Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1942 — Page 11

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WASHINGTON, June 1.—Our trouble with rubber shows clearly how hard it is for a democratic people to apply the foresight required for its own best interests. Everyone in the government who knows anything about rubber is warning us repeatedly that there is no hope for more civilian supply until after next year at the earliest. Yet we are reluctant to accept that. When President Roosevelt tosses out a casual observation that we should not be too grim about it, people seize on that as practically a promise of rubber. No authority here working on the problem sees the faintest justification for any easing of the shortage. But we do not like to believe unpleasant news. The British, the French, and I suppose all other self-governing people, are subject to the same human weakness. Dictators, of course, have no such problem, Hitler saw long in advance what he would need and he built a synthetic industry. For years he stockpiled Germany with enormous quantities of scare materials. Japan did likewise. Enjoying our democratic freedom, both officials and the people have been inclined to postpone the evil day. America has been built on rubber tires during the last 20 years.

Just Look at the Map

YET THIS ARTICLE upon which we have become so dependent had to be imported from the other side of the Pacific. A glance at the map always showed us how vulnerable our supply was. Knowing that

By Raymond Clapper

this remote source could be easily cut off and that any such event would seriously cripple our normal activi-! ties, we still were quite casual about it. This is the glaring fact that stands out in the able report of the Truman committee of the Senate after a. most thorough investigation. That report shows how casually and even feebly we faced such an important danger. The Truman committee points out that it was obvious as early as 1940 that there was at least a possibility of our supply of rubber being cut off. The committee is hesitant about fixing blame. Probably the real fact is that all of us are to blame.

Britain Worse Off

EVEN AFTER OUR experience we are at this very time hesitant about checking further the use of automobiles. Gasoline rationing was inescapable in the East. But as there is plenty of gasoline in other sections of the country there is objection to rationing even though common sense says it is the most effective way to check the using up of our rubber. This is understandable in a democracy where people object to being placed under unnecessary restrictions. The British have suffered from the same reluctance of free people to accept regimentation. Britain was just as vulnerable in her rubber supply as the United States. Yet even less effort was made there to accumulate rubber against an emergency. As it turns out the United States must shoulder the load for all of the united nations on rubber. | The Truman committee points out that compared | with our allies we have a relatively well stocked larder |

for military needs even though the real question is . how much better off we might have been. ome ay oe ay it at

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

IT'S RUMORED that Mayor Sullivan plans to call in a couple of outside advisers when city officials start preparing their 1943 budget and tax rate. That's almost unheard of around here. It's been the timehonored custom for the incumbent administration to slash the tax rate in an election vear so the party in power can say: “Look what we did.” Jim Northam, first assistant attorney general, has contracted for a mass blood-letting program. He's pledged himself to line up between 500 and 800 state employees as donors to the Red Cross blood campaign. You can look for rain tonight because of salvage campaign parade that's scheduled. You know it seldom fails to rain on parades here. Miss Lillian Wood, 953 Udell st. reports that while visiting at 2107 E. 28th st, she found 65 four-leaf clovers in one day.

Cat Nips Catnip

ELMER TAFLINGER is having cat trouble. He adopted a maltese Kitten recently, fixed it an elaborate sandbox.and planted some catnip for it outside the studio. As a protection, he painted a sign which read: “This is not a weed. It's catnip. Beware, Butch, the Cat” A couple of days later, Elmer found the catnip chewed and virtually destroved. Elmer and Butch suspected a mean looking black cat that had been hanging around. Elmer planted some more catnip. Then a new sign appeared mysteriously. It read: “Priority 2379654080000 By order of the AYZXWSOS to all brown, black, zebra, tiger, albino felines not belonging to preferential families, to conserve catnip for the amalgamated canners of catnip tea of the six continents plus Australia. This catnip is the temporary property of Butcher Taflinger. Beware of trespass.” This

New Headache

CLEVELAND, June 1—The ways of democracy and dictatorship differ vastly in their aims and in

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didn’t wotk, either, as the new catnip was despoiled also. However, a dead mouse was found beside the studio door, probably as a peace offering to Butch from the mean looking black cat. Such goings on!

