Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1941 — Page 21

FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 194]

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

NOW THAT WE are at war with the Axis powers, i's no secret that the FBI in co-operation with the Police Department, has complete records on all per fons in the Indianapolis area suspected of Axis sympathles. They have been making their investigations for almost two years. Their information is detailed, complete, verified. Their records cover not only unregistered aliens but those citizens whose leanings are with Germany and Italy. (Apparently none have leanings toward Japan.) The chances are that the FBI and the police know all about that indiscreet neighbor of yours—the one who goes around damning our Government, or singing the praises of the Nazi system; know whether hes a fifth columnist or merely a little “cracked.” We only mention it just in case it'll add to your ace of mind to know things are well in hand on the me front.

Telephone Manners

IF YOU FIND Gas Company employees extra courteous and considerate on the phone these days, credit it to the utility's new telephone monitor system. Through it, officials and employees can listen in on business conversations, and learn where the utility's telephone manners are faulty, . . . The multi-million-dollar Bridgeport Brass plant is coming along ahead of schedule, we hear. It's reported they've gotten double shifts under way in all the crafts except iron workers —can't get enough of them. The completion date goal

is some time in April, but we wouldn't be surprised to see operations started before March 1

Unmentionables

ent for his wife. te Bt a Ne the pa oo a The guard was adamant,

package and show what pink. So was his face. , . . and girls at I. U. had been war situation with a long had it school wouid be rumor’s false—Dec. 20 is not such a bad place to

Here and There

A WOMAN edged her way up to the credit desk at one of the department stores, demanded to be waited on ahead of her turn. When she got attention, she returned a 15-cent sack of candy she said was stale. “It's all so trivial I didn’t think I should have to wait a long time,” she explained as she pocketed the credit slip. . . . The Water Company has received a letter from a Mrs. George Gahles, Wilmington, Del, asking if it would be possible to ship her some of out city water. “I tried to have some of the Martinsville water sent but they will not ship it.” she wrote. “However, I find your water has the same beneficial effect that the Martinsville water does.” Company officials probably will file the request in the “testimonial letters” file,

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

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—-Don't think for a minute that we can’t do the job. How have the Japanese won their victories? They have won them with airplanes. What nation can outbuild any other nation in planes? The United States. Then let's go. Build planes.

Build planes. Build planes. They can avenge Pearl Harbor and the Prince of Wales and the Repulse.

We are building more navy and all that. Everything will be needed. More ships: for hauling, more navy for convoying, more guns, tanks and trained men to handle them. But none of it will be of much use without control of the air. We can get that. Once we do, then the power of everything els® we have will be multiplied automatically. Without it the rest of the stuff will be as useless as were those ships in Pearl Harbor when there wasn't enough in the air to protect them. . We don’t need to revive that feud between the Battleship and the plane. Each has its uses. We lost some of our heavy ships because they were poorly protected against the air. We would be fools to quit building battleships until we have more than anybody else in either ocean. Perhaps we should have used them differently. I don't know. Some expert opinion undoubtedly would have preferred to keep the fleet along the coast rather than at the Hawaiian outpost, exposed on all sides. Nobody thinks they should have been ganged up for a week-end in Pearl Harpor,

We Must Hold Singapore

BUT IT IS TOO LATE to bother about that now. Capital ships lost cannot be replaced for a long time. Thé question is how to deal with the new situation. It can be dealt with, and the announcement by Wilsam 8S. Knudsen of OPM shows that we are proceeding to do so. .

F.D.R. at War

WASHINGTON. Dee. 12--Steve Early wes lolling at home, reading the Sunday papers. The telephone rang. “Steve.” said President Roosevelt, “I have a bulfetin here I want you to give the newspapers. Got & pencil?” Steve got one, and slowly took down the message as the calm voice came over thé wire: “The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor from the air and all naval and military activities on the Island of Oahu, principal American base in the Hawaiian Islands.” $i Enough to raise the hair even of an ex-newspaperman who covered the last war here and who for more than eight years has sat in the midst of big events at the President's right kand. But no time to get excited. Then the calm voice again, after the message had been carefully checked back. “Have you got any news, Steve?” The typical Roosevelt touch. Steve smiled. This little incident tells the whole story of the orderly atmosphere which has prevailed at the White House since the war broke out.

