Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1940 — Page 17

| U-Boats’ Eyes

x and without waiting until they

i control ‘of the air over England. “© tion brings to light that: the 1J-boat is co-ordinated

WEDNESDAY, DEC. II, 1940

THE GERMANS have nof smashed the British t now the situa-

with German air patrols. The real. problem of the U-boat was its inability to see target |without ‘ exposing the telltale periscope. Now the by the air patrol, and where it does not destroy the enemy vessel, or where it discovers a large convoy, word is flashed to the U-boats, It is not surprising that German submarines are willing to risk discovery by using their radio because . this, unlike the conditions of World | War I, is being fought in the | wide-open ocean spaces. And th their radio is substantiated by the reporting sinkings while on station eturn to harbor.

hunting is red

faét that they are

x “Which the submarines receive from the air patrols.

This radio freedom is probably mh by warnings ‘Estimates vary as to the percentage of food sup-

% ‘plies that must be carried to England on the sea.

Conservatively it’ is somewhere Pejween 60 and 70 per cent. And it is becoming fearfully evident that unless the British admirals develop some new anti-

~ Submarine operation against submarines in the open

reckoned with, © Airpower vs. Seapower | ._ This by no means indicates the end of seapower.”

~ picture.

sea, the critical days of supplies Juertese must be

. There is a very definite place for|seapower in the war of this age. It does mean, however, that someone will have to devise seapower’s new place in the

. As early as September, the struggle between airbower and seapower had assumed definite shape. The British sea blockade was established in the At-

of shore-based® German aircraft. Inside this cerdon,

they are using

Ernie Pyle is en route to L

By Maj. Al Williams

the German Air Force instituted its patrol in conjunction with sul-sea forces. We have, therefore, two blockades. “he British blockading the entire European coastling, and the German air and submarine elements attempting to keep seaborne supplies from getting to England. The use olhair patrols to blockade sea commerce had been disco

fare has fallen far short of the marks accomplished in World War I. | In fact, during the last 20 years naval experts have felt complacent about being able to throttle subma ine tactics, by reason. of the fact that they had don so toward the end of the last war.

A: Hil-and-Run War : Losses of commercial shipping to date in this unusual area of two blockades demonstrate that the hit-and-run elernents of modern warfare have

stolen another march on the stand-and-slug older machinery (sea fleets). The real reason why this

blockade struggle nas been moved off into the At-

lantic is because Geapower discovered, in the North Sea in -the early days of this war, its inability to withstand concentrated air attack. Just before the fall of France, seapower. strategists ‘had learned that the only naval units usable in the North Sea were destroyers and small vessels. Aircraft carriers never should have been employéd in those tight waters; nor battleships and cruisers. This stage of the showdown between airpower and the old seapower brought about the shifting of the naval blockade line into the Atlantic. : It is becoming more evident every day that this issue will be decided within’ the lines maintained by the British sea blockade. Aft. this point it is well to consider that there are two ways of controlling the air. . One is to dominate the air by driving the enemy out of it (and this must be done where the combat zone is limited, such as the air over London), or by stretching the combat zones so that the Mimeically eakt) air force cannot cover all fronts. don) i

: Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

“WATCH OUT FOR ‘THE SWINGING DOORS” has begome a sort of pass-word with the newspaper boys covering the State Toll Bridge Commission hearings. And although they haven’t said any thing about

= It, they're just a little irked about/ the way they've

been ° treated, since apparently most of the sessions have been held for their benefit. It goes like this. The Commission goes into ion, with newspapermen and bonding firm representatives forming the bulk of the audience. One of the Commissioners or an employee gets up and reads an| editorial from a downstate paper| urging purchase of the New Harmony toll bridge by the State. Then the members get into a Cok and suddenly

one booms out: “Executive session.

¥ ‘All newspapermen outside.” And the journalists troop “: out into the hallway. I

“2 In a few minutes, after tempe + smiling member invites the reporters

“ why the bridge should be . until another discussion breaks out.

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have cooled, a back in. Then the Commission starts explaining (to the reporters) purshased, Things go lively Then—“Executive

session,” ete. : recently,

_ INDIANA NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS, taking their physical examinations before induction into the RegularvArmy next month, are finding the going really tough. Two captains of infantry fell by .the wayside yesterday. A lieutenant, who had his paper .work completed and was aiming for a captaincy, was another victim of the rigid test. : | : At the present rate, it seems that Indiana’s group will fare about the same as in other states—approxJmisly 10 per-cent of the commissiqned officers losing out. One of the young men had a bad time of it yes-

- Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—To talk of the danger yet sufficiently . stirred to insist u

n the real drive

5 of our slipping into war is frigid when we are not

“ necessary for depent defense.

