Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1942 — Page 2

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Views Anti- Administration, -‘Not Anti-Government, He Testifies.

(Continued from ‘Page One) quarantine speech at Chicago, the

pre-Pearl Harbor note to the Jap-|f

anese emperor, the loaning of 50 military aviators to China, the lend-lease act and the giving of 50 ‘destroyers and 500,000 rifles to He said that the chief purpose of his writings was “to show up the inefficiencies of this administration s0 we could get Republicans in next fall and get rid of these New Dealers.” In regard to “the government's assertion that his statements tended to undermine the morale of the armed forces, Pelley said: “If I had even thought it would have hurt the war effort, I wouldn't have written them. It just wasn’t worth it.»

Quotes From Public Polls

Asked about his statement, contained in another count of the indictment, that there was ‘not a flicker” of sentiment against the axis powers, Pelley said he had based this remark on polls of the ‘America First Committee and the

didn’t want war. He said he had specifically instructed his office force not to let any copies of his publication be mailed to men in the armed forces because he was so critical of the administration. = He said that the whole point of his writings after Pearl Harbor was based on his belief that all energy should be expended to protect the United States first,

Reviews Entire Life

of Boston and had graduated from - grammar school and had taken ohe

year technical high school in Spring- bergh, ex-Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia and ex-Congressman City, Mich. He said that his family stock was| Jacob Thorkelson of Montana, all

fleld, Mass.

English, Irish and Scotch, predominantly English.

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tory, including Jey doctrine, 7’ his statement. in: “The Galilean’

tion of" the country to be: /$146,000,000,000. :

me,” he said. ; Bar Pearl Harbor Data

5, 1939, which, the defense claimed,

was written.’

tack were withdrawn. The withdrawal of the subpenas came as a result of a navy department request that nothing be brought out at the trial concerning Pearl Harbor that might be of aid to the enemy.

Only Three Witnesses Remain

for the three West Coast men, Milner Shaffer, Oregon City, Ore.; William Clubine, Seattle, and Melvin

scheduled to testify. Those three are Charles A. Lind-

scheduled to - testify tomorrow. Of the others. who were sub-

don Roll Call with the: otthieak of war and that he had started publi-|. cation of “The Galilean” merely to fill out the unexpired subscriptions

Pelley testified: thi # his ‘writings | - criticizing the administration were based on a study of American his-| t | Washington's

He was asked upon wat hel ‘based

that the country was bankrupt and| he explained - that. from the things he had read, he understood per capita indebtedness way $2000. This, he said, would make the total: debt of the country’ $260,000,000,000 and that he had tables before him which showed the national assessed valua-|-

ht -Jooks like: insolvency to

An attempt: was made by the defense to! introduce ‘an ‘article from the Congressional Record of June

Pelley had read and used as a basis for his writing. The juage, however, would not allow the evidence, because it had been printed three years: before Pelley’s article

: Meantime, defense subpenas for Gallup poll, which ‘he said showed|three West coast men who worked - that 92.3 per cent of the people|at Pearl Harbor after the Jap at-

The, withdrawal of the subpenas

{ Johnson, Willpia, Wash., leaves only Pelley reviewed his entire life. H¢|three of the nine “special” defense said he was born 12 miles north|witnesses subpenaed last week yet

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CONFUSION AIDS 2D FRONT PLANS

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| Fd Guiesses, True Facts © sill Are: gl “Secret.”

WASHINGTON, aug. 3 (Po. —The confusion created by wide-

spread. talk of x second front is

just what the doctor ordered for the high commani: of the united nations. If the “experts” and the laymen in the United Stztcs and England don’t ‘know when, oi where, or how, a second front is to be established, assumption that

NE FEE a 4 | Germany doesn’t know. LitHe Phyllis Jean Bonnie, pictured with her mother in the Memphis, Tenn., hospital ‘where she was recently born, already has a huge stake in an American victory— even though she is less than a month old. Her father, .. Staff Sergt. Phil Bonnie, and her mother were living only ‘three blocks from Hickam Field in Hawaii when the Japs. attacked on Dec. 7. Sergt. Bonnie rushed over to the field fo help his fellows. He was among the first Americans in this war to give his life for the future of his country.

