Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1943 — Page 21

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XIN NORTH AFRICA. —The Arab kids that swarm desert towns and soldiers take rides in lieu of any-

‘ the: goss around the the army camps and nearby villages

: are & Iriendly bunch,

“It takes them only a few hours to learn the world-

: wide: habit of begging from Americans. I'l bet our

soldiers aren't two days in a new place until every kid in town is | able to say in English “chewing gum, chocolate, cigaret, good-day, okay.” They pester you to death for these tid-bits, and the soldiers keep giving them away as long as they have any. * The Arab kids seem to have more sense: than the pestering . child-natives of many countries, Instead of being dumb and surly, . they. have a nice spark of life Fig about them. If you say you have no dhewhia:sum and smile at them, they'll smile back snd then stand around good-naturedly just smiling ‘at you. :

How to Make a Fortune

THEIR FAVORITE word is “okay.” Even some of the. grownups have atiopted it. - They yell it at. every passing -American. You can't walk down the road nowadays without being walled in by a surging melody of hundreds of “okays” coming at you from all sides. Once in a while you see a light-skinned, cleangowned almost sheik-like Arab. But mostly their clothes are unwashed, and their long gowns an un- _ believable mass of patches. At first the Arabs were allowed to roam the air- " dromes, and they helped the crews fill the planes’ big

§ tanks from the countless five gallon tins.

There are quite a few carriages for hire in the

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

x GEORGE N. BEAMER, chairman of the public service commission, went home the other evening and . was greeted by his 4-year-old daughter, Judy, who demanded impishly: “Kiss me, daddy.” George kissed her and then Judy gleefully shouted: “Goody, now you'll get the measles, too.” Fortunately, George hasn't broken out with spots yet. . . . Eber Spence and George Saas were to leave for Washington today to attend a meeting tomorrow and tell" representatives of other states how Indiana achieved its noteworthy sticcess in selling the idea of payroll deductions for war savings. We're told Indiana and Michigan were 40 to 50 per cent better than any other states in payroll deductions. , . . A sign on Mayor Tyndall’s office wall reads: “A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.”

No More Complaints

MISS MAXINE HARRY got on a bus the other day and sat beside a woman who engaged her in conversatign. The woman, who explained she was-a school teacher, complained about this and that, said she didn’t make enough money and had all sorts of extra

Not school ‘work to do. Among the extra work she men-

"% tioned was registration of folks for rationing. “Why, I helped with that myself,” Miss Harry said. “Where . do you work?” the woman asked. “Why, I'm secretary ta the superintendent of schools.” The teacher said,

.. “Oh,” and. let the conversation drop. . . . A large

white dog which has been quite ill for several days has had a section of Irvington in turmoil over the week-end. Some kids discovered the animal Friday or . Saturday. Too ill to pay any attention to them, it lay near the bank of Pleasant Run, about the 5200 block east. From then on it became a neighbor institution. - Apparently no one thought of calling the dog pound,

Washingt WASHINGTON, March 16.—The change in the times is clearly marked by the initiative that the senate is taking with regard to the united nations. The senate is getting ready to give the president. some: advice. But unlike the advice the senate gave Woodrow Wilson a quarter of a century ago, the senate this time is going to tell President Roosevelt to take the lead in organizing the united nations. Probably a majority of the sen- . ate is ready now to vote for the resolution that has been prepared. But if the senators are wise, they will wait until they are sure of two-thirds for the resolution. There should be no misunder- : standing this time about the attitude of the senate — and there mon be two-thirds if the senate's advice is to be conclusive,

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Entirely a Sonte Show

- THIS RESOLUTION has been prepared in consultation with the senate leaders of both parties. The significant thing about it is that it comes up out of the senate indigenously. It is nonpolitical, non“administration, non-White House, non-state department, President Roosevelt heard about the resolution only recently. Senators had talked over several points “with Sumner Welles’ at the state department. He mentioned it to the president, who then sent for the sponsors. But this is a senate show and the senators intend to keep it such. The men behind this move for international collaboration are middle-of-the-road men, . mainly younger men, in both parties, Co It is ‘not, ‘a crackpot brain child. Nor is it the - child of any of the propaganda groups working for world peace. This resolution has evolved and grown gradually in the minds of plain American senators who think

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday.—Saturday evening we had the pleasure of welcoming Anthony Eden for the first time on this visit. He was very kind to me when 1 was In Great Britain and I was very happy to see n again, Sunday afternoon I went to the Pan- . American building, where, between _ 4:00 and 5:00 every Sunday afternoon, they have an hour of music and entertainment, for the many ‘government workers and service

"men who visit the building. I was -

glad of the opportunity to say a few words about the charming South ~ American water colors, which are sf 1 on exhibition. Later, I "the pleasure of sing “at Mey Grin, wos

‘red coat fof color, the scene looked exactly like a

‘the sermon topic of Dr. Logan Hall was listed as: _ “Cleansing the Temple.” ... , Ensign Ralph B. Roberts,

: imenties and thirties, and that ther interests 56 be-|

"By Ernie Pyle] |

thing better to do. If I were an Arab, I know how| 7

Td a small fortune.

