Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1943 — Page 9
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa (By Wireless) —The nicest American camp I've ever seen in the fighting area of North Africa is one inhabited . by about a hundred men who run the smoke-screen ' department around a big port to help confuse German air raiders. I happened upon the thing wholly by accident. Another correspondent and I were driving through country that was strange to us. We came to a town late one afternoon, and were told by a bored billeting clerk that there was no place for us to stop and that’s that. So we just said
phooey on you, friend, we haven't,
slept under a roof in two months, anyhow, we carry our own beds with us, and we hate cities to boot. " Whereupon we drove right out of town and ‘started looking for some spot under a tree where we could ‘camp for the night. + It was during this search that we passed a ve ‘heat-looking American camp by the roadside. On “impulse we drove in and asked the first officer we saw Jif we could just throw our bedrolls down on the ‘ground and stay all night with them. ‘ - He said, “What do you want to throw them on the ground for?”
“ We said, “Well, we don’t want to put you to any,
trouble, and we're accustomed . , .’
M eeting Some Real Hospitality
“NONSENSE!” he said. “We'll make room for you in our cabins. Have you had supper yet?” ' “No, but we've got our own rations with us.” * “Nonsense!” he said. “Come and eat first, and then we'll find you a place to stay.” . The officer was Lt. Sam Kesner of Dallas, Tex. He was wearing coveralls and a field cap and you couldn't tell him from a private: except for lis bars. He went to Texas A. & M. and ‘got his chemical engineering glegree and his army commission on the same day. Kesner’s boss is Capt. J." Paul Todd of Clinton, s C. He was a schoolteacher before the war.
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
SOMETHING LIKE 1700 Hoosier dogs have been enlisted in the service of the country through “Dogs for Defense,” Frank J. Ward, regional director, tells us. The work is handled on a voluntary basis and about 3000 dogs have been inspected by the volunteers at a total cost of $8. That $8 represented the cost of replacing a pair of trousers lost by an inexperienced inspector who became frightened and ran while iaspectt , ing a dog. The animal proved its _ fitness for army work by removing the seat of the inspector’s trousers. Mr. Ward tells of visiting a country place in another county where a dog had been volunteered. The woman of the house explained: “I've got a son in the navy and a son in the marines, sand I'd sure like to get old Jack (the dog) into the army.” Incidentally, Mr, Ward frequently is called to come and look at a dog, and when he goes, finds the caller was a neighbor—not the ual owner of the dog. The armed forces, he said, aren’t taking large dogs, such as Great Danes and St. Bernards, because it~ takes a mighty big man to handle them. in training.
H elped by Religion
A PARAGRAPH in the Wallace Street Presbyterian church Bulletin reveals an unsuspected benefit derived from religion. Referring to a member of
the Seabees, now somewhere with. the fleet, .the Bulletin says: “Don Bunce, wrote his mother that the prayer on P. 66 of a certain booklet sent the gervice men was a true prayer of his. A check with the pastor disclosed the locatior of Don at the time of his writing. This is an example of the type of real service your church renders.” One of our readers phones to take issue with the USO
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' STOCKHOLM, June 1 (By Wireless).—Now that some of us visiting American newspapermen have been here nearly a month, Swedish newspapers are ps to interview us on what we like and do not e about Sweden. I have admiration for, and some envy of, the social services here. I like the Swedes’ hospitals, their subsidized housing, the stability of
their labor relations, and finally,"
the fact that here one can advocate still more progress in such matters without being coftsidered a Communist or a menace to society. : During a visit to the north of Sweden, into Lapland, I saw a new mining community, only four years old. -Instead of a dirty
shanty-town such as we so often :
Bave in Amerios, the company town at Kristineberg is as clean and neat as a new real-estate development in a modest white-collar suburb in America. In such things Sweden is far advanced. Yet ‘there is in this country, I suspect, a fear that the vipleasant life of Sweden will be snatched away.
Suggests Bolder Policy
. 1/WOULD have little criticism to make on a basis
- 1 of such a short time here, but in answer to inquiries.
by Stockholm newspapers. I have raised the question whether the government's policy is not more hesitant and timid than public opinion. The situation is illustrated with regard to the German “leave trains” which carry troops in and out of Norway. It is privately predicted hat public pressure will force the ent. to . S40p the traffic.
