Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1942 — Page 13

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LESLIE COUNSEL Standard Oil Pre-War

RAPS TEACHERS Links to Axis Revealed

‘Too Much Streamlining, He Says Opening Defense In Whipping Case.

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had

that her boy had been punished in!

school.

Danny Leslie, the first witness

testified that a doctor had said he benindustrie has a heart murmur, and that hisjwho heard it bitter parents had been cautioned againstjcomment such

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s research and development of basic | processes which would be “available to all.” | 2. Modification of the patent system. 3. Registration of all patent license agreements. 4 Registration of the agreements

World War, that Mrs. Leslie | petween American companies and gone berserk” when she heard industries in foreign nations.

5. Vigorous enforcement of the | anti-trust laws | The story of Standard Oil's agreements with the German I. G. Farevoked from those and resentful

as has not been

hitting him on the head because heard since the story of frenzied

he was highly nervous.

[Wall Street finance was unfolded

Miss Davis said vesterday she had!/in the same senate caucus room a used a book merely to turn Danny's|decade ago.

head when he was whispering to a!

boy behind him. Using the obliging head of Prosecutor Daniel P. Flanagan,

she | ence

Sent Data to Germany

| Mr. Arnold submitted correspondshowing how Standard had

demonstrated the disciplinary action entered agreements in 1929 with

that caused Danny to run home to his parents crying that “Miss Davis hit me with a book.” Miss Davis said she had used the “Treasury of Life and Literature, Vol. XI” against the side of the youngster's head “like this—" and not, as the defense charged. “like this—"

The court accepted Volume XT as

also demonstrated how Mrs. lashed her bare arms and ders, beating her with nine strokes of the belt. She said she made no effort to fight back. The lashing caused her te remain home from her classes for several days, she said.

the German trust to tie up patents; how since 1932 American | companies had sought in vain to license the use of these patents; {how Standard had refused, so late las last January, a month after Pearl | Harbor, to submit samples to Amertlcan and British rubber companies for production of this vital defense i necessity. It had, however, sent full infor{mation on its butyl rubber to I. G. Farbenindustrie and had referred jan inquiry from an Italian company to the German trust. | It estimated this type of syn-| thetic rubber could be produced for between 7 and 15 cents a pound, |compared to 20 cents a pound for

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|a few weeks ago to release them

DRIVE IN BURMA

All-Out Effort to Smash Bataan Also Seems At Hand.

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and two of them quickly brought down one of the enemy bombers, —indicating that the defenses there had been greatly strengthened. In Australia, Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey arrived from the Middle East, where he had commanded Australian forces, and took command of all allied land forces in Australia under Gen. MacArthur. A part of the Australian expeditionary forces abroad have now returned to aid in the defense of their homeland. “Japan can’t possibly win, but we have no time to waste,” Gen. Blamey said as he took over his new duties.

Rumor Factory Busy

Axis and axis - dominated radio stations issued a sprinkling of rumors about Japanese ldndings. The Saigon station said that Japanese occupied Port Moresby. Paris thought the Japanese had captured Toungoo. vichy suggested that the Japanese had captured the Santa Cruz islands, midway between the Solomons and the Fijis and right on the U. S.-Australian supply route. There was no confirmation of these reports, all coming from usually unreliable quarters.

Quezon in Australia

Thurman Arnold

natural rubber and 18 cents a pound that Jesse Jones, RFC chairman, was paying to the Dutch East Indies on a wholesale ‘basis until the Japanese conquest shut off shipments. But Standard of New Jersey would let no other American companies use its patents until forced

for a royalty which was to bring Standard $6,000,000 a year. A consent decree last Wednesday released these patents free of charge. Senator Truman, committee chairman, usually composed and placid,

had difficulty expressing his indig-|his family and members of his gov-

JAPAN STEPS UP

President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines arrived in Australia with

He came from Corregi-

66-IN. HIGH—28-IN. LONG

DOUBLE WARDROBE

nation at these international finarcial operations when first approached by reporters.

‘Yes, It Is Treason’

“Even after we were in the war,

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{Standard Oil of New Jersey was {putting forth every effort of which lit was capable to protect the con‘trol of the German government

ernment. dor and it was indicated that the

his party.

bombers.

adventure of his trip was just as dramatic as that of MacArthur and

U. S. fighter planes, it was reported, were now in position to defend Port Moresby against Japanese

On the Burma front, a counter-

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vour own food to the table, for the mess boys have plenty to do besides

wait on table. You eat when you can, and sleep the same way. You'll find there's plenty of hard work, and more of it, in Uncle Sam's navy.”

