Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1941 — Page 17
" JAPS OPEN DRIVE ON BURMA ROAD
Claim U. S. Liner President Harrison Is Among 200
Ships Seized; British Attack on
Deny Report of Land Singapore.
By UNITED PRESS
Japan asserted today that it had launched an offensive on China’s life line of supply, the Burma road, through northern Thailand and that it had seized 200 enemy merchant
ships, including the 10,509 t dent Harrison. The report of the Burma Berlin radio. Berlin also quoted Tokyo that Japanese land forces had started a land attack on Singapore. Britain denied this report as completely unfounded. It was indicated that the merchant ships which Japan seized were nearly all small ones, probably most of them from China waters, as fit was said that they totaled only 80,000 tons. The fate of the President Harrison had been in doubt since Sunday
when Japan attacked the United States.
Say 300 Planes Destroyed
The liner was believed to have been off the Yangtze River in the Shanghai area on its way Chingwangtao, in the north, to evacuate United States marines jsolated at Peiping and Tientsin. These marines have now been disarmed and made prisoner by the Japanese, Japan asserted that its righting forces, in an unbroken series of successes in the Pacific war, had destroyed more than 300 American planes in its assaults on the Philippines and Hawaii, and had bombed America Midway Island 1300 miles west of the Hawaiian islands. First news of the assertion that Singapore was now under direct attack came in a German official news agency dispatch from Tokyo, heard in London by the United Press listening post. The dispatch said the Japanese imperial staff had announced that Japanese land troops were now attacking the Singapore area. Pacific Isles Taken Britain, in a broadcast heard by C. B. S, said there were no Japanese troops in the southern Malaya coast. A dispatch of the Italian official news agency asserted that the American islands of Guam and Wake were now fully under Japa-
on United States liner Presi-
road attack came through the
First Casualties
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U.P) — The War Department, issuing the first official casualty list of the
anese air raids on Oahu,
bardment of the Hawaiian base in-
cluded: SECOND LIEUT. ROBERT H. MARKLEY, Air Corps, next of kin, Arthur H. Markley, father, Kay County, Okla. SECOND, LIEUT. JAY E._PIET H, Air Corps, next of kin, Otto Pietzsch, father, Amarillo, Tex. FIRST LIEUT. JOHN S. GREENE Air Corps. next of kin, Mrs. D. H. Greene, wife, Colfax, Ia. FIRST LIEUT. ROBERT M. "RICHEY, Air Corps, next of kin, Mrs. George K Richey, mother, Wellsburg, W. Va. SE ! . GEORGE A. WHITEMAN, Air Corps, next of kin, John C. Shuteman, relationship unlisted, Sedalia, o.
SECOND LIEUT. HANS C. CHRISTIANSEN, Air Co next of kin, Peter C. Christiansen, father, Woodland, Cal. FIRST SERGT. SDWARD J. BURNS, Air Corps, nearest relati ohn J. Burns, father, Pittsfield, Mass. PVT. THEODORE F. BYRD JR. Corps, next of kin, Theodore PF. Byrd father, Tampa, Fla, PVT. WILBUR S. CARR, Air Corps, next 8 kin, John W, Carr, father, MIRE,
Air
CORP. MALACHY J. CASHEN, Air Corps,
Lamont, Ia. PVT. DEAN W. CEBERT. Air Corps, next of kin, Mrs, Mildred Cebert, mother, Galesburg, Ill PVT, EUGENE L, CHAMBERS. Air Corps, next of kin, Mrs, Violet Chambers, mother, Apollo, Pa. PVT. WILLIAM C. CREECH, Air Corps, next of kin, Mrs. Martha H. C mother, Cumberland, Ky. STAFF SERCT. FRANK J. Air Corps, next of Kin, Mrs. Depolis, mother, Renovo, Pa. SERGT. JAMES H. DETHRICK, Air Corps, next of Kin, Paul Dethrick, father, Ravenna, O. STAFF SERGT. JAMES EVERETT, Air Corps, next of Kin, John W. Everett, father, James Springs, N. M. PVT. JOHN R. FLETCHER, Air next of kin, John Fletcher, father, ville, Wis. STAFF SERGT. JOSEPH E. GOGD, Air Corps, next of kin, Mrs. Ellen Good, mother, Pittsburgh, Pa. STAFF SERGT. JAMES E. GUTHRIE, Air Corps, next of Kin, Claude M. Guthrie, father, Naphalie, Va.
STAFF SERGT. J C. HERBERT,
Teech,
DEPOLIS, Laura G.
Corps, Janes-
nese control and that the Japanese flag flew over them. The Japanese official agancy, in a broadcast heard in New York by the United Press listening post, said that among 300 American
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| Stamford, Conn.
OSEPH C. Air Corps, next of kin, Walter J. Herbert, father, Clear Spring, Md CORP. VINCENT M. HORAN, Air Corps, next of kin, Timothy Horan, father,
PVT. GEORGE G. LESLIE Air Corps, next of kin, George S. Leslie, father, Amold, Pa.
PVT. WILLIAM H. MANLEY, Air Corps,
planes destroyed in the Philippines and Hawaii were 40 flying fortresses | and 30 other long range bombers. It listed 200 planes destroyed in Hawaiian attacks and 100 in Philip- | pine attacks, 40 at Iba Air Field and 60 at Clark Field. | A German news agency Tokyo dispatch quoted naval headquarters | that an “enemy airplane mother ship” had been sunk off Honolulu. | “Severe Blow to U. S. Navy”
Up to that time the Japanese had | claimed the sinking of two United | tates battleships, and the damag-| ing of two other battleships and four large cruisers in the Hawaiian attack, and the sinking of an American warship, possibly the mine sweeper Penguin, off Guam. Japan also claimed the capture of
several American merchantmen. |
It admitted no damage to its own fleet.