You'd Never Know a War Was On

FIVE DAYS LATER everybody at the White House, from the President down, is about caught up on the sleep lost those first two nights. You'd never know & war was on, except for the appearance of many new faces in a greatly increased Secret Service staff about the White House and executive offices, a few more reporters in the press room, a new white sentry box for the enlarged police detail at the only gate which is open now, and the brisk military guards at the entrances of the two streets which flank the White House grounds. Most of the excitement at the White House those

My Day

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Thursday.—We left Los Angeles yesterday by the 8 o'clock train, since the

rain still continued and no planes were flying. We reached San Diego at 10:30, accompanied by Mr. Neustadt of the Federal Security Administration, and ; Mrs. Shreiner of our own OCD regional office in charge. of the establishment of voluntary bureaus. During the defense council

meeting in San Diego, I found that théy have actually accomplished a good deal. - Their medical set-up for disaster is very complete. They

need more medical supplies but they have a greater reserve than

3 practiced how A cover the city and the county. % They tell me that, in 10 minutes, any part of the city can be covered and, in half an hour, any part of the county. They have tried setting up an eme hospital in one of their schools, with 200 beds Installed and

for use, A are training their air raid wardens, but the have comparatively few of them as yet. Their >

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By Raymond Clapper

Our present heavy-bomber program calling for 500 a month will be doubled, with the intention to produce 1000 four-motored bombers a month ‘by the end of next year. That, plus the necessary proportion of fighter planes, is what we must depend upon. The plane is the quickest weapon to produce in quantity, Individual losses are the easiest to replace. Enormous damage can be inflicted and the way opened for the sustaining follow-up attacks, whether by land or sea. : As the problem is seen here, Singapore must be held at all costs. Everything we can spare needs to, be thrown in. Planes and submarines are the most) effective contributions we could make now. If they are made in sufficient quantity, we will have good news out of Singapore. That will be good news in-| deed. Because then the Pacific can be held and our sources of materials maintained. I am saying nothing here that your own common sense doesn't tell you &s you look at the map. None of this can be news to the Japanese.

P. S.: Buy Defense Bonds

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FDR PLANS NO RELAXATION OF 40-HOUR WEEK

Time-and-Half to Continue, He Says; Calls Labor Peace Parley.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (U. P). —President Roosevelt said today he has no plans to request relaxation of the 40-hour week provisions of the Wage-Hour Law. He told his semi-weekly press conference that as far as he knows,

the 40-hour basic week will continue to be in force indefinitely and that time-and-a-half pay will continue to be required for all work in excess of 40 hours. He disclosed that the joint in-dustry-labor conference which he summoned last night will convene here next Wednesday. He called the meeting to plan for uninterrupted war production, and an early truce among all warring labor factions seemed: virtually assured.

Favored by Labor He extended invitations to C. I. O. President Philip Murray and A. F. of L. President Williath Green to designate representatives of unions affiliated with their organizations to

attend. Both have urged such a conference and were expected to accede quickly. Mr. Roosevelt also requested the chairman of the Commerce Department’s Business Advisory Council to send 12 representatives of industrial management. An indication that industry would promptly accept was given in a Chamber of Commerce announcement that American business, on the basis of “thousands” of tele-

its full co-operation in whatever services are demanded for duration of the war. If the conference is a success, it is expected to forestall enactment of pending anti-strike legislation.

Suggestions Heard In announcing the President's dction last night, the White House said the prime objective would be

to reach an agreement obviating the possibility of work stoppages

WE MAY HAVE to lengthen our shipping routes by going around under Australia. That would add]

several thousand miles to the haul. Convoying prob- either labor or industry to accept| mpe successful bombing of a sec- | ably will be necessary in the Pacific, which means! this basic condition of the nation’s

slower traveling.

