Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1945 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Russians, Food and Exports

Prime. Problems of Britain T0 SERVE TOWNS

By HENRY J. TAYLOR Seripps-Howard Special Writer | turned from an around-the-world WASHINGTON, June 25.—Eng-| assignment. He visited each war land's citel anxieties are: | theater ane al Sontjuents, Byung ’ i . some 50, miles in four months. 3 Russia's yelsical; ilar ang This is the first of five articles on economic intentions. his findings in England, the 2. England's food supply, NOW, gyropean Continent, the Middle heavily dependent on lend-lease,| East, China and the Pacific.

and the domes-|, ... , oo is in the current de-

{mobilization of part of the BritX=! ish forces, although how many [veterans may be attracted into the {coal pits is unknowh. Miner's earnlings now stand 12th down the list 8. Noneta Ty of British wage ‘earners, pidlems. totali [they were 81st. uss - . a 3 : X ! New Trade Required ¢ sm, of 1itA taro) Sufficient British exports to 3 : : Great Britain. maintain the home economy will Stalin is not a require new trade to break a downMr. Taylor . .conal bug-a-|ward trend which began long ago. boo, but the system which sur-| ; By the outset of world war I rounds him is widely regarded in England accumulated annually well ' England as dynamite. over a billion dollars surplus from If this seems at a distance to her overseas trade. But between mean that the British fear the world wars 1 and II industrial despread of Communism to England, velopments elsewhere, and other you do not get that impression on factors, undermined England's he spot. The British simply feel preferential position as a world that the regimented state, the Big workshop. : Man power-state, generates within! By 1939 her overseas s\Iplus had

tic coal situation. 3. British ports to maintain Britain's home ‘economy.

itself tensions and aggressive move- shrunk to less than 150 million dol- |

ments which in the long run prove lars. a year. uncontrollable. Debt to Colonies Grows After Stalin — What? England's export trade in 1943 The British ask: “What will hap-| Was only 929 million dollars in pen when Stalin goes?” According- Bross volume, less than the annual lv. British anxieties ate more on a business of one American railroad long-term than short-term basis, or one of our grocery chain stores, and her fears of Russia exist an This was a drop from 1883 million broader grounds than may be gen: dollars in 1938. Today England's ‘erally supposed. revenue from exports provides less Continued British aid to Russia than 3 percent of her net national In addi-gincome. tioh' to" large . quantities. of war| While ‘most of her colonies and 2 materials, England in the past four | dominions “have increased their ex years has sent “the: Seviet more | Port trade vastly during the war, © than $480,000,000 worth of non- England has obtained substantial military goods. gains In only two commodities: ‘Deliveries included not only such Whiskey and silk, : {tems as 31 complete electric power Her whiskey. went to the United stations, but 257,000 tons of Zood.’ States snd ee Ti to Australia : an ew Zealand. Future of Lend:lease : | Meanwhile, England's debt to her Here the question of continued|g,minions and colonies has mow lend-lease food from the United reached 12 billion dollars, and she States arises. "~ ‘must depend on additional exports At present, il th3oughout ; the ¢, pay the interest. war, Britain could not maintain a] : reasonable national ration with- Billions at Stake out America's deliveries. | For this and other purposes the Better shipping facilities to the British government wants a credit

rest of the world, and especially the|0f from seven to eight billion dol- .

resumption of large-scale British | lars from the United States govtrade with food-growing Argentina ernment. A similar prospective loan can relieve this. {to Russia, however, complicates The British market basket and the subject. coal bin are the two most pressing| If the United States refuses the domestic worries. -- {Russian loan, the British fee] their The minister of fuel, Major Da-|2Wn -application will be jeopardized. vid Lloyd-George, says production If the Russian loan is granted, the per year has fallen nearly 50,000,000 , British feel they will be entitled to tons during the war, while the cost equal’ treatment. The Russian reat the mines has doubled. action to the British application

for such a loan is similar. Coal Stocks Reduced | As a result, in its effect on Stocks have been reduced to the america, not eight billion dollars

"point where coal will be more hut 16 billion dollars is at stake in scarce in British homes this win-|thjs question of a post-war loan . ter than during any winter of the to England. Calculated on a per war, ; - {capita basis this represents - $266 To relieve this condition Ameri-|for each wage earner now emcan mining machinery has been ployed in the United States. sent to England under lend-lease,|

and more is requested. But the! NEXT—The Outlook for Europe.