I'd get about 10 camels, and rent them out to sol-| ‘diers to take rides on. I'd also get a camera and| take pictures of soldiers on camelback, and sell them! Apparently no Arab has|’

for 100 francs apiece. thought of it, but somebody is just passing up an

opportunity of making about 10,000 bucks awfully

easily.

Like a ‘Courier & Inés Print

THE HORSE CARRIAGES are fancy. The driver sits on a high box up front and is often dressed in bright clothes. One of these carriages the other evening provided the funniest sight I've seen since leaving America. It was just before dusk, snd the air-raid signal swept across our airdrome by dinnerbell and rifleshot. 'I was standing way out on the field, when suddenly there came dashing out from behind the palm trees one of these Arab carriages.

The driver had brought some soldiers to the field,

“had heard the alarm and being touchy about raids, as Arabs are, had decided to get the hell out of there in a hurry. He was standing up in his box, coat-tail flying, whipping his horses for all he was worth. The team was in a dead run. The buggy was bouncing and swaying over the rough desert trail. The horses were going so hard their bodies were stretched out, their flying feet almost level with their noses, and one was a little ahead of the other, just as on the track. With the carriage’s red wheels and the driver's

Courier & Ives print. The poor, frightened man’s pathetic hurry was so comical we all stopped and laughed till he was out of sight, still going like: mad.

but someone fixed the dog a nice soft bed, and others have kept it supplied with water and milk, There was quite a crowd of spectators on hand—about 30—Sunday when the dog managed to struggle to his feet and stagger around an elm tree a couple of times. The: latest word we have is that the patient probably will recover. tr

A Fine Record

THE FOLKS up at the Indianapolis C. of C. had a little celebration Saturday in honor of Harry B. McNeely’s 30th anniversary as traffic commissioner of the chamber. They gave him an album of classical music. Mr. McNeely has been traffic commissioner ever since the chamber was formed. You see, he went to work for the old Indianapolis Freight bureau back in 1906. And, in 1913, when the bureau was merged with the Commercial club and the ‘Wholesale’ Trade association to form the Indianapolis C. of C., he just stayed on. . .. The use of V-mail is spreading. Helen Kirkpatrick, correspondent of The Indianapolis Times and Chicago Daily News in London, now is sending minor stories by V-mail, instead of by clipper. This way she saves precious space aboard the planes. The cables, of course, still are used for important stories.

Around the Town

ONE OF OUR AGENTS was passing the Meridian Street Methodist church Sunday and noticed two things: (1). The church steps and sidewalk had been freshly scrubbed. (Aren’t those pigeons awful?); (2)

formerly with Bozell & Jacobs and later with the Keeling: & Co. advertising agency, was home over the week-end. He’s been stationed at Ft. Sampson, N.Y. ... Carl Dortch, governmental research director for the Indianapolis chamber of commerce, is an “geting private” in the army. He was inducted last Saturday and reports for active duty next Saturday.

‘By Raymond Clapper

that world wars are too frequent and too costly in lives and treasure and that the United States ought to try to do something to prevent any more of them. The whole move springs out of that simple, grassroofs common sense. The point of the senate expression now is that since everybody here and abroad remembers that the senate once scuttled the League of Nations, the senate ought to make it clear -now just where it; stands.

