Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1942 — Page 9
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1 DOVER, einads So 22.—This much-shelled y of: Dover; as.you know, .is' the closest point: in
Engaea te the European continent. This entire
J southeast coast is gruesomely fortified, and a very
restricted: ‘area. You myst get official permission be- : fore trying to enter these parts. We came by train from London in two and a half hours, Bob Trout of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and his wife Kit were with me. ‘At the outer door of the .‘Doyer railway station a tall policeman was checking every person. Our names were on his list, otherwise we would have had: to take another train right back to London. We went to our little hotel on the bay front, and then started out for a .walk. The great chalk cliffs tower above Dover on either side. One side is completely military and forbidden territory. The other: side is fortified too, but they do let you wander around. You climb steep streets out past the edge of town, and then you follow a path and’ keep climbing into the counfry. Each step widens your view; your eyes pop with: the expanding scene “around you; soon you are looking right /down upon Dover, so small and gfay there in its valley by the sea. :
“Almost Within Touching Distance”
ON UP AND UP you go, to a great grassy meadow on top of the highest bluff. It is known as Shakespeare Cliff. On the ocean side it drops straight down hundreds of feet. . Inthe first days of the blitz two years ago, correspondents lay on their backs up on Shakespeare Cliff and watched ‘the tremendous battle between the RAF and the Luftwaffe. Today the grass was Just as green, the sun as warm, the channel as blue— but, today there was a quiet sense of peacefulness there on the cliff. ‘
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
HANK COTTINGHAM, the state conservation department’s wild game expert, wanted to help out in
" the scrap ‘metals salvage campaign, and gave until
it hurt—unintentionally.. He owns a: building at 857
N. ‘Tinos st. which uses city heat but has a reserve Te a in heating plant. There was an old replaced boiler head in the basement and so Hank got in touch with his fellow conservationist, Blodgett Brennan, who also is - Marion county salvage director, and offered the old boiler head to , him. Then Hank left town. Blodgett (better known as Bill) sent a junk dealer after the old head. Several days later Hank got back in town and went to his building. And then he grabbed the phone and called Brennan—Ilots of things. It ‘seetnns the junk dealer, through a misunderstanding, had remoyed not merely the old boiler head, but the good bailer as well, spending two days at the job. And then he smashed the boiler and sent Hank a check for, $12.96. Anybody. with a used 10-pound pressure boiler ‘for sale: Fight get in touch with Brenan,
Dimout Adventures : MAYOR SULLIVAN'S life these days is just one dimou after g
monies—has four. scheduled this week—and seems. to enjoy:it. For one thing, he gets to meet a lot of old
* § acquaintances—and make new ones. During the dim- . out in Distriet 17 the other night, he met probably the * town’s youngest gir raid warden, He was 3-year-old
. Philip: Miceli. Jr,, who: was excitedly helping grand-
father Salvatore Miceli patrol the 500 block, E. Merrill st, and doing a fine job of it, too, the mayor reports... . That man sitting on the step of the Scenic line bus from Brown county when if got in
Washington
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—If the battle of Stalingrad tells us anything, it is that something more than military might has gone .into this battle from both
sides. It is a battle of tanks and ‘guns and planes. ‘feeling that winning this war is the path fo bringing
, But it is more. It is a battle of human beings, each
possessed by an unbreakable de-,/ Nazis are fighting this war to get the kind of world
termination to win. Only that will could keep the Nazi troops charging again and again. Only that will could kéep the Soviet soldiers fighting relentlessly against superior advancing numbers. . The battle of Stalingrad illustrates what Lord Halifax, the British - ambassador, said in a week-end ‘broadcast. He said that neither a persistent and relentless offensive, necessary though it is}
nor the solution of problems of supply, vital as they * are, will by themselves win the victory. He men-.
tioned that behind the formidable mass of Nazi material lies the still more formidable fact of Nazi fanaticismi. Every first-hand report from the southwest Pacific underlines as to ‘the Japs what Lord Halifax says about the Nazis. .
"A Lack of Inner Feeling
30 ‘LORD HALIFAX goes on to say: “We know
"the Nazi causg to be most. evil, but they have been : trained to believe that it has the highest claim on
. their emotion.
So when we have out-gunned, out-
tanked, and out-planed the Nazis, we must see to it
‘always that the flame of our faith burns as fiercely
, 88 theirs.”
