Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1943 — Page 9
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ON. THE NORTH AFRICAN DESERT.—During
most ‘of our -200-mile journey into the Sahara. the . Boil seemed to be dirt rather than sand, and the:
trucks swirled up a cloud of dust that was truly suf-
The trucks were open, and we sat in the back ends on bedding rolls and boxes. We all wore goggles or dust-glasses. Most of us hadn’t shaved for days. Within half an hour -everybody’s whiskers were so caked
with dust that we looked like a.
new kind of fur-bearing animal. It took days to get the dust out of ‘our eyes and noses. During the ‘trip we ate a twogallon can of hard stick candy, which the army issues in this war.
0) talked some, but it: was too rough and dusty to
talk much. In midafternoon of the first day, four planes came into view. We couldn’t recognize them, so we got out and started looking for ditches. They went on over Sng aia, no attention, and we realized they were
Camel Ranch Now Definitely Out
EVEN THOUGH IT was still wintertime, -we can now say we've seen the famous Sahara mirages. Several times we all saw a long line of trees, straight and regular as though lining an avenue, about three miles away. Unfortunately they were sitting on top of a lake, and since’ "trees don’t grow on lakes and since there wasn’t any lake anyhow, we figured we must be seeing things. ~ We met a few small camel trains when we first started, and we thought that was big stuff, seeing real camels on the desert. But before ‘the trip was over we'd seen so many camels we didn’t even look. “They're as common as cattle are at home. The desert is full of them, grazing in herds. Always there is an Arab, often a child, tending them.
I'd never noticed it in circuses, but when you get
By Ernie Pyle |
close to a camel you see that its head and neck look} 7
just like-a ‘huge snake, And when a camel turns around and looks at -you, it gives you the creeps. I don’t think I shall lay any plans for running a.camel ranch after the war. : Often the Arab shepherds would wave at us, and occasionally give us the V-sign. But they were too far in the desert to have heard of the American “okeh.”
The Ghosts Ride in the Night
IN MIDAFTERNOON of the first day we went through. a large village which was built for camel trafic, and camels only. It was so narrow the truck scraped on both sides. . I remarked that I hoped we didn’t come to a
right-angle turn in the street, and no sooner had I spoken than we did come to one. Well, not quite a
right angle, or we couldn't have made it, but it was.
a jog of about 20 feet. It took us a quarter of an hour of backing and filling to get the trucks into position to make the turn. The first night we continued to drive after dark. The moon was brilliant, and it gave the whole vast
~ desert and the hills that dotted it a kind o ghostli-
ness. Suddenly the truck stopped and there around us were ‘five Arabs out of nowhere, all gowned in white, and riding five beautiful white horses.- Over their shoulders were slung the longest rifles I’ve ever seen. In the half-light they did indeed seem romantic and like men out of mystery. They rode far back on their horses, and they could ride like the wind. They spoke in low voices, almost in harmony with the
' spookiness :of the desert moonlight.
1 don’t know what they said, but it was dviois they were patroling throughout the night in that special part of the world which is their own, and which
only -they can ever fully comprehend. If we had
been Germans instead of Americans, I doubt that we 5 Would have gone any farther that night, or any other night.
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- PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Dr, Henry Frederick Beekman, dean of Indianapolis’ obstetricians, a trustee of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church for & third of a century, and who is practically an insti-
tution: around both city hospital and the I. U. medical .
school. He’s been on the faculty of the school since 1905 and. on the hospital staff almost as long. And for nearly a decade he’s headed the obstetrical department of both, supervising medical students in the delivery of thousands of babies. At 67, Dr. Beckman is tall and .slender, with silvery hair and a decidedly reserved but kindly manner. A little under 6 feet, he weighs something like 160, has Dr. Beckman blue eyes, wears glasses’ and is quite ‘active. A fastidious dresser, he always: looks. like he “Just came out of the bandbox,” even when he has been called out of bed at 3 a. m.—which, incidentally, is no. unusual occurrence. . When the phone rings at
night, he answers it himself, catches it on the first- . ring and never is grouchy.
He dresses as quickly as a fireman, but never skiPs his collar and tie, even
;. puts on a tie pin.
Polite to Patients " DR. BECKMAN is. one of those persons who would
- give anything to “be a good . fellow,” but he just can’t
elp being formal, at least where his profession is cerned. oP never Jokes with his patients. And he's sa tern disciplinarian with his medical students. In act, he scares some of them half to death. He's a stickler for detail and won't stand for any half way measures. Laziness is one of his pet peeves.