Not a ‘Bloc’ Move ONE YOUNG Republican senator, Joseph H. Ball of Minnesota, campaigned for re-election and won in a supposedly isolationist state on a platform which

was quite similar to the goal of this resolution. Senator Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico, the Democratic

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author of the clean-politics law, is working with Sen-|

ator Ball on this. In introducing the resolution they are joined by Senator Lister Hill of Alabama, one of the Democratic leaders, and Senator Harold H. Burton of Ohio, a Republican. Senator Barkley, the Democratic leader, and Senator McNary, the Republican leader, have been consulted and their advice has been followed. .- This is not a bloc move of any kind. It is a senate move. It is contemplated as an impressive act in which the full dignity and power of the senate}_ is thrown into the development of our foreign’ policy, to make clear to the world which fork of the road the United States intends to travel. Above all, the spirit in which this is being done is what counts. : Not a single senator attempted to obstruct the continuation of lend=lease last week, not even to capitalize through any gallery grandstand play by delaying the vote, as any single senator could have done. Now the senate is making a straightforward move to make its attitude. on the united nations clear to the world. In these ways the senate is bound to inspire public confidence and help to provide the national leadership that the United States is entitled to exercise in world affairs from here on out.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

It is. a great satisfaction to feel that the promise has been made to the men in our armed forces that they shall not again return to a country that has not ‘thought through a method of economy which will prevent; them from being jobless and hungry. The president has presented to con a report from the national resources planning | , Which I am glad] to see has formed a basis of study for their 6wn committee, which, according to the papers, Will begin] -work on Monday or Tuesday. I-can think of nothing which will hearten our'men| who fought all over the world so much as to know that both the executive and legislative branches of their government are determined to see-that there} shall be no recurrence of ‘the post-war period of the|

ing considered during their absence.

the seabees on Guadalcanal.

By MICHAEL SAYERS IN SEPTEMBER, 1941,

transport and shipping;

information about American

ship lines;

detailed accounts of U. S. fortifications, airfields, ports and other vital de- .

fense centers.” The FBI uncovered evidence of

axis sabotage preparations when it found that the axis governments had compiled a special index of American industry. According to J. Edgar Hoover, the nature and purposes of this index were revealed through the arrogance of a certain “foreign industrialist” in the United States who unguardedly stated that he could get confidential information on all American = manufacturing = and commercial activities. Not realizing he was talking to a federal agent, he boasted that he could obtain a detailed report on any American defense factory within 24 hours. As a test, the federal ‘agent named a certain factory. ~The very next day, the federal agent was shown a dossier which not only gave a comprehensive summary of the factory's business, but: also “named’ and classified

~ each individual worker political-

ly, racially and religiously, set out what each had done in. the past, what he was doing at present and

. what he might be used for in the

future. Opposite each name were notations of the worker's loyalty - and ‘international sympathies.” | Clearly, the very existence of such an index indicated tha a staggeringly ‘large axis espionage apparatus was at work and that a sabotage network of ominous . proportions was being organized. The interlocking of Nazi espionage and ‘sabotage work in the

revealed in the strange case of William G. Sebold, ~ : n 2 8

Trapped by Gestapo

DURING THE first world war, William G. Sebold was a corporal. in a machine-gun unit of the

United States soon after the war and managed to get work as a machinist, The tall, 200-pound German liked America and decided to become an American citizen. He got married and - worked hard at various jobs, It was not until 1939 that he thought of returning to his na-’ tive land on a trip to MulheimRuhr, his birthplace. In the summer of that year he took a leave of absence from his job at the

_ Consolidated Aircraft Co. in San

Diego, Cal, and sailed for Ger-

many.

- The simple-seeming GermanAmerican whose = passport read “airplane mechanic” strongly appealed to the Gestapo agent at Mulheim. The Gestapo placed Sebold under observation. They trailed him on his visits to his mother, his brothers and sisters. Shortly before Sebold was preparing to return to America, a Gestapo official visited him at his hotel room.’ “So you wish to return to America? We can use men like you in America. .. :

German army. He came to the

li—Spies ad Saboteurs at F Work

and ALBERT E. KAHN : the federal bureau of inves-

tigation conclusively established : “That the German government had laid extensive plans for sabotage against American defense industries, :

That German money was pouring into the United : States for the purpose of financing spies and saboteurs; “That the Nazis maintained a special radio station at Hamburg which was in regular communication with secret shortwave stations in the United States, and that vital

defenses was being sent to

Germany through these stations; ° “That axis spies and saboteurs were employed in key positions in American defense plants and on U. S. steam-

“That these spies and sahoteyrs were in possesion of The bewildered mechanic grad-

ually realized he was being asked - to become a Nazi spy. ; “But, I am an American citizen,” he protested. : 2 Ef n

Passport Is Stolen

‘THE GESTAPO official cut him

short. Sebold was told that he was a German and, more to the point, that he was not in the Third Reich. The Gestapo official clicked his heels and departed.