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We are not at war but we have need to drive for as much ST speed as if we were. . This speed is needed first because if England is licked, then we will be caught in a world dominated by a combination of Gers many, Italy, sia .and Japan. That combination will control Europe, Asia and -Afri tions may have differences among’ themselves but on one thing they will be united—#e will be the come mon victim. The Western Hemisphere will be the common loéting

7 ast place left to loot. And that will be the situation.

‘% Hot a generation hence, but the ve

ground for ww all. It will be the

) r moment the Axis as won. Weak nations, whether large or small, will

be immune because they are big. e will be immune only insofar as our strength earns respect. We will be

be given short shrift. The big ones, if weak, will not’

terday. He got very excited, dnd his blood pressure shot up. The dectars told him to lie down for a while. Late in the afternoon, he had cooled off —and passed.

The Mayor Lectures on Drinking

“WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE TAVERN situation?” " City Hall reporters asked Mayor Sullivan yesterday, pointing out that the Methodist Ministerial Association was aroused. about vice conditions here. The Mayor calrnly- filled his pipe and sat down. Within two puffs, he was lecturing on the evils of excessive drink. And he meant it. It would not be polite to reveal all he said, but what he was getting

-at had to do with stemming drinking from the home.

Adolescent drinking, he said, should be controlled by parents. By far, most of the excessive drinking is “legal,” the Mayor believes. Only a fraction is illegal —that is, done in taverns violating the, law by selling

. after hours.

Throughout the lecture, the newspapermen were nodding in assent. But when Hizzoner had finished, they got the feeling that maybe—just perhaps—the lecturing was mostly for their benefit.

No, Not Barrege Balloons

THOSE BALLOONS FLOATING AROUND ON the top floor of the Hotel English (in case you've been worried) are nob to ward off dive-bombers. They're to frighten away those pesky starlings. The threefoot sausage balloons are attached to string, and as they sway with the breeze they scare away the birds. . . . Note on the Eriglish influence: A North Side eating place offers on its menu “After Cinema Suggestions.” . .". Signs of the times: Over at the State House, workmen are busy tearing down the partitions and removing office furniture in the Senate Chamber, preparing for Jan. 9, Over at the Post Office, Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker is snowed under with 3000 job applications. He expects to employ about 860 men for the Christinas rush. Most of the men already hired have been pr the force in previous years. The first extras are clerks, and will report Dec. 14. Others will be added as thie flow of mail demands.

By Raymond Clapper

We are still in the stage that Britain was in before|

Lord Beaverbrook {ook over aircraft production direction after Dunkirk, He had power and he used it. He went into aircraft factories, booted out inefficient managers and putin stronger men. He shifted production experts frcm one plant to another ruthlessly. It was necessary, and foreign observers who are familiar with that operation believe somewhat the same procedure is necessary here. They would like to see Knudsen do it or else see him have an aircraft production chief who would do it. If that sounds crastic, the answer is that we might as well be preparing ourselves for drastic actions— either that or be caught snoozing behind our imaginary defense as France was caught asleep behind the Maginot Line. We think our resources and industrial production technique render us automatically powerful. They will if utilized. .

Industrial Experience 1 gored

As Gen. Hugh Johnson says, speaking out of firsthand experience with the War Industries Board under Bernard M. Baruch in the previous war, we are with success applying the lessons of the First World War to conscription but ignoring them as to mobilization

Two Fateful Decisions

Face F.D.R.

‘ This is the figst in a series of articles by Ludwell Denny in which he challenges the spreading conviction that we are once more headed inexorably, down the road to war. Today’s instalment tells of the pressure of British demands for more and still more help in their desperate stand against Hitler,

YA7ASHINGTON, Dec, 11.

ble. Yet closer and closer we drift toward war.

‘is the fatalistic superstition that war is inevitable. The other ‘is Britain's demand that we give her the kind of help that risks war. Both forces flow from the same 'source—the fact that our ‘aid short. of war” ‘enough.

bombers and submarines is wearing on England. This is a fact, -however much the uninformed insist on snarling it off as “the subversive propaganda of defeatts.” .

