Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1942 — Page 9

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IN THE FIRST six weeks of this year he sold 116 dozens more. But he has even stopped taking ers now, for frankly he know when he can get any more bicyles. - wartime, demand for bikes, you'd the bicyle business would be a very And indeed it would be, if you could es to sell But since you can’t, it’s ‘very bad bo to be in.

} me : | WE DON'T KNOW whether you're aware of it or not, but Indianapolis has b¢en—and is—going through one of the biggest buying sprees in its history. Some people might even refer to it as a “buying hysteria,” but that’s a harsh phrase, and we never use words

o like At any rate, the groceries being cleaned out day after day.

People keep laying in canned goods by the armload and we even know of some people who have as much as $50 in canned goods in their ts. Brother, that’s an awful lot of canned goods. Clothing? It’s not only the ladies Who are doing the shopping, but the men as well. People have the idea that if they don’t buy they won't get to buy. They're buying 1 now and going to| worry about paying later,

“apparently. We know. We buy some shirts the other day. We got our between a not-too-delicate pink and a really brash violet. We compromised with white. Betcha theyll still be

hence, buying or no buying, Yes Sir, Captain |

A BUSINESS MAN was out at the Fort

selling swuff six months

an army commission being examined by

tion, the applicant was let me cool off a bit and tain: “There are no docks them to tie boats to.” . Bishop Titus Lowe (Mi ) will renew an acquaintance of his college ¢ at the Sigma Chi dinner Saturday at the I. A, C. The principal speaker

“Say, Doc; try again.” Snorted the in the army; the navy

at the dinner—Wythe. foreign correspondent, CW ashington "(Editor's Note—Mr, is on his way to Cairo, by air, This is one of articles he wrote just before leaving.) | |

9.—As to , I suppose .as it is with any of us morale {when we are doing soniething that we know is atly important, when we know that we are needed and when we know that (we are - working to un capability.

cit. ave good smorale he is useless, or if he something that does not his full powers. That

put a man on his ty and convince asked to do some-

get you

sage if he important ‘action . depends on yes, I have been - fooled some e statement is still good. on percentage, (7) Has any the opportunity that nation has ri) determine the whole fu of the world? ‘shoulders of Americans rests. history. Never before has

cide whether the goal : of regime i everywhere, or pointed toward self-govern-“ment, toward frebdom of thought and - speech and action.

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Inside Indianapolis By Lowel! Nussbaum

. .lional colors. - Finally, when she thought no one. was

‘were in various stages of advance toward that end. Those who had not achieved it hoped to do so in time.

so much better re- |

success of Qemany and Japan-—and for that matter

. nations on both sides for a long time to come.

~ the United States. We alone can tip the balance. Un-

. we'll have so much of it.

Bleyles are soon fo go 0n & quote basis. Three of the nation’s 11 factories have already shut down com-

pletely. Others are curtailed. Even spare parts are

turned over to just one wire converetd to. direct war production thing else. The New Victory Bike AT ANY RATE, the new Victory bicycle is due out in April. It will not have baloon tires. Its tires and witeels will be smaller than regulation. There will be n) chain gards on the new Victory, no chrome-plat-ing, no kick-stdnds, no doo-dads whatever. Even the handle-bar grips will be made ‘of wood. The price of the Victory hasn’t been set yet, but

40 per cent of what they sold last year. And that is what will cause many bicycle shops to g0 out of business—for even a big shop like Mr, Mullaps cannaok exist on 40 per cunt bf last youss business

tist' who has blocked up his auto and a city every day from Whittier—some 15 miles. Onefifth of his sales were to women. The new army of bicycle riders has created a new business in Los Angeles—the parking of bicycles. It’s oh a minor scale so fer, but is likely: to grow fest. One downtown garage is parking bikes at $1 a month. . That's all I know about bicycles. Anybody want to ride on my handlebars?

news analyst and commentator—was a classmate of the Bishop at Ohio Wesleyan. By the way, the current war news is of more than passing interest to the Hishop, who served a church in Calcutta, India, five years, and later was bishop of the Singapore area four years.

Bridge for Lunch

SOME OF THE Power & Light employees are such bridge. fans that they carry their lunch to work, bolt it at noon and have about 55 minutes left for bridge. One of these fans, Dorothea Davis, got so enthusiastic over the game one day last week that she forgot to e¢at her lunch and didn’t discover it until she put on her coat to leave in the evening. . . . Elmer W, (Doc) Sherwood, editor of the national Legionnaire, is cleaning out his desk at Legion headquarters preparatory to leaving for Ft. Knox next Monday for service as a first lieutenant. On the wall of one of the Legion offices are the pictures of the three No. 1 heroes of {he current war, with a fourth space marked: “Reserved for Doc Sherwood.”

