Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1943 — Page 24

IG ROADS TO TOKYO rT] ee all the celebrating over the Cairo pact to take gicept any German within 300 miles EEN 30 ; ’ as unlucky enough to from Japan all her loot of the last 50 years, comes | was Unlucky ehouE? "0 B00 Ir

‘thought that it will be a hard job. “After | "ise deck at about 300 miles per hour,

not kid ourselves anymore about an easy victory, | & train and several gun emplacements. Japs are tough; the record proves it. Now that they | "we Took Appropriate Action’ } been informed officially that defeat means the end | oo on 0 our in un thie tho. Gare Japanese empire, they will fight all the harder if | = of BYARD aloe : tnt th Re tan, a FE : ~ | as we would break over the hills, trees or mountains, course the allied governments know that. Hence | ine dirty dogs were so mean as to fire back at us. Of o conference was essentially military. The political | course we took appropriate action to any of them we 8 got the headlines, the military plans could not be | could see and who were situated along our general line {Of the 821 experts in that conference almost all were | of flight,

i 5 “One thing about a rhubarb while you are over and supply men, the best the three nations have ae i A Be tein ot |

And the service and shipping men outnumbered the strat-| gon because of some target you see and never go sts. because Pacific victory is chiefly a supply problem. | back for a second pass at a target. Just slam into

For there is not much mystery about the strategy. | "Mal Poneh Ub 8 300 70 along and keep going.

‘three from the Pacific. While all of them probably other than keep 1 a line abreast th the other ¢ trie ha ; il eo) a anes who are with you, wate or 80 en be ‘used eventually for the kill, only two are open to ph is Tage Jens,

us now—as the Japs know, because they planned it that | change your gas tanks, find targets to shoot up, watch

‘way. And those two are the longest and the costliest. for flak, keep the other boys advised by radiv of : those ge any sharp turns you are going to make call their

The shortest and cheapest route of ; attack 18 from attention to targets that are in their line of flight over Siberia. That route is not open, because Russia is in a | the radio, and keep your head going around in a grapple with Germany and: cannot take on a second | 360-degree tircle watching out for enemy aircraft who

| may jump you. ] now, : ; | “Anyway, our estimated time over land was up hE eC . i nes na. : | so we headed out over the ocean to head back home. ~ THE SECOND shortest and cheapest route is Trom the Just as we got over the water, we spotted these two: tT" : ; ; pL | Jerry JUSSs flying a beautiful two-ship formation China coast, also closed to us now. The chance of .a suc- | heading south to give some installation of ours a

Chinese offensive reclaiming the seaboard opposite | going-over, so we decide to nip that little plan right

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in the near future is nil. Until the Chinese armies | then and there.

receive mountainous supplies, not now in sight, they will “Entire Plane Blazes Up' ; well to hold Sheir own with occasional small gains. “SINCE ‘WE WERE right in: the-deck, we pull up Therefore the allies ust Tesort ons poi | to gain a little altitude and after them we go. It was through Burma ; + | agreed that the first man would hold his fire until this: way can an adequate China supply line be | making sure that our identification was correct. This ed. The Burma road will carry only 40,000 tons | we did, and when he was satisfied he cut loose with ‘monthly of the 1,000,000 needed.. Therefore the Mouht- | a burst and peeled up and over them.

Patten campaign, to be successful, must not only open the | “I went in after him on the same plane and the ; ; hea i” | other two boys went after the second plane who had

road but also. take south China ‘sea ports. It is a | turned out from his teammgte when Foeltz fired the

trpmendous. amphibious, task, with. less than five months. fist purst, “I.gave mine a long burst.and practically. mensely

before the monsoon. : ; | flew in to his tail before peeling up, Woelts's burst BT of . . = . | knocked one of his wheels down and mine started the . From the Pacific the shortest route is by the Aleutians. | cockpit on fire and also the left engine,

bad weather and lack of major naval bases reduce! “We then made a secorid pass and after Woeits

‘northern sector to a secondary offensive role—so long I filled him full of lead again, I went in firing. His

