Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1942 — Page 5

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U S.-VICHY TIES

Like Hitler,

Wakbiraion Officials,

Surprised That

Testimony So Far Is Not Flattering to The Nazi Conquerors.

Queen at DePauw

REDS CLOSI

NEW NAT! TRAP

Seek to Encircle Vyazma

After Gzhatsk Garrison

Is Hemmed In. LONDON, March 19 (U. P)—

The Russians, having surrounded

-harge

In Dispute Over Chicken Pot|

NEW YORK, March 19 (U. P.)— The case of Pat Di Cicco, the 10quart pot and the St. Patrick's day chicken cacciatore comes up today in Yorkville court. -

The charge against Di Cicco,

| husband of the former Gloria Van-

derbilt, heiress to ‘some $5,000,000

‘when 21, is simple assault, com-

mitted upon Peter Joyce, Irish-born

In five minutes, ‘he said, Di Cicco stormed into the lobby and clipped him on the chin. Di Cicco said he wasn't going to cook the chicken; Mrs. Topping, the former Sonja Henie, had a cook to do that. He and Mrs. Di: Cicco were only interested in gefting the pot. .

WESTERN SUMATRA - TOKYO, March 18 (Japanese Radio Recorded by U. P. in New York and San JFrancisco)—Dispatches from “a certain base” said today that. Padang, a seaport. on the west coast of Sumatra, had been captured by the Japanese.

occupied by forces which

at Lhokseumawe, on the northe eastern coast of Sumatra and marched more than 300 miles ‘in six days, the dispatches said, - ‘A field dispatch from Timor said Japanese forces had annihilated the defender in outlying sections ‘of the Dutch part of" the ‘island. .:*

CLAY MOGG says: a

lthe German garrison at Gezhatsk, clerk of the Park ave. hotel, where

By DAVID M. NICHOL Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Timés and the Chicago Daily News

WASHINGTON, March 12.—In the face of the explosive situation created by the Riom trials, there has been -a slight improvement during the last two weeks in the taut and delicate relations that still connect the United States with Vichy. Officials responsible for foreign policy have been sur-

prised by the course of the trials, just as Hitler apparently

‘was. The Nazi fuehrer termed them ‘‘incomprehengible” in his memorial day

speech last Sunday. There would be. no surprise here, moreover, should the Vichy authori« ties surrender to the increasing clamor of the German-controlled French press for a suspension of the proceedings. The Nazis had hoped that the French would convict themselves of starting the war and lay themselves open to the kind of peace treaty that would then be imposed. Instead, the general tenor of the testimony has been that had the French been better prepared, they might have withstood the German attack. It is unflattering, almost insulting to their Nazi conquerors.

Further Ship Denials

A Vichy spokesman, meanwhile, entered further denials that naval vessels had been surrendered to the Nazis or that Madagascar might become a new Indo-China. It was considered significant here that these assurances which Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles disclosed earlier, came not only from

the Vichy government, presumably, committing its members. Nazi resentment at the same time has taken the shape of a renewed campaign, often bitterly personal, against Admiral William D. Leahy,

ithe United States ambassador, per-

haps the forerunner of a new squeeze by the Nazi vise on Vichy. The general attitude of the United States is one of ‘“hopefulness, not optimism,” it was explained.

Spain in Spotlight

Not Vichy but Spain has taken the top position this week among the state department’s problems in dealing with Europe’s non-belliger~ ents. Mr. Welles at his press conference yesterday said only that the United States is waiting further information about the new trade agreement between Spain and Argentina. Spanish “volunteers” are fighting with the Germans against the Russian armies in the east, and Spanish laborers have been “recruited” for work in Germany along with men and women from every

‘coming a duplication.of that of the

were redoubling their efforts to encircle and strangle the enemy at Vyazma, 40 miles to the southeast, front line dispatches indicated today. The plight of the Gzhatsk garrison was described as rapidly be-

encircled German 16th army in the frozen forests and swamplands

the Di Ciccos are staying.

There was no argument that Di

Cicco hit Joyce, or that the trouble started over a pot in which to cook a chicken, but there was a dispute about the preliminaries, particularly about the charge that Joyce threatened to deliver the pot over Mrs. Di Cicco’s head.

Joyce said the first he heard

around Staraya Russa.

Reports from Moscow said the

Germans at Gzhatsk were desperately short of supplies, and that the Red air force was steadily shooting down big German trans-

about the pot was from the clerk

telephoned from the nearby apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Topping and ordered a 10-quart pot. The assistant manager had ordered that

he relieved. The Di Ciccos had|

ports trying to relieve them. Vyazma Being Encircled The German army at Staraya

Russa was reduced to eating horse meat long ago, and the Moscow

Julia Romeiser, “athletic-type” junior from Chicago, will be queen of the junior prom at DePauw university Saturday night. She’s a member of Alpha Phi sorority and last year was chosen the prettiest sophomore by the Boulder, campus literary magazine,

URGES SUB HUNT BY ‘GNAT’ BOATS

encircled before the trap was closed around Gzhatsk.

ment of Gzhatsk as extremely important, since it is 100 miles west of Moscow and the closest the

munications

as the weather moderates.

scribed heavy Russian attacks in

radio said the destruction of the remnants was proceeding.

no kitchenware was to leave the hotel.

A little later, Joyce said, Mrs. Di

Cicco called and demanded to know why the pot hadn't been . sent. Joyce said he repeated the manager’s instructions, and Di Cicco, taking the telephone, started re-

He said Mrs. Di Cicco telephoned Joyce. “My wife is apt to sound very meek, but he used insulting language to her, and said, “I haven't got any pot, and ‘I'll give you a pot over the head if you come over here,” Di Cicco charged. He went over to see whether he was going to get the pot. Di Cicco said Joyce came out as if he were squaring off. “My fist struck him on the shoulder and he went down,” Di Cicco said. They finally had chicken cacciatore, after a night club loaned them

a pot.

