Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1943 — Page 23

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Road Long and Bloody

: THAT 1S a large order. It means reducing Japan - ~40 a third-rate power. To do 50 willbe: far from the

cinch some predict after we lick Hitler and concen _ Nothing thus far indicates it will be an easy task. . On the contrary, the Gilberts, the Solomons and New Guinea all prove otherwise. Out of 6000 Japs defending the pinpoints known as the Gilberts, less than 100 - Were left alive and our marines took the bloodiest Josses in their history. The Gilberts showed that the road to Tokyo by the island-hopping method will be long and bloody. - There are two alternatives, One—almost as long and as bloody as the island route—is to retake Burma and build communications capable of supplying Chinese battlefields comparable to those jn Eu-

LITTLE BARBARA WALKER, 311 W. 46th, is the . envy of all the boys in her neighborhood. Her. father, Maj. William H. (Bill) Walker, somewhere in -. England, has sent her a box containing a large assort- ~- nent of British regimental emblems and “insignia. : Some of the boys have been trying to trade her out of some of them, but she isn't making any swaps. Her mother explains, “Bill will want to play with them himself when he comes home” . . . One of our readers read our recent suggestion about revolving door manners, and adds her two cents worth. “Why,” she asks,

front of revolving “doors so otiiers coming through the door can get ; : out of the way without getting hit, in the back by the ri" , . . Pvt. Harry Beplay, ¢redit manager of The Times until he entered the army .4 few months ago, participated in a wrestling competition at Camp Lee and emerged the featherweight champion of his regiment. He never wrestled before, at least. not in competition, and his opponent was a youth 12 years his junior. Pretty good for an old man of 34! .-. . A grayhaired customer in the Holtegel bakery, 30th and Central, started a conversation with another patron and produced what he called his “lucky piece.” It had the likeness of Lin- - coln-on one side and Andrew Johnson on the other, “A thief broke into the house and took two pairs of my trousers,” the man said, “but he didn't take this. "He removed it from a pocket and left it on

the’ dresser for me.” ~,

OBSERVATIONS OF a part-time postdl employee: It's surprising how many people still igrniore all warn ings and send loose coins—folding money, too—in -gnvelopes. Frequently the coins sift out of the envelopes and there's no way to tell where they came from. , . . Many envelopes reaching the postoffice are “home made.” Some are triangular, some heartshaped, etc. These slow the work in the busy postoffice as each has to be hand canceled. . . . Also slows

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3~The Cairo terms of the allies make it likely that we are in for a very long war in the Pacific. Japan undoubtedly -will fight until helpless rather than accept those terms. They mean her disappearance sis a world power. Ee Japan would be reduced 10 the status of a small island country, stripped of all empire and theres fore of all materials necessary for war industry. Japan would be back, territorially, as Commodore . Perry found it. All acquisitions, beginning with Formosa, “which was taken from - the “Chinese 50 years ago, would be stripped away. . There are pledges which the allies have made to each other, As nearly as it is possible to do so, te the allies have sentence of death on the Japanese empire and have decreed the international equivalent of solitary confinement on this malicious race’ which has indulged in every kind of international crime to advance its material ambitions.

Study of Pacific Discouraging

BUT THE séntence is easier pronounced than executed. | You have only to read the dispatches telling of the bloody landing at Tarawa. Admiral

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

outlet. On the other hand, to be secure as a great power, Japan is convinced that she must remove the “pistol pointed at her head™ (Vladivostok) and drive “the Russians back to Lake Baikal. : ~ Korea was used as the springboard to Manchuria and inner Mongolia, These ferritories constitute a springboard to eastern Siberia. Thus when Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek announced that Korea and Manchuria would be taken from Japan. they were helping Russia as much as themselves, Even so, there are those who believe Marshal Stalin will demand a sizable quid pro quo if he intervenes against Japan. - If the above is not sufficient, the southern half of Sakhalin might revert to him and perhaps the Kuriles. Maybe too, China might .glve Russia a free port at Dairen and permit her to use the old Chinese Eastern and South Manchuria railways which Russia used to own. ’

