Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1942 — Page 21

ND N; Sept. ‘25. —For a few days. now m be Sout bio wort of ths Amerivsts Bed. Cress,

be making a mistake. Ee this war is doing something brand new and wonderfully interesting. The Red Cross is actually running a hell of a lot of big hotels all over the world for American troops on leave. It isn’t running ‘them for profit, and it doesn't hand out any sermons with its:bed and board. ‘If is running them to help keep soldiers happy. - Some months ago the war department designated the Red Cross as the one and only civilian if organization to serve American 5 ‘“urbops’ abroad. It was a wise decision. Instead of a ] rt of little organizations’ doing a lot of halfway one immense organization is doing one big ‘thing in 8 ‘colossal ‘way. # The Red Cross has not set up canteens or enteri tainment facilities in the camps. That is handled by i the army itself. The Red Cross is almost solely concerned with soldiers on leave. The Red Cross is J home 2 and fireside when they come to town to rip

k me Red Cross has sat up these “leave-hotels” all i r the world, wherever we have large numbers of & troops abroad.

§ Here's How It's Toni

| WHEN 1 STARTED gathering material for this # series two weeks ago, the Red Cross had 10. big _ -clubs open in the British Isles. When I inquired last & night there were 17. By Christmas there will be 60. i By the time it’s all over there may be 100-or more. * They are called “clubs,” but that is a poor nanie for them. They are actually huge hotels. where you have a room and clean'sheets and all your meals and a hundred other things. Nearly all these clubs were regular commercial ho-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nusshaume=:s

THE PrOEONS have béen 1 ‘quite a nuisance § of themselves around the school board offices, so much 80 that many timid souls dash through the doorway ¢ to avoid Being dive bombed. The situation got so bad § that A. B. Good, schools business. director, began + looking” around for a remedy. At the suggestion of William Hacker, assistant superintendent, Mr. . Good sent out and bought some of those jointed toy snakes and had‘them placed on the ledge just above the .door. They worked so well that you never see a pigeon on that ledge any more. Instead, they all go to the ledge just above. So. now Mr, Good is thinking 3 about getting ‘some more for the upper ledge. . . . Mrs. Lydia Grid- = er, who answers the telephone in {o the school superintendent's office, has just contributed gto ‘the metal salvage carhpaign a left handed golf - $

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clubcn mashie-<that ‘had’ been standing in a corner, f the ‘girls’ ‘rest room for: years. ‘The story is that 7 used it te kill mice.’

3 . Oh, Me; Oh, My!

: THERE'S A CERTAIN young woman employed in .»the “staté health board offices Who goes around with ¢ a worried look on her face these days. The trouble, as we get it, is that she has had a “steady” boy friend } t Camp -Atterpury, and another “steady” at a camp Oregon. Neither knew about the other. A while ¥ back she sent each a nice photo. And now, alas, she finds ‘they've both been assigned to officers’ training school "at the same ‘school and even the ‘same class. She’s afraid her duplicity will be revealed any moment now. , . . We told you yesterday about the fellow who attempted to get some money from a - woman resident of the Hotel English by pretending he had come from seeing ‘someone near and dear to you.” Well, the telephone operator in a downtown public building read that and phoned us to ‘say the same man had tried the same trick on her—

| Washington

ATA FTA SR HAR

represents an attempt to save the party from the ‘embarrassing position into which some of its isola-

party fully behind the war, and against appeasement, a negotiated

victory. . Work on this declaration was - begun - some weeks - ago throug the inspiration of BY ues who had long supported the Roosevelt administration's general foreign policy. They were concerned with the pre-Pearl Harbor

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structive in support of the war. . The inspiration for this did not come from those ° § holding official positions in the Republican party i organization .s0. much as it came from men like

| Representatives Hope of Kansas and Wigglesworth of tion, which denounces exploitation of the war by any bombed ‘population comes the story’

. Massachusetts and also from some other Republicans : who have shared’ the views of Wendell Willkie,

| Postwar Attitude Ts Significant

"ALSO SIGNIFICANT is the postwar attitude taken § in the Republican congressional platform. The # declaration stated that the Republican party members recognized that the United States has an obligatiton . and responsibility to work with other nations to a about a world understanding and co-operative 4 peace. "The resolution stated, however, that in so | doing we must ‘not endanger our own independence, § ox enim curs Amenican way Sf Ho ux our system bE of /

The language, as is usual with: most politica plat-

-leg.: The. .dog finally gave up. ...

