Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1941 — Page 9
6 viait, the Governor's office, Last week he “to confer with the Board of Accounts. ~, . - He found his way to the elevator, ‘got on, ered a moment and : then. turned. to a a fellow passenger and asked: “Say, can you tell me : where Tl find the Board of Ac. -. counts?” . . + The Variety Club is looking around for a new “main ‘charity.” now that the blood bank it established at the Medical Center no longer needs assistance.
They're considering several new
projects, such as supplying free milk to underprivileged school children or perhaps. sponsoring portable incubators for prema- . Seven-year-old Rachel was g to her parents "discuss the difficulty in obvarious materials because of the Government's al defense priorities. After quite some thinking, hel asked: “Will the war take ‘what they need to ‘ a
MAYOR SULLIVAN gets quite a, few invitations to this or that dinner orgmeeting. He doesn’t at-
mpt to attend all of them, sometimes sending one of 8 City Hall officials in his place. So when there came a request during the Mayor's absence for him f a WPA conference, his secretary, Russell ; Cam; yell, decided to send a substitute. “Let’s see,” aa . “WPA? -Better send an engineer.” So he a Val McLeay, assistant city engineer. Afterit oy Val called the Mayor's office: “Say, I was sort , “out of place at that meeting. It was something ai ‘sta 1a ‘WPA nursing school project. . And it ame 88 cenits for lunch, too.” . . . One'of the pho in. the exnibi last week at the Art Museum - showed a
reminds; us that Republicans’ dough is just as wel-
hile rsd Negro hlding » dock of muses the photo re-
singing reveréntly, - Close. vealed that the words under Fe ma wee toe of
the song, “Confucius Say,”
Cigarets, 6 Cents a: ‘Pack
MORE ON ‘Alaska: Lieut. William PF. Day, went. to Kodiak, Alasks, from Ft. Harrison 0st Ifanay, a couple of months ago, has
jobs. at the fort (Greeley) make fabulous wages. ‘The
lowest daily wage is $15, for common labor, but the}
men must sign up for. six months or not come. ele They spend most of it for what little entertainment there is. .Our weekly shower is an event, We have to walk a mile but it’s worth it. . . .
Reading material is one of the problems here. When it storms
on an average of five days a week, it’s not possible to do anything but read or write. val his way be. sh uncomfortable experience now but ‘it certainly separating the men from the boys.”
Here and There
CONFIDENTIALLY: The reason one of our football parlay operators surrendered to police and asked protection last week is that one of those “clients” he couldn’t pay off was a certain heavyweight boxer who was demanding his dough—or else. e « » The reason Walter Greenough was seen recently wearing a topcoat with sleeves several inches too long was that someone “traded” with him at a hotel in Evansville. Walter describes it not as a trade but as a certain kind of “steal.” , . . James E. Perry, who's i selling space for self-written “puffs” in a book— “Who's Who and What's What in Indiana Politics,”
some 8s; Democrats’.
Ernie Pyle is on leave of pm because of the illness of his wife.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—In all that I have written : 1 have made an effort, and I think a reasonably successful effort, to stick to the facts and the. arguments over issues without resort to personalities. RL ~other words, I have tried to keep it above the belt. fo . On the whole, those on the : other side have taken the same impersonal . attitude toward me, with a few exceptions.
One exception ‘is Senator Wheeler. He stated in the Senate the other day that I was registered at the State Department - as a British agent. Rep. Lam- - #bertson of Kansas put on his own “Christmas-tree trimming and said I was registered at the State Department as an agent of the British Government. * Neither of these statements is rue, Neither Senator Wheeler nor Congressman ‘asked me: what the facts were before spread in the Congressional: Record reflections my. honesty as a newspaper man that would be ous if made outside of the Congressional privilege.
