Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1941 — Page 25

FRIDAY, DEC. 19, 1941

Hoosier Vagabond

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.—The long rest is over. All long rests are over, for everybody. A new vitality is abroad in our land, and even those of us who are

wan and frail sense in ourselves an overpowering impulsion to flail and strike around, doing something. For four months this column and its author have lain in hibernation. In a way it was a sweet repose, and we discovered that it is pleasant not to work or worry or feel the surge of worldly But war changes all these f ings. It makes a restlessness, and an eagerness to be up and about. Hence this column, a month ahead of its planned date, comes trumpeting back to life. We are under no illusion that there is anything this space can contribute to the great force that America now must have. But we do know that the faintest of us must be active now, even if only for ourselves, It is impossible for hands or minds to lie in easy composure on days like these. Even mine must scramble anxiously back to work. For me, as for millions of others, things did not turn out as they had been planned. Some six weeks ago That Girl grew definitely better (I will tell you about hep in a later column), and I knew that sogper or later I must be on my way. We laid out an itinerary.

That Shocking Sunday

WE DECIDED upon a winter roaming around the Orient—the Philippines, Hongkong, Chungking, the Burma Road, Rangoon, Singapore, and, the Dutch East Indies. All arrangements were made. The red tape was vanquished. Out came the old passport, and on its traveled pages there went more ink of many colors. Final things were done at home. Bags packed. Money drawn. Vaccination certificates looked up. Letters written. Bookings made. Priorities for travel confirmed. I was booked to leave San Francisco for Manila on the Clipper of Dec. 2—the week before the new war came. But at the last minute my seat was taken by the Army, to make room for supplies urgently needed in the Far East. Then I‘found passage to Honolulu by boat, expecting to catch a later Clipper there. But once again the Army parried my thrust. It commandeered the entire hoat. As a last resort, I was arranging on a Saturday to cross the Pacific by bomber. And then came, next day, that shocking Sunday at Pearl Harbor. Automatically everything was off. I was still in

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By Ernie Pyle

Albuquerque at that time. All that Sunday was a daze. The news seemed too horrible. took it hard—for in the there are

New Mexico boys. The jitters began to take hold of

Monday was just the same. I don’t remember at all what I did on Monday. I only remember that all

, talking, talking, and i Eo tthe

ng. And just after dark came the then frightful rumor that two Japanese carriers were off San Francisco, and that the entire coast was to be blacked out. That was enough for me. It was definitely some place to go, something you could tie your emotions to. So I went to the phone and asked how soon I could get a plane. They said at 5 the next morning. Even the flight was warlike. When we left Albuquerque before dawn we had clearance from the Army only as far as , Cal. We were over Dagget by 8 a. m, and § elearance. So we waited up there over the bare Mojave Desert, waited in gigantic circlings in the air until word did come.

The Army Takes Over

THEN THEY cleared us to Palmdale, and again over Palmdale we circled and circled, waiting on the war, Finally they ordered us on, but we did fot land at the great air terminal at Burbank. No, we went down in a pasturelike place many miles away, and’ they took us on in by bus. The Army was running things now. : Late that afternoon we did get to San Francisco. The sun was shining, and I'll always remember the thousands of seagulls sitting alongside the runway as we janded. I remember the gulls off Dover, too, in d. ) There were two odd little coincidences for me in this arrival in bomb-expectant San Francisco. For one thing it was exactly a year, to the day, from my arrival in London. For another, San Francisco did have an alarm and a blackout that night, and I slept serenely through it, just as I had slept th my first real air raid on ' first night in London. A man with a conscience as clear as that ought to be put in jail on suspicion. So now we are in San with deep curiosity into the hours ghead. Noth has happened here yet, but one is an ostrich to lare that nothing ever will. We shall wait a little while and see, San Francisco is exciting these days. For there is suspense here, and wonderment of what the night will bring, and a feeling of drastic urgency. Several times I've heard these words, said not in braggadocio but more in a fateful resignation: “Well if it comes it'll be bad here, but I guess we can take it too.” : Yes, I guess we can.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowel Nussbaum

