Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1944 — Page 2
President Camacho Seizes
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Officer Who Tried To Kill Him.
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“MEXICAN CHEF,
walking through the main patio of the palace from his car to the entry of his private elevator. Lama saluted and walked directly toward the President, who appar-| ently believed the Sticer wanted to] speak with him, At Three Paces | At three paces, Lama drew a .45caliber autimatic pistol and opened | fire. His first shot missed, and the] President immediately seized him, } preventing him from getting in = other shot. Maj. Enfren Ortiz Bartolo, who! was accompanying the President, struck Lama while another aid, Lt. Mario Castenada, took his pistol. | Avila Camacho ordered the as-| sassin taken into his private ele-| vator and on the way up to his | offices asked Lama why he had’ tried to kill him. “A long time ago I have been wanting to interview the President to complain that I am not allowed to go to church nor to attend mass in uniform,” Lama was quoted as saying. “I considered it unfair. why I did this.” ‘He was removed to the Santiago military prison after questioning. |
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Many OWI projects are on firm ground, but there's a fringe that would provide a fine springboard for a new set of copgressional tantrums. There's evidence from the milltary side and elsewhere that OWI has done effective work in the field and in its short-wave broadcast assignment. But there's evidence of morey being tossed out the. window in other places for lack of a tough copy editor to wield a blue pencil on needless or questionable projects. Ask ar OWI official how many pamphlets and leaflets the agency has produced, for example, and he shrugs his shoulders. Nobody: seems to know, but it may be hundreds of millions. Some are lavish, some simple; some probably effective, some not. : The top command of OWI has been drawn from the newspaper and radio business and in many places is able and experienced, but lower echelons are filled with many people lacking in such qualifications. You find men in the writing jobs who have done little writing, others experting in technical fields in which they've never served. It means more people on the pay roll to do a given assignment. OWI is in business to put America’s best foot forward. Mr. Davis has said its business is to tell the truth, and he has tried to have the agency stick to it.
But propaganda demands
Woodrow Wilson gave George Creel 14 points on which to build the American propaganda story in the other war, and they were forged into a mighty weapon. Mr, Davis, by contrast, has the heavily generalized and now badly mauled Atlantic charter which allows nothing like the postive and definite day-after-day hammering policy important to effective propagandizing. The OWI is doing a lot of improvising and some of 1t resembles the 'made-work stuff of
It is spending an average of $7.77 apiece to make up to 3500 transcribed recordings monthly, some of them on such highly imaginative subjects as the dramatization of an American mail-order catalog. It can turn out a heroic-size
tions, It will produce a 14-part Swedish magazine or a million copies of an ABC book for children overseas. What has it to do with winning a war? Even some OWI people wonder. Dramatizing a8 mail-order catalog or a jeep so that Balkan peasants, say, who may hear it, |
may seem as fantastic to them as to you.
adroitness, and you select the particular part of the truth you tell the world and the part you discard. It's a matter of emphasis, juxtaposition, of the hidden sentence. The cards aren't played as they fall, by any means. The OWI propaganda line, kept within state department policy save for boners like the “moronic little king” affair, is laid down chiefly in Washington—the New York office 5 the production factory. This factory works 2000 people, three shifts a day. Its expansion is typical of OWI. When it
4 began it needed only fairly modest
office quarters, but it outgrew them and decided to take over
several floors in the Argonaut building on Broadway. Almost before moving was completed, it was plain the whole 10 floors would be needed. OWI took them. Soon these were filled and the propagandists bulged across the street to the Fisk building. Just to pay the rent here costs $212,000 a year. The whole New York operation costs nearly $12,000,000. A pretty penny it isc OWI’s answer is to cite greater Nazi propaganda expenditures and say that if OWI efforts shorten the war by . even a few hours it will have paid for itself. §
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .
owl Lavishes 66 Millions on Propaganda To Reach People Throughout the World
CHURCH CEILING FALLS: 40 HURT
None- of Easter Worshipers Injured Seriously in Crash.
