Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 July 1942 — Page 13

TRRIDAY, JULY 17, 1942

_ SECOND SECTION |

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Neen'd

JAP JONES, the highway commissioner, has been making a practice of phoning his family (up at Wawasee) each night. The other evening, he put .in"his call as usual and was told by the operator here would be a four-hour delay. Jap long has been known as a utility baiter (he used to be executive secretary of the Municipal Rights league) and the idea of a four-hour wait enraged him, but he waited. The four hours stretched into five and six. Finally, about 1 a. m, according to the story he’s been telling friends, he couldn't stand it any longer. So he phoned the home of Jim Carrol, president of Indiana Bell, and got him out of bed, to complain. “You're getting paid big money to see that I get service,” shouted Jap, “and youre going to stay up until I get my call through.” What Jim Carrol said, if -anything, we didn’t near. We bet we can guess, though.’

Three Score—10 to Go

SAM HADDEN, highway commission chairman, celebrated his birthday day before yesterday. Asked how old he was, he said: “I'm starting my last 10 years,” which might be -interpreted as three score. « « « An employee of a neighboring store writes us . that Jimmie Houk, of Ayres’ shoe department, went fishing in a boat Sunday near the Naval armory. The only fish he caught, according to our informant, was a 2% pound: bass that literally jumped into © the boat. Why ean't things like ihat happen to us? .,. It seems as though everyone chose yesterday Jto complain about “disgraceful” condition of some ‘of the flags flown by downtown business houses and buildings. One complainant reported that the bunting in a certain savings and loan association looked like it “must have been dragged out of the basement.” We aren’t naming any names, but why not take a look at your flag. If we're going to be patriotic

and fly the flag, let’s see that its kept in a respectable condition.

These Wartime Fads

SOME OF THE SAILOR boys around town, are downright. annoyed with this new leg makeup fad the girls have adopted. One of the gobs who attends dances at the Service club tells us the trouble with the makeup is that some types rub off on the sailors’ white uniform trouser legs during the dances. And that’s a calamity, especially when the boys are responsible for laundering their own uniforms. . . . While we're on the subject, it’s getting harder and harder to get women’s hosiery mended. Some of the places repairing ’em won’t promise a repair job “in less than a month.” The reason, naturally, is that everybody is trying to make a pair last as long as possible. . . . The youngsters out around Ravenswood are getting pretty expert at surfboard riding. Some of ’em are so good at it that the guys operating the boats have trouble maneuvering to throw them off the surf boards.

Jobs Going Begging

THE EPIDEMIC of resignations by employees of

state institutions and the merit system departments If it keeps on, things

has state officials worried.

are going te pot. Last month there were 317 resignations, out of a total of 5200 employees. And each month it gets harder and harder to find someone willing to work for the pitifully low wages paid. The only relief in sight is bigger appropriations by the legislature next year... . Bob Harrison, who for a year or two has had charge of the public schoqQls’ radio activities, is resting up on the home farm near Wheatland for a whirl at teaching this fall. He's the new vice principal of school 41, out at 30th and Rader streets. ., . . Hal Farr, who works at Allison’s, reports that his cocker spaniel, Rocky Ridge Lady, is very proud of her seven puppies born day before yesterday, and especially proud of one that has a perfect white V on his brown forehead.

Ernie Pyle is in Ireland. The first of his stories from the army camps will be on this page Monday. . . . Raymond Clapper is on a month’s vacation.

It’s Our War

WASHINGTON, July 17.—Make no mistake about it, this is OUR war. It will become increasingly so, arid we must not only equip it, but fight it—and lead. it. The fact is that British, Russian and Chinese reverses have demanded from us—unexpectedly soon and in increasing quantity—American equipment and manpower, and that means American leadership. Already we are virtually leading in the Pacific theater, and interesting developments in the Atlantic are foreshadowed. The need frequently stressed in these dispatches, for a unified American command over all our land, sea ‘and air forces may be recognized.

By Thomas M. Johnson

commanded by an American, he is the man. Libya has lowered American confidence in British generalship and staffwork. In the earliest conferences between the two staffs the British were told we would play ball, but fight our own army. Subsequent developments, of which Rommel’s Libyan break-through was one, confirmed American opinions. Now, all Americans who have seen British troops fight, know they are brave as their own lion. New Zealanders and Australians here from Libya furiously deny that “the British will fight to the last Anzac.” But American officers, while appreciating the British not only for their splendid courage and their 1

alty as allies, see sound military reasons for a less de-|.

fensive attitude.

