Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1941 — Page 2
ONOVAN WARS
ON PROPAGANDA
«College Professors, Newspapermen and Radio Specialists = Mn His New Unit Which Will Sift Information = Harmful to U. S.
‘WAS NGTON, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—A new organizafion of professors, newspapermen, radio specialists and military experts headed by a Wall Street lawyer and World War hero was declared ready today to defend America and %o deliver counter-blows in the world-wide “war of words.” i Serving under Col. William J.. (Wild Bill) Donovan, Co-
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President, these men are working on these main objectives.
:. 1—To counteract swiftly .foreign ‘propaganda—broad-
cast by wireless or through the printed word—which may de inimical to the interests of] - the United States. +2. To analyze and co-ordinate iso- * fated bits of information to provide . a.complete up-to-date pattern of _ possible future trends in foreign affairs for the President and various
. Government agencies that might have to plan action to deal with
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Officials of the COI, as Col. Donovan’s new bureau is known, point _out that the organization is more than a counter-propaganda agency. #s a matter of fact, they shy from guch a designation. “They say “co-ordination” best de-| scribes its activities—that it “makes big ones out of little ones” to pro$ide over-all pictures of world developments. The COI has been in process of nization for nearly seven weeks. w, officials say, it is ready for action with a “brain trust” of professots working on long-range situtions, ahd a compact group of apermen and radio‘ experts 1 care of “spot” developments. . Office Is Crowded : “GHQ" of the COI is established in the Apex Building, which houses the offices of the Federal Trade mmission, on Pennsylvania Ave. Into these headquarters. 24 hours a . day, flows a steady stream of information—some from the press and radio; some from Government agencies, some from intelligence gervices of the U. S. and friendly | “post active of all the divisions is foreign nations. ' [the radio unit which, in -co-oper-~The COI occupies less than two |ation with the Federal Communidozen offices. These quarters are in- | oations Commission, maintains & adequate for the nearly 100 em-| sg nour “watch” on foreign broadployees and staff members. In at. qi and arranges for counterleast one of these offices as many | easures against any broadcast
as a dozen desks are crammed into , space normally holding a maximum a gags injure this country’s
of six. By In addition the COI has a sizeable] THREE EXECUTED AT LILLE VICHY, Sgpt. 23 (U. P.)—Three
office in New York City, under the direction of playwright Robert E.|French “Communists,” convicted of terroristic acts of arson and dyna-
Sherwood. The group of professors has offices in the Library of Con-|miting, have been executed by the gress. | Germans at Lille, it was announced The COI is’a brainchild of Col.] today.
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Donovan, who felt the need for such an organization as the result of his observations abroad in the ItaloEthiopian war, in the Spanish Civil War and in the present conflict.
moves faster than the usual intelligence services. Intelligence, in his opinion, .covers more than military matters. It involves psychological, political, economic and even philosophical problems. Hence, he argued in his appeal for such an agency at the COI, it was necessary to develop a mechanism behind the lines of action to evaluate, co-ordi-nate and clear such information. Since the base of such a machine had to be an intellectual one, Donoyan’s first move after his appoint{ment was to seek college professors —scholars trained in research—for his staff. College Chief Heads Unit
His research or analysis unit is headed by Dr. James Baxter, president of Williams College. Besides the professors on Dr. Baxter's staff, there are John Wiley, former Minister to Austria and Douglas Miller, former commercial altache in Berlin. Then there is a technical group, headed by Prof. William Langer of Harvard, composed of geographers, historians, economists and psychologists. In addition, there are men assigned from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and from the Office of Production Management. Capt. James Roosevelt, the President's eldest son, is one of these, assigned |; from the Marine Corps.
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RAPS ‘GRAB BAG’ ECONOMY PLAN
‘Creative Partnership’ Save Enterprise Urged By Professor.
CHICAGO, Sept. 23 (U. P.).—Future world government is a biological certainty. American “grab-bag economy” must give way to a cre-
ative partnership and a flatworm sliced . into five segments will roll over one piece at a time, just like that. This was the world-to-worm span of knowledge presented today to the American Society for the Advancement of Science at meetings held in connection with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the University of Chicago. The world state will evolve as a biological certainty just as the parts of the human body are integrated, Dr. Ralph W. Gerard, University of Chicago physiologist, asserted.
