Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1942 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1942

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

U. S. Ready to Strike Blow At Humanity's '6th Column’

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own peculiarities” Dr. Van Nuys|named for the Hoosier poet through sald. “One can be deadlier than|whose works rings the joy of a another. For instance, the epidemic | healthy, happy childhood, stands as in New York City in 1916 had a a citadel to defend boys and girls mortality rate of 27 per cent.” against this disease. Dr. Lyman Mieks, chief pediatri-| Dr. Mieks and Dr. George Garcian of the James Whitcomb Riley ceau, chief orthopedic surgeon at Hospital, said extended studies over | the hospital, direct a large staff of a long period indicate that infan-| doctors and nurses in treating chil-

J. 8, REPULSES JAPS IN LUZON

2 Invading Planes Bagged By Defending Forces At Corregidor.

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damage was done to fixed installa-

tile paralysis is becoming increas-|dren who have been stricken. Ob- tions.

ingly devastating in its effects on|servations and researches made at|

The communique indicated that

the patients who survive the acute] Riley Hospital are added to the sum |Gen. MacArthur has employed the

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total of medical science’s data about pause in Japanese bombing of Cor- | pstiomyelitis. |regidor to strengthen his anti-air- | Medical students from Butler craft defenses, which may have been University and from other schools battered in the earlier Japanese whose period of preparation for pro- |attacks.

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i : Japanese claims yr asser | | the time of the 1940 epidemic came has, their Fr ba Sena from farms and small towns in| 3 pre

| méiana | Hermosa, an important point in “There the menace of flies is a |nOTtheast Bataan, and that in adbig factor,” Dr. Van Nuys explained. Utkloi to the Olangapo haval base “You find more flies on a farm Just north of the Bataan line they than around a city home, hence the|hvae taken Grande Island, a small danger of infantile paralysis is fort which protects Subic Bay where | greater in the country.” Olangapo is situated. Dr. Van Nuys warned against a| There were also Axis reports of relaxation in vigilance against|Jabanese air attacks on a U. 8. air- | poliomyelitis during the war. There |field east of Subic Bay which would lis danger, he said, of overlooking indicate that Gen. MacArthur still hazards to the health of the civil-|holds positions just north of the ian population, particularly in rural|Bataan province line. areas, As MacArthur fought his lone battle in Luzon, American air and sea power was being concentrated against Japan on a second line of

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Labor Board Head |] S. TO DOUBLE ARMY IN YEAR

Plans for Vastly Increased Air Corps Are Revealed By Stimson.

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aviation cadets will be lowered to 18 years. Restrictions against training married men as fliers also will be erased, he said. The Secretary said that the program also envisages a large increase in the number of men to be trained in replacement centers for new units which will be created in 1943. The Secretary said that the expansion means there will be some new construction of camps and (housing facilities. He pointed out that nine cantonments for 30,000 /men each are now being built, and that steps will be taken to expand (all training centers and posts to ac|commodate the big increase in personnel. In addition, five temporary tent

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Board. {camps are to be erected, he said.

ALLIES HINT AT THAI OFFENSIVE 5:55

| troops remaining in the continental | United States because “some divisions may have been sent out of the continental United States, thus vacating their quarters.” He said he expected the first three divisions to be created within 50 days.

Believe Thrust in North Would Relieve Pressure On Singapore.

(Continued from Page One) SEARCH FOR BOOK FRANTIC

VANCOUVER, B. C. (U. P).—Mr. and Mrs. John Baker combed Vancouver bookstores searching for an old book that Mrs. Baker sold. She had remembered that years ago she had hidden a wedding ring, an engagement ring and a necklace in it.

Straits. Their position apparently was ahout 100 miles from Singapore itself.

Japs Enter Jahore?

Tokyo broadcasts said that the Japanese had entered Johore state and had encircled about 30,000] British troops, while Japanese radio reports by way of Berlin] claimed that the port of Malacca | had been taken and “left behind” | by the advance Japanese units. { Malacca is 130 miles from Singa- | pore. Berlin broadcast a report that the Japanese were ‘very| close” to Singapore and the London | radio said that 100,000 enemy troops were advancing down the peninsula | and “nearing the real defense zone” | protecting the big naval base. | In a general way, all of these] reports from both Allied and Axis! sources were in agreement that the Japanese were approaching or had | reached themain British defenses | in northern Johore, where Japanese | bombers were blasting at the Brit- | ish strong points.

Main Defense Line Short

That line is comparatively short! and reported to be well fortified, so that the first real British re-| sistance since Kuala Lumpur may | be encountered there by the enemy. | If that proves correct, the cur-|

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paralysis in January, ending it with| Secretary of War Henry L. Stimthe President's Birthdty Ball onison told a press conference that no 30. In Indianapolis, the com- plans have yet been made to-evacu-mittee headed by Judge H. Nathan ate Gen. MacArthur and his forces gymnasium adjoining the Butler oy University Field House. But James Whitcomb Riley Hos- JAPS PUT U S pital, the Warm Spring Foundation 1 1 | fighting poliomyelitis carry on the SHIP LOSSES HIGH | year around Their work in June as well as] TOKYO. Jan. 15 (Official broad- | January, and particularly in the cast recorded in San Francisco). — | the “sixth column” strikes hardest, dav that 36 American war vessels, goes on more smoothly because on | aggregating 245.140 tons, were sunk | President Roosevelt's birthday many |i? the attack on Pearl Harbor fortunate Americans dance so those | Dec: 1. the Hawaiian attack, taken within 20 minutes of the initial assault” [these figures were attributed to the Japanese naval command: two cruisers, one aircraft carrier four destroyers, 15 submarines, one! target ship, one mine sweeper, one] seaplane carrier, three gunboats and (Navy Secretary Frank Knox, after a fiving visit to Honolulu, reported to President Roosevelt on {Dec. 15 that the battleship Arizona, Shaw; the target ship Utah and the ‘mine layer Ogalala, had been sunk 3 ‘by Japanese aircraft.) | The casualty list of the 36 Amer-| {than 13000 officers and men, the Navy source said. He asserted that Japanese losses {to date included only four destroy- | sweepers, aggregating 8600 tons, compared with American claims that 28 warships, including a battleship of the Haruna class, have

