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. NOT FORGETTING JAPAN

TATEMENTS by the three admirals responsible for pushing the fight against Japan are welcome evidence that mounting allied successes on European fronts will not distract us from the equally important job in the Pacific. ; Because this war is global and indivisible, it would be _ perflous for us to neglect either front. : The fact that Russia Is forced by invasion to concentrate against Germany, and that Britain also must spend most of her energies against that enemy, increases American responsibility on the far sastern and Pacific fronts. Adm. Halsey, naval commander-in-chief in the South Pacific, following his Munda and Vella gulf victories, makes this pledge: “We shall push forward until the battle of the South Pacific becomes the battle of Japan.” While he says he is not “gazing into the crystal ball any more’—as when he loosely predicted final victory by Christmas—he points out the we have “thus far soundly beaten a powerful enemy in every phase of air and sea warfare” though our forces were often outnumbered. He adds - that our forces are now stronger than at any fime. " Halsey’s superior and Pacific commander-in-chief, Adm. Nimitz, after commenting that the Jap has been “held or driven back” everywhere during the last year, hints at.new

allied offensives in several directions. # » t J ” » o

ADM. KING, commander-in-chief of the entire U. S. fleet and our ranking naval strategist, says our Pacific plan calls for “offensive operations which will lead to two things: (1) Cramping the enemy communiactions still more, and (2) at the same time taking away from the enemy the positions which he holds and which will enable us to give him : more hell as we go along.” But the most reassuring part of King’s statement is that China is the key to final victory.over Japan. Such an obvious fact should not have to be spelled out at this late ——date,. but there are British and some American officials, unfortunately, who have been unrealistic enough to under- . estimate China’s past contribution and future potential. King gets back to fundamentals in explaining that - geographical position and manpower makes Russia the vital spot in the battle against Germany, and China the vital ‘spot in the battle against Japan. Admitting the difficulty of supplying China, he warns: “You can imagine what the situation would be if China were out of the war.”

SAM AND HENRY

PEECHES last week by Speaker Sam Rayburn and Vice President Henry Wallace offer a contrast. between con- . scious and unconscious humor. Sam was consciously playing for a laugh, jollying up his Texas audience, when he aptly coined the word “grumlins,” whom he described as “saboteurs of the spirit” on the ~ home front and blood kin of the airmen’s gremlins. There are not as many grumlins as there seem to be, said Sam, but with his “big mouth and loud voice” one grumlin can make more noise than 99 Americans hard at work winning the war. Further defining the grumlin as a fellow who at breakfast drinks his orange juice and coffee, eats his cereal, two eggs and toast, feels sorry for himself, and grumbles at his wife because she has used up her red stamps and can’t serve him any bacon, Sam proceeded to outline a stout defense of the nation’s: war accomplishments. It was an - effective speech for the Roosevelt administration, Sam being a veteran campaigner and knowing how to laugh with

. his listeners, how to play on their moods, and when to |

turn to sober talk. © 8 =» ® nn = BUT up in Iowa, how different was Henry Wallace's technique! He didn’t intend to make anyone laugh. Indeed, he was quite grim about it all. Using a forensic style and _ patter that caused somebody to remark that he must have * been bitten by@iie ghost of William Jennings Bryan, Henry lashed out at the ‘“‘corporations,” charging them with sundry misdemeanors, and one high crime—practicing scarcity economics. Such a charge, to be made by Henry of all people, and in a corn-hog country of all places! No one but an evan. _gelic crusader who had forgotten everything but the particular torch he was bearing at the moment could have said what Henry said, where he said it—and with a straight face. , ! But obviously Henry didn’t think there was anything unny about it when he accused the ‘‘corporations” of “holding down production for profit,” and challenged them to come out and do battle. He was deadly serious. ” . o ” » » ND what do you think was the reaction of Henry’s one- * time neighbors, listening to that harangue, remember1g that barely a decade ago Henry was the high priest of pity economics; plowing under crops and slaughtering kling pigs to keep pork off the market? Sam Rayburn earned plenty of chuckles with his 3 at the grumlins, but in the long run Henry Wallace bly will get the most laughs from those who think ut the little pigs revolving in their graves. , any comparison between the smiling Texan and the ous humorist of Iowa, however, certain allowances be made. Sam was under no strain. He's firmly on his congress seat, and he knows that, if the rats lose the next election, he will still be leader of

in the house, and if the Democrats win, he will |

be at least speaker, and maybe vice president.

