Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1941 — Page 20

0 IN DUTCH INDIES

Energetic Role’ Promised in Resisting Japanese Aggression.

By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER EERE The Gieigs Dally Hews ner? ' BATAVIA, Oct. 21.—The Dutch East Indies are ready to play an energetic part in opposing any new ‘Japanese aggression that will be opposed by the United States, according to trustworthy information, From personal contact I can say that Vice-Admiral Helfrich, commander of the Dutch naval forces, and Lt. Gen. H. Ter Poorten, acting

Army commander, are both confi-|

dent that the Netherlands East Indies will prove to be. a powerful stronghold in the American-British-Chinese-Dutch front, a front which they believe is strong enough to checkmate Japanese designs. . Both of those offensive - minded oMcers stress their intention of defending the Dutch Indies under any and all circumstances. According to belief here, the Japanese armed forces in Indo-China ‘number two divisions, or something

over 30,000 men, supplemented by|

50,000 more together with transport ships ready at Hainan Island. ese sources Insist that the VUapanese, along the Indo-China railway from Laokai to Handi, are building shelters for several more divisions.

DEFENSE BOOM LEADS iT0 FAMILIES’ OUSTER

: MINEVILLE, N. Y. (U. P.) —Prosperity has created a paradox in this little Adirondack mining village. Sixty-one families have been evict-

from their homes because of al

on boom in the steel industry. The families were forced to move from ‘houses built by the Republic Steel Corp. for families of its miners. None of the residents, some of whom lived in the company houses BO years, worked at the mines, and expanding payrolls created a housing shortage for the miners,

When Deputy Sheriff Harold Bucy saw this car cutting capers every time it tried to slow up, he

. decided to investigate. On the

front he found an emblem’ inscribed with ‘Safety Driver Trophy Winner.” He also found it had no front bumper, no dash board; no fan belt, an improvised steering wheel attachment, broken rear springs and inadequate brakes.

Gasoline Dealer

Thrives in Feud

BRIDGETON, N. J., Oct. 21 (U. P.)~—Rival dealers were convinced today that gasoline station proprietor Milton: F. Champion is a hard man to discourage. Mr. Champion, who asserts there is no gasoline shortage, has refused to observe the 7 p. m. curfew. So for two nights ‘operators of 35 rival filling stations, and hundreds of their friends, jammed Mr. Champion’s station. Each bought one gallon of gas and offered a $20 bill in payment. They repeated the procedure last night—this time bringing $50 bills. But this didn’t faze Mr. Chamion, for he was well prepared with change.

“He learned that the car had been reported “junked” ga long time “ago and that 18-year-old Bert Eggers of R. R. 7, Box 124G, had bought it from a man in

Mars Hill for $25. Deputy Bucy arrested Eggers on charges of reckless driving, failure to have ga driver's license, improper license plates and faulty brakes.

CAR THEFT TRAP SET. ON SOUTHERN BORDER

MEXICO CITY (U. P.).—Mexico

and the United States are cooperating to cope with international car thieves who shuttle stolen automobiles across the long MexicanUnited States border, stretching from California to Texas. Officials of both nations have agreed to increase the vigilance at border towns. They will establish devices to deal with the traffic, such as the conSiryetion of artificial “bumps” in e! highways near the border, to hel Hs such incidents as the recent crossing of the border at El Paso, Tex., by a stolen car which sped across the bridge, through the international gates at Ciudad de Jaurez and disappeared in the night at 60 miles an hour.

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HOPE IN URALS

U.-S. Hears 40 Per Cent of Industrial Capacity - Located in Area.

By CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer - WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—Even it Moscow falls, some 40. per cent of Russia’s industrial capacity will remain in Soviet hands for continued war against Germany if Stalin's generals can stabilize a new line along the Volga, an authoritative Government survey showed today. Information from United States commercial attaches and other sources shows that the Soviet Government has fostered a tremendous industrial development in the Ural Mountains, - If Russia can keep her communication lines open so that oil -from the Baku fields can move by pipeline and water. transport up the Caspian sea to. the Ural industrial areas, informed officials believe she can do much to re-equip her armies this winter.

