Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1945 — Page 2
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and keeping them divided so they | can be destroyed piece by piece.’ TWO: “Concentrating overs whelming power on each segment | which we attack.”
THREE: “Using ships, aircraft,
amor, artillery ‘and all other ma-| ,, army can deliver its heaviest] for offering Frnié Pyle's home state 'to whatever extent is required : .Jinsure full
el in massive “concentrations to gain victory with the smallest pos- |; sible loss of life.” ° “FOUR: “Applying relentless and | fnereasing pressure to the enemy | by sea, air artd on the land, so that he can not rest, reorganize or regroup his ‘battered forces or dwindling supplies to meet our next attack.”
Same Fate as Germany |
“If the Japanese insist on continuing resistance beyond the point of reason,” he told congress, “their country will suffer the same dection as Germany. “Our blows will destroy their whole modern industrial plant and organization, which they "have built up ‘during the. past century and which they are now devoting to a hopeless cause, “We have no desire or intention to destroy or enslave the Japanese people. But only surrender can prevent the Kind of ruin which they have seen come to Germany as a result of continued, usless| resistance.” No Optimism While describing this nation as Snow at the peak of its military| strength”. the President sobered|g: any optimism which might be attached to his report by announcing *we have not yet come up against the main strength” of Japanese] military force of 4,000,000 troops | under arms and several mililon ad- | ditional men of military age, who! have not yet been called to the] colors. He estimated the current strength of the Japanese air force at over 8000 combat planes. Monthly pro- . duction is 1250 to 1500 despite widespread damage in Superfortress Taids. : He called for the “patriotic workers of the nation” to aid the navy in repairing vessels which are be--ing damaged daily under the conecentrated air effort of the enemy. Ship repair workers are needed now in ever increasing numbers. Jap Air Power Greater Mr. Truman warned that ‘as American forces approached Japan they faced heavier losses from enemy airpower despite losses inflicted on- the Japanese air forces. While the Japanese airpower has been reduced, he explained, the area in which the enemy is operating has been compressed until the “density” of the enemy air power
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we can reduce the overall strength | {of our army at this time without jeopardy to. our .cause in the Pa[cific or to the lives of the men
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“The joint chiefs of staff, after | consultation with Gen. MacArthur | and Adm. Nimitz, have decided that |
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PYLE WAR FILM Truman Angry, Denounces
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blows in tHe Pacific and win final for ‘the first showing of his film.
victory most quickly with a strength | which ‘a year from now will be about 7,000,000.” The 7.000,000 refers to total army strength .— including occupation forces in Europe and all garrison ang supply troops, as well as the Pacific army. Libegal in Draft The President said the adminis- | tration policy would be to continue liberality in deferment of menover| 30 and induct all able non=veterans under 30 who could be replaced The President also emphasized another point of this policy—to see that every physically fit soldier who
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to foreign duty The increased tempo of the war in the Pacific will require a vast amount of equipment different from that used in Europe and will cause difference in War production, he pointed out as reason for his demand for continued war production at a large rate, ¢ He said the navy program would’ even keel,” but there would be a sharp reduction in the program of the army air forces and similar cuts in the proram for supplies for ground troops. Production Increases _
He said these cuts would include | production of heavy artillery, artillery ammunition, trucks, tanks and small arms, but there would be in- | creases in bombs, steel barges, cot- { ton uniforms, amphibious trucks land other = specialized equipment needed in the jungle and Far Eastern warfare. “War production . remains the paramount consideration of our national effort,” he said gfter offering no prospect of imporvement in certain critical supplies on the home front, such as food, clothing, petroleum products, lumber and certain chemicals.
PATRONAGE TUS OVER WELFARE
Judge Rhoads Reported Resisting Pressure.
