Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1941 — Page 22

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Cathedral High - School and Notre Dame football};

; EVE BEEN COGITATING alittle matter that ne to our attention the other day. We've heard a -the folks at home getting letters from the “draftees o of them. Postoffice seals. Now, we've An too The letters have several small seals across the top “Officially Sealed—U. 8. “Postoffice.” Your

first ‘guess, of course, is that the sender failed to seal his letter, or that it was opened by mistake. ‘But neither of these letters bore any such stamped notation, Our best guess is that the bigwigs of the ‘Army ‘have become concerned “about - these stories of morale and have started inspecting the boys’ mail to see if they're griping—and about what. Interesting, what?

Chiefly Rumor ;

IF YOU'VE BEEN HEARING some rumors involv-~ ing. Chief Morrissey, don’t get excited. The chief’s ~down at Miami. One of the rumors is that he finally has forsaken bachelorhood and i$ honeymooning. Taint so, take it from us. Another rumor is that he was stricken in Florida with a chronic stomach ailment, was rushed here by plane and taken right to - a hospital. That's also untrue; If you want to know the plain truth, Mike’s still'a bachelor, and he’s down in Miami attendjng a fingerprint association convention, and probably enjoying his vacation a lot, He's due back very shortly.

Food for Thought

= MAYBE THERE'S no significance in it, but you ight be interested in looking over the traffic record. Jn the last four or five weeks, six ‘pedestrians have “Been killed in City traffic. Five of these were struck “by cars driven by youths 23 or uhder—one by a 17-“year-old driver. Another death car was driven by a : 33-year-old. As we said, maybe it’s mere coincidence :that so many of these death cars have been driven ‘by youths, but it certainly drives home the point ‘often made by the National Safety Council .that the accident rate is. greatest among “youthful motorists.

Loses to Cupid

: DAN CUPID'S arrow has nicked one of Al Feeney’s newest deputies—John 'E, McMahon, . John, former

player, is to wed Miss Rose Boland Nov. 20 in Holy Oross Church. : . . From the camp publication of the 139th Field Artillery at Camp Shelby, we learn ‘that only commissioned officers receive leaves; enlisted men

have passes and furloughs; a leave can be for 30 days|

a year, cumulative; a pass is for three: days or less, and a furlough is from three to 30 days, non-cumu-lative. Alsop that those impressive regimental standards carried in parades and reviews cost $216.32—no Inore;. no less. We just thought you might be interes

Signs of the Times

NATIONAL DEFENSE is interfering, among other things, with the modernizing of our street signs. Thus Jar, we've got about 2000 of the new type signs. installed, but with 1500 to go, the State Prison reports it’s having trouble getting enough material to finish the order. Oh well, Fest le guerre. . . . members are reading on what to do in case Indianapolis should be isited by hostile bombers, They ‘have received several mail bags loaded with pamphlets giving the very latest methods in sabotage prevention, extinguishing incendiary bomb fires, etc. The pamphlets are being distributed to factories, civic organizations and simlar groups for study—just in case.

A Straight Line Is—

CARS AND TRUCKS that stop across pedestrian cross walks at downtown intersections cause most

pedestrians to fuss and fume, but no one spparently ever has tried to do anything about it—no one, that is, except John Kleinhenz of the Water Company. John was walking across Ohio St. at Meridian (south from the Federal building) wheén a milk truck screeched to a stop right in his path. Boiling with righteous. indignation] John just stepped into the open side door and wotld have walked on through except for the fact the driver was in his way and the door on the other side wasn’t open. The driver was so good natured and apologetic that John didn’t force the issue, backing out and walking around. But now that he’s had time to think about it, he’d like to start a campaign on the subject. The nexi time you find a car or fruck in your path at the cross walk, just open the door and walk through, insists John. But don’t: blame us.

Ernie Pyle is on leave of absence because of the illness of his wife.

