Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1942 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1942

Washington

WASHINGTON, July 27.—People may be disappointed if they try to read too much into the announcement that Maj. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower has arrived in London to take command of the European theater for United States forces. The move works toward the offensive in Europe that has been planned for some time. But to expect it to blossom into an all-out offensive overnight could only lead to disappointment. Gen. Bisenhower’s arrival in England does not mean that arrangement for an offensive are completed but on the contrary that the organization still is in its early stages. Work has been going on for a long time here. Forces and materials have been moving across for some time. The assignment of a commander marks another stage in the preparation. Announcements made when our air officers were in England recently suggest that the air offensive will be opened first. British authorities have indicated that commando operations will be increased as another preliminary phase of the offensive. Amerjean forces naturally would be expected to play an increasing part in these raids. It is possible they can be expanded to the point where they will open the way for later invasion operations.

It's a Tremendous Task

BUT THE HEAVY striking force that will be necessary unless air attack works a miracle must be much slower in building up. If air proves unable to smash Germany alone, then a heavy invasion attack will be necessary Building up such a force is not an overnight job. Shipping must be available to supply the forces as they expand. Enormous reserves of tanks and other

By Raymond Clapper

equipment must be on hand or their arrival in steady stream must be insured in advance. Our shipbuilding program ought to have a few months more to make sure that enough ships of the right types are on hand. We must be able to replace the heavy expenditure of material that would occur once fighting began on a large scale. All of that is in addition to the first task, which is the assembling and final training of suffi- |

cient numbers of troops. 4000 Planes, 1500 Tanks.

What we see now is the result of past decisions and past planning. For some time military men have And 2000 Artillery Pieces | Is May Output.

pointed toward action in Europe, and have hoped to be able to move forward to that end without WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P). —War production board officials

PRODUCTION UP 200 PCT. SINCE: PEARL HARBOR

having too much of American force scattered in other places.

The Decision Has Been Made

DURING SUCH A time as this when the war news is bad, there is a natural tendency to indulge in frantic clamor, which if it were all heeded would result in dissipating our force by scattering it in so many places that no real blow could be struck anywhere. No reverse anywhere is unimportant. But military men here have to strike a balance and consider what is most necessary to win. They have pretty well agreed that Hitler must be smashed first, even though it is the hardest task of all. Once such a decision is reached preparations must be made over a long period of time. It is necessary to hew to the purpose regardless of reverses at other points which may be serious in themselves but which cannot determine the outcome of the war Evervthing one hears here indicates that the decision is fixed and that no attempted diversions by the ehemy will succeed in forcing any important departure from tne program which is highlighted now by Gen. Eisenhower's arrival in England to set up the European theater of American operations.

production now has reached an over-all total two and one-half] times that attained before Pearl] Harbor. Compariscii of output a little more than six months ago with May production figures disclosed by President Roosevelt, they said, make it

clear why last months’ statistics “are definitely going to give the axis just the opposite of ‘aid and comfort.’ ” Those were the words Mr. Roosevelt used in announcing production figures for May—"nearly 4000 planes, 1500 tanks, 2000 artillery and antitank guns and 100,000 machine and sub-machine guns—to show that the nation now is “well on its way toward achieving the rate of production which will bring us to our

Ernie Pyle has gone to Ireland. His stories from our army camps there should start in about two weeks.

goals.” Goal Is 60,000 Planes

Goals for this year are 60,000 planes—an average of 5000 a month

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Arthur Ellsworth Krick, businessman, mechanical wizard, one of the town's best part-time bowlers, and confirmed bag puncher. Art Krick is now 55. He is vice president of the National Dry Kiln Corp., president of the Indian Lake Development Co. and —most important at the moment —president of Indianapolis Rotary. His bowling average is about 200. Year before last he won individual honors in Rotary’s international telegraphic tournament with nine consecutive strikes and a 10th frame spare for a score of 279. He's just a shade under 6 feet tall and he stays at 180 pounds through his bowling in winter, his golf in summer and his year-round pummeling of the punching bag in the game room of his home. He is a good-looking man with aark blue, twinkling eves and thick hair just turning gray. His gray mustache is small, but not thin,

What a Man to Have Around!