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was now four or five times as great’ as when the Japanese were spread over vast reaches of the Pacific. | The President said that damage! to American ships and loss of men had been increasing and that: *In the future, we shall have to expect more damage rather than less.” Beyond Initial Phase | He promised, however, that when | the army's strategic air forces from| Europe throws the full punch at! Japan, it would “demolish the] enemy’s resources of production.” “Our strategic bombardment of! Japan is well beyond its initia]| phase,” he continued. During the last month 20 bom-| bardment groups have been ordered | from Europe to Japan by way of the United States, Mr. Truman said. He paid tribute to the nation’s| military and naval leaders, to those | of our allies and fo our fighting] men, Best in History
The American fighting mah has gone into battle in this war “better trained and better equipped” | than ever before in history, he | said, In praising the navy for its work in the Pacific, and particular ly its | art in the unprecedented am phibi- © ous operations, the President said the Japanese surface navy has! been reduced “to a fraction of its former self.” Their ships and naval have been driven into hiding and | back into shore bases. He estimated the current size of | the Japanese merchant marine at | less than a quarter of its pre-war strength, Reviews Point System The President went into considers) able detail on the previously nounced plans to move troops out of Europe in 12 months.
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He also went into the human side |,
of redeployment, promising that on | the basis of present estimates “only | a small fraction of the men now in Europe will have to ro directly to | the Far East without first stopping Off at home.” He reviewed the point system governing discharge of army vet-| erans and said: ! “Let no one be under the delusion” that these discharges are! being authorized because the war! is nearing an end or because we feel the Japanese are easy to beat, . “They are being made because our our military. leaders: believe that
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board, under direction of County Director Arthur Wooden. The welfare department is now under the merit system. long : smoulamong certain county | polite os, gained organized momentum as the May 30 shake-up dead-! line approached. Now political | steam is circulating around Judge Rhoads and others with a say-so as to whom will be- named to the reorganized board. Should patronage forces ever in|vade the welfare department, it would prove the juiciest plum in Marion county, observers agree. Not jobs, but welfare allotments as well, could be dispensed to party faithfuls on a large scale Complexion Unchanged Abolition of the old board on May 30 and reappointment of a new one was specified by the 1945 welfare act adopted after much controversy in the recent legislature Although Democratic opponents of the law charged it was intended to give Republicans control over county welfare agencies, the political complexion of the Marion |county board will not be altered. It’s already Republican. The reorganized board will continue to consist of three Republicans and two Democrats Two members of the
board have
previous already resigned. They re Al ir L. Gilliom, attorney, 1 Roy Sahm, secretary and treasurer of Bessire & Co Asks Ransburg to Stay Mrs. F. B. Ransdm,. another mer ‘bosrd member, will not be renamed, Judge Rhoads said The judge has asked Henrv Mueller, center township t ee, and Robert Adams, U1 Is atlorney, to accept -appo inyment is as Democratic members, Harper J. Ransburg the retiring .board, asked to remain; as will P. Parry, also a former | be The thi Negro is Rhoad Neither Mr. Ranshurg nor Parry Have indicated whether will continue on requested.
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OWN CAR STOLEN SACO, Me, (U.P )~Reporting for duty, Policeman Carl Hall was ordered to investigate the theft .of an automobile from .a public garage, He discovered it was his own
RATION CALEN DAR
MEAT —~ Red Stamps Y5 and Z5 and A2 through D2 good through | Baturday, E2 through J2 are valid through June 30. K2 through P2 are valld through July 31. Q2 through V3 valid through Aug 31. Meat dealers will pay two red points sod 4 cents for each pound of waste
SUGAR—Stamp 35 valid for five] pounds through Saturday. Stamp 36, good for 5 pounds through Sept. 1. Canning sugar forms available at ration boards. Spare stamp 13 in Book 4 must be submitted with ap-
plication for each person listed. |
~All applicants ‘must establish eligbility for canning :
are valid through July 31. Y2 and. Z2 and Al through C1 valid through Aug. 31, 3
GASOLINE-A15 coupons good for four gallons each through June’ 21; Al8 becomes good June 22 for six gallons; B6 and B7 and..C6 and C7 are good for five gallons; B2 and E3 each good for one gallon: R2 and *R3 each good for five gallons.
SHOES-No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 “airplane” stamps in Book 3 good indefinitely, A new shoe ration {osasup will become walid Aug. 1. |Any person requesting a shoe stamp must present dil of the No. 3 books of the family, TIRES-~Commercial vehicle tire| inspection way six months or very 5000 miles. FURL OTL —Periods 1 through 1044-48 heating season good.
Tax, Black
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1. Joe’ to ac me about the truly. shocking cases
of tax evasion his men ‘have dis~- | covered.
{bureau of internal revenue forces
compliance with the
“While ‘Story of G. L Joe’ will be | law. .
