Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1941 — Page 17

“SECOND SECTION |

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

ITS QUITE A JOLT for some of our little business men to just up and throw away all the “Made in Japan” goods on their shelves. Ex-Marine Jess L. Haskell. now a guard at the U. S. Veterans Hospital, got to thinking about the smali merchant's plight, and bingo—he had an idea. Japan’s already got her money, theorized Mr. Haskell, and it’s our own merchants who have paid their money and are stuck with the goods. Why throw the gods away and then spend more money to replace it?

Why not “send it back to Japan V-shape. If vou already nave your wreath, cut the

in bombs?” What he meant was this: Have the merchant collect all Japanese articles in one place in his store and put up a sign frankiy telling what they are. The public could buy the articles and use them, or destroy them as desired. The merchant would pledge himself to invest the proceeds in defense bonds, The defense bonds then would pay for bombs for “them bums.”

How Many Dimes

SO MANY HEATED arguments have arisen over»

our Mile of Dimes that we hasten to present the results’ of a bit of original research that may settle some of the arguments.

For instance, with a ruler and a lot of borrowed dimes, we find there are just 17 dimes to the foot. On that basis, there would be 89,760 dimes (if too many of them werent worn too badly) in a real mile of dimes. Actually, the greatest number of dimes ever on the line was last year 38490. That's $3849. The dimes are shoveled and swept into baskets and buckets on Christmas Eve under police guard.

They are taken to The Times, where, still under poiice guard, the dirt and grime is ‘washed from them in tubs. Properly dried, and still under police guard, the dimes then go to the Merchants National Bank, where the employees work overtime counting them. Its a big job, but it's worth while.

A Wreath for Adolf

A CLEVER IDEA for the yuletide season was

suggested to us by Harry Coburn, 3349 Park Ave.

Instead of having Christmas wreaths in the age-old ring shape, urges Mr. Coburn, let's have them in a

wire at the top and straighten it out to a V. We'll bet it's ideas such as this that sent Herr Hitler to his Berchtesgaden mountain retreat to “take & rest cure.” . « . There's an organized campaign on among the friends of Jap Jones, the new State Highway Commission member, to make him change that Jap to something else. Jasper has been suggested, . . . One of the stationery stores tells us it’s getfing almost impossible to lay in a new supply of wire peper clips from the factory without a priority number.

Don’t Shoot!!

FRANK WALLACE, the State entomologist, likes to hunt wild life—with a camera. Currently, hes using a borrowed miniature with a long barreled telescopic lens. The camera Is mounted on a gun stock. Driving past Lake Sullivan the other day, Prank stopped the car, picked up the camera and crept down toward the lake to get a few shots at Andy Miller's pet ducks and geese. Just as Frank took careful aim for a picture, Andy arrived on the run, shouting: “Hey, you: don’t shoot those ducks.” When he saw it was Frank, Andy hedged: “Aw, shucks; I knew it was you all the time, but that thing really does look like a machine gun.”

Ernie Pyle will be back on the job within a few days.

Washington

WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—Secretary Knox's personal report on Pearl Harbor is one of the most moving and tragic records in all military history. It is tragic because it records the plain, dismaying fact that our armed services were not on the alert when the surprise attack came— a crime of negligence for which full investigation has been ordered. It is moving because it reports through many incidents the great heroism of the men and their officers as they fought to save the Navy from the mast appalling disaster that could be imagined. The epic of these men and what they did after the attack began will ring through time. Their individual heroism must shine forever above the sad facts. What they suffered is made doubly poignant because it was all to retrieve the disaster which descended through neglect somewhere higher up. The loss in men was heavy. Ship losses were far less than Congressional gossip had indicated, and our Pacific situation should improve steadily.

No Disposition to Conceal

WE MAY REST assured that everything will be done that can be done to prevent another sacrifice of men of such great fighting will as these at Pearl Harbor. Why were the battleships so close together that some officers escaped from one doomed ship by passing a line to an Adioining battleship? Why was there no dispersal of these ships? Secretary Knox reports that men swam through blazing oil from the capsized battleship Oklahoma and climbered aboard other ships and joined gun Crews. Incidents reported show that a large number of ships were all close together, making it almost impossible for the Japanese to miss. Enemv submarines got into the harbor, passing under some of our ships.