EVERY TIME the Mile of Dimes bell clanged Wednesday evening the clang was followed by a muffled ding. It had spectators quite mystified. The only one seemingly uninterested was the policeman standing with his back to the bell. Finally someone solved the mystery. The policeman had his night stick behind him and with a flip of the wrist was tapping the bell. “I'm the echo,” he explained gravely, and the amused crowd showered down more than the usual quota of dimes. . . . You couldn't convince an 18-year-old errand boy, working extra during the holidays at Ayres, that there isn't a Santa Claus. Paid Wednesday, his pocket was picked before he got home. Yesterday, the street floor employees of the store took up a collection. An when they got through, he had 50 cents more than he had lost.

Blood Donors “= _ _« &

MORE THAN 20 employees of the State Auditor's office have signed up to give a pint of blood each to the Red Cross. Among them are State Auditor and Mrs. Dick James. Dick, who weighs 23), says he’s afraid “they'll tak= one look at me and insist on a quart, instead of a pint.” , . They have a nicé new flag flying at 19th and Alabama Sts, site of Old Camp Morton during the Civil War. There's been a commemorative stone and flagpole there, but no flag. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Luke, 1935 N. Alabama St, took up a collection among neighbors to buy a flag. . . . It looks like the war isn’t going to stop Indianapolis from celebrating New Year's.Eve. The I. A. C.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.--Advocates of the Union Now plan, devised by Clarence Streit, are starting a new campaign for public support. A group of ecitizens, among them Justice Owen Roberts of th United States Supreme Court and head of the special board to ihvestigate the Pearl Harbor attack, is urging that the proposal be given the most earnest consideration. The plan is worth the study of everyone who wants this to be the last war. It is so far-reach-

ing that it invites objections which are likely to prevent its adoption in its present form. Yet because it is an attempt to deal with the problem that must be met, it serves as a useful basis for study. It is worth the consideration of everyone who wants to see the people of this globe have a chance to go about their business without having to take time out in each generation to defend themselves against murderous attack. We all know what we want. Now is the time to find a way to achieve it. Out of discussion of the Union Now plan, the way may be found. To bring this up now is not to interfere with the war. It is part of the war. This war is not only to defeat the Axis but also to see that no butcher regimes ever again get out of control.

Publie Support Is Needed

I KNOW THAT responsible persons in Washington are thinking in these terms. They need public support now so it will be possible for them to go ahead in whatever ways seem the most praetical. Some preliminary scaffolding is being worked on .now, The Interallied War Council now being organized is the beginning. With it must come broader measures yof co-operation among the Allies, and a binding compact that will carry them over into the WASHINGTON, Thursday —I spent thé entire day at the Office of Civilian Defense. I drank a glass of milk and ate sandwiches at my desk at lunchtime. As a result, there is not one single unanswered thing in my brief case, and I have man= aged to see a4 number of people for very brief interviews during the day. ‘ ' Curiously enough, & day with less talk and more time to think and to clear up the things which come inh ‘thé mail, gives one a sense of greater accomplishment than a day which is filled with conferences and Jdnterviews. Occasionally, it is absOlutely necessary to have a day bf this kind, otherwise one's desk is never bo cleared. I came back to the White House at 8 o'clock to see Madame Tabouls at tea time, a vest happy to hear from her that she is to : ench newspaper in this country. This new y , I am sure, be tative of all that is best in French culture ahd Spirit. T am delighted she has an opportunity to work at her pro

reports more than 300 reservations thus far for its annual party. Y

Blackout Gifts

ADD LAST MINUTE Christmas gift suggestions: Black cloth for friends along the seaboard. A resident of Broad Ripplé has received a letter from her sister in Washington, D. C., asking her to send several yards of black cloth for:blackouts. Can't buy it there, she writes. There's a shortage in New York, too. . . . Frank Sigafoos, the old-time baseball star, now has charge of the Gas Company's coke service department. He and his staff spend their time solving problems of coke users and showing them how to get the most heat out of it. He's been pretty busy lately. The other evening at a party, Mrs. Sigafoos revealed that she’d been “cold all day’—couldn’t seem bo get the furnace to working and Frank was too busy elp.