The Facts of the Case
‘» £ THE PACT 1S THAT ‘the United Feature Syndi- ~~ pate-asked me last winter to write 12 weekly dis4 es at the request of the London Daily Mail. I istered. that contract with the State Department. “The corhpensation, except deductions. for income X, was turned over to the Lord Mayor's Fund of Jon an a charity - which provides shelter, clothing i food for bombed-out families. I did not wish to ¢ personally outsof the distress of the people of and have not done so. . explained these facts to Senator Wheeler after first crack, and showed him the receipts from British charity, But, of course, he wouldn't be ough to make a straightforward correction. He twist his explanation, although he knew better. .
Clapper Letter
A DETAILED’ STATEMENT Ra widte to Senator Wh
Ti eT urks
LE THE GERMANS are fighting it out this with the Russians and British they apparare content to let Turkey adhere to its policy
trality. Biitish have iy fit to force Turkey to Join go over to the enemy ip time, have. joined with
the United States in showering Turkey with planes and munitions in the hope of buying Turkish’ good ‘will. Some of this new equipment was paraded last Wednesday when the Turks celebrated the 18th anniversary of their republic. The appearance of American war material in the Turkish Jub tary parade is particularly in esting in view of a I arn memorandum just received from prican observer who knows Turkey well. memorandum, written just a, month ago in analyzes Turkish policy ‘and Attitude in the realistic terms. . Turks are waiting to see who is going to ‘war. They hope to be allowed to wait unthe last five minutes of the war; at which time Would probably jump on the winning side. Their 4s one of cold calculation on how to avoid and at the same time gain the most.”
b It and Ridicule It!
‘IDEALISM NOR sentimentality about ; bas Joy ‘part in Turkish policy,” went on : “On the other hand, they / beck the wrong harse. .
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made in a letter Oct.~29, 1941, and
PARK, Sunday.—Ever since Friday we have |
usly waiting for more news of the surm 2 snd torpedoed - destroyer. Evidently the
York City, We were joined there
by Ms. [ and after dining at
“the sound .of it as I
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-fense. * 1° have written many times on these ques.to.do s0.aga
By Raymond Clapper
which ‘he inserted in the Congressional Record of Nov. 1 as follows: “My Dear Senator Wheeler: “In the Congressional Record of Oct. 28, Page| 8501, you are reported as saying that I have been registered with the State Department as a British agent and that thereafter the tenor of my articles changed completely. “I am sure that you do not wish to make an unfounded charge against my integrity as a newspaper man. “Reference to the facts will show that both of your statements are incorrect. “Last ‘December, at the request of the United Feature Syndicate, which distributes my daily column, I agreed to write 12 weekly articles for the London Daily Mail. Upon inquiry at the State Department I was informed that this contract should be registered under the law, which was done. The articles were completed on schedule and that was the end of the arrangement. I have had no other arrangement of any kind before or since with any foreign newspaper or any other foreign agency or| government. “As to the statement that my views were affected by this arrangement you have only to read what I wrote at the time of the fall of France in the summer of 1940 and on many other occasions over the last two years to see that there is no truth in that. “Sincerely yours, “Raymond ‘Clapper. »
Can’t They Stick to a Point?”
ANYONE WHO HAS READ what I have written since. Munich can see, unless blinded by prejudice, that I have tried to be sane and realistic as events have changed the world that confronts us. : As I wrote then, British seapower ‘has been of
great, importance to us. Events since Munich -have only emphasized the importance of it to our own de-
tions and, wit Senator Wheeler's permission, I hope - Can't the isolationist stick to the point, which is Baw. Hest to protect the interests of the United
By Carroll Binder
“They are in a wonderful blackmail position and taking in with both hands what the British, Germans and owselves give them. It. is particularly painful to see good American guns going to the wrong Side of the Syrian frontier. “Turks seem to take a pleasure in discounting American war production and American aid to Britain and the Middle East. They harp a lot on how promised American aid never got to Greece or Yugoslavia in time. A lot of them won't even admit that American arms are actually getting to Turkey now. “A lot of the stuff reaches the Army all right and is hidden away somewhere. The army says nothing about it to the other branches of the government. Turkey is like .that.”