Patriotic Jitters

A. WOMAN phoned the school board offices. to report an encounter she’d had with some boys of school age. The boys had been flying a red, white and blue lkite, and it got tangled on the side of the woman's fnouse, She wanted it removed but was a little hesitant about doing. so because it was painted the na-

looking, she got a broom, leaned out a window (nearly falling out herself) and knocked the kite down. And then she looked up and saw a neighbor observing her. What she wanted to know of the school board was this: Could she get in trouble for knocking down a red, white and blue kite. Informed that those colors really were “sacred” only when they were a part of the flag, the caller breathed a sigh of relief.

By Raymond Clapper

For the last two centuries there has been all over the world a steady and rather rapid trend- toward self-government and toward elevating the individual into the status of greater personal liberty. This was achieved in the United States. It was the goal to which most nations were working. ‘They

' The Democratic ideal was the point to which they hoped to go. That was the situation until a few years ago, and everywhere parliamentary government was growing in power. The whole stream of history ran toward democracy.

A Rendezvous JVith Destiny

BUT BEGINNING after the last war, that direction was reversed. For a time it was thought to be a

temporary deflection, peculiar to disturbed postwar conditions. But the success of the authoritarian form of government has entrenched it more deeply than

most of us thought possible. It has become the ideal form of government of

countries which are still democratic. The present

the success of Russia—certainly raises the question whether the democratic form of government can survive, * The side that wins will determine the pattern of government and the way of life to be followed by most

Was there ever a decision more fateful than that? Whether the war is to be won or lost depends upon

less’ we tip it, the axis will win. It has almost won now, and our, job is already almost that of turning defeat into victory, As President Roosevelt said at Franklin Field in

1936, this generation of Americans has ‘a rendeszvous|Tel with destiny. It’s here. If we as a nation see that]

| Roo 4s FIRST AT SCOUTS’ RALLY| By Eleanor Roosevelt] To

clearly, then we won’t have to talk about morale,

By Ernie Pyle Jf

{Tiny ‘Piano Boxes’ Overrun

man Ambassador Franz Von Papen were ridiculed today ] thorities, who held six Russians un-. ‘ millions of people—and of political groups in manyjder arrest.

Battlefields and Keep Writers On Job. By LELAND STOWE ‘Copyright. 1942, by The Indianapolis Times

and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. MANDALAY, March 9.—Report-

long-distance proposition with em-

Mandalay is at about the center of the country, which is more than 800 miles long and some 600 wide. To get somewhere near any front means a round-trip journey of anywhere from 250 to 700 miles—and thén you chance running into enemy patrols. From Mandalay down to the Sittang sector, north of Pegu, is more than 300 miles but, under a blistering sun, riding through the thick heat waves and the thicker dust of BuriRa's dry season, ii seems Lifes times as far.

‘Three Futile Days

Last week we spent three days on that trip, then found ourselves blocked from getting a real look at the front. So getting first-hand front news in this war theater is now just a long-shot chance. If correspondents did not all have American army Jeeps they would be simply hopelessly bogged down. The first big test under wartime conditions of the American army’s piano-box on wheels, the four by four Jeep, has occurred and is still occurring in Burma and the Jeep has already won the high regard of both our British and Chinese allies. Delivered to Rangoon for shipment to China, these little jack-of-all-trades cars have done a huge variety of emergency jobs and also have played a most valuable role in the Rangoon evacuation.

More Cars Than Drivers

Our army scout cars piled up at the Rangoon docks faster than the Chinese could provide. drives so several hundred were turned over to the British forces here where there are plenty of uses for them. With their four-wheeled drive, the Jeeps can bounce over the roughest rice paddies and plunge across irrigation ditches so they are ideal for

are equally useful for night roadpatrols since they can carry four armed men and one machine gun. When Rangouh bad peen evacuated, there were still hundreds of Jeeps on the docks. The authorities promptly assigned a jeep to anyone who would agree to deliver it to Lashio. !

Dotted With Jeeps

So the Mandalay soon were dotted with Jeeps rolling merrily along at 40 to 45 miles an hour. When they encountered trucks nose-down in ditches, the midget jeep: could pull them out and many three-ton lorries were saved in this fashion. Jeeps are now scattered all over Burma doing much to solve the British forces’ transportation: and military problems. In short, the American army’s scout car has won its service stripes.

