Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1942 — Page 3
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Uses Fortress Raids Effort to Turn French “Public Opinion.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Seripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Adolf Hitler, according to Fighting French sources, is hammering away at Pierre Laval, chief of the Vichy government, to break with the United States over the bombing of occupied France. In any event the Lavalists are
utilizing the flying fortress raids on Rouen, Havre and other centers of German activity in France to stir up feeling against the United States.
Current practice in Germany and|
axis-dominated countries is to minimize all damage done by hostile raiders. Even after the colossal raids on Cologne and Essen, Berlin belittled their importance aside from the usual stuff about hits on schools, hospitals, churches and working men’s cottages. Protests Are ‘Staged’ Vichy is now claiming that the flying fortresses are cold-blbodedly laying French cities waste. The controlled press is saying the Americans are dropping their bombs, haphazard, with no regard for the lives of the innocent. There was a mass burial of 20 in Sotteville, near Rouen, yesterday and authorities arranged a “public mass meeting of protest” at Rouen today and a memorial service in the Rouen cathedral tomorrow, both “to be attended by high French personalities and German authorities. This is significant. Vichy, it is said, would like to sever relations with the United States, but has not dared because the French people are against it. If, however, the public can now be turned against America by carefully twisted propaganda, Laval at last could do what Hitler wants. * Next 60 Days Crucial
Hitler wants France in the war for an increasing number of reasons, For him the next 60 days will be crucial. Nowhere are things going exactly as he would like, despite surface indications. Even' in Russia where he seems to be winning battles, he may be losing the fight,’ The main job of the Nazi war machine is to annihiliate the Russian armies and it has not yet succeeded in destroying a single one. The specter of another dreadful winter is staring him in the face and new menaces are springing up all round him. The U-boat battle of the Atlantic .to be slowly turning against im. The allies seem to have found new and effective ways of sinking axis submarines. This means that lendslease supplies are
to Russia, Egypt, the Middle East
and the other fronts. American rand 75 were arrested on sabotage
fighting men, too, are streaming
and President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill have frankly
making. Hitler Needs France
So Herr Hitler needs every ounce of help he can bully his neighbors
man, every gun, every ship he can lay his hands on. If he could bludgeon Prance into coming in on his side, her weight, he feels, might tip the scales. On the seas, the French navy would add more weight than wishful thinkers are willing to admit. Reports indicate Vichy has four battleships, 14 cruisers,. some : 50 destroyers and 60 submarines. It would also help the situation in North Africa, where the fuehrer is worrying about the possibility of an American or allied expedition from the Belgian Congo on de Gaullist Equatorial Africa to threaten Marshal Rommel from the
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Patriots Will Remain Indoors Tonight; 10 Are Doomed to Death.
LONDON, Sept. 10 (U. PJ).~— Throughout Norway, in cities and villages, men, women and children patriots will remain indoors after 7 o'clock tonight in a silent national protest against Nazi terrorism, secret advices to Norwegian sources said today. The mass protest was organized to ‘commemorate the first anniversary of a ruthless German terror campaign as part of which more than 100 Norwegians have been executed and many among the thbusands sent to prisons or concentration camps have died under German torture or because of sub-human conditions. Ten Norwegians have been sentenced to death this week. So far the Germans have been able to conscript only about 20,000 Norwegian workers for labor in Germany instead of the 70,000 they wanted, because the workers prefer prison. to slavery. :
Paralyze Production
More than 1000 workers were arrested at the important Lista airdrome in’ sofithern ‘Norway recently
charges at the Vaernes airdrome near Trondheim. Advices: to Norwegians here said that “go slow” tactics among men forced to work in- Norway for the ‘Germans had brought production to the point of paralysis. ‘British advices said a‘ general | offi strike was spreading among workers of Luxembourg, gne of the world’s 10 largest steel producing countries, despite Nazi threats to execute those who refused to work. “This striking is an immediate and magnificent answer bythe Luxembourg people to the announcement that Luxembourg had been incorporated into Germany. and that Luxembourg youth would be conscripted for military service,” the ministry of information said. A Nazi decree was quoted which said of one phase of the strike: “Paid enemy agents have undertaken to promote a strike at Schlifelingen. They have achieved a partial success.”
Death for Strikers
The chief of the civil administration has ordered a state of emergency in the municipal area of Esch (10 miles south of Luxembourg, the capital). Strikers semtenced to death by court-martial will be shot immediately, no matter where they live.” Belgian sources had reported increasing sabotage against Luxembourg railroads. Workers fail to oil rolling stock or mix sand with oil. They do all they can to slow traffic and cause blocks. A Vichy dispatch reported that railroad guards’ found railroad ties and ‘logs piled on the rails of the
pellier and Nimes, on the MediterThe obstructions were placed so
would be forced onto other main line tracks and wreck the entire
British sources reported the dynamiting of a railroad line near Gab-
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SILENT PROTEST
War has heightened the tragedy
question of the war effort.
