Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1943 — Page 9
| £5
TRA Re aE FREES
Ei
oy Algerla; —The staft of the army: newspaper Stars & Stripes, now being published in Africa ‘well as England, is probably ‘the most compact little family among all our troops abroad. By sticking together and using their noodles, they've just about got the miseries of African life whipped. i There are 18 of them. Their A big boss is Lieut. Col. Egbert White, a gray-haired lovable man who speaks quietly and makes sure that the boys under him are well cared for. Col. White, incidentally, spent a week at ‘the front recently, wandered: around until he got behind the German. lines, and got himself shot at. The actual working editor of Stars & Stripes in Africa is Lieut. Bob. Neville, who was promoted recently from sergeant, Like all others who have been commissioned
in the field, he’s had a- terrible time getting himself
an officer's uniform. Col. White gave him a blouse, which fits perfectly. A correspondent gave him a ‘cap. He bought a pair
of pants of another officer. He picked up his bars here, ‘there and everywhere. :
As Modern as New York
THE. STARS & STRIPES has its editorial offices
- in the Red Cross building, a beautiful brand new. Ee structure of six stories in'downtown Algiers. It’s just
8
as modern as New York, except the acoustics engineer was insane, and if you drop ‘a pin on the first floor it sounds like New Year's eve in-a boiler shop on the Ath floor.
_! The staff of the Stars & Stripes works and lives in
this. building. On the top floor they have a huge “front room, which serves both as dormitory and club‘roomi. At first: they were sleeping on the hard tile floor, But later the Red Cross dug up French iron cots for them, 50 now they're almost as comfortable as ‘at home.
By Erni¢ Pyle||
They have big steel cupboards to use as shelves,
and a large table where they write letters and play
cards. There's always a huge basket of tangerines sitting on the table. The windows are blacked out so they can have lights at night. A dozen of the staff write and edit the paper; half a dozen do the mechanical work. They have made an
arrangement with a local newspaper for- using its|
composing room. But the American soldiers do all their own mechanical work.
From Linotype to Cook
THERE ARE FOUR linotype operators on the staff. The boss man is Pvt. Irving Levinson of Stamford, Conn. He is a good-natured genius at getting work done in a foreign country. He has to get out a paper in a French composing
room in which not a soul speaks English, and Irv).
speaks not a word of Frenth. But his native good
‘humor works so well that within two weeks all the
French printers were addressing him by the familiar “tu,” they were having him out to their homes for dinner, and the paper was coming out regularly. Two of the other lino operators are Pfc William Gigente, of Brooklyn, and. Corp. Edward Rossman, of Pleasantville. N. J. The fourth is Pvt. Jack Wentzel of Philadeiphia, and his is the funniest case of all, He hasn’t run a linotype since he came on Stars & Stripes, He hasn't, because he's been too busy cooking.
Pvt. Wentzel never cooked a meal in his life, out-|.
side of helping his mother a little when he was a kid. But the Stars & Stripes decided to set up its own mess right in its own building, and by drawing straws or something, Pvt. Wentzel became the cook. Before many meals passed the staff discovered they had a culinary wizard in their midst. Wentzel
sort of liked it himself.
Now. the three other linotype operators work over-
time, doing his composing room work for him, so he
can remain as cook.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
THE PAUL MOORES—he’s state food administrator for the OPA and she’s press agent for the Red
,. Cross—have a disciplinary problem in their home.
‘They ‘have two lively youngsters—-Brant, 7, and Pat, 6.
es And the 8 youtigsters have an adoring dog; named Mike.
Mike is ‘part bulldog and part watchdog. Whenever a , bit of chastisement is indicated ‘for one of the kids, the Moores have to lock Mike in the basement to keep from being chewed into mincemeat. Even so, Mike nearly tears the door down. And sometimes while one: youngster is “catching it,”. the other races to the basement and lets Mike out. That ends discipline for the day. . . : Harris Cox, 3202 Central, «who has : ‘tapped. a maple tree in his front yard, isn’t sure that he has found a solution to the sugar problem. He’s been keeping the sap he collects on & hot air radiator, letting it boil down. But it begins to appear, he says, that it takes an awful lot of sap to make a small amount of maple syrup. He thinks ‘maybe it’s because he doesn’t have the best type of ‘maple for sugar water, . . . Bill Crabb, assistant city editor of The Times, is getting his feet back on the ground again after passing through the ordeal of
A" becoming a father. The young lady was named Con-
stance Roberta.