GIVE UP ANCIENT SWORDS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (U. P.)— Police report that among weapons turned in by aliens were several Japanese swords from 300: to 750 years old,

“I bet if the truth were told those 23 Jap ships sunk off New Guinea were sunk by MacArthur, just to inform them that he was on his way

to Australia.

Consult with one of them as and then help MacArthur and

¢ « « and speaking of informing . . +

“Our heating ‘experts have been informing fuel buyers for over a quarter of a century as to the best SPOT fuel to burn to obtain the most heat for the money.

only for this year but next year, too.”

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Vyazma apparently was partly

Observers . regarded the encircle-

Germans now are to Moscow, In German hands, with comunbroken, it would have been a springboard for an offensive against Moscow as soon

Reports from other sectors dethe Crimea and local successes

around Kharkov, but there were no substantial changes in position.

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Floridan Says 600 Could Guard Both Coasts

Against Raiders.

MIAMI, Fla., March 19 (U. P)).— A prominent boat builder proposed today that enemy submarines be fought with a swarm of 24-foot “gnat” boats which would circle east and west coast shipping lanes at five-mile intervals. “These boats—carrying four depth charges and mounting a machine gun—could provide a substantial threat to axis submarine raiders and a constant protection to coastal shipping,” H, Paul Prigg, one of the country’s leading small-craft manufacturers, said. “No merchant vessel or tanker would ever be more than two and a half miles from these tiny craft— always in sight of their crews,” he said. “These little boats would cost only $3000 each and if one were lost, the cost would be three lives at the most.”

600: Proposed

Mr. Prigg’s plan calls for construction of 600 of the tiny craft of a 24-foot stock-model design, capable of 30 miles an hour and proven seaworthiness, at a total cost of only $1,800,000. A crew of three, one man aiways off duty in a bunk in the cabin, could run 24 or 36-hour patrols in each five-mile sector, ever on guard for enemy submarines and ready to pick up survivors if a ship were sunk, The small boats could carry nearly 30 men in an emergency. Ship-to-shore radio would summon supporting aircraft or other boatss

Smaller Than Mosquito Boat

“I am confident that in this} section alone, 90 to 100 of these! craft could be turned out every month. And think what the country’s other small boat builders could add to that.” ~ Less than half the size of the navy’s famed mosquito boats, the proposed 24-foot fighter would carry the same armament as the larger, speedier craft with the exception of torpedoes, and torpedoes are not used to sink submarines, Mr. Prigg

Chief of State Petain, but also from|other conquered or allied nation.

WILL YOU BE

Organizations

Lodge Plans Party—Brightwood lodge No. 846, ladies auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railway trainmen will sponsor a card party at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the Brightwood hall, 2300 N. Station st.

Stamp Club to Meet—The Indiana Stamp club will meet at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow in the Hotel Antlers. Stamps will be swapped and placed on display. Mrs. Lillian Meeker is club secretary.

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Lutheran Club te Dine — The monthly meeting of the Lutheran Men’s Service club wil be held at 6:30 o'clock tonight at the Athengeum. Mrs. J. FP. Mussmann. is business secretary of the club.

Rebekahs Sponsor Supper—Olive Branch Rebekah Circle will sponsor a supper at the Food Craft shop at 6:30 o'clock tonight.

Auxiliary Plans Supper—The Mal. Harold C. Megrew auxiliary, Spanish War Veterans, will have a penny supper at Ft, Friendly, 512 N, Illinois st. at 6 p. m, Friday. Mrs, Ora Love, president, will be hostess.

Plan Pitch-In Supper—Chappell Rebekah ‘lodge, I. O. O. F., will give a pitch-in supper for members and their families at 6:30 p. m. Saturday in the lodge hall, 1120 W. 30th st.

Card Party Arranged—Crossroads of America lodge 901, auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, will give a pillowcase card party at the Citizens Gas & Coke utility auditorium at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow.

PILGRIM SHRINE 12 T0 INSTALL OFFIGERS

Daisy Carlisle will be inducted as worthy high priestess of Pilgrim Sarine 12 at 8 o’clock tonight at installation services in Castle hall,| |= 230 E. Ohio st. Harriett Reeve will| |= 3 be the installing officer. Others to be inducted are Howard Hoffmeyer, watchman of the shepherds; Grace Roder, noble prophetess; Leon Sherer, associate watchman of the shepherds; Millie Gilmore, worthy scribe; Elma Hixon, worthy treasurer; ‘Margaret Jenkinson, worthy chaplain. Christine Peyton, worthy shep-| | herdess; Elizabeth Van Cleave, } worthy guide; Ora May Simmons, worthy herald; John Gold, first wise man; William J, Davidson, second - wiseman; Alva D. Baker, third wise man; Andrew Landers, king; Louise Russel, queen.

Also Bessie O'Dell, first handmaid; Elsie Davidson, second handmaid; Reba Masten, third handmaid; Alice Puett, worthy organist; Lula Cox, worthy guardian and Roxie Trubey, worthy guard.

HIS HUNCH WAS RIGHT

COLUMBUS, Ga., March 19 (U. 'P.).~Maj. Philip H. Draper’s hunch that it was a ‘good time to call home” from his station overseas, turned out to be correct. The long distance call came through to Mrs. Draper last night just a few hours after she gave birth to a son, Stephen Elliott Draper.

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