Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1941 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JAN. 4,

The F ar East

. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The deadlock

Japan’s inability to tonvince Russia that

tutned -against the Soviet Union.

If Russia could make certain join in the Axis war against the democracies,

that Japan would

including the United States, it was said, Moscow would not hesitate to place Nippon on the same

basis as Nazi Germany and for

much the same reason. Up to August, 1939, Russia was mortally afraid of Germany. Hitler had not concealed his ambition to include much of eastern Europe in his living space. Stalin, therefore, jumped at the chance to bargain with Hitler. By so doing he set the Nazis marching away from, instead of against, Russia. Today, Russia fears Japan. course, for Japan is pretty busy in China and is even looking longingly toward Indo-China, Thailand, Singa‘pore and the East Indies. But should Japan find the going easy in that direction, she would emerge from the adventure stronger than before and in a much better position than ever to have it out with her old enemy, Russia.

The Russian Dilemma

Patiently, Moscow has no intention of aiding Japan in that direction. A non-aggression pact now would be tantamount to saying: “Go ghead, Nippon. Seize the East Indies. Take their oil and rubber, tin, quinine, rice and other priceless raw materials, - I'll not interfere.” At the conclusion of the war, assuming that the Axis powers won, Russia would find herself in a most dangerous situation. Her neighbor in Europe would .be the all-powerful Reich. In Asia it would be Japan, Russia would be sandwiched between the two. As allies, they could squeeze the life out of her whenever

in the Russo-Japanese negotiations for a non-aggression pact, according to a Far Eastern source, is due to the free hand Tokyo wants will not eventually be.

Not immediately, of

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By Win. Philip Simms Highly Skilled Machinists Build Allison Plarie Engines

they felt like if, or wring from her wi atever con-,

cessions it might please them to demand. Ciermany ‘alone, with the resources of Prone and the Near East behind ler, would be nhiore than a match for the Soviet Union. Ditto Japin, with the wealth of fhe Orient ¢nd the East Ir dies in ‘her pocket. Linked together against her, Fussia would noti have a chance. But if the United Siates were to inervéne, the sitiiation would be entirely different. No matter what happened, Japan could oft win. Even if the United States were defeated, Jipan would lose ‘because she would be so weakened by the long, hard :truggle that Russia would have nothing to fear fr pm her for decades to come. Furthermore, the entry of the United States would prciong the conflict until Nazi German) also would ikely be too exhausted to be much of sia. That is, if Russia remained: alc of from the ofighting as it is her resol ute policy to do.

Tokyo Far From Happy

Some of the high officials at Tokyo, ihe writer is informed, see this plainly. And, seeing it, they are far/|from happy over thie outlook. The! would like ‘a nion-aggression guarantee from Russia 0 free their hands for the much-desired drive soutiward. But they do not want war with the United States in the bargain. Yet the Nazis ¢re pressing them to go ahead and expand. The Nazis would welcome a JapaneseAmerican war. So would the Muscovite;. But outsid¢ ithe narrow circle of| the still feudal-iainded military caste, few other Ja anese would. For such a war, ab the very best, wdifld leave them EF rostrate and at tlie mercy of the Red Bear. If history repeats, th:refore, it will be a bad sign. If Russia does for Japan what she did {>r Germany in |[August, 1939—when she freed Hitler's hands to attack Britain and France—it will be th¢ signal that Moscow, at any rate, believes a Japanese-American clash is imminent. Either that or the noment has come for Japan and Fussia to divide central and eastern Asia between them. Such is the gist of reports from the Yar East.

* Inside Indianapalis (And “Our Town’)

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: E. H. Kemper Mc-. Comb, who is just rounding out his 25th year as principalr of Manual Training High School and his 40th year in the Indianapolis school system, all of them spent at Manual. His full name is Ernest

Hackett Kemper McComb and on Feb. 15th he will be 68 years of age. He doesn’t look it because: he seems. to keep trim and young through his association with youth. He’s about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about 165. He combs his gray hair neatly and he is a fastidious, though conservative, dresser. His friends call him “Mac” or “Kemper.” The kids at the school (and some of the teachers, too,) call him “The Old Man” and “The Skipper,” the latter a term widely used among old grads,

For 25 years he has dominated everything at Manual and he is held in more regard by the youngsters. than possibly the teachers, mostly because he sides with the pupils in 99 cases out of every 100. He is famous for his bark, but-he’s rarely been known to bite. He is nofed in the school system for his temper. He gets angry, blusters and then lets it blow over just as quickly as it came up.