Because of the

BEFORE HER recent marriage to Evered E. Rogers, Jane Rothenburger. daughter of Dr. William F. Rothenburger, was called by the society editor of one of the papers (it might have been us) and was asked for a description of the wedding plans. Jane called the dressmaker at Wasson's and asked about her dress. “It's really French lace, but because of the war, maybe you'd better cail it Chantilly,” she was told. Then she called the florist to ask about the flowers. “They're really Japanese iris,” she was told, “but because of the war, maybe you'd better call them Siberian iris.” The bride thought a moment, then muttered: “Humph; my name's Rothenburger, but because of the war, maybe I'd better make

it Rogers.”

War

are facing another no exaggeration to more exciting than

limited radio use, revolutionized radio, made broadcasting possible, and finally brought about the new science of electronics, with thousands of new useful possibilities, so with television. Television itself is seeing at a distance, but the devices and radio circuits which have been de-

veloped for television, have other possibilities too, and enable us to

Around the Town

DON HAWKINS, the broker, is having difficulty getting repairs for an old chelsea clock of which he’s quite fond. It looks like he’s going to have to get a jeweler to make the broken part. . . . Eddie Rickenbacker stayed in New York this Memorial day because there wasn't any Speedway race. For consolation, his associates ran off for him the color movies of last year's race, . We hear somebody's still circulating those petitions calling for a bond | issue to finance the purchase of new voting machines. It looks pretty much like wasted effort, because the indications are that the city wouldn't get priorities for one machine, let alone 25 or a couple do things which we couldn't do of hundred. . Seen on E. 10th st.: A Salvation before. i Army truck with papers floating from the truck onto g & # the street every 10 feet Carl Dortch, govern- . : mental research director of the C. of C, left Friday Like Jig-Saw Puzzle for a week's vacation trip. He headed for the Black WHY THIS is true can be understood if one remember that the

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allowed to replenish them. The discussion is unofficial so far, but something

is on the way. The main argument so far is whether

Data Take

Home Watching Events Just As They Happen

By ARTHUR VAN DYCK

Institute of Radio Engineers and director (Copyright, 1942, by Science Service.)

WIRELESS WAS really adventurous in its early days, when spanning the oecan was new and exciting. Again, from 1920 to 1930, we had the thrilling excitement of seeing a new form of radio, broadcasting, grow from nothing to an enormous public service known to everyone, and creating a powerful new social and political force. After 1930, however, we had a period which was not particularly exciting, from the popular science view. We exciting period, and I am sure it is say that this coming period will be any which has gone before. There is television. That is very important, not merely because of itself, but because many other things will come from it. Just as the vacuum tube, first developed for a

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transmission of a television picture is putting together a jig-saw puzzle, with every piece in the right place, doing this many times a second, with the puzzle located perhaps 50 miles away. This means that a really enormous precision of control can be exercised over things miles away. Many things have been done before by electricity at a distance, of course, but television devices are the first ones which operate with such precision that an error of one one-millionth of a second is important, These applications are now being directed toward military uses, and therefore cannot be described. One has been revealed, however, the plane detector, by which it is possible to detect the presence

and location of a plane flying many miles away. It is therefore obvious that when peace comes again, if science and industry are free to go forward as they have done in previous similar periods, they will go forward and we will have these military devices turned to commercial uses, with great improvement in the safety and convenience of air travel, for example,

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Future of Television

BUT WE SHOULD not overlook the excitement of television itself. It is inescapable that after the war, this new service will grow rapidly to a wide public usefulness. Its possiblities for entertainment and education are so much greater than those of sound broadcasting, great as they are, that there will be no holding it, after it has had a fair start. Within just a few years, receivers for the home will have bright pictures about two feet wide, and public\places will have much larger ones. In 10 years or so, the viewing of events taking place in moderately distant cities will be commonplace. In 20 years or so, we will have national and international networks, and be quite accustomed to watching events in London, and other foreign cities. Why do I say 20 years, and 10 years, as the times for these things to come? Those periods are just my guesses—but there is good likeli~ hood that they are about right, because it is past experience in many such developments that it takes about 10 years for them to pass through the experimental stage and become a definite, established, successful service. Then the next 10 vears see refinements and improvements, and expansions to the near final conditions. Sound broadcasting is an example. From 1920 to 1930 was its first phase, 1930 to 1940 its sec-

The theater spectacle (at left) soon may be common. A television projector is throwing a picture 15 by 20 feet on a screen 60 feet away. The picture is accompanied by sound. This setup was demonstrated by the RCA at the New Yorker theater recently. The girl above is listening to a message from a distant friend over her own little private short wave equipment. With a flip of the finger, she can change from receiving to sending, and talk back. The whole apparatus weighs but four pounds and carries its own batteries. Yes, the rod sticking up leftward is the antenna. Above right is a “walkie-talkie” soldier (photo by U. S. army signal corps), with a more elaborate and powerful equipment.

