Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1941 — Page 9
Inside Indianapolis (and “Our Toion” |
THE “WRITE A SQLDIER" campaign ‘seems ‘to ‘be making headway. Quite a few of our business institutions are making it a practice to see that their employees now in the service know. they aren't being - forgotten. A letter from home, according to some of the boys in the Army, does ore for morale than most ‘an; else. Down at the EN Lilly plant, ‘we hear, the department heads
make it a point to see that every a8
soldier or sailor from that department gets a letter at least once a montk. L. 8S. Ayres & Co. officials encourage letters to their Service men and send them cigarets on their birthdays and Christmas. One of the Ayres’ emplo wrote back from camp with an 8. O. 8. for an old electric iron. It costs more money to have clothes pressed than a $21 a month selectee can afford. So now the store is reconditioning all the old el tric irons traded in on new ones, and sending reconditioned irons to Army camps so the boys can do their own pressing.
A Pressing Moment
A FASHION SHOW was arranged at the Jordan Conservatory by a big downtown department s during the teachers ‘convention. When the models arrived, they began opening dress boxes and, fo consternation, found the dresses hopelessly It seems that a new employee, unfamiliar th the usual plan .of transporting the carefully _ clothing on hangers in racks, had packed the tightly in boxes, eight or a dozen to the box. With only half an hour before the show was scheduled to start, the director grabbed an armload’ of dresses and hurried to a small pressing shop nearby that fortunately happened to be open. As fast as’ the shop got ome dress ready, someone
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would race: with it 40th conservatory and thew. | ing model would slip 1t on'add hurry. on on. stage.
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THE FIRST announced he was ‘executive secretary of {stantial pay raise, was: “Well, I guess the ki «a raise in their allowance now.” He has ters who this year entered
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Back eg I I | ‘teachers reproved the graduates by remarking, Joud enough for others to hear: “What's the down there?” ,. . The Gas Company has Srubped onto that current silly expression; “Now you're cooking
with gas!” They had it printed on buttons distributed during celebration of the new coke ovens.
WE'LL BET the Saturday Evening Post is cat ‘heck from innumerable readers. In the current ‘there's a story by Tom Harmon, the football luminary. In the story, Tom tells of meeting another famous gridster of an earlier day—Red pris gd efor to G s former tr as “Ernie” Mg wouldn't feel fia ‘flattered, or would he? y, unless our memory's gone gompl etoly pax
Jane that managed the redhead. . . . riends was waiting on the ‘trolley. Abo val ing was a mother and her small son. The boy’s| head appeared to be terribly swollen, and he was bandaged all over the top of his head and clear down to his eyes. Very solicitously our friend inquired if} the child’s injury had been very serious. - The em« barrassed mother explained the boy had gotten was taking him to the doctor’s office to have it removed, she said, and bandaged the head, pan and all to avoid embarrassment.
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Washington
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—In the second lend-lease debate some senators raised the very pertinent question of what we are to get in the way of payment. Senator Vandenberg, for instance, asked why we should send food to England only to have the British Government sell it and pocket the money. But the question is hroader ‘than the matter of repayment in “dollars that Senator Vandenberg “raises. It is not likely that the , British will ever be able to repay “us dallar ‘for dollar the 13 billion already appropriated and the other billions probably to be appropriated in the future. If we . considered this. a “straight-out business proposition, then we were. foolish ever to be gin it. We were to advance materials because we regarded it.as essential to our defense that Britain stand. But this is the time to- consider repayment. Not in dollars. Not to a, very large degree in the return of the same or similar material. But in acquisition of rights to essential raw materials which are under British control. Preliminary discussions of this are going on between the two governments, evidently. At feast our officials say this matter is not being overlooked
The critical situation in the Far East makes it all the more desirable that this matter be pursued now and some fairly clear understanding reached as to our permanent sharing in British Empise re=-
sources.
Are We to Underwrite Britain?
. The United States and Great Britain share a joint interest in preventing further Japanese encroachment in the Pacific. In anticipation of possible trouble, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, China and The Netherlands Indies are working in closest collaboration. We have sent a great deal of war’ material to that area. If the explosion occurs, and it probably will, all of us will participate
in a common effort. In British quarters it is recognized that the United
The U-Boats
LONDON, Oct. 27.—Despite occasional concentrated assaults on convoys by whole flotillas of U- ' boats, there is reason to believe that the Germans
are finding it difficult to maintain their earlier pace of th “Atlantic. At the same time the 18 the bat : activities. of Nasi surface raidets Pave been reduced to practically nothing since ‘the German's super battleship Bismarck and her ‘six supply ships were sunk. The wholesale. rounding Bed of supply ships made it’ difficult for other “raiders to continue their work | © and it is believed that not more . than three or four of ‘them are
| now at work. Considering ‘the extent of the damage caused by such raiders earlier in the war, the Germans appear to have made a serious
mistake in not organizing their work in'a more am-
Prinz Eugen (heavy erulser) in Brest. istouragsd him further.
