Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1945 — Page 7

PROFILE: Modest, music-loving Joe Bloch of the park board defies the laws of nature. Apparently he At least, it’s impossible to ‘get him to talk about himself, Fortunately, his many friends ‘talk freely about his countless civic efforts, all characterized by unselfishness and en~thusiasm. i The man who spearheaded the

nake the come move here for a municipal opera vas in Herbert disclaims any knowledge of music, host. Siicot ais “I just like it," shrugged Mr. ington, he-has =» Bloch, an average-size man in his department is y early fifties. ! Tai Li “I'd like to see tuneful operas found out and brought here for others who are of reorganizas 2 like" me—know nothing about ? naming three music except that it is pleasant e. One would and entertaining.” ‘ ther domestis * His son, Capt. Jim Bloch, is a = Mr. Bloch . little business i. talented pianist, however. An army air forces officer, : he is stationed at Guam. The son was a soloist with d on Mr. Wal various symphony orchestras before entering the serv1 out to make ice, including those at Chicago. and Denver, the and encourage + New York civic orchestra and our own. s theory that It was Capt. Jim who may have developed Mr. ivate business, + Bloch’s interest in music. Mr. Bloch traveled to Cine ned economy,” cinnati, St. Louis, Louisville and other cities to hear 2d to as little |, their symphony orchestras and municipal operas. He began to collect information about the organization of these talented groups. Then he began to dream of a municipal opera for Indianapolis. is department o If you ask him, hell tell you he’s not the man ct by business, to head the Indianapolis Theater Association, Inc, asic things he organized recently to promote municipal opera. here. He told that to others, but they insisted he serve at siness, in some least as temporary chairman during the first few

ay some fairly months,

t . : ® generally, has +J « Native of Alabama to much. If . IN THE last few months he has even neglected “ under Dan his ‘widespread business interests to talk opera. Mr. 8 for breathing ‘Bloch, 8 native of Selma, Ala, with still more than and didn't stay a trace of southern accent, is president of the Gibson

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Co., local automotive parts firm, and Capitol Motors, d there was a

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from the dee In addition, he is a director of the American y-passed it. National bank. He somehow finds time’ to serve as a ciates, it's his director of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra and on 14th street, a director ‘of the United War and Community Fund, bureaus within Other business interests also demand a share of his about like this; , . time, . ers departs Le It's easy. to think of Joe Bloch as just an “averag it can to pro~ guy” who nevertheless managed to get a lot dome. 1 full business He's heir to a ot of shortcomings the rest of us have, bring it about? *s his wife says. ) n and domestic |, “His taste in tles—oh, my! Mrs. Bloch admitted Tice, bureau of f* her husband is indifferent about his clothes. Evie shown a lot of dently his neat appearance is the result of a daily we been doing going-over by the missus. "ve never been Mr, Bloch’s sincerity and whole-hearted interest tudies, marked ll ° often make him easy pray for a prank. Leo Me-

Namara, a fellow park board member, is the latest to trap him. * ,+ Mr. McNamara bet Mr. Bloch a dollar he couldn't

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-Inside Indianapolis.

. Making World Law By Ralph Heinzen

partment as & ‘THE FORMAL indictment of 24 high-ranking uld be spotted,” "Nazis on a charge of conspiracy to wage aggressive f-dozen other war provides jurisprudence under international law lidance. What's which may in time be extended to those minor ment doing it? minions in Japanese or German prison camps who Ne hung American prisoners by their standards can : thumbs or.- beat wounded and s by providing helpless fliers with baseball bats.

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The stories which are coming

rivate research. back today from Omori prison and camp and other black hellholes 2 ext few weeks, where American prisoners, sick 4 for it. In its * and wounded, were kept naked ional approval, _ and starving, in violation of the 00. Mr. Wale Geneva convention, indicate a deAl business ade # liberate policy of mistreatment of and not mere prisoners, which will be punishsinessmen, and able under the same jurisprudence p in formulate which is to be applied eventually ST s to thousands of Nazis, under the top 24, who tortured r. Wallace has or killed civilians and military prisoners in German

