Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1942 — Page 10

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RUSSIAN HELP

‘Put Heat on Moscow’ as Hitler Urges Nipponese: To Attack Siberia.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, March « 17.— Soviet-Japanese relations, long precariously balanced, seem about to undergo a change. Whether for better or warse remains to be seen— but improvement would be difficult, and they can hardly grow worse without war. The Nazis, having suffered their severest drubbing at the hands of the Red army, are seriously over what lies ahead of them this spring and summer, ! Hitler, therefore, is pressuring the Japanese to lend a hand by attacking eastern Siberia. Moscow is thoroughly aware , of this. And Tokyo, ‘knowing that Moscow knows, is seeking to ime

prove the shining hour by sending] -

one of its smoothest talkers, former Foreign Minister Naotake Sato, to the Soviet capital to see if he can cajole or frighten the Kremlin into

some newfangled deal. Wants Russia’s Aid

What Japan is fishing for is no secret. Her spokesmen have openly indicated that what she wants is Russia’s aid, either active or passive, in “the liberation of greater east Asia from the Anglo-American yoke.” : Naotake Sato is probably carrying to Moscow the: promise of a share in the “new order” if Russia will play the game. Equally certainly, he is carrying threats. He will observe that Japan now dominates the orient and the Pacific ocean west of Hawaii, and he probably will add that she is prepared to take on Vladivostok and eastern Siberia if Russia refuses to “co-operate.” But the now historic lesson of Pearl Harbor doubtless has not been lost on Josef Stalin. While Sato talks peace to him inside the Kremlin, he will reflect that perhaps the Japs may be preparing a similar act of treachery against Russia.

Traditional Rivalry

Another thing militating against the success of Sato’s mission to Moscow is the traditional rivalry of Russo-Japanese interests in the Far East. Russia must have an outlet on the Pacific or abandon Siberia. The Russians must expand eastward, if they are to confinue: to grow and prosper. : Japan is opposed heart; soul and body, to any such expansion. She regards a great, strong Russia established in eastern Siberia as a deadly menace to her own “mani- " fest destiny,” and she intends to head Russia off at the first opportune moment.

HURT DURING DOWNPOUR Betty Littrell, 14, of 1016 N. Bellevieu place, was injured seriously during last evening's downpour when she walked into the side of

Carrying an umbrella, she failed to see the car. She was taken to

DOUGLAS WALLACE, Shorthigh school pupil living at 4259 N. Capitol ave., is the first navycommissioned cadet aircraftsman in Indianapolis. He was the first to turn in a plane in the model aircraft project being sponsored by the Indianapolis public schools fur the navy. Models accepted will be

{ine orphans have been collected

Douglas Wallace (left) gets commission as cadet aircraftsman from Emmett A. Rice, Shortridge high school vice principal

used by the navy to acquaint their air fighters with ‘various ‘type craft and any over the quota will be given civilian “watchers.” The first inspection of models was held last week and the secone will be from 7 to 8:30 p. m. next Thursday. Aah The winning model is of ‘the army attack bomber, the Douglas A-20-A. : : :

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30,000 Orphaned; Ordinary Meal Costs $15.

By DANA ADAMS SCHMIDT ANKARA, Turkey, March 17—A winter of starvation has left be-

phans” in Athens,

and lack of food thai refugees are bringing out of Greece. The fam-

the refugees, here is the desperate plight of Greece: Dozens of pale, ragged civilians collapse daily on the streets of Athens and Pireaus from hunger. Hospitals treat other dozens whose joints are swollen and stomachs bloated—symptoms of acute starvation. ;

Sugar and many necessary commodities no longer can be purchased in public shops. Small Meal Costs $15 In a first-class restaurant, a meal consisting of a small portion of

Australia:

Jap Tactics May Not Click In New Drive for Conquest

By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent

MELBOURNE, Australia, March 17.~—Allied commanders are seeking to mass in Australia a great defensive and-offensive force, it was un-

derstood today as Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced at Washington the arrival of United States forces on this continent. Well informed sources'said it was the intention of the allied commands first' to stop the Japanese when they attack Australia, then to move out to regain the rich territories which the Japanese have taken—and win the war. ‘Since the Pacific war started, Australian war factories — rudely jolted into realization of the Japanese threat—have turned out equipment sufficient for the home Australian forces and the accumulating reserves.

Face Larger Forces

Authoritative opinion is that the Japanese will find it difficult to take Australia. They will be facing white troops in a white man’s country instead of small white forces in colonies teeming with natives. The British, Australian and Dutch troops whom the Japanese faced elsewhere were better man for man. There are larger forces here, more equipment, and the men are being ined in latest Japanese tactics. “Since the disaster of Singapore, Australian army discipline and training have been tightened. The army has been brought to full strength. All able bodied men have

Japan must attack Australia, in order to insure that it is cut off from the supplies and manpower of the United States, Australians believe. : Japanese tactics will prove difficult in Australia. Australia is like an ocean with three islands in it—the northwesterr, southwestern, and southeastern corners—separated by 500,000 square miles of dry country. The Japanese have resumed aerial attacks on the northwest corner, the Darwin-Wyndham- Broome area. There is some belief that the

Japanese may invade here, to es-|

tablish naval and air bases. Possible Invasion Points Others believe that the southwestern section may be invaded, with the idea of obtaining a springboard from which to attack the southeastern area, where most of Australia’s people are concentrated. But the general belief is that the Japanese may work invasion forces southward among the islands off the east coast, in preparation for a direct attack on the fertile stretch southward from Newcastle. Until Japan has obtained a foothold on the southeastern area, Australia will remain a springboard for allied attack.

