Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1941 — Page 17

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BAR IS DEDICATED TO U..S. DEFENSE

New Head Is Inaugurated; | Jackson Lauds League j Of Nations.

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the Motor Speedway this afternoon were canceled because of the weather. A pageant of transportation and B special 25-mile race had been scheduled.

George Pepper Honored

At the dihner last night, held at the Claypool, George Wharton Pepper, Philadelphia, Pa., was awarded he A. B. A. medal for his outjanding contribution to jurispruHence. -- With Justice Jackson on the platform was Sir Norman Birkett, of the English bar, who spoke briefly. Justice Jackson pointed out that the League of Nations, even though generally regarded as rather ineffective, still is feltr in the conduct of human affairs, even in this time of war and bloodshed. “The fact is,” he said, “that under today’s political and economic thaos there is actually functioning a relatively stable - body of customary and conventional international law as :a foundation on which the future may build. “The League, which we rejected, was followed by the Kellogg-Briand Pact. By it the signatory nations renounced war as an instrument of national policy and agreed that the settlement of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin should be sought only by pacific means.

i Hitler Cautious at First

“While the ‘United States became a party to this treaty, Secretary Kellogg said that it was out of the question to impose any obligation respecting sanctions on the United States. The Senate proceedings make clear that its ratification was

due only to the assurance that it'

provided no specific sanction or commitment to enforce lt. “The fact that Germany went to war in breach of its treaty discharged our own country from what might otherwise have been regarded as a legal obligation of impartial

treatment toward the belligerents. “The world is in war today ¢hiefly because its civilization had not been so organized as to impress the ‘bad man’ with the advisability of keeping the peace. “The German people might not have supported a war of Nazi aggression, had there been explicit understanding that it would bring against them the array of force they now face. Everything indicates that Hitler's early steps were cautious and tentative and calculated to test out the spirit and solidarity of the rest of the world. “Peace appears to have been lost, not for the want of a great .supporting force, but for the want of only a little supporting force. “It is in the light of such facts that America will face a tough and fateful decision as to her attitude toward the peace. It is a grave thing to risk the commitments that are indispensable to a system of international justice and collective security. It is an equally grave thing to perpetuate by our inaction an anarchic international condition in which every state may go to war with impunity whenever its interests are thought to be served. “But it is a perilous thing to neglect our own defenses as if we were in a world of real security and at the same time to reject the obligations which make make real security possible. At the end of this war we must either throw the full weight of American influence to the support of an international order based on law, or we must outstrip the world in naval and air, and perhaps in military, force.” : Yesterday in a luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club,” Mr. Pepper, a former U. 8. Senator from Pennsylvania, spoke. The luncheon was sponsored by the United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co. Mayor Sullivan welcomed the guests who were introduced by Hugh D. Combs, vice president of the company.

U. S. MISSION IN AFRICA

BRAZZAVILLE, French Equatorial Africa, Oct. 2 (U. P.)—(Delayed)—A United States mission to the French African colonies controlled by Gen. Charles de Gaulle, head of the Free French movement, arrived at Pointe Noire this morning and is expected here Friday.

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Robert P. Fortune

Two U. S. Army flying cadets from Indiana were reported to have escaped unhurt after their planes collided in mid-air and one of them crashed near Albany, Ga., yesterday, according to news dispatches, They were Robert P. Fortune, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fortune Sr., 4540 Michigan Road, and Willard E. Fawcett, of Logansport, former Butler . University athlete. They were reported on training flights out of Turner Field when their craft collided. Mr. Fortune is said to have landed his damaged plane at the field and Mr. Fawcett was said to have bailed out in his parachute.

RICHARD A, SHIRLEY DIES AT CAMBY HOME

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controlling stock of the company later and became its president. In 1933 Mr. Shirley turned the management of the company, which manufactures heating equipment, over to his son, John W. Shirley. The firm is now known as the Shirley Corp.

Attended Meeting

Mr. Shirley attended a meeting of liquor dealers at the Warren Hotel last night and at that time complained of a pain in his chest. Governor Henry F. Schricker and other State House officials paid tribute to Mr. Shirley's service in the State government. “Mr. Shirley was a faithful employee of the State,” the Governor said. “He contributed largely to the success of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission in its early years. He was a very public-spirited citizen and will be missed deeply.”

