Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1943 — Page 2

Lines; Island by Island Reconquest of Pacific Would Be Costly to Allies.

? - By B. M. McQUAID % ” copyrignt, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and ‘The Chicago Daily News, Ins. -

- PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 5 gots, belly,” fronting on the to Kamchatka, is abundantly

~The vulnerability of Japan's Asiatic coast from Hangchow evident.

«. From coastal bases, Japan’s enemies could deliver merciless and unceasing attacks on her interior supply and com-

munication lines through the

China seas. Once her traffic

| with the Indies and the mainland began to be effectively

cut, “Greater East Asia,” would fall apart as quickly as it was put together. | The Korean peninsula, "| nially rife with dissent to Jap rule, © 4s a soft spot whose occupation would lay open the Sea of Japan | itself, severing all ties between the | homeland and the rich agricultural : {and mineral kingdom of Man- . chukuo. | Meanwhile, from the expanding | American bases in the Aleutians, | the Jap fishing grounds in the Sea of Okhotsk and along Kamchatka, | another potential soft spot of Jap economy, could. be brought under ‘the guns.

peren-

Morale Is Periled

| Deprived of rice and ore from the . (mainland; tin, rubber and other | vast, ‘uncatalogued riches of. the Indies and the Philippines, and with their northern fishing grounds seriously menaced, it is doubtful if

Japan’s most persuasive warlords

could maintain the fervor of their

subjects and the desired pitch of fighting fanaticism. Destructive air ' attacks on homeland industries and nival bases would hardly allay popular discomfort. A significant harbinger of the doom to come is the devastation wrought in the last year by Ameri"can submarines, many of them operatinig in areas included by naval strategists in their designation “the soft belly of Japan.” Nothing done either by surface forces or aircraft has hurt the Japs as much as the operation of our subs, which have ~ sunk more than 1,000,000 tons of Jap shipping in the last 12 months. Obstacles to such a campaign are . plain and plentiful. As mentioned in my previous dispatch, realists among our Pacific fighters think ‘that a long war will be necessary to reopen Burma, subjugate parts of Thailand and Indo-China and push through to the Chinese with . really big-scale - quantities of men and machines.

Face Distance Problem

Too, these reinforcements must be transported vast distances both on the Pacific, and via the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Obviously, the success of our North African campaign, involving as it does the control of the Mediterranean and the reopening of the Suez to unimpeded traffic, is intimately bound up with Pacific “soft belly” strategy. But the alternative is the old, stale strategy of island by island - peconquest of the .multitude of ~ gtrongly fortified Jap positions in “ “the Pacific. In this direction Japan is not vulnerable at all. is strong and we are weak and ‘0 tremendous disadvantages are unlikely to diminish with the passage of time. To see what we are up against, it is only necessary to study on the map the interlocking chain of

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Jap naval and: air bases which now extend in compact, unbroken mutually reinforcing -lines from. the homeland to the fighting fronts in New Guinea and the Solomons. True, none of these equals Pearl Harbor in site or importance. For most major repairs, for instance, damaged Jap vessels probably must put back from the Solomons all the way to Sasebo, Kure or Yokosuka. These. primary Jap bases are in the homeland. Sasebo at the southwest tip of the island of Kyushu; Kure on the same island in an inland sea; Yokosuka, the No, 1 =p base in Tokyo bay. Lack Chain of Bases But Pearl Harbor itself is slightly farther from the Solomons than Sasebo, Kure, or Yokosuka, and between Pearl Harbor and the Solomons we have no such chain of interlocking, strongly developed secondary bases as the Japs. It is a mere 500 miles from Yoko-

suka to the “Japanese Malta,” Chichi Jima, in the Bonins. Seven hundred miles south of Chichi Jima, in the Mariannes, the Japs possess .another extremely powerful base on Saipan island as well as lesser establishments on Rota and Guam. Almost due east of Chichi Jima, a couple of hundred miles south of Sasebo, the Japs have a huge sea and air base at Amami-Oshima. Southwest from the Mariannes lie Yap and Palau in the western Carolines. These form an arc with the new Jap base in: the southern Philippines. : Only 570 miles southeast of Saipan lies the great Jap base of Truk, the vital supply and repair base which is the nerve center of Japan’s campaign in the south Pacific. Sheltered all around by a natural sea barrier coral reef rising 30 to 35 feet from the sea, Truk sprawls over an archipelago of small volcanic islands. The great base measures 35 miles from apex to base and it is roughly triangular in shape. Its reefs are an excellent defense against surface bombardment. It could be hit hard only from the air, or by forcing surface warships through its narrow and heavily mined and netted entrances.

