Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1941 — Page 18

. - Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

officials soon will announce* aign to keep drunken drivers off the streets New Year's Eve. Under the plan, which siready has been tried and found popular in 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 they're 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 offi< cials interested in traffic safety as one way to reduce the year-end traffic toll.

From Tanks to Skates

' A DUTCH ARMY officer who hadn't been on ice skate s 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 Ey Van Ysseldyk, sent here by the Netherlands Purchasing 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,

probably 25 cases of ‘bottles, some ar and’ some empty, have disappeared. The empties bring a half dollar or so for each case. The mystery is how the thief to get them outside the building witn-~ out 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 I. A. C. He will be called on to give some first-hand glimpses of life in Uncle Sam’s Army.

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soon on dimly-lit taverns. They'll probably have to turn on more lights, even if it does run up the light bill. , . . The idea of canning tomato juice was born right 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 they 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 ast few days have been grumbling about the great quantities of broken glass on the streets. One motorist 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. . 4. The State Auto 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 year didn’t take out license plates. Some had junked their cars, but: most, probébly, had moved out of the state. No applica-| tions will be mailed to those owners year, saving the 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 affensernent, 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 ARis 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 ; ato Spain until the last few days. And now “we have had to stop it because we found it was

is policy has been decidedly unpopular with 2ome sections of American opinion. Some within the hment have Songidered it futile, if not: actually

ES are men of high ability, seasoned fucdgment ng experience in international relations. My nclination 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 having been a mistaken one. The proef of the failure is written in the events themselves. In spite of our easy policy, Japan continued her aggression and was moving steadily further southuntil we were compelled as a measure of punshment to tighten the blockade. Japan took advan-

“All Out’ For War

KUIBYSHEYV, Nov. 27.—Saviet, Russia is harneisitg ts 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 fess 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 alsolutely vital for day-to-day existence of the people, must be quickly converted to the produetion of war materials. It means that in the matter of food supplies and commodities the Red Army’s needs must be satisfied first in every case and that the fighting forces must be given the best of everything. ~The far-reaching changes wrought in the national économy ds a result of this harnessing of the nation 40 war effort is visible on all sides. Without a doubt a very heavy majority of all industrial enterprises in the country are now devoting all or part of their production to war'purposes and .the conversions of ‘other plants are taking place daily.

The Extent of the Changeover.

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

My Day

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

sic is by Roy Harris and the words by Archibald MacLeish. The last lines seem to me particularly fine: “Be proud, America, to bear the endless labor of the

strike Jor. freedom here everyw ,and everywhere

Few of us think of liberty as being the product of the “endless labor of the free,” and yet that is perhaps the first lesson which history teaches us. We may never relax in our vigilance if we are going to keep our freedom. I have just been reading a

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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.

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 empize 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 check this by allowing oil to go to Spain. There is some suspicion _ that this oil was in excesk of Spanish needs and has :'foum@ 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 relax 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 being 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 bf 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 wiih 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 interests 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 ivi 3 remarkable, increases in the output of defense goods in hundreds of industrial enterprises scattered over the Soviet rear. The policy of everything for the front has been carried guy with equal. intensity into the field of agriculturg. Many schemes for stepping up the production of llectives and the delivery of their harvests are pushed by the state.

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By Elinor Roosevelt

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‘children unprotected while they are at work. The overcrowding in some communities means the chil ‘are playing in the R;straets because there

is no play space, or school space One of the things ed by this conference was the ra DET community Drograms for da nurseries, child centers, housekeeper service and ny me ual equnseling. service, Iv is suggested that nursery schools and nursery cen ters Should Bot be lossted in Industrial plants, “but, should comm! -agencies serving the community as a whole. Infants should be given individual care, preferably ¥ their own

ing standards for personnel and equipment and pro--grams. An Inter-agency committee has been cfeated and is continuing to study this question.

YOU CAN LOOK for the A B. C. to crack down|,

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homes: nee aso the necessity of maintain- Office

those “in unities meet comm Eaeeting Sale

Writer Vi wild Melee in Tank Clashes

"By RICHARD. MOWRER Cope na Cisbagn Daily News, ne" ON THE LIBYA} EGYPTIAN FRONTIE] Nov. 27.—The past week ferocious, astounding mobile and confusing de ert fighting seems bou: to reach a decisive climax soon, : The situation has been described by the military as “rather confused.” Your correspondent can substan--tiate that.

The thing -to remember about the campaign is simply that, ‘he desert ‘s a mighty big place gnd there is room for everyhody. Fix cept for your correspondent oi sonlly, there has been no general retreat. Supply colt have been attacked and one mi; ny say that there has been plenty movement here, there and everywhere. One evening when Gerrian tanks staged a surprise blitz on the brigade Ep where your correspondeng- happened to be, displacement to another piace seemed essential and was ; ‘ out. Two mornings later, the artillery, which was not sup » be where it was, began shel the place where your correspc hg ent happened to be, so extrsme molibity was again resumed. Yet, ‘while the big desert f: seems to be a picture of er clements within -encircleme with considerable confusion & ed, one thing is clear: The clashes between the British 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 gr at=est tank battlefield of North 5

