Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1945 — Page 13

the locks. The surrender-signing ceremony was re enacted for & handful of coast artillerymen at Panama. The historic long folding table was set up on deck on the starboard side where it stood when Gen.

MacArthur pi over ‘the surrender signing. The table had in the first lieutenant’s main office for saf. jing. Sgt. Nolan, an army photographer,

and a member of the Missouri crew were the only two present besides the artillerymen. The mess table - now is expeeted to become a patriotic shrine, Sgt. Nolan told his wife. It probably will be placed on at Angifipolis or the Smithsonian in- { crewmen believe. . ., Visitors from + here for the Society of American meeting recently think the Indianapolis police force is a dandy. Their baggage was stolen - from one of the hotel lobbies by some youthful tran-

one hour. The men are still being praised for their efficiency and courtesy, . .. Years ago women used to rough thelr hair up with & tomb and called this

‘Horizon Tours’ . WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 13.—President Truman and Secretary. of State Byrnes are getting a “refresher course” this Week in the terrible responsibilities of er. This is the “story behind the story” of here of Prime Ministers Attlee and MacKenzie King. . Hosts and guests are doing what the diplomats call “making a tour of the horizon.” - That is, ghey are taking a look at as many problems in the general situation as they have time for, and trying

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Pe Ao decide in a general way what . 80 do about them. - iLF | Policy makers need to make

‘these “tours 6f the horizon” every ‘once in a while. : The chief thing they have to be .eareful about is not to get dizzy by trying to look too ‘fast at too many different problems at 100 many - . “different points on the horizon. The problems that loom on today's horizon are ‘eriough to make anybody dizzy, unless seen steadily ‘and seen

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there i any time—and energy—left over after doing whatever can be done about these things, there are plenty of others to consider. We Among the most urgent of these are two: } 1 The whole problem of relations with Russia, : in the Far and Middle East.

2 ig Sigs about the Ruhr and the “Rhineland? ? : ‘| These ‘problems are almost infinite in their-dif-and detail. In essence, though, they are all parts of the same problem. That problem is this: How can

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THE BIG WHITE cake in the shoe case at the George J. Marott shoe store yesterday had passersby puzzled. That is, until a sign finally went up in the afternoon that it was the store's 6lst anniversary. The cake will stay in the window for a.week, Ace Cox, display and advertising manager for Marott's, said. Mr. Cox is the “baker” of the cake. It has 61 pink candles on it but is only for looks. It's artificial. The Marott store has been in the same block all of the 61 years. Before meving to its present location at 18 E. Washington-st. it was right hext door at 22 E. Washington. . . , George. J. Marott, owner of the store, will also have a birthday pretty soon. He'll be 87 on Dec. 10. ... The fame of the Inciana state | library is spreading. Its director, Hareld F. Brigham,’ left Priday for Tacoma, Wash, to look over the i-| brary there and give advice on its services and build- |

Andre Nielson of the Evanston, Ill, public library and Carl Vitz, new head of the Cincinnati library. Mr. Vitz succeeds Chalmers-Hadley, a former Hoosier.

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own best interests, the tremendous power it has in’ the world? t If America decides not to use its power, then that, decision will determine how the problems are solved, | too—if they are solved at all. In. either event, Anierica and America alone in the western world has the power to deal with these problems, one way or another. -"Pherefore, America has to decide what, if anything, it is going to do—and then do it.. This is the terrible responsibility of power. : ; The atomic bomb is a perfect example of all this. America and America aloné has the bomb. America and America alone can make more atomic bombs —and is doing so. This appal What is America going to do with it? _ President Truman has said that America is not going to do anything with it, 3 He means this in two ways: } First, America is not going to use the bomb against anybody else. Second, America is not going to tell anybody else how to make the bomb. ME But refusal, to use power doesn’t get you out jof the responsibilities of power, as the case of the atomic bomb proves. vii { Consequences, Always Consequences

A DECISION to use the bomb would cause ane kind of consequences. A decision not to use it at

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to use the bomb and not to tell | to make it? 2 TFwo.of the most important are these: First, some other people refuse to believe that

others suspect us of trying to use the bomb as a threat to get what we want out of them. - “But the others are confident we will not use the pomb unless we are attacked—which none of the others had any idea of doing in any event. This makes things more difficult for America.

