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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 76

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Hitler Sees Self

Ever since Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Frederick C. Oechsner, central European manager of the United Press, with head-

By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER {World Copyright, 1942 by United Press)

EW YORK, June 8.—Adolf Hitler is convinced that he is not an ordinary mortal. He thinks of himself as a leader who has been sent by providence to the German people to reshape Europe—and perhaps the world—under the domination of the German

master race.

With cold, inexorable de-

termination, he intends that nothing— human lives, sorrow or suffering—shall stand in the way of his plans to trace the world’s frontiers and spheres of influence to the pattern he has drawn.

That pattern

includes a shrewd,

carefully executed scheme to perpetuate the name and face and symbolism of

Mr. Oecchsner

Adolf Hitler for all generations to come.

That is why Hitler: 1. Had his picture painted with a halo-like glow around his brow after undergoing a plastic operation to give his nose a more heroic mould.

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s Deliverer, Orders Halo

quarters in Berlin, has been studying the man at close range. In the series of dispatches starting today, based on a great mass of notes brought out of Germany despite the attempts of the gestapo to prevent it, Mr. Oechsner gives an intimate picture of the Nazi dictator. In-

formation in this series was obtained only through considerable personal risk, both for Mr. Oechsner and his informants. turned to the United States last week on the Drottningholm from internment at Bad Nauheim, Germany.

Mr. QOechsner re-

2. Ordered scientists to in order that he may give thought processes.

dissect his brain after death posterity the segrets of his

3. Worked out elaborate plans for his own funeral in an attempt to extract the utmost in dramatic effect from

his burial place.

4. Ordered scientists to measure his skull and features to the thousandth of an inch and prepare a 130-page

report on the structure of hi

s head.

These acts may seem to be nothing more than the whim of a man who has so much power that he can indulge himself anything, but actually they are part of Hitler's

conception of himself in life

and death as a sort of new

deliverer, whose mystic influence shall go down through the ages. No detail is too small for Hitler to think of, and

nothing is too large, not even the war that engulfs us now. Whether ‘in the role of war lord or comforter of bereaved German mothers, Hitler is always aware of himself, thinks of himself pictorially. This doesn’t mean that he is simply acting, but rather that he relates himself to his surroundings, and even to history, as something phe-

nomenal, symbolic.

Thus, though he is vain, his vanity

has a quality of almost cosmic grandeur. It is difficult to present an accurate picture of Hitler as a man; difficult to avoid the easy sensationalisms of his bitter emotional tirades, his youthful shyness toward

women, his middle-aged life

with a jealous mistress who

twice attempted suicide, his occasional enthusiasms for nude revels and his belief that the superman of the future

will have a hairless body.

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39 BILLION MORE

ASKED

FOR WAR

F.D:. R’S ¢ Request Boosts Pr Projected Expense To More Than 200 Billion; Seeks Curb on Profiteers.

WASHINGTON, June 8 (U.

P.).—President Roosevelt

today asked congress for a new war appropriation of $39,

417,

827,337—Ilargest in history—to bring projected Ameri-

can expenditures in world war II to more than $200,000,

000,000.

Mr. Roosevelt asked that the funds be voted as part of the regular army supply bill for the 1948 fiscal year,

which begins July 1 In January Mr. Roosevelt

asked for a 1948 army appro-

priation of only $6,388,091,747 with the ‘understanding that

this amount would be increased before the house appropriations committee reported the army bill. Estimates Fall Short

“Under the change in conditions which has since come about,” the president's letter of transmittal said, “such estimates fall far short of reflecting the estimated needs of the military establishment for 1943 and their complete revision becomes necessary.” The president asked that the retaries of war and navy be powered to disallow salaries and bonuses paid to officers or employees of war contracting firms “in excess of a reasonable amount.” Where war contractors are found by the army and navy to be earning excess profits these agencies are directed under previous legislation to renegotiate their contracts with the firms involved.

