Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1942 — Page 7

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Editor's Note: Ernie Pyle is in poor: health and is taking a rest. Meanwhile, The Times, following readers’ desires, is reprinting some of Ernie's betterknown columns,

» LONDON, March, 1941.—It would be hard to say, I suppose, who is the greatest cartoonist in the world - today. But a good many people think it is David Low, \ and I wouldn't be a bit surprised myself it he were.

Low draws for Beaverbrook’s London Evening

Standard. He draws, at the most, three cartoons a week. Occasionally he gets a dry spell, calls up the office and says he’s tired, and drops down to one a week. When he does this, he finds it just as hard to produce one cartoon a week as three. And yet I think this respite: from the daily grind must have some bearing on Low’s greatness. As he says, nobody in the world can produce a good cartoon every ‘lay. I went to see Low with fear and wembling, since great names affect me that way. But I needn’t have. He is pleasant and companionable, and you feel at ease with him. His cartoons are the most powerful, often the most scalding, that I have éver seen. Low’s own philosophy is toward the socialistic, and he is pugnacious and caustic in his thinking,

A Young “Foxy Grandpa”

YET AS HE SITS in front of his fireplace puffing at his pipe, his voice is soft and his manner gentle. He reminds you of a very young “Foxy Grandpa.” ;, Low is 50. He is neither big nor small, His hair is nearly gone on top. His eyebrows are black and extremely wide. He has a grand little smile, * For many years he put himself in his cartoons now and then, in just a few quick lines down in the

By Ernie Pyle

corner. It was mostly eyebrows. You wouldn’t think it could be anybody. . Yet when you see Low, he looks exactly as in those cartoons. He wore a beard until a few months ago. He finally shaved it off because it made him a marked man. Everybody recognized him, and he couldn’t get any peace. He is no recluse, however. He loves to walk, and is out a good deal. He has many friends and goes out often to dinners and entertainments,

“Thanks for the Criticism”

I AM NO autograph collector, yet I couldn't bear to return to America without one of Low’s cartoons. So I asked the Evening Standard for one of his originals. The one they gave me would make you dance with gratitude. I don’t know why I was so honored. To begin with, it is a gruesomely powerful war cartoon. A few weeks ago the Standard had it on exhibitien in a front window. A bomb fell in the street outside, and blew a jagged hole right through the center of this Low masterpiece. How is that for a double-barreled war souvenir? : I took the cartoon with me out to Low’s house. He had not known about the bomb incident. When He saw the hole, it was as though I had handed him the Pulitzer prize. You never say anybody so delighted.. He thumbtacked the cartoon onto his drawing-board, and inscribed it to me. Then he started walking around the room, thinking and chuckling. To Mrs. Low he said, “I want to put something funny on it. Come on, help me be funny.” But before Mrs. Low could be funny he said, “I've got it!” and went to the drawing-board and started writing. And this is what he wrote, in the white space right next to the jagged hole: “Dear Hitler—Thanks for the criticism. Yours, Low.” And he beamed like a child as he rolled it up and handed it to me.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: James Adrian Ross, top ranking attorney, sports enthusiast, poker fan, follower of the Lone Ranger, smoker of free cigars only, and one of the old school, rough and tumble,

tobacco chewing trial lawyers. Jim Ross now is 59, a sturdy, rather trimly built _ individual with a thick mop of steel gray hair. His hair always needs combing because of his habit of running his hand through it.. He's 5, feet 8 or 9; weighs maybe 160, has a ruddy complexion, strong features, dark eyes and a double chin. He speaks slowly and distinctly, argues eloquently, is direct in both conversation and manners. He says just what he means, and he's suspicious of flattery. Mr. Ross He wears nice clothing but isn’t interested in it. His necktie usually is askew, and he has a habit of wrinkling his suit before he gets to the office.

