Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1945 — Page 16

By LEE G. MILLER = " Seripps-Howsrd Staft Writer

GUADALCANAL, Jan, 29—(By Air Mail ~This is “90. per cent a war of supply land engineering,” the generals said in Washington, They meant no disparagement of combat troops, of course. But they thought the press might give a little more attention to the mmltifarious and often obscure activities of the army service forces —the engineers, the quartermasters, ordnance, the signal corps, the medics, the fairly newborn transportation corps, the j special services, | “We build the triumphal arches for the rest of them to march

under,” said Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, head of the army service forces, with a twinkle,

and he admitted: “Sometimes I wish I could get on a horse and

lead a charge with a sword.” Somervell's

Anyway, with Gen, blessing, this usually chairborng set out to look

newspaperman around the Pacific and see what the army service forces are all about. : It hasn't taken long to confirm the suspicion that theirs is a stupendous job. Not that this will be news to anybody, but seeing the stuff on location is more impressive than all the statistics in the Pentagon.

‘A Stunning Impression’ |

If you could make a tour of | the San Francisco port of emparkation, for instance—and. this is only one of several—you would cget & stunning first impression of the magnitude of the business of supply. There I was driven through acres of stockpiles, towering on their wooden pallets in the warehouses, through vast shops and teeming docks and rail yards— with many women, incidentally, doing man-size work—and through an army postoffice to dwarf all postoffices. The effect was staggering. Go on to Honolulu and you see | the same thing over again. There | Brig. Gen. Roy E. Blount gives you a fine testimonial to the dili_gence of his. port battalions, largely Negro, who labor seven days a week to keep the OI" Man River of supplies flowing without letup. “I got soft on Christmas .eve and let them off from 10 p. m. to 7 a. m.” Gen. Blount said. “It took us a month to catch up.” Come closer to the fighting front and you see those mammoth San Francisco hoards ‘going into use. To cite a relatively trivial but revealing example, and one that might have caused heart failure to a customer back home— On an island once occupied by the Japs, I asked a PX clerk for two of my usual brand of cigarets —meaning two packs,

Yes, He Said Cartons | The clerk yawned, reached, and | slapped two cartons on the | counter, |

This. doesn't mean, by a long | shot, that our troops are living in luxury. Many of them still know the dreariness of an exclusive diet | of canned rations—“It's all right | for ‘a couple of months, maybe, but you get plenty fed up after a while.” They yearn for milk—the powdered kind has ho friends out ¥ here, except when it's used for ice | cream, They want a lot more ice | cream than they get, and more | cokes and candy, though experts | at scrounging do all right on some of these lems.

Japs Take Filipinos Jibes As Salutations of Respect

By ALFONSO DENOGA (Formerly of the Manila Daily Bulletin) MANILA, Feb. 19 (U, P).—With puns, catchwords ‘and double entendre stories, versatile Manilans, many of whom speak half a dozen dialects besides English, Spanish and some Japanese, kept alive the flame of resistance to Japan. It was obligatory, in the beginning of the Jap conquest, for the Filipinos to bow and say “Ohayoo” (good morning), followed hy a hissing sound made by the sharp suck-

.ing in of air through the teeth This was to indicate respect for the conqueror, , The Filipinos bowed and said,

“O hayop!” which in Tagalog njeans “you beast.” This was followed hy a hissing sound which the Filipinos developed to the volume of a Bronx cheer, The salutation mightily the unsuspecing Japanese, At street corners and in public places Manilans were sometimes required to raise their _hand and

pleased

| still man

| warehouses and offices

|shout “banzai!”

Supplies Speeded to Pacific By Army Transmis

sion Belt

Lee G. Miller, a brilliant writer, is in the Southwest Pa cific, reporting the story of supply, the transmission belt by which our fighting men in the war against Japan get. the stuff to fight with, His first piece, written from Guadalcanal, tells. of that once great supply depot there which has just about outlived its military usefulness. Other stories will follow as Lee Miller ‘trails the supply organization through the Pacifig-islands,

But cigarets and beer are the trimmings. It is the bigger stuff that does the business. And here you’ run into the most plaguy, yet most comforting problem in supply - that any merchandiser ever faced. Guadalcanal is as good an ex-bitter-sweet

ample as ahy of thi proposition, For this one-time dark and

bloody ground, where a relatively small-scale action stopped the progress. of Jap arms in the Pacific, called “redeployment.” Guadalcanal, like various other islands both great and small in the South Pacific, has almost outlived its military usefulness. The war has moved on, There are vy Japs on Bougainville, not far away, but these and their brothers .on New Britain and New

Ireland are isolated enclaves separated from their homeland by powerful American forces.

