Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1941 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JUNE 2I, 1941

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, June 21.—The record already is abundantly clear that Hitler is not to be trusted. It would be superfluous to bother with the point except that, in spite of the record, there are still people in this coufitry who think we can do business with ; Hitler, and who, at mass meetings, cheer statements that he is going to win the war. : Let them take note of two current events and a current book. Eventually there may be enough accumulated evidence to convince : them. The first event to be noted is the crisis between Moscow and Berlin, the ominous silence amid the flood of reports concerning the massing of German troops along the Russian border to back : up demands that Hitler is making on Stalin. That Hitler would march his army into Russia if Le did not get what he wanted out of Stalin is taken for granted everywhere, :

No Pleasing Hitler

Yet on Aug. 23, 1939, was announced the Ger-man-Russian non-aggression pact. Article One stated that the two contracting parties - “obligate themselves to refrain from every act df force, every aggressive action and every attack against one another.” Article Five stated that “in event of a conflict between the contracting parties concerning any question, the two parties will adjust this difference or conflict exclusively by friendly exchange of opinion, or if necessary, by an arbitration commission.”

The mobilization along the Russian border does

» + not sound like an effort to adjust differences “ex-

By Raymond Clapper

clusively” by friendly exchange of opinion. This pact freed Hitler to begin .war. It has been to him the most valuable agreement since Munich. Yet now, less than two years later, he is ready to violate it and pounce on Russia or at least to threaten attack, in order to wring further concessions. The second event to be noted is the German‘Turkish amity pact. It carries a protocol under which Turkey agrees to curb anti-Hitler newspapers and radio talk. Berlin dispatches say the press truce was especially welcome in Berlin because Turk-

.ish newspapers have been a source of irritation to

German officials. The German foreign-office mouthpiece notes with satisfaction that henceforth the Turkish: press will be “objective.” :

Not Fantasy, but Foct

If you are going to do business with Hitler, you have to expect that. If he is in a position to do something about them, do you think he will tolerate in the United States newspapers which attack him? I am not dealing in: fantasy. Those are the facts which are in the news from Europe today. The book I wanted to mention, just published, spells out for us a projection of this kind of thing as it would apply to the Americas. The book is written by a man whom I know and in whom I have every confidence, one of Herbert Hoover's ace commercial attaches, who served in that capacity in Berlin from 1924 to 1939. This book is a smashing answer to those who say we can do business with Hitler, The title is, “You Can’t Do Business With Hitler.” The author is Douglas Miller, the publisher, Little, Brown, and the price $1.50. It is the best book in this field that I have seen and one in which I place complete ¢onfidence. Read it and you will be wiser.

Ernie Pyle is on vacation. He will be gone about two more weeks.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Thomas A. Héndricks, State Senator, tennis player extraordinary, executive secretary of the State Medical Association and without question one of the best liked men in all Indiana. Tom Hendricks is an affable, energetic, athletic- : " appearing chap with sandy blond hair, very blue eyes and an engaging smile, He’s about 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs between 160 and 165 pounds. We hate to tell you his age, because he literally looks and acts a dozen years younger. He's 48. Honest, . Ever since boyhood, Tom has been a sportsman and there still . is scarcely a day in the year when he doesn’t engage in some form of violent exercise. An ex-news-paperman, he also is an ex-radio¢ sports announcer and with his late brother, Blythe, formed one of Indiana’s bestknown basketball and football broadcasting teams.

He was drafted out of the newspaper business into his present job 15 years ago and one reason he’s got- ' ten along so well is that he is a good psychologist and understands the country doctor and genera] practitioner just as well ashe specialist. He has been active in the promotion of preventive medicine plans and he is extremely popular‘ with all the doctors,

'A Regular Beau Brummel

FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE he was called “Tommy” but the last several years have seen it shortened to just’ plain Tom. He is an extremely neat dresser, partial to .lweeds, and. he never lets himself go and play tramp. Even when he’s at the lakes, his whife ducks will always look clean and neat. > Born in Peru on Memorial Day, 1893, he came here as a little boy and at Shortridge. played baseball, served as president of the senior class and got his journalistic start as editor of the Echo. At Princeton, he played on the baseball team and starred at tennis. He continued to play tennis after his graduation in ’15 and if it hadn’t been for the war undoubtedly would have become one of the top ranking national players. a : The war butted into his best tennis years, while he was serving overseas as a second lieutenant. He kept on playing after he came back home and he’s been doing it ever since. When he can’t play tennis, he plays squash or handball at the I. A. C.

