Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1941 — Page 5

MONDAY, DEC. 8, 1941

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is not necessarily a major action. |to engage the Japanese, in co-

The Japanese may have sent only

CIVILIAN PILOT ORDER REVISED

May Continue Fyling [Flying], CAA

Says After Proof of

Citizenship, Loyalty.

A modification of the order

grounding all civilian pilots other

than those on scheduled airlines Civil

was received by the local

Aeronautics Authority today. The

information was contained in a

telegram from Gen. D. H. Connolly,

CAA administrator at Washington.

All certified pilots may be rein-

stated and permitted to continue

their flying activities after positive identification and proof of citizen ship and loyalty have been presented to and accepted by Army Navy, or CAAA authorities. This rule applies to all civilian pilots within the bounds of continental United States, its possessions and outlying territories, and the District of Columbia. Pilots in training at schools conducted or supervised by the United States Government, ferry pilots under responsible Army or Navy, officials, and pilots at national defense plants under direction of senior Army or Navy inspectors or supervisors are unaffected by the order.

REVISED COMPLAINT FILED IN GAS CASE

An amended complaint in the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility's state court suit to invalidate the 99-year lease inherited from its predecessor

was filed in the Boone Circuit Court | in the Sonja Henie ice revue brought

today. The state court suit was revided several weeks ago after the U. S. Supreme Court decided that the Federal Courts have no jurisdiction in the contest. The lease in question covers roughly half the mains used by the utility, and it was negotiated in 1913 between the Citizens Gas Co. predecessor of the city utility, and the Indianapolis Gas Co, its competitor at that time.

FSA STAFF PLEDGES PURCHASE OF BONDS

To urge national unity and encourage the purchase of defense savings bonds and stamps, 400 members of the regional staff of the Farm Security administration will sign pledge cards today to buy the bonds and stamps. The FSA staff this morning paraded from the offices at 342 Massachusetts Ave, to the War Memorial auditorium where they listened to the President's speech. They were

cheering.

Sonja Timely

Naval Reservists Aboard Sacramento; Other City Men in Danger Areas.

Aboard the U.S.S. Sacramento somewhere in the Pacific today are more than 200 former Indianapolis naval reservists. The Indianapolis men were ordered into duty Oct. 30, 1940. They belong to the 16th and 18th Divisions of the Fourth Battalion. The two divisions consist of 12 officers and 225 men, almost all of whom had been at the Indianapolis Naval Reserve Armory. They went aboard the Sacramento, a gunboat, at Michigan City and sailed to Boston, Mass, where the ship was fitted for duty with the Pacific Fleet. The gunboat was then assigned to Honolulu. Lieut. Comm. O. F. Heslar of Indianapolis formerly commanded the Sacramento. Lieut. Comm. Heslar was transfererd to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station but Lieut. Comm. F. F. Knachel of Indianapolis is the executive officer and ire other officers are all of this city.

Visit Here Recalled

MAJ. ARTHUR M. MEEHAN, son of Mrs. S. S. Clement, 115 S. Belmont Ave, was in Indianapolis only a month ago to visit his mother and stepfather. Then he returned to his air force station at Hickam Field. “We haven't heard anything from him since he left and I suppose it will be some time before we do,” Mr. Clement said. “We just mailed a Christmas package to the family Saturday.”

Sonja Henie

Spotlights Play on Huge Flag as Star-Spangled Banner Is Played.

The timeliness of several numbers

added thrills last night to 11,000 who crowded into the Coliseum to watch her third Indianapolis ap-

pearance. The first number on the program is a frank appeal to patriotic audiences. As the band plays “The Star-Spangled Banner,” four huge spotlights play on a huge American Flag at one end of the hall. This brought the thousands to their feet,

His family in Hawaii consists of his wife and two small daughters. Maj. Meehan does not live in the barracks bombed at Hickam Field. He was graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1928. He was transferred to Hawaii in June, 1940, and served as a commander of the 72d Bombardment Squadron until last March. When he was here a month ago he explained that the Hawaiian air force consists of bomber commands and interceptor and fighter planes.

This number merges into a precision act, with girls dressed in red. white and blue, singing “Hats Off to Uncle.” This, too, brought a great response. Perhaps the most timely of all the selections was the “Honolulu” number, in which Sonja does a solo, with her gorgeously costumed chorus in the background. This has been described as the most beautiful | on the alert, yet seeing no action. act in the show. | Lieut. Comm. Coffin is now aboard For the second time Miss Henie| the Cruiser Marblehead based at and Gene Turner, her partner, were | Manila. Commander Coffin was required to do encores on the fa- | graduated from the Naval Academy

LIEUT. COMM. CLARENCE E. COFFIN JR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Coffin Sr, 3270 Winthrop Ave., told his parents in a letter recently that Pacific fleet sailors were bored with always being

mous “Tango” four times before the |at Annapolis in 1927 and has spent audience would permit them to | five years in the Orient. He was

leave the ice. | once a naval attache at the United

200 FROM HERE ON PACIFIC SHIP

addressed by Wray Fleming of the Internal Revenue Department and

P.G. Beck, regional director of the FSA. | LABOR SPOKESMEN RED CROSS ASSISTS | PLEDGE FULL HELP

CIVILIAN VICTIMS| WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U.P.)-

WASHINGTON. Dec. 8 (U. P)— | Spokesmen of organised labor called The American Red Cross today ex-|on American workmen today to protended aid to civilian victims of the | duce the weapons of war “fully and Japanese hostilities | without interruption” by strikes. Problems of first aid and evacuation of civilians were met by chap- | President William Green of the ters at Manila and Honolulu. |A. F. of L, sald the A. F. of L's Twelve fully equipped medical sta- |“no strike” policy “must now be

had been in readiness for ac- | made real and binding" on all the made real and binding” on all the in the Philippines and 10 in | federation's locals. “We must build as we never built before,” he said. “The A. F. of L. will insist on a renouncing of the strike. We will do everything te can to prevent locals from striking on defense production.” President Philip Murray of the C. I. O. said the C. I. O. would “work unselfishly and self-sacrific-ingly” on a program of uninterrupted production. “So far as the C. I. O. is concerned, all its unions and all its members will go right down the road with President Roosevelt and the Congress of the United States,” Mr. Murray said. “Our Government comes first.” Government labor officials said strikes now are the fewest since start of the defense program.