PROFESSOR TO TALK | Plan Fireworks ON ‘ERNIE PYLE DAY! "July 4

Professor , Jojn Stempel, head of the department of journalism atl «oN TO TOKYO,” featuring the reproduction in fireworks of

Indiana - university, will speak to! | B-24 bombers destroying Tokyo

Lions. Club members at their Wednesday luncheon in the Clay- will be part of the Sahara Grotto show at Butler

pool hotel. His topic will be “Ernie Pyle.” A life-long friend of the late war| correspondent, Prof. Stempel is speaking in connection with “Ernie Pyle Day” as proclaimed by .the governor,

July 4. Frank Fulton,

special entertainment for men ang women in the armed services, has reported that wounded and convalescing vet

SCHOOLS. BUSINESS RELATIONS STUDIED

Virgil Stinebaugh, stperintendent of Indianapolis public schools, will present a plan for closer relation between schools, business and indus-| ings General hospital, Wakeman try at the Rotary luncheon tomor-| hospital and Veterans hospital row in the Claypool hotel. will be guests of the Grotto. Additional speakers include H. L.| A few of the patriotic set pieces Harshman, assistant superinten-! will include portraits of Gen dent; Harry E. Wood, director of Eisenhower, Gen. MacArthur and vocational education, and Edward| Adm. Nimitz E. Greene, director of war pro-| The gates will open at 6 p. m., duction training and the Sahara Grotto band will begin a concert at 6:30, Pat Har- | gon's juvenile clowns will perform. LEADS TO REUNION A massed formation of AmeriKALAMAZOO. Mich. (U. P.).--| can Legion color guard, drum Brothers have been proving what ©0TPs., drill team, cast, band and a small world it is all through the | Revelers, will parade before the fighting fronts, meeting in shell-| first fuse is lighted in the fireholes, on troop transports and in| WOTKs display. hospitals, but Sailor Louis Galli-

gan ras into -his’ brother, Johunny,! BROOKSIDE CHAPTER

also of the navy, in a livelier spot

Frank Fulton

—a night club in Corpus Christi, | TO HOLD INITIATIONS

Tox. Brookside chapter 481, O. E. 8 initiation at a called meeting at 8 p. m. tomorrow Friend's night also. will be observed former Indiana lieutenant governor! at a called meeting at 8 p. m. Pri.

A——————————— will

hold double VAN ORMAN TO SPEAK Harold Van Orman, Evansville

will speak at the Real Estate board | day night. luncheon Thursday at the Claypool| Sylvia Pearl hotel Wendell M. Hicks will tron, preside.

Jones, worthy ma

381h's Captive Says Officers

Tell Japs Atrocity Fables

By GERALD R. THORP [Even then, he volunteered, Times Foreign Correspondent {conditions in his WITH THE 38TH DIVISION ON |gimost unbearable. LUZON, June 25-Japanese offi- ment cers on Luzon are telling their sol- | gt ors. diers that our bombers have destroyed the imperial palace Tokyo to convince them that “the Americans are

he sald, and the civilians

In irate with each passing day.

2 { Henry J. Taylor recently re- |

in 1939

“University bowl,

chairman of |

erans from Bill- |

and William PF. Krueger worthy patron, will be in charge.

living homeland were The governwas requisitioning all food-

{needs were becoming more despe-

| As far back as two months ago, {sald the Jap, his officers notified

PARACHUTE MALL

Our Lengthening Supply Line Now Twice Width of U. S. Yellow 0 LA S BY : 2 : e Shi oo 8 JAPAN Pacific Ocean’

Okinawa to San Francisco 7400 Miles

By. Science Service WASHINGTON, June 25. — Air-|

{mail delivery by parachute to thou- | sands of small towns in the United | IStates is a probability of the near |. future. Tests just made here at the national airport demonstrate that it| {can be successfully carried out, us ing a special conveyor to eject the | mailbag and a special parachute to | {land 1% safely on the ground. The |demonstration was by the Pennsyl- | |vania-Central Airlines and the | | Switlik Parachute Co. | | The airline company perfected the | {method by which mail sacks, MINDANAO equipped with parachutes, can be efficiently and accurately dropped |

oe v | fi TAWITAWI {from low-flying transport planes.

| . 7% TARAKAN {In the demonstration a plane flew

Es tern] fat 130 miles an hour about 200 feet ns — TARMA lover the airport and ejected groups |

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Philippines to San Francisco 7585 Miles

