Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1944 — Page 15

re Smart operators, of their own right« the one particular that will save the ump all these self« ver, and they stil} can best be classi natic fringe on the

changed from one phe first world war nists, the Liberty Coughlinites, the Al party, the Amer« orites, the Progres2» Communists. Bus seen yet, of these outfits are that 99 per cent of ome leap year and somehow get mage real unimportance, ditures committee, a presidential elec from and where it ing all manner of

merican with a pet country is to join if he can't find a will start a move-

- increasingly familiar opening re"mark of most Frenchmen when dis-

“until the, inauguration of a new

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Failure to Recognize - New Regime. BY HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times Foreign Correspondent PARIS, Oct. 10.—"France does not understand.” Such is the heading of one of several editorials in the Paris press and such is the

cussing with Americans the United States’ continued non-recognition of the French provisional government, : The subject of recognition is one which appears to trouble the government less than it does the French people, who see in this government, faulty though they find it in many respects, the only hope of avoiding serious clashes, It seems also to be the opinion of most Americans who, during the course of the past four years, have been concerned with French aflairs. In the eyes of highly responsible Americans here, the United States’ failure to recognize this government as the provisional one for Prance, increases the dangers ahead. There are several reasons for this. French Want Unity

France is united today because the French want unity, not because the elements of real unity exist. Divisions and schisms are not simple matters, easily defined. They go beyond the question of FrancoGerman collaboraticn. They go even deeper than vesied interests fighting social and economic reforms, snd beyond fear of communism. But they crystallize around the latter two features today,

"FRENCH CHAFE ATU, S. POLICY

- Trouble Seen Brewing in| &

: 6 Stars :

Thomas Miller Marion Suddeth

SIX STARS decorate the service flag hanging in the window of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Miller, 1226 S. Senate ave, Pfc. Arthur Miller, who went overseas in March, has been missing in action in France with the infantry since Sept. 3. He is 28 and has been in ‘the army 20 months. : Stationed with the army air forces at Independence, Kas., is Pvt. Thomas Miller, who has been in the army about two

& carpenter's mate 3-¢ .in the navy, Overseas 15 months, he was - deafened by the concussion of guns on his ship and is in an overseas hospital now. ; Cpl. Cecil Lambert, who also went overseas in March, is on duty with? the army air forces ground crew in England while

years. His brother, Willie Miller, is

Arthur Miller Dolphus Lambert

Yeoman 2-¢ Dolphus Lambert is taking naval training at the University of Chicago. The Millers’ son-in-law, Marfon Suddeth, went overseas 18 months ago as a radioman 3-c with the navy. "His wife is Mrs. Marion Suddeth, 1412 N. King ave. : Mr. Miller is in war work at Curtiss-Wright.

Collaboration plays a large role; also and here, as in the question! of vested Interests and communism, the attitude of the Untied States! assumed importance, It will be found when the collaborators are tried that many of them will base their cases on the existence of the

which, according to their argument, | France and Germany were no longer at war.

Recognition of Vichy

As support for this argument] they cite United States’ recognition of the Vichy government. The American policy of expediency has given great moral assistance to the collaborators and increased difficulty to those who wish to purge Franee of that element. Vested interests are today looking to the United States and Britain to protect them from the economic reforms the government is attempt. ing to institute. All anti-Com-munists likewise look to American influence to prevent the spread of communism here but not by active intervention. There is a tendency among some French, British and Americans to

suggest that the original authors i, paok 4 good indefinitely for 10!

to lure hitel-hiking soldiers into, ‘March 18, 1941. Ludwig, who was {with him at the time of the accident, grabbed von de Osten’s brief case and disappeared; this looked {very strange, and von der Osten's {personal effects also contained sus-

hia car. Then he quizzed: them about army posts, equipment, training, for the. benefit of his own bosses in Germany,

First Boss Killed

WOMEN SPIES IN THIS WAR— 19-Year-Old Blond Mata Hari

Served Germany Just for Fun

By MARTHA STRAYER Seripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Lucy Boehmler was 17, blond and a decoy for hitch-hiking soldiers, She worked with and for Nazi spies because she thought it would be a “Jot of fun.” Her fun ended with sentence fo five years in federal prison. FBI's file reveals her decoy. duty; she toured southern states with her boss, Kurt Frederick Ludwig, and he used the high-school-age blond

Lucy was born in Germany, came picious items. FBI was called in Franco-German armistice, under to America with her mother al and another spy hunt began.

the age of 5, was educated in New|

Lucy transferred from von der

York public schools. - She met Lud- Osten to Ludwig, traveled with him wig at her home in 1940. “WhY on trips to Army camps and war did you go to work for the spy centers, made notes of his findings, ring?” she was asked on the Wit-! ggg supposed to be paid $25 a week ness stand. “It sounded like & lot put actually -drew little or nothing

of fun,” was her answer.

