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Chennault Bares U. S. Blunders in-China— Fears War as Payoff

America Faces Disaster of Conflict Or Global Surrender, He Says

— First of a Series of Articles

By MAJ. GEN. CLAIRE L. CHENNAULT (As ‘Told to Clyde Farnsworth, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer)

Six hundred million people—the population of‘ China and the United States—today are the direct heirs of a decade of American policy blundering in China. Barring an 11th hour miracle of American understanding, intelligent sympathy and active aid coupled with a lastditch miracle of Chinese courage and endurance, the payoff

will be the choice between |

two disastrous alternatives. The disaster of a third material which I shall reveal has

world war, or The global surrender to a global destism, In either event tree people the world over would stand as heirs to a tragic legacy of Amerfcan ineptitude. The colossal jrony of it would pe that

greater disaster

we’

Americans would cop op enngult

have blundered

our way either to war in defense of our interests and liberties or into an abject surrender of them. In these articles I intend to reveai some of the details of this

American blundering.

I intend

to tell who was responsible for

it, and why.

Stabbed in the Back by Allies

I WENT to China in 1932, and have spent almost all of my time

there since.

the Flying Tigers. ing general of the 14th Air Force castigated Chiang Kai-shek be-

I organized and led

As command-

I was fully familiar with the shabby American policy on China.

Here in China, I am witness to|ward China, and the activities of the disastrous results of thatisome American officials in China,

policy today.

In the dark days at Chungking, But it is vitally important that

of al

I am going to give names and |dates and places. Some of the

Much of

{it lies buried in Army, State, De{partment and White House rec|ords. {

{up to now been secret.

|be pleasant. It is not easy for {us as a nation tocadmit how we| {have behaved toward a nation lof friendly people who have {trusted us. 3 It is not easy to admit we have gone back on our promises to an ally. ’ % { It is not easy to confess that we bartered away China's land in order to get Russia to enter

we did this without sent. It is not pleasant to reveal that we have done nothing to compensate China for giying up her most valuable lands to the Communists.

China’s con-|

back by some of his American allies. - I was present, for example, when Gen. Stilwell, then the American commander in China,

{fore President Roosevelt and | Prime Minister Churchill. Altogether, American policy to-

do not make a pretty picture.

the war against Japan, and that|

i { { |

, ; go THAT $5 STRIDE—If you

edition of The Times.

He's Still at

Times” on Saturday . .. so this streets today with more cash to

When you see a man who looks like a typical Hoosier, step up to him and say, “You Are The Man of The Times.” Also, hand him the LATEST edition of The | Times. You'll find him in downtown streets—E. and W. Washington Sts. and vicinity, and on the Circle—between 10 a. m. and 2

I watched Generalissimo Chiang|the American people know #&bout Kai-shek hold his beleaguered, it. They may pay with the blood poverty-stricken nation together, of their sons. < and rally his ragged troops again| It is not my intention or wisi

and again to resist the savage to absolve the Central Govern-| THOSE

thrusts of the Japapese Army,

The Generalissimo’s battle was|or commission, The Chinese gov-|tity, if properly approached. Too,

& most inspiring example of courage and leadership against. over-

powering odds.

I am ashamed to say that in|ing I could add, but what I have the midst of his great effort, he to say may help put that criticism was repeatedly stabbed in thelin proper perspective. Carelessness, Prejudice, Mischief-Making

IN ONE limited sense the fail-'the United States, having defend-

ure of American-Chinese relations—and I regard the present situation as proof of that failure

—stems principally from the natural difficulty of reconciling two

disparate cultures.

Beyond there has been inextusable failures by the executors

of the

American policy that could have arisen only from care- Open Door in China until as-/in front of the Marott Shoe Store lessness, prejudice, shortsighted- saults by Japan were directed —he told her to “keep the change ness, bad judgment and, I am'against us at Pearl Harbor. That from the 50 cents he handed her. ashamed to add, a certain incli- was four years after Japan set Another Girl Scout sold him ato the much-sought mystery man,

nation for mischief-making.