He has courtly manners, especially with his pa"tients. When one of them walks into his office, he
almost invariably greets her by gesturing with his outstretched arm, and bowing her to a seat with a solemn: “How do you do—please be seated.” He never calls even his close associates by their first names, or nicknames. It’s always “mister,” “doctor,” or “nurse, so and so.” About the only exception
Washington
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Censorship necessarily prevents a frank report on the very deep dissatisfaction of responsible army and navy offi ogee in the Pacific over the allocation of planes a ships to
“them by the joint chiefs of staff. Below the level of
: publication, Washington is tense i . over this issue. I alluded to it in general terms earlier this week. Since then, two of Gen. MacArthur’s most distinguished officers: have talked with President Roosevelt, apparently appealing - for his - help: . One. is Lieut. Gen. George c. Kenney, who is Gen, MacArthur's air officer .and the brains behind the recent extermination by air of an entire Japanese ‘convoy of 22 ships. The other is one of the veterans of Bataan, Maj. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, who is Gen. MacArthur's chief of staff. Naval officers also are making a case for more planes and ships in the South Pacific, but it is not possible for. very good reasons to mention their names. The army and navy are competing for the meager help that.is available. The South Pacific area under Admiral Halsey is primarily a naval show. Beyond that region lies the Southwest Pacific area under Gen.
MacArthur, who is thus at the end of the line,
Production Often Misleading
- AGAINST THIS clamor for more planes and ships in the Pacific is the steady rise .in pressure from other areas. From London, air officers put out the public word this week that they must have more planes before there can be an invasion of Europe. The increase in submarine activity undoubtedly will gequire more use of air in anti-submarine warfare,
My Day
WASHINGTON, Friday.—~I came home: this’ morn=
ing at 1:40, but, the day proved fruitful I managed
to-read a good deal on the trip and that is something I need todo, for I am far behnid. The meeting for the war savings staff in the Upper Darby school was very successful, I am sure the audience enjoyed, ‘as much: as I'did, the singing of the ballad, “I Am an" American.” Es I am so happy to find that this : ballad is sung in so many schools, . for I believe that, as they sing the words ‘over .and over, thé understanding of their actual meaning will come to an increasing number of young people. Democracy will be safe with them, if this bal- : lad embodies their ideals. I enjoyed the evening at Swarthmore college and left regretting that I could Wok Spend oie titS Will ghese Inteligen: sod eager To ; al
: Roller Canaries.
is during an emergency, when he doesn’t have time to think of the nurses’ names.- At such times, he calls them all “Sis.”
Started on South. Side
BORN AT KENDALLVIEEE, he received his medical degree in 1904 at Northwestern. He came to Indianapolis at the suggestion of his hometown Lutheran pastor who had moved here. He started in general practice on the South side, but soon began specializ-
ing in obstetrics. In 1922, he did post-graduate work :
in Germany and Switzerland. Being a doctor, and an obstetrician at that, he doesn’t have much time to himself, especially nowadays with so many of the younger doctors in the army. His principal relaxation is reading. He seldom “gets to a movie, and when he does, he comes away. saying he’s had enough for a year. He’s fond of good music (classical only) and occasionally goes to the symphony. He used t& enjoy
“spending his vacation at the lakes near his native
Kendallville, doing a little fishing, but he hasn’t had a vacation for several years. He likes baseball, used to attend the games most every- Wednesday- afternoon. He thinks card games a waste of time, enjoys driving a nice car, and doesn’t smoke. At ore time he was fond of rearing roller canaries, and became head of the American Association of When he returned from Europe in 1929, he carried back a whole cageful of birds with im
One of his favorite diversions is flowers. He's especially fond of tulips, raises unusual varieties of them. ;
They Call Him ‘Pop’
LIKE MOST others who don’t know him well, the younger nurses are quite awed by him. Some of them think he’s an old crank. But not the older nurses who really know him. To most of them, he’s an “old darling.” They understand and love him. When he’s not around, they call him “pop.” And sometimes, when there’s no one else around, they even call him that to his face. He loves it!
By Raymond Clapper
which has been discussed at a general military con‘ference here. Last month we produced 3500 combat planes. In January we produced 3000 combat planes. Where are the American airplanes? Military men say production figures are apt to mislead laymen. The number of combat planes produced in a month is not necessarily the number that will reach the combat zones at once. Part of our combat planes are assigned to advanced training service in this country. Apparently considerable volume goes to that use. Pilots cannot complete training except by training in combat planes.