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EVEALS RAF STONED| BY BRITISH TROOPS

LONDON, Jan. 15 (U. P)—A] senior air force officer said today | that Royal Air. Force pilots were booed and even stoned by British] troops in the last stages of the Crete campaign becavse of the lack of imperial aerial activity. Describing what he called “a sad incident,” the officer said: “They failed to realize that all

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rent phase of retirement by the British may not be as disastrous a threat to Singapore as indicated by Australian and London press comment which hinted that the loss of all Malaya was likely and said that the fall of Singapore would mean a big shake-up in the Churchill government,

Continue Indies Thrust

The other phase of Japan's general offensive was still thrusting at the Dutch East Indies in an apparent attempt to gain full command of the waterways north of Australia, which would interrupt vital allied supply lines. The Japanese followed vyesterday's bombing of Balik Papan, on the east coast of Borneo, with an attack on Ambon naval base to the east. These attacks indicated, dispatches from Batavia said, that! enemy naval forces were preparing! to Ye new invasion attacks at WO points,

the The fact that Axis forces were making new thrusts on many fronts emphasized Hitler's efforts to spread the allied defense strength to the greatest possible extent. But there was no indication that the Allied high commands would permit their attention to be diverted

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each type which is generally rated above similar types of foreign manufacture.” The report, however, does give a cheer to the single-engine Bell P-39—the Airacobra. “The P-39 is being presently produced at a satisfactory rate, and is generally considered the only Amer-ican-built pursuit plane presently in production that is satisfactory to the British and to our own forces. It is reported to be the only singleengined pursuit plane in the world carrying a 37-m. cannon. “For the Navy a ship is being built which is considered to be the fastest naval fighter in the world, but it will not be in quantity production for many months. “On the drawing boards we have many high-performing pursuit ships, but in January, 1042, very few will be produced which can be considered better than mediocre, and there will be no long-range pursuits, a type so vitally needed for our present operations.” The committee received from the War Department, the report says, a statement setting forh “an ouline of the reasons for slowness of production,” and these views, it is said, correspond to those held by the Navy and the OPM. The War Department ilsted these factors: An almost contnuous revision in requirements incorporating and deleting features in airplanes in accordance with the lessons learned from actual combat conditions, shortage of engines, propellers and other Government-furnished equip-

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strategic materails, labor disputes and strikes, shortage of skilled and semi-skilled workers and dilution of managements’ engineering and supervision personnel.” But the Truman Committee brushes aside the War Department's reasons with this tart statement: “Ib now appears obvious that the above reasons are not reasons for failures of production but are excuses. Any shortages which are claimed should have been eliminated long since by proper planning and organization.” Highlights of the 146-page report, among the bluntest criticisms of the defense program that has been offered, were: 1. The report, written before President Roosevelt named Mr. Nelson- as boss of the defense prorgam, called for a single administrator. OPM was criticized as an organization whose “mistakes of commission have been legion” and whose “mistakes of omission have been even greater.”

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2. Dollar-a-year men and W .0.C. employed by OPM have followed their “subconscious tendency” of issuing contracts to big business wherever possible. “Therefore, in a very real sense the dollar-a=year and W. O. C. men can be termed ‘lobbyists’,” the report said. 3. The automobile industry failed to convert its facilities to defense production and actually produced more automobiles in 1941 than it did in 1940. Rather than convert its facilities, the industry insisted on building new plants, with Government aid, for the new defense

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4, The report offered, as refuta= tion of the charge that taxes take away all profits in the defense program, the profit statements of the three major automobile companies —General Motors, Chrysler and Ford~—in 1940 and the first nine months of 1941. The combined profits of those companies for those periods were $408,212,589 and $430,« 604,778, respectively. 5. At the outbreak of war in Sep tember, 1939, this nation had only “skeleton” air forces and the site uation today is little better. Lack of standardization has handicapped production of military planes of all types with the exception of the flying fortress bomber.”

6. Fees and bonuses paid to private shipbuilders by the Navy are “excessive” but the profits for repair ship conversion are “even more staggering.” The maritime commission, however, has “done a good job” despite the conditions under which they operated. 7. The defense program has been “seriously handicapped” by strikes many of which “ought not to have taken place.” The conflicts between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. have raised difficulties for the labor lead= ers “who in the main are intelligent, responsible and patriotic.” 8. Defense housing has suffered from “many mistakes, gross waste, extravagance, inefficiency, and, strange to say, petty jealousies on the part of the administrative heads of the program.” 9. The Army cantonment cone struction prograg suffered from a lack of plans and failure properly to select contractors for the jobs, The report reviewed a previous crite icism issued by the committee and said that considerable improvement had taken place since that time.

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