Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1944 — Page 8

: ALLIED BOALS Allied Yiciories Ride tc Distant Fronts | On America’ s 'Workhorses of the Skies’

VARY IN EAST

War Chiefs els Get Along’ But Aims of Capitals Seem to Differ.

By A. I. STEELE Times Foreign Correspondent NEW DELHI, March 27.—Neither ‘he British nor Americans here are aappy about the recent wave of ‘misleading controversy in the Jnited States and Britain over resorted differences between Adm. ~. Lord Louis © Mountbatten, allied Southeast Asia commander, and Lt Gen . Joseph W. Stil-

well, commander}

. of the IndiaBurma - China theater. Man to man, the British a commander «in - chief and his Mr. Steele, erican chief ‘aputy get along reasonably well. Lord Louis, I think, respects Stilell as a man who is getting things me. Stilwell, for his part, likes ‘ountbatten as a man who wishes + get things done but is hampered r limitations of available material 1d high policy. Differences Not Personal

The differences are not personal. hey are the basic differences be‘een American and British policy a the Asiatic theater of the world ar, The fault, if any, lies mainly { London and Washington, The fundamental American aims 1 this theater are to get help to lina and to make the maximum ilization of that country as a base "operations against Japan. Stilwell’s mission—to force an erland road to China through rma—fits in with the policy. ‘itish interest; however, lies main- * toward the southeast in the di‘ction of Singapore and Sumatra, “ross the Bay of Bengal. Burma + a necessary stepping stone to the tainment of Stilwell's goal. Burma is not a necessary stepping ne to the realization of the Brita1 aims. There is undoubtedly a 'nsiderable school of Englishmen 1d some Americans who believe at it is futile to waste manpower id materials in a costly invasion . Burma and who think that it ould be wiser to wait until it is ssible to deploy the full might of ir navy in an amphibious attack ross the Bay of Bengal to bypass urma or at least the main part 18.

Island Hopping a Success

The spectacular success of the ‘merican island hopping advance 1 the South Pacific seems to be tering allied - strategic concepans in the Pacific. There now is distinct possibility that the rewvenated American fleet will he Je ultimately to batter its way wough Japan's South Pacific demses to the Philippines and the Juth China coast—and ati less cost an it would take to accomplish 1e same objective by way of Singa- . ore or Burma. If that is the case it may reduce 1e concentration of power reqired or this theater, but it is hardly .kely to remove the urgency of the verland supply road to China, Observers here point out that as; Adm. Chester W. Nimitz nears apan and the powerful continental ases in China, he will need maximum assistance from Maj. Gen. <laire L. Chennault’s air force in <hina, Chennault’'s land-based bombers

Mediterranean and the Orient.

"nd fighters, based close to the]

Shina coast, could be of enormous] ence between this command and aelp in any move to capture the|those in: Britain and Africa where Although most| Anglo-American objectives are in

sf the air traffic over the hump! Closer harmony.

3outh China coast.

-onsists of air force supplies it is!

still not enough to support more DY sensational and often mislead‘han a few hundred combat planes. | ing publicity given to the supposed

Road to Help Chennault

Stilwell's new Burma road, if} and when it is finished, will make it possible for Chennault to greatly! increase his striking power and this in fact will probably be its principal | function. The somewhat divergent aims of the British and American policy in this theater have led to numerous variations of view between the

components of the joint allied com-| eMPhasis on unity and less em-

mand in this theater of war. This is the fundamental differ-

WARTIME LIVING—

Soya May Buoy U. S. Health As Rationing Gets Tighter

By ANN STEVICK NEA Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 27 —The present abundance of me

and potatoes will wane.

rationed appetites of your family.

You can use low-cost soya in various forms to bol ster up the stick-to-the-ribs quality of a meal for P down its fattening quota for other The de-

members of the family. partment of agriculture has on hand a German army. recipe book recently. trarislated. It is described as one of the most thorough studies of using so0y-bean in "combina ti on with many foods to add 7 valuable pro- LU tein nutriment, ADR Stevick In these recipes, soy grits are added to beef broth made from bones. Soy flour goes in tomato and mushroom soups. That's a good hint for a filling dish tg encourage a family hold-back on the meat course. Roast reg¢ipes have soy flour added to the ghavy. Soy goes in stew, meat balls, and vegetable sauces. It is even added * to chocolate sauce, which covers. the soup-to-puts situation thor. |

By NEA Service. ~ WASHINGTON, March 27. — While bombers and fighter planes have been making aviation headlines in this war, much of the flying which “has proven most®

militarily vital has been done by unarmed transports — the ‘“workhorses of the air.” Douglas DC-3s and various military versions of this transport are officially credited with turning the tide.of battles in both the Mediterranean and Pacific. At Guadalcanal, they twice flew in munitions and fuel that preserved our precarious toehold in the Solomons. At Salerno, they dropped 2600 paratroopers where they were able to turn the enemy flank when it seemed that the battle was lost. As air ambulances, the DC-3s, C-47s and C-53s have saved the lives of thousands of infantrymen and marines by bringing in plas- ° ma and evacuating the desperately wounded to base hospitals.

