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/ ‘WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1941

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“AXIS IN SHOWDOWN

Tremendous Events Foreshadowed in Orient by Tokyo Cabinet Crisis, With Future Policy Toward U. S. at Stake.

By H. 0. THOMPSON

United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 16.—The resignation of

J apan’s

Cabinet foreshadows big events in the Orient. From the complexion of the new Cabinet the world will learn what Japan’s future course will be—whether she is to throw the Far East into turmoil with some new expansion move or whether she will back away from her Axis ties.

The necessity for some action by Japan has been dictated by the development of foreign affairs and perhaps even more so by an extremely critical internal situation. ' The resignation appeared to be a repudiation of the policies of Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, who added the Russo-Japan neutrality pact to Japan’s three-power treaty with Germany and Italy. If Matsuoka is replaced by a moderate, Japan’s course will tend toward better relations with the United States. If an extremist takes over the foreign office, Japan may be expected to undertake some mili-

tary move in the south or perhaps against Russia.

Konoye Still Rates High

The talk in Tokyo when I left three weeks ago was that Ambassador Shigemitsu might be the next foreign minister. Shigemitsh, ambassador to Britain, now is aboard the Yauta Maru, which left San Francisco Saturday en route to Japan. Shigemitsu favors better relations between Japan and the democracies and would be expected to work toward that end if he received the foreign ministership. The position of Price Fumimaro Konoye, outgoing Prime Minister, is unaffected by the resignations. Konoye is well regarded by all circles in Japan and his withdrawal is an automatic function which follows Japanese tradition in shaping government policies.

Regardless of the. identity of the new premier, Konoye will continue to have.a big influence in Japan's affairs.

Hiranuma Likes Democracies

Baron Hiranuma, the outgoing home minister, may become the next prime minister. He has held the office previously, but without outstanding success.

His appointment at this time, however, would be extremely significant. I know from private sources that Hiranuma favors action by Japan which would lead to better relations with both the United States and Great Britain. He is not enthusiastic about the Axis tie-up.

Appointment of such a person as Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu either to the prime ministership or to the foreign ministership would show that the extremists have come to the front as a result of the RussoGerman war. Suetsugu is an active Fascist and favors any action against the democracies.

| Crisis Long Expected

The present crisis in Japan has been expected for several weeks. Actually, July 15 was named seveigl weeks ago as the date of the next critical period in the Far East.

At that time it was reported in Tokyo that the Japanese were planning. a “war of nerves” for midJuly with the center of operations ‘in French Indo-China, reaching out

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The author of the accompanying dispatch on the Japanese Cabinet resignation has just returned to the United States after more than four years as Tokyo manager of the United Press. In the tense months before the outbreak of the European war and through the first 22 months of that conflict - Mr. Thompson remained close to the Japanese Government. One of his most notable triumphs was his world scoop to ‘Tokyo's decision to join the Rome-Berlin Axis. His dispatch discloses that " even before he left Tokyo three weeks ago, a crisis in Japanese affairs was expected to develop by mid-July, with the development of a war of nerves against French Indo-China.

toward Siam. The activity was supposed to be a squeeze play and the hoped for results were to be French acquiescence to Japanese occupation of Cam Ranh Bay. Cam Ranh Bay is a great natural harbor which the Japanese would like to develop into a naval base which would threaten Singapore, Manila, and the East Indies, as well as enable Japan to control the adjacent waters and prevent any combination of British and American sea forces in that area.

U. S. PATIENCE WITH JAPAN SHORTENING

« By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER

WASHINGTON, July 16.—While Japan prepares for “action,” presumably the further invasion of all but helpless French Indo-China, American authorities prepare the counter measures that will almost surely follow a new Japanese act of

aggression, Patience in Washington .is getting shorter. Practically no one is now -impressed by Japanese threats or imagines that it will be possible to stand by with folded hands while Japan attacks our interests anywhere in the world. This is not taken to mean that this country intends to oblige -the Germans by entering a major war with Japan that would tie up the greater portion of our resources in the Pacific area. But there are numerous things that this country can do to Japan short of sending an air force to bomb and set fire to the Japanese cities, things and measures on the commercial plane. But they will hurt Japan almost, if not quite, as much as if they meant shooting. Washington is also studying Winston Churchill’s statement that Britain and Russia are now “allies.” The United ‘States. is not and probably never will become the ally of the Soviets, But if Japan, the ally of Germany, should attack Russia, the ally of Britain, and if Britain should be drawn into conflict with the Japanese as a consequence, it is hard te see how the United States, which is staking so much on a British victory, could remain aloof from the conflict, or .permit the Japanese to aid the Ger-

