Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1941 — Page 17

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum |

remy RATLLWAY officials soon will announce: probably 35 cases’ of (bottles, some full and some

a “charter & bus” cam to keep drunken drivers off the streets New Year's Eve. ! Under the plan, which already has | been tried i found popular = other cities, groups that expect to be ‘moving from place to place ‘sometimes from a private home to a club—can charter a bus for the evening. The bus driver will wait until the group is ready to move on to another place. ‘And when theyre all done for the night—say 3 or

4 a. m—the bus driver will drop

them off at their respective homes, just like taxicab service. The price is expected to be low, too, maybe $10 or $15 for all evening, with as many passengers as the bus will seat. The plan is reported to have the approval of several public officials interested in traffic safety as cne way to reduce the year-end traffic toll.

From Tanks to Skates

A DUTCH ARMY officer who hadn't been on ice skates since his boyhood in Holland, had an enjoyable time the other evening at the Coliseum getting accustomed to ice all over again. He is Major E

chasing Commission to inspect Marmon-Herrington tanks being built for service in the Dutch East Indies. The Major has been stationed at Java the last 17 years and there isn’t much ice there. Assigned to aid the Purchasing Commission, he flew from Java ‘to Australia, took a boat to Los Angeles, flew to New York, and three hours after he got there was notified to hop the next plane .to Indianapolis.

Blind Man Robbed

A SNEAK THIEF has been victimizing the blind man who operates a “coke” dispensing machine on the second floor of the State House. Employees of the building tell us that within the last month,

1 Van Ysseldyk, sent ‘here by the Netherlands Pur- tities of broken glass on the streets. One motorist

empty, have disappeared. The empties bring a half dollar or so for each case. The mystery is how the thief manages to/get them outside the building: without being noticed. . ... Adjutant General Elmer F. (Pete) Straub, back on the job again after nearly a year in active service with the 38th Division, will be given a big hand.at the Phi Kappa Psi annual state meeting and banquet Saturday evening at the 1. A. C. He will be called on to give some first-hand glimpses of life in Uncle Sam’s Army.

Turn on the Light

YOU CAN L0OK tor the 8. C.1 soon on dimly-lit taverns. They'll |

. « « The idea of canning tomato or was born _ here in' Indiana—at Frankfort, to be exact— according to Howard Caldwell of the Caldwell-Baker advertising agency. It seems that a Frankfort pediatrician met an official of a Frankfort canning plant one day and asked why piney didn’t’ put up some canned tomato juice for his patients, Howard says. That started it. Now it's one of the State's substantial’ industries.

Broken Glass.

MOTORISTS .USING East Side streets the tast]

few days have been grumbling about the great quan-

said he saw patches of broken glass Monday on E. Michigan, New York and N. Rural Sts. Sherman Drive and Brookside Pkwy. It was still there yesterday, he added. There has been glass at 43d and Washington Blvd. several days, too. Hey, Mr. Winship. . #. The State sAuto License Division, getting ready to mail license applications to car owners, has found a way to save about $1800. They've checked through the title records and found that 60,000 of those receiving applications last didn’t take out license plates. Some had junked their cars, but most,

probiuly, had moved out of the state. No applica=-| year, saving|

will be mailed to those owners this uz State 60,000 three-cent stamps—Congress please note!

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

Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The State Department has been following a generous policy toward Japan, Vichy France and pro-Nazi Spain. This has been described by critics in.and out of the Administration as appeasement. The policy roughly has been to cultivate these pro-Axis governments, to do them favors, to treat them generously, hoping to win them from the Axis or induce them to slow down on collaboration with the Axis and play our game as much as possible. It has been a policy of doing favors in the hope of having the favors reciprocated. For a long time we sent oil and material to Japan, and we began to shut down only after new aggression by Japan. We have sent oil, food and other supplies into Vichy’s North African colonies and into Spain until the last few days. And now “we have had to stop it because we found it was getting us nowhere. © This policy has been decidedly unpopular with some sections of American opinion. Some within the Government have considered it futile, if not: actually harmful to American interests.