SNUASHEENEIION, ‘Monday.—Miss Thompson and I left Hyde Park right after lunch on Sunday and felt
i
rather aggrieved at having to leave the country
t so lov beat oe ‘Women’ Servic club, 451 Madison ave. New York City, at 5 o'clock, and it was a pleasant duty. Luckily, our train’ was exactly on time and x Sr emonad the club a little early. 1 was able to go through it and see how the rooms were arranged
‘pefore it was time to go on the dir. . It has only been a short time
and yet some 60 girls slept there last night. I was told the tea dances on Saturdays are always
crowded and that there is always, -
. even during the week, a good * ‘quota of women from the different They use it in their free time, or when they leisure hours, or pase through
By Ernie Pyle
Their outfit is a part of the chemical warfare service. By the nature of their business they work all night and sleep all day. They take their various stations in little groups in a big semicircle around the city, just before dusk, and stay there on the alert till after daylight. At midnight. ‘a ‘truck makes the rounds - with sandwithes and hot coffee. Their assignment has been permanent enough to justify their fixing up their camp in a homelike way. They have taken old boards from the dock area and built about three dozen small cabins, sort of like tourist-camp cabins back home. They have built bunks for their vedrolls, hung up mosquito nets, hammered boards together for chairs, made tables, and put little steps and porches in front of their cabin doors. They've .named their cabins such things as “Iron Mike’s Tavern,” “African Lovers,” “The Village Barn” and “The Opium Den.”
UNFOLD FEAT OF ENTERPRISE
AGAINST JAPS
U.S. Carrier Inflicts 8 to 10
Times More Damage Than Her Cost.
WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P..|§ —In nine major engagements in one |3
year of war, the 19900-ton aircraft carrier Enterprise inflicted
Just Like a Big Family
LT. KESNER has a sign hanging outside his door that says, “Sixty-Five Hundred Miles From Deep in the Heart of Texas.” The hundred men in this camp are just like a clan. They have all been together a long time and they have almost a family pride in what they're doing and the machinery they're doing it with. One of the boys in the kitchen said he’d read this column in the Cleveland Press for years. He is Cpl. Edward Dudek, Cleveland. I asked him what he did before the war besides: read this column, and ‘he said he was a chemical worker. The army clicked long enough to put him into the chemical service, but then a. cog slipped somewhere and now he's a cook instead of a chemical worker. But I suppose he ¢an make his own fumes when he gets homesick by spilling a little grease on the stove. We spent a comfortable night with this outfit An tarried around a couple of hours the next morning, Just chatting. Then they gassed us up without our even asking for gas, and we finally left feeling that You visited the nearest thing to home since hitting rica.
emblem; which has a red stripe at the top, white in the middle and a blue stripe at the bottom. It's Just the reverse of what it ought to be, says our caller—the blue should be at the top and red at the bottom. The reason, she says, is that the. blue field on the top of the flag is the honor point, and thus the blue should be at the top, even in bunting.
How to Be a Sport
A SAILOR stationed here asks Inside to sponsor a campaign. Says he: “When sportsmen go fishing, why couldn't they take along two or. three service men. I like to fish, but have no way ‘to get around, and no equipment with me. And there are lots of others like me, Maybe we could get someone to set up a ‘fishing partner’ booking office.” Why not? . . . Have you given any blood to the Red. Cross since we last scolded you? The answer probably is “no,” as the campaign has fallen down miserably during May, The blood ‘bank only reached about half of its quota for the month. Many wounded soldiers are alive today because some folks did care enough to give their blood.
They Al All Enlist Again
A GRouR OF inductees out at Ft. Harrison was -busy hauling wheelbarrow loads of heavy rocks down the street, using the rocks to fix up the curb space. The boys sang as they worked. The tune was, “Onward, Christian Soldier.” But the words, repeated over and over, were: “When this war is over, We'll all enlist again.” . , . The youngest library cardholder at the Haughville branch—-and possibly in the entire city—is Michal Etta Edna Rubin, who won't be 4 until June 17. , The youngster qualified for the card several months ago by proving she could print
dish it out.
damage on the enemy estimated at
eight to 10 times her own cost, the|:
navy revealed last night in elaborating on the reasons for President Roosevelt recently conferring a unit citation on the five-year-old ship.
1. She has destroyed at least 140 Japanese planes in air combat, not counting ‘ others smashed on the ground. 2. She sank three submarines, one patrol boat, one fuel barge, and with squadrons from another carrier, four enemy aircraft carriers, and three destroyers.