Met Challenge

At the time of Pearl Harbor, military authorities questioned whether the DC-3 transports could handle the global job which had to be done. The DC-3s were land planes, and their payloads were limited by CAA peacetime regulations of 5000 pounds. But the DC-3s were given the job because they were the only transports that existed and were being manufactured in large quantities. Overnight, they be-_ came blue-water sailors, not only taking oceans in their stride, but carrying more than twice the load permitted them by CAA. Thus it was that the air trans-

During almost 1000 trips to Guadalcanal with vital supplies, trans-

port planes twice saved our toehold in the Solomons. Ammunition was flown in at the most critical time—when the Japanese had fought

their way back to the edge of Henderson field.

service rendered to date by these planes was in supplying Guadalcanal when sea communications had been severed. Following the battle af Savo island, 14 especially

~equipped marine corps C-47s were

flown from San Diego to New Caledonia. From there, under the Southwest Pacific combat air transport command, they maintained daily service into Guadalcanal—excepting one 24-hour period—from Sept. 1, 1942 until Feb. 1, 1943,

Brought, Fighters Fuel

On two occasions they were credited with saving our occupational forces from defeat and our

whole Southwest Pacific venture from disaster. Once, they rushed in anti-personnel ammunition when none existed on the island and the enemy had pushed forward to the edge of Henderson field. On a second occasion, they flew in gasoline when our stores had been blown up by Japanese naval bombardment and our planes lacked fuel to rise and fight off enemy air attacks. In all, these planes, and others that were added to the command, flew a total of almost 1000 trips into Guadalcanal; and on each trip out, they carried our wounded back to base hospitals, saving thousands of lives.

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Members - of Infantry Unit Get Instructions in Great Britain.

Six Indianapolis men, members of an infantry division, are going through Intensive pre-invasion training in Great Britain. They are Pvts, Robert J. Sears, 1107 N. DeQuincy st.; William A. Umphrey Jr., 6130 Crow's Nest dr.; Pfc. Garland D. Singer, 1506 N. New Jersey st.; Cpls. Walter C. Peterson, 928 Highland ave.; Taylor H. Rush, 1021 E. Market st., and S. Sgt. Richard

White, 326 N. Belle Vieu pl.

william R. Ehrich, 1503 N. Pennsylvania st, has been promoted to technician third grade at Camp Theodore D. Fisher, formerly of Indianapolis, has been promoted to captain in the chaplain corps at Gulfport field, Miss. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Fisher of Melbourne, Australia.

Two Indianapolis aviation cadets

have completed navy pre-flight school at Athens, Ga. They are Cadets Herbert M. Campbell, 1136 W. 30th st. and Harold W. David-

son, 120 N. Elder ave. Cadet Campbell will report to Ottumwa, Ia., and Cadet Davidson to Dallas, Tex., for flight training.

Given Promotion Veteran of 11% months overseas

at Samoa,” New Oaledonia, New Hebrides and Guadalcanal, marine

Arthur L. Plaskett, who returned to

“Weekly Garden Almanac

By A. A. IRW, Another Week of adverse weather cond)

you the earliest green onions and seed will give you the small, tender green onions a little later, The -Spanish-type seedlings are used only to produce dry onions.

That spare hour or two can well be spent in -the garden. Waiting for enough time to plant the entire garden may mean the loss of the best part of the growing season.

Good ways to save labor in the garden are: (1) To prepare the garden soil thoroughly before seeding; (2) Space the seeds carefully; (3) Cultivate out the weeds while they are still small.

Hines, 3743 Creston dr.; William A,

The back-yard gardener seldom needs to worry about his garden needing lime. Hundreds of soil tests made each year have shown that it is the rare excepti n to the rule to find a soil from any city lot that contains enoligh acid to require an application of lime.

In construction of buildings and in excavation, limey material from the subsoil is mixed with the surface soil until all the soil acidity has been corrected. Even the water used in sprinkling contains lime. Most vegetable crops and also blue-grass prefer a moderately acid soil.

Just as soon as the soil is dry enough to work, the garden should be plowed or spaded and prepared for planting. Remember, a good seed bed is essential to good gardening.