By atingion

| WASHINGTON, ‘Nay. 7—The local elections in y states show, on the whole, few upsets. In genthe voters went for the status quo. # In New York, Mayor La Guardia won a third term. previous majorities ‘were heavily cut, but at that he took the Bronx away from Boss Ed Flynn, Democratic national chairman. He - took , Brooklyn, whére his Democratic opponent lived, and Manhattan, the lair of Tammany. Mr. Roosevelt indorsed La Guardia but all other prominent \ Democrats worked against him. / Yet both’ candidates sup-

ported the Administration’s orsign ~

policy. The result probably w

not much influenced by the inter- We Have No Alternative

nsiignal issue but was rather a vindication of La Guardia’s excel- ® lent municipal administration. or 1 the soot"sayers can see anything nationally “égrificant in this, they have better eyes than I have. _ In most other localities the tendency was to return’ the ins to power, whatever their politics. Boston reelected Mayor Tobin, rejecting former Mayor Curley’s offer to go back to duty. Detroit re-elected its city administration. New Jersey gave its blessing to 9 Mayor Hague's crowd again.

Almost Perpetual Mayors:

MANY CITIES RE-ELECTED almost. perpetual. mayors—New Haven for g sixth term. ord, Conn., for a fourth term and Bridgeport for a [fifth. - ‘Albany re-elected its Democratic mayor and Syracuse its Republican mayor. Buffalo elected a new mayor who was a protege of the present Democratic mayor. Chi4 cago Democrats held their minor judi a offices, thus

=, Cleveland is the outstanding exceptio There the voters went back to a Democratic may Tor the first “time in eight years, having been content with a Republican throughout the New Deal. | . The ony note of what might be called protest was in Pittsburgh, strong labor town. There the president of ‘the Central Labor Union, also president of the

The Auto

dustry, but now I begin to get it f Detroit, Before we are put on strict rationing in the purchase of automobiles it might well to try the ' requirement at every customer for a new bring in an old car. No maite ‘how old, ‘but an old one. Most buyers of automobiles ‘have cars to trade, but not all. The expansion of alitomobiles in use not only accounts’ for much of the traffic congestion but: for some of the shortage of steel scrap. If customers for new cars were obliged to turn in old cars the afomoblle a, would be put back én practically a self-supporting basis so far ‘as steel was concerned.

More Expensive for Firsts |

A LITTLE NEW metal might Hh be added |

TY am but genera] the

\ My Day |

: NEW YORK erry, Thursday —Y: very pleasant day. I gave two lectu Town Hall in New York City in the Phinches vi {. J., in the evening. In bei 1 lunched with my cousin, Mrs. Henry a little Christmas. number of

Fave 2 had a a do In Woe

ington. - Today is going to be ‘a busier _day, but still I never have quite the same schedule/ when I am away from Washington. I go to Town Hall this So at 1 o'clock, to sible the ]

* but since’ I sp never can . give P) talk.

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* . CLEVELAND, Nov, 7.—The belief, is ‘Spreading that some time next year it will be necessary to have a - permit to buy an automobile. I first heard this forecast outside the iotor in-

ly as posyesterday, ‘notes, I

By Raymond Clapper

Billposters’ Union and owner of a billposting company, decided he would like to be sheriff. He ran on the Democratic ticket and labor could have put him over. But the voters decided they would rather he confined his operations to the labor business. As I say, these feeble old eyes see nothing of large national import in’ the returns, other than that the ins have been able to stay in. That is the tendency in local politics. The ins go out only when people are in revolt, are down on things as they are, and go out to crack any head in sight. When the voters get a real mad on, they will take it out on a dogcatcher because they don’t like. the way things are going in Washington. Nothing like that seems to. be working at this time.

THE PEOPLE ARE fairly well satisfied. They may not like the trend toward war but they co not seem to believe that any other course is open. Some Middle Western Congressmen supporting the hey ae fing “policy have -been nervous attimesbut they are fée more tertain now that they are in line with publ sentiment, - Most revealing was the action of Sheridan Downey, California Senator hitherto regarded as an isolationist,.in plumping for repeal of the Neutrality Act, ~He said he had been around California and wes convinced the state took that view, Johnson no end. | . Unless a sudden barrage of protest should upset the present line-up, Congress will shortly vote to send American ships into belligerent ports. That will probably be the last real decision. It will be equivalent to a psychological declaration of war, because after tha! action there can he no retreat. I think mest members of Congress realize that for

practical purposes the Neutrality repeal is the real|-

key decision and that thereafter war is a matter of progressing deeper into the shooting that already has begun. Why isn’t there more of a fight against this? I think it is because most members recognize that Hitler, by pushing his sea warfare over on our side of the Atlantic, has settled the question for us, taking action which leaves us no alternative but to resist.