One tree goes Tor the soldier's living quarfers. Another goes for shipping food, clothing, tanks and guns. The remaining three are made into wood cellulose for high explosives, wood for bombers and battleships, for pontoon bridges, ete. ‘Wood, like steel, must be produced in great quantities. In Indiana's . 3,000,000 acres of timber land, the fall forest fire season is about to start. Then throughout the fall, the threat is ever present. Last year 10,191 acres of the land was ravaged by 217 fires. This year officials hope that Hoosiers will help in cutting this toll. \ County civilian defense directors of 21 southern Indiana counties have been enlisted to help train fire fighters and on Sept. 21, they will open forest warden schools. Like many other fields, forest fighters’ ranks have been depleted by the call to the armed services. Thus the OCD was called in to help. In many ways, however, the job is one of civilian defense, naturally. Launching a nation-wide forest fire
1. Forest fire fighters dig a trench to atop the flames’ progress.
2. Putting out the blaze with chemicals, 3. How i all “Siastel squmehoay threw a sigue at: he roadside.
Five Tries Needed fo Keep One Man in Armed Forces
By FREMONT POWER
It always was tragic enough, flames quickly ripping through natural resources that had been years in the growing, But now thete is the
Conservationists estimate that to equip and maintain one man mn the armed forces, American forests must produce five trees.
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of the forest fire.
culture Secretary. Wickard declared: “We cannot forget that submarines have landed Nazi saboteurs on our very shores; or that the British royal air force roa the whilg}’ to start great Tires. forests. of map The inference is ‘not ides: The same thing could happen here as in the forests of Germany. Hoosierland forests, dotted with 23 lookout towers, are protected by the : following organization: State forester (T. E. Shaw), assistant forester in charge of fires (James Peneton), three district wardens and subordinate wardens plus their crews. In the fiscal year endéd June 30, the state forest program, including fire fighting, education etc., cost $30,861.
Forester Shaw ® ‘appealing ‘to Indiana to cut forest fires. More than 99 per cent of them are caused by man—YOU and YOU. A carelessly tossed cigaret, a campfire left burning can ‘help the]
prevention campaign recently, Agri-
LONDON, Sept. 10 (U. P.).—The following time table of normal Russian weather may shed some light upon Hitler's chances of. attaining his goals” before the terrible Russian winter sets in: In north Russia and Karelia, a mean temperature below freezing starts the last week of October, but larger rivers and lakes don’t freeze before the end of November. - In the Leningrad area, September is: wet, although the latter part of the month. may be dry, with light frost in October. Snow in NovemBer. d The Moscow region sormally has fine autumn weather in September and October after a wet summer, A mean temperature below freezing begins the first week in November. Steady snow is unlikely before the end of November. In the area from Kaliinin to Voronezh, real winter begins in mid-December. It is dry from . Stalingrad to
rovo, Bulgaria, by anti-axis patriots.
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though there may be some rain now, a little snow any ‘time and hard frost and ‘high winds in December and January.
North Caucasus autumns are dry and there is never much hard frost or steady snow. There are cold winds in January and February. The Batum region is sub-tropical with heavy winter rains. There is heavy snow in the Caucasus mountain passes after the middle of October. Weather conditions on the Caspian coast favor military operations the year around.
OFFERS RECORD SECURITIES
WASHINGTON, Sept, 1 (U. P.).—|
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
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He'll Be Satisfied if Each American Kills One
Japanese.
U. S. ARMY BASE IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. 9 (U. PJ). (delayed)— Gen. Douglas MacArthur told U. 8S. army troops at this base today that he would be satisfied if each American soldier killed one Jap-
In a soldier, he told the troops, the psychological factor was three times as important as the material factor because if a man had fighting courage he would win despite poor equipment and poor training. Always, he said, the man won who fought to the end, whose nerves did not go back on him and who had nothing but the will to victory. “That is what I want of my men and what I expect,” he said. MacArthur said that the Japanese were the greatest exploiters of an inefficient opposing army that |: the world had ever seen. The Japanese were upset, however, when they were attacked, he said, bcause they preferred to work smoothly under pre-arranged plans. MacArthur said the Japanese were no easy enemy but fought
and did not ask or give qu: arter, If American troops in a tough
flinched before odds ‘they would themselves be killed: by tne Japanese, he said.
PLASTIC: MAKERS FACE U. S. CHARGES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (U, P). —Two indictments, charging five companies and 14 officials with violating the Sherman anti-trust act in the manufacture and sale of plastics were returned today by a federal grand jury at Newark, N. J. Attorney. General Francis Biddle announced. ‘Those indicted included Lammot ‘du Pont, chairman of E. Iv du Pont
Mr. Biddle said that at the request of the secretaries of war and navy, trial of the cases will be delayed until after the war. - One indictment charged that the
Co., Inc., of Philadelphia, engaged in a world-wide conspiracy to suppress competition in and to monopolize the manufacture and sale of acrylic products in the United States and in other countries. At alleged also that they were members of an international cartel which ‘included I. G. Farbenindustrie, of Germany, Rohm & Haas, also of Germany, and ° “Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of England. The foreign companies were not ndiced,
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labor supply.