Crops to be planted in the garden now are: peas, spinach, onions, lettuce, radishes, greens; turnips, early cabbage plants, Joots. carrots, potatoes, and small

the states last May, has been promoted to master technical sergeant at Mojave, Cal, where he is noncommissioned officer in charge of the ground defense unit. Sgt. Plaskett is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Samuel Plaskett, 959 Ewing st., and

his wife, Wilma, is with him in California.

Cpl. George E. Gable, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Nellie Gable, 2644 Carrollton ave. He will return to

Camp Shelby, Miss.

Leave Ft. Harrison for | Camps in Texas and Other States.

Fourteen Indianapolis soldiers

have been transferred from Ft, Har rison for basic training. The men and their camps are Pvis. Carl £, Gardner, husband of Mrs. Jean E.

Gardner of Indianapolis; Everett

E Hines, husband of Mrs. Ruth

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Kinslow, husband of Mrs. Clara Kinslow, R. R. 20, Box 169, and Charles B. Hull, husband of Mrs, Imogene Hull, 1527 Shepard st. all

to Camp Barkeley, Tex.; Wayne A. Simmons, husband of Mrs, Marjorie -

P. Simmons, 1703 N. Norfolk st.;

Carl Henschen, husband of Mrs,

Lois Jean Henschen, 3912. Kenwood ave, and Joseph A. Medjesky, hus-

band of Mrs. A. J. Medjesky, 1802 N. Livingston ave. all to Sheppard Thompson, husband of Mrs. Eunice H. Thompson, 1116 Standish ave; Charles Greene, husband of Mrs, Elnore Greene, 49 E. Arizona st, and Floyd

field, Tex.; Harold G.

Eugene Hammans, son of Grace M. Hammans, 2181 N. Jefferson ave, all to Ft. Custer, Mich.;

Charles F. Kinney, husband of Mrs,

Ruth B. Kinney of Indianapolis, and Harry F. Layton, son of Mr,

and Mrs. Louis Layton, 518 N. Rural st., both to Camp Blanding, Fla.;

Prank Gardner, son of Mrs. PF. O. Gardner, 1037 W. 34th st, to Camp Croft, 8. C.,, and Lloyd C. Wood, husband of Mrs. Josephine Wood, 138 8. Oriental st, to Camp North

Hood, Tex.

port command was able during 1942 to carry 5000 per cent more aerial freight in these planes than had been carried by all domestic air lines in the previous year. Early in the war, the DC-3 also proved, by {flying the southern ranges of the Himalayas, that it could surpass its service ceiling with a full payload. In such numbers as were available, it replaced the Burma road in the ration of one plane to 14 trucks, and so justified the remark attributed to Chiang Kai-shek: “Give me 50 DC-3s and the Japs can have the Burma road.” Only Contact The Japs got the road, anyway, and from then until midspring of 1943, DC-3s and C-47s comprised China's only contact with the outside world. During the same period, C-47s provided all the aviation fuel used by the Flying Tigers, and later by our 10th air force, after pre-Pearl Harbor stocks had been exhausted. At Nanking, Hankow and Hongkong, and later in Burma, they also snatched more than 8000 persons from the paths of advancing Japanese armies. According to Pan American, whose CNAC pilots carried out the evacuations, these planes that were built to carry 23 passengers and crew carried as many as 74 refugees per trip. The plane that carried Gen. Doolittle out of China had 70 passengers aboard. The DC-3s also made possible Pan American’s feat of straddlingthe African continent with a chain of airfields leading to the

And since the completion of that aerial highway, they have been making daily routine hops from North America to Egypt, Persia and India, rushing vitally needed supplies to our allies, The most spectacular single war

Milk and cheese will become scarcer. may find it harder in points and pennies to keep up with the un-

«|. telegrams,

"Raw sensibilities are not soothed

cud” Stilwell. The handling of publicity on the recent air-borne allied landing in | Northern Burma is another case in point. Efforts of American and British authorities in the -Southeast Asia command to obtain the maximum credit for the respective American and British roles in this highly successful operation has again underlined the need for more

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You may have to revise your | household budget to, allow for in- | clusion of the new federal excise | taxes coming up April 1. Travel, theater tickets, cosmetics, jewelry and fur coats will | cost more: Here are some comparisons: A movie ticket which cost 44 cents with the old tax goes up to 48 cents. A $1.65 theater I ticket will be $1.85. Odds and Ends

The consumers’ advisory com- | mittee, a spirited group of 23 persons, mostly housewives as well as representatives of national consumer groups, has again emphatically spoken its mind in favor of definite dollar-and-cents ceiling prices. which the housewife can know and observe, in-

stead of mark-ups differing for each retailer. . . ; Greater percentages of canried grapefruit and orange juices are to be set aside

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