11 Billions for Air Corps

The president requested $11,043.000.000 for the air corps, but there was no detailed explanation of how the funds will be spent. Other major items in this request: Ordnance, $9,943.920,000; army pay, $4,127000000; quartermaster and transportation service, $8.054 882.000 including $1,736,902,000 for clothing and equipment; signal corps, $2505,730,000; medical department, $645720,000,000; engineering corps, $2.923,548.000; chemical warfare service, $617,510,000. and $28313000 for army of Philippines although the islands are now in enemy hands. Mr. Roosevelt asked for authority to transfer up to $12,700,000,000 of the new war appropriation to aid the nation’s allies.

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PRESS BUREAU CHIEF DIES WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P). —Brian Bell, chief of the Washington bureau of the Associated Press since Jan. 1, 1938, died today of coronary thrombosis. He was 52. Mr. Bell suffered one heart attack yesterday while attending a basehall game, and a second early today proved fatal.

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DENY DELAYING RESERVOIR ROAD

Commissioners Say Water Officials Holding Up Reservoir Project.

County commissioners charged today that Indianapolis Water Co. officials, and not the commissioners, were causing the delay in construction of a road to make way for the new water reservoir near Oaklandon. Water Co. representatives were to meet with commissioners this afternoon. Last week Indianapolis Chamsber of Commerce officials issued a statement sharply criticizing the commissioners for rejecting bids submitted for construction of three miles of road. William H. Book, executive vice president of the C. of C., charged that the commissioners “had no good reason” for rejecting the bid and delaying the reservoir project. Later the chamber’s official publication carried an article contending that rejection of the bids by the commissioners is endangering the city’s water supply. County Commissioners William T. (Continued on Page Two)

SEWERS FLOODED BY HEAVY RAINS

1.15 Inches Falls i" 12 Hours: More on Way.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 64

Indianapolis was deluged with one of the heaviest downpours of

‘the season last night and today,

with more showers on the way. In the 12-hour period ended at 7:30 a. m. today, 115 inches of rain had fallen. Two switchboard operators at city hall were kept busy receiving complaints of flooded sewers and 40 men, including four emergency crews and a dozen trucks, were assighed to remedy the situation, The northeast section of the city seemed | the worst hit. Following a heavy downpour he-

Mrs, Ferguson 10] Mrs. Roosevelt 9 tween 8 and 9 o'clock last night,

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more than 15 cars were stalleq by high water at 44th st. and Central ave. and one bus was tied up for about an hour. Several youths donned Seintaing toggery and did a

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Light Cigarets With $100 Bills

MELBOURNE, June 8 (U. P). —Some soldiers in the Philippines had the thrill of lighting cigarets with $100 bills, the last group of evacuees from Corregidor said today. They arrived in Australia recently and included six of Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright's key officers, 11 army nurses and two other women. They left Corregidor during the night of May 3, three days before Gen. Wainwright surrendered. The nurses brought to 22 the total of the nursing corps evacuated from the Philippines from nearly 100 stationed there. The money the soldiers used to light cigarets was worthless, It was part of the currency being destroyed by Finance Col. Royal G. Jenks of Columbus, Ga, lest it fall into Japanese hands.

FDR AND HERSHEY DISCUSS 18 DRAFT

WASHINGTON, June 8 (U, P)—

| President Roosevelt will confer today with Maj. Gen. Lewis B. HerIs shey, selective service director, on possible use of 18 and 19-year-old youths in the war effort. The 18-19 class registers June 30, but under present law will not be subject to drafting for military service.

at Burbank, Cal, months ahead of schedule. os o

PLANE OUTPUT ‘ON SCHEDULE’

U. S. Producing Nearly 5000 a Month Now,

Says Sen. Thomas.

WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P).— Sen. Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.) said today that American airplane production has reached a level of “nearly 5000 a month.” “We are up to the president's schedule now and next year we will reach his second objective of 10,000 a month,” Mr. Thomas said in an interview, He is chairman of the senate appropriations subcommittee which handles army bills, At the same time the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America reported that the aircraft industry has increased military plane production nearly 85 per cent during the first six months of the war, and that it soon will exceed the

combined production of the enemy

~- Germany, Japan and Italy, including the production being forced out of occupied countries. The chamber also reported that aircraft engine production has been increased nearly 80 per cent since Pearl Harbor—"in part due to the automotive companies which are building aircraft engines,

LOGANSPORT, Ind, June 8 (U. BP) —The joint meeting of the | Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions, U. 8S. O. and other service clubs scheduled for tonight was called off because the two honored “Canadian air force heroes” have been thrown into thé county jail where one of them tried to commit suicide. The “heroes,” one of whom wore the powder-blue dress uniform of the Polish armed forces and the other, a Canadian tank corps uniform, turned out to be only two lads from Detroit who “bummed” into town Friday with a story of the “harrowing experiences” while fiying with the R. A. F. Robert Paynter, 22, and Kelly

any t to

(Casey) Albert, 3, who wore the

‘Phony’ Air Heroes in Jail; Call Off Logansport Party

up” to explain their dress was received as the’ “gospel truth” by everyone they told it to. “It got beyond us,” Paynter explained, “and we didn't dare tell the truth.”

For two nights and a day they

had the run of the town until their host, Deputy Prosecutor Kenesaw Mountain Landis Jr, nephew of the baseball commis sioner, “smelled something fishy” and learned the truth early yesterday morning. After that Sheriff Elmer Craig took them off to the Cass county jail, where Albert tried to slash his wrists with a razor. Cellmates took the ragor away from him and turned his suicide ote over to the prosecutor. In it

Juke Box Called Peril by Musicians

DALLAS, Tex, June 8 (U.P). — Delegates representing about 140,000 members of the American Federation of Musicians said today that something would have to be done about “the juke box menace.” “We're in the position of being instruments of our own destruction through the juke boxes,” one delegate declared. James ©. Petrillo, Chicago, president of the federation, will make the keynote speech to delegates in which his recommendations for action will be stated.

RAF AGAIN ATTACKS ON INVASION COAST

British Radio Warns French

To Move Inland.

LONDON, June 8 (U. P). — A strong force of British fighter planes raced across the channel at low level today to pick up where fighter and coastal command planes left off last night in their punishing raids along a 400-mile stretch of the occupied coast. The afternoon target of the R. A. PF. appeared to be the Nazioccupied French coast which inhabitants a few hours earlier were urged by the British radio to evacuate immediately and clear the ground “for coming military operations.” The warning stirred speculation that the British were preparing to send a new commando force against some vital military objective on the French coast or increase their devastation raids throughout the invasion area. “Get away as soon as possible,” the radio warning told the French. “If you are unable to get away, do everything possible to preserve your life since you will be needed by the armies of liberation.”

PLAN PRODUCTION BOARD WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P) — The United States and Great Britain are expected to announce soon plans for an “international war production board” to co-ordinate and

Flying Fortresses Roar Defiance to Our Foes

Night and day the four engines of flying fortress bombers roar defiance to our enemies from the testing blocks after they roll out of the factory

RULING ON GAS DUE THIS WEEK

F. D. R. Discusses All U. S. Rationing With Leaders

From Congress.

WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt is expected to decide this week whether gasoline rationing will be extended to all 48 states as a rubber conservation measure. Congressmen have “revolted” against the proposal and the president discussed that problem with his congressional leaders today. Following the conferences, a house delegate said that the president plans to present the “facts and reasons” of the current gasoline and rubber situation to the people as soon as he completes a current ine vestigation.

OPA to “Crack Down” in East

A special house committee, organized at a mee'ing of irate members last week and headed by Rep. Richard M. Kleberg (D. Tex.), also plans to confer with the president this week. They will present their reasons for opposing nation-wide rationing. Plans for inaugurating the permanent rationing system for the eastern coast are progressing. The office of price administration announced plans for cracking down on operators of gasoline “black markets,” whereby filling station operators under the permanent plan will have to keep daily records and béotleggers will be subject to maximum fines of $10,000 or one year in prison or both.