Chews Mail Pouch

He loves a jury trial, and when he’s involved in one, other lawyers have a habit of dropping in just to watch him. His homespun manners have a way with jurors. When he enters the courtrom, he usually lays down his law books, sits down, pulls out a sack of Mail Pouch (he buys it by the carton) and takes a big chew. Then he runs his hand through his hair, ‘swings around and looks at the jury, and right then he has them with‘him. Chances are at least one juror will pull out a pack of chewing tobacco, too. Jim Ross is a self-made man. He was born on a Delaware county farm, was graduated from Northwestern U. and Indiana Law school, began practicing in 1904 at Muncie. He ran for prosecutor, went to the west coast and wound up broke. Back home, he managed to find desk space in another lawyer’s office and “starved” for several years. Then, 30 years ago, he helped form the law firm he now heads.

He's a Live Bait Fisherman

He waited table and promoted professional boxing matches to put himself through law school. As a young man, he boxed a bit himself, played baseball

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 9.—We have seen in the last few months how costly was our unpreparedness for war. We shall also find it costly if we are not prepared for the victory. The victory is not here yet by a long shot but it will come in time, and unless the united nations are prepared for it we are likely to pay dearly. A victory that we are not prepared to handle will be a victory that will quickly turn to ashes on a pyre of civil war, massacre and economic chaos the world over, and bitter disappointment that even in our own country might give rise to violent upheavals and peril to democratic government. That is the danger that some of our highest officials see and it is prompting them, even in the midst of furious war preparations, to- give thought to what must be done afterward. A. “They see that our failure todo that has already _ had devastating effects -in Asia. Cynical suspicions

of our purposes have caused the Burmese to give aid

and comfort to the Japanese forces. They have caused the Hindus to question our assistance to India

as possibly being for the purpose of holding them .

under an imperialistic yoke.

Is Not Our Pet Oyster

NONE OF US HAS given sufficient weight to the damage that has been done to us in Asia by lack of clear war aims. The. most aggressive and specific

My Day

WASHINGTON, Friday —Yesterday afternoon the president went. to the airport to meet the president of Peru, Dr. ‘Manuel Prado, Even in war time, certain

honors ‘may be paid to the heads of governments.

They reached’ the White House together about 5 ‘o'clock. The son of the president of Peru, who is in his last year at Harvard as a student, met him. We had tea on the porch with the rest of the party. Our new ambassador to Spain, Prof. Carlton J. H. Hayes, joined "us. It was very. pleasant as we sat there and the troubles of the world seemed far away for a sltort time. But the talk soon centered on the things we all had to do to win the war and to be able to return to normal development in the days of peace to come. . Prado brought thirty pieces of old Indian _ pottery, dating as far back as the fourth century, We

the beauty of shape and

for various colleges in the days when you didn’t have to be enrolled to be on the team, and even was offered a chance to play professional ball. He played on the first Muncie high school basketball team. Nowadays, he’s still interested in most sports. He's a fair bowler—with the Rotary league—likes to analyze basketball and football plays, and follows baseball on the radio. : He’s one of the fishingest lawyers in town. Every summer for the last 30 years or so he’s gone up to his cottage at Lake Wawasee for a couple of months of fishing. He ‘has a contempt for worm or fly fishermen (he prefers live bait) and jeers at those going outside Indiana (where it’s easy) to fish. He takes a portable radio along when he’s fishing so he won’t miss the ball game.’ One of his big interests is poker. He has played with the same group of Rotarians twice a month for years, and whenever there’s a big pot he can be counted on to turn up with four queens.

Thinks With Feet on Desk

NOW THAT HIS own children are grown, his number one interest in life is his grandchildren. He plays horse and waltzes them around. For several years, he and one of them-—7-year-old Ross Inman —have followed the doings of the Lone Ranger and the heroes of other cowboy programs on the radio. They chat as ‘one cowboy to another,” argue about who has the fastest horse, and re-enact stagecoach or railroad holdups. Jim Ross thinks best with his feet on his desk. When he has a big law suit to prepare, he may sit around two or three days with his feet on his desk,

then call in a stenographer and dictate the entire|

And he never revises it afterward. It’s And it’s in simple

complaint. logical and legally perfect. language—no two dollar words. He dislikes long trips. If he has business with a New York lawyer, he’ll either tell him to come to Indianapolis, or maybe send a junior member of the firm to New York. He considers golf a waste of time, nearly always gets in bed by 9 p. m., has almost indecipherable handwriting, enjoys operas on the radio and is pretty well up on them. One of his pet peeves is to eat a hearty dinner and then find there’s strawberry shortcake for dessert. He’d rather eat the shortcake first to be sure he has room for it in his stomach.

