Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1941 — Page 24

FRIDAY, NOV. 28, 1941

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Inside | Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THE NEW COURT HOUSE idea is “blowing hot” ‘again, with someone resurrecting the skyscraper plan. William (Bud) Bosson, who will assume office Jan. 1 ‘as County Commissioner, has an idea that he thinks is better than that. His idea is to build a new ‘Court

House by sections. First he’d build - - a wing on Alabama St. then an-:

other on Market, St., and y a third along Delaware St. That would make a U-shape building. Then they’d ask the Legislature to authorize the County-to sell or lease to private business the site of the present century-old: Court House. Under the, plan, the first wing built would have an underground vault for County records, now os ~ stored precariously on the fourth Floor of the present building. Engineers have told the Commissioners that the records weigh eight times as Such as the fourth floor oghially was built to

We Three Kings’

A T-YEAR-OLD returned home from school the:

ail: day and flabbergasted his mother by singing a parody on one of the popular Christmas carols. He sang: “We three kings of the Orient are; beat me daddy, eight to the bar, while we're chasing Hedy LaMarr.” . . , School 38 at 2050 Winter Ave. has 35 graduates in the armed forces and the pupils there ‘plan to flood their old grad soldiers with greeting cards for Christmas. - Mrs. Hulda Kern is the prin-. cipal. . . . Karl Detzer, roving associate editor of Readers Digest, was in Indianapolis yesterday visiting - friends. He’s been spending the week in the State checking up on some possible stories. He's a former Fi Wayne boy. ;

Congrats, Louis

CONGRESSMAN LOUIS LUDLOW may nave a little opposition back home becausé of his non-inter-vention views, but it looks like he must be ‘doing all right in ‘Washington. A Bell Telephone ad in a

Washington newspaper announces that the newest telephone exchange there has been named “LUdlow.” The ad says it was named after “Brig. Gen. Wm. Ludlow, engineer commissioner of the: District of Columbia from 1886 to 1888,” but we’ll bet somebody in the phone company got mixed up, and it was our Louis after all. A large sign covering one of the walls of the Ford branch office at 1315 E. Washington St., has the word, “Youll” on it, and the tail of the Y swings iq f the right instead of the left. Looks odd as -all get out. ;

Mistaken Identity

THE CITY EDITOR sent. two staffers—Reporter Dick Lewis and Cameraman John Spicklemire—out to a certain address ¥Bsterday to get a story and picture. When they knocked, a woman came to the door, gave ;them a hasty glance, said, “No, I don’t want any,” and slammed the door. The boys knocked again. “Lady, we aren’t selling anything—we’re from The Times,” they chorused when she opened the door again. “Oh,” she replied, “I see now. I thought your camera was a basket of apples.” S’truth. .. . The

¢ ‘Insurance Bldg., at 8 E. Market St., has two names

now. Above the entrance it’s still the “Insurance Bldg.” ‘Signs beside the entrance proclaim it the “Jefferson National Bldg.”

Name Trouble

BILL EVANS, the Schools’ publicity director, is having “Bill Evans” trouble. His full name is William A. Evans. In the phone book there are eight other William Evanses listed, including another with the same middle initial. William Evans appears in the City Director 23 times. Naturally, Bill gets a lot of calls for other people with the same name. The climax came not so long dgo, it’s reported, when he received a letter from a Tudor Hall schoolgirl inviting

~ him to go to a dance. . .. Cannonball Baker spoke on : his racing experiences: the other night at the Friedens

Evangelical and Reformed Church. During his talk, and by numerous references to the subject, he revealed that what he likes best before, during and after a record run, is a-nice, big juick steak. After his talk, they served refreshments—not steak but coffee and doughnuts. \

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

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Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 ~The United States has turned back the pages four and a half years to offer Japan agdin an opportunity to make a peaceful settlement on the basis of the principles outlined

by Secretary Hull on July 16, 1937. ‘The present war oh China had begun less than two weeks before. Secretary Hull addressed a statement ‘of general principles of international conduct to every’ government in the world. It was. provoked, however, by Japanese aggressién in China. : Some 60 states replied. The Japanese never gave a clear-cut acceptance. It concurred in principle but stated a reservation to the effect that the objectives sought by Secretary Hull could be ‘obtained in the Far East only “by: a ful reSoanition and practical consideration of the actual particular circumstances of that region.” In other words, Japan insisted ‘upon being : allowed to go her own in China,

Let's Go Over. the Principles— -

BECAUSE THESE PRINCIPLES appear to ent

body the basic conditions of a peace settlement now, it is worth -while going over them again. Secretary