Hen ‘has only one pair of cost

By Westbrook vole:

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"NEW YORK, Aug. 9—When I|

was out West last spring I prom-

ised to cite some specific instances |

of drunkenness, shirking, insubordination and other misconduct by civilian sailors of the merchant marine, serving on board the same ships with young enlisted sailors and commissioned officers of the

armed guard, or gun crews of fhe |

navy and at much higher rates of ‘pay, by way of refuting the propaganda of the CO who have enjoyed the favor' of Mrs. Roosevelt, Ma Perking and the war shipping administration, and who would have you believe such things could not be. Well, after I got back, I had a lot of accumulated correspondence to read and answer and documents to’study and considerable leg work laid for me, so I have just got around to it. Not to disappoint you, here is case No. 1, that of an oiler whose ship was in a foreign port discharging cargo and under orders to be ready to sail in a few hours, Therefore there was no liberty and therefore the oiler told the captain he would go ashore and come back any time he felt like it, and the captain could him if he wanted to, beeause it would all be canceled by the shipping administration when he got back,

The Complaint Was Dismissed

HE ALSO harangued the rest of the crew not to worry ‘about logging because all charges would be wiped out. So the skipper did log him and he was duly tried on a charge of misconduct and using profane language to the master and chief engineer.

And, sure enough, the complaint was dismissed. Case No. 2 is a messman who went ashore without permission in the first port on a voyage, got drunk and was absent three days. A few days after the ship sailed he developed a veneral disease and was of watch for eight days.

At the next port again he went ashore without permission and returned drunk and the same thing happened twice more in the next port. He was put in a hospital there but left without being discharged and the ship finally sailed without him and he was logged as a deserter.

Case No. 3, is another messman. He assaulted the chief officer with a knife, was arrested and got six weeks in jail in a foreign port. Case No. 4. This man, an ordinary seaman, 1s quite a case. He was charged with being absent from his ship without permission four days in one port and then four days in the next and then stealing a length of new two-inch rope used to tow the fog buoy in convoy and trying to sneak ashore. He also was charged with stealing the ship’s telescope, which was foynd in his bunk after he was seen taking it from the chart room. The captain also said a native official in a foreign port pointed out No. 4 as the member of the crew whom he had seen lowering sacks of lend-lease sugar over the side into a thieves’ canoe at night, that he was seen lurking near: the chart room about the time a sextant was stolen, that he was drunk on board and that he was a disgrace to the merchant service.

Dismissed From Service

MR. 4 WAS dismissed from the service under circumstances which would have sent an enlisted bluejacket to Portsmouth for about 15 years. No. 5 is an able seaman who got into a fight with another member of the crew and tried to seize a pistol from a member of the armed guard. A few weeks later on the same cruise he got drunk on board and was unable to stand his watch. He was set on the beach for six months. No. 6 is an ordinary who advised the armed guard bluejackets to go to the boats instead of firing if they were attacked, and said he would rather live under the Nazi$¢ than wear the uniform of the United States army, and that his only reason for going to sea was to duck the draft, No. 7 is the case of three exireniely class-conscious seagoing unioneers who gathered below the gun platform while the kids of the armed guard and the kid ensign were training their gun on a ship which was acting suspiciously, and mimicked the orders and ranges and made fun of the gun crew. The ensign also reported that they had on a previous occasion made disparaging remarks about the bluejackets and

their officers.