HE BELIEVES IN moderation in all things. He moves that way, talks that way, dresses that way. Take his clothes. Theyre always conservative grays, blues or browns. He doesn't talk loudly, nor yet softly. He has a keen, unobtrusive sense of humor and he has a way of getting people to team along with him. If he does anything to excess, it's his reading. He holds a number of patents in the dry kiln industry and he is constantly figuring out little gadgets for his home. His latest is a set of glass shelves for Mrs. Krick. He designed stone benches and tables for the outdoor grill in their gardén—a trick that a professional stone man said couldn't be done. They are made entirely of stone slabs fitted into each other. He's also mechanized the heating equipment in his

Russia’s Role

NEW DELHI, June 27 —Any pian for a new and better post-war world which does not take Soviet Russia's interests and desires into full consideration is meaningless. Russia's power and position as a Eurasian country, with more than half of the world’s population on her periphery, gives her a bargaining advantage which she will utilize to the utmost at the peace table. In her paet with Britain, Russia pledges herself to seek neither territorial aggrandizement nor interference in the internal affairs of other states, but beyond this she has given no public notice of her post-war aims. It is known that these aims were discussed to some extent, during Anthony Eden's visit to Moscow, and Molotov's return visit to London, but there is no indication of any explicit understanding arrived at. Among the territories which Russia considers rightfully hers, and which will almost surely be claimed for inclusion within Soviet boundaries, are the three Baltic states; those parts of Finland which she won in the Russo-Finnish war; Bessarabia and Bukovina. Despite Polish fears, Moscow so far has made no formal pronouncement which could be interpreted as representing a Soviet claim on areas of eastern Poland absorbed before the German invasion, though Russias interest in the future political status of that region is obvious. Officially, Poles interpret the severai agreements entered into between the Soviet Union and the exiled Polish government as a guarantee of the restoration of the old frontiers.

Strength Can’t Be Underestimated

RUSSIA WILL BE in a position to exert a dominant influence on the post-war status of central Europe and the Balkans and she will certainly have something to say about Manchukuo and Japan. Her

My Day

HYDE PARK, Friday.—Miss Thompson and I came up to Hyde Park yesterday and I devoted most of the afternoon to unpacking barrels of things which had come from New York. I try to decide for which child these things can be packed away and whether there is anything we can use anywhere now. As far as possible, I am putting everything in use, but if the children cannot take their things at present, I have to mark them and keep them until the war is over. I have been through the experience of a generation in which things have been collected and not used, but kept for possible use sometime in the future, and am firmly convinced that everything should be in the hands of who can use it as soon as

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—45,000 tanks, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns and 8,000,000 deadweight tons of shipping. Here is a partial comparison of the president's figures with those published before Pear! Harbor:

May Pre-Dec. 7 Planes .. 4,000 1.947 al That | Tanks .. 1500 “several hundred” | Guns ... 100,000 1,700

Mr. Roosevelt did not reveal the rate of shipbuilding during May but William H. Harrison, director of WPB's production division, said several months ago that it was slightly behind schedule at that time but might be made up.

house so that the temperature in each room can be, controlled individually.

Not a Bad Game,

HIS HOUSE 1S JUST a niblick shot from Meridian Hills and a sharp hook on the 12th hole sends golf balls across Meridian st. into his front yard. As a result, his fellow members at Meridian Hills like to tease him about playing his game with their golf balls. He plays almost every Saturday afternoon, shooting in the middle 90s. He refuses to take his game seriously, and a bad shot never even ruffles him. He always says he’s used to it. He is a good bridge player and enjoys a foursome, but won't go in for large bridge parties. He plays his cards quickly and accurately—and he doesn’t like a lot of ‘conversation with his bridge. He chuckles to himself when he's amused. One of his greatest admirers is Rajah, a black Newfoundland, who seldom lets him out of sight. Mr. Krick usually has his breakfast with Rajah by his side. Rajah is large enough to look over the table when he sits beside his master.

