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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 132

TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1941

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G.O.P. Leader In House Supports Draft Extension Measure

What Mein Kampf Means to America

So Mad Is Hitler That He Covets the Planet

Fuehrer's Ambitions Are Limitless, Hackett Says, Pointing Out Passage Terming U. S. 'Supreme Enemy’

Mein Kampf is the accepted bible of German National Socialism, the frenzied outpouring of wild political philosophy having for its goal the domination of an entire world by the Nazi “race.” The Times

today publishes the second installment of Francis Hackett's powerful |

exposure of Hitler's fanatic purposes. By FRANCIS HACKETT

Hitler must be classed as an adventurer, but at the core of him coils his fanatical Germanism. Fabulous as it sounds, it is the faith he lives by, the faith he has breathed into Naziism, the faith he kills for, the faith for which he risks the future of the German people. It began as “national self-preservation and freedom,” but, by very reason of self- |

sufficiency, it arouses ‘the |! hatred of all enemies.” This, KNOX ACTS T0

by inevitable law, has turned Germany’s hand against the whole world, and forced it to make an Considers Offer to Take Over Plant as Defense Strikes Spread.

Mr. Hackett

ethic of race prejudice. in Mein Kampf, he declares flatly that Germany “cannot grant the right of existence to an ethical ; » By UNITED PRESS idea, if this : , Strikes threatened production of idea repreée- ‘materials and weapons for all sents a danger | f5r the racial : {branches of the armed forces today. jife Of thE | As Secretary of the Navy Frank } 2 jroo tok 4 Avision (Knox conferred with L. H. Kornv ethics; for in a hybridize ; ; rrofied world ee oncep- dorfl, president of the Federal Shipof the humanly beautiful building and Drydock Co. upon a tlime, as well as all con- [proposal that the Navy take over of an idealized future |the company’s strike-bound Kearny, mankind, would be lost |N. J, plant, a walkout of 800 A. F. |of L. laborers stopped work on a 1$4,500,000 naval expansion program 'at Portsmouth, N. H. T'mion officials, who said the srs were demanding 12'%-cent © wage increases to 75 cents, ~ ed the strike might spread at Portsmouth. Other Plants Idle

this world, culture and ion are inseparably bound © ..h the existence of the His dying-off or his dewould again lower upon this the dark veil of a time (Page 581.)

1 h wut culture? {s this mere mouthing? Is this | the rant of a demagog? = You | have not quite understood Hitler |

iF ; the mad | fense labor front included: DE | 1. At Allentown, Pa, 4700 memSo mad is it, in fact that Hitler (bers of the United Sutamibie looks forward to the day, not {Workers (C. I. O.) halted work to

when the interests of Germany bolster demands that the Mack

are in the hands of the master Manufacturing Co. make race, but—and here you may prepare for a shock—the interests of the planet. He consults astrologers, and on Page 581 he adumbrates. the necessity of conquering the globe so that the master race can be ready for

Aug. 8 instead of Aug. 16. Nearly fense materials, trucks for Army and transmission parts for tanks for the United States and Canada. 2. At Cleveland, three men were

Other developments on the de-|

recent wage 1eclassifications retroactive to

all of the company's output is de-| the |

COUNTY'S LATE CORN ‘ALMOST TOTALLY’ LOST

Fields Planted Earlier Not | So Hard Hit: ‘Cooler’ Is Forecast.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES MN .. 96 . 93

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The late corn is almost a total

loss and unless considerable rain

(comes within the next two weeks {none of the damage to the bulk of |the crop can be repaired, Horace E. | Abbott, Marion County Agricultural] Agent, said today. | Other weather and crop developments were: | | 1. The “low” of 75 degrees last {night made it the hottest night this month. 2. The Weather Bureau predicted cloudy and cooler weather for to-! {day and tomorrow—but no rain. 3. It rained a little about 2:30 a. m, today—a total of .01 of an inch which the Weather Bureau lsaid is “enough to wet the side-

Michael, You Were Lucky

Baby Michael . . . how will he get around now? He Escaped Injury but His Walker Didn't and He's Cross

walk.” | 4. Indianapolis has had only .07 fof an inch of rain so far this | month, a deficiency of more than i 1.2. 5. The U. S. Department of Agriculture forecast a corn crop of 181,102,000 bushels of corn—46 to the acre—for Indiana this year as compared with 145,669,000 harvested last year.

