Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1942 — Page 9

"TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1942;

he Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

Washington

WASHINGTON, May 19.—The switch in war production policy now being made here indicdtes we see a chance of an early end to the war—perhaps late next year. Public remarks by both Secretary of War Stimson and Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, seem to imply the existence of that hope and effort. Secretary Stimson says the army hopes to be ready with the bulk of its troops for action next fall. Donald Nelson says the main effort now will be to get weapons actually off the line for immediate. use. He didn’t go into detail but behind that is a fundamental change of production policy. Hitherto we have put much effort into building new war factories, the breath-taking bomber plants, the tank arsenals, dozens of ammunition plants, rows of shipways. We have proceeded on the plan that there was no limit to the amount of production capacity we © must have. - That meant consumption of enormous amounts of materials in ‘building plants for future production. It would mean weapons in 1043. or 1944 or 1945. Now the policy is to stop further expansion on the whole and put everything into turning out weapons now, this summer. One tank this summer is worth a dozen in 1944 under the new point of view. The underlying purpose is to build up for smashing blows this year and next, to end the loss of life and world-wide suffering as soon as possible.

Steel Desperately Needed

PLANTS ACTUALLY under construction, if at all advanced, undoubtedly will be finished so as not to waste the effort and materials already expended on them. Contracts signed but on which work has not begun probably .will be cancelled. Few new contracts . will be let for plant construction. Some exceptions will be necessary but the policy will be to discourage them. The fact is we do not have enough materials in some lines to permit full production and additional

facilities. Neither would there be enough of such materials to feed the new plants at full capacity after they were in operation. : Steel is badly needed to turn out ships and tanks in yards and factories already in operation. To divert steel for construction of additional plants would cut into production possibilities of existing facilities. Furthermore, by denying permission to build new plants, the pressure is increased fo convert exisling factories. Donald Nelson says from now on America’s industrial plant will make nothing but war goods in an absolute maximum of production. There is no sense in using steel to increase production capacity for 1943 if the steel is needed for production of weapons this year. i!

Nazis. Reaching the Limit WHILE PROSPECTIVE shortages in some raw materials would make this policy necessary in any event in some cases, the WPB intends to apply the policy straight across the board. So the inference is that there is more behind it than the pinch in certain materials. Informed sources here believe they have rather convincing evidence that Germany is approaching the outside limit of her capacity to fight on. Manpower is becoming a more serious problem. So many reports are coming out concerning morale that officials are beginning to place some cautious credence in them. The gray faces and irritable tempor of the people in Germany are so noticeable now as to be commonly reported by travelers coming out. Everyone recognizes that whether it is to be a short war or one of indefinite length depends largely on how Russia comes through the summer. The Russians themselves sound a pessimistic note in their conversations around here and it is the Americans who are on the optimistic side about Russia. Whether the Russians are taking the grim view as a matter of psychology to spur American help, or whether the Americans are doing too much wishful thinking, are questions one can only guess about.

Anyway the American government appears definitely|

set to pull for a victory next year at the expense of continuing to enlarge facilities for more distant needs.

Ernie Pyle, in poor health for some time, has been forced to take a rest. However, he is expected to resume his daily column within a short time.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

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CH IS MORE important: Supporting one’s r buying war bonds. That’s a problem that is beg g to plague county welfare boards here and throughout the state. In some instances, the boards report, they have suggested to employed sons that they set aside $25 or so a month of their salary to support their ‘indigent parents,’ thus relieving the state of the job. And the sons have replied they couldn’t because they had to use the money to buy war bonds. Some of them are working in factories where there's a big push on to get everybody signed up for 10 per cent of their pay in bonds. We're glad we don’t have to decide this one. . Among the names being considered for appointment to the $6000 a year post of state highway chief engineer are Earl Feldman, now research engineer for the Nae tional Association of Railroads, and Ray Bowen, present assistant chief engineer. The post was left vacant last week by the death of M. R. Keefe.