By Raymond Clapper

program for the post-war world has been that long advocated by Clarence Streit through his federal union plan. But that program has been regarded as mainly an elaborate plan for an Anglo-American union. It has been silent regarding the place of China, India and other countries, lacking democratic government. That exclusive approach has been characteristic of much post-war thinking. We have tended to look at the future world as the pet oyster of America and Britain, plus such small democracies as manage to come out of the war, chiefly the Scandanavian.

Strengthen the Cause!

FEDERAL UNION now suggests a union that would embrace other peoples, non-democratic, who have compelling natural ties with us. Federal union says the world needs an all-inclusive international organization in which the United States, Great Britain, China, Russia, India and other powers known as the united nations should take the lead. It urges that such an association be organized immediately, and that it should include in its membership as many countries as can be induced to join. - If the united nations had made their purposes clear in a binding program, there could be no room for Indian independence leaders to accuse the United States of interfering to assist British imperialism. The cause of the united nations would bécome infinitely stronger if it were made clear that the old 19th century world was considered dead and that the victory was to be used to construct a new. era in which self-government and collective security would go hand in hand with new economic opportunity.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

work done in both Persia and Egypt. I was told the Indians no longer do this work today, but have guarded the secret and, perhaps, some day will be at work again. Dr. Prado also gave me a hand-wrought silver tray from Senora Prado. It is one of the most beautiful pieces of work I have ever seen. I hope we can put all of these things on exhibition somewhere, so that they may be seen and enjoyed by many people. The president had an official stag dinner last night in honor of the president of Peru. I slipped in to say goodnight to them at 11 o’clock, after returning from the radio station where I had joined in a 15 minute broadcast which summed up some of the proceedings of the Pan-Anierican child congress. I had another delightful surprise today when I was called on the telephone to talk to a gentleman who had just flown in from distant parts and brought me a message from our son, Jimmy. This gentleman is starting back shortly and I am going to be able to send Jimmy a letter by him. This is really very exciting, because mail takes endless days to reach the places where our boys now are. To know that your ot happy and well, starts you off in

What Is America’s Answer to Corregidor?

Suliering on ‘Rock’ Called Test of Right

To World Power Role

By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1842, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, May 9. — “The

Rock” is gone.

Only after the people got out did they

commence calling it Corregidor. While you were there it

was always “The Rock.”

You need a sledgehammer to break The Rock. The Japs needed scores of sledgehammers before Corregidor’s

tortoise-back was broken. Nothing like Corregidor has happened in American history since the Alamo. In the answer the American people give to Corregidor’s sufferings will be found the reply to the question of whether America is today a hemispheric power or a world power. : Corregidor’s pounding cannot fairly be compared with Singapore, or Malta, both islands of far greater surface area and with airdromes and fighters for their protection. “The Rock” succumbed to aerial bombardment in which every known method for hurling explosives through the air was exploited. Corregidor was high-level bombed, low-level bombed, and strafed. Corregidor’s defenders were subjected to fire from every caliber missile, from machine-gun bullets to 14-inch shells.

Day in 1925 Recalled

AGAINST THIS PICTURE of Corregidor’s end, the American people may well keep another sharply in their minds. The year is 1925. ‘A small harbor vessel emerges from Manila Bay, comes to Corregidor’'s quay and discharges several passengers. They are bright-eyed intelligent Japanese, full of breath-sucking politeness. Their errand is to check up upon America’s honesty in the international agreement. It has been reported to Japan that America has violated her Pacific treaty obligations by. illegally . fortifying Corregidor. This must be a happy day for that investigation committee. Now they' can examine Corregidor's fortifications at will with the Americans accompanying them not as hosts but prisoners. .The Japanese broke Corregidor, as they have broken the allies elsewhere, by using an overwhelming force of fighter power. Even before Bataan fell, Corregidor was under regular artillery fire from the opposite peninsula closing Manila bay. Here, at Ternati, the Japs had placed heavy 14-inch batteries which were daily pounding Corregidor’s back. The tortoise’s tail was being hammered. In the opposite, Bataan direction, the head was under fire long before the surrender on April 8. Here the Japs had 105-MM. artillery. 2 8

