Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1942 — Page 35

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London Says French Ships Were Damaged Beyond

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LONDON, Dec. 4 (U. P.).—Competent naval observers here today dismissed reports that Germany may be able to: use some of the French warships scuttled when the axis occupied Toulon as having no foundation in fact and said the fleet was “effectually lost.” Allied planes obviously have made reconnaissance fligiats over the harbor and have tak:n many photographs, these quarters said. The pictures have not been released for publication = probably for political reasons. Recall Explosions

The observers were confident that all ships in the fleet, which was estimated to number ‘more than 60 vessels, were scuttled, except for the, three submarines known to have reached Algiers ‘and the fourth which is interned at Barcelona. The fact that the super-structure of some ships still showed above the water did not mea: that they were not disabled, observers said. It was pointed out that explosions were seen and heard at Toulon for days after the scuitling, indicating that the French had left sufficient charges in the ships to insure the maximum destruction and. to prevent the Germans from using the vessels even if they were refloated.

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Turkeys Arrived

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES ON GUADALCANAL, Nov. 25—(Delayed)—(U. P.).— Because a ship bearing turkeys to American - fighting men. was delayed one day, Maj. Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, U. S. marine commandant, decreed that Thanksgiving day would be celebrated on Friday, Nov. 27, rather than on the preceding day. The delayed Thanksgiving was less of a problem than that of finding out how to prepare the turkeys for so many men at this far-away outpost.

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SEAMAN FROM HERE REPORTED MISSING

One man from Indianapolis and another from Marion, Ind., were reported by the navy in Washington today to be “missing” from service with the merchant marine, They were among 317 new casualties of the merchant marine, raising the total to 2901 dead and missing since Sept. 27, 1941. The new casualties include 21 dead and 296 missing. The over-all total now

includes 463 dead and 2438 missing. The man from here was Dean Oscar Rank, whose sister, Mrs. Ethel Sickle, resides at 1429 Roosevelt ave. John William Walling, a fireman, was the casualty from Marion,

ROAD DEPARTMENT VACANCY IS FILLED

Henry Schulz of Columbus today was named superintendent of the {Columbus sub-district of the state highway department by Samuel C. Hadden, commission chairman, Mr. Schulz has had long experience in road work, Mr. Hadden said.

| He will succeed Jerome Dustin, who | has been acting as superintendent [for a short time. Mr. Dustin will be retained by the | commission at some other point, it { was said.

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A victory dinner and mortgage{burning rally will climax achievement celebration week Sunday at {the Scott Methodist church. | “The $32000 mortgage will be burned at 3 p. m, following the |1 p. m. victory dinner. Each mem|ber has been asked to raise $5 toward the mortgage and each of 20 (leaders $50. The Rev. John W.

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"HOOSIER SEEKS COVETED POST

La Follette Hopes to Land Vacancy on House Foreign

Affairs Committee.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Con-gressman-elect Charles M. .LaFollette, Evansville Republican who defeated Rep. John W, Boehne Jr., Evansville ' Democrat, has made some progress here in his plan to become, if possible, a member of the house foreign affairs committee, in the '78th congress. “At least I have learned a great deal about the committee and the

seniority system,” the red-haired Hoosier declared today. “I realize that I am the freshman member of the Indiana Republican delegation and my fate largely is in the hands of my seniors. “My conferences have been very

with the utmost courtesy, but of course no promises have or could be made.”

Favors Willkie Views

Mr. LaFollette admits that his desire to get on foreign affairs is because he wants the Willkie antiisolationist viewpoint to prevail in the Republican party whether the party is in the minority or majority. He has been recommended by state G. O. P. Chairman Ralph Gates. “I have a 15-year-old daughter and I do not want to see her sons marching off’ to another world war,” he explained. “Surely we must be internationalist enough to work out some sensible system that will keep us, out of war for more than 20 or 25 years at a timé.” But getting on foreign affairs may not be easy. For the seniority system gives all seated congressnien a better committees choice, based on the length of their service and present committee assignments. Then the glamorous Clare Booth Luce, freshman congresswoman from Connecticut, is seeking the only G. O. P. vacancy on foreign affairs also. This vacancy is caused by the bearded veteran Rep. George Holden Tinkham’s (R. Mass.) failure to seek re-election. However, Majority Leader Joseph Martin Jr. (R. Mass.) is seeking to increase the G. O. P. membership on this- and other house committees, having 64 Republican freshmen to assign. And there is talk of Rep. Hamilton Fish (R. N. Y.)., now ranking minority member on both foreign affairs and the top-ranking rules committee, bowing out of one or the other to make room fgor newcomers and other Republican congressmen seeking promotion. If he should choose to do so, he likely would take rules over foreign affairs, it was said. But he may just keep both. Committee assignments are made by the house ways and means committee, but the minority recommendations are made by a Republican committee on committees consisting of one member from each state selected by his state delegation. The member, -however, casts as many votes as there are Republican congressmen, giving Indiana a total of nine. Rep: Robert A. Grant, Third district Republican, has been the Indiana member on the committee and likely will be re-elected. Mr. Grant’s own committee assignments are minor compared with other Hoosier Republicans. He is on census, invalid pensions, postoffices and post roads. Since the coming congress will be his third, Mr. Grant is entitled to promotion and might be named to a major committee, such as ways and means, from which Rep. Boehne retires.

