Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1941 — Page 11

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THE ELEVATOR ‘OPERATOR at the west. ‘Building sometimes has. ‘trouble in ra

‘bad - humor, entered the elevator,

‘asked where she’d find the In"of Forecaster J ‘Armington nomy.| But it’s rather refreshing, at that, isn’t 1? . , , The|

“‘ternal Revenue collector. The ‘operator politely informed her ~she’d find the collector's offices «eon ‘the " third floor—turn = to oa your: tight. Then she made * ‘a gnoot at the operator. = “You know,” the bewildered operator remarked to a male passenger, ‘a lot of ‘them do things like that. I don’t know why they get mad at ME” . , . Bus drivers sometimes have the same trouble. The N. Meridian St. bus was running : about 10 minutes behind schedule Friday. The weather was rather snappy. All the way downtown the poor bus operator caught heck from passengers. “S'matter, stop off for a smoke?” asked ene passenger sarcastically. =

Where’ 8 Mr. Cash?

MAYBE YOU NOTICED that the toastmaster for the Association of") Personal Finance Companies luncheon was named@appropriately. He was R. B. Money. The finance of Clinton, a director. . . .. The speed limit sign humorist is at it again, This time he’s painted over the 30 miles an hour sign on Central, about 13th, making it read: “Speed Limit — 90 miles an hour.” . George Weymouth was in town over the week-end for a funeral and while here contacted quite a few of his old friends. Mr. Weymouth, father of Margaret Weymouth Jackson and for years connected with the Farmers Guide, retired a couple of years ago and now lives on Rural Route 1, Bedford, Ind. “Tell my friends I'm still alive and kicking,” he said,

Federal Economy?

UNCLE SAM pays the light bill for the U. S. Weather Bureau in the Federal Building, but you'd

| Washington

- WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—The special Japanese Saburo Kurusu, who is flying here to talk face to face with American officials; will find himself up against a hardheaded attitude. ‘We are not looking for war in the Pacific, but ‘this Government is fed up on the way Tokyo has capitalized her nui-: sance value as a member of the Axis,

Any thought of throwing China overboard to appease Tokyo "is nonexistent in responsible , quar= Jters. On the contrary, the attitude is that Japan has been getting by with too much. She is immobilizing a- large amount of military equipment which the ‘United States; the British and the Dutch have been compelled to assemble in the Far East. By | playing this game of teetering on the brink of war, Japan is doing more for Hitler than Italy is doing as

. an active belligerent.

+ * This Government has very good reason to believe t the blockade of ‘Japan is becoming most painful. ce the freezing order went into effect last July, apan has been isolated from her most important markets. Almost no ships have passed between Japan “and the United States. The same shutdown has:ocing .with the British and Dutch East Indies. Nor3 ing to; the De t of Commerce, - "three areas account for three-quarters offJapan’s import :and export trade. Considering her limited resources that is a devastating blow.

Production Is Declining

JAPAN'S INDUSTRIAL production is declining because she cannot get raw materials and is short ‘also of skilled labor. | We have been cornering supplies all over the Far East, and’ Japan is unable to pick up now even the low-grade Philippine iron ore which she so badly needs. The number of textile factories opera has been cut in half because exports to princi consuming ‘markets have been cut off and because the United

1 The Far East

ALREADY SEVERELY CRIPPLED by the Ameri-can-British-Dutch economic sanctions (which have Just ] ths-old war in China, Japan is making another desperate effort to ameliorate its position. With char-

acteristic lack of finesse, Japan is!

engaged in two sharply contrasting maneuvers. In their capacity as war lords the ambitious militarists who govern Japan dare assembling military and aviation strength for another attempt to knock out China by permanently shutting off the Burma Road over which most ~~ of. the American and British aid ~ to China: must now pass.’ And as heads of the civil ‘gov--ernment of Japan these same mili» tarists simultaneously are staging -what- they call .a.“last effort” to t Cords the United States to betray its Chinese ally and lift the econorftic blockade of Japan. The Japanese militarists, who are the: unchallenged masters of Nippon’s political and economic as well as military policies, persist in the conviction that Germany is going to win the war in the west and that Japan's best interests are served by continued collaboration with Germany. That basic fact must never be lost sight of in evaluating Japanese maneuvers. In the meantime Japan is panic-stricken by the prospect of economic strangulation and military encirclement. It would like to weaken the grip of Ger-

“polo player.

