Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1942 — Page 5

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1942

SAY CHURCHILL AND FOR AGREE

Key Nazi Base on Baltic Burning After RAF Bombing Raid.

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pated in the attack said flames over Rostock were visible for 100 miles as they flew away. 5 “Flames were everywhere,” said Sergt. R. W. Taylor of Victoria, B. C. “A grayish sroke rolled up from them but it was not enough

to blot out the town which was Iit up from end to end.”

Escaped Nazis

“All we could see of Rostock was | ¥

a square of fire,” aded Sergt. F. C. Annand, another Canadian flier. The Germans made no mention of an attack on Rostock, but asserted that British planes had “attempted” to raid Berlin for the first time since Nov. 7. One enemy plane penetrated the “outer defenses” of Berlin, Nazis said, but this was a vague clue because Berlin's so-called outer defenses are known to extend as far as Hanover, 150 miles west of the German capital. The luftwaffe, attempting to exact revenge for the destructive night-and-day British offensive, bombed several places in southwest England and southwest Wales, killing at least 16 persons and causing damage.

Depend on U. S. Efforts

The mounting signs that the war may be carried back to Hitler in western Europe this year—forcing him to fight major battles on both the east and west—laid increasingly heavier stress on the role which American men and weapons will play in such an allied strategy. Edward W. Beattie Jr., United Press correspondent in London, reported that the United States’ ability to muster men and machines in the British isles, bolstering the A. E. F. already in northern Ireland, may decide where the threat of invasion actually lies in western Europe. ‘Who Will Invade Whom?’

There are growing indications, Mr. Beattie said, that Britain may seize the initiative and do the invading. But Germany, despite her troubles on the Russian front, has an estimated 2,000,000 troops facing the British isles and these in turn are keeping large British forces out of battle elsewhere. The Evening Standard in London is asking: “Who is tying down whom?” As a result, it may be up to the United States to provide enough men, weapons and materials to break this stalemate if a second front is to be opened.

Russians Still Gain

On the Russian battlefront the Soviets reported new important successes at Bryansk, key center 200 miles southwest of Moscow. where the Red army was said to have broken inside the German defense belt in a continuation of the first big battie of the spring. Thirty German counter-attacks were said to have been crushed and thousands of Nazis killed. There was heavy fighting on the Leningrad front where 1400 Germans were said to have been killed in two days and 51 Nazi planes downed. On the Pacific front, Japanese airmen made three feeble attempts to bomb Port Moresby, advance allied base in New Guinea, but with only negligible effects. Brig. Gen. Stephen J. Chamberlin, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's assistant chief of staff and chief of the allied operations control board, said he believed that the danger of a successful Japanese invasion of Australia passed its peak six weeks ago.

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Here's Anthony Haden Guest, aged 415, the youngest known prisoner to have escaped from the Nazis. After months in prison camps, Anthony and his mother eluded Nazi guards and bloodhounds to escape from occupied to unoccupied France. His mother drugged the youngster to prevent him from chattering in English while they were in flight. Anthony, now with his mother in London, is a grandson of a member of parliament.

The War and You—

MILADY LOSES ‘GIVE’ IN GIRDLE

Amount of Rubber Cut by WPB: Telephones, Trucking Curtailed.

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manufactured at the rate of 50 per cent of 1941 output.

Truck Deliveries

The office of defense transportation today limited local truck deliveries to one a day to eacn customer, and ordered long-distance hauling firms to carry capacity | loads in order to conserve tires and | gasoline.

Double-Dip Sodas

You soon may be going to the hardware store for your double-dip ( sodas. What happened to drug stores |in the earlier decades of the cen- | tury appears to be happening now to hardware stores. Changing economic currents compelled druggists ‘to put in stocks which were a far cry from drugs; now, exigencies of war are forcing hardware dealers 'to think in terms of something be|sides refrigerators, washing ma{chines, electrical appliances and 10penny nails. Maybe it'll be choco{late sodas.

Peas in the Pod

Next week's general price control order probably will freeze the price 'of peas in cans, but not the price | of peas in the pod. | Officials expected the prices of] most canned or processed foods to, come under the general retail price] {control order, but they doubted that | ceilings would be imposed on prices paid directly to farmers for agricultural commodities.

BEAVERBROOK ASKS 20 FRONT

Russia Might Finish Off Axis This Year, He Tells Publishers.

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trayed Russia to her German

enemy. “Then again it is said by one of my neighbors: “Don’t give any more supplies to the Russians lest they use their weapons against us the next time they change sides’ “That is not possible. There is no crossing that river of martyrs’ blood. Maybe more than 1,000,000 men and women have died to save Russia. The peace will come, not from negotiation, but from subjugation. Russia or Germany must be destroyed. . . . Stalin has pledged his word to make war and peace with Great Britain and America. He will respect his promise.”

Sayre Lauds Reporters

He defended Prime Minister Churchill as the “great crusader of modern times.” “I am told here and there, wherever I go, that he will fall before the summer is out. You must help me to kill that bad rumor. Such a disaster we cannot contemplate in Great Britain.” Mr. Sayre, reviewing the war in the Philippines, said correspondents

porting it. “They have carried ou the supreme duty of the good reporter under the supreme test: They got the story and they got it in the face of death,” he said.

struggle.