Japanese raiders will get some ships. But when vou see how the Germans have been unable to cut off shipping to England With their enormous num-| bers of submarines operating over comparatively small areas and congested routes, it is impossible to believe that the Japanese ean cut off ne pacife in spite of the position they have achieved this week. So if Singapore can Det, he Pacifie 15 not a hopeléss loss at all and we can continue to obtain supplies necessary for war production. When we begin to have planes swarming into the air from Singapore, we can push back the Japanese advance and turn the tide. : PS. —Planes cost money. Buy defense bonds and stamps.

By Thomas L. Stokes

first hectic hours was brought in irom outside—by the horde of newspapernien who rushed to the center of things. By radio newcasters who, that first night, set up their equipment on spare desks, For that first flash from Steve Early's home telephone set them in motion on the double-quick. Before Steve could get dressed and out of the house, the President had called back with another message, about the attack on Manila—which was in error, but only in being premature. | Soon Steve was behind the desk in his office, and | there he sat until 1 a. m, only to go home and answer the telephone there all night long, and also the next night. Calls came not only from reporters and officials, but from people far away offering their services.

100 Yards in 28 Years

THE PRESIDENT, likewise, was on the phone far into that fight night, getting reports on developments, after his earlier conferences with State, War and | Navy officials, his Cabinet and Congressional con- | ferences. He was up early the next morning, and ready for a long day that included his speech to

“While newspapermen were trooping in and out of Steve Early’s office, the White House staff went quietly about its business. You'd never know that 205 persons were at work in the offices leading off

the lobby and down in the basement. This is the

usual fumber. Long hours are the rule now. The President has been dividing his time between

his office in the executive offices and Lis study in the White House proper, a cozy and homelike room, where !

some of the conferences of the last few days have taken place. Crises are nathing new for the White House personnel, not even war crises. Steve Early, himself, was a reporter during World War days, covering the State, War and Navy departments—whose personnel was in the present State Department building across from the White House. There started kis friendship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of Navy. wdin e's moved 100 yards in 28 years,” Steve remarked ay. '

By Eleanor Roosevelt

and information.

cause of labor disputes, and added: “It is not expected that there will be any hesitation on the part of

safety.”

| The White House suggested that | the Capital. the participants in the conference s |set up machinery for settlement of | fronts—Atlantic and Pacific.

disputes, machinery which might “include appropriate procedures for adjusting disputes, for mediation, and for resort in defense industries to some tribunal whose decisions will be binding by agreement on all parties.”

REALTORS PLEDGE BLOOD DONATIONS

Meeting yesterday at the Hotel Washington, 26 members of the InJdianapolis Real Estate Board pledged a pint of blood each to the American Red Cross. Those who pledged include Fred T. Hill, Earl B. Teckemeyer, William A. Hackemeyer, Urban K. Wilde, Robert IL. Mason, Robert M. Shoen, Paul Williams, E. K. Harvey, Albert E. Thompson, Robert B. Moynahan, Joseph H. Argus Jr, Howard W. Fieber, Charles S. Bant, George R. Brown, R. E. Peckham, Louis S. Hensley, John B. Lookahill, Frank H. Cox, Wedell M. Hicks, T. Lorin Driscoll, Ross Mitchell, Joseph

J. Schisla, Glenn E. Burtt, C. Willis|

Adams, Fred L. Palmer and H. D. Coleman. Carl G. Seytter, Fay C. Cash and Mr. Hackemeyer were elected to the board of directors for 1942

'Please Open It Before Dec. 25'

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (U.P). —If you've received any packages marked “Don't Open Until | Christmas,” please ignore that in- | junction. That appeal was made today by | Price Administrator Leon Hen- | derson who asked that gift boxes

and wrappings be contributed to the national waste paper collec-

tion campaign. Mr, Henderson explained that

to package war materials and the “raw material” from which it is made is used paper and cardboard cartons and boxes. “Millions of boxes are now out of circulation as a result of our

“Laudable as this sentiment is, we are now at war and cannot afford to cut down the flow of waste materials to reprocessing plants. Don’t be a bottleneck.”

