Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1942 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 1942

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SECOND SECTION

Hoosier Vagabond

SEATTLE, Jan. 28 —Having traveled slowly and deviously all the way from San Francisco to Seattle, I am now ready to file my report on the pulse of the Upper Pacific Coast. (Good old southern California will have to come later. From what I hear in letters, the rest of the country seems to think people on the Coast are in a dither over the war. But to me the Coast does not seem in a dither. The small towns have not changed in appearance from peacetime. I haven't seen any service stars in windows yet. People on the streets act as they always do. Occasionally in restau- » rants you see fat-stomached, midA dle-aged men in major’s uniforms aN . - —obviously not Regular Army— which is one thing you didn't see before the war. Hotels all have blackout instruction cards in every room. But many hotels have made no arrangements for permanent blackout. Room and meal prices have gone up in some place, but not all. Newspapers have instituted daily columns covering their war factories and shipyards. War news takes up most of the space. Police reporters and leg-men say it is almost impossible to get an ordinarily good story in the paper any more.

Contempt, but No Hatred

DESPITE DENIALS, IT is true that many people have left the Coast. I suppose there's no way of knowing how many. The only ones I personally know of are retired people who had been living in hotels and who have now gone back to their Midwest homes for the duration But the regular dwellers aren't scared. I don't believe people on the Coast are half as excited about themselves as their friends and relatives in the East are about them

By Ernie Pyle

War is talked at parties and wherever two people get together, of course, but the man with a zeal in his eve is a rare one. War fever is not at the 1918 pitch. In spite of the drubbing the Japs have been giving us, I believe most people still look on them with contempt, instead of burning with the hatred we had for Germany the last time.

And in spite of the impossible having happened at! Pearl Harbor, I believe 95 per cent of the people on the Coast feel there is little likelihood of the Japs! bombing the coastal cities—except maybe a few iso-! lated suicide and token raids later in the war. True, they are in earnest about their civil defense. ! but there isn't the old spark that drives you when vou know—as the British knew—that the raiders are, coming tonight and every night and you're gonna die if you don't watch out.

Traffic the Big Headache

LIFE, EVEN ON THE “front line” here, has been disarranged very little by the war so far. There is plenty to eat, wear, drink and buy. If the public has begun laying up its automobiles, it isn't noticeable yet. Traffic in the big war-produc-tion centers is becoming a ghastly problem. Seattle’s transportation bottleneck is grave. Workers by the thousand have signed petitions calling on the city to dc something about it—widen streets and augment bus and ferry services. There are many boom towns. There is lots of money. If a fellow doesn’t like his job, he just quits and goes to the shipyards. In Seattle people are offering $10 reward for vacant houses or apartments, and in the third-string hotels workmen are sleeping in the halls. On the whole, I would say the Coast is far from all-out in its war effort. A country can't get all-out | until a war has been going on for a long time. Eng-! land wasn't all-out even after a year and a half of war,

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

NOW THAT SUGAR is going on the rationing list along with tires. shenanigans have started. Some restaurants complain that their patrons have started swiping sugar—pouring it out of sugar bowls into envelopes and even paper napkins to take home. , . . The rationing of soft drinks is leaving manv dealers without a supply temporarily. Nowhere is the rationing hurting worse than at the State House, where the coke machines are empty part of the time. It just ruins the day for the State House stenographers. The City Schools’ speech correctionist, Miss Esther Glaspeyv, was married last Christmas to an Independence, Ia.. businessman. Since then, naturally, she has been known as Mrs. Esther Glaspey Ogdanl. Well, the other day she got a letter from new hubby addressed to “Miss Esther Glaspey.” She has arranged a leave of absence, starting tomorrow, for the next semester.

Red, White and Ble

HE 56 OR MORE GIRLS in the telephone company's accounting department toll section have been on a patriotic spree. Last Thursday, S. B. Van Arsdale, head of the section, walked in and found all the girls in red. The next day thev were all dressed in white. Blue was the prevailing color Monday. And just to be a little different, their schedule today called for dividing the section into thirds: the first third wearing red, the next white

Washington

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—As [I read the Roberts report on Pearl Harbor, I kept thinking that would hell of a way to run a newspaper, I don't know anything about military affairs. But

I have been around newspaper offices all my life. A newspaper office is organized to be ready for the unexpected. We hire an army and navy to protect from the unexpected. ut I never saw a news room that was as slack and sloppy as the Roberts report shows the Army and Navy t Hawaii to have been. Go through anv well-run newspaper office and vou will find galleys of type, with headlines and art, all ready to be thrown into the paper at an instant’s notice. a flash come through about the sudden death any prominent figure and the paper will be ready roll within a few minutes. A newspaper office always goes on the assumption the worst is about to happen the next minute. c Be amount of planning, labor and watchto this side of a newspaper—much of it is necessary if you are not to be breaks.

