Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1942 — Page 9

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DUBLIN, Aug, 31 ~Recently. a London paper carrie a: ‘sensational series of articles intimating that 8 Irish’ were starving to death. That simply isn’t e. Ireland is probably the best-fed country in i today. There are certain shortages, but nobody is going hungry. The direst shortage is tea—for apparently the Irishman is a worse tea fiend than the tion is one-half ounce per person per week. That is one-fifth of ‘what he ordinarily drinks. In hotels, theyll serve you tea only once a day. Coffee Fo plentiful. The price of tea is fixed at four shillings (about 85 cents) a pound, but there is a black market. A friend of mine the other night was offered four ounces of for five shillings, which is at the rate of $4.45 a

White bread is illegal now. So the Irish eat le-wheat bread that is both darker and soggier ours: at home. The Irish keep asking me how like: it. I tell them I hate it. They say they don’t nk it’s bad. There is plenty of meat, eggs and vegetables. are very short, and the Irish don’t seem to “make much use of their own fruits. In grocery you see tiny, warty Spanish oranges at 5 cents

There is enough sugar, for Ireland raises sugar . In restaurants the sugar bowl is left on the , and you take all you want. The sugar is course, :, the salt you feed cattle, and sort of grayish, but i is sweet.

CLOTHING :18 NOW rationed, and you have to e coupons before you can buy most wearing jarel. At least, theoretically. But Irishmen D! 't like to do anything they're ordered to do, so sre has been much disobeying of the coupon sys"by country merchants.

The gasoline shortage in Treland is serious. All

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private cars have been forbidden since May 1. You|

can stand on the street for an hour and never see an auto pass. Only taxis, and a few essential cars, such as for doctors, clergymen and midwives, are allowed. The absence of auto traffic is so noticeable that when you walk along the Dublin streets you -are acutely aware of the sound of footsteps on the sidewalk, something you could not even hear before. Dublin has excellent bus service. They are doubledeckers, painted a fresh green and white, and they don't groan and grind like most big busses. T've taken several different bus routes and ridden to the end of the line and back, just to get acquainted with the city. Shops close at 5:30 here, and school hours are staggered, so there is never an overload on the bus system. All busses stop running at 10 p. m. Consequently theaters start their plays at 7 p. m., and the play is over by 9:30.

How to Quit Smoking BECAUSE OF THE auto restriction, people have

‘taken to bicycles. I remember once seeing a travel

film of Denmark, where bicyclists were actually thicker than pedestrians. That’s the way it is here. Everybody rides, from old women to children. And bicycles can still be ‘nought, although they are very high. A new one costs better than $50. The Irish have never made any bones abou{ being good wholesome lawbreakers. And right now there is a wave of bicycle stealing. Even locking your bike doesn’t always save it; somebody is apt to come along in a cart and just lift your cycle in and haul it away. Since the first of the year, 3000 bicycles have been|C reported stolen in Dublin. . Recently the police had an idea, and dragged the River Liffey, which flows right through the center of Dublin. Forty bicycles were recovered. They had been stolen merely for the tires.

Probably the worst shortage. in Ireland is in cigarets and matches. It is practically impossible for a stranger to buy:.a pack of cigarets in Dublin. If you are a regular customer at a tobacconist’s, he may let you have as many as ten a day. You can buy American cigarets, but: they cost 55 cents a pack, which is a fine motive for quitting smoking.

aside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

HARRY REID, Street railways president, has been ing about his luck. While playing at Highland other day, says he, he equaled par with a marvelous 70—and then lost the match by five strokes. Dick: McCreary turned in a neat 65, according to our ; informant. It’s people like that who caused us to give up the game long ago, Harry. . . . Ed Harold, who left the General Outdoor Advertising Co. some months ago to take a job as a Pullman conductor, was ‘back the other day, reporting he likes the job. Always fond of travel, he’s really been getting it, and by now has been in all but two of the 48 states. Incidentally, he says he’s lost 40 pounds on the new job, and is down to about 200. The only disadvantage is the job keeps

§ “him away from home a lot. The longest stretch afield

‘was about three weeks.