2 submerged submarine, What I inFEA and the , tended to convey without giving aid that cans I away, information that had .not Dew arranges been released that radar-equipped aircraft and s Chinese still surface vessels, probing the wide oceans, could de- , Will have to + fect any submarine that came to the surface, And aining periods, every time an enemy sub did surface its presence on for two years, the surface of the sea was detected immediately. ate ‘non-profiy It was in this fashion that our patrolling aircraft In. charge of 3 * in particular learned instantly of every surfacing Be Housing eid sub. v ails s others spon. General Location Revealed ness concerns, * , THE RAPIDITY with which a submarine can grams already travel submerged is decidedly limited Hence with rge N. Butler, “, ' detection accomplished, the general location of that tration. “For * sub became & matter of knowledge in patrol headof industrial * . . J ¢ : ome oe 1.3 My D the-job train- . . : } : ours t00, thas + HYDE PARK, Friday—I have just been reading and the army and navy reports on Pearl Harbor, as well as the innumerable newspaper comments. It all : « geems to me rather futile. ; sdministzation Perhaps the simplest thing for us all do do” would grams will be be to say tha yokesman " * to blame. ment and the 3 inthg the 1310 } ly ; both FEA and 4 an extremely remaining: 110, ie ihe... wedymy vere to finance ; Sam Do

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camps. In reality there was no international law.covering the case of conspiracy against peace or conspiracy to wage aggressive war. There is an international law however protecting military prisoners against physical mistreatraent and providing for a minimum of food and shelter. That international law is contained in the Geneva convention which Japan and Germany both signed. Both can be held accountable for every inhuman act against military prisoners. There was ho written international convention governing the ‘treatment of civilians caught in the zones of hostilities or in zones of occupation. Juris-

‘Aviation

A FEW weeks before the story on radar had been released officially, this column described many of the wonders of radar. Washington releases dis~ closed enough information to explain the principles and workings of

radar in this war. In that column. I made this * statement, among others: “It was radar in patrol aircraft and on surface vessels which permitted “the location of a ‘submerged’ submarine® A good many readers have requested an explanation, of this sentence. The sentence is a little obscure. It is not correct ‘to state that radar was able to locate a

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} «TT. x ’ ‘Joe Bloch ‘unbutfon his coat and vest, také both off, put both back om and button them up in one minute. Mr. he undertakes. He is thorough, so quietly, he practiced until he found he could do the:coat and vest trick in 30 seconds. He approached Mr, McNamara. ~ “Where's your dollar?” he stated confidently. The money was posted and the wool began ‘to fly. Mr. Bloch bested his previous record by one second. He drew an extra breath and turned toward Mr. McNamara ini time to see the latter picking up the money. ALE a “I sald you couldn't button up your coat and vest, And you didn't. You buttoned it down,” Mr, Bloch’s fellow Democrat on the board declared. ] . But Mr. Bloch wouldn't accept this playful trickery. -He insisted that McNamara give the money to Miss Mary Griffin, veteran board secretary, to buy candy.’ RnR AAMAS hs ¢ : When there's steak with grits and gravy at the Bloch household, only the municipal opera can draw him away. It's another hint of his Alabama rearing, where his family has lived more than a hundred years. Mrs. Bloch is from Selma, too. They moved here about

Likes Biography and History MODERATE in his habits, Mr. Bloch is a cigaret smoker mostly—although occasionally he lights up a pipe at the office, Cigars leave him cold. Biscuits don’t. ‘This is another magic word to get him home to dinner on time. ’ . In his moments of relaxation, the energetic Mr. Bloch sits quietly in an easy chair in his beautiful | home at 4163 Washington blvd. and reads biography | and history: He likes baseball, though; has a brother down in Alabam’ who owns a ball club. Working in the yard doesn’t appeal much to Mr. Bloch. When the subject of landscaping came up he turned it all over to Architect Frank Hunter, “Just keep everything practical,” he cautioned. * While a Democrat, politics in general don’t appeal to him. He accepted the park bbard appointment from Mayor Tyndall after he had bee nassured no political strings would be dangled in front of his eyes. Conscientious and generous—to' a fault say his {riends—Joe Bloch is said to face issues courageously and with plenty of fight when the occasion demands. No one can remember him staying mad long though, He has been known to oppose friends of long standing on matters of principle. As park board member, he serves as the others do—~without pay. He is the board’s representative on .the city zoning board. His family finds Dad Bloch a patient person on whom to ‘test the latest ideas and gags. A friendly smile and mild manner is. especially tempting to Mr. Bloch’s daughter, Frances, who was graduated this June from Sarah Lawrence coliegq at Bronxville, N. Y. : : : When the time comes for Indianapolis to have its own municipal opera in the proposed enlarged amphitheater at Garfield park, a large share of the credit can be given to Joe Bloch—provokingly modest but amazingly able.