Propaganda

CHUNGKING, Dec. 17—In addition to catching the United States’ forces off base through the Japanese blitz a‘tack, the Axis powers have caught the Americans flatfooted and are squee'ing them out serjousiy in the dissemination of both news and propaganda throughout the Far Eastern war zone regions.

As a result, scores of millions’

of normaliy pro-Ally Manchukuans, Chinese, Indo-Chinese, Thais and Burmans are being 'fed huge daily doses about Japinese victories and invincibility while information about what the United States is doing is reduced to a mere trickle. . Unless the Axis radio-and-journalistic offensive is swiftly counterbalanced, the effect upon the morale of Oriental countries, especially upon the Chinese masses, who are inclined to expect too much from Anglo-American arms in the first weeks of hostilities, may be serious. It would also be a tostly error to permit the Jap-anese-Nazi rurnor mongers to continue to spread confusion and to undermine confidence in Allied capacities asethey are now about to do:

Have to Pick Up Axis Stories

AT PRESENT American information—let alone propaganda—is scarcely reaching either China’s elite or vast newspaper public because of inadequate radio facilities, or because of censorship biockades—or Washington's lack of preparedness to wage a war of ideas as well as facts. _ Since censorship was imposed in the United States, United Press and Central News Agency dispatches into China have been almost completely disrupted. In fact not a single U. P, dispatch regarding America’s war activities has reached here for the past two days although the Chinese newspapers are clamoring for news of what the United States it doing. Meanwhile, many dailies are obliged to pick up either Domei (Japanese official news agency) or the Nazis’ Transocean items for lack of anything approaching ® daily file from American and British agencies.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Tuesday*—In returning to Washington yesterday afternoon. I called Mrs. Morgenthau and some of her assistants in the Office of Civilian Defense, to learn what had happened while Mayor La Guardia and I were on the west coast. Then I. considered some of the difficulties now _ arising. There have been conflicting directions as to what e should do in case of air raids. -The reason is that there are quite a number -of people, who have no official sanction

whatsoever, giving advice and di- ~

rections about a number of things. In addition, there has been on et in Winds of people acin of developing programs. However, much of the confusion is being cleared up, as it always is. Actual experience on west coast has almost impossible to accomplish any real work with state @ I defense councils, which were often non-existent. or existent only on paper. Frequently, who wanted to work, were given no money by state or local governments with which to do =o.

Telustehre did not materialize in such great num. Bers until » real War was upon us, ;

By Raymond Clapper

Where were our listening devices or other means of detection? Why were most of our planes destroved on the ground? These are questions which the investigation will consider. Secretary Knox, and of course President Roosevelt by consenting to the frank report, show no disposition to conceal the bad news. We may assume they will have no hesitation as they follow through to determine the causes.

How Casualty Lists Work

SECRETARY KNOX flew to Hawaii at considerable risk. His report was as frank as any reasonable person could expect in revealing the details of the damage. Thoughtless and nagging critics like Senator Tobey ought to be satisfied now—although they probably won't be. But the rest of us can feel confidence in the way this humiliating affair has been handled, and in the refusal of the President or Secretary Knox to reach for the whitewash brush. And we can be proud of the rest of the story and of the kind of men who are standing behind our guns. After this we ought not be impatient about delay in disclosing details. Do you know how the Japanese found out they had hit the Arizona® They learned it when the Navy Department announced that Admiral Kidd had been killed in battle. The day following that casualty announcement, the Japanese radio stated that the news of the death of Admiral Kidd was taken “as indication that the Arizona, of which Rear Admiral Kidd was captain, has been scriously damaged.” When we announced the death of Admiral Kidd, | the Japanese had only to look him up in the public directory, take a chance that the Arizona was still his flagship, and claim the hit. That is only a crude example of how casualty lists give clews to enemy intelligence officers Secretary Knox and some of his advisers show they are determined to reveal as much as can be published without tipping off the enemy, and thev are entitled to forebearance from the public. P. S—Ships cost money. Buy &efense bonds and stamps,

By Leland Stowe

Dome! and Transccean both broadcast lengthy and highly propagandized reports every two or three hours around the ‘lock from a lsrge number of Japdnesecontrolled stations in Manchukuo, Peiping, Hankow, Shanghai, Saigon. and Bangkok as well as Tckyo. All these stations broadcast in Chinese, many of them in English, and some in the Burmese and Malayan Janguages. They spread the most exaggerated statements about American and British reverses and losses and spread countless rumors designed to convince the Chinese and neighboring peoples that the Anglo-Sax-ons are doing little or are doomed to defeat.

