Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1945 — Page 17

“Inside Indianapolis

JAMES MILLER, who_didn't get a scratch in jumping with the marine paratroopers in the Pacific, got banged up here at home Tuesday. About two months ago he rejoined the civilian ranks and started to work as a policeman with the park department. He went on an errand out on Brookwilie td Jind Pleas~ ant Run blvd, Tuesday when his motorfycle and a car coded. His dad, Andy Miller of the Riverside Nurseries, says Jim had about as close a call as he wants. Today he's pretty stiff and sore but doesn’t have any broken bones. ... Mrs, W, H., White ot Mooresville has a cherry tree in full bloom in her orchard now, She says her yard is full-of rose ot Sharon bushes, too, .,.,. The fire department gave the police department a lift yesterday. Firemen using the big ladder over at station 13 put a new rope on the flagpole in front of the police station. They used the 100-foot ladder, the biggest in the city. , . The downtown parking lots are having booming business these days. They're filled with the cars of hundreds of "applicants for jobs at the state unemployment office. . . . A soldier came up to the information desk at Ayres’ the other day and asked where he could buy Ayres’ shaving lotion. He said he received some ' in a Cheer Pack delivered to him through the Red Cross on a European battle front. He liked it and wanted to try some more.

Silver Threads Among the Gold

. JOE MILES is just about the busiest gold and sHver plater in town, For 23 years he’s been at the Job, 14 of them in his shop at 1156 S. Capitol ave, It's mighty interesting work, too. Right now he has a French bronze clock there which dates back to around 1820-40. All sorts of antiques fill his shop but they come out looking like brand new. Often he has worked on silver which was made in the 18th century, During the war Mr. Miles gold-plated millions of screws for Stewart-Warner to be used in aircraft heaters: He also gold-plated gadgets for R. C, A.'s use in radar work. But one of the biggest pieces Joe ever plated is the huge lamp over at St. John's Catholic church. He says he couldn't get his arms around it. A couple of steel cables are used to hang the lamp. Each piece (there were 500 of them) had to be cleaned and the entire lamp gold-plated. As for his most delicate job, it's in the shop right now. Mr. Miles has to gold-plate small sterling strips to be used in army gas masks. The flimsy strip serves as a coil spring. Joe says he plates everything from the tiniest pin to the largest tea set.. One look in his shop will prove just that,

An Indian-a Reservation

MRS. B. G. BUCHANAN, 1206 Olive st., needs some Jap war souvenirs in a hurry, She is in charge of a

Shangri-La—Almost

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica.—A group of army officers ‘nearing retirement sat down in San Antonio to study a world atlas. They were searching for the ideal spot in the world—everything considered—to settle down in a group and live out their lives most comfortably. They went about it scientifically and looked into every phase of the problem. Then, they selected little Costa Rica, down here toward the southern end of Central America maybe not a Shangri-La in every detail, but just about the next best thing. One of them is here now with his wife to select a potential living site near San Jose for some 50 army families if Costa Rica looks as good as it did on paper. are that it is better. What are they looking for? Among other things: Ideal climate, stable government, intelligent and healthful people, modest living costs, good transportation, beautiful scenery, low taxes, basic sanitation and, in general, the sort of place you might like to spend the rest of your life. Costa Rica, without bragging too “much, claims all of them.

High Peaks, Hot Plains COSTA RICA'S mountain scenery is similar to that of Mexico and Ecuador. Peaks rise around San Jose to about 10,000 feet. Then they fall off to the torrid coastal plains and banana plantations. Pine trees and bananas grow together. Orchids are everywhere. Bougainvillea and coffee thrive, Here in San Jose, on a green plateau, the altitude is 3800 feet, Temperature averages 72 degrees in the daytime, 65 at night. There is sunshine in the morning, it rains a little in the afternoon. It is always mild.

