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CRITICISM

Leathernecks See Big Guns Japs Used Against Yanks

ASTOUNDS CAPITAL

Diplomats Point Out U. S. Policy Gave Army, Navy 10 Years to Prepare for Jap Surprise Attack .0On Pearl Harbor.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Aug. 80.—The charge that Secretary of State Cordell Hull erred in not prolonging discussions | with Japan until the U. S. army and navy could get ready, |

has left diplomatic circles here virtually breathless. 1.

State department records, available to the army board, | reveal that for at least 10 years our relations with Japan| were steadily deteriorating.|

Iirst under Col. Henry LBEEDLE’ SMITH Stimson, then secretary of | state, and afterwards. under Mr. | y Hull, document after document ap-| CRITIC S TARGET peared, each one constituting i |

warning that, barring a shameful /merican backdown, we would have

to fight Japan. Board Says He Didn’t Rush If the army board refers specii- | i.ally to the final phase of Japa- Word to Marshall. | ese-American negotiations, Wiese Li Gen: Walter Bedell Smith) sagan in May, 1939, three months the. Indmnapelis army officer Whol afore the outbreak of the war in signed the German surrender terms

lurope or two years and Seven, May, was among the higher. rionths before Pearl Harbor.

ups eriticized today in the Pearl Warning Never Expected Harbor investigation. | Relations between Washington] The army gnd Tokyo began to be acute in the night

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board found that on| of Dec. 6, 1941, Gen. March, 1041, after the arrival of Smith, for some “unfortunate” rea-| Adm, Nomura. Thus the army and son; did not immediately convey to| yavy had April, May, June, July, Gen George C. Marshall a vital / ugust, September, October, No- message from army G-2 ,(intelli- | \ smber and up to Dec. 7 in which gence), which implied that war t) plan against surprise. was coming—"and soon!” That Japan would strike without| At the time of the Pear] Harbor warning assuredly was a secret attack, Gen. Smithy was a colonel { ‘om no one. My private files con- and served as secretary of the tain many stories, written both in general staff, this country and the Far East, not 8ince that time he has partici | only indicating Japan's probable pated in the planning of allied in- | intentions but pointing out that vasions from the North African | t-aditionally Japan had always coasts to Germany. He now is chief | siruck first and declared war aft- of staff to Gen, Dwight D. Eisentarward, : hower. The charge that Mr. Hull might| “Beedle,” as he was often called, | Fave delayed the showdown with came back to Indianapolis last | Japan, seems all the more astound-| June after signing the German | ing because he did exactly that. In| surrender terms in the little red | fact, he was constantly in hot water| schoolhouse in Reims. with a section of American publie!

opinion because of that very policy. Marshall Away on

This section demanded a stiffer Horseback Ride |

policy toward Japan, a policy which | Mr. Hull knew would start the WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U. P). | —Gen. George C. Marsnall was

shooting. Against Expansion | horseback riding on the morning For years preceding Pear] Harbor, °f Dec. 7, 1041, when U. 8. army Japan had her eyes on East Asia. intelligence (G+2) received a vital | and the South Pacific. She wanted Message boding “an almost im-| to inelude that area because of its Mediate break In relations between abundance of strategic materials the United States and Japan.” whieh she, herself, lacked: Oil. coal, It was nearly three hours after steel, rubber, tin and al] the rest. the message came in, the army The United States was dead board revealed in {ts report on against Japan's policy of expansion. Pearl Harbor, before Marshall It tried to induce Britain and the reached the office of G-2 and re-| League of Nations to join us in ceived the important information| stopping her rape of Manchuria. It from Cel. R. 8 Bratton. = ° opposed her in the Yangtze valley,

at Shanghai, in the Philippines, Short Says His

ndo-Chin h i Indo-China and the Duwh East vnecience is: Clear

Indies, Throughout this entire decade,’ DALLAS, Tex. Aug. 80 (U, P)~—| Gen. Walter T. Short, on!

state department records reveal that Maj, it was perfectly aware (1) that if whom an army board of inquiry |

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we drew the reins too tightly on placed. partial blame for the Pearl Japan she would fight and (2) that Harbor disaster, said last night that | we were not ready to fight. So a he had acted “in accordance with policy somewhere in between was information which was available to imperative, me.” Nevertheless, this policy was. ghort, army commander at Pear!

