Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1945 — Page 18
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Troops at Front Now Get Needed Clothing;
By B. J. MeQUAID * | Times Foreign Correspondent SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Feb. 12.-~The_ majority of our front line troops seem now do be getting most of the winh ter clothing necessary. This would-seem to-prove that we have great stocks of winter
“not! equipped with “grousers” or fshow-cleats for negotiating snowchoked roads. . The tankmen themselves have told me that all their, tanks Were | equipped individually béfore they
+-left-the spates witlia full set of
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' Doubt Still Exists if It Can Meet All Tests
But, they said, most tank crews had discarded them before com-< ing overseas, “because a full set of 36 of these steel attachments were ‘just one of thege bulky, pestiferous items of equipment which e verybody discreetly dumbed overboard at the earliest opportunity.” 1p : 2 a 8
"* .__ __ MONDAY, FEB. 12 1945
FAME FROWNS ON SUCCESSION
Sons of Ministers, Doctors Rarely Become Great In Fathers’ Footsteps.
. By Science Service
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Feb, 12.—.
OTHER. armored men say Lhat
~ BLACK MARKET TERMS | v | San . : | experience proves what so manv INSPIRE PROTESTS. have long maintained: that such 3 . | items of ‘emergency armored
equipment, instead of being doled
~ United Press Staft. Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.—Reli- | able sources estimated today that more than 600,000 Japanese Lroops |
| Ministers’ sons don’t become famous {ministers -and- doctors’ sons rarely [become well-known doctors, but {most famous men make their name
self service groceries yet in the Marshall islands but Rep. James G. {Futon (R. Pa), is confident that {the Yanks could make it home if}
equipment on hand. There remains some room far argu-
By PAI
~a good-sized force in anybody: {permitted to move their wives andi ment ' as 10 PARIS, Feb. 12 (U, P.).—Letters| "0 "Ver echelon level should jin the same kind of occupation ary-have been cut off froin direct children ‘there. : WYhether- Protesting the heavy sentences given! 1." otdined. if dential supply | their fathers ‘ followed. - The sons Times Pore) contact with their homeland by the Fulton believes that goes, too, for| in some cases— ._| American soldiers in the black mar-| depots until negd for them arises (of clergymen = frequently become, BERN, Swit: American island-hopping drive to=- other areas which have been long | hs Meath to Yt ous WN Neer) pacing! #nd then be distributed, jemand Seljoinys sae doctors’ sons The wehrmach dion vanate advanci , { severe tes A e S$ ~ Combat, | ; { y i § - ward Tokyo. : |sinice vacated by advancing combat | oe {0 ] 5p I PAL. © | These: is. no. disposition ‘any- oft n distinguish themselves in pol now shows in Some enemy groups are complete- troops and are now held by skeleton| © eld condi Our-_readers are more arousee| ,. ¢ hesdqtiarters: to deny litics, Prof. Joseph Schpeider of the Iv isolated; others are Still being | forces. : [ uons. Mr. McQuaid over this than any issue since; (1.4 one réason for he shortages {University of Minnesota reports .in . momentaglly - | : buchelor={. Q@vershoes, Wn Me liberation,” said Editor Henri Calet. | fo -| the forthcoming® American Bociol- Germany.
in the Ardennes Was the ¢ptimism
| What the 41-year-old the felt generally that the war would | ogical Review. \
{congressman is advocating is a plan] The army is
ently, by the , of the German Nazi party.