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By SENATOR EDWIN CARL . JOHNSON +

VV ASHINGTON, Nov. 13. Divine providence has placed in the hands of this nation the instrument to establish lasting peace throughout the world. We have been fretting and quibbling about sovereignty and we have been scheming secretly to make in-

ternational policemen out of our young and vigorous manhood.

An ambitious program indeed for

a nation having only 7 per cent of the world's population, It seemed pretty hopeless.

And then God “Almighty in His

infinite wisdom dropped the atomic bomb in our lap! 3 The shock of its discovery has

thrown us into a blind stupor, but gradually the peace possibilities of

this frightful weapon of destruction

are dawning uppn us. A s = = THERE have always been men of good will who by law would halt scientific progress. f Now they would destroy the for-

sients. But the local police force recovered it within = ing problems. Mr. Brigham was accompanied bY | myla for producing atomic energy.

Others would hand this hot po= tato to someone else to control, All such approaches to humane ity's greatest challenge must be brushed aside as unworthy. President Truman, however, accepts the atomic bomb as a sacred trust- and seems eager to assume the full responsibility for its proper use. ) ” » . TOO; the President understands that even a just peace requires brute force to make it endure. Man by nature is a cruel, selfish, savage animal who rose to the pinnacle of eminence in the -animal kingdom through the ruthless destruction of every obstacle he encountered in his upward path. The survival of the fittest is a brutal and inexorable law. " - » WHETHER or not the atomic bomb is our exclusive property .is beside the point. Physicists contend that any peo-

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ccref, a nd Sto Wa rs? Il: . WE HAVE no monopoly on virtue, but we are singularly free from territorial ambition and we have successfully fought two world wars for world freedom without antici- ' pating material reward. We should act with boldness now and alone. . If the stomie bomb ever becomes the handmaiden of imperialism and power politics, may God have mercy on humanity. ‘We have the blueprints for a new plane with the fiying range of 10,000 miles.

The author of this article, written for: The Indi.anapolis Times, is the senior senator from Colorado and acting chairman of the senate military affairs ‘| ‘committee. He is co-sponsor of the May-Johnson bill, which would give the United States government exclusive control of the military development of atomic

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” o . THEREFORE, with the acquisition of airfields from the Philippines to Alaska, on the coast of Asia, and in Dakar and the Azores in the South Atlantic, we can drop, on & moment's notice, atomic bombs on any spot on the earth's surface and return to our base. For our own military security we dare not contemplate any defense program of lesser scope. ! The only defense for the atomic) bomb is the atomic bomb. Will the world like it? . | Every peace-loving nation with! faith in our good intentions willl like it and we ought not to care] whether the others like it or not.

. . . ' TWICE we have saved the world from slavery and have asked nothing for ourselves. If this has not earned for us the respect and the confidence of mankind we had better be on our guard, for we are among enemies, With vision and guts and plenty Lo : _of atomic bombs, ultfa-modern ru planes and strategically located air Senator Edwin C. Johnson, left, chairman of the senate military bases, the United States can outaffairs committee, looks over a chart showing the proposed organiza- jaw wars of aggression. tion forsmational defense, with Secretary of Navy James Forrestal i BE THE COURAGE to assume such ean harness the atom within a pe-|away that significant and tremend- ® magnificent, God-inspired respon-. riod of ‘five to seven years, dus advantage by surrendering its Sibility is the price of our survival. “hist sounds reasonable. Our know-how and its formulas to Civilization “itself hangs on the monopoly at the best is only tem-|everyone. thread of our decision. ! poraty. Soon good nations and bad| tis our opportunity right now to| Protocols and Intemational agreewill possess it, : compel mankind to adopt the policy ments and world conferences. have

toying with its awful possibilities. | backing of sheer force they are a ow ensp. weak reed upon which to lean,

“This is & terrifying responsibility.| Almighty God has placed in our BUT THESE scientists-also admit but we. ought to assume it a His mightiest instrument of

that we have the jump on the rest{and at once, peace. of the world in its development and| To share jt means watering it| With His help we can free the

(world from the nightmare of ‘wars

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use. This is the important thing. [down and weakening it with com-

We must not dissipate and fritter! promise. of aggression.