Aviation

EVEN THOUGH we virtually have won two wars separated from one another by half the world by virtue of American airpower dominating nearly every combat zone, we still lack a national air policy. The lack of that policy haunts us daily. For instance, no policy has been defined by Washington as tg what we are going to do with the thousands of military aircraft sitting on our airports today. Most of these planes are purely instruments of military airpower, and cannot be converted to peacetime use. Whdt are we going to do with them? They are obsolete as far as the next war is concerned. And the longer we leave them ; laying around, the longer our d bookkeeping will be cluttered with useless items.

Detrimental to Defense

SOONER or later Congress is going to poiat to fhese useless airplanes and question the recommendations of the army and navy for additional appropriations to cover the research and the production of aircraft competent to defend the country today. It is decidedly detrimental to the national defense of the country for the aircraft industry to be completely stymied until this matter of disposing of obsolescent warcraft is. settled. We are way ahead of the rest of the world in

My Day

HYDE PARK, Wednesday, — The committee in Washington has been holding hearings on what 1s nown as the full employment bill, and in reading the papers I gather that there was a great volume of support for the passage of this bill, However, I have also read a considerable number of articles where the authors seem to feél that while full employment is a desirable objective, this bill will do no good. In fact, they say, it is pernicious, because all that we need is to remove all restrictions on private industry and private industry will do the job. These people, it seems to me, are unrealistic and ‘have short memories. There were no restric tions on private industry during the depression; .and we cannot afford another de"pression. It therefore seems fo.me that we should back and fight -for a bill which faces the realities of the situation. Private industry should do all that it possibly can, and “it shoud be given every opportunity to do it. One little practice which existed in the past, However, should not be revived. An oversupply of

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| labor, ready to accept low wages in preference’ to security,

starvation, ‘should never again be allowed to e to increase the profits of employers and

xist _cefimunism.

Joe Miles , . . gold and silver are his specialty.

Japanese souvenir display to be used in Ayres’ window in connection with the state marine corps league convention Sept. 8 and 9. You can call Mrs. Buchanan at MA, 8636 or call Sgt. Mendenhall at the marine recruiting office if you have anything for the collection. . . . Donald Druhot, 820 N, Emerson ave. no longer has hay fever worries. He's serving with the navy in mid-Atlantic. . . . Donnie Felkins, 3279 Winthrop, has a $5 short snorter hill that she'd gladly return to the owner if she could locate him. By the inscription on it, the bill seems to have traveled to Indianapolis recently, Many of the signers were based in Italy, One whose name couldn't be read dated his signature May 22, 1945., Readable names on the bill included Lucian Brown, Benjamin Moore, Ace Boy and Ellsworth Allen. ., . Harriett Scantland, formerly with the state welfare department, is having her troubles over in Europe. She's with the OWI in Paris now. Her typewriter is a German model and the punctuation is all turned around. Besides, she has to worry about remembering that “rucktaste” means backspacer and that “festeller” stands for shift-lock. “Her British secretary in London thought all American. women either dyed or bleached their hair. And Indianapolis, if it is known there at all, is assumed to be an Indlan reservation.

By Ernie Hill

rerhaps most amazing are its people, 90 per cent white, 10 per cent Indian and Negro. The Spanish Conquistadores found no gold or silver in Costa Rica so they didn't stay. The country was settled by honest, hard-working farm families from northern Spain, particularly from the Basque country. They have lived comparatively quiet lives through . the generations.

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~The Indianapolis

SECOND SECTION

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1945

submerged on a Guadalcanal dreams of a defeated empire.

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land opened another.