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Checking—Checking—Checking

THE MAN-HOURS which reporters spend on death watches and on chasing down tips which do not materialize, the newsless days they put in hovering around prominent figures just so they will be on hand in case something happens are all part of the routine of being prepared for the unexpected. Around Scripps-Howard newspaper offices is the old story of the Oklahoma City hanging years ago. The sheriff was all ready. Most of the reporters in town were on hand. But one city editor sent a reporter out to watch the Governor, who was opposed to capital punishment. Ten minutes before the hanging was to take place, the Governor commuted the

My Day

NEW YORK CITY. Tuesday. —In spite of rather grav looking skies, I left Washington vesterday afternoon, hoping to land in New York about 6:45. But we came down at an unfamiliar airport, and I found we were in Philadelphia and the flight was cancelled. I drove to the station and caught a train almost immediately and reached my house at 9:15 so I might just as well have taken a § o'clock train out of Washington. I talked to some Army boys on the way over, who had just had their orders. One youngster in a sailor's uniform sat just a few seats ahead of me. When he turned around, I felt sure he must have added a few years to his age, for he looked 14 instead of 18. They tell me that the boys

coming over here from England to get their training

in flying, are very young, ranging from 16 to 20. Some of our own pilots are 20 to 22. It is a curious thing to me, that older people seem so often to accept with complacency these young armies. I rebel, and vet I know an army must be young. I have a great desire to see our fighting forces organized in the most efficient possible way, by putting each individual in the place where he will serve best, because only in that way shall we shorten the horrible period through which we are living. I want to see everyone in civilian life at the present

and the last blue clothing. The girls had a heck of! a lot of fun out of it. Their plans for the future are a little vague.

No Such Town

HOAGY CARMICHAEL'S FATHER, Howard, is employed in the City Building Department. Thus, when Russ Campbell, secretary to Hizzoner, wanted to wire Hoagy asking him to come here for the Infantile Paralysis Rally tomorrow, he phoned Mr. Carmichael for the address. The way Russ got it over the phone, the address was 626 N. Foothills, Liberty Hill, Cal. He sent the wire and an hour or so later, the telegrapn company phoned him. “Sorry,” they reported, “but Liberty Hills, Cal, is an abandoned mine.” The next day Russ sent the wire to Beverly Hills and got a favorable reply.

Herve and There

MOTORISTS have been complaining about several | piles of gravel left in Carvel Ave., north of 46th St. | without any warning lights. It's enough to upset! an auto some dark night, they say. . . . John Klein-| henz of the Water Co. staff has developed a hoarse croaking reminiscent of Wendell Willkie's Monument Circle campaign talk. The only difference is that John's voice slides up to a soprano one minute, and down into the basement the next. He's not sure how he caught cold in his throat. . . . A tool designer looking for a job writes the local U. S. Employment Service: “I haven't been closely related to national defense work yet. but I really wish to be helping the Rising Sun to set.”

By Raymond Clapper

sentence. The newspaper which was on the job had its newsboys selling papers to the crowd waiting in the jailyard to see the hanging that had been called off. Newspapers are prepared always for the unexpected. Hawaii seems to have operated on the conviction that the unexpected couldn't happen. More than that, the Roberts report shows appalling lack of co-ordination between the Army and Navy. The Army thought the Navy was patroling. The Navy thought the Army had its detection service operating. Neither bothered to check with the other— or maybe they were not on speaking terms.

No Troce of Co-ordination

IN ANY NEWSPAPER office the first business of the managing editor is to see that his city editor and his telegraph editor clear with each other on space. If the city editor went on his own and the telegraph editor sent wire copy to the composing room to his heart's desire, you would have enough type set to! fill three newspapers. If a big local story breaks, the telegraph editor's | space is reduced. If a big telegraph story breaks, the | city editor takes a cut in space. The two subordinate | executives must work together. Such co-ordination is necessary in any factory. In fact, you seem to find it everywhere, except that there wasn't a trace of it between the Army and the Navy at Hawaii. I have always thought that civilians should be extremely sparing in their advice about military affairs, which seem so simple and yet are so intricate. But the Roberts report shows two glaring situations which come down, in civilian language, to sloppy operations. First, the Army and Navy acted on the assumption that the unexpected would not happen, when they should have assumed the opposite. Second, the two services were totally unco-ordinated, and neither knew what the other was doing—or, in this case, not doing. And the air force. so supremely important in| the new warfare apparently was regarded by both | as a minor auxiliary.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt