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Hitler's first military set-back occurred when, after the collapse of France, England did not 'capitu~

1041 after the. battle of Vysma, the Germans stood exhausted but apparently victorious before Moscow. According to Jodl, the general staff of the armed forces considered

REPORT ON. THE WAR, BY GEN. GEORGE C. MARSHALL PE ee ps i. German Mistakes That Led to Downfall

1. Failure to Invade England.

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/ Alles Normandy beaches contained four prime targets, two each assigned fo British and U. 8. forces “attaching -acress the English Channel. Invasion’s success deflated German boast that coastal defenses

Frankensteen Is | OuttoCleanUp| | Detroit Politics

By FRED W. PERKINS Seripps-Howard Staff Writer __ WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Richard T. Prankensteen, C. 1.0. Jeadmayoralty fight a week ago, said here today he had no future litical plans. : ’ He added — that he wasn'y in Washingim for any post mortem discus- .. sion of his defeat, but that he would like to do something toward cleaning up American politics, partieularly in Detroit. 1

His first aim, he said, will-be to try to got enfogcement of a Mich. fgan law that prohibits circulation of false and scurrilous statements about candidates for public of« fice. He had a folder full of printed matter that appeared a few days before the Detroit elec tion,

» » » REPORTERS who saw the exhibits agreed they were. “preity raw” in their cultivation of race prejudices. “Mr. Frankensteen said they were responsible for the 58,000 majority against him. : If he had been elected Mr. Frankensteen’s future would have been assured for at least two years. His office in the union Is subject to the frequent elections of the C. IL. O. United Automebile Workers. He is a vice prasident, in charge of the union's aircraft division, which has suffercd

ment in this industry will be only 3 to § per cent of the wartime peak, which” was about 1.800000. That means a drop to 80,000, and so far as unions are concerted this number will be divided, a: in the war, between the C. I. O. union and the rnational Association of ) : sie. HALF OF the estimated 80,000

is not a large proportion in a big

Frankensteen said the industry estimates of Its probable employment are much less than they should be. ; :

fruits from the West Coast fo eastern cities, and for alr mov-

ing of household effects.

Ta i Sunkensitth: ‘question, there should be oh buiidie’ of andi and development of feeder lines for main air passenger routes.

p—=We, the Women——— Grandma Ready To Drop Role-

CONVOYS were ; ‘Straits of Chlbraltar did the Germans realize that something. very special was under way.

Even then false conclusions were

: : blocking or destroying itd “usable chief -of the army,” General von Brauschitsch. It was the Lurning point of the war.

Ul SI 3. Stalingrad. Even after the ‘Teverse before Moscow. in 1941, Germany might have avoided dcfeat had it not been for the campaign. in® 1942 which culminated in

They believed that a continua- ¢ eition of the fight in’ Normandy drawn: Either that the allies in-| could only end with the destruction | tended to land in the rear of Rom-|of their western armies and that mel in the Middle East, or that|they these were British reinforcements| integration began. en route to the Far East, or sup-| Von Kluge recommended defense plies for starving Malta, on the general line: lower SeineSince no advance preparations) Paris-Fontainebleau-Massif Central bad been made by the Germans to| Hitler refused to accept this

1 evacuate all southwestern France, |

should withdraw before dis-

“By RUTHM SOME of -ihe eountry's more accommodating “grandmas”. are getting fed up

a daughter-in- * law could work to supplement her allotment check, even though it was really pretty hard en grandma. Nor did they mind too much when the kids were pushed off on them so out with friends

mamma could go in the evening. . n . . ‘BUT all the while they were playing nursemaid the grandmas figured it would only be for the duration. Once the husband and father came home, the family. would look after their own kids. But here's the catch. In mgny cases the daughter or daughter-in-law Is trying to ease the kids off on grandmother for another spell. : I should have some time alone. We need to go away together for a few months, without the children.”