ond. It seems almost to be a natural law, and probably it is. n ” on

Micro-Wave Radio

THERE IS ANOTHER broad field of radio development ‘which is going to be exciting after the war, in addition to television, and the other things which result from television. That is the field which radio men call micro-wave propagation. It isn’t as mysterious as it spunds. Every radio station has a frequency on which it must work. If the frequency of a station, take WABC, in New York City for an example, is 880,000 cycles, it sends out 880,000 waves every second, which is just under one million. Other stations have other frequencies, or other numbers of waves per second. The highest frequency in wide use today is perhaps one hundred million cycles per second. But the laboratories are working with frequencies of several billion cycles per second, and when we get up into those figures, there is lots more room than there is down in the few million region. With the frequencies we use

Another Golden Age of Radio Is Predicte

now, the space is limited and we can’t have very many stations op= erating at the same time without interfering with each other. So the number of stations must be limited now, and that is why the . federal communications commis= sion would not license anyone to operate a private radio telephone system between his home and his office, if he wanted to.

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Of Wartime Value

BUT IF WE work with billions of cycles, there will be room for a thousand times as many stations. Then we can hope for a personal radio system where= by we can carry around not mere= ly a small portable receiver, as we do today, but a transmitter as well, and talk, both ways, with

friends miles away. That is not very far from practicability, and is one of the things we’ll undoubtedly see in the next decade or two, These very high frequencies were the subject of several papers presented at the recent 30th annual anniversary meeting of the Institute of Radio Engineers. Just now, in wartime, the milie tary applications of radio are the most important. And they are very important. Planes, tanks and mobile units of all kinds are able to carry out their speedy operae tions only because they have radio communication and radio devices of various kinds. The research and design of these devices is exciting now, and their later conversion to peacetime come mercial use will be equally so. In all of this, the motto of the radio man is going to be, “Keep ’‘em radiating”

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WINDSOR, WIFE

Shows Hitler's Reserve Ranks Are Yoinping! IN WASHINGTON

provise is at present not known or|regiments in the reshuffled divisions have only two battalions of infantry, | : ; one company of anti-tank guns and | Reach Capital Without one trench mortar unit, | . The divisions of the artillery regi-| FUSS or Fanfare; Decline

ment are said to consist of two bat- : To Answer Questions.

talions of light, horse-drawn guns (six batteries of four guns each) WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P)), |—The Duke of Windsor, accome

and one battery of heavy guns (two guns, tractor-drawn). In the view of the Soviet military panied by his American - born authorities, the German’s new light duchess, arrived here today on his divisions have been much weakened first official visit as governor of the Bahamas islands. The titled couple arrived at the

all around and are much jumbled crowded union station without fuss

as to quality of troops as a result of the feverish dispatch of all kinds or fanfare. They stepped from the car in which they had occupied a

of reserves, some poorly trained, to the front since spring increased the single drawing room, along with businessmen carrying brief cases

pressure of the fighting. | a ——————————— a — Lieut. Gen. Graf's judgment| and others. proved sound because his division APRIL STRIKES GAIN: The : AREA , v y declined to answer ques= Mr. Stowe visions” whic h|was so battered that it had to with- ¥ sions Ant Were Wiser So at

are very considerably reduced both draw soon after it was sent into LESS MEN INVOLVED to the British embassy. | iti . ment, mands of the individual companies and on tigjy] Sevan atthorities.

{in numerical strength and in arma- action. The hodgepodge resulting . Artillery regiments of these re- man units also was illustrated by, WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P.).| * * future requirements, trying to see if the statements | Claim Bolshevism What You Ruy Witt

[from the re-forming of some Ger-| rere correct in the fr s : shuffled divisions are reported to the battalion of the 556th infantry | There were more strikes in April | were correct in the first place and then following | Police claimed they had found a|have had guns of all calibers cut|regiment, which was made up of than in March, but time lost and | the shipments through to see that they did not eel qefinite Bolshevist influence® in|down from 30 to 66 per cent. Isoldiers from bicycle and transport iy : inhi 1 “lost” and into the hands cf less essential users. the new unrest The sapper battalion has been units, from infantry batteries, fromthe number of workers involved So complicated did the scheme finally become in The food riot occurred vesterday |€liminated and the liaison battalion [liaison and supply units and from were about 15 per cent below March | | % dr Germany that writers who escaped from there said morning in the St. Germain quarter slashed to one company instead of figures, the labor department has These huge 60-ton heavy tanks cost $120,000, and America’s auto= motive and locomotive plants are turning them out on a never-end-

END PARIS RIOTS

New Violence Directed at French Police; Three

Are Slain.