Hull's statément of our principles can be.’ condensed . Ching; the Burma Road, but the whole southern “archipelago, the rich storehouse of raw materials used ". by the entire world. ’

as follows: We advocate self-restraint, abstinence from force and from interference with internal affairs of other nations. We advocate settlement of problems by negotiation. We uphold the “sanctity of treaties, recognizing occasions for modification by peaceful methods. We advocate steps fo promote ‘economic security and stability the world over, and the lowering or removing of excessive -barriers in international

Aviation

~ PITTSBURGH, Nov. 28.—Along with the recent news of the sinking of the aircraft carrier Ark Royal

comes now the claim that the battleship Malaya was -

crippled by subs. The Malaya is the British battleship which limped into New York harbor and spent . some six months in one of our Navy drydocks recovering from a previous mauling by subs | and bombers. What's the matter with these

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huge, expensive" battleships, con= .

stantly in trouble. and. limping to foreign drydocks: because : their own drydocks are either destroyed or constantly harassed by air -bombardment? They. don’t seem. able’

to take care of themselves, much

less protect or defend a country or its shipping. \ It is an elementary military and naval maxim that “a force which cannot defend its own base cannot continue to exist.” But we seem to go right on building giant warships, a type of defense weapon which is constantly running away from other kinds of weapons and just as constantly out of commission or crippled.

Of . course, the advocates of building more and.

bigger. warships claim loudly that they can’t be sunk by air bombs. But what difference does it make whether a battleship can or cannot be sunk by an air bomb or a torpedo as long as the- enemy. can kesp - it in drydock and out of commission?

There Are‘Other Questions, Too

. Other national defense questions will have to be answered before it" is too late. According to British

and American naval experts and ‘political strategists, . the Germans have no navy. They have only a few.

big ships of any type. The British had the greatest

naval tonnage at the outbreak of this war, and we |

had the next greatest.

‘But from the start the Germans have been maul- :

ing British drydocks, navy yards and warships with their air and sub-sea weapons. Perhaps you don’t need a navy to lick a navy. Perhaps we had better

My Day

NEW YORK, Thursday.—There were more. young

Hole at the meeting at New York. University" yes terday’ than the auditorium would hold and I w sorry that Chancellor Chase, Mr, Rex Stout and | could not talk to those outside, as. ‘well as’ those. in

side, at the same time, I saw Sever: , persons. i ‘the morning, had ‘one’ other appoint- | ment in the: afternoon, did some tended the ‘night Yi RE f e 0] tainment in Madison Square Gar- | ‘den. t is an ex dif outpouring of talent of e .- There was not a vacant seat in the whole garden, as far as I could

see. One committee had collected

the money to pay for 1000 seats, which were filled by service men i who seemed most enthusiastic favorites came to the stage.

Guardia led 8 unique band in a unique 3 Dew fervor |

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By Raymond Clapper

"trade. We seek effective equality of commercial opportunity, and. urge. upon all nations equality of treatment. We believe in limitation and reduction of armament. To Japan's attempt to set up an exception in the Far East, Secretary Hull was firm. He replied that there could not be one code for one part of the world and a different one for another part. He urged Japan and China to settle their differences in. accordance , with the principles already stated. But about that time the Japanese extended hestilities to Shanghai, and thereafter the war continued to gpread. On. Oct. 6, 1937, Secretary Hull said the American Government had been forced to the conclusion that the ‘action of Japan in China was inconsistent with the principles that should govern relations between nations. He said Japan’s action was a violation of the nine-power treaty of 1922, and of the KelloggBriand pact by which nations pledged tnemselves not to resort to war.

Protes t—Protest—Protest

THE HISTORY OF JAPAN'S present’ fndich n the Far East shows this Government continually protesting—it began’ with. the Manchukuo affair ‘in 1931, under the Hoover Administration. Protest after protest. was made. But Japan never retreated. Always there was the breathing spell: nd then a forward march, until now she is.in Indo-China, with “only another move or two" intervening before directly "threatening not only the immediate supply line into

Throughout all this period the United States has relied upon persuasion and protest until recently when ‘a series of economic measures were put into

+ effect. . Not until a few months ago did we effectively

cut off war materials which had. been going from this

country to Japan, with. which she waged the. war 4 - that we were denouncing so vehemently,

By Maj. Al Williams

quit building the old type of .navy and lay in a heavy store of something else. We ought to have a few big warships around, until the changeover from the old type of seapower to the ‘new type of airpower and subs is thoroughly ‘proved, but we should not build any more marine dinosaurs. We need the right kind of war machinery on the land and sea and in the air: This country should be bristling ‘with modern ‘equipment, mechanized armies, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, and the most powerful air-| power in the world. It should be able to tell:Germany. and the whole world just where to get off and when.