- | right motor exploded and the entire plane blazed up ‘Siberia is neutral. The other two are those of Mac- | and crashed into the ocean and exploded. jr-Halsey from the Southwest Pacific and of Nimitz | . “Hansen and McLain did about the sammie with their gh center, both of which are barred by Jap defenses | Plane, excent Mouth domehon oF ine over. You ‘ Wa 3 Co — ty Ty Ta | pass 6n the one lz and I were working over. You ling from the great Truk basé. ‘That barrier must | know I often remarked about wondering how I would battered down before MacArthur can turn east to reaet in the first battle, but actually you don't have it Mountbatten near the Philippines, and Nimitz can | fece ™ 10 think other than follow the fundamental plow north through the enemy's inner gea defenses. | “I wasn't scared like I thought I would be and the So, although many roads lead to Tokyo, we are forced | Sunsiers n the 3 of ny bombers as worry me at fo start out on the two longest and hardest ones—from | fu same wor with the otnar boys. the South Pacific on one side 6f the world, and from the | °° sain Indian ocean on the other. Secretary of War Stimson’s | My Hate for Them Goes Deep . comment on Cairo sums it up: “Our taking of Japanese | “AS FAR AS feeling sorry for the German crew,

* holdings will be very costly, but final victory is certain.” | T don't. My hate for them and what they stand for ah : ee goes too deep as well as my respect for another pilot and combat crew. : , “They went down doing what they had been trained

DYING FORMULA ._ “They went dor SL : : : l 0. ..1 certainly won't be expecting them to feel | THILE 1 in the flush of their third-term triumph, | sorry for me if they ever get me ‘cause war is really | — ; ix . | kill or be killed. Make no mistake about that. : a group of high-up New Dealers foregathered in | “Maybe my attitude is cold-blooded, but that is the | W ashington for an evening of self-praise and mutual ad- | way I feel about it. Seems rather unfair that I get miration. One of the speakers was Attorney General | the exalt for the one plane when Woelts worked it 3 : : : : : y | too. However, they won't give credit to two men and Biddle. And one of the things he said was that the New | the man on it-when it goes in gets the credit. = Deal was successful because it is a political party tied | “Seems to me that we should each get credit for a up with the labor movement under an able political leader.” | half a plane. ~The elections of 1942 and of 1943—including this | (Westbrook Pegler is Il. His column will be re ‘week's whopping Republican victory in a traditionally Dem- | sumed on his recovery.) ~geratie Kentucky congressional district—have since raised |

Souidersble doubt as to the efficacy and durability of Mr. ' WwW p “4 : e's success formula. : . : Th i the formula is still adhered to by some in Wash- | € e eop c n. It has been manifest through the whole of the - Mi controversy over inflation. In the original price-control | By Ruth Millett bill, labor's spokesmen insisted that there be no wage | : freeze, so such administration spokesmen as Messrs. Mor--genthau, Henderson and 'Nelson dutifully testified in favor of exempting wages from the legislation, Later. when the consequences of this mistake became obvious in the rise in living costs and the administration decided it had to make an effort to stabilize wages and prices, a deal was made with the labor crowd to roll back the grocery bills by use of

And now administration and labor witnesses are again

SALLY, who is 15 and pretty but, according to her parents, is “hard to manage,” has gone out ~_for the evening. Her parents aren't sure where. She mentionied that she . thought she would go over to Doris’ house and said something aboiit “maybe going on to a movie” ? : As a matter of fact, Sally _knew_all along what she was going to do. She was going to go

“de FH » : u couple of service 4 . debating subsidies here. le're merely tracing the Dl Ee he let themselves think 4 avent ) !

m of political collaboration. for a moment that this might be the way their higheee - ho. | school-age daughter’ was spending her evenings.

# been a marked resemblance between the treasury | friend f marked reser e be ry nd, or to the library, or whatever story she hape.1 O. tax policies; there has also been a curious | Pened to dream up. ‘of arguments, words and phrases. Ask Radi gl Arguments, Radio Help ubt that Henry Morgenthau and Philip Murray r SUPPOSE felock ABBOURGSE together on these matters, But it seems a ayy 3 Foitch A 1% an ir subordinates do. \h P- | said: “Parents, do you know where your children ir subordinates do—the treasury experts and the | are oi hat they are doing now?” z who are the’ ta wh , (©) are and wi are nowy”... who X plannew; and speech Wouldn't Sally's parents look at each other and political and social ideas and enjoy each | begin to remember Sally's vagueness when questioned ashington salons and cocktail parties. | about her evening's plans—and wonder if they really

-scratching lately’ uncovered | Whom she was spending her time?

: . “Sigh ting we have barely ‘begun. countryside shooting up in the process a few trucks, | os

. ; 3 : “Of course one doesn't: have much to do while you - se are only six ways to get at Japan—three from Asia | re doing this creeping along.at. 300 miles per hour, |.