Aviation

AIRPOWER! AIRPOWER! Everywhere I go I hear people speaking that word. Everybody uses it casually, but I doubt whether more than a dozen men in the country know ,what it really means and

involves. Most people, including too many politicians, seem to think it means lots and lots of planes and lots and lots . of factories to build them, and, lots of training schools for mechanics and pilots. It really means “an Army or Navy of the air,” with all sorts of weapons, tools, personnel specialists, research scientists, camouflage artists, ground force systems “of not less than 10 men to each plane, its own anti-aircraft divi- , sion, and its own education program to teach the public what to . do in air raids. An army of the air takes off, fights on its own, with or without the aid of a surface army cr navy, flies to new positions carrying its own ammunition, gasoline and oil, food, ‘repair facilities and tools. Thousands of aircraft of all types that can move to a new position and establish themselves after capturing or securing a new base position.

Airpower’s Weapons

A ground army’s weapons are multitudinous—rifies, pistols, bayonets, trench knives, light and heavy machine guns, light and heavy artillery, light and heavy anti-aircraft guns, light and heavy tanks, mobile, railroad artillery. Airpower’s weapons and tools? Fastest singleseater fighting planes for use against other single-

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My Day

: AMPOBELLO ISLAND, N. B,, Friday.—I woke up : ‘early yesterday morning. Perhaps it was the feel of the invigorating New England air which gave me so much energy. I used to spend a month or two quietly settled on Campobello Island for many sum- . mers, when our children were small and it is always pleasant to ~ return there. " 4 Yesterday morning, I had a little chat with the landlady pf the - cabins ‘we stopped at outside of Portsmouth, who told me that one of her sons would be eligible for the draft this year. He is working "in a defense industry and may not be called, so he is thinking of volunteering. = Her other son is still in school. It was interesting to find she agreed with me that, i if we want a peaceful world in the . future, we will have to do more than just talk about it and attend to our own affairs. I drove into Portsmouth and had my car serviced and sent some telegrams. By the time I returned, the others had about made up their minds, I think,

. everything that has to do with the Civil War.

‘Tun away and deserted thém. . We started time ed search of breakfast: and stopped ai the must be done before the

He tried his hand at golf a few years ago but found it too slow for his “energetic temperament. He likes to swim and he’s fond of fishing. He has a summer cottage at Maxinkuckee and he’s a good sailor,

He Likes to Read

SPORTS, HOWEVER, are not his only major interest. He's a great reader and he carries copies of current magazines around with him, reading everywhere he goes to eat up spare minutes. He reads almost constantly at home and ‘has devoured almost e doesn’t care much for fiction. For five years now, he’s been dabbling at the “History of the World” and is now on his 11th volume. He figures that it will take him about six more years to wind it up. He does not give any of his tremendous energy to going near anything around the house that needs fixing, although once in a while he will tinker around the yard. ;

He Has Some Pet Peeves

HE'S FOND OF sweets, but for the sake of his athletic figure he tries not to eat them. His pet peeve is women’s snoods, seconded only by women who wear high heels with their slacks. He does not like movies, but will go if there is a film showing with an historical] background. And, probably because he -was born in Peru, he’s wild about circuses. As far as the radio is concerned, he’s finicky. He listens to the news broadcasts, an occasional orchestra program and to Jack Benny, but if anything else is turned on, he’]l grab the book he’s reading and flee upstairs. . He. gets a real kick out of his youthful appearance and beams when a speaker at a medical meeting refers to him as “our handsome young secretary.” He likes to go collegiate and is frequently seen around town without a hat. : Tom is one of the town’s really cheerful, pleasant men. He’s hard to rile and his face always mirrors his feelings—boredom, worry, surprise, laughter, etc. He has a grand sense of humor and can take it as well as dish it out. His one sensitive spot is his middle name and he will tell nobody what it is. We think we know. We think he was named for his granduncle, the former Vice President of the United States. And his name ig Thomas Andrews Hendricks. We’ll bet on that, 0. ’

