Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1941 — Page 3

FRIDAY, AUG. 29, 1941

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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) Sayeth Ye Shah of Iran: ‘Let Us Drink to Our British and Our Russian Brothers’

By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER

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"fetter from Japanese Premier Prince

Tragicomedy in Two Scenes.

SC PLACE—Tehran TIME—Sometime About

MW Copyright. 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—

“The Peace of Iran”—A

ENE I

(Capital of Iran) the Beginning of August.

SHAH RIZA KHAN PAHLEVI (to his Prime Minister)—Vizier, the winds from the south and from the north have an evil smell. I fear me, this world-wide calamity will soon be impinging upon our own Iran.

VIZIER: Bu to any occasion

t your Luminosity’s wisdom is equal and your valor is superior to none.

Can your Luminosity not give the tender quarters of those advancing infidels the Royal boot, which it

is customary to subjects? SHAH:

for the Iranians.

My boot is indeed a cure-all.

implant upon our own misguided

But only Directed against these modern

iron chariots, my august foot and not the chariots

would suffer.

No, against the Cossacks and the

iron cavalry of Britain, we are helpless.

VIZIER: Woe is me! that you have so manfully striven to modernize Iran

Riza Pahlevi

Luminosity, is it for this

and make it over in your image? Must we, indeed,

.. 8pply ashes to our dandruff?

U.D.-TOKYO PEACE HOPE BRIGHTENING

Chances Are Best in Several Years, but Japan Must Make a Lot of Changes—Quit Axis, Leave China; Maybe Manchukuo and Indo-China Can Be Kept.

By EDGAR AN Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Ti

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29

SEL MOWRER mes and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

.—Chances of a real peace be-

tween Japan and the United States are brighter than they have been for several years, according to authoritative

sources here.

But Japan will have to take several reefs in its ambition before any such peace can actually be reached. Peace can be brought about only upon a just basis, with no sacrifice of any friends of the United States.

And it is the American administration that will de-

cide what is just. Therefore, although the personal

Fumimaro Konove to President Roosevelt, expressing the hope that settlement of differences would soon be reached (a letter that some attribute to the Emperor of Japan himself), brings satisfaction here, it is considered the beginning and not the end of a serious negotiation, supposing the Japanese desire any. The Americans, the Russians, the British and Great Britain's allies, the Dutch, have all informed the Japanese that their career of easy aggression is about over. If the Japanese rush into Thailand or into Siberia or interfere with war supplies in transit to Russia, it will mean war. What Japan Must Deo

If the Japanese want peace with these countries, they will have to go even further: They will have to get out of the Axis, cease co-oper-ating with Hitler, move out of all of China, and generally begin to behave in a truly neutral manner. If they do this, they will receive American assistance in becoming a very rich nation, benefiting by numerous economic concessions and favors. In addition, this writer guspects, small objection would be Faised to their keeping Manchukuo and even Indo-China, whose former French owners claim to have turned it over “voluntarily” to Japan. A theory current here is that Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Japanese Ambassador to Washington, and his chief, Premier Prince Konoye, understand that the mass of Americans are fed up with Japanese provocation and will accept conflict with Japan far more readily than with Germany. Therefore they desire peace. It is also possible that Hitler, fearing the United Stdtes could slide into the war against him through the back door, has asked the Japanese to mollify American public opinion even at cost of sacrifices, sacrifices which Germany will be glad to make up after its expected victory. It is also possible that the Japanese are anxious merely to gain time by endless talk, the greater part of the American fleet mean-

PACIFIC PEACE IS TOKYO GOAL

Adjustment of Delicate Relations With U. S.

Held Necessary.