Around the “Town * 5
A SMALL DOG was struck by a trackless trolley at Meridian and Washington Friday noon and the accident’caused quite a stir among spectators. C. J. Barnes 6f the Hotel Severin tells us a couple of policemen wete. near by and one of them (Badge 701) picked up the: dog and carried it into the Merchants Bank building, ‘Three women, Mr. Barnes said, became excited" and thought the officer was going to destroy the dog. Instead, the officer went irito Hook’s and bought & couple of hamburgers and gave them to the dog. Mr. Barnes doesn’t know what came next but he thinks maybe it was the dog pound wagon. (The police department says badge 701 is worn by Patrolman Clinton Myers.) “se Lieut. Dwight F. Morgan,
Washington
WASHINGTON, ‘March 15—As the British and ourselves ‘sit down to talk it over—especially through Anthony Eden and Cordell Hull—we should keep one fact ringing in our ears./ It the British and ourselvds can’t get along . : together, then the idea of any real co-operation among nations must be given up as a hopeless dream. If two such ‘reasonable and civilized men as the British foreign minister and our secretary of state personifying the spirit of mutual accommodation cannot find themselves in basic agreement, what two men could do it? If our two nations ‘can’t do it—where can we find any other nations to work with?
who used to work at the Chevrolet plant, and later ab Allison, has been home on leave for a few days. He has been piloting B-24 bombers. Hes the guy that used to get so many telephone calls and letters meant for Schools Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan.
Club Doubly Blessed
THE CHAIRMAN rang the bell for order as members of the Caravan club were sitting down for their luncheon last week at the Murat temple, Before everyone was seated, the chairman banged his gavel for quiet, and one gentleman, busy arranging his papers on the platform in front of the speakers shuffled his papers and started to offer grace in his usual manner. At the same time, another appointed individual asked the blessing on the meal. Because of the confusion of members being seated, neither heard the other. Thus, the meal was doubly blessed and the crowd got a big laugh. . . . The Indianapolis Junior C. of C. has 200 active members here at home and 100 in the armed forces. (Those figures are almost exact.) Jack Reich, president, got to figuring up and discovered the number of deaths among members in the 10 months he has been president have been in exact
proportion—two in the civilian group and one in the|
armed forces, Incidentally, the one soldier casualty wasn’t killed in action.. The victim stepped in: front of a train while on furlough.
Watch Those Keys!
WITH KEY METAL almost impossible to obtain, hotels are doing everything possible to prevent absent: minded guests from walking away with their room keys. Paul Rupprecht, manager of the Lincoln, tells us some hotels have started requiring guests to make a $1 deposit on room keys just to impress on them the importance of returning the keys. It’s not the dollar the hotel wants—it’s the key. . . . Incidentally, you may be interested in the hobby of Mrs; Rupprecht, the wife of the manager. She collects handkerchiefs —all styles and fashions, and has a collection so valuable it’s insured. There are about 700 in the collection. , . . In the Otto Graf jewelry store—on Ohio just east of the circle—there’s a sign pasted over the face of the clock, reading: “No batteries—no time.”
By Raymond Clapper
hands. We must have the opposite shore of the Atlantic in friendly hands. This war has shown the necessity of/ that. Further development of the long-range aiiplane will make the case even stronger: : If the Nazis were now in Dakar, in Liberia, on the Gold Coast, and if the Nazis were in control of the North Atlantic islands, or if they were only
- able to keep England neutral, the submarine threat .as we have known it in the last year. would be
multiplied many fold and our trouble would not be limited to sinking of merchantmen within sight of our coast. The importance of the British Isles to our military security is elementary in all of our military planning; but politically it is not as clear to us as, for instance, the importance of the Panama Canal.
Must Stand Together
Our Sicdrity and Britain's security demand a close |
Anglo-American understanding.