7 phone the Sisters.

en also chose W. B. Nichols,

to take full effect) and weakened by the.

“in the. morming, al the lights: rel

- = a But the moment the forecast is ready, all| the tights are doused. Probably just onef-

but two of ’s ideas of econo:

current Town and Country magazine carries a full page color picture of Maj.. John ‘W. Wofford, who while. at Pt. Ha. The Major Dublin now.

Sweet Charity

n oy asa terrific)

INTERESTED in the charity work of the Little]

Sisters of the Poor, Mrs. John B. ‘Holmes decided to

bake some cookies as a treat for the Sisters and their is

charges.

Accordingly, she and her maid set to work. The;

first batch ‘of cookies, didn’t look attractive edough, so they baked another batch, found a couple dozen that were satisfactory. Just to be suré she had enough, Mrs. Holmes deShe did, explaining the treat ‘and asking how many to figure on. < | “There ‘are about 150 of us,” came the reply. + Mrs. Holmes nearly fainted. Then she and the maid got busy and turned out the rest. :

State House Blues

‘SOME OF OUR State officials and employees are rather unhappy these days as they read of employees in private industry and business getting pay raises.) With prices scooting upward, the State workers are in the unfortunate position’ of having their pay inflexibly ‘fixed by budget. Some of the officials’ pay is. ever: more inflexibly set by statute. It wasn’s so long ‘ago—back in the depression—thai the State employees - were looked on as mighty fortunate to have “well paid” jobs. You'd think some of the lawyers and others on the State payroll would quit and get better paying private jobs, but they can’t ~politics is in their blood.

By Raymond Clapper see:

States and India, principal sources of cotton, have. shut down on exports to Japan. Silk exports have begh hit by the drop in orders from the Tinited States and Great Britain. This is “a blow at ‘one of the principal means of livelihood of "the Japanese people. The - United States, Great Britain and the Dutch East Indies have heen the principal suppliers of scrap and other iron and steel, and of lead, zinc, aluminum, copper, machine tools, automotive products, petroleum, raw wool and: ‘cotton. ‘The breakup of this trade has deadly effects in such a country as Japan. She can obtain little of these commodities and few of the machine tools and other essentials of war production from her occupied territory. And her Axis partners are worse than useless to her in this. Japan is of use to them, but not the other way around. She can only gamble that if Hitler wins he will reward her faithful service.

Japan Belongs On Our Side

LOGICALLY JAPAN belongs to the Anglo-Ameti-can bloc. That is where she has obtained her materials and it has. provided her best markets. That also

is ‘where the Heavy seapower is—seapower ‘which so outweighs Japan’s that she cannot hope to match it

Japan is anv“island power, and for her economic ‘ health is- dependent almost entirely upon use of: the seas’ Tt ‘is hard! te ufiderstand how she got herself: crosswise of the big sea powers in order to team up with such a futile weakling as Italy and a big power like Germany which is.cut off by Russia's enormous stretch of Siberian waste. Department of Commerce reports on internal ¢ conditions in Japan show the extreme privation ‘of the people, the daily pinching of the population to a degree that makes blockaded Germany seem like a paradise of luxury by comparison, the cutting off of gasoline even for busses and taxis, the tight rationing of food; the desperate effort to ‘increase food production. And it is. more vulnerable to Hiookade Perhaps than any other country.

By Carroll Binder

while awaiting the reception: of his mission put the temper of the Japanese government, is reflected in the

seven demands made of the U. S. in the Japanese :

foreign office organ, the Japan Times Advertiser. The whole tone of these demands, as of other Jap-. anese utterances, is that of a footpad who insists that the police and courts proclaim the legality of his efts before he has succeeded in making the victims hand over their wealth and persons. Japan, in cther words, is unyielding in its aggresave ambitions and brazenly hopes to induce the United. States to acquiesce in: its program of plunder and actually help Japan bind up the victim. | There are no indications that the United States or Great Britain are in the least receptive to such proposals. On the other hand there are no clear. indications as to what the United States and Britain will do if Japan carries out its warning as to the, “possibility even probabili » that it will attack the Burma Road,

Wavell in Strategic Spots

THIS WEEK ‘GEN. WAVELL, the British commander in India, visited Singapore and other Pacific

strategical areas, presumably sizing up the situation

to see how effectively Britain could wage war, if nec-

cessary, simultaneously in the Pacific and in the Cau-|dropping. casus- and Middle East. What Wavell learned andiin on that situation many. legisla-| what the British have in mind has not been disclosed. tures will be called on to | "All the information received this ‘week seemed [Similar to the District of |

measure, "That bill passed the House unani-

to indicate, however, that the British have no inten-

: warplanes.

air power fit for war.