Prepared for Gas Attack

I went topside to the flag deck to waich the land disappear into the distance, and remained to watch planes landing on the flight deck with the rhythm and grace marking the experience and skill of the pilots. A supply officer brings four bags. First he produces a denim blue] jacket. “This is your flame jacket, with a hood that covers your head,” he says. “You put it on if we're attacked. for some of the incendiary bombs throw off flame that'll take| your skin off at 50 feet.” A pair of] white, long-sleeved cotton gloves: dark, shatter-proof goggles and nose-cevering come out of the same bag. The second bag contains a duplicate of this outfit, except that it gives off chemical odor “This is impregnated for gas, as are these trousers,” the officer says. “These long, black woolen gloves are likewise imprenated with the same chemical.”

The Triple Threat in War

A gas mask, with a canister that snaps on to the jacket at the back of the head, and a steel helmet come out of the third bag, and from the fourth, a bulky life-jacket that looks like a monstrous vest with a protruding collar—to keep your head above water should you faint or be knocked out. “You are told that sky control is your battle station, and you wind up innumerable ladders to the bridge deck, then take a final stiff, breathtaking climb up narrow iron rungs to the very top of the superstructure. Here you have a clear view of sky and sea. with powerful and most modern scientific mechanical devices to aid vision and hear-

The Quick and the Dead: That’ s War at Sea: Writer Watches It From Aircraft Carrier

binoculars

attack by veteran Chinese troops

sounds, you haul all parts of your precious anatomy on the doublequick to your battle station—you're either quick or you're dead.” Gasping for breath after the steep, stiff climb to the sky control tower, I learned that the approaching plane had been identified as oné of our own we'd given up as lost, and the general quarters alarm is over.

Our squadrons are like a backfield. The combat planes are the clever, darting quarterback who leads the way, covers the action, swoops in to knock off the opposition. The dive bombers are the powerful right halfback who supplies the sock at close range, zooming from the heights to breath-tak-ing nearness before unleashing loads of destruction.

Halfbacks and Fullbacks High altitude bombers are the left

No Chances Taken

“But you can't take chances,” the

gunnery officer says. “If he'd been epack striking from tremendous an enemy plane, we'd either have

a bomb on our deck, or he'd be so | altitudes for hits at long range, and full of holes he'd look like a sieve. |the bulkier, slower but deadly torIt's up to us to prevent the former pedo planes are the crushing fulland execute the latter. |back who moves in to closé quarters “We're known as the ‘lucky ship’ with pulverizing loads of heavy exbecause the Japs have claimed on | plosives. three different occasions that] That's the mission of our planes they've sunk us, but the good ole offensively. Defensively, they play ‘galloping ghost of the Oahu coast’ the unceasing role of scouts, adding has given lady luck plenty of co- thousands of square miles of lookoperation, too. It is through pre- out “vision” to the naval force, they paredness for any emergency, and Patrol constantly over hundreds of eternal vigilance throughout the 24 miles. hours of the day that we've squeezed| In their clashes with Japanese through tight pinches and come out aviators, they've proven themselves| with colors flying.” | superior in every department. Down below, gunnery crews, anti-| They're calm, philosophic, averagairoraft directors, mechanical de-|ing about the age of a young pro tectors were relaxing in the modi-|[00thall squad, and reflecting the fied alert once again—but ready to Attitudes of a topnotch pro grid leap for their battle stations at uf roa in their quiet, confident man-

second’s notice. er.

” ” ” ‘ . They'd like a crack at Tokyo, and Iron Mer, Winged Ships ask nothing more than additional

MARCH 10—There is no easy job) planes and shipmates to do a thoraboard a warship, but perhaps the ough job.

: There is a movement, IT underdifficult, - : most difficult, and the most dafiger | stand, to reward them distinguished ous, falls to the men who man the

service awards, commemorative of skylanes.

the navy's first offensive, in the They're the offensive punch, and|Gilbert and Marshall islands. they're the defense, and the combi-

They Deserve Tribute

As one who has seen them in genation keeps them busy and eter-|tion and hard at work, I sincerely | nally alert. Mistakes cannot be| hope they get it. rectified, opportunities cannot be| They deserve every bit of recogrecalled. | nttion the nation can bestow.