Early Corn Undamaged

However, M. M. Justin of Purdue University, who helps with the estimates, said the corn forecast would “undoubtedly be reduced”| unless heavy rains fall soon. Another estimate is to be made the middle of the month. Regarding Marion County's critical corn situation, Mr. Abbott said only very early planted corn escaped damage while the late crop | —a small percentage of the total— was almost a total loss. The biggest part of the crop has! been damaged to varying degrees | with the possibility that the crop | might be helped some if rain is | forthcoming soon, according to Mr. Abbott, However, he said this help must come within 10 days or two weeks. | Breaks Record for Day

boost the mercury to 99 degrees

other worlds to conquer. His plan for conquering the earth is to be ready for extraplanetary

enemies, ”

Visions Higher Breeding

THIS PLAN, he declares, after invoking God, “corresponds to the innermost will of nature, as nature restores that free play of the forces which is bound to lead to a permanent mutual higher breeding, until finally the best of mankind, having acquired possession of this earth, is given a free road for activity in domains which will lie partly above, partly outside it.” (Page 581.) He means, this madman, a war with another planet. “We all sense that in the distant future problems could approach man for the conquest of which only a highest race, as the master nation, based upon the means and “Yossibilities of an entire globe, will be called upon.” (Page 581.) On this page we are dealing with a fantast. The globe mobilized, for what? Another conquest, a further aggression, out in the blue! Here we may ponder the treachery to mankind that Hitler really perceives in any low earth bound democracy. America, in particular, is culp-

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reported to have suffered slight in-| yesterday added to the crop dam- | juries in picket-line disorders for|age. Mr. Abbott said some vegeta|the second consecutive day at the|tion in the county has become dried Lamson & Sessions Co., where 585|and cracked even before it turned {C. I. O. automobile and aircraft|brown, an unusual phenomenon. | workers are on strike. Members of| Yesterday's 99 broke the all-time (an independent union attempted to| Aug. 11 record of 95 set in 1874, pass C. I. O. picket lines today to and was one degree below the seaenter the plant, which has orders| son's record. for smell aircraft parts. Miss Betty Jo Stevens, 18, of 3428 3. About 4000 members of both | N. Kenwood Ave. was overcome by A. F. of L. and C. I. O. textile work-| the heat yesterday afternoon at | ers unions were idle at the Arling- 38th St. and Fall Creek Blvd. [ton Mills at Lawrence, Mass. An rE eee eet | A. F. of L. spokesman said only 400] | workers in two departments were on! | strike for higher wages, but other | operations were halted by lack of (Continued on Page Five)

Governor's Plane To Be Auctioned

REGISTRATION LAW a | plane frequently, but it has been | in Mississippi for some time. And |

‘Gates Calls Conference to Governor Schricker doesn't want | [{ t it, anyway. Draft Plans. a

So he asked Mr. James to sell | : it to the highest bidder over the Ralph Gates, Republican State chairman, today called a confer-

plane’s appraised value of $7000. | lence for Thursday, Aug. 21, to plan

[steps contesting the Lake to plan wi | KIE RETURNS T0

{Superior Court order restraining]

When You're Only 7 Months and Your Favorite Toy’s Broken and You're Cutting a Tooth You're Not Happy. Michael Ryan, age 7 months. who narrowly escaped injury under

the wheels of an automobile last night, wasn't feeling up to par today. He was definitely . cross.

