Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1942 — Page 11

TUESDAY, JUNE 16,

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NEED MORE POWER FOR SECOND FRONT

Allies Would Only Hurt Themselves if They Struck Too Soon: Burden of Men, Ships and Planes Rests Upon U. S.

By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

LONDON, June 16.—Conversations

regarding the

establishment of a second front in Europe during 1942, which took place during the visits of Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov to London and

Washington,

have served to emphasize

the desirability of such a step. They have also served to emphasize Russia’s desire for an allied invasion of the continent to divert pressure from the Russian front this year. They may also have made it slightly clearer to the Russians what such a step would entail and may have given them a

Mr. Stoneman

slightly better

idea, than they had before, of

the joint capacity of Britain and the United States to under-

take it. These conversations have damental truths of the whole second front problem. Briefly, they are as follows: Invasion of the continent would be a stupendous undertaking quiring a formidable and welltrained army, a vast amount of shipping, a large fleet of naval vessels—including a great number of destroyers and other small craft—and virtual control of the air, Britain alone has not had the men, shipping and aircraft necessary to such an operation. If she had had, she would have done the job without any urging. Here the trouble has been that she has had to maintain forces in the Far East and the Near East as well as at home, has had to provide ships to transport and supply them, and, due to costly campaigns far from home, has been unable to create a vast enough striking force to have even the slightest chance of success.

U. 8S.

There is only one reservoir

re-

Must Furnish Men from

which enough men, ships and

planes could be obtained for opera-| the United States. |

tions—namely, When the United States is able to produce sufficient forces of men, ships, planes and weapons to join with the British in an invasion attempt, with a reasonable chance of success. then invasion will take

place. This will hapen some day. When, it is impossible to sa¥. A very ambitious invasion attempt which would compel the | rmans to divert troops from the] t would help the Russians and | might give the western allies an opening for a major blow which] they hope to strike right into ger) many's vital A patched-up ex-| pedition which could be repelled bv the Germans without a serious) rearrangement of their forces would | not help the Russians and would] seriously damage American and British morale All Agree It's Desirable |

Some chances will have to be! taken, no matter when the invasion is staged, and in certain circumstances Anglo-American forces would be willing to take greater] chances than they would in others. It stands to reason that they would be far more willing to do something pretty desperate if Russia were having a bad time on the eastern front, | than they would if the eastern | front were fairly stable What everybody agrees is that a second front is eminently desirable and that it must be established at the first possible moment. Russia's front is comparatively quiet at the present moment and big developments have yet to come. Fighting around Kharkov is of minor importance and does not mean that the German offensive has begun. The nature of German| concentrations at present indicates that the big blow, when it comes, will come farther north.

REPORTS NAVY DROPS SUPER-WARSHIP IDEA

WASHINGTON, June 16 (U. P). —Senator Ralph O. Brewster (R. Me.) said today the navy has abandoned plans to build five 60,000- ton | superbattleships authorized by congress and will expand its aircraft | carrier program instead.

“I understand that the navy has words, but William Conover, 58, told | tO & synchronized drive against her

stopped work oh the five super-| dreadnaughts,” he told the United Press. Mr. Rrewster, a member of the senate naval affairs committee and

of the special senate committee in- his wife's regular morning greeting | 75 cents and “cokes” may cost 25

vestigating the war program, said ne did not know whether this | meant that the day of the battleship]

| salaries ]

Art institute here hand lettered the

not, however, altered the fun-

Doolittle's Wife Sees Funny Side

WASHINGTON, June 16 (UP.) .— Mrs. James Doolittle, wife of the brigadier general who led the air | raid on Japan, told a group of | women leaders yesterday that the first thing she learned as an army ‘wife was “to cultivate a sense of humor,” because, for example: | Her speed-flier husband, she said, as a young man insisted on meals consisting of thick steaks and chocelate cake which stretched the budget of his second lieutenant's pay, and then invited six or eight guests in to help eat them, Telling of life in lonely army camps, Mrs. Doolittle said that at one place they had the only bathing facilities in the camp and she “soon had men under my feet all the time.” “In those days the winter flying | suits left dye on the skin. It was horrible to get the dye off the bathtub.” she said.

WAR WORKERS PLEDGE BONDS,

E. C. Atkins & & Co. and Curtiss-Wright Employees To Invest 10 Per Cent.

All employees of two of Indian-| apolis’ largest war plants, E. C. At-! Kins & Co, and Curtiss- Wright | Corp.. propellor division, had today | pledged to invest 10 per cent of their

to the purchase of war bonds.