Tam not, sure ‘that we ‘have that yet on our side. We talk a good deal about it. Still I wonder, when
"1 see quilibling going on here, and when we delay by
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: months 0 deal with problems lke rubber and steel
‘My Day
NEW | voRK CITY: ‘Mondag: Washtiighon doth
P tinues to treat us to a warm, muggy weather, which
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us long for a real brisk aytumn day, In the time, we realize that before long we shall look to the nice lazy feeling we have at present and we wonder how we could find time to > sit in a chair to read a book, just because the air seeméd heavy and we did ‘not feel like Moving
, who ‘have never been 1tfe, little know about the raday things involved in living not as one chooses, but as one Ss must. : ‘Those of us who have lived in Li government, houses know Sat) fio
— Surprisingly enough, when the envelope was opened,
When it isn't a dimout, it's an USO publicity, and the speech was made at a USO Lair; “raid ‘wardens’ 3 graduation ceremony, Hizonner meeting. Anyway, it was starjling for a moment, _ spends most. of his evenings attending such cere-
And across the water wos Prasios. We could’ actually see the French coast for probably 30 miles up and down. ‘We ran ono a man with a powerful set of binoculars, and he let us look through them. They brought France right up, almost within touch-! ing distance, it seemed. We could see towns and’ villages and churches, and radio towers on the green! sloping hillsides back of the village. One town was Calais, the other Boulogne. 1 I was astounded at the clearness with which we could look upon ‘enemy land. They say that the British army, through its much more powerful glasses, can actually see people working in their gardens over there, and see the swastika painted on barns.
“ ..No Good Lives Until ...”
FROM OUR: GRASSY grandstand we could see camouflaged guns and searchlights and concrete tank traps and the barracks of many soldiers. We knew it ‘was the same way over there beyond the water. All the accoutrements of war were around. us—yet the incongruous peacefulness of the day was almost piercing. It seemed to me absolutely incredible that just
“over there, across that small stretch of *blue, were|
people who would kill us if we ventured over. Incredible that we couldn’t take an excursion steamer across for the afternoon, as so many millions have done on sunny days of a differently peaceful past. That little 21-mile channel—“The Ditch,” as they call it in Dover—it is so little and the world so big, and yet it is the symbol of the whole catastrophe of
human life today. Until.Sunday excursion boats once}
more. cross that channel there will be no good lives on this earth. And millions will die before “that happens. Somehow ‘the forbidden fruit on the other side of that mere 21 miles of, water, on such a lovely Sunday afternoon, made me hate the whole thing more than any exploding bomb in the Heart of London ever did.
town carly yesterday morning was Kenneth Kunkel of the state rationing board offices.
Around the Town
Jack Atherton is due back tomorrow from Minnesota where he has been spending a couple of weeks vacation. He no longer chews on an unlighted cigar— he’s smoking them again, we hear. , , . Capt. Ralph E. Boulton, commander of the local marine corps recruiting force, is a devotee of the “We, the People” radio program Sunday nights. Reason: His brother, Milo Boulton, produces and announces the program. . .'. The burglar alarm at the Log Cabin tavern, 38th st. and Keystone ave., started ringing sometime after the closing shour Saturday night. It still was ringing Sunday morning. About 9 a. m., a state policeman living nearby went over to investigate, but. the bell kept on ringing. A police squad looked into the situation about 8 p. m. Sunday, and was unable to stop it. Our informant managed to forget about it after 10 p. m. and so doesn’t know just when it did quit ringing—if it ever did.
All for the USO
AMONG THE .ENVELOPES received on the city desk was one labeled: Republican Central committee.
out fell a speech made by that stanch Democrat— Governor. Schricker. The explanation apparently is that the G. O. P. publicity man is helping with
Since the hours for the opening of schools has been changed to 8:45 a. m., school officials report they've been having trouble about the time pupils show up.
