Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1945 — Page 13

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THERE'S A SAD, sad ending to this victory garden : tale. About 10 young couples out on N. Warman ave. had some dandy gardens near their homes. But the other day tragic news came. West 19th st. was to be extended eastward, almost right through their gare: dens, If the bulldozer or the road scooper didn't tear up the vegetables completely, they were told, the

, machines would bury the vines in dirt and gravel

Monday one -of the contractors suggested that the gardeners pick all the vegetables they could that night. And they worked like mad, to do just that. You never saw so many victory gardens go to pieces in such a short time. &tewart (Shoat) Long claimed he had some pumpkins that were going to be “super colossal.” But those beautiful pumpkins look mure

_ like small cantaloupes., Hugh Stewart's pride and joy

were his muskmelons. But they're still just about as green as cucumbers. Besides the Longs and Stewarts, victims are Jack Wetzler, Floyd Boyer, Tom McQarthy, Floyd Dougherty, Don Burkhartsmeler and Jim Strother. They hauled bushel after bushel of tomatoes out Monday night—most of them green ones. And they have all sizes of melons, green beans, pep-

pers, corn, squash, lima beans, carrots and potatoes

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strung through, their garages and basements, This woek the wives of the group practically started a canning factory. Some of the Wetzlers’ potatoes grew to & fair size but they would have grown larger. According to contractors, about 36 houses are to go up 'n that district by Christmas. And more than 100 homes are to be built in the near future. The grass was cut by the side of the new street Tuesday. The road scooper was there yesterday. And today's probably the day to make way for the bulldozer.

JACK WATSON, who broke into the world news when he made fans dive for foxholes at the opening world series games in 1843, has been piloting planes for the Pan-American airlines between New York and Casablanca. Jack's also the lieutenant who piloted a flaming plane back to England from an attack on Germany. He got out of the army on the point system. Right now he’s home with his folks at 4538 Carrollton. ., . . It’s going to be back to uniforms for Indiana state park employees and superintendents, Since the war uniform manufacturers have been swamped with orders for army and navy equip ment, Now with millions of men scheduled to be discharged from service, manufacturers say they'll be

Malta of Pacific

OKINAWA, Aug. 31.—Waving Gen. Douglas MacArthur's cavalcade through by air and sea to Japan with its left hand, Okinawa island is digging itself in with its right as America’s Malta of the Pacific. Fleets of American warships moving on the KoreaYellow Sea area and patrolling Chinese waters north of Hainan island have already, by their somewhat tardy implementation of surrender terms, demonstrated that our strategic frontier extends to Asia. Meantime, Okinawa, westernmost of that chain of bases which

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after the war, is being transformed from a mere stepping stone to Japan, into a Malta of the western Pacific. Stand on one of the castellated bumps of black volcanic rock that tops Okinawa’s low hills and you can see taking shape around you what will undoubtedly be an island of history-making importance in future battles for world power. , These crusty black eminences, covered with vine pushes and stunted trees, were once dominant over Okinawa’s scene. So were the caves which, like halfclosed eyelids at the bottom of low cliffs, still cover with potentially hidden fire all approaches to the

sky-profiled turrets, Help to Feed Okinawans

BUT, NOW these ugly features, among which « American and Japanese tanks lie rusting, are slipping into the past. What dominates the Okinawa landscape today are long, yellow-brown airstrips of hard coral and an ever increasing lacework of sturdy twolane highways, There are more than 20 airstrips on Okinawa already and more are being born all the time. More than one group of fighters, or bombers—58 to 62 planes—can and will dwell on each strip. Revetments for this super-island of air power reach into the valleys, where almost no Okinawans have ever lived. Yet 50 much arable land has already been taken over ,that American forces are helping feed 300,000 Okinawans, ;

Veterans Beware

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—The nation’s confidence men have extended the old glad hand and turned on the oily smile for servicemen coming home -with “heavy sugar’—overseas savings, bonuses- and diseharge pay. Local and state police and federal officials are re-

celving reports of veterans being gyped by everything from modern variations of the old “shell” game to She operations of big time swamp salesmen. °'