Probable Hits
3. She probably sank one Japanese battleship, one heavy cruiser, three large tankers, and one transport. 4. She scored direct hits on one additional carrier, a battleship, two light cruisers, a destroyer, a large transport, a: tanker, a cargo ship, seven miscellaneous craft and, with another carrier's squadrons, a battleship and two light cruisers. 5. She destroyed at least three hangars, one radio station, six other buildings, two anti-aircraft batteries, one six-inch shore battery, seven gasoline tanks and several ammunition magazines. In all, the Enterprise's planes scored hits on ships and shore installations with at least 84,100 pounds of bombs and with 11 tor-
oes. . To carry the summary a little
further, the Enterprise was:
1. The only carrier to get into action at Pearl Harbor. 2. The first carrier to strike an offensive blow at the enemy.
At Pearl Harbor
3. The protecting partner of. the carrier Hornet when then Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle and his men raided Tokyo. In piling up her unprecedented
record the Enterprise has, on oc-
casion, had to take it as well as In more than one battle she suffered severe bomb
damage. From the start of the war through the mid-November battle
of Guadalcanal, she has lost more
than 85 of her combat planes.
As the navy put it, she “has
absorbed terrific punishment suc-
cessfully, bélying the belief that
carriers dfe extremely vulnerable.”
The war started for the Enterprise on Dec. 7, 1941. She was returning to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck. Her planes got
Here are a few highlights in the |§ battle carrier’s still unfolding story:
her name legibly. She is living with her grandmother, Amelia Ebner Blatt, 2502 W. Michigan, who was the first borrower when the branch was opened
Mrs.
back in the nineties.
* food conference at Hot Springs, I am especially im-
By Raymond Clapper
It seems to me that Sweden, especially the bureaucracy, does not realize how strong a position it now occupies. Sweden can justify its past policy on the ground that: it saved the country from the fate of Norway. It is better for the allies that Sweden remained intact than if she had been trampled by. the Nazis as her neighbors were. However, the Nazis never spared Sweden out of gratitude or charity, but only because they could get more out of Sweden for less effort by not invading her. So when the question is put to a visiting American like myself, my chief observation is that I think the Swedish government could move more independently than it seems to be doing.
Press Freedom Is Real
- THIS IS a good opportunity to point out that Sweden has permitted me complete latitude in writing throughout a month’s visit here. Not one word that I have written has been censored. Only once or twice has ‘a question of fact been raised, and there has never been any objection to my interpretations. . As our own government has been teking a most questionable course in restricting the press at the
pressed with the freedom which Swedish authorities have accorded a visiting reporter. At this time of year it is light almost all night here. About 11 p. m. the light takes on a strange bluish pastel hue that seems unreal. Children play until nearly midnight, taking advantage of the light which is denied them during the long winters. At the same time military people sgy these white nights mean it would be very difficult and expensive to attack in Norway. Hence a relation of tension is noticeable here now.
Marshall and Gilbert islands.
Enterprise’s seven from another carrier destroyed the enemy carrier Soryu and scored -two bomb hits on a Japanese battleship.’
into the air but not in time to find: the enemy carriers. A little more than a month later, however, the Enterprise drew blood. In the first offensive operation by a U. S. carrier, she participated in the savage surprise attack on the In her
eight devastating smashes,
fliers destroyed enemy ships, buildings and planes.
Twenty-four days later her planes
raided Wake island, and 10 days
after that blasted Marcus island. In Midway Battle
Her real opportunity came in the battle of Midway, which started little more than a year ago. In
one of four separate attacks, 33 of her dive bombers took on four enemy carriers, two battleships, four cruisers and six destroyers. the Japanese carriers Kaga and Akagi with repeated hits.
They sank
Later on the same day, 17 of the dive bombers with
A squadron officer aboard the En-
terprise summed up to date this way: |pening in this war, she’s there and in the thick of it.”
“Wherever anything is hap-
POSTAL CLERKS
ELECT OFFICERS
Charles Ingels of Kokomo is the
newly-elected president of the Indiana Federation Clerks following election of officers at the group’s annual meeting here Sunday and yesterday.
of Postoffice
Other new officers are first vice
By Eleanor Roosevelt
about my age, drew many of us within its hospitable portals. Now Jean is Lady Ward and is working hard
However, 'T had promised to. in Great Britain. Her country house was occupied
by Col. Raff and his officers when I went to see them last November. You will remember that they were the first paratroops to land in North Africa. » Lady Ward also gave her London house as a dis~ tribution . center for British war relief. How. little
president, John C. Phillips of Anderson; second vice president, Everett L. Jeffry of South Bend; third vice president, Louis E. Decker of Indianapolis, - and secretary-treas-urer, Owen H. Schoon of Gary. . John Gruber of Ft. Wayne, retiring president, was named trustee. Other trustees are E. W. Bryan of Marion and Melvin B. Weihe . of
Evansville.
