Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1941 — Page 3

Defense Boom §

8. (U. P.)—American motorists are on accident 125 national organizations will meet in discover a way to sober

more gasoline in their tanks than ever : wolore: Naturally, the the exposure,’the m more chance for accidents. ‘But that isn't the®complete answer, the Council adds. The New York meeting will have several special p . consider—probléms that have grown up with black headlines, : “plants and army cantonments. Military vehicles on the roads, heavy trafic coneentrations in: industrial ‘centers—all these are emergency problems that require emergency measures. $ But the most difficult problem of all probably is psychological. The Council says it is firmly convinced—although statistics never will be available to prove it—that one big reason for America’s traffic binge is thal America can't take it! , Shell-shocked by war news, worried and preoccupied by personal problems in a critical time of kaleidoscopic events, emotionally jaded, America has sought escape in speed, taverns and recklessness. Like frightened horses, the souny is dashing blindly into the burning barn.

5 , Physical tet ncuding tage, weit reported in 9 per cent

fatal A. eo iiicle woz in 11 per cent. z . 7. Some obstruction to the driver’s vision was involved in 17 per cent ‘of fatal accidents—rain or snow on the. windspleld, Signs, ly bankments, foliage, other vehicles, etc. . 8° “Three of five fatal accidents occurred at night. "9, Bad road or Weathef conditions were fresent; in “one of! four fatal accidents. \

THIS YEAR VIRTUALLY Re. ane drivers a are traveling over the same highways in the same cars. But they are cracking up at a clip 17 per cent greater than last year The chief reason, the Couneil says, is that more cars are on the road. And they are traveling more miles. The defense boom and fatter pocketbooks the sounizy. over have put more cars on the. road and

most accidents have a combination of causes, and few accidents are investigated carefully enough to determine these causes defnliely. » » ® srry BUT THE COUNCIL does list this break-down for 1940: 1. Unsafe speed was a factor in one of every three fatal accidents. - ‘2. Improper driving, exclusive of speed, was a factor in one of every two fatal accidents. ' In cities, violating right-of-way ranked second to speed. In rural areas, driving on the wrong side of the road was second: 3. Two of every three pedestrians killed by automobiles either were violating a traffic law or acting in an obviously unsafe m r. Extreme lack of caution by pedestrians caused most pedestrian accidents. 4. One out of five fatal accidents involved a driver or pedestrian who had been drinking. And the council believes this might be an. Jgdersiatoment if more complete information were available.

CHICAGO, Sept. binge, and representatives of New York tomorrow to find out why, and to them up. Y The unprecedeniey emergency meeting was-called by the National Safety Council, which has been requested by President Roosevelt to lead a nationwide counter-attack on accidents that are hampering national defense. | - Although all types of accidents will come ‘up for examination, ‘much attention will be centered on the traffic toll, hurtling this year toward an all-time high of 40,000. The conference will be faced with a complicated problem. Why are traffic accidents soaring? What is. different today than in 1939, when traffic fatalities spiralled to a modern low? It is impossible to determine exactly how many highway deaths are due to a certain cause, the National Safety Council explains, since

~ Mildred Edie Brady, principal spe-

- employees were made by Mr. Dies

U.S. PROBES DIES OPM RED ‘EXPOSE

Civil Service Commission to Study Charges of Texan That Henderson and Five Defense Aids Have

Communistic

. By JOHN L. STEELE United Press Staff Correspondent

“WASHINGTON, - Sept.

istrator Leon Henderson submits to the Civil Service Commission today charges by Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.) of the House Committee on un-American Activities that Mr. Henderson and five defense aids have communistic affiliations.

Mr. Dies, in a letter to President Roosevelt, asked for the “immediate severance from the Government's payroll” of Mr. Henderson, Robert A. Brady, head consultant of OPACS (now split into two divisions in the new defense

setup); Tom Tippett, assistant chief of rent section of OPACS; Dewey H. Palmer, consultant of OPACS;

cialist - in consumer eduction of OPACS; E. J. Lever, principal field representative of OPM’s labor division. Mr. Henderson, at a special press conference yesterday, denied that he is or ever was “a member of any Communist dominated or controlled organization.” He. promised to “eat on the Treasury steps any Communist organization to which I belong.”