By on W. Love

thiuitiy would not be drawing on iron-ore supplies to any extent.

And the old cars would be richer in metals such ,

as copper and aluminum, The. effect of such a regulation would be to: make it more expensive for first-time, buyers to own cars, but the rise in the price of used) cars would persuade more people to part with machines they do not really need.

Shortage Slowly Worsens

THE SHORTAGE of steel scrap slowly worsens. Certain steel furnaces are cold each wpek because there is not enough scrap to go around. The program of building new steel plants is going

forward, but it has not fully taken into account all}?

that 18 implied for future steel supply in the scarcity of scrap enough even to run the present mills. A potent reason for the shortage is that the junking end of the scrap business is not moving in its old volume. People are hanging onto what they have, including automobiles. The collection of junk is slowed down both by the greater usefulness of old equipment and the lack of a price incentive to bring it in, Here is where price regulation igpclines to work in reverse.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

who runs one of the small specialty shops in New

. York City. She sells dresses and millinery, and ‘I

‘imagine such things as costume ‘jewelry, bags and| | ‘accessories of all kinds. She is worried for fear that

‘a wave of economy will sweep over our people and

that small businesses such as hers will be ruined.

. Safety Board|

It pains Senator Hiram

.vade Britain this fall. attempted?

This was the situation

Piecing together stray

word had come down from Hitler that an invasion of Britain would never be necessary. Churchill would accept the kind of peace which the little Austrian - Was mulling over in his

mind.

I believe Hitler really thought he would. And his certainty delayed and slackened the work which was necessary to prepare a devastating invasion force.

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(LATER, 1941.—Some observers in Berlin were convinced at the end.of June that Hitler was sincerely anxious to conclude peace with Britain so that he could turn on the Soviet Union—always his long-term objective. The fact that during the last days of June and throughout the first three weeks of July one German division after another was recalled from France and hurriedly transported to what the Germans usually referred to as the "“Russian front” would seem to\ bear this out.. But it is by no means certain).

Expected Peace Move

IT MAY WELL be that Hitler expected Churchill to make the first move for peace. Didn't an Englishman know when he was beaten? Hitler waited a month. All through the last week of June and the first three weeks of July he waited.’

fered Britain peace. I think the

prompt and sweeping reaction in ' England tame as a shock to him. He was not prepared for such a .

quick and unequivocal rejection.

ond of July—12 days—before he accepted that rejection as Churchill’s final answer, By then a month and a half of precious time had been largely lost.

most of the generals of the High Command maintinined grave doubts as to the chances of success of an invasion of Britain by a land army. The raval problem - involved seems to have baffled them, for

On July 19 Hitler spoke out in the Reichstag. He Publicly of"

I think he hesitated until the

“There is reason to believe that |

INSTALMENT XXII_WHY BRITAIN: was NoT INVADED ; (Oct. 31,1940) ; BERLIN, Oct. 31," 1940. —With winter ‘upon us, it is: now obvious that there will be. no German attempt to in- | Why has the invasion ‘not been |

In the first place, Hitler nesfizied and his Resitation. may well prove to have been a blunder as colossal as the indecision of the German High Command before Paris in | 1914, marking a turning-point in the war.’ : Many who followed the German Army into France expected Hitler to turn immediately and strike at Britain while the iron was hot. The British were reeling from the titanic blows: just struck them.

when. Hitler strode into the

little clearing of Compiegne Forest on June 21 to dictate a harsh armistice to: France. piegne there seemed to be no hurry on’ the part of the German military to finish with Britain. bits .of conversation picked | up here and there.in Compiegne and. Paris, I think the

I recall now that at Com-

one thing. And although Goering, it is reliably reported, assured them he could : knock out the RAP in a fortnight, they seem to have had ‘some doubts .on this score too—doubts. that in the end proved fully justified. - :