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Truk Blow.

Boldest in The Pacific

(Sixth of a series)

" By NED BROOKS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

“THE PACIFIC fleet has

returned in Truk the

visit made by the Jap fleet on

Dec. 7, 1941, and effected

the partial settlement of the

. 35 years ago. / debt.” ;

Adm. Chester W. Nimits, chief of U. 8. Pacific fleet oerations, could be pardoned for the note of elation in his communique of Sune day, Feb. 20, 1944, ! Four days earlier, in one of the

boldest thrusts of the Pacific war,

a powerful U. 8. task force had steamed up to Truk, the supposedly mighty key Jap bastion in the Carolines, bagged 19 combat and cargo ships and destroyed 200 airplanes. 4 ® un = me THE VICTORY at Truk, which the Japs had spent 20 years in fortifying, was more significant in its revelation of enemy weakness than in its immediate accomplishments, The boastful Japs had advertised their central Pacific base as impregnable, Within its 40-mile lagoon, skirted by 11 islets bristling with guns, was presumed to be most of the Jap fleet. With understandable caution, the enemy admirals had declined repeated invitations to bring it out for a fight, ‘What the visitors found-at-Truk-was not the Jap fleet but a collection of vessels which would scarcely have made a respectable task force, The second defense ring, after all, was soft. Sometime between Feb. 4 and 16 the major elements of the fleet had departed. » ¥ » OUR NAVY knew the main fleet had been there earlier—a daring 2000-mile reconnaissance flight had proved it. ‘ Said the late Secretary Frank

prudence has been established, however, for those cases and it is based on the broadest humanitarian

principles.

No announcement has been made of the Nuern-

berg court procedure but it is reported in legal circle that the victorious allies-may conform to French and Russian procedure rather than British or American. The result would be to speed-up and harden the procedure. 2

Under the Russian and French court procedure, the case is really tried before it begins, This preis in reality the trial itself. Once the trial begins, the defense cannot introduce new evidence. It can merely sit there and listen to the report of the examining magistrate being read.

No Loopholes IN THE CASES of the 24 top-flight Nazis, that pre-trial investigation is ended. If the Russian and of ‘the loopholes of Anglo-Saxon justice tlirough which the Nazis might escape. The recent Petain case was typical of that European procedure with the court clearly convinced of the aged marshal’s guilt when the trial opened. During 15 months spent in German prison camps in mid-war, I learned that the greatest party influence, in the latter part of the war, was in reality exercised by men who hid their power well, Three of the most influential party leaders in the last year of the war are named far down the list of the first batch of 24 for Nuernberg—Dr. Albert Speer, Fritz Sauckel and Martin Bormann, os

By Maj. Al Williams

quarters. Thereafter that particular location was patrolled more intensively, with radar probing the distances beyond human sight. with the general location of the sub identified, our forces were then able to concentrate depth-charge-carrying patrol planes in the general neighborhood. Frequently the near presence of patrolling aircraft was sufficient to permit a quick: strike as soon as the sub surfaced. If, however, with the general location known, the sub failed to put in a surface appearance within a reasonable length of time, then our pafrol forces brought another piece of “voodoo” engineering into play. We had a mechanism which permitted patrolling aircraft and surface vessels to locate the exact position of a submerged submarine, And we could: nail the submerged sub every time.

