Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1942 — Page 18

Today's War Moves

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

Signs are multiplying that Germany is planning a big two-way offensive against the Near Fast and its oil fields this spring. Both British and American military look for a German drive through the southern Ukraine toward the Caucasus, to be accompanied by a drive in the eastern Mediterranean, probably by way

of Cyprus against Syria.

This strategy, as envisioned, would involve by-passing Turkey if

the latter does not yield to heavy transit her territory. Turkish foot soldiers are tough fighters and it is not believed Hitler would take on the added burden of trying to force his way through Turkey. Reports of menacing German movements in Bulgaria are regarded as part of the Nazi propaganda to frighten the Turks into submission. British sources believe Hitler is prepared to stake everything in an effort to turn the war in 1942 and march on to complete victory.

Taps Oil Reserves One factor in his decision is the need for oil. A reliable informant in Washington reports that Hitler, because of the winter campaign in Russia, was obliged to tap his oil reserves by one-third. The size of the projected campaign presumably would use up the remainder, so that if Hitler did not succeed, he would face defeat. Hitler's probable course in the southern Ukraine, in the view of

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Third Drive from Libya?

The Cyprus-Syria operations are feasible at any time, while it is only a matter of weeks until the terrain in the southern Ukraine will be suitable for large-scale military operations. The current German advance in Libya may be a prelude to the general offensive. If it is the start of a major drive, as London thinks may be possible, it would constitute a third column pointed at the Near East by way of Suez. If Hitler is making such an attempt, it would be logical for him to start it immediately. Conditions in the Libyan desert still are suitable for operations, whereas later in the summer intense heat and swirling sandstorms would be a severe handicap to mechanized units and tanks.

NAZI FOOD RATION CUT BERLIN, April 8 (U. P). (German Broadcast recorded by United Press in New York) —Germany is making a slight reduction in food rations for certain categories of persons. Rations for children will not

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COMPROMISE ON PROFITS SOUGHT

Conference Committee to End Dispute Between

House, Senate.

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P). —Drafting of profit limitagion legislation was left today to a ccnference committee that will reconcile differences between senate and house on the $19,062,373,260 supplemental war appropriation. The sehate, in opening up the huge supply bill to a legislative rider on the subject of profits, chose a completely different formula from that proposed by the house, which called for a flat 6 per cent war profits limitation. The senate adopted a generalized proposal authorizing the secretaries of war and navy and chairman of the maritime commission to write contracts that would permit withholding of any payments representing “excessive profits.”

Limit Not Defined

Administration leaders told the chamber approval of this amendment was merely a parliamentary maneuver to throw the entire subject into the lap of the conference committee, to be worked out in final form with the advice of the administrative officials concerned. The senate did not attempt to define what would constitute “excessive profits.” In fact it eliminated from its profits limitation provision a section originally proposed by Senator Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.) to fix a sliding scale ranging from 10 per cent on the first $100,000 of war contracts to 2 per cent on that portion running over $50,000,000. Although the senate suspended its rules, 51 to 10, to write the profits limitation into the appropriation bill, it rejected attempts by Sen. Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) to add labor riders.

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WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P.) — The man who is directing the senate’s inquiry into progress of the war effort doesn’t like the “dirty job” of being an investigator but he believes it is the only way to shorten the war and cut to a minimum the

time during which American youth will be called upon to die. “The more efficient we can become at this dirty business of war the quicker we can finish the job,” Chairman Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.) of the senate committee investigating the war effort said. He hopes that correction of administrative mistakes in running the war program during the war will make it unnecessary to “wash dirty linen” after the war, as was done after world war I when the Nye committee investigated the munitions industry.

Recalls Battlefield Pledge

Mr. Truman said he got the inspiration for the present investigation on a battlefield of world war I in November, 1918. As a captain of field artillery he was ordered to cross an open field and capture a German position that was laying down a heavy barrage. That order was cancelled by the armistice—a break which Mr. Truman believes saved his life. “After that,” he said, “I became determined that if ever another war occurred I would strike at the waste, bungling and the inefficiency of war.” That opportunity came just a year ago this month when the senate approved his resolution for an investigation of the defense program which, before the end of that year, was to become the war program.

Hopes to Straighten Kinks

Mr. Truman is not too optimistic about his investigation obviating the necessity of further inquiries after the war. “All we hope to do and think we can do is to speed the war program, straighten out some of its kinks, and make it more efficient,” he said.

PLEDGES INDIA DEFENSE NEW YORK, April 8 (U. P).—

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anese invasion even though Indian political leaders reject British proposals for her elevation to dominion status, Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, said last night. He said, the British aim always had been freedom for India, under the British flag.