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Barges Prepared THROUGHOUT JULY the Germans had. ‘been ' gathering barges and pontoons: in the canals, rivers. and harbors “along the French, Belgian and Dutch coasts and “assembling shipping at Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel and various points in Denmark and Norway. On the night of _Aug. 5, Hitler had a long conference in the Chancellery with his chief military advisers. It isi likely that Hitler at this meeting made his decision ‘ to attempt: the invasion and went over the final plans. What were those plans? From

what little has leaked out, I think +

we can deduce the grand lines of the strategy decided upon. A great air offensive against the British .. air force - would be launched on or about Aug. 13. The R. A. F. would be wiped: out by Sept. 1. And then, with complete mastery of the air over the Channel and over England, the invasion would be launched. The main force would cross the Channel in barges, pontoons and smaller boats. Other ships would set out from Bremen, Hamburg and the Norwegian ports to make ‘landings in Scotland. Another sm expedition of ships from Brest would take Ireland. And of se there would be Patachute a a large scale, » ” ® : °

Error i in Judgment

THE ARMY would not move until the Royal Air Force had been annihilated. Goering promised a speedy accomplishment of this. He based his confidence on ° a very simple calculation. He had four times as many planes as the British. He had only to attack in superior numbers, ‘and = even if he lost as many planes as the enemy, in the end he. would still have a substantial air fleet, and the British would have none. What Goering and all the other

“What the Germans we bombed before they would

a picture of bomb ammge at Buckingham Palace.

Germans were incapable of grasping was that the British. were prepared to ' see their cities bomhed and : destroyed | before they would risk all of their planes in a few great air battles to defend :them.

To the British this was mere

common. sense and the only tactic

that could save them.

To the German military mind it was incomprehensible. It is primarily due to this error of judgment, so typically German, I'm convinced, that the plan. to invade Britain this year had to be abandoned. To destroy the British air force Goering had to get it off the ground. But fry as he did, he never succeeded. The British kept most of their planes in reserve. Why, many Germans here Hove asked, could not the Luftwaffe destroy the RAF on. the ground? The Luftwaffe’s own : answer is undoubtedly true. German airmen tell me that the British simply scattered their planes on a thousand far-flung fields. No air force in the world could huni

them out in sufficient numbers to

destroy any sizable portion. ® =» »

THERE 18 ANOTHER aspect of Goering’s failure which is not so ‘clear to us here in Berlin. He tried for a month to destroy air arm of Britain's defense. This SSP was made in daylight at« S.

‘But by the third: week of Sep-+ tember the great daylight raids had ceased. At first thought there seetns to be some contradiction between our belief here that the British preferred to see their cities bomber rather than risk too many of their lanes in the air—be-

The great N; waited, cooling i

tween that and the fact that the RAF obviously took such a toll ‘of : German ‘planes that Goering

‘had to abandon his grandiose -

“daylight attacks.

Probably it is no contradiction ,

at all. While the British never risked more than a small portion of ‘their available fighters on any one day, they did send up enough to destroy more German bombers per day than Goering could afford to lose. : . For he was using them in large mass formations, more as a snare to get the British fighters off the ground, so that his Messerschmitts could wipe out Britain's fighter defense, than for mere bombing. : # 2 2 x

Nazi Army Waits AND HERE British air tactics played. an important role. The Germans tell me that the British fighter squadrons had. strict orders to avoid combat with German fighters whenever possible. Instead they were instructed to dart in on the bombers, knock off as many of the cumbersome ma‘chines as they could, and then steal away, as On at léast thre separate days, Aighters “shot.

blows which : the DO ftwame could not indefinitely sustain despite its numerical superiority. And so. the first fortnight in September came and went, and still the. could not destroy the British air force. . land army. heels behind the cliffs at Boulogne and Calais and along the canais: behind the sea. It was. not left entirely unmolested. At ‘night, the British bombers came over.

incapable of grasping was that the British were prepared {6 sce thelr tities all of their planes in a few sreat aie battles {a defend them/* ‘Here |

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What Tomes; hn ‘men and n ‘rials were sustained by. a sistent British air attacks is : known. But: from: what I sa

probable that the German was ever able to assemble .

vasion in the force that w have been necessary. . 8 » ” { No Invasion Attempt | THE STORIES emanating Prance that an actual full-f invasion was attempted on around the middle of- September and repulsed by the British set to be without foundation. In first place, the British would

tainly have let the news out. What probably happened is ub the Germans attempted a f extensive invasion rehearsal.