TOKYO, Aug. 29 (U. P).—The official Domei news agency said today that Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoyve had opened negotiations with the United States because adjustment of delicate American-Jap-anese relations is necessary to “usher in a permanent peace in the Pacific.” Domei said that Konoye’s message to President Roosevelt had resulted directly from the outbreak of hostilities between Germany and the Soviet, which had “complicated” the international situation and required an adjustment of AmericanJapanese relations. The Domei statement was made as the Cabinet met in emergency session to consider the new Jap-anese-American negotiations which were said b ya government statement to be concerned with examining “the cause of trouble in the delicate situation between Japan and the United States.” It was said that Konoye's message outlined the attitude of the Imperial Government toward the Pacific situation and attempts to analyze the causes of tension between Japan and the United States.

meeting between the President and

the Cabinet by Taro Terasaki, director of the American bureau of the Foreign Office. Other experts present at Cabinet session were Maj.

the

tary affairs bureau of the War Of-

Oka, direstor of the navel affairs bureau.

spokesman, said the question of United States shipments through Japanese-controlled waters to the Russian port of Vladivostok was among the topics discussed by Mr. Roosvelt and Nomura. The stock market reacted to the possibility that Japanese-American

while remaining immobilized in the ®acific Ocean.

tension might be relaxed and securities advanced.

The Kocnoye message and the B

the Ambassador were described to|g

Gen. | ype Akira Muto, director of the mili-| Mobile, Ala

fice, and Read Admiral Takasumi|Om

Iichi Kichi, deputy Government 2

SHAH: No, for where the valor reaches not, cunning may find

its way. I have a plan.

VIZIER: I knew that the Light of Heaven could not fail.

to your servant.

Speak

SHAH: Shortly, subject, Cossacks and Britons will ask me to

send away my obedient Teutons.

It is true they are double-tongued;

none can deny they serve their master, Adolf, the Scourge of Judah,

better than they serve me. But

they have a short, effective way

with my subjects which pleases me and none can say that their voices are not loud. Willingly would I keep them with me, though heaven save us from the visit of their master, Adolf.

VIZIER: Oh, calamity! SHAH: Say not so. I shall

now depart me to a rose garden

hard on the Turkish border and dally there and leave matters in your

competent hands. find you out. ® = 2 VIZIER: Luminosity .. .

And see to it that you succeed, or the boot will

SHAH: Silence. When the emissaries of Moscow and of London shall seek you out, demanding the expulsion of the Teutons, say no

firmly but not too loudly. Maybe they will accept your refusal. VIZIER: And if not?

their hearts will ‘turn to water and

Maybe they will not. . . . Am I to be bombed by steel falcons, my

house set ablaze by some shrieking salamander?

SHAH: Silence, worm!

If these foreigners do not weaken, if

they set in motion their great military establishments, if the Scourge of Judah tarry with the Muscovite, then and then only, I shall return

. and all will be well.

Veterans Miss Parade

They pay respects to the uniform and to the flag,

These two

wounded war veterans couldn't march in the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention parade at Philadelphia Tuesday, but their loyalty is

unquestioned.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair warmer tonight and tomorrow.

and

(Central Standard Time) Sunrise ..... 3:09 | Sunset ....... 6:22 TEMPERATURE —Aug. 29, 1940—

ProoPaon 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST bi Indiana—Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer tomorrow and ‘in north portion tonight. Iinois—Fair tonight and tomorrow, except variable. cloudiness near Ohio river; warmer tomorrow and in northeast portion tonight. Lower Michigan—Fair In south portion, partly cloudy in north with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; warmer in north portion tonight. Ohio—Fair and not so cool tonight; tomorrow considerable cloudiness and somewhat warmer with likelihood of scattered showers. Kentucky—Considerable cloudiness, somewhat higher temperature with scattered thundershowers in southwest portion this afternoon and early tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy and somew at warmer with scattered showers and thunderstorms.

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DEFY HENDERSON ON GAS

PHILADELPHTA, Aug. 29 (U —Gasoline prices went up to oa — 195 cents in the Philadelphia area after a stormy meeting of the associated gasoline retailers at which the price administration's 185 “fair maximum price” was shouted down.

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record County City Total 36 50 86

Arrests THURSDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Violations view Hy Speeding Reckless driving. 8 4 Failure to stop at through street. 35 ise tune traffic

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ALLIES KEEP UP MARCH IN IRAN

To Cease Firing; British Fear Sabotage.