time, doing the job he is best able to do, and doing | it as well as he possibly can. If women are able and skillful enough to go into| factories, I hope they will. I hope that all men. young or old, who work in factories in defense industries, will do the most efficient job that can be done. Whatever the jobs are that people are doing, I want them done by the right people and in the best possible way, because that is the way to win this war. Every day that goes on, means more young men in every land are dying. I am confident that our cause is just, but I want to see youth free again to fight a different kind of war, a war to find a way by which we all live more decently and happily together. All of us know that, at the end of this war, that other war has to be fought, and we shall need youth to fight it. I hope that, in every factory today, and in every service camp, young people are discussing the kind of a world they intend to build after the fighting is over. It may not be the kind of a world in which my generation has lived, but if it achieves the ends for which we are fighting: Real freedom for every individual regardless of race, creed or color, economic freedom for every individual who is willing to put his capacities to work of some kind, then these horrible days will have obtained good results. We have to live through them and I accept the necessity but at the same time I hope we do .our share in civilian life to prepare for a different and better future world.

Vil=Hitler Has No Allies

One of the strangest business deals of the century

is contributing mightily to

of the Italians for their Nazi neighbors and allies.

the resentment and hatred It

explains why the Nazis have no allies. When Mussolini's dreams of empire in Africa were smashed by the Australians and the other British forces, Italian interests were confiscated wherever they could be found. The take included some 80,000,000 lire in Italian currency, and presented the English with the neat problem of how they could best dispose of it. By design or otherwise, the whole lot found its way into the Swiss market where the Germans, never a people to pass up a good thing, bought it at bargain-basement

prices.

The spree of purchasing that followed has rankled the Italians ever since. The “touring” Nazis, with money

that cost them almost nothing, bought food and clothing until there was hardly

any left. They bought art objects wherever they could find them, not from any intrinsic appreciation, but because inflation is an everpresent threat. They bought jewelry until the Italian Government was compelled to impose the most rigid restrictions on the export of any precious metals to anyone, including their German allies,

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Bought a New Hatred

MORE THAN ALL THESE, however, the Nazis bought a new share of hatred, a new measure of undependability, and added a new bruise to one of the most painful of the multiple sore spots that plague the new order. Italy as an ally is almost useless, except for the geographical base it provides for the occupying German forces. “When in Rome, do as the Germans do,” runs the 20th century version of an ancient line. Whenever it has served the Nazis’ purpose, they have placed the interests of the Italians secondary or even farther down the list. So eager are the Germans to

{ make an arrangement with the | French

that they have assured Vichy the Italian claims on France will not be considered, except possibly for face-saving and otherwise unimportant concessions in Africa. In November when reports were current that Petain and Mussolini would meet one French official

Foreign Minister Matsuoka , , . a headache to his Axis hosts,

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scoffed at the rumor. asked with elaborate would be the use. “Mussolini would say, ‘we want this, and . this; and this’ The Marshal would ‘say, ‘no—c'est fini.’ ” The contempt with which the Germans treat their “allies” is colossal. Once when the Italians beat the Germans by a couple of hours to the announcement of a Hitler-Mussolini seance at the Brenner, the Foreign Office spokesman was badgered about it at the daily press conference in the dingy paneled Wilhelmstrasse room where Bismarck formerly met his cabinet.

A Coolly Polite Reply

THE REPLY WAS coolly polite. There had been a “misunderstanding.” But when the formal conference was ended, the Italians were herded into a smaller room and told what they would and would not do in the future in tones and terms that penetrated most of the building. German invective is peculiarly blunt. How securely based are the ties between the Nazis and their Japanese allies is likewise dubious. When the then Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka visited Berlin last April, he spoke in the glowing and most general terms and promised nothing. He was a headache to his Axis hosts from the moment he began his journey until his return to Tokyo. In Berlin he spoke English with Nazi Foreign Minister Von Ribbentrop, who had insisted he would not utter another word in that language until the war was ended. It provoked the explanation frcm the Foreign Office, which didn’t see the humor of it at ali, that the Nazis “would use the medium of the enemy whenever it served their needs.” When Matsuoka signed a non-aggres-sion pact with Russia on his way home, it surprised and enraged the Germans, whose plans for their Soviet venture were already far along. In Rome. Matsuoka ostenstatiously teiephoned an American diplomat while the Germans and Italians fumed and tried desperately to keep their tempers. There is at least ground for suspicion new that the literal-mind-ed Japanese, urged by the Nazis to get into the war, got into it on a scale and with a vigor that far exceeded the German program, for in one brief afternoon their attack jarred America into unity and action as nothing else could have done—a circumstance the Nazis were most eager to avoid.