In these reminiscences I hope years after she grabbed Man-| to reconstruct part of the skel- churia. eton of American relations with! China during the past 10 years.'should teach Americans that ag-| One basic question must be an-/gression .can never be cheaply

{ment of its own sins of omission

{ernment has been arraigned many times on‘many charges by ein “efitics. ‘There 1¥ Hoth:

ed the traditional principle of the open door in China at the cost of war with Japan, should have countenanced and even abetted the substitution of Russian Communist influence for Japan's shattered imperialism in China? Part of the answer lies in the historical . fact that we. didn’t

ithe streets. If.you see him go

p. m. He will reappear in the same general area—but between {Illinois and Pennsylvania Sts.— from 4 p. m, to 5 p. m. ! s = = : ARE the only hours) in which he will reveal his iden-|

1 { you must tag him while he is on

doors, wait at the entrance for him to come out—for he won't be in there long. The various editions of The Times are delivered to downtown newsstands at: .Capital edition, 10 a. m.; Hoosier home edition, 11:30 a. m.; final home edition, 1 p. m.; final (red streak) edition, 4 p. m. At least a dozen persons talked to “The Man of The Times’ Saturday and if they had been keener-eyed they would have been $50 richer. For instance, the Girl Scout

lactually “choose to defend the

jout to conquer China and 10

That grimly simple

swered: How is it possible that|comprdigjsed.

Cannot Wait to Write History SEEKING THE rest of the nothing, or next to nothing.

answer to our casual attitude toward Russian Communist influence in China we shall have

to explore certain aspects of the | further proof than the fact that | recent relations of Americans) these puppets were armed with] with the recognized government |

The 1931 story of Japan in Manchuria finds a parallel today

| nese Communists. This needs no

weapons taken from the Japa-

of China on the one hand and nese Xwantung army by RusWith Chinese Communist puppets sian troops who invaded China's will work out their own schedules

- on the other.

{northeast under an American in-

This is properly an historian’s|vitation delivered at Yalta.

task. But history in our time] has become so fluid that we can-{China may soon be paralleled |

The 1937 story of Japan in

not afford to wait for it to cool|also—not by Russian invasion in before learning its substance. Itithe Japanese pattern, but through may be too late if we must wait | puppet forces of Oriental Comfor the researchers of another munists. The design is the same

generation to piece together that or even more grandiose in its tivities for the park department,

8ad record.

Our decade of blundering in|Japan’s in 1937 after|sphere.” Japan started the conquest of] China which af the very outset|

China started

|strategical implications than was ill-fated ‘‘co-prosperity

TOMORROW: Gen. Joe Stil-

Was inimical to the vital in-| well's suggestion for helping terests of the United States and| China win the war—-“cut off a the peace of the world. We didi‘ hundred selected heads.” » =

Yugoslavs May Urge Poll On Giving Trieste to Italy

LONDON,

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tions

Mar. Yugosiavia protested today against th against the proposal of the westgive Trieste back to! After News on Trieste

ROME, Mar. 22 (UP)—Reports 1 ald the government there som northern Italy, normally a fanned to make. fresh Sugges-|Communist stronghold, indicated

on the free state, indicating today that the western proposal

and a high Belgrade of-|

2 demand for a plebiscite.

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American,

‘Which

back to Italy, ter Alex

day's note t, 0 should

ion, 9 +on Italy'sl The Indianapolis champion ) Proposal to mg ar pation in the western bloc Who could be a student from one Classified. 18-20 In Diplomatic observers feared to halt the mareh of communism. of the county schools as was the eveas 21 - s y i

ng Trieste

(UP) —that a plebiscite could be rigged

e West.

'Anti-Reds Militant

lto return Trieste to Italy was Diplomatic observers, however, | gaining votes for the government ared that a plebiscite would be| 8ged against the West. he government handed to the A British and French vbassadors a note protesting '80rously against the manner in the the western powers raised| Question of handi

of Premier Alcide de Gasperi.

munists, demonstrated

ners of Trieste. ” Non-Commun

Communist speakers pro

1 a

chronolo~y

who sold him a box of cookies

‘The Man of The Times’

Prize Raised fo $75; Saturday Crowds Fail to Recognize Mystery Man

By ART WRIGHT THE DOWNTOWN crowd didn't identify “The Man of The

Another $25 has been added to the original prize and today you'll ‘iget $75 if you properly identify Him. Here's how to win the money:

"catch up" with these walking

Some of he reading will not| feet today, "The Man of The Times" will give you $75. But you must identify him properly . . . and hand him a copy of the latest

Larg

average Hoosier returned to the give away.

