Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 December 1944 — Page 8

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_ the fact that the United States’ 15th | Furopeans perceive instantly that Air force-~based in Italy —smashed

Yugoslav relief were the only fac-

Balkan Affairs Termed 'Disturbing’

By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent ATHENS, Dec. 4.—The new

Europe, it might just as well have not ogeurred. a Not because of any Refarious plot

: J | by its allies but simply. because of American policy of unofficial 150- ynortia and lack of any realistic lationism from

Balkan affairs is plan for America’s participation in causing increasing/ uneasiness and the Balkans, this important addisquietude,

| vantage is being slowly allowed to The various groups of American

waste away. r e presentatives Fail to Participate

ig ei i Ti Er | Thus, the United States is in the tions are dis | | position of having expended heavily turbed. | for security without being in readi-

When President Roosevelt, at the Tehran conference, deeded over

ness to assume that active and "J, |realistic participant's’ role, which

i diture. the Balkan he- | pen gemony to Brit- | Having heavily underwritten Balain and Russia kan security, it now fails to partici-

without retaining pate therein,

. Mr. Weller { a n y influence | worth mentioning for the United Btates, he may have committed one of the administration's gravest blunders in foreign policy. It is natural that Americans in any area in this world-wide war should think that their- role is heglected. | Such has been the case everywhere from Gen, Douglas MacAr-| thur's New Guinea, and Gen. Jo- | seph W. Stilwell's Burma, to the! Italian front. But the flaw in the! Balkans is different.

We Have Spent Plenty

faith in half-finished agreements like that of Dumbarton Oaks, as the American government apparent- | ly does. The Balkan peoples know, even if Washington does not, that ethnic and strategic realities: are decisive rather than joint éfforts at drawing | new rules for a world-wide game! which never recognized any.

Do We Want ‘Any’ Peace? i {

What is happening to American | policy in the Balkans, as seen from | here, is more grave than any mere | writing off of an investment in vic-| tory, To the Balkans, it is another {demonstration that the Americans, [however interventionist, are unwilling to dip their hands in the clay |of the coming pattern of security. They are ready to bestow on Europe's tangle everything but their authority, To the Balkans, it seems as though the Americans want any peace as long as it offers a chart which seems to relieve them of political { participation.

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There is no complaint about what the United States has spent and is| spending here. In lend-lease aid to its British and Russian allies, the United States has supplied more than enough to deserve a powerful say in Balkan affairs. . America's political stake would be! great even if its paramount acceptance of the burden of Greek and

tor. When you add to these elements

| the United States, by voluntary and : willful neglect of Balkan readjuste Naz air power between Russia and|Y ' ) the AX Pow you have a strategic, ments in their political aspect, is responsibility which has been ac- giving away its potentially most cepted and paid for by the Ameri-| Valuable role; that of an honest can taxpayer far more heavily than | Proker between Russia ang Britain, by anybody else. Lag in Solving Problem

Cost in Lives Heavy America's natural role of media-

Even in lives, the American share | 0” between Britain and Russia has been recognizable, ¥ |ennnot be assumed if, after huge More Americans were lost in a | Strategic investments in the Balsingle bomber raid against Piraeus Xans and at other sore spots like last February than were lost by Iran and India are made by the British ground forces in the unre- American people, their government sisted Gccupation of Greece after | Withdraws into new isolation, even its evacuation by the Germans. - 4 the retreat is covered by a smokeBut as far as all this effort having | 5¢r®en of “consultative participagiven the United States any politi- | tion.

|alone can justify the original ex- |

Nobody here is putting any such

OPERETTA CAST | HAS 75 PUPILS

“The Mocking Bird’ Billed At Warren Central Wednesday.

The operetta, “The Mocking Bird,” will be presented by students at Warren Central high school at [8 p. m, Wednesday in the school | gymnasium with Miss Jean Bailey| land Kenneth Cannaday in the

[leading roles, |" The production is under the di[rection of Miss Kathleen Hergt. Included in the cast of 756 are three dancing choruses. Principal roles have been given Robert Mc-| Clure, Robert Byrkett, Earl Dixon,|

Ruth Wukasch, Richard Melton Robert Oldham, Eddie Frederick,| Peggy Spriggs, Dorothy Thomas, | Dollie Githens, Eileen Dora, Jeanne Curry, Pat Eberhardt and Don Moody, Aid Staffs Named

Students In charge of ticket sales | are Miss Curry, Mr, Cannaday, Mr.

Byrkett, Robert Weller, Beverly McClintick, Miss Wukasch, Miss Thomas and Mr. Melton. 4

Members of the costume committee are Betty Heiny, Barbara Applegate, Thelma Osborne, Mr. Moody | and Leland Reich. Jackie Hertweck, assisted by the]

art classes, has had charge of publicity. Electrician committee members|

are Charles Suite, Jack Buckhorn] and Rolland Pond. Roger Gale is in charge of scenery. Mr. Cannaday and Ear] Dixon are. in charge of properties, Margaret Morris will prompt and the curtain will be handled by Ralph Smith.