They have no chance, beyond the chance of a guerrilla, So most of the men terial on Guadal will inevitably be on their way presently. And the men, and officers, wish they Knew where.

- They Want a Rest

and ma-

They want to go home, most of them —at least for a while. They are puzzled and some of them aggrieved, after as much as a couple of years on this hot and townless island, at the mysteries of “rotation”—the theoretical returning home of men after two years' service overseas, Anyway, the “Canal” seems doomed to be pretty much of a ghost island eventually, with only a modest garrison,” some graves, and some hon-salvageable . supplies rotting as the jungle reclaims the clearings. Supply officers tell you that the bulk of the material remaining on Guadalcanal will be shipped off as. bottoms become available. Even huts and tents will be sent on. Some of the army supplies here have been handed over to units

{ of other services passing through.

Some have been used to munition Bougainville and other islands in the area. But Guadal's busy days as a center of supply are petering out, Even the quartermaster corps farms, some 1800 acres, will be abandoned unless the British take them over—the Solomons being a British protectorate. Guadalcanal’s brief hour in the sun is not quite run out, but the end is in sight. The docks and so laboriously erected are . losing their usefulness as the shooting moves forward. And with sweat and blood they must be installed and filled and manned elsewhere, and again elsewhere, wil he war is over.

shouted Tagalog

and is

clenched fist kay!" (which “corpse!”). The linguistically Japs never. caught on, on the Filipinos’

is in the throes of something |

Manilans raised. a | “banfor |

incompetent | blaming it | suspectéd inabil-

SUB BROUGHT DATA FOR PHILIPPINE MAP

WASHINGTON, Feb, 19 (U, POT § The National Geographic society {has completed a new map of the [ Philippines based on charts and other information secretly moved from Manila to. Corregidor at the | time’ of the Japanese invasion and {later Brought hy submarine to an American base, The new seven-color map showing most of the 7083 islands of "the Philippines will be a supplement to the March issue of the National Geographic magazine, the soclety announced. The charts brought out by submarine had been made over “a paring. of 40 years,

A TOMC AT NAMED NANCY

LONG BEACH, N, Y,, Feb, 19 (U.| ip). A Long Beacher advertised | that his reddish-yellow cat has been | missing Since Jan, 12, Offering al reward, he said the tomcat will answer to the name of “Nancy.”

NAZI RESE ARC H SL IPPING LONDON-—In 1908 Germany published 45 per cent of the world’s | chemical research literature. Un-| | der Hitler it dropped in 1939 to less {than 19" per cent.

{ {

ity to pronounce, Domei, Japanese news agency, {became widely known as distribu- |

tors of most erroneous information |

in’ another example

of the play on |

words { Piam, the Jap-controlled Manila radio, came to stand for “putang | ina ang Maniwala,” which, cleaned |

and aired a bit, stands for ever listens is a so-and-so's son.” Spanish-speaking residents

fre-

“who- |

quently heard the names of Laurel,

and. Duran, - three of collaborationists,

“Aqui no Duran-Laurel,”

Aquino principal ranged as a free translation of here Laural shall not last.” It Manila the country~

pio people

and was repeated

made to themselves

RATION CALENDAR

Vier st stamps Q5 thi rough B85 good through March 31; T5 through X5 good through April 28; Y5 and 25 and A2 through D2 good through June 2. Ypay two red points and 4 cents for “each pound of waste fat. CANNED GOODS =Bie stamps - XB through Z5 and A2 and B2 good through March“31; C2 through G2 good through April 28; H2 through M2 are good through June'2. SUGAR—Stamp 34 in Book 4 good dor five pounds through Peh. 28. Stamp 35 valid through June 2 Another stamp wil become valid May 1. ‘4 GASOLINE—A-14 coupons good for four gallons each and are valid b, Suough March 21. B5 and C8 and

s El and E2 good for one gal-| ; Rl «and R2 are good for five

gi and.‘ C8 .are good for five gal-i

stamps in Book 3 good!