‘Retailoring’ Takes Time
SECOND, ALMOST every combat plane that comes from the factory must go to a modification center for further work. At modification centers planes ‘are given special equipment, or adaptations are made for particular areas to which . the planes have been assigned. , For instance, planes assigned to North Africa must have engines equipped against sand. The same type of plane assigned for northern Europe must have deicing and other special cold-weather equipment. “Some of these changes take several weeks and often amount almost to a retailoring. It is work that cannot be done on the production line without delaying output. A third factor is the large number of planes allocated to Russia. We sent 2600 lend-lease planes to Russia’ up to mid-January. . The issue here is not in any sense a change in the fundamental plan of knocking out Hitler first. The issue is whether out of a combat-plane production of 3500 a month a percentage can be allocated to the
-two Pacific areas so that the force there may gradu-
ally builds up.
By oS Roosevelt
was glad to hear the University of Maryland, under the atispices of the American Women’s Voluntary services, is conducting a class in farm training, which begins on. March 22. weeks’ course.
About a dozen women: have registered from various occupations—two of them saleswomen, one of them a
beauty parlor operator, one a manager of a beauty].
parlor, a public stenographer, a clerk, two or three secretaries and two or three housewives, . I think this work will be done by the state univer-
sities in many parts of the country as a help in solv-
ing the farm problem. I am quite sure that before high schools send out their senior students to work on farms, they will give some training which will make
them more useful. The untrained youngster is even
less helpful than the untrained adult, but I think the adult may need more conditioning: physically.
I {fully expect that the first day I go to work in my {Nn
own or anyone else’s garden, every bone and muscle
in my body will ache. ‘That happens as one grows| BSL OS yin hy new vee of suds, but 1 Silk his i
It will be an intensive three
Vi—Millionaire Fascist Sov By MICHAEL SAYERS and ALBERT E. KAHN
ABOUT SIXTY MILES from ‘Hartford, Conn., the
town of Thompson is hidden away among gently rolling hills. The town is so small that most maps fail to mention its name. The only thing about Thompson that might impress you is its quiet, peaceful atmosphere and the loveli-
ness of its surroundings.
Yet, unknown to its residents, this alist Connecticut . town has for years been a center of international intrigue and a Tendezvous for notorious spies, saboteurs and assas-
sins.
Thompson is the site of the Ream estate, where
“Count” Anastase Andreivitch Vonsiatsky, ex-czarist
‘officer and agent of the J apanese high command, made his
headquarters.
A tall, powerfully built man with a sullen, handsome face and dark short-cropped hair, the bogus young: “Count” Vonsiatsky made a deep impression on the rich middleaged divorcee, Mrs. Stephens, nee Marion Ream, when
she met him in Paris in 1921. Mrs. Marion Buck: ingham Ream Stephens had inherited one-seventh of the - $40,000,000 Ream fortune in Chicago. She helped the attractive, penniless Russian emigre to come to the United States, and she married him short-ly-afterward. At the time, Vonsiatsky was 23 and she
was 45. There were many things about his past which the “Count” must have concealed from his bride. He would hardly have told her that his diary contained a record of kidnaping and torture-kill-ings in which he had participated in Russia. . . . After the dissolution of the czarist armies, Vonsiatsky and several other ex-czarist officers had organized a gang in the Crimea which specialized in kidnaping Russian citizens, holding them for ransom and torturing them to death if the money was not forthcoming. Vonsiatsky, who has never been very discreet, recorded the kidnapings in gruesome detail in his diary. The victims were divided into two categories: Those with “caviar” and those without “caviar.” In the language of the kidnapers, “caviar” meant money. This was the “Count” Anastase Vonsiatsky who in the early 1920's became an American citizen and took up residence at his wife's estate in Thompson. His wife's millions inspired grandiose dreams
in the head of the former czarist
officer. He had visions of returning to his native land as a ldader of a whole world anti-Soviet movement, : 2
Plans Fasoist Coup VONSIATSKY began spending his wife's money on preparations for the great day when he would launch his “Holy Crusade” against Bolshevism. He traveled extensively, not only in North and South America, but also in Europe and Asia, recruiting White Russian emigres in all parts of the
- world for his “crusade.”
In August, 1933, Vonsiatsky founded the “Russian National Fascist Party,” with its headquarters at the Ream estate, himself as leader and Hitler’s swastika as the official emblem. Branch offices of the new fascist organiza-
STARCH PLANT
~ WORKING AGAIN
National Products Firm Reopens After Fire Last “June.
