Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1945 — Page 11

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"diesel busses. Mrs. Lair has never driven on any

‘rious spols in the store to hold the top and bottom

~assorted” Japanese travelers. I en- " countered Universal stares of curi-

« home and borne the brunt of battle be kept away from home : be going far from home, he is not going to be a DOTTIE DRIPPLE He wod than is absolutely target for enemy bullets. gne tay Jong er a Du vesihly | She chase to see He worl way bring dt ; appreciation of his own home i uk 08 my Sorespundedts Whe and his own land, and a greater understanding of| ahe does Sof. ober » right to take the needs of other human beings in other parts of a boy of 19 out of his . for the world. This will be valuable in making him a he is still & baby and should not She siiineniol His owii couples, | be to the: of Another correspondent a rather different| ( be exposed I dnges 3 ry A » problem. Her boy is studying to be a doctor. If he} \ stand how hard it is, when you ha whe he we a a. he NE pam By ‘on return ‘studies ‘and Eck Wit Sh Shige oR : a i me that with certain professions where 1 question very much, Iaowever; Whetiies » bap vita a thorough preparation requires a very long period | e is 19 how to Jook of time, and where we know that we are in need of recruits, exemptions. should be’ allowed. scientists, chemists, doctors,

‘Women Drivers'|

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THE DAYS ‘of people shying away from woman

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bus drivers ‘are gone forever. Mrs. Wilma Lair and Mrs. Jeanne Finnegan, the city’s first skirted-drivers for the¢Indianapolis Railways, -are making some of the men drivers sit up and take notice. Just the other day a passenger oh a North Meridian bus 5 wrote Ernest Pflumm, the Railways “dean of women," about Mrs. Finnegan. “She’s one of the most pleasant and careful drivers I've ever ridden with,” the passenger said, “She seems to enjoy doing little extras for people.” . . . And here's another sign that women drivers are going over with a bang. Mrs. James Richardson named her daughter after these first two women drivets, There was some argument before the selection was made, however. Mrs. Richardson rode = the Speedway bus (Wilma's line) and wanted to name the baby Wilma. But Mr. Richardson took the North Meridian bus and became acquainted with Jeanne. “Well, Jeanne's just good a driver as Wilma,” he told his wife. So now the baby is Wilma Jeanne. . . . Neither of the two feminine drivers intend to quit since the war is over, They like bus driving better than any other job. Mrs. Finnegan says the North Meridian is her favorite line. It only has nine turns per round trip and she likes the new

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Mrs. Wilma Lair, ..she’s your friendly bus driver.

wide. The Block's flag tops this by several feet, though.

1. Us Housing Headache THEY'RE HAVING housing problems down at Indiana university, So far, we hear, about 500 girls have been refused entrance because there is Ho room for them in the dormitories, About 1000 veterans are expected on the Bloomington campus this year. That's about: 700 more than last year. To accom- . modate the flood of men students, the university has bought several houses around the campus for living quarters. The I. U. office also has been flooded with calls from servicemen who think they can be discharged if they have promise of admission to the university. . . . An Indianapolis native was pointing west on Market st. from 'the Circle the other night and said to a visitor, “Over there at the end of this street you can dimly see the capitol.” The visitor strained her eyes and then said, “Uh-huh, but why don’t they light it up. Aren’t you proud of it?" . Mrs. Kathryn I. Anderson, 253 Leeds ave, tells us she and her cousin, Rolla Warman, are great grandchildren of Gen. John I. Neely, who served in the Civil

other line but Speedway. ... About 30 women now are driving busses, trolleys and streetcars. And right up near the top of the record with Mrs. Finnegan and Mrs. Lair are Miss Francis Barker (on the Cen=tral line) and Mrs, Helen Miller (Stockyards run),

Giant Flags to Come Down THIS WEEK Block's has one of its biggest jobs. With the official proclamation of V-J day the two big flags on the outside of the store will be taken down. They're 100 by 60 feet in size and it takes about 40 men to hang and take down each flag. Nine men stand on .each side of the flag—one at a window on each floor—and the others stand at vaof the flag. To hang one flag takes about two hours’ time. The two large symbols of victory. will be stored away and brought out again, perhaps, on another outstanding occasion. , ., Back in 185 E. O. McCormick of the Big Four railroad offered to furnish the biggest flag in the world for the soldiers and sailors monument here if they were willing to hang it atop the monument. Mr, McCormick formerly

carrier, Left Cirele—The U,

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1945

Cenler—Death dive ‘of a Jap kamikaze bomber as it vainly (ries. to crash an escort

Circle—Jap planes splash around the escort carrier White Plains as fighter planes on U. 8, 8. Kitkun Bay get set for takeoff.