Official British statements admit that the toll of shipping, without which England cannot survive, is mounting. In Commons this crisis is described as comparable to April, 1917, when America’s entrance. saved Enge land. In many ways this situation is even more critical. For then Ger= many was able to destroy only ships. Now she is also destroying the ports. These are the ships that carry American armament and food, and the ports and facilities to distribute those essentials. The Germans are also blasts ing Britain’s plane and munitions factories. 2 2 2 HIS strangulation has not broken English’ morale. Ine cessant civilian bombing has failed to -terrorize these heroic men and women. All that cour= age can compass is being done, gallantly. Daily they clear away the debris of homes, hospitals and shops and make ready for the - next night’s attack. Many of them live in windowless rooms, when not burrowing in dank shelters without adequate toilet facilities. But heroic spirit alone cannot prevent epidemics, store communications and trans-

tools in wrecked factories, cannot create “food. The British Navy, with all its power, cannot string itself thin around the world and still convoy enough armament and food ships through the Atlantic graveyards. Nor can the

bombers if they haven’t any. England’s condition is so critical it is no longer a question of how much aid we can give in six months or a year. What can we give now—this month, and next? That is the plea beating® upon America, and particularly upon the President. - The President gave his answer on the. eve of Lord Lothian’s return, but the answer was - unacceptable to Britain. Mr. Roosevelt said publicly he knew of po “Way to speed up our aid. 2 » 2

HAT revived the charges and

Washington or London is to blame for the failure to get bigger and faster American produce tion.

RECREATION FOR

—War is not inevita-.

Two forces: carry us along. One

has not been

port, cannot conjure up machine

superb R. A. F. pilots fly heavy

counter-charges as to whether =

Week by week the attrition by

cannot re-

Americans point out that London ‘wasted the first eight months of the war, when it held up half its American orders and delayed Canadian expansion — operating

on the twin policies of economy and Buy British. Britons reply that: past mistakes could be overcome if President Roosevelt would discard the “business-as-usual” theory to which they clung too long, and throw American industry into the high gear of wartime control, priorities, and complete three-shift production. That would give Britain essen-

Hoosier Goings On

With German U-boats taking an alarming toll of British shipping Great Britain is increasing hér demands on America to offset the losses. Washington is feeling strong pressure to.follow up the recent transfer of 50 over-age destroyers with more destroyers, combat planes and submarines and even to pour‘American merchant ships, with naval convoys, into the North Atlantic sealanes. ; Top photo above shows some of Uncle Sam’s newer-type destroyers which Britain would: like to have. Center, a U. S. bomber. Bottom photo, a freighter of the U.S. Lines. =

tial deliveries this winter instead of next spring or summer, they say. Our expérts are not so sure.

» 2 : NYWAY, pressure is even stronger for the United States to turn’ over—out of the depleted

supplies of our own Army and Navy—combat planes, destroyers, submarines; and to pour American merchant ships, with naval convoys, into the North Atlantic sea lanes. These, rather than the much-

ANTI-NAZI TIDE

En 2 discussed credits and later mane power, are the real immediate requests. : They involve two fateful decisions for the President and this nation: Lie 1. Whether to risk such .partial

' disarmament of the United States,

especially if Britain is in desperate shape. 2. Whether to risk direct in“volvement by supplying ships and naval convoys, when we are unprepared for war.

NEXT—The Risks We Ran.

GET PURE SILVER IN MINE

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Dec.

11 (U. P.).—A 200-pound block of pure silver has been discovered in the new El Mocho mines in the western part of Honduras, it was reported today. The mines also produce.gold, lead and copper. .°.

of industry. Many things were learned then that are being forgotten now. | Washington is running around in circles while * British purchasing people here, frantic for all that we can produce and spare for them, groan under a polite exterior as they see us making the same sleepy-eyed mistakes that they themselves made. Men like Baruch and Johnson goan. to see us making mistakes now because we do not profit by the lessons learned by such costly experience in 1917-18. We are trying fo cling to the rule of business as usual, not recognizing that we have suddenly introduced -a gigantic industrial effort that completely throws out of balance normal economic life, We dread fo face actions, such as priorities, regarding them as steps toward totalitarianism, They should be regarded as steps toward saving the United States from the fatal weakness of European democracies, Internally ‘we need to do many of the things we would do if we were at war—that is the best life insurance that we can take cut now for our young mes and for our nation. :

* able to argue in only one language force. It must be force on hand—not on order, 7 .