By Maj. Al Williams

seaters; bombers of all types; two-seaters for reconnaissance; twin-engined fighters for long-range escort of bombers or solo attack; dive bers; light] and heavy bombers;- night-fighting planes; torpedocarrying planes; long-range flying boats; seaplanes of all types (to take full advantage of protected waterways, bays and inlets as bases), and blimps (non-rigid airships essential in- any air coastal defense). All these are dezigned and built for the greatest possible speed and performance. Contrasted with them is the slowest flying liaison plane, which can come nearest to hovering and can land on a clear

.bit of road or highway. (This type, known as the

“Storch” in the German air force, will some day be récognized as one of their most useful planes in establishing and maintaining their astounding coordination between air forces and surface forces.)

Independent Operation

Then there are vast numbers of transport planes— troop-carrying planes; those for carrying gas. and oil, equipment and supplies for field repair and maintenance, food, bombs, spare parts for engine planes, flight instruments, gas and oil servicing funnels, buckets. and measures, bomb lifting gear, and ammunition of all types, and all the vast quantities of gear required for all the above. The army of the air must be able to pick up, fly to the practical range of its supply and transport train, establish itself, consolidate and fortify the new position, and begin "operations without one bit of gasoline from surface forces. : For instance, our U. S. Air Force (if we had itd should be ready to fly from Florida to Puerto Rico, te Trinidad, to South America—overnight—with thousands of planes ready to fight in the air. That's a rough sketch of airpower.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

which’ the CCC boys are arranging as a picnic area. They have buili a number of buildings and are clearing the paths ahd parking spaces. It overlooks the water across the rocky beach and is really very beautiful. -- nk it will be very popular. Some other people already found their way there today, even

‘though it is evident that it was newly opened.

‘We bought a newspaper in Portland and were startled by the news that Germany has made some definite demands on Russia, which would seem to make it difficult for Russia to remain on a friendly footing with her former ally. At intervals during the rest of the day, we tried to get more. definite news over the radio, concerning this situation. All that we

‘could get, however, was that, in Moscow rumors are

flying about. That state of affairs is nothing new in any European country. There is a bank of fog not very far out at sea, but the sun was kind enough to stay out and give .us a gorgeous. sunset on our arrival. The man on the ferry told us they had been having more or less foggy weather, so he thought we might be favored with some good days. 3 - : It is very nice to see so many pleasant, familiar faces. The custom officials in both Lubec, Me. and Campobello Island, N. B., treated us kindly. In no we seemed to be settled in the house. Much house will be ready for the