Circle side of H. P. Wasson & Co. She also was given 50 cents. » * » HE TALKED to a couple of girl employees in Haag's drug store,

Wife Missing

Defendant Tells of Fights With Miller | By ROBERT BLOEM Times Staff Writer GREENFIELD, Ind. Mar. 22— |The wife of Howard Pollard {turned up among the missing to-| {day .as the 25-year-old Pollard took the stand in his own de-| fense in the “hands and foot”| | murder trial. | Pollard testified he had not seen {his wife for nearly four months.| {During a court recess his father, Homer Pollard, told reporters the defendant's wife had disappeared, | land attorneys said they had been| unable to locate her to testify. On the stand Pollard painted a| {lurid picture of his relationships {with Leland Miller, the man he is

{accused of murdering.

Shows Scars i He told of a fight with Miller; at a carnival in 1938 at which he| said Miller cut him with a pocket knife. He displayed knife scars] on his throat and on both hands to the jury. He related also that Miller shot

May of 1945 as he stepped out of] a car on Dandy Trail in Marion | County. Pollard is still under] indictment for an alleged attempt to rape a young womah who was also present on that occasion. Twice during his early testimony Pollard tangled with Marion County Prosecutor Judson| L. Stark over prosecution objections to his testimony. Once Pollard snapped: “I can’t defend myself if you won't let me talk.” Appeals to Judge Another time Pollard appealed to Judge John B. Hinchman to stop the prosecution from interrupting him. The judge told him sternly: “You are being treated the same as I would want to be

Pennsylvania and Washington Sts., about the store window that was blown t during Friday's storm. He bought cigarets there, then went across the street to Hook's drug store for matches. If the clerk at L. Strauss & Co. can-remember a man he sold a couple of ties to before noon Saturday, he can win the prize today . . . for he was “The Man of The. Times.” The giris in the E. Washington -8t. Five and Ten Cent stores also should “think back to their male customers . . . for he bought a pencil from one of them, = » » ONE OF HIS closest calls was at the newsstand on the Claypool Hotel corner when the Capital edition arrived. A young man about 17 years old looked at “The Man of The Times” picture on Page 1, glanced at the real “Man of The Times” who was purchasing a paper . . . but the young fellow didn’t say a word.

treated if I were on trial. You { will be given no special privileges, and no privileges will be taken {away from you. Answer the {questions and you will get along (all right.” | In relating his background |Pollard told of attending school | {through the first two years of| {high school, working as a handy {man in his West Side neighbor{hood for a year or two, and then going to work as a brakeman for ithe Pennsylvania. Rakiroad. Describes Family Life He said he had worked for the railroad as a brakeman and as a conductor for nearly six years at the time Miller was shot. Pollard described his own family as consisting of a wife and one child—3-year-old Donald. He disclaimed paternity of a daughter born to his wife, Mary Frances, less than a year ago. Young = Pollard’s father and mother are expected to take the stand before Chief Defense Counsel Frank Symmes of Indianapolis rests his case.

A soldier and his wife from Ft. Knox en route to Seattle,| Wash., could have had an extra

second box of cookies on the

‘Annual Times Preliminaries

$50 spending money. They talked

Spelling Bee Start Apr. 5

County Schools to Work Out Own Schedule; First Semi-Final Scheduled Apr. 23.

The annual Times Spelling Bee will get under way for Indilin Russia's sponsorship’ of Chi- anapolis city, parochial and private grammar school pupils on

{Monday, Apr. 5.

py the school principals in line

go that they have their two win[ners from each of the nine town{ships by Apr. 19. Again the City Park and Rec-

Spell-downs in the Marion county schools will be scheduled

with instructions being prepared

{at the county school offices. The county schools, az in the past,

[case in 1946—will go to Washing{ton, D. C,; in May to compete in

{the National Spelling Bee. There he (or she) will spend

Catholic youths, appearing for the first time as militant as Comby the tens of thousands behind the ban-

ist : crowds, sparked by student brigades in from each city center and the 18 piel demonstrated twice in Mi-| d Bebler, Yugoslav|lan yesterday. Milan's most fa“Puty foreign minister, reported miliar ousnuaist 0 0 paganda| Er on. xpested De lan were shouted down He denied that to- repeatedly. the Western powers) not be regarded as a re-

in!