LONDON, Aug. 29 (U. P.).—British official sources confirmed today that the Shah of Iran had ordered his forces to cease hostilities but information as to whether British occupation of strategic objectives would continue was refused. “That has ceased to be a military question,” authoritative quarters said. “It is a matter of foreign policy.” Announcement that the Shah had issued a “cease firing” order was issued at British general headquarters in Simla, India. “Iranian envoys met our forward troops with this information of the cease firing order,” it was announced. Despite official reluctance to discuss plans for Iran it was believed that Russian and British Imperial forces, fearful of Nazi sabotage, would continue to march into new areas pending further agreements in Tehran. The Russians marched into Bandar Shah, at the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea, and nearby Gurgan, on the Gurgan River; Mianeh, 90 miles southeast of Tabriz; Maragheh, near the east shore of Lake Urmia, and Urmia, near the west shore. British forces which had stormed the important Pa-I-Taq pass, moved on to occupy Karind and Shahabad in the western area opposite the Baghdad zone. In the south, the British troops coming up the Karun

‘| River reached Ahway.

Britons were enthusiastic over the sudden end of the fighting, minor as it had been, with the resignation of what had been regarded as a pro-German Iranian cabinet.

Stores Go on Winter Hours

Most downtown stores will resume their fall and winter schedules tomorrow, remaining open until at least 5:30 p. m, the Merchants Association announced today.

Shah Orders Persian Troops

(Interval during which all passes as the Shah in his infinite wisdom has foreseen. The Briton and the Muscovite are not satisfied. The Scourge of Judah lingers, caught in the marshes of Pinsk. The steel tortoises and shrieking, flying falcons tear into Iran from the Eleven Iranians are killed doing their

north and from the south.

SHAH: Gentlemen, may Heaven bless you, myself I have just returned. But what is this anger on your noble faces? What are these tales of strong men and arms? Why are your armies entering my peaceful pastures?

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duty—and the Pride of Heaven lingers in his retreat hard by Turkey.

Then +.)

SCENE II PLACE—Same as Scene I. TIME—The End of August. (Enter the Shah, his clothes gray" with the dust kicked up by his

Rolls-Royce.) SHAH: Vizier!

merchants!

SHAH: Silence! (to himself): has come to save Iran. Russian emissaries!

(A curtain is drawn aside.

2-MONTH SIEGE TAKES TALLINN

Esthonian Capital Captured; Nazis Within 30 Miles Of Leningrad.

BERLIN, Aug. 29 (U. P).—German land, sea and air forces were reported officially today to have captured the Esthonian cities of Tallinn and Paldiski and fought closer to Leningrad by smashing strong Red Army positions south of the city and crossing at many points the rail line to Moscow. In an important advance on the front between Narva and Lugs, which lies southwest and south of Leningrad, the official news agency reported that German forces had reached objectives at all points and taken about 5000 prisoners. The Russian reinforcements failed and the Germans crossed the Len-ingrad-Moscow railroad at unspecified points, presumably pressing eastward for a gain of some 40 miles from the Novgorod sector. Ships Reported Destroyed The cutting of the railroad, if confirmed, would be one of the heaviest blows yet struck on the northern front as it would mean the breaking of the direct link between the capital and Russia's second city, and thus advance what Nazis claim is already a virtual encirclement of the former Czarist capital. The official agency said that all efforts of the Russians to rally air and land forces in defense of Leningrad had failed. The two Esthonian cities had been cut off from Russia by land almost since the beginning of the war. Nineteen transports filled with Russian troops and equipment, one destroyer and nine other Russian war vessels were sunk in the Tal. linn engagement, the Communique asserted. In the Tallinn fighting the Russian 8800-ton cruiser Kirov, one destroyer and five other Russian naval vessels were severely damaged, the High Command said. At some points German troops are within 30 miles of Leningrad, it was said. Emphasis put on air force operations in the south indicated that the German drive in the Ukraine had been slowed, possibly to permit the moving up of infantry and supplies. Report 183,000 Red Casualties Though Russia admitted the blowing up of the Dnieper dam, and the loss of Dniepropetrovsk, Nazis now said that they “assumed” some Russian forces were still “clinging to” the dam area, though it was “within range of German weapons.” The Nazi Party newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter sai today that the Russians had lost 183,000 men in casualties and prisoners in addition to five divisions (75,000 men) on the Finnish front in the first five days of the third month of the Russo-German war. The newspaper said the German victory over the Russians at Tannenberg, in 1914, the anniversary of which is today, “astounded the entire world” even though Russia lost only half at many men then as had been lost in the five days specified.