First of all, he was cutting a tooth and feeling sensitive about it. fact that his walker got all smashed up in the accident last night. The narrowness of his escape ap-| parently was the only thing that] didn't bother Baby Michael at a. MAYORS TOLD T0 PUT But it certainly frightened his par-| 1128 S. Senate Ave. | Saved by Sister, 10 And his sister Ellen, 10, was sO though it was she who pulled nim | 18X Board Acts Because of from under the approaching wheels| : : nes Election Law Dispute. Cecille, 5. were wheeling Baby| AS a safety measure, the State and Morris St. when the car ap- all Indiana cities to include the peared out of a driveway. expenses of city elections in their It was so sudden, the girls didn 1942 budgets. cept that the car was backing into them. It hit the walker overturn- such procedure would be wise since ing it and Baby Michael into the ;; jo jice1v that the skip-election

Then, it was hot. But the biggest reason for his displeasure was the ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ryan “VOTE COST IN BUDGET frightened she felt ill today, al-| hon Ellen and Michael's other sister, Michael along at S. Senate Ave.|Tax Board today advised mayors of know quite what was happening exdirt

| The hot, dry winds which helped | As the baby lay in the path of [l1aw, which changed the election

the car bewildered, Ellen had the|date in all cities except Indianapolis

quick presence of mind to snatch|from 1942 to 1943, may be tested in him up. Then the car stopped. the courts

Cecille Is Hurt “ Yo a : There was Ellen holding Baby We do not need to indicate in

Michael in her arms, trembling. And |any respect what the final decision Cecille was holding her right arm | concerning the skip-election law which had been hurt. And then the|,,,y pe, but we believe the safe i ang 10 in) S00ne or procedure to follow would be to inBas Fowler, 27. of 308 W. Mor- clude the election expenses in the me new budget,” Henry S. Murray,

ris St. . ; ; > And today everything was nearly Soar) chairman, Wrole. .10: dhe

back to normal at the Ryan home. i i “is te ichael| He pointed out that if a decision Beep, Of cope, Baby Micha is reached prior to the final adogaround with his walker all busted |S not to be held next year, then A suit seeking to clarify the proKILLED IN ENGLAND 2, boca to be filed here soon by Tha Royal Air Porge forty Com" | Indianapolis from its provisions and were killed, in a flying accident in|laWw under details of the crash, the type of | to whether Indianapolis can have

‘asn’t his self. ! 0 WAN his junval 79) a fella get tion of the budgets a city election up? this appropriation and levy can be ® mrEmew es: |StTickER out, 7 AMERICAN AIRMEN |visions of the skip-election law as it pertains to Indianapolis is __| the Marion County G. O. P. MONTREAL, Aug. 12 (U. PJ. | The new law excepts the City of mand today announced that 22 air-| ; JD : ; “ {then repeals in entirety the 1933 men, including seven Americans, Yn fie Indbnapois Great Britain Aug. 9. |election was to have been held next The announcement did not give | Vear, thus making it uncertain as plane involved, or the operations in any City election until a Legislawhich it was engaged. ture passes another law.

EXPECT FINAL VOTE ON BILL BEFORE NIGHT

Point to Nazi Activities In South America as Peril to U. S.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U. P). — The Administration's military service extension resolution won a measure of bi-partisan support in the House today as Rep. Walter G. Andrews of New York, ranking Republican member of the Military Affairs Committee, said it was necessary in view of the critical international situation. Rep. Andrews came to the support of the extension resolution during the concluding debate as Administration leaders prepared to bring it to a final vote before night. The extension still faced substantial opposition, but the leaders hoped to obtain at least 18month extension of the one-year terms of selectees, National Guardsmen and reservists. The 18-month extension was passed by the Senate as a compromise instead of the original ‘ measure for an unlimited extension. After general debate was concluded, Republican opponents of the resolution, led by Rep. Dewey Short (R. Mo.), proposed the first of a series of drastic restricting amendments. Rep. Shorts first amendment would strike from the resolution the section declaring the national interest imperilled and would prevent ‘retention of any selectees beyond their original one -year terms, Galleries Are Packed

