Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1941 — Page 3

nen said that the nation| &

for vigilant action be-|

a “front clash” between the | States and Germany now

Knit seers inevitable and Japan must| §

] ‘the Pacific.” i situation, the Government

ad been the goon of eligible conscripts.. I Neé ty Revision Disturbing’

Estimates of the total strength of|

the Japanese army and reserves at present Have been as high as 3,000,000 men. The Government of Korea said ‘also ‘that ‘the number of Koreans volunteering for service with the Yapanese Army next year - would total 250,000.

-.* |The huge new war budget will be | : . put before the special session of}

Parliament AMOR. together with mew tax measures to “raise $138,- - $90,000 Tension over the opening of the Parliamentary meeting was increased by revision of the American

Neutrality Act which was regarded|

“by observers here a “seriously affecting” Japan Joint pe Amigrican two-ocean naval operation was foreseen here and it was said that in view of Jaf pan’s mission to “safeguard the Pacific,” she must watch developments most vigilantly. Expect U, 8. Clash With Nazis re is a strong possibility, Japfnese observers believed, that Britain will now shift whatever reserve warships: she has available into the Pacific. These observers said that “a | frontal clash between Germany and | Joe. United States is now inevitae ” 5 “Actualy,” To? said, “it is easy | for Japah fo through this : | strengthened clement front.” | The mew war -budget will: bring total Japanese expenditures for war | purposes under special account since the start of the Sino-Japanese War, to $6,028,070,000. Of the Hew appropriation, the Cabinet set aside $276,000,000 as a “reserve fund.” More Tax on Geisha ‘Girls. Nichi Ni¢hi pointed out that the Government proposes a 100 per cent increase in the tax on services of geisha girls. This means, it pointed out, that the average dinner in a “first-class geisha restaurant with a single geisha in attendance for three hours will cost, including tips, about $11. ‘Therefore, said Nichi Nichi, “the ordinary working man cannot play with the geisha hereafter, even in a third-class geisha establish ment.” Other tax increases will hit alcojholic beverages, sugar, all commodiSes except those -of “daily necesty,” amusements, transportation, |3€ juilding and ‘various miscellaneous pene

‘NEW SUPER MARKET OPENED BY KROGER

| The opening of a new super market at 620 Main St, Beech * Grove, today was announced by the ‘Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. | The building housing the market has’ ‘just been completed by the .owner. ‘and builder, William Mg Kinney, Beech Grove.

ing The store will be operated on a fications in a local tions. }

. gelf-service plan and a new, Cali‘fornia type shelving has been installed to make merchandise more accessible to customers.

Britain to Ease Food Rationing

J LONDON, Nov. 14 (U. P). — Next Monday British housewives will be able to buy canned meats, fish and beans, which have been . banned for the past few weeks, the Ministry of Food said. today. Also, the "weekly food ration will be increased from eight to 12 ounces per person and the fat ration will ‘be increased from

IN INDIANAPOLIS | ON: PAGE “EIGHT

‘When recruits at the Army reception center in New Cumberland, Pa, reach the end of the L-issning line this is what they see —and - morale gets a big boost. Pvt. Michael Mylak of Pittsburgh is PPprediating himself here.

GERMANS CLAIM GAINS IN IN GRIMEA

Renewal of Savon Severe Fighting On Moscow Front. Is .- Reported by Berlin.

BERLIN, Nov. 14‘ (U, P.).—Ger-

‘man dispatches’ today: reported re~ newal of - severe fighting against Red Army forces, including Mongolian ‘troops, on the Moscow front,

-land claimed that big fires were

started by air raids .on.the Soviet capital and that the Axis drive in the. Crimea was - battering - inta Kerch, The German - reports devoted most attention to -Crimea offensive! as the beginning of a push toward the Caucasus oil fields. The Nazis--were ‘reported ‘on’ the. outskirts of Kerch and said they were. making progress into the main defenses of the naval base of -Sevastopol behind - powerful gives bomber attacks.

ery aerial Rb. of Sevastopol was said to be breaking up the “frantic” efforts of the Russians to flee by water. A number of Ruso 120 1 evacuation’ ships were reported Ss . But on the central front it was asknowledged that fighting was growing more severe as a result of improved weather conditions and arrival of Soviet reinforcements from the East, Few Details Given -

Agency, Russian counter-attacks were repulsed on the Central front and ‘one German ‘infantry ' division stormed and captured 58 bunkers in heavy hand to hand fighting, breakthrough a line of enemy forti-