TRAINMAN'S STORY OF TRAGEDY SOUGHT

SOUTH KENT, Conn, Aug. 20 (U. P.).—Fireman Otto Klug, who survived the New Haven train wreck which killed two other trainmen, was in “fair” condition at Danbury Hospital and investigators planned to quesion him about the accident which jeopardized the lives of 254 children. The children were returning to New York from summer camps near Lee, Mass.,, when the locomotive left the tracks at Ice-House Corner, scene of an accident nine years ago, and plunged into Hatch Pond. Theron Dixon of Danbury, 55-year-old engineer who was operating the locomotive, and Harold McDermott of West Stockbridge, Mass. also an engineer, were trapped and killed in the cab.

MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (U. P) —The waters of the broad Dnieper River, third largest in Europe, flooded over hundreds of square miles of

the lower Ukraine today, a formidable barrier to the Germans.

Marshal Semyon Budenny organized his Army for a new stand on the east bank with the hundreds of thousands of men he had safely withdrawn from the western side. In vivid testimony to the Spartan firmness of the scorched earth policy, Russia had blown up the great power dam, built at the cost of five years of labor, after the last of Budenny’s men had crossed, leaving nothing but stripped fields and leveled factories for the Germans, In all, it was indicated, the Russians destroyed about $250,000,000 worth of property in the Dnieper dam area. The flooded Dnieper, some 150 miles of territory, and an unbro-

Lower Dneiper Is Flooded After Budenny Army Crosses

Germans and the great Don River industrial basin to the east. The day's first war communique announced the evacuation of the power dam area and the city of Dniepropetrovsk after a fierce bat tle in which stalwart Russian rear guards held back the Germans for days while the last of the army of the Ukraine crossed to the east bank. There was fierce fighting along the entire front from mid-Finland to the Black Sea. A big battle in a Ukrainian town, in which the Germans lost more than 10,000 killed and wounded, 40 tanks and armored cars, 20 field guns and 100 trucks, was announced in the communique. Dispatches from the front report ed also that the big counter-offen-sive of Gen. I. A. Konev's Army in the Gomel-Smolensk stretch of the Central Front, entered its 13th day without abatement. Other dispatches reported that men, women, boys and girls were now bringing in the last of the

(Enter the Vizier) sacred soil, coming from the north, coming from the south, riding the winds, in number as the pearls in the coffers I took from my What have you dene, you ass? VIZIER: What your Luminosity said, that have I.followed as a Talmudist the Torah. When they demanded the banishment of the shaved-headed Teutons, I said no. I still said no. Now I am saying no, and the numbers of our coun=try’s dead heros have risen to 13, and still no end. Just as I thought.

When they invaded our country,

(To the Vizier):

Enter the emissaries of Moscow and of London, the latter wearing tweeds and swinging a mashie, the former in a tailcoat and wearing a tophat.)

bumper harvest all over the coun

ken Russian Army backed by powerful reserves, now lay between the

.

BOTH EMISSARIES: But your Luminosity, we warned you, une less you dismissed the shaven-headed slaves of the Fuehrer, punishment would come upon your Luminosity, For our countries like them not and there is poison in their double chins. Had your Luminosity harkened, this sad pass might well have been averted. We told you so. SHAH: Told whom? Told me? Never! BOTH EMISSARIES: But we told your Vizier. SHAH: And he kept it back from me. Ah, gentlemen, what sadness to be served by such a worm, a dolt, a numbskull, zany, chump, ass and egg of Sindbad the Sailor. Why did you not come to me? All would have been as you wish. Call off your men. For the smaoth= headed ones will depart this night—to Berlin, if you allow, to ‘the Imperial Lion’s cage, if you prefer. Let the cannon cease to growl, a the tanks cease to rumble, let not the flying dragons roar above ran. “But your armies shall be welcome, they shall protect the iron roads of Iran, they shall disburse the emolument from the oil wells (and let my friendship be not forgotten in the disbursement, Vizier). Let the bugles sound, the arms be downed, and let us drink to our British and our Russian brothers, and to the peace of Iran! (CURTAIN.

So the infidels are on our

The moment Let in the British and the

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