' Aleutian

| States are making light of the Jap-

| islands in the Aleutians.

| either,

| dangerous,

JAP THRUST IN NORTH SERIOUS

Isles Are Vital In Guarding West Coast

And Siberian Bases.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, June 16.—By no means all who are primarily responsible for the present security and future victory of the United

anese landings on Attu and Kiska

In the hands of the Japanese these bases are two-edged swords, ian bert Kamchatka and Rus- | sian Siberia to the west and Dutch Harbor, Alaska and our own Pacific coast to the east. They should | be retaken, therefore, at the earliest possible moment, and no fooling! The fact that these outposts are ‘uninhabited,” or very nearly so, | does not lessen their strategic value. | Midway and Wake are not particularly desirable spots for settlers vet they are of immense importance to the control of the Pacific. Weather Main Drawback Petropaviovks, in Kamchatka, only 595 miles from Attu and a

little more than 700 from Kiska. There is a fine harbor at Kiska. | its chief drawback is the weather. | Most -of the time it is lost in fog 8 and the waters thereabouts are) especially in thick

|

| weather.

At Atkins & Co. 402 S. SY

off-shift men used their own time to canvass the 1822 employees | to install the payroll savings plan. Curtiss-Wright employees staged

: St,

ja victory bond drive last week-end |

rand all accepted a 10 per cent de-

bonds Award 257 Newspapers

Certificates for “distinguished service in promotion of the war savings program” are to be presented to 257 Indiana daily and weekly newspapers. The awards carry the gold seal of the treasury department and the signature of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. The certificates are to be sent to county executive chairmen of the war savings staff who will present them to the newspapers. A group of students from the John Herron

names of newspapers on the awards. The students were Violet Adkins, | Richmond: Jo Anne Spivey, Indianapolis; Mary Helen Wyne, Dupont, Ind.; Harriett Rex, Valparaiso, and George Mudiiiiy South Bend.

DIDN'T LIK LIKE WIFE'S | MORNING GREETING

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, June 16 (U. P) —It may have been only four |

the court he thought it was

‘sufficient grounds for divorce from

his 35-year-old wife, Eleanor. Conover said that since he was incapacitated by a paralytic stroke,

had been: “Aren't you dead yet! The court set June 29 ror counter-

was past in the United States navy, | testimony by the wife.

but that he hardly expected revival! of the program.

TESTIFIES AT DRAFT TRIAL, HOLDING BIBLE

FREEPORT, Ill, June 18 (U. P). —Holding a bible in his hand, Glen Johnson, 23. Rockford, Ill, testified at his draft evasion trial that God's law “set forth in the Scriptures is superior to man-made laws.” Johnson, former Rockford athlete, went on trial on a charge of failing to report for his selective service physical examination. He testified that his religious beHefs as a member of the Christadelphian church would not permit him to enter military service or to help produce equipment for the armed forces.

CLAY CITY STORE BURNS CLAY CITY, Ind, June 18 (U. P) —Fire from defective wiring destroyved the William Greenwood general store here yesterday with an estimated damage of $5000. The Brazil, Ind, fire department made

an 18-mile run.

Hamburg Workers in Mood

For Revolt, L

By UNITED PRESS Private advices from continental; Europe said today the workers of! Hamburg, Germany's major port and an industrial center, were in a state of incipient revolt, promising openly that the time would soon come when they would have their revenge. The advices, purporting to detail the state of civilian morale there, were particularly interesting in view of apparently authentic news that there had been a bloody food riot in Hamburg last week. United nations authorities have! all warned that reports of unrest | in Germany and Italy must be received with reserve. This is particularly true in view of the efficiency of the Nazi party organization in detecting unrest and the utter ruthlessness with which it suppresses it.

Under certain circumstances, how- | lever, these conditions might play into Japan's hands. Assuming that the Japanese are, thoroughly familiar with this part of the Pacific, their submarines and | other warcraft could steal in and

{duction from their salaries for war out like rats at night under a

wharf. And the Japanese do know these

waters—as well as they know the waters of our west coast. They know every mile of them from lower California to Point Barrow. Japan is believed to be preparing to attack Vladivostok and the maritime provinces of Siberia. The occupation of bases in Kamchatka would doubtless be part of the plan.