‘Will Acquiesce to Nazis’
“THE TURKS THINK that -the United States will not be ready for .war .or strong enough for war for years to come,” he:continyed. “They don’t think America will come in for a long time yet, if ever. “The Turks probably will be allowed to sit on the fence until when and if the Germans get to the Caucasus. “At that time the Germans will probably turn around with a big show of force and put their planes on the 200 airdromes they've built in Bulgaria and ask the Turks how about it. “If the United States, hasn't gone to war with both feet by then, Turkey will acquiesce. “The Turks seem _ to have BEque vastly impressed | by the Luftwaffe’s obliteration of Belgrade. On the other hand, they don’t .believe that the Royal Air Force will ever obliterate a town anywhere.”
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INSTALMENT TXIX_VIEW OF ATR WAR
GHENT, Belgiing rh a 1940, ~The ciionilage of : the. airfield on which we landed here is' worth noting. ‘From the air I noticed it looked: just like any other place in the landscape, with paths cutting across it irregularly as
though it was farm land. Each war plane on the ground
back and both sides of this
has its. own temporary hangar made of mats plastered with grass. Tent poles support the mats. Along the
tent of mats, sandbags are
piled to protect the plane from: splinters. So skilfully are these hangars constructed that I doubt if you could distin-
guish one from above a thousand feet. J : The field itself is not large, but the Germans. are .
busy tearing down adjacent
“to them. planes : hidden under the trees. From the air it would be hard to spot these pockets and you might bomb the airfield heavily without touching any of these planes.
CALAIS, Aug. 15 (noon). — Driving down along the coast, I
"was struck by the defensive
measures of the Germans. A line of trenches, dug-outs, and ma-chine-gun nests strongly manned, stretched ‘along the sand dunes a hundred yards from the water's edge all the way down fo Dunkirk. . There were many antiaircraft. guns and about a quarter of a mile to the rear countless batteries’ of artillery. I had not thought “before of the possibility of .the British doing any attack-
g. We do not see any evidence at any place along the coast of German preparations for an invasion. No large concentrations of troops or tanks or barges. But of course they may be there, and we just didn’t see them. - Dunkirk has been cleaned up, and those who were there two months ago scarcely recognize it. The sentry does not allow us into the part of town around the main port, possibly because we might learn something of the invasion " forces. : ‘We drive to the beach from which a quarter of a million . British troops made their ‘get‘away. What surprises me after the German boasts about all the as bear co, io sa one day, we En in Berlin, the Luftwaffe had sunk fifty ships) is that along a 20-mile stretch you see the wrecks of only two freighters. Besides these there are the remains of two destroyers, one of which, ‘I believe, was bombed long before the withdrawal from Dunkirk, and a torpedo bpat. Five small vessels in all. And any boat sunk within a great distance of the beach would be visible because of the shallowness of the water here,
feverishly enlarging it. Gangs of Belgium workers are
buildings.—villas of the local.
gentry. An example, incidentally, of how Belgians are made to aid Germany's war on Belgium’s ally, Britain. One neat way the Germans hide their planes, I notice, ‘ig to build pocket£—little clearings—some distance away fromthe field. Narrow lanes from the main airfield. lead Along the sides of these pockets are rows of
(Later)—While we are still at lunch here in Calais, we hear the first wave of German bombers roaring over to England. They fly so high you can them—at least 12,000 feet.
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Not a Spitfire Shows
ABOUT 3 p. m. we set off in cars along the coast to Cap GrisNez. Now the German planes are humming over, there a squadron of 27 bombers, here 50 Messer“schmitt - fighters coming in to meet them. They all turn and swing -out--to sea towards Dover.