ing the work is the envelope with a dozen or 16 onecent stamps on it. It takes extra time to hand cancel all those stamps. . . . Many letters have inadequate postage on them and many more no postage at all. “Some others have twice as much as needed.” . » . A surprising amount of trash comes to the postoffice with .the mail. Some folks evidently mistake mail boxes for trash boxes. . . . And every now and then a letter shows up with rouged lips imprinted on it. One the other day had six pairs of lips dmprinted on it, each set of lips marked with different initials. It was addressed to a soldier... . On the “Beat the Band” radio program Wednesday night, a-carton of cigarets was awarded to R. H. Tyndall. _ It wasn’t our mayor, though. This one lives in Akron, 7 ..» Mayor ‘Tyndall received a clipping from = “York “Hewsphper showing Thala polis new po licewomen. The clipping was sent by his son, Sam Tyndall. ., , . The railroad overhead at 10th and Massachusetts is being repainted a brilliant orange. « + « The Curtiss-Wright servicemen's club will give an entertainment Monday night for "the wounded veterans in Billings hospital. All the talent is from the C-W plant, except accompanists,

No Baby Brother - ~ ALTHOUGH SHE'S only 5! years old, Sarah Caldron, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Caldron, 1221 E. Washington, is pretty fair at reading, and can dial a telephone like an adult. For more than a year Sarah has been wanting a baby brother and receiving evasive- answers. Her grandfather told her a baby brother had been ordered. Somehow she learned to associate babies with. hospitals, and the other day she: asked her: mother Fow to spell hospital. She “Hiiety ooked throtgh thie CHR Sectlbi Kid Toure’ “the Methodlst hospital ‘number, andgdialed it. Soon her mother heard her talking to someone out at the hospital, asking about the baby brother. The voice at the other end of the line told her the baby must have been ordered at angther lospital, suggesting . Robert Long, Sarah tried that next, Then Coleman. Finally she became disgusted and told the operator at Coleman that she guesséd “Grandpa just forgot to order it”. Sarah frequently telephones her uncle, A. B. Good, the city schools business director.

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By Raymond Clapper

But the Japanese show no signs of coming out to fight-<for that very reason. They probably will pull their fleet back and back as necessary and keep it under cover of land-based aircraft. Much as our «navy would welcome a full dress battle between the two fleets, it is not likely to occur—mot at least until wé have driven through to the very gates of the se homeland,

The Dying Has Only Begun

IN THE AIR, we are building some’ 9000 planes a month. Certainly when Germany is defeated, we can expect to have Japan completely outnumbered in the air. We can lose plane for plane and Japan is sure to be driven out of the air. - But we are a long ways from where we can get our planes to hit at the vitals of Japan. We are fighting far out on the fringes of Japan. To reach Japan from the Chinese side we must retake Burma and drive the Japanese out of most. of China. To reach Japan from the south we must retake a whole series of strong defenses, because the Philippines, Malaya, and other Japanese holdings lie between us and the homeland of Japan. To attack Japan from the direction of Pearl Harbor we must get over vast expanses of ocean in which Japan holds the outposts, and on which Japanese planes are From the direction of Alaska, long stretches of islands are in the way.

“THIRD SECTION

apolis Times and expert-on foreign: timély articles by Mr. Lennox to

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enemy is now pursuing an alt By imposing maximum

egy? And how can the united nations best employ their forces to achieve their own object: Out‘Fight victory? Tr That, obviously, must broadly indicate the problem confronting American-British-Russian leaders for personal discussions between the three men principally responsible for framing the allies’ national .and military policies. » ” on

Time Not on Our Side

.AT_ANY. SUCH meeting. the first series of items on the agefida would necessarily be concerned ‘with the twin problems of how we will win and when will win, Thereafter the natienal leaders would seek to work out a general plan for restoring peace throtighout the world and to preserve that peace. ~ [Details fight be ‘worked out, of course, but broad conclusions, to serve’ as directives for advisory bodies who would thrash out details later, would be reached. Such bodies are already exemplified by the European commission which has jus} been: established in London.’ o :

of the war in its present phase, the more evident it becomes that time is not on our side. It is apparent that if the retreating enemy is able to gain sufficient time for his withdrawal, he can leave behind such a waste of total desolation that the problems which confront the advancing united nations’ armies will become formidable,