Twice U. S. Has Had to Help
¢ TWO WARS in our time have demonstrated to Great Britain that she is not strong enough alone to protect her interests. She has had to have the help of the United States in both instances. . ; No . other nation can serve as a substitute for us in this regard. Because Britain is ‘an island power; depending upon trade and activities all over the world, she must have naval and air strength spread around to protect those interests. ‘Wé are the only power with such a spread, the erly “nation that will have the strength in .the
“on ‘our side; it is dos that we cannot protect ourselves in the Atlantic without the help of Great Britain, That forward base must be in friendly
My Day
WASHINGTON, Sunday Friday evening we saw a filin called “The-Human Comedy,” by Saroyan. It is the real America but not, the America of the usual movie and so I hope it will be shown in many parts of the world. Even. though the hymns are unfasifliar, the boys’ attitudes will ring true and ‘it will be among the first SEIS OEIVIaY Dl uss of Aer ican lif to get. through to.many
ibe Teopls of other countries.
"I find films of this kind rather Jhard to bear—I suppose because Sho iSisgrams Semin me. of the
must appreciate and enjoy someOrie; [0S 1 somewhat sad.
ALL OF THAT is on the basis that there won't be any real united nations organization, and that it will be each nation standing on its own and protecting its front and rear by ‘alliances and Whatever other methods seem necessary. If there is to be a real united nations, then the collaboration of. the United States and Great Britain as the two largest democratic forces in it is essential. For if these two nations, alike in language, so alike in political outlook, so closely related by blood and history, cannot stay together, any united nations organization is doomed to fatal division inside, and its democratic future would be seriously endangered. We shall have severe competition with Great Britain in shipping “after the war. Our commercial airplanes will compete with British air interests. But this competition cannot be allowed to force the two countries apart so that each will stand isolated and in potential danger.
‘By Eleanor Roosevelt
boys remain on until they are 18 and go directly to ege The boys take no examinations. They are simply appointed by senators or representatives. They carry on what I would consider a pretty heavy schedule, going to school every morning from 7:15 until the time their respective houses open, and returning to school in the afternoon at whatever hour ‘an adJournment comes. ‘The principal of the school runs
“on a long schedule too, but he is the only teacher who
remains from 7:15 a. m. until 8 p. m., when school closes. The other teachers are there off and on, depending of the number of boys and the hours at
. Which they come in.
About 60 per cent of the boys live ‘with their families in Washington. Forty per cent of them come from different parts of the country and live in
: boarding houses. I am rather surprised that memShing Which 8 yesliy 366 sven if
bers of congress, when they were providing office space, did not provide dormitory space for these page ‘boys, since they would certainly profit by eh type of supervision.
% rl re 1a is
lies. Fiodore Wozniak!
(Continued from Page One)
he said, “You write no more about me and sabotige. All See?” He turned and hurried from the office;
The name may mean little to the reader in 1943. Yet,
headlines.
back in 1917, Fiodore Wozniak helped to make sensational
How many Americans recall the great Kingsland fire? For four terrifying hours; on the afternoon of Jan.
11, 1917, the inhabitants of New York City, New Jersey, Westchester and Long Island listened to the roar of 300,000 three-inch, high-explosive shells being discharged in
reached each case of shells and exploded the projection charges, the missiles leaped high up in the air and then hurtled down. Luckily the shells had not yef been equipped with their detonating fuses; otherwise the casualties would have been immense. As it was, the men, women and children in the neighborhood sscaped in the mick of time. Z Lim tom Successful Sabotage
DAMAGE AMOUNTING to $17,000,000 had been accomplished by one of the most successful acts of sabotage ever perpetrated against a nation’s war industry. Investigation quickly established that the blaze had originated at the work bench of the very man who, 24 years later, walked into the office of The Hour and introduced himself with the words, “Yah. Me Wozniak.”
Franz von Papen , . . first of Germany's sahoteur-diplomats.
In 1917, American investigators dubbed him “The Firebug.” Yet it was not until many years later that the United States government was able to prove conclusively that the Kingsland disaster was an act of German sabotage, and that Fiodore Wozniak, working under German instructions, had started the fire at his workbench either by the use of an incendiary pencil or with rags saturated with phosphorus dissolved in some solvent. It was not until June, 1939, two months before the outbreak of the second world war, that United States Supreme Court Justice Roberts was able to hand down the decision that Germany (1) waged undeclared war by sabotage on the United States from 1914-17; (2) caused the famous Black Tom and Kingsland disasters; and (3) by
. continuously presenting perjured
testimony - through its foreign office officials, tried for 22 years to hide the proof of its guilt. . . . Supreme Court Justice Roberts handed down this decision as umpire at the mixed claims commission hearings held at The Hague, Holland.