HERE'S HOW A SENATOR AIDS * CONSTITUENT

Oil Firm Cut In for Share Of Asphalt Contract After Pepper Intervenes.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 21.—One of the finest examples of how a Senator can get things done for a “constituent” has developed from the story of Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) and the now famous Elgin Field, Fla., asphalt deal. : Further clues are in the hands of the House Military Affairs Subcommittee relating to the final chapter—showing how, after the Treasury Department had awarded the contract for 3,600,000 gallons to the low bidder, Allied Materials, Inc, of Atlanta, the Pan-American Petroleum Corp., the “constituent” for whom the Senator intervened, was cut in for an additional 1,800,000 gallons through a compromise worked out by the War Department and WPA. Pan-American had been second-low bidder. The contract was awarded to Allied April 25. Three days later, Col. James B.. Newman Jr. testified, he was called by a liaison officer for the War Department and WPA and told that 1,800,000 gallons of asphalt for Eglin Field must be purchased direct and immediately through negotiated bids. All this hurry caused some comment by committee- members, since delay had lasted already since March 31, when bids were opened. Orders Held Up Meanwhile, purchase and shipping orders for Allied materials were held up. Just how and why is still unexplained. Col. Newman instructed Col Willis Teale, district engineer officer at Mobile, to call for new bids. That officer sent out telegraphic invitations at night calling for bids the next morning at 11 a, m. The invitation to Allied was misdirected to Texas. | Col. Newman testified that this was the shortest time he could ever remember for submission of bids. Officials of Allied protested when they failed to receive an invitation, and Col. Newman threw out the bids, However, it was discovered that these - bids specified delivery by barge only, though all other specifications for previous contracts had called for alternate delivery by barge or rail. Allied was set up to deliver its original contract by rail. Consequently, Fred Bridges, vice president of Allied, advised Col. Newman later that his company could not have bid for barge delivery. «Only One Company Able To Pan-American, it developed, was the only company that could deliver by barge. Rep. Charles H. Elston (R. 0. remarked that evidently the idea was to “freeze out” everybody but Pan-American. Col. Newman said he did not know that Pan-American was the only company that could deliver by barge. He took responsibility for the barge-only specification, asserting that this was best, though he conceded later that rail delivery on the field, as provided by Allied, would be better for the contractor than barge delivery three-and-a-half miles away. Allied was required to set up storage tanks at the field, which had not been dope at the time, though the storage was provided a few days later for its own delivery. A. W. Perry, chief of the committee’s investigating staff, suggested that it would have been better business for the Government to institute new bids, with the alternatives in the original bids. ' Before the final compromise was worked out which gave Pah-Amer-ican the order for 1,800,000 gallons for immediate delivery and Allied the original order for 3,600,000, numerous influences were set going on behalf of Pan-American. Suit Threatened Ex-Congressman Millard F. Caldwell, lawyer for Pan-American and member of the old Pepper law firm at Tallahassee, threatened an injunction suit against the original award, and apparently scared WPA and War Department officials into the compromise arrangement, since a suit would cause long delay. The suit never was filed. The contractor in charge of runway construction at Eglin Field, Charles H. Smith of Pensacola, moved into the situation also and called Col. Newman to complain about not getting delivery on asphalt. He is a friend of Mr. Caldwell who, as well as representing Pan-American in this case, has a general assignment from Pensacola businessmen to lobby for them here. He is on a retainer from the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce, Senator Pepper’s office called Col. Newman three times until he assured them he would let them know what finally was done. The colonel said the Senator's secretary advised him that Mr. Pepper thought the compromise was “a fine solution.” “He was sure that as long as a Florid& contractor could deliver up to 1,800,000 gallons, he would offer no objection to the Allied contract for 3,600,000,” the colonel said. ‘Earlier, the Senator had vigorously challenged the award to

be called for. Col. Newman said Senator Pepper’s office had never asked the War Department “to do anything improper.”

JOINT CONCERT SET BY SALVATION ARMY

‘The i Mo, Army band of 50 pieces will join with the local Salvation Army band in giving a public concert at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow in University Park. ~The Springfield band was to come here today from Washington, D. C., , Maj. and Mrs. Lloyd

are to be held at 9:30 a. m. and 8 p. m, | at the Citadel, 26 8S. Capitol bandsmen

tomorrow ‘Ave. The leave Monday .morning

Allied and demanded that new bids|

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Atlantic.

U.S. CITIZENS START EXODUS

FDR’s Robin Moor Speech Removes Last Doubt of Nation’s Course.

By DAVID M. NICHOL ; ight. 1941, by The Indianapolis Times i Nhe Chicago Daily News. Inc.