forgan, Morgan & Morgan

YOU MAY REMEMBER Dwight F. Morgan, who d at 829 N. Emerson ave. - and used to get about of Schools Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan’s ise of the similarity in names. Dwight. fying ‘school at Roswell field, N. M., will be getting his wings before long. But calls ‘Superintendent Morgan still are being received out N. Emerson ave.—at 823 N. Emerson, to be exact. t's the home of the Bruce Morgans, who live next r to where the Puighi Morgans lived. None of are related. . . . George Vyverburg of the U. S. ployment, service wonders what has happened to handles on the plow in the statue group on the side of the Soldiers & Sailors’ monument. . . . sby were somewhat startled Friday to observe

ashington

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Some of my friends government get annoyed about these Kaiser: 5. I've been warned that he is an old pirate and tch out for him. The fact that the government pus the law on him for paying extra money for black-market steel is cited as evidence of the kind of fellow he is, and they say I ought not be taken in by him. Maybe so. I'm apt to be a sucker for a fellow who gets things done. That's one reason I've been for Mr. Roosevelt — in 4 spite of the fact that I find plenty to complain about in him. You can go into almost any government office and theyll tell you something derogatory about > old man Kaiser. They say he is 8s about getting steel and other materials for shipyards. They say he didn’t do anything special ; to devise some new ways of building ships. y say this: business of building a ship in a ter time than anybody else is just a stunt. Just nt. Well, the ships float and they carry cargo they're in fact excellent ships, So if it is a stunt Just dandy. That's just the kind of stunt the Jas been yelling for.

Faint Odor of Fish, Too!

BELIEVED every derogatory word about old that one hears around here, which I don’t, y it: was too bad but don’t stop him from ships, He is building them faster than any- ~ He has just set a new record. If it is a ine kind of stunt we can watch without goming tired of it. € Black-market prosecution of old man Kaiser | faint odor of fish about it. I don't know the but I have some strong suspicions, Old man Ser was buying steel and having trouble getting ‘Some of his people went to a black-market

DE PARK, Sunday.—My days have been des peaceful here, though full of activity from the of view of doing things with the children, swim- : There 1s a real touch of

a pair of—er, some rather intimate feminine underwear, hanging on the portable traffic signal at S. Meridian and Georgia. Bet some cop blushed when he saw that.

Week-Einding With Jim RED ROBINSON, the new secretary of state, and, Sam Busby and Robert Loring of his staff are attending a securities commissioners convention at St. Paul this week. They started early and spent the week-end with their former boss, Lieut. Jim Tucker, at Great Lakes. . . . One of our newer agents reports favorably on bus driver Earl Adkins, who was operating N. Meridian bus 416 Friday morning. On N. Capitol, about 4300 north, a large package lay in the street, with autos driving around it but no one bothering to pick it up. Our agent reports that Mr. Adkins stopped his bus, picked up the package, noted the address on it, then turned it over to a nearby householder with the reqeust that he notify the transfer company that lost it.

Furlough or Leave

BOB FLEETWOOD, who quit sports writing for naval aviation last January, is getting along pretty well, we hear. He's still down at Corpus Christi, Tex., and has been assigned to dive bombing. He'll have : 300 hours in the air about four weeks from now | and if he’s lucky, hell be commissioned an ensign. Tom Hutchinson of the public library staff reminds us that we were wrong the other day in referring to Maj. Francis Dunn’s “furlough.” Tom. quotes from & new book, Army Talk, by Elbride Colby. The book says that for officers, a leave of absence—not a furlough—is granted. . . . We see where Evelyn Ray Sickels, head of the library's schools division, has written a new book for children. It is “The School Bell Rings,” and is published by Charles Scribner & Son. Gosh, that title has an omioous sound.

By Raymond Clapper

dealer and paid extra prices to get odd lots that were needed in order to keep the job going. A lot of people have been doing that. The reason is that WPB’s control over the steel supply has been so inefficient that the steel supply broke down. The government closed down Higgins’ shipyards because the government couldn't get steel for him. Old man Kaiser would be damned if he would be shut down, so he went out and got steel wherever he could at whatever price he had to pay. The indictment is not against old man Kaiser but against this arsenal of bureauacracy down here which has had so much lead in its feet that manufacturers either had to go to a black market or stop making war weapons.