2 =» =
Ghost From Past
IN THE HECTIC interlude between Sept. 1, 1939, and Dec. 7,
BANQUET TO HONOR HOSPITAL 32 UNIT
The Indianapolis Medical society will honor members of General hospital 32, who are leaving for the armed services with a banquet at the Indianapolis Athletic club tonight. Speakers are to include President Herman B.' Wells ‘of Indiana university: Dr. W. D. Hatch, dean of the I. U. medical school; Dr. John Ray Néwcomb and Dr. LaRue Carter; co-chairmen of medical procurement. A : -
WINNING OF PEACE,
BUTLER FORUM TOPIC
“Winning of the Peace” will be the topic of discussion at another of the war forums to be conducted _| by Butler university at Jordan hall ‘Wednesday morning. Sl Bk The discussion. will | be. led by or.
a continuous bombardment. The disaster occurred in the shell-assembling plant of the Agency of the Canadian Car & Foundry Co. near Kingsland, N. J. Suddenly and inexplicably, fire had broken out. Within a few minutes the whole plant was ablaze. As the flames
-world war I
1941, it seemed to many Amerie’ cans that history was being rewritten. Once again, the United
States was reluctantly girding it-
self in face of the threat of war, Once again, Germany was em= ploying every device of diplomacy, propaganda and sabotage to isolate the United States. from its potential allies abroad and to cripple American production, : Fiodore Wozniak, “The Fire-
bug,” seemed like a ghost from a
nightmarish past. Yet there were other, more potent, ghosts einerging from the sinister legends of (In July, 1942, Wozniak was taken into custody by the FBI.) The kaiser’s Germany launched its “great war” without taking American resources into consideration. German strategists then, as now, dreamed of blitzkrieg victory. Only after the setback at the first crucial battle of the Marne did the kaiser’s high command realize it faced a long struggle in which economic strength would be the decisive factor and American resources might be the key to victory. ® ®
Code Message Sent
HASTILY, and belatedly, the high command turned its attention to crippling American war pyoduction. Germany was already cut off from American ports by the British blockade. There was no way of. shipping large: nurnbers of saboteurs across the seas. So Germany was forced to rely on her diplomatic representatives in the United States to organize the secret war against American re sources. On Jan. 26, 1915, the intelli- . gence service of the German high command sent a secret code message to the German embassy in Waskingfon. It read: “For military attache: You can obtain particulars as to persons suitable for carrying on sabotage in the U, S. and Canada from the following persons; one Joseph MacGarrity, Philadelphia; two John P. Keating, Michigan ave, Chicago; three, Jeremiah O'Leary, 16 Park row, New York. One and two are ahsolutely reliable and discreet. Number three is reliable but not always discreet. These persons were indicated by Sir Roger Casement. In the U. S. sabotage can be carried out. in every kind of factory for supplying munitions of var. Railway ents and bridges must not be touck.ed. Embassy must in no circumstances be. compromised. Similar precautions must be taken in regard to Inishx
Zimmerman was the keiser's minister of foreign affairs. 8 ” #
Evil Genius
THE MILITARY ATTACEHE at Washington was Capt. Franz von Papen, first of German’s saboteurdiplomats. He was very popular in Washington circles. Young, wealthy, aristocratic, “handsome Franzi” gave the appearance of being a man utterly fearless and frank. Only a certain narrowness about the eyes suggested the other aspect of the man’s ¢ acter: His evil genius for intrigue.
Match Box Borscht May Make Russ Guerrillas Happy
By Science Service WASHINGTON, March 15. — Borscht for the fighters of Russia— enough to make two good helpings packed into a little block no bigger than a safety-match box—~fentured a d on of the newest things in space-saving g Shiphis: put
covering soak for 20 minutes in cold water, then boil it up ang. eat 1 lon
while hot. : Compressed tablets of many kinds of dehydrated ‘were demon-
strated to representatives of Rus-|
sian, Chinese, British and other
: allied Lrg ments: and to members 4
series of articles is condensed from
in the United States.
sives and assassinations to strike been common’ to all mddern wars.