Gives Subterranean Picture . AS A matter of fact, equipped with this detector, an aiferaft can fly over any plece of land and report to geologists the exact natiire of the sub-soll structure and the nature and volume of its composi~ tion. A single flight at 150 miles per hour over any given territory can accomplish in a few hours what it ‘takes walking geologists months to ascertain, And this is the gadget that enabled our antisubmarine patrol, air forces, and surface vessels to drop the depth charges precisely on a submerged submarine after radar had designated its general location,

By Eleanor Roosevelt If we had been clamoring for preparedness.as a

and papers and radio speakers to hurl the epithet of “warmonger” at the many people who warned us in the years before. Pearl Harbor that war might be coming. Secretary Stimson’s diary shows that President Roosevelt warned that the Japanese might attack a certain day. Yet that wasn't the first warning given that we should prepare for war—and you may remember what certain newspapers said about these warnings. Secretary Hull, after his years of patient, wise 101 be censured because he decided to take certain diplomatic steps

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Knox: “Our general information was that Truk was one of the strongest bases of the enemy. They withdrew from Truk—there's no doubt about it.” : Twelve days before Truk was blasted, two Liberators led by Marine Maj. James R. Christensen of Salt Lake and manned by 22 marine crewmen had spent 20 minutes over the vaunted defense hub, had seen great concentrations of warcraft and shipping, had. returned with photographs to support their reports. The fliers were the first foreign observers ever to get a view of the Jap base. Of all the secret Jap fortifications in the Pacific, Truk had been ‘shielded most jealously from the eyes of oth

nations. . » » ”

BRAVING freak tropical storms which iced the wings of their planes while over the equator, the pilots saw on Truk an elaborate system of mooring basins; airfields, gun emplacements and landscaped residential areas which one crewman likened to a “Florida country club.” Through one small cloud break, the observers saw a group of 25 warships. Each observation plane tossed a fragmentation bomb over its side as a calling card. Then, dodging ack-ack fire and eluding Zero fighters, they headed for home. At daylight. on Feb, 16, the task force struck. Commanding the unit was Adm. R. A. Spruance, with Rear Adm. Marc Mitscher, thé hero of naval battles still to come, directing the carrier attack, Throughout the day relays of bombers, torpedo planes and fighters roared over the lagoon and airstrips. Presumably, the Japs had detected the fleet's approach—but too late. : 8s 8 ~ AS FIGHTERS rose fo attack, they were shot down by the score. Disorganized troops were caught in their barracks and ripped with ma-chine-gun fire. In two days. 125 Jap planes were shot down from the alr, 75 were destroyed on the ground, 50 were shot up so badly they could not join battle. When the task force withdrew after the second day, it left once mighty Truk stunned and debrisstrewn, no longer a serious menace to central Pacific movements. No landing ever was intended, despite Jap claims of such an attempt,

A mountainous geyser of smoke towers ©

their calling cards.

ver the hills of Dublon in the Truk lagoon as navy

planes drop

§ 1~ VICTORY at TRUK...ENIWETOK 18 2 ows serone | A aWOh onset | : TROK NAS SUASTED, | ComMAKDIWS, BAGS 19 JAP COMBAT ¥ WERE OVER THE JAP - AND CARGO VESSELS, DETROYS 200 BASE FOR 20 MINUTES, PLANES, WITH REAR ADMIRAL MARC REPORTED MITSCHER DIRECTING CARRIER ATTACK CONCENTRATIONS OF WARCRAFT AND ) SHIPPING... : NORTH PASE Rear Adm. : > falas ; ’ Marc Mitscher oo A i : gauss ; (above) SAS “gk "8 EnTRaNCE directed the w > . carrier rt E attack on 2 Sug : Truk, the “Aang as 1”. " . much-touted ol coehl Jap naval base. IY a | TRUK °o- » SORE WES

seaplane tender, two oilers, two gunboats, eight car ships. Our losses were 17 planes, with one warship damaged. Like most naval engagements, Truk had a corollary action leagues away. While Adm, Mitscher’s planes were pinning down and destroying Truk's striking:

ing the atoll of Eniwetok, 760 miles to the northeast on the western extremity of the Mar« shalls, » » » THE JAPS already were pulling their warships out of Rabaul on New Britain. By occupation of the Green islands, at the north end of the Solomons, 135 mfles from Rabaul, U, 8, forces had completed encirclement of the Solomons and had isolated the 22,000 Japs re~ maining in the garrisons. Fifteen ships had been sunk in a Jap convoy found moving into the Bismarck Archipelago - near Mussau island in the vicinity of Néw Ireland. The circular atoll of Eniwetok lies 379 miles northwest of Kwajalein, the Pacific's largest, atoll which U, 8. occupation. forces had taken earlier ir February. It had been an important link in the air defénses of the central Pacific and had an excellent air base, It would be equally yaluable to U. 8. forces as a-staging station for ships and aircraft on the next westward advance. In {ts 20-mile lagoon, with deep entrance channels, were needed mooring facilities, n » .