Charges by Dies Alone

He said that the defense em- - ployees referred to by Mr. Dies were being investigated “like all other government employees.” “If investigators determine they are not fit, 111 fire them quickly,” ‘Ae said, “but we don’t take funny letters to the President as a basis _ for firing anybody.” Mr. Henderson pointed out that jibe letter to the President and the charges: against himself and: his

alone and not by his committee. Such summary punitive action “on the basis of one man’s opinion,” he said, “is as un-American a procedure as anything to which Mr. Dies has yet given his attention.” Mr. Dies, in his letter ‘to the President, charged that “there are at least 50 other employees in Mr. Henderson’s agency who have records of affiliation with Communist front organizations,” and that.he would name them provided the one’s named in today’s letter werd fired. :

Summary of Claims

Following is a summary of Mr. Dies’ charges and Mr. Henderson's replies: HENDERSON—Dies said Mr Henderson “has in the recent past been connected with several of the front organizations of transmission belts of the Communist Party.” «He was, in fact, the president of the Washington branch of one of the largest of the Communist Party's auxiliaries, the Spanish Refugee Relief campaign,” he said. He said Henderson once assaulted a Washington newspaper photographer “who sought to take pictures ‘at a reception which the price administrator was giving for a nation-_ally-prominent Communist who was associated with him in the work of the Spanish relief organization.” Mr. Henderson said he was chairman of the Washington Friends of Spanish Democracy, “because it was intensely interested in the Spanish fight for democracy, but that organization was not communistic.” He described as “anagramistic”. the way in which Dies “converts the Washington friends of Spanish democracy into a Communist enter-

Affiliations.

8. — Price Control Admin-

tioned by Mr. Dies as Dorothy Parker, the writer. BRADY—described by Mr. Dies as DR constultant of OPACS at a $7500 a year salary; former University of California economics professor and, according to Henderson, former member of the National Resources Planning Board and the NRA. : Dies said that in 1937 Brady wrote a book, “The Spirit and Structure of German Fascism” which is “from beginning to end an exposition of, and and attack upon, Naziism from the standpoint of the Communist Party ‘line’—as that ‘line’ ‘was laid down in Moscow in the year 1937.” Mr. Dies said the foMowing quotation was from.Mr. Brady's book: “The American N program was, in short, a ‘Fascist’ program in idea, in principle, and—in-main— in structure. . . . Mr. Dies said Mr. Brady’s connections with Communist Front organizations were “numerous,” including the Harry Bridges defense committee and “the Front organization in Hollywood which designated itself id motion picture artist's commite ”» (Henderson said the designation “head consultant’ applied to Brady by Mr. Dies was one assigned by the Civil Service Commission and “does not indicate any relationship between myself and Mr. Brady.” He said he had no direct contact with Mr. Brady or other employees clied by Mr. Dies.)

Other Charges

TIPPETT AND LEVER—Charged by Mr. Dies with having signed a “call to action” for a Cleveland “Trade Union Congress” which also was signed by Earl Browder .and

Communists. This document called workers and farmers “to organize and fight against the Roosevelt Wall Street program” and “to build fighting industrial unions to carry on the class struggle,” according to Mr. Dies. They were also charged with being listed as executive - board members of the letterhead of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, which Mr. Dies said was aimed at “inspiring the workers to abolish the present capitalist system and building a workers’ republic.” PALMER—Charged by Mr. Dies with baving been called “Dear Comrade” in a letter from the Daily Worker medical advisory board in 1937. Mr. Dies also submitted a memorandum said to be in Mr. Palmer’s handwriting which twice referred to “My C. P. sympathies.” Mr. Dies said this referred to the Communist Party, “of course,” but elsewhere in the memorandum the phrase “Consumer Party” was used.