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CAROLINE 1S. «MAKIN

Gigantic task of supplying American troops in the Pacific war thea ter requires shipment of food and equipment over a distance more than

‘of sacks and parcels through a rear| twice the width of the United States. Above map shows the mileage from, San Francisco to our far-flung outposts—Honolulu, Guam, Iwo Jima,

‘door by means of a conveyor de-: Okinawa and the Philippines.

signed by company engineers. is —_—— Opened by a static line, the para- other.

chutes fell free for a few feet, bil-| Each parachute is packed in its to and remains with the mail bag trigger.

ers. The parachute sack is attached the plane when the -pilot trips a canopy, withdraws the canopy as pastor of St. A static line, with one end the load falls away. The line breaks, church

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_ MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1945

164 GIVEN DEGREES

AT DEPAUW RITES |

| { | Degrees were conferred on 164 | DePauw university graduates yes{terday by President Clyde E. WildIman in the 106th commencement,

held at Blackstock stadium. Dr.-

{Halford E. Luccock, professor of homilectics at Yale university. divinity school, spoke. ” David E., Lilienthal, head of the oe and graduate of DePauw in

[1920, and- G. Herbert Smith, pres-. |

{ident -of Wilamette university, Sa|lem, Ore. graduate in 1927, were lawarded the doctor of laws degree, Dr. Smith's award was made in |absentia. | ‘Doctor of divinity degrees .were | copferred upon. three ministers. { They are the Rev. Orville L. Davis, |class of 1922, now president of |Leonard Theological school, Jub« bulpore, India; thé Rev. F. Bringle McIntosh, superintendent of the Toledo, O., district of the Methodist conference, and graduate in 1920, and the Rev. Robert M. Selle, Paul's Methodist in South Bend and “for-

lowed and dropped slowly, all land- own canvas bag, with the dpen-end- during its descent, The mail bags attached to the plane and the other the canopy inflates, and the cargo. merly of Riverside Park Methodist

ing within a short distance of each.flap closed by snap-button fasten-|are ejected from the conveyor and end to the apex of the parachute descends slowly to the ground.

church. /

Pnettly Uonses and flowery katr omaments !

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glory you and your cutive summer wardrobe !

Nassau Spun Rayon Blouses

3.50

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Flowered Hair Ornaments

S59¢ - 71.00

All from the Neckwear Shop, Street Floor

See the Exhibit of Drawings by

Jack Gildersleeve, . * Guard combat artist, now in Ayres’

U. 8 Coast

MONDAY 5000-K RON

6 Allied Air Enem: (Continued

Superfortresses Okinawa, - enab) larger bomb log The B-29s, ¢ mined waters o: shu and raided the islands in t But the 20th ws taking part? The U. 8.°5th and the R. A. I las MacArthur's and pounded f 2000-mile, arc « sea. MacArthur's | kapan and Fon F. helped in the Medium bombe: coast from Ca bombing and st: and other targe The railroad f on the Yangtze bombed. From Fighters of tl the marines ane targets from th south of Japan of it. Itazuki airfiel shu was bombec bolt fighters fro Okinawa. Shir in the Tsushi Kyushu and Kc With the mot prod them, the their invasion latest, move was tor vehicles 1 taxicabs, to gi fenders more n

DEMOCRAT 3 FOR CC

Three India were being co possible appoin council post left ignation of Car It was learne consideration a: fon county De secretary; Joser of the Irvingtc nd Guy Ross, | hairman. One of the gr be recommend County Chairm: Mr. Jordan wa afety board.

HURRICAN UP ATL!

CHARLESTO (U, P).-—A weeping up th 0 miles an ho iles off this se ane warnings iington, N. C,, The storm « ninsula nortt day, but cause The weather ftorm,. accomps gale and hurric: ng northeastw pected to pass apes this after p strength af ea again.

the enlisted men that the emperor's {palace had been destroyed, stressing that this in itself was reason enough to fight to the end against the Americans, ii The prisoner said that he apd his companions for several days had! discussed the possibility of surrendering but hesitatéd to do so for fear they would be killed, : “Pinally we decided that being was well fed, al- Mr. Thorp dead would be worse than living like though the other three were weak |We Were)’ he concluded. “So we from hunger. = - . - miade up our minds to give our-

barbarians,” ac- | Auditorium, Eighth Floor. cording to a pris- | oner in our hands. This prisoner, one of four captured by this division's 151st regiment, talked for pearly an hour to . an interpreter. He

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