A Mistaken Policy

SECRETARY HULL AND UNDER-SECRETARY . WELLES are men of high ability, seasoned judgment and long experience in international relations. My own inclination has been to give them the benefit of the doubt in this policy, as they knew much more about the facts with which they were dealing than I could possibly know. In these matters one must take a good deal on faith and wait for the results. In this case the results have not justified the policy. On that basis the policy must be put down as having been a mistaken one. The proof of the failure is written in the events themselves. In spite of our easy policy, Japan continued her aggression and was moving steadily further south until we were compelled as a measure of pun{shment to tighten the blockade. Japan tock advan-

‘All Out’ For War

_ KUIBYSHEV, Nov. 27.—Soviet Russia is harnessing its industry, its agricultural resources, and its manpower to the needs of war with a rapidity and completeness which would be hardly possible in| a country less| centralized than this one. . / publicized slogan of the Soviet Union these days is “Everything for the Front.” Ceaselessly these words are dinned into the public mind. You hear them in speeches, you see them on posters, you read them in the newspapers. It is more than a request, it is a command. “Everything for the Front” in Russia means that every war industry must strain itself to achieve maximum production and that every plant manufacturing consumption goods which are not shealutely vital for day-to-day existence of the people, must be quickly converted to the production of war materials. It means that in the matter of food supplies and commodities the Red Army’s' needs must be satisfied

production to war'purposes and .the conversions of other plants are taking place daily,

The Estent of the Changeover

A FACTORY WHICH before the war made kitchen today is manufacturing grenades. A toy factory builds casings for mines. A tea kettle works makes bombs. A toothbrush factory forges iron tanks agricul obstacles. A bedmaking plant has been stream- . ‘to produce barbed wire. Artillery shells are in a stream from a. plant which formerly

My Day

.. NEW YORK, Wednesday.—A very delightful song, reeds Land,” has just been sent me. The mu-

sic The last lines Seem to me particularly fine: pe biond, America, to bear the endless labor of the

To strike for freedom everywhere and everywhere

bear liberty.” a Few of us think of liberty as the Profuse of the “endless

The most widely »

By Raymond Clapper

tage of the easy policy as long as she could and then became abusive when we refused to continue it. She showed no disposition to reciprocate while we were allowing supplies to go to her, and only became more ugly when the spigot was turned off. The policy didn’t do anything except supply Japan with materials which were essential to her war effort. We have learned that when the militarists in Japan want an excuse they find it regardless of what our policy might be. AN

The Test Comes on Japan

WE SUPPLIED OIL and other materials to French North Africa in the hope of cultivating the favor of Gen, Weygand. The object was to wean him from Vichy in the hope that eventually he would break and throw his North African section of the French empire to the Allied side. When the Germans decided the time had come, they pulled the chain and overnight Gen. Weygand was washed down the drain and we were left without our potential friend. We then cut off exports to French North Africa. It is said we gained time. We gained only so much time as Hitler cared to allow and no more. ‘In addition we supplied a large quantity of materials to a territory which is now in Hitler’s grasp. We have known all along that Spain was playing ball with Hitler. But we thought to ¢heck this hy allowing oil to go to Spain. There is some suspicion that this oil was in excess of Spanish needs and has found its way into Axis hands. We don’t know much about what has actually happened to it. So within

the last few days we have revoked export licenses|-

for oil to Spain. Reluctantly, and after long delay, the State Department has acquiesced in the view which many groups have had for a long time that it 1s a waste of time to try to play ball with Axis and pro-Axis countries. It has become clear that such efforts mean only one thing. We are used by the other side. ' We have learned our lesson so far as Vichy is concerned. It remains to be seen whether we have learned it with regard to Japan. The test will be whether we shan the economic squeeze which has been applied during the last few months for anything short of an improbable reversal of Japanese policy.