NELSON SAYS BERLIN DIRECTS JAP ATTACK

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U.P.).— OPM Priorities Director Donald M. Nelson declared last night in a na-tion-wide radio address, that “all important elements of the Axis are now “in action—direct military action—against the United States” Mr. Nelson, who also is executive director of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, spoke with White House approval. He warned that the United States must remember that although “the attack upon us has been made by the Japanese, it is in reality an attack upon us by the Axis powers.” “We are face to face with attack directed primarily from Berlin,” he declared.

Hawaii. Two days ago Charles M. Forster manager of the Philippine Red Cross, cabled headquarters here that evacuation plans had undergone rehearsal and were complete.

"SULFANILAMIDE"

ON ALL FAMILY WASH

States embassy at Peiping and studied Chinese for two years in the university there, He recently wrote his parents, “Don’t worry about us, we can take care of ourselves.”

Meier in Philippines

FIRST LIEUT, HIX MEIER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford S. Meier, 3768 N. Emerson Ave, is attached to the 86th Field Artillery at Ft. Stotsenberg, P.I. Serving his third year in the Army, Lieut. Meier is a graduate of Tech High School and attended Purdue University three years. His wife and two children reside at 2215 N. New Jersey St. They were with him in the Philippines until a few months ago. His youngest child was born while his wife was

is battalion motor officer,

ANOTHER INDIANAPOLIS of-

of the bombing yesterday is Lieut. Col. Napolean Boudreau, commanding officer at Ft. Wint, Philippine Islands. Lieut. Col. Boudreau was in charge of artillery forces in the Indiana Military area from 1935 to 1940

His command is 40 miles southeast of Manila and is one of the islands defense fortifications, Mrs. Mabel Long, 839 N. Tacoma Ave. his foster daughter, said she had received a letter from him several days ago which stated the fort was having daily practice with artillery and anti-aircraft guns. Mrs. Boudreu is living on the West Coast.

ALSO BELIEVED with the United States forces in the Philippines is Lieut. James Russell Smith, former Indiana Unemployment Compensation Division employee. He is a graduate of Indiana University and was graduated from the United States Air Forces School several

months ago. He formerly lived in Ft. Wayne.

LIEUT. COMM. JOHN BAYS, nephew of Fred Bays, State Democratic Committee chairman, has been stationed at the Pearl Harbor barracks attacked Sunday, the state chairman said today. No word has been received as to the nephew's safety.

JAPANESE CONSUL IN FRISCO ‘SURPRISED’

Includes WET WASH, FLAT IRON (THRIFTY), ROUGH DRY and ALL FINISHED WORK...QUICK SERVICE and LOW Minimum

at United!

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en route to the states. Lieut. Meier

ficer who was probably in the midst

War Moves Today

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

The surprising thing about Japan's method in launching its war against the United States is not so much the suddenness and surprise element of the attack as its diversity and wide range.

Japan had been expected to strike suddenly but Washington strategists had expected the attack to come first against Thailand, the Malay States, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines, perhaps progressively. It is doubtful if any of them thought the first blow would be at the distant and strongly- defended Hawaiian Islands, 3400 miles away from Japan. Instead, Japan launched out in all directions at once. She has undertaken a war simultaneously against the United States, Britain, | action at the same time in Thailand, China, the Dutch Indies and their | the Malay state, Singapore, Hong allies. | Kong, Shanghai, the Philippines, It resembles the Hitler blitz in | Guam, Midway, Wake and Hawaii method except that Hitler made his | Their operations apparently excampaigns one by one and gradu- |tended to within less than 1000 ally extended the field of operations | miles of the United States coast, as one foe after another was put | judging from reports of a distress out of operations. | call from a ship about 700 miles out The Japanese were reported in | and the torpedoing of an army

Japanese strategy is apparent. It is an attempt to repeat the performance of 1904, when the Japanese caught the Russians completely unaware and hamstrung their fleet at Port Arthur before the war really strated. The object this time is about the same; to knock out as much of the enemy fleet and air force as possible in the first swift blows and to disrupt American trans-Pacific air communications by seizing Midway, Wake and Guam, whose defenses have not been completed. They are already reported to have landed on Wake, although the reported has not been officially confirmed. In the attack on Hawaii, the Japanese apparently caused heavy damage to American airplanes and ships. If the report is true that they have sunk or disabled two or three American capital ships, they have struck a hard initial blow. At this early stage of the war, it is impossible to guess how the course of action will turn. The U.

S. fleet is reported to have engaged

the Japanese off Hawaii, but that

a “suicide” squadron

first blow, expecting to be pursued

and probably destroyed It may be that part will have to be based on Singapore,

operation with the British, closer

to deliver the|to home.

With the reinforcements which the British have sent to Singapore,

of the fleet |the Allied fleet, including the Dutch,

has a definite numerical superiority,

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