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By Science Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Squeezing Japan back to 1895 dimensions, to fulfill the agreements just made by the Roosevelt-Churchill-Chiang conference in North Africa, means shrinking’ her territory to the approximately 150,000 squate miles in the four main islands of Japan proper. It is a shrinkage from some 750,000 square miles of area which she claimed before Pearl Harbor, including the homeland and other possessions acquired between 1895 and 1941. Only these four mainland islands, the Kuriles and some other neighboring small islands, were Japanese possessions before her first major grab, when she took For-. mosa from the Chinese in 1895. Japan, of course, will be deprived of all the territory she has conquered since Pearl Harbor." The process in reality will be probably a stripping action. One by one the Japs on the islands seized during -| the Japanese aggression days in 1941-42, will be exterminated or driven out in retreat, as has already happened in

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Guside Tisanapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

his new song, “Kentucky the Beautiful,” which he has just had published. He says it's meeting with much’ thvor even in Indiana because “a considerable percentage of the population of Indidnapolis and also of the whole of southern Indiana came originally from the Bluegress state’.” . It hasn't been announced

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N THE five-day trip we spent three nights on the and flew all night on two nights. At one t stop, American army hostesses met us, us to their quarters for refreshments and some , At another stop in the hot tropics we ast by Maj. Bill Marsh, who asked in the paper that at last I'd met somebody army from Nebraska, and not only from Nebraska but Tekamah, Neb. Believe it of not, Maj. Marsh couldn't produce jisere leally 35.90 8 piace, but he did

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: HAPPY. OVER final settlement of a law suit that had dragged out over 10 years or 0, a prominent Indianapolis lawyer went home and two $100 bills on the table in front of his startled wife. “What's this for?” she asked. “One's for you and the other's : for the dog. Go buy him some

This is the story of Japanese expansion from un isolated island chain in the latter 19th century to the empire of conquest that today dominates more than 200 million people and covers an area almost as big as the U. 8. It is to the freeing of the peoples and the breaking up of this empire that allied forces

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i — presents,” he said. The wife followed his instructions to the ex{tent of buying the dog a big pack- ¢ age of dog biscuits.. The rest of t the dog’s $100 she invested in war ~ bonds—but NOT in the dog's The Street Railway is ° fourth annual Christmas party for its employees. The party is to be at 8 p. m. Tues-

day, Dec. 21, at Keith's. . . .

Little of Little's market, 40th and closed his nshing a week ago yesterday by fishing for hours in He opened his hunting season Wednesday afterroon by shooting AT < « « A pedestria - asks us to voice his pet peeve, Every evening, he says, motorists headed east on Michigan, at Meridian, stop for the traffic signal with their cars extending across the cross walk, forcing pedestrians to walk out in busy

Boulevard pl. creek without a single mbble, six rabbits—mnd ‘hitting none,

Meridian st. to get around.

Around the City

22 A STYLISHLY dressed woman walked out of the - fridianapolis “Athletic club about “5 “o'clock” ‘the othigr evening and got in an extra long blue Packard. She had a .bit of difficulty getting it out of the parking space didn't notice that she had hooked bumpers with a rather elderly Chevrolet parked behind her car, i p ore

, published of the conference . Churchill and Stalin. ; I ‘And’ it is not such an. academic question for an-

yet, but Heiny Goett, the former superior. court judge, will be the chairman for the infantile paralysis campaign next month. . . . The street department has patched so many cracks in State ave. between Lexing-

ton and English that it resembles a patchwork quilt.

Hizzoner’s Likeness

A RECENT VISITOR TO city hall eibiila “the|

observation that “every department in the hall has at least one--and sometimes several—pictures of the mayor hanging on the wall. His likeness greets you wherever you turn, There's even one in each of the elevators.” . Mrs. R. F. Hanger is completing her annual ‘task of preparing a dozen dolls for the children in the Grace Nettleton home in Harrogate, Tenn. Each year, she buys a dozen dolls and crochets a complete wardrobe for each—finishing one a month. Mrs, Hanger, who is secretary to J. B. Lanagan of the Nik-O-Lok Co., has been following this hobby 12 or 13 years. . . . The audience during the municipal concert by the Indianapolis Symphony Thursday included many persons who ngyer had heard a sym-

phony orchestra before. During the concert several| _phone calls. were received asking when the “second|—