The Tales They Tell

WE CAN'T VOBCH for the accuracy of this yarn, but friends of the Hobson Wilson family, 5828 Sunset Lane, are having a lot of fun relating it. Accord to the story, one of the first. things Mr. Wilson d when he became the father of & son several years ago was to buy the boy the finest electric train available. Just a few days ago, according to the yarn. Mrs. Wilson took the youngster to see Santa. Asked what he wanted for Christmas, “they” say, Junior lisped: “An electric train just like Daddy's.” . . . A woman walked into Wasson’s with her arms loaded with bundles. There she bought a thimble—10 cents. “Please have it sent out, and will you send these bundles (from other stores) with it?” she asked. Yep, they sent ‘em out.

By Raymond Clapper

armistice, which will be nothing less than a period of receivership while the victors restbre the wreckage of the war. The heroism of the dead at Pearl Harbor demands not only the crushing of Japan. It also demands that we organize security so that such murderous regimes are choked before they become full grown. Force banded together, and management so that every nation can have its chance to live if it behaves itself, must go together. We know now that this cannot be done by indueing nations merely to peace treaties. Almost every nation, and all of the Axis nations, signed ‘the Keéllogg-Briand Pact, thereby pledging themselves not to resort to war as an instrument of national policy. But it remained & serap of paper. Organization, with military and economic power behind it, must be used from here on.

We Want Our Kind of World

EVERY STEP in that direction is worth taking without waiting for a more complete plan to be adopted. If a compact can be made now, and I Suspect that it not only can but will be made, the nations on our side will have the nucleus of the combined force and resources to manage the armistice transition through the twilight period into peace.

Such a stép now will give added purpose to our cause, It will give hope beyond victory. Umless we do this, victory will only mark the rise of new aps prehension and preparation for more war. If the sacrifices of this war are to be fully vindicated, victory must mean not the end of united effort, but ohly the beginning, because the aim of victory is to have our kind of world—seeurity from without in order to have freedom within,

To have security from without, we must work with our friends across all oceans to retain management control, and to share it only as other nations will fit themselves into a peaceful scheme of things. _ P. B—Victory costs money. Buy defense bonds and stamps.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

fession again.

“There is an announcement in the' evening paper le which seems to me of great importance. Secretary | the

Stimson has announced that the War Department,

while planning to expand the strength is needed, will depend entirely upon the Seidghave service system and not on voluntary enlistnts. This seems to me the Only sensible procedure. Through the selective service, if our draft boards function properly, men will be used where they are most needed and will not be wasted in positions for which they are not fitted. I know of a boy who left his college in the last ’ as a private.

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“Old Black Joe.”

friends of Americans.” Not permitted—that struck it. The motivating force of all Japanese in authority—police, gendarmes, agents-pro-vocateur, military — is directed toward this end.

All Japanese are at heart spies. That is a sweeping statement used with full knowledge of its scope. I am not including Amer-fcan-born Japanese, nor those born in Hawailh I know many of the laiter and they view with contempt their native-born cousins, the Japanese on the mainland. I can make no, generalization about them. But the Japanese in Japan are at heart all spies and consider they are serving their emperor every time they snitch. Much of the stuff they pick up is valueless or duplicated, but they are encouraged to report tc the police all they hear or see. ” 2 ”

NOR IS all this spying directed against foreigners. They also

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Japs ‘Not Permitted’ to Have American Friends Police Were Prompt 5

To Squelch Effort to ‘Westernize' Natives

This is the third of six articles in which a veteran Far Eastern correspondent, long resident in Japan, introduces American readers to their Oriental enemy, the Japanese,

