Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1941 — Page 15

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1941 SECOND SECTION

.nside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

'N THE LONG LINEUP in front of the defense bo | window at the Postoffice yesterday was George Ire bh, 2009 Carrollton Ave As the clérk took his mo 'y, Mr. Irwin, who fought in the World War, rem rked: “My boy was at Pearl Harbor Sunday, I think, and I decided I'd better get down here and back him up with some bonds.” The last word he had from his son, George E. Irwin, was aboard the U. S. S. St. Louis, a light cruiser, at Pearl Harbor.

Some of our North Siders have been worrying over what became of the street signs on E. 59th St. between Carrollton and Keystone. So did we, so we asked: Charles O'Brien of the City Engineer’s office informs us they had just put up a few new signs when City Council received an ordinance changing the name of the street to Kessler Blvd, to match the name farther out. So the new signs were removed to avoid confusion, said he. Council will be acting on the ordinance soon, we hope, and the new signs ought to be up early next month.

The Dime Business

THE PANHANDLERS seem to be doing right well, now that prosperity and the Christmas spirit are with us. Varied are the devices they use to wheedle the now lowly dime. For instance, theres the sad-looking fellow who inquires the way to the Veterans’ Hospital, and mumbles something about his stomach. When you direct him to the Monument Circle bus station, he says, rather apolegetically, he wants to walk—"“just got in from Evansville and haven't a dime.” And when you sympathetically slip him a dime, or so, he starts walking rapidly -—away from the Circle. . . And then theres the dapper bird who struts down the street, swing-

ing a cane, addresses you as “Hi, there, on" just as if hed known you all his life. He chats familiarly, mumbles something about working in the mechanical department of one of the papers, suggests “you used to work there, too, didn’t you?” That's usually good for a quarter, at least. Wonder what'd happen if you'd offer one of these birds a job.

We'd Hang Up

ST. MARK'S United Lutheran Church, Prospect and Linden Sts, has erected a bronze tablet in the church. On it are the nmes of 13 young men, members of the church, now serving with the U. S. forces. . . . Ned Teany, physical director of ‘the Indianapolis Athletic Club, is getting tired of wisec Ned's office is next to the gymnasium. When he answers the phone, “Gym,” most people crack: “Jim who?” He tried saying, “Gymnasium,” but that brought cracks, too. Well, Ned, why not just say, “Hello?” A. E. Martin, the I. A C. manager, is back from St. Petersburg, Fla, all rested up and with a nice coat of tan. He got back just in time to start planning for the club's 18th anniversary next month. They'll have a whole week of goings on,

Cracking Down

A HOME TOWNER working at the powder plant at Charlestown was back in the city overnight and told us they've really started cracking down at the plant since the Japanese attacked. You used to just flash your pass and walk on through the gate and that was that, he said, but this week the guards began giving you a good looking over. If the pass says blue eves, you'd better have blue eyes, and if it says light brown hair, it had better not be black. Our home towner said he was stopped six times by guards as he walked from one building to another on the grounds of the powder plant,

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

Washington

WASHINGTON. Dec. 10.—Now that we are at war, all of us are compelled to readjust ourselves. Forty-eight hours ago, an air-raid warden’s knock gt your door might have been just an annoyance. Now it must be respected. Who am I or who are you to sav it is silly, as most of us thought it was day before yesterday? We must now begin practice training in conducting ourselves as wartime citizens. We must give the benefit of the doubt to the Government, Some changes must take place in the work of us in the newspaper business. Just as some changes must take place in your attitude as a newspaper reader. What was legitimate reporting or speculation 48 hours ago may now be prohibited because it might be of value to the enemy. The safety of the nation, and victory in the war, now must ride roughshod over some of the freedom we have enjoved. For & while we must give the Government the benefit of the doubt. We must give President Roosevelt and his military machine time to get going without distracting them by screeching from the sidelines.