Records Are Suppressed

THESE, OF COURSE, are verified cases, all entered in the records but they are routine rather than exceptional. The logs and reports of ships’ masters to the owners are loaded with such misconduct but the political influence over the maritime commission and the shipping administration is so strong that the coast guard has impounded the official logs as secret documents, although they are supposed to be public rec-

i ords, so that the relatives of patriotic enlisted sailors

who have to sail with such trash for much less pay can’t read what goes on. In this way, too, the political command over the coast guard is protecting the reputation of a Com-munist-front group which has received great encouragement from Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Perkins and, in previous times, when it had jurisdiction, from the New Deal department of commerce. “ In this way, too, Frank Knox, who has jurisdiction over the coast guard which impounded the evidence of such evil conduct aboard the merchant ships, is covering up riff-raff who plague his own navy men and jeopardize their lives, and all this comes under the head of labor's gains.

We the People

By Ruth Millett

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FOLLOWING a husband from"

camp to camp, and making a home for him at each new place, isn’t at all bad for a woman. : ne experience teaches her a ob. should never get so fond of her own house and her “own things” that she is unhappy away from them. It teaches her that, , 8 woman should be able to make a home anwyhere that she can rent quarters to live in. It teaches her that a woman should not depend on her possessions to impress the people she wants to like her, but on her own graciousness, kindness, of heart, and intelligence. ' It shows her that one’s friends aren't necessarily a

munity, It shows her that friends can be made any-.

where and, that new friends are an sling dveture. :

in living.

Increases Independence

It teaches her that a woman.

° ‘ The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“WHAT BECOMES OF OUR GROSS TAX MONEY?” By Mrs. W. A. Collins, 1402 E. New York st. Will somebody please explain why Indiana must pay a gross income tax? What becomes of this money? The federal government

|needs money but they tell me In-

diana has $35,000,000 reserve fund. I, for one taxpayer, protest against paying gross income tax. How many others do? * In the first place it was the infant of one handsome Nut and now it is a thorn in the poor man’s side,

# » » “MAIL YULE GIFTS EARLY TO YOUR SERVICE MAN” By A Soldier's Friend, Indianapolis According to the war department, the month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 is the time for Christmas mailing to soldiers serving overseas. Presumably packages and letters for sailors, ‘marines and other services should be sent at least as soon. It is going to be an enormous task to distribute Christmas mail to the 2,000,000 and more of American fighters scattered all over the globe, : Transportation alone would be a problem, but before that must come the involved clerical work of ascertaining where each person is, 50 that the mail can be properly routed. If you want your = ervice man to get a Christmas package from you,

early and observing all regulations, » 8 82 “BRITISH MEAN BUSINESS IN THIS WAR”

By L. M. P, Indianapolis It could happen here, but so far

that the British fined a worldfamous woman member of parliament, Lady Astor, $240 for violation of rationing regulations. The Vir-ginia-born peeress merely asked a friend to bring her back some cloth« ing when he returned from the United States by plane. Our most vocal woman member of congress, Mrs. Olaire Luce,

. | would not. knowingly oftend against

you must co-oparate by mailing

as I remember it hasn't. I read|

(Times readers are invited to * express their views in these columns, religious con. troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters must be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed.)

Ee rationing rules. (Lady Astor didn’t understand, either.) But if Mrs, Luce were, by conceded error, to break a rule or two, would we fine her $200 and costs? British mean business. Their war .ig right at home.