Navy Control for England

The A. E. F. in Europe alone

may by 1943 equal or exceed the two million men of 1918; the “invasion of the continent” may eventually become largeYly -an American invasion. __° The army is raising’ its Sights 16" a bull's-eye of seven million men, the largest and strongest land and air force of the united nations. It is also squinting at the idea of an eventual American commander-in-chief for all Europe save Russia—an army man,

« British Lean Toward Marshall

BOTH MacARTHUR and Marshall are persona grata with President Roosevelt, and he may send the aggressive MacArthur to Europe and keep Marshall's organizing talent at the home base.

But ' Marshall's cool reasonableness has, inspired some British leaders to feel that if they must be

Why Headlines?

CLEVELAND, July 17.—Sufficient time has elapsed since the capture of eight submarine-borne saboteurs was announced to permit calm consideration of such facts -as have ‘developed publicly.

"On the basis of what is ascertainable, we believe that this episode is the best illus-

tration to date of the urgent need

for unification of all war publicity under intelligent direction. Frequently we have criticized Washington for withholding information to which the public.is entitled and which could do the enemy no good. Here is a sensational instance of information which we believe should not have been given publicity, for several reasons of which : two will suffice to make the point. Both the British and our navy make a point of refusing to ‘publicize submarine sinkings, on the ground ’ that it is good strategy to keep the Germans in ignorance, to the last possible moment, as to the fate of these agencies of destruction,

Why Tip Them Of?

HOW ‘MUCH MORE, then, should Hitler have been left to worry about his saboteurs; to wonder why their scheduled sabotage did not come off, to waver whether to wait or send substitutes—who might ‘not get caught; to vacillate in ignorance whether

* WASHINGTON, Thursday—Yesterday morning, onyeaching Néw York City, I went to see an old friend who has been-ill. I found her so much better it started the whole day off cheerfully. I left and took the train to Trenton, N. J. in the early afternoon to go to Bordentown to speak to the State Federation of Colored

Women's clubs. The state industrial senool,

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where this convention was held, is,

on a really beautiful site. The big trees shade the lawns and buildings and you look straight down * the Delaware river. The day could not have been lovelier, so the exercises were held out of doors. I was happy to see my friend, Murs. Lewis Thompson, and Com- ~ missioner Ellis in the audience. .It was nice also, to see Mrs. Maddox, of the State Federation of Women's clubs, who spoke on the proam, I reached Washington at 10:30’ in the eve- , and I must say that the weather man was ‘very kind, for we could not have had a cooler summer

STILL, IF ANY second front is opened this summer, Britain stands the grief. British public opinion favors paying the price, and British brasshats admit that Hitler's progress against Russia and in Libya makes it cheaper by drawing his masses of maneuver farther from that second front. But if the British stand the grief this summer, they may with utter fairness insist upon being cnief mourner—commanding the invasion force. Then, this winter, as American forces increased, an American Generalissimo who had been learning, might take over for the spring campaign on land. British consent is more likely because, while by 1943 our navy clearly will be stronger than theirs, they are more likely to insist that in the Atlantic at least, Britannia still rule the waves. ~ Britain may consent to an American Generalissimo, but as for an American Admiralissimo—the idea sounds as grotesque as the word.

By S. Burton Heath

resident fifth columnists, expected to help immigrant saboteurs, were at large or in custody. Again, one of the earliest psychological lessons learned by a cub newspaper reporter is the power of suggestion. Let the papers report suicide by a hitherto unthought of poison, and a wave of such deaths with the same poison often follows. Let it be reported that so-and-so killed himself by jumping from such a skyscraper, and that building seems to become a mecca for those who have tired of living. Millions never had heard of the Horseshoe Curve at Altoona, or had no conception of its military importance.

It's a War for Democracy!

OUT OF THESE there undoubtedly are a few Hitlerites, a few malcontents, a few unrecognized maniacs who—to serve Hitler or to injure the United

States or merely to do something sensational—now

know where to turn their attentjon. If these don’t like Altoona, or live too far away,

or find the curve too well guarded, they can turn

to John Edgar Hoover’s official list and choose another vital spot at which to strike.

In organizing and directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s current setup Mr. Hoover has done, and is doing, a marvelous job. No criticism of his love for headlines should detract from his very real

achievements.