Centered on Power Plant

THE BATAAN ARTILLERY was moved by a circular road around Bataan to almost pointblank range across the little, two-mile stretch of bay.

STATE SCHOOL

RULES S CHANGED

Pupils May Eam Earn 3 Cais In Summer Session; Speeds Graduation.

As a war measure, the state board of education has adopted a regulation providing that high school pupils in the upper onethird of their classes may earn three credits during summer school instead of two as it has been in the past. This regulation,

pertain only to large city high schools because: they are the only ones holding summer sessions

Readoption Likely

» While the regulation is effective

only for this summer, it likely will be readopted for each summer durin gthe war, board members said. If it should be put into effect for several summers, it would make it possible for a number of the brighter high school pupils to graduate in three winter and three summer terms. Now, including summer terms, it is impossible for a pupil to graduate in less than three and one-half years.

Speeds Graduation

Dr. Clement T. Malan, state superintendent of public instruction, said ‘the regulation would enable many pupils who lack only three credits to graduate this summer. He said it would also enable some boys to get in a year or so of college before going to armed services. The board readopted its present vocational agriculture and trade and industry. programs for a five-

For dive-bombing the Japanese had one specific chief target—a power plant. They had other particular targets in the coast defense guns and anti-aircraft. All these targets were fully exposed. The gun pits were like those which anyone can visit upon the islands, dotting with civil war forts, the entrances to Atlantic coast harbors. The first three bombers which ever struck at Corregidor went straight for the power plant. The power plant was literally at Corregidor’s heart. Only through the power plant could air -be pumped into the tunnels upon which dépended the safety of every living thing in Corregidor. Life in these tunnels was almost one continuous air raid. There were people who emerged from the fanned air and electric light of the tunnels only by night. Like the crew of a submarine, they never saw sunlight. Some suffered from “tunnelitis,” a condition under which a human being becomes so stultified psychically that he is unable to go outdoors. Heavy Jap bombs could be heard inside the tunnel reverberating in rock but the shells, either medium from Bataan or heavy from Ternati, could not be predicted as to their

course,

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Knew Every Current

“The Rock” was never starved out. When Bataan fell there was abundant food—nearly 80,000 human beings’ portions for 18 days, or nearly 1,500,000 meal days. This was enough to feed approximately 12,000, living the life of moles, for a minimum of four months. The besieged, like all hard-pressed people, often attributed to the Japs more intelligence than they possessed. During a six-weeks lull in the middle of the campaign, Whey said: “The Jap idea is simply to let Corregidor alone so that the defenders will be forced to eat at United States instead of Japanese expense. The Nips consider Corregidor a big concentration camp.” But the Japanese thought far more of Corregidor than that. They had carefully plotted the currents around the shores. For ‘example, when 57 Philippine scouts, aided by sailors and marines, forced some Japanese flanked by sea, to commit suicide by jumping from the cliffs, the Japs sent over an airplane which dropped a message of guidance for those remaining on the beach under American fire. The message said: “Soldiers, you are ordered to find a log or other floating object and swim straight out from

shore, using the wood as support.

Between one and one-quarter miles from the beach you will find a current which will carry you rapidly in the direction of Subic bay.” t » ” INSTEAD, HOWEVER, of concentrating upon the immediate

HOLD EVERYTHING

"Hey—are you sure this is Free French pastry?”