And that, of course, is what the high command wants. . The element of surprise will be an important facto: in continental offensive operations. : Campaign of Confusion ~ Continuous talk shout a second front, military authorities say, |spolls the perspective on any really important military information

CHIEF ALLISON INSPECTOR DIES

Robert E. . Smith, 46, lil

Since April; Came Here Two Years Ago.

Ill four months, Robert E. Smith, chief inspector for the Allison Engineering Co., died today at his residence. He lived at 532 E. 3Tth st. ‘Mr, Smith, who was 46, underwent an operation in April and was confined to his home since that time. Affiliated with General Motors 24 years, he was employed at the A. C. Spark Plug division at Flint, Mich.,, prior to his transfer here two years ago.” He was born and reared at Bay

During world’ war 1, Mr. Smith was a corporal in the fifth aerial squadron and took part in several

His father’s family, he said, was penaed, William Allen White, Em-| major battles. He was a mechanic.

among the early colonizers . Newfoundland and he said his mother’s father’s family came over .on the second voyage of the Mayflower. Members of his family, he declared, have served in every war and two great uncles were killed fighting for the Union . forces at Gettysburg, . Recalls Siberian Trip

. Pelley ‘said that in 1918, he went to. :Siberia on a mission sponsored by the Methodist church and that he had received a second lieutenant’s commission and had furnished information to the military intelligence of the U. S. although he was not sworn into that unit of the armed forces. He said he started writing for national magazines about: 1915 and had 248 short stories and articles published in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Red Book, American and Cosmo-

‘about 100,000 copies being sold.

cal subjects. Two Years in Hollywood .

during that time had either written or supervised 21 motion pictures. The Silver Shirts, he said, were founded in February, 1933, “with the specific purpose of combatting the inroads of communism in" this country.”

not a secret organization and that the only qualifications for membership was the Christian faith and a belief in the Constitution of the 1. S. No ndention was made during his testimony this morning of the Sil- . . ver Shirt founder’s anti-Jewish beliefs. Dissolves Silver Shirts

Pelley said he dissolved the Silver Shirts in 1940 because ‘there was no longer a need for them with the Dies committee investigating communistic influences. 2 Pelle} said that prior to his . founding of the Silver Shirts, he had been in contact with Robert C. Sharp, former chief of the secret service division of: the state ‘department, and that he had becom® worried about the growth of communism in this country. He said he had been unable to get congressional action or newspaper publicity on that subject, so he organized the Silver Shirts to “prepare men to combat communistic inroads.”

Court Asks Question.

Asked if the purpose of his Silver Shirts was to. suppress communism, Pelley replied loudly: © “Nothing else but, sir.” Judge Robert C. Baltzell interrupted his testimony to ask him if he was responsible for a sentence

in a local newspaper story which said that the judge had ruled the Congressional Record could not be

introduced into evidence.

at all” Pelley said, witnesses to prove it.” ‘had not seen the article,

~The judge has ruled that portions of the Congressional Record perto the trial can be. intro-

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ed as evidence.

Pelley said he had suspended lication of his anti-administra-

of | Poria, Kas, editor, has notified the

defense attorneys that he is in ill health and cannot come; Marriner Ecclés, federal reserve board chairman, has been excused because he says he does not have the data wanted by the defense, and the defense has. excused Maj. Gen.

America’s leading fascists, at his own Tequest.’

LAGUARDIA HITS CITY BOND TAX

‘Matter of Life and Death’ To Municipalities, He Tells Senate Group.

to cities. | Ns

scribed as “already overburdened.”

Mayor LaGuardia said. have to pay.”

to “the coupon clipping group.”

of state and municipal securities.

ment during wartime. Sales Levy Faces Hurdle

yearly revenue.

Meanwhile, one

hinted at by Chairman Walter PF. George (D. Ga.).

enormous number of people” to administer it properly.

FAIRBANKS WIDOW ‘ASKS $2500 A MONTH

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 3 (U. P.).— Mrs, Sylvia Fairbanks, the former Lady" Sylvia Ashley and widow of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. filed petition in Superior court today seek-

from ‘the estate of her late hus- | band.