VICHY, June 1 (U. P.).—Officials planned today to bring the leaders of a dissident group to trial quickly in hope of checking a new wave of unrest sweeping Paris. Two policemen were killed in a food riot in the German-occupied former capital, a hotel keeper was slain because he had reported several Frenchmen to the gestapo, and two persons were killed by the explosion qf a “suitcase bomb” planted near the central police headquarters.

their manners, but the details of their controls are often surprisingly alike. Much that comes out of Washington these days is made clearer by the record of German experience, or of British snd Canadian improvements on methods first attempted in Germany. In government control of economic life, whether you like it or merely admit its temporary necessity, the place to go for the fundamentals is to recent German history. Take this latest order, the one which forbids a dealer in women's outerwear for next fall to add any lines of garments selling at higher prices than the highest-priced line he handled last fall. The Germans found out before Hitler that without restraints on merchandising policy, some dealers got out from under by stocking better lines, or lines that were represented to be better. Not until Hitler had been in office four or five years did the Germans move in so far as to attempt seriously the control of style goods in this manner. The American order, however, stems more directly from Canadian experience the last five months. We probably should look for a considerable extension »f this control device, to men's clothing and other goods.

“4 Practical Working Minimum”

AN ORDER WHICH is now in the works in the WPRB offices in Washington would control the inventories of retail stores and force the larger inventories down to a “practical working minimum.” They would have to be run off in sales either to customers or to other merchants before the dealers would be

My Day

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—The commencement at Arthurdale, W. V,, on Friday morning was really quite impressive. As I look back over the years and remember that the first class had three high school graduates, the 20 fine looking young people who received their diplomas yesterday show great progress. In order to buy war savings stamps, they gave up their annual spring visit to Washington, for which all high school students save their pennies throughout the year. One felt that here was a group of young people who already understood many of the responsibilities which come with maturity. The hazards of industry are brought home to all of them rather frequently, so the hazards of war are nothing new. They all felt very close to the mine disaster at Osage, for one of our Arthurdale homesteaders lost his life. For 10 days his body was not found, and those 10 days were days of uncertainty and agony to the young wife and her 6 and 8-year-old daughters. Visiting her, however, gave me a renewed respect for the courage of human beings. Another baby is

the controls should be by departments or made storewide. Forehanded merchants complain that it penualizes them in favor of people who made no effort to stock up when plenty of goods were available, but this is always what happens to the thrifty in a regime of complete government regulation. If the system works at all, it is likely to be extended to manufacturing in the remaining essential lines. Months ago a complete stock-control system for all lines was being talked about in Washington.

By LELAND STOWE

Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times AL The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

MOSCOW, June 1. — Documents captured after the recent defeat of the 330th German infantry division and the data taken with the officers of other Nazi units on unspecified fronts are published in today’s Red Star. They reveal that the Germans, while making replacements and reorganizing divisions which were decimated by the long winter fighting, have have been forced to create socalled “light di-

indicated. In any case, Hitler's growing shortage of adequately trained reserves was admitted in a special order of the commander of the 330th infantry division, Lieut. Gen. Graf. He wrote: “The level of training of units of this division varies greatly. Some soldiers have not even completed their elementary training but conditions are such that this division may have to go into battle. Therefore, we must use every minute to train troops. The main thing is to teach the soldiers to carry on defensive fighting.”

Division Battered

What Happened in Germany

THE WPB IS NOW expecting to revise its allocation and priority system by introducing an “end-use” classification. Under it the WPB will be able to identify or earmark every shipment of materials from the mine all the way to the plane or tank factory. In Germany, by 1936 or thereabouts, the urgency certificates or priorities had become so complicated by various plants receiving similar certificates, that special or preferential certificates had to be issued. ftor After a time “control numbers” began to be assigned a Te TO ® for firms which had obtained certificates for iron! ny to be directed chiefly against and steel supplies and other metals. 1m Frenct olice rather than the An army of investigators was working on the de«| i: Doc . : :