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DECEASED MEMBERS
any of us know what the years will bring, either to
the surroundings we happen to live in, or to us.
The gallery near our apartment house is gay with paintings and I hope that today, before I leave, I shall nave time to have a look at them. .I can not buy any mere pictures, because my walls are already filled,. unless, of ‘course, I eliminate some I have and
hang others in their places. Did you read Drew That composite picture
eton’s article yesterday? e painted of the boys who fought and died in Tunisia, and for whom someone will grieve on memorial days of the pure, was, to
A memorial service for the 29 members of North Park Masonic lodge who have died since Memorial day, 1942, was conducted early yesterday with Past Master Arthur Landes in charge. + The session opened at 3:30 a. m., a. cus which was started in 1936 to give ‘members an opportunity to attend the Speedway auto race. It was continued this year to give war workers a chance to attend the meSHine. ang also go to their plants. ts at a breakfast, were
Po-
BOURBON MOVE IN SPAIN SEEN
Monarchist Activity Hints Effort to Restore
Throne.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, June 1.—Increased ac-, tivity in Spanish monarchist circles Vell.
has led to suggestions that the
movement to restore the Bourbon
throne in Spain may be accelerating. Long a subject of wide speculation, the effort to have Don Juan, heir apparent, installed as King of
Spain has taken on new significance
since Spain’s leader, Francisco
Franco, carried out such moves as
resuming memorial services for the late Alfonso. The speculation has followed two main - lines: bring in. Don Juan as a last ditch move to bolster his authority just before or just after the allies win the war; and 2, that the Royalists, strong in the Spanish army, might try to restore the throne independently of Franco and thus displace him. Ventosa in London
The initial sign of reviving royalist hopes appeared to be the arrival in London of Juan Ventosa, Spanish industrialist who has maintained his right to support Don Juan and criticize Franco. Ventosa's trip may have been purely for business, but diplomatic experts suggested he may have picked this moment to sound out unofficially British leaders. on the desirability of having Don Juan placed on the Spanish throne. Alfofiso D'Orleans; a distant cousin of Don Juan, was said to have arrived in Lausanne, where Don Juan is living, with a message from Spanish supporters of the pretender. Don Juan was believed: to have sent Franco a message about two weeks ago advising him he was breaking off any deal for the restoration under Pranco’s auspices and disassociating himself from Franco’s internal and foreign policies. Don Juan reportedly took the position that he doesn’t want to be bound by Franco's previou® intimate relations with the axis. It was believed likely that Don Juan will make public his views soon to bring the matter to a head
SOME MIDWEST GAS MAY BE SENT EAST
WASHINGTON, June 1 (U, P.).— Petroleum Administrator Harold L.
Ickes said last night that gasoline might be diverted from the midwest to the east coast to relieve the eastern shortage. : In a radio address, Ickes said that motorists should “avoid cheating.” “And it is cheating,” he said, “to use more than is absolutely necessary -—.cheating our brothers and sons .who have died or who are ready to die for us. “So far, the effects of this shortage have been felt directly only in the eastern states, but there is no assurance that they may not spread inland. For if we can bring in additional gasoline from other parts of the country to relieve the situation here, that is what we are going to do.”
1. That Franco will
This imaginary air view of neighboring castle .to wns shows how communities might be grouped. Offices, apartments and a central church occupy the main part of the unit in the foreground, with private homes on terraces at the right. A separate factory area is shown at upper right of the picture.
LONDON, June 1.—Take a look sion of the castles which were the
known British landscape architect rebuilding Britain's blitzed cities in that his plan is so well suited to America, too, that he has sent copies of these sketches of his “Experimental City” to President Roose-
The experimental city is in fact Mr. Walker’s native Redhill, in Surrey, a suburban area southwest of London. As the surveying officer for the Redhill A. R, P., he has visited nearly 40,000 of its homes during the past three years. As a result of his spidy he came to the conclusion the castle tdwn was the plan most practically suited to the needs of the future. Not a Rigid Plan
Walker calls his.design a theory, not a rigid plan, His theory begins with a typical medieval castle. Its basic structure was a series of courtyards, surrounded by thick, high walls in which lived the noblemen and their retinues. In Walker's castle town of the future, the inner courtyards become shopping and amusement centers. The outer walls, broadened and terraced, become the residential areas in which and on which the citizens’ homes are built. Architectural styles may vary almost as much as they do today. The central, dominating building in the castle town may be a church, an apartment house or an impressive municipal structure. Under the castle, where formerly were dun- | geons, tomorrow there would be the | city’s utility systems—heating, light, | telephone, air conditioning.