‘But the police all over the country, aided by the

¥BI, are detérmined not to let these leeches on so- ~

clety have the fleld day they had after the last war, The FBI has the record of most of these “con” men and agents are jailing them as fast they come into the open. Most common of the tricks being pulled on veterans is the simple expedient of “borrowing” money

Bl and never paying it back. Usually the borrower pans

himself off as also being a veteran. After a few drinks the victim usually finds he was in the same division with his companion in Italy or Africa. Then comes the hard luck story. Then the loan on the strength of being alumni from the same fighting outfit. And then the fast fade-out.

A Real Estate Racket : .

‘SOME OF the swindles have more frills. A glibtongued real estate man on the West coast discovered four. sailors who had just been discharged and were looking for a farm to buy. The slicker sald he had Just the thing and showed them photos of the land, with lush vegetation and fine crops, The boys paid a fat deposit and signed the agreemént, But when they journeyed out to the scene of their farming eng they were shocked to find

My Day

HYDE PARK, Thursday.—Now that the first heat of the controversy over lend-lease is at an end, I if it might not be good for us as a nation p think over what the, real situation is, . We, in the United|States, have at the present a pre-eminent world ‘position, : We have it, t, because-we were fortunate nation whose homewas never touched by any None of our factories were troyed, none of our homes were pmb and -none of our children

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"This was partly due to the fact © our men defended us far’ from § own shores. But it was also to the fact that other nations ~Chin in the Far East, Great . , France and many of the smaller na-

Here's the machine that stunted the growth of those “super colossal” pumpkins,

able to supply uniforms to the park division specifications. . . . Bill Larsen, Tech's star basketball center last year, broadcast from the Tom Brenneman's Breakfast in Hollywood program this week. He's with the navy stationed near San Diego. . . . David Laurance Chambers, president of Bobbs-Merrill, feels an

almost fatherly interest in the re-issuing this fall of |

“Why the Chimes Rang and Other Stories.” The book’s author, Raymond MacDonald Alden, was the very first author Mr. Chambers signed up when he started his editorial career back in 1908. After more than 30 years the book is still his baby and he's taking pride in its fresh appearance.

Big Photographic Job MORE THAN 35,000 pictures are going to be taken over at the state library in the next three weeks. The job's being done by Indiana university’s photographer, Lloyd Walton. Wally is supposed to take about 2000

plosuses a day. He is microfilming old records at the

ry, which date back to the 1700's. The films will be used for research purposes at the I, U., library. .. « Down at Union station the soldiers are swarming in from overseas so fast that they've still got the mud from Europe on their boots, . . . Looks like those delicious pigs’ feet you used to get might be a war casualty. Barringer’s, one of the favorite pigs’ feet spots on the South side, says they have no idea when the dish will be back—maybe never. They say the feet are pretty greasy and hard to work with. They

can't get the help for it now. As for the turtle ssoup |

they used to serve, it’s gone too. Seems a lot of the turtle catchers got other jobs. Gus Hitzelberger, who also used to make pig's feet his specialty along with fried chicken, had nothing favorable to say about the comeback of the dish either,

By George Weller

To travel all the roads on this 65-mile-long island would take many days. To measure its striking power as a base is impossible. The first B-29's were just preparing to set themselves up here when the war ended. Only medium and moderately long-range bombers ever flew from Okinawa; what might have been accomplished, for example, against Manchurian cities is not known. As at the Kunming end of the congested “hump” (Himalayan) route, the main problem is how to keep the levels and lanes of approach running freely. Japs still hiding in the hills are surrendering at the rate of about 40 daily. It is astonishing how they can find anywhere to hide.