Premier De Gasperi and French | Foreign Minister Georges Bidauit

k packed full of sightseereation Department is co-operat-2 Wee fee with the Times in staging IN and entertainment with all

the spelling bee. Mrs. Norma ¢XPenses paid by The Times. Koster, supervisor of special ac-|OnLY one day will the Indianap- ; |olis champion be required to spell again has been selected by The the National contest. [Times to-organize the personnél| First place in the National land schedule the spell-downs at|Spelling Bee will earn $500 for {the 20 centers throughout the the champion. Cash awards will city. be | Follows Pattern The Times Spelling Bee {follow the pattern of past years. {Within a few days The Times! {will publish a list of centers at!

Jeong be $40.

made to all national contest-| {ants and the least the Indianap-|gcna wil [011s title-holder could earn there | would

After that, rebuttals and closing arguments are all that remain before the jury retires to {thrash out a verdict.

Democrats Agree Tax Cut Will Pass

WASHINGTON, Mar. 22 (UP)! —The Senate was ready and| certain to pass the GOP-| sponsored $4.8 billion tax-cutting bill today. Democrats agreed with Re-| publicans that it would pass. And the Republicans were confident it would get the two-thirds majority needed to override the ox pected Presidential veto. | A poll showed that at least 5B | i

| | |

of the Senate's 45 Democrats were lined up behind the measure. Republican leaders ex-| pected all of the 51 GOP senators to support it. After the final Senate vote, due sometime after 4 p. m. (Indian-| apolis time), the bill goes back to the House which has voted a tax cut of $6.5 billion, Chairman Harold Knutson (R.| Minn.) of the House Ways acd Means Committee, has indicated

| |

ONE: Raise personal exemp-

Medals and other prizes will {tions from $500 to $600; be awarded in Indianapolis in| 3 So8

TWO: Grant an additional $600

|which pupils of the various in with the policy of past years. exemption to the aged and blind.

{schools will report for the pre-! liminary contests. All pupils will not spell on Apr. 5. preliminaries will be held throughout the week with centers hold. [comPpete. ing their spell-downs on. different | nights. { The second preliminaries will be held the week of Apr. 12 gt the same centers for the same group of schools. Contestants- will be spelled down at each preliminary until at the second preliminary there! will be a first and second place! winner for each center. These two will enter the first semifinal Apr. 23 at a downtown location which will be announced in The Times. There they will compete against the two winners

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The second semi-finals will be held Apr. 290 and the finals—to select the champion—will be held Apr. 30. ”

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Keep reading your Indianapolis | Times for more important SpellThe first IN8 Bee news and the official to married couples in all states: jentry blank you must fill out to; FOUR: Cut taxes 5 to 12.6 per

On the Inside

Rivers on rampage in Middle West .,. weather

Accessories make costume ‘belong’ to wearer Times sewing contest news by Art Wright , ..

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property or split income benefits

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birth of spring . . . a

photo-story from a Hoosier farm . . . by Victor

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him in the neck on a night in|

that House Republican leaders! will push for adoption of the! te version. The measure!

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Storms

ause Flood Threats

Over 11 States

ACCUSED BY HUSBAND—Mrs, Maxine Mifligan,. 24-year-old mother, is charged with having put arsenic in her husband's coffee until he became ill from what he suspected were “ulcers.” Her trial opened ‘today in Rush Circuit Court at Rushville.

High Waters Block Roads In Indiana

Alarms Sounded Along Mississippi

By United Press More rain added to the danger of floods today as rivers and streams rose to overflowing in an 11-state area from North Dakota to New York. Meanwhile, U, 8. Army engineers warned that if heavy rain falls in the next five days there will be serious floods along the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois Rivers, Floods were threatened in North Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and Indiana. Families already had been forced from their homes by high water in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Pennsylvania and New York.

55 Fatalities At least 55 persons had died in twisters, high winds, and floods

{in the last four days.