Take Rumors in Stride

TAKE THESE rumors in your stride for the moment. The Government would like to tell us more about the damage suffered in the first Japanese attack. But it must not give away infermation that would help Japan. - Washington is full of rumors. There are questions about the Army and Navy. Were they caught off guard, taking it easy on a Sunday morning? but How could so many of our planes have been damaged on the ground if they had been alert to take the air at the first warning of danger or if they had been dispersed on the ground in the manner which I observed on R. A. F, fields in England? Were our ships unduly congregated in the harbor over the week-end instead of being out where they would have been less vulnerable targets? Those are the questions being asked. Judgment must be reserved because we do not know the facts. We are in the midst of a battle. This is not the

Tojo’s Dragons

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Gen. Hideki Tojo, the Japanese Premier who set and sprang the war-trap against the United States, not only is one of the chief promoters of the notorious Black Dragon Society but is said to be co-author of the famous Tanaka plan for world domination. To understand the otherwise almost incomprehensible war between Japan and the United States, one must know something about such things as the Black Dragons, the Ronin, and the document known as the Tanaka Memorial. These explain as nothing else can in a few words, what happened on Sunday . On July 25, 1929, the then Japanese premier, Baron Giichi Tanaka, is said to have presented a iemorial to the Emperor outiinthe Japanese policy with regard te Manchuria. In so doing he had to show why Manchuria was so important to Japan. Without Manchuria, he said, Japan could not go ahead with her world conquest. The so-called “Tanaka Memorial,” according to the Japanese was a clever forgery. The Chinese " insisted it was genuine. Today few observers in other nations doubt its authenticity. Far too much of it, they argue, has been proved true by events.

A Blood and Iron Policy

SOME OF the Memorial's highlights are: 1. To settle the difficulties in eastern Asia, Japan must adopt a policy of “blood and iron.” To dominate the world, Japan must conquer China. To do that she must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia—a program which should be completed in 10 years. 3. Japan made a mistake to sign the Nine Power Pact. This had greatly hampered Japanese action in Eastern Asia. The mistake would have +» be rectified. 4 War with the United States and Russia was inevitable in the near future. This made it necessary to build certain railway lines in Manchuria and make other preparations 5. Millions in “secret funds” were needed to send

My Day

LOS ANGELES, Tuesday.—We left last night with the usual rush of last minute things which must be done, Three of us had supper in my sitting room before we left. With us were Jimmy, Elliott and two friends with whom Elliott had flown from the school

in San Antonio, Tex. One of the younger men was head of the school and had come to Washington to attend a conference. The other two had just finished their course. After flying all summer over the uncharted northern places in which we now have an intevest, and after taking these peesent courses, in aerial navigation, gunnery, etc, Elliott will be much better trained. It looks as though we shall need all the trained people we can get. Our trip was smooth, except for one perfectly tremendous bump, which came just as some passengers were having dinner, Most of them found themselves with food and drink spilled all over them, Luckily we had eaten before boarding the plane, and so we only hit the ceiling and sat down again, surrounded by papers and books in various odd places. It took a little

By Raymond Clapper

time to ask questions of people who are doing the fighting. The questions will be followed up in due course by committee of Congress. But for God's sake, let's stand behind our Army and Navy now, or at least keep out of the way so they can fight, voted war with only one against it. Miss Rankin has achieved her small footnote in history. It is duly noted and can be forgotten as a trivial, meaningless incident. The country’s unity of will was achieved in one decisive hour, as this all but unanimous vote testifies by comparison with the last war vote, in 1917, when 50 votes were cast against war in the House and six in the Senate. Debate in 1917 was bitter. It raged from noon until 11 in the Senate and for 17 hours in the House. The nation was divided.

Let's Be On Guard

THIS TIME the issue was so clear that debate was unnecessary. Mr. Roosevelt needed to make no appeal. Brutal facts spoke for themselves, Recrimination between Americans for past views would have been pointless, because all now think alike. There was no spirit of elation, or of glorification of war; no intoxication of the spirit, but only sober, determined response to the evil necessity. We must expect many wild word-of-mouth stories to circulate through the country without the slightest basis in fact. In the last war the report spread everywhere that a high official was under arrest. It was finally dispelled only when he made a special public appearance so that newspapers and photographers could spread the fact and kill the utterly baseless rumor. All of us need now to be on guard against these phantoms. Where there is smoke you think there

must be fire. But i may not be smoke. It may bei

only dust kicked up by some careless, irresponsi gossip; or some malicious tongue bent on doing d age to a person or to the nation. You don’t pass on rumors about a friend. ‘Then don’t do it about the most important friends you have now—your friends who are trying to win a vietory for our country. There will be plenty of checking and questionasking by committees of Congress as the war goes on. The rest of us can well keep out of the way while the Commander-in-Chief gets under way with the pursuit of this little gangster of the Orient.