A One-Handed Putter

HE IS ONE SCHOOL official who doesn’t, as a rule,.take-a regular vacation. Paid on a 12-months-a-year basis, he can usually be found at his office all summer long. Instead of leaving town, he usually works all morning during summer and then slips out to Meridian Hills in the afternoon for a game of golf. He plays a pretty good game, shooting in the high eighties, or low nineties. When he gets off a bad shot, he just stands still and takes a few practice swings until his equanimity is restored. He's a trick one-handed putter and can usually drop even long ones that way. He insists on playing the game according to the rules and he makes others observe golfing etiquette, too. His usual- foursome consists of Dr. O. N. Torian, William Chapin of E. C.

Washington

:. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Republican hard luck did

: not end with the ‘election. While defense and foreign . policy occupy foremost positions in the schedulé of Congress, the Republicans will have difficulty in pulling themselves together as a political unit. For in ‘these two fields, issues don’t jell on party lines. . On defense, the Republicans are bound to co-operate with the Administration. They were a little slow last year in catching on te the defense bandwagon, and during: the Presidential campaign President Roosevelt capitalized on that with his merry refrain of “Martin, Barton and Fish.

This time, minority leaders are:

not to be caught asleep. They realize that they must feel their way in the new situation and

+~ await developments before trying to shape a party

* co-operate in every way to speed it.

; position. On one thing, however, they are definite.

They intend to support defense 100 per cent and to Republican criticism of defense will be on the side that not , enough is being done, that the country is not getting its money’s worth, and that the Administration is

. not providing adequate leadership. - Anti-Labor Label

. . Some individual Republicans will continue their - attacks on labor but it is doubtful if a party issue will develop, especially as there is a growing desire within the Republican Party to shake off the antiober Jabel which it has allowed the Administration ! to hang on it. > On foreign policy, both parties are split. Pirst ; of all the Republicans who desire to make a party : issue against the Administration are up against the : fact that their recent Presidential candidate, Wendell Willkie, supports aid to Britain. One New Year's Day, : in Miami, Mr. Willkie said ‘he believed it was the int * tention of this country to “give those things necessary to aid the Bghting men of Britain so the free

My Day

: WASHINGTON, D. C., Friday.—Last night Miss . Lehand and I found ourselves at dinner surrounded : y gentlemen. I couldn't help remarking how really . unimportant it is to have our tables so carefully bal- ! uoced as to an even number of ladies and gentlemen. We were certainly not evenly divided last night and yet everybody seemed to have a perfectly good time. Conversation flowed easily around the table. It looks as though the gentle-

agitated when our tables do not ¥ come out exactly evert The chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday made an amusing remark when he introduced me. fundamental reason why women added something to ‘the enjoyment of an occasion, but he wasn't sure .what that fundamental reason might be. ' I hope ‘Wwe may some day discover that there is no rea] reason for being divided up in social gatherings, and that women add to an occasion hecause they are humen beings to ha SBOE.

He said that there was apparently some |

Atkins, and Stacey Lindley of the Indiaaa Canning Machinery Co. “The Skipper” has been active in th Exchange Club for many years anc, he is the only riember ever to he re-elected president in its history. He bowls with club teams and he lis always a ringliéader in the organization’s annual gridiron affair. Ee is highly regarcled for his ready wit and ability at 1epartee.

No Liver and Onions!

A? HOME, he reads i lot and enjoys llaving company, He is fond of art and has man’ paintings. He likes to play rhummy. He is a regulir attending member of the Fairview Presbyterian Church. On sumer Sunday afternoons he likes to g¢ for a walk or f¢ get in his car and drive out on the country roads, often to such places as McCormic!:’s Creek or Brown County. t Ie has a positive dislike for liver and Hnions, particulidrly the latter. His most striking nm annerism is taking off his glasses during a. conversa ion, folding their, putting them aw:y and then putting them on agaill, and again and again. He uses thm only for reading. He's an accomplished doodler and whin he’s on a phorie he doodles furiously, sometimes a bit of neat shading, more often a highly intricate | geometrical design. He’s’a procrastinator, too, puttin off reports and| other unpleasant {hings until the ast possible

moinent, Heé¢ Can Move Hast!