But this war is to preserve demonierys not to

make headlines for ahybody.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

City this afternoon to attend an International

Student . Service executive committee meeting this

evening. |

I hope that you alk read the vice president's article last Sunday. He brought up a subject which all of ; What we do now and in the next few years will mean building for peace, or

us need to consider.

building for another war. It seems to me that all of us should understand that rubber is just one of the many things which are important to the rest of the world as well as to us. They will decide our future relationships with the rest of the world. ‘If we allow ourselves, because of the interests of any particular group in our country, to be inveigled into doing such things as putting tariffs on certain types of products, in order that we can carry on an international production at a high cost, we will add to our own cost of living. ! What is much more serious, however, is the fact that we will cut down the opportunities of other nations to exchange with us on a free basis; and the cutting down of the free volume: of trade is certainly one of the causes of war. "It is enlightened selfishness to build up the ability of other nations to a higher standard of living. We thus profyes wider . markets for ourselves as well

FAR SINCE Wp

SNEAK CASEY

‘We're Doing Pretty Well in

Whittling Down the Enemy,” Says Writer.

This is the third of a series of articles dealing with the little understood aspects of the war in the Pacific. Mr. Casey has just returned from seven months with the fleet,

By ROBERT J. CASEY

Com ne in 1942, by The Indisnanolis Times he Chicago Daily News. Inc.

Little can be said about the bare facts of naval operations in the Pacific that has not already been said or permanently censored. Everybody in the United States has or should have heard most of the essential details of the raids on the Marshalls, Wake and Marcus, the battles of the Coral sea and Midway island.

But the first thing you discover when you come down a gangplank in San Francisco is that almost nobody has bothered to put together the things he knows and find out what they signify in the complicated puzzle of the war. You find that some experts have attempted an interpretation of army communiques and naval silences, or vice versa, with amazing results.

‘Heat's Off Pacific Coast’

The heat seems to be off (with what permanence the local populace -does not seem to inquire) along the Pacific coast of the United States. San Francisco, which last December was a dead city—deader than Paris before the invasion—is alive once more. The military fiat has gone out that crowds may gather in public places once more, that night baseball games may be played, that blackout regulations may be eased. And that would seem to indicate a fair understanding of the situation save that every other man you talk to is convinced that the Japs have overrun the Aleutians and that an invasion fleet like that which descended upon Java and New Guinea is already on its way—presumably about halfway to Seattle. You hear that the army virtually unaided won the battle of the Coral ea and that the navy took no part \ the battle of Midway at all. You hear the same reasonably in-

{prion people asking you in one ~—thre

reath when MacArthur is going to drive the Japs out of Singapore and will the Pacific fleet be called back to defend the west coast when “Yamamoto’s outriders get down as far as Ketchikan or Sitka.

Look Back 7 Months

So, all in all, it seems that at the risk of being repetitious one might spend -. a profitable hour looking back over the last seven .months and finding out at least where we are, Because it is a matter of immediate concern one should mention at the outset that the situation in the Aleutians is nothing for you to lose any sleep over unless your name is Yamamoto—or at any rate that it was nothing to lose any sleep about at the moment when the Tokyo radio was announcing the most recent Jap advances, As a corollary to that it might be mentioned that so far as the general situation in the Pacific is concerned we are doing pretty well, that we have cancelled out all the losses we took at Pearl Harbor, that we have whittled down such advantages as the Japs acquired on Dec. 7, that Hirohito’s fleet is no longer even a remote menace to the Pacific coast, while we are definitely and practically a menace to Tokyo. The coyness of navy spokesmen makes these things difficult to believe. The majestic official silences over the trouble in the Aleutians have helped the rumor-makers to produce and circulate a brand of nonsense that no correspondent would think of sending out even under a freer censorship such as that of Germany.

We Have Many Successes

But anyway, there it is. We have come far in the last seven months despite beginnings in the sort of direction that could contrive a Pearl Harbor—farther perhaps than we deserve to have gone. In looking back it is difficult for anyone who lived in the atmosphere of the Hawaiian military establishment to determine whether the biggest blunder made at Pearl Harbor was ours or the Japs’. We were wide open, our guard down. Our planes were destroyed, our ships smashed and. 3500 men dead almost before we knew that the Jans had arrived—and that was our error. The Japs, on the other hand,

‘| when the islands were theirs for the taking and, with odd oriental strategy, they wasted bombs and torpedoes on heavily ‘armored and not immediately important warships when they might have de-

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neglected to put in a landing force| ;

stroyed the installations that would have made those ships or any other| fighting ships unusable.