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George Van Horn Moseley, one of|sie

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U, P.).— politan. One of his novels, “The|Mayor LaGuardia of New York, opFog,” was a best seller, he said, with| posing proposed taxation of income from future state and municipal |Price Administrator Leon Hender- . Since 1928, he testified, most of|bonds, told the senate finance comhis books have been on metaphysi-|mittee today the question has be- : come “a ‘matter of life and death”

He asserted that a federal tax He said he had spent two years| would be reflected in municipal debt in Hollywood during the ’20s, and|service costs, and in turn in the tax

rates on real estate, which he de-

“The whole: matter (of tax exempt, bonds) is: very simple unless the semicolon boys of the treasury department seek to involve it,” “There is Pelley said the Silver Shirts was|no net gain for the federal government because the taxpayers will

He denied that the income from state and municipal securities flows

Mayor LaGuardia was one of a number of witnesses opposing taxation. of income from future issues

Other witnesses estimated that it would add about 1 per cent to the interest rates that municipalities would have to pay to borrow money, and would yield virtually nothing in revenue to the federal govern-

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. has advocated taxation of outstanding issues of such bonds, as well as future issues, in order to raise $200,000,000 additional But the senate commngittee voted recently to confine consideration to future issues. factor which might militate against committee approval of a retail sales tax was

He told reporters that “if a tax requires extraordinary enforcement measures, then that’s a “pretty strong argument against te

The treasury has opposed a retail sales tax—for which there is strong committee sentiment — partially on

the ground that it would take “an.

ing an allowance of $2500 a month

The former British actress has come before the courts periexlically

1939 to continue her allowance =

Member of Masons

Mr. Smith ‘was. a member of the Masonic lodge at Flint and of the American Legion at Clio, Mich. He was a member of the Presbyterian church .at Bay City. Surviving are the wife, Mrs. BesSmith; two sons, Robert Charles, attached to the air corps at. King City, Cal.,, and Donald Leroy, a member of the medical corps at Camp Claiborne, La.; a daughter, Beverly. Barbara, at home, and a sister, Mrs. Stewart Whitman, Flint. Funeral services will be held at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the Flanner and Buchanan mortuary. The Rev. Ralph - L. O'Dell, assistant pastor at. the Tabernacle Baptist church, will be in charge and burial will be in Flint.

LOOPHOLE PLUGGED ON ARMY CLOTHING

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U. P.).—

son, discovering that . contractors supplying clothing to the armed forces had gone back to the “19th century” to figure maximum prices, today plugged a loophole in the price ceiling. The original order allowed contractors to charge the highest price they received “prior to April 1, 1942,” and some firms dug up sales records 50 years old. The new order sets the prices at the highest charged between April 1, 1941, and March 31, 1942,

URGES SECOND FRONT CLEVELAND, Aug. 3 (U. P.). — Hope for the quick opening of a second front was expressed th in a message to Russian railway workers by Alexander ‘F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

chance of taking the initiative. They point out that if the Red army is. made :incapable of attacking, Hitler would be able to withdraw sufficient forces either for a mass attack on the Middle East through Egypt or to concentrate in Western Europe to frustrate an allied invasion. - : It may be realization of this fact that brought on yestérday’s Moscow broadcast appealing for a front and

arguments in the Moscow newsP.| papers. The situation undoubtedly will in« fluence the deliberations of the allied high'command in London, but the fact remains that military considerations and military possibilities, not public pressure, will dictate the time and place of a second front.