OFFERS LEND-LEASE TO EXILED ENVOYS

WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P.). —Secretary of State Cordell Hull today submitted to the envoys of three united nations governments in exile — Belgium, Poland and Greece — forms of lend - lease agreements providing for mutual assistance in the world conflict and establishing a basis for post-war collaboration.

U. S. DESTROYER LAUNCI

HERE

BATH, Me,, June 8 (U, P.)~

TT hese facets of his character are essential to an understanding of Hitler, but only historians can fit them into the completed picture. I spent a dozen years studying Hitler at close range, collecting material about him from sources that I knew were unquestionable, and smuggling my notes out of Ger many at considerable risk to myself and to others. It seemed to me that this man, in all his dangerous brilliance, could be measured better almost by his little vanities and habits than by the way I had so often seen him in publie, receiving an ovation from millions. I came into direct contact with Hitler probably more than any other correspondent in Germany, and I know that he is an incredibly complicated human being. Quite frankly, he always repelled me personally, left me absolutely cold, though I had to admit the hard, sharp brilliance of his mind and the infinite shrewdness of his showmanship and psychology. I would like to think—as Goering once did—that he is crazy, but that would be to

evade understanding or analyzing him. It is true that one (Continued on First Page, Second Section)

U. 5. IS TRYING FOR KNOCKOU

16 to 18 Ships of Enemy’s Main Naval Force Smashed in Midway Battle; Fighting

Continues in Alaskan Area,

By EVERETT R. HOLLES United Press Staff Correspondent

United States forces seeking a “kill” pursued Japan's main fleet somewhere west of Midway island today, deters mined to turn the tide of the war in the Pacific and achieve the “momentous Viciory” forecast by Admiral Chester W, Nimitz. - Northward toward Alaska another naval-air struggle; apparently of smaller proportions, was under way, but bad weather obscured its developments. Even the navy depart« ment in Washington lacked details of the course of the battle. Admiral Nimitz said in a communique issued at his Pacific fleet command headquarters at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that the American naval and air forces had “lost contact™ with the enemy in the Midway battle Jaturday night after inflicting more losses upon the Japanese fleet.

Enemy Fleet Withdrawing

“Losing contact” did not necessarily mean that the bate tle was over and both Admiral Nimitz and the navy departe ment in Washington was refraining at this stage of the struggle from claiming a definite victory—although the odds clearly were in our favor, The enemy fleet, although battered, is withdrawing ine stead of having been destroyed and there always was a pose sibility that enemy reinforcements would appear in such strength to shift the balance. However, it was the Japanese who risked the greatest losses because it was they who had the big fleet in the battle —perhaps 60 or more warships of all types up to battleships and 20 or 30 other vessels—while the American forces ine volved appeared to be mostly carrier-based and land-based planes. U. S. Wary or Trap

Latest reports indicate that the Japanese was being pursued westward toward Japan, after suffering casualties amounting to 16 or 18 ships sunk or damaged in a four-day battle, but Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the fleet, made it clear that the U. S. forces are not going to be drawn into any trap. Admiral King pointed out that U. S. forces could be ex« pected to continue the pursuit within the range of enemy based bombers on the Japanese inainland. Thus any prusuit may be broken off within 1000 miles of Japan or perhaps 1500 miles west of Midway. Admiral Nimitz in his latest communique said the Jape anese fleet with withdrawing after losing an additional dee

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Pacific Box Score:

The box score of the blazing four-day aerial-naval battle of Mids way in the Far Pacific. was revealed by United States communiques today as follows:

UNITED STATES LOSSES SUNK

DESTROYER-—One, with light casusities. DAMAGED

AIRCRAFT CARRIER~—One. JAPANESE LOSSES SUNK AIRCRAFT CARRIERS—Two sure, probably three, with all thely planes, totaling anywhere from 60 to 160. DESTROYER—One. DAMAGED BATTLESHIPS—Three, at