. Drastic new decrees designed to squeeze a larger flow of industiral and agricultural labor from occupied countries, the last source the Nazis can tap in their fight, are reported. These measures already have led to protest and resistance in such places as'Norway, Holland, Luxembourg and France—and to “appropriate” Nazi methods of dealing ‘with them. Fines and prison sentences have been ‘passed’ out, with confiscation of
property in some cases. Worse. will
follow, for the Nazis place rebellion
in the labor field during wartime on ‘a parity with treason, for which the penalty is death. “The labor problem represents one of the three big bottlenecks of the Nazi war effort on the home front, the others being raw materials and transportation; none of the three is likely alone to wreck the military machine, but can slow it up.
No Ersatz Workmen The labor shortage covers all
| types of workers from skilled labor
to farmhands, with an officially admitted shortage of agricultural help alone of more than. 600,000. To relieve it, Hitler not long ago decreed ‘that children above the age of ten were conscriptable. for farm work and. ‘the reopening date of schools was moved to November to permit children to be kept, pes in the fields. With about 12,000,000 men = tl form as ‘active. fighters or auxiliary{ troops (for occupation; supply, road=
building, etc) and ‘with steadily mounting losses in Russia, Germany has had to free every possible man from agriculture and: labor to handle a gun. No German laboratory thus far has turned out an ersatz workman.
Thus over 4,000,000 foreign ‘work- |
ers and prisoners of war have been
put into the German labor machine, |
with growing emphasis on ‘prisoners from the east, : practically slavelabor living in little’ better than concentration camps. More than 1,000,000 new women workers have been put into factories and on farms. Aged persons normally re-
tired. on pensions and old-age in-}:
surance havé been called back to jobs to. relieve younger workers.
IN FIRE, -57 SAVED Three 1942 Packard automobiles, valued at $1750 each, were destroyed, and 57 others saved today ‘when fire: broke out in ‘a building at 3351. Central ave. where they were stored. Owned’ by Packard Indianapolis, Inc., the cars Were
stored there following government “freezing” orders.
A. Stephen’ Conn; sales manager 3 of the firm, said, the. blaze appar} ently started as workers drained}
gasoline out-of the tanks, which, he
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United Press Central European . (Louis F, Keemle is on vacation.) Recent Nazi moves reveal ever-increasing difficulty Bon one of the softest spots of their economic front—
+The legal maximo: ‘working hours
early categories to be weeded out.|
~ Stand; Upshaw, Loading ~ Dry, Defeated.
on two main issues—his hostility 3 the national administration of Prese ident Roosevelt and what he is
educational system, of which state is very proud.
lic pledge to tend strictly, if ree elected, to state affairs. On the second, he made much point of the fact that under Mr. Talmadge, Georgia's educational institutions had. lost thefr standing witn nae
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S War Moves Upshaw, a répresentative a 4 : Volstead days who was famous then as a bitterly last-ditch dry. Seeking nomination to the senate seat now held by Richard B. Ruse | sell he campaigned vigorously fof weeks while Russell remained m Washington. The voters overs whelmed his aspirations. Rep. Robert Ramspeck, Democrae. & tic whip in the house, held a slim lead over two opponents for renomie nation, as did Rep. B. Frank Wgele chel over one opponent. Reps. E. EB, Cox, Hugh Peterson, and John 8. Gibson won renominations. The re«
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have been stretched to 60 per week
for men, 56 for women, and to a straight seven-day week on farms.}
b “surveys” of civilian Ea population have yielded some work-| . 3 In po ers, consisting in some cases: of wes Puts an on raids on cafes and bars of} CL De ie Night-club hostesses Two-Tone Shoes and schoolteachers were among the w ASHINGTON, Sept. Domestic = servants likewise were| ;°% taken. The “delivery-time” on a suit-cleaning job is one year due to clearing out in that branch. i The labor shortage embarrasses Hitler particularly acutely with united nations production increasing by leaps and bounds. The growing pinch explains why he is. proceeding now with renewed severity to. force’ more labor cooperation out of .the occupied areas. His excuse always has been that Germany is fighting all Europe's battle against bolshevism in the east and against Jewish-democratic plutocracy “ in ‘the west, therefore| urope must help: him. ‘That ‘will e his explanation, too, for letting every country in Europe starve before Germany does.
were renominated without opposis : tion, ' ° :
and summer of 1943 and choice of ‘colors will be limited black, white, turf tan, army ; set, town brown and bluejacket - blue. ui Only exception to the ban on two-color shoes was grinted manufacturers who use none .-critical synthetics in soles. The ‘order does not affect footwear.
Leather boots will not be man | ufactured after Oct. 31, excep 17 bleucher cut laced boots and cows boy utility boots.
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change-over from Straws to Felts—
said, is required by the government}.
in connection with “frozen” . autos.
of $3,000,000,000 in federal securi-|
ties, the largest government financing operation in history, aside from the liberty loan issues of world war I.
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Fred, Rosemary Harvey, at 1147 'N. i.
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