«seen by services {civilians anywhere, with Ernie Pyle’s request, we feel | We spend in collection and enforce-7
meén and women in the | shown to; in accordance
before it is
Morals Important, Too “It will be good business for the
government, because every dollar
that Pyle's home state should be the ment will produce $20 or more in
are held.”
rope and the Pacific.
“Story of G. I. Joe” from Pyle’s best- -selling books, “Here | make millionaires, Is Your War”
written by the famous Hoosier cor-| market operators or respondent
columns on the war in Africa, Eu-| when the men in the armed forces, | and our citizens .generally are sac-
is adapted | and “Brave Men,” from his newspaper
Ernie was
1s the matter of good morals,
“We are not fighting this war to
and certainly we are 1ot going to allew the black any -« other racketeers to be in a. favored class.
killed by a‘Japanese sniper's bullet rificing so heavily, has not served overseas is assigned on le Jima | in April
“The top: officials of the: civil
Iam thoroughly in sym- | . {pathy with his plan to-enlarge’ the
Market Cheats
jeervice commission have been acquainted with our special tax drive and the necessity for an accelerated program of recruitment. “Sacrifices Necessary" “Arrangements have been withr- the eclvil service commission to have: placed at every army discharge center in the United States a qualified recruitment officer from
| the civil service commission, fully | versed in our recruitment require-
ments, who will steer to us quallfled veterans as they are. dis-| charged, ; “The American people under- | stand that sacrifices are necessary.
first place where public showings revenue, And much more important They know the war is still far from#
| being OVEr, “The one thing that might break down their will to keep on to, com= plete victory would be a feeling] that.a few were profiting from the] sacrifices of the many. justification for
any such feeling,
land that is Just what we are going | bomber missing since the May 19!
to do.
made:
day identified T, Sgt. Lloyd Embree, | “We must see that there is no|/R. F. D, 5, Marion, Ind., as one of | in
L, STRAUSS & C0, | 300 Laid Off ot LEASES OCCIDENTAL Bridgeport Brass
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1. About 50 workers were refeased last week. The plant employs niore than 1300 at present. ° Allison also announced that practically all of its employees will" work 45 hours a week hence= forth, instead of 54, by going on a five-day week, dropping Satur= day work, The cut in overtime pay affects office workers, who working 50 hours for the most part, and factory workers in the Jet propulsion division.- Workers on the reciprocating engine division had been working 45 hours - a but between 4000 and 5000 of MARION FLIER MISSING them are being laid-off following HEADQUARTERS, NORT H| the cancellation of contracts for « | PACIFIC ‘FORCE, Alaska, June 1 ©nsines for the P-63 and P-38
| fighter planes. (U. 'P.).~The war department to- | Allison workers who ‘will re-
main on the longer week are those “round«the-clock” operations such as the powerhouse and plant patrol,-the field service officas and |: the service school.
said, “it. won't be what we "J have wished it to be when we move | in, but we expect to take over and do the best we can.” The increased space will be used | to expand present opérations, “to increase the breadth of our special. | ization,” Mr. Norwood said. In addition to Mr. Norwood, officers are Henry Zitzlaff, treas- | urer and ‘vice president; Sam J. Freeman, vice president: Arthur! L. Strauss, secretary; Leo M. Rap-| { paport, vice president; Joseph E.| | Epstein, director, and Jegnette | Kight, assistant secretary and as-| sistant treasurer,
six crew members of a Mitchell |
Strike in the northern Kuriles.
had been
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“|COLONEL, 29, ARRIVES
WITH CLARK PARTY
One of the officers who landed here yesterday with Gen, Clark's party was Col. Archie J. Knight,
29-year-old army air forces group
commander from Fountain Ofity. He
is the son of-Mrs: ¢. R. Knight and | brother of the Misses Betty and J
Virginia ‘Knight, One of the youngest full colonels in" this war, the officer has been decorated with the
ters silver star, distinguished flying
cross, air medal with four oak leaf purple heart, Buropean- |
clusters, Asiatic campaign ribbon with nine stars,
with silver star.
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DR. ZOLLER TO SPEAK
Dr. John Zeller, speaker at army | camps and over the radio, will ad- § dress the Youth for Christ relly at | 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the First J United Brethren church. Dr, Zoller | is head of the America Back to God |
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