BACK IN HIS TEACHING days, just after the turti of the century, hel used to be a baseball coach and he is still intensel? interested in a hletics. He wos i, howey er, let star athletes be assighed to “easy teachers.” It’s just a game, he insists everybody's got lo play hard, but right. YWhen he goes to games, he usually tits down on the! players’ bench and always turns 1p the brim hat “for luck.” ‘When he forgets, he’s sure to minded by shouts rom fans or play( rs. He gets pretly excited at games. fiideed, once when ¢ Manual football player was lugging the ball through the whole oppdsition, “The Skipper” got so excited ne leaped wildly ¢ ff the bench and started down the sidelines. They still say he beat the ball carrier to the goal line b’ a full five yards. /

By Raymond Clapper

way [of living may confinue in other poi tions of the world. » Some of his | friends say he would favor sending convoys if that seemed necessary, although he hag not discussed that point publicly. That is further ther the Administration has gone. I'ne disposition of Congressional Rept blican leaders is to leave individuel party members ¢n their own, for| the time being at least, and certair ly *funtil Mr. Roosevelt’s program is more fully revealed. Republicans will find it diffic ult to make a pa ty issue out of | "foreign policy in view of their internal division. Assistant Senate Republican Leader Austin supports the Administration and Senator Hiram Johnson is at [the other extreme, while Senator | Vandenberg favors isolation three days a week and the rest of the tinie is thinking about the United Stajes dictating peace terms for continental Europe, with the threat of | the United States intervening agaist the side that balks. Democrats are as badly split. The most vocal opposition to the Administration comes : rom Senator Wheeler and he, is s¢conded by anothir Democrat, Senator Bennett Clark

TV e Dictatorship Issue

{The fighting will b¢ done not so mucl: by the two parties but between bi-partisan coalitior’s supporting and opposing the Adrinistration. {Defense and foreign policy not onl’ cut across paity lines but they undercut some of ‘he standard, Redublican issues agsinst the New Deal. Defense industry is rapidly eliminating unemplcyment as a political issue. Unfavorable defense exjienses knock thi economy issue down to a series of pi cemeal haggles over relatively smaller items. The 1:2gimentation issiie also falls by th: wayside in a tiiae like this.

As the defense effort continues, more White House authority will be exércised, but it will be difficult for the Republicans to raise an effective dictatorship issiie there unless Mr. Roosevelt loses his head complétely—and his appdrent readiness tc accept the Eccles recommendations for repeal of some of his Presidential monetary powers will mak¢ it hard to picture him as power drunk. \

By Eleanor Roosevelt

allow the men to tall: alone. They hav: a theory, I think, that conversation carried on by kth men and women. is apt to ‘be! more interesting. “It all boils down really to individuals. If the men aid the women are dull, the party will be dull. ‘1 think I must tell you a secret. {jomeone who rend my column in which 1 ruefully r:gretted that it ‘would be another four years before I could have a little black dog to sit on my white fur rig before the fite in my Hyde Park cottage, sent me or Christmas a life-size black toy dog! He has cret ted a sensatigu. Little Franklin 11, and everyone else, young or old, pi¢ks him up from tHe corner which he occupies beside the fireplace her:. My husband's ieal live little black Scottie hasn't quite decided yet v'hether he is ani enemy or a frienl. He comes and looks at the

. toy dog and if anyone picks it up and s arts to make

itmove, “Falla” runs away. I think of ¢1l my Christmas presents this has proved the most p)pular. ‘1 expected to fly to New York City t)day, but the planes are cancelled and I am taking th train. Such arg the uncertainties of winter weathir and I am

wondering if I shall be able to fly bick tomorrow

night. Operating an airplane in wintir must have ite, difficulties. Somi:one | remarked las; night that running a Governmejt must bé an irr. tating job ‘at sl, perhaps

it i somplicated or much the

menace tof’

These pictures show the inner workings of the Allison warplane

motor plant in Sp a skilled worker se bank in an engine.

his machine tool to bore six holes for a

cylinder

Machines must do muc]) of the work at Allison’s but they require constant watching. Here is a skilled way City. Here, one of 2000 “trainees” looks on as machinist watching closely as a vertical turret lathe bores and faces an eccentric hole in the accessory drive housing of one of the famous Allison engines. This General Motors division is currently turning out

350 liquid cooled motors every month.