Hobby Is Sugar, Now He'll Eat It

COLUMBUS, O., May 9 (U. P.). —Jack Merle is going to eat his hobby. Mr. Metrle’s hobby for three years has been collecting sugar cubes from the - tables of . restaurants, hotels and clubs. He has them from many parts of the country. : The other day he asked a rationing official what do do about his hobby.. : “You'd better eat it,” was the reply. So Mrs. Merle stirred up something she called “victory fudge.” It contained little squares of sugar from New Orleans, Miami and New York City.

Many Japanese planes fell before these 3-inch antiaircraft rifles before Corregidor anally was forced inte

surrender.

invasion of Corregidor, the Japanese tried several games of deception. Laboriously they prepared hundreds of sea buoys, fitted them with tiny electric bulbs and towed them around in Manila bay, causing the report upon Corregidor that invasion was imminent. After a while they abandoned this plan. But cuntinuously and assiduously small Manila shipyards were kept busy building tiny craft to supplement Japan's formidable landing barges which are lined with onc-half inch steel plate. The Japanese repeatedly used the psychological weapon. In midMarch they dropped pamphlets, directed to Maj. Gen, Jonathan M.' Wainwright, stating that the fortress would fall within two weeks. Again, in early April, they dropped more pamphlets saying: -“The help you are promised will arrive in a fortnight, but you will fall within a week.” The American anti-aircraft was excellent. The courage of the men who manned the coast artillery guns under dive-bombing was a thing of wonder to those who witnessed it. But neither the antiaircraft nor artillery could fire without. betraying their positions. Had it been merely a duel between Corregidor’s batteries and those of Bataan’s Ternati, Corregidor would have held out indefinitely.

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- Bataan’s Fall Paved Way ONCE MORE AIRCRAFT were decisive. When Japanese shore batteries concentrated upon the machine guns lining Corregidor’s beaches and capping her eminences, the artillery could ordinarily have hit back at the Japs. But the artillery piece, themselves in many places exposed in open pits, were undergoing bombardment by planes. Just as the artillery could not defend the machine-gun and ack-ack posts from fire from shore, similarly the ack-ack and machine guns under the crucifixion of shore fire could not defend the artillery

STIVER ASSAILS DRINKING DRIVER

Indiana State Police Head Says ‘Cocktail Saboteur’ Boosts Traffic Toll.

CHICAGO, May 9 (U. P.).— “Cocktail saboteurs,” commonly called drinking drivers, are hindering traffic accident prevention efforts, the national safety council reported today. A survey of 22 states showed an increase of 27 per cent in fatal traffic accidents caused by drinking

drivers during 1941, said Don F.

Stiver, chairman of the council's committee on tests for intoxication and superintendent of the Indiana state police. Fatal traffic accidents from all causes went up only 17 per cent. “ ‘Cocktail saboteur’ is the only name that fits the drinking driver today,” said Mr. Siver., “At a time when the nation is being geared to prevent the waste of every human and material resource, the motorist who drives while under the influence of liquor is coming pretty close to treason.” Mr. Stiver’s committee appealed to motorists to refrain from mixing gasoline and alcohol as a patriotic contribution to the war effort.

FAVOR 1214 CENT COIN WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P) —Several senators of western mining states today favored the coinage of a silver “one bit piece,” worth 12'% cents, as a measure to

against dive-bombing and highlevel bombing. Before Bataan fell Japan was “like a man holding a needle three inches before his nose and trying to thread it with only one eye open. The eye which was open was Ternati, where 14-inch guns were located. The eye which was closed was Bataan. Japan ‘kept stabbing with her thread but, because she lacked forward obser=vation posts upon Bataan, was unable to give directions to the gunners in Ternati.