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show starts.” .. . y+An agent reports that J. W. Van ‘Briggle of ‘the ‘Railroudmen’s injured his leg réeently when he stepped in an open manhole, near his office. He didn't fall'all the way in. . . . Charles F. Hansen, the blind organist of the Second Presbyterian church, will complete his 46th year as organist and musical director of the church the last Sunday ~ (IN month, and he has arranged ' special musical prothis month ra =~ |(N

. in the end. They’ are willing that "Nazis should be punished without conscience, but not trades unionists. ‘Russians have discussed the idea. As president of the A, F. of L., William Green has called upon President Roosevelt in his conferences with leaders of the}

_ allied: nations, to see to it that all are agreed not to

use. slave labor out of Germany. Green: says the "A. F. of L. will oppose with all of its power any attempt to enslave the workers of Germany or any other country. . - His statement was issued before any results were between Roosevelt,

other reason. Some well-informed persons here don't

: give the Nazis more than three months more. The

Russian offensive does not seem to-be over by any 4neans, and the R. A. F. is going back to Berlin,

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AT ANY TIME simost we may have to be dealing with a defeated Germany. It will

probably will be carried out at the same time in Burma, Thailand, French Indo_China, Manchukuo and

Korea. In 1804 Japan started warfare to acquire Formosa; in 1895 China ceded to her this island, “the beautiful,” with its 14,000 square miles of territory and over 5.000, - 000 people, The great majority of its present population is still Chinese; they. have sent to Japan proper great quantities of rice and sugar. China-based American bombers have already unloaded many tons of destructive bombs on the Japahese airfields on Formosa from

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On Motor Industry Following ‘War.

By E. A. EVANS Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Dec, 6.—Auto-

mobiles continue to top the forecasts of things ‘which Americans hope to buy as soon as the war ends.

Fortune magazine, reporting on a

survey among “all social, .economig and geographic groups,” says 21 pei cent of those questioned put cars

with average pre-war purchases of 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 a year, but concedes that many families prob-|. ably would be content with good used cars.

The U, 8. Chamber of Commerce,

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Other Acquisitions

= BEFORE PEARL HARBOR, aggressive Japan had acquired in addition to Formosa, the south-

ern half of Sakhalin island (1905),

Liaotung peninsula .with its. seaport Dairen (1905), Korea (1010), Kaiochow (1014), Manchuria (1931), a large area in northeast China 1937-42), and French IndoChina (1940). Also from Russia Japan had acquired in 1875 the 32 Kurile islands that stretch from the northern mainland island to Parfamushiru near the Russian Kamchatka peninsula, At the end of world war I, Japan was, given a mandate over the Marshall, Careline and Marianas islands in the Pacific. Amerjcan Guam in the Marianas was not included. These groups were

LONDON, “secret that his | “earliest feasible

Europe.

ously an enlightened strate-

tary thought than some of his associates, he automatically thinks in terms of land armies as the

“imposing the united nations’ will upon the enemy. Keenly aware

posing gigantic .. strains on Ger- ' many by the

Mr; Lennox campaigns, it is inevitable that he must anxously eye some hundred German divisions in the rest of Europe, of which only 10, at the most,’ are actively engaged by the western

are now dedicated following the

all German’ controlled before that war; they were occupied by the Japs in 1914. . Korea, with an-area of over 85,-

000 square miles ‘and. a population “nearly 23,000,000, is called”

of Chosen by the Japs. Covetous Japanese eyes had been on it for ‘many years before 1905. Internal troubles into which China, Russia and Japan were all mixed, ended with the close of the RussianJapanese war when a treaty commission, meeting-at Portsmouth, N. H.,, at the invitation of President Theodore Roosevelt, recog.nized "Japan's “paramount political, military and economic interests” in Korea,

Korea has never been: happy over the Japanese rule; its peo-

: [Bombing of Germany to lts Knees Preferred by Some To Gambling Heavily on Second Front as Sought by Stalin }

By VICTOR GORDON LENNOX - Copyrieht, 1043, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

p/ 6.—Marshal Josef Stalin has made no ’ plan for early victory demands the gagement on a new front in western

It is believed that he would al olome a Turkish decision to enter the war at once.