A carioad of Indiana corn tumbled into the conveyors at the Na-
tional Starch ‘Products, Inc., plant]
yesterday and today the company was operating—less than a year after a fire damaged the property at 1515 Drover st. “It is phenomenal the things that have been achieved on the industrial front in this.war,” said Governor Schricker as he broke the seal
of the car which contained the corn. |
Thousands of Indianapolis residents will remember the fire that swept the plant last June. The South side was jammed as spectators were attracted to the blaze,
) Priorities Obtained : But the Indianapolis officials were
The Ream estate . . »
rendezvous . for assassins and spies.
headquarters at Thompson, Conn,
tion were established in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in Harbin, Manchukuo. Behind “anti-Bolshevik” facade, Vonsiatsky’s party was soon actively conspiring with the German American bund and other axis agencies to bring about a fascist coup in the United States. At the same time, working closely with the Japanese and German governments, Vonsiatsky financed the smuggling of saboteurs and spies into Soviet RusAt his headquarters in Thompson, Vonsiatsky set up a private arsenal of rifles, machine guns, tear gas grenades and other military equipment. Scores of ‘uniformed swastika-wearing young men were soon receiving military training on Vonsiatsky’s grounds. The Ream estate was guarded night and day by huge, savage dogs. ”
Fritz Kuhn a Guest
FRITZ KUHN .and other leaders of the German American Bund spent week-ends at Vonsiatsky’s “estate. Occasionally, wearing his own smart uniform with its
‘swastika band done in Czarist.
colors, Vonsiatsky addressed large meetings of Bund Storm
troopers at Camp Nordland, in
New. Jersey. When the Hitler-instigated Franco revolt broke out in Spain,
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
BIRMINGHAM BASEBALL PITCHER, WON FOUR GAMES: IN. 1932, AND PITCHED ONLY 74/R&E AND OME HALE INNINGS.
undaunted and immediately set|
about to obtain priorities for ‘material for rebuilding. : The necessary materials were finally obtained and the plant was put into production several months ahead of. schedule because the gov-
ernment considered starch so im- |
portant to the war effort. At a luncheon yesterday at the plant, honoring the men who restored the company to the city’s industrial horizon were C. D. Alexander, who represented the Chamber of Commerce; Governor Schricker; Mayor Tyndall;. Frank| Greenwall, New York, president of National Starch Products; Herbert C. Piel, Indianapolis Jisnager of the plant, and representatives of business life in the city. :
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“Count” A. A. Vonsiatsky . . . ‘ex-czarist officer and agent of the Japanese high command, who was convicted of espionage in June, 1942.
center of international intrigue and
This was Count Vonsiatsky’s
Vonsiatsky helped finance the run- . - ning of arms to the fascist forces.
~~ Searcely a week passed without important Japanese, German or Italian functionaries visiting
Thompson. Sitting in comfortable °
chairs within 'Vonsiatsky’s luxuriously furnished house or outside ‘on the spacious lawn, they discussed with the White Russian fuehrer ways and means of expediting the victory of world fasc- - ism and, particularly, of bringing about a fascist coup in the United" : States..
Periodically, after such discus-
sions, - Vonsiatsky would - leave Thompson on mysterious missions that took him to Central and South America, to Asia, to Hawaii, and to Alaska. His trips to Berlin, Rome and Tokyo : became increasingly frequent. His last visit to Tokyo was in 1941; he returned to the United States shortly before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. 8 » =» AS THE NAZIS had directed and financed fhe fascist White Russian movement in Europe, the Japanese at an early date had taken it over in Asia. White Russians living in Japanese territory were organized into a fully equipped fascist army sme 150,000 strong. : From the outset, Tokyo was interested in the fascist White Russian movement in the United States, and particularly in Von-.
By William Ferguson
IN gr THAN ICAAEST ©’ REACHED BY THE SINGING VOICES OF | AHMAN SsorANCS/|
can co.
Mrs. Vonsiatsky . « . married penniless Russian emigre.
Rifles for Vonslalsky’ s ate army of «White Russians” ve lined the walls of his gun room at the Connecticut farm. His “soldiers”
wore swastika armbands.
siatsky’s party. In May, 1934, Vonsiatsky went to Tokyo to confer with the Japanese militarists
" ‘regarding the fascist White Rus-
sian movement in America. From Japan, Vonsiatsky pro-
. ceeded to. Germany. In Berlin,
he conferred with Alfred Rosenberg, Dr. Goebbels, and representatives of the military intelligence of the : German ‘high. command. He: then returned te the United States, where he applied himself
with renewed energy to promoting ; fascism in America.