supplied by submarine or surface craft that riranage to sneak threugh the ever-tightening American plockade. None, however, will be available for defense of the Japanese homeland when eventually it is invaded. The estimates, from unofficial but reliable sources, show the by-passed Japs to be distributed as follows:
wool mittens: with *trigger fin- [He wrote an editorial admonishing | [to reunite families of men who ares ners =hstiy vreferable to the the French to think of the sentences | be over well in advance of win- The idea that sons of men unIserving long: periods of time in areas combination felt. and leather |--ranging up to 50 years: fit hard
ter's onset. {known to fame have a better chance gloves issued at the beginning |labor-—when they smoke blac ar : | ir oni . 3 by the war. : ; [ie y smoke black mar- ¢ ie ) | to succee , y left behind by Ur 1 ol winter-are being distributed |ket Aiherican cigarets. < But Maj. Gen. John C. H. Lee, | d in gaining renown in the
Fulton knows tlie problems of men | wijelv And $0 are snowpacks AY *i%e =| Junction City, Kas, boss supply United States than in England by in the Pacifie. Only, last week hel. choepacks— combination rub- | I'he eters, Some bearing as many lsman- in the European theater, {Prof. Schneider's finding that al|colnpleted- 30 months.of. service With | her and leather boots with felt jas 40 Signatures, were written by | éifergetically denies that this [most twice as many U, S. men rose the. navy, having delayed the start! linings. ; all classes of French, from an 8-| optithism colored the high com- to fame from business, working and his congressional career Jong| The goal of -providing . troups year-old boy to an old peasant who! mand's “tactical preparations for farmirg clysses, : apologized for his spelling. Most| the possibility that the war He compared the occupations of
The Indianapolis Red Cross has received an urgent appeal from . national headquartery for more men and women to serve with the armed forces both at home and overseas, The age limit for women his been lowered to 23. An ekxample of the work is shown here as Red Cross girls set out In a watermobile to serve doughnuts and of
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Philippinés, 200,000; Netherlands| coffee to men leaving England for battle. Those interested should enough to take part in the prelim-| on outpost duty -and wn pro- sll ite rs | East Indies, 200,000; Marshall and contact Mrs, Hazel Dixon; 1126 N. Meridian st., L1-1441, inary phase of the Luzon liwasion, longed attacks réquiring them to of them expressed sygipathy for the| would go on much longer. {the parents. of people, born since D Caroline islands, 125,000; northern ‘Great Morale Builder live without shelter for days at a friendly Americans so far from | “nn 1600, who were included in the enny New Guinea, 45,000; New Ireland- from putting these troops to use miralty islands, the Japanese al “As Soom. ak Shippin. space eal stretch--with this type of equip- Rome A blamed the Frerich for| GEN. LEF points fo Gen. Dwight Dictionary of American Biography New Britain area, 45,000; northern elsewhere, . Rabaul on northern New Britain] on vail: ble I velicie it would) ment seems to have been reached. their trouble, ? a D. Eisenhower's insistefice that with those listed in the English By: WILLIAM golomons, 12,000; Marianas, 5000. The sume situation exists in the ; ia ana] CONES AVA ab J ee { My father died for France in| divisions earmarked for‘. arrivdl Dictionary of National Biography. Scripps-Howa y ’ sent two planes over the American pe g good plan to arrange for these 1940,” {he 8-year-old boy wrote. “I| in_ this theater after WASHINGT!
November | should keep on being sent. And US: More Practien] In America, people are likely to land stands—se achieve fame in politics, journal- seem, to all in i“m and agriculture, technology and it may jeop:
(business. © The English more fre- Oaks and the
IN ORDER to equip all frontline men with the type of foot protection that = experience has shown most desirable, supply sacrifice to spend years in prison.” leaders began early last November The peasant blamed the French] to scour every imaginable source [black marketers.