The Italians learned how blunt Nazi invective can be when they beat the Berlin Foreign Office by two hours in announcing a Hitler-Mussolini “seance” at Brenner Pass.

Lesser Allies Unhappy

NOR ARE GERMANY'S lesser allies any happier or more secure. The new order has developed frictions within itself that will keep the Nazis busily mending for years even should they win and impose their plan completely. Rumania and Hungary are at each other's throats. Slovakia would like a share in the quarrel. Croatia has publicly boycotted the Hungarians. The Bulgarians and the Greeks, and the Bulgarians and the Serbs have a lot of things to settle, which show no sign of peaceful cutcome, even under Nazi pressure. In the north, Norway—at least its Quisling government—is raging at “democratic” Sweden, and jealously watching Finland take over the position of Scandinavian pre-eminence so far as the Nazis are concerned. The “invitations” to Denmark and Finland to join the anti commintern pact in Berlin came as a major blow to Norway's prestige, although before the Danes agreed they apparently had received an ultimatum threatening to ‘‘reconsider” the whole basis of occupation and supplant the Nazi minister, who is the formal contact, with a Reichkommissar. In the Low Countries the situation is equally delicate. Clashes between Dutch and Flemish are frequent, while the natural antagonism of the Flemish and Walloons in Belgium has been fostered deliberately. The mutual, full-blown dislike of the Italians and the French completes the angry circle of allies which surrounds tiie Nazis.

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Rumanians Bitter

RUMANIA HAS concealed only thinly its bitter disappointment over the so-called Vienna award of Aug. 30, 1940, by which the Axis—which means the Germans —took away most of Transylvania

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and gave it to the Hungarians. This irredentist sentiment flared into full flame when Rumanian troops, pushed along by the German drive, entered Odessa. Rumanians made the curious and unscientific ethnological discovery that the Russians on the far side of the Dniester River were of old Rumanian stock, and almost immediately followed this with the assertion that the Hungarians, not only in Transylvania but as far west as the River Theiss, half way between the old border and Budapest, were also related. “Only 50 years of independent Rumanian rule would be required,” the government-controlled newspaper Ardealul wrote recently, “to return the inhabitants of the area as far as the Theiss to their Rumanian origin.” Now that Odessa had been regained, the armed forces, ran the line of the official press, should be turned westward against their other enemy—Hungary. Premier Gen. Antonescu in a speech that was received with considerable enthusiasm by his people assured them he would not rest until Rumania was “restored.” The Nazi field marshal, Keitel, on his way to review the returning Rumanian troops in Bucharest, was greeted at several places along his railroad route by demonstrators carrying placards saying, “Long Live Rumania—From Odessa to the Theiss.”

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Hungarians Wary

ALL THIS DID not pass unnoticed bv the Hungarians, naturaily enough, who look to Germany to restrain their boisterous ally. Some of the radio exchanges between Budapest and Bucharest almost pale the Germans’ attacks on Russia. But they have other troubles, too, and someone is certain to be disappointed. In November, anti-Hungarian demonstrations occurred in several Slovakian cities on the third

WAIT CALL FOR DEFENSE DUTY!

Be Patient, Tyndall Asks

8000 Who Registered Three Weeks Ago.

If you registered for civilian deiense earlier this month, don't be-

come impatient because you haven't

‘HOLD EVERYTHING

been called for duty. You will be called eventually. Maj. County defense

this plea today.

director,

Memorial have been ringing with queries: “Why, I registered for warden three weeks ago? going to be done about it?” Classify 8000 Men

The job of classifying the cards of the 8000 men who have registered has been nearly completed

under the direction of Charles

(Buck) Sumner, City Defense Council representative from fraternal organizations. The City Defense Council is expected to sort out the men who volunteered as fire fighters and auxiliary police so that they can be trained by the Fire and Police Departments. The training will be under the direction of Fire Chief Fulmer and Police Chief Morrissey. Men who volunteered for other duties will be assigned after the auxiliary fire and police forces have been created, .

'P.).—Defense

Gen. Robert H. Tyndall} issued | Telephones at the | | County Defense office at the War!