Be Good for MacArthur

JUDGE BRADSHAW has purchased one of those pictures of Gen. MacArthur in a saluting pose and is placing it on the wall of the juvenile court room. The idea is the psychological effect it may have on hero worshiping young offenders brought into the court. . . . Little kindnesses shown the blind have a way of warming the hearts of spectators. For in- ’ stance: U. R. Creasey, 114 E. 22d st. reports that at 7:05 last Saturday evening he saw trolley operator 210 get off his car at Pennsylvania and Maryland, help a blind man across the street and put him on another car. We looked it up and operator 210 is

Vital Alaska

WASHINGTON, May 18.—The danger of a Japanese attack on Alaska is now being discussed by Washington officials. This is much better than the hush-hush policy which too long left the American people ignorant of the supreme defensive and offensive importance of our northern outpost. Of course, the enemy is not : ignorant of the fact that Alagka

ill up about a dozen five gallon cans which he stacked

Carroll Dawes. . . . Jim Matheny, salesman for WFBM, was inducted into the army yesterday under the new volunteer officers candidate school plan,

Around the Town

THE ANTICS of a 2! or 3-year-old boy in a green Chevrolet coupe parked in front of the Columbia club was amusing to passersby yesterday. Evidently

playing horse, the youngster had climbed up on the steering wheel and had put his feet between the spckes. He was having a big time until his mother came out and got him. . .. A motorist who evidently is expecting gasoline rationing stopped at a filling station at 63d and College Sunday and had them

up in his car and hauled away. . . . Overheard in a drugstore during a discussion of a similarity in names: “Yes, I steamed open one of his letters by mistake the other day.”

Free Adv. Dupitment

IF YOU'VE been bemoaning the fact that you aren't trained to take a job in business or industry to help out the war effort (or the family exchequer), quit moaning. Betier look into the summer school classes to be opened next month in the high schools. | Open to youths and adults alike, they’re expected to prove particularly popular with wives who have. been wishing they could get a job. Any subject for which there are enough applicants will be provided. And the most popular probably will be shorthand; typing, accounting, machine calculation and similar business subjects. Classes will start June 15 and be held six days a week—between the hours of 8 a. m. and noon, That leaves the afternoons open for victory gardening, or maybe bridge parties. All it costs is $5 a subject, with an additional $2.50 for laboratory courses.

By Ludwell Denny

stressing the possibility of Japanese attack on Alaska, as he stated in his recent New York speech. A Washington news dispatch says: “A Japanese spring offensive against Alaska and Hawaii is anticipated by American military and naval authorities. . . Military experts suggested the Japs very likely would try to strike at Pearl Harbor from the air, but might essay a full land expedition against far-flung Alaskan outposts.”

Capable Drivers Carry Flood of War Goods to Soviet's Fighting Armies

. By LELAND STOWE Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc."

MOSCOW, May 19.—From Teheran we traveled the lease-lend road: By automobile through the lofty passes of the Elburz mountains down to the Caspian, then by

cargo boat to Baku.

All the way we journeyed with

American war materials which were on the last leg of their long voyage to the Soviet Union's mighty army. So we saw our lend-lease tide rolling on, on and safely

Leland Stowe

Leland Stowe has arrived in Moscow after the long, long trek from New Delhi, India. Mr, Stowe here gives an eyewitness account of Russian efficiency in transporting U, S. and British lease-lend aid to the mighty Russian armies and stands convinced that “things are going to be all right,” for these.Russians know their business. Mr. Stowe succeeds A. T. Steele as Russian observer for The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News.

home. Across Iran’s northern plateau it is fairly fast going over the main dirt-road highway. Then the big trucks rumble up the tortuous passes between snow-

capped giants of granite. Then they serpentine down through magnificent gorges whose rivers, swollen by spring floods, are torrents of boiling chocolate. We took the longer route through the lower passes because avalanches still make the sky-top route too dangerous. : It is remarkable, though, how these Red army drivers keep their convoys moving hour after hour regardless of back-breaking terrain and neck-twisting series of hairpin curves. In places this highway is as tough as China's Burma road but Russian chauffeurs never waste a minute. They are driving against time with the object of getting their loads under the finish tape before the imminent spring offensive—theirs or Hitler's—is touched off. 2’ 8 ” WONDERFULLY efficient drivers, these Russians are. What records they could have hung up on the Burma road! Unlike Chinese chauffeurs, they treat their motors with great respect.