HUGE JAP FLEET IN JAVA

LONDON, March 17 (U, P.).—A statement by Lord Strabolgi in the house of lords today revealed that Japan’s fleet in the battle of Java comprised 14 cruisers, five. aircraft

carriers, 55 destroyers and 25 submarines.

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vegetables, a slice of bread and a piece of meat the size of a match box costs the American equivalent to $15 or $20. Those are the grim stories told by Greek refugees arriving in Turkey. And they fear the situation will gradually grow worse. The actual toll of starvation victims even in Athens and Pireaux cannot be predicted accurately, but at least several hundred collapse and die daily. The pre-war death rate in these towns was 25 to 30. Mavro Mihailis, former Greek foreign minister, has estimated at least 100 starvation deaths occur daily in the two cities, mostly among children and elderly civilians. Axis authorities have permitted Mihailis to make a personal appeal for aid in Turkey.

Axis Impounds Reserves

Many more thousands, he warned, would die soon if the Mediterranean blockade were not relaxed to permit the arrival of cargo ships. The relief food sent from Turkey was exhausted by the end of January, and since then the situation has become more critical.

There is some food in Greece— small reserves .of potatoes, sugar, oil and dried vegetables left over from the war. But these have been impounded by the axis occupation authorities. When axis propaganda proclaims that food has reached Greece from Germany or Italy, it may be assumed according to reliable reports, that some of Greece’s own reserves have been released for public consumption. Generally these supplies are withheld for the occupation troops. Germans Live Off Land

The German army undoubtedly exported large quantities of food from Greece. Competent sources report the axis troops lived exclusively “off the land” and did not even provide their own cigarets, Trucks and planes which arrived with axis troops and munitions returned to Germany and Italy with loads of hastily preserved vegetables, the refugees claim. Some of the loot, it was said, was transported by’ airplane. : All prices have skyrocketed. The black market sugar price, when it is available, is 150 times higher

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Lived in Log Cabin Church

“My father had $3000 in gold, which we carried to Missouri in one of the covered wagons. When we were out west, we lived in a log cabin church. It had no windows and the floor was of dirt.” Jesse Barker and his family preferred the soil of Indiana to the soil of a church in Missouri: So he carried the $3000 in gold back to the land where his daughter Elizabeth was born, and he bought a farm near Peru. “My father then settled down,” his 97-year-old daughter said. “He must have had the wanderlust in abundance when he was a boy. He was born in Virginia and he walked all the way from that state to Indiana. That was in 1822.” Mrs. Showalter lives with her grandson, Paul W. Miller; his wife, who wins St. Patrick’s smiles because she was an O'Connor; their daughter, Mary Alice, a sophomore at Butler university, and her wooden “great-granddaughter,” Friday.

Old Friends Celebrate, Too

tion of another granddaughter, Carolyn Zimmerman, a Cincinnati artist. The figure is that of a New England fishwife—holding two fish. The 8§. Patrick’s day party in celebration of Mrs. Showalter’s 97th

birthday attracted three other char-| ter members of the Sheffield Avenue |

Needle circle. They were Mrs. E. L. South, Mrs. E. F. Marburger and Mrs. Robert Glidewell. Other members at the party, who have been sewing and knitting with Mrs. Showalter for about a quarter of a century, were Mrs. F. J. Woodbeck, Mrs. Francis Woodbeck, Mrs. Oscar Fields, Mrs. George Fields, Mrs. E. P. Howard and Mrs. Frank Irwin,

LIGHTNING HITS. POLE Lightning struck a telephone pole at Southport and Bluff roads last night, ran along the wire, entered the living room of the home of Milton O. Murphy and set the

than the peace time scale.

house ablaze. .

By B. J. McQUAID

CHICAGO, March 17.—A memor-! able casualty of this war may be the all-metal airplane. Conversely, the plastic plane, about which so much has been said and so little done, may revolutionize air combat. WPB Director William H. Harrison, who last week admitted that a shortage of aluminum prevents maximum production of fighter planes, bared a situation long susby everyone connected with the aviation industry. Figures are a military secret but Fortune magazine, whose current issue contains a survey of plastic plane possibilities, may be painfully accurate. It says the dimensions of the aluminum shortage can be measured in one word—"impossible.” It says the president's promised

the aluminum supplies now

All-Metal Planes May Be Casualty of War Speedup

‘|the new planes of aluminum, Many are to be trainers, and the order

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long delayed. Canny observers were: urging it two years ago. | As Mr. Harrison bluntly informs us, nothing, at the moment, can get us up to our maximum combat production. Nothing, that is, so long as we, stick to all-metal construction. But| why should we? The Germans! aren't doing so. Neither are the Russians, Italians, Japanese nor! British, : | All have gone in heavily for plastic construction. How

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“*ls Seeking Oil.

MANDALAY, Burma, March 17 (U. P.) delayed.—Lieut, Gen. Harold R. L. G. Alexander, new come mander-in-chief in Burma, said to«

worked ‘out new strategic and tactical plans as part of which they had started stabbing at the Japanese in vigorous, if local, offensive actions. He said the Japanese appeared to be driving first toward the Tharrawaddy oil fields and Prome, 150 miles north-northwest of Rangoon, and secondly up the Sittang river valley and the Rangoon-Mandalay railroad in an attempt to capture Mandalay and cut communications between lower and upper Burma. Gen, Alexander said the Japanese were seeking oil, which they needed badly after finding oilfields in the Netherlands East Indies destroyed in the Dutch scorched earth de~ struction. He said recent British reverses in .|Burma were due partly to overe mechanization of front line forces, which limited defensive operations to roads while the Japanese used tracks and jungle paths to move by night through the forests. At the same time he said that units of the royal armored corps, g American tanks, had done

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