Most Have Airfields

Westward from Truk, it is 380 miles to another Jap base, Ponape, in the Carolines. In the Marshall group and separated from Ponape and each other by 400 miles or less, lie such bases as Maloelap, Rangelap, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Jaluit and Wotje. Marcus and Wake, east of Chichi Jima and north of the Marshalls, are independent islands, but ‘easily reinforceable from the Bon‘ins, Marshalls and Mariannes. South from Palau, Truk and Ponape are front-line Jap bases in the active fighting zones—Rabaul, the main base 6n New Britain; Lae and Salamaua on New Guinea, the Buin-Faisi area at the south end of Bougainville, and the new airfield, Munda, on New Georgia. It is hard to see any loopholes in this interlocking, mutually protective system. Many of the bases possess harbor facilities for warships of all sizes. Nearly all have landing fields so that even fighters may be flown from homeland factories to fighting zones without ex-

,| tending their short ranges. Some,

like Chichi Jima, Truk and Saipan, are big enough to handle all but the most major repair jobs. All are well protected by land based aircraft.

Gain Time for Bases

Against. this system—upon most of which the Japs labored diligently for many years—we have recently put together our own system of bases leading down from Pearl Harbor to the: fighting zones and shielding our Pacific supply routes to Australia and India. One of our southwestern bases is at Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia. In the New Hebrides group, we pos-

vide us with a chain of supply to our forces on Guadalcanal. In addition, we are building up bases in the PFijis, Samoa and various other Pacific island groups. For the most part, these new bases decidedly were not ready when our Solomons offensive began,

no means was as well organized or carefully prepared as naval leaders would have preferred but could not have been delayed another instant. As it iis, we have not only won a firm grip in the Solomns and gained

* | time for%shoring up our new bases,

but have forced the Jap to pay a punishing price for the temerity with which he has undertaken again

have learned a lesson. Instead of sending ships and men into the jaws of the American trap, they are feverishly attempting the construction of new airfields, notably at

${ Munda, from which they hope to

fling blanket air Projection over any. Pe atiack in

sessgrsecondary bases which pro-j

early in August. That offensive by|§

and again to drive us back. Indi-| cations are that the Japs finally

_ force they

Thomas Rucker Jr.

Local Sailor Recalled His Life at Home in Last Letter to Parents.

Recollections of his mother's cooking, hunting and fishing with his father, spats with his sister and assurances that he would return, fill the last letter Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Rucker received from their son, Thomas Jr. of the navy. The letter was written on Nov. 5. The navy department informed Mr. and Mrs. Rucker last week that their son had been killed in the southwest Pacific, He was_a firstclass seaman. Seaman Rucker ‘enlisted in March, 1941, while a student at Manual Training high school. He was 19 on Sept. 14, 1942, The family lives at 26 E. Minnesota st. Mrs. Rucker works at Mar-mon-Herrington Co., Inc, and Mr. Rucker is employed at the Chevrolet Commercial Body Co.

new tax legislation be immediately

Senate Finance Committee Asks for Enactment Before March 15.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U. Bj—

income tax plan got boost today from Chairman Walter PF. George (D. Ga.) of the senate finance committee who called for enactment of such a system before March 15. He envisages no general revision of federal tax structure at this time, but told reporters that early action by congress to enable taxpayers to meet their tax obligations currently by ‘paycheck deductions was essential if the American people are not to be swamped by new high tax rates. “It’s highly important that any

taken up and disposed of if possible by March 15” he said. Resolution Due Soon Recent demands by Senator Robert A. Taft (R. O.) and Senator Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo.), both members of the finance committee,

ly the task of writing a new tax bill without waiting for treasury recommendations were supported by Rep. Frank Carlson (R. Kas.), a ways and means committee member. Rep. Carlson plans to introduce soon a resolution to put income tax collections on a pay-as-you-go basis. Both Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C.) and Rep. Allen T.