Few Underwater Aces |
| Emie Pyle is on leave of absence because of the illness. of his. wife.
By. Ravmond Clapper
States must take ‘the lead and bear the main burden in any war with Japan, We are the only nation able to throw in the force. ° But for what purpose? Of course, to prevent aggression, to prevent trampling of further territory. But what is our real stake? The real stake is the vast treasure house of raw materials in the East Indies. That is what Japan'is itching to get her hands on. We are determined to prevent it. Because we must depend on this treasure house for raw materials which we can. get nowkere else. ". But this treasure: house. is under the ownership and domination of Great Britain and her Dutch satellite. Are we simply to underwrite the security of that monopoly? In. all fairness, are we: supposed to pour in lend-lease funds, and probably fight a war in. the Pacific as I think we are going to do, only to preserve intact a monopoly over raw materials which would remain completely in the hands of other nations, even though friendly nations?
Must Merge Peace Effort
AFTER THE LAST WAR the British put the Stevenson rubber restriction plan into effect and .undertook to make us pay through the nose. It produced a very unpleasant situation. Isolationiists can make very ugly use of sucha situation. I bring it. up as one who firmly believes that the future world must have the joint leadership of
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oun jay nd haw iy fst bates long the Shalt
F River in ‘Western Belgium.
About. noon we: reached Enghien and drove’ to. the headquarters of Gen. von Reichenau, commander of the
Sixth Army. Headquarters from the towh..
were in a chateau not far .
Reichenau, whom I had seen socasionally in Berlin
before ‘the war, greeted us monocle squeezed over one
on the porch, his invariable eye. With typical German
‘thoroughness and with an apparent frankness that surprised me, he went over the operations thus far. © Despite the German successes up to date, Reichenau "emphasized to us that the fighting so far had been only an enveloping movement, and that the decisive battle had
yet to take. place. oo “When and where?" I
asked him. : : “Where,” he laughed, sdoperids ‘partly on what the enemy does. ‘When, and how long it will last, I leave to the future. It can be ore mitted. chenau sibly our progress a het os slowed up if Weygand decides to make a grand stand.” Some further quotations from ‘Reichenau I noted dowh rough-
Vitter is actually directing the
carried out ‘by French specialists. . + « I ride 150 miles a day along the front and I haven't seen an air-fight yet. Weve certainly been that the Allies didn’t try at least to bomb our bridges over the Maas River and the Albert Canal. The British tried it only once in the day-time. We shot down 18 of them. But there seems to be no doubt that the English are holding back with their air force. At least that’s the impression I get.” And I got the impression that this rather bothered Lim!
General Is Jovial
THE GENERAL is in an almost jovial mood. He is not tense. : You wonder: “Have these German generals no nerves?” Because, after all, he is directing a large army in an important battle. A few miles down the road 2,000,000 men are trying to slaughter one another. He bosses almost a million of them. He turns us over to his adjutant. Then off to the front. Soon we hear the distant rum-
the United States: and Great Britain. These two} *
powers must guide the rebuilding of the community |
of nations. Their combined strength is essential to such an effort. Division would be fatal. We are merging a. war effort through lend-lease. The peace effort must be merged in the same way. We should not merely underwrite with war the monopoly of the British Empire over raw materials which are essential to us. Joint control must be exercised to protect our own interests and to maintain the necessary solid Anglo-American front after the war, The details ‘are complicated, but all details are complicated, They cannot be allowed to Irustrate such & necessary step. For this is the path toward the more equitable distribution’of raw materials that must be organized after the war if this second world war is not to breed a third one.
‘By William H. Stoneman
few ‘topnofch U-boat skippers who far outstrip their|
coll in courage and a, take chances that others do not dare|. to take and as a result they are very likely to get into trouble. By this stage in the war the corps of elite aces with which Germany started the war has been badly depleted and relatively few stars have appeared to fill the gap. ? The same thing applies to the ‘better U-boat crews and it is a problem for Germany to man her rapidly “U-boat fleet. ‘The incessant bombing of Kiel, Bremen, and Wilhelmshaven has added the further problem ‘of morale by forcing ‘the’ authorities to evacuate sailors’ families and to send crews to the hinterland for recuperation at regular intervals.
