Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1942 — Page 17

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+ plead for “arms as never before”

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night we did all that i at we don’t know what. A I happened to be in Los Angeles that night. I was ih a high room in a downtown hotel, with no buildings obstruct ing the vi w,-and it made a perfect seat. At first I assumed

1t to be just!

* could not see: anything ™ that mu some 20 miles away. But I could see the antieair-

seeined to burst right in the spot.

‘There was no shooting from downtown Los Angeles i It was all from a great circle, surrounding:

at all the city. It was like distant lightning and thunder, and it gave you a feeling of horrible eminousness, rather than the more satisfying one of being excited to death in the midst of a din.

- “Like a Pre-arranged Show”

. I.was just going to there began those farlike Midwest thunder. 1” I said to myself,

bidet { out of bed again. For. t sound by heart. “Can.

I knew es?” It was happenthe horizon—to e south, the east, the arco were constant flashes of light, like sheet ; low in the sky. anti-aircraft guns were: ry ‘They seemed to fire, much ‘more rapidly than the ones I had known bef But, it was | the searchlig “me most, for that. was ething I had never seen, before.” The British had almost abandoned the use of searchlights when I got to England. They said it - just outlined the city’s posi} -

It Was a Grand

* BUT OUR ARMY—whatever they were following" that ~night—certainly did p magnificently rhythmic job of it. There must have been at least two dozen searchlights pointed into the sky, all of them miles apart, covering a vast area in the southern suburbs of Los Angeles. ‘They all converged into a big blue spot in the: heavens. “And that spot moved very slowly but very _ definitely across the sky, with never a falter. Of all the many straight blue lines shooting ‘upward to that one spot, not one ever wavered, or got lost, or had to “fish” or “feel” around for the target. They held it, and moved with it across the sky, like a leech that would not let go.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum|

THE FIREMEN at Engine House 13—just across the street from The es—made the shortest run

in the history of the station yesterday. In some manner, a box of cloths used [by our printers caught fire _ in the composing room. While printers were ex- : tinguishing the flames with chemims cals, someone called the fire department. Across the street raced two pumper trucks and the battalion |chief’s car. Next came the No. 13 aerial ladder truck. It's 5 long that the front end reached es almost before the back Th out of the station. Apparatus also came from other stations. | And: the funny part about it is that instead of the boys and : “girls unning back to see the fire, va everybody hurried to the windows to dee the fire engines. |

Tries Another Kind of Pen

WY, “Indianapolis’ one-time man, now reformed,

newsstands Way) carries of “the tt

a, life ue Hew wx Sympathetic Tooth

“I'WENTY-ONE years ago when Tony Hinkle first was called to Butler, Heiny Goett (now a supeI id two front teeth at Butler : » had to be removed at the time, Helny recalls, but the other tooth was saved.

Washington

WASHINGTON, Match 6.~eIt is no reflection upon our officials to say that the ingide picture of the war «is far more desperate 1 or the remainder of this year than you would gather from the public utterances here. Officials do not t to deceive the country. 1 J most of them wish it were fa. ble to speak out with comple frankness. For if they told the facts as they stand, the Amer: ican people would pitch in with the | desperate determinatior) that the British showed after

Dunkirk | But officials cannot speak y. Suppose President Roose: . -velt/had said that the British ar weak in the Middle East and % heavy axis offensive thers

ent and panic. he i to content himself with warnr of a breakthrough thst and Japan to join forces and apart from each other, leaying them unable to reinforcements.

The True Story—

WHEN DONALD IN w ent on s knew

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despeately every single wsbipiand ed this

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, display that fascinated:

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outgrowth of the cold

THE BLACKOUT - IN ‘downtown Los Angeles

eventually was good, but: it seemed very Slow. Many

lights were still burning -after the guns started. My hotel pulled the main switch almost: immediately. * With traffic stopped the city got very quiet, and I could hear the voices of wardens for blocks. I was amazed at how quickly they got out of bed and onto! the®job. They were out giving orders before’ the last of the street lights went off. | People in houses and apartments seemed to me cgreless the way, they kept turning lights on just for a moment. There was one woman ‘who insisted on keeping her light on even after the warden had warned her twice. (I could get all this - from con-

* yersation in the street below.)