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It's Stupid s dfupid, The grizzled, rotund gentleman who resembled the bartender at the Shamrock Cafe was Robert J. Casey of the Indianapolis Times and the Chicago Daily News. He is the foreign correspondent whose photographic .descriptions of the war are running currently on Page One of Section

| Two.

Mr. Casey was sitting in the inner office of the Bobbs-Merrill

Publishing Co. here yesterday, supposedly making arrangements for the publication of his new book, “I Can’t Forget.” Actually, he was telling yarns as only this man can tell them, ; ‘ To find a reporter like Casey, you have to go back to the days of Richard Harding Davis and Lincoln Steffens. He is of their stature.’ Over a cup of coffee which he continually diluted with cold water, Casey talked. He talks as well as he writes, with that quick Irish wit, barbed with sarcasm sometimes.

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FIRST OF ALL, it should be explained that you don’t call ‘Casey “Mister” Casey. You may call him Mr. Robert J. Casey if you like in deference to his work. Otherwise, you call him Casey because he is one of the boys, even though beside: him you shrink maybe eight inches.

ECONOMY HURTS HEALTH SERVICE

Sanitary Inspection Force , No Longer Effective, Says Dr. Morgan.

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demned properties and the owners can rent them with impunity. In addition to the 13 sanitary inspectors, there are two restaurant inspectors whose job is to see that food is handled properly in 1000 Indianapolis eating places. In addition, these men investigate complaints continually. Although Indianapolis is one of the nation’s greatest meat centers, the City maintains only three meat inspectors and one chief inspector. The chief inspector receives $150 a month. The other three receive $24 a week each. Their task is to inspect all meat which does not come under the surveillance of Federal meat inspectors. This is chiefly meat consumed in Indianapolis. Last year, these four men inspected and stamped 314,000 carcasses. Dally, they make the rounds of 15 packing houses. While the food and meat inspectors’ work is specialized, the work of the sanitary inspector who roams the City is rarely routine.

Have Many Duties

When he reports for work in the morning, the inspector is given a list of overnight complaints to check in his district. Somebody has dumped in our alley, a septic tank has backed up, a householder fears that poison ivy is growing in his back yard or a neighborhood is being annoyed by packs of stray dogs. All day, the inspector carries out assignments from the Health Department, calling in every hour from the nearest pay station. But that is not all. He does yeoman services for the Police Department, the Fire Department and the City Collections Department. If the City dump is smoking, he must look at it. If some suburban

‘resident’s chickens annoy a neigh-

bor, the inspector is called to the scene. Sick rabbits, dogs, hogs, chickens or the sudden arrival of a swarm of blackbirds receive his attention. - Work Is Never Done

Constantly, he is sent to investigate complaints of working conditions. He must check ventilation, toilet facilities, washstands and general cleanliness. He must put up and take down contagious disease signs and check for outbreaks in his district. The sanitary inspector’s work is never done because he can’t do it all. Not if he has to patrol three and one-half square miles of territory every day on foot.

NEXT: Costs and Personnel.

FDR SPURNS LAWS, - BERLIN PAPER SAYS

BERLIN, July 16 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt is hard at work on “assembly-line violations of international law,” the newspaper B-Z Am Mittag said today. “The more clearly the fate of the Jew-Bolshevik clique in power in Moscow is depicted and the closer the hour of Churchil’'s England draws therewith, all the more Roosevelt is at work with assemblyline violations of international law,” the newspaper said. “He wants to shove the American people into war from behind their backs. His Jewish associates are plugging their friendships in Moscow with all of the means at their disposal, in which they find in Roosevelt a trail blazer of criminal unscrupulousness. . . .”