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8. §. Princeton is struck by bombs from a Jap plane. Right

war. Gen. Neely was also adjustant general of Indiana, Mr. Warman now is in the navy.

was from Lafayette. His flag, which was exhibited at the world’s fair, was 64 feet long and 39 feet

Trip to Tokyo TOKYO, Sept. 4.—I decided it might be a good plan to visit Tokyo before formal occupation changes the character of Hirohito's capital. Army transporta- - tion was unavailable, so I took a chance on an electrified railway which is still running ‘the 26mile stretch from Yokohama. It was easy. I just walked to

the station, bought a ticket snd got on the train with a thousan

By Sidney Whipple, Second Philippines Battle

Sealed Jap Navy Doom

Eighth of a series

packed tightly and hugging boxes, bales, bundles, packages and children. The train was filled also with hundreds of demobilized youths making their wéy homeward in shoddy uniforms and carrying cumbersome packs. They all gravely studied by own uniform to which was added a ‘bizarre touch of a jungle poncho since it was raining hard: : 3 Tokyo is a dead city. Fully 70 per cent was cut down by the scythe of war in swaths as if made by a gigantic ‘mowing machine. Yet it was surprising how much of the business center stands, Many hotels and theaters were untouched. The famous Imperial hotel has lost one wing, reducing the available rooms to 125. And the once historians. ! wonderful cuisine is down to a small piece of fish, : , : Philippines and adjacent islands heavy dumplings in rather gamy sauce and soy bread. This debate . ov er tactics | had been systematically bombed to Busi t St d till centers on the wisdom of | reduce Jap aerial counterblows. In . sme of on Sa u ” Adm. William F. Halsey in|four dizzying days for the Japs, center o e city I could see the] 3 i |surface forces had shelled Marcus white buildings of the imperial palace ' rising above | 4€PI1OY mg elements of his 3d) and to the far west, carrier the trees; red roofs glistening in the rain. I did not | fleet to head off a Jap CaTTIeY | 51anes had bombed Okinawa to the hse JDPIGACHING loser i roo POR - akuicat force advancing far from the north, others had struck at Luzon e Ginza, which is Tokyo's Fifth aye. is almost | i and B-20s from China and carriers gone. Three or four of the But) shops were scene of the maim enemy had visited Formosa, where 45 vestrying to reopen with meager supplies of colognes, thrust. The 3d’s mission exposed| .,. . 4 390 planes were destroyed. face powders, ceremonial swords, and a few beautiful one element of another U.S. fleet— Tn the 7Tth—to a costly enemy pounding.

brocaded sword cases. The clerks smile, bow low . : BATTLESHI salvaged and express extreme regret at the lack of goods. Also subject to experts’ disagree- hid Mes FTLESH PS a aged The streets are practically deserted,* for all busi- ment is the question of whethep the of them listed by the Japs as “deness is at a standstill. Grass is beginning to COVer|gaisev strategy’ permitted impor-|gtroyed”—had helped land the Mactant elements of the Jap armada

the shallow air raid shelters which must have been EO ore. They were the Call woefully inadequate under the rain of our bombs. lto escape what might have been |goinia a Ser rina, a calamitous trap, ;

By S Burton Heath Whatever future historians ‘may Muryland - and Pennsylvania, fe. *»