"be

TIRES — Commercial vehicle tire| ingpection every Six months or every 5000 miles. B card holders are now eligible for grade 1 tires

Meat dealers will if they can prove extreme necessity, are eligible for grade 3 tires, if they find tires which may

All A holders

be pure hased,

Gosbbels Terms

Allies Big Bullies

\ (U. P).— Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels now is pic-

LONDON, aerman

Feb, 19 Propaganda

turing the allies as big bullies ganging up on (ermany, “Instead of playing “at being

superior our | ashamed of

_enemies should

in Das Reich!

thie ends of the world . .."

the | 2] {

spread ‘to the provinces from all over anpledge that the Fili-

be themselves for at1, "No. 2 and No, 3 tacking us at’ odds=uf 10 to 1 in this avar,” the Berlin home radio, % | quoted him today from an article oriods 4 and 5 of season and Periods ~45 heating sea-

J “What would happen to the British, Americans. or Soviets it 67 per! we could deal with them one by one?” We would chase them to :

which means

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Yank Guerrilla

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hd One of the few American soldiers who escaped from Bataan in 1942, Lt. Clayton Rollins, above, led a Filipino guerrilla force in northern Luzon for three years until MacArthur's forces invaded the island. He is pictured at U. 8. 25th. division headqaurters, where Re gave valuable information about Jap activities,

NDIAIN APOLIS st timid

FIRST WAG GRANTED Prominent Visitors From U. S. Appalled LOAN UNDER Gl BILL By Deplorable Conditions ‘Found ‘in France

MUADAY, Po, i, Led

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U, P). ~—Elizabeth M. Lutz, Pittsburglf, is

| [the first WAC to get a loan under

the G. I. bill of rights. The veterans administration sald | today Miss Lutz, who served for 18/ months in an army photo group, got the loan to buy a house in All ghany county, Penhsylvanta. She will’ live there with her widowed | father. The loan was made by the Scott | Realty Co, Pittsburgh. A first loan of $5450 was insured by the federal

der the-Gi. I. bill provisions. Miss Lutz was discharged from

which made her indispensable at home, the veterans administration sald.

ARMY TO EXPAND PLANT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. P)) — The war department has announced authorization for $1,402,000 construction of additional loading facilities | lat the Hoosier ordnance plant, | Charlestown, Ind.

the WAC because of a dependency |

| |

housing admiinstration and a sec- haven't the slightond loan of {$1400 was guaranteed est by the veterans administration un- cold, hunger, mis«

,| military here or the authorities in|

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times Foreign Correspondent PARIS, Feb. 19.—“No one in the United States has any idea of the! ireal situation’ in France,” Such]

Washington of the seriousness of ents in France assume far os this, country’s plight, |importance than they would other They ‘expressed themselves as wise, [“shocked” at the little that has| Transport is the crux of come in during recent months, whole problem. There is sufficien Not Enough Food food in France, but no means o

(was the view expressed by two : getting it distributed. o. | Drominent Amer-. ; One noted that there was insuffi-| Another pressing need is f | jcans, recently ars. cient food to supply ration-card|clothing, particularly shoes, espe eee. frived in France, holders, in January. cially in rural areas: On one larg (who are equally February rations are half of|Suser beet. farm, for exampl

French laborers—working Blongsld German prisoners—had to give u recently because they lacked foc

protection in zero weather,

SWEATERMEN GIVE - CONCERT WEDNESDA

The 12th annual Sweaterman

those allotted last month, Estimates were made before the present thaw set in, bringing French rivers to flood height: Now the Seine is within a foot of the danger point and barges of food and fuel cannot . pass under its bridges. ployment, existing ¥ Two weeks ago the Paris food in France today,” supply was so low that the Amerlsaid one after pre- Miss Kirkpatrick [ican army hastily rushed in its own [liminary investigations of the situa-|ratiohs, Food Minister Paul Ration. “How this government man-|madier has just told the cabinet ‘concert will be presented by t ages is nothing short of a miracle.” "that the food situation had become Shortridge band, directed by Rob According to these new arrivals—| so acute that he urgently required; .. J Shultz, at 8 p. m. Wedn whose names cannot be divulged at {freight cars and locomotives. the moment, and both of whom are, The cabinet decided that it would (day in Caleb Mills hall. in a position to know exactly what have to ask the military authorities | Purpbse of the Sweaterman’s co has been coming into France in re-|immediately to revise their -trans- |cert is to finance the purchase cent months—there is little compre- port requirements to tide over this 'sweaters for senior bandsmen wh hension on the part of either thelcritical period. have served three years in the “ In this picture, political develop- | band. .

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