Its hull broken by U. S. firepower, this enemy ship lies half

beach, a symbol of the broken

Battle:

: J . . Japs Biggest Fiasco

By NED BROOKS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer

ASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Naval victories in the Coral sea and at Midway ended one phase of the Pacific war

Until the Japs had been hurled back at Midway in May,

| 1942, with a stinging loss of four carriers and a half dozen

Costa Rican women are advertised as the ‘most other vessels, the navy had been fighting a wholly defen-

beautiful in the world, and the ads can’t be far] wrong. Their features are softer than those of the typical Spanish, Their posture is perfect. There are | few overly heavy or unusually thin women, They | dress in brightly colored tropical linen suits and] dresses. When army and navy boys come to San Jose, they just sit with their mouths open, Boosts Economy and Health AS FOR THE more mundane things in life, property taxes are virtually nothing. Disease rates are low. The water is pure. Living costs have increased with the war but are still low, Plane service is good.

The Pan American highway, about two years from completion in Central America, runs through San Jose. Almost everyone who stays a while becomes a selfappointed press agent. Costa Rica has one of the most active tourist bureaus in Latin America. It does all it can to make visitors feel at home. Fernando Soto Harrison, youthful minister of government, and next in line, politically, after the president, says: : “Costa Rica Is one of the new countries in Latin America that is not mad at the United States about anything. Our people admire everything about the United States. We have never had the marines here. Nor have we been at war. Relations have always been close. That's why people from the United States find us friendly from the top classes down to the " lowest.”

sive war. At Guadalcanal, six months

later, the conflict was to reach its

offensive - defensive stage — "the smake-ready” period blueprinted by the navy tacticians. In this action, which arm-chair strategists have compared with the battle of Jutland in 1916, the navy cleared the critical threat which had been hanging over land forces in ‘he Solomons and New Guinea. The three-day Donnybrook off Guadalcanal which opened Nov..13 —an unlucky -PFriday for the Nips —had been in the making since Aug. 7, when the marines had landed in a combined land and sea of-

fensive of the Solomons. # » »

THEY HAD invaded Tulagi and Guadalcanal, seized an airport carved out of the latter's jungles by the Japs and renamed it Henderson field. In Washington, Adm. Ernest J. King had proclaimed the operation *‘our first assumption of the initiative and of the offensive.” Their flank threatened and their further advances challenged, the

By Maj. Al Williams

numerical superiority of airpower. But France is the classical example of a nation that depended upon a lot of airplanes that were not competent to defend her. Whether we like it or not, we have got to maintain our technological superiority, and discount nu--merical superiority based upon obsolete equipment that served well in a concluded war, Whether ‘wé like it or not, we must scrap all excess aircraft above what is needed. immediately by our army and navy air forces. This is just as much justifiable to a nation determined to insure its future security as| the loss of planes in battle.

Must Prepare Next Time WHEN THE European war ended, we avere far | behind the Germans in the field of jet and rocketpropelled aircraft and self-propelled and self-guided air missiles. Thus far, in two wars, we have managed to escape the disastrous consequences of our peactime lethargy toward unpreparedness. Common sense compels us| to recognize that the jnachinery of warfare has developed to a point where unpreparedness and technologically inadequate equipment at the outbreak of the next war will mean the end of any nation. Therefore, following the rule of first things first, and before we begin talking and planning loosely about what we must do in the matter of research and development of air weapons for a possible next war—which will be a pure air war—let us scrap every fighter and bomber plane in excess of what the army and navy air forces demand for immediate use.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the conditions under which men work and the returns which they receive for their work are adequate, and that all men who want to work have an opportunity to work, so that they are not held in a. forced pool of unemployment for the benefit of employers. This’ may mean that investors and the management side of business can claim only a reasOnable return on their investments and on their part of the work of industry, That is one of the things which ' we have to accept if the world is to be a better world for the average man and woman in the future. whole job, then ‘let us be grateful and let them do it. If at any time they can not do. it, however, then the government must have in resereve new . things to develop -for the good of the whole country —things that will provide more opportunities in. the future for industry to use more labor. Some people seem to feel that of necessity this must constantly increase our national debt. But that is not a :necessity. Many government investments have paid out in the past, and will pay out many times over in the future, : The ‘thing for us to rememeber is that the men who fought this war on the various fronts throughout the world, and in the shops at home, have fought it to. a better way of life. They want more s fear, greater happiness. This is not