The galleries were packed by the largest attendance since enactment of the lend-lease bill. Rep. Ewing Thomason (D Tex.), ranking Democrat on the Military Committee, followed Andrews with a prediction that Russia will fall to the German army and added that he feared also for Britain. “If England falls,” he said, “There's not a man on this floor who doesn’t know who's next on the list.” Mr. Andrews had told the House, which assembled two hours earlier than usual, that America cannot relax her defenses at a time when Japan’s position is “doubtful” and the “Nazis are literally raising hell in South America.”

The State Board pointed out that |

He named Argentina and Colom|bia as two South American nations {where Nazi activity is intense. Ger-

ico and near the Panama Canal, he added. Rep. Thomason said Rep. Andrews hadn't “told the half about South America.”

Nazis Ahead of Schedule

He said he could not disclose what happened in executive sessions, but if members of the House had kept abreast of affairs they would know that: “There are 200 German schools in Argentina. “There are 1.200,000 Germans in

trained military units. “Germany has established numerous air bases in South America, some within striking distance of Panama.”

ahead of his schedule. In less than four years he has conquered 13 countries and dominated 200,000,000 people. All Europe is in bondage.

Milliens in Bondage

“If Hitler conquers England, he will have subjugated 1,500,000,000 of the less than 2,000,000,000 on the

man agents also are active in Mex- |

BRITISH,

Japan Warned on T

United Press For

in Russia today, Great Britai and Japan maneuvered in the

A steady, co-ordinated R

raids of the war. American-built planes le

CREDIT BUYING T0 BE CURBED

Reserve Board to Restrict Bank Loans, Tighten Private Terms.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U.P). —The Federal Reserve Board today drafted regulations restricting installment purchases of automobiles, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and other durable goods. President Roosevelt ordered a curb on the $7,000,000,000 a year credit business to halt inflationary trends and lessen the demand for merchandise absorbing materials needed for defense production. The regulations, which involve re-

strictions on bank loans to financing companies and tighter terms for time payments, will be discussed when the Board meets with representatives of financial institutions | here Thursday and Friday. Promul|gation is expected shortly there- | after. Contracts for time-payment purchases signed prior to promulgation of the regulations will not be affected. Neither will the so-called

AERIAL ‘PINCERS’ CLOSE ON GERMANY |

SOVIET

UNITE IN RAIDS; NAZIS GAIN SEA

Darlan Given Napoleon-Like Power in Vichy;

hailand but Objects

To U. S. Vladivostok Shipments.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS

eign News Editor

Germany claimed a break-through to the Black Sea

n and the Soviet Union come

bined in a “pincers” air attack upon the Reich, and France

world-wide war of nerves. . A. F.-Red Air Fleet assault

against Germany appeared to be gaining intensity as thé British smashed at Cologne in one of the heaviest daylight

d the British attack, which

was “non-stop” in Occupied France today from Calais to (Dunkirk and followed night

raids on Western German and Dutch targets.

| It was understood that hig Flys

ling Fortresses from the United

| States soon would be used in strate I osphere raids on the German capi= | tal. | Russia bombed Berlin for the (fourth time in five nights. Other Soviet attacks were made on Easte ern Germany,

Aimed at Breaking Morale

As usual Berlin atempted to mine imize the importance of the raid and to counteract it with news of the Luftwaffe raid on Moscow last |night—the 17th: in 21 nights. Britain and Russia believed, how= ever, that a co-ordinated bombing attack upon Germany—keeping Germans out of bed and in un=comfortable raid shelters—would do much to break German morale and industrial efficiency.