HOUR RESTRICTIONS ON WOMEN LIFTED

As a step toward aiding the nation’s all-out defense effort, State

from wore:

laws which women Ret late at

ing in defense factories

grams already received, has pledged |

The largest group of recruits accepted by the U. 8. Marine Corps office here in any one day in history was rushed tq training camps late yesterday. Eleven of the 15 Indianapolis youths inducted for service here will be sent to Parris Island, S. C,, and four will go to San Diego, Cal.

The boys headed for Parris Island include Herbert P. Johnson, 614 Denny Si., Maurice D. Kindel, 1218 Beecher St.; Herman W. Lyster, 1326 Naomi St.; Dallas G. Rhudy, 1437 E. Raymond St.; Joseph M. Lackey, Noblesville; Ivan L. Cedars, Crawfordsville; Etsel Denney, Morristown; Rob-

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Marine Recruiting Here Sets Record J

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. V for victory lineup , . . new leathernecks for the Marine Corps.

ert L. Lee, Morristown; Walter Marsh, Westport; Herman C. ‘Smith, Bloomington, and Donald L. Kirts, Elkhart. Charles L. Mason of Hobart, Lonis L. Cholte of Hobart, Ellis S. Hess of Anderson and Floyd M. Naillieux of Hobart are being sent to. San Diego.

EAST ALERT TO ~ ‘MORALE’ RAID

» ‘Western Hemisphere Lining Up as U. S. Airmen Hope To Even Score.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dee. 12—Fur-

Pupils Remember Teacher, Now 80

MISS CAROLINE REIN, 27 N. Alton Ave. received a shower of greeting cards and gifts yesterday on her 80th birthday. The messages came from former classmates at Moore's Hill College and from former pupils and associates. Miss Rein taught at Moore's Hill College from 1890 to 1894 and at Mitchell Normal from 1894 to 1897. She was formerly head of Associated Charities of Evansville and South Bend

ther war declarations or ruptures lof diplomatic relations with the] {United States by Axis satellites were likely today as American air-|

{men began to even the naval score {with Japan in the Pacific. | ond Japanese capital ship cheered

The nation is at war on ive ut {the . Western Hemisphere is becom- | ling more solidly aligned by the niinute against the Axis. Ke A ing thts Da Joos. of PARAS - Lhe ; orcethe world’s most Py machined and in nation. And the good news is beginning to come in. Watch Atlantic Front

Whether the Axis will attempt a “morale” air raid on Washington, Néw York or some other seaboard city is not known, The fighting | forces hope to stop it off shore if

{it comes.

and also taught at Central Normal College. Since her retiremen she has lived in Indianapolis. Miss Rein was born in Jefferson County near Madison and has traveled extensively, She is a member of the Methodist Church.

KUHN PLEDGES

“WAR SUPPORT

New C. of C. Chief Heard By Directors; Succeeds W. I. Longsworth. The board of directors of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce

yesterday heard their new president, Georgé® A. Kuhn, member of the

firm of Klein & Kuhn, pledge full

Bombs of Army, Navy or Marine support to the nation’s defense ef-

destroyer and put out of control a| second battleship. At that rate, it appears that] American flying men shortly will be able to restore the balance of naval power in the Pacific as it existed before Japan sunk the British battleship Prince of Wales, the battle cruiser Repulse and inflicted unrevealed damage on our own fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But the balance of naval power