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rica, the scene of the Germans first counterattack which caused the slowdown of this o: fem: sive. Monday evening, following] an ali-day advance, a British Bloor brigade, which is equipped American tanks, reached a rin of ground from which we coulc see the enemy on the .opposite| escarpment. Through glasses we could see the Germans walking around against the skyline and the blurred shapes. of vehicles moving east and west. BeloW| was * a German airdrome. While American tanks tacked the German antiguns on the airdrome and chined-gunned“ their personnel, British artillery shelled enemy trucks and British boribers bombed. There was much sinoke and the Germans added to it by setting a smokescreen. Back at brigade headquerters three grimy members of the crew of an American tank topiried. Their tank had gone up in smoke on the airdrome, they said; and their commander had told [them to report to brigade HQ. 2 ”® os

A Surprise Attack

“THE COMMANDER jumped into another tank as the |gunner,” they explained. “The other tank's gunner was shell-shsked. The Jerries are moving 10%’s to the top of the escarpment.” | We confirmed this a few minutes later as we wandered along wc

BRITISH PROBE PILOTS’ ESCAPE] _

Nazis Steal RAF: lane, ‘Retaken When Ship hos Out of Fuel. |

’ LONDON, Nov. 27. (U, P.) ~The War Office and Air Ministry began separate investigations todzy into the circumstances which tted two escaped German pilots to enter an airdrome unchallenged and fly 250 miles in a stolen training plane e before a fuel shortage foreeh them to land. ’ The German pilots—who presum-

attank ma-

were forced down near a R Force airdrome close to the east coast.. They posed as Dutchmen en route to the Dutch Coast ‘0 bomb

ered vercoat the

was revealed when it was di

buttons in tinfoil to disg insignia. Underneath they. : uniform of the German L

Court Martial Hintel

negligent persons who permit-

stolen e was’ Jessive rie: piace

German shipping, but their identity | is

the| iffe. |

Courts martial were predicted for : id aoe 5 ee :

cir-

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

the ridge watching the" British guns fire. The German shells fell short but we arove nack a mile 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 flark, 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 Srmor-piereing shells ‘were ing all

“office: : 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 irito 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 agd west of us with the known enemy positions’ just a bit to the north— almost surrounded. The enemy was firing from three sides; taiiks from the south and west, and artillery from the north. A few yards from our speeding truck the earth kicked up. might have been a tank’s armorpiercing shelly The herd of vehicles swerved northward when

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. (U. P). —From the Carolina war gemes area comes the tale of a. self-confi-dent general who ordered a nearly dry river bed filled so his soldiers oe build a pontoon bridge across

temporary office in Atlanta to supervise power rationing because of the serious drought situation in the

(whose name was not revealed) led his army to the banks of the Pee Dee River and found the water too

HOLD EVERYTHING _

over the.

' ‘The OPM, which has set up a

South, reported that the general

_ 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 f{ires—or any other 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 ~someébody sald there were 53 German tanks. - AB we dashed eatviatit ihe herd of vehicles: thinned 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 anti-tank guns

to cover the retteat of the rest .

of us. 2 ; 2 » . 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 crash-

ing, into one another. For some

time we drove on in a more

enemy machine guns

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 nat ta 2NaT: Everything. that moved on the skyHine,” every ‘column’ of ‘dust’ Hol | YOSE es ah “was. carefully. scatined with field gassed by the men in the tank turr

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

southeasterly direction. Then we . mobility that the remnants of the

stopped. We learned later that the Germans were driven oft from the camp. We are attached to the formation’s supply column. The other dey, after crossing. criss-cross tank tracks on the ground and passing burnft-out hulks of

General Orders River Filled So Men Can Build a Bridge

Tow for the pontoon bridge needed|

to ‘transport his motor units.

He called th¢ Duke Power Co., which had a power ds dam 3a. short distance upstream, ted that enough water hs ig released to make the bridge feasible. ‘Enough water for some 65,000 kilowatts of power was sent down the rivgr for the general. This incident in the maneuvers does not represent a serious waste of water, OPM officials declared, but they and the Army hoped it would not be repeatal. /

ably had fled an internment camp—| al Air]

battle are scattered far and wide. We came upon an abandoned

German motorcycle turned over on -

its side and, farther off, found a .German medium tank which a shell from an American tank had pnt out, of action when it struck .

the tank’s motor, in the rear. The

VICHY AND lL S.

Lend-Lease Extension | to Free French New Low In. Relations.

: By PAUL GHALI Copyright, 1 1041 ae The 8 Indianapolis nes

VICHY, i 27—Extension of the lend-lease act to’ the Free

| French forces of Gen. Charles De

Gaulle, which came as a sedhel’ to the recall of North African Pro-

Consul Gen. Maxime Weygand by |1= ‘|the Vichy authorities, marks an-}

other low point in Franco-American official relations.

wy ~ Ladd, pers at 7 p: m. tonight in the First

American M-3's are fast, capable 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 maneu~ verability, their high velocity guns and, above all, the almost absolute. absence of | breakdown. The British have been using Me 3's to smash into head-on bate tles with the enemy’s larger tanks.

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A Strange Sight

BEFORE THE FORMATION

a strange sight. An open car with two men sitting in the front seat, . / drove foward 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 looked 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 al most 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 in fantry either. Some South African units have been fighting for three days against enemy armored rces.

MOVIE AND ‘TALKS

Movies of South America will ‘be shown and

United Lutheran Church. “ Dr. and Ladd have traveled

extensively in South America. Mrs, Ladd also will talk. The meeting will