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Missed Threading Needle

BEING UNABLE to adjust to vision with both eyes, she continually missed threading the needle. Japanese planes did not dare to remain over Corregidor’s ack-ack long enough to give sustained directions to the Ternati batteries and the batteries behind the Bataan lines were firing blind. Only after Japan secured observations posts upon Bataan could she commence fire which silenced the anti-aircraft and thus opened the way for the continuous dive-bombing. attacks directly upon the pits of the coastal guns. The Japs never attacked Corregidor with warships, as far as is known. However, they maintained, just beyond the horizon, what was called a ‘visual block=ade.” The Japs also tried to keep the anti-aircraft gunners’ seats hot, even before the artillery duel of the closing phase, by sending high-speed ground-strafing planes across the water from what they hoped were the blind angles of the island. Coming at over 300 miles an hour, the fighters hedgehopped over “The Rock’s” back or between its two small peaks, machine-gunning and dropping anti-personnel bombs. The Japanese never underestimated Corregidor but tried with every means to correct their faulty vision on the Bataan side. Once,

The pageantry of the annual rose festival will be displayed again this

year for the sixth time at Hillsdale nurseries May 31. " Features of the afternoon program will be the crowning of the 1942 rose queen, swimming and diving contests, garden club displays and rose displays. Alex. Tuschinsky, chairman of the arrangements committee, announced that many boy scout and cub packs as well as camp fire girls will take part. Soldiers from Ft. Harrison, commanded by Col. Walter Drysdale, will attend. Comm. R, H. G. Mathews, head of navy recruiting in this area, also has been asked to take part in tke program. A tentative program was announced today by Mr. Tuschinsky: Col, William D. Cleary, in charge of the Ft. Harrison Chaplain school, will deliver the invocation and the Rev. U. 8. Clutton, pastor of the Tuxedo Park Baptist church, will give a short talk at the flag raising ceremonies. Governor Schricker will speak and the boy scout band, directed by Raymond G. Oster, will play the national anthem. Jean. Chauncey of Butler university will arrange details of the water pageant. Garden clubs will display flowers in different bouquets and will also staff information booths to direct spectators to the location of various species of roses. Wilbur Peat of the John Herron art institute, Jane Stewart of

DESTROYER LAUNCHED SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 (U. P.). —The USS Gillespie, a destroyer named after the military commander of Los Angeles during the Mexican war Was. Jatmehed: yostats

they managed to set up a small radio station upon a hill within the American lines whence they hoped to observe the fall of their shells upon Corregidor. But the station was captured and their two operators silenced. When Bataan fell, in a certain sense Corregidor's work was done, It was Corregidor at their back which had sustained Bataan’s defenders from when, on Jan. 4, the first line was drawn across the - peninsula from Abucay to Moron, It was the hours when small boats could cross the two miles of water by dark which determined when the men at “Skinny Wainwright’s” headquarters (on Bata an) could eat. They ate, there= fore, at 8:30 in the evening and 3:30 in the morning and fasted 17 hours daily. By the first week of April only 19 cavalry horses were left uneaten upon Bataan but food was still coming regu= larly from Corregidor.

Like Swimming Pacific

CORREGIDQR’ WAS for Bata an what the United States is for tHe Americans in Australia: A safe place at one’s back although ' dangerously far away. That was why, when Bataan fell, scores of highly-trained pilots of the air force, captured by. the Japs, disarmed and left unguarded upon Bataan’s beaches — with four month’s fighting as ordinary infantrymen in Bataan’s hills behind them--swam across t6 Core regidor. It was like swimming the Pacific to America. \ Wherever the handful who escaped Corregidor sit today, they are praising Gen. Wainwright, Whatever has happened to him, Wainwright will be known forever among the foundlings of Corregidor as a first-class fighting general. Some things about Corregidor are still doubtful but everyone agrees that “Skinny Wainwright” made himself one of America’s great generals and beloved as well as admired by his soldiers.

6th Annual Rose Festival a Will Be Held at Hillsdale

H. P. Wasson & Co, and Col Richard Lieber will judge the rose queen contest, which will climax the program, James H. Lowry and Judge Henry O. Goett have been selected as masters of ceremonies. James H. Lowry is vice chairman - of arrangements. A trophy will be given the garden club having the largest percentage of attendance ab the festival.

What You Buy With WAR BON ns

A DOZEN PATRIOTIC Americans, each buying one $18.75 U. 8. war bond, will provide $225 for the cost of one parachute. We need one for every man in every plane, thousands of them. And we need other thousands for training and use of paratroops.

silk hose and other finery now goes into parachutes, and for every