S0 grarfftimother wonders what she should do. Is it really her dufy to keep the kids while the husband and wife go on a second honéymoon, or trail off to some new place to try to establish = themselves—or while the husband 8 his education under

BL, ; . 2 German command had} disaster talingra } is SIL ve g Tor ; Ye ay eter pile nor planned for ferro Sia Ry lessons. Tepe! such an allied invasion of | recommendation, relieved Kluge The development of the device was undertaken 8 Winter campaign. : of history, Hitler, instead of attack- North Atries. a} subupqutpt afiort) from command, and -reappeinted|. - atthe request of Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, the Acatilden Sse 1 the Noatts ing the Soviet armies massed in von Runstedt as commander-in-wm. second] The Red Sry the north, personlly planned ana 14s YEP CS inder dizect instructions. Rund The receiving unit is mounted behind this second The Red army defense, a terrific directed a campaign. Its immediate s » ( nstruc , Rundlens. It consists of a revolving disk behind which |snow storm, and extremely yn-iobjectives were to deprive thel- 5. The Invasion of France. Alllstedt continued the battle of Northere is. a photoelectric cell, The place on the disk seasonable cold in the Christmas Soviet Union of her vital industries | German headquarters expected the mandy to its final denouement. Hitwhere the reflected beam strikes depends upon the week of 1041 precipitated the stra- land raw materials by cutting the, 4, oL-Pranie "| ler himself ordered the Avranchesdistance of the obstacle. ; : tegic defeat of the German armed | Volga at Stalingrad and seizing the . sion ' | Mortath counterattack and was Holes are drilled in the disk in a series of con- forces. - Caucasian oll fields. According to Col. Gen. Jodl, both! much surprised’ when it completely centric rings. These permit the light to get through| Impatient of all restraint, Hitler Collapse At Stall fhe general direction and the! falled, “to the cell and cause signals in the earphone. publicly announced that he had ; : grad strength of the initial assault in 5.2" + The number of signals per minute depend upon | more faith in his own intuition] The campaign collapsed pefore Normandy were correctly estimated. 8. The Ardennes Counteratiack. Ee at oun the Toe ey i en pn Stlingad With ne and | But Field Marshal Keitel states F8¢ Cefiuad Slensive in. Deceuities how-far he is from the obstacle. : * HA [NAH ¢ . ||the northern foothills of the Cau-| that the Germans were not surel 0 Vit 13 DEONA!. CURE } ¥ : {oasis a breskdown of German exactly where the allies would ™™ : ! : transport to the front left the Ger- strike and considered Brittany as According to Jodl, the objective By Eleanor Roosevelt ! man ‘armor stalled for three weeks more probable because of three of the attack was Antwerp. : hd ; Tu for lack of fuel in the critical sum-| major U-boat bases localed In that age Haped. hat avereas By i : : - ‘months region wea would ne a r with Prime Minister Attler's proposai that atomic prep in reviewing Both’ agree that the belief of the| superiority, and that 55 exceptionknauledge be Shred with Sh word od ye. this campaign remarks that Ger-| German high command that a|8lly rapid initial break-through To ge 4 re mw with many failed completely to estimate! second assault would be launched, | could be achieved. . tasks before us are So gigantic that unity at] * the' reserve of Russian | probably by an army under Gen.| Other German ofce™s pelievs i and uctive Patton, held large German forces opera was reckless our allies are essential to facing taligl Ane ¥™ Ee Coie area, the extreme, in that it irreparably a and 3 veagle — ghee: 91 vot X ol Couldn't Stop Invasion armored oor the - fren the Stalingrad campaign, but that| Both Keitel and Jodl believed | zer army, the principal element of Sant ta the recommendations of the high| that the favasion could be Yepulsed| GETMANY’s strategic reserve. at a : . command were overruled Hy Adolf contained, Bok | moment when every available reessential done Hitler. OF 4% Worst . serve was needed to repulse the to be exmenta to be done tn thi I the allied sie asta 4s the SeclVe cnpuctet Boia atiask In the ens ‘become the strongest force in the| 4, Invasion of North Africa, factor in the German faflure at Mw : ba i) Bow EL : Allied landings in North Avion} FrioF 10 the \vislon, Wnprmant 1. The Crossing of the Rhine.

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