UNION CHARGES ELECTION FIXED

Charge Film Producers Blocked Attempt to

Leave Bioff.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (U. P.).—An attempt by a West coast local of the Motion Picture Operators’ union to break away from the International Alliance of Theaterical Stage employees because of the activities of George E: Browne and William Bioff, convicted extortionists, was disrupted by leading motion picture producers, it was testified yesterday in federal court, Testifying in the trial of six Chicago gangsters and a Newark labor leader for complicity in a plot to extort more than $1,000,000 from the movie industry, Lew C. G. Blix of Hollywood, former business agent of local 37of I. A. T. 8. E, said the local's disconterit with the parent body reached a climax in 1039, About 4500 of the- locals 7500 members formed the United Studio guild which received

By VICTOR GORDON LENNOX

united nations offensive he hopes not so much to achieve victory as to avoid total defeat. How far can Germany ho

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German Strategy Now A Delaying Game to | Put Off Total Defeat

How to bring the war to a victorious close before Europe is completely ruined is the most pressing problem facing allied leaders, according te Victor Gerdon Lennox, London writer for The Indian-

affairs. This is the first of several -

appear Suring the next'few days,

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LONDON, Dec. 3.—In Europe the struggle between the united nations and the axis is entering a new decisive

Shorn of his principal ally, who has actually crossed over into our camp, short of manpower and material reserves, and increasingly stricken in the heart of his own country by mounting Anglo-American bombardments; the

ogether defensive strategy. delays in the path of the

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Swift Victory Needed

“NOT ONLY does Ate task of + supplying

and accommodating armies become infinitely harder when devastation removes the chance for billeting and partially “living oa’ the land,” "but also, transport over roads which are damaged and already insufficient for’ military needs, become a farther burden by need of bring~ing relief to a stricken population if -this 1s to.be saved from death “BY starvation ‘wd exposare, Thus to achieve outright victory as swiftly as possible is the principle which is most vital to our leaders. : How can hastened? Hitherto Britain and the United States both seem: to have proceeded” on the assumption that

this victory be

German. armed might could be

overcome only by the defeat of the German armies at the hands of the allied armies.

Vast Force Needed -

" BOTH WESTERN powers have one in on a great scale of mobili-

gone in on a great, scal 3 Vion of manpower for their -

-armies. Meantime they have tried to carry out gigantic industrial expansion and to build up great mercantile and naval fleets as well as air forces. Britain now seems to be becoming convinced that it is handicapping itself uselessly by attempting to build up a land army on the continental scale, but so far as

By THOMAS M. JOHNSON Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec, 3.—The key

world - relationships afterward, may

hearsing blows such as never have been struck before, i These huge planes can travel such distances with such huge loads that global strategy and even statesmanship are likely to depend on who possesses the most and best of them, Airmen believe that the heavy bomber simply will not permit any nation to return to isola~ tionism after this war. It will shrink this globe to the size of a baseball, Already, say the airmen, these coming events cast their shadows before: The allies are winning the war through three factors: Russian manpower, British-American seapower and American-British-Rus-sian airpower. In the phase now approaching, the last will be deci< sive. Already airpower has enabled us first to defend our coasts and Australia’s sgainst Japan, then to penetrate her outposts, while weak-, ening German industry and morale,

Balkans. . We have proven the terrific power of daylight bombing, with

to final victory in this war, and to|

be America’s. new super-bomber—| squadrons of which already are re- |

ECEMBER 3, 1943

Can We Win Before All

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can be observed here, the United

States still adheres to the army theory, While the great Russian contlnental armies have managed to make steady progress against the German. armies, despite every German endeavor to hold up their

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periencing ‘great difficulties in maintaining any considerable rate of progress, } . It should not be concluded from this: that Anglo-American forces are not fighting as well as the Germans or the ‘Russians. But’

vast spaces the enemy obviously carinot mine every linia. of advance open to the Russians, in Italy's narrow leg, freely intersected with mountain ridges and rivers, there are ideal opportunities for the re« tiring enemy to hold up our forces, ff 8» NOR CAN the allies reckon on useful aid from Italian guerrillas

Our New Superbombers Can Carry Half a Carload of Death Across Ocean and Return

and "by the world’s best heavy bombers. The Fortresses and-Lib-erators are being so equipped for

‘extra winter } [they may fly less, they will bomb imore, They will be escorted un{precedented distances by long- | range ‘fighters. And their bases are edging ever closer to Germany-— as are those of the Russian air force. - But soon, too, these giants will be

