Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1941 — Page 10

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Tokyo May Find It ‘Convenient to Follow U. S. Example Spokesman Says; Paper Urges Guard Against | “Embarrassing’ Aid to’ Russia. TOKYO, July 4 (U. P.).—The Government disclosed to-

day that it is considering the

in Japanese territorial waters and a leading Tokyo newspaper urged precautionary measures to avert “an embarrass.

ing development for Japan” tempt to ship arms to Russia Disclosure that a safety

came from Koh Ishii, Government Information Board spokes-

man. Such a zone presum“ably would be similar to that established by Western Hemisphere nations to keep belligerent warships out of their

territorial waters. Ishii said the Government had not made up its mind whether to extend the nation’s territorial waters hut that it “would be very convenient to follow America’s eXxample” When it was pointed out that the American nations established a safety zone instead of extending territorial waters he said both plans were under discussion.

Paper Cites Treaties

The call for precautionary measures in the event the United States undertook to deliver war supplies at Russia’s only major Pacific port came from the newspaper Hochi which said that the only available routes to Vladivostok were through. the Tsugaru or Soya Straits, in apanese territorial waters, which ight become the scene of German ubmarine operations. The newspaper said that Japan, und by the tri-partite treaty with Germany and Italy and by her neutrality pact with Soviet Russia, could not remain indifferent should Anglo-American aid to Russia threaten Japan. In this connection, Ishii said he could not say without further study whether the Tsugaru and Soya Straits separating Japanese islands were entirely within Japanese territorial waters. As for Anglo-American aid to Russia, he said he would consider stationing of United States planes at Vladivostok ‘an unfriendly act toward Japan.”

‘Explains Itself’

Ishii, asked if the Government agreed with press allegations that the United States was attempting to encircle Japan, replied, “I can only say that the situation explains itself.” Referring to the United StatesBurma trade tax agreement, he said Japan had no legal objections to it but that “it might be interpreted as another phase of encirclement.” Ishii said he had no information about reports that Japanese ships had been recalled to Japan:

ARMY SAVES ALUMINUM

WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. P.)— ~ The War Department said today -. that specifications for 30,000 new dispatch cases have been changed to release 3000 pounds of aluminum for bombers and other defense needs. Nickel Steel will be substi-

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U. S. IS MORE CONCILIATORY

Belief Grows That Tokyo Is Veering Away From Axis.

WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. P.)— The attitude of the United States toward Japan today appeared more conciliatory as the belief grew that Japan’s foreign policy is veering away from the Axis. Officials plainly evinced a growing interest in the decision which Japan has made, but not announced, as to her policy as it might be affected by the Russo-German conflict. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles indicated the attitude of the United States yesterday when he said that this government hopes that whatever policy Japan has adopted would serve to maintain peace in the Pacific. Observers regarded as even more significant, however, a frank assertion by Mr. Welles that Japan was believed to have acted entirely within her rights when she requisitioned two Japanese ships loaded with chrome ore which had stopped at Kobe en route to San Francisco. Mr. Welles said that no question of ownership was involved.

U. S. Needs Chrome

The United States badly needs chrome in its defense program and the cargoes would have alleviated the shortage. ° Observers read into Mr. Welles’ statement the implication that while the United States does not overlook Japan’s belligerency in the Far East, this government favors any conciliatory action which may lead to improvement of conditions in the Pacific. They believed that Japan has found her Axis connections of little value, especially since the outbreak

of the Japan-sponsored Nanking Government in China.

possible assistance “in- the against Germany might affect adversely Japan’s attitude toward this country. Sees Russ Envoy

The determination of the United Russia as speedily as possible was held yesterday between Mr. Welles

sadors. Soviet Ambassador Constantin A. Oumansky’s visit was described as an “exchange of views,” but observers considered significant the fact the British Ambassador Halfax was invited to call on Mr. Welles later in the day. Russia has indicated a desire to buy war supplies in the U. 8. and this was believed discussed on both occasions. Any goods moving to Russia probably’ will pass near Japan and then, it is believed, the question whether her new policy means aid to the axis or peace in the Pacific will be answered.

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of the Russo-German conflict. S0|on Josef V. Stalin's far, they argue, Japan has gained «scorched earth” tactics if the Red from the Axis only its recognition|Army is forced to retreat, said:

I Germany in her fight for existence The present policy of the United will not deprive the Bolshevist

States to give the Soviet Union all | population of one gram of foodct | stuffs. Each pound of wheat Stalin

States to give substantial aid t0|fense United States Consular probelieved indicated in conferences |countries—Germany, Italy, Rumania, and the Soviet and British Ambas- Belgium, Luxembourg,

NAZIS: PURSUING REDS STEADILY

Two Rivers Crossed, Some Advance Made in Snow, Berlin Adds.

