Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1946 — Page 9

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PACIFIC ISLES WAIT U. S. RECONVERSION

Shipping ‘Strike, Economic Fumbling Here Reduces Supply of Consumer Goods, Lessens American Prestige.

Editor's Note: To give you a clearer picture of the problems already besetting the Pacific islands over which the United States is demanding exclusive control, an NEA staff writer takes you on a 25,000-mile tour of that vast ocean domain. This is the second of a series of dispatches based on his extensive trip.

By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Writer

GUAM, Nov. 26.—While the U. S. waits for interpational action on its demands for trusteeship in the Pacific, natives of those far-flung islands—and most of the Chinese, too—are waiting for the U. S. to solve its economic prob-

lems so they can begin enjoying the fruits of peace. A 25,000-mile survey from Hawali to the coastal cities of China, and the islands in between that were wartime stepping stones, reveals for the first time just how economically dependent this half of the world has become on America as a result of the war. Inflationary prices, strikes, shortages and the reconversion problems which are distracting U. 8. c | citizens are having exactly the same effect on the people out here. Wait for Consumer Goods

And the longer there is economic fumbling and chaos in the U. 8. the weaker grows American prestige in China and control of the Pacific area. Ever since peace, the island citizens have been patiently waiting for the consumer goods, medicine and other items which their strong liberators told them they would get from the Americans. With each day of delay their economic paralysis grows worse, : The islanders are beginning wonder if maybe they didn't have more under Jap control. Military authorities here are worried about .the situation because they believe it might weaken our strategic position in the Pacific. It is certainly making America’s burden of military government extremely difficult, Plants Need Materials Ji A Shanghai factory owner can't start his plant because he can’t get | materials he needs. And further he is afraid to contract for them because he doesn’t know what will happen to prices of | competitive goods imported from d | the U. 8S. The large industrial section of this city is practically closed down. Military authorities out here also £ predict that the deal which gives | China $500,000,000 worth of surplus property in the Pacific will make China further dependent on the U. 8. A lot of the surplus consists of trucks and jeeps. This has already created a demand for spare parts for this equip ment. : Transportation Problem Transportation in China is one of its main problems. No solution to China's political and economic | chaos is possible until its transpor{tation problem is solved. Chinese , | leaders believe help can come only -# | from American industry. : They don't necessarily want loans. Credits are being built up. -But there's nothing to buy from the U. 8. now which can get food and commodities moving in China. The story is slightly different on the islands which were taken from the Japs, and on Guam which the U. 8. had before the war. Natives on these islands are completely dependent on American i | goods. They couldn't buy what they {need from anybody else if they wanted to, But nothing except bare essentials in food which they can't product themselves, and a few pieces of G. I. surplus clothing, is available to them. Build Up Market ‘Natives on Majuro in the Marshall islands, for instance, have earned and saved thousands of dollars from the sale of their handicraft and from work for the navy. These natives say they want to buy cotton goods, refrigerators, building material, radios and many other things. A tremendous market is building up, but they can't buy anything. This inflationary situation worries . military government officials. The whole native economy on Guam is waiting for the goods to start coming from America. The natives there are enterprising and industrious. But their desire to start rebuilding their economy is completely frustrated. Feel Shipping Strike Guam is large, with a population of 24,000; the navy admits that the strategic strength of the island is In a large part tied up with the welfare of the natives. As long as the Guamanians remain in a state of suspended economic animation, this vital naval base on America’s Pacific frontier will never be completely secure. The one most serious cause of the present lack of U. 8. goods out here is claimed to be the west coast shipping strike. Right or wrong, it has created a bitter anti-labor feeling among the thousands in the Pacific who are completely dependent on shipping from America for practically everything they do. Honolulu has been hardest hit by the shipping strike. The all-out efforts of its people to get this socalled island paradise ready for its

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FIELD TRAINING | Local Officer, Wife Shop in Japan

SET BY GUARD.

Scheduled Before June 30, 1947, for 72,000.

By WILLIAM F. McMENAMIN United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Maj. Gen. Butler B. Miltonberger, chief of the national guard bureau, said today the guard would hold field training for 72,000 officers and men before June 30, 1947, The guard's total strength by that date is expected to be around 240,000. Gen Miltonberger said in a signed article in the Armored Cavalry Journal that 31 stations and 18 harbor defense installations have been approved by the war department for summer training. Afr units will do their summer train-|% ing at their home air bases. He said the post-war national guard was planned to be of “unprecedented ‘size and scope.” Its authorized strength is 682,000 ofcers and men, including 620,000 ground forces, 58,000 air and 4000 headquarters. 1st Line of Defense “The national guard, organized and ready for immediate mobilization at the order of the commander in chief, will provide the first line of defense if ever again we are threatened with another world conflict,” Gen. Miltonberger said. The national guard plans a ground force of 25 Infantry divi-

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Not like Indianapolis , . . 1st Lt. and Mrs. Robert M. Hall, of Indianapolis, do their shopping aboard an Sth army exchange train, near their posts in Hokkaido, Japan. The train carries the facilities

artillery, medical, ordnance, quartermaster, tank and signal corps. of a modern department store. Gen. Miltonberger said all of the ns authorized ground force troops except 57,102 had been accepted by the governors of the states. The post-war national guard will be built around a nucleus of world war II veterans. Some 18-year-olds not yet eligible for induction will be taken in but released later to the draft if called.