Everything Looks American

OKINAWA HAS lost all its native character and is beginning to be completely American. Only the horseshoe-shaped tombs, set slanting into.the hills, along which trucks and jeeps pour day and night, reminds one that the primeval people of the Ryukyus had settled here. : Signs at every crossroads are thickly clustered; some, like “Roddy’s Fighters,” sound almost commercial. Roads are numbered like American highways. Yet young driver William Zdrojewski, Chicago, Ill, with many weeks on Okinawa, still gets lost. Even the roadsteads on both sides of the island are crowded with warships, freighters and seaplanes. The only fellows who can go anywhere really fast are the drivers of long black amphibian trucks, called ducks, which can take to either sea or land. Malta costs Britain only $10,000,000 a year for upkeep, but this Pacific Malta is probably consuming that much a day in wages and materials. The saturation point is at hand. In the meantime, the observer is arrested by American specialization which here is at peak. You see not only hospitals, port battalions, seabees and aviation engineering battalions by what seems like the dozens; you also see laundry companies, and garbage corps. Even the twin pillars, with double bar, across the top of Japanese shrines which have survived the fire, begin to look American. Our air fields seem like football fields and .the shrine pillars like goal posts. Okinawa is American,

By Douglas Larsen

Police warn veterans everywhere to get over the assumption that a “friendly game” is on the level unless they know everybody in it.

they had put a deposit on a fine tract of solig rock that wouldn't even produce a decent crop of moss. Not by any means new as a swindling device, but growing in favor with crooks who are after the veterans’ money is the simple “crap” game or poker game. Used to games that were strictly on the level when they were in uniform, most of the boys feel that they are nore than proficient at the art of “rolling the bones” and playing a little stud. They're usually eager to get in a little game at the request of a bar companion. But loaded dice and double dealing usually get their last nickel. W. Dan Bell, executive director of the National Association of Better Business Bureaus, reports tha one of the fastest growing swindles is ‘the “advance fee.” A business proposition is described to a veteran in glowing terms. He is sold on the idea. But the swindler explains that he has to have a certain sum of money in advance to sew up the deal or as some kine of deposit. After it is paid, the swindler vanishes.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

people had not been able to use them. The basic wealth of any nation is the skill and ¥biltty of the people. We therefore have today a position of ‘Treat responsibility and with it, of course, the opportunity to gain friends for ourselves and make it possible for other nations to live in friendship together. Through lack of forethought and realization of our responsibility we may, however, create discord and dislike for ourselves. In the case of lend-lease, it is obvious that our

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months later. northward to land another detachment on Bougainville, 350 miles away in the same

island chain. Co-ordinated army and navy air strikes at Rabaul, Jap assembly port on New Britain, 250 miles from Bougainville, had forced the enemy to withdraw most of his naval strength to Truk, the heart of his naval outpost 900. miles to the north in the Carolines. The pressure on the Solomons was lifting, and the marine and army occupation forces, as the officer had observed, could rightfully thank the navy for removing the heat. Next stop in the over-water excursion toward Tokyo was to be

the Gilbert and Marshall islands.

But nine months were to elapse after Guadalcanal had been made secure before naval, land and amphibious forces were ready to attempt another major compression of the Japs’ defensive perimeter, ” f J ” THE Gilberts, 16 atolls of coral and volcanic sand, and the Marshalls, 33 atolls, were the Central Pacific’s hornet nest, The atoll formation is a natural naval defense— the ring of land or islets fringing the central lagoon which was formed, according to one theory, by a sunken volcano. Unlike some of the navy’s earlier single-battle engagements, the Gil-bert-Marshall operations formed a campaign extending over more than two months, In early October, 1943, in the com~ parative calm of Pearl Harbor fleet headquarters, the three top strategists of the Pacific conquest assembeled to chart the new push. The Japs had but a short wait to learn the outcome of deliberations by Adm. Ernest J. King, commander in chief of the fleet who had flown in from Washington; Adm. Chester M. Nimitz, Pacific fleet commander, and Adm, William F. Halsey, commander in the South Pacific. ww 8 8 SINCE Guadalcanal the battlq of the Pacific had moved slowly. "At home armchair strategists spoke critically -of island-hopping and fretted over the absence of more decisive results. Military spokesmen reiterated warnings that victory would not be fast or easy. A war of attrition was going on, unspectacular and patience-wearing. Distance and geography were still fighting on the side of the Japs. In late February, 1943, U. 8. forces had made landings on the Russell islands, 18 to 37 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. In May, far to the north in the Aleutians, the Japs had been routed from Attu. In July the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox had issued cheering news that the Japs were losing cargo and combat ships faster than they could build