By REGINALD SWEETLAND Copyright, 1841, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—The Japanese once held me for five days on the Russian frontier as a spy. This was at Taheiho, across ther Amur River from Blagoveschensk. The temperature was 45 degreés below zero and it was

also uncomfortable for the

Japanese. They could not determine, as a young Chinese ° told me, whether I was what they called a “military spy

The experience gave me an insight into Japanese menA young Japanese, educated in New York, invited me to drink beer with him and sing During the ensuing confusion he said: “I have some fine photographs of the Russian terrain and fortifications across the river here. I replied, “If you are willing to give them to me, mail them to my Tokyo address, Imperial Hotel. In short, put them through the Japanese mails.” To this he said: “If 1 give them to you, 1 give them to you as a friend and not as an American. We Japanese are not permitted to become

Do you want them?”

watch their own people. They want to know their views, and any sign of Westernism must be suppressed. t me illustrate. Here is the story of Lily Ono. I met Lily Ono and her girl companion, Nazuke Nakano, at a Japanese inn of a village in the northwestern part of Japan. Lily was reaching her 20th birthday and what struck me about her was the way she wore Western clothes: A pink and white silk blouse, pleated white flannel skirt, flesh-colored silk hose, and high-heeled shoes. Kazuko wore native raiment: Soft brown kimono with soft red silk underlining coming to her heels, barely touching her straw sandals and high to her throat where it was bordered with soft, silky material giving her the fresh softness of a Japanese color print. Both girls had bobbed hair. Lily wore silver-rimmed glasses for she explained that a girl friend had told. her that glasses made her look like an American gir, Immensely flattered, she

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She Scores a Hit

DRESSED like an American girl she got a job in a big Japanese department store in Tokyo. Then the store decided to send Lily out into the villages miles away from Tokyo to set a new fashion, modern and Western, for Japanese girls. Lest this prove too much of a shock to conservative villagers, Kasuko in her native, costume went along.

I saw Lily in the village store and she almost created a riot. From miles around raw-boned country girls came in to see, fin« ger and price Lily Ono's clothes. Lily was the only girl within several hundred miles who wore silk stockings, high heels, a foreign hat. Then came the police. They grabbed Lily and her friend. They pushed her on a train and told her never to return. Said they, “The girls and women in this village are happy and obedient wives, mothers, daughters. They shall remain as they are. You have arrived to make them dis« contented with their lives and with their native raiment. You are frying to Westernize them and you are creating dangerous desires and dangerous thoughts in theit hearts and minds. Get out and never dare to come back.” Lily obeyed. Business interests don't go lob-

bying in the corridors of the Diet or Parliament. When a police man speaks he is obeyed. He is the Emperor personified. That is why Japanese schoolboys take off their school cap and bow, and why women bow to a 45-de-gree angle when they walk up to a cop and ask even, the simplest directions. There is only one police system in Japan, ite headquarters is Tokyo, and men— I don’t think they are incorruptible—are assigned to all parts of the empire. There is no appeal against them.

New Ideas ‘Dangerous’

AND YET there are thousands of young Japanese caught up in the “new thought” movement. New thought may be described as the harboring of any ideas contrary to full-bodied, wholehearted acceptance of the pres ent military system—feudal in its attitude toward women, aggressive in its national intention and glossed over with meaningless and deceptive talk of Japan's “mission to bring eternal peace to Asia and to construct a paradise of mankind.” Police cells arp overcrowded with these young students. The halls of the private universities, Waseda and Keio, rattle with the stalk of these new ideas. The ideas are dangerous because they are Western, and as such diametrically opposed to the feudal system. And yet to us there is

nothing particularly dangerous about . these ideas. They are our common stock, our heritage. In times past, no high post in the empire could ever be given to any Japanese who was not a graduate of the Imperial Govern ment universities, To counter this, such private universities as Waseda and Keio sprang up. There was no place in the civie hierarchy for their graduates, They became, many of them, politicians, They went into the Diet. They tried tec shape the laws of the land. But the contempt of the military for them is something that is supreme. The military have direct access to the emperor and are responsible to him alone. Diet

members have not. They can only fall back on their constituents. In times of national crises, what then? The politicians are puppets of the military, seldom daring to chale lenge them, Also out of these universities have come scientists, scholars, writers, journalists, teachers. Seldom have .they been given a chance to express the enlightening views their learning has given them, When the new Japan is built they will be value able. But that new Japan will not be the new order in Asia now being forged by the military.