The- United States in .

The nation today could not muster air strength =

enough either to cover an

American expeditionary

force or to turn back an invasion. : i Big figures have ‘tended to ob-

scure the future tense in official

pronouncements. Reports of huge contracts let, of vast factory expansion, of enormous expenditures, have added up to a popular conception. of tremendous air power. It does not yet exist, n neither numbers, nor quality, of combat planes is the U. S. Army equipped to do battle with a major power. - In actual service today there is

‘only a handful of fighting planes

able to attack successfully the kind of bombers we know how to build, and only a smaller handful of bombers able to gbpe with the defenses we know other nations use. . Only recently have authentic reports become public. that our

warplane aid to Britain has so far

been insignificant. Yet it is half, or more than half, of our total

production.

Navy Holds Security -

IN 18 MONTHS of preparation the United States has” built the

“machinery with which to produce But security against

‘attack still lies in the remoteness

of possible . enemies and in the

Navy.

Army and Navy “air strength”

is somewhere in the neighborhood of 6000. planes. But first-line, strictly modern combat planes, able to fight in a 1941 war, number in the hundreds—and not very many hundreds. The bulk of those 6000 are training planes and obsolete models: unfit for modern! battle, planes not yet fully equipped with guns, radio, armor, modern. gas: tanks; In the first eight months of 1941, factories built 10,658 airplanes, of which about half were

‘combat types and of which about and can only defy it when it is otherwise occupied.| *

this left about 3000 combat-type Dianes, Included in this number 1000 sor more P40 .pursuit

Sones of a type which the Brit-

ish found too. slow for European combat, snd, accordingly, shipped to secondary war zones, or even ‘lately traded to: Turkey for raw materials and good will. Included were some hundreds of newtype pursuit planes and bombers which cannot yet be used besauce they lack ER and propelers,

LAW FAVORED,

District - of of Columbia Bill ‘May Serve as Model For States.

By. DICK THORNBURG

[nomic

a gonra view at Bafa lant of the Corts-Wright Corp, wire

“Below — Goal

LAST NOVEMBER OPM Director William 8. Knudsen called upon the industry to produce 500 long-range bombers a month. For some time an unofficial figure was circulated that production of. these bombers—the fa-

. mous Flying Foriresses — had reached 50 a month, of ‘which

40 were being shipped to Britain. : al any Government agency. =

Recently Senator Harry A. Byrd Va.) ‘revealed that -actual.

(D. production ‘was about 14 a month’ and had never been above 21. Senator Byrd's “statement was vigorously attacked by Administration officials—but his figures. have not been denied. ' The picture is: somewhat brighter. in medium

vombers,

production line.

where models now being supe

seded are nevertheless good Rohe.

ing equipment, sind could be used

for combat even though they are not the best in existence. ‘Three - squadrons of attack

: bombers: of the newest type, a B26 model just: now: going into: fulls "scale production, were used in:

co-operation with troops in the Louitiana maneuvers—the large-scale U. 8. practice with

‘planes ‘and land forces. Aghting

togetier, ov

much to be done in land-air co-

- ordination, but that on the: whole "the first dress rehearsal was encouraging. The planes themselves - . 47 * Mediterranean has convinced both

' American and English authorities

performed well, in spite of wide-

‘spread. criticism of these models

‘among aviators outside-the Army. + So far as Official apnounce-

fost

s P-40’s are rolling off

ments reveal, only one squadron —12. airplane the new- el pursuit-intercep-. tors, although Assistant Secretary of War Robert A. Lovett says the Army will soon be able to equip a new squadron every other day. For the immediate defense of

. North ‘America against wvasion—

REPORTS from the nme invasion more ‘than

indicated that there was: still |

from U.S.

Dive Bombers Favored BRITISH experience in “the

-is ‘equipped with

8 base in Iceland. = Thete 816 Jiot SHOWS | Warp in any of these cl do the job that - quired were invasion ; nor enough anti-g aft, d ‘them trom. thee gro

~ that heavy, high-altitude bomb- = . NEXT

ers: mean little Sgainst a ship.