12 CARS DERAILED IN FREIGHT WRECK

BAPESVILLE, Ind, Sept. 8 (U. P.) —Twelve cars on an Indianap-olis-to-Cincinnati freight train were derailed on the New York Central tracks 10 miles east of here today. Railroad officials not determined the cause of the accident but reported no, injuries. Officials said the train carried only the usual freight merchandise and no

prise.” He identified the “national-ly-prominent Communist” men-

County oly Toial

> 2 —Sept 6 and T— Actidents ... 90| Injured ...... 30 Arrests ...... 86| Dead ... 0 SATURDAY TRAFFIC COURT * Cases-Convic- Fines tried tions paid

Violations

7 cmm————— MEETINGS TODAY ; 1 Association of Postal Supervison day, Claypool Hotel. Indianapolis Dental Society, 6:30 “p.m. m.,

Hotel Linco Indian Ae Sales Executive Council, 6 Pp. m, haianapolis Athletic Club. Scientech Club, noon, Board of Trade.

Service £ Club. noon. Claypool Hotel.

Bepublican , Club, 8 v; m, [9 rita neon Was! Knights s Columbus, 8 p. m.. 13056 N.

SE 8i Realtors, noon, Canary Cot-

Rotre Dame Club, noon, Board of Trade. Bs

op Pp. m., ustrisl Union n Council, 8 p. m. Intra) Labor Union, 8 p. m.,.

. MEETINGS TOMORROW Indiana Small Pe Conference,

2 . Cla H . on o ition. a all day. Claypool Shdian apolis Home Buide 6: = m.. Hoosier Athletic Club. BC ha} “pink Arms Hol. o "Fraternity, 1:30 © M.

Tau a noon, Board of

. Trade.

tor Club, noon, Hotel Linco

niversal Club, * Rihien Bt, Gun,

L. Univeratt _— of

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national defense shipments were

William Z. Foster, chief American|"

Richard C. Hottelef, who as a member of the United Press Berlin staff * witnessed much of the German invasion of France and \who is now in Louisiana covering the United States’ greatest war games, was selected as one of the first newspaper correspondents to ride in the Army's new 30-ton M-3 fledium tank, latest and strongest addition to the armored divisions.

By RICHARD C. HOTTELET United Press Staff Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN LOUISIANA, WITH THE SECOND ARMY, Sept. 8 (U. P.).—1 rode today in the world’s most médern tank and saw what the United States Army believes is its strongest single weapon and the answer to Hitler's Panzer divisions. : The First Armored Division of the Red forces moved .out of bivouac today to advante to assembly points from which it will attack the Blue Seventh Corps some time Tuesday in field maneuvers. And I was allowed to ride with one of several columns of the 30-ton M-3 type medium tanks. The Army dressed me in the regular Tank Corps field uniform of olive drab coveralls: and twopound crash helmet, a lightly steel-plated football helmet. I was assigned to occupy the seat of the 75-mm. gunner, one of the crew of seven—commander, driver, radio operator and four gunners—but I cannot reveal my exact position in the tank because that is a military secret.

” ” ”

THE 30-TON TANK, first of which rolled off the assembly lines less than three months ago, is to land warfare what the cruiser is on the seas. It is fast. Its radial air-cooled airplane engine can take it across rough country at 25 miles an hour. It carries one 75-mm. and one 37-mm. gun, four.30-caliber machine guns and two portable submachine guns. Its armor plate can withstand the impact of a 75-mm. shell from 1000 yards. The noise of the powerful motor and the clanking armament reverberate between the white interior walls of the tank with deafening intensity. My shouts to a erewman two feet away were lost in the roar. The commander . communicates with the driver by telephone. The: air-cooling system of the engine: pumps fresh air into the tank but still it was hot down below with the ports closed. We passed over a roadside ditch into ah open field with hardly a

MEXICO TO RETAIN CONTROL OVER OIL

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8 (U.P)— Oil circles today expressed the belief that a number of foreign experts would direct the activities of the

Mexican petroleum industry as part of the settlement of the oil expropriations controversy between Mexico and the United States. It was believed, however, that the Mexican government would retain control ofthe industry. It was also rumored that the settlement would include a United States loan to Mexico of 117,000,000 pesos (about $23,000,000) still pending as an indemnity due petroleum workers from companies whose properties were expropriated. The indemnity to the workers was awarded by a Mexican couri decision. The newspaper Universal said today that the resumption of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Great Britain is “a matter of hours,” without further negotiation, although official confirmation was

involved.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record|

MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times. therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.

