Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1942 — Page 1

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Installment 1--PROGRAM FOR VICTORY "BEFORE PEARL HARBOR made it a war of record, = foe man who dealt in the relationship between cause and effect could doubt for a moment that in all but name the United States had already been at war for a prolonged period. & ; -By every device self.deliision could in- | vent, we had pretended that this struggle . was none of our affair, that we could avoid it by virtually ignoring its existence, that somehow everything would turn out all right, and that we could cheerfully proceed with the “business as usual” formula, com- - " pletely protected from the grief and turMr Zig moil of the Old World by the two great oceans ‘which roll between. Suddenly at Pearl Harbor came the realization that we had been caught entirely un- . i prepared i ina deadly contest which was not the usual war

of limited ohjsttives but an out-and-out, Struggle for the

right to exist.

In the orthodox sense ie. present striigle is not a war such as we have known wars. It is rather a great international explosion revolutionary in its effect on the economics, morals and politics of man. - 2 8.» 2 8 8 IT HAS NEITHER boundaries nor limitations. ‘It is aimed not only at our possessions and our freedom, but at all the traditions which make us’ what we are. It is a dynamic thrust for all-consuming power by a group of skilled and insatiable predators ‘experienced in the business of the kill, who regard us and everything we stand for with a cold and endless hate. Even at this late date few Americans take this war seriously. The view is that we are the best people, that we are the best fighters, and that we have the best production

facilities. We will get through somehow; it is impossible

Tor the Germans to beat us, much less the inferior Japs,

OUR THINKING i is yall in terms of oat» massing or

‘material and men to be produced on a long-term basis. We

plan to bury our enemies beneath an avalanche of weight

alone. Until we have produced this formidable force

formula is one of depending on the great blue buffers of ocean for our protection, of playing for time, and of | pany. d

ing blows.

It is based on the belief that the two great seas are our unbreachable Maginot line, and that we are at least

immune to attack on our own continent.

We are engaging in this war without the faintest real-

ization of its true meaning, of the vast cunning, the cold fury, and the enormous armaments pitted against us.

IF WE continue to fight the war on these terms we

will finally lose it, succumbing in bewilderment to a series of iron-hard, surprise blows similar to that of Pearl Harbor, or to those which destroyed the complacent dreams of the French general staff. The atmosphere in the United

or

States, in fact, is sispisiotsly. like that which ru ; France previous to the fall of that once great. country. :

i Te 5 . . Ye » ” . : IE WE ARE to win we must mike up our minds, i in regard to the penalty for losing. If we lose, it will with our institutions smashed to rubble. Our nation cease to exist; its books will be burned, its scholars

. savants wiped ‘out, it’s possessions expropriated, its n

physically enslaved, and its women the playthings. of conquering horde. Its will’ to resist will be. svstoiisticaly: ‘erush it will be deprived of all possible weapons of retaliatio which an eventual escape to freedom might be based,

“as far as the will of man can assure such things, it will 'b

permanently demeaned, ‘degraded and broken. ig If we can ‘once make up our minds that this strugg must be won under any and all conditions of sacrifice, ; fering and pain, then and then only are we prepared (Turn to Page One, Second Section)

The Boy in Khaki and the Boy in Blue—|

"10 SAORRGE|

Armstrong Wilt ‘Welcome

| :progress -of, this drive—a ‘drive whose importance to victory and defeat cannot be minimized,

GA. R. Tonight With Plea.

“For Universal ‘Draft,

‘By ARTHUR WRIGHT ‘ Politicians "and industrial labor leaders were called upon here today to “set an example by making sacrifices themselves” in the united ‘war effort. : V. M. “Army” Armstrong, natiohal

vice commander of the ,American|-

Legion, said he would make a plea tonight in his address at the English theater which will welcome: the ‘76th G. A. R. national encampment. "Urges Universal Service .Indiana’s ‘candidate for national} commander of the Legion reiterated ~ his service organization’s demand for “universal service” in world war II. + “Since we are drafting manpower, the. government must also have similar control over wages, profits and prices,” he said. + The encampment, already well under way, and .its five affiliated groups will be greeted officially tonight by Governor Schricker at 8 o'clock, Mayor Sullivan, Isaac W. Sharp, commander of the Indiana department of the G. A: R.,-and _ Harold Bredell of the American Red Cross, also will welcome the delegat s : .