2 Problems Unsolved.
“The present world turmoil,” he “is an intermediate phase in the evolution of an epiorganism, or world state, because two important problems are not yet solved. “One has to do with the progressive extension of the integrating forces of society, and their product, namely altruism, loyalty and the feeling of being part of ever larger groups. “Consequently there will be an ever greater scale of conflicts between groups and nations until one all-encompassing group integration
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“The second problem concerns the question of leadership. Mechanisms for selecting the leaders: in present human societies are still extremely primitive and subject to serious breakdown.”
Urges Managed Economy
Dr. John M. Clark, professor of economics at Columbia University, said America’s “grab-bag” economy must be replaced by a creative partnership of the whole people if free enterprise is to survive. We must have at least a partially-managed economy to maintain the maximum total spending if socialism is to be avoided, he said. Business taxes, he added, must be so constructed as not to penalize adventurous types of business which pioneer ahead of assured demand. If we fail to readjust the economic system, he said, we face totalitarian revolution or a shift to a collective system as result of breakdown of private business and Government assumption of control. Socialism, he said, “would not produce good results.” Oh yes—the worm. Dr. James W. Buchanan, Northwestern University zoologist, told how he beheaded a flatworm and chopped the body into five pieces. Each piece remained alive and if turned on its back immediately righted itself, first the
working back to the tail.
MACHINE-GUN RIFLING IS 15 TIMES FASTER
HUDSON, Mass., Sept. 23 (U. P.). —A new machine tool which rifles .30-caliber machine-gun barrels: 15 times faster than the present nrethod has been announced hy the La Pointe Machine Tool Co. Already in production, the new tool, designed ‘at the request of the Army Ordnance Department, rifles the barrels at the rate of 60 an hour. On .50-caliber barrels, the tool completes 30 riflings an hour.
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Fighting Hoosiers of 38th Set 'War' Pace, General Says
Times Special WITH THE 38th DIVISION IN LOUISIANA, Sept. 23—The 38th “Cyclone” Division—composed chiefly of Hoosier guardsmen and selectees —made the greatest single advance of any division in the Blue Third Army's victory in the Baitle of Louisiana. Starting out in a driving rainstorm, the division moved 150 miles through Louisiana swamplands and set up seven new.command posts
(field headquarters) in the course of the five-day battle. One regiment, the 152d Infantry, marched 62 miles in 41 hours over roads so slippery and rutted that trucks could not pass.
Capture 3300 Regulars
In its “communique” telling of the division’s exploits issued by Maj.
‘Gen. Daniel I. Sultan, the follow-
ing prisoners and booty were Histey as captured: 3300 Regular Army ‘soldiers. 130 Regular Army officers, including the entire regimental staff of the 20th Infantry, with the exception of the commanding colonel, who escaped. 344 vehicles of all types, including 44 tanks. All the band instruments and command post signs of the 20th Infantry.
Perform as Veterans
Declaring “our troops performed like veterans” Gen. Sultan described how the 38th Division swept triumphantly through the Louisiana war zone, all but obliterating elements of five divisions of the Red Second Army that came in its path. : “Mechanized forces held no terrors for our men,” Gen. Sultan declared, “they withstood a major tank attack without letting a single tank through. We were informed later that they were the advance elements of a much larger force which, when it discovered the strength of our resistance, decided to make no further effort in our sector.”
Supply Unit Praised
“ Praise also was heaped on the division service troops who performed an “almost incredible” feat in supplying the division during bie battle, according to Gen, Sulan. “Operating from a railhead 70 miles behind the lines they managed to get supplies through at all times,” Gen. Sultan said. . In closing the “communique,” Gen. Sultan said, “I’m proud of the performance of all our men and proud to be the commander of such a division as the 38th.”
340 ARE ENROLLED IN INDIANA CENTRAL
A total of 340 students have enrolled in Indiana Central College for the first semester, slightly less
than the first .semester enrollment of last year, President I. J. Good announced today. Women outnumber men by 10. The annual upperclassmen-fresh-man party will be held Friday evening on the campus with Miss Mary Sidebottom of Easton, Ill, in charge of arrangements for freshman men and James Miller of Crawfordsville in charge of RFTqNEemEnis for freshman women.
FBI CHIEF TO SPEAK TO STATE KIWANIS
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 23 (U. P.)—More than 1200 ‘Kiwanians open the three-day session of the 24th annual district convention of Kiwanis Clubs of Indiana here today. Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will head a list of speakers which includes Roscoe Turner of Indiangpols, famous flier; Charles Doney, wanis president; and Daniel Wentworth, Chicago, and Philip Auer of Ohio, international trustees Governor Schricker and Governor John Bricker of Ohio are expected to be guests.