Waging a War With Court Orders

MAYBE SOME OTHERS have been put under court orders for black-market operations. But it is a curious coincidence that the ax falls on old man Kaiser just at the time when he is being such a nuisance to Washington because he wants to build cargo planes. Maybe I'm wrong but it will be interesting to see what the full story looks like when it Bually is dug out.

If we insist on trying to win this war with the

~kind of sloppy, inefficient control of raw materials

that we are getting now, we will have to win it with the help of the scofflaws. Which are you going to do, build ships or win the war with court orders? If Washington would get as tough on gasoline rationing, on rising wages and farm prices, and on sloppy practices in this arsenal of ‘bureaucracy, as it is getting with old man Kaiser, At would be—well, it would be a miracle. Instead we send out the catchpolls after the most spectacular producer in the country, while we shake in our boots at the thought of Rommel about to spring in Egypt, tremble lest the Japs move into India, and wonder in agony whether Russia will hold.

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

of this episode in Nistory and the extraordinary citadel Toussaint L’ouverture built in Haiti, the ruins of which still exist.

By Ernie Pyle, !

NO-STONEMAN

Be Done ‘For Keeps,’ British. Argue. By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN

SAYS WAIT AND DO JOB RIGHT

Hit Germany any When It Can

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LONDON. Aug. 31.—What|"

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the Pacific—this time in the Solomons—and the Russians’ continued success in stalling the Germans, have helped prepare the setting for the third anniversary of the war. In the background, but full of significance for those who wish to consider its lessons, stands the Dieppe raid, a sharp answer to facile parlor strategists. Another offensive in Egypt, either British or German, may. provide the fireworks for the anniversary. London has greeted the Amrican offensive against the Solomons with real enthusiasm. People in the capital's pubs and parlors never had any doubts of American fortitude,

regard to British. They always thought that the Americans would

were in the war. Russia Will Stick

Russia continues to occupy the people’s full attention and to command their sympathy. This despite the deep resentment of responsible persons against roaring demands for a “second front now’ by people who either do not know the possibilities or have’ not troubled to consider them. These are the basic premises on which the coolest military and political minds here have been proceeding: 1. Russia’s situation is grim and will be grimmer before winter comes. But Russia will not suffer an irreparable blow before then. Her armies will be in the field this winter and, although they may not be able to repeat their limited successes of last winter, they will require’ the attention of a huge German army.

50 Divisions Needed

2. Russia can be helped by the allies in the field only if a large number of German divisions can be drawn away from the eastern front. It is hard to see how a shift of anything less than 30 divisions would really do the trick. Germany already has 30 divisions, at least, in France and the Low Countries, probably two in Denmark and 10 in Norway. Nothing less than some 50 divisions of allied troops would put these divisions on the run; it would take more to draw 25 or 30 divisions more away from Russia. 3. The foree required for diverting troops from the Russian front is therefore so formidable that the acquisition of such a force would be virtually as difficult as the acquisition of a force sufficient to “shoot the works” and make a grand once-for-all assault on German Europe “for keeps. ”» 4. Conclusion: If we cannot materially help the Russians except by doing a terrifically big job, why not do it properly when we can?

Dieppe Raid Conclusions

A few things have to be said about the Dieppe raid. It has been badly

mal ignorance, or headline hunting. The raid was no more than an experiment against German defenses and in the opinion of this correspondent, it was a foolish stunt. It proved little but what people knew already: That the Canadians are recklessly brave, that you can land on any beach if you have the stuff, and that you cannot knock out artillery with fighter aircraft. It proved nothing about an invasion because the force that raided Dieppe was not supposed to remain in permanent occupation of the

town. : : Three Anniversaries September will find the Germans deeper in the muck and the allies with a far better chance of winning than in either September of 1940 or September of 1941. Two years ago the battle of Brit-

ain was on and nobody cofild say whether the royal air force would hold the front. Invasion was imminent, it seemed, and the remnants

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This was Europe when: the German invasion of Poland started

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Joined the fight September 3, but.

the other nations of Bunge remained neutral at first.