These lists are from official records in the Count, our ouse. e Times, therefore, is not fespousible for errors in names and addresse George D. Mose: Jo of 2801 W. Morris; | © Martha J. 7, of 1337 Blaine. William on br hy of 3626 Creston | Drs Thelma L. Wellman, 26, of 1317 W. Josephus

H. Harrison, 25, of 238 N. oe Vara M, Martin,’ 21, of 830 a.

son chard W. Paul, 21, Ft. Harrison; Marhy e Taylor 19, Lawrence, Ind. e NJ Cooper, a5 of 2106 N. Meridian; pony 0. Ars. f 4224 Graceland, by of 927% Virginia; Mone iy %, of 933%, Virginia. Clyde Brown. 47, 1847 W. Fashingion; Edna Mae Henson, 38, of 424 S. Har Robert E. McCormick, 21, of 35 8. 17th, Be Beech Grove: Laura Lea Clayton, 17, R. R. Sharles = Sr agreil. 21, of 631 E. Ohio; Gladys E 18, o ez 1 E. Ohio pean, 5464 Massa chusetts; Betty M. ow. 8, of 3195 N. Rit-

Dowlhy 4 Mansfield, 3 of 4700 Bluff Harold Stone, 21 Ha ie Lucille Often, 31, of 1400 Ha McDaniel IE 20. East; Vicia Muze, 19. % am ‘Robert P. Nicke! ckels, 2 of ir an; fosatie B an. Robert W. Clark 5 % 235 Allison; Letitia M. Riley, of 1847 Allison Jack 2 of 0 S. ‘Hoimes: Ma: aret E. McAvyo,

28, of 1226 , Corder, 2 of “ls 8. Do Wi Carl J.-

uff Rd.

, Michi- . Merid-

Wallace, do, of 1007 N, Ham-

flton. Walter MeL. 58, of 2730 Bluff Rd. Ra. Maude Bee Tolson, 63, of

? Rd. 31, of 2223 Northwestern: Be 5 Richardson, \llisms, 23, of 2113|ca of 1123 B. MarThomas F, Myers, 2, of Rian = Hobert. A. Means, 31, of 251 NJ ealy.

Esther M. McN 24 of 28 John_C. Anderson, 41,

Rich, 19, of 1715 E. Gimber;

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One of the Army's New M-3

bump and across a field in open formation toward a clump of trees, most of which were 10 inches in diameter. . We snapped the first tree like a match stick and I didn’t even feel a jerk. The noise in the tank drowned out any sound of crashing timber. Witnessing the destruction was like watching a silent movie. We went through that clump like a knife through cheese and over more deep ditches with never a falter. \ 2 3 s THE INSIDE of the tank is padded in most spots but crew members said the padding didn’t help much in really rough country. “We sometimes come out of this thing feeling that the division colors should be black and blue instead of red, blue and gold,” one said. Several secret features make this tank the world’s most modern but three that are not secret illustrate the efficiency of its design. Z In battle all ports are closed and the commander and driver look out through a periscope. This removes the gfeat danger of machine-gun fire into the oldfashioned slits. Another feature is the two-way radio with which the commander can keep in touch with other tanks, other battle units and headquarters within 60 miles. Perhaps most important, however, is that the top is plated with armor as thick as that on. the

BERLIN, Sept. 8 (U. P.).—The German High Command announced today that the encirclement of Leningrad had been completed as a result of Finnish advances on the north and German gains on the south. While the Luftwaffe pounded relentlessly at Russian defense lines, railroads and highways oufside the former Czarist capital, Finns

pushed eastward and cut the Leningrad - Murmansk railroad and blocked the entire Karelian Isthmus, the spokesman said.