Japs Want to Wreck Russia

Japan is just as anxious to destroy Russia, her traditional enemy, as is Germany. So the chances are better than even that she will attack Siberia this summer if the Russians find themselves hard pressed in Europe. Naturally she wants to isolate Russia beforehand from the Pacific. Meantime, the Nazis are doing their utmost to cut Russia's supply lines across the Atlantic to Murmansk and Archangel. Thus Japan's attack on the Aleutians and Midway may well he part |of the general axis scheme to isolate the Soviet Union, preliminary

in Europe and Asia.

HINTS 25-CENT ‘COKES’

POLAND SPRING, Me. June 16 (U. P).—Ice cream sodas may cost

sents before the war is over, according to President Hugh P. Beirne of the Naticnal Association of Retail Druggists.

ondon Advised

There seemed little doubt that {the Nazis would be able to stamp out any unrest that appears within the predictable future. Yet Hamburg was where the disaffection and rioting that led to the collapse of the German home front in 1918 started, and the United Press advices on the present state of morale among Hamburg people who havé had, from the beginning, less love for the Nazi regime than other German urban | centers, seemed to have significance. The advices came from a German, who, until a very recent date, lived in Hamburg. He said that “hardly anybody” there believed in an ultimate German victory; that the presence of many maimed and mutilated soldiers from Russia had haf a depressing and demoralizing

| Hitler can be defeated and France

PLEA TO ESTABLISH

More than 40 Indianapolis high school graduates will attend Purdue university summer session courses opening Monday at Manual high school to train youths for war production jobs. Registrations are being taken at the Purdue defense training office, LI-3548. Students above are (left to right): 1337 E. Market st, president of the senior class at Tech; John Tedrowe, 1515 Barth ave, Paul Duennes, 70 W. Troy ave, Cathedral; Leon Meyer, 809 Weghorst st, Manual; Ralph Plummer, 5200 W. Vermont st, Ben Davis, and Jack Hart, 32 N. Webster ave, Howe, shown examining equipment in the Purdue laboratory, 538 N. Meridian st.

Kurt Carsch, from Manual;

Allies Must Win Sky Rule,

Hoosier Writer Declares

PERU, Ind, June 16 (U. P).—

can be invaded, but not until the united nations gain definite air superiority, Glenn M. Stadler, native Hoosier and former manager of the

United Press bureau at Paris, said in an interview. Although the German people are becoming war-weary, they will not revolt while their armies and airforce are winning victories, was his conviction. His story of internment and starving on Gestapo rations with 136 diplomats and newsmen, was told during his visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Stadler. Mr. Stadler, who sailed for Europe the day after Germany invaded Holland, returned on the Drottningholm in the first exchange of prisoners of war, He said that the greatest joy ot the interned men came when they heard and watched RAF planes swarm over the former French capital in reprisal raids. Stadler declared he was the first Paris correspondent to be rounded up by the Gestapo the night of Dec. 10, 1941, and rode around all night while the police picked up

APARTMENT DENIED

A petition to convert a residence at 3817 N. Pennsylvania st. into a jfour-family apartment has been denied by the zoning board. Albert Stump, attorney for the |owners, said the project was planned lin order to rent apartments to members of the U. S. army air crops stationed at Stout Field. Board members explained that the purpose of the project could not be considered in zone variance pejtitlons and that decisions must be made strictly from a zoning standpoint. A delegation of neighboring pronerty owners protested the project. The board denied a petition of H. L. Rollins to operate a trailer camp at Kappes st. and Eastview drive. At the same time the board granted permission to Guy King to operate a trailer camp at 3401 W. Washington st. subject to approval by the Sle health board.

EX-TEACHER FREED IN SEDITION TRIAL

DENVER; June 16 (U, P.). — A federal district court jury which deliberated only nine minutes today acquitted Rudolph Fahl, 43-year-old former Denver school teacher, of government charges that he made seditious remarks to officers at the Lowry field army air base here. On the stand Fahl! told the court he “did not remember” making such remarks and said he was a “true and loyal citizen of the United States.” Previously, four army air force pilots testified that Fahl had said in conversation with them that they were not fighting for democracy but for “Jewocracy” and that “President Roosevelt has invested money in coffin factories.”

EARLIER SOUTHEAST EUROPE RAIDS HINTED

ANKARA, Turkey, June 16 (U. P) .—Vichy French sources reported today that big allied planes had! been bombing axis targets in southeastern Europe for several weeks before four United States army! bombing planes landed in Turkey ' Friday. Informants asserted that the raids had been made intermittently but that the allies had remained silent regarding them, and the axis commands in turn had decided to! say nothing. i Allied military sources said there was but one clear point regarding | the United States plane raid—that there were plenty more big hew, United States bombers where the! four which landed in Turkey had | been based.