Ee ; built, strengthened, equipped with decide, all will agree—and the Japs modern fire control. ; . : will join in—that the net result was| pofore dawn on Oct. 23 the. pawere 5000, located properly, no point in the country |, whale of a drubbing for the ene- ora NY Hes ater » would be more than 15 miles from adequate per-i,,y i “Aba a. atron in sonal plane landing and take-off facilities. Second Philippines was really Dace X Lg I 2p { noe : The air parks now being constructed and planned {iy 00 battles in one and it brought DE es eo qomard the Philips include flightstops along highways; urban 1anding ints action all of the elements of rol momage Dr fields: air harbors in quiet river or lake or seashore naval warfare—ship against ship, . 8 waters; and suburban air parks. : subs had sunk two heavy cruisers : submarine against ship, plane and heavily damaged a third. Later Perhaps the most widely publicized is that at El- against ship, plane against plane, ig gp : . ” don, Mo. Eldon’s population is only 2500. But the| op the outcome hung success or Tepe pace 8 oree | n Mintown sold $25000 worth of bonds, spent $11,000 for|gajiyre for Gen. of Army Douglass | “0 Bl . Ea od that land and is using the rest for clearing, grading, |pracArthur’s long-planned return y now fi was | stern phat draining, landscaping, fencing, seeding and erectingii, the Philippines two and a half | the force cons 0 ve e _ a small service and administration building. War-iv.qrs after the rampaging Japs had | Ships, seven heavy cruisers, time restrictions have delayed -work, but planes al- | verrun the islands. ready are using the field. { :

Scripps-Howard Staff Writer FOR DESTRUCTION of Jap sea power and complexity, of its tactics, the second battle of the Philippines is chronicled as the navy’s greatest triumph of the Pacific. ; : It also seems destined to become the source of the

osity, but no outward hostlity. : . greatest future controversy among naval strategists and

The money question, always important, was met by persuading the Biuhd hotel where we are quartered to exchange dollars for yen at the standard rate. This seems fixed at 15 yen per dollar. 1 shoved a hundred-yen note at the railway ticket seller and said: “Tokyo” I received a round-trip ticket and walked through the gate with the mob. As I passed through the gate I noticed all inbound .passengers were being searched by gendarmes wearing blue uniforrgs and carrying short swords. They searched men, women and babies; presumably for contrabrand.

Men Take Seats wl THE RUSH for the train was like New York's eastside push for the subway, although this was much more polite. - Women, young and old, gaver what few seats remained to the menfolk. The rest stood,

Aviation

YOU'RE going to buy a little plane all your own, to fly to camp week-ends, on picnics Sundays, on fishing trips—to all the places your earth-bound car won't go in the time you have. You're going to pay no more than for an autobile—though, to be sure, a more j - expensive automobile than. you & ever did own. And it won't cost # more to operate (if as much) than your flivver does now. ® go far, so good. But where are’ you going to store your & plane? Whence will you take off : for the trout stream? Where will you land when you get there?

cruiser and about 13 destroyers,

» n ” The automobile became a . ON he th 5 : y THE JAPS’' plans to knock out STRONGEST of the three prongs, sommonplace only after Suse Any City Can Ha e One the MacArthur force on Leyte this force was to become the cen-

and roads were tied together in a network of highways, with filling and service stations within spitting distance anywhere you might be. The airplane can’t become a humdrum unless and until every community big enough for a Grange hall has also a landing strip. It is looking toward that goal that the civil aeronautics authority proposes federal assistance to build some 3000 landing fields, mostly for personal planes, bringing’ the total up to more than 6000.

Air Park Costs Little

MANY communities have no such facilities because they are flabbergasted by the enormity and huge cost of an Idlewild or a Burbank. They do not yet realize that it is possible to provide ample facilities for their residents’ personal planes—and those of visitors—at an outlay that is all but insignificant. v william A. Mara of the Bendix Aviation Corp. reports that many of the nation’s 16,752 communi~ ties already are at work preparing, modestly and within their financial means, for the coming air age. ! “An air park should not be confused with an air