Sees Roadless City
No factories would be allowed | within the castle town. They would be readily accessible, but at a sufficient distance to keep the view bright, the air clear of smoke and grime, Professional and municipal offices would be concentrated in one | section of the town, perhaps in one building. Within the city itself there are no roads. One highway leads into |the castle through the drawbridge, but it ends immediately inside the wall and cars must be parked in the large garages that are built in the walls’ foundations. Internal transportation is taken care of by escalators and moving sidewalks. The roofs of the communal buildings on top of the walls
‘|are flat for autogiro or helicopter
landings.
Katherine Landrey Wins Scholarship
A scholarship in nurse's training at St.“Vincents’ hospital has been awarded to Miss Katherine Landrey, Guion rd. by the hospital guild committee of the Women of the Moose, headed by Mrs. Phyllis Doyle. Miss Landrey will be graduated from. Washington high school .in June. She received the scholarship for her leadership, outstanding scholastic record, dependability and cooperativeness. The Kitchen Band Women of the Moose will entertain the Alfarata council, Pocahontas, in Red Men's hall, Capitol ave. and North st., with a Flag day program Friday, June 11. The band also will play on June 21 at Ft. Friendly, 512- 'N. Illinois st., for the Pythian Sisters, with soldiers as guests.
Saboteur Haupt Tried Pills
And Church
CHICAGO, June 1 (U. P).— Justice department agents disclosed today that Herbert Hans Haupt, executed Nazi saboteur, swallowed pills containing nitroglycerine in the hope of evading army service in the United States. Haupt, former Chicago high school pupil who subsequently went to Germany and returned by submarine to sabotage America's war
industries, was given the pills by |
William Bernard Wernecke, former German - American Bund leader, agents said. Wernecke, who goes on trial before -Judge John P. Barnes today for draft evasion, advised Haupt
that the pills would temporarily
to Evade Draft
After Haupt swallowed the pills Wernecke took him to the office of a physician from whom they hoped to obtain a certificate stating that. Haupt was suffering from a “malignant heart condition,” government agents said. When the physician refused to furnish the certificate, Wernecke took Haupt to the offices of the “Episcopal - Evangelical church,” where the bund leader previously had been “ordained” a minister. | There, agents said, Haupt was given an application to fill out preliminary to his ordination as a minister in the so-called church. Federal agents seized the appli-
CLAIM UNREST
FLARES AGAIN AMONG NORSE
Exiled Government Says "Nazis Proclaim Limited
Emergency. LONDON, June 1 (U. P.).—Ger-
man authorities have ‘proclaimed a “conditional state of emergency” in coastal areas of Norway and have
Modernistic Castle Towns Seen for Post-War Britain
Times Special
imagine that you see in the distance a huge castle—yes, a modern ver-
There will be a castle there one day, believes Ian Walker, well-
| increased the occupation army to
out of your living room window and rule in Europe of the middle ages.
who recently completed a plan for a series of castle towns. He thinks
CRITICS OF OPA LAUD SHAKEUP
Congressmen Pleased by
Administrator.
WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. PJ). —Members of’ congress believed today that the resignation of J. K. Galbraith as deputy administrator of the office of price administration would quiet criticism of OPA and perhaps would improve relations between. the OPA and business. Chairman Wright Patman (D. Tex.) of the house small business committee, which has been one of of OPA’s most vociferous critics, summed up the views of many con-
gressmen when he said: “It certainly won't hurt OPA to have him resign. “There is a general ‘feeling that he has been OPA’s fly in the ointment and I am sure his action will be constructive rather than damaging.”
Gave No Reason
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown, in announcing Galbraith’s resignation last night, advanced no ason for the sudden move. It has een apparent for some time, however, that either Galbraith or Lou Maxon, Detroit advertising executive and head of OPA’s information section, would have to step out. They disagreed over such basic issues as the number and type. of regulations that should be imposed in price fixing. Maxon reportedly has “been offered the job of ‘“general manager” of OPA by Brown, and he made Galbraith’s removal one of the conditions of acceptance. The brief formal announcement of Galbraith’s resignation said Brown “emphasized that any personnel changes at this time in no way affect the basic OPA policy to ‘hold the line’ on prices in accord . with the president's recent executive order.” Galbraith is former assistant professor of economics at Princeton university.