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“A 1943 VERSION OF AN OLD ANECDOTE” By Veteran of ’17, Indianapolis From Tunisia comes the 1943 version of an old anecdote, Stunned Nazi prisoners ask to be shown the 84th division's “automatic artillery.,” They got the idea when the division plastered the Germans with 8500 rounds in 80 minutes. The same story was current in France as early as the winter of 1917-18, when Germans were said to bave askéd to see the 26th division’s T5-millimeter machine guns. Our artillerymen fired so fast that the enemy is supposed to have doubted that anything but a machine gun could have maintained the pace. Both tales may be true, or not. In any event, a very bad place to be is on the receiving end of American artillery fire. » » » . “STOP THE PROMISCUOUS USE OF T STAMPS” By R. H. KE, ‘dianapolis When the federal men get through their current drive on use-tax-stamp-law violators, they should start out to check-up on the use of T-gasoline stamps. There seems to be great numbers of these T stamps floating around, and almost anyone with a friend in the trucking industry can get at’ least a few, if not a lot. Many Slits of station operators are

secepling them without question

Side. 8 Glances By Galbraith

from motorists. This is the. big loophole in the gasoline rationing system, as I see it. And it should be plugged because we average motorists want enough gas to go around. I think everything possible should be done to keep the government from having to slash our gasoline allotments furthgr . . . and stopping the promiscuous use of T stamps will help.

» nn “BRING BACK SOLDIERS TO DIRECT TRAFFIC”

By E. H. T., Indianapolis

Let's get the soldiers back doing trafic ‘work on our streets. The boys from Ft. Benjamin Harrison at least paid attention to their job even though they were green and for one, I believe that the job was done better than the polie department ever did it. The policemen are too Busy peeking at the skirts and ‘slacks passing by to pay any attention to automobile traffic, While we're on the police department, how, about assighing some of your men to getting the glass picked up from the street, Chief Beeker. A little less politics: down at police headquarters and more attention to this job. would result in tires saved for the war effort. I suggest that each policeman, whenever he spots glass in the street, promptly inform the householder or storekeeper and if necessary, let him get out with a broom himself. Also Chief Beeker, did you know that. the county was clean of gampling activities now and that the gamblers have réturned to the city where they've found a ‘welcome haven? You did fine at first, but you've slipped lately. 'It makes no difference whether gambling is driven out or not as far as I'm con-

city is clean When it bo not.

“WILL GERMANY COLLAPSE : THIS YEAR?”

By V. G. L, Chicago ’ Allied air supremacy, demon-

many, not only may force Nazi leaders to make drastic Shanges in their fighting plans, but has raised the quéstion—will Germany collapse this year? Retirement of Gé&man forces within a central European fortress, if major offensives should fail, has been traditional German military theory. Until a short ago it was the basis of Nazi defense tactics. But the mounting fury of the allied air offensive apparently has made the German populace so panicky, that I question whether the Nazis, confronted with reverses on every front, can face another

cerned, but please don’t profess the

strated on ‘the war fronts and. in the battle of the bombers over Ger-| EE

In ington By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—~The American breed of Nazi pi gandist doing business — AL the United States, in spite of the war, may be divided for convenie: “ence into two classes—those who. "are now under indictment and" . those who have not yet been ine: dicted. The first group, now numbering 33, is the better known, but’ the mere fact that they have been indicted and are now mostly free on bail of f $1000 to $6000 has not stopped their activities diminished their anti-American activities one wh Take Court Asher of Muncie, Ind, publisher of. “X-Ray.” Its second class mailing privilege was. revoked in June, 1942, but it still goes out, at its masthead the line, “Entered as second-class matter” at the postoffice, Muncie, Ind. (Application Pende ing)” Asher is out on $6000 bond, under indictment for sedition, but that has not stopped his activities, either. Out of the mere fact that the U. 8S. office of, price administration had brought to this country’ a British government consultant on rationing exe. perience, named Israel Moses Seiff, “X-Ray” builds up a story headlined, “A Scheme of Planters Dictatorship Here to Throw U. 8. Into Chaos; Bri Israel Jew, Moses Seiff, Seeks U. 8. Chaos to Put, Over Totalitarian Scheme.” Asher’s paper has been, filled with stories about plots being hatched by the, Jewish-Communist-International bankers who cone trol the Roosevelt administration. His paper now. takes the line of prohibition. Also, it seeks to prows that “Christ Was Not a Jew” and it makes a he of John L. Lewis.