DISPUTE IDENTITY IN BANK SLAYING

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dec. 4 (U. P.) —Attorneys for Robert J. Loftus, 44-year-old . Rockford, Ill., exconvict charged with the murder of William E. Tennell of LaCrosse, Ind., contended in circuit court yesterday that Loftus could not be positively identified because he “was suffering from erysipelas, which had changed his features. The move was an effort to offset testimony of Miss Lillian Youngreen, who had pointed out Loftus in court Wednesday as one of two men who held up a LaCrosse bank on June 26, 1933, and killed Tennell, the cashier. The defense claimed that Loftus

the holdup is alleged to have occurred, and was receiving treatment for the disease. A LaCrosse dentist, Dr. Ira D. Funkhouser, testified, however, that the disease could not have made

ORDERS RECOGNITION FOR NEGRO UNION

WASHINGTON, Déc. 4 (U, P.).— The McAvoy Shipbuilding Corp., Savannah, Ga., and the American Federation of Labor, were ordered

employment practice to admit a Negro A. F. of L. local as & cosigner to their existing hiring or closed shop agreement. The action followed public hearings at Birmingham, Ala., in June, 1942, when the . company was charged with discrimination against the Negro workers who are members of a local of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.

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carefully planned, and it can long intended to fight us if demands. For a year Japan talked for war.

was becoming impatient ; that

Japan told this government on Dec. 1, 1941, that she felt she must either surrender to the United States or fight us. Six days later Japan struck at Pearl Harbor. I saw the story unfeld both in Tokyo and Washington. In 1936 I was transferred from the Washington bureau of the United Press to become manager in “Japan. After more than five years I returned to Washington and have been covering

the state department since Sept. 1, 1941, The record shows that Japan determined as far back ‘as January of 1941 that she would fight unless we gave her what she wanted. And from the start, the shameful strategy of a surprise attack upon Pearl Harbor without a declaration of war was part of her plan. Japan wanted, as the price of peace, complete political, ecohomic and cultural domination of the entire western Pacific. Japan would accept nothing less as an alternative to war. Japan demanded that the United States abandon China; that we persuade China to come to peace with Japan, on Japan’s terms. The abandon China. Throughout those touch-and-go

patriotism to avert what the Japanese lords were forcing upon us. But on Dec. 1, 1941, his patience thin after the war talk from Japan's emissaries and after Japan had violated peaceful assertions by massing troops in Indo-China, Hull told the Japanese: “We will not allow ourselves to be kicked out of the Pacific.”

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Navy Is ‘Converted’

Go back to September, 1940. Japan joined the axis then. The Japanese army wanted itmediately to attack Singapore and the East Indies. The navy held back. It said it could not engage in such far-flung campaigns and at the same time protect the homeland. There was angry street brawling between Japanese army and navy officers. But by the end of 1940 the navy was ready to accept the army view and the war plotting. began. In January, 1941, the United States embassy ‘in Tokyo, through channels regarded as reliable, heard that Japan intended to strike without warning at Pearl Harbor if the United States would not become a party to Japan’s Far Eastern overlordship. Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, supplied with three trunksful of Japanese dolls as gifts for Americans, presented his credentials here on Feb. 14, 1941. On March 8 Secretary Hull received Nomura and expressed hope that the bassador had semething constructive to offer. Nomura talked of liberalized commercial relationships between nations and affirmed Japan’s desire for a peaceful settlement “of Pacific issues. But he offered no concrete plan. On April 16, Hult gave Nomura a four-point statement of principles

desired: Territorial integrity of nations; non-interference in internal affairs of other countries; equality of ‘commercial opportunity, and non-disturbance of the status quo in the Pacific, except by peaceful means. Nomura came back on May 12 with a proposal that the United States cease aid to China and negotiate a settlement of the SinoJapanese war. In July the United States learned of an imminent Japanese military movement into southern IndoChina. The Japanese said it was a purely precautionary move. At this point it appeared the U. S.-Japanese talks> would be broken off. But President Roosevelt on July 24 offered the Japanese a chance to demonstrate peace« ful intentions by. withdrawing troops from Indo-China. The troops were not withdrawn. On July 26 the United States took a sharp counter-

United States refused to

montis Secretary of State Cordell; . ’ Hull labored with honor and shining |" like producing the play ‘Hamlet

to which Japan's agreement was|:

now be revealed that Japan we would not give in to her

peace and made preparations

Tokyo made it dled in November of last year that she

if she were going to fight the

United States she preferred to do it soon.

measure by freezing Japanese assets in the United States. = ”

Churchill Advice Taken

On Aug. 17, President Roosevelt returned from his Atlantic charter conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill told Mr. Roosevelt he thought a firm hand with Japan would pay dividends.