They pause frequently to water

By Raymond camer Stowe Travels Over Lease-Lend Road to Russia

An Indian soldier stands guard as supplies for Russia are unloaded at Iran.

their radiators. Their cars are well greased. As we passed one long convoy after another I noticed how a dozen lorries held a single unbroken pace. I also observed that every Russian was his own mechanic. These people really know what maintenance means—no monkey business, no wasting of time or energy. We motored all day along with scores and scores of Russiandriven lend-lease trucks, but we never encountered a single wrecked lorry, even on the meanest hairpins.- There was not one stalled truck temporarily out of commission. Regardless of tough mountain gorges, everything keeps rolling. Yes, these Russians mean business, all right, and they are as sweet a lot of smooth drivers as you ever saw. Those Boeing Bostons, in their huge crates, are going to get where they are sup-

posed to get, there is no doubt about that, Hie» WE ARE DESCENDING toward the Caspian now, in late afternoon, and scores of U, K. C. C. camions are climbing back empty, They belong to the United Kingdom Commercial Corp. and the U. K, C, C. is the transit agency for Great Britain's aid to Russia. Along with Soviet trucks, they are coming. and going incessantly from one end of Iran to the other: We round another curve and come out suddenly upon the shoulder of a great bluff. A mile below us the river valley opens broadly between spruce-covered hills and it looks for all the world like a serene majestic vista in Oregon or Washington. We can see one Russian caravan and then another, miles ahead of us and below, winding steadily downward, ever down-

ward. The Caspian and its ports are now almost ‘within sight.

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I step out upon a patch of clover. A good place for four-leaf cloverst—he thought pops into my head. So I walk over to a second patch and pick three four-leaf clovers as fast as my fingers can take them. *Good luck for Russia,” I say. So the trucks roll on and on and the lend-lease road comes down to the sea. There is not one lorry smashed anywhere along the way. But there is more than luck about these Red army drivers. They are doing a job, and the job is being done right. Unusual luck rides with those who earn it. A fine workmanlike job, brothers. Proud to know you! And that is why you enter Soviet Russia feeling that things are going right and that things are going to be all right.

LISTS EXPENSES

OF DEMOCRATS

County Committee Spent

$46,037 During Primary Election Campaign.

The Marion county Democratic committee spent $46,037 during the last two years, including the primary election campaign, and the

Ostrom-for-mayor organization spent

$10,995, according to the first political expense statements filed with

‘County Clerk Charles Ettinger.

Although the Democratic Two Per Cent club has been dissolved officially for more than a year, the county Democratic committee’s statement disclosed contributions from public employees amounting to

the usual 2 per cent of their wages.|

Several $1000 Gifts

J. Allan Dawson, county Democratic committee treasurer, said that of the total expenses, only $12,868 was spent in the primary campaign. He said the remainder was spent to

maintain party headquarters and

other incidentals covering a period from Nov. 29,1940, to May 14, 1942. The receipts showed several $1000 donations. mostly from candidates

. fire-dance costumes for the last

P.).—Dr. Raphael Harwood Miller, St. Louis, Mo., editor of the Christian Evangelist, and Dr. Gaines M. Cook, Cleveland, will be principal speakers today at early sessions of

Prefer Crosby fo. Old Tribal Music

HOBERG'S RESORT, Lake County, Cal, May 19 (U. P.,).— Tribesmen of the once war-like Pomo Indians laid away their

time today because the younger generation prefers Bing Crosby. Bill Gray, whose low-pitched chanting spurred the warriors to pick up flames and swallow them, retired because of old age. He believed he was about 90. Twenty-four tribesmen gave a farewell performance with Gray singing the old, slow rhythm. They leaped about the fire and then, in a final frenzy, passed the flames from hand to hand, and into their mouths. Chief gustine said the Pomos had no chanter to replace Gray in the traditional ceremony because the younger generation preferred Bing Crosby,