Torrential rains, accompanied by high winds deluged northern and central Indiana yesterday: causing rivers to rise and flooding many high A forecast for

ways More rains were tomorrow. Ft. Wayne reported rainfall of 1.13 inches late yesterday while South Bend got .47 inches. At Indianapolis 58 inches fell dur." ing the past 24 hours. :

Highway Blocked

_fatage. but not /| The Maumee River was

- {temperature reached 80

of Marion, ‘west of Ft, a a or S27 Aad 10 north o were by water,

the west fork of White ver below here and some spots ng the Wabash are at flood yet threatening.

rapidly reaching flood stage after the rains yesterday. : A slight break in the preseason “heat wave” which settled on Indiana over the week-end was seen for today. The Weather Bureau predicted cooler temperatures today and tonight with « high somewhere in the low 60s today and a minimum tonight in the low 40s,

. 80 at Evansville "At Evansville yesterday the at Terre Haute 70 and 78 here, Saturday's high of 80 here equalled the record for March 20. The bureau predicted scattered showers "and thunderstorms by late vomorrow which may make

| '|more. serious the present. high

water conditions.

The most critical situation appeared to beat Quincy, Ill., where the Mississippi stood at 21 feet, seven feet over flood stage, and was still rising, The river was eight feet over flood stage at Keokuk, Ia. and

POISON VICTIM—Ray Milligan, ex-G. 1. is partially paralyzed after being poisoned with arsenic. The 35-year-old factory worker said he became progressively sicker after returning from the Aleutians in (945,

Court Bears Sack of Arsenic

At Rushville Poison Trial

Crippled Veteran Ignores Accused Wife; Doctors Appointed to Examine Her Sanity

' By DONNA MIKELS, Times Staff Writer

{ RUSHVILLE, Mar. 22-—A sack of arsenic was barred as evi!dence today in the trial of Mrs. Maxine Milligan, 23-year-old Rush-

Hannibal, Mo. It was expected to

jcrest tomorrow.

| Torrential rains in two sections {of Northwestern Pennsylvania forced flash floods down upon the communities of Meadville and Bradford: Titusville was flooded {by Oil Creek which also thréatened Oil City, Cleveland Deluged Cleveland, O., was deluged by three inches of rain and large sections of the city were flooded. Euclid Creek overflowed, forcing east side residents into the upper” stories of their homes. Hundreds of motorists were stranded by the high water and took refuge atop their cars, More

ville housewife, charged with “poisoning her husband with intent to kill.” As the trial opened, Judge Harold Barger sustained a motion to quash a search warrant used by officers in hunting evidence in y 's 2 ere Py ees stir oir Rg rod a fense motion to dismiss the case sack of poison. The evidence was 0 the ground that the afdavit testimony that the failed to state facts sufficient for search warrant affidavit was 2 Criminal charge. missing from the files, Pick Jury Next Husband Doesn't Speak Selection of a jury was schedThe husband, Raymond Milli-|Uled to be started 1ni8 ariernoon. gan, 35, a World War II veteran, Mis. Milligan, mot = > . recovering after many months’ {chi grea, was Treg or gust, illness in Veterans’ Hospital in{194¢, fo on ng an! ve igation of Indianapolis, did not speak to his|2 let Ee ro as in wife when he entered the court-|1eXas. The Tr, turne ove! room on crutches this morning. |authorities by a brother, Noah Mrs, Milligan, on advice of her Carter, quoted Mrs. Milligan as counsel, refused to plead when Writing: “I'm about to get rid arraigned before Judge er|0f that old gooseneck. and ‘the court then entered a! Meanwhile, the husband, ill in “not guilty” plea for her, . Then Chauncey Duncan, de-| fense attorney, filed & .uvfionm,| declaring that Mrs. Milligan was of unsound mind in 1946. ‘due to repeated beatings at the hands 'of her husband.” }

from arsenic

{Rush County authorities. { Mrs. Milligan recently

, Prison on a charge of eontribut- |, Judge Barger then appointed ing to the delinquency of a Rush-

{three local physicians to

ine | ed rr jai defendant and Teport Stan ee vlie marti] Tan's

n the

Veterans’ Hospital, was found by {physicians there to be suffering poisoning. They e a formal medical report to

\ed serving six months in Women’s

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than 50 street cars were halted |b, the floods. {| The New York Central rerouted its 20th Century Limited and Commodore Vanderbilt after rain weakened a west side overpass in the city. Col. William N, Leaf U. 8, engineer at Rock Island, Ili, and George Clapp, river forecaster at St. Louis, predicted serious flood. ing on the Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi if more rain fell in their valleys, The forecast was for rain on Tuesday but the U. 8. Weather Bureau could not say exactly how

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