Mrs. Dilling Carries On

ELIZABETH DILLING of Chicago, alias the oY. ‘Frank Woodruff Johnson, is also under indictment for sedition, also free on $5000 bond, but that has not* stopped the activities of her “Patriotic Research Bureau” newsletter, mimeographed for direct mailing, and one of the most active of the pro-Nazi, ante Semitic sheets. Mrs. Dilling led the women who marched on Washington two years ago to impeach: Mr. Roosevelt, and at that time she visited several’ congressmen. She is still dealing with congressmen,» notably Ham Fish of Duchess county, New York, In“ nearly every issue of her newsletter, Mrs, Dilling* carries a plug for Fish’s proposed amendment to the sedition ' law, which, if passed, would hamstring: all such trials. d On the West coast there are William Kullgren ol Altascadgro, Cal, who edits “America Speaks,” and C. Leon de- Aryan of San Diego, editor of “The: rBfoom." Kullgren’s paper is largely reprints. Kullgren: himself is a vegetarian-astrologist who used the stars: to prove that Hitler was right, and then ; turned: anti-Semite. De Aryan’s real name is Constantine. Legenopol, a Rumanian born “nationalist” who was dishonorably discharged from the U, 8. army and sat out the last war in Mexico. He has been edi “The Broom” for over 12 years. Originally he an anti-Semitic line, but now “writes that Pearl Harbor he has called off all feuds and ho that his antagonists have called off their dogs, too, His paper is, however, filled with defense of the 33

indicted for sedition, of whom he is one. THE ABOVE are the principal publishers in al group under indictment. The others are writers, speakers, organizers or societies that follow the Hitler line. The marvel is how they continue to g % a following, but they do—Robert "Noble, Prest Dennett, Hudson de Priest, Eugene Sanctuary, Gr Deatherage and the rest. Most of them are’ on bond. Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn, believing” all bondsmen are Jews, languishes in the District: ror’ Columbia jail. William Dudley Pelley, already convicted: of sedis tion and sentenced to 15 years, is in the D. OC. jail * Frank K. Ferens of Los Angeles, a Nazi film distribe utor convicted in California, was in San Quentin, is* now in the D. C. jail. Herman Max Schwinn, an’ enemy alien convicted in the bund cases, is he in the ‘federal prison ‘at Sandstone, Minn. ; Diebel is awaiting trial in an enemy alien internment” camp. William Griffin of New York, publisher of the New York Enquirer which is also under indictment,

has been fighting extradition from New York. All the others are out on bond.

Hitler Followers

(Second of a Series)

Hit-Run Sabotage By Nat A. Barrows

LONDON, Aug. 9.—British offle cers and non-coms, Who are age: tually guiding the movements © ‘closely unified, well- financed Greek guerrilla bands, are ine tensifying their hit-and- - run’ sabotage activities across ‘the ‘bore! der into Albania. They are strike ing systematically heavy blows at potential allied landing . oy across the ‘strait of Ofranto the heel of Italy. These professional British leaders have opened such an intensive campaign against Italian land cone voys from Valona into the rugged interior and across into the Greek province of Yannina that Italians now are- forced to: use a heavy escort of ‘tanks: airplanes. ull Authentic reports reaching London from neu sources reveal that several Greek border villages ‘have ben wiped out by bombs in reprise] for guerrilla attacks in the Albanian mountains. : 3 &

Greek Hostages Shot, y

Greek hostages were shot after nine Italians were killed during attacks between Delvino and Mouzini. Extension of the Bulgarian occupation zone toward Greece along the top of the Aegean sea to the edge! of the mountains beyond Salonika has resulted in demonstrations and increasing unrest in” Athens. A Turkish report says that 30 people were killed and’

;| 400 arrests were made in the Pireaus port of Athens

when workers protested this movement of the Bul, garians across Macedonia. Itallan troop withdrawals—which hegan even be.