BERLIN, July 4 (U. P.).—The German High Command said today the German troops had smashed their way across the Berezina River, 360 miles west of Moscow, at several

points. A communique from Adolf Hitler’s headquarters at the front said that despite bad roads “the pursuit of Soviet troops is continuing without halt along the entire front.” The crossing of the Berezina River, east of Minsk, would mean that German troops were on the highway which leads to the Soviet capital. On the Baltic front, the communique said, German troops crossed the Dvina River from Lithuania and stormed across Latvia to the Soviet frontier.

Claim Reds in Retreat

The Red Army was in retreat, the High Command said, and was suffering severe losses under the ruthless attack of the German air force. Earlier, the official DNB news agency .had reported that Rumanian,” Hungarian and German forces were driving steadily into Russia despite bad weather, which took the form of snowstorms in the Lwow region on the southern front. The newspaper Deutsche Allgemeine said “important results are expected from the front south of the Pripet marshes while the attack of the north wing of our Army, north of the Dvina River (in the Lithuania-Latvia frontier sector) is proceeding successfully.” The official DNB news agency said that the advances were being carried out steadily despite adverse weather conditions and in the faceé of stubborn Russian resistance. .

Reparts on East Front

The mention of stubborn Russian resistance followed a High Command communique on yesterday which said “the resistance of the Soviet armies now seems to be broken.” The DNB report said: “Fighting on the east front, which now as before is marked by the stubborn resistance of Soviet troops, is further made difficult by weather conditions. In the Lwow area even a snowstorm is reported.” Since yesterday, official military reports have been rare and it was believed that the High Command for a while would adhere to its earlier practice in the present campaign of :announcing only that “operations are proceeding according to plan.” When the next detailed report would be forthcoming was not indicated.

‘Won't Deprive Bolshevists

The Lokal Anzeiger, commenting call for

“It is absolutely certain. that

orders destroyed only the Russian people will miss.” The Boersen Zeitung said in referring to yesterday’s order closing American consulates in Denmark that “by acts of European self-de-

tection is ended in the following

Croatia, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Albania,

The first boxes for both performances of “Opera Under the Stars” to be given July 9 and 10 at the State Fair Grounds have been sold—both to the same person. : The buyer is George W. Stark and the salesman was Marc Wolf, former chief barker of the local Variety Club. The tickets are delivered, the money’s in the bank.

WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. P.).— Non-interventionists claimed today increasing Congressional opposition was developing to an Army proposal to remove, restrictions on the use of selectees,. National Guardsmen and reserve officers outside the western hmisphere.

recommended the step to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson as a.move “to protect ourselves against the coldly calculated, secret and sudden action that, might be directed against us.” His proposal that these men be retained in service more than a year also was criticized by some non-interventionists as a “breach of faith.” Only Congress could remove the geographical and time limitaLions, since both are written into aw. Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) predicted strong opposition to the proposals, as he disclosed that he had been “reliably informed” that American troops are to be sent to Iceland in the near future. He did not reveal the source of his information. The War and Navy Departments declined to discuss Mr. Wheeler's disclosure. Senator Lister Hill (D. Ala.), assistant majority leader and a member of the Military Affairs Committee, said, however, that “the necessities of the situation” require the action recommended by Gen, Marshall, “I am in favor of protecting the interests of the United States wherever they may be,” Mr. Hill told reporters, “and they may be outside the western hemisphere.” Mr. Hill said that the Army would benefit from retaining its trained personnel, rather than mustering

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Garfield Park but the dedl for the building fell through. They discovered a two-story brick building, 30 by 50 feet in the rear of 426 Terrace Ave. The second hand machinery was moved in Jast week. The.equipment included a lathe, shaver, surface grinder, metal saw, disc grinder and two drill presses: (furnished by Hitch and two drill presses, milling machine, cylindrical grinder . and two lathes (from Waggoner’s garage. The first outlay from the partnership’s $3400 capital, $60, was spent for moving. It cost them $226 to install electrical circuits to operate the machines. They installed the heavy machinery themselves.

