Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1941 — Page 18

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—which includes iron ore industries now shut down. During the shutdown workers must not be dismissed and will receive slightly reduced salaries, paid partly by the owners and partly by the state. . This shutdown follows closely on the recent 30 per cent reduction in consumption of gas and electricity among the French public and indicates that the coal shortage may soon have far-reaching effects on the country’s economy.

GIFTS TAKEN FROM CAR A number of Christmas presents, wrapped and ready to mail, were stolen yesterday from the automo-

w= SHORTAGE OF COAL SEROUS IN FRANCE

bureau listed the United VICHY, Det. 18 (0. D. N)—

with 22males between 18 and 35; 0 ara Russie, OM®0 ussia, 23, rv » Ger: Owing to France's coal shortage all ALi nstions, any hiss factories using more than 20 tons of coal or its equivalent in gas or electricity must shut down for a fortnight, between Dec. 21 and Jan.

fighting age men; Italy, 440,000, and Japan, 10,839,000. 4, according to a law published in Vichy's official journal. This law

PAROLE OFFICER NAMED hits practically all big French in-

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 18 (U. P) —Federal Judge Thomas W. dustries and extends to the occupied as well as the unoccupied zone.

Slick has appointed Clinton I. MilIt is foreseen that public services

likan, 28, South Bend, probation and parole officer for the Northern Indiana District. Mr. Millikan wasjand factories producing essential|/bile of Mary Lou Cochrane, 1421 formerly deputy clerk in the office foodstuffs, as well as coal mines, |N. Meridian St. She had parked will be exempted. All works using her car in front of the Riley Hosfurnaces fulltime are also exempted pital where she is employed.

ALLIES HOLD 2-TO-1

MACARTHUR ORDER: a 22 ‘KEEP FLAG FLYING 2575s

—If the number of war age Manila General's Request May Become Famous but It

counts, the United States and its allies have a two-to-one chance to Didn't Surprise Officers Who Knew Him in 1918.

win the war. By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Stal Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Admiral Farragut said: “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” Commander James Lawrence aboard the Chesapeake ordered his men “to fire faster and not to give up the ship.” An official dispatch during the Civil War exhorted: *If anyone attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.” Lieut. Gen. Douglas MacArthur was more soft=spoken. All he said was “Let’s keep the flag flying.” The Japanese had bombed Luzon for a week. They had shown all too frequently a capacity for hitting what they aimed at. It was only natural that an officer should guggest that the American flag flying from the Far Eastern army’s headquarters might serve the Japanese as

a target. But Army men here—men who

saw him in action on the Western r i Front in the first

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estimate of manpower of fighting age—18 to 35—in the principal belligerent countries. These countries have 85203000 men in the fighting age grou not including China, India and the Netherlands Indies. Of this total, 56,643,000 would serve under Allied flags and 28,560,000 for the Axis. If China and India were included,

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Pe tan 0 reason a Kiiow MacArthur,” Tieng: of Th To know MacArthur you have to know that: He was born to the service, son of Lieut. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, Military Governor of the Philippines

in 1900. Academy Graduate He was graduated from West Point at the top of his class in 1908. He served spectacularly as commander of the Rainbow Division in France

World War—were not surprised when they read MacArthur's reply: “Take every precaution for protection of the headquarters, but let’s Roe the flag

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He was the you - tendent at West Point—19819, He was the youngest active major general in the Army—1925. He was the youngest chief of staff lof the Army-—1930-1935. : At 50 he was a four-star general. ical MacArthur Five years later he was “borrowed” Gen. MacArthur gesture,” a com- hy President Manuel Quezon—the rade of the 6l-/same Quezon who as an insurgent year-old Far Eastern commander had surrendered to his father—and said. made a field marshal in the Philip“It was not swagger, it was not|pines. gwashbuckling; it was just Doug's) On July 21, 1941, President Rooseway of doing things. He said Tet velt appointed him comman keep the flag flying’ What he general of the United States arm meant. and was understood to mean, | forces in the Far East. | was: MacArthur, who had served two ‘Keep tha# flag up there until|previous tours of duty in the Philip- | every last one of us is dead.” {pines, was originally commissioned | For MacArthur is every inch al {to make the island impregnable by goldier, a “hell-to-breakfast” sol- | 1046. He had four years to go but dier, and he loves “the art of war.” had gone a long way toward his He has his enemies who will $ay goal when the Japanese struck. that he has been a “society soldier.”

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They will point out that his first wife was Louise: Cromwell, sister of James H. R. Cromewil and stepdaughter of multi-millionaire Edward T. Stotesbury. He belonged to the “horsey” set hereabouts; he wore his brassed hat at an unmilitary rakish angle; he liked to wear his ribbons and display his 28 or so decorations; even wore plum-colored ties with his khaki shirt.

and tried to get Quezon to dismiss him. They called him a nophobe.”

Japanese struck, confirming his distrust of them.

ness of his deeds—13 of his decorstions were for gallantry in action— sometimes express amazement at the occasional roundaboutness of

Japs Hated Him The Japanese hated MacArthur

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But the men who got shot with him in France say: “Doug” iS no martinet; he is handsome, trim, well set up, leonine, out he doesn’t impose his standards on anyone else; he remembers his Juniors’ names, and when he says “glad to see you” he means it, And no one doubts that MscArthur will do his part to keep the flag flying in" steamy, beleaguered Luzon, half a world away. Always at the Front “Th the World War,” a colleague recalled, “he wat always up at the front fine. {He was always getting wounded. Yet he was and serene. In the thick of Sum he would light a cigaret as though he were watching a baseball game.” But the “rally-round-the-flag-boys” days when soldiers took turns getting shot while defending the colors are gone.” The flag isn’t carried into the front lines anymore, and the front lines are wherever the bombs fall. So why shouldn't the flag be lowered over MacAr-

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his speaking style. “These islands,” he once said, “may not be the door to the control of the Pacific, they may not be even the lock to the door. But they are surely the key to the lock that opens the door—for America. I dare not allow that key to be lost.”

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