STATE BOND QUOTA

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WISH at 8:30).

address by Governor Schricker.

ty the “MacArthur Week”

to-house canvass on the six days.

a block to cover. Mrs.

of the county and city and she asked that anyone who could help should call RI-2541,

Liberty loan drives of 1917-18. Officials “tens of thousands”

50,000,000 Americans spend at least 10 per cent of their paychecks for war bonds. A billion a month in war bonds is the goal. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr, and the nation’s

last night when the campaign was

number one air hero, Lieut. Comm. Edward H. O'Hare, set the tempo

opened with a nation-wide radio program.

had done a magnificent job re=j o.oo

12,604.30 IN MAY,

will be aired tomorrow night over) nearly all Indiana stations (WIBC,| WIRE and WFBM at 6 o'clock, and |

Highlights of the program will] be a play written by Booth Tark-| . ington, a special “MacArthur Week”| = song by Hoagy Carmichael, and an

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The quartermasters cleaned up

around Bataan a fortnight before its collapse, a melancholy air prevailed. The rice mills were idle and Maj. Harry Hull’s field bakery had closed because the flour was exhausted. There still was some rice in reserve, but rations had been cut. Still officers and men could not be called down-hearted. They were confident the blockade could be run and they didn’t want much; rice and flour would have satisfied them. Although the Philippines are world famous for sugar, Bataan’s defenders often had none, and there was nothing the quartermasters could do about that. ‘This Is a Crazy War’ I'll never forget the words of one young signal corps sergeant. “This is a crazy war,” he said. “Why, at Tarlac (in the central Luzon plains), we used sacks of sugar to sandbag our telephone exchange. Now we can’t get a spoonful for coffee.” One of the quartermasters’ greatest strokes was their operation of slaughter houses, considering they were butchering in the tropics and there was almost no refrigeration. Carabao (water buffalo) abounded in Bataan at the start of the siege, but I'm confident the Japanese did not find a single head. The owners were paid cash for this livestock,

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‘Trained Cook Worth Squad of Infantry on Bataan’

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of rice a day. The Americans—who constantly cursed rice, but learned to like it before Bataan was conquered—received a small daily serving.

the rice supply near the front lines During my last trip

and despite the fact that prices paid were fair, Gen. MacArthur later ordered an increase because of the advancing costs of living.

All Depends on the Cook

The efficiency and speed with which the quartermasters butchered was amazing. When the carabao were finished, the Filipinos and Americans ate all the pigs and

cavalry horses and most of the pack mules, which, like the carabao, were always inspected by veterinarians before they were slaughtered in the coolest part of ‘the night so the meat would reach mess sergeants early in the day. The meat was left unskinned, in quarters, to keep at least part of it clean. Sometimes maggots infested it before it got to the pot, but the cooks cut off the bad portions and speedily cooked the rest.

Salt From Manila Bay

The quartermasters showed one thing in the Bataan campaign: That one trained, practical cook is worth a squad of infantry. I've eaten carabao, which, aside from a stronger taste, was just as good as tender roast beef. On the other hand, some cooks had trouble making a passable stew of it. One of the principal shortages

which caused alarm at first was that in salt, and what there was diminished fast because so much was used for fresh meat and bread. There were no salt beds, and the quartermasters were forced to other measures. After testing several methods, they finally discovered that the best way was to boil sea water. Thus, they were able to extract several hundred pounds a day from Manila bay. The Americans also got their coffee, because the quartermasters made a slam-bang roaster of an old steel drum, to take the place of an electric roaster which was lost when Japanese bombers sank a barge in Manila bay.

Miracle of ice Water

During the last month, coffee seldom was seen. The supply played out, and grounds were re-boiled

until they were almost white. Tea disappeared before coffee, so most of the men on Bataan had only water to drink in its last days. The greatest miracle the quartermasters provided was ice water, which they obtained from hospitals at the navy base at Mariveles or made from a small supply of ice shipped over nightly from Corregidor for meat preservation. A canteen cup of ice water raised the spirits of many a soldier after a hard day of fighting or working. The quartermasters also had an immense job keeping hundreds of motor vehicles operating under most

trying conditions. Food for animals

was scarce, and there was trouble getting enough pack mules to take food to the front lines. They repaired broken-down busses, command cars, jeeps and trucks with good parts salvaged from wrecked or worn-out ones. Often cars and trucks broke down on the rough roads and they repaired them at night, or with shrapnel buzzing about. There were several motor parks on Bataan where vehicles were dispersed and well hidden among trees. The machines were used less and less as the gasoline supply dwindled, but still attendants warmed up the motors every day so they could be ready to “take the offensive the minute reinforcements arrived.” * Civilians played an important role in the transportation effort. Many of them came to Bataan on such short notice that they didn’t have a chance to say goodby to their families in Manila.

They Had Many Tasks

The quartermasters had a number of unexpected tasks, including the supervising of refugee camps, the obtaining of land for airports, and they even issued blue denim uniforms with a big “PW” on the front to Japanese prisoners. They supervised burials, maintained cemeteries, kept records and the valuables of the slain to forward to their nearest kin. No greater heroes were on Bataan, and while I was there a few received silver stars and one a dis-

tinguished service cross.

RUSS INTERNE J. S. AIRMEN

Unique Diplomatic Puzzle Created by Landing of Tokyo Raid Crew.

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mains in full effect and that relae tions between the two countries “ree main unchanged.” A week ago the official communist party organ Pravda warned Japan's “Fascist and military circles” against becoming giddy over their war successes and believing they could successfully, invade Siberia,

Japan More Bewildered

Japan’s humiliating bewilderment was made complete by the ane nouncement of the landing in Ruse sia. With an air of complete confidence, the Japanese imperial headquarters announced Monday that the raiding planes “escaped to China.” Since then Japanese planes had raided Chinese air bases in Chekiang and Kiangs L provinces four times in a vain atempt to find and disabled the “escaped” planes, Today, a aJpanese official spokes= man in Tokyo, denying the imperial headquarters communique of Mone day, said that none of the raiders

had succeeded in returning to base.

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