By Ern ie Pyle :

tels right up to the moment the Red Cross tank

them’ over. Usually they were good-sized secondi string. hotels—a little old-fashioned, but a couple of months’ carpentry and painting makes them modern. In carrying through their program, the Red "Cross peopie scout a town where our troops congregate,

and pick out what they feel is ye ideal building :

for a club. ¥ Then they negotiate with the owners until a rental is agreed upon. commandeers the hotel, it goes out of business as a regular hotel, goes’ into business as. a Red Cross hotel, and the Red Cross pays the rent.’ =

Only for Troops on Leave

MOST HOTEL and building owners, as a matter of fact, are on the Red Cross’ neck trying to get it to take their buildings. priority on some materials, and can modernize a hotel} whereas the owner couldn’t. In no other way could the owner have a mddernized and renovated building immediately after the war. To 20me Ler corks hare 15. mers Ahan’ ane club. There are already five in London. In both England and Scotland the Red Cross has had to start negotiating for second clubs ‘even before the fps one is aciually opened. The demand is that grea The hotels are only for troops en leave, Soldiers

of the London clubs. from the men on leave. - The Red Cross limits any soldier's stay to five . days. But exceptions are made when exceptions are justified. For example, troops have been coming down from Ireland on leave, and the Red Cross lets them “stay a whole month. The clubs are open to any American soldier, sailor, marine or merchant seaman, They are fundamentally for ‘enlisted men, but because of hotel shortages officers are allowed to stay in some of them. On the Red Cross’ “future book”—and not very far in the future—-is a program for creating three smaller chains , of hotels, one for officel’s, one-for army nurses, and one for colored troops.

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successfully. “He came in—knew my name—and said he came from someone. dear to me who was far away. ‘Do you mean my uncle Lewis Peters in Springfield, III?’ I asked. He said that was who it was. After some conversation, he said he was broke and I loaned him $2 to get back home.” Beware, ladies!

Business and Pleasure

WE DON'T KNOW WHY, but that new building out at the county infirmary which they've been trying to finish the last several years, has 20 individual cells, each complete with individual plumbing and heavy grated iron doors. Seéms rather odd equipment for a home for elderly indigents... . . The doctors attending the state medical association convention at French Lick next week may have to mix business with pleasure. . The town lost its last medico to the armed forces just recently. ... Seen on Meridian at Georgia day before yesterday: “Two burly men, maybe plumbers. or railroaders, put down their sack of tools and picked :a young bird, evidently injured, out of the street and. put. it in a sunny spot on the sidewalk. Just as they started away, the bird hopped out into the street again, and they went through the same procedure,

Otto Jensen Ailing

AIR RAID WARDENING 1s not without its. haz. ards, James A. (Buzz) Watson reports. Buzz, a division warden, was driving over his district ‘during the north. side dimout the other night and saw a flashlight going through a lot of gyrations in the dark. He reports it was ‘being wielded. by Buck O'Connell, block warden, who was trying to beat off a dog .that was trying to take a nip out of Buck's Otto Jensen, chief examiner of the state accounts board, is quite, ill with intestinal flu. , . . Mrs. Lowell S. Fisher, chairman of the tin can salvage division, wishes people wouldn't put their processed tin cans in the collection boxes at: filling stations. They should be kept at.the homes. until the next tin can collection,

By Raymond Clapper

much as a specific commitment. Nevertheless the purpose of the men who took the

seeking complete victory and durable peace through international co-operation. They found language

membership of the house pledged itself to the prine ciples as stated.