Although Stalin is obvi-

gist, with a giorg open mind - | to modern schobls of mili-

sole means of .

that he is im-

eastern front

For the past several months the western leaders have made a series of statements showing that it has been their intention to “engage” a second front in western Europe in the coming spring:

But when Roosévelt, Churchill

and Stalin discussed the overall strategic outlook in Europe it seems inevitable that AngloAmerican leaders would stress the fact ‘that more than 40 German divisions are availablé in the low ‘countries and Prance. and could rapidly be concentrated against allied bridgeheads—as was done at Balerno—and the western ams . phiblous force seeking to establish and maintain itself in a landing. Thus our effort might suffer a very grave repulse without effectjvelyimpairin & Germany's strength . Obviously this risk could justiflably bé taken if clear signs ex-. isted that German morale showed signs of cracking and that supply!

three-power meeting in Cairo.

ple and resources have been much exploited by the Japs. The Liaotung peninsula and Dairen was

. acquired at the same time by the.

same treaty, _ -

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“® "wm : Invasion of Manchuria

MANCHURIA was invaded by Japanese armies in 1931, using as a pretext the alleged explosion of a bomb on the South Manchuria railroad. Japan had been holding . a sort of protectorate over econemic developments in South Manchuria under the terms of the Russo-Japanese treaty in 1905.

Manchukuo has an area of approximately 500,000 square miles and a : popliation estimated to be

problems had become insurmountable for the enemy. But phat is not the: situation at present.

On the contrary, even German

divisions which were believed of poor quality have proved thems«. selves on the Italian front to be determined and tenacious fighters, Thus it is understandable that as the invasion season draws near, views are again being expressed in responsible quarters that early operations across the North sea and the English channel may not provide now the surest. way of winning the war at the earliest possible moment. This view, naturally, is expressed

_ most strongly by exponents of the

theory that the allies must not repeat the errors of world war I: must not be lured by the enemy into ‘squandering their forces by fighting the German armies far away from Germany and must recognize that development of air power introduces totally new military possibilities. This school has many adherents. ‘They argue that whereas land armies must attempt to out-

flank each other on the ground, | air forces can outflank in a third

dimension, once they have attained air supremacy. If the allies have not yet achieved outright supremacy, they

Secondly, ‘the elimination of Pascists except -as they directly endangered our occupation of the island was not the first of the allied military government responsibilities. It was definitely high on the list, but AMG's jobs were

Allies Forced fo Go Easy With Fascists While Working on Food Problem in Italy

Under the Ammasso system, a farmer ‘had to sell all his wheat— except that needed to feed his famfly and for seeding—to an Ammasso agency or some sort of distributor, The Ammasso price fixed in Rome was so low that farmers

as much grain as possible, and sold it on the black market.

turned. in false crop estimates, hid}

close to 43,000,000. This included some 300,000 Japanese in prewar days. The number of Japs, not including those in the armed serv.

ices, has. greatly increased because

‘of the-large amount of war manu--

facturing reported to be located in both this country and Korea, away from bombs that might fall from American warplanes. -over the industrial plants in Japan proper, . The former German islands which the Japs seized in 1914 and over which she was given a mandate by the Versailles treaty, are over 600 tn number, include approximately 800 square miles of territory, and stretch from east of the Philippines about half-way to Hawaii,

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have already established an important measure of - superiofity over the iuftwaffe on’ all frduts..

This {6 growing as Anglo-Amer-

jean bomber fleets become and well planned attacks on Qerman industry and aircraft assem bly plants reduce’ the enemy's ability to inflict severe losses on invaders. Nobody studying photographs of German key cities which have literally been eliminated can doubt that the enemy's ability to wage war could rapidly be halted if the British. and Americans concen= trated their combined bomber strengths against the Reich, meantime refusing to divert a. single big bomber in distant land battle Areas. True, such a proviso would slow down the advance of the 5th army in Italy, but it is argued that this would -not. matter, because Gers many soon could be reduced to such chaotic conditions that its shell-shocked populace would begin to quaver,

Why These Big Armies?

Then our land Armies could advance against all the enemy's out-posts--southeast, south and west —to consolidate victory and make a stalemate impossible. =

Such is the apgument for great

er concentrating of bombing on the Reich itself. ~. It is a point that the British certainly must have raised during the Roosevelt - Churchill - Stalin talks on European strategy.

introduced the “Ammasso” system. . a