= Defense speed is needed secondly because all that stands between us and the situation outlined above is England. If the British survive intact, they will do 80 only by means of supplies from here. Without using the United States as an arsenal, the British cannot win. They cannot, for instance, hope for air superiority until they have an airplane supply of at least 5000 planes a month. British production is about ab its peak. New production has offset bombing losses, 80 that November production of planes'is said to be larger than October production. But they frankly do not expect to enlarge net output much more. The balance must come from here, itish demands by * spring will tax us ‘to the limit, for that probably will ~ be the critical time. Our existing schedules are not : adequate and actual production must run ahead of schedule rather than behind it as at present.

‘My Day ‘

. WASHINGTON, Tuesday— Yesterday was the first : opportunity’ I have had to get the ladies of the cabi- ~ pet together. We had a very pleasant luncheon and . discussed our winter obligations. | It was generally felt that while there was no reason to do away with ; = all social activity, there were very good. reasons y we should curtail some of these functions. The’ objective is to gain more time for work which might be helpful, either in our country, or to some such democratic nations as we can still help in other parts of the world. , It was my first opportunity to greet Mrs, Stimson, s. Knox, Mrs. Walker d Mrs. Wickard i since their husbands have joined » the President's Cabinet. They had Lo; all been seeing each other, I am : gure, but I have been a gad-about this autumn and

dah wea

SCHOOL DAYS— pole Evansville Co-Eds Recall Old Rules; Judge Finally Follows Own Advice By FRANK WIDNER —

THE GIRLS of Gamma Epsilon Sigma Sorority at Evansville College recently recalled college days of years ago when the school once was known as Moore’s Hill College. : They staged a satire on a typical meeting of the Sigourean Lite‘rary Society from which the girls’ sorority was founded. * Most. of the time was taken up with a reading of school rules:in effect then. They included: ; : “To cut chapel, a student ‘was. ing down the street moved slowly punished by being made to take ¢ so they could look, too. a class in philosophy. Members It was a hig headache for the of the opposite sex ‘were not | traffic cops. : : allowed to confer in the halls. Then, near Ft. Wayne, a tree “The faculty had charge of the | caught: fire and blazed until: it | students’ pocket money and wome= | was -almost ready to fall across en could not correspond with | the roadway. . men during the year. Sheriff's deputies and the fire3 i 's aw men extinguished he Blaze before «Shucks, fellows, the. ‘shucks’ | the. tree could fall and. block the

road. =. the | last remnants of an archaic | mye fre wag plamed on aicaresystem.’ ‘

; ro less coon hunter. Cos A ihe Shien. £5 Li ss = ; sane Torenlly 31d Sher Jo: voeation, Abraham os Evansville, ‘who has ordered | An English, Ind. man walked in- |; “3 ooo disappeared. © | = the heavy paper envelopes used | to the New Albany police station | Information ‘reaching ‘here from} by lawyers and court attaches | ung aig to Capt. Frank Shafer. [Oslo told of conflict over the send-| LS : ’ : “apt. ; : lick over the send: |. abolished. . >i “pd like for the police to help |IN€ Of. Norwegian Wlel® 5 or ¥ The envelopes are called | find my doz” he said. “It |mADY- Germany for ' be-}-“shucks” and Judge Buente thinks | ™¢- my dog, a tween 15,000 and 20,000 workers and | the time has come fo inaugurate | is a white English setter, has a |the Norwegian Nazis accepted. ‘The ‘a new system. : brown face and ears and is named | Norwegian Labor Federation pro-|g Foie Bg eight, years ago, the | Carlo, toe tested when it learned that the, judge advocated a change in the | “Oh yes” he continued, “Carlo Workers Au Yeteive Wages noj, system of" filing legal papers and | likes to lick brown spats.” higher an ose 22 Sern, suggested ‘the flat folder system | Capt. Shafer is wondering. Oe ers Ww deh Is much less at a state bar meeting. whether ‘or-not the New Albany Orvegiaise ES 1s. objected 40 “Many other judges thought | police will have to wear brown | --0¢ SEES Son io red ow | the ‘idea was good and changed ‘| spats to find Catlo, I Daa Peal 2 8

BW wegians being drafted to work in|. a » Judge Buente said. Ee the lout To Germany, insisting that only those

TROOPS STUDIED

WPA Advisory Committee| Warned of Threats To Morale.