BERN, Switzerland, June 21.— President Roosevelt’s blunt talk about the Robin Moor has removed the last doubts in Europe about the

United States’ course and ‘has begun preparations for an exodus—if it is still possible—of the few Americans who remain. German-American relations, which have rapidly crystallized in the last week, continue to share the

neutral Switzerland, with the still confused ssituation along the Ger-man-Russian border and with reports that Russian Ambassador Dekanosow, in Berlin had been received once, or perhaps several times, in recent days by Foreign Minister Col. Joachim Von Ribbentrop. Even before the militant demands for reparations for the sinking of the Robin Moor by a German submarine were conveyed in a note to the Wilhelmstrasse by United States Charge d’Affaires Leland B. Morris and explained to Congress by the President, the strain on relations between the two countries had reached almost unbelievable limits. The Berlin correspondent of the Neue Zuercher Zeitung said that it had seldom occurred before in history without an actual rupture. The problems of Americans who remain in Berlin, are not easy. Officially, there has been no hurdle placed in the way of their exit, but there need be none. Visa applications have already been “lost” for weeks at a time, or simply delayed with no other explanation. If it is permitted there will likely soon be a general exodus of reporters from the country, most of whom ior weeks have been limited to little more than the forwarding of official bulletins.

administrative problems and sideline tragedies far beyond the considerable scope of United States interests. For one thing, the Consulates, which have already been ordered closed, offered almost the ‘last avenue of escape for the Jews and the Poles and other refugees. What will be the immediate status of visa applicants, so long as relations continue at all, is not clear here.

HOLD EVERYTHING

Picture of Robin M

interest today, in the newspapers of |:

The Indianapolis Times

Eight crew members and one passenger of the U. 8S. freighter Robin Moor, reportedly sent to the bottom by a German submarine, are shown safe aboard the Brazilian ship Osorio, which rescued them in the South

oor

SECOND SECTION

Sinking

This first picture of the sinking of the Robin Moor, taken from a . lifeboat by a crew member, shows the vessel as she was going down.

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An actual rupture will produce|

Mancos Jim's Death Song Was a Navajo War Whoop

CANON. CITY, Colo, June 21 (U, P..—James (Mancos Jim) Stephens, 76, gray haired and toothless, stolidly approached the hour last night when he would have to pay the penalty for killing Lynn Dean, the Mancos town marshal who had tried to jail him when he

' |was “likkered up.”

Stephens - was willing but too feeble to walk the quarter mile from the prison death row to the gas chamber building, so Warden Roy Best drove him there by automobile. Lack of teeth—he said he had a store-bought pair: once, “But I guess I lost it somewhere”—had confined his last meal to fruit juices, soft boiled eggs and three cups of coffee. That, he said, was what made him so weak. Warden Best had to help him from the automobile to the chair in the gas chamber to which he was tied: Stephens tried to shove the assisting hand away. “I can take it,” he grumbled, “but it’s a dirty shame. Give it to me quick.” The door was closed, and Mr. Best stepped outside to pull the lever that drops cyanide pellets into

, la. bowl of sulphuric acid beneath

_|45-day reprieve,” because he was

‘and tracks symbolizing the mobility

the condemned man's chair—creating deadly cyanide gas. Suddenly Stephens began to squirm. His left hand came free from the strap that bound it to the chair. He plucked the death mask from his face.

He smiled, opened his toothless mouth and threw back his head. A screeching, falsetto yell—the war whoop of the Navajo Indians— reverberated through the execution room.

and unfastened the belt around his waist. Still smiling, he folded his hands across his chest and gulped in the gas. A moment later his head dropped on his chest, and 17 minutes later he was pronounced dead. * The six witnesses were unnerved by the war whoop. One described it as “terrible—you can’t put it in words.” Stephens had said he would die calm and defiant like the Indians with whom he had lived in his youth. : Nobody around Mancos ever took much stock in Stephens’ -tales of Indian fighting and "his “shooting scrapes.” He had been an object of ridicule for 50 years—a “harmless old man” who herded sheep

and spent most of his time hanging on bars. . He was drunk frequently, “because it reminds me of the old days when I was a young and hardy whippersnapper.” Then one day he Marshal. : Gov. Ralph L. Carr gave him a

shot the \

“reluctant to send such an aged man to the gas chamber,” but he finally decided there was no excuse to commute the sentence. Stephens had wanted to be buried at Norwood, Colo.,, where he said he had lived with the Indians. But he will be buried in the little prison cemetery, near - the scene of his last, and only authenticated, tri-

: | Hollywood Bowl.