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By NED BROOKS So .pps-Howard Staff Writer

Was oon —"“The navy sure is taking the heat off observed a grateful marine officer on Bougainville. The Jap fleet had retired westward after its pasting

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ance on that Solomons island outpost had ended three In November, 1943, U. S. forces had thrust

replacements. The stronghold »f Munda, on Kolombangara in the Solomons, had fallen to U. S. forces, ” » » THE Nips got their first taste of the impending Gilbert-Marshall action in September, when 200 carrier-based planes blasted at Jap bases on Tarawa in the north Gilbert group, 2400 miles southwest of Honolulu, Nauru island, 420 miles west of Tarawa, and Makin, 100 miles north of Tarawa. Three weeks later the biggest task force yet assembled had dropped 600 tons of bombs on the four square miles of Wake island. On Oct. 9, after the Pearl Harbor strategy meeting, Liberators had visited Tarawa again. By this time the Gilbert-Mar-shall campaign was well under way, Jap ship losses had reached 745, of which 355 had been accounted for by U. 8. submarines. More than 100 Jap vessels had been sent to the bottom in army and navy air strikes at Rabaul on Nov. 8 and 11. The 5th air force and a two-carrier task force under Rear Adm. Frederick Sherman had caught the Japs by surprise, blasted the ships and destroyed 60 per cent of the enemy planes. Nineteen U. 8. bombers had been lost—a record for a Pacific engagement. 2 s - BY NOW the navy was certain that the Jap fleet could not be drawn out of hiding. After the Rabaul raids Adm. Sherman had challenged the foe to come out of Truk, where 11 heavily fortified islets shielded a 40-mile lagoon. Facing the Japs was the choice of risking their already battered navy or drawing on its defenses and. giving more ground. Adm. Mineichi Koga, the new Jap fleet commander, chose the latter. On Nov. 13 the greatest flotilla of the war struck at shore positions on. three of the British-man-dated Gilbert islands — Tarawa, Makin. and Abemama. Directing operations was Vice Adm. Ray1mond A. Spruance, 57-year-old Indianan and veteran of the battle of Midway, who recently had been put in command of Central Pacific operations, 2 = =» GUN CREWS and planes cascaded 3600 tons of shells and bombs onto Tarawa’s defenses, but marine landing parties were to learn one of the war's costlier lessons. The bombardments, it was discovered, had failed to reduce the Japs’ deep-laid defenses on Betio beach’s square mile of hell, and in the four bloody days which followered the U, 8. dead were counted at 1092. But the invaders wiped out the Jap force of 5700. Makin. and Abemama were occupied with little resistance. Off Makin, the navy lost the ‘escort carrier Liscombe Bay.

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ON Thanksgiving day a scout force under Capt. Arleign (31-knot) Burke intercepted six light cruisers north of Bougainville, sank two with torpedoes. Two others were sunk in the pursuit, two escaped. With the Gilberts secured, the attack shifted to the Marshalls, 500 miles to the northwest. Before | dawn on Dec. 4 a carrier force under Rear Adm. Charles A. Pownell swept down on Kwajalein, the Pacific's biggest atoll with a 60-