en-|* base
Indies” where the remy forces it probably would like to transter’ to French IndoChina or the Malay peninsula,
Netherlands : : ‘ > am sure he wouldn't like for the | Big Three deci boys who came here to carry ot his| he adds that-—since it is his | (l.ee’s) function to gear supply plans to the high command's tac
tical and stratezic preparations
men who are holding behind the lines areas to move their wives and children there,” Fulton said. “The men would like it and it
and dropped fragmentation bombs. Although such raids do little dumage, they necessitate fighter,
protection at Manus. | :
Garrisons Well Supplied
In many of the by-passed areas, enemy garrisons are well-equipped and fit for combat. As such, they
has
constitute a potential thread. lack of shipping and a “quarantine” maintained by: American air, sea and ground forces hive virtually neutralized them, . In other areas, the isolated enemy troops are in poor physical condition, their equipment has deterior-
ated, and they represent more of a
nuisance than a threat. The bulk of by-passed Japanese forces in the Philippines are "in Mindanao, southernmost island of the archipelago. Enemy war leaders concentrated them there in an-
ticipation of an American landing
on Mindanao. But Gen. Douglas MacArthur fooled: them hy attack--ing Leyte, further north. Lack of shipping has prevented the enemy
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still enemy to shift forces from the In-|
Sea Lanes Blocked
Even if Japan had plenty of ships American control of the northern Fhilippines virtuzlly all approaclies t4 Japan proper would for Lhe
and Sea
make il impractical dies and the Philippines to the homeland. > 7 In the southwest Pacific, Japanese garrisons on New Ireland and nearby New Britain occasionally get some supplies by submarine. -Furthermore, they have succeeded in raising their own food. Although they are to all intents and purposes neutralized, they have a certain nuisance value. A few months ago, while this correspondent was visitifg Manus in the ‘Ad-
Most of Lhe Japanese on northern starving and in a pretty hopeless condition. Although Little effort has been made lo ehmi-
New Guinea are
nate them, the task would not be
difficult. In the Carolihes, the . greatest enemy concentrations are al Truk and .on Babelthuap in the Palau group. The Babelthuap garrison 1s estimated at more than: 30.000. American airmen bomb this force frequently, In the Marshalls, enemy {troops remain on four Maloelap, Jatuit and Mill four islands are bambed by marine and navy airnien.
U. S. planes occasionally still en{counter hot anti-aircraft fire, | *
islands—Wot je, These regularly The
would be a great morale builder, living conditions, of course, aren't what ‘you would find here, but the medical corps and tife seabees have clexued the islands up amazingly.” A graduate of Pennsylvania Slate university and Harvard law school, and for two years a member of the
Perinsylvania . state senate, Fulton] was elected tq congress in a eam- |
paign conducted solely by friends Not until nearly five ‘weeks alter the balloting did he learn by delayed message that he was Victorious.
AUXILIARY TO MEET
Ladies of the* Locomotive
men and Engineers’ lodge No. 393
of supply. There is no disposition at supply headquarters here to deny combat allegations that the pres-
ent type of winter body clothings
is much inferior to the wool-lined combat suit. formerly issued to men of armored divisions. The Avar department designers, alter first abandoning this highly popular wool-lined suit, now are reporied to have resumed production of it, . The only change that infantrymen suggest is that the jacket be equipped with voluminous pockets.
Fire- | BN
THERE SEEMS to be no reason
will meet at 2:30 p. m, Thursday at «tf blame supply leaders for the
the hall.
fact that armored divisions were
“It is hard for boys away from| he,
home to resist temptation,” wrote, . “Can you ask Roosevelt ! pardon them?”
J “Calet said he would present the letters to United States authorities “in hopes of aiding Franco-Ameri-
can relations.” { . | " STENOTYPISTS TO MEET
| The Indianapolis chapter of AsAmerica tomprrow at William midwinter conference held recently in Dorothy Rau will. be in charge of Lhe pro-
sociated Stenotypists of {will meet at 6. p. m, the YY. W. C. AX Sgl. Shimeta will report on the
Detroit, Mich, and Mrs.
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—the responsibility for any shortage is to be laid at his own_door. That these shortages pain Lee acutely—as © they would". anyone =is-obvious by virtue of his position and record .as a veteran regular soldier. MR.
TOO, his =on, namesake
cer in the 82d
the combat engineers of airborne division. This outfit played a leading role throughout the Ardennes battle, both defensively and offensively.
It has certainly suffered as much
as any other from insufficiency of the most desirable forms of winter. equipment,
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quently become: well-known for their achievements in religion, ‘biological science and letters. Nearly. three times as many per-
{ sons, proportionately, from the busi(ness, working and farming classes
in America become eminent in the practical arts, business ard politics
and as in.England. “only near relative, is junior offi- |
Almost 45 per cent of all famous persons in the United States had {athers:who followed occupations in which ‘the work done for a living is not often adjudged fame-produc-ing, Prof, Schneider discovered. Only
|11 per cent came from the fields of
agriculture, technology and busi-
{ness where high achievement is sel- . dom awarded a badge of distinc- | tion.
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