The trouble, believe it or not, is that so many kids go|"
to school TOO EARLY—bhefore the schoo! patrol boys are on duty to protect them at hazardous intersections, School officials hate to discourage children’s interest in getting to school on time, but they do wish they would wait until the doors are open, which usually is 8:15 a. m. The school patrol boys go on duty at 8:20 a. m, now,
By Raymond Clapper
and ‘ industrial manpower that we know are inescapable. Perhaps a good deal of it traces to a lack of inner about .the kind of world we want afterwards. The they want--a slave world over which they shall be masters. They are fighting not’ just for victory but because they have ‘a burning hunger for what they believe victory will bring to them. They think it will bring all that Germany has been denied in centuries past. The “have not” is going to hreak the window and get what he wants. Does any Sieh compulsion drive us on? X
Such: Ideas Must Move Men :
‘LORD HALIFAX believes the British have it. He says that although people in England know they are fighting for their lives, they do not see the war simply as one of self-preservatiton. “Although we are determined to rid Europe-‘of Hitler and all his works,” he says, “we certainly are not so foolish as to suppose: that the world after the war will be the same world as it was before it. . . . During last three years -the British people have much in a hard and bitter school. “What we have learned together has “brought us a new humility, which we needed. We acknowledged that in the past we have tolerated much of which we are now ashamed. We are resolved never “again to lose that new sense’ of values which we have won through the’ war. We shall uphold these} at whatever cost, So that we may build a future in which they shall raise and rule the lives of men.” Such ideas as’/those must move men. In the war in the Bast, particularly, we have seen how peoples offered no resistance to the Jap invader! because they saw nothing ‘invblved worth struggling for. Are we going to see that ‘dismal history of defeat repeated “in India? © -
By Eleanor Roosevelt
House , because unless I did, I would often miss opportunities of seeing them. But 1 is at ‘home, in our ‘own house, in our own surroundings, that I really like to welcome them; for, that is ours and we have an obligation only fo our family and our own: friends there. It is a curious thing which is often stressed in
electing a man to office in this country, we, naturally, _ do; not eleet his wife nor his children to office. Yet some people thirk there is something very glamorous | and much to be envied in this rather anomalous posi- | tion, where you have certain ties, pleasures and privileges imposed upon you through somebody
else's a d a Woman living in the White House a ae al nilly, she must live there and she must entertain very
often, for no reason except that her husband I inf,
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terest in public &ffairs, ‘and yet, willy- | E.
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Indiana officers and men are playing important roles in the 301st ordnance regitraining at Camp Sutton,.N, C. Among the 101 Hoosiers in the regiment is Capt. Charles J. Trees (left) of Indianapolis. He helped Col. D. C. Cabell, builder of . the Jeffersonville proving ground at Madison, to organize the unit and was the regiment's
By Brie B10] Hoosiers Train With 301st Ordnance at Camp Sutton
first executive officer. The man in the center who finds it hard to get up in the morning ! is Sergt. Louis Blackburn, nephew of Mrs. W. R. Blackburn of Indianapolis. At the right some of the ordnance soldiers are shown in mock battle. ‘pperate repair shops and munitions depots they also must know how to fight.
While. their main duty is to
WATER CONTROL
In Interest of Public Health During War.
Joseph L. Quinn Jr. will direct civilian defense activities in the state as they relate to the protection and maintenance of public water supplies and sewerage services under war conditions. His “appointment as water coordinator was announced today by Clarence A. Jackson, state OCD director. Mr, Quinn has been loaned on a part-time basis to the OCD by the state board of health, where he is acting director of the division of environmental sanitation. Mr, Jackson also announced that a mutual aid plan is being developed through which local water and sewerage plant superintendents will be able to secure help from neighboring water and sewerage officials in case of damage which cannot be repaired without outside assistance. 19 Zones Created
The state has been divided into
QUINN TO DIRECT
Loaned to OCD by State
19 zones. In each zone is now functioning a co-ordinator who is assisting local water and sewerage plant officials and defense councils in the organization of emergency water and sewerage service. The plan is a part of the program .| being developed by the emergency water and sewerage committee of ‘the state council and the state board of health. The committee includes M. H. Schwartz, Vincennes, chairman; E. F. Kinney, Marshall P. Crabill, Arno
Louis of Indianapolis; William W, Mathews, Gary; L. A. Geupel, Evansville, and J. C. Vaughn, Hammond, and Mr. Quinn.
: Water Supplies Vital
“The importance of public water supplies must not be underestimated,” Mr. Jackson said, “In the various theaters of war, strategic areas found it necessary to surrender when local water supplies were destroyed or contaminated. Thus fell = Singapore, Hongkong, Bataan and Tobruk. 5 “If the public water supplies are insanitary, they are the source of disease and sickness; if safe and sanitary, they are the source of health. Water must be kept safe and sanitary for human consumption and also must be kept continually available for the extinguishing of possible fires in war plants and other buildings.”
SUCCEEDS RICHEY AS REGIONAL NYA HEAD
CHICAGO, Sept. 22 (U. PP.) Mary Stuart Anderson, Chicago, yesterday succeeded Robert Richey, ese | Indianapolis, as regional administrator of the national youth' administration for Illinois, Indiana and “Wisconsin. Er Miss Aaderson, a native of De-
ministrator for Illinois. Since’ July 1, when a reorganization combined the three states into a single operating unit, Miss Anderson has been deputy regional administrator. Richey resigned t6 join the armed forces, He formerly was adminjstrator for Indiana.