“War of Nerves”

The difficulties in the way of an invasion of Europe have been gone into again and again, and no amount of discussion can remove them. They still exist. The only value of the discussion appears to be as a form of “war of nerves” on the Germans. : In addition to the acute shipping supply problem, the allies are faced with the problem of attaining air supremacy. It has not yet been

layman. to guess when it will be

OPEN

. MONDAYS AND | bays

Central Opens $100,000 Drive

A $100,000 ALUMNI fund drive for Central Normal college, Danville, Ind., was announced today by Virgil Hunt, college president, In charge of the drive will be E. A.’ Sallus, Central Normal alumnus. “The time has’ come,” Mr. Hunt said, “when the small independent college must secure funds in addition to tuition if it wishes tor E- A. Sallus compete successfully with state supported and church schools.” Announcement of the drive follows two dinner meetings at which about 100 Danville townspeople gave $12,500 toward the fund. ‘

HINT CHURCHILL VISITING RUSSIA

Axis Rumors Say British Leader and Stalin Talk

Second Front. . (Continued from Page One)

ton on the urgent. necessity of such a front. Moscow also broadcast an appeal made at a Russian athletic meeting yesterday to athletes of American and Britain to open a second front. It told of the odds against which Russia was fighting and said: “There is no time to wait. only from the air must you scourge

Hitlerite Germany. Let your tanks,

artillery and infantry charge the

enemy in the wake of your planes.”

Athletes of Germany and the Baltic republic were called on to form partisan units, ready for uprisings when the time comes. : Kindled: by the agitation for a second front, the incipent revolt on the enslaved countries took on greater proportions. : Vichy Chief of Government Pierre Laval blamed “foreign propaganda” for a Paris riot touched off when a woman shouted “revolt—the Americans ordered it!” and in which one person was killed and nine were injured, including two. French policemen and 8 German soldier. Berlin quoted the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter as reporting from London that Gen. George C. Marshall, United States army chief of staff, had been named to command British and American second

caused a renewal of second front

reathed and there is no way for the

front forces.

Today's War Moves

(Continued from Page One)

reached or what hidden strength the Germans have which must be overcome. : We do know that the British are working night and day to attain it and that the American air force in Britain is growing impressively. But the excessive optimism which was caused by gl g official predictions ‘at the=time. -of the first fourfigure air raids has given way toa feeling of disappointment and im-

will be further delay seems certain. A British commentary, estimating losses in present multiple-plane raids at about 5 per cent, considered a reasonable s See: Points out the Susi D Ji snails British were to make 1000bo raids every night on welldefended targets in Germany, it

bombers a month—equal to Britain’s entire first-line strength when the war began. In addition there would be an approximate loss of 8000 highly-trained men.- The task of training enough fliers to lose at that rate is formidable.

UNTILS P. M.

Not

patience at the delay. That there,

would mean the loss of about 1500

which may find its way into Germany. A) : «The Germans, for their part, are|s countering the second front threat with parades of s:lect troops in Paris, radio warnirgs to civilians of occupied countries to remain non-combatant, aril forecasts of disaster for invasion: troops. _ They apparently iope to confuse Americans and Briti:h as to whether they are diverting forces from the eastern front fc counter a blow in the west.

and Americans will sttack the Nazi defenses in the w:st where they are strongest. |

Second Front S¢:ms Certain

They may feel it is in their interest to lure the aies on to such

defenses and away irom a possible offensive in the Mi:dle East. That there will b: a united nations attack in the west seems to be the most certair factor in the picture. The assertions oi: leading allied statesmen, the flow of planes and troops to . Britain, the gathering there of high office:s, the obvious

of passively the allizd strength in Britain—those things all seem to add up to a second front.

Where—And When?

The big questions ‘remain where and when. The allies have the caolce of most of the northern coastline of Europe—from Norw:ty to France. Each sector offers advantages. The allies could hope to establish ‘air supremacy over the nearby French coast from Britain. -On the other hand, experiences of past raids show that numerous places in Norway ate vulnerable to seizure. i The question of ‘when depends upon whether it is better to attack at an early date with limited resources or later witli greater resources.

Telegraph Brie's

QUAKE ROCKS NW ZEALAND WELLINGTON, N. 7Z., Aug, 3 (U. P.).—Some streets of this New Zealand capital were roped off today as workmen begall demolishing structures rendered uninhabitable by severe earthquake: that rocked the island over the ijeek-end. No casualties were reported.

BBC REPORTS TRG OP CHANGE

NEW YORK, Aug. 3 (U. P).— The British Broadcasting Co. reported today that 16 German. divisions have been tratsferred from

eastern front.