How Do You Like Your Steak?

HIS RISE IN Rotary has been rapid—he’s been a member only about 10 years or so. A firm believer in the democratic process, he refuses to dictate to the club. If the members can’t agree, he lets them argue it out until they do. He is utterly without eccentricities. Sunday afternoons in the summer he devotes to

Just Starting Year Ago

A year ago, the production of tanks was just getting under way and several hundred was the limit of assembly lines. In May, 1940, there were 1700 tanks “on hand or on order” which, officials said, is just about the output expected in the next month or so. Col. John H. Jouett, president of the aeronautical chamber of commerce, said the aircraft manufacturers had increased the annual production rate of war planes almost 1000 per cent since the president made his original request in 1940 for 50,000 planes a year. He termed the expansion an “industrial! miracle.” Meanwhile, WPB and the office

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What You Buy With WAR BONDS

Essential in the equipment of every soldier, sailor, marine or flier, is a first aid kit, consisting of bandages and antiseptics for instantaneous use. These materials are packed into a compact box and cost about $1.50 each.

entertaining friends and soldiers in the garden and OF BO lit ayien So 2 in the evening cooks the steaks himself. When he's tary output ng entertaining soldiers, he usually takes them to the y P game room for billiards, punching the bag and just Stabilize Steel Costs He's always careful to ask whether his customers | technique for handling high priorprefer their steaks well-done, medium or rare, but he |jty ratings assigned to war materials admits sadly that they all turn out just about the which will make it possible to put same all the time. “forced draft” on goods urgently OPA moved to stabilize further {and insure “fair and reasonable” By A. 1 Steele costs of iron and steel products for ers. moral influence in the teeming countries of southern and southeastern Asia, which have been stirred " FORMER LITHU ANI A cannot be ignored. Russia's willingness and ability to exert her in- | N LEVELAND fluence on behalf of what Moscow has always called, necessity of applying herself to her own tremendous! problem of post-war reconstruction. This must come —Antanas Smetona, president-in-first. exile of Lithuania, who fled his; The Third Internationale at present is dormant, ‘country during the Russian invasion instance, the Red army’s gallant struggle has revived | interest in the Soviet Union and Communism. | with his wife and his son's family. Without interference from the authorities, Indian Reporters found him in the attic students are carrying on a lively campaign for the of a two-family house he uses as a In front of the viceroy’s mansion here I saw students Stuy. Hie dl Ye would gv 'e selling little hammer-and-sickle flags. on the back of which were printed these words: ferences.” . “Helping the Soviet Union is helping world de-| “How do I live? Very simply. write letters to all my friends in this | Union!” b country and write articles for most | It Can't Be Done Overnight said. . Smetona said he left Chicago last ANGLO-AMERICAN world planners, who think May to live here. He expects to rethat the Soviet Union can be induced to accede|main indefinitely. His son, Julius, be wise to bear in mind that while Britain, America and Russia are bound together in an unshakable military partnership for the defeat of Hitler, there remains a wide ideological gulf between AngloSoviet Russia has renounced none of her fundamental tenets. Suspicions and misunderstandihgs of a quarter of a century's standing cannot be Wiel out overnight by the stroke of a pen. sincerely, welcome us as allies, they are still conscious of the fact that we represent an ideologically hostile capitalistic world and that while differences cannot be wiped out completely they could be ameli-

plain bull sessions. The board announced a new That's life with Art Krick. needed on the battlefronts. armament makers and other buys Russia’s resistance and impressed by her strength the “oppressed races,” may be limited. however, by the CLEVELAND, O.. June 27 (U. PJ). but it is interesting to see how, here in India, fo : a Xn June, 1940, is living in Cleveland | legalization of the Communist party in this country. Washington today for “some conmocracy and Indian freedom. Long live the Soviet of the Lithuanian newspapers,” he readily to any world pattern of their making, would|works in a war plant. Americar capitalism and Stalinist socialism. Though the Bolsheviks, officially and no doubt | orated with a little better understanding on each side. |