A meeting of the credentials].

committee comprised the. morning calendar of the veterans of the Civil war. During the afternopn, meetings were listed for the execu: (Continued on Page Five)

PANAMA SHIP SUNK

= WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U.P) —|. LA medjum-sized Panamhnian mer-| "chant vessel was torpedoed and sunk cd by an enemy submarine during the | letter part of August in the At-|

lantic, several hundred miles off the

“coast of South America, |

en navy ‘announced fii Forty.

and{ -

U.S. Army of 13,000,000

of Vital Need for Scrap

This newspaper fs going to say a lot about’ scrap in the coming ; days and weeks. . = =»We are going to try to answer your questions and point out the

It- takes 120 carloads of scrap a day to keep going the steel mills of Indiana alone. . All the scrap in the ‘state's’ Junkyards would keep only the: . smallest ‘of our mills going 20 days. The mills have supplies now for about two months. Unless ‘we pitch in there will be a slowdown after this in our war production. There are 700 scrap collection boxes. x Fifty per cént ‘of the city: dwellers in the state have not con--{ributed any scrap. One third of the farm dwellers have not been contacted. It’s ‘a hig job.

Forecast by Military Men

. (See Draft Outline in Board 10, Page Five)

© WASHINGTON, Sept: 14 (U. P.)—The. special house committee on national defense migration resumes its investigation of manpower and mobilization problems this week as’ military authorities began talking in terms of a 13,000,000-man army and the -Possillity of drafting married men with children in 1943.

The 13,000,000 figure is some

were being based a few months ago.

3,000,000 greater than the one on which allocation of manpower plans

Some authorities then were -esti-

Board 1 Listing Husbands in 1-A

Draft board 1 is starting the

mating that the “ceiling strength of the army—without seriously curtailing war production and disrupting essential. civilian services —

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AUG. 15 BASIC

DATE FOR BILL ON INFLATION

Empowers FOR to Curb * Prices ‘and Wages

"| WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (U. B). “|—Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D. i | Mich), today introduced a bill au-

which was drafted in several days of conferences following President|

| Roosevelt’s demand for enactment

of new anti-inflation controls byl Oet. 1. With. respect to ‘wage and -salary

| controls, ‘the bill provides that nol

action shall be taken which is ‘inconsistent with the Wage-hour act Nor shall any action be taken which would conflict with the recommendation or order of any federal agency affecting wages of employees were pending Sept. 15, or which would reduce wages below the highest level paid between Jan. 1 and ‘Sept. 15, 1942, : Farm Stabilization Sought With respect .to farm prices, the bill prohibits fixing of a maximum price for any farm commodity “below a price which will reflect to

: producers” the higher of two prices:

“1. Parity price, or comparable | price, as determined by the secretary of agriculture. 2. The highest market price ‘for the commodity reached between Jan. 1 and Sept. 15, 1942. The first section of the hill provides, however, that stabilization be effected “so far as practicable on the basis of levels which existed on Aug. 15, 1942.” “In exercising the authority conferred by this joint resolution, the president may provide for making adjustments with respect ‘to such! prices, wages, salaries and other factors to the extent that he finds ecessary to correct gross inequities |

or to aid in the effective prosecution of the war.”

"Hearings Open Tomorrow

consideration. of the legislation, ]”

reclassification into 1-A of men with dependent wives but no children, Vernon M. Scott, board chairman, announced today. This /1s necessary, He said, because the present pool of 1A men is large enough lo dast for only six weeks. In the present pool of 1-As, tT

men Hershey Gives Warning

" But last night Maj. Gen, Lewis B. director who recently warned marNe

American: Legion at Asbury Park, NJ:

would "have to be about 10 ,000,000

‘Hershey, national selective service

ried men with only wives to get y to enter the army, told the Jersey. department of the

1 | be placed in 1-A if, in the 1 board’s Judgment, “work a

are married men with finan- | cially independent wives; sin- | gle men who have been deferred In the past because of

ents and 20-year-old youths. with a dependent wife would

SR that Is just a prac

it would | |

“There are, not ‘endiigh married men’ without “children. for the mobilization of, say, 10,000,000 to 13,-

“The bill would provide, in connection with wages, that “no employer shall pay, and no employee, shall receive, wages or. salaries in contravention” of regulations promulgated by President Roosevelt under another section authofizing him to “suspend any ‘provisions of law relating to the establishment or maintenance of prices, wages which are inconsistent with

or

the purposes of this Join resolu tion.” = il

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On the Was Fronts

(Sept. 14, 1942)

WESTERN EUROPE: Axis-held territory has harassed night; Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria . and perhaps Rumania hit by Russian and British planes with R, A. F.’s 100th raid on Bremen most dam-| aging. ' “Revolt” in axis-held Macedonia reported. Vichy France begins compulsory mobili-' zation of labor for axis.