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ROBBINS OPENS FIGHT TO QUASH CHARGES

VINCENNES, Ind, Jan, 28 (U. counsel for Judge Herman M. Robbins were to present first arguments before Special Judge William F. Dudine of Jasper today seeking to quash indictments against Robbins charging immoral relations with juveniles. The 48-year-old Knox Superior Court jurist was indicted Dec. 5 on

moral offenses against children, denied the charges. Robbins, who is at liberty under $16.000 bond, has been sopducling; Superior Court sessions during the| January term.

DRINKS FOR DAVY JONES

BOSTON, Jan. 28 (U, P.).—More Actress Gave Save. Life than 50,000 cases of Scotch whisky, |

destined for New York and Boston dealers, were lost in the Atlantic recently when a freighter was sunk |

while en route from Glasgow, it was

jms counts in connection with reported yesterday.

'by Rep. Louis Ludlow for a name

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‘That We May Have Liberty,’ Girl Writes Ludlow.

“Camp Lombard.” “Ft. Lombard.”

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anniversary of the initial Vienna Conference which restored to Hungary border territories ase signed to Czechoslovakia by the Treaty of Trianon after the last war. Slovakia was trying then to soft-pedal the affair and reported them fallaciously, except in Bratie slava, as anti-Jewish. Since Hun= garian troops moved into the ‘wedge between the Drau and Mur Rivers, the Croatian press has re= fused even to print sport news from there. The problem of Scandinavian hegemony has been a favored subject of the Quisling Press in Norway. Its attacks on Sweden have been an obbligato to the deeper rumblings of the Nazis themselves. Sweden is accused of discrediting the Quisling regime, of giving work and shelter to Nor= wegian refugees, of providing a “nesting place of communism.” “Norway has made its sacrifice,” wrote a leading Oslo newse paper recently, “and it gives us the privilege of saying to Sweden that no democratic phrases are valid in this war.”

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Finns Are Frank

FINLAND HAS taken its grows ing prominence’ in the north without too much enthusiasm. Thrown into the Nazi net through no desire of their own, the Finns

have voiced what rank in Europe as extremely candid expressions of their disappointment over Nazi reverses in Russia. They would be delighted to get out of the war, if there were any possible chance. Ribbentrop himself, one of the leading architects of the new order, is responsible for the neatest description of this general picture of distrust and discontent, He called it the “harmony of the dissimilar.” Dissimilar it cer= tainly is. If it is harmony, it is harmony of a type the world has not yet learned to recognize.

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‘the Secretary of the Treasury that issue of the Victory Bonds | Series be designated as the “Carole ‘Lombard Victory Bonds.”

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

l—Are the Hawaiian Islands closer to Japan proper or to the United States? 2—Does the “caliber” of a gun refer to the length or the interior diameter of its barrel, or to the distance the gun will shoot? 3—Yellowstone Park is located in three states; name them.

of the new Army cantonment being 4—Is the book of Habakkuk in the | built near Columbus, Ind. | Old or the New Testament? | Here is a letter the Congressman 5—The American goshawk is a repe | received from 11- year-old Billic| tile, bird or fish? May Gross of Cumberland: 6—There is less oxygen in a cubis “All these other names are good foot of hot air than in a cubig names, and everything, but some; foof of cold air: true or false? of us wish to speak for a younger ,. ., By generation and not many days past Pine fig ie WN, we lost one of this younger gener- | of roofs are : Hed g-1 9g ation who gave her life that we calisd g=1 - ~~ -gs? may have liberty and freedom for 8—What famous charter was signed us children when we grow up. at Runnymede in 1215? “The people of Indiana have been # talking of placing a monument Answers here for our brave and wonderful, —The United States

Carole Lombard. Now my sugges- | tion may not mean much, but 1|2—Interior diameter of barrel.

would like to see our new CBD {Gi eats iy and Montana, named Ft. Carole Lombard . Bid. am Another letter from Mrs. G. A, | 6~True Davison, 2310 E. 12th St. . . . “I 7—Gargo Jes think ‘Camp Lombard’ would be ag ou 8 © good name and a fitting tribute.” E :

Bond Honor Favored :

Mrs. Mrs. Mollie Duffy of 1311 ASK THE TIMES Kenyon Ave. . “In memory of, Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reour attractive, beloved and patriotic, ply when addressing any question actress, Carole Lombard, who died of fact or information to The | in the service to free America , , .| Indianapolis Times Washington name our new cantonment ‘Camp | Service Bureau, 1013 13th St,, N. Carole.” { W., Washington, D. C. Legal Rep. Ludlow has also received a! and medical advice cannot be message from Governor Henry PF. given nor can extended research

lauding his Se be undertaken.

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