ter unit and its course lay through Mindoro and San Bernadino : : : perial islands, Jap Adm. Soemu and south along the coast of recreational facilities will help to support It. Toyada had assembled his force, |Samar island to Leyte gull. If $25,000 seems to much to your town, there I5|in.”piccect yet ventured against| By the following morning, Oct Redmond, Oregon—population 2000, A local sports-|... 17, 8. navy. 24, .air scouts had detected a secman’s club gave 40 acres of land and the county| gz. units had been deployed to|ond, smaller force to the south, commission added as much ‘more, The Redmond |, oi the Philippine invasion, Now (heading for Mindanao sea and Civil Air Patrol members took over. that the landings had been made Surigao strait, the exit into Leyte The resident state engineer helped stake out run-|at Leyte, Adm. Toyada prepared | gulf and the Pacific. It consisted ways in line with prevailing’ winds, A neighboring {for a bold, three-forked thrust, two lof two battleships, two heavy crulsarmy air field lent a large grader and bulldozer, of the forces to proceed through fers, two light cruisers, a dozen dethe city lent scraping equipment, a neighboring farmsithe two channels traversing the stroyers. er volunteered his tractor, a dairyman sent his rake|philippine® group, the third-=the| While fleet No. 2 was still in Minand other citizens brought trucks, equipment and carrier arm—to strike downward |danao sea carrier planes attacked. human muscle. from the north. | Despite damage to four vessels, in-| In just seven hours the 80 acres of sage brush| The Leyte landings represented cluding two battleships, the force flats north of Redmond had been transformed, with-|a revision of original U. 8. strategy. pressed on toward Leyte gulf. out community outlay, into a going air park that was The first plan had been for .a AH used that same day by a small private plane. | November invasion on Mindanao,| AS IT entered narrow Surigao Since then a three-plane hangar has been bullt|the southernmost Island. Earlier | strait about midnight, PT boats met by the same community co-operation, a flying club operations had disclosed unex-|it, inflicted more damage, Still the has been organized and an airplane has been pur- | pected weakness in enemy air de-|Japs advanced. chased. ™ | fenses, permitting the timetable to| - The 7th fleet's reception . comColdwater, Mich, with 7000 inhabitants, raised |pe advanced by a full month and|mittee under Rear Adm. J. B, 0Ol$30,000 through popular subscription and created [the landings to he shifted Leyte, |dondorf was waiting at the mouth

TIS plone to eve the Bret lo tn ret ng ha on tu, cl Bt ; Singapore to the ImA nine-hole golf course, tennis courts and other lated. From Singapo

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a light|corded one PT boat sunk, a destroyer damaged.

tral prong had thrust its way into}. the Sibuyan sea, planes from the 3d fleet had in-

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of the 3d remained long enough gling enemy destroyer before 1t ; to finish off the remaining crippled |reached San Bernardino and sank carrier. : it. The next day air groups from The SOS to Adm. Halsey had|carriers ranged over Sibuyan- sea come from Rear Adm, C. A. F./to continue the attack, reporting Sprague, commanding a group ofa heavy and a light cruiser probsix escort carriers off Samar, where | ably sunk. But the heavy elements they hud been covering the Leyte | escaped. ' invasion.

Meanwhile, to the north, the cenwhere carrier

flicted heavy damage on one of its its cruisers had scored hits on most of the other vessels. U. 8. landing forces and ships at the same time were being subjected to heavy attack by landbased planes from the Philippines, © a =

MORE THAN 100 of the attackers were brought down, but one found its target in the light carrier Princeton. Fires started, the magazines exploded and the Princeton was finished off by torpedoes from our own ships. She was the first fast carrier lost by the navy since the sinking of the Hornet off the Santa Cruz islands two years previously. Neither the annihilated Jap southern force nor the central prong had carrier supports and Adm, Halsey reasoned that flattops still must figure in the Jap strategy. During

» » ” . wu IN ADM. Halsey's defense, some THE JAPS' central prong, NOW authorities contehd he was justireduced to four battleships, five fied in abandoning the chase since cruisers and seven destroyers, hiad|inhe navy's task at the moment reversed its retreat in the Sibuyan|was the protection of land opera» sea, traversed San Bernardino Onltions on Leyte, Similarly, they justhe lightly-screened, ‘ slow-movingitiry the dispatching of 3d fleet “jeep” carriers, converted from mer-}ynits northward to meet the threatchantmen. {ened Jap carrier thrust. The sinkAdm. Sprague headed southward,|ing of the four flattops and the casting smoke screens as he went. | rout of escort vessels, they argue, The Japs’ superior speed S0OD| removed a source of major danger brought them within range ands units covering Leyte. for more than two hours the| Other ‘experts have contended Sprague force was under terrific | that better intelligence would haye fire, It fought back with planes warned of the central Jap force's guns and torpedoes before 3d fleet | reversal of its retreat in the Siaircraft raced to the attack in thelpuvan sea and given Adm. Halsey afternoon. Just when they were iInithe opportunity to map his strategy position for the kill, the Japs sud-|accordingly. ; denly broke off the attack, apparently having received word of the disasters to the other two forces{by Adm. Sprague's escort carrier

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port,” he says. “Essentially the air park is only a level grassy piece of land, perhaps 300 feet wide and 2000 feet long. It need not be hard-surfaced, but it must be well drained and, above all, must be near a road.” : There now are only 1791 landing facilities suitable for personal planes, the CAA says, But if there