WHO'S RUNNING FARM PRICES?

Congress Bloc Demands to Know if Henderson Is the Boss:

WASHINGTON, Dee. 10 (U. B). —Confliet between the farm bloe in Congress ahd Price Administrator Leon Henderson had subsided temporarily today. The Senate cotton bloe postponed attempts to adopt a résolution asking suspension of Mr. Henderson's ceiling on oils and fats after learning that he was reconsidering his action. Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D. Mich.) said he and Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley (Ky.) had conferréd with Mr. Henderson regarding his order setting a ceiling of 11% cents a pound on cot oil. Mr. Brown pointed out that if a4 provision of the price control bill weré enacted, Mr, Henderson would be unable to set a ceiling lower than 12% cents.

Who's the Boss?

In the House, ‘the agriculture committee had raised the question blunty: Is Mr. Henderson going to run the Federal farm program? It called Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard to find out what hé knew about the order. Mr. Wickard told the farm boys on the Banking and Currency Committee that if it.gave Mr. Henderson power to control prices there'd be no ceils ings on farm prices without the Agriculture Department's approval. e Secretary of Agriculture said he did not want to start a fight between two Government agencies, but his story to the “corn-bred’ committee had the effect of throw ing a match inte a drum of gaso«

line. Quicker the Better

Mr. Wickard told the corhmittee that the first the Agriculture Department heard about Mr. Henderson's plan to fix the price of cottonseed oil at 11% cents a gallon when it would ring Jat cents at most markets was night before the order went into effect. u

farm program, ’ “The sooner the better. Tomor-

row won't be too ok.” , Henderson Defends Self

Mr. Henderson later in the day before the Ho

Creates Utopia Por Motorists

HARVEY, 11, Det. 10 (U. BP) .— Police Chief Albert Roll advised motorists today that traffic law enforcement in this Chicago sub« urb had been placed on a utopian basis. Chief Roll withdrew the town’s 13 officers from traffic duty to guard defense industries and placed drivers “on their honor” to obey traffic ordinances.

ASKS SECRECY ON SHIP MOVEMENTS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (U. P). —Secretary of Navy Frank Knox today asked that no publicity be

given the presence or movements of Allied war vessels in American waters. The Navy's announcement sald: - “Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox stated today that due to the present war conditions it is important that publicity on the presence or movements of British and Allied war vessels in U, 8 waters should be avoided. “Under date of March 24, 1041, Secretary Knox requested voluntary co-operation in the avoidance of publicity of British ships in Ameri can waters and under date of Sept. 18, 1041, in agreement with British authorities, this request was modified in that the press was requested to avoid publicity on the presence of these ships until their presence had been made public by the Navy Department, and then only under certain restrictions. “In view of the present war cone ditions all publicity should be avoidon the presence and movements of British, American and other Allied war vessels.”

REVIVE TALK OF ONE AIR FORCE

Senators Expect to Open Study of Disputed Subject Shortly.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—War In the Pacific has brought a new de-

mand from Senator Pat McCarran (D. Nev.) for an independent air

force, Senator MecUarran said he believed the attack on Pearl Harbor

had demonstrated the need of independence for the country’s aire power. His proposal is that ship-based planes be left with the Navy, end that the Army retain a relatively few aircraft for reconnaissance and close work with ground troops, but that the nation’s main striking power in the air be concentrated in a single department free of control by the older military estab lishments. Advised of Senator McCarran's request for early hearings on his separate-air«force bill, Senator Robert R. Reynolds (D, N. C), chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, said he thought a study of the subject could begin shortly after Jan. 1. The committee voted months ago to look into the matter.