The Germans previously had reported unofficially that their forces which advanced eastward south of Leningrad were firing on the last railroad connection between the city and the rest of Russia, but it was not indicated that troops had completed the encirclement. The main force of the German

'l Rode in Word's Most Modern Tank—' Strongest Weapon Guided by Periscope

sides. Near Cambrai, France, in

June, 1940, after the great tank

battle there, I saw piles of twisted scrap that had ‘been French and British tanks. They had no armor plate on top and they had fallen easy prey to the divebombing Stukas. #8 B

BUT AS IMPORTANT as all the material improvement-in the M-3.and the factor which officers. say make their first armored division the answer to the German Panzer division is the organization and training of the division personnel. The division has its own infan-

. try, artillery and engineer corps to

. support it. Each man, regardless of his unit, is equally skilled in operation of any of the division’s other machines—medical corps personnel can drive tanks, signal men can fire anti-tank guns, engineers can handle artillery. All the 12,000 officers and men can

fire any of the division's 19,013

guns ranging from pistols to 155mm. howitzers. The officers assert that this “highest form of combat team” is superior to the German Panzer divisions because of its increased self-sufficiency. It is “faster on. its feet,” they say. In addition to the 381 tanks it has 759 armorplated combat cars and there is a place somewhere in one of the 3250 motor vehicles for every man. The division is now experimenting with self-propelled artillery for even greater efficiency.

Finns Help Germans Draw Noose Around Leningrad

ways, railroad stations and trenches south of Leningrad and in the Schluesselburg rail junction area, about 22 miles east. The scanty reports of propaganda company reporters from the front emphasized the difficulties which the Germans must overcome against the “strategically most important city in Russ The High Command communique, issued from ’ Hitler's headquarters, said merely that the Finns had reached the Sver River east of Lake Ladoga. The Finns had made the announcement yesterday.

GOES TO NEW POST

“Lieut. Col. Theron G. Methven, who commanded the 201st Infantry

peroid at Ft. Harrison here, has been transferred to the 7th Infantry}

attack was against railroads; high-

and will be on duty at Seattle, Wash.

Harry D. Weaver, 22, of 1 . Eastern; arice R. Russel, 21, of Seay’ B ‘Michigan. Carl T. Oberlies Jr., 22, Jeanne E. Longsford, 22, of 637 N.

BIRTHS * Girls

Ered. Helen Snyder, at Methodist. arold H., Esther D David. Hazel Adams, at Methodis ie pa ierman G., Thelma Houchins, at Meth-

Rishard, Dola Barker, at Methodist. st.

Gray,

m K., Juanita Owens, at Meth-

“Donald, Genevieve Briggs, at Methodist. Harold, Marian Hardy, at St. Francis. William, Clorena Starks, at St. Francis. Richard, Edythe Bennett. at Coleman. Verne, Beatrice Baldauf, at St. yillcont's. cep ph, Margaret Hannagan, at St.

Wilson, Alice vg at St. Vincent's.

Waiter na at cent’s. Dorothy Hitt, at 1515 Prospect. Raioh, Clista Mayo, at 961 Lexington. Boys ‘Robert, Helen Sommer, at St. Francis. Floyd. etta Wildridge, at St. Francis. Ladi ary Hathert, at St. Francis. James, Agoes 2 hillips, at St. Francis. John, Edna Dalton; at St. Francis. Clarence, Naomi C Calloway, oo! at city. urice, Marietta Coens at City. or Alma dma’ Gentle, at" ‘Go man.” ot St. Vinoonpe” ®- Lichvenierz,

Lens, Virginia Thurgood, at St. Vin-

Zack, Hilda Spal e, t. Vincent's. Slam Ha Lay al foo oF Ea Methodist.

odist. ‘ Soveacd, Shariorie. wo

Irvin, Louise Harve: A at: Me Methodist, ickinson, Madalynné McGaw, at Meth-

oy * Davi d I, Mary Day, oat Methodist. Clarence. Paraiso le, at et. Gilbert 8., Daisy Robbins. 8b Louis, Loretta ters, at thodlst. Lioyd, Laura Thomas, at 1526 S. Meri-

DEATHS ; Geraldine Holton, 16, at tong, lobar

pneumon » Leaty A. O'Connor, 4, at 805 N. Bosart,

jnoma. illiam T. Skaggs, 42, at .City, coronary

occlusion.

reinoma. A Herbert A, Grosdidier, +87, at St. Vincent’s, cellulitis

| pneumonia.

f 519 Nos Gray;

oo Florence Matthews, 93, at 2016 Cornell, |

C. McCrory, 58, at City, bronche- |

unafraid.

it "The Wounded Don't Cry." ~ America.