About Italo: Balbo

THIS NEXT IS A SAD and a: happy. item for

me. It is about Italy’s late Air Marshal, Italo Balbo. A recent issue ‘of Time magazine retells the story, published in the Toronto (Canada) Star, of Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, R. A. F, commander in“Egypt at the time of Balbo’s death. Collishaw says: “When Air Marsha] Balbo was shot down in Libya last year, there were persistent rumors that he was killed on ‘orders from Italian higher-ups. “Far out in the desert some of our British armored-

_ car men were lost and dying of thirst and starvation.

. Balbo, who was: of impulsive and generous nature, heard of their plight and got into a bombing plane, took an’ escort of twe fighters and personally flew to the rescue of these British soldiers. Having picked “them up, he flew the troops to.an Italian hospital, then started back to Tobruk, his headquarters. _ “At the moment when Balbo came back over

_ Tobruk our forces opened a bombing attack on the town, a queer coincidence. Our men were bombing |

from :20,000 feet and Balbo flew in at 2000 feet. . . . When Balbo came over, an Italian cruiser in the harbor, . . opened fire and struck the Marshal’s plane ‘with a direct hit. . . . All this talk ‘about him having been betrayed into an ambush was utter rot, . . . He was really a first-class chap . .. and I'm glad of a chance to clear this business up.” .: :'There’s the truth from a Britisher, than whom there is no better sportsman and no more gallant enemy. I'm happy that it has come out, because Balbo was a fine leader and airman in his own right, Rd because 1 knew Him. 82.3 reel nam,

By Eleanor Roosevelt

As I thought of the people all over the world made homeless by war’s upheaval and s

\ all over again, I was thankful for the spirit of gen“erosity

os shown there. /e, are making préparations just now, in the Office’ ,of Civilian Doris for the ' celebration on Riis” of the 150th anniversary of the Bill of The additions ‘to our Constituton: known as: the Bill of, Rights were put there by the fathers of our country - to guard. our: liberties. -befere the Constitution could be - ‘We'“are, however, not’ alwa: should be to do more than give p service to this. bill : of Fights of ours, the: following story illustrates: “To the newest recruit on the OPM publicity ‘staff, .one day last week; capital life seemed rosy. His chief, Robert Horton, had entrusted him with. an important assignment; a rental agency had found -him a comfortable apariment, : “An evening call to sign his lease altered the out-| look. “Religious affiliation?’ the landlord inquired. ‘Jewish,’ he replied. | * “Stil apartment; huniing, the aid tis week put Q his_assignmen moting ‘the

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This is the first of a series of articles on the defense of Masa, now 3 vital Pacific area.

Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. : WHITE HORSE, Yukon Territory, Alaska, Nov. 28. —Looking back at the war from this point of view, a sawed-off mountain’ top under the Northern Lights, it appears that the most spectacular, if not the most important achievement in the United States’ defense .problem has been achieved by the Dominion of Canada on Canadian time and, believe it or not, with Canadian money. - For this frozen paradise is the keynote of a new and

amazing air route from the

United States to Alaska, or

say, from Kelly Field, Texas, to Tokyo; its ground paths

and landing fields have been

literally cut out ‘of an unex~

plored wilderness to trim 1000 miles or more off the transPacific crossing, to. .skip the menace of veiled mountain peaks and glacial ridges and to dupe the fickle weather

that hitherto has made flying in the north so hazardous

and uncertain,

‘Already, even in its unfinished state, it has brought the Klondike, which seemed farther away than the Pole, to within 21 hours’ flying Hime of Chicago. In some 60

days it has taken all the absurdity out of the dream of overnight transportation between the Great Lakes

region and the Arctic. Fast-service, regular-service, safe-service American bombers are getting up here now in a matter of a few hours, flying an interior route where there are fewer mountains than along the coastal skyways and the weather is more’ set in its ways. Tomorrow the ships of a wellmanaged commercial airline can be doing the same thing, although nobody seems to be thinking much ‘about that phase of the business just now. 2 »