) congress, testifying in concert as to the terrible | by for Doris and then the two were going to take | that will happen if the subsidies are stopped. We're | ® Pus down town and walk around until they picked

. 5 : . 3 : + It easier, ortable CAN BE TRACED too in tax policies. Not only has | think - bo —eart to a with & wt

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The Hoosier Forum

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disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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they took it pretty straight, without much attempt to explain it away, though there were off-setting circumstances.

For instance, the defeated Democratic candidate, Dan Talbott, who is boss in that district and a lieutenant of Senator “Happy” Chandler, has made, enemies in that role, as bosses do. His vote was 13,000 less than the Democratic candidate for governor, J. Lyter Donaldson, received in the district, a month H ago, indicating that many Democrats just stayed away from the polls. Talbott carried only two counties, his own by 548 votes, and another by five

H votes, with the Republican, Chester, O. Carrer, wine

“WHEN WILL YOU VOTE THE WAY YOU PRAX?” By Robert Gemmer, 5765 Washington bivd. In your Nov. 20 editorial column you had an article entitled “The Liquor Inquiry.” I wish to take issue with it on several points. You ridicule the prohibition era as being “the most sordid . chapter of this country's

history.” - True, prohibition wes. not...

properly enforced snd there was bootlegging, etc. But don't blame prohibition for the bootlegging but blame those officials that did not enforce the. law and prevent the bootlegging. ATE Besides, governmental statistics show that there are almost as many arrests dor liquor law violations now as during prohibition, It has been shown time and time

again that when our government wants to prohibit something, it can. | Several years® ago the government! decided to prohibit the easy dis-| pensing of drugs and as a result drug addiction, has dropped ‘im-| - Today the government hibited a number of things. We are only allowed so much sugar, gasoline, etc. There are some people who violate the law and get bootlegged rationed goods, ves. But the vast majority of the people must

obey the ration laws or else they > Yes, ask the boys who have Beet tree or four houses to make. a de-

would not have rationing if it didn’t reduce tonsumption. SY The only way to have successful prohibition is to have it enforced by officials sympathetic to its enforcement. We won't find many such officials in either the Republican or Democratic parties. If the church people of thé nation dnd others who are opposed to liquor will quit voting with those who are for liquor we will soon have prohibition and it would work, because it would be enforced. If the dry peonle would vote for the only dry y—the Prohibition party—in 1944 there would be a lot | of changes made. The wet people don't stay home and pray for liquor,s they go to the pells and vote for it. Some dry people stay at home and don’t vote, while others go to the polls and vote with and for the same candidates that want liquor. Isn't that inconsistent? Voters, when will you wake up

and vote the way you pray?

"= = “LET'S GIVE OUR BOYS RIGHT BREAKS NOW”

By M. P. K., Indianapolis “The Patton issue and Esquire’ defense:

lever in freedom of speech, and al-

I have always been a firm be-

(Times readers are invited girl plus any other good looking to express their views in |S ia pictures at least pep these columns, religious con. These boys fight and die for us

troversies excluded. Because |While some guys sit up in Washingof the volume received, let- Jon 404 JAIL 4 Suict ike shut Re. ters should be limited to 250 {you guys are liable to awaken to a words, Letters must be [full realization of your duties too signed. Opinions set forth as this country iet's please give ;here are those of the writers; -iour boys the right breaks now, and and publication in ne way [maybe some of you at least, can implies agreement with those | ome home. Then too: don't. foropinions by The Times. The |get, you might want to be reTimes assumes no responsi- | elected, . a a

bility for the return of manu |.pyrASE GIVE THIS BILL. scripts and cannot enter cor- |goME CONSIDERATION” respondence regarding them.) |. A rruck Driver, Indianapelts : oe In The Times Wednesday, Dec. 1, Africa, Sicily, ete. where ha was an article by Willie B. Sullivan askwinning battles, regardless—adding ing the city council to pass an ordito his glory while he sat in head-! nance making all trucks park within quarters, in safety comparatively’ two inches of the curb is ridiculous. speaking, they up there in the: 1n the first place how many accl-

front lines; Then when the battle gents do. they. have. with or from. has pro- died down and he felt all was safe,

he would come up in full- dress ac-| ‘milk truck driver, ‘laundry companied by his bodyguards ® driver, bread driver, or any package

view the troops and abuse them. | driver, how lpng they will: continue

Is that the way & true American to drive trucks and park within officer should act? two inches of the curb about 200 : |to 260 times a day and walk back

given - their disability discharges, jivery about half of the time with aresno longer in uniform because rationing of milk and butter and no they have given all, and are no back calls allowed, and the rest of longer subject to court-martial if the grief that goes with a truck they should speak against their driver's job nowadays? officers, I'm wondering if their| Gentlemen please give this bill