§| President.”

Stephens freed his other hand y

when he occasionally feit, like it, |

AIMED AT U. 3.

Over Movements of Aliens in U. S.

WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. PJ), —President Roosevelt today signed a bill giving him power to control

the entry and departure from this country of all aliens and citizens. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said the measure was ine tended principally to control espio= nage and subversive activities. Lege islative action on the bill was come pleted yesterday. The bill specifically authorizes the Chief Executive to prescribe rules and regulations governing the movement of all persons across American borders. Sponsors of the bill in the Senate said’ upon passage yesterday that there was no intention to use the authority for restriction of normal travel of citizens and aliens between the United States and the western hemisphere. The new powers are limited tothe duration of the present emergency,

Follows Van Nuys Appeal

The bill. was’ passed coincident with Mr. Roosevelt's signing of ane

other measure permitting the ree

fusal of American visas to foreigne ers, admissable to this country une der normal conditions but whose

| entrance at this time would “ene

danger the public safety.” The Senate passed the new alien« control measure by a voice vote after Chairman Frederick VanNuys (D. Ind.) of the Senate Judiciary Committee’ said that subversive ac« tivities in the United States are “greater than ever before in his= tory.” : : “Much of this propaganda is spread by native American citi zens,” he said, “Together with aliens, théy travel from country to country carrying news, information and propaganda.”

HOLLYWOOD, June 21 (U. P.).—

k| Charles A. Lindbergh said last night | that modern warplanes may make #| the United States immune to ine

vasion. “While the developments of mod-

i|ern warfare have increased the vulnerability of nations within a hemisphere to each other,

they have decreased the ability of one hemisphere to attack the other successfully,” he told an America First Committee audience of 25,000 in

The audience, which included Senator D. Worth Clark (D. Idaho) and novelist Kathleen Norris, cheered when a man shouted “The next Signs reading: “Nazis, Fascists and Communists, please keep out!” and signed by the America , First Committee, were posted at the entrances. “The development of aviation made France and England much more vulnerable to Germany than they were before, but aviation makes it more difficult for Europe to attack America, or for America to attack Europe, than it has been in the past,” Mr. Lindbergh .continued. ¢ He urged his listeners to “put your support behind a negotiated peace” as an alternative to “a Hitler victory or a prostrate Europe, and possibly a prostrate America, as well.” :

AWARD PRIZES FOR

BOSTON, June 21 (U, P.).~The Newbery and Caldecott Medals, awarded annually by the American Library Association for the best children's books, were conferred esterday upon two Connecticut men at the association's 63d annual conference. : Armstrong Sperry of New Canaan, Conn., won the Newbery Prize. book, “Call, It Courage,” adjudged the most distinguished contribution to literature for chile dren writtén during the past year. Robert Lawson of Westport, Conn, won the Caldecott Medal. His book, “They Were Strong and Good,” was considered the most distinguished picture book for children published in the United States during 1940.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the three boats in which Coldmbus and his men first set sail in coming to the Western Hemisphere. >

same place twice? 3—What rank in the Navy corresponds in pay to Major in the Army?

4—An addition to a will is called a’ 1?

5—Name the famous pass between India and Afghanistan.

States popularized the word “pussyfooting”? T7—For what new Government agency do the initials “OCD” stand? 8—Name the States the names of which begin with the letter A,

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U. S. ARMORED FORCE GETS NEW INSIGNIA

WASHINGTON, June 21 (U.P.). —The War Department today adopted shoulder insignia for the new armored force. signia is r and in the colors black, olive drab, yellow, blue and red. Embroidered in black in the center of the triangle are tank wheels

of the armored force. Superimposed on the tracks is a

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