That ‘was Japan's error,

PLAN PUBLIC PARTY

The Wayne G. O. P, Inc, will| hold a. public card party at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the club rooms, 4427 ‘|W. Washington st. Mrs. Everett Bailey will preside, John Julian, Mrs. 0 ;

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and when the battle of Midway island broke up an attempt to correct it, there remained nothing for Hiro-|! hito “but permanent regrets, for that was Japan’s last chance.

Ernie Pyle, the Rovit g | Reporter, § is on the Auld Sod and will resume his daily column by wireless Monday. Some of his ¢:-ly dispatches are expected to constitute a report on how the men of the

A. E. F. are getting alonc in North Ireland. He also" will visit Eire, and later go on to England. Watch for his first cc lumn Monday.

2 U. S. Missionaries and 90 British CommaiiZos Succeed in Flight, By KARL ESKELUND, United Press Staff Corresvaly dent KUNMING, China, July:! )! I. —EXxhausted and near starvaticn, two aged American Presbyterit;: missionaries and 90 British i ‘jungle commandos” arrived at K today after an epic. 62-d2; across 430 miles of malari be

The missionaries are Mr. Hanna, Y They started their hazardoi: journey with the commandos. fro tupk, on the China-Thaila: ma border,- 12 hours Japanese - invasion army 0 y-cupled the town. With one exception, the survived the hardships of | dysentery, bandit attacks,

soldier died. of dysentery. . The Hannas evacuated their post at -Landpang, Thailand, on Dec. 9

they operated - a hospital | Chinese sixth army.

Often Without Food | i

Sixty-two days ago the ‘annas fled with the commando: from Kentung ahead of the Japa:ese. They walked over an angient salt, trail, crossing 15 separat¢ mountain ranges. Their route :i times took them as high as 5000 feet. They walked for days cntirely without - food. The party started from Kentung with 130 myles, but by the time it reached there were only five of the :nimals left. The others were killed in falls from precipitous mountain ¢ fliffs, or died of exhaustion. \ About half the party at sre time was stricken with mala’ 2; the other half with dysentery.

COOKS AND BAKL RS ARE NEEDED IN jIAVY

The navy needs more niin with cooking and baking experi:ice because of the expansion of f:cilities at Great Lakes, Comm. E H. G. Mathews said today. | Men with exceptional ei erience may be enlisted in the navzl with a rating as high as missary steward at $126 Men qualifying for ratings #3 ship’s ‘cooks or bakers will be Pa a from $78 to $114 -a month.

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LIBERTY SHIPS

DO BETTER J08

1942 Vessels Are Faster, Carry Larger Cargoes Than Those of ’18.

WASHINGTON, July 17 (U. P). —The . maritime commission announces that a study of operation records ‘of the Liberty ship is proving its ‘superiority to emergency cargo ships of world war I. * Sea service has shown, the commission said, that the mass-produc-tion emergency cargo vessel is one to three knots faster than its 1918 counterpart. Liberty ships also carry 1400 to 3500 more tons of cargo at lower consumption of fuel oil per ton. The commission’s statement was based on actual voyages to war front ports by several ships. The commission said the records “removed all misgiving that, when the accelerated = shipbuilding program was launched more than. a year ago, some of the mistakes of world war 1 might be repeated.” The commission released production figures to show that by the first of July 153 Liberty ships had been delivered into service, 183 more had been launched, and keels for 287 had been laid. By the end of this year, it added, 183 shipways will be devoted to manufacture" of these ships alone. They carry nearly 10,000 tons of cargo and. cost approximately. $1,800,000 each.

KNOCKED OFF BRIDGE, DIES ; ATTICA, July: 17 (U.P.D.—A Wabash railroad employee suffered

.!fatal injuries here yesterday when

he was knocked from a bridge by a train. He is Bugene Miebers, 44,

lof Rome City.

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TiSPIES WERENT

' SMART'-GULLEN

; Wouldn't Be Here if They

Had Been,” Says Coast Guardsman.

NEW YORK, July 17 (U. P.).— John C. Cullen, bronzed young coast guardsman who thwarted the sabotage invasion of four Nazis said today that “If they had been clever J would not be here to tell

| this story.”