The main theaters of military and diplomatic maneuvering included:

RUSSIA—The claim that German

forces had reached the Black Sea —and threatened to deprive Russia of that part of its “breadbasket” in the Dnieper River bend—was made by a military spokesman. The High Command made no specific claims of gains in the third offensive against the Red Army, |DNB dispatches told of a vincers [movement against both Kiev and | Odessa. | Moscow reported heavy fighting lon the Ukraine and Leningrad

lopen book accounts, such as the|fronts, where no change in general {housewife maintains at the gro- positions was reported, but heard

Brazil, many in crgamzed and well-+

“Hitler,” Rep. Thomason said, “is,

{cery or department store, for the | present. | Chairman Marriner Eccles of the {Board said that residential buildling and durable goods bought for | production purposes, such as farm { (Continued on Page Five)

KNOX AND. STIMSON CONFER WITH HULL

Silent on Discussion; New Vichy, Jap Crisis Feared.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 12 (U.P.).— Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox conferred briefly today with Secre-

that the Nazis had been pushed {back on the Smolensk sector de- | fending Moscow,

FRANCE—Power as great as any figure in French history since Nae poleon was given to Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan in a new decree giving him complete control of all the armed forces of Unoccupied France and the Empire, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain meanwhile was authorized to announce social and economic reforms (including wage increases) to the nation.

The Vichy action was explained officially as designed to ‘“synchroe nize” military forces with the pow litical leadership. It appeared to give anti-British Darlan increased power over Gen. Maxime Weygand’s forces in North Africa, which have been viewed in friendly fashion by London in the past, but at the

face of the earth.”

tees was “the very thing that Hitler | and the Japanese would want.” |

tary of State Cordell Hull. None of |

der discussion. | The morning conierence followed |

same time the Petain-Darlan ree gime still was far from meeting

He said that discharge of selec- | the officials indicated the topics un- the demands of the pro-German

press in Paris.

Questions of French colonial

“We are living in the most fright-| receipt of news dispatches here bases, needed by the Axis powers,

ful crisis that has ever faced this|which some authorities regarded as remained open, with the Vichy ree

nation,” he added.

indicating a quickening of the| crisis both in the western Pacific |

area. These dispatches concerned Jap- |

gime ostensibly pledged to defend African ports such as Dakar against

fand in the Mediterranean-African any aggressor.

Veterinarian Honored for Flu Research; |

FAR EAST Japan made clear

|anese opposition to American sup- |through official spokesmen her ope |plies to the Soviet Union through Position to plans for shipment of | the Pacific port of Vladivostok and American war supplies across the | realignments in the Vichy Govern- [Pacific to Vladivostok and the Brite ment giving Admiral Jean Francois |ish were understood to have told

able. What master race does it serve? “The quality of a state can primarily only be decided by the relative profit which it has

{enforcement of the 1941 voter regis- |

orcen NEW YORK TONIGHT [tration law.

Asked to attend were the Repub- | RUSHVILLE, Ind, Aug. 12 (U. {lican county committee chairmen |P.).—Wendell L. Willkie, who has}

National Association Votes Fellowships

for a certain nationality and by no means by the importance which it has as such in the world.” (Page 597.) America does not “certain nationality.” its instinct for race. Apd this makes it a supreme enemy. = = 4

We're ‘Uneducated’

Because it is so “uncivilized” and so “uneducated,” the central race doctrine of Mein Kampf has been contemptuousiy dismissed by many readers, and it is indeed arduous to follow it from its emotional beginnings to the signs of madness on Page 581. Yet this madness has terrible method in it. Most of us would ignore a cannibal who found means of delectation on a coral island in the Pacific. But what of eighty million adherents of this enthusiast, armed to their pointed teeth? What of their design for deminating the globe, in the name of (Continued on Page Five)

profit a

lof the seven counties affected— been vacationing at the home of | Marion, Lake, Vigo, Vanderburg, | his mother-in-law here for the past |