MARION, Ind. April 8 (U. P).— Mrs. Lucille Denigan, 30, divorcee, told authorities today how she sat for 14 hours in a gas-filled automobile with the body of her exhusband but she “just couldn't seem to go” when they attempted joint suicide. Police found the body of Joseph A. Denigan Jr, 30, in his automobile, parked at an abandoned Boy Scout camp. A 50-foot garden hose extended from the exhaust into the machine. Mrs. Denigan told Sheriff Cary Meyers that she and her ex-hus-band, who were divorced three weeks ago, had decided to die together. They wrote a suicide note, she said, then drove to the deserted camp, parked the car and attached the hose. That was midnight Monday. “Joe died about four hours afterwards,” she said, “but I just couldn’t seem to go. Every onee | in a while

WICKARD DENIES FACED’ POLICY

AAA Payments Declared Consistent With Program To Produce More.

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 8.--Secre-tary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard took time out from his «Pood for Victory” program today to explain to a newspaper publisher just how his department can pay farmers for not producing and at the same time aid production. The department of agriculture made public the full text of Mr. Wickard's letter to Joseph M. Patterson, publisher of the New York News. He took issue with an editorial which accused the administration of following a “two-faced” policy of begging farmers to produce and paying them not to produce.

Wickard Denies Charge “The facts do not bear out this charge,” Secretary Wickard said. “The 1042 farm programs, including that of the AAA, aim at using every bit of farm land, labor and equipment as efficiently as possible, in order to raise the great amounts of food and fiber that this country and its allies must have in order to win the war. “In agriculture, as in industry, needs are so great in relation to resources, that increases in production must be planned increases, not the wasteful hit-or-miss general expansion of the last World War. Plant conversion is as necessary on farms as in factories.”

. Explains AAA Program

Secretary Wickard then explained how the AAA payments for curtailed production of wheat, cotton, tobacco and corn aid in increasing production of “oil crops such as soybeans, peanuts and flaxseed; eggs; tomatoes, and peas for canning; dairy products; pork and other meats; dry beans, and others.” “Thus, the farm program payments for wheat, cotton, tobacco and corn—the only four which involve any acreage limitation whatever—are levers in increasing more necessary farm production.”

U. S. SUB SINKS 2 MORE JAP VESSELS

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P).— An American submarine cruising in the dangerous waters of the China sea has sunk two more Japanese merchant ships totaling 15,000 tons, the navy announced last night. The ships, traveling Japan's vital supply line through the southwest Pacific, were a passenger-cargo vessel of about 10,000 tons, and a cargo ship of 5000 tons. Announcement of the success brought to at least 53 the number of Jap ships sunk or damaged by American submarines since the start of the war. Since Saturday alone, 12 vessels have been sunk or damaged—indicating a stepping-up of submarine activity. The subs’ share of ships definitely known to have been sent to the bottom was 31, against 75 for all other branches of the armed services.

REPORT DIPLOMAT SWAP

SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 (U. P.).—The Columbia Broadcasting system heard the Japanese-con-trolled Radio Manchuko broadcast today that American diplomats interned in Japan and occupied China would sail April 28 for Portuguese East Africa, there to be exchanged for Japanese diplomat from North

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I put the hose in my mouth and took a few deep breaths. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up again.” She told the sheriff she sat in the car 14 hours more, then went to a farmhouse late yesterday and told the farmer her husband was dead. Mrs, Denigan was held for further questioning while acting coroner Merrill Davis withheld a verdict in Denigan’s death. Deputy Sheriff Elmer Veronet quoted the couple's farewell note as saying: “We've lived together, we were kids together and we want to die and be buried together.”

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BERN, April 8.—~The Nazis and allies are joining

hands through a well-organized system of spying posts across Brit-ish-owned territories stretching from Syria into the Mongolian desert, according to the Swiss weekly, Die Weltwoche, Athens is the brain center of the organization, which has advanced positions, on the Japanese side, in Burma and in northern Indo-China. The aim of the setup is the exchange of military information con-

forces and troops. The axis trio can communicate

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Nazis Contacting Jap Allies Through Vast System of Short Wave Spying Posts

The head of the new plan of se-| cret communications, Die Weltwoche | reveals, is Admiral Canaris, head of | the German secret service, and curiously, a German of Greek origin. —which explains why Athens has been chosen as the center for this grapevine, | Admiral Canaris equips deser t caravans with the most modern a ultra shortwave transmitters and receivers. These utilize waves so weak that only the nearest friendly post is capable of picking up code messages. It was by mere chance, writes Die Weltwoche, that the whole scheme was discovered. In February, the Afghan mounted police met two well-known German

the entomologist, Prof. Oberdoerfer, and the botanist, | Brandt. Both men, disguised as natives,

were provided with the most modern radio sets. The Germans opened fire on the police squad and in the ensuing fight, the professor was killed and the botanist was taken prisoner.

NEWSMEN TO SPEAK BEFORE. CIVIC GROUP

The Indiana Society for Public Administration will consider “A Newspaperman’s Impression of Public Administration” at its dinner meeting April 17 in the Riley hotel. Discussion leader of, the forum will be Judge Russell J, Ryan of superior court. Participating will be Maurice Early, political columnist of the Indianapolis Star; C. Walter McCarty, managing editor of the Indianapolis News, and Norman E. Isaacs, managing editor of The Indianapolis Times,

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