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even become, as Gen. Arnold has sald, “the last of the ‘small’ bombers.” Right now preparations are being made for an event to occur probably early in 1944 which all air{men await in awed suspense—the first attack of the B-29, Attack, not raid, is the word—for the B-29 is our néw super-bomber, unequalled in the world, It is more heavily armored and armed than any other plane. It can carry a heavier load higher and faster and much farther. ‘It can, on official word, “carry half a carload .of bombs across the Atlantic and return without stop.” 80 we may launch this thunderbolt from. Newfoundland . against Berlin, or from Midway, Hawaii, the Aleutians or Alaska against Tokyo, and boomerang-like, it will return to -be launched again. It will need special runways, supply

an incredibly accurate bombsight

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advance, the Anglo - American armies in Italy evidently areex-

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| INAVAL AVIATION NOW. |p | LARGEST IN HISTORY

The continent of Europe is Hitler's fortress. Te date, the only allied penetration Is in southern aly, are inching forward, far south of the great protecting barrier of the

behind the German front as the Russians can from their own people and. the allies could if they were invading the Balkans. " Since it became evident that the

Russians could maintain a nonstop winter-summer-winter offensive, and since the collapse of «Italy became an established fact, the Germans clearly have adopted a defensive strategy, based on a determination to hold certain vital points in the outpost mone they have established far beyond the actual frontiers of the reich. Such “points are: . 1. Phe Balkans, to deny for the

tion by the allies of the Rumanian. oilfields. 2. North Italy, where the allies could establish airbases from which to intensify the aerial bombardment of Germany. 3, The so-called west wall along the Atlantic seaboard, which obviously offers better defensive possibilities than rearward position « inland,

these can be provided even while the inevitable “bugs” are being worked out of a mechanism so vast,

Airmen belleve the great new bombers will bring a new era in global strategy which must reckon with wars that come winging from continent to continent, witnout warning. For any power with {enough super-bombers and bases, | ‘and enough gas, oil and industry | to sustain them, can attack virtually any other power wtih a sud-| denness and devastation to make) an old-style ' “raid” resemble a squibbing firecracker, .

Global strategy, which formerly | pivoted upon sea-power, soon will | pivot primarily upon afr=power. | Increasingly, naval warfare alms at seizing air fields. ‘The army! says officially: “The gaining of air] superiority ‘is ‘the first requirement | for success in any major land oper- |

ation.” That shows the trend, but |

the air entirely, without moving a ship by sea or a soldier by land. Or, it may invadé by air—as Germany did in Crete and we did in New Guinea.

Planes the size of the B-29 will make Icland, the Azores, Natal and Dakar even more potentially: dan gerous to us than ever. It was

men and even our president warned of this, and were hooted by isolationists

But after the B-29, there will come other bombers that will skip

skips local stops. Then Viadivostok

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not the eventuality. Presently one Sentence the youth to the boys’ vo. nation may crush another through [cational school after he receives a report on the case from alienists Friday. :

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. What Are Our Terms? NO ONE DENTES that before the European war ends allied armies from west and south must

participate in liberating enemy occupied countries and pass into the reich. : “But since we cannot ses how sldw this process will be if the enemy's spirit remains unbroken and he has means to keep up his fanatical defense, and. since, equally, speed is essential to the allies, what .means have we at Jour disposal to hasten the war's

end? : Sop hADTY Wa HAYS twee, : Oné is to employ every heavy, long-range bomber we possess in relentless bombardment -6f the reich, ‘The other is to modify the policy implicit in those fine sounding “words “unconditional surrender” = 80 that steps can be taken to lob the German people know what terms will be imposed upon them if they ask for an armistice.

SLAYING TRIAL BLOCKED BY AGE

Declared Too Young

For Prosecution,

8T. JOBEPH, Mich. Dec.3 (U.P). Eugene, Parritt, 14, of Sodus, who confessed to slaying Jessie Riggs, 58-year-old farm owner, last Sun. day, won't have to stand trial on a murder charge until he reaches his 15th birthday next July, Prosecutor Karl W, Zick reported yesterday. Zick said he had been advised by Attorney General Herbert J. Rushton that a youth cannot be tried in - circuit court until he is 15 years of age. Young Parritt told his father he “slugged” Riggs so he could take his car and return to his former home in Kentucky. Probate Judge Malcolm Hatfield said he probably would

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