SOUTHPORT T0 HOLD LIL ABNER CONTEST

A dance at Southport high school | Dec. 16 will climax a Daisy Mae and | Li'l Abner contest at the school to stimulate the sale of war bonds. . Two contestants from each class have been elected and the two who receive the most votes in war bonds will be chosen as Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae. Contestants are and Harry Arthur, freshman class; Jean Coghill and David Youndt, sophomore; Anna Belle Kopp and Henry Tonges, junior, and Dorothy Cramer and Jack Nunley, senior,

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By SHERLEY UHL HIS 14-PINT “blood debt to society”. paid in full, Charles w. Brockway prepared today, at 40, to launch an entirely new career devoted to the rehabilitation ‘of disabled veterans. Mr. Brockway gave his 14th pint yesterday at the Indianapolis blood-doner center. It was the last in a series of “payments” compensating for liberal transfusions administered to him four years ago when his leg was amputated following an accidental shooting. Although a native Hoosier, Mr, Brockway has been traveling as a commercial artist for several years, pumping blood into doner centers throughout the MidWest since the summer of 1841 after fully recovering from the shooting accident which occurred at Akron. He was engraving a policeman’s gun when his etching knife slipped throfigh the trigger-guard, releasing a blast that sheared away part of his right leg.

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THE MAN WHO “lived for four years on borrowed blood” is now eagerly projecting the organization here of a toy-manufacturing corporation featuring the exclusive employment of disabled servicemen, Mr. Brockway has a modest nest-egg with which he intends

| to start the ball rolling, but now

he's seeking investors willing to “loan” their money temporarily to a project that eventually will become strictly a ‘veterans cooperative, non-profit enterprise.” He's worn an artificial leg himself for only five weeks. Before that he “had enough experience in handicapped artistry to understand the problems of vocational rehabilitation.” In addition to that, he’s been studying toy designing for two years and ‘has acquired a collection of matHINEFF Which he intends to locate in Indianapolis “as soon as I find a suitable site and a board of directors.” ® 2 =

MR." BROCKWAY believes his veteran-sponsored toy manufacturing idea is “sure fire,” basing his assumption on the fact that A similar plant recently established in Buffalo already has $100,000 worth of advance orders.

He intends to hire as employees | Perry E. O'Neal, 1st vice president; | sponsored by the Ladies Aid society| cently been augmented by only world war II injured, and Irving M. Fauvre, 2d vice president; at Bethany Lutheran church Thursimbued with the zeal of an ad- [Charles W. Holder, secretary, and day. Dinner will be served at noon

i THE INDIANAPOLIS TES ni His 'Blood Debt’ Paid, Artist |‘CHICKENLESS' Plans Aid for Disabled G

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Charles W. Brockway. . . . His debt is paid, but he'll give interest,

sea, he's already blueprinted plans for 44 novel toy items which he will exhibit at the national “toy fair” to be held soon probably in Chicago.

" “I had a lot of friends who came through with one big dose of blood when I needed it, when I was given up for dead,” said Mr. Brockway. “It looks to me like, with adequate assistance, I might be able to set up a business that will come through for the vets when they need it most.”

He's staying temporarily at the Hotel Washington,

BAR ASSOCIATION DINNER IS PLANNED

Two recommendations for court] improvements will be submitted and a new set of officers electéd at the {Indjanapolis Bar association dinner fat 6:15 p. m. Wednesday - in the Columbia ¢lub. Judge Johh L. Niblack ‘will com-| ment on his recommendations re-| garding a proposed bill about mu-| nicipal courts and Edward H.| Knight will discuss a proposed bill| giving probate courts discretion in| fixing or requiring fiduciary bonds. | Some recent combat movies have, been obtained by the program com-| mittee and: will be shown. Officers nominated for 1943 are! {Jeremiah L. Cadick, president;

venturer Charting an unknown | Grier M. Shotwell, treasurer, |

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Army to Take Full Supply In Rap Black Market.

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Times Foreign Correspondent AT A JAPANESE CIVILIAN RECEPTION CAMP, Saipan, Dec. 4.

Producing Area; .|—What.are we going to do with

Jap civilians when (he fighting stops? This is one problemi we have been

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (U, P)—

cigaretless East today faced the prospect of becoming chickenless as well,

facing on Saipan for the past five months, and one we will have to meet everywhere in our onward Pacific victory. 80 our successful handling of it

After Dec. 11 virtually all chick-

here may prove a powerful propaganda weapon looking toward

i MONDAY, DEC. 4 104 Jap Civilians on Saipan Isle ~ Find Prosperity Under Yanks

been moved from the camp to cement dwellings which escaped destruction, in the sugar mill village of Charankanoa. - This has relieved overcrowding. These Shammorans are used as guards over the Japs. More improvements are under way. Neat wooden buildings are being constructed along the lines of the Jap relocation centers in the states, - ® The Japs are allowed to continue worshipping under Jap Buddist priests.