coming in December and instead of bewailing the extra burden, she said she was so happy that this is the case, for it gave her something more to live for. Social security and workmen's compensation take on real meaning when you see a little family of this kind facing the future. From workmen's compensation, this woman will receive $30 a month, and $5 a month for each child. Her social security payment will be $17 a month--a total of $67. She and her hsuband had just decided since he had a steady job in the mine, they could take over the contract and buy their little place. She still hopes to be able to make her monthly payments and eventually own her house and land, on which she can grow much food for her family. I went to the Osage mine and saw the men going on their afternoon shift and talked with a man who is nicknamed “Happy.” He, with about 30 others, came out alive at the time of the accident. I asked him how it had been possible and he said: “Well, I don’t really know, but I always joke a lot, so T thought it was better to go on joking until we died, if we had to die, but instead we got out.” Like the sailors who go back on our merchant ships after they have been torpedoed, these men go back into the mines because they know, their work is need-

the problem of terial taki half th road construction companies. ry en OL Law malern yas NE © on the left bank of the Seine. A [two, field hospitals to only one and| Another captured Gernian report,| ¢Pored. time of the average manufacturer. Other writers OS queue of housewives was|8ll motorized units diminished. written by » officer of the 3300 The department said 310 strikes said half the businessman's time was taken up filling tside h ber of infantry division shortly before it started in April, compared with out government forms, so this must have been where oe EE Reserves Dwindling WeLS to: the-sront ing 240 strikes which startéd in March. the other half of the time went. throwing canned goods into the How many of these light-weight| «In our armament we have differ-| But the number of workers in-| ing assembly line. Our army uses street. divisions that the German com-|ent types of rifles. Our machine Jie ae Tew Siiges was light tanks weighing 14 tons, and Police intervened and an inspec- {man to 'im-| guns are up to full quota but other|“? ’ =| medium tanks of 28 tons also, but By Eleanor R oosevelt {tor and a patrolman were killed by 2 3 uy een Sonpdied 10 im kinds of weapons are lacking. In|000 during March. we favor the medium tank over ‘gunfire. Another policeman Wwas| MOLD EVERYTHING munitions we are not up to quota.| A total of 375,000 man-days were| the other two. aravely wounded and two others The battalion has 51 carts, mainly lost from all strikes during April, were wounded less seriously. Three 1 peasant carts, but badly worn out.” |compared with 450,000 man-days men were arrested. | The lacking weapons are said to|lost in March. In April, 1941, there Pierre Moulinier, proprietor of a have included mortars, tommy guns| Were 8,112,742 man-days lost because small hotel and alleged German and anti-tank guns. of strikes, while the average April secret police informer, was shot to loss for the five years from 1935 to death in what police called a “Com- | munist reprisal.”

List Arms Diminution

According to the seized German documents, the light divisions which have been thrown into the lines in ™N | various places in recent weeks, con- || sist of three infantry regiments and one artillery, and one liaison company—an important reduction in manpower. Diminution in armament is listed as follows:

1939 was 2,199,274 man-days.

DOTTIE’S SCHOONER IS IN THE NAVY NOW

MELBOURNE, June 1 (U. Pia schooner used in the Dorothy La-! These heavy tanks are needed mour movie “Hurricane” is now on! for certain phases of modern

active service with the U. 8S. navy! warfare, and with their thick are mor and heavy -gauge guns they

in the southwest Pacific, it was re- | vealed today. are almost unstoppable. They The schooner, once a South Seas| are considered superior in gun trading ship, was sold by Metro-| power, in maneuverability and in Goldwyn-Mayer studios to a| the power of their huge tractor wealthy resident of Manila, who| motors to axis tanks. turned it over to the navy at the Americans everywhere are helpe outbreak of war. ing to pay for these monsters of Comm. H. H. Keith of Roswell,| war through their purchase of war bonds. Invest at least 10 per

N. M. former commander of the destroyer U. 8. S. Peary, sailed it| cent of your income in war bonds

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BIG GAINS SHOWN IN MACHINE TOOLS

WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P.).— | The war production board has an- | nounced that new machine tools. presses and other metal working Normal machinery valued at $114,100,000 Division Division were shipped from American fac- 2 tories and warehouses during the 0 month of April. od 24 Shripments of machine tools 30 alone totaled 25415 units, with a value amounting to $103,364,496. Compared with April, 1041, the shipment of April, 1042, for all metal

increase of 13 per

Light

mortars 18

vos 54 Machine guns ..... 72 Anti-tank rifles ... 81

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