Sebold hastily started packing. It was only then that he discovered that he had lost his American passport. The Gestapo had stolen it. . When the Gestapo official returned several days later, Sebold was scared and attentive. It was Sept. 1, 1939. The loud-speakers -in<the cobbled streets of Mulheim were’ blaring the news of the march on Poland... .. Sehold was sent first to Cologne, where he was interviewed by other Gestapo officials. At Cologne, in

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Detroit: Sabotage fires a tanker, costs usva million gallons of gasoline.

a desperate effort to break through"

the Gestapo trap, Sebold furtively ‘made contact with certain United States consular representatives. He told them ‘he had lost his American passport. : “You are in a tough spot,” one of the United States representatives said. Sebold was in Gestapo hands from that day on. :

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School for Spies

THEY SEY im 0 8 schoo in 4

United . States was dramatically

the. collectors,

the couriers, the drops and the Log

specialists,

Collectors got. hold of desired in= 3

“ew Fork: ‘Bombs and TNT disguised as coal were part of saboteurs’ tl equipraent landed by U-boat.

formation, Transmitters * Sorwarded . the

data to ‘Germany, by coded mail:

or. shortwave radio. § Couriers worked on steamship lines. and transatlantic clippers, and carired special messages to and from Germany. : Drops were innocent-seeming addresses of business houses or private individuals, usually in South American or neutral Eurc.pean ports. Reports were sent to these addresses for forwarding to Germany. Specialists were expert saboteurs. . - Sebold was trained to be a ‘transmitter. He was kept at the Hamburg school for four months. On Jan. 27, 1940, he was called in to .be interviewed by the school’s chief, Dr. Nicolaus Adolf Fritz Ritter, who questioned Sebold closely on his: knowledge of Ameri-

. can industry.

“What do you kmow. about the Norden plant which manufac. tures the special American bombsight?” Sebold was asked, “I.never heard of it,” he confessed, Thinking to make a: good impression, Sebold added, “But. I can find put about it when I get: back to America. I might even be able to lay my ‘hands on the blueprints. ”

~ Dr. Ritter smiled. “Don’t you

oY ‘aboot that, » he ‘said. “The “bluerints of the Norden bombsight; are ‘already in ‘our: possession.” ~~: He then handed ‘Sebold a tiny slip of tissue paper on which were written four names and addresses. On Feb. 8 (1940, one William G. Sawyer arrived in the United States. Concealed in the back of his - watchcdase were five lengthy ‘documents reduced by micro-pho-tography to ‘the size of a postage stamp. ‘The microscopic documents contained: detailed instructions to Nazi spies and saboteurs in the United States. William G. Sawyer was William G. Sebold. : 3 2.8

i Sesks Out ‘Contacts’

'SEBOLD WAS - to set up’ an offic: as a front for his espionage

. work. He rented an office in New

York city. Painted on the office -door was the sign, “Diesel Re.searth company.” Meanwhile, Sebold sought out the jour “contacts” given him by Dr. Ritter. Most interesting of the “four was Prederick Joubert Duquesne. - He was the brains of

He rented a small Tie at Cen=. terport, L. I. Here he installed an expensive short-wave radio transe mitting and receiving apparatus, He was in constant communicas= tion with ‘his superiors in : many during the following months, ‘The spies brought him their date

. and he radioed it to Germany or

mailed it via ‘the couriers “and drops. ; ” » 2

Spies Get a Shock ~~

'SEBOLD SOON realized : he and his four “contacts” we not alone. There were many ‘agents operating under Nazi in structions in the United States Duquesne’ had at least 30 and sabotéurs working with. By the spring of 1941, Sebold was

. acquainted with many of them,

He also learned that there another group working Shere wal ently in the New York area under ‘the leadership of a man‘ named

Kurt Frederick Ludwig, who re-

the New York ring. He arranged

for Sebold to: meet him at a small .

side-street beerstube. While drinking light beer, Duquesne regaled Sebold with colorful anecdotes drawn from his experiences in two “world wars. He was enormously talkative: and conceited. He boasted that he' was an expert saboteur and the inventor of many’ «new. types. of bombs currently being ' used by saboteurs in the United States. Later, when they were alone in Duquesne’s apartment, Sebold ex-, tracted a minute square of microfilm from his watchcase and “handed it to Duquesne, who began to study it with the aid of a pow-

- erful magnifying glass. It took

him fifteen minutes to read all the instructions about the United States war secrets which the German military intelligence asked Duquesne to report on. “How is this stuff to be sent over?” Duquesne asked. Sebold explained that Dr. Ritter had ordered him to build a special short-wave radio station for’ this

purpose. It took Sebold some time to buy all the necessary radio equipment.