U. S. Must Get Going

IT IS SAID that the United States will have a 100-kilowatt station in operation by Christmas. As a war weapon it is needed most urgently if the Axis’ powerful Oriental radio dominance is to be counteracted. Yesterday Japanese planes dropped thousands of “news -bombs” in the vicinity of Laohokow. Hunan Province, The bombs were pamphlets detailing an impressive list of alleged Japanese victories and AngloAmerican losses and intended to convince the Chinese ry Anglo-American intervention was futile and too ate. The Nazis use their news agencies as a powerful weapon of prestige as well as propaganda. American news agencies cover the world more completely and objectively than any other agencies existing today.

They can be a tremendous instrument both for killing the rumors and lies of the Axis ard for building up the morale of pro-Allied peoples of all continents. But both factual news channels and the radio must be utilized to the full by the United States if Nazi and Japanesé p®paganda is to be combatted successfully. ] If the United States is going to win a military verdict in this war, it is absolutely imperative ‘that it begins immediately to wage a war of ideas and a war of facts. Every day lost diminishes faith in Allied victory and reduces the number of whole-hearted supporters of the Allied cause.

~ By Eleanor Roosevelt

Now there is co-operation evervwhere. Even iy

necessary to work out certain plans in the light of

certain amount of change that deve handling of different situations. The organization for actual defense, even where civilians are concerned, is

Mayor La Guardia has succeeded in establishing a pattern for the work of the police and fire departments, and this is functioning very smoothly every-

The other community needs must be met through the co-operation of a great many agencies. operating

helped. Up to last Sunday, it was

~ Means to

Live Forever

This is the first of a series of articles in which a veteran Far

Eastern long resident in Japan, introduces American readers fo their Oriental enemy, the Japanese,

, By REGINALD SWEETLAND Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Tithes and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

What manner of men are these Japanese, who with an

ern world? :

Army of close to 2,000,000 men spread over the Asiatic mainland, dare to challenge the armed might of the west-

With scores of divisions bogged down in China, with others spread through Manchuria and Korea facing the Russian frontier, with others in Indo-China, Thailand, South China and Malaya—who are these people who so lightly take on adversaries, and who now begin a new war

with all the odds overwhelmingly against them?

Listen to this:

This is the most famous

When an emperor speaks to his subjects, they bow in reverence and hold his words sacred. The words of Jimmu have come down and are the very essence of the Japanese military caste, if not:the race. » »

Out to Rescue World

THE JAPANESE textbooks handed out to raw recruits today, as with previous generations, contains that rescript. And to it is added: “This rescript has been given to our race and to our troops as an everlasting categorical imperative.” No Japanese soldier has ever doubted these words, and they have become the morale of the people. Playing variations on the same theme, come the later words of the Japanese Royal House and

“We shall build our capital all over the world. We shall make the whole world our dominion.”

utterance in all Japanese his-

tory. It is the imperial rescript of the first Japanese Emperor, Jimmu Tenno, who called himself the fifth in descent from the Sun Goddess. Jimmu reigned from 660 to 585 B. C.—and that was 2600 years ago.

political leaders. “The sacred throne was established at the time when the heavens and the earth became separated. The Emperor is heaven-descended, divine and sacred.” So stated Prince Ito of the Royal House of Nippon. Here is Yosuke Matsuoka’'s embroidery of the same theme. Matsuoka is the leader of the socalled Japanese Fascist Party, the party that would still further * regiment Japanese life. He was one of the prime movers in the war against Manchuria. and eventually against western civilization. These words are his: “It is my conviction that the mission of the. Yamato (Japanese) race is to prevent the human race from becoming devilish, to rescue it from destruction and lead it to the world of light. In the light of this mission, we cannot afford to copy western civilization whith fs about to perish.”

