg suit well, '. The four, all. students ‘on the’ Qanville are (left: to right)- ~Naomi Carlin, Rockville; Vivian Muhibinger,
lis; ‘Kathleen: Muck, Corydon,
Toss SULFA OR 6G: EASIER TO. TAKE
STATE. KIWANIANS ATLANTA PARLEY
TLANTA, : Ga, June 17. —Kiwanians from Indiana: and their wives, ‘assembled here ‘with more than’ 2000. delegates from’ this. coun-
| trys and. Canada. for’ the" 25th -an-
nual convention of" Kiwanis International,’ will attend the" annual’ Indiana ‘District ellowship ‘dinner We night. Following the dinner, the Hoosiers will participate’ in. a ‘re-
ception - and ball in honor of Mark
A. ‘Smith of Macon, Ga., president of ‘Kiwanis International. . Indiana representatives for a nominating . conference to select 1941-42" officers of the. organization also. were -to be chosen today. . “Roy: S. Ruckman : of. Nappanee, Ind., governor of the: Indiana Ki-
wanis' District,” told’ delegates here
that “the 76 Kiwanis clubs in: Indiana are active in community service : activities.” He also ‘announced
that - the:: annual Indiana’ district:
convention will be held next Sepetnbipr in Terre Haute, Ind.
istry its full status as one of the|
fighting services.” British editors and American correspondents alike are wondering just what effect American intervention in the war might have on this situation. They are all agreed that the American people will demand far more news than has been forthcoming in the past and a good many reasonable Britishers wish that the whole thing might be handled by Americans. Unless the British manage to achieve a real reform of this Ministry, it is probable that the United States, in event of its war entry, would have to establish its own
Propaganda Ministry on this side
of the Atlantic.
HAILS BACK SEAT DRIVERS
SACRAMENTO, Cal. (U. P). — California women can claim official approval for the usually-disapproved practice of back seat driving. James M. Carter, state director of motor vehicles, told a group of club women
back seat driving is a “highly useful |: 5
and honorable calling.”
mn SAVE NOW AT WAREHOUSE .
is
(J 3
que
PRICESI|E are GOING UPI)
Zour NOW WHILE YOU CAN STILL SAVES
Steel Trim eliminates 80
FREI Y] (FEERRAREE
NOT a4, 5, or6 Cu. Ft. But a Full Size 1941 62 cu. FT. REFRIGERATOR
4 BONDERIZED STEEL * INTERIOR * A TIC LIGHT % PL ICE CUBES
“S.-Way Presto Shelf gives extra space for bottles, bulky articles!”
TOPS IN REFRIGERATION =
Wo CASH DOWN’ |
WHY TAKE LESS | WHY PAY MORE |
IT'S BIG | IT's BEAUTIFUL :
« MEAT DISH % FREON REFRIGERANT
* HERMETICALLY SEALED var.
Sealed in Steel.
: %5-YEAR PROTECTION PLAN
“Plus” FEATURES!—Stainless =
Steel Zero-Freezer with door =
~—2 Extra-Fast Freezing
Shelves — Space for frozen =
ture Control with 13 settings :
and “off” — Current-Saving “Glacier” Year Protection Plan.
. / ¢
EASY TERMS
Sealed Unit—3- =
LE Ey Science: Service’ ; : ‘CHICAGO, . June 17. —One. of the
new “sulfa: drugs, ‘sulfadiazine; is-as effective in pneumonia and other similar infections as the best. of the}
se placed in the Dust “figures show that: In ‘are acting in
with Selective Servi tions - which © require that ' doubtful:
matters- concerning dependéncy: + be:
| resolved ‘in‘favor of the registrant,” ‘| Lieut. Col. -
Robinson «Hitchcock, state. director, sald. Hen JE
“hava
Must Be Reasanable Bs “However, : the fact. ‘that - more,
than. 500 : married . men; have been ||
‘put in 1-A ‘indicates that the mere
fact ‘of being married is: not Suffi-|
cient reason to Justify a deferment ocal + board," . he
older ‘chemical treatments, but: with | add
less discomfort - due ‘to the /treatment, three .Boston physicians, : Dr. Maxwell Finland, Elias Strauss, and: Osler L. Peterson, have reported: to ‘the Journal of the American Medlcal Association. .
» Toxic) effects . were relatively mild}
and’ infrequent, only 9.2 per cent; Be~ coming: nauseated. : * Sulfadiazine was used in’ the treatment of 446 patients with: various: infections. It appeared to:-be ‘highly, effective in the: treatment of the following diseases: Pneumococcle, staphlyocoecic and streptococeic’ pneumonias; meningococeic * infec-
tions; acute infections of the upper ‘respiratory ‘tract including sinusiis; ~ erysipelas; acute infections: of the urinary: tract, particularly: those associated «with = Escherichia’ coli: i dl and seule gonortieslt r= .thritis 2
Vt
Ine all ‘cases! the: registrant ; must
‘prove that a .reasonable’, degree : ‘of |!
dependency exists ‘if she’ is to be deferred in Class ‘111." . State headquarters. said “that a
survey of all 152'local: ‘boards showed . 1 X :
oD yee 12'men who are available for: service and. physically: At a Defer 2 for. Occupations Aly
Another five men will. be physicals i: ly’ qualified for: only ‘limited : train-| - ing, 72 will: be.deferred: because.of|
dependency, two * will ‘be : deferred a ati will: ‘be found’ physically, mentally
or! normally ; unfit : and two: will:be|.
deferred as students, men-who have alréady: -seen: service: or’ ‘consclentious objectors. | 3
+ Two hundred and: two Hoosiers iE :
were intlucted into ‘the- Army" at Ft.
‘Harrison . yesterday and. three: con- | stientious ‘objettors : from: northern |W. Ingiana were Sent to; a: camp-neart
Easy! Quickly! Economically!
E NJOY your vacation to the. utmost Nn this year—free' from financial worries *
a]
—unstinted by a lack of cash.’
You may borrow $75 to $5,000: at
Morris Plan, and take up to 20 months to repay. First payment need not start for 6 weeks—long after your return.
Many loans are made on. chatiicier
or auto—WITHOUT ENDORSERS.
No tiresome waiting: or
Morris Plan. Often people phone for a loan and the money is : waiting for: on by: the time they reach our. office.
Cost Redu ced 14
. on. Loans Over $500 to
ur
delay at
a oa so a
‘ scot reduced --$100 "per year “which is i 1% . per m month on 5 Re Dalances.
Cx
A
VV 8 pL 8
from (3% toil $8 To tp Ly
ar 2 G.
of: them acco
‘GOLF CHAMPION - BEN HOGAN
aay to ite
‘scientific tests of the he smol he he itself!
I vue ciarerrE oF | COSTLIER TOBAGCOS
a £3 AY a SF : & 3 2 3 & 3