By Eleanor Roosevelt

while from a most charming little book called “Masha,” by Marguerite Rudolph. We all had supper together on our porch. tire of the sunset hour. I am doing very nicely on saving my gas. My bicycle has taken me all the way to the big house and back. I was afraid I would never be able to negotiate the hills, but I find a little practice rings, back one’s old skill. A rather nice story about a NYA bov was sent | me from Missouri. I want to tell it to you because] it is typical of what has been done for many boys. He was 17 years old and had been hunting a job in Joplin for days, when he was picked up by an NYA' interviewer. The NYA interviewer suggested he return the next; day and enroll in the NYA radio workshop. The boy worked so hard in the defense training shops and took the examination for all the licenses he required BE nn) hat 18 1 AS xh sa Suara) vom

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We need millions of these first aid kits for emergency treatment. They are also used by Red Cross workers, in field hospitals and wherever needed until hospital treatment may be obtained. Even a child could buy one or more of these kits through purchase of war stamps. Buy war bonds and stamps every pay day and invest at least 10 per cent of your in-

The Indianapolis Times

SECOND SECTION

FBI Gives Tips to Law Enforcers

disclosed today that American a 3

Heads Soret against the axis , , + Police Chief Stipp of Muncie, Mr, Kroeger of Allison’s and Special

Agent Lopez, left to right.

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PROGRAM

General Manager Tells Part Plant Plays In War Effort.

Approximately 100 representatives of duly constituted law enforcement] agencies in the 35 counties surrounding Indianapolis met in the federal building yesterday for the quarterly conference of police officials conducted by the federal bureau of investigation. Preceding a closed conference, Frederick C. Kroeger, general manager of the Allison engineering division, General Motors Corp. out-| lined the history of the plant and the part it plays in today's war effort. Not only is the plant producing | plane engines vital to victory, but ! it also sends out trained engineers to assist in repairs on the battle fronts, said Mr. Kroeger.

Lopez in Charge

Julius M. Lopez, special agent in charge of the Indianapolis office of the FBI, was in charge of the meeting and spoke on the alien Sy control program.

Mr. Lopez said that to date 8480 | Taxable Property. enemy aliens have been brought be-

fore hearing boards set up in their | A budget of $7,024,39455, which behalf. Of the number, 4500 have gmounts to a tax rate of 96 cents Seen Pe Danes: 3635 Germans and |, each $100 of taxable property, : was adopted yesterday by the school Discuss Report Writing | board

A discussion of new police report | forms and report writing was given |

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COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M, REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.

“There's nobody under the bed, _Caplain—r' ve already looked!”

SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET 0.X.D

96 Cents On Each $100

person objected to the amount. { That was C. R. Benjamin, representing the Indiana Farm bureau and the Indianapolis Taxpayers’ | association. He asked for a 4-cent | decrease in the rate. Mr. Benjamin said that expenditures for maintenance could be cut 2.5 cents because much of the { maintenance material would not be | available because of the war.

tions local authorities are to follow | when conducting an investigation in co-operation with the FBI. Selective service violations and | investigations were aired by Leon- | ard H. Langen, Indianapolis special | agent, who said that any person| delinquent in draft status should be reported by the local board to the FBI through the office of the U. S. district attorney. He also recommended that the Muncie Chief Speaks | board carry its own insurance risk? An investigation would be made | pointing out that the $196,500 in by the “G” men and a consultation | | premiums each year was larger than held with the district attorney to | any possible loss by fire. determine whether the violation was| Others who attended the meetwillfully committed. |ing, but who voiced no objections Joseph M. Stipp, chief of the|at the time, were Carl Dortsch, diMuncie police department, spoke on | rector of government research for the activities of his force in con- |the Indianapolis Chamber of Comducting wartime investigations. merce; Harry Miesse, secretary of The quarterly conferences were |the Indiana Taxpayers’ association, instituted in 1939 and will continue | and Howard Wood, president of the | for the duration at least. | Indianapolis Teachers’ federation.