MEETING SCHEDULED BY OPTOMETRISTS
~., The Central Indians Optometric association will meet tomorrow afternoon and evening at the Elks Blue River Country club Shelpyville. There will be in the n, followed by a chicken dinner and business meeting. The women’s’ suxiiiary will meet in the| evening.
ville is in charge of reservations Si Dr. OF. Fudua of Shéfivville
"HOMECOMING DINNER
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ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
ONE THING IS CERTAIN: Nothing will dissuade the Germans from attempting to adhere rigidly to their
time schedules. If they win
they become the ruling mas-
ters of the world, fulfilling the passionate German dream
of centuries.
The only question which exists is whether the axis is equal to the Gargantuan task it has set for itself. The timetable miscalculated twice—once when the military
masters of Berlin misjudged
the character of the British
people and the resources of combative spirit and fighting
‘machines which remained at
their disposal when all hope,
seemed gone. The second error was a complete misjudg-
ment last year of the strength and physical posi-
tion of the Russians. The admirable vigor displayed by the Russians in resisting the might of .the German steamroller far eRogte) the most hopeful ex- , pectations. neverthemust now
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map of relative esources. Her i overall situation depends entirely on what the Anglo-Saxon : powers are able William B./Ziff ¢ 0" ' Another great question mark is China. The strength and staying power: of the great Oriental colossus must be reappraised in view of our present knowledge of the fighting qualities of Japanese armies. x “The potentialities of China both as a military base and as an in‘trinsic fighting factor in this war, are incalculable. Together with the great sub-continent of India, this - sprawling territorial mass splits the axis in two like a gigantic wedge. If it could be used as the heart of our operations, -it would immediately allow us to operate from the vantage of interior position, stealing the initiative away from the axis by forcing it on the periphery. . If a way could be found to supply the Chinese with large guns, tanks, and a’ sizable air force, this country would become a wicked pile driver in the united nations’ hands, - which = would crush. the Japanese like so many eggshells. This. would involve major difficulties of transport and , a long job of preparation in ‘which the time element is not in our favor. Although the Chinese struggle has been notably gallant and heroic, Japanese occupation of India would gravely alter the situation: both psychologically and The “Chinese *. have
But they are also realists. The leaky conduit which now connects them to a free world and from
. which they draw both hope and
a stream of badly needed supplies, would be bitten off. All air vents which made the process of suffocation endurable, would be relentlessly closed one by one. An astute and cunning Japanese policy based: on the program of Asia
for the Asiatics, abetted by the electrifying spectacle of the white man in full retrea om the plateaus and valleys {of Asia, would reconcile the Chiliese people to the new order. : »
Near East Important THE PIVOT to the whole Asiatic structure is India and the " Near East. If thé Near East goes. Indiad goes With. entirely possible that the Near and Middle East will be the final battlegrounds, as they have been of many historic contests in the past.. The . destruction of Malta, strongest British naval-aerial base in the Meditérranean, must be looked on as a distinct possibility. The Meditérranean, now shrunk to the size of an inland lake by virtue of air power, may become untenable to the British fleet. "The abutting Arab states have no military strength or resistence power.” ‘Throughout ' the Arab world an unappeasable pro-Hitler rage has existed for years. 'Yemen is tied up with Italy. The other Arab states are held by force or purchase and are completely unreliable. A trained army of 250,000 loyal men fighting on familiar territory could make a world of difference. When, the present war began, several hundred ‘thousand young Jews of Palestine, many of them European-trained as soldiers and officers, volunteered to fight for Britain and. her allies. They are still waiting to be called. British policy in this sector, acquiesced in by the American state department, is. one of yielding to blackmail by a potential enemy. The explanation . offered from British official quarters is that the Arabs will not enlist and they do not wish to offend them by allowing ‘the Jews to do so. The attitude of the 390,000,000 people of India toward this war js a mixture of irascibility, hope, indifference, and apathy. ProAsiatic slogans have a considerable audience, and . the usual quota of ambitious young politicos are in direct cqntact with the axis. India will be difficult to defend. If attacked simultaneously from east and west, the fall of the great sub-continent: wo! seem to oe inevitable and: would invie with it the collapse of all Asia. At -this writing, ‘the, TAT of Rommel'’s Afrika korps, the Dethier