Others Pay Tribute

Others who paid similar tribute to Mr. Shirley were Lowell H. Patterson and Harry Fenton, Repub-

lican members of the Beverage Commission; Bernard- Doyle and William Storen, Democratic members of the Commission, and Secretary of State James M. Tucker. Surviving besides the son are the wife, Mrs. Ethel T. Shirley; a daugh-

ter, Mrs. E, H. White of Bronson, Mich.; two ‘sisters, Mrs. J. W. Rose

of Anderson and Mrs. Anna Treuitt of Martinsville. Funeral services will be held at the Kirby Mortuary, Meridian and 19th Sts., at 2 p. m. Monday. Burial will be at Martinsville.

MARSHAL SEES MACARTHUR MANILA, P. I, Oct. 3 (U. P.).— Air Marshal Sir Robert BrookePopham, commanding British forces in the Far East, conferred today with Lieut. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of United States forces in the Far East.

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mit American flags ships to go to Britain without changing the law. He said the decision must be made by someone, obviously the Chief Executive, as to whether an area should be considered ®angerous if one ship out of 500 transsitting the zone is sent to the bottom, or if five ships out of 500, 10 ships of 500 or a higher ratio. The situation further is complicated, he said, by definitions of interested persons. For illustration, he recalled that seamen recently demanded a bonus for sailing to the West; Indies, claiming that West Indian waters are dangerous. He warned correspondents not to construe his analysis of the situation as an indication that he believes he has the power to eliminate by Presidential action the danger zones which he already has proclaimed. He did say, however, that the arming of merchant ships and the revision or abolition of danger zones on the high seas are®distinct questions whi must be resolved on their own merits and are not interrelated and congressibnal action is necessary at least to permit arming of merchant ships.

FARMER HEARD SHOTS, MILEY PROBERS TOLD

LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 3 (U. P.). —A farmer disclosed today that he heard six shots and screams from the vicinity of the Lexington Country Club early Sunday at about the time Marion Miley, woman golfer, and her mother were shot fatally. J. A. Watson, 70, who lives 300 yards from the club, informed police that he was awakened by the shots and screams about 3:30 a. m. He said he did not investigate. Except for a statement by Mrs. Fred Miley, the mother, before she died, Mr. Watson’s account was the first received by police from anyone who had heard the shooting.

LINDBERGH TALKS IN FT. WAYNE TONIGHT

FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 3 (U. P.). —A forecast of rain threatened to dampen an expected overflow crowd at the Ft. Wayne Gospel Temple tonight when Charles A. Lindbergh, isolationist spokesman, makes his first speech since his controversial Des Moines appearance several weeks ago. His address will be carried over the Blue Network of the National Broadcasting Co. at 8:30 p.m. Mr. Lindbergh will speak: at an Anierica First Committee rally. Also scheduled to speak were U. S. Senator D. Worth Clark (D. Ida.) and Jane Ayer Fairbanks, national vicechairman of the Committee. An America First Committee spokesman estimated that between 5000 and 5500 would find seats in the temple. Mr. Lindbergh arrived late yesterday.

A resolution stating that the personal appearance of Mr. Lindbergh in Ft. Wayne is an “unwelcome event” in Indiana has béen adopted by the Stewards, Committeeméh and officers of the Chevrolet unit of local 226 A. U. W.-C. I. O. The resolution says in part: “We condemn the dissemination of propaganda which tends to divide the American people, as well as Nazi agents, or their dupes from whom such propaganda comes.”

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better than to ask such a question. His implication was that throughout his public life; and especially throughout his Presidencies, achievement of that objective has been one of his major concerns. RS The President's discussion of religious freedom today seemed to strengthen’ suggestions that he may be seeking a rapprochement between Russia and the Vatican. : The White House statement yesterday said “it is hoped that in the light of the report of the Polish Ambassador an entering wedge for the practice of complete freedom of religion is on the way” in the Soviet Union. The ambassador had reported that churches were being provided in the Soviet Union for Polish soldiers. It was in connection with a question regarding that report that Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference this week: “As I think I suggested a week or two ago, some of you might find it useful to read Article 124 of the constitution of Russia.” “What does that say, dent?” a reporter asked. “Freedom of religion,” Mr. Roosevelt continued. “Freedom equally to use propaganda against religion which is essentially what is the rule in this country; only we don’t put it the same way.”