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was reported at “As Patrick Henry said, if that is | treason—and it certainly is treason | —then make the most of it. Yes, lit is treason. You cannot translate | it any other way.” | Senator Truman said that he could | not express himself further without resort to “field artilllery language.” He was particularly indignant labout a memorandum by Frank | Howard, Standard official in charge lof negotiations with the German | trust, made at the Hague, Netherlands, Oct. 12, 1939, after outbreak of the war, in which Mr. Howard said representatives of I. G. Farbenindustrie “delivered to me assignments of some 2000 foreign patents and we did our best to work out complete plans for a modus viviendi which would operate

up by an estimated 60.000 troops.

JOINT SENATE JOB

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for the primary election before the April 4 deadline.

Japanese assaults on the trapped Chinese forces have been in progress for 48 hours. The Japanese pressure was said to be increasing, backed

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the election commissioners could act quickly enough to enable candidates for the vacant offices to file

The two senate candidates must

day and night, for the triple threats of ocean warfare—aircraft, surface ships and submarines.

Warships Poke Noses in Spray

All around are the carrier's complement of cruisers and destroyers, all in their warpaint of drab gray, poking sharp noses into the ocean spray. 1 look over the formidable array of anti-aircraft armament that stretches in almost uninterrupted line from bow to stern. “Yes, I imagine it's a mighty comfort to you to have all that artillery aboard,” an officer says. “It reminds me of a pep talk we gave a newcomer one day. We showed him the batteries of machine guns, pom-poms, big 5-in-chers. the elaborate director mech-

through the term of the war, whether or not the U. S. came in.”

Examined 40,000 Documents

That last phrase sent a shudder through the committee room. Mr. | Arnold dumped exhibit after exhibit on the committee table as he went through his prepared statement of 27 pages to prove his underlying contention that the use of buna rubber was delayed in this country “because the Hitler government did not wish to have this rub-

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be elected for short terms of two years, while Judge Hunter's successor in Greene county will be elected for a full six-year term. State Auditor Richard T. James has paid Judge Hunter as though he were serving on the bench, it was reported, but he indicated today that no more warrants would be issued for the Greene county judgeship until a successor has beén appointed

anisms and detection contrivances. « ‘With all this equipment and manpower and reinforcements,’ we told him, ‘there's nothing to worry about.’ «:Sure. I agree thoroughly,’ he came back, ‘but it's the places we go that worry me.’ ” 2 os ”

We Are Called to

by Governor Schricker to serve until the November election,

Senate Sole Judge

investigators

veloping their case

Repercussions are expected in

Jersey, after this record of with-| holding patents for development of a synthetic rubber industry in this country, was assigned production of 200,000 tons yearly in the war program which looks to an ultimate 600,000 tons by 1944—in other words, a third of the production for one company, which will give it a dominant postion in a new industry after the war.

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in charge of his office,

Harrison's acceptance of the commission made him ineligible to hold the state job. Under the Indiana constitution, the Senate is the sole judge of its own membership. Some politicians speculated today that if Democrats were elected to the two seats vacated by Republicans, a contest over their right to serve might develop if the state senate still is controlled by a G. O. P. majority. If Senators Green and Handley do not contest the right of candidates for their offices on the ballot before the elections, the decision will rest with the state senate. In his opinion, however, Attorney General Beamer pointed to congressional action during the Civil war when a house committee and the membership agreed unanimously that commisisoned officers in the armed services could not hold house seats under a constitutional provision similar to the Indiana law.

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MARCH 4—There are two kinds of men aboard a warship—the quick and the dead. The signal for the “all-out” alarm, is “general quarters” is to herald the approach

In 1862, Harrison of the enemy. It may come day or many directions, first of which will | became a colonel of volunteers in night, and it is the business.

| relate to why Standard Oil of New the U. S. Army and left a Sete | A screech of whistles, rapid-fire At that time the Supreme Court held Mr.

orders to “man all general quarter stations,” ear-dinning bugles, penetrating, high-pitched buszzers causes a clattering stampede of all hands to battle stations. Within a few minutes, all exits and entrances are dogged down and lights turned out.

Non-Stop Run to Stations

It is a blood-pounding experience to be wakened out of an exhausted sleep by this strident alarm. Following this morning's attack on Marcus island, and a modification of alert late in the afternoon, I dropped on my bunk and plunged into sound sleep. The “G. Q.” alarm jerked me to my feet, and I was still lumbery with sleep when I hit the first ladder. Scrambling behind me was an officer partly dressed, apparently who had been caught in the shower. He disappeared in the direction of the gun mounts when we hit the hangar deck together. “You don't stop for anything,” a gunnery officer says. “When G. Q.

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