|Allen, St. Joe and Madison, and|two weeks, will leave tonight by

It has lost |

{the Republican mayors in those! | counties. | The mayors are Harry Baals, Ft.| | Wayne; James McNamara, Whiting; Dr. Edward Schaible, Gary; George Bonham, Elwood, and H. E. DeMoss, Alexandria. | The law involved removes regis- | (tration from the hands of county clerks and gives it to a new two‘man registration board comprised {of one Democrat and one Republican named by the Circuit Court {judge on nomination of their respective party chairmen. | The order restraining enforcement of the act in the seven coun\des was issued by Superior Court |Judge Bertram Jenkins in Lake County. Subsequently, the case was |venued to the Jasper Circuit Court where it now is pending. | Attending the conference, Mr. | Gates said, will be Frank Greenwood, Gary attorney representing G. 9 P. interests in the case.

| would increase his holdings in Rush

i train for New York to resume law] practice. The 1940 G. O. P. Presidential nominee hoped to complete pur-| chase of an 80-acre farm in Rush | County before his departure. The farm adjoins his present property and acquisition of the property

County to six farms with a total of 1445 acres. :

LEGLESS ACE MISSING

LONDON, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Wing Command “Douglas Bader, legless Canadian ace of the Royal Air Force's All-Canadian Squadron, is missing, it was reported today. Bader, who lost his legs two years ago and learned to use artificial legs, ranks among the top 10 of Britain's war aces. Acting Flight Lieut. Eric Stanley Lock, 21, also was reported missing. He, too, is ¥ famous Brilishy ace

Dr. Adolph Eichhorn, a Hun-garian-born veterinary scientist whose research on the similarity of canine distemper and human influenza virus may lead to influenza immunity for humans, today received the 12th International Veterinary Congress prize here. A member of the U. S. Bureau of § Animal Industry, Dr. Eichhorn re- | ceived the medal for his research & work at the opening session of the § 78th annual convention of the &= American Veterinary Medical Asso= ciation at the Murat Temple. The four-day convention was opened at 10 a. m. today with an § address of welcome by Governor Schricker. “American health and vitality, propelled by the ideas generated in such voluntary meetings of science and industry as this you are beginning today, must carry our nation through this test and the greater one to follow,” Governor Schricker said. “Only the most p science, government a,

Dr. Adoiph Eichhorn . . . his discovery may conquer flu,

ressive of statesmansy

ship will meet and overcome the | days that will follow the war.” The response for the Association | was by A. E. Cameron, director gen-| eral, Health of Animals Division, Dominion Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada. Mrs. William Moore, president of the Women’s Auxiliary, also spoke. Dr. I. E. Newsom, chairman of the executive board, presented a certificate to President A. E. Wight a gold key to President-elect Harry W. Jakeman and the 12th International Veterinary Congress prize to Dr. Eichhorn. A Pan-American Congress of Veterinarians uniting South and North America was suggested by Dr. Wight. Pointing out that the work of the veterinary profession in assuring sanitary supplies of meat and dairy products has done much to safeguard public health in this country, he said the experience and advice of U. S. veterinarians would be of immense value to our neighbors to the south. On the program for this afternoon (Continued of Page Five),

Darlan, who is unfriendly to Britain, full charge of France's armed forces. None of the conferees in Mr. Hull's office nor any of their assistants would comment on whether these news events had any bearing on the meeting. Other responsible Government officials, however, foresaw renewed strain on Franco-American relations as a result of the Vichy decision to vest supreme military power in Darlan. They regarded this development as indicative that Vichy was ready for closer collaboration with Germany even at the risk of worsening relations with the United States.

BOMB? NO, JUST SPARKS

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12 (U. P)). —The clock-like precision of a noise from a metal box caused a bomb scare at the E. G. Budd Manufacturing Co. plant today, but it later] turned out to be sparks from a| short-circuited battery in an electrician’s kit, 4

Tokyo that any Japanese move against Thailand would “be regarded as a threat to Singapore. Speedy delivery of 600 American “blitz buge gies” to the Dutch East Indies was indicated following a visit by Brig, Gen. H. B. Clagget of the U. S. Air Force to Bandoeng.

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