to the United States than it was] |before Sunday's attack. Secretary {of Navy Frank Knox arrived in Honolulu last night for a personal sur-| vey of the damage which the public scarcely will minimize after White House emphasis upon its seriousness. Hungary is almost in step with the Axis today with formal announcement in Washington that diplomatic relations with the United States have been broken. Hungary explained here that she was not declaring war. (Radio Berlin broadcast, however, id that Hungary has declared war.) Rumania is another subordinate European state which may follow that course. The Western Hemisphere was falling in line with the anti-Axis powers in a world-wide choose-up-sides for battle and there will be a conference in Rio de Janeiro in

fliers already have sunk one Jap- | anese battleship, one cruiser, onelterday at the annual organization

fort. Mr. Kuhn was elected yes-

meeting in the Indianapolis Athletic

Mr. Kuhn, who will be the Chamber's 34th president, said: “Our country has been savagely attacked. We are at war. I pledge myself, and would like to have the board join me in this pledge, to bend our every effort to lend our assistance whenever and wherever possibie, in order to help bring this war to a successful conclusion.” -

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remains considerably less favorable Mr. Kuhn succeeded W. I. Longs-

worth, who had served two terms as Chamber president. He is president of the Lilly Varnish Ceo. Vice presidetnts elected are: C. Harvey Bradley, president of W. J. Holliday & Co.; George S. Olive, president of the George S. Olive Co.; Russel 8S. Williams, president of Gaseteria, Inc., and Edward Zink, of Eli Lilly & Co. James S. Rogan, president of the American National Bank, was re-elected treasurer. Five directors - at - 1frge were chosen, They are: Donald W. Alexander, géneral manager of the Stewart-Warner Corp.; Dudley R. Gallahue, president of the American States Insurance Co.; F, C. Kroeger, general manager of the Allison Division of the General Motors Corp.; John J. Madden, president-treasurer of the John J. Madden Manufacturing Co. and Carl H. Wallerich, president of the

January.

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HOLD EVERYTHING

VALIANT STAND MADE AT WAKE

Marine Defense May Take Place in History With Alamo.

By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. — The war is less than a week old for the United States, but future historians already have a setting for another Lexington, Alamo or Little Big Horn. When it ean be told—if there are any survivors — the story of the brave defense of Wake Island by a small Marine garrison may be an epic. The only details available about the stand of those Marines to defend their pinpoint of land in the middle of the Pacific are the cold, ‘unsentimental words of Navy Communique No. 2. But between the lines are the makings of & drama that may make other “last stands” sound like tea parties. : ' The setting—a tiny coral reef

-| about four miles long that is called

Wake Island. Shaped like Letter “V”

Actually it is three islands like an irregular letter “V.” Through the opening at the top of the “Vv” the waves of the Pacific pound over a coral reef into a protected lagoon. The lagoon, until the war, was used by trans-Pacific clipper ships as their first stop west of Hawaii. Wake is the most isolated of all the important islands in the west Pacific. The nearest other pinpeint of land is the island of Taongi in the Japanese mandated islands, 400 miles to the south. From Wake to Hawaii it is 2000 miles and in the opposite direction it is 1300 miles ’to Gaum. It was at Wake that the garrison awoke Sunday morning to the roar of Japanese bombing planes and the boom of Japanese naval guns. Yesterday the Navy revealed that within 48 hours the garrison was attacked four times by enemy aircraft and one by light naval units. There are no details about how many men were in that garrison, but they fought back, are still fighting and will continue to resist. And their valiant stand has not been in vain. dans “Despite the loss of part of ‘the defending planes and the damage to. material. and personnel,” . the Navy's communique said,‘ “the ,de< fending garrison sticceeded in sinking one light cruiser and one destroyer of the enemy. forces by air action.”

tion of the enemy attack and a probable lariding attempt was ex-

pected. Future Uncertain

The. future of Wake is in the lap of the gods and the hands of its “leatherneck” defenders who are upholding their motto, Fidelis”—ever faithful.

chronicled in the history of

duly ' the U. 8. Marines it may well add ' |another line os

to that outfit's favoring song: “From the halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli We have fought our country’s battles On the land and on the sea.

If the Army and the Navy Ever gaze on Heaven's scenes . They will find the streets well -

guarded By United States Marines.”