A Troublesome Question

THAT IS' A LARGE gain. It insures that no individual having other ideas can use the Republican party for his purposes. However, it does not insure

_ scrutiny of each candidate continues to be desirable. "Men of different minds will try to take cover under this large umbrella. In fact, in this week’s sessions of the house some Republicans who signed this declara-

group or special interest, are supporting legislation to give another parity boost for agricultwre. Washington newspapermen will be particularly interested in one section of the declaration which warns against undue censorship. The Republican platform insists on the right to criticize, It demands that the people be given.all information consistent ‘with military requirements, but warns against using censorship as a cover to hide failures ‘of militery and civilian officers. the Republicans denounce unnecessary censorship... . With the progress of the war this question becomes more troublesome. We are having our first: experience with total war and there is increasing confusion 34 fa tho line between nscistisy miliary ccffothip “and matters of mulls votiey MesSIving free

By Eleanor Roosevelt

2 tiave Bofors tc a déscriphith of tie Ravanbrutk oo vena replat. Toaried a0 One of.

Thereupon the British government

For ' the Red Cross gets?

With AJL the sim vigor with wibich units ations sopmwanidos snd Ameriesh Sangets: stationed in London, for instance, cannot live at one| attacked Dieppe, U. S. troops are training at an east coast center for future similar That would take room away| attacks. Atte leit the fruups are shown staging a fraid” on a fortress, They stormed

GERMAN PEOPLE

FEEL RAF RAIDS

All-Out Bombing: Might End ‘War More Quickly Than Most Experts: Think.

yright, 1942, by The Indianapolis “Times d The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, Sept, 25.-Several foreign opservers ‘In this part of Europe are. becoming

increasingly ‘convinced that the} continual pounding of Germany's industrial centers by the royal air}: force and. American flying fort-|

iresses during the coming winter

“Imonths could forcé Germany to her,

knees in ‘a much shorter time than is usually believed in allied circles. According to these observers—all of whom repeat first-hand information from Germany—allied' bombings have affected a far wider group in the Nazi community than the populations of the bombed areas. It can be stated that at least 10,000,000 Germans have been directly affected by the allied raids. The evacuation of refugees is now tecoming a problem which threatens the defeat of even expert Nazi administrators. Two thousand German women and children from Karlsruhe, recently arriving in the little Baden town of Lerrach; were

forced to spend two days in the

train with the clothes they had on at the time of flight before lodgings could be found. Alsace Is Swamped According to reports, one of the greatest difficulties confronting the authorities is where to send, evacuees. Originally the former German eastern border was considered safe. With the Russians now bombing this region the Nazis must look elsewhere. Alsace has become “one of their favorite resorts for refugees. The Nazis recently sent 15,000 refugees from the Rhine region to the town of Colmar, the population of which numbers 40,000. To.make a place for the newcomers all Alsatians with “doubtful” views are’ being deported to Germany for a five year’s stay. Heading the deportation lists, according to reliable re-

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—The campaign platform forms, is sufficiently vague tor a man'to interpret it|Ports from Alsace, are those Alsaadopted by the Republican members of the house almost anyway he chooses, so it does not mean too tians with French decorations.’

The efficacy of the recent bombings also has resulted in an‘ acute

tionisty threatened to lead it. The declaration is in- lead in this action is to insure that the Republican|SUpply problem. for the Naz au: tended to put the Republican party goes ahead in the role of a loyal opposition,|thorities.

On several occasions supply cen-

ters, established in towns to’ pro-| peace or anything except military sufficiently broad so that almost all of the Republican Vide the bombed areas with immedi-

ate food needs, have been hit snd

completely destroyed: Following the}

bombing . of Karlsruhe, Gauleiter Adolf Wagner: decreed = that all Baden towns must transfer their supplies outside thé inhabited areas. Glass Is a Problem With cold’ nights rapidly ap-