Baku Oil Needed

They believe that this production could be achieved if Stalin’s armies, favored by the rigors of a Russian winter, could hold the Germans in the area of the Volga. ; But these hopes would disappear if the Germans could advance far enough to cut off Baku oil. Already the Germans are close to Rostov, at the western end of some of the Baku oil lines. Still capable of operations by the Russians in the Ural section are 35 per cent of the Soviet iron ore and aluminum capacity, nearly half of its tractor production in huge plants now assumed to be turning out

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WASHINGTON, ‘Oct. 2 (UP). “of The specially-contaminated rye ~The Government is taking advan- | Were discovered and the grain was tage of some, well-meaning pigeons | oroUETL 10 Staten fsland where the in New York: to assure an ever-| This, however, proved to be labor- | : ious ‘and expensive, Increased employment in defense industries near Staten Island made the procurement of suitable labor even more difficult and for a while, officials

th Te. I 3 " were: moved out : he program to Plots came by Fy aged ate ergot and “become. more actively

the rye-and left the valuable ergot|identified with this new trade-proe resting on the screen, motion activity.”

Pigeons -are being lured away from the Battery in New York and the windows. ox Wall eet brokers to aid e production of were worried about how the work STE0L, 3 Darasifis growth peculiar t0| could be carried on. c ypes of rye Ww. CON=| Then, one day a pigeon flew into tains important ‘Medicinal ProP- one of the foreign oa zone builderties, ings and started to peck at the The pigeons: are being used at the|iungus-ridden grain which had Commerce Department's foreign been spread on a table for human trade zone on ‘Staten Island to .sep- separators who hadn't shown up: for arate the ergot from grains of rye |the job. The pigeon ate only the ported from foreign - countries.|rye. : They eat the rye, leaving the ergot.| Other pigeons joined the pioneer They don’t like the taste of the ergot |and soon, in the words of the Comand spit it out. merce Department, “a sizable flock Before the war, peasants of the|were , voraciously consuming the Balkan countries which provided grain.” most of “the fungus-bearing rye,| A great fluttering of 'wings and performed the separation process by |other movements of the pigeons athand and the ergot was exported [tended the free lunch. But the birds to the United States. spit out the ergot and left it on the After the capitulation of the Bal- tabletop. kan countries, other foreign sources| The officials were amazed and de-

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industries and pig iron. The region has about half ofall Russia’s railway equipment. At Sverdlovsk. behind the Urals, according to a study by E. C. Ropes, Commerce Department expert, there are giant steel mills and manufacturing plants for heavy machinery and electrical machinery. At Chelyabinsk there are machinetool works, a zinc smelter and tractor plant. At Magnitorsk is another huge steel plant, fully integrated from blast furnaces to modern rolling mills. 200 New Factories

Chusavaya. has a new charcoal iron smelter making. ferro-alloys. There are new smelters and sulphuric. acid plants at Krasnouralsk, Chemical Works at Berezinki. All through the area there has been vast industrial expansion, and in recent years some development of oil from nearby Ural fields. And there has been electric-power development to keep pace with industrial needs. More than 200 new factories were

‘| built in the Urals from 1928 to

1938, and it is assumed that many of these today have been turned to defense production.

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Russia have reported several new airplane factories east 'of the Urals. Government reports show little that is definite concerning development here, though it is assumed to be considerable. Loss of Moscow and its large industrial suburbs would be a terrific blow to Soviet production. Here are centered a large automotive industry and factories. making rail« road equipment, electrotechnical products and machines of many types, including important precision instruments.

Plants in Moscow Suburbs

In Moscow suburbs are large agricultural machinery plants, assumed to have been substantially converted to war production, railroad car and street car factories, and others making many articles from sewing machines to tives. Still well inside the territory held by Stalin's armies is Gorki, with the largest automobile plants in the Soviet Union. Here also are produced machine tools, diesel engines, Ships, radio apparatus and chem1 products. n the Ukraine the Germans also are threatening Kharkov, a heavy industry city whose loss would be great to the Russians. Some officials believe that Russia still may have . tremendous stores of goods piled up, especially wheat; oil and clothing.

ONTARIO PUSHES FIGHT ON CANCER

TORONTO (U. P.).—One of the|

world’s greatest scientifio battles is being fought in a small laboratory in Kingston, Ont, It is the battle against cancer. Recently the world took its eyes from other battles to read a progress report from the. scientists working in the Kingston laboratory. Although the report brought new hope to cancer sufferers it’ was written in cautious scientific tones that might have come from the notebook of an Erlich or a Pasteur. The. subject of the report was a preparation known as Ensol, which has been used in 1700 cases of can-

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has arrested progress of the disease

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