“Arrives Under Guise of Allocation of

By JOHN W. LOVE Times Special Writer

tions of critical materials, “Not. pinks but conservatives in:

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10~Half- &

The needs of the military 'willjcommodities are relatively few and many small |come first, and from what is left|are. nig Pe easily handled in the

operation will be the records consumption of scarce materials

RENT CONTROL Economic Planning, That One-Time Dream of Radicals,

far Materic

concerns in rab is to |

accoun: nobody. ever sald |vevars 10 the large 8 WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Eco-|the economic plenners will appor- economic a guns not work| Industry is expects

planning, that radicals’[tion the necessities to the civil pop- in a military regime.” {dream from years back, finally ulation.’ The guides in the latter| “One of the men most intimate

.|slips in under the guise of alldca-

they will change the face of Amerithan

former years, corrected by. ‘studies ‘can business more anything of what is the least amount the|that ever happened in this country, which 2 beer

of [connected with the system: on the in | military end says of allocations that!

1Out of the | system. : grow the bd

way through Congress is a rentcontrol measure, Specincally estab-| gener: of Columbia, but also kl 85 Nelson, OT os a model law for states in which an| ¢ ‘Sedrs-Roe-

influx ‘of defense workers has Cre-|p ek Reason

ated rent problems. In areas where less than 5 per|& éent of the dwellings are vacant, |” the law of supply -and ‘' demand usually. forces rents up and: up. In|! Washington the ‘vacancy ratio is Ne about 1 per cent, and many landlords have taken advantage of the

given 15

SPAB, the over-

isle umbial

By the OPM and

s are being) ‘are preity much the same.

civilians can get along with, tives feom Was on pro- eact Done With Apologies ducers: to move certain materials, sign Persons in the defense ‘crganism|contrasted with = priorities which expected to stk che. {here who formerly Iaughed ab the | iois : {idea of economic Aer

r : Priorities WIIl Give Way |sriegm ‘worth: of {i they say, and ‘the scheme will Priorities will bontinue to; he used; Cross supplies had been work this time benause it is stripped but they will give way gradually to|the Egyptian’ Red Crescent of the primary objections made to|the | allocations, beginning with [lief work, , Sing the

{all classifications and totals of the|Petiona: planning when it was still qluminum, copper, nickel and cork, (months. needs of American industry are be-an “isa.

It will . work becaiseiand presently to be extended to freedom of choics on the part ofiahout 200 grades of steel in about de-/the Fastes there a dozen shapes. The steel alloca~ ie tions are expected to be the most Gfades' ana varieties tn military |complex of all, so’ much so that some people here doubt if the sys-

tem ever will! work, with complete 1—Halloween 1 the eve satisfaction. ‘day? RES Su Priorities: and Alloa | 3 Whisk former: tr foutball sia

oi EVERYTHING |

tion of letting the Japanese get away with anything “inthe vicinity of the Indies or Malaya however hatd|mously (with only 46 members. on

‘pressed they may be in other sectors of thelr far-flung the Boop) a 5 oi tion. fa

many’s enemies during the dismal hours preceding i the anticipated German triumph.

Just Like a Footpad = =. NX SUCH 1S THE SETTING in which Saburo Kurusu is making his much-publicized- flight to the United States, His military sponsors toned down the attacks

g on the United States in the Japanese press this week

p My Day

oy Rf

GITON, Sinday—All day yesterday, from until after 5, the heads of many women’s national organizations met at the Labor Department

auditorium,

Mist Else Davison, who Ing been lent to the

front. Events may soon give us some indication of wha the ‘mean to do about the Burma Road an what the Russians mean to do about British collabo- - ration in the defense of the Caucasian oil fields.

t (Copyright, AN The Indianapolis - Times and the

¢| Senate.

The meastire establishes a ceiling |.

re anuary, but empowers a =! FE ~ | ministrator to make blanket =] Ek

By Eleanor Roosevelt ace

15a What. vary Hnie'aiiy veilzntobs token aicouniel. Any ao

Sh Mra dra ORR better fed, she one e=| justment in a particular “be invaluable if we are AHACEed, ing. Lip Be

tions Hoazd Gescribes the

It was also exp to provide “a clear over-all picture of BLE