If, with these restrictions, industry can do the |

Japs had fought back furiously. On the day following the Solomons landings, Jap raiders had surprised and sunk three United States cruisers and one of Australia’s off Savo island, a loss which the navy did not disclose until October. In mid-August the navy had turned back an armada and blasted transports attempting to land reinforcements. Planes from Gen. Douglas MacArtfur’s land bases had hammered at Rabaul in New Britain,.the assembly port for Jap invasion fleets, and at Buin on Bougainville in the Solomons. » » » IN OCTOBER, off Cape Esperance, a task force which included

the cruiser Boise had intercepted a Jap force and had sunk six ships. The, ‘Boise, commanded by squarejawed Capt. Edward J. (Mike) Moran and destined to be known as the “one-ship fleet,” had-sunk, or helped to sink, all of them. Battered and scorched, with 18 of her crew lost, the Boise nosed into

WILLIE and JOE—By Mauldin

Philadelphia navy yard for a hero's | welcome six weeks later. | In the latter part of October, |U. 8. carrier forces off Santa Cruz islands had sunk two Jap ships and {four cruisers and had lost a second carrier, the Hornet, from which the ! Doolittle raid on Tokyo had been {launched in April. By Nov. 1 the navy had admitted the loss of 16 ships against 13 for the Japs, but it claimed damage to 65 enemy vessels. Meanwhile, despite navy poundings, the Japs had succeeded in landing reinforcements, artillery and tanks on Guadalcanal. » E J ”

IN EARLY November, the enemy was ready for the big push to rid the Solomons of the marine invaders. North of Guadalcanal the Jap fleet was assembled—three battleships, three carriers, 10 cruisers, 19 destroyers. Another force of transports, heavily escorted, headed toward Guadalcanal from Rabual and Buin, Missing were the Jap carriers. The enemy had lost four flattops at Midway and seemingly was not disposed to risk any more at the moment. Coral sea and Midway had been air engagements; at Guadalcanal airpower played its part, but the issue was decided by the sweating, swearing gun crews. It fulfilled the prediction of Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey, the old carrier skipper who led the Guadalanal force, that “battleships will have a decided role in this war before it ends.” s » ” ADM. - OF FLEET. Chester. W. Nimitz said“after the engagement that the battlewagons had a “cone siderable contributidn” in the result. Of Bull Halsey, Adm. Nimitz said: “He can oalculate to a cat's whisker the risk involved in operations when successful accomplishments will bring great results.”

ing Guadalcanal from the north, circled Florida island in three groups and the two opposing forces joined battle in the early morning of Nov. 13.

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Just after 2 a. m. a task force, lof cruisers and destroyers under Rear Adm. Daniel J. Callaghan wedged its way into a Jap formation which was attempting to screen landings from transports. J ” ”

ADM. CALLAGHAN’S cruiser flagship, the San Francisco, turned her main batteries” on a cruiser, her secondary guns on a destroyer. Both went down. Through the enemy fleet plunged the San Francisco, closing with a

other U. S. ships and planes to torpedo and sink her. As the cruiser pulled through two enemy

each other. “I hope,” observed Adm. Nimitz, “that the Jap gunnery was up to the usual excellent standard they have always shown against us.” Adm. Callaghan’s daring cost him his life. A 14-inch salvo struck the cruiser’s bridge, killing thrice-deco-rated, 52-year-old Uncle Dan and Capt. Cassin Young, 48, the flag- | ship's commander.