My Day

HYDE PARK, Monday ~I have had several letters of late from mothers who feel that, now the war is over, their young sons 18 or 19 years old should not be drafted.

its air park as a memorial to its servicemen. |some 300 miles closer to Luzon and of the strait and in Leyte gulf be- ~ Any city that wants a genuine, all-wool-and-a- | goveted Manila. yond, The ‘Japs advanced in two) yard-wide commercial airport, and can afford one, 5 nN {columns at 20 knots. First the de-| can spend as much as its finances will stand. But El-| THE LANDINGS had been carried |stroyers attacked, then the cruisers) don, Redmond and Coldwater demonstrate that out on Oct: 20, 1944, under pro- and battleships—vessels “sunk” at! where there's a will for an air park, there's a way |tection of Vice Adm. Thomas C. Pear] Harbor. The navy was cross-| to get one almost for nothing. Kinkaids’ ' Tth fleet. Three days|ing its tactical “T." later the 7th ‘and 3d fleets were; The Jap ships slowed to halfto be locked in their decisive en-|speed, tried frantically to reverse gagement, in the narrow waters. Big" guns Preliminaries to the second Phil-|cut them to pieces. From the poundpines had opened In mid-Sep- | ing, the Nips saved only one bator two cruisers, a half-

By Eleanor ‘Roosevelt

all over the world no boy will have to prepare for ip war. But that is not the situation today. We are tember with landings on Pelefu |tleship, one going to need trained men to occupy certain ecoun- and Moratal, southwest of theldozen destroyers, By daylight fliers tries and see to jt that the people of other countries islands. Feints and stabs by Vice finished oft the crippled battleships

do not again build up war machines, Since this i§ a Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's task|and a cruiser. ent Tru told us tha ; oe oid who Toot oid Wa a in order to relieve necessity, we can only hope that-out of this necessary force 58 had kept Jap forces.off A a military draft some good will some, | balance, reduced their aerial! ‘THE SOUTHERN prong of the I notice, for instance, that after six months many [strength by 900 planes. Jap attack had been obliterated.

will have to continue the ue

a boy in training has gained weight and developed The hundred airfields on the Against its losses, U. 8. forces re-

the night of Oct. 24 they had been located--four of them with battle~ ship, cruiser and destroyer escort— approaching from Formosa to the north.

and realizing their own peril unless force, the admiral’s own official ac« they could get back to San Ber-jcount contains no recriminations nardino strait ahead of oncoming for the absence of better protecs 3d fleet units. (tion. He relates simply that he & n so» {found himself “in a tough spot” and THE NAVY had lost the escort imade the best of his predicament. carriers Gambier Bay and St. Lo,| He credits his force with “a most ern Luzon steamed a pursuit force|the destroyers Hoel and Johnston | gallant fight.” under Adm. Mitscher. The detected |and the destroyer escort Roherts.| Navy Secretary James V. Fore Japs swung northward but not|The four other carriers had sus-|restal has described’ the whole en= speedily enough to escape. The ad-|tained hits. Plane losses from 7th gagement.as “a victory of historie miral caught the enemy carriers fleet escort carriers totaled 107.| proportions.” with few planes on their decks, |Against this toll the Japs had] $n 8 sent three of the four to the bot-|lost two heavy cruisers and two| IN THE three major clashes that Gg tom, damaged the other, knocked destroyers. |made up the second battle of the Bi down 21 planes returning from ‘re-| Whether Adm. Halsey missed a (Philippines the navy had delivered 58 fueling on Luzon. bet by not attempting a full-scale |® blow to the Japs from which. they A distress call from beleaguered |pursuit has been debated by naval never could recover. Twenty-four of 7th fleet forces to the south cut|experts. The vanguard of the re- the 60 vessels dispatched in the short the attack, although a part{turning 3d did catch one strag- three attacking forces had been sunk, only two had escaped undams

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physically. At least we know that though a boy may.

aged. The remainder would be out of action for weeks or months, The

losses included two battleships, four carriers and 12 cruisers. : The naval pressure had been lifted from the MacArthur invad ers, who two months later had see

I DON'T KNOW--I DIDNT GO TO SCHOOL WITH HIM, EITHER, DEAR/

cured Leyte and advanced to Mins doro.

TOMORROW: Iwo Jima and

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