answer wouldn't coincide with mine scme consideration before passing |

—bring Patton home and punish this ordinance.’ hirii accordingly. ; How many of us haven't worked hd for a boss, who like “Old Blood and “PATTON'S APOLOGY Guts” out for glory like Pasion at MEANS NOTHING” all expense to their employees? They certainly didn't get our re-| 5 I. Mead, Cumberland : spect. . . . . There's another aspect of the Gen. Now for the defense of the Varga Patton case which deserves atiengirl. These bureaucrats: who sit ion, we have traffic signs outside

and think up things—why don’t ; they let the toys who are sacrific- | DOSPitals reading: Quiet—Hospital ing their homes, their families, and Zone. Yet Patton creates a commo-, their lives get what little enjoy- tion inside a hospital. ment they can out of life? If they! Creating a disturt ina chureh get a kick out of the Varga girl—| i. oonsidered a i matter: but I say give it to them, These boys y gistyrhs only the well. However make life for these pure men (Ip iio created a disturbance in a wonder). go fo. enough has larly hospital which could have meant per | enjoy life and think up some ‘he difference between life and X wounded on adjoining stretchers. It

I had & letter from a brother who has done his share In this war| WAS most certainly & boorlsh, yes a

by fighting in four major battles And for | ners or 1 to claim that the men and officers of the 7th army did not ret Patton's act is an insult to men and officers. No one with

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though I have not expressed my- cific, and I the courage and eplrit to make a self on any issue publicly to date scription to Esquire. He wrote ex- | good soldier could: help but resent shall do so now. : | pressing his thanks as well as the it. Patton has lost the respect of Yes, the Patton issue comes first. thanks of all the boys in his outfit ‘every decent person. 1 wonder if some of our boys who —for the kick they would get out of| , Gen. Patton's apology is not imhave fought under Patton inl their monthly look at the Varga portant, it means nothing. He did : 4 . . to do so. He was merely carrying ust Side Glances—By Galbraith a i " a. 8 .0 : Bk 7, A | | |*wmEN DO TEEN-AGERS H { GET THEIR LESSONS?" {ARIE By M. Brown, Indisnapelis

ning the other 17, But these extenua comfort to Democrats here, looking forward skepe

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talk of what is likely to happen to Senator Alben W. Barkley, President Roosevelt's party leader, who-must face Kentucky voters next year. It begins to look as if the senate leader were doomed. He, himself, is nursing no illusions,

Talk of Fourth-Term Potentials ~~ .. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT went to bat personally for the senator in 1938, and the WPA was organized and thrown into the campaign against “Happy” Chandler, who had the benefit of a state machine he had built up. as governor. But there's no more WPA and the list of federally-financed vote inducers has been considerably reduced. Kentucky's defection from New Deal and Demo= cratic ranks follows a general swing among the border states, manifest in last year's congressional elections by Republican gains in Maryland, West Virginia and Missouri, and this has always been a forerunner of a reverse in the national political tide. The discussion at the capitol went still further to include talk of the fourth-term potentials in the continting Republican trend. . ; Many hold that President Roosevelt will not mun “{f-1t looks as if he might be defeated, and ori the Bass ~~ of the Kentucky election, a few more bets werd placed that he would not seek renomination next year,

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In Washington By Peter Edson Se

WASHINGTON, Det. 3—Here = bert Hoover had a name for ib He called it a “psychol pression,” Business was *hell in a hack, but still everybody

Today, the stiuation is just the opposite. If you analyze the statistics, business has never been . . . never, Yet so many people are complaining that they

What is this, anyway? Is it

another psychological

semantics would probably have a hard time giving it a

name. Dr. Amos Taylor, director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, perhaps comes close to naming it when he says that while we are not in

for the purposes of this piece it will havi “Accepting the present state of affairs sion psychology,” what is it? It is a psychological paradox—the paradex of depression in the midst of

Cheerful Picture

COMPARING September, 1943 index the latest available, with those of September, 1942, 8 on the basis of the 1935-1930 average being 100, look something like this: “Income payments, 215 as: it’s $12.5 billion against $10.5 bill 1939, it was $6 billion. Income from farm marketings,

few key figures, t 178. In money, --

202 against 260, In billion against $1.7 billion, In September, 1939, the index was 03. the cash value Industrial production, 247 against

To teen-age girl in Times of Nov..

taining an une: . fur coat and great deal of it to leave. It's not polite them from jus , the open door .