. attitude of some in the party ana that each individual Republican candidate is gOINg|proaching, the ‘problem ‘of putting : = felt that the minority party could to measure up to the intent of the platform and| new glass in bomb shattered winnot make. effective its criticisms of the conduct of the those who drafted it. Although the party as a whole| ows is almost insoluble. Glass’ is war unless it took pains to make these criticisms con- adopts a satisfactory statement of general principles,iyot to be found anywhere in Ger:

many these days. It also is very difficult to find roof tiles. As another touch to this plotire of the ‘discomforts of Germany's

uring alerts. Thieves are immediately shot but only a few “exemplary” ‘execu 4

the “state of ‘uneasiness: in the|

bombed areas was so much increased that several divisions of S. 8. (elite guard) had to be recalled from the

eastern front to reinforce the police

of these regions. HOLD SENG x

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alr, sphere. tions have been disclosed in’ order|

INSTALLMENT Xi ALL-OUT. AIR OFFENSIVE

OUR ABILITY to prevent the consummation of the

axis scheme is about nil under the types of surface strat-

egy to which we are accustomed.

.. The one road open to us for striking at the heart of

the air.

the axis war effort, that is, at. Germany proper, is through

Here aloe we could’ oufmatch the Germans in a decisive theater of operations.

Here our inventiveness,

our industrial capacities, our technological resources, and

our tactical position, give us the promise of superiority against anything the Germans can do to throw the scales back into balance again. Here alone do the realities of ‘the situation favor us, and then only if we act on them at once, As far as the military position is:congerned, the governing reali-

ties are determined by the exist--

euce of the British isles, only a few hundred miles from the German heart of the ‘axis war effort, as an advance base for our operations. The implications of this favorable position have not been generally grasped. are being wholly 4 ignored by those who ‘press for ‘second fronts”

in the sense of .

¢ land invasions. It is exactly © the same as if : Germany were able to base herself on Cubs and Long Island at A paar 2 moment when William B. Zit ‘We Were engaged oy , In a savage struggle : some . powerful neighbor poi Hh! own’ continent. Imagine that Germany, under fhose circumstances, were able to devote all her massive resources to the construction of crushing air strength .to. be hurled at us ‘from these nearby points, to reduce. systematically to ashes our railroad yards, docks, communications, factories, warehouses and public ' utilities—without any fear of effective retaliation. Yet this in sober fact is exactly our position relative to the German Reich. Combined with the possession of this ideal base the united nations *have at their disposal all ‘the rer sources necessary for a conclusive operation against the Nazi realm. We can exploit. these advantages

to win the war in. the shortest | possible time and at the least

cost in life and.substance to ourselves—provided we radically alter our conception of the type of task force: required, investing all our -resources . of . brains, energy and - materials for total assault in the

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We: ‘Have the. Skill

moots: under the siniulated strafing . even captured “hostages.”. At the right the “raiders” are nels and swimming Yeward the fort under the cover of A'sioke Serees,

Indeed they

pend all his energies in the construction ‘of an unfettered air fleet which could attack frontally, take its losses as a matter of course, and duplicate in the cubic sphere the type of roaring, unlimited onslaught for which the Germans are known in surface warfare. By wrecking the potential menace of the Soviet army, the Nazi leader hoped he could free him. self from the tyranny of voracious land establishments with their insatiable appetites for -oil, men and materials, so as to be able to concentrate his efforts on the creation of that unlimited air power he needs to bring the British to Sherr Jnees,

Race for “Supremacy

THE INEVITABILITY of such

a race for air power is well recognized by informed British leaders. Said one of them to the writer: “If we don’t blow Germany out of the air, the Huns will finally blow "England ouf of the air, and will win the war by literally blowing away our industries and communications until there is nothing left.” We miay be certain that the Germans are well aware of the decisive role air power will play. The unlooked for reversals over Britain have made it perfectly clear ‘to the high command that if it cannot dictate peace terms in the London skies, it cannot dictate them at all. The Germans know what the issues are and will do their best to meet them, Everything that

‘has to do with the luftwaife to-

day benefits from . a: rigidly enforced priority ‘applying to manpower, appropriation and materials alike. If and when the Nazis beat their Muscovite adversaries down, we may prepare to be shocked by the sudden springing of a gigantic: surprise air fleet which will sweep all before it and will allow us’ no further time for - recuperation. , Whatever this dimly Ait future piny ‘have in store, there is no

of planes;