Shortly before Japan attacked the United States, a clandestine meeting was held in a hotel room in Chicago. Present were G. Wilhelm Kunze, then. head of the German . American bund; Otto
*" Willumeit,. head of the Chicago di-
‘vision ‘of the ‘Bund; Father Aleksi Pelypenko, a Ukrainian priest, and “Count” Anastase Vonsiatsky.
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Plan Sabotage
FUTURE plans for espionagesabotage activity in America were discussed. Kunze stressed the growing ‘ difficulties of getting funds from abroad. He asked Vonsiatsky to help finance the. work of Nazi agents in'the United States. bund leader $2800-in cash, as a down: payment. More would be forthcoming, he said, on one con-. . dition. The. condition was that
7, HADLEY YOUN, | [KILLED IN CRASH
college has trained 15 physically “handicapped persons in the past
Hits Parked Auto South of Terre Haute.
F. Hadley Young, 2102 N. Merid-
ian st, associated with the Conti-
nental Can Co, was killed early to-| day “when his: automobile . crashed
- Japahese military attache.
‘Vonsiatsky handed the °
.ers;. dis] uted by United
Associate’ Ss Car!
; — in Russia when the Nazi armies had “crushed” the ‘Soviet 2
union. Not long - after this méeting, Vonsiatsky sent Aleksi Pelypenko to Washington to report to the The. ‘Ukrainian priest was given the . calling card of a Japanese general as a means of identifying
himself as Vonsiatsky’s represen-
tative. .- When Pelypenko made .his report to. the Japanese. military attache, he was given a message to bring back to Vonsiatsky: the Russian fascist leader was to get in touch immediately with his contacts in: Alaska and to accu--mulate all the latest available data on that section of the United States. Alaska, the Japanese military "attache implied, was
- soon to figure- prominently in
Tokyo's war plans. h But something happened in the
case of Pelypenko that Vonsiatsky
and the Japanese had not reckoned with. The Ukrainian priest reported to the FBI all he knew about Vonsiatsky. . . (Editorial Note: In June, 1942, Vonsiatsky was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $5000 in
-New York federal court after
pleading guilty to conspiracy to violate the 1917 espionage act.)
*” (Copyright, 1043, by Harper & Brotheature Syndicate, Inc
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H andicapped Get Office Training
THE INDIANA BUSINESS
“Mystery of the Nor-
‘18 months and the group has now accepted office positions through-
out the state. The work is spon=
sored by the vocational rehabilitation division of the state department of education and is financed by the state and federal government, ’ ¥ : . Fred W. Case, principal, reports that 12 more so handicapped are now in training” which consists of accounting, stenographie and
into the rear of another car parked{ secretarial studies. hb
at the side: of road 41, six miles
south of Terre Haute.
| Mr. Young's body was taken to 5 a funeral home: in Terre Haute. He |was50."
i
“The owner of the mitted car has
pe not been identified by the state
Lived. Here 3 Years A native ‘of Jeffersonville, Mr.
| Young had been living in Indianapolis for the past. ‘three years. | | Before going with the Continental |’
Can Co. last September he had
5 been in business for himself at Sul-
“HOW MANY LEGS
ANSWER—Sixteen! Insect, six; spider, cient, and biped, two. ~
COL. LYNCH LEAVES
FAIR GROUNDS POST
“The army alr forces control area
announced today that command of
depot for the pest year. He ss | been. given a new ‘but ‘unannounced
assignment with the army air forces | Je control area. He was on duty abl. ‘Hickam field, “Honolulu, T. H., dur= : ing the 1
the army storage. depot at the In-
lvan, Terre Haute and Tndiansp-
| olis.--
"He was a member of the Masonic
lvan, : "He is survived by his wife, Mrs .
Frances R. Young; two brothers, J.|} Dewey Young ‘of Columbus, ‘Indl La RP, Young of. Buffalo, N.}i
térs, Mrs. Raymond
ss Forrest Young of |
Recommendations for training
ing the course ‘may - ‘be. obts Slater Bartlow, ; : room 215 of .the ‘statehouse, Mr. Case or any of the other schools of the college scattered through: out the state. : :
HOLD EVERYTHING
| lodge ‘and. the Elks lodge at su-tl