YES—Stowe Says Russ Morale to Sink

If Allies Let Stalingrad Fall Unaided

‘By LELAND STOWE

MOSCOW, Aug. 29.—One British correspondent here got word from his London editor the other day that they wanted more optimistic

dispatches from Moscow.

The editor addressed himself to the wrong place. He should have talked to Prime Minister Winston Churchill or the British general

staff.

The only conceivable way to get}

more optimistic news from Russia is for the British-American allies to open up a second front, and open it up with the mest urgent

speed. . Synthetie newspaper pieces, which camouflage or belittle the extreme gravity of the situation which confronts the allies today, can only help us lose the war and help Germany win. Stalingrad’s fall threatens and may occur within a very short time. If it falls without Anglo-American intervention. in ' western Europe, the resultant blow to Russian moralé ‘and to the Russian people's faith in their English-speaking allies simply cannot be predicted— but it will be a very bad blow and the heaviest one yet.

Crisis Growing Worse

The truth is that the outlook for the allied cause at this moment is extremely bad and that it is likely to be much worse still before September ends. The truth is that we have been losing the most vital winning points of this war all summer. The truth is that the Russians have been fighting alone .and ‘are still fighting alone and there is no reason on earth to assume that they

can keep fighting alone—some six

or eight months from now. : The truth is that every day which now passes without a second front being created is one more 24 hours’ worth of mounting probability that Britain and America will have to fight quite as alone in the west, next spring, as the Russians have

| been fighting alone all this summer.

The truth is that we are drifting swiftly toward the thin edge of losing this war, even if by some miracle we do not go over the brink, or if we do not splash into the abyss until a year or more from now. The terrible risk exists now and nothing less ‘than almost immediate invasiore of western Europe will dissipate

"A Little Now or Much Later

This truth can be put in very concrete terms. Would 12 to 15 British-American divisions have a better chance of landing in France today, where the Germans have a maximum of 25 divisions, including those necessary to garrison the occupied provinces? Or would 40, or even 50 British-American divisions have a better chance of invading France next April, when the Nazis will have - between 100 and. 150 divisions there, inchiding a large num-| sians ber of their veteran panzer and tank divisions transferred from the Russian front? ' The German radio is now talking confidently about Nazi armies building an “Eastwall’ or eastern Sieg-

fried line from the mouth of the Volga, northeast along the entire Russian front to Leningrad during the winter. By Eastwall the Germans mean a whole series of most strongly fortified holding positions. The Nazis explain frankly that by October they will have battered and bled the Russian armies so serious-

1y that 1,000,000 or 1,500,000 German

troops can pen them in, while the decisive battle of the war is fought in the west.

2,600,000 Troops Tied Up

According to most careful available military estimates, the A Germans now have about 220 divisions of their own troops'in Russia. Without counting the large number of ‘Hungarian, Rumanian, Italian and Finnish divisions, this means that

the Germans have more than 2,600,

000 troops tied up in Russia today. By next spring Hitler unquestionably counts on having well over

-1,000,000 troops along the Dutch,

Belgian and French coasts. The Russians are told that the British and Americans lack the ships to put 10 or 15 divisons into France today. The Russians know it would mean big risks and that the expedition might be repulsed eventually, but they cannot believe that' it is impossible to try. They ask—if your governments have so few ships that you cannot do anything today, how are Britain and America going to have four or five times as many ships by next April or May?

