Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1941 — Page 47

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DEFENSE PLANS

Calls Up 20,000 Men for Army; Thinks Invasion Would Be ‘Cinch.’

By ALLEN HADEN CO a Sy a and! ahapolts Yimes SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec, 12.—~Chile has called up the military clagses of 1939 and 1940 totaling 20,000 men, to report Dec. 15 as Japan's attack on United States Pacific bases blew sky high any lingering doubts the South American republics had that their continent could not be invaded, The conference! of foreign ministers of the Amer-: jcanrepublics, scheduled to meet the first week in January in Rio De Janeiro, prob- : ably will include military and naval general 0 staff talks paral- : .& leling the diplo- a I matic consulta- Mr. Had tions. : One of the most significant reactions to the Japanese attacks has been the overnight switch of Axis sympathizers to support af PanAmerican defense under the threat of a Japanese invasion, The Panama Canal is the keystone of American continental defense, but the alternative route between the Atlantic and Pacific is the Straits of Magellan,

Invasion a Cinch

On the west coast in between the canal and the straits are uninhabited, some of them unexplored, and completely unpatrolled beaches hundreds of miles long. Invasion would be a cinch, and South America knows it. Should the Panama Canal be disabled by suicide dive-bombers crashing their planes into its locks, the Straits of Magellan would become the only passage north of Cape Horn for the American fleet.

Chile's 2600 miles of coast facing Asia makes this country particularly vulnerable. Chile cannot defend her coast 'nor Robinson Crusoe’s Juan Fernandez island 400 miles west of Valparaiso, the nation’s principal port. In Japanese hands, this island would control all nerth and south shipping passing through the Straits of Magellan,

Haste Is Necessary

Chile’s navy is no match for a first class fleet, courage, goodwill and splendid training of the naval forces by British instructors cannot make up for the fact that Chile's single battleship—27 years old—three cruisers, 117 destroyers and nihe submarines are obsolete. This explains the haste in asking for the Rio De Janeiro Conference at the earliest possible date. The events in the Pacific have telescoped - into hours the diplomatic negotiations necessary for scrapping the Chile-Argentine pact banning fortification of the straits of Magellan, Ordinarily, these talks would have taken months but already an agreement has been reached and plans are underway to fortify the straits. It was announced here Wednesday that Chilean Foreign Minister Juan Bautista Rossetti would meet Argentine Foreign Minister Ruiz Guinazu Mendoza in the immediate future to sign a formal aceon revising the 1881 Magellan pact.

Argentina to Aid

In practical terms, however, the fortification of the straits depends on having something to fortify them with, This implies guns and guns can come only from the Unit« ed States in these days. It is believed that the new accord will provide for Argentine-Chilean naval patrol of the straights until the guns are obtained. To do her share of this job in the Atlantic areas, Argentina has the world's seventh largest navy and a new spirit of Pan American responsibility. After refusing to agree to a suggestion to that effect from Uruguay last July, Argentina now has voluntarily declared the United States a non-belligerent thus opening Argentine ports to our naval and air forces.

LAFAYETTE KIWANIS CLUB 25 YEARS OLD

- Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind. Dec. 12—The 25th anniversary of the Lafayette Kiwanis Club will be celebrated here Monday at Purdue University, A banquet will be held in the Memorial Union Building, followed by a musical program at Fowler Hall. Charles 8. Donley of Pittsburgh, Pa., international president of Kiwanis, will be the principal speaker at the banquet. Indiana District Governor Lowell G. Taylor of Vincennes, several district officers and Kiwanians throughout the state are expected at the celebration. Installation of 1042 officers for the local club also will be held, The organization was’ the first Kiwanis Club organized in Indiana, although the Indianapolis club received its charter first. ‘

$14,200 LIFE HOARD OF HOOSIER STOLEN

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 13

J (U. P.).—Gertrude Shenefleld, spin-

ster hotel proprietor, reported to police yesterday that someone had stolen her life savings-—all $14,200 of it.

accumulated caréfully over a lang period of time, It was in bills and coina.of all denominations. As her hoard grew, she told autherities, she stowed it in bottles, jars, cans and an old suitcase, pushed it far back in a kitchen closet, and cove gred the lot with old rags. There the thief found it.

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