DEFENSE GOUNGIL

And then it added that a resump- |} “Semper |

When the defense of Wake is|_

decided. change in

TO OPEN OFFICES):

SECOND SECTION

Experts See Need in Face Of Obstacles Now Facing Democracies.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Dec. 12. — Diplomatie observers awaited today the first sign that the world’s three greatest political entities, the United States, the British Empire and Russia, were working out a joint plan of grand strategy against the Axis powers. Britain and America were allied, Russia was allied with Britain, and allieq with Russia through Britain were the Netherlands and the other free governments-refuged in London, ‘Behind these nations in their series of alliances. were the sube versive forces, active or passive, of all the countries in Europe under the heel of Germany.

Russia the Exception

Allied strategy was largely lime ited for the immediate present by lack of striking power which. hame strung every potential formal allie ance, and by lack: of co-ordination in one great plan for fighting the closely united Axis powers. The" single exception was Russia, which was on the offensive on the grand scale, but had undergone a long campaign costly in materials and men, Experts said that, with the exe ception of a ‘naval war in the Pae

Great Britain together might ba able to crush Japan, the strength of the Allies, great as it was, was still defensive because. so far an of= fensive . was either beyond their power or beyond geographical possi« bilities. China on Offensive

China, the largest single nation in the world, the oldest combatant after fighting the Japanese 4% years, was now on the offensive in southern China and was slowly building up an arsenal, slowly training still its enormous people, slowly trying to create a great war industry. The Chinese offensive was just getting underway and experts said it might become’a general onslaught if the Japanese weakened theme selves enough. : Britain was handicapped by lack of manpower, the tremendous dis tances it had to defend and the fact that it was just beginning to get its industry strained toward the highest peak. Britain’s Big Problem

Britain’ was unable to establish a real second front, despite the of« fensive in Libya. It was deeply ine volved in the Battle of the Atlantic, a life or death one which kept its Navy busy. It depended on United States production to build up fue ture offensive strength. ¥ Russia had pounded home one of the most amazing sufprises in mili tary, history.

was ever subjected. to. At the same time Russia had lost an enormous number of men and an enormous amount of materials, and she had lost in western Russia industries needed to replace them in the next six months before Ger= many was able to get started again, Dutch Navy Helpful

The Netherlands navy was ree garded here as a potential source of great strength to the Allies in the South Seas and the Netherlands merchant marine was an important factor. Further, the Norwegian merchant marine under British control was making one of the war’s biggest cone tributions ‘in- taking miscellaneous goods and vital oil fo Britain, Poles, Czeths, Free French, Bele gians, Netherlandersy were fighting on Britain’s side. A real Jugoslav army was battling the Germans on its own soil. In the final analysis, experts said, the balance depended ori the newest belligerents, both unknown quantie ties—the United States-and Japan, Japan -was- believed here to be prepared to fight a year or more without new supplies. : China has been under a tremene dous strain since, 1937 but. seemed ready to continue: indefinitely her present role of keeping hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops fully occupied.

OFFICIAL WEATHER: |

INDIANAPOLIS = FORECAST - Cloudy with ‘rain or snow tonight; rain pose sibly mixed with some snow tomorrows not much change in temperature; lowes$ tonight 30 to 34. g

| Sunset

Dee. 12, 1940

Precipitation 24 hrs.. ending 7 a. nm... _ Total precipitation since Jan. 1......27, Deficiency since Jan. 1:..... “owns § JOBS

MIDWEST WEATHER

a i sou tonight} tomorrow rain in. south id hn or Show. in temper : aT ois—Cloudy, occasional sTow in exe and ya ne” RA portion to night; rrow cloudy, rain in and rain or’ snow in north portion; ne temperature. mad oudy, - occasional hi. and temperatur~

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WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 on | | Weather ' Bar.

cific in which the United States and

She had beaten back the greatest offensive any nation

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in north portion; not much change ature, /