During the period when the apparent leader of the saboteurs asked him ‘repeatedly to stare into his eyes on. the, foggy . Amagansett, Long Island beach, ' the coast guardsman said, he studied intently the German's features so he would be able to. recognize him if they met again. They met again in Washington, where Cullen testified against the saboteurs. Cullen said he was not permitted to reveal whether he had identified tne German at the trial. “I did not look at his eyes so much,” Cullen related. “Instead I looked at his hair which seemed to be outstanding for identification. He asked me four or five times to look into his eyes and that’s why 1 figured he was trying to ‘hypnotize me.” At length, he said, a fourth man appeared from the direction of a sand dune and spoke to the grayhaired man “in a foreign lan-

“That's when I was sure they were spies,” he said. “I had figured they were spies when the first man said he didn’t want to kill me. I think the fourth man had been up on the dune, burying their things.” He said that none of the Germans cried out to halt him when he started. running. to the coast guard station after backing away from tiem in: the fog. Cullen said he was at his home in Bayside, N. Y. for five days before the fact the saboteurs had been seized was announced and during that fime kept the story secret, even from his mother. “When she saw it had happened at Amagansett,” he said, “she knew right. away it was me.”

EDITOR TO ENTER NAVY BATESVILLE, July 17 (U.P.).— Robert Terry, 28, editor of the Batesville: Herald-Tribune, has ‘been appointed an ensign in the navy and is to leave July 26 for duty at Chicago.

EXPERT URGES SECOND FRONT BY AR ALONE

Sky-Power - Pattern for Nazi Destruction Is Drafted by Editor.

NEW YORK, July 17 (U. P).— An airpower pattern for destruction of Germany, and eventually Japan, was offered today by William ‘B. Ziff, aviation expert and editor of the magazine “Flying,” in his book “The Coming Battle of Germany.” Rejecting any prospect of success" ful establishment of. a “second front” by land invasion, Ziff asserted that “a sober consideration of the problems involved forces the conclusion that until such a time as the military strength of Europe has

- | been sapped by some cause extrane-

ous to the direct process of invasion, German Europe is virtually invasion proof.” He suggested. in the book pube lished by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, the possibility that, if such an ine

" |vasion were attempted, American

forces and their allies might be per= mitted -to land with only token resistance from the Nazis until they were drawn into a cul-de-sac where they could be destroyed by a “huge hailstorm of planes.” New Military Principal Meanwhile, he observed, Japanese successes in the: Pacific and the increasing menace of German U-boat destruction is approaching a stage where the so-called blockade of Germany may become & counter-blockade of the united nations. Ziff’s proposal, similar to that of Maj. Alexander P. De Seversky, aviation analyst and author of the best-selling “Victory Through Air Power,” is based on a new, threefold military principle: 1. “Wherever two belligerents of comparable power are separated by a body of water which cannot be bridged, the conflict becomes one of air power alone, so that the com-

whelming assault by the use of air strength will, with .absoiute certainty, finally succeed in grinding his .opponent to bits.

Strike at Nazis’ Heart 2. “A national organism is like

'| any other living body. - If the heart

or vitals are pierced, the limbs or perphery *immediately proceed to die or dry up. No matter how much territory or resources Nazi Germany held fast in her grip, even were she able to conquer all Europe, | Asia and Africa, if desperate and deadly blows. were struck at her vitals—their transportation centers, factory concentrations, and civilian morale—it would mean the quick and complete disintegration of her entire war effort. 3. “All forces which can possibly = be. brought to bear should be at the point where the decisive blows are to be struck, even at the risk of weakness at other’ points. An air offensive, to be successful, cannot be a mere harassing affair. It must be an attack in force comparable to any other type of allout campaign. It should accept

as this is accepted in a great land foperation.”

Full Strength in Britain

Germany could be forced to suce cumb to an adequate air blitz at= tack “in a matter of weeks,” Ziff asserted, provided the assaults were directed at the “nerve ganglia” upon which her complex industrial and economic system depends. Even before the 1000-plane raids of the R. A. F., he said, Germany: suffered heavily from vastly lesser raids on her industrial centers. “Our entire available attack force,” Ziff urged, “should be based in Britain and flung at the heart and center of the enemy’s system, the reich itself. “Whatever we possess in produc= tive strength should be concentrate ed immediately, with an unswerving singleness of purpose on the job of knocking out Germany by direct and sustained assault from the British isles.” '

SSB OPENS 16-STATE OFFICE AT CHICAGO

CHICAGO, July 17 (U. P.).—The social security board has established a new area filing and process department here with control over 16 midwest and intermountain states as a part of a federal plan to decentralize government agen cies. Indiaha is included in the the new area.

Russians Prepare to Attack a Nazi Force

batant first able to develop an over- 5

the necessity of ‘heavy losses just : gi