But they can no longer preach ’

ens produced and processed in the the future. Five months ago the |Shintoism or any form of emperor Del-Mar-V .|problem here was one of living— (worship. The only check is an e ar-Va peninsula and Shen interpreter who attends the serve

andoah. valley must be set aside, for army purchase. This region | normally supplies from 60 to 80 per | cent of the needs of East coast civilians, The embargo is expected to stay! In effect for at least the first three months of 1945. During that time! the army hopes to buy at least 2,000,000 pounds a week to stave off a deficit of 110,000,000 pounds] which would have developed at the current rate of purchases.

“Biggest Black Market” The “biggest black markét” in the history of the producing area! was blamed by officials for -the in-| ability of the army to meet requirements through open market | purchases. Reports indicate that chicken is selling for 5 and 6 cents above maximum ceiling prices. A hint that the rest of the na-|

on its menu came as the war food! : 3 3 | administration said that the set-| aside may be extended to other

food, clothing, shelter, The fighting was still in progress, Our troops were sleeping in foxholes., There was no allied mili-

Pacific area—as in Europe. |

(tary government operating in the taught.

ices. Teach English in Schools

In the schools English is being Revised Jap textbooks are being produced to teach the Three

So the handling of thousands of R's and American history, but civilian Japs, found huddling in | nothing of Jap history.

caves, was left to the little band of specially trained naval officers who form what is known as the civilian affairs department.

They Work for Us

We have just paid a return visit to our recepticn camp here. And from what we saw, the work of the civilian affairs department has been pretty successful. We found the women dressed in gay prints they had made from materials imported from the United States and sold at the camp store. At the store we saw Jap women buying with American greenbacks,

[tion may also find chickenless days|and the storekeeper said they were

doing $1000 worth of business daily, which was only slightly more. than the materials purchased cost.

Jap teachers hold classes under supervision of Jap-speaking American officers. The mitted to run internal affairs of the camp without American interference. They ‘have even: been permitted to license some 50 Jap prostitutes who live in huts on the camp outskirts. . Whatever their feelings about ultimate Jap victory, Jap civilians here on Saipan are impressed by our civil affairs officers, judging by the way they are clambering aboard the American bandwagon— just in case.

Cause No Trouble

They have accepted their new rulers philosophocially, have at-

major chicken-producing areas. A| At the paymaster's window we tempted no sabotage and have given spokesman, said Georgia and Ala- Saw many Jap men, some of the no trouble. bama were being considered next for|2400-odd now working on roads,| So many have volunteered for ships and other projects, .drawing|labor that it has not been necessary their monthly wages in greenbacks. for us to invoke the right accorded

Food Is Plentiful {labor corps.

the embargo list. “For Fighters First”

WFA chief Marvin Jones and] Quartermaster Gen. Edmund B.| Gregory asked civilians to remember! when poultry supplies grow short! that “chicken is for fighters first.” “With chicken so important to the morale of all servicemen— especially those who are wounded, weary and war-shocked—quick action had to be taken. to assure! America’s fighters a continued and | adequate supply of this very vital food,” they said.

PLAN HOLIDAY BAZAAR

A Christmas bazaar will be

and in the evening.

Jap laborers are drawing higher,

wages than their own people paidiso Americanized

by international law of drafting a

Some young ladies have become that they no

them and getting food and lodg- jonger bathe in the nude in broad

ings free. |

Food is more plentiful and varied the public baths, as is There are several hundred pege custom—they now workers on the land. Each family {after dark for ablutions.

now.

gets 2% acres, and more farms are being opened. The Jap peasant, apparently docilely accepting Saipan’s new occupants, plows placidly along.

daylight in view of the populace at the Japawalt until

START DECATUR CLASSES A series of 10 weekly classes for

Plenty of rice from confiscated the benefit of Decatur township Jap stocks and supplies we im- farmers will start at 8 p. m. Thurs-

ported is available.

grown vegetables and fish.

This has re- day in the Decatur Central high home-school. |ducted by William Adamson, voca-

The classes willbe con-

Some 2157 Shammorans—the orig- tional agriculture teacher at the inal inhabitants of Saipan—have school; r

Japs themselves are per- °

(Mr. Cook expects to res ®t NEW YORK who went seal find over the

India “Hump.” solved problem.

to be faced, a veloped on on One day a} service comma Henry D. Red: resentatives of Aircraft corpo representative Buffalo, and C pilot of the C he home is at 19 For several 1 into the howl Then they set made flights ¢ ayas and Tibe

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