TURKS. DENY RUMOR OF SPLIT WITH RUSS

ANKARA, March 9 (U. P.) .—Axis attempts to manufacture a break between Turkey and Russia out of the purported attempt to kill Ger-

by Turkish au-

Soviet Ambassador Sergel Vinogradoff, in a conference with Por-

ing the war in Burma has become a|

phasis on heat, dust and distance.|

liaison work behind the frant. . They -

GRANBY, Mo.—Seven persons were killed and-.at least 45 were injured when a special train carrying troops and a fast Frisco passenger train, the Will Rogers, collided head-on in the middle of a trestle at Granby. Four of the dead were soldiers who were among 230 recruits en route from Camp Grant, Ill The other three were crew members on the Will Rogers. Railroad officials said a mix-up of signals was responsible for the head-on collision,

Times Special

editorial column. In presenting Commercial Appeal said:

who is not a member of the staff

editorial a letter from a member Bar who served with the United

elements of sheer forcefulness that should read and ponder.”

f J ” THE LETTER follows:

To The Commercial Appeal: . My only son was born while I was

the United States marine corps. California the first of January, nothing from him since. We

build ships in a hurry. Even as

ton’s birthday because they were no time.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. March 9.—The Memphis Commercial Appeal recently departed from custom and published a letter from a reader in the newspaper's

“The Commercial Appeal does not permit anyone torials. There are many reasons for this rule,

reasons too numerous to recount here. “Today we suspend the rule to present as an

the first World War. An effort to interpolate or embellish would only serve to detract from the

ment every thinking citizen of these United States

ing the first World War. Today he

hundred shipbuilders refused to work on

How can fathers and mothers of bo; the danger zone and who are being called sacrifice their lives feel any “surge” of unity the president and the congress permit a bunch of

‘Why Not Draft Labor and Capital?’ Queries Father of Fighting Marine

shipbuilders and munitions workers to quit when

the letter, tae

to write its edi-

munitions plant.

of the Arkansas States forces in

he could get a

make it g docu- to. buy one.

they get good and ready? Do our boys at the front get ‘overtime’ and “double time” in the fox holes of the Philippines? Do our sons who are giving their lives to protect the jobs of these and others like them quit on holidays? Like hell they do!

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ONE OF MY friends, who is a good mechanic, with a family to support, went to get a job in a

Every day we hear on the radio

and read in the newspapers that such men are needed to turn out munitions for our soldiers, sailors and marines. But this man was refused a job until

union card. He could not get a

union card because he did not have enough money

Is it the idea of our government that it is more

important to preserve labor unions than it is to preserve the American Union? . Why can’t a freeborn American citizen get a job in a plant where

the government

needs workers Without having to

pay tribute to a high-powered labor leader? If our sons are to be drafted to give their lives for their country, why should not labor and capital bé drafted to supply them with munitions of war? . Why should congress, which has the power to make laws, be so tender of the regard for laborers and. |.

‘management who work and prosper in safety while

sands of other parents are like us. The president says we do not have enough ships having an utter to send supplies to our troops, and that we must at the front?

right out loud. not

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and opportunity,

disregard for the-lives of the boys

We don’t like it, and we don’t mind saying so

Maybe it is time we were electing

some senators and congressmen who will crack down and compel capital and labor to get into this war. And, come to think of it, this is election year, and we might as well get busy while we have the ume

JOHN C. SHEFFIELD,

roads from Prome tol. _

Atlantic Sub Toll Eases; Navy Fears Early Renewal

WASHINGTON, March 9 (U, P). —Naval sources said today that there appeared to be a slight relaxation in the axjs submarine camraign off the Atlantic coast but they were unwilling to concede that the worst is over. The navy has announced the submarine sinking of only three ships in American coastal waters in the last week—the 8215-ton ore carrier 'Marore the 2850-ton Norwegian motorship Leif, and the 7874-ton Bragilian cargo ship Arabutan, The Arabutan was torpedoed Saturday. All 74 aboard were rescued. :

Others May Be on Way

Officials believed the drop in the number of ships sunk may be because of the departure of some of the submarines for home ports or of improved anti - submarine measures by our navy, or a combination of both. It was pointed out that other sub--|marines may be on the way to relieve those which may have left

To date, individual announcement has been made of approximately 70 attacks against ships off the United States, Canadian and Caribbean coasts. Of these, more than 60 have been sunk. r At least 14 tankers have been sunk off the east coast and 10 more in the Caribbean area. i: the is the latest unofficial sumimary of ships attacked and sunk in the various Atlantic coastal areas since Jan. 14, when the big submarine drive apparently began: Area Attacked Sunk

U. 8. coast 31 (x) 28 Caribbean 16 12 Canadian 26 26 Total 72 65

» (x)=—Includes two ships reported overdue and presumed lost.