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After the first few pieces of machinery, including one lathe and a drill, had been set in place, the partners decided they'd better get an order for some work “to tide u over.” :

Mr. Waggoner went out and came back in a short time with a $90 order for four gears and four shafts for a rough or “snag” grinder for local firm nanufacturing custombuilt machinery. . Another small order came in, $50 to grind out a die for another tool shop on N. Capitol Ave. which was, like the Hitch-Waggoner shop, trying to get started. It will take many more hours of work before the old machinery is placed in A-1 condition. But the Hitch-Waggoner team knows the machine game “all the way through.” . One lathe, for which Mr. Hitch paid $25 for 12 years ago (junk price) is better than when it was new. Mr. Waggoner proudly boasts this about his partner. Yesterday the Garfield Tool and Engineering Co. received its first sizeable defense order. It amounted to a couple of hundred dollars for bearings for the Merz Engineering Co. which will further process them before turning them over to Mar-mon-Herrington Co. where they will go. into tanks for the U. 8. Marines. Mr. Waggoner got that order. He walked into the shop smiling, holding a blueprint in his hand. Mr.

Marc Wolf (standing) sells boxes to George W. Stark, who is writing a check.

Proceeds of the opera are to go to the blood bank fund of the Indiana University hospitals at the Medical Center. Since the establishment of the bank, more than 2700 donors have given blood and plasma to about that number of patients. - * The opening opera will be “Bohemian Girl” and the second a streamlined version of “Carmen.”

Claim More Opposition to Lifting Army Restrictions

men. He attributed the precision and effectiveness of the German Army to “tireless work and maneuvering.” It was understood that Mr. Stimson will confer with President Roosevelt before drafting legislation embodying Gen. Marshall’s propoS.

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Senator Wheeler charged that the United States foreign policy is “being determined in London by a joint board of British and American officers.” He suggested that the United States would. occupy Iceland as a base for trans-shipping goods to Britain. Iceland is outside the European combat zone prescribed by President Roosevelt, so United States vessels could take goods there to be picked up by British vessels. Iceland, now occupied by British troops, is within the counter-blockade zone proclaimed by Germany. Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal.), said he could find no reason for the Government to “break its promise” to men serving limited enlistments, except “that handsome Joe Stalin has been washed white as snow of all his villainous characteristics and that this country, with all its high ideals, is to be made the instrumentality for making the world safe for communism.” Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), said: “Until Congress, representing the people, declares war—and I don’t believe it ever will—our Army should stay in the Western Hemisphere.” : Senator John A. Danaher (R. Conn.), felt that “the steps (toward war) are getting faster and faster.” Senators Pat McCarran (D. Nev), Alva B. Adams (D. Colo.), "and Sheridan Downey (D. Cal), also opposed the proposals, which were supported by Senator Elbert D.

Thomas (D. Utah). :

Local Tool-Makers Now on Their Own Demonstrate the Spirit That Is America

right away, because Merz had come to Garfield asking the “partners to do the job, even before they had barely gotten machinery moved in. They'll need eight men to help them run machines when things get going full steam, and that’s the chief worry now. The critical shortage in this type of labor is well known.

“Guess we'll have to get some bright boys and try and teach them,” Mr. Hitch said. Mr. Hitch had finished filing a bearing and was wiping his hands while he looked over Mr. Waggoner’s shoulder to glance at the blueprint for the tank bearing his partner was studying. “This is a precision job,” Mr. Waggoner said. “Yep,” said Mr. Hitch. “I wish we could just get these machines all cleaned up so we can get going.” : The Garfield Tool and Engineering Co. is one of more than 100 such shops started on a shoestring that have sprung up in Indianapolis since the all-out defense program got under way last year.

The large factories have long been swamped with direct government defense. contracts and the government now depends on the small shops in all cities and towns throughout the country.

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Stopped in Tracks, Reds ‘Add; Nazi Baltic Advances Are Admitted.

MOSCOW, July 4 (U. P.)—Soviet infantry, tanks, planes and artillery ‘have smashed a German attempt to cross the Berezina River, 360 miles west of Moscow, and have killed or wounded thousands of German soldiers, a Russian war communique said today. Co-ordinated Soviet forces, the communique said, met the German assault head on and stopped it in its tracks. The German drive, it was said, was directed at the river fortifications commanding the highway extending east of Minsk to the Russian capital. Blt on the Baltic front, after days of inconclusive fighting, fresh German troops succeeded in storming across the Dvina River and at Jacobstadt, across the Lithuanian border in Latvia, the communique admitted, adding that there was no news from the Bessarabian and Finnish sectors.

. Thousands Left on Fields

In three great battles along the 1800-mile , front, the Russians claimed, thousands of German soldiers and machines were left lying on the field. The Communique said that fighting still was in progress in the Dvinsk, Bobruisk, Rowne, and Tarnopol areas as the Red Army took up new positions. (These positions presumably were along the so-called Stalin Line in the frontier regions of pre-war Russia, except on .the Berezina River where the advance German units had penetrated beyond Minsk.) ‘Meanwhile, a “trial” air alarm was sounded here at 1:45 a. m. and lasted 80 minutes. Sleepy Muscovites calmly took refuge in shelters, leaving the streets deserted save for air raid wardens and police. The communique told of “crushing blows” against the Germans in an all-day battle on the banks of the Berezina, and said violent fighting was in progress on two other sectors—in the Dvinsk area to the north, where the Germans are driving toward Leningrad, and around Tarnopol in the south on the Ukraine frontier.