- Key to .the entire edifice. of the

new order is the Reich," If the Nazi citadel were knocked out, Japan weuld be ‘left in ‘a hopeless situation. Vast enemy forces would place her long battle lines in a relentless vise. Her grip on Asia ‘would have to be yielded

almost at once, and.an air attacls

on the main Nipponese islands,

similar in scope to that which had

previously reduced Germany, would force a speedy decision. We can . fight the battle of Germany now and win ‘by sysstematic, grueling destruction over a limited period of time if we turn our energies to the task. At the present time we are producing several hundred four-engine bombers a month, a figure which will soon be raised to 500 a month. A reasonable diversion of our raw

materials and industrial energies .

from other . and .less -critically needed equipment, would enable us to boost the monthly -oytput to several thousand within a year. : 8 N. 8 3 ‘Civilian Help Needed “0 IMPLEMENT this program successfully all’ civilian and military = industries, manufacturing plants and’ air fields should be canvassed to see what can be developed - speedily in the way of air power if it is given absolute priority on everything, and first access to every resource on the American continent, A tremendous experimental laboratory would be set up, or a series of these, which would develop newer, larger, and ' better t ,-as well as substitute ma- / Associated with it would bé a proving command which would probe and test every experimental design, nursing into maturity those which. justified it. . The: manufacture of : heavy bombers could be centralized in | the United States. These would be * flown over directly. to their opérational bases in Britain. Dovetailing with this effort, the

British. would doncentrate.on.the .

building of fighter, pursuit and interceptor planes, as ‘well as the various types of explosives that would be employed. The problems of transport would be immeasurably reduced. The only. elements in our: task force which would have to be convoyed would be ground crews and equipment, ' replacement . parts, and gasoline. 2 8 =

An Air Bomb Certain

MILITARY principles which would govern the tech-

nique, ‘strategy and tactics of this

THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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- —By William Ferguson

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climbed walls under “heavy. fire”

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doubt that at present the British Isles . are firmly held under the shield of the royal air force. The minister for air, Sir. Archibald Sinclair, told the writer last winter that he was certain “the R.A. F. was now superior to the

. Germans in’ every department,

quantitatively as well as quali : tively.” i! ele Course Is Obvious' 17" ENGLAND should fall, the wholly favorable tactical positiom which we now enjoy would ab once. disappear. We would - then

face Germany on equal terms except for the relative capacities to

- produce. Our strategy against the

axis must be governed by a recog nition of the fact that we musé take. the offensive before the emergence of the great, compact Eurasian-African land mass to« wards whose staggering manpower and resources the axis partners are reaching. When this fatal point is reached, we can forget all questions of the offensive, since none will be open to us. The tremendous advanisge of

being able to throw all we have

into air power, once we have decided upon that as the most direct course of action, is an obvious one. Germany, irretrievably locked. in a gigantic battle on the Eastern front, has little choice. and must maintain its array of armed might. Thus it is ‘faced with: a sanguinary threat in a decisive theater of action which it cannot possibly answer. Only ‘in the coming battle of Germany can we settle: accounts . once and for all with the axis. The proposed campaign are simple, These are: 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 combatant first able to de-

* velop an overwhelming assault by.

the use of air strength will,“with absolute certainty, finally succeed in grinding his opponent to bits. (2) A national organization is like any other living body. If the heart or vitals are pierced, the limhs or periphery ‘immediately proceed to de or dry up. No mate ter how much’ territory or Tres sources Nazi Germany held fast in ‘her grip, even were she able to eonguer all Europe, Asia. and Africa, if. desperate and. deadly blows were struck at her’ vitals—

at her transportation cen ‘tory. concentrations, and lors: Thon

. morale—it would mean the quick ' ‘and complete disintegration of her .

entire war effort. *

(3). All forces which’ can posst= a

bly 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, tobe

other type of all-out campaign: 3b Should Scecpt the HecesiLy Se oasey J en (

(Co t, 1943, William Zi SEES ERR 5 f

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