Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1942 — Page 13

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1942

LATIN AMERICAN Most Of Native American Pro-Fascists Dodge Net As Aliens Are Rounded Up

SPIRIT LAUDED

War Bringing Hemisphere Closer Together, Says

Senator Connally.

WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P.).— Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) of the senate foreign relations committee said today that the war has aroused a “deeper consciousness” of the mutual obligations of western hemisphere nations. He spoke at commencement exercises at National Park college, dedicated to the “stimulating and strengthening of the bonds of the good neighbor policy,” “The people of the American republics,” he said, ‘are today more keenly conscious of the desirability and necessity of bringing up and strengthening of our ideals of free government and economic tollaboration than at any time in our history. Fundamentally and essentially our historic backgrounds reach back to a common conception and a common dream.”

Get Merit Awards

Statesmen of seven Latin American countries were awarded certificates of merit by the college at the commencement exercises.

By THOMAS M. JOHNSON NEA Service Military Writer WASHINGTON, June 2— While foreign fifth columnists are being rounded up, most of the leading native American Fascists remain at large. They are either spreading virulent propaganda to poison our patriotism and weaken our war efforts, or working into some sort of defense activity. Two of the most able, George Deatherage and Lawrence Dennis, were found, one heading a $26,000,000 confidential navy project, the other trying to become a captain in the army’s military police. But that isn’t half of it. It can now be revealed that Dennis, called “the brains of American Fascism,” is a friend of Baron Ulrich von Gienanth, who was second secretary of the German embassy in Washington, and the Nazis’ local pay-off man. = 2 ” IT WAS VON GIENANTH who gave money tc Laura Ingalls, the aviatrix, who was convicted as an unregistered Nazi agent. Dennis also knew and worked with Frederick E. Aubagen, convicted German agent. Dennis was in touch with the German propaganda service in Berlin and he and Deatherage were in touch with one another.

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2 SUBS ATTACK SHIP, 39 KILLED

Two of Survivors Float on Raft Seven Days in Broiling Gulf Sun.

A GULF PORT, June 2 (U, P.).— Thirty-nine seamen lost their lives when two axis submarines collabo-

raled in a torpedoing attack which sank their medium-size American cargo ship in the Gulf of Mexico May 20, the eighth naval district announced today. Only three members of the crew of 42 survived. The loss of life was the greatest in a single sinking since axis submarine warfare began in the gulf, early in May. Two of the survivors, unconscious and with their bodies encased in congealed heavy fuel oil from the ship's bunkers, floated for seven days on a raft under the broiling sun before they were picked up by a merchantman and taken to Port Arthur, Tex. The third survivor was Joseph Shackelford of Ceveren, Va. the navy announced. Shackelford, John S. Gietrek of Westfield, Mass., and Jesse E. Hogge of Wicomico, Va., the cook, were picked up after the sinking and taken to Mexico. The navy said it did not know if Gietrek and Hogge died en route

PR IRR

The Chilean four-masted frigate Lautaro, an unusual sight in these days of streamlined warfare, is greeted by a navy blimp as the old-

Young Flier Greets Old Salt

FLACK RECOUNT T0 BE PUSHED

Advisers Indicate Complete Check and Possible Court Action.

Associates backing Toney Flack’s vote recount contest against Glen B., Ralston for the Democratic auditor nomination, indicated today

they will insist that the recounte ing be continued through the entire 366 precincts. Completion of the recount will be urged, they said, in order that the legality of scores of challenged bale lots, counted by election workers and by recount commissioners, can be contested in a Circuit court hearing for final adjudication.

Ballots Challenged

As recounting progresses, Mr, Flack’s advisors challenge the validity of some ballots in each pree cinet and the fate of these will dee termine the contest. Mr. Ralston was declared nominee ated by 841 votes and after a re= count of 37 precincts, Mr. Flack had gained 11 votes, not a sufficient average to threaten the official nomination of Mr. Ralston. Meanwhile, recounting continued in the contest between Jesse Hut= sell and Otto Petit for the Repub

to the Mexico port or after they lican sheriff nomination. In 45 pree

Those honored were Capt. Colon : Dennis served in the Althougn She will be fitted with diesel engines

Eloy Alfaro, ambassador of Ecuador; Ernesto Jaen Guardia, ambassador of Panama; Adrian Recinos, Guatemalan minister; Hector David Castro, minister from El Salvador; Leon Debayle, Nicaraguan minister; Julian Caceres, Honduran minister, and Luis Fernandez Costa Rican minister. Awards were also given in Absentia to Carlo Serroyo del Rio, president of Ecuador, and to ministers of education and college officials of the Latin American countries.