W. R. C. GROUP TO MEET

The past president council of George H. Chapman post 10, Women's Relief Corps, will meet at 1 p. m. tomorrow for a luncheon at, the home of Mrs. Emma Roys, 325 N. Bancroft st. ‘A business meet | ing will follow.

15 fellow newsmen who were kept in an icy room, huddled about a tiny stove for three days following the arrest. After being told they could go home the next morning and to report to.the American embassy at 9 o'clock, the correspodents were taken to a concentration camp where, for five months, they continued to lose weight on blue, tasteless potatoes and the equivalent of four large hamburgers a week.

COUNCIL VOTES DEFENSE CASH

$25,000 Asked for Civilian Needs Is Approved; Backed by C. of C.

An ordinance appropriating $25,000 to finance civilian defense work in Indianapolis was passed unanimously by the city council last night. The money, requested recently by the civilian defense committee and Mayor Sullivan, will be used to maintain the air raid wardens’ headquarters in E. 22d st. and to establish a communication system for air raid alarms. The appropriation was recomsmended by William H. Book, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, who said “we believe the money is needed immediately and in the full amount.” The council also approved five temporary loan ordinances, permitting various city departments to borrow a total of $990,000 until the fall collection of taxes is received. An ordinance prohibiting parking along E. 38th st. in the vicinity of the state fair grounds was approved by the council. The parking restrictions in that area were asked by U. S. army officials who have leased the fair grounds buildings for an air crops depot.

‘GIVE US WINGS,’ RAF HERO PLEADS

PITTSBURGH, June 16 (U. P.) — A group of 15 British and American war heroes were relaxing today after an all-day celebration here in their honor yesterday which was climaxed when 30,000 attended a rally at Forbes field. Emphasizing that those on the home front must back the men on the actual fighting fronts, the heroes urged that civilians buy war bonds for the production of guns and tanks and planes.

Clifford E. Payne

Three grand lodge trustees of the Knights of Pythias from nearby cities are here to assist in the preparation of the organization's 74th annual convention to be held tomorrow and Thursday in the Pythian building. The trustees are Charles A. Phelps, New Castle; Clifford E. Payne, Marion, and Fred BE. Swaim, Huntington. Ray O. Garber, supreme chancellor, Des Moines, Iowa, will be the principal speaker. Other important speakers will be James E. Watson and Congressman Noble J. Johnson, past grand chancellors. A group of soldiers from Ft. Harrison will be initiated into the order at 7 p. m. tomorrow. An entertainment, in co-operation with the U. S. O. will follow. George Sundling, chairman of entertainment, is also planning a dance and refreshments.

SWEDISH KING IS 84 STOCKHOLM. June 16 (U, P) .— King Gustaf V, completely recovered from an operation two months ago, celebrated his 84th birthday today at his summer residence at Tullgarn, 30 miles south of Stock=holm.

0UT-OF- STATE

Reps. Nadie an and Johnson Want More Hoosiers in Terre Haute Plant.

Times Special WASHINGTON, June 168—Twe Indiana Republican congressmen

sent a protest to the army today regarding employment of out-of= state workers at the new war dee partment plant near Terre Haute. They are Reps. Gerald W. Landis and Noble J. Johnson and the pro= test was addressed to Lieut. Col. Allen Cannfield, Vigo Ordnance Plant, Terre Haute. It reads: “We have received several coms plaints from Indiana in regard to hiring too many workers from Kene tucky, Tennessee and Alabama. “Most defense plants use the ‘ever widening circle’ plan. This plan is designed to absorb first the qualified workers already living in the immediate area, thus minimizing the problems of school, hospital, res creational facilities, police, fire pro= tection and housing. “Also, because of home ties, such workers are more stable and will re= main in the employment until cone struction is completed. Qualified workers living within a 10-mile radius of the construction site should receive first consideration. Next, the circle should be widened to a 20, 30-mile radius, and so on, depending, of course, on the supply and demand. “We hope you will give first cone sideration to local Indiana labor snd we feel that you will take care of this situation to the best of your ability.”

NAZIS WARN ARGENTINA

BUESNOS AIRES, June 16 (U. P.).—The government, having been officially warned that Germany has extended the axis blockade to the United States and Canadian coasts and will sink any ship caught in the zone, was expected to reveal its at=

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