Quentin Reynolds! book is human beings under fire—a

day, Sept. 15h.

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the present. World War are forgotten, the world will still remember—and want to hear about—the amazing fortitude of the civilian populations which faced the Nazi blitzkriegs ;

Quentin Reynolds, reporter for Collier's Magazine and writer of short stories, like other gallant American Newspaper. men risked his life to get the story.

Out of what he saw and wrote came a book. He called

swiftly lived, by men and women who stood dp feng cht : lenged—one of the world's outstanding bullies. : :

The Indianapolis. Times has now acquired. exclusive news | paper rights to "The Wounded Don't Cry." 4

It will be published serially in fie Times w begining Moms 1

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Long after the mil tary “strategists, the generals and the dictators of

It received attention all over

a moving drama of coirageous 3 fitting record of great days,

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LIEUT. COL. METHVEN ous

regiment. throughout its training|lining

THREE BESEIGED CITIES FIGHT ON

Leningrad, Odessa and Kiev _ Report Nazi Divisions “Being ‘Broken.’ MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (U. P.)~De-

fenders of. Russia's three beleaguered

cities—Leningrad, Kiev and Oclessa —reported today that they were holding firm in furious day and night fighting against the Germans on land, on sea and in the air. “Listen, Moscow! ' Listen, Russia!” the Leningrad radio said in a broad-

. |cast message.

“This is Leningrad: speaking-—the heroic city of Lenin. The fight goes on day and night. It is in’ progress this minute." “The Fascist hordes will never see Leningrad. : A steel wall has arisen before the city, The best Fascist divisions already are broken against

‘Pressure Continues’ :

and Odessa as the Red Army was reported officially still fighting strongly on the entire front and as war dispatches told of new gains in counter-attacks designed to relieve the enemy ‘onslaught against Leningrad on both the south and the north. 2 Latest war front dispatohes said that the Germans continued heavy pressure on the Leningrad front and on’ the lower Dnieper River front ion any indication of progr ahs indicated there was a slackening of fighting in the dlirec~ tions of - Smolensk and 'Gomel on the Central Front, where the Russian counter-attacks were said to have ‘definitely checked” the Germans and regained important points si Ly . General Is Killed

Soviet cavalry aided in the coun-ter-blows, raiding the German rear and surprising Bivouacked troops in a series of battles that killed 1200 including a general and wounded another 500, a war communique said. Many armored cars, guns and other machines were captured. The Red Army:was officially said to have captured three more villages and six important heights in the central front offensive. Al: though positions were not given, this counter-drive has been aimed to cut into the south flank of the German attack on Leningrad.

mans were driven back for miles; it was asserted that they suffered not less than 1500 casualties in only one small sector.

WHO 1S ROOSEVELT 10 CALL NAZI LIAR?

BERLIN, Sept. 8 (U "P.).--Nazi spokesmen today described the officlal United States version of the encounter between a U-boat and the destroyer U. §. S. Greer as “the first link in a chain of téendencious statements designed to bring the ‘United States near to war.” The Hamburger Fremdenblatt charged that the United States has given Germany “a thousand-fold provocation” for war but that the Reich, “aware of its inevitable final triumph, has never let itself be dis‘turbed.” Charging that President Roosevelt had “consistently broken” his election campaign promises regarding the war, authorized sources said that the American account of the Greer incident “has the same pur"gs all falsehoods spread by United States propaganda—to give the President a reason for escaping his promises.” Afternoon newspapers displayed sharp attacks on Mr. Roosevelt, with the Nacht Ausgabe head- : “Provocation intensified by lying. President acting in behalf of his Jewish employers.” Expressing indignation ‘that the President doubted German statements that the Greer attacked the submarine, - the newspaper Zwoelf Uhr Blath said: “Who is this Mr. Roosevelt who dares to declare a «German official statement a lie?” “This man, who promised his people not to use his Army in a. foreign war, has now ordered United States ships to carry out patrol

.| service in the Atlantic and has {ordered United States warships to

fire. “Mr. Roosevelt has mobilized criminals against Hitler.”