By William Philip Simms

“retired army officers into Manchuria, Mongolia and China to “prepare” the ground. 6. If Japsn wanted to control China, “we must first erush the United Staies just as in the past we had to fight the Russo-Japanese war.” The rest of the Asiatic and South Seas countries would then “fear us and surrender to us.” World domination would follow, Premier Tojo served under the late Gen. Tanaka and is said to have been one of the Baron's favorite disciples. As such, I am informed, he helped frame the “Memorial.” Japanese society is made to order for such national and international conspiracies such as Baron Tanaka and his successor, Gen, Tojo, joined in promoting.

Doing the Dirty Work UNQUESTIONING obedience to emperor ang government is universal. In the days of the Shoguns, the Daimyo were the overlords and the Samurai were their military followers. Also there were the Ronin, a group who believed themselves charged with a

mission. For pay, they would take up the cause of any Daimyo and fight for it to the last man. They were a tough, hard lot. Modern versions of all these exist in Japan today. Members of numerous secret societies do whatever dirty work the Japanese government wants done. The Black Dragon Society has been a leading plotter in China for years. It has helped to stir up trouble in one province and then armed another province to march in and put the trouble down. It has kept the pot boiling. It helped bring on the “incidents” in Manchuria which led to Japanese invasion. It was: behind the local affray beiween Chinese and Japanese troops at Marco Polo Bridge, in 1936, out of which grew the present Sino-Japanese war. “Black Dragoh” in Japanese means “vigilance, strength.” Whenever a liberal party came to power in Tokyo, Japan's secret societies saw to its overthrow as soon as possible. If a weak military clique found itself in the saddle, it suffered a similar fate. Whenever the war party seemed to hesitate, there were assassinations of high officials as a reminder of what was expected of them.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

longer to tidy up the rest of the passengers, than for us to retrieve our belongings. . Just before we reached Nashwille, Tenn. word came to us that San Francisco was beipg bombed. We awakened Director La Guardia and he decided at once we must make arrangements to proceed as quickly as possible to San Francisco. At Nashville, I telephoned and discovered San Francisco had not been bombed, but that a blackout has been ordered up and down ail the coast, because enemy planes had been heard from the army posts. All of us went to bed feeling happier that no real harm had come to one of our cities.

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family went inte an improvised air raid shelter—just in case. They even “Toughie” the family dog. Left to right, are Mrs. Allan A. Heckman, Baby Holly, Anna Stix and Mrs,

1anapolis Times - Other War Pictures

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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York (left), and Mrs. Eranklin D. Roosevelt, direclor and assist. ant director, respectively, of Office of Civilian Defense, arrive in Los Angeles for a civilian defense conference with Gevernor Culbert Olson (right) eof California,

leship lost at Singapore.

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The battie cruiser Repulse, also sunk by Japanese.

Britain has

confirmed the loss of both the Prince of Wales and the Repulse.

First U. S. mainland war victim is Mrs. Marie Sayre, shown with her husband, Donald Sayre, after she was shot by a San FranciscoOakland bridge sentry when car in which she was riding failed te

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Lieut.-Gen. Walter C. Short, appointed last May to head the Hawaiian defense, is one of the four armed force chiefs leading the fight in the Pacific.

Here's one of Uncle Sam's new lanks, a 57-tonner, crushing an old Army truck at the Eddystone, Pa, plant of the Baldwin Locomotive

Works. The demonstration was part of official ceremonies in which the land battleship was turned over to

high ranking Army officials and industrialists waiched the test,

the U. 8. Army. Three hundred

Pvt. Dean W. Celbert, 23, of Galesburg, Ill, was one of those killed in the Japanese attack on Hawaii.

Pvt. John Robert Fletcher, of Janesville, Wis.,, was among the Americans to die when the Japs struck in Hawaii.

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