F. D. R. NOMINA''ES PAUL WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U. P).— President Roosevelt today sent to the senate the nimination of Randolph Paul, New York tax expert, as general counsei to the treasury, succeeding Edwar: H. Foley Jr., resigned.

RESPECTS U-BOA7T DEFENSE STOCKHOLM, Aug. 3 (U.P).— Admiral Karl Doenitz, chief of the submarine arm’ of - the Nazi fleet, told the Berlin correspondent of the Swedish newspaper D:gbladets vesterday that the American defense against U-Boats “calls for respect” and indicated the fighiing spits of United States seamen.

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The navy insists that its brooms must: ‘be bound with tin-plated wire instead of chrome-plated wire. Its brushes must be brass-bound.

Brass for Towel Hangers - -

The navy specifies for its cruisers 13,000 pounds of brass nameplates, chrome-plate brass towel hangers, and aluminum lockers. And the army, WPB officials say, was “extremely reluctant” to substitute felt cushions for sponge rubber in its thousands of ' jeeps. The navy still insists on brass stanchions for its ships. Although hardened lead alloy has been tested and found satisfactory, army ordnance is ‘going to require 110,000 pounds of bronze for the spouts of -6il cans for machine guns. ’

1200 Plants Affected

Meantime, lack of bronze, steel, copper, brass and other critical metals is forcing WPB to cut back the nation’s war production machine. By some estimates, as: many as 1200 major plants, one-tenth of the total, may- have to: curtail or close. In fairness to the army and navy, officials are quick to point out that failure to use substitutes is by no means the only cause of the cutback One official said: “Even if we used - every available substitute we probably could not increase the supply of some metals by more than 5 per cent.” Another official, however, said: “If we made the fullest possible use of substitutes, there would be no reason whatever to slow down the

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war plant. On the contrary, we could expand the present plant— and expand it a lot.” - Informed officials agree that the army, ; has made notable progress in’ use of substitutes. For instance, a high-ranking officer on Gen. Somervell’s staff citéd these accomplishments: Crude rubber content of army tires cut 25 per cent. Aluminum “almost entirely eliminated” from ‘army specifications, except for planes. High-alloy steels “almost entirely eliminated” in favor of lower grade steels. A Over-all requirements .for highalloy steels cut almost in half, } Plastics substituted for aluminum in “many fiields of ordnance.” Steel substituted for copper in large-caliber artillery,

Concrete Tanks O. Kd

Steel truck bodies “absolutely cut out” in favor of wood. Use of critical materials in cahtonments sharply reduced. (Cantonments now.are being built to last only five years). Concrete . substituted for steel plate in gasoline storage tanks. Wooden boxcars substituted for steel on military railroads. Steel treads substituted for morecritical rubber on army tanks. “By no means do we claim to have reached the ultimate in savings through conservation and changes in specifications,” this army man said. “But we are trying every day to . save further through those means. And we welcome and invite

any assistance we can get through industry, or through WPB.”

a YONDAY Raw Material Waste Charged to Army And Navy by Leading WPB Officials ,

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To that last statement, ’ ‘WEB ofe ficials take exception. They say the army and navy not only turn deaf ears to WPB cone servation suggestions, but, in some instances, actually ignore WPB directives. - = They insist that both servivey sometimes tend to ignore WPB advice solely because -it is civilian advice. They cite a recent conference of army, navy and: WPB officials. The WPB officials proposed a list of substitute materials for use in noncombatant articles. They asked the army and navy to promise to use the materials in the future. ~ Both services refused. They exe plained quite frankly that they couldn’t let WPB get a foot in the door; that if WPB could specify material for whisk brooms, it might soon be specifying material for guns,

ADD ALLEGED SPY TO U. S. BLACKLIST

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (U. PJ), —In its fifth supplement to the U, S. commercial “blacklist,” the state

department last night added the

name of George Gough, British Honduras industrialist who was apprehended June 25 by counterespionage agents .as the alleged leader of an axis spy plot in the Panama canal area. Gough, owner of plantations am shipping interests and known as the “King of Belize,” was taken into custody when .a U., S. naval plane stopped. one of his ships in which he was fleeing. It was alleged that he was supplying axis submarines,

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