Simple But Historic

A COUPLE OF DAYS ago a nice-looking lad named MacDougall threw a switch in the White Horse airport radio shack. There was no ceremony about it, no governors cutting ribbons, or driving gold spikes, nor anything like that. The only witnesses to the historic event were some painters and carpenters whose work is not quite finished. -" South. of .the border, 1000 miles away, it is hardly likely that any - patriotic American knew. what was going on, which is something

of a pity for the closing. of that

switch, meant just about as much to the “Pacific: Coast of thre United States as the launching of a cou ple of battleships. ; It turned on the power the

first of the #adio beam stations that in a few more weeks will be leading airplanes blindly, but unerringly, through night and fog and tempest and snow from, Calgary ‘to Nome,

Symbolically, this was the most

tremendous event that had oc< curred in the Yukon Territory since the discovery of gold. Prac<

tically, it was hardly less impor= -

tant for, while the other stations are still silent, the White Horse beam reaches out over the toughest section of the route, the taloned ; mountains

tween here and Watson Lake. It provides help where help is ‘most needed and takes the uncertainty. out of flying in a region where the crevasses are filled with the bones of venturesome aircraft. ” ” ”»

Weather Whipped

IN PERHAPS A MONTH all of the beam stations will be in operation between the United States border and the . tip of Alaska. After that no brand of weather except ice-forming sleet will halt flying. ‘The problem of getting electrical apparatus to the rernote fastness where operators and me-

chanics await them is unbeliev-

ably difficult, but Canada’s Department of. | Transportation promises that all installations. will . be completed by Jan. 1.

Some of the equipment is being

freighted ‘in by plane, some by dog team—a bizarre touch to the

that claw . through frosty cloudbanks be-

tp this - probable spot and ‘set up a campfor 100 workmen. Three hundred miles farther on, at Watson Lake, another group of hardy explorers followed supplies 3 from ' Vancouver to Wi : Alaska, by sea and thence, by. der. i vious river routes, to a a point 30

‘miles from the proposed. landing

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. aviation mewiy. rate, it’s coming in In the ‘meantime bombers | are moving over the route expeditiously without any beam, thanks to radio weather reports and two-way communication between ground and plane at all airports. Roughly, the course of the new skyway is northwest from Edmon.ton through the Peace River country to Ft. St. John, thence north to Watson Lake and west, with a ‘northerly drift, over the mountains to White Horse. There “are government fields at Edmon- : ton, Grande Prairie, Ft. St. John, Ft. Nelson, Watson Lake and White Horse, 250 to 300 miles apart, each a mile or so square. Each is equipped, or will be equipped: by next summer, with ‘two hard- aced runways, 4000 feet or more in length, long enough to accommodate the largest land planes so far produced.

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Each will have a beam station, a 400-watt radio transmitter, and a complete meteorological stations 2 8 »

Conquer Difficulties

ALL OF THIS has a reminiscent sound and when you listen to the engineers at Lethbridge or Edmonton you get the idea that the project is just about the same as any reasonably good minor league airways system the States. After awhile, however, you get out from the shadow of the statistics and after that the resemblance doesn’t seem so close. The transition from the familiar to the unfamiliar is not too abrupt. Edmonton, of course, is a modern city and the Govern- - ment airfield there is one of the biggest on the continent. Grande Prairie offers nothing in the way of novelty inasmuch as it is a typical western plains town on a railroad. . The airport building there in a normal season would be just about the same as.a similar job

field.

* They chopped a road through.

, the brush the rest of the r *and dragged their machinery into . a region that had been as inace cessible as Lhassa (Tibet) and as remote from Edmonton in time

"of travel as Punta Arenas (in.

Chile and world’s most. sou town). Startled Indians, hen. fore them wolves and squirrels, - came near to logk at them. ~ When you consider that none

of this mass invasion of the

never-never land started until: last March, with an oh

ally early spring near. at hand .

and the muskeg—the lisking. bogland — tay . soften in spots between Ft. se John and Pt. Nelson, the

res ofthe work Go date as

a tr cea 0 e job of and graveling and paving run could be completed a ios eb. Summen, in fact, this ©! e ‘project is furthest - oy completion but it is that the first work done at all the stations wag to provide a: temporary landing strip.

Pontoons Discarded

TODAY ALL the stations have: at least one graded and graveled: runway and plenty of excellent auxiliary landing space on the. roller-packed snow. This year, for the first time in the history of Canadian aviation, planes are | able to travel all the way from fe United States border to the on with wheeled landing gear | instead of EE The powerhouses and beam stations at all airports are vire

tually completed. The construce:

tion crews are now comfortably

housed and face’ another bitter = winter cheerfully. Winter means |

only ome thing to them—frozen |

ground that makes good going 4: for the tractors atl ‘eases the ' f

work.