WANTS FEATHER PILLOWS FRESNO, Cal. (U. P.)-Every turkey, duck, chicken and goose in this vicinity has been called upon by Uncle Sam to shed its last feather ' in the national defense, They are wanted to make pillows for the soldiers,

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‘| Luther L. Dickerson, City Librarian,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1<Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States?

2=A Sfionym fordawn 1s d « « «

3=If you were =a .horologer, you would make watches, horoscopes, or wigs?

4—The line, “That's all there is, there isn't any more,” has been most often associated with which famous stage actress? 6~Is a child, born in the United States to alien parents, required to apply for citizenship papers at the age of 21?

6—Dexter refers to the right hand: what is the antonym that refer to the left hand? : 7—Which South American country is famous for its beef? 8—Light has weight; true or false?

Answers

1—Alexander Hamilton. 2—Daybreak. 3-—~Watches. 4-—Ethel Barrymore. 5-=No. 6-Sinister, T-—Argentina, 8—True.

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LIBRARIES ARRANGE YULETIDE READINGS

Christmas story hours and special programs for children will be held at the Central Library and its 18 neighborhood branches;

announced today, The schedule:

TODAY—3:30 p. m.: School 2 Glee Club will sing Christmas carols in the Riley and main loan rooms of the Central Library. A. story hour will be held at the West Indianapolis branch, 1926 W. Morris St.

TOMORROW—10 a. m.: Story hours will be held at the Brightwood branch, 2346 Station St. the East Washington branch at 2822 E.. Wi the

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U.S, PLANE.TOD _ FAST FOR JAPS

Brewster-Buffalo Flown by R. A. F. Also Outruns Nazi Messerschmitts.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (U. P.). ~The American-made Brewster= Buffalo plane, flown by the R. A. F., has proved its ability to outmaneuver German Messerschmifts and Japanese Navy planes, the British Press Service said today. The B. P. 8S. said that a cable from Singapore related that one R. A. F. pilot had encountered 14 Messerschmitts and Japanese planes on a routine reconnaissance flight over the Thailand border and had managed to dodge their fire and return to Malay base, .

Loses Foes in Clouds

The cable stated that Brewster Buffalos were sent to Singapore “by the hundreds” before America en-

tered the war. ot said he en-

The reporting. countered four Messerschmitt 110’s in box formation, followed by five Japanese Navy type planes. “They chased him,” the cable said, “but the Brewster-Buffalo was too quick for ‘them. we after crossing the border he ran into another squadron of Messerschmitts. 110's who chased him. He lost them in some clouds. 9 “His mission was one of recone naissance and he had received ore ders to avoid combat. So the pilot sought to keep away from all enemy lanes. Within a few minutes, wever, two Messerschmitt 100s picked up his’ trail and chased him in a running dog-fight until he lost them also in a cloud bank.” :

Use Latest Nazi Planes

The pilot reported he saw “plenty” of other Messerschmitts and that - other pilots had also sighted Gere man planes “flying in close formae tion with the Japs.” : ? The B. P. 8. said that the ene counter with the Messerschmitts indicated either that the Germans hope established a M th factory in Japan or had shipped the planes to Japan’ secretly and were training Jap pilots in advanced aerial combat. The 109 and 110 Messerschmitt models were described as “the latest Messerschmitt fighters.”

NEW YORK WAIVES . WORK-HOUR LIMITS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (U. P). —Secretary of the Navy Frank

-’ | Knox. today announced receipt of : *la telegram from Governor Herbert

H. Lehman which stated that pro visions bf existing New York state labor laws would be waived to permit war industry plants to eperate on a seven-day, 24-hour schedule. Governor Lehman’s message said the agreement was reached at a, conference he held with legislators

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