Dunkirk Might Be Worth Cost

The Russians say — today your forces would not have to fight more than half-a-dozen, first-class German divisions in France, at the most. Obviously, all the Germans’ garrison divisions cannot be moved out of Alsace, Lorraine and Burgundy to the coast. Next spring your invading forces will be met by eight or 10 or 15 first-class German divisions, where one confronts them today. ‘Why don’t you intervene when your attack will “have tremendous advantages which will never have later on? The Russians say that some of your people explain that if you try it ‘you may meet disaster, another Dunkirk. But if another Dunkirk saves us the oil of Baku and keeps our armies intact for next year, would it not.be worth 1000 times the cost of another Dunkirk? We have had plenty of disasters, .the Russians say. You do not expect us to

yield Stalingrad without fighting

just because we have lost Smolensk, Riga, Kiev, Kharkov, the Don basin and Rostov? ‘The Russians ask ‘embarrassing questions. They say. that Dunkirk

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and the British have had nearly 3,000,000. men under arms ever since. Do the British mean to tell us that - the British, two years and three| months after Dunkirk, have not got

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in western Europe in order to save the offensive power of an allied army of several millions in the east? Sacrifices Will Win War Supposing they lose 10 or a dozen divisions. We Russians have lost scores. How are the British going to build a fighting army if they do not use it to fight? The Russians say that wars are won by sacrifices, but you have got to sacrifice all along. The more you sacrifice now, the less you will have to sacrifice later on. Are you going to help us before it is too late? ‘What is too late? It may be too late in October of this year. If it is, and there has been no attempt at a second front in the west—well, who can say that we Russians did not. sacrifice everything? These are the facts and reactions that we hear in Moscow. Shall the British and Americans fight about a dozen German divisions in France tomorrow, or next week, or the week after? Or shall a British-American expeditionary force be sent against five or six times that many divisions, sometime next spring? - The decision on this question will certainly determine how many years the war lasts. But what is far graver, there are very .high military strategists, non-Russians, who are deeply afraid that this decision may determine who wins the war.

STREAMLINE TRAIN WRECKED IN STATE

Times Special CLINTON, Ind. Aug. 31.—Repairs: were speeded on several hundred yards of C. & E. I. railroad tracks here today, following derailment of .the southbound, streamlined Dixie Flier shortly before noon yesterday. Injuring two cooks, the accident occurred when the master pin on the left drive wheels of the locomotive loosened. The drive shaft then tore up the tracks. - : Two hundred fifty passengers were on board the Chicago - Miami streamliner, traveling about 60 miles an hour, but only two, whose names were not learned, were treated for injuries. The entire train was derailed, but none of the -cars overturned. The two cooks injured were Amos

Weeks, Jacksonville, Fla; and Mar-}|

shall White, both of whom were treated at Vermillion county ‘hos-: pital for burns. : The train crew, all of ‘Evansville, was composed of Charles L. Patterson, conductor; J. P. Meagher, en=

gineer, and Charles, Murphy, tire- |C

When Marines Struck - Solomons, Enemey Took off for Hills.

"The following is an official patch on activities in the § mon islands written by Se James W. Hurlbut, marine ¢ combat = correspondent at scene of action.

By SERGT. JAMES W. HURLBU Marine Corps Combat Correspondent. - GUADALCANAL, Solomon Is lands, Aug. 14 (Delayed). —This no parade ground bunch of marin on Guadalcanal. The pretty b uniforms are all back home and green dungaree field uniforms torn and dirty. The boys are ré tough,.- and nasty, and they

plenty ‘mad.’ of To a man, the marines in the Solomon islands pay tribute to gallantry of the naval units took part in the attack. D the torpedo bombing" ; launched by the Japs on Aug. § gunners of these units manned thi guns with devastating effect, sce ing hit after hit on the low-f enemy planes, . ; Enemy Got: No Help

Only meager details of the na engagement which” took place d ing the night of Aug. 8-9 have t received at Guadalcanal. We ten however, that no enemy ship s

Japanese land forces.

Contrary is precedent in phibious operations, the offe: action in the Solomons was complished with comparatively

fending Japanese. : Enemy losses in the South cific are also measured in millic of dollars worth of equipment 1 thousands of man hours of cons struction work taken over by marines on Guadalcanal. The su prise attack was made so § that the Japs had no time to sa tage their own materiel and struction. They headed for the

|so_fast that breakfast was left

finished on many camp tables. . Arnfy of Veterans

Information obtained prisoners indicates that forces on Guadalcanal consisted pioneers (members of labor vu and seasoned veterans of the Phil pine and Singapore campaigns. - Among the personal effects in the camps were U. S.

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