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather BUreau pe

TANAPOLIS ‘'FORECAST—Partly cloudy (Jonisht: showers, thunderstorms, tomorrow.

Contra Standard Time) > | Sunset

Breet ation 24 hours ending 1a Total: a since Jan Deficien ce J 1 sin sensnnanse an of

Indiana—Partly cloudy, thundershowers in northwest, . warmer in northeast po tomorrow considerable cloudiness with showers and thunderstorms and cooler.

.| WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES 6:30 A. M.

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| States all by herself just to oblige Similar messages came from Kiev |

cause the United States to transfer

Reports indicated that the Ger-}

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8

and Japan on the other, closer

‘conflict began. Not the Greer incident itself but what lies behind that incident namely the forces both from within and without which are pushing the three powers towards a collision—

threaten to precipitate the clash.

Hitler may be reaching the point where he thinks the advantages to him of America coming into the war outweigh .the. disadvantages. Similarly, Japan seems to be facing the alternatives of war with the United States or backing down on her policy of conquest. . At the same time, an increasing number of officers here are said to favor an eariy and outright war as the best way to head off Hitler and Japan. Berlin, as everybody knows, has been trying for months to induce Tokyo to involve the United States in the Pacific. Up to now, Tokyo has been coy. She did not care to take on virtually the entire United

the Axis,

- Germany, on her side, was equally reluctant to do anything that would

the bulk of its Pacific fleet to the Atlantic. It might help the Japanese, but Germany’s percentage did not appear particularly attractive. . So both Germany and Japan marked time. And this was all right with the United States, where it was felt that war with either Japan or Germany would interfere with the prompt delivery of ships, planes, tanks, guns and other equipment so vitally needed by Britain and her allies. Today, the situation has radically changed. Germany is at war with Soviet Russia. Unless supplies can be cut off—both via Vladivostok and the Middle East—and the Soviet quickly defeated, the war will drag on endlessly and Germany will be doomed. The United States already has begun the delivery of munitio to Vladivostok and this not o threatens Germany but Japan Sd long referred to Vladivostok as “a pistol pointed at Nippon’s head.” Vladivostok -is a scant 800 miles from Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, ‘Kobe, Kure and other crucial Japanese centers. Bombers of the Flying | ‘Fortress type could play havoc with | the island empire.

U. S. -Jap War Nearer

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMS Times Foreign Editor ? 8.—New developments of a special order are bringing war between the United States on the one hand and Germany than at any time since the world

planes, aviation gas, oil and other ware stocks to reach Russia y more than Germany does. . So, Germany would do something im the Atlantic, to draw off part of the Pacific Fleet, Japan adopt a more aggressive policy towards the Americans, Briush, Chinese and Dutch.

Spokesmen for her military clique are already warning that Japan: must cut her way out of the encirclement. #

The incident of the Greer, theres ¢ fore, may be the forerunner of effort on the part of Germany te bring Japan in. The United States is already committed at least tb safeguarding aid shipments as far as Iceland, three-fourths of ths distance across the Atlantic. And the Atlantic fleet has been acting. as spotters for the British Navy and Merchant Marine for a long time. Hence actual hostilities wo not greatly change that partic situation.

On the other hand, the Nazis are said to reason, supplies from the United States would dwindle for some time after a declaration of war. The United States would need most of its limited output for itself. Moreover, war with Japan would cut off from the East Indies, or materially lessen, the stream of rubber, tin and other raw materials so vital to American industry, Here in Washington a number of high. officials would welcome & shooting war: These officials are convinced that what-they call “the growing indifference” of the colin try will not change, and la; production will not speed up as. should, unless and until Uncle Sam himself takes the plunge.

MOTHER IN IRON LUNG

ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 8 (U. P) = Mrs. Roy W. Moore Jr, Atlanta ins fantile paralysis victim who became a mother. in an iron lung at a hos=

pital here, Saturday, was’ reported today as doing “very well.” “Her new-born son was said to be get

Japan does not want American

ting along “fine.”

- Strauss Says:

SUITS. FOR GENTLEMEN

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