RUSSIA: Russians speak for first time of fighting “at Stalingrad,”

but report no new withdrawals.|

"Germans claim to have penetrated southern part of the city.

AFRICA: Italians report unsuccessful parachute and amphibian

’ AUSTRALIA i American and Aus-| tralian planes attack Japanese ships and bases - around New| Guinea, where the thrust toward Port Moresby seems’ stalled,

ATLANTIC: German sources report big convoy battle raging, but London Blves, no confirmation,

12 BLASTS ROCK

DENVER ZEPHYR

FBI Acts After Electric Wires Are Found Along

Burlington Track.

| CHICAGO, Sept. 14 (U. P)— Twelve ‘explosions rocked ‘the Burlington railroad’s crack streamliner, Denver Zephyr, early today, break‘ling ‘windows and causing other damage to 10 of its 12 cars, Edward Flynn, executive vice president of the railroad, announted. :

None of the train's 187 passengers was hurt. The train left Nodaway, . Io where the accident oc- , for Omaha, Neb., after a four-ho delay. ‘The at Des Moines was conducting ‘an investigation to determine if a set of electric wires found

‘along the track where the detona-|{™

tions occurred might show that the explosions resulted from a violation of the federal train wrecking statutes. a

to 85 miles an hour.

The Wires. hooked in series. led] about 25 feet into a nearby field}

Flynn. said the blasts - occurred}

FIERCE BATILE RAGES AT EDGE

OF STALINGRAD

Nazis. Say They Already Have Penetrated City - At South Suburbs.

“By HARRISON SALISBURY ‘United Press Stan Correspondent

4 at” >

Stalingrad

claimed they had ee aso

southern portion of the city. Reports from both sides left little doubt that the crisis in the battle for Stalingrad has arrived. The Russians ‘said that the Germans had massed: probably the greatest pres-

sure. force of the war against the :

Volga river city, Russian Reserves Arrived? |

The Nazi high command said dominating heights northwest of the city had been stormed. ‘Stockholm heard that Russian reserves had ‘arrived ‘at Stalingrad and had been sent into battle to reinforce the tired Red army defenders. The Russian noon communiquefor the first time in 36 hours—men-

tioned no withdrawals on the Stal-|

ingrad front. In the latest withdrawal, ‘reported last midnight, the Russians had given up a single vill the Nazis were said have paid 3000 men, 40 tanks and 24 trucks full of automatic riflemen.

- ase Tula Wisi Nek

ot eS ne. Tis ay the

middle of September—it is autumn,”|

Moscow's | German- language broad-

|along 516 feet of track while the|Were n train was traveling an estimated 80}

where the Zephyr's crewmen dis-| The x

covered a battery whose switch had

been closed, sending a charge through the wires. i

said, ‘the train's air Soh Sa, ain them ot trait slid one mile to a stop, fiat

support “of collateral depend. | | 200.000 men In the United States)

« ening wheels on several of the & :

British landing attempt at Tob Stalingrad’s defenders fought 1 . British son’ 8 a 8

e, for which |

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‘Admits Quips About Those - Horses Partly True.

/ Bing Crosby

By HAMLING WELLING BING CROSBY. today said it’s. “partly true what they say about

“my horses.” WHA

‘He's ‘stopping over here today

to play some golf and to visit

Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus, 1249 Golden Hill dr. Tomorrow he plays in a war relief golf match at Cincinnati in which Gene Sarazen and Byron Nelson, golf pros, will participate. And Wednesday night he will entertain the soldiers down at Ft. Knox

-with a bit of high class vocalizing

and some jokes. Speaking of his horses, Mr. Crosby said that all the unfavorable comments issued by Bob Hope and others discourages people from betting on them and “that

talk about my horses keeps Hopes.

progam going s = 2

: _ HE REVEALED that he has ac- | copied a position 28 supervisor

of radio. material from the armed forces. He isn’t sure just yet what that will entail but probably will - be concerned with radio shows and passing on the worth

of other idéas presented forshows.

Germany, Hungary, Bulg:

And Perhaps Ruman

_ LONDON, Sept. 14 (U. —Axis Europe—from

2 North sea port of Bre

Hardest hib'of an of the't

lan air ministry comm {ping and industrial —

was struck by an’ estimated 500 royal air force bombers, r their 100th attack of We that city. The R. A. F. planess att Bremen were ' described = by:{ | ministry das scoring “a cent cricket slang, roughly equiv. “batting 1.000” in baseball,

Bulgaria Also Hit ~

The Russian air force, . identified planes, possibly range British bombers and . ica

| Middle ‘East, gave most of

held. Buope an, uneasy igh

Ti non S

the war to hit Bulgaria and