This is the delicately balanced crankshaft that translates the constant pounding of 12: racing cylinders

of the engine into revolutions of the airplane propeller.

shaft to allew it to be filled with

The worker is placing a crank-oil-plug into the

oil under pressure. When plant additions are completed late this year,

10,000 men are _expéctedd to be turning out 1000 engines a month,

When an Allison engine is completed, it is put through a grueling test run and then torn down for inspection.

PLANE GOURSE

Records Position in Flight Through Triangulation at

Ground Station.

CHICAGO, Jan. 4 (U, P.) —Aviation has been offered a radio device which enables ground crews to re-

cord the position of a plane in tals.

scheduled flight—even if the plane is off the course. - United Air Lines, which developed the instrument, said it will register a plane’s deviation from the fixed route: even though the pilot may be unaware of the condition. The instrument is a large metallic antenna, rotated by an electric motor atop a high building. The antenna receives short-wave radio messages from the plane and by telephone line indicates the position of the plane on a chart in the dispatcher’s office. Two or, more such instruments at different locations can fix. the plane’s exact position by triangulation. ; Thus, if the plane were off its course, the dispatcher could inro the pilot of his. position

Urges! New State Office Bldg.

Governor Townsend, looking back) It has been reported in Washingover his four years as chief execu-

tive of Indiana, believes that his| Co" Hat he Will be offered a position chief error of omission was neglect-|8S liaison man between agriculture ing to build a new State Office|and labor, working in the Agri-

Building. 5 ee culture Division of the National De“Goodness knows that’s the one|fense Council. big thing the state needs,” the Governor said. “Here we have the| Mr. Townsend is going to WashState Government ‘spread all over|ington ‘tomorrow. to: discuss - probtown and we are paying heavy ren- lems pertaining {to Charlestown, Ind., site of the Government's huge “It-wauld be economy in the long|pPowder plant. run-to erect the building. We have| While there, it is reported, plans the ground and there already has|Wwill be discussed for him to take been some architectural work done.|the national defense job after he It’s got to come pretty soon.” leaves office on Jan. 13,

He added that he believed such| : RESERVE NAVY MAN

a Pigg would eut down operating costs, too Se we omer us| SENT TO AIRBASE partments are housed at 141 S. Me- : Finan St. aig 118 =, Maxkst St. : 4 Al : e Board -o as its own| Richard K. Pisher of Indianapolis nsw building at 1098 W. Michigan ;.. peen transferred to the U. S. The achievement of which the |! Naval Reserve Aviation Base at Governor is most proud is the cre-|Glenview Ill. for preliminary traination: of the. State Department of|ing as an air cadet. Labor. Meanwhile, it was announced at The Governor, who is now, 58,|the Navy. ne Office, says he wou 20 1

Here the finishing touches aré put on cylinder heads. small army of inspectors and checkers employed at the he plant. ] He is measuring the length of manifold studs,

DEVICE CHECKS Townsend, at End of Term, (1092 DRAFTED IN

second eontingent even begins, sig-

that d like to go back to his a ak aed, dune ot in 5 th eins ae. al hos

Diamonds play an [important role in defense. This machine ops erator is testing the inside of airplahe cylinder barrels for case hardness. A diamend indents the- steel and records the precise hardness : on a dial indicator.

|The worker in the left foreground is one of a :

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Name the capital of Switzerland, 2—Does the. Vice President of the U. 8. receive a 17, 19 or 21-gun salute? 3—Which member of the present Cabinet was in the Cabinet of President Hoover?

4—Kva. is the abbreviation of what | # electrical term?" 5—Are sunspots cooler or hottes | - than the rest of the sun?

6—Belgrade is the capital of Bule garia, Yugoslavia, or Rumania?

Answers.

FEBRUARY GALL

\ ————— Induction _to Begin About Feb. 10, Say Indiana Training Aids. The Army today asked Indiana to provide 1092 draftees in February in’ addifion to the 3152 scheduled

for induction from Jan. 14 to Feb, 3.| The February call, coming several days before the induction of “the 1—Berne. 2—Nineteen. 3—Henry Stimson. t—Kilovolt-ampere. 5—Cooler. 6—Yugoslavia. wi

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nifies that the Army now is ready to carry. out the t program at “top speed,” Maj. Lytle Freehafter, head of. the mobilization division of the Selective Service staff here, declared. [°F The Fel call will be divided into 755 white. anc 337 Negro selectees. Induction is expected to begin abqut Feb, 10 and continde for. 10 days. Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, head of the Selective Sérvice Staff, explained that by having. information ‘on the number of men re-

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