‘more than expenses. Penurious

Lucy worked first for Conrad von Nazis had ordered Ludwig to enlist der Osten. Nazi army cfficer who unpaid volunteer assistants. But came to the United States by way she didn't work for the fun of it of Japan in Pebruary, 1841, was very long. Ludwig was arrested posing in New York as a Spaniard | Aug. 23, 1041, Lucy five days later, when he wes knocked down and and they were convicted and killed by a taxi in Times Square sentenced with six others in March,

Ration Calendar

{1942. | One of Lucy's bigger thrills may {have been writing secret messages jon the reverse side of innocent ‘letters drafted by her boss. The

MEAT—Red stamps A8 through |secret messages were written in inZ8 and AS through K35 in BOOK 4) .4.p1e ink made by dissolving headgood indefinitely for 10 points each. | .}.. (anjets in water. -

CANNED GOODS—Blue stamps |

A8 through Z8 and AS through RS

Visited in Mountains Lucy went to parties with other

of the United States policy towards ints each. No more blue stamps members of the ring, made dates

France are determined to see the provisional! government fall in or-| der to justify their continued opposition to Charles de Gaulle, There is a conviction among, many Americans that while Gen.| Dwight D. Eisenhower, the army

and its civil affairs division have sugar should send in one spare stamp 37, attached to the applica-|

conducted themselves with great! skill, act and foresight in French

that Eisenhower has done, i

Copyright. 1944. by The Indianapolis Times | Dec. 31, E, El and E2 goed for 1, gallon; R, R-1 and R2 are good for] 5 gallons but are not valid at filling!

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

DR. WEISSKOPF GETS |

Dr. Edith Weisskopf, who has] been teaching mental hygiene and | psychology at the Indiana wiversityl extension school for the last two| years, has been appointed psycholo- |

gist for the Marion county clinic eligible for grade 1. tires if they {can prove extreme necessity. All A Hari tradition, was pretty and blond.

of mental hygiene, | Dr. Weisskopf holds a Ph.D. de-| gree from the University of Vienna, and has done extensive work in the

field of research psychiatry. i She is the author of a text based!

will become valid until Nov. 1, SUGAR-—Stamps 30, 31, 32 and 33 in Book 4 are good indefinitely for 5 pounds. Stamp 40 in Book 4 good for 5 pounds of canning sugar. Applicants applying Yor canning tion for each applicant. gallons through Dec. 21. B4 and C4,

quarter) good for 5 gallons through

stations,’

{with a soldier-spy who sold army | manuals to the ring, kept a card{index record of U. 8. military and { naval éstablishments with vital in- { formation about each, visited Ludwig in a western Pennsylvania mountain resort when he was scared out of New York by wholesale ar‘rests of the Duquesne spy ring : : i : { June 20, 1941. affairs, Washington has continued | GASOLINE—Stamp A-13 for 4, _a_ policy which may prove disas-

trous and Js rapidly undoing all BS and C5 good for 5 gallons; T tith

Lucy and Ludwig had “pet names”

for aviation plants in the New York area, uséd in their secret operations.f { Grumman was “Grace,” Brewster was “Bessie,” Sperry was “Sarah” Ludwig was a paid agent; he got his money from mysterious contacts {he met in restaurants or other

SHOES—No. 1 and No. 2 “alf- njsces and recognized because they

COUNTY CLINIC POST piane” stamps in Book 3 good In-| were wearing specified flowers or

definitely. A new stamp will be-| reading, certain magazines, Tele-

come valid Nov. L.

phone calls made these rendezvous

TIRES—Commercial vehicle tire arrangements.

inspection every six months or every |

Ludwig's ring had no apparent

5000 miles. B card holders are now | connection with Duquesne’s,

Lucy was a decoy in the Mata

holders are eligible for grade 3 tires, | She seemed to have no conscience or if they find tires which may be pur-| feeling about what she'd done,

chased.

FUEL OIL—Period 4 and 5 coupons valid through Aug. 31, 1945. All

0. E. S. PLANS PARTY Queen Esther chapter, O. E. 8,

on the result of a survey of Ger-|change-making coupons and reserve Will entertain past presidents at mans and Austrians in the field of {coupons are now good. Fuel oil|its meeting at 2 p. m. Friday in human wants, aspirations and men- rations for 1944-45 heating season Masonic temple, North and Illinois now being issued, Period 1 good im- sts. Mrs. Thelma Hasting, presi-

tal problems and has contributed! to various other publications. i

mediately.

{ dent, will preside.

What Would Have Happened if Willkie and McNary, Now Both Dead, Had Been Elected?

Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Less than four years ago they received 22,305,000 votes for President and vice president of the United States. Now death has claimed the both—Wendell L. Willkie, 52, in New York City early Sunday, and Senator Charles L, McNary of Oregon, 69, in Florida last Feb, 25. : Mr. Willkie’s passing came four days after that of Alfred E. Smith, who survived his own defeat for the presidency by almost 16 years. » ” » WHAT MIGHT have happened if the Republican candidates had been. elected in 1940 is, of course, a subject of purely academic interest. : . But if they had been elected, and had died when they did, the office of President would now be filled by Mr, Willkie's secretary of state, while the office of vice president would remain vacant sident and vice president on Jan. 20, 1945. © © . 2 8»

THE" CONSTITUTION and

then the Constitution provides that the vice president shall succeed him immediately upon takin the oath of office. : If both President and vice president are dead or otherwise disqualified, the presidential succession, under an 1886 law of congress, passes down through seven members of the cabinet—the sec--retaries of state, treasury, war, the attorney general, the postmaster general, and the secretaries of navy and interior. ® 8 = SIX PRESIDENTS have died in office, and in each case a vice president became President. Two of them, Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge, later were elected President. : Six vice presidents also. have died in office, and as a result that » Office has been vacant for a total of 11 years and four months of United States history, there being no provision for filling such a vacancy until a successor is elected by the people and sworn into office. 3 » =

"HOWEVER, when a vice presidency of the United States, his

| Job as” President of the ‘senate |

dent dies qr succeeds to the presi-

|-dent-elect shall act temporarily as-

Had Mr. Willkie been renominated this year, his death a month before election day would have put up to the Republican national committee the duty of naming another presidential candidate, who might or might not have been his running mate on the ticket. 3 That has never happened to the presidential nominee of a major party. ; » = on

{ , BUT _IN 1912, Vice: President

James S. Sherman, who had been

renominated with President Taft, did die on Oct. 30—a few days before election—-and the national committee later selected Nicholas Murray Butler of New York to receive the Republican vice presidential electoral votes. They happened, that year, to be only the eight votes of Utah and Vermont. The Norris “lame duck” amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1933, plugged some possible

loopholes in the presidential suc- |

cession. by providing that if a president-elect dies before in-

Inauguration, the vice president‘elect shall take his’ place; that if

a president-elect has not qualified by inauguration day, the vice presi-

NEW SOLIR ERGY CHINE: PERFECTED |

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MOSCOW, Oct. 10.—A new type| of solar energy converter capable of

melting irons has been developed by the refugee Spanish scientist Federico Molero, who is carrying on experimental work in Tashkent,

. [capital of Soviet Uzbekistan.

In an article published in the

Moscow News, Molero describes his energy converter as a “paraboloidal

mirror, 33 feet in diameter]

mounted on light metal framework

terman Brothers Serve, 2 in Na

Artie Kitterman

resembling the wings of an airplane. He states that the reflector. surface is made of ordinary window glass, bent into the desired shape without pre-heating. According to Melero, his device can produce hot water “in quantities measurable by the thousands of kilograms hourly” or “superheated

steam at a temperature of 470 de-

grees centigrade,” which is hot enough to melt a number of metals,

including fron.

Because of the fact that the solar

9 converter is unable to operate in cloudy weather, Molero says that his new machine will be best suited for use in branches of economy “where energy consumption coincides with energy production.” : His machine could be used, for example, to drive steam engines to pump water for irrigation purposes. He also thinks it could be used

944, by The Indianapolis Times icago Daily News, Inc.

While Technician Artie Kitter-

man, son of Mr. and Mrs, Artie E. Kitterman, Noblesville, is catching his breath after being trapped behind German lines in Holland four

days and then rescued, his two brothers are serving with the navy. Seaman 2-¢ Chenault Webb Kit terman- will gradnate from radip school at Northwestern university next month and will apply for advanced radio schooling. Aviation Machinist's Mate 2-c

' John 8. Kitterman, who expects to

go to sea soon, is stationed at Norfolk, Va. A former employee of Allison division of General Motors, he was inducted in November, 1941, took boot training at Great Lakes and went to the Navy Pier school in Chicago, graduating as honor man of His class. In December, 1942, he was graduated again as an honor student at naval air technical training center, Chicago. He went to Norfolk last January. His wife lives in Indianapolis. Technician Kitterman, a radio man in the infantry, was rescued by the Dutch partisans and taken to

John Kitterman C, Kitterman

safety, .

MRS. MORELAND SR. IS WITH RED CROSS

Mrs, Lester Moreland Sr, 42 8.

Ritter ave., has been appointed con-

sultant on prisoner of war problems by the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross and will be attached to the home service department of the chapter. The mother of 2d Lt. Lester Moreland Jr., who was one of the first American prisoner of war in Germany, Mrs. Moreland has long

| SANTA MARTA, Columbia, lombia these days.

one of the main banana shipping ‘points. or .

been active in the interests of pris-

oners of war and their next of kin.|

10.—Bananas are scarce in

Blame is on the war and its | sequences. Santa Marta, a port near Barranquilla, used to &

When the privately owned re frigerated ships were taken off the banana run from Santa Marta and put to direct war use, the huge establishment of the American Shipping Co. here was closed down except for a skeleton staff. Cons sequently, the company's plantas tions were allowed to take care themselves. 2 But not for long, for there is 8 nasty blight called “sigatoka” whicly took care of the bananas instead, This sigatoka “ages the leave pre= maturely.” Without leaves the plant cannot breath, so bananas don't grow. Today, therefore im Santa Marta, bananas are at 8 pres mium.

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