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WAR’ UMPIRES UNPOPULAR TOD
U. S. Officers Want New System, Lack Time For Alterations.
By RICHARD C. HOTTELET United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE SECOND ARMY IN LOUISIANA, Sept. 23. — The umpire in games of war is no more popular than the umpire in peace time games of sport. As the Red Second Army prepared today for the defense of Shreveport, second phase of the Army’s greatest maneuvers, officers sought a new system of refereeing but they frankly were skeptical that there would be time to work something out before the war games reopen shortly after midnight tomorTow, The umpires, stationed throughout the battle area, have to keep tab of each unit and declare “damaged” and “destroyed” pieces of equipment and casualties among the personnel,
System Is Criticized
The umpire system has received severe criticism from officers of both sides since the close of the previous phase. It is generally felt that an incomplete system of marking artillery fire, the necessity of stopping action while: umpires consider the strength, fire power and disposition of the forces involved before they make a decision, has slowed down the tempo of the maneuvers and deprived them of realism. ‘The defense of Shreveport, largest city of northern Louisiana, will be the task of Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear's numerically inferior Red Army. It will face a Blue Army Which outnumbers it 340,000 to 120,000. The Reds will have to make up in strategy what they lack in mass. Red officers admitted fears that their army will be overwhelmed by the time the problem ends, probably by the end of the week.
JAPAN SEVERE
IN INDO-CHINA
‘Hard-Boiled’ Troops Busy Letting Natives Know Who's Boss Now.
= By LELAND STOWE Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 23.— Japanese troops of occupation in southern Indo-China .are waging a vigorous psychological offensive to impress the mild-mannered Cam-
.|bodian and Annamite natives with {their hard-boiled qualities as war-
riors there by apparently hoping to
put the Indo- pu Chinese into a mood for docile acceptance of complete domination by their n e w masters from Nippon. In some respects, the Japa= nese methods of psychological conquest re- | semble the bac 4 tics used by the . Germans in Nor- Mr..Stowe way. Just as the Nazis kept skeleton infantry companies pounding the pavements in the center of Oslo during the first uncertain days of the invasion, the Japanese are continually marching small detachments of troops through the streets of Saigon and other main IndoChinese cities as a pointed reminder of who now is boss around here.
, Train in Parks
But the Nipponese officers have another favorite stunt which is as subtle as an uppercut to the jaw and leaves an impression quite as
lasting. Every afternoon including Sunday the eardrums of the citizens of Pnom-Penh, capital of Cambodia, are given highly effective treatment by ‘members of the Japanese garrison. The Japanese use the parks in the center of the city for training purposes. For several hours daily the air is rent by the most ferocious vocal paroxysms which sound as if a Zulu war-dance must be in progress or the town is being invaded by American Indians. A mad chorus of guttural snarls and roars can be heard for blocks. Actually it is only Japanese soldiers indulging in excessively realistic bayonet practice in the most public and most noteworthy manner possible.
Practice Fencing
Sometimes ‘several platoons operate in different sections of the same park simultaneously. The soldiers all wear fencing masks and heavy matted chest protectors and carry dummy rifles with wooden bayonets. They line up facing each other and at their officer's command the men start lunging at each other. They leap forward, each jabbing fiercely at his opponent's body especially at the chest and heart. With every thrust they utter blood‘curdling war whoops. When I attended these memorable rehearsals Cambodian natives, usually several hundred in number, stood silently watching, most of them with expressions of wonderment on their faces.
Strict With Audience
I was told the Cambodians had greeted the first Japanese performance of this kind with giggles and amused laughter as if it was a good show. After that it was said the Japanese officers announced that they would tolerate no levity from their audiences during bayonet drills. One’ day in Saigon a Nipponese officer halted his company in front of the cafe terrace of the Continental Hotel where scores of Frenchmen always assemble at that hour. Then he shouted his “forward march” with super-emphasis, twice indulged in a snappy bandmaster gesture and twice cast an eloquent glance in the direction of Ffench-
men and their wives on the terrace.
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Church attendance would definitely decline if people were deprived of the use of their cars on Sundays, according to survey made
by the Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. Many peapls are enabled to travel
considerable distances and to church “every: time the bell i because of thé convenience of the privately owned car, the association points out, ° The average length of the trip to church for all states is 5.1 miles; and of the owners who use their cars to drive themselves and their families to Sunday worship,. one half were. found to average between 50 and 60 round trips per year.
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