Training Like Army The over-all troop basis is two prior to entering service. and oné-half times larger than in 1040. The national guard will be trained the same as the regular army, using the latest developments of Pt. Totten, Long Island, N. Y,,

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pelled planes and the proximity cone Cumbie is the husband of fuse, the former Ruth Reed, Indianapolis. There will be two complete armored divisions, the 49th in Texas| Lt. (Je) Frederick Eugene Meyer, and the 50th in New Jersey. Other [son of Mrs. Ruth B. Meyer, 136 E. armored units of smaller size will|43d st, has been awarded the be scattered over other states. permanent citations for the distinThe national guard age limits has [guished flying cross, the air medal been set as 18 to 35 years for new |and gold stars in lieu of third and recruits, fourth air medals. Gen. Miltonberger said the army was planning for 11,000 ordnance Opl. John J. Zimmerman, son of troops and nearly 8000 signal troops Mr. an Mrs. Leroy G. Zimmerman, in addition to these specialists in goon 4450 College ave. regular divisions. #

9 BANDITS SLUG GAS |. STATION ATTENDANT

Two bandits brutally slugged anf attendant at the Gaseteria station, 320 W. Michigan st, early today. They took an undetermined amount | CPL Zimmerman oq, i prankof cash. fort, Germany, recently. The game The two men came into the sta-|was the fourth straight victory for tion and slugged Dale Maxwell, 20,ithe Rockets, : of 721 N. Delaware, pushing him into into the washroom. They beat| Oapt. Albert Thayer, son of Mrs. him over the head with a piece of | Aimee Thayer, 3007 Central ave, tubular air hose. A steel gauge onlis a patient at Oliver general hosthe hose inflicted head wounds. pital, Augusta, Ga. He formerly The bandits took the attendant’s|was hospitalized at Wakeman gencash and an automatic.gun. They eral hospital at Camp Atterbury, fled, attracting the attention of Ind. a passerby, who called police.

TRIALS ARE SET FOR EVANSVILLE OILMEN

Trails of two Evansville oilmen, indicted on charges of conspiring with Sterling J. Perry, convicted Evansville banker, to violate the national bank act, have been sched-| uled in federal court Dec. 9. The defendants, Bristol Hackbush and Harry Randall, will be tried separately, U. 8. District Attorney B. Howard Caughran said, At the time of his arraignment Perry said he had used a large part of the $142,000 he embezzled from the National City Bank of Evans- - * ville to cover worthless checks for JP WT two friends who he refused to name. I Hackbush, former Oklahoma and Texas oilman, and Randall, operator of the White Eagle Oil Co. at Evansville, both pleaded not- guilty to the charges.

vital and lucrative tourist trade are Wi ste Getabletdeisiopel almost completely stilled. | en KURS, the ta eve! In addition, labor strife—an infec- quick 0 fr a Pn, tion from the States—is ruining the Cramps backaches, headaches... xux» Is market for its principal agricultural | > products, especially sugar. The food shortage caused by the| ForF lack of shipping is sending prices| xvxs. . sky-high. This is on top of the in-| Chicago, Ill Send today! flation caused by other conditions

in the U. 8. If the shipping strike for periodi pain were to end tomorrow it would take c

a long time for Honolulu to recover” ]

Tomorrow: Government of 85,000 half-naked natives.

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Indianapolis WAC Sergeant Joins Special Services Unit

Sgt. Helen Marie McDonough, 306 Watson rd., 1s now stationed with special services in Vienna, Austria. Sgt. McDonough, a former resident of Marion, was employed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. here She has served with the WAC 39 months. F

Capt. Walter Cumbie has been appointed motor maintenance officer

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Ambassador to Islands Speaks Here Tomorrow.

Paul V. MeNutt, ambassador to the Philippine Islands, will be principal speaker at the annual Thanksgiving banquet of the Indianapolis alumni chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity night at the Columbia club. Mr, McNutt will discuss post-war developments in the islands. Frank H. Sparks, president of Wabash college, also will speak. Silas ©. Kivett Jr, alumni association head, has named the following committees, Volney M. Brown, Willlam H. Rehm, Reilly G. Adams, Mark W. Pangborn Sr, Wendell Martin, Dr. James C. Gipe and George C. Burkert, arrangements; Howard W. Meeker, Kevin

ren D. Oakes, Frank C. Dalley, E. H. K. McComb, Vincent I. Ryde, and Edward B. Raub Jr., reception; Karl W. Fischer, Eugene N. Beesley, and Rex C. Boyd, nominations and J. Perry Meek, Kurt F. Lieber, and Tom Hood, contest judging.

PROMINENT ARTIST KILLED CLEVELAND, Nov. 26 (U, P).— Robb Bentley Leonard, 60, prominent Midwestern artist, was killed when struck by an automobile in a Cleveland suburb last night. His home was in Linsua, Pa. He was visiting relatives here.

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