By A. T. Steele;

made radio sets. A pencil factory fashions spades. Textile machinery weaves uniforms for troops. Even the workshops and laboratories of schools and institutes are beihg utilized for the manufacture of such items as shells, anti-tank guns and gas masks. The equipment of all factories has been closely! surveyed with a view to obtaining maximum variety and amount of output, from existing machinery. Thus a ‘plant at Sverdlovsk, which formerly made only two types of munitions, today is making 14. To compensate partially for heavy losses in equipment in the path of the German advance, the Government is . continually urging war industries to squeeze the maximum utility out of their machinery. through rationalization of methods, avoidance of waste and speeding up of all processes. In many cases discarded or wornout machinery is| resuscitated and restored to use. Special encouragement has been given to the development of local substitutes for materials which are unavailable or must be transported over great distances. Naturally this intensive concentration on war industries has made it necessary to reduce or suspend production of numerous types of consumption goods not regarded as absolutely vital.

Task Is Prodigious One

THE KUIBYSHEV NEWSPAPER, Volga Commune, reflects the Government’s attitude in declaring that “industry must identify itself with the eo of the front, and only those. Everything which does not concern the front and does not satisfy the needs of the front must be put aside.” It is not surprising that these intensive war ~measures have brought substantial, and in some goon. 4 remarkable, increases in the output of defense goods in hundreds of industrial enterprises scattered over the Soviet rear. is The policy of everything for the front has been carried ag, — equal ISRSIY into the field of any emes for stepping up the pro- - duction of collectives and the delivery of their harvests are being pushed by the state:

Copia 941 ole The v News: “the. id and the Dailv News, In

By Elion Roosevelt

aD somé communities means? ihe children are playing in de streets because there is no play space, eo Shace One of the

wild ts Xiu ir Tank Clashes

'By RICHARD. MOWRE Con ad "na Chtcaen Daily News, 1 Tmes

ON THE LIBYAN-

Nov. 27.—The past week's ferocious, astoundir| ly mobile and confusing desert fighting seems hoped to reach a decisive cli ax soon. : The situation has b described by the militar; “rather confused.” Y correspondent can substan--tiate that. aout

desert ‘s a mighty big place there is room for everyhody. correspondent

movement here, there and e where. One evening: when tanks staged 3 the brigade headquarters vihere your correspondent happene be, displacement to another place seemed essential. and was ca out. Two mornings later, the artillery, which was not supposad to’ be where it was, began shelling the place where your correspiondent happened to be, so extreme molibity was again resumed. Yet, while the big desert seems. to be a picture of encirclements within -encirclenients, ‘with considerable confusion added, one thing is clear: © The clashes between the B and Axis armored forces have been extremenly violent—so ‘much that motorized infantry may ‘decide the issue.

Sighting the Enemy

Sidi Rasegh ‘is now the greatest tank battlefield of North Africa, the scene of the Germans’ first counterattack which | has caused the slowdown of this dffensive. Monday evening, following an all-day advance, a British motor brigade, which is equipped | with Anierican tanks, reached a rim of. ground from which we coulfl see the enemy on the .opposite escarpment. Through glasses we could see the Germans welking around against the skyline and the “blurred shapes of ve moving east and west. Belo? a German airdrome. : While American tanks attacked the German anti-tank guns on the airdrome and ma-chined-gunned their personnel, British artillery shelled ¢nemy trucks and British bombers bombed. There was much smoke and the Germans added fo|it by setting a smokescreen. Back at brigade headquarters three grimy members of the crew of an American tank reported. Their tank had gone up in smoke on the airdrome, they said, and their commander had told them to report to brigade HQ. | 2 s 2

A Surprise Attack

“THE COMMANDER j: into another tank as the gunner,” they explained. “The; other tank’s gunner was Seliaved The Jerries are moving 105s to the top of the escarpment.” We confirmed this a few utes later as we wandered

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the ridge watching the" British guns fire. The German shells fell

short but we arove pack a miie or

so to headquarters. As we en-

tered the area where the bri-

‘gade had gathered preparatory to coming into Lager at nightfall, I noticed a line of tanks moving in from the south. It looked as if the medium tanks of another British unit, supposed to be on our left flank, were joining up with us. Or were they going on north to attack? They" were within a few hundred yards from the edge of our .encampment, moving slowly. Suddenly. bullets and armor-piercing

shells ‘were zipping all over the.