PAY- Im OU-50

The campaign for a pay-as-you-go| another big].

that congress undertake immediate-| -

The fire in her eyes shows Peggy Armitage has zest for her job as a member of the Swarthmore, Pa., volunteer fire department. She’s just back from helping quench an $80,000 \ blaze near Philadelphia.

Treadway (R. Mass.), ranking Republican, of the ways and means commtitee, have indorsed some form of pay-as-you-go plan. Rep. Doughton specified, however, that he did not approve the forgiving of one year’s taxes.

payments on. the 1942 income—

scheduled to begin next March 15

—as current payments on 1943 earnings, with provision for ad-

justment in case the taxpayers’ income has changed drastically since

1942,

Rep. Carlson’s plan would treat

|asking congress for a new : ci

‘jan “unnecessary and danueic

Democrats Hope F. D. R. | Won't Precipitate Fioht On ‘Beveridge’ Basi

« WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (U. Influential democratic congres: leaders today are trying to pe. ‘President Roosevelt, to pox

security program broad enqug: cover every man, woman an: I in the United States. : “They fear that any propdss] cor parable to the British Bey: id: social security plan will pre:ioii:

dispute in the new congress. The group includes both «¢ and house leaders and if is 1! to arrange an audience wii president before he deliver: state of the union messag:, scheduled for' Thursday.

None Very Hopeful

None of the congressmen is hopeful of ‘tonvincing Mr. F velt that his message shoul confined to the war effort, b were said to believe that should appeal for omission o reference to a new social saci plan. © “I'm very much afraid tka inclusion of social security revi: in the president’s message will on an untimely fight which will set the whole tempo of congre sional action on war measure: ’ « member of the group said. Another said: “I sincerely hope the preside not going to include social sou: in his opening message to cou but I'm afraid he is. He wan. Beveridge social security pla: and unless he changes his mind © will ask for it.” There has been little indica

ing.

ty for 10 _— An of the Cleveland orchestra, leaves at the end of this season to become conductlor of the New York Philharmonic Symphony orchestra, another of the nation’s top musical organizations.

sions the president is g. But

wviit Was considered almost certain

that he would seek to improve the benefits of the presenf system and extend coverage to millions of workers, not now included. The Beveridge plan, which recently was presented to the British house of commons, would provide insurance for an individual from the cradle to the grave, including health, hospital, unemployment and old age. American social security officials,

‘in a recent publication of the Amer-

ican council on public affairs, cited the need for similar minimum in« surance plans in this country.

SPONSOR CARD PARTY The January band of St. Catherine’s church will sponsor a card party at 1 p. m. Thursday at the Food Craft shop, 220 Century buildChairmen are Mrs. George

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Looms as Problem for

Legislature; Cunningham ‘To Proceed.’

The real estate reassessment muddle is expected to be thrown’

|back to the legislature before az

actual reappraisal of grounds

| buildings is started.

The state tax board early " 1042 issued a formal order for the first general real estate revalustion in 10 years under authority granted by the legislature in 1931.However, the Marion county council eliminated from the 1043 budget some $280,000 requested to conduct the reappraisal. here this year on the ground that an adequate working program for it had not been formulated. .

$10,000 Appropriated

The council appropriated $10,000 to be used by officials to set up proper machinery for the reassessment, probably in 1944. Despite elimination of the main appropriation, Center Township. Assessor James F. Cunningham has announced that he is going ahead with plans for & general reassessment of real estate this spring. “I've been ordered by the state

‘Ttax board to reappraise real estate this year and I'm making plans

to carry out that order unless the legislature changes the setup,” Mr. Cunningham said.

The assessor said he didn’t know i

where he will get the money for the project but he said he will pro= ceed until “stopped by some one.” Mr. Cunningham said, however, that the 1943 session of the legislature “probably will enact new legislation for assessments and straighten out the problem.” ih

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