Finally an assistant warden, good and mad, started up after her again. And I heard the warden call to him, “Take it easy. now. There are ways to deal witn her afterward. I have been very frightened in London, but. despite the terrific surprise of gunfire here on our own soil, I don’t recall being at all concerned here. And the thing that finally sent me back to bed was the fact that no fires ever appeared on the horrizon. - I could

not conceive of it being a real raid unless a few fires:

were started. So I went to sleep, and three hours later was awakened by the all-clear. 1 looked out the window at Los Angeles, still whole, I lad the same feeling I always had in looking upon damaged London after.a raid. And that is, I couldn't believe it was real. It all seemed like a: prearranged show to me—even in London.

It didn’t give him a minute's trouble, either, until just the other day. Heiny—beg pardon, Judge Goett— went to his dentist who said it had to be yanked. The judge thinks Tony’s departure for the navy has something to do with the tooth acting up after all these years.

‘That's for Pearl Harbor’

WE DON'T THINK this item, vouched for by a friend, requires any comment. On a N. Illinois streetcar the other evening, a woman was bragging loudly to a friend how much money her family was making. “We don’t care how long this war lasts,” she boasted. “We're making more money than we ever made in our lives.” A man sitting across the aisle from her was unable to contain himself. He leaped to his feet ‘and slapped the braggart’s face. “That's for a son I lost at Pearl Harbor,” he said angrily, then slapped her again. “And, that’s for another son somewhere in® the Pacific.” The woman, flabbergasted, looked

‘around for male protection, but every male was scan-

ning the ceiling or looking out the windows: Furious, the garrulous one shouted to the operator to stop the car and when last seen she was waving her arms and hollering for a cop.

Around the Town

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MRS. RUTH SCHLENSKER, wife of the baseball

club secretary, 1s quitting her job as a policewoman

tomorrow. She's been on the force 13 years and was a civilian. clerk at police headquarters a year and a half before that. Now she intends to settle down and be just a housewife. , . . Chief Mike Morrissey, who has been reported as seeking a military commission, says it isn’t so. . . . Little Tommy White, 6; who lives at 625 Gladstone, was asked what kind of ice cream he wanted. “Manilla, so I can lick the Japs,” responded Tommy,

By Raymond Clapper |

some of these things. For instance, from Cairo, a correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune gives you a tip-off. He describes how a counter offensive in the Mediterranean area, timed along with Russian counter blows, might drive Germany back on two fronts and turn the tide. But, he adds ominously, at present all of that is nothing but a lovely dream because the allied forces in the Middle East are such that they must confine themselves to defense. He says they cannot undertake any such offensive. That can only be done, he says, if a completely equipped American expeditionary force, with its own air and armored forces, is sent. He is telling it there in blunt language,

Not Pessimism, but Realism

ANYONE WHO MULLS over these elementary circumstances can see what we are up against. We are up against-the fact that the force of the other united nations is fairly well spent, That is especially true-of the British.. The Dutch are making their last stand. China can continue her guerilla defense indefinitely, but no real offensive is possible except to the extent that we can ship in supplies, and that becomes more difficult daily. Russia has enormous strength left but she has lost considerable productive capacity. If she can hold the Sretitians in the coming offensive that is about as uch as we can y count on. would be a lucky break for our side. Anytine moist What does all of this tell us? It tells us that the, chance of victory rests upon us. It tells us that the | most we can hope is that our united nations associates will be ‘able to hold on and save some bases for future operation, hold open some lines over which can send our forces. This has become our war in, sense not recognized a few weeks ago. It has become our war in the sense that it will ‘be wan by the United States or not won at

et 35 Ter pessimisin biti realism, which 1s the

foundation rock of successful effort

By Eleanor R

it up, even though there may come times when 16 ma seem as heavy as the cross of Calvary itself” a To those, and I am sure there are i - worry daily, not only about how we are Hor the war, but about how we will , on of the world of the 2 Lk i sensibl that mbakast-bpating. seems e that fhe end of the wg shiculd sé e in the r rich or semi-rich group of people another should “have been dist

, Of the nation as a whole,

1 also seems sensible that in an eff the ‘buying. of Consumers.