A. E. F, he has been a totalitarian since Hitler's rise, and attended the Nazi party congress in Nuremburg in 1837. There he was photographed with Van Gienanth, who wore a Nazi party uniform. Dennis is a Harvard graduate, former diplomat and Wall street man, who writes and lectures cleverly, especially on the economic blessings of Fascism for America, but also on various aspects of Hitler's brand of geopolitics. He is an idea man credited with helping or inspiring many Fascist speechmakers and writers. He has written two books: “The Coming American Fascism” and “Dynamics of War and Revolution.” He admits that in his two houses, one in West Englewood, N. J, and in the Berkshires, he has “pretty well stocked up” on tires for his two automobiles, on short-wave radios—he says he likes a radio in every room—and otherwise. He confesses to a tidy income from his “Weekly Foreign Letter” of confidential information with a Fascist slant which sells at $24 a year. gd & 4 A RECENT applicant for a job inspecting aircraft was an active Falangista. The FBI is investigating nearly 4000 government em-

Seek Desirable Ends

Senator Connally said that “it is the duty and obligation of statesmen and educators of our repective countries to bring about the development and advancement of the influences and forces in such fashion as to rebound to our national and cultural improvement and advancement. The good neighbor policy is but a symbol of our common purpose to bring about these desirable ends.” He listed two handicaps to “economic intercourse” between the United States and Latin American countries — inadequate transpertation and varying currencies—and said that both problems are now being met. “The people of the United States,” he said, “are heartened by the fine spirit of co-operation and support existing in nearly all of the republics of the western hemisphere. . . We enjoy a common political heritage, the love of liberty. We have fought for it in the past. We shall fight for it in the future” Times Staff Writer

HEELS 10 Jf LOWER WASHINGTON, June 2. — The ' ‘town of Flagstaff. Ariz, is functionON WOMEN S SHOES again after what Dr. John R

| Steelman, labor department concilBOSTON, June 2 (U. P). —liation service head, today termed Whether they like it or not, women |“the most unusual case we ever may soon be wearing sensible and|handled.” serviceable shoes When A. F. of L. organizers More than 500 manufacturers and landed in Flagstaff a week ago and 2000 shoe executives from all sec-| began trying to sign up resturant tions of the United States and and cafe employees, nearly every Canada gathered today for the an-|business in the city closed its doors

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

lake behind the dam night and day.

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Lawrence Dennis, right, above, has been called “the brains of

American Fascism.”

In a recently-discovered picture, above, he is

shown with Baron Ulrich von Gienanth at the Nazi party's 1937 con-

ference in Nuremberg, Germany.

ployees accused of subversion. Some 300 publications are publishing propaganda that is fascist, anti-semitic, ‘anti-democratic and above all, subtly tends to weaken the readers desire for victory. Many at least verge on sedition. Pearl Harbor not only did not stop them. It started new ones. These include several elaborate, expensive-looking ones like the handsome “Calilean,” once published under the name of William Dudley Pelley, though that celebrated “Silver Shirt” leader now is awaiting trial in Indianapolis. Many contain virulent attacks on President Roosevelt. “Social Justice” headed news of American troops landing in Ulster: “United States Invades Ireland.” Suspected subverts are often asked, “Do you read Social Justice?” Publication of the magazine has been discontinued. 2 2 2

DEATHERAGE, whom an ex-

cellent authority described to me as “one of the most dangerous of the lot—very able,” goes free, embittered by the loss of his job. And yet he tried to make American Fascism a serious menace by uniting all its Little Hitlers in one big party with the swastika for emblem. Dennis, the “ones man brain trust,” is free. The only suspected American Fascist leaders afoul of the law are Pelley and Ellis O. Jones of the National Copperheads, arrested in Los Angeles for concealing the name of a U. S. senator who, he said, called the Pearl Harbor report ridiculous, and’ George Sylvester Viereck, propagandist. Joe McWilliams of New York's Christian Mobilizers, is on probation, but has sent word he soon would be active again. He hasn't enlisted, as two years ago he told me he would if this country were attacked. But enough others have. “Boring from within” is a Fascist tactic no less than a Communist one.