‘Another division, ‘after heavy fighting, took several ‘ villages ‘and advanced into a’. ‘Wooded . area, ‘the agency said. Both Moscow and Yaningrad were raided last night by the Luftwaffe, it: was said, causing ‘explosions and big* fires. (The German radio, heard by Sh Columbia Broadcasting System, said] | that “strong Soviet forces supported by tanks and planes” were repulsed 8 ihe Leningrad: front on Thufsyo) The German - dispatches said that the. Russians were fighting desperately on the Moscow front. “They. sit in superbly camouflaged. positions and still have all kinds of weapons,” one rg said. “These include a

one’ thas to be ghty. careful. 2

Walter Spangle, 53, died - today of |y

According to the Official News|

Ghrocket of hich sooo

STRUCK BY CAR. ON ROAD ; ; ELKHART, ‘Nov. 14 (U. P)—

received last night when he g was siruck by & ear driven by Don- | : Hipsher, -Mr.. Hipsher had [$omobile Bimmpied £5 pats hes Pers riding miles south

{halted the German offensive there] and that in: the last 24 hours the| Russians have recaptured 20. vil- terms

on the ‘southwestern Moscow |-

front, a stubborn push by Russian troops, according to correspondents

{of ‘Red Star, Russian Army organ,

cleared Germans

has completely the

from the eastern shores of

The Red Star report said stubborn fighting continues along “the front. with operations on

{the northern wing most active.

Russian air forces, said Red Star,

{have been pounding the “Germans heavily, inflicting ‘heavy losses on

German “troop concentrations. Nevertheless, it was said, the Germans have - assembled fresh tank units in the Volokolamsk sector and are 4 drawing reserves in. from other nts. e 2 A The morning. communique of the Soviet High Command’ said ‘there was heavy fighting on the whole front, ‘particularly in ‘the ‘northwest where Soviet . bombers smashed 32 Nazi’ guns and an * ammunition dump.

; Use New: Type of "Bomb

Fleets of Stormaviks—the speedy Russian equivalent of the ‘British Hurricanes and Spitfires—led the assault. . They’ were -blasting . German tanks and field forts with what Radio Moscow called “mad torpe~ does.” "These appeared. to be a new kind ‘of whirl-a-gig fire. bomb, heavy enough to crunch tank armor and Sivelayie 0 the machine with: blisterg flam - The Moscow counter-attack was directed from the Maloyaroslavets salient, southwest of the. city. A Vichy radio report, heard by the United Press listening post = here said the initiative at Maloyaroslavets and also at Mozhaisk a few miles to the north “seems to lie with the Russians. In the Crimea, Radio Moscow admitted very heavy fighting, particularly in the direction of Kerch and said - a German flanking maneuver had been blocked ‘with the ald of the Red banner Black Sea e “Afrcraft- of the fleet was credited with destroying 48 German planes, 20. t1 with infanfey supplies, many and: seven anti-air-craft batteries.

In the Barents. Sea, Russian naval forces were said to have sunk two transports of ‘9000 tons.- In - the Baltic three transports of 13,000 tons were Sunk.

< RAISE FLAG AT SHELL FACTORY

650 Builders Pause to v Affirm Patriotism; Invite Schricker. At 2 o'clock this afternoon, the

000,000 cartridge shell factory near Stout Field will pause ‘in ‘their labors to honor the American fiag and affirm their patriotism. The ceremony, to which Governor Schricker has been: invited, will be

port Brass Co., ‘an important unit in national defense and. the. largest of its kind in the world. 8

Stone and Webster Engineering Corp., project Sontsactors, -contributed to. buying the be raised ona 60-foot. pole at the project. "A"box. containing. the names of all employees and a scroll affirming the

patriotism: concrete base of the -pole. When it 1m full operation, about persons will be employed at: the

men who.are building a. new $101 on

at the rising factory of the Bridge- |

Six hundred fifty employees of |

of aircraft production has been,

~the expansion

it could not keep pace 'with such =

a rising line of requirements. Last January fewer than 90,000 men

were working in the industry, which had then 13 million square .:

feet of floor space in airerat factories.

Workers Increased

. ‘By June that had increased to 260,000 men, working: in 35 million square feet of factory space. By

October. the number of men was - £

well ‘above 300,000 and factory floor space was approaching 50 million ‘square feet. In 1942 U.S.

fighting aircraft enough to supply not only American, but. British, Russian, Dutch, Chinese and Latin American armies with definite air superiority over “any ‘enemy. - Today production of ‘warplanes

‘leaders. . contemplate - furnishing, |

in the ‘United States has just -

reached the: rate it: reached. in the World War, 23 years ago. In September the rate of out-

put, for the first time, passed

22,000 planes a year. At the end.

of the first World War, in the fall of 1918, U.S. factories were 'producing “at the rate of” 21,000 planes a year. Under war stress the aircraft industry had been ex‘panding then over a period of 18

’ Under defense stress it

of 18 months.

tories Meet -Complexities

true that ‘an airplane in A ‘was a simple and easily built machine as compared with

- the complex fighting ships of 1941.