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The Capital has been boiling with open and closed dispute since that press conference which took place last Friday. Some Catholic leaders were dig turbed and let the White House know that it would make it more difficult for them to continue supporting administration foreign policy now that it was so closely associated with aid to Moscow. . Rep. Hamilton® Fish - (R. N. Y.) and Rep. Martin Dies Tex.), the latter head of the Ho committee which for three years has investigated and denounced Fascists and communism protested Mr. Roosevelt’s remarks. But from some Catholic sources came hints of tremendous Vatican’| efforts against the Axis if events enabled Mr. Roosevelt to persuade Josef Stalin to establish a satisfactory environment for religion in a communistic state. An associate of the President's, who is familiar with the general picture of religious problems in the Soviet Union and their diplomatic impact throughout the world, meantime, told the United Press tha under way was a “Yankee maneuver to make the Soviet Union a wholly acceptable ally of thé United States and of Southern Ireland and the South American republics where Catholicism is dominant.”

industries. instance a ‘mistake’ had resulted

ammunition - to the factgry because it was incorrectly sorted.

aircraft engines had to be returned.

policemen Sept. 19.

“removed from Tournai.” Barns Set Afire

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of 30 other persons.

being fired. “I am forced to ordér that the death penalty shall be mercilessly inflicted in all cases, as provided by law,” Falkenhausen said in one of three decrees. “This applies in particular to illegal possession of arms, espionage, sabotage and acts of violence of every kind against the German armed forces and their members.”

Salt in the Sugar

The 71st victim of the German reprisal campaign in France, was Andre Sylvain, a farmer, accused of stealing a German carbine and some cartridges. The former mayor of Praha who was sentenced to death was Dr. Otokar Klapka, who is also a former deputy in the Czechoslovak Parliament. Russia’s official news agency Tass reported the outbreak of sabotage

had opposed the Germans by ignoring them. Tass said that for two weeks saboteurs had been active, especially against the food industry supplying the German Army. It said large fires had broken out in German stores and large supplies of sugar, alcohol and tinned meat had been destroyed at Copenhagen, the capital, and Odense, It reported an explosion at an alcohol store at Alborg, said large quantities of food earmarked for Germany had been damaged or spoiled, that salt had been mixed with big supplies of sugar and that Danish patriots had derailed a sugar and fruit train. It said numerous sugar and food factory workers had been arrested. Czechoslovak officials at London said a total of 144 Czechs had been put to death by the Germans since Sunday and that 110 were under arrest. Judges, business men and farmers were among the victims,

Unrest Over Europe Creates New Front Behind Front’

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methods of sabotaging German war They said thdt in one

in return of 20,000,000 rounds of

In another instances, 200 pistons for

Gen. Alexander von Falkenhausen, commanding the German occupa-

tion forces in Belgium and Northern France, ordered the arrest of 15 more hostages at Tournai, Belgium, because he had not been able to catch the men who shot two German Twenty-five hostages, previously arrested, were

Also the Germans announced the “Communists” in' the Amiens area of Occupied France, ordered six additional persons arrested, and started an investigation

Falkenhausen disclosed a cam-

paign of sabotage in Belgium in which grain barns and ricks were

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nounced that in future 10 “Communists” would be executed for each terroristic act which resulted in the death of one or more persons, unless the attackers were arrested within 10 days.

The United Press listening post at London heard the German radio again warning Germans not to listen to foreign broadcasts. It said that even the death penalty had not prevented some persons from listening to British broadcasts.

“It is unfair to listen to foreign news broadcasts,” the German radio said, “and it is disrespectful to the Fuehrer.” The majority of the about 1000 executions in occupied territory has been in Jugoslavia, where sometimes 100 alleged “Communists, Jews and saboteurs” have been lined up and mowed down by .German firing squads at one time. This has largely resulted from guerrilla activity, even “full scale” battles, by the Serbs against the Germans. In the Banat district of Jugoslavia 22 persons were hanged recently and their hodies left swaying in the public squares for 24 hours as a warning to others. According to available reports 645 persons have been executed in Jugoslavia in the past three and a half months. In the past week.a total of 138 persons, including three army generals, have been put to death in the former Czechoslovakia. Premier Gen. Alois Elias is under a death sentence for plotting a revolution and 300 other persons are under arrest. About 50 persons have been put to death in Paris within the past six weeks and last week alone 20 Frenchmen were executed at Lille on charges of dynamiting railroads. Thousands of Frenchmen have been placed in concentration camps and Gen. Joachim von Steulpnagel, the German commander, has ordered

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