It is soon evident that the British do not come out—at least very far —to meet them. We watch for the British over the Channel. Not a single Spitfire shows. We speed on up the coast. A swarm of Heinkel bombers limp back from the direction of Dover. Three or four are having a hard time of it, and one, nearly’ out of control, just ges to make a piece of land back of the cliffs. Messerschmitt 109s and 110s dash about at 350 miles per hour like a lot of nervous hens protecting their young. They remain in the air until all the bombers are safely down, then climb and make off for England. We pass a big railroad naval gun which has been firing on Dover. It is neatly : camouflaged by netting on which the Germans have tied sheaves of grain. All along the coast gangs of French laborers have heen put te work by the Germans, building artillery emplacements. Finally we turn
- towards- the sea down the road
that leads to Cap Gris-Nez. We spend the rest of the afternoon idling on the grass at the. edge of the cliff at Cap Gris-Nez. The German bombers and fighters keep thundering over. Through field-glasses you can see plainly the Dover cliffs and occasionally even spot an English sausa balloon protecting the harbor. keep on the watch Ele or for a formation of Spitfires to light on- the returning German bombers. It’s a vain watch. We
A grim scene amidst natural beauty . . . German troops with their gas masks and artillery,
do not see a British plave, all
afternoon. About 6 p. m. we. see 60 big bombers—Heinkels and . Junker82’'s—protected. by 100 -Messerschmitts, winging high overhead towards Dover. In three or four minutes we can hear plainly the British anti-aircraft guns around Dover going into action ngalnst them, : 2 = ”
18 .0ut of 60 Return
IN AN HOUR what looks to us like the same bombing squadron returns. We can count only 18
bombers of the original 60. Have the British accounted for the rest? It is difficult to\ tell, because we
know the Germans often have
orders to return to different fields from those they started from. Now the sun is turning low. The sea is like glass. The skies quiet. | The afternoon on the cliff has seemed more like a bucolic picnic than a day on the front line ‘of the air war. The same unequal struggle that we saw in Belgium and northern France. Not a British plane over, not a bomb dropped. (Later)—The “thing T11 never forget about these coastal towns in Belgium and France is the way the Belgians and French pray every night for the British bombers to come: over, though often ‘when their prayers are answered it means their death. It is:3 a. m. now and the German flank has been firing at top speed since 11:30 p. m,, when we heard the first thud of a British bomb tonight down by the harbor. No one goes to the cel-
lar. When the Germans have cleared out, we sit in the back room with the French proprietor, his family, and two waiters and drink vin rouge to each new British bomb that crashes.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 6.—In a couple of fields along the way this afternoon, we saw what looked under the camouflage liké barges and pontoons loaded . with artillery and tanks. But: there was certainly not enough to begin an invasion of England with. However, two or three German officers in our party keep emphasizing what we saw and hinting that there is much more that we didn’t see. Maybe. But I'm suspicious. I think the Germans want us to launch a scare story about an imminent invasion of Britain. (Later, 2 a. m.)—To bed now, and the German anti-aircraft guns still pounding away at the British bombers. The noise started shortly after midnight. Can't hear or feel any bombs. Suspect the British are after the airport. ” ” 8 BRUSSELS, Aug. 17.—~From my talks with Belgians and French in’the last few days it is encouraging that they both place their last desperate hopes on. the British holding out.” For they now realize that if Hitler wins they sie doomed to become. a slave people On the Channel the Germans : would not let us talk with the German pilots, but this afternoon . Dick Boyer and I, sitting lazily on the terrace of a cafe, struck up a conversation with a young German air officer,
He says he’s a. Messerschm pilot who took part in the big tack on London yesterday and day before. He. does not appear to be. a boastful young man, . some pilots I've met. He says quietly: “It’s a ma of another couple of WeekS, know, until we finish with RAP: & first, they gave us plen of ; trouble, . But this week resistance been growing and less. ‘Yesterday, for ex: I saw practically no British f ers in the air. For the most p we cruised to our objectives back again without hindran The British, gentlemen, through.” ! 2 8 =
.Hangars Bombed
ABOARD A GERMAN ARMY TRANSPORT PLANE,
High * Command communique; 4 The the ;Gérman-. -language paper,’ the Brusseler. Zeitung, reports that Friday's air battles over habia the English lost 83 planes and: Germans 31.. What was that . little Messerschmitt pilot told practically:
At the Brussels airport I stroll® over towards the hangers, Two them have been freshly bombe and behind them are large p .of wrecked German planes. British attacks, then, were ro harmless. ‘
NEXT: Berlin in Bombed. (Copyright. 1940, 1941, by Wills
Shirer; distributed by United - Syndicate, Inc.)