gradually tightened. Little by lit- Harbor when the Japanese attacked tle, we shut down on the oil and on pee. 7, 1041, said in a signed serap metal which Japan had been|siatement:

purchasing in this country, | “On Dee. 7, 1941, I was obeying Moral Embargo my instructions from Washington as At first if was a sort of moral I understood them, and was acting embargo. Then it gradually became in accordance with information more drastic as copper, zine, brass, Which was available to me at that nickel, petash, platinum, nitrates, time. A commander must base his airplanes and so on were added to decisions on information veiore him the list, it the time And all the while Mr. Hull was. “Although the entire facts are being ealled names for not making to be to me and to the embargo total and forthwith. public; the recent ‘statement of the While the demand was in a sense Pearl Harbor hoard shows beyond laudeble and understandable, he! question that there was available to kilew it had to be resisted because authorities in Washington before our army and navy were still un- the attack, critical Anformation | prepared. which was not disclosed to me and Vol. II, of the records which was vital to my decision. with Japan. (1931-1941) “My conscience is clear.” with a memo. It'is dated May 18 ct . 1989—still . more than two years to keep the war out of the Pacific prior to Pearl Harbor. It tells of| If all this was not stringihg out 2 talk between our ambassador to! negotiations, it is the Tokyo, Mr. Grew, and Jap Foreign army board must strange Minister Arita. Mr. Grew talked idea of time. If a decade was not | of the likelihood of war in Europe long enough to teach Pearl Harbor end made a bid for a Japanese- to be on the alert, the fault could American understanding designed hardly be Mr. Hull's.

LOCAL BRIEFS

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and Yedna Carter; farmers Masters rd., today were named errones | as defendants in an OPA alleging over-ceiling price violations. Corwin Carter, 4608 E. 78th st, was another defendant in the suit filed Tuesday in U. 8. diswimming pool yesterday when she trict ehurt here. | «ived too deeply, Rowena Ann It was said W. C. and Vedna | \pplegate, 17, of 6414 Cornell ave, Carter disposed of their interest in| + suffering a possible skull fracture! 3 poultry market at 6332 Guilford | «4 City hospital today. ave, in January, 1045. The alleged | violation occurred in June,

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ARMY PRIVATE KILLS

IKIN, REST OF FAMILY

MACKENSACK, N. J, Aug. 30 (U. P.) —Vermont authorities sought removal of Pvt. Bernard Romprey, 28, charged with killing all four members of an Essex Center, Vt, farm family before he left his home | to return to his Georgia army camp. | Romprey will be arraigned in the presence of Vermont police officers who said they expected him to waive extradition. Vermont State Attorney Clark A Gravel charged in warrant yesterday that Romprey shot and killed his brother-in-law, Bliss Mansfield, 31; Mrs. Marion Mansfield, 30, and their two children, Faye, 7, and Richard, 5. Clark said Mrs. Mansfield was found in the kitchen of the Mansfield farmhouse. Her husband was found in the garden and the two children, clasped in each other's arms, were found in the barn. Neighbors found the four bodies when one of them sought to free the Mansfleld cat which was clawing at a window. Clark said the Mansfields apparently had been shot

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Don't Wait for Tax Cut on Fur

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (U, P.).—The fur industry today advised ithilady to go ahead and buy that. fur coat. Rumors that federal taxes on furs may be cut soon, it said, just aren't true. Treasury officials pointed out that under existing law the present fur tax of 20 per cent will automatically -go down to 10 per cent six months after President Truman or congress decides that the war is officially over, The catch is that Mr. Truman has indicated he doesn't intend to issue such a proclamation for a long time. After the first world war, the proclamation wasn't. issued until three years after the armistice. Industry: officials became alarmed after thousands of wo hen cancelled orders for coats in expectation of a lower tax,

HOOSIER" IS APPOINTED MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 30 (U.P), —Lt. Col, Lawrence G, Gilbert, 27, of Pleasant Lake, Ind, has been named deputy commanding officer of the fourth ferrying group, offi cials announced today, 2

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i Words of praise for his 60 years of work in the Republican party were | still ringing .today in the ears™of| William H. (Big Jack) Jackson, 81-

ported by Ralph Velandingham, 6 N.| year-old Negro politician, City and Gray st., manager, {county party leaders honored Big {Jack last night in the 25th Street| Will H. Smith, United States col- | Baptist church, - lector of internal revenue, today Among others who attended were annouriced that the Indianapolis Henry E. Ostrom, county chairman; .¢ffice is now on a 40-hour week. The State Senator Robert Lee Brokenoffice’ will be open eight hours a (burt, Deputy Prosecutor Rufus C. day Monday through Friday and | Xuykendall, Dr Sumner A. Purniss, - together with all Indiana branch | Df Roy B. Storms. county coroner; offices will observe the Labor day DY Walter E. Hemphill, works

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