DISCIPLES TO HEAR ST. LOUIS EDITOR

LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 19 (U.

to be made in the family ice box for bottles of milk.

anapolis milk companies will begin every-other-day delivery of milk. That means that the housewife who now buys daily will have to buy a large enough supply to last two days.

being put into effect to conform to the request of the office of defense transportation for a 25 per cent reduction in delivery mileage of the milk companies.

tem will not affect the price of milk, company officials said, unless the housewife gets four quarts of milk at a time. practice of most companies to decrease the delivered price one cent a quart when a housewife buys as

MILK DELIVERY T0 BE CURTAILED

Every-Other-Day Schedule Goes Into Effect June 1; No Change in Prices.

After June 1, more room will have

For starting on that date, Indi-

The new delivery “schedule is

Prices Unaffected The every-other-day delivery sys-

At present, it is the

Tom Never Got His Dozen Japs But It Wasn't Lack of Courage

By KARL ESKELUND United Press Staff Correspondent KUNMING, China, May 16 (Delayed) .—Here is a war story of an American farm boy. His name was Tom Jones.

It is the story of courage which pushed the American frontier from the original colonies across a continent to Tom Jones’ home state of Washington. " Tom had three main ambitions —to shoot down a dozen Japanese planes in aerial combat; to return to America to his wife and their 2-months-old baby, whom he had never seen; and to study law at Harvard. When I first met him at an A. V. G. hostel in southwest China, he was still thin from malaria caught on a tiger hunt in Burma, but he was full of fight. “I'll get my dozen Japs before I go home,” he told me.

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HE WAS HANDSOME, straight forward, and had an implacable zeal for shooting down Japs. His eyes were always ready to smile and he was proud that he was a farm boy. He married a few weeks before coming out to China a year ago. He said that, after he got his dozen Japs, he “would return to

wiped it out. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was so pleased with this daring exploit that he asked for the names of the four pilots who had at least temporarily removed the Japanese menace from Kunming. On May 12 Tom and his friends set out for Hanoi, despite weather that might have stopped anybody except the Flying Tigers. In their small P-40’s, Tom and his men navigated 400 miles over enemy mountain territory, flying through thunderstorms. At Hanoi, their bombs and bullets destroyed at least 15 grounded Japanese planes. “I enjoyed that mission, but boy, was I scared,” Tom said when he returned. ” ” ” .

YESTERDAY TOM told me he was going home soon. He said he wanted to study law at Harve ard and become a politician in his home state. ! “Just one more strafing, and then for home,” he said. Today Tom was killed when his plane crashed while he was pracs ticing near the air field. He never got his 12 Japs, but he proved himself one of the best of those American boys whose cours age has made possible the ine

much as four quarts at a time. The dairies are sending calendars to their customers which will show the delivery dates. All deliveries, under the new schedules, will be made in daylight. C. Winfield: Hunt, executive secretary of the Milk Foundation of Indianapolis, said he was sure the public would co-operate in this move to conserve tires. Despite the fact that the milk companies are now paying the dairymen 31 cents a hundredweight less for Class 1 milk than they were last December when they were paying $314 a hundredweight, milk} company officials see little possibility for a price decrease.