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Superb Faith in Destiny

IT IS THE VOICE of the Emperor Jimmu speaking from the distance of 2600 years. Japanese are fanatically loyal to this mission. Our failure to understand it, to agree with it, is neatly put in the constantly recurring Japanese criticism of us—“you Amer+ icans never look at the realities of the situation. “You Americans obstinately refuse to understand that Japan has a mission to perform—a mis-

sion of peace, the mission of creating a new order in the ancient Asiatic world.” How many times have you heard this? How many times have you brushed it away as just plain bragging. But yet, Japan is a feudal nation, with feudal ideas if you wish, but armed with all the implements of the West. + Now armed, she is making her supreme effort to fulfill her “divine, heaven-sent mission.” The Japanese have superb faith in themselves, in their des

SPEEDWAY ACTS

with that co-operation, it is going to be| .

ON PLANT GUARD

70 Civilians Volunteer

Services Along Wi Civic Groups.

Speedway City, the site of some of Indianapolis’ greatest defense industries, will be amply policed for the duration of the war, according to plans formulated by, citizens at a meeting last night in the town

hall. More than 70 Speedway City citizens have volunteered their services for civilian defense, as have several civic organizations, including the American Legion, the Red Cross, the Lions Club, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, community churches and business men’s groups.

Legion Meets Friday

A. V. Beeler, chairman of the town board, announced that a meeting of a temporary steering committee will be held tonight. It is composed of Mr, Beeler, H. C. Hole and Roy D. Haase, town trustees, and the Rev. Howard Anderson, pastor of the Speedway City Christian Church. They will classify the applications of those who have offered their services for emergency work. A special meeting of Speedway City Legionnaires will be held Friday night in the Speedway High School auditorium, in charge of Claybourne Blue, commander of the Speedway Post. Speakers at last night's meeting were Capt. Robert Blackwell, a member of ‘the Allison Division's plant protection committee; Martin M. Clinton, and Raymond Beeler, commander of the Brownsburg-Lincoln Post of the Legion. Volunteers who haven't yet registered with Speedway City authorities may de so by writing or calling Wayne Baxter, town clerk.

Korean Says He Exposed Japanese Plan For Secret Attack to Navy Last Year

By HELEN BUCHALTER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—A map, extracted from a Japanese naval

| textbook and showing the pian of attack almost exactly as it occurred

at Pearl Harbor, was turned over to the American Naval Intelligence a

year ago last October.

Information gathered from secret sources, suggesting that Japan

would attack our Pacific possessions ary, 1942, was sent to the State Department more than a month ago. The warnings were sent by an underground information-gathering organization known as the SinoKorean People’s League, which set up a Washington office in 1939. The most “frustrated man in Washington today is Kilsoo K. Haan, 40-year-old Korean representative of the league, whose scrapbook is a tragic memento of warnings aimed desperately at putting the United States ~~ the alert for just such an attack as shocked the nation Dec. T.

Note of Oct. 28 Recalled

The letter, sent to Secretary Hull Oct. 28, 1941, reads in part as follows: “Hirota, former foreign minister, now the ‘big stick’ of the Black Society, in their Aug. 26 meeting, told of the news that War Minister Tojo has ordered a total war preparation to meet the armed forces of the United States in this Pacific emergency. Tojo is

said to have told him of the Navy's full support of his policy against America.

“He also spoke of Tojo giving orders todcomplete the mounting of guns and rush supplies of munitions to the Marshall and Carolina group (mandated islands) by November, 1941. Hirota and others present in the meeting freely diss cussed and expressed opinions as to the advantages and consequences of a war with America. Many expressed the most suitable time to wage war with Ameriog as December, 1041, or February, 1042 Many said:

“Tojo (how Premier) will start the

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either in December, 1941, or Febru-

war with America and after 60 days Tojo will reshuffle the cabinet and become virtually a great dictator.” “Note: Based on this information dated Aug. 18, 1941, Japan's recent and sudden change of cabinet was a planned ore, stalling for time for closer collaboiation and more effective co-eperation in the interest of the Axis powers. “Mounting of guns and rushing of munition supplies to the mandated islands is a significant sign.”