CLOSE NEW YORK VOTE FORECAST
Mayor LaGuardia and 0’Dwyer Conclude Their Campaigns Today.
closest New York mayoralty election in years.
Mayor LaGuardia, seeking a
publican, American Labor, City Fusion and United City Parties’
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By RICHARD MOWRER Copyright, 1941, By T The | Jodisnupolis Times WITH' THE BRITISH ARMY, WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT, Nov. 3—The outstanding factors at this Stagp of the ait war ver the desery are the I The Germans in the Mes-serschmitt-109 P the fastest fighter in these skies. ‘The British possess in the American Glenn Martin, Maryland, the fastest and most efficient bomber. “There are more clouds nowadays —a development which favors concealment if necessary of bombers out on daylight raids.. The ME-109 F is something new out here. This fighter is the fastest the Nazis have yet produced. On the other hand, we are told of a recent engagement between a Tomahawk and a ME-109 F in which each: machine shot the other
Nazis Have Fastest Fighters Over Egypt But British Bombers Are Most Efficient
The ME-109 F's operate in swarms and like to fly high and make one fast dive at a target, then beat it.
,| However, there is one exception to
this rule: A lone ME-109 F, nicknamed by the Britighers “Bafdia Bill,” specializes in strafing undefended trucks or encampments where there are sure to be no Bofors ack-ack guns. “Bardia Bill” takes just one swipe at his objective and does’ not repeat but goes to take a swipe at something else. The favorite pastime of the ME109 F's is to lay in ambush. They have been known to lie in wait miles above advanced airfields until British fighters begin to take off. The Royal Air Force is wise to this maneuver, however, and has made certain arrangements. Wrecked Stuka Found In our desert wanderings we came
upon the wreck of a German Stuka divebomber:: bearing Italian mark-
7| ings. One hundred yards away a
Tomahawk stood: on the ground guarded by’ a black South African sentinel. There was no Tomahawk
/{ pilot, nor were: there Stuka fliers.
HOLD EVERYTHING: ~~
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The wreck was fresh—there was barely any dust on the Stuka’s oilsmeared e e. The sentinel didn’t know anythnilg. We examined ‘the Stuka and found the tail full of holes. Evidently the plane had crash-landed, for 50 yards away were pieces of its landing gear. Upon first hitting the ground the plane apparently had bounced 50 yards to squash itself flat on its belly on the stony ground. Inside the Stuka’s cockpit we found that the wires had been yanked out of the control board. On the floor were a couple of rocks which seemed to have been used to smash the instruments. Had the Tomahawk pilot landed after shooting down the Stuka to capture the Stuka fliers and make them cease the destructoin of their machine?’ The black sentinel didn’t know anything. He just grinned, and there was nobody else around except us.
LOER TO ADDRESS
EAST SIDE GROUP)
East Side residents ‘will hear city traffic engineer -James E. Loer in an illustrated lecture -at 8 o'clock
nity House. :He will ‘explain the problems. encountered with city
The Brookside oh, League has several measures for considera-
‘chairman of the league's safety committee, the City Council ‘has been presented a proposed ordinance which will limit the use of Brookside Ave. to passenger Yehicles, except for commercial deli
oie His: asked” tint
Aircraft % a “workers deaction until
will observe National Book | this week by a to pl the hands of its 140,000 t books which give an understan and appreciation of America.
The 19 branch librdries will ¢ their activities on visits to the g schools of the City, and in cases, presentation of playlets illu — the advantage of read At - the Prospect branch, Spruce St., Miss Mabel. Leigh E author, and Mrs. Clotilde Punk, lustrator, will speak to children 3:30 p. m. Wednesday. Follo this there will be a play, “Fo With Books,” written by Miss garet Habich, children’s lib Another - play,’ “The Ench Door,” written by Miss Marion lap,-children’s librarian of the E thorne branch, 70 N. Mount 8t., be given at the hranch at a.m; Friday.
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the National Defense Mediation]
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