Chicago Scale Is Base

They point to the increased labor » costs and say that the price they

pay the farmers, which is based on DYNAMITE FRENCH RAILROAD Chicago. butterfat prices, is likely VICHY, France, May 19 (U. P.).—

to end its five-month downswing Anti-German saboteurs last night|and turn upward shortly. dynamited and ‘destroyed an impor-| They say that they may “be tant section of the railroad between |caught in the middle” if the prices Nantes and La Rochelle, it was re- they have to pay to the farmer vealed today. The railroad extends|should soar upward since the about 80 miles south from Nantes|maximum retail price of milk in Inthrough the eastern French coastal {dianapolis is now pegged at 14 cents area. a quart, °

the 103d annual convention of the Church of Disciples of Christ. The Rev. Mark Anthony, New Albany, president of‘ the Indiana Christian Ministers association, asserted last. night that the church cannot favor war but cannot closé its eyes to the sufferings of those beaten into slavery. “The church today can never favor war -as a means of settling disputes, but it must face the fact that war is here and that Christians and non-Christians alike are involved in it,” he said. Dr. David McNelly, Indianapolis, was elected president of the organization for the coming yead. The Rev. Ernest Ford, Shelbyville, was named vice president, and the Rev. Edward Russell, Indianapolis, was named secretary-treasurer.

is the shortest route between Japan and the United States. Japan did not develop her great naval and air base of Paramushiru within 750 miles of the American Aleutians just by accident. Unfortunately, our own government woke up to- the importance of that northern invasion route much later than the Japs. As recently as two years ago there was virtually no military or air protection for Alaska’s 600,000 square miles of rich natural resources and 26,000 miles of mountainous and insular coastline. Since then, however, Washington has tried to make up for lost time. Particularly since Pearl Harbor our northern bases have been included in the general reinforcing activity.

Wallace Stressing Issue

TO QUOTE THE joint report on the war issued by the army and navy Saturday: “It (declaration of war) necessitated the immediate garrisoning on a war basis of outposts extending from Alaska to Australia in the Pacific ocean and from Iceland to South America in the Atlantic.” The report adds that during the first three weeks of the war additional troops went to Alaska. Vice President Wallace is one of those now

his wife and baby, and nothing will take me from America again.” He grew restless in the hospital, hearthg how the A. V. G. was winning fame while he lay helpless. Weeks before he had recovered fully he wanted to fly. Once Gen. Claire Chennault, commander of the A. V. G, had to call Tom back after the hothead had slipped out of the hospital and joined in a strafing mission. In April Tom was allowed to do combat flying. In his first dog fight he shot down two Japanese. When I saw Tom afterward, he was as happy as a boy. “I was scared as hell, but I enjoyed that fight,” he said. In his next dog fight he got two more Japs. He was slowly working up toward the dozen, but ‘too | slow,” he complained.

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IN MAY HE told me he wanted to. raid Hanoi. He knew this would be one of the most dangerous missions ever undertaken by the Flying Tigers, and that the odds were that he would never return from this flight 400 miles into enemy territory. His friends tried to talk him out of it. But when Tom asked for

for judgeship, along with many $500 and $200 contributions from other candidates. Total contributions to the Demccratic committee were $38,028 but the statement showed a $585 balance since there was an old balance of $8954 left over from 1940. : The committee expenses included numerous payments to “messengers” for service during election day, ranging from $250 to as high as $20. Other expenditures were for transportation and printing.

Ostrom Contributed $2542

The contributions to the unsuccessful campaign to nominate Henry E. Ostrom on the Republican ticket for mayor totaled $11,008. Some of the larger contributors were Harold B. West, $1000; Joseph Daniels, $1000; J. K. Lilly, $250; Charles J. Lyons, $200; Mrs. L. H. Levy, $200, and E. Spickelmier, $200. Mr. Ostrom himself contributed $2542 toward his own campaign expenses, according to the financial statement.

credible victories of the A. V. G.

JUDGE HEEDS APPEAL: NO SENTENCE FRIDAY

Michael Crawford of Anderson, Ind., will be sentenced on his guilty plea to a white slave charge Sate urday—at his own request. When he entered his plea his only request was that he not be sen tenced on Friday—it would bring bad luck. Judge Robert C. Baltzell granted the request.