The need for fresh crews is now so great that.the| Miss Pe
naval: authorities have’ béen ‘drafting men from surface warships and the merchant marine, with a resultant lewering of efficiency,
An Expensive ‘Protedyre THE GERMANS CONTIUE to Donte hi Seat ahonls of from five to 13 of 15 units whieh, upon locating an oncoming convoy, fire simultaneous salvos of. torpedoes into. its midst from extreme me ange.
the past. At the ‘same time, ‘it increases
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00ps, carrying rying all-important oil, hauling guns, big and small. Our party is a little tense now as we go forward, We proceed north, parallel with the ny and back of it about five miles to Re-
POST-WAR TASK OF LABOR TOLD
Secretary Perkins Speaks At League of Nations Group - Meeting.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25 U. P)— Secretary - Frances Perkins
construction problems facing all the nations of the world will be the. fields of health, nutrition pit in, the ing, Meeting these challenges, she said, will be such a gigantic task that it will engage the labors and ingenuity of all people, and therein lies the hépe and the moral ehal-
Delegates of ‘36 nations, including
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pairs, socks for each person each ‘year. . “To achieve devel of comfort for
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then ‘north toward ‘the Scheldt River, where they're fighting. Infantry on foot are deploying down var paths
(Is this one of the German mili‘tary secrets, such «big guns being hauled so fast?) ;
Watching the Battle FINALLY WE stop. A battery
‘of six-inch guns, concealed under -
trees in an orchard at the right of the road, is poun unding away. Now we have a view over the val-
ley of the Scheldt and can see the slopes on the other side. The artillery thunders, and a second later you see the smoke from the shells on the far slopes. An officer explains they're bombarding the roads behind the enemy lines. We climb a hill beyond the artillery positions, so that they are now behind us, firing over our heads. ‘We sit on a slope and look Supugh the trees toward the front ne. But it’s disappointing. You see so little, actually. You cannot
make out the. infantry, or what ,
tney’re doing. . An ‘officer explaius they're fighting along the river there below. The Allies still hold . both banks, but are retreati across the Scheldt. The only ov dence you have of infantry ing is that the German barrage advances. Su-far we haven't heard much of the artillery as a factor in the Germans’ ‘amazing progress. The work .of the Stuka bombers took most of our attention. But it's “moter-
tion right behind iy advancing tanks at 40 miles an hour, is a tremendous factor. The Allies probably had not reckoned ‘that artillery could move so fast. : >. I NOTE that over the. front all afternoon ‘hover two or three
In the Services—
Adolf Hitler congratulates Gen. von Reichenau during a trip to the front...
planes, German,
reconnaissance ‘obviously directing artillery fire,
They cruise above the battlefield Snipclestel But there are no planes directing Allied artillery fire, which seems to be aimed exclusively against the German forward positions, at no time against. German artillery, which is strange. The lack of observation planes 4 alone puts the Allies in a hi As the soon wears away to the pounding of the guns, artillery units near us get orders to take up new positions forward. The advance, you suppose, is-go-ing ahead according to schegule. We take a last look at ‘tke Scheldt Valley, at the smoke rising from the bursting shells on the other side of the river. Probably it all has meaning for these German officers around us. Each whistling shell has a certain grrand.: Each gun and truck: Kush. ing down the road is going to some place assigned to it. The whole chaos (to fe) of the bat-tlefield-is in reality a picture of a well-oiled. machine of destruction in action. » 8 #
BERLIN, May 24—Two weeks ago - today Hitler unloosed his blitzkrieg in the west. Since then this has happened: Holland over-
nn; four-fifths of Belgium occupied; the French army hurled
- back towards Paris; -and an Al- : Hed army
; believed to number 1,000,000 men trapped ‘and encircled, oh the Channel. You have to see the German army in action to believe it. Here are some of the things, so as I could see, that make it Bore
Special Study Given Youths Seeking Posts in Air Corps
There are four schools in Indiana at which, prospective Army aviation cadets may’ secure necessary college Chadits in legs Shan two years Indians Purdue Universities, and Evansville and Tri-State College, Angola, are offering special Sohsciules:0 mpst i: Ans schoe lastic requirements for enrollment in flight training. The: period ordinarily required is a semester and a summer period, in either order. When ig has recently been graduated from high school and has had quadratics in algebra, he may complete the course in one semester. Tre instruction also will be available at Indiana University extension centers in Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne: South Bend, ‘Jeffersonville and East Chicago, :
June.