They put barges and ships t

“and planes caught them, set number of Ee fire, ‘caused a consid casualties, ~ = - _ The unusual

information to go on. s 8 ” BERLIN, Nov. 5—If ‘all g well, I shall leave here for Ni York a month from today. Th very prospect of leaving takes tervible load off! your -heart and mind. 1 feel swell. i

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WELFARE TEST SUIT IS FILED

Supreme Court to Rule on Refusal to Show Records To Grand Jury.

The State Supreme Court will determine whether the ty and state welfare departniefits’ records are confidential and not open to We public as stated in a 1941 law. A “test” case was initiated in the Marshall Circuit Court - yesterday: when Judge John Kitch cited County County Welfare Director K. C. Bennett for contempt of court after Mr. Bennett refused to produce department records as requested by a Marshall Grand Jury. ‘However, Judge Kitch withheld further action when Aitorneys James Wason and George Diven said they would carry the case to the Supreme Court. Contends Records Secret Mr. Bennett contended that the State Welfare Law “demands that contained

declared that such records may not be open for public inspection, State Welfare Director Thurman A. Gottschalk said today that Ben-

‘operation ‘of the welfare have access to such uch records.”

Test Case Planned

In Marion County

She says they do not want charity, yobs want to]

earn: a living, and , work, many of wh years. There are undoubtedly. going {« ticed along. jmany 1 lines, but per ag well s in which they can .ada ‘making of certain things n should apply at once under OPM, for the : tion. i ' Many of their employees - may have to go defense industries. If igh

‘bureaus oD

into

want ta keep their people at| ave Sees Wits sie for several

a ET SR in defense. They |

urpose of giving them advice tention

information in welfare} records’ be kept confidential” and|

Andy Went A. Ww. O. L.; but Only B He Didn't Want That Brief Rest From

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

LONDON, Nov. 7—Every army in

' |the world has had men go A.W.O.L.,

generals say. Few navies have es-

- |caped minor mutinies at one time

or other, admirals confess. But

what air force has had to discipline |

its men for the type of insubordina-

tion that the Royal Air Force runs| 4

across? : Take “the Nazi Nightmare Squadron,” for example. Those six Polish pilots are a real headache to their commanding officer who knows that the best nightfighter can’t take to the air every

they can and the C. O, has had to

take severe measures at times o

keep them “off the

‘Australian, is probably ‘most serious and the Funsiest case » Andy

But the case of Andy, Joe ‘wild

is “happiest at the ails of his huge black Havec ( las). And he had been on the job for six months with only an occasional day’s leave, The high authorities decided, in agreement with the C: O!, that Andy was que for instructional leave.

Variety of Excuses

front line pilots get transfi every so often to. operational training squadrons. There they induct R. A. PF. fledglings into the mysteries and rites of real fighting. They: put the po Bon dhe long period of training that the R. A. F

pilots ‘have. night of the week. The Poles think |

Andy was. posted to.4 training

squadron on ‘Aug. 1. Came the 15th| Bu A Jn 1

cou

Andy. Finally, lcomeone heard

about Andy’s continued presence.|:

It may have been : the night he

machine-gunned three Heinkels as]. : France that the| Middle

they landed in authorities realized that he was still fighting. when, he should have been resting. | -S0-a sad Andy: reported the: net day at the training

squadron. SE ol

out for a full report. So Andy Disappears ; It “seems that Andy looked over)

Then he (faining planes It was a clear The school’s most

| HOLD EVERYTHING

nett was “within his rights” in re-| { fusing to hand over the records to| | = the court, and added that “only || : persons directly concerned .in ‘the

NAZIS IN: RUSSIA PU ANTI- SEMITIC DRI

BERLIN, Nov..7 .(U. B). civil authorlies ‘are enforcing

many, where Jewish ly Jere deprived or

1—What is the side cams. mer Vice President