All Tied to Hawaii

. FORE-WARNED SHOULD be fore-armed. It is now too late to wish that the strategic international highway connecting the United States and Alaska

‘across Canada had been started years ago as proposed, instead of a few weeks ago. It is too late to wish for more and better naval bases. But it is not too late to pour troops and planes into Alaska. That is one place our armed forces cannot be wasted. For, as Governor Gruening of Alaska has emphasized, it is as useful for offense as for defense. If the Japs fail to strike us at the closest point, we can attack them from that same vantage point. What is adequate defense of Alaska? We don’t know. But obviously our strength will have to be greater in Alaska than in the Philippines, where it was so definitely inadequate according to Saturday’s joint army-navy report. And just as clearly, the defense of Alaska is tied to that of Hawaii. There would be little chance of holding Alaska if Hawaii fell—perhaps by initial Jap occupation of outlying islands more vulnerable than Oahu. The Alaska-Hawaii-Panama triangle is to us what the English channel is to Britain. If it goes the enemy is on top of us.

What Yous Busy Wolk | WAR BONDS

The 155-millimeter gun is the . modern version of the old “GPF of World War I days. It has § range 50 per cent greater than the old gun, heaving a 95-pound projectile approximately 15 miles, It is capable of high speed and each one costs $50,000

HOLD EVERYTHING

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday.—I stepped out of the plane this morning to find the most beautiful weather,, which seemed really cool in.comparison to Florida. : As I think it over, the most interesting thing being done by the air corps at the technical training school in Miami was the effort to classify men by examination and interview. As the man in charge told me, they are really trying to find round ‘pegs and put them in round holes. The other thing which impressed me was the speed of organization. It ‘is barely’ two months since this setup was started, and yet everything is running smoothly. : Taking oyer the hotels has . saved many people from loss of their prop[t has certainly made it possible to house far

By Eleanor Roosevelt

The nation as a whole seems to be mobilizing very rapidly, too. Everyone I saw commented on the change of traffic yesterday, and price ceilings go into effect today.

The war news from Russia seems encouraging. I}: hope that the magnificent effort which the Russians|

are making will spur all the organizations throughout this country to do all they ‘ean for Russian relief. At the Chinese industrial co-operatives’ dinner the other night, I was presented with a little pair of “tiger shoes,” made for a little American boy by his Chinese nurse. These shoes are placed on a Chinese baby’s feet in the hope that the fearless strength and courage of the tiger will develop in the child. - The Chinese women making them today must think with gratitude of our “American flying tigers,” who have written an epic in the sky over China.

There is a most interesting magazine article by

Paul Gallico on Joe Louis. This famous prize fighter, who has now become a fighter in the armies of the

United Stetks. i Jo saany of Lis fools the spmbel of

2 Bombings by

Halt Mauna Loa's Gasps

HILO, Hawaii, May 19 (U. P.).— The great volcano, Mauna Loa, which had spouted flame and lava so violently for two weeks that United States army planes bombed it. twice, harmlessly smoked and sputtered in normal inactivity today, The eruption began at 5 p. m. on April 26. Explosions burst the sides of the 13,680-foot mountain ‘and

.|lava streams started coursing down, i|coming within eight miles of Hilo’s ..}| |suburbs, Until May 6, lava poured i|{from the volcano and at night a

revealed until last night because it

U. S. Planes

would not allow the eruption to be

constituted “information of value to the enemy,” The column of fire could be seen 100 miles away, and if the Japanese had known about it, they might have used it for a beacon to bomb “the adjacent island of Oahu, on which is Pearl Harbor, and Honolulu. - From May 6, the eruption weakened, and on the night of May 10, Mauna Loa made its last gasps. Volcanologists, who had forecast athe eruption, said it was not as vio-

volunteers for the mission, more than six of his friends offered to go — among them his squadron leader. If there had been no volunteers, Tom would have gone alone. He spent days and weeks completing the plans, studying maps and courses far into every night. Every time he talked to me about it, he got excited and his eyes shone. Shortly before they were to take off, Gen. Chennault asked Tom to take a flight to the Salween river gorge and strafe a Japanese column which was attempting to cross the river and attack Kunming. Tom agreed. 88-8 IN THE MOST successful A. V. G. strafing and bombing of

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