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ported at’ regular interval

Gestapo in Germany, forwarding detailed information on ships tering and leaving the port of New York. The Ludwig group covered fortifications, flying and naval bases’ along ‘the. ern seaboard. On June 28, 1941, the greatest spy roundup in American history was started off by a series of den FBI raids. The entire Due quesne ring was taken info cuse today. Later, all members of Ludwig group were arrested. - The Nazi agents were asto How had it happened? IX was not until they faced trial that

- their tireless co-worker, William

G. Sebold, was actually an agent of the United States federal bi reau of investigation! Sebold had been working under FBI supervision ever since he had gone to the United States consular representatives in Cologne to coms plain about his lost - passport. The FBI agents: drafte ed letters which Sebold sent to “superiots” in Hamburg. They also supervised Sebold’s shortws radio station, subtly falsifying reports which he broadcast Germany so as to render useless to the Nazis.

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NEXT: “Devices of the Sabo= teurs.”

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LOGAL SEABEE TELS ABOUT ‘GOSMOLINE'

«Foxhole Brownie I'm known as these days,” Chester Brown, 1537 E. Southern ave., learned in a letter from his brother, Clyde R., who is a machinist’s mate, first class, with

In his letter Seabee’ Brown told about diving into foxholes - two or three times nightly when Jap planes came over, and other experiences, Explaining what cosmoline is, ‘he

the service in place of butter, Also it is sometimes used to grease guns with. It aiso makes a: good hair grease so one’s hair can't stand oni end when scared. And it makes

after diving into a foxhole.” Seabee Brown, who left here 14

years ago; Saenden, school. 9 and

eturing Co.

MONROVIA LEGION v -T10 NOTE BIRTHDAY

“There is need this time %o prevent the boom period, |¢ e

Jui 8 uc as tie depression peri. 31 we cahksep 0

said that “dt is what they use in|!

one’s steel helmet come off easier|. $

Donating a pint of blood to the Red Cross really means saving a life, according to Lieut. James ‘Weber, in charge of navy recruiting) in Indiana. He was wounded in the last war

: and his recovery was attributed to

a blood transfusion. "That’s why he and all the men in the recruiting office here. have donated or pledged blood. Their donations will total more than 15 gallons. # In the station's own contest to set donation records, Lieut, ‘Weber

Pint of Blood, One Life— Navy Officer Here Knows

leads the officers with three pints, followed . by Ensign Richerd F. ‘Helm ‘who: has given two. Leading’ all ‘donors at the station » Sp sclalist 1st Class Andrew. M. Bicke} with ‘five pints. Yeoman 1st Class Floyd L. Wynne, Yeoman 1st Class Milton. S. Rosen and Yeoman :!d Class Fred W. McClung are tied’ for second by giving thre: pints each. Yeoman 2d Class Richard 'M. Hobson and’ Yeoman 3d Class Clyde E. Madison are tied for. third by giving two ‘pints each.

Offer $1000 for Clothing Book

CLEVELAND; March 16, (0. PJ). | The first person. to thow editors. of the Cleveland Press's bona fide. clothing ration: Book. ‘an make

DEFENSE. COUNCIL PROGRAM READY

The state’ defsnse cout.cil: How is ready to. help local communities in setting up recreational prograrus for service men, State Civilian Defense Direcior Olaterics ; Sacken sald to-

RATINGS AVAILABLE IN THE SEABEES

Ratings in the navy’s seabees are now open to qualified men of draft

age, Lieut. R. G. Kramer, construc-

tion personnel procurement officer at the navy recruiting office here, said today. Lieut. Kramer advised those who are qualified in any of a number of skilled building trades to bring three letters of work references as to professional ability when appearing for an interview and preliminary phy-|H sical examination.

If a man passes his interview and|]

physical, a letter is given him ad- ‘| dressed to his draft board stating he is qualified for special service in the navy and will volunteer for

induction through his draft board, ¥ ‘where he must report within seven |

days. ‘The applicant, is then selected for the riavy quota by the selective serv-

fee. board ‘and is. inducted into. the| Ii

navy. Immediately the enlistee is

given the rating that he qualifies|} for, and after a seven days’ leave,|k {is sent to ¢ | bure,

Feary, Williams

NEED MESSENGERS

FOR RAID DEFE A training class for messe civilian defense district 7 will/ at St. Philip Neri school, 540 ern ave, at 7 p. m. Friday. John "Wessel, chief

LILIES:

needed and that only 23 are

rolled.

The class is to meet