Data Gathered Eight Years

The letter was withheld from the public by Mr. Haan pending the State Department's permission for

its release. “For eight years our organization has been gathering this information,” said Mr, Haan. “We have sent truckloads of it to: officials here, Always we received official acknowledgements. But what happened to our reports? Were they filed away and forgotten? I have been called a fool. They have asked me, ‘How. do you. get information our men can't?

my sources, obviously.” The Japanese map shows a threearched naval attack stretching from the ‘Aleutian Islands to the south coast of Australia. ¢ Mr, Haan said the Japanese war plan aims at splitting up the American Navy by diverting it to widely scattered spots, so as to leave Japan a free hand with British and Dutch possessions, Once they are taken, he sald, the major attack on the American West Coast will come.

scheduled for last spring but was

the United. States. said two years ago that oil tanks and that Japanese war games in the captured the islands of Kauai and

Hawail and ‘damaged Oahu. “I have heard American Naty men

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But I can't reveal

He said the attack was originally |

decided to await developments in| || ‘that war theater before striking. at

He said . Japanese - officials : had ; in Hawaii could ke blown up “‘easily”|.

say that the Japanese can’t shoot, that ‘their torpedoes are no good,” said Mr, Haan. did not show them their best forces. Japan used second-line men and materiel on China, The best she saved for the United States. He said several hundred German technicians were aiding the Japa< nese War Office. The Sino-Korean League was formed in 1933 with the goal of

preserving democracy in the Pacific in the belief that only American suvremacy would guarantee democrauy for the Korean and Chinese people. is to counteract Japanese propaganda and supply the United States with inside information, Mr. Haan joined the Japanese consular service in Hawaii in 1935 specifically to get information. He resigned in June, 1937, to turn over the information to American congressmen conferring in Hawaii, Particularly impressed with his reports was Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa, who, on April 6, 1939, wrote to Secretary Hull introducing Mr. Haan as.a “valuable and helpful witness . . . in possession of information and in control of certain channels of information 3 . . of interest to the State Department.”

2. 80NS DIE IN PACIFIC HARRIMAN, Tenn, Dee, 17 (U. P.).—Mr, and Mrs, Noah Peddicord received two telegrams from the U. S. Bureau of Navigation within half

an hour today. The first announced the death. of their son Cecil; the second that of another son, J..B. Peddicord. Both were “killed in acgion in the Pacific,”

“But the Japanese) .

Tts chief function, he said,|

destroy the thing she was most afraid of—the West, and the influence of western thought, west

ern manners, western mechanical

civilization. She was and is She found it necessary and profitable to take from the West —Jargely from the United States —what she needed. But if she became too western, then the very foundations of her empire and of her ruling caste were swept from under her. Japan the feue dal dictatorship, fighting with western ‘weapons and Asiatic guile, will fight to exist.

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Always Looking Back

THIS FEAR of the West—and I am speaking more of western concepts of life and democracy, rather than of western -armies and navies—in time became a phobia, a strong motivating

phobia, forever being nurtured and whipped into new channels by Japanese military men and members of secret military associations and’ societies. Had this "not been the case these military cliques would long ago have lost their power. Japan might have taken a dif ferent road, she might have learned much from the West and having adapted herself to this outside influence she might have become a definite social influence herself, instead of a military dictatorship and a constant threat to her more cultured but less militaristic neighbors. ' °

But such has.not been the case.

And that takes .us back again to the present flowering of that 2600-year-old imperial reseript. Here it is again in its latest manifestation. Here is the latest concept of what it means for a soldier. to die in the service of present Emperor Hirohito,

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For Sake of Emperor

AN ARMY DAY pamphlet says: “To die for the sake of the Emperor and the fatherland is to live forever. Moreover, to be participating in the supreme holy

enterprise of mankind must be the greatest glory and the height of exultation. Where there is this conviction, every obstacle ceases to exist, Therein lies the possibility of bringing eternal

peace to the Far East and con.‘

structing the paradise of mankind.” : The entire might of the Japanese Empire is now engaged in this titanic struggle, this “holy enterprise” to purge western civilization and its influences out of Asia—and then? Here is Jimmu again——— “We shall build our capital all over the world. We shall Jake the whole world our dominon.” '

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Which states border Florida? 2—Who wrote “Sixes and Sevens?” 3—What is the title of the song beginning: “Should auld acquaintance be forgot?” 4~What was the real name of Mark Twain? 5—Benjamin Franklin was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Boston, Mass. or New York City? 6—A name for a glass water bottle or decanter isc , . .? 7—The term of a patent is 15, 17 or 20 years.

|8—A battalion is larger than a regi-

ment; true or false?

Answers

1—Alabama and Georgia. 2-0. Henry. 3—-"Auld Lang Syne 4—Samuel L, Clemens, 5-—Boston, 6-—Carafe, T—Seventeen years, 8-—False.

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