VERSAILLES SITE APPROVED

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WASHINGTON, July 16 (U. P.).— 7 ‘| Federal Works Administrator John

Casey wrote. his book on the. voyage home from Bombay to Trinidad, after 22 months chasing the war and arguing with censors over Europe, Asia and Africa. If was a long voyage, hence a long book. The book ‘would have been longer, for there is a great deal of the war and Casey in if, but when the President Hayes docked in Trinidad, Casey suddenly remembered something. Bobbs-Mer-rill, he thought, doesn’t like long books. His portable typewriter was in the middle of page 565 and he ended the book right there. The only thing the publishing house has found wrong with the book is Casey's typing. It seems that his portable was weak on the letter “e” after so much pounding, and the publishing house is now having quite a time with th manuscript. . » ” os

HE WANTED to call the book “Ain’t This One Hell of a Way to Run a Railroad,” but the company changed his mind. They said it would only have confused the public because most people would not have known what it meant. Actually, that phrase sums up what Casey thinks about this war. It comes from a newspaper yarn which was old when Casey entered the business 31 years ago. A witness was describing a railroad accident before the court. He related how he first saw a fast passenger train going east and

and the chance to earn a living far above the poor level of Macedonian peasants. : Shortly after he was 21, Mr. Palachoff first began work on his citizenship papers. When he had his second papers, a thief entered his home, and stole all his possessions, including his trunk which contained his papers and passports. Mr. Palachoff, forced to start all over again, was told that since he no longer had a passport he would have to prove he came from Europe on a regularly scheduled voyage. He had come on the Lusitania which had been sunk by that time and with her went all her papers. Set back again, he finally had P. G. Shaneff, who came from the same Macedonian village, to testify he had been on the same boat with Mr. Palachoff and the latter started his naturalization work all over. Mr. Palachoff got his citizenship papers, finally, just before the Independence Day celebration, this month, He was so happy he cried. He sent invitations out to all his friends and more than 300 came to his Guion Road home during the week-end to congratulate him. He entertained them in the basement

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then how he saw a fast freight going west. And then he realized both trains were on the same . track. : “What was your reaction?” asked the judge. ] “The first thing I thought,” replied the witness, “was ain't this one hell of a way to run a railroad?” That's the way Casey saw the

war, the stupidities of both sides,

Robert J. Casey . . . “Is this the way to run a war?”

‘Setbacks Spur Ambition To Win U. S. Citizenship

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where he has built a cool recreation room. They sang songs and admired Mr. Palachoff’s citizenship certificate. Some brought him “citizenship gifts.” Mr. Palachoff’s father-in-law, B. A. Branson, brought the Indian statuette and presented “the first American to the new American.”

Men from the Link-Belt Co. Dodge plant where Mr. Palachoff is a night foreman in the heat treat department, took up a collection and bought the best American flag they could find. When he received it, Mr. Palachoff choked up again. One of the men who works for him brought an ornamental hatchet of unknown date commemorating the inauguration of George Washington. Both Mr. and Mrs. Palachoff are proud of their home with its neatly trimmed lawn and carefully groomed trees and flowers. “In the old country, only a millionaire could have the things I have here,” Mr. Palachoff said. “I don’t think Boris has an enemy,” Mrs. Palachoff said. “I'm the happiest man in the world,” Mr. Palachoff said.

Marshals Start Indicted as

the defendants of organizing “union defense guards” to aid in overthrow of the Government. Among those indicted were Miles, Vincent and Grant Dunne, brothers, who led the union local out of the A. F. of L, into the C. I. O,, and who directed Minneapolis’ violent trucking strikes in 1934. Four national leaders of the Socialist Workers Party also were indicted. They are James Cannon, national president; Albert Goldman, New York attorney; Felix Morrow, editor of the party publication, the New Militant, and Farrell Dobbs, national secretary and former leader of Local 544. U. S. District Attorney Victor Anderson said they would be brought here from New York for arraignment. The’ trial will be held in U. S. District Court here next october. One of the three women indicted was Mrs. Grace Holmes Carlson, candidate for the U. S. Senate in the last general election and former employe in the Minnesota State Department of Education.