On the: other hand factories of 1918 were not as well prepared, when the emergency ‘began, to build 1918 airplanes as factories of 1941 were prepared to build 1941 planes.

It has been largely forgotten

that in 1917 the Government called upon the airplane industry of America—which had never built more than 500 planes in a

single year—to produce 29,000

military planes, of which 20,000. were to be combat types, and that the airplane industry did build and deliver 9742 planes for the Army alone, plus some hundreds for the Navy, and great quantities of parts and engines for the Allies, before the war ended. When ‘the Armisticé was signed it was just hitting its stride for really large-scale production. The comparison serves only to ‘emphasize the fact that expansion takes time, regardless of the amount of money, materials and men available. At the peak of the 1018 effort there were 24 aircraft

companies in production on Gov-

ernment orders. Today: there are 33. aircfaft companies, 10 engine companies and four propeller companies. “Second Best’ Is Nil A Was Jesson of the present _war has-been that the ‘second best” air force in a war today is

Fx little better than no air force at

. An’ ‘enemy. with a superior. Abs force can inevitably destroy

the air force:that is inferior to

it, and take command of the skies. Germany's failure to achieve such superiority over Britain in 1940 is considered by many to have been ihe turning point of the. war. On that basis the United

1

This ‘chart’ peal (hie monthly rate of aire {1 production: Sines 1936 for the United States, England and the Axis. It show that the American proé iction rate already has surpassed that of Germany.

to be fought. Since no one knows in what plece ‘or. under what conditions United States ‘forces may have to fight a war, it has not been. possible to set a fixed point at which America will have adequate air powtr for vic-

"Most observers agree that American air power is inadequate for any war .in which American forces are likely to engage. American air power now consists of production capacity rasher than of warplanes in service.

Capacity Is: Doubled

“Since Jan. 1, 1041, thet production: capacity has heer, doubled, and some time in 1942 it is ‘expected to. be doubled ‘again. In the first eight moath; of 1941 " America’s aircraft industry produced 10,658 airplanes. It probably can deliver 8000. more by the end of this year. Without any further increase in capacity this rate of output would produce some 22,000 planes in 1942. | i But important nsw . factories are coming into produstion, and assured output of planss will be greatly increased in ®the ' early months of 1942. It is not unreasonable to expect a total production of 35,000 planes during that year. Added to 1941 production, that would amount :to well: over 50,000 turned out in 41-42, So far half, or more than: half, of U. 8. production: has ‘been of training planes. That proportion of trainers will decrease as production grows. But sissuming that half still continue to be training planes during 1642, a total of 25,000 or more fighting-type planes will have been turned cut by the.

end of that year. Ard behind |

them" will be industria. capacity sufficient to replace every one of them: every year. Not even the most” fantastic estimates = place. totalitarian air power beyond thai; - figure—and many plausible opinion; place it ‘as low as half that figure. ‘Once approximate equality in fighting * planes in actual service Is reached, Axis powers will be beaten in the! race for air supremacy—prime essential of war ‘victory. For their peak production smpacity can scarcely exceed half of U. S. production capacity. alone, regardless

which will |-

of all will be put into the}

‘The release of American ships Re aby. supplies.

to British. and other belligerent: ports ; important for: its Jong-range than for is lmmedinte

effect.

-will-be more

That 1s, it wilt play a big § 1943

end “overseas operations.” Lack of IDR

crevs, will be

bain , airplanes and miders, | Ee Tovar Horta 10 Britair American ships, mann ed by American

Bactfic, promising, mireorer, that if o|the United States had to fight]

| Japan, Britain would be n it “within the hour.”

| ‘One possible. decent pt be: “greater British “activity in} “| the ‘Mediterranean, In | Navy, knocked out, oat direct sea route

ea

‘already hard ‘hit, were

Micdle ‘East might

pect to be secure against invasion at home, and against. defeat’ ‘of American armies abroad. ”

.of what me 7 happen to British production. At that. pnt America may" ex-

i

sides agreed. to contintie before the 11: furore:

STRAUSS SAYS:

3

Ooops—sorryl The announcement is moved’ today—from page 3 to page 13.

We ta) readily derstand that the Editors of The Indianapolis © : Tings have varied world shaking mows Shi mational, Defense, Labor,