“brigadier - Fothice: ck signalled for all vehicles to get out. I saw a British officer. run across the line of fire holding up a flag, indication the direction in which the brigade’s vehicles should go. The whole camp seemed to get into motion in the midst of the bedlam of the firing and of the roaring motors. »

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LYING IN- THE BACK gf our

press truck, we bounced along with the rest like a stampeding herd. We seemed wedged by enemy tanks on the south apd west of us with the known enemy positions just a bit to the north— almost surrounded. The enemy was firing from three sides; tafiks

from the south and west, and artillery from the north. A few yards from our speeding

truck the earth kicked up. It

might have been a tank’s armorpiercing shell., The herd of Vehicles swerved northward when

. tracers were suddenly fired from

the south in greater intensity. Then from the north, soon after we got out of the artillery barrage, opened up and we swerved eastward again. The machine guns sounded close but the bullets did not hit our tires—or any Stier place. Darkness fell and the sound of firing continued but we drew away from the enemy. We learned. later that while the vehicles were clearing out of camp some American tanks and artillery were beating off the German tank attack —somebody said there were 53 German taiks. As we dashed twarid the nerd of .vehicles: ts out while the Germans” sent up Very lights from the south, which seemed to indicate that they were trying to hem us in against their lines to the north, But we drew away until our officer stopped the vehicles on the edge of a wadi and set up some anti-tank guns

to cover the reiteat of the rest .

of us.

Scene of Battle

THE ANTI-TANK GUNS .stayed, and the rest of the vehicles, including ourselves, went -on. A small moon .gave just enough glow to prevent our crashing, into one ancther. For some time we. drove on in a more southeasterly direction. Then we

stopped. We learned later that .

the Germans were driven off from the camp. We are attached to the formation’s supply column. The other day, after crossing ‘criss-cross tank tracks on the ground and passing burnt-out hulks of

enemy machine guns

German

smashed-in tanks, we came to a nameless place in the desert. ‘There had been a battle here. On a slight rise of ground the men had just buried a young captain of a tank corps near his tank, which had been hit. A couple of hundred yards off, 11 German prisoners: were sitting on the ground in a bunch, looking pretty dejected. One of them had been struck by shrapnel on the lip, and another had a machine-gun bullet through the arm. The just sat there, by themselves, and nobody was bothering about them. ‘The enemy ‘was not far away. Everything that moved on the sky“Hine,” every column’ “of “aust ‘that . rose. in the-sky, “wag. carefully. scatined with field glassed by the men in the tank turrets.

| Wreckage Everywhere

WHILE ‘THE TANKS refueled, we wandered over this little bit of the immense battlefield in the desert. One can go for miles and still see remnants of the battle— smashed tanks, shells lying on the ground, discarded fuel tanks and

always the scars of tank treads ripping up the ground where the ‘steel monsters had made a sudden, skidding turn. This battlefield is so roomy and tank fighting requires;such mobility that the remnants of the ‘battle are scattered far and wide. We came upon an abandoned German motorcycle turned over on its side and, farther off, found a medium tank which a shell from an American tank had put out, of action when it struck the tank's motor, in he x rear. The

A British tank . . , the interior gets so hot it cannot be touched with gloves.

American M-3’s are fast, “eapablel of ‘more than 30 miles an hour and they go beautifully on the flat des= est Surface. Britishers who fight in them are lyrical in their praise of the Me 3's. They like the tank’s maneue verability, their high velocity guns and, above all, the almost absolute. absence of mechanical breakdown. : The British have been usihg M3's to smash into head-on bate tles with the enemy’s larger tanks.

