Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1941 — Page 7

» STILL IS GLOOMY

Respite of Russian War Is Welcomed, But Problem Is Still How to Win With Only ; Half as Many Men.

By JOHN T.

WHITAKER

: Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dsily News, Ine. LONDON, July 17.—Returning to a nation which is encouraged by the Russian diversion and grateful for a letup in what seemed like incessant air raids, Harry L. Hopkins will find that Great Britain today is still face to face with the major problem of the war—how 45,000,000 Britons are

to beat 80,000,000 Germans. American industrial aid is

still largely in the promissory stage as Britain, hoping that Rus-

“sia will stand, must prepare nevertheless against the possibility that

Germany will be free again in a few weeks or months to turn the full fury of her war machine against this country standing alone. The most encouraging development since President Roosevelt last sent

Mr. Whitaker Hopkins here in 2 February is in

the Battle of the Atlantic. Britain

lost 329,206 tons of shipping during June. While slightly above the monthly average for the war, this loss is the lowest since January. This is a much more encouraging picture than Mr, Hopkins saw five months ago but is it due to the strengthening of the British Navy? "No. Britain has not increased the number of either her warships nor her naval ratings and American destroyers and planes have not harried out the German submarines. Once she is done with Russia, if the timetable goes right, Germany should be able to go after shipping with renewed fury.

Factory Output Criticized

When Hopkins was last here Britain’s war industries were workAng under a daily rain of high ex‘plosives and incendiary bombs. ‘Since mid-May there has been a Avelcome letup. But it is doubtful

“whether Britain, with her back to

“the wall, has been able to exploit this lull to step up actual manhours. Machinists, technicians and engineers are not: trained overnight and innumerable committees are no guarantee that they can be ‘safely withdrawn from the armed services and returned to the work benches. * Prime Minister Churchill, who had promised the House of Commons to answer criticisms, declared that production results were “ime mense” in every field. He said that critics who talked of production being at 75 per cent efficiency harmed Britain's cause abroad. Parliament welcomed this statement but a recent Gallup Poll here showed that 54 per cent of the people do not think that British factories are yet reaching the totals of which they are capable. Whether the criticism is justified or not, Britain is hard put to overcome Germany's initial advantage plus the fact that the Reich now uses

- the factories and raw materials of

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Tanks and guns may still be coming out slowly, as some critics insist, but the Government seems to have justified its promise that the air production would astonish the Germans as well as the Britons themselves. Daily and nightly England’s air armadas haul tons of new and superior explosives across the Channel. Photographs show industrial targets in flames. Here manpower in mass counts less than the skill of workers and pilots. Here, consequently, Britons are writing one of the most shining chapters of their whole long history.

In ‘the last few weeks alone, Churchill‘ revealed, more explosives had been dumped across the Channel than the Germans have brought to Britain in the whole of the war. Here the innate British: superiority has overcome Germany's head start and leveled out, 45 against 80, to write equality and the promise even of superiority in the air.

Army Too Small

Britain’s inferiority in manpower is most clearly seen now that the British public clamors for an expeditionary force to dand on the Continent and create a diversion in the hope that this would relieve pressure on the Russians and make it possible to keep that front intact until Gen. Winter can intervene. Against Germany's 200-odd divisions Britain’s army still seems small and while there is the threat of. invasion it can scarcely be sent abroad. Thus, divisions are immobilized here so that they are neither free for expeditionary efforts on the continent nor as reinforcements for the Middle East. That latter sector, in my opinion, will draw the Germans next if they are successful against the Russians, and the British position there has been strengthened naturally by the Syrian armistice.

Manpower Needed

By it, Britain has solidified one of the main approaches to the Middle East and obviated easy pincer thrusts by the Germans from Syria and Libya simultaneously. Nevertheless, manpower remains Britain’s problem in the Middle East — manpower and tanks and planes. A complete report on those needs and American arms shipments through the Red Sea await Mr. Hopkins when he arrives here. What Hopkihs’ impressions will be and what report he will take back to President Roosevelt, no one can say. Several things seem ob-

German peace campaigns are futile because no Briton will even think of them. He will find that 45,000,000 are scarcely more than half of 80,000,000. . .

CONTINUE HUNT FOR ESCAPED TRUCKMAN

BLOOMFIELD, Ind. July 17 (U. P.) .—Greene County Sheriff Charles Blanton today continued a search for Marvin L. Burrows, 28, 8t. Louis, Mo., who escaped from his cell in the Greene County jail early yesterday morning. Burrows was being held on charges of reckless driving and erson. ; He was arrested Monday morning as he watched his trailer-truck burh on Indiana 67 near Marco. He told police he had fallen asleep while driving and the truck had overturned and caught fire. State Police and a deputy State Fire Marshal asserted there had been evidence of arson, Burrows escaped from the jail sometime betwen midnight Tuesday and 6 a. m. yesterday. Three unlocked iron doors through which he made his exit led local police to believe he had received outside help in his break.

CHEMISTRY TEACHER RESIGNS AT PURDUE

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind. July 17.-Dr. Carl J. Klemme, pharmaceutical chemistry professor and acting executive of the Purdue University School of Pharmacy, has resigned to take a position in private in. dustry. : He will leave Purdue Sept. 2 to become administrator of the -experimental laboratories of Burroughs, Wellcome & Co, ’ Inc. Tuckahoe, N. Y. President E, C. Elliott announced. : : Dr. Klemme, a graduate of the University of Colorado, has been on the ‘Purdue faculty since 1924 and upon the death of Dean C. B. Jordan in April has been acting Pharmacy School executive,

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