It was daylight. And as| |

ps Hoping uu S. With

“The Strategy of Terror,”

ican people and its leaders,

logical strategy’

t- and articles of year ago, It is

bound to lose.

Edmond Taylor

France, in accordance with instructions dictated by Germany to the Vichy government. It is probably no accident that the Riom trials have gotten under way at this time; they are intended to serve as inspiration and models - for American appeasers and Nazis, a practical lesson in the art of abolishing democracy. There is, of course, one slight catch in this technique and the Nazis are perfectly aware of it: Before you can have a Riom trial you have to lose a war. Knowing that we cannot 1 we have lost our determinatign to win it, the axis propagandists will concentrate on trying to persuade us that we have lost the war before we have really begun to fight it. »

America Not France

THIS IS A tall order, but it is not impossible. It has been done before. If the French government in June, 1940, had not been "econvinced by Nazi propaganda that England was doomed and the war as good ‘as over, it would have moved to North Africa in all probability - and would still * be fighting. The axis knows that President Roosevelt and other responsible , American leaders have harder heads and stronger nerves than the men responsible for France's destinies in 1940, so no energy will be wasted trying to convince

the war until -

to Split Argument’

War Is Already Lost

This 1 the second of two articles by Edmond Taylor, Author of who describes how axis p are loaded for &' psychological bits against the U, S. By EDMOND TAYLOR JUST AS AXIS propaganda is trying to drive a wedge between America and her allies as the first step in a carefully planned campaign aimed at knocking America out of - the war, so it is trying to drive a wedge between the Amer-

”

This is a repetition of the two-pronged psycho-

which destroyed Fance and will de-

stroy us if we let it. The central theme of the axis campaigns on the American home front was apparent even before Pearl Harbor—in: fact it was outlined in speeches

extreme isolationist leaders a full that Presdient Roosevelt and other

American leaders are the real enemies of the American people because they got the country into a war for which it was not prepared and which they are

‘You Have Lost,” Nazis Tell Us

THIS IS A CLASSIC Nazi theme, used over and over in their European campaigns. It is almost word foy word the charge upon which former Premiers Daladier and Blum are now being tried at Riom,

them that the war is lost. But a great effort will be made to convince the American people. The next allied military reverse anywhere in- the world ‘ will almost certainly serve as pretext for a campaign to convince the American people that the war has been lost. Simultaneously axis propaganda agents in this country will try to throw the. blame for the supposedly lost war first, on our allies, secondly, on President. Roosevelt, Secretary Stimson, Secretary Knox, etc. # » »

Arguments to Vary

THE SPECIFIC arguments brought forward will vary according to the circumstances of the moment, but it is a safe bet that all variations will trace back in some way to the version of Pearl Harbor already current in some American circles. This is that the real cause of the disaster was the administration’s policy of patrolling the North Atlantic sea lanes which weakened our’ forces in the Pacific—and deprived the Japs of several important targets at Pearl Harbor. Wherever further reverses occur ‘and whatever their real cause, they will be attributed by Nazi propaganda to President Roosevelt's: having refused to listen to the advice of American isolationists. Wild rumors of concealed disasters, much graver than those revealed to the public,

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Beware of a whispering campaign.

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will. circulate in “authoritative” circles in Washington as they did after Pearl ‘Harbor. If the axis propaganda seems to be taking hold of the American public mind the enemy will step up his attacks. He will launch a series of desperate offensives that have no purpose except to convince the American public that the whole united nations front is crumbling.