Urges Board Carry Own Risk

Total Is $7,024,394.55 or,

At the budget meeting only one!

GET YOUR POLICY OK WAT DARIAGE :

Free Whsurarice Provided Following Pearl Harbor Expires Tuesday.

Times Special

WASHINGTON, June 27.—Some-

¥1 | thing to do something about—quick | | —is war damage insurance for your

home. After June 30, next Tuesday, your home is not protected from damage from bombing attacks, for at that time the free insurance expires | which had been provided by President Roosevelts’ executive | soon after Pearl Harbor. To be pro- | tected, you must take out a policy | through one of the commercial fire insurance companies. Many already have taken this precaution. The war damage corporation here is being swamped with inquiries, indicating that many people are awake to the potential dan‘ger, Bombs fell on Oregon, and they may fall elsewhere in token

Blanks Speeded

Complaints have come in about a shortage of blanks. This the war damage corporation is trying to meet by speeding up distribution. It started about ten days ago, with first deliveries on the Pacific coast, as the place of greatest danger, and moved eastward. For homes, both city and farm, the rate is 10 cents a hundred dollars. Rates vary for other types of property. This insurance is, in effect, government guaranteed. Ten per cent of all losses in excess of net premiums collected after expense will be assumed by insurance companies co-operating in the program, buf only up to an aggregate loss of $20,000,000, after which the loss is borne by the government. The RFC has advanced a billion dollars to the War Damage Corp. as an insurance reservoir, Jewels, Furs Covered

Jewelry, furs, precious and semiprecious stones, statuary, paintings, pictures, etchings, antiques, stamp and coin collections, and manuscripts will be protected for individual owners up to $10,000, with a $5000 limit for any one article. No protection will be given for accounts, bills, currency, deeds, evidences of debt, securities, money and bullion. Growing crops also can be protected, to a maximum of $100,000 per single . owner,

Fremont's Tomato Will Be a Real Giant, 4-H Champ and Expert Say at Diagnosis

By FREMONT POWER #

Times Tomato Editor An attractive girl and an expert on matters agricultural, brought

together for a consultation on The Times’ tomato, have handed down the following diagnosis: 1. It probably will be a terrific plant, ultimately growing higher than my head (5-10). 2. It has four blooms which in two weeks will develop into young tomatoes. 3. “It's a very fine plant.” (So said the girl) 4 “It's got water blisters.” (So said the expert.)

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THE GIRL in question was Betty Rippy, of 1240 S. Holt road, who is a 4-H champion of several things, including cake frosting, baking and making dresses. Miss Rippy's father is a truck gardener and she said The Times’ tomato was as large or larger than her father’'s—which about made me bust with pride. The expert is Horace E. Abbott county agricultural agent. “It's already been a success,” said Mr. Abbott. “Lot of people are interested in tomatoes now.” But about these water blisters— Mr. Abbott said that what's you call it when the leaves curl up a little on the bottom branches. Comes from watering the plant to much when the sun is beating down. ” ” os WHICH LEADS me to believe that I've been too conscientious about this whole thing and from now on I'm going te show a much more relaxed attitude. Breaking my back for nothing!

In a few days I'm going to “sucker” the plant (pull off nonessential branches and growths) and then put up a stake about-

right up into the air. Shortly before the consultation was held yesterday on the Central

come in these government securi-

six feet high. Whereupon, said

library lawn, Andy McGuat, the

T-OCEAN NAVY MEASURE SENT T0 ROOSEVELT

Eight-Billion Measure Gives Aircraft Carriers Role

As Rulers of Sea.

WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. PJ). —Legislation authorizing a “sevens ocean fleet” any embodying a revoe lutionary change in naval warfare in which aircraft carriers will ree place battleships as rulers of the sea today awaited President Roose= velt’s signature, The senate sped the $8,500,000,000 fleet expansion bill to the White House after the first secret legisla= tive debate in 18 years.

The measure, approved by voice vote, superimposes 1,900,000 tons of

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warships upon the current twoe ocean navy program-—itself the most ambitious building enterprise in history—to give the United States 5 Say ,480-ton naval striking force. uring the session, held behind oa doors lest axis sources learn valuable information, members were told by Chairman David I. Walsh (D. Mass.) of the naval affairs come mittee that the battleship—once the backbone of the fleet—had been out= moded and is to be supplanted by the carrier with its covey of planes,

Amazing Progress Cited

Also discussed were statistics on progress of construction on the old “two-ocean” programs authorized when France was falling before the Nazi onslaught. Senator Allen J. Ellender (D. La. ), a committee member who attended information ‘showed that amazing progress has been made in our effort to build and complete our two-ocean navy.” The new legislation ignores bate tieships, but calls for 500,000 tons of aircraft carriers—or about 20 to 30 ships of this type. It also pro= vides for 500,000 tons of cruisers, 900,000 tons of destroyers and escort vessels and some 800 small patrol craft, Passage came after senators shouted down an attempt by Senator Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo.) to end further battleship construction.

Expand Carrier Program

He maintained that to forbid further construction would merely carry out the announced intention of the navy department which, he said, had notified Senator Walsh that it had deferred indefinitely work on the last five battleships authorized by congress. He added that construction would not be undertaken until the navy consulted with the naval affairs committees of both houses. Sénator Ralph O. Brewster (R. Me.) revealed last week that the five ships were of the Montana class, designed as 60,000-ton super dreadnaughts, the biggest and most powerful fighting ships ever planned. In addition to the Montana they were to be called the Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana, Mr. Brewster said the navy, ine stead of going ahead with these vessels, would expand its aircraft carrier program proportionately in the light of the lessons of naval warfare learned in the Coral sea and Midway island battles. In these engagements, carriers proved to have the deadliest sting.

WICKARD PUTS HOPE IN SMALL FARME:3

WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P.). —Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, speaking on the na= tional farm and home hour broade cast, said yesterday that the coun= try would have to rely more and more “on the contribution that small farmers can make toward meeting our wartime goals for food protection.”

farms now are our most promici g field for increasing food procuc= tion,” and added that the agricule ture department was doing everything it could to help small farnwers purchase new equipment and stock for expanding crops. He estimated that full utilization of the millions of family operated farms would increase production of milk by 2,000,000,000 pounds, e373 by 200,000 dozen and pork and lard by 500,000 pounds. The p:'oblem of the small farmers, he said was that they are “underemployed.” “They don't have the equipment and stock and other capital to get the most out of their land,” he said. “The farm security administra« tion of the department has been making loans and otherwise helping some of these families, but thus far it has been able to help less than

half of them,”

‘BUSSES AUTHORIZED

TO ORDNANCE PLANT

Indianapolis Railways, Inc., has been granted a temporary permit by the works board to operate special feeder busses over East side

streets to transport workers to the naval ordnance plant at 21st st. and

Arlington ave.

The line will extend from the

Horace E. Abbott shows Betty Rippy a few of the finer aspects about [plant south on Arlington ave. to The Times’ tomato . . . Miss Rippy thought it was “a very fine plant.” 110th

st, west to Emerson ave, (south to Washington st, and west

drepped in to report on his plant. lte Pleasant Run blvd. The busses “It’s 40 inches high now,” Andy |will connect with the Washington said, “and it has two tomatoes on and E. Michigan st. car lines, 10th

Sh ratkless (olioys and the

He said he believed that “small | BS