A THE BURST knocked out LL. Cmdr. Bruce McCandless, 31, third in command on the bridge, but he got to his feet, took command of the vessel angled the column. through the remainder of the battle. Rear Adm, Norman Scott, 53, in command of another unit, also was counted in the first day’s casualties. ‘The attack was renewed the. second night with a force under Rear Adm. Willis A. Lee Jr., whose two battleships and support ships wrought further havoc. On the. final day, another U, 8S. force discovered four Jap cargo ships beached at Tassafaronga, sevep miles from the marine beach posttions on Guadalcanal. All were de-

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‘MEETING TO WEIGH

VETERAN PROBLEMS

Readjustment of soldiers to civiljan lifé will be the theme of a program to be given at 8 p. m. next Thursday in the auditorium of the World War Memorial. The program is beifig presented in conjunction with: the institute on personal and family affaivs of veterans, which the Red Cross is conducting next Thursday and Friday in the Wm. H. Block Co. auditorium. Thursday night's program will include the first presentation (0° a civilian audience of the. official onehour orientation. course ‘given all soldiers discharged at the separation center at Camp Atterbury. Day sessions of the institute will feature talks on the personal and family affairs of the neurotic vetthe physically handicapped veteran, the veteran who has never held a civilian’ job and the veteran who has been away from home for a long time Speakers for these "sessions will include military and naval personn@l from Billings general hospital, eman general hospital, Camp rbury, Stout Field and the navy ting office in Indianapolis. Panel discussions subject as it is

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stroyed by planes from Henderson field and naval guns. Eight transports had been disposed of by earlier air action.

INCLUDING whatever ships may have been sunk when the Japs fired on their own vessels, the enemy losses were counted at 23—a battleship, three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, five destroyers, eight transports, four cargo transports, U. 8. losses were two light cruisers, seven destroyers. Losses

record of Jutland. i Boastful as usual, the Tokyo {radio told listeners that “more than! | half of the enemy fleet has been | crippled.” “The fate of the U. S. landing force on Guadalcanal,” the broad- | cast added, “is in the hands of | Japanese forces. This latest defeat {of U. S. forces means the shatter|ing of the American navy's counter- | attacks in the Solomons.”

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THE JAPS returned for another battering on Dec. 5, when nine more vessels were sunk, including four or five troopships. From then on, the navy forged a defensive ring around Guadalcanal and the marine and army fbrces were able to go about their .job of mopping up without ‘the threat of Jap reinforcements. It was a bitter day for the Japs on Feb. 9, 1943, when the Tokyo radio announced the withdrawal

explanation: “Our mission there is completed.” Guadalcanal had cost -the Japs 40,500 of their 42,000 men and their ship losses in the Solomons had reached the satisfying total of 57.

TOMORROW: Gilbert-Marshall campaign.

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We, the Wome Paris Solves House Problem

For Divorced

By RUTH MILLETT PARIS has made an unconven=tional concession to the current housing shortage, which appare ently is as bad there as in the over-crowded cities in the United States. The Paris Court of Ape peals has ruled that divorced couples can J continue living under the same roof so long as one of themis unable to find separate quarters. That sounds like good, practical common sense. A man and woman who once lived as man and wife ought to be able to share a house or aparte ment without difficulty. For unlike most people who are forced to share the same roof with others because of a housing shortage—the divorced couple ale ready know the worst about each other. :

s » » THE WOMAN knows the man’s taste in radio programs—and whether or not he plays the cone traption far into the night. The man knows whether or not the woman hangs her washed and dripping unmentionables all over the bathroom. And she knows whether or not he hangs up his towels and scrubs the tub. It is such petty things that make trouble between apartment mates. And a divorced husband and wife who decide to share a roof know all of those things about ‘ each other in advance, so there are no rude shocks instore for them. » ” r FURTHERMORE, if the two are amiable a shared roof could work out advantageously for both. In return for the woman's cone tinuing to look after the man's laundry, perhaps even continuing to cook his meals, he could mow the lawn and fix leaky faucets and do other such odd jobs about the house. With the “help” situation being as bad as the housing shortage, that ought to be quite a consid eration. Only trouble is, it will probe ably be hard for the average couple, used to the casual or come plete lack of -manners in mare riage, to start treating each other with deference and consideration without which no two persons not tied by ‘the bonds of holy wedlock can manage to get along

under one roof,

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