nary Workers and Bartenders Union will stay out of Flagstaff, Dr. Steelman was told, while other union representatives and Mr. Ruddy meet and talk with the businessmen about the future—if any—of unionism there. Undersheriff Pete Michelbach had been quoted as saying that Mr. Robbins and his wife, a waitress, and Dan Barber, a union member, had left Flagstaff over the week-end under a 10-minutes-to-go warning. Letters and telegrams received by the Arizona senators—Carl Hayden and Ernest W. McFarland—said the controversy grew out of the influx of labor for construction of the Belmont ammunition depot several miles from Flagstaff. The war department contract with Atkinson-Kier, San Francisco construction company, was negotiated on a ‘“closed-shop” basis. This meant that every man who got a job there had to pay a $25 union

No Tickee, No Shirtee—Maybe

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, June 2 (CDN).—In the confusion caused by taking Australia over from the system of free purchase of clothing to regimented rationing, nobody seems to have remembered the aborigines. What are the “Abons” going to wear, F. I. Bray, commissioner of native affairs for western Australia, wants to know. Commissioner Bray points out

The man-made cataract was cre- |

who watched rising waters of the

that rationing is based on the possession of an identity card and that cards were not issued to aborigines.

FIND MYSTERY GIRL

result of weeks of careful planning | AT TOURIST CAMP

A girl, about 17. who was found ‘alone at a tourist camp outside Indianapolis last night presented a mystery to juvenile authorities and police today. When questioned by juvenile officers about her identity and {where she came from, she said: “I would rather not say.” | She gave the same answer to every question. Neither her cloth-

court 4 last May 1, was dismissed ing nor the contents of a small

(handbag bore any identification marks. In the handbag, besides a few clothes, was a pair of baby shoes. The girl was described as pretty, well dressed and intelligent.

NEW YORK PAPER

CUT TO 4 EDITIONS

NEW YORK, June 2 (U.P) — Most New York newspapers were on reduced schedule of editions today as a result of a government or-

Flagstaff, Ariz., Functions Again After Closing Down to Stop Union Organizers

“initiation fee,” the senators were told. The payroll now is estimated at around 1500 workers and is expected to reach 2500. That would mean $62,500 in union fees. But Flagstaff is said to boast of being an “open shop” town. Some of the reports to the senators said that the organizers ordered all union men out of a restaurant and that the men left without paying their checks. The Chamber of Commerce and American Legion . got busy, and the whole town closed down business. Union truckers were reported to be avoiding the place, delivering their loads only to the city limits. Br. Steelman is awaiting further reports: on the meetings, but Leo Weaver of the Chamber of Commerce wired the senators that “all organizers and agitators have left town. The stores are open and still open shop.” The senators’ offices explain that Flagstaff just wasn't used to such high-powered organizational taectics. An important railway junction on the Sante Fe, it is the home of many railroad brotherhood union men.

landed there. Saw Others Go Under

During the seven days on a raft Rolf Helland and John Traubal had had no food or water. From the meager details they were able to give from the hospital at Port Arthur, the navy pieced together the story. Helland and Traubal were asleep in their bunks when the first torpedo hit on the starboard side aft. They jumped from their bunks, ran to the deck, just as the second torpedo hit the port side amidships. “The ship folded like an accordion,” they said. Eleven men jumped into the water, covered with oozing oil from the bunkers. Helland and Traubal saw man after man go under, weighted down by the clinging, suffocating oil. Helland, Traubal and another man they couldn't identify because of his oil covered face, got on a life raft. The raft was not strong enough to hold all

Traubal did not see him again,

VAN ORMAN SUES OVER MOTHER'S WILL

EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 2 (U. P.).—A continuation of the fight between Harold Van Orman, wealthy hotel operator and former Indiana lieutenant-governor, his first wife, Mrs. Susie Van Orman, and his late mother, Mrs. Demaris Paddock Van Orman, appeared probable today as Mr. Van Orman instituted suit in an effort to break his mother’s will. Mr. Van Orman filed action in the Vanderburg county probate court yesterday. Under the will he would have received $1 and the bulk of the estate would have gone to his first wife, The suit charged that the will offered for probate was not his mother's will; that his mother was not “mentally responsible” when she signed it, and that it was executed under duress. He seeks to have the court set aside the docus« ment. Mr. Van Orman, reputed millionaire and operator of a number of hotels in Midwestern states, was named several years ago in a suit filed by his mother. The suit demanded an accounting of the hotel properties which were orginially owned by Mr. Van Orman’s father, Matt Van Orman. Since the suit never came to trial, and Mr. Van Orman continued control of the properties, the extent and value of the hotel empire was

never determined.

three and the unidentified man]: volunteered to try to make it to]: another raft nearby. Helland and|:

timer arrives at San Francisco. for service in the Chilean navy.