“The battlefields,” according to the communique, “are strewn with thousands of German bodies, flaming tanks and crashed planes.”

Fighting Fiercely -

Soviet forces were fighting fiercely against large motorized units in all three battles, the High Command said, and “everywhere the Russians are stubbornly resisting with their air force and artillery.”

Infantry, tanks and artillery were engaged in the Berezina River fighting, and “the enemy suffered heavy casualties,” the communique said. “It was at the Berezina River that Napoleon met disaster in the retreat from Moscow 129 years ago. The Germans, after 13 days of

Appointed Dean

‘Dr. V. Dewey Annakin

Times Special

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 4— Dr. V. Dewey Annakin, a member of the Indiana State Teachers College faculty since 1926, has been named to succeed Dr. Frederick H. Weng as dean. Dr. Weng retired after 38 years of service, Dr. Annakin has been chairman of the faculty committee on student welfare and has been close to student problems. He was graduated from DePauw University in 1922, received his master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1923 and his Ph. D. degree from Ohio State University in 1940.

PRICE BOOST SEEN IN 6-STATE MILK STRIKE

EW YORK, July 4 (U, P.).—N. J. Cladakis, administrator of the New York metropolitan milk marketing area, today predicted sharp price increases in butter, milk and cheese as a result of the six-state strike called by the Dairy Farmers Union, Mr, Cladakis said that by Aug. 1 there probably would be a 1-cent-a-quart increase in the price of milk sold in stores and a half cent on delivered milk, that butter, now 46 cents a pound, may go as high as 60 cents by the end of the year and that the price of cheese products probably would rise in proportion.

war, the Soviet High Command said, had been forced to recognize the superiority of Russian heavy and medium tanks. “German tanks,” the communique said, “avoided direct combat.” The communique algo claimed that “the Soviet air fleet had the mastery.” Claiming success for more primitive arms, the High Command asserted “the enemy is unable to withstand the bayonet charges of our troops.” . The enemy everywhere is meeting the stubborn resistance of our troops, our devastating artillery fire and the crushing blows of the So-

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Important Soviet Points Seized With Germans, 1st Communique Says.

HELSINKI, July 4 (U. P.). ~The Finnish High Command in the first communique of the new . war said today that German and Finnish troops had crossed the Russian frontier in several places and had

Soviet side of the border.” “Everywhere the enemy was pre= vented from crossing ‘our frontier,” the communique said, adding that

cupied important points on the So viet side of the border,” “Since German and Finnish troops crossed the Eastern frontier,” the communique continued, advance has been systematic.” The High Command claimed htat 48 Russian airplanes had been shot down up to July 2 and added: “Our air defense protected railroad trafe fic and bombed enemy transport, trains, airdromes and highways.” The communique said an artillery duel was being fought between German-Finnish batteries ‘and So< viet guns on the Hango naval-air base 90 miles west of Helsinki. In the Finnish capital a steady roar was audible as the duel increased in intensity. . * Russian air activity over Finland continued and Helsinki had three alarms yesterday. Several other places also were bombed. The High Command said Finnish forces had reoccupied the Aaland Islands, demilitarized under the treaty with Russia, and that the Finnish fleet mined certain waters, One enemy submarine, the come munique said, “sank in our mine field.”

MRS. BARBARA PRICE DIES IN SHELBYVILLE

Mrs. Barbara Price died yestere day in her home in Shelbyville, She had been ill two years. Mrs, Price was born in Jasper in 1910. She had attended Central Business College in Indianapolis. Survivors are her husband, Wile liam Price; a son, L. Ray DeHoe Jr., both of Shelbyville; her mother, Mrs. Millard Sullivan; three sisters, . Mrs. Morris Reed, Shelbyville, Mrs, M. A. Knight, Washington, D. C, and Mrs. A. C. Neff, Indianapolis, and a brother, Lee Evans, Indian apolis. Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow at the Loren H, Murphy Puneral Home in Shelby« ville, with the Rev. R. Ford, pastor of the First Christian Church of Shelbyville, officiating.

Queen Esther Past Presidents Me¢et—Past presidents of Queen Esther Auxiliary, O. E. S,, will meet at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Maude Young, 121 S. Gladstone

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