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end of the pincers aiming at Suez and the Near East, depends altogethér on how much strength the united nations can throw into this sector. Only the concentration of overwhelming force will drive Rommel out, and this is not in sight. Rommel’s rear is commanded by French North Africa. Vichy is accused of having aided him with equipment, transport, and supplies. This ideological satellite of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo alliance may be presumed to occupy the itlentical state of non-belligerency once tenanted- so successfully by Italy and now by Spain. » ” =
Dark Picture
OUR POSITION in reference to Spain is difficult to understand. The little rotund Caudillo is the principal instrument of the violently anti-Yankee propaganda with which the axis attempts to agitate South America. He has never expressed any other view than that of complete solidarity with the poisonous ruffians. who rule the strongholds of Berlin, Rome, and ros Not only do we ‘allow th Teged neutral to fracture the embargo we are attempting to maintain against Nazi Europe, but we also supply him with goods imperatively needed by ourselves. British money. interests are alleged to have furnished him with mining machinery despite the
fact that none of the united nations can obtain enough ma-
chinery to use for their own required war production, This equipment goes to the famous Rie Tinto mines? one of the world’s most important copper sources. It may be suspected that the greatest portion of their output eventually finds its way into axis shells and other armament. Portugal, ostensibly -allled with England, has been under a l'as-cist-type dictatorsaip for a generation. When the writer was in Lisbon last winter it was full of Italian and German officers. with whom the Portuguese military
men fraternized openly. Portugal -
should be completely discounted in &ppraising éur stock of assets. There is little to take conafort from in this situation, and the South Paciiic theater 1s even more unsatisfactory. The Japanese have fanned out aver an enormous territory. ‘It may be reliably expected that Nippon will quickly organize the resources of the areas it has captared and that these will be strongly held against any counter-attack, with every factor of position and armed strength favoring the possessors.. Except for the sentimental reason of. being a sister Englishspeaking nation, Australia pos-
- sesses no direct ‘or critical rela- - tionship to: the outcome of the war.
The stepping-stone type of attack so often proposed, need not invite any great apprehension on
‘the part of the Japanese warlords.
As an offensive base Australia gimply does not add up. It does ‘not - produce ‘enough to equip Every from men and guns fo food and
materials would haye to run the | “long = gantlet ° ‘across ' the Pacific. -These are indeed perilous lines on’
which to base an’ offensive.
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South American Danger
DESPITE THE. assurances: of |
good-will which have . resulted
“from Pan-American conferences, | ff
the big pearsshaped, continent to. which we are tied by the Isthmus Panama could easily turn out to be our true heel of Achilles.
commercial shoguns and planta= tion owners, pointing out to them tirelessly that the only logical market on this earth for their grain, beef, leather and other products is crowded, hungry Eu rope. The United States is shown to’ have normally a surplus of these same commodities and is painted, not without warrant, as an open competitor for such world markets as may exist. 3 The ‘traditional suspicion Of the South American toward his Yanqui neighbor of the north has lost none of its virility, An ade ditional and recent phenomenon
is the Pan-Spanish movement |
linking these peoples with their mother state in the Iberian Pens insula and indirectly ' with ‘Italy and Germany.
» » We Can’t Buy Loyalty WE ARE SEEKING to buy our way into South America and sending them a tremendous flood" of lend-lease dollars, in addition to the promise of guns and other supplies. % The’ fact is that South America should be supplying us as a parte ner in ‘this war, and not the other i
weakness, and> will not ents. us to that respect and loyalty we so earnestly - seek ‘from our Latin neighbors. This does not mean that there are not earnest and well-mean« ing people throughout this area who see eye to eye with us in the great ideological cause to which we are dedicated. It simply means that from the view of practical politics South
America remains on the fence, a
serious potential menace in case the world picture worsens and the axis = succeeds in its design of placing our continent under a state of siege. It is perfectly clear that the geographical position of Latin ° America makes it the natural battlefield ‘for any action against the United States, unless ‘ener= getic measures to protect their sovereignties are undertaken hy the countries involved. ; Hp Be distributed by United Features cate, Inc.) NEXT—Defense ¢ of - the . Amers iocas. ; ]
BAKE BETTER BREAD, BERLIN BAKERS TOLD
LONDON, Sept. 22 (U. P.).—Ber lin’s bakers. are being threaten with stringent punishment unless they learn quickly to produce better bread from substitutes - for ‘wheat, according to a Swiss newspaper. port reaching here. The Zurich Neuezuercher Zola tung’s Berlin correspondent report that the bread sold. in Ber
puor quality and sticks to ! when it ‘is ‘cut ‘because ne "meres
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