But with the Nazis, sabotage became state policy. Nazi Germany itself is the creation of professional spies and sabototts. The: ex-Reichswehr spy Acolf Hitler came to power by means of a secret bargain struck with the former archsaboteur, Franz van Papen, in the home of the democracy-hating Cologne banker, Baron Kurt von Schroeder, ‘The consolidation of Nazi power was achieved with history’s supreme act of sabotage: The burning of the German Reichstag by ‘Hermzn Goering’s arsonists. There is no device of sabotage which the professional wreckers of the axis have not mastered.They have raised the weapon of sabotage to a new level’ in modern ‘warfare. ‘Their - saboteurs assume the importance of a sec-. ond army. } Sabotage on a world scale; sabotage of industry, agriculture,
|dehydrated foods; adding savings in
transport, the press, finance,
Author's Foreword
Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn, authors of “Sabotage.” This covers evidence of the techniques and plans of axis saboteurs operating
SABOTAGE IS nol a new device in war. The use of arson. explo-
was regarded as an auxiliary weapon. Even in the first world war, the imperial high command never gave more than lukewarm support to von Papen’s sabotage ring in the United States.
+ ‘prominent in ‘public: life, : played and are: still :playing-—some wit-
in the allied countries ey world war I was Col. Walther Nicolai, chief of Section IIIB (in telligence) of the German high command, Nicolai was a Luden dorff man. : i “Silent
In later years, the
| Colonel,” as Nicolai was called by
their book, the best-seller that un-
R .8 #
at the enemy's home front has * Until recently, however, sabotage
labor, the armed forces, politics; sabotage striking into the very ‘minds of the opposing peoples; sabotage incessant and universal: This is the “secret weapon” of axis war. Axis saboteurs are at work ‘in the United States today. They seek to cripple American war production and to undermine Amgrican morale. If is impossible to understand the workings of these saboteurs without a full awareness of axis plotting in America during the years that preceded the attack on Pearl Harbor, and without recognizing the role that certain Americans, some of them
tingly, some unwittingly—in aiding axis sabotage. It is in the hope of bringing about this understanding, and of thus contributing to the war effort, that this book has been written.
his staff, shared Ludendorff’s faith in a certain little loud-mouthed anti-Semitic. Austrian agitator named Adolf Hitler, With the triumph of the Nazis, Col. Nicolai became the man behind the secret service of the third reich, which retained the title of the old German military intelligence. Section IIIB. In the spring of 1936 a young German-American came upon a fascinating book in the New York public library. It narrated the first world war. The story so impressed the young German-Ameri-can that he decided to become an espionage agent in the service of this seemingly all-powerful Sec-
tion IIIB.
” x s
Big Fish Get Away
THE YOUNGER MAN was a. deserter from the U. S. army His name was Guenther Gustav Rumrich. He wrote a letter; to the author. of the book which had so impressed him. If the German war office could make use of him, he wrote, .it should communicate with him. Rumrich addressed his = letter to Col. Walther Nicolai. A somewhat bewildered Americah public was made aware that the forgotten Col ‘Nicolai of world war I was still very much alive when, on Oct. 14, 1938, Guenther Gustav Rumrich was brought to trial in New York: City. Actually? Nicolai’s Section IIIB . itself was placed on trial and - charged with directing sabotage and espionage against the United @ States; but in 1938, 'American counter - espionage - forces were still inadequate to cope with the Nazis. Of the 18 saboteurs and spies named in the federal indictment, only four faced American justice in the dock: Guenther Gustav Rumrich and three petty accom plices. The big fish had slipped >: through the FBI net and were already back in Berlin, reporting to the Silent Colonel. - : Three years later, another of Col. Nieolai’s agents was caught in the United States. This was the veteran sabotéur-spy, Fred erick Joubert Duquesne, head of a ring of 33 Nazi spies and saboteurs arrested by FBI agents in June, 1941, Duquesne had - worked under