FOR THREE days preceding the landings of Feb. 17-the second

The score of Jap “ship losses read: Two light cruisers, three destroyers, one ammunition ship, a

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day of the Truk attack-~powerful air blows had been rained on Eniwetok. Hellcats, Avengers and Dauntlesses swept the beaches with bombs and machine gun fire, Gun

power, another force was occupy= *

* Under cover of naval guns, assault troops to Eniwetok atoll. tion against Eniwetok.

1000 tons of shells on the defenses.|of the big Jap base was to feel the Under an umbrella of planes and |sting of land planes. with warship protection, landing parties smashed ashore,

‘end of the atoll and had taken |hands, Adm. Mitscher, after passing several small islands nearby. Rear|Truk, was heading for ‘Saipan, Adm. Harry W. Hill, hero of Ta-|Tinian-and Guam.

rawa, supervised amphibious op-

deepest westward penetration into the Jap defenses, a place from which land-based planes could continue the assault on Truk,

crews from vessels offshore dropped

A MONTH later, what remained

After six|ready phases of the war behind it hours of fighting, they had cap-|was ready for the all-out defensive. tured the main defenses on mile-| Three million square miles of sea square Engebi islet, at the north|had

erations: Rear Adm. R. K. Turner | Admiral of the Fleet Osami Negano commanded the overall operation, |was sacked. Premier Hideki Tojo Eniwetok gave U; 8, forces their] told-his people, “The empire is

which started fires on Jap shore installations, landin Inset, Rear Adm. R. T. Turner; who commanded the over-all opera-

g boats sped

The navy, the defense and make-|- #

been wrested from enemy For the defeat at Truk, Jap

literally standing at the cross-roads of a rise or fall.” Sald Adm. Nimitz, “The fleet has effected the partial settlement. . ,.”

MONDAY: Marianas “turkey shoot.”

PSORIASIS is a disease with which the patient and his relatives must leagn to live, It is not con~ tagious and it does not leave scars, It usually develops in healthy individuals, While a permanent cure

be thai the condition is not

THE DOCTOR SAYS: Don't Self-treat Psoriasis—See Physician Skin Diseases Discomfortting

.| By WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, M. D,

PSORIASIS is made up of patches of tiny, red pimples (papules) covered with silvery scales, which when removed leave a red base. The patches usually have sharp edges separating them from the swrounding skin, They have different sizes and ‘shapes because healing and spredd may take place ot the same time in an affec¢ Cause is not known. It may fell

duced by one agent but by sev The skin of patients with psoriasis

‘|diet, ‘while others are only ime

that other treatment is not indicated in the summer. Psoriasis may flare up and become itchy, but ordinarily it runs a chronic course, THe skin usually becomes resistant to various methods of treatment, even those which were successful in the first place, nr . ” PATIENTS with psoriasis should bt skip from one treatment to the other with the hope of obtaining quick results, There aré many remedies advertised for psoriasis, but the one which will help the other fellow may not help you. Some patients respond to low fat

proved loéal applications or other treatments.

Best results are obtained by stayhis directions.

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1 Labor Column on

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We, the Wome Plenty of Gas Is Nuisance "| In Some Ways

By RUTH MILLETT PAPA was as over-joyed as the rest of the family when rations ing went off gasoline. The minute he heard the news he gave the kids some money and said to the 17-year-old: “For the first time since you have been old enough to drive the car you can pull into a filling station and ges want. So go to it “And then drive all over town, just for the fun of

driving.”

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” BUT NOW he's beginning te wonder’ if he isn't the old boy who is going to pay in more ways than one for the family's being

yes—Papa was tickled

able to get all the gas they want. Mama takes him to work now

and keeps the ear. ov And instead of being

leave ‘for home the

all the gas you