Barracks and houses for the pere | !

manent airport staff, and operas. tions building, are almost ready for Seeupancy and could be ocs cupied in are.

is virtually a direct line from |

in Newton but at Ft. St. John ob.

old Hudson Bay trading post, 532 miles from Edmonton and 60 miles north of the Trailhead at Dawson Creek, you begin to get : a small idea of what it means to build even so elemental a as a flat place in a roadless wilderness. Trucking solved the problem at Ft. St. John but not the sort of trucking you'd see anywhere else. The route from Dawson Creek to this windy meadow was through a 60-mile stretch of rich and which has few equals in North America. During °

| the winter it was a trail of axle- | breaking roughness.

With the heavy rains of an unprecedented summer, it became a’ bog which the frosts of November have barely crusted over. A visitor, who saw trucks ‘stalled in

| the mud on a downhill pull, hesi-

| tated to think of what the trans- | portation costs are going .to add 3p to when it comes time to pay the bill,’ ® = =

First-Class Miracle

AND THAT was only the beginning.: Two hundred and fifty miles north lay Ft. Nelson. A

of British Columbia, where there are already installae

tions capable of landing miltary i

" planes of all types, ® & »

Santa Claus? You Bet

THESE AUXILIARY ports, with the American stations at Faire banks, Nome and Juneau, provide a cofnplete network for the aerial defense of the coast from Tolar] waters to Seattle, The joint defense board looked.

over this route in 1940 and they | decided it was a good one. Prie

vate interests south of the border offered to put in the Degeseaty. ped

fields and radio. stations. There "were unofficial suggestions that; inasmuch as the route was of advantage chiefly to ‘the United States, the American Gove ernment’ would: be willing to ade : Yance the money for the construce on. In face of all that, the Cane dians decided to do all the work and pay all the ‘bills themselves,’

Yes, Marjorie, there is a fata

Claus.

GUIANA OFFICIAL AILS SOLDIERS

(Governor Says U. S. Troops |

Join Dutch Populace ‘In Fight.

This ’ first ‘detailed account of the arrival of United States troops in Dutch Guiana {to protect valuable bauxite mines was written by Lieut. Col. Stanley J. Grogan, chief of the press section of the War Department’s Public Relations Bureau, who flew from

Washington Monday to report the

operation,

‘PARAMARIBO, 1 “Dutch Guiana, Nov. 28.—A United States Army task force is arriving to co-operate with Surinam - forces in protecting. bauxite mines

that furnish to America 60 ‘per: cent of. the metal so vital in the defense,

needs of the Western Hemisphere. Col. P..D. Pi

1force commander. Gov. J. C. Kielstra welcomed the United States forces personally and officially. In an order of the day to his troops. “to. the population, Governor Kielstra said: “Welcome the American troops

Gover Kielstra. also announced American troops were sent “to keep off under Netherland guidance the danger of the usurper, who oc~

cupied the mother country and who,

if he had a chance, would also try to *penetrate here and destroy the ‘{freedom of all the races who have “freedom for so many years under ‘the Dutch flag.” He called on the rinam forces to exert their trength to the stan

(Dutch Guiana)

, infantry, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is the task|

HOLD EVERYTHING

He also. stressed the fagt that erican were also assisting

freedom of religion. ‘Governor “placed. the Surinam tire ‘beside their United

States colleagues and called upon them for. courage and Pesisisney under 1 the most difficult of circumi-

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bruk, ‘under siege for Ao!

TOBRUK SIEGE BEGAN IN APRIL

Garrison Always Problem to

andria. Tob: the

‘has been a problem for armies. Its continued

possession by ‘the British meant tha§ Italians

the Germans and had to make wide sweeps around -the. fortress, traveling through swirling soft sand to reach. any forward forces operayng on ‘the Egyptian frontier. - ve oo

Axis as British Kept Up Supplies. /

: By UNITED PRESS ‘ The ‘strategic Libyart \ of Toeight months, has figured prominently in Middle Eastern warfare since Australian troops surged into the battered town and overpowered its 20,000 to 30,000 Italian defenders last Jan. 22. Yesterday beseiged British, Czech ‘and Pole forces stormed out of the beleaguered - garrison . and joined the main, column of Britain’s desert army 17 miles away. “The siege of Tobruk began officially last April 12 after the main British forces withdrew from North Africa in a ‘thwarted attempt to stem the. Axis advance “in the Balkans.

Strategic Naval Bae “The Jina garrison of British and

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‘who ‘remained | was Isolated completely.

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