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to peel at the north end, buckled in the-center and collapsed. The ter which crashed was 75 feet ye 12 feet wide and an inch thick. A cracking, rumbling noise gave notice of the impending disaster and the worshipers moved to the front of the church as rapidly as possible. Many, however, were trapped and took refuge under the pews and crawled to safety. Baptismal services by immersion were being performed at the time and the church was dark except for exit lights, candles and lights about | 5 the fount. The Rev. David McNelly had just baptized the seventh of 19 participants when the crash occurred. “I heard a noise which I believed had been caused by someone stumbling in the balcony,” he said. “Then plaster dust began to fall around me. I called to the custodian, John Sinex, to throw on the lights. “It was amazing there was no confusion or panic. The crowd was very sensible. I thank God, however, that it did not happen during the morning service for the church was filled to capacity and people were standing under the balcony as
Beginning tomorrow The Times will follow the new standardized style on foreign war names. :
NEW YORK, April 8 (U. P..—A uniform style for foreign place names" was adopted by the three big American news services today to
connection between the plaster crash and the tornado which struck the East side earlier in the, evening. Those injured are: Mrs. Ethel Comstock, 54, of 845 N. Rural st. Mrs. Carrie Albright, 51, of 920 N. Oxford st. Mrs. Josephine Payne, 80, of 1424 N. Tuxedo st. Miss Helen Wall, 34, of 142¢ N. Tuxedo st. Howard L. Chambers, 42, of 1016% N. Oakland ave. * Carl DeWesse, 28, of 1040 N. By stone ave. Mrs. Carl DeWesse, 23, and their 2-months-old daughter, Grace Carol. Mrs. Margaret Whicker, 20, of 959 N. Oxford st. Mrs. V. A. Byrd, 40, of 3844 E. 13th st, Mrs. Lena Sharpe, 47, of 1420 N. Oxford st, Miss Ruth Via, 19, of 438 N. Riley ave. Herbert Myers, 39, of 842 N. Oxford st, Mrs. Herbert Myers, 40, and their daughter Phyllis. Geraldine Miller, 6, of 1302 N. Taos ave, and her sister, Loro
well as sitting.” Investigators believe there is no]
Mrs. Mayme Bucksot, 505 N. DeQuincy st,
make it easier for the public to follow the story.of the war. In an effort to end possible con-
;|fusion over places appearing in the
war news under more than one name, the United Press, the Associated Press, and International News Service adopted in general the style of the National Geographic society, but made certain exceptions to conform with American usage.
78 Exceptions Made
The National Geographic society style basically followed is that of the name in use in the various foreign countries themselves. The principle of native spellings also has been adopted by the U. S. geographic board and the chief American atlas and map publishers, Of 40,000 names listed by the National Geographic society, the three news services made 78 exceptions in the cases of places figuring prominently in western culture, history, or tradition under an anglicized form. These exceptions include Rome, instead of Roma; Moscow, instead
I Corsica usages adopted are Romania in-|Crimea
stead of Rumania, Yugoslavia instead of Jugoslavia, Manchura instead of Manchukuo, and Dnepr and Dnestr rivers instead of Dniep-
in the National Geographic society's
lists in native form, are to be trans-
Uniform Spelling of Foreign Place Names ~ Adopted by Three Major News Sorvith:
lated into English by the news serv-
ices. The three services agreed also upon the form Marshal Josip Broz for the instead of BroZovich. The appelation Tito also will be retained, The new uniform style, effective tomorrow, is aimed at ending such confusion ‘as may have arisen over places like Cernauti, also called Czernawitz, and Iasi, also called Jassy, to name only two which are prominent in. current news. Following are the exceptions to be Geographic
made to the National society’s style: rs Antioch Havana Antwerp Hook of Holland Athens Korea Azov, Bea of Kurile island Belgrade Limerick Black Forest Lions, Gulf of Blue Nile river Lisbon Bonin island Marcus {sland Bosporus Mexico City Brest Litovsk Milan Brunswick Moscow Brussels Mukden Bev, me, ‘ape Horn nsei us mountains Naples Cologne New island Constance, Lake North cape rfu Port A Corinth RB Aram Rhodes : Crete Riga. Gulf of Rome Salonika Danube river Sardinia Dead river Sinal, Mo Dead sea fn - Dublin ta East ca Tiber river I tes river rin Faeroes island Florence Venice 4 Vi 1 Moun Geneva vienna oust Genoa Warsaw Hague, The White sea
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