G. Ott Romney, National Director of WPA Recreation, told recreation ‘leaders here that “something must beckon for the time and attention of the men in uniform when off the reservation besides highly commercialized, wage-bleed-ing amusement parks, beer halls and gambling joints.” Speaking at the annual statewide meeting of the Indiana Advisory Committee for A recreation at the Riviera Club, he warned that “empty hours, homesickness, empty pockets and hangovers are not the stuff whereof morale is made.” Mr. Romney listed the following ways in which the WPA and other dgencies can be of service : during national defense preparation: He suggested “strengthening the recreation service in and extending it into communities “adjacent to Army and Navy reservations and points of industrial concentration; assistance on the reservations when requested; provision of leadership in defense housing units; training of . morale officers; provision of technical materials such as rules for games and construction of game equipment; continuation of its present - services to communities.”

HIGH IN NORWAY

Travelers Report Growing re : Secret Opposition to | TEST YOUR _ Quisling Rule. | - KNOWLEDGE

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 1 1—Name the: motion picture star, (U. B.)—Travelers reported today| , now dead, " who ‘played the growing signs ' of -organized, secret leading Isle role shadhe ‘silent : an| picture, “The Sea Hawk.” tommation, | Y t0 GEMS) Does heavy cennonading and * ; : bombing in military: operations Nazi secret police, it was said, influence the amount of raine were making many raids, especially |’ : :

fay Lc gis in large cities, in an effort to stamp {3—What type of. airplane is the out opposition groups. . pedi

oy German | “Stuka’? ; Much of their activity was being |4—Who composed the opera “Cas directed - against members of the Y i

: valleria Rusticana”? = Nazi established government of. Maj. 5 Name the three grand divisions Vidkun Quisling, the Norse Nazi,

% 8 . of the Federal ( i and property owned ‘by them. One 3 4 lt

: 6—Does each star in our fl: “ of Quisling’s lieutenants, an intérna~ | ¢ia1ly represent a particuls tionally famous skating expert, was| oiote of the Union? . found dead ‘under mysterious oir-|, —On account of an early man

WERE OLA ARAN

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

lish songs and was well received entire audience. : In the evening, I went over to the.Chamber of Commerce Building to attend a local housing meeting. The hall was very iull, showing how much the interest in the question of housing has grown in this ‘city. The interes; today is nbt only in the effort to wipe out the slums, but in defense housfng, for we realize that we cannot augment our workers in any line without at the same time increasing our capacity for housing them. The same condition is confronting many other communities. It seems to me that the least we can do is to plan for the housing of people when we remove to areas already crowded, or to areas so remote there is no housing near’ the job for them, or their families. |, This morning, at Congressman Tolen's request, I appeared before the Congressional committee study#g the question of migratory workers. I listened with interest to Mrs. Thomas, a mother of six chil-

and enjoyed by her

"am only just settling into the swing of Washington

: life again.

In the afternoon I had my first musical of the

season. - The East

Room was filled with guests and

we enjoyed the pianist, Mr. Mieczyslaw Munz, and

_ the singing of Miss Virginia Lewis.

Miss Lewis was

_ discovered in Philadelphia a few years ago; a little -ga@lored, orphan girl who had been a domestic serve

i ant. WPA gave her her first

ance obtain some

- training'for her voice. Kind ni have helped her. &he-sang a program of talian, German and Eng-

“a

dren, who testified on their travels during the last few years in search of work. Five of her children were there with her, and a finer family you could not ask to see. It seems cruel that these children should not have the advantages so many more fortunate children can enjoy. I often wish that when we see young people who are unable to profit by their advantages, we could switch them over and give the

chance to others who would undoubtedly use e opportunity to great profit vey

CLAIM MANY IMPRISONED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U. P).

—The Netherlands legation was advised yesterday by its exiled: government in London that “great ‘numbers’ of Catholics and Socialists in Holland were being interned in concentration camps by German authorities. : ie

If you happen to stop. in New-

who volunteered should be sent. ‘The.

low to follow my own advice.} Ll 8 .Ft. Wayne had a hard time with trafic the other day. ° One/reason was the intense interest citizens showed in window

shopping. Cars wedged each other so ‘that ould - i

downtown curbings

burgh, :Ind.,- don’t be surprised if druggist Clarence Westfall sends you next door for what you want. Mr. Westfall, who has operated a drug store there for 10 years,

- last week bought : another store | ‘right Be OO tne He is going ' to operate .them" _separa but: later: |t he; plans-to merge them.

separately for a while,

Few are expecied to volunieer :

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Ind, has been