Sneak Raids Possible

HE MAY CHOOSE this moment to launch sneak air-raids on our coastal cities. He will certainly try to foment strikes—and hysterical reactions to strikes. At the psychological moment - the fifth-column—which has lain dorment since Dec. !T on orders—will strike with all its force, unleashing sabotage and violence on a nation-wide scale. Every effort will be made to create panic and despair in the

mind of the American public, to give the -impression of a “snowball” disaster, gathering momentum as it advances. Many of the individual elements in the picture will have no real significance at all but will be simply optical illusions of disaster. To what extent such a campaign can succeed is hard to say. It depends on the speed and thoroughness of the FBI in

rounding up enemy agents in the ’

next few weeks. It depends on the ability of local and national officials to face facts in time and to act on occasion with energy and even ruthlessness for the salvation of American democracy.

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Common Sense Needed

IT DEPENDS on the sense of responsibility, the: patriotism and self-discipline of the American press and radio. It depends on the number of

Americans who. have let theme selves become the dupes and accomplices of Hitler's and Hirohito's fifth columns. It depends on the patriotism of ‘isolationists and opponents of the administration’s domestic poli-

cles=—~on their ability to subordi- - nate their grudges to the national welfare. It depends more than anything else on the common-sense, coolheadedness, self-discipline, courage and alertness of the great mass of average Americans and upon the strength of their determination not to let it happen here. "ry In other words, Hitler and Hirohito are going to lose the battle of America because America i8 America. But don’t make any mistakes—we are going to take plenty of: punishment, moral and otherwise, in the process.

THE END.

SOLDIER'S LIFE

Men in‘ Combat ' Zone to Get Sulfa Tablets to

Use if injured.

WASHINGTON, March 6 (U. P), —Three steps to make life safer and easier for soldiers were disclosed today by the war depargs ment: Each soldier entering a ‘combat zone -is being given a special “spillproof” packet of a. dozen sulfanilamide tablets which he can take to minimize the danger of wound ‘in'fections. Letters to soldiers in the field will be photographed on motion picture film to speed delivery. Troops at overseas bases will be allowed to apply by radio for life insurance policies—up ‘to $10,000—

IS MADE EASIER

By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent

Army Gets Out Color Book,

Seeks Harmony in Uniforms

’ |have sometimes deviated from army

standards in .their attempts to de-

WASHINGTON, March 6.—The Sign army clothing, with the result

against rugged individualism in military. fashions.

to state that American army uni-,

one another, One general's trousers have seldom been the same shade as another's. And among lieutenants, .|captains, majors and colonels—not to mention enlisted men who get what the army Je them—the ool or dissonance has frequently been’ such as to make esthetes shudder. The war department placed most. of the blame on makers rather than wearers of uniforms. In a damning statement it said:

war department has struck a blow,

“In recent years manufasturess,

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that there is a wide variety of shades in soldiers’ uniforms.”

‘But all should be harmony in the

It is revedling no military secret near future. In ‘a frankly opti-

. announcement the war de-

forms have long been swearing at partment disclosed that:

“Standard colors for army uniforms may soon be a reality, thanks to an ingenious type of beck’ just|.

enlisted nen and personnel of the nurse corps.” Tailors and other civilians may buy it for $5.

HOLD EVER YTHING

+ claim to have

RUSSIA HONORS ARMY DOCTORS

One Perfects a Solution Usable as Substitute for

Blood Transfusion.

By A. T. STEELE

ht, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times hd e Chicago ly News, Ine. MOSCO

, March 6 ‘(U, Py—A Soviet doctor, Vitali Popov, who has invented . a. blood-replacing solution usable in emergency as a substitute for a blood transfusion, was

corps decorated yesterday by the Soviet government. Dr. Popov received the Order of Lenin. His formula already. is being produced in substantial quantities and is being utilized in exceptional cases at the front. The newest honor list is by far

of tremendous magnitude and who made a number of improvements in the standard practices of war surgery and treatment. Among these is an improved method of anti-tetanus immunization.

among 353 physicians, surgeons and). workers of the Red army medical|

Luminous Paint in Blackouts Urged

By Science Service _ SCHENECTADY, N. Y., March 6. Paint ‘that glows in the dark would be used on all walls of factories that may have to be blacked out if the suggestions of Dr. Gorton Fonda of the General Electric research laboratory are put into effect. Phosphorescent materials would be painted on the walls. These store up energy when the lights are shining and give it off for a short while when fllumination

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