Goldman Charges Tobin

Caused Indictments

NEW YORK, July 16 (U. P.).— Albert Goldman, attorney for the Socialist Workers Party, charged today that political motives prompted Federal officials to obtain indict-

colleagues. He denied that the Trotskyite party advocates the overthrow of the Government as charged in the indictments returned by a Grand Jury in Minneapolis. He said Daniel J. Tobin of Indianapolis, president of the A. F. of L. teamsters’ union, had induced President Roosevelt to order the investigation which resulted in the indictments. “We contend that these indictments are the result of two things,” Goldman said. “First, President

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Roosevelt wants to repay Tobin for his support in the 1940 election. , , . “Second, the Roosevelt Administration knows that the Socialist Workers Party is opposed to the war from a principle point of view; that is, we take the position that the war on the part of Britain and the United States is an imperialistic war.”

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the blunders that wrecked France, the needless horror. It was an old war to him, He was in it 22 Yours ago, as a captain of the 124th Field Artillery from Southern Illinois. “When I came to England and had to pass the inspection -of officious looking fuddleheads who had been dentists the week before, I had that strange feeling that this is where I came in the last. time.”

FOR EIGHT MONTHS, Casey sat behind the Maginot fortifications during the sitzkrieg. When the Germans swept through the low countries, he went to Lisbon and flew to England. As the plane took off from Lisbon Casey knew a Nazi intelligence officer was telephoning its time of departure to someone who would make arrangements for a squadron of Messerschmitts to greet it over the Atlantic and shoot it out of the sky. “On that flight from Lisbon to London,” he related, “you chew the washers off your heart, but

HOOSIER GROUP OPPOSES BILL

Larrabee May Be Only Indianian to Back Longer Army Terms.

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of his opponents will be Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.). The view that the President and the Army knows best what steps should be taken for national defense at this time was expressed by Rep. Larrabee, the only man from Indiana with a record of 100 per

cent ‘support for the Administration’s defense program.

“If retaining the selective service men for another year is necessary to save our Army, as both the President and Gen. Marshall says it is, certainly I shall support it,” Rep. Larrabee declared.

Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind.) announced that the House Military Affairs Committee, of which he is a member, will hear Gen. Marshall on this subject next Tuesday. “The need for this move should be explained to both Congress and the people,” Rep. Harness said. “If it is great enough for Congress to declare an emergency, I might support it. But I do not think so and will not support a mere extension of time for the selective service men.” Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.), dean of the Hoosier G. O. P. delegation in the House, said that he will oppose it “unless there is strong evidence causing me to change my mind.” This view also was expressed by Rep. Louis Ludlow, dean of the Hoosier Democrats. Both voted against the draft and Rep. Halleck voted against calling out the National Guard.

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somehow that Clipper through.” He arrived in London the day before the Germans burned down the East End. Never in his experiences on the Western Front in the first war, he said, had he experienced such a bombing- as

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tember. ; From - England, Casey flew to Africa where he recorded the campaigns of Gen. Wavell. “I asked Wavell what he was going to do with Libya and East

Africa once he had it,” Casey re-

lated. “The old boy took the question, passed it around in that agile mind of his and replied: ‘After you Americans win a. football game what do you do with the stadium?’ ” ; One of the reasons Casey came home was his game leg. He got that as a remote result of the war, but Hitler is still responsible and Casey isn't forgetting it. The train was pulling into the station at Cairo, Egypt, and Casey was standing in the doorway when the air-raid sirens let go. Egyptians in the train scrambled to get outside and into shelters, and shoved Casey out of the car, He managed to hang on.to the door rails with his hands but his legs dangled over the side and were badly lacerated, nearly crushed. “It is,” said Casey, “great to be back. It is wonderful. It is so good to see all those pink garbage cans and those slums.”

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