“Let's send them a warning,” Churchill suggested. Churchill's suggestion was adopted. Japan countered with a personal message to Mr. Roosevelt from Premier Fumimaro XKonoye, who suggested that he meet the president somewhere in the Pacific. Mr. Roosevelt, on Sept. 3, expressed a desire to collaborate with Konoye, but said a discussion of fundamental questions was a necessary preliminary. On Oct. 13, Kaname Wakasugi, Japanese minister who had made a round-trfp to Japan despite ill health, reported to Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles that there was danger of a coup in Japan which would bring into power the firebrands who favored war on the side of the axis. He suggested a temporary settlement leaving out the question of China. “That,” replied Mr. Welles, “would

without the character of Hamlet.” On Oct. 17 a new cabinet headed by Gen. Hideki Tojo came into power. It seemed that Wakasugi’s forebodings were being fulfilled. On Nov. T Hull reported to he| BX army and navy that a crisis was imminent. The army and navy urged Hull to prolong the conversations while defense preparations were rushed.

‘Goat,’ Claims Kurusu

On Nov. 16, 1941, Saburo Kurusu, usually regarded as the villain ‘in Japan’s pre-Pearl - Harbor won| 08 matic game, arrived in Washington. Kurusu told friends after Pearl Harbor that he was used as the goat” by Japan’s militarists. He insisted that he had no advance knowledge of the plans which the militarists developed. Hull received Kurusu and Nomura, on the day after Kurusu’s arrival.

the United States could pursue policies of wise and far-sighted statesmanship and contribute to a world move toward peace. Kurusu said there was a feeling in Japan, since the freezing order, that if Japan had to fight us she should do it while she still could. The three men met again at Hull's hotel apartment on Nov. 19. On the 20th the Japanese hrought what must have been their “take it or leave it” offer, demanding the commercial relations be restored and aid to China halted.

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‘Breathing Spell’ Not Asked

On Nov. 22 at another meeting at Hull's apartment Kurusu said immediate relief on trade and oil was necessary. Hull said: “It is a pity that Japan cannot do just a few small, peaceful things to help tide over the situation.” On the evening of the 25th, Hull considered the idea of offering the Japanese a 90-day truce or “bregthing spell” during which fresh efforts toward peace could be made.

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lems which could be “worked out during our further conversations.” Kurusu's nervous mannerisms were more apparent than usual as he glanced through the document. He muttered as he read. Finally he blurted out: “If this is the attitude of the American government I don’t see how an agreement is possible. Tokyo will throw up its hands 'at this.” | The Japanese again asked aboub a temporary agreement giving Japan oil. : “I might almost be lynched if I permitted oil to go freely to K Japan,” Hull replied.

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Army, Navy Warned

- ‘On Nov. 28 Hull told the army and navy that diflomacy had done

it looked as though the Japanese would ™ strike. The forces that struck Pearl Harbor were already in motion. On Dec. 1 Hull talked to the Japanese about threatening new troop movements in Indo-China. “Japan is digging herself in there,” he said. “We can’t continue to take chances on the situation: we will not allow ourselves to be kicked out of the Pacific.” “The people of Japan feel they are facing the alternative of surrender to the United States or fighting you,” Kurusu interjected.

all it could. He warned again that] .

ic Japs Talked Peace and Planned War for Year By H. 0. THOMPSON : United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. —A year ago today Japan airplane carriers were sliding stealthily toward Pearl Harbor for the Dec. 7 attack. This treacherous onslaught had been

Pearl - Harbor. The attack had started an hour before. Neither Kurusu nor Nomura mentioned the outbreak of hostilities. They handed Hull a lengthy document, dgiclaring Japan's belief that “it |is impossible to reach an agreement through further negotiations.”

Hull read the communication in growing disgust. Then he spoke in words which have become a part of American history: “In all my 50 years of public seryice I have never seen a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions-— infamous falsehoods and distor - tions on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them.”

SHIP LAUNCHING SET EVANSVILLE, Dec. 4 (U. P.).— Pearl Harbor day will be celebrated Monday with the launching of the fifth _ocean-going naval auxiliary vessel to be constructed at Evansville. Mrs: Ashley Fancy, Louisville, daughter of Lieut. Comm. and’ Mrs. ¥. G. Healy, will be sponsor.

By now Japanese carriers were advancing to attack stations. So the Japanese

which Tokyo blandly asserted the Indo-China troop movements were defensive in character. On Saturday night, the 6th, President Roosevelt sent to Emperor Hirohito an urgent appeal for maintenance of peace. The connivings of the warlords in Tokyo prevented the message from reaching the emperor in time. Sunday, the 7th, Kurusu and Nomura asked for an appointment with Hull at 1 p. m. They then asked a 45-minute postponement. The three actually met at 2:20 p. m,

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