Capt. von Papen was given the task of organizing German sabotage in the United States. He scored some amazing successes in the early months of the war. Later, when the United States government fully realized with what it was dealing, American counter-sabotage squads went to work and von Papen’s sabotage ring was quickly smashed. In all, von Papen’s ,h sabotage ring cost the United States more than $150,000,000 in damage done to. essential war resources. The abdication of the kaiser did not end von Papen’s plotting. In the following - years he worked tirelessly at sabotaging and undermining German democracy. As chancellor of the Weimar republis, he paved the way for the Nazis coming to power, and thereafter devoted his perverted talents to furthering the cause of the swastika. 2 8 =» AS NAZI GERMANY'’S leading diplomat, von Papen helped to reorganize the entire German diplomatic service, He transformed it into a corps of Nazi saboteurdiplomats who carried on his sinister intrigues in every nation in the world. These saboteur-diplomats started coming to the United States in 1933 and, operating under their diplomatic immunity, entagled the 48 states in a web of secret de-
dehydrated state, and topped it off ‘with custard pie made from dehydrated milk and dehydrated eggs» The food, before the liquid was restored to it, weighed only onesixth as much as in the fresh state. | ‘The great step forward demonstrated today is the compression of
bu ‘to the great savings in weight ie potatoes lose something over 85 per cent of their weight upon: dehydration, but still remain rather bulky, putting heavy pressure
|mkos. the. bulk, +nd reduces the size of the packag: (hy another 751
{hem squeezes out the air that} -
struction. : After the German consulates were closed down in 1941, their work was carried on. through the innumerable subversive agencies they had organized on American soil. There was the dandily-dressed Baron Manfred von Killinger, who came to the United States in 1937 to be Nazi consul general in. charge of the West coast region. He set up special West coast units of the German-American bund in preparation = for the coming Nazi espionage-sabotage offensive
against American shipping and
aircraft industries. There was the hefty-browed, lantern-jawed Capt. Fritz Wiede-. mann, who replaced von Killinger when the latter’s subversive activities were exposed. At San Francisco, Wiedemann directed the
Nazi espionage-sabotage ring on °
the West coast and established collaboration with the Japanese machine. He also set about creating a “Cliveden Set” in America with the aim of defeating repeal of the neutrality act, then hampering American aid to the democFacies abroad. 2 H 2
The ‘Silent Colonel
THERE WAS suave, amiable Dr. Herbert Scholz, consul at Boston, later revealed to be a representative of Heinrich Himmler’s Gestapo in the United States. In numerous American cities, the ghost of “handsome Franzi,”
NAVAL AIR BOARD HERE WEDNESDAY
A naval aviation cadet selection board from Chicago will be in Indianapolis Wednesday, Thursday and |- Friday to help speed examination
‘of applicants for the navy alr force e training program.
. The fraining setup is : for high school pupils over 17. The board will be ab the naval recruiting station
the “Silent Colonel” in world war 1. He was arrested in the United States in 1918 and charged with murder in connection with the ‘sinking of the British ship Tennyson. He later escaped from the U. S. authorities. »
" »
Hitler Had Plans Drawn
IN 1941, Duquesne was ordered to start sabotage operations in the
power and gas plants. The “Silent Colonel” was preparing for an allout sabotage offensive, ‘Rumrich and Duquesne were only two, and by no means the most important, of his agents in this country. . . Out of the political underworld of 20-odd years ago, the ghosts of secret destruction are again, stretching forth their hands from across the seas into American farms and factories and ships and mines, . . The Kaiser's ‘Germany was 1 ] prepared for America’s entry into the conflict. Adolf Hitler's ‘Germany, after nine years of : intrigues seeking to isolate Amer ica from her allies, was not ca unprepared by America’s entry into the war. Hitler had plans al ready drawn up to deal with th emergency.
TOMORROW —Siples and § teurs at Work.” ;
ect oir ied EA on cate, { ¥ BIBLE CLUB TO MEET Harvey F. Griffey, Marion c school superintendent, will ad the Bible Investigation club al Y.M C. A at a 6p m.
club president, oe” . EVERYTHING
here from 9 a. m. to 4 a. m. each|f
day to give applicants, who have been: recommended by high school prizes tn peiinary mana and physical tests. i
SUMMER SCHOOL TO START JUNE 10
‘Date for the opening of Indianapolis high schools summer classes
will be June 10. : eta Pre-induction courses which wn §