CIVILIANS - ELIGIBLE AS WAAG OFFICERS
Because of the increasing number of requisitions for WAAC’s from army. posts, officer candidates again are to be accepted directly. from civilian life. Capt. Gertrude V. Pratt, assistant district commander at Indianapolis, has announced that women between the ages of 21 and 50, who are high school graduates and have had at least four years experience in positions which entail responsibility and leadership, - are eligible. Applicants will be ‘interviewed by a board consisting of a WAAC officer, an army officer and an ex-
cation and additional nitroglycerine
pills "last summer at the time of of Haupt and his six
perienced civilian personnel executive. Those accepted by the examining board will ‘be given a mental test. Those who fail to pass the officer tests will be permitted to return to private life. The taking® of officer candidates from private life in no way changes
the policy of promoting those in the |}3
ranks, Capt. Pratt said. WARNS OF FAKE OPA ‘RENT INSPECTORS’
‘Tenants and landlords should ask any person representing himself as an inspector from the OPA rent division to -show his identification
card, bearing his picture and de-|}
scription, officials announced today. Reports have been made that unidentified persons .have /misrepre-
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.|heim and Dramm
Resignation of Deputy
200,000 men, a Norwegian govern-
ment spokesman reported today.
New clashes between patriots and Quisling storm troopers ‘have brought about the emergency measures which include a roundup of men of military age in an apparent effort -to weaken the underground organization so it cannot aid an allied invasion, it was said. Battles between patriots and storm troopers were repprted at Trond- » Where sabotage has increased sharply, the spokesman asserted. Trondheim’s. 100,000 population was reported now to include some 60,000 Germans.
Disorders in Bergen
German guards were said to have fired on Norwegians at Bergen, who refused to obey orders. The best information reaching the Norwegian exile government was that the Nazis now have 10 divisions in Norway and 100,000 civilians. Reports stated that the Germans were intensifying fortification of the coastline and air fields. The number of mounted coastal batteries was estimated at almost 1000, including heavy defenses at Oslofjord, Bergen, Trondheim, Narvik and Varangerfjord. The Nazis were said to have 30 air bases.
Production Cut 22 Per Cent
. Saboteurs have cut German production of war weapons in occupied countries at least 22 per cent, allied sources estimated. They said underground reports indicated the saboteurs had destroyed possibly $500,000,000 worth of Nazi machinery and equipment and had forced the Germans to use at least 2,000,000 supervisors to guard against their activity. A Czech spokesman said there was one guard for every two,workers at the big Skoda arms plant and the Belgian and Dutch refugee governments received reports of the wrecking of war plants and systematic destruction of railroads, engines and rolling stock. Other reports indicated the Germans were fighting unrest among their own people,
Morale Stumps ~~ =
Foreign sources said the morale of troops stationed on invasion coasts slumped after the Tunisian defeat and many deserters were heading for Sweden. . Germany was forced to set up concentration camps -for mutinous troops, the reports said. It was hinted that Germans may have blown up four ships which sank recently.in Oslo harbor.’ BULGARIA—An Ankara dispatch said reports from Sofia told -of the -assassination of Police Chief Plewen of Sofia and of one Varna, described as chief of the Bulgarian Fascist youth organization. = The British radio said 6000 Bulgarians were arrested last week for causing riots and aiding Jugoslav patriots. 1000 Arrested POLAND—Polish circles said 1000 men and women had been arrested in Warsaw- and, sent to the Pa-
waik prison and that 600 later were sent to an undisclosed concentration
‘camp — possibly the Majdanek
“death camp.” It was believed that the arrests were made in searching for members of the Polish underground. FRANCE—Radio Paris. broadcast pleas for peasants to turn-in their last reserves of cereals, suggesting that France may face a .famine. ' BULGARIA—A protest against Nazi demands for workers was reported made by the Belgian supreme court coincident with a similar protest by thie Putch Reformed church in occupied Holland.
SIX MONTHS NEEDED TO FIT FRENCH SHIPS
CAIRO, Jun&sl (U. P.).—Naval experts said today that the nine French warships which ‘have joined the allies after being interned ‘at Alexandria since the\fall of France in 1940 can be made ready for combat within six montis. Once the ship's hul scraped, the brecch blocks of their guns« restored, new /maval- devices installed and their crews brought to full strength, the one battleship, four cruisers, three destroyers and one submarine will join the allied fleet in North Africa under Adm. Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham,
HOLD EVERYTHING
have been
sented themselves as inspectors 4