. TRISH LEADER DIES CORK, Ireland, March 9 (U.P.).— Mary Mac Swiney, 67, one of the leaders in the long fight for Irish independence, died Satuprday. She was elected to the daily after the Irish revolution, but broke with other leaders, refusing to pledge al-

these waters. HOLD EVERYTHING

Eire under Eamon de Valera.

§T CAR COMPANY

SEES NEED FOR MISSIONARIES

Bishop Lowe Would Send Them to Japan-‘to Give World Lasting Peace.’

Missionaries imbued with the Golden Rule, as well as airplanes loaded with bombs, must be sent from America to Japan to give the world a lasting peace, according to Bishop Titus Lowe. The Methodist leader, formerly a bishop at Calcutta and Singapore, expressed his views at the opening of the two-day rally of Marion-and Johnson county Methodists yesterday at the Roberts Park Methodist church. - Looks Beyond War He said it would be a rhistake to withdraw missionaries from the Far East, although many of them now are interned in Japanese-oc-cupied territory. “I would even favor sending mis-

'sionaries to Japan this minute if

that were possible,” he declared. “All the blatings of dictators cannot change those things we know are wrong. The Living God did not come down here to: be defea * The after the war, Bishop Lowe said, “must he a peace of God, not another balancing of economic power against economic power, not another case of superiority of the white race over the colored races.”

‘Hatter they consider a waste,

IF NED VARIOUS AR

Co-ordination Value When Striking Shown by Nazis 3

In Desert Campaign.

: By RICHARD MOWRER ; Copyright, 1942. by The Indianapolis n Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. CAIRO, March 9~—~Tanks fear anti-tank guns; anti-tank guns fear dive-bombers; dive-bombers | fear fighter planes; fighter planes fear superior fighter planes, and commanding officers fear, or should fear, the enemy's co-ordination of ‘the various functions of these varls ous arms. The importance of co-ordination | has been repeatedly shown in this winter's desert campaign and 5 i perhaps wel} illustrated by the fol- 3 lowing, which is one of the German armored-columns favorite ways of 0 operating an armored column: = 4 In the desert area of operations is mapped off in squares. The squares most adjacent to the Gers mans’ locations are thoroughly rec= onnoitered by ground patrols while more distant squares are Sree by air reconnaissance, 8 Seek to Draw Enemy Fire 3 .If strong enemy armored forces are located, the German armored column halts out of fighting range. Anti-tank guns are set up as & protective screen for the column’ own tanks, which stay back with i the exception of a few tanks which go forward, and if the terrain pers mits, show only their turrets from behind a protective rise in the ground. This is to draw the enemy's anti-tank Be ; ‘Anti-tank can easily be hidden in oa) positions and it is only when they fire that they reveal their location. The German ' tanks endeavor to tease the opposs ; ing anti-tank‘guns to fire at them, * Meanwhile, dive-bombers are sum= moned and if anti-tank guns have engaged the teaser tanks their position is given to the dive-bombers, ° who proceed to blast at them, «= The Germans also bring up their ph! four-wheeler, 88-mm. guns—born of tests made on British tanks captured at Dunkirk. The Germans ; prefer to use them against tanks = to using tanks against tanks. This =

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British Prefer 25-Pounder oh 3 their own. rp dar most “fleas tive against German tanks. The Artillery and dive-bombers ap= parently are arms to make the break : in the enemy’s positions which the tanks are to penetrate. Admittedly, there have been frequent of tanks versus tanks and, being abe. tackers, they held the initiative for a long time and while they held the initiative the Germans were not often at liberty to put their own pet theories into execution. a After the first weeks of the came g: paign on both sides. found tanks ideal for raids on “soft stuff,” such as supply colmns. The result was that the Germans for their part \ took to convoying their supply columns with anti-tank guns and tanks.

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Family Invests i. Savings in U. S.

NEW YORK, March 9 (U. Py. Carmella was dressed in Sunday | ” here from Italy 36 years ago as a shoemaker’s apprentice, thinks a' lot of this country and, as he says: “What good is money in the’ a bank if America loses the war?” So today he and his wife, Car=- 4 mella, gathered together eight of their children and marched down ° . to the bank under the elevated tracks and bought $10,000 in des i fense savings bonds—one $1000 bond for each child in the fame

black for the occasion. The sons

and daughters beamed Fare i) The money had come from the family’s collective savings. i The two sons not represented in. the procession are married and working in defense plants in up per New York.

1. If you saw a naval officer this