By daylight torpedo planes and bombers had been launched from four carriers. Below them, like ducks on a pond, the. pilots saw a luscious prize of Jap shipping and combat vessels. Again the Japs were caught off guard,” In 10 minutes the raiders sank two light cruisers, three cargo transports, a troop transport, an oiler and damaged other vessels. Then the carriers raced to get out of range. ; ® » » BY NOON Jap defenders had overtaken the formation and for 24 hours the warships dodged torpedoes and bombs. Fifty-two Jap planes were shot down against the navy’s five and only one destroyer was damaged. Heading for Nauru, between Tarawa and Truk, the Pownall force shelled and bombed an air-

the tissue which is supplied by this vessel is injured. As the blood circulates through the body, it carries oxygen and food to all parts, and each small branch of an artery has a definite territory to supply. If the blood cannot get through to its territory becduse of a block in the circulation, the tissues will not receive their oxygen and food, waste will accumulate, and trouble will result. Nature tries to get around the

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drome and shore defenses, shot down 10 more Jap planes and withdrew with damage to one destroyer. Still the Jap fleet refused to be drawn into battle. But the enemy's air strikes increased. It was two months after the air strikes at Kwajalein before coordinated land and sea forces were ready to undertake occupation of the Marshalls, » ” » ON FEB. 1, 1944—Adm. King had proclaimed “the year of attack”— the navy struck at Roi and Namur at Kwajalein’s northern end, bypassing the stronger bases at Wotje and Malolap atolls. In three days before landing parties plunged ashore, 15,000 tons of naval shells and bombs were rained on the fortifications. Lessons of Tarawa proved valuable; the heavier bombardment had pulverized the defenses. Landing forces wrested Roi and Namur from the disorganized and punchdrunk Japs in less than two days. To.the south, on the islet bearing

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the path. for bazooka-armed troops and artillery to win a victory in four days of hard combat.

= n » KWAJALEIN atoll was the” first Jap territory to’ fall into U. 8S. hands, To help seize it, the navy had used a force larger than the entire pre-Pearl Harbor fleet. The Jap outer defenses had been pierced. To the north lay Japheld Wake island, to the south Nauru. Ahead to the westward, guarding the approaches to the Marianas and the Philippines, lay Truk, . oformidable and menacing. Adm, King radioed: “Well and smartly done. Carry on.”

TOMORROW—Eniwetok.

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Avoid Strain to Skip Coronary Trouble Several Causes for Heart Pain

coronary heart disease is not necessarily painful even though the usual attack is ushered in by severe pain aml Prosiyation, » IN SOME cases there is gradual development of circulatory blocks which result in progressive scar formation in the muscle. This is followed by loss of heart strength, or the patient may not notice any change. The first indication of coronary heart disease may be a severe attack without recovery. In other cases the patient survives and has a fair coronary circulation, but he has to be careful. In still others, extra channels develop and no trouble follows. If you have had coronary disease, "avoid extra heart strain If you are overweight, you should reduce. Every fat cell is surrounded by small blood vessels belief that fatty tissue is. bloodless is¥false. ; When you gain weight you Increase the length of the blood system and this means more for your hearth. dish

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By RUTH MIELETT

BEFORE the rules against frat ernizing were somewhat relaxed in Germany, the army newspaper Stars and Stripes was filled with letters from servicemen griping about the ruling. . They hollered loud and long, and now they have won the right (to appear in pub lic with Ger man girls on their arms, So what naturally follows? Well, a WAC stationed in Germany writes in ‘to Stars and Stripes to, ask if it is okay for WACs to do a little frat. ernizing with German men, *. 8 ® IT ISN'T all right with Ameri. can soldiers, Since the WAC's letter appeared in print, a blizzard of bitter letters from GIs’ has hit the army newspaper. The men, who thought frater nization was “natural and right” so long as it meant an American man could date a German girl,

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resent an American girl's “nate ural and right” desire to date German men. It's just more of the same story we should be used to by now, All through the war we have heard how it is just “natural” for Amer« ican servicemen to need feminine companionship. ” ” .

BUT WHEN dating war wives have been brought into the cone versation, they have beep, labelled heels and condemned for not being willing to sit at home wait« ing patiently for their husband's return.

Nobody has done any talking, about it being only natural for the little woman back home to need masculine companionship, Without a hearing, the dating war Wives have been regarded as twotimers “So. the WAC shouldn't be sure that