The Red Cross blood donor center here is becoming a cosmopolitan place. ’ A late recapitulation shows that persons born in 37 different countries and U. S. possessions have contributed blood for America’s fighting forces. Countries represented are England, Russia, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Germany, Rumania, France, Aus-tria-Hungary, Scotland, Holland, Austria, Poland, Mexico, Sweden, Macedonia, Vienna, Puerto Rico, Serbia, Peru, Chile, Australia, Italy,

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cincts recounted, Mr, Hutsell, who brought the recount action, had gained six votes. Mr. Petit was dee clared nominated by 379 votes.

JERSEY BLACKED OUT IN 30-MINUTE TEST

NEWARK, N. J., June 2 (U. P.), —All of New Jersey was blacked out for 30 minutes last night in the first state-wide test in the East. Neither air raid wardens nor civilians knew the blackout was coming, The first the state’s 185, 000 air raid wardens heard of it was a “yellow” alert signal, preceded by the word “practice.” The secondary “blue” signal followed, and the final, “red” alarm set off thousands of sirens and factory whistles. War industries were allowed te

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nual shoe fair and the majority re- and kept them closed until yesterported the “trend is toward lower | day. heels, polished leathers. comfortable | Wire reports termed it a “busiwalled lasts which allow room for ness strike.” Dr. Steelman said he toes.” |didn't know what to call it—“strike The change toward comfort and/or lockout.” He sent Earl Ruddy durability, they said, i¢ due directly|of his staff to Flagstaff, and late to the war because of priorities and | yesterday he reported that a “comthe fact that women war workers, |promise” had been reached. members of the WAAC and women It included an agreement that W. in slacks need serviceable, sturdy E. Robbins, organizer for the Culishoes. ; : Shoes for the new women's army bothers the manufacturers at pres- | WATER FLOWS OVER ent because they can’t design a shoe until the army decides what kind! N ULEE DAM of work the women will do. GR A group of executives planned to| go to Washington tonight to learn | COULEE DAM, Wash., June 2 (U. _ whether the women soldiers’ shoes|P.).—A waterfall five blocks wide Shia be stout enough for drilling, land twice the height of Niagara ight enough for office work, high enough for field work or low Shh alle Bre ICE ShIYals for city work. [he Grand Coulee dam today and _— {symbolized completion of the huge 20.000 DEAD 54 000 {main unit of the Columbia river de3 ’ velopment project. HURT IN RAID. REPORT! An estimated 15,000 persons stood on banks of the Columbia river NEW YORK, June 2 (U. P).— canyon yesterday to watch the iniThe New York Times said today! tial flow over the dam. that private advices from compe-| tent neutral observers in Berlin, lated when engineers diverted the relaved from Europe, estimated that! flow of the Columbia river from outabout 20000 persons were killed in jet tubes around the dam to the the R. A. F's bombing raid on spillway. Cologne and that 54000 were| Engineers had worked 10 years on wounded, about 20 per cent crit-|the dam, and the show came as ically. The dispatch said that the situa- by bureau of reclamation engineers, tion was so serious because of warm weather that special German army sanitary detachments had been sent | RN _—. ee into the area to assist in preventing | the spread of disease APPEAL IN GAMBLIN Three-fifths of the inhabitants of : Cologne were being “officially evacuated,” the Times reported, while CASE WINS RELEASE officials attempted to prevent mast exodus from Aachen, Duessel-| A gambling case in which a condorf, Wuppertal, Mainz and other |viction was recorded in municipal cities. —— yesterday in criminal court by ProsWINDSOR HURRYING {ecutor Sherwood Blue without a trial. BACK T0 BAHAMAS Judge John Niblack returned a guilty verdict against Victor Wray, WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P).— 3502 N. Meridian st, charged with The Duke of Windsor, suddenly keeping a gambling house on S. canceling his visit here, left today Illinois st. on evidence furnished by for Nassau, capital of the Bahamas police officers who raided the esislands, on “urgent business.” the tablishment. British Press Service revealed. Deputy prosecutors sought to disThe American-born duchess, the miss the case in municipal court former Wallis Warfield, did not ac- but Judge Niblack refused to permit company the duke. Instead, she re- dismissal of the case and ordered mained in Washington. a trial held. The judge sentenced There was no explanation, beyond | the “urgent business” reason as to) him $10 and costs. what caused the sudden break in| Wray appealed the verdict to what had been regarded as a highly (criminal court and Judge Dewey important visit—the duke’s first trip | Myers sustained the prosecutor's to this capital since the United

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