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A Strange Sight

BEFORE THE FORMATION

ully © pushed on forward, we witnessed

a strange sight. An open dar with two men sitting in the front seat, . drove ‘toward us, with an Ameri-

" can tank rumbling along right bee

hind it. The tank’s gun looked al ” most as if it were prodding the car

along. The men in the car were.

Germans. They locked unhappy. The tank men have been taking . a terrific pounding in this battle, The steel interior of their machines has gotten so hot that it ° could not . be touched without gloves. The heat of the interior of the tanks on the desert is almost unbearable. The men not only have had to face enemy tanks they have fought around land mines, booby traps,/ tank traps and tank fences—not to mention enemy anti-tank guns and heavy artillery, often at point blank "range. It has not been easy for the infantry either. Some South African units have been fighting for three days against enemy armored forces. ;

BRITISH PROBE PILOTS’ ESCAPE|

Nazis Steal RAF. Plane, Retaken When Ship Runs Out of Fuel.

LONDON, Nov. 27. (U, P).—The War Office and Air Ministry began separate investigations today into the circumstances which permitted two escaped German pilots i an airdrome unchallenged and fly 250 miles in a stolen trainirig plane e | before a fuel, shortage forced them

The German pilots—who presum-

they had wrapped their pov buttons in tinfoil to disgiise

uniform of the German Luftwaffe. Court Martial E

olen plane was received vale the airmen were -|and dining at R.A. F. jo! commandment ot ‘the

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Sots martial were srcdidiod for | | negligent persons who permitd. RS ee pote. i to escape. It was re-| t the first. of the as. Diitchmen, |

thereupon ordered them spore inet overcoats. Sl

General Orders River Filled So Men Can Build a Bridge

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. (U. P.). —From the Carolina war games area comes the tale of a. self-confi-dent general who ordered. a nearly dry river bed filled so his soldiers id) build a pontoon bridge across ‘The OPM, which has set up a temporary office .in Atlanta to supervise power rationing becsuse of the serious drought situation in the South, reported that the general (whose name was not revealed) led his army to the banks of the Pee Dee River and found the water too

HOLD EVERYTHING

low for the pontoon bridge needed to ‘transport his motor units.

He called the Duke Power Co., which had a power dam a short distance upstream, and insisted that enough water should be released to make the bridge feasible. Enough water for some 65000 kilowatts of power was sent down the rivgr for the general. This incident in the maneuvers does not represent g serious waste of water, OPM officials declared, but they and the Army hoped it would not be Pepeated. :

ably had fled an internment camp—{ rr

VICHY AND U. RIFT WIDENS|

Lend-Lease Extension to Free French New Low In Relations. By PAUL GHALI

VICHY, Nov. Ch ing of the lend-lease act to’ the Free

French forces of Gen. Charles De

Gaulle, which came as a sedtel’ to the recall of North African ProConsul Gen. Maxime Weygand by

‘|the Vichy authorities, marks an-} |

other low point in France-Amerian official relations. The French declare that thes are waiting for an official announcement before adopting a position on the question. A conspiracy of silence still prevails here on Franco-German rela-' tions. Nothing can be ‘said concerning Vichy’s reactions to ‘the:enlarged signature of the Anti-Comin= tern Pact at the 13-counfry conference in to which it seems France was not invited. According to the Berlin corre-

spondent of La Suise of Gereva,| W | Berlin circles declaré that the pure-|

MOVIE AND TALKS TO BE PRESENTED

Movies of South America will shown and explained by Dr. Ira Ladd, Louisville, Ky., at spécial ves; pers at 7 p. m. tonight in the { United Lutheran Church. Dr. and ‘Mrs. Ladd have travel extensively in South America. Mr Ladd also will talk. The meeting be in charge of the Rev. Arthur Mahr, pastor. a A dinner will precede the

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duce France to participate in

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