;}. Cadet Little is one of five Indiana
After sight weeks of skudy te wil
be. assigned ‘to:a merchant .vessel. In case: the vessel is taken over by the U. 8. Navy, he will be appointed a midshipman in the Merchant Marine Reserve. / y : s 3 Trains ‘in “Horsemanship Pvt. Austin D. Rinne, son of Mr. and ‘Mrs. Herman Rinne, 3046 Park Ave, is now a selectee, learning horsemanship at ‘the Cavalry Replacement Training Center at Ft. Riley, Kas. ‘Pvt. Rinne arrived at Ft. Riley last, week after being inducted at Ft. Harrison, and has embarked on
13-week - training period in horse[EAA Weapons weapons antl combat prac-
Carson Ww. Below, 2017 Carrollton Ave., has enlisted in the U. 8S. Army
Wichita. Falls, Tex. ‘'s = =» Pvt. Virgil Smith Jr; a member of Second Quartermaster Training|
2d | Alr Corps and Tias been assigned 10
HOLD EVERYTHING
Stukas Lead the Way
JT HAS absolute air superiority. It seems incredible, but at ‘the front I did not see a single Allied plane during the daytime. Stuka dive-bombers are softening tle Allied . defense positions, making them ripe for an easy attack. Also, they're wrecking Allied communications in the rear, bombing roads filled with ‘trucks, tanks, and guns, wiping out strategic railroad. stations and junctions. FPurthermore, reconnaissance planes are giving the German command a perfect picture of what is going ‘on. Against this, the Allies have mo eyes; few of their reconnaissance planes get over. Also, Allied bombers have completely failed to disturb. German lines of communications by daytime attacks. One of the sights that overwhelms you at the: front is the vast scale on which the Germans bring up men, guns, and supplies unhindered. All day long, driving along at 40 or 50 miles an hour, you pass unending mechanized columns. What magnificent targets * these endless columns
* would make if the Allies had any
planes! - And what a ‘magnificent machine that keeps them running so smoothly. Directly behind the front, with the. guns pounding daylight out of your ears and: the airplanes roaring overhead, offi-. cers and men ‘alike remain cool ‘and business-like.- Absolutely no excitement, no tension. An ~fi-er directing artillery fire for half an hour to explai: ou; what he is up. to. : Ts mos MORALE of the German troops fantastically good. I remember a
SEEKS JOBS FOR EX-SERVICE MEN|
State Prepares for Proper Placement of Hoosiers Back :. From Army.
The Selective. Service System in Indians today began to make preparations for the proper placement]. in employment of Hoosiers who are being relieved, of active military duty. At the same time, the Selective]
Service Re-employment Program is being amplified by the establishment of “referral. offices” in Army camps so. that men who may be
‘company of engineers which was about to go down to the Scheldt River to lay a pontoon bridge under enemy fire. The men were ' reclining on-the edge. of the wood reading the day's edition of the
‘army daily paper, the Western
Front, I've never seen men going into a battle from which some were sure never to come out alive so—well, so nonchalantly. The contention of the BBC that these flying German columns — such as the one that broke through at Abbeville—are weak forces which cannot possibly hold what they get, is a myth. The Germans thrust not only with tanks and a few motorized infantry, but with everything. Light and heavy mo= torized artillery goes right up bee: ~hind the tanks and infantry. #“ 2 nN £ BERLIN, May 28.—~King Leopold has quit on the Allies. At dawn the Belgian army, which with the British’ and French has been caught in an ever narrowing . pocket for a week in Flanders and Artois; laid down its arms. Leo pold during the night had sent an emissary to the German lines ask= ing for an armistice. The Ger= mans demanded unconditional surrender. Leopold accepted. The three armies together had #.small chance of ng: their ‘way “out: . With: ‘a million ‘ excellent Belgian troops out of. the picture, the fate of the French and British armies, it would seem, is sealed.
: NEXT—Climax of of Blitskrleg.
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Give Up Freakish J Hats, Women Tol
DEL MONTE, Cal, Oct. w (0. P), —Hats-—the freakish kind—-sho he given up by women for: the dan tion. of the emergency to give.-the hard-working
trend should . toward sin clothes, respectable hats and. servative make,”
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national defense production might| be so classified. Lieut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, State director of Selective Sepvice, urged all Indiana employers, especially’ those in. immediate need of additional help, to list those needs
Presbyterian Church. The addre: will follow' the church night ¢ g
with ‘the nearest State employment office. ? % » § i
Employer's Duty Told “All cases of unemployed ex-serv-ice ‘men, or those who desire new jobs, will be referred by Selective Service local board re-employment committeenien to the State employment office,” he said. ’
Lieut. Col. Hitchcock pointed out that this system will “facilitate coto make
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