The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-09-28
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Doctors Protest Method
Used in Recruiting Them
Social and Professional
Os4rseism lrks Medieos
Government Fails 10
Consider individuals
BY RAY TuCKER

Nv RAY TUCKER
WASHINGTON - The countryis
physicians are flooding Washing
ton with protests against the hap
hazard manner in which they are
being compelled to join the armed
forces or To face ostracism. While
processing the utmost willingness
r. wear uniforms. they insist that
considerations of national health
are being neglected by federal su-
thorities. Here Is the inside story:
In the general and understand
able hysteria which re-eohced 10
the whistle Of bombs over Pearl
Harbor, the Journal of the Ameri-
can Medical Association published
an enrolment form" which medi-
cos were urged to sign immediate
" and to file with the organiza-
tons procurement and assignment
branch. Thousands responded I'M
der the impression that they would
b. asked To serve locally OF be
called up some time later.
But they were informed by the
ANA. that their John Hancock on
the blank meant they were sub
5ect TO immediate muster. They
were virtually ordered TO apply for
q commission. When they request
cd time To think II over. social
and professional pressure" WAS APP
piled by Federal Security Admin
istrator Paul V. MoNutt Neigh
borhood draft boards notified them
that they would be forced into the
army as privstes unless they
obeyed DR.. Morris Fishbein and
Nr. McNutt.
Newly promoted Major General
Ira c. Eaker almost told a few
tales out Of aviation school when
he predicted that an around-the-
clock aerial blitzkrieg could bring
Hitler 10 his knees and Germany
to the ground. His forecast, how
ever, is bulwarked by confidential
British reports on the performance
of our Bit flying Fortresses)
over France and the Reich.
At first, Raj observers were in
clined to discount the power OF
these machines. But their latest
advices express amazement at the
devastating sweep Of our planes
and, like the commander OF the
u. s. bombing force in England.
suggest that they may revolution
sze warfare. The BIZ type, ae-
cording TO these memos. can oper-
ate from a height OF $4,000 feet
and drop one out Of four missiles
exactly on the target. even when
whizxing at a speed of $50 miles
an hour. The intercepted messages
Of German pilots reflect the en-
emys fear of engaging these mod
els. Man gunners confess their
dread of taking on an adversary
with so much armor and fire
power.
American have also devised q
means of lodging antiaircraft bar
RACES. Our bombers sail at rate
Of approximately mile in IL sec
onds. whereas 1t requires 20 sec
onds for an A. shell to reach
their altitude. Therefore, the
Germans aim at a spot about three
or four miles ahead Of the winged
battleships. But this gives our
boys a chance TO yeer to the right
or left or slide down lower. there
by escaping the explosions. And
It is far easier to execute this ma
neuver in daylight than In the
darkness of night. When armed
with the secret weapon recently
mentioned here, il is believed that
q fleet Of Bits can end the war
In far less time than anybody
dreams. And the Germans know
81.
President Roosevelt and secre-
tsry Huh have introduced fresh
note in our dealings with la belle
France. They initiated this spirit
ual bit OF diplomacy as soon as
they became convinced that Laval
and Petain had sold out to Hitler.
Instead Of conducting conventional
negotiations with vichy. they are
striving 10 preserve the soul Of the
French people as an asset to allied
victory.
Der fuehrer requires Gallo CO.
operation at ali costs right now.
He has demanded permission TO
occupy Dakar and has insisted that
90 French merchantmen be turned
over to him or NJ least to Mussolini
for operation in axis trade and
military transportation At pres
ent he moves troops in the occu-
pied area in regular passenger
trains so that civilians as well as
fighters viii suffer from our
bombings- The Petsin-I.avai con-
eratulations to the people Of in
vaded Dieppe. their ostentatio1s
funerals of victims Of our air raids
and their forcing local workers
into slave labor in the Reich con-
vince Washington that nothing can
be gained through further sppease-
ment of the post-compiegne re-
gime-
Every Anglo-American craft fly
ing over Brittany. Normandy and
Artois drops propaganda as well
rs explosives. With a majority
Of the people belonging 10 the Ca
thoiic church. Laval's defiance Of
the Vatican and maltrestment OF
the Jews have been played Up.
Nyron C. 'Tsyior's secret mission
to Rome was designed 10 appeal
70 French sympafhies. IN short.