Tokyo broadcast that a “severe |
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United States-Japanese war, today | : {listed the names of 37 American tail lounge growling:
soldiers who were killed in Jap- ‘em off face th’ earth.’
’ next of kin, Mrs, Gertrude Cashen, mother,
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OF WAR FERVOR
Entire Populace Stirred; Troops Guard Against Sabotage. :
BY JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—War is a bomb bursting in a crowded barracks: it is also a red-eyed girl clinging to the arm of a boy in uniform. War may be a shell plowing into armor plate--or a naval administrative officer begging his superiors for a chance at duty with the fleet. It may be a coffee-saturated group of tired newspaper men getting to their feet when a radio plays the “Star-Spangled Banner,” and noting tears in each others eyes. It may be a smile on the face of Secretary of War Henry L Stimson, who smiles oftenest when the strain jE gremest, eh m: a drun cockvar ney “We'll blast It may be 'a hotel lobby crowd listening“to a
The list of men killed in bom-|cabby’s story of what “really hap-
ned at Pearl Harbor.” Pe The bombs are 5000 miles distant so far, but sabotage may explode in the shadow of the Capitol any minute.
Second Partial Blackout That's why the city had its sec-
ond successive night of a partial blackout. Street lights were dimmed,
‘| but the Washington monument re-
mained floodlighted all night. In the downtown Government area lights burned brightly in many office buildings where Army and Navy officials are keeping staffs on duty 24 hours a day. Special anti-sabotage patrols have been stationed at the airport. Augmented guards watch factories on the outskirts of the city. At night their fires, built for warmth, Sicker like the lights of a bivouacked army.
Extra Police at White House
Platoons of soldiers, bayonets fixed, march outside the Army and Navy buildings. Streets on either side of the White House are barricaded, and around the building
h. {march soldiers in pairs, 50 yarcs
apart. They carry full equipment, including gas masks. Inside the White House grounds prowl extra police. Paired police officers stand at each gate. A Puerto Rican in a dress suit who tried to crash one of the gates with an “important message” for the President was arrested. In the metropolitan area 13,000 air raid wardens have. been . instructed to remain “on the alert.” They have been told to leave their radios tuned in for emergency orders. The district commissioners are asking $1,500,000 from the Budget Bureau for air raid sirens, warden posts, gas masks.
Lacks Air Raid Shelters
next of kin, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Manley, mother, Atlanta, Ga.
PVT. JOHN G. MITCHELL, Air Corps,
inext of kin, Mrs. Clara Mitchell, mother, |
Hoisington, Kas. i PVT. ROBERT R. NIEDZWIECKI, Air, Corps, next of kin, Peter P. Niedzwiecki, father, Grand Rapids, Mich. DONALD D. PLANT. (No rank shown.) of kin, Mrs. Mable Plant, mother, Wausau, Wis. STAFF SERGT. JOHN "A. Ss, next of Kin, Mrs mother, McComb, Miss.
PRICE, * Air | Leona ike
ANSON E. ROBBINS (no rank shown), | Air corps. next of kin, Kelsey Robbins, brother, Boston, Mass. \ SERGT. GEORGE R. SCHMERSAL, Corps, next of kin, Mrs Edith Schmersal, mother, Corona, L. I. N. Y. ROBERT R. SHATTUCK (no rank shown), Air Corps, next of kin, Jose H. Shattuck, father, Blue River, Wis. SERGT. ROBERT O. SHERMAN, Air Cor next of kin, Mrs. Ursula Krack, mother, Middletown, N. Y. SERGT. MORRIS STACEY, Air Corps, next of kin, James H, Stacey, father, Fairmont, Va. STAFF SERGT. ANDREW ZYNSKIL,; air corps, next of Catherine Walczynski, Minn.
PVT. LUMUS E
Air
A. WALCKin, Mrs
mother, Duluth,
Air Corps,
3 3 ; | WALKER, blow” had been given to the U. S.|pext of kin, Mrs. Bessie Walker, mother,
Navy. | “United States naval activity in the Pacific is completely frustrated,” | it said. “Years will be necessary | in order to make good these losses of the first hours. Britain and the United States are bewildered by these Japanese attacks.” Claim Bangkok Taken
A German official news agency dispatch reported that Japanese troops had entered Bangkok, capital of capitulated Thailand, shortly after 9 o'clock last night. British broadcasts quoted the Japanese Embassy at Bangkok— Japan accorded Thailand ambassadorial status yesterday—that British imperial forces crossed the Thailand border and the Japanese were meeting them “in order to assure the| independence of Thailand.” | The Tokyo radio asserted that British troops had been driven back in southern Thailand after crossing the Malaya border and that the British were being mopped up. Tokyo radio reports asserted that furious Japanese bombing attacks were being made in Singapore and Hongkong. Take Over Shanghai The Japanese official agency asserted that Admiral Jean Decoux, Vichy governor general of French Indo-China, had agreed to a J se “request” for the dispatch of additional Jap troops to IndoChina, “to further strengthen French Indo-China defenses.” Decoux ordered _ blackouts in southern Indo-China effective last night, it was added. . An Italian official agency dispatch said that when J ese troops took over the international settlement at Shanghai they did not molest the adjoining French concession, but added that two American radio stations had been seized in Shanghai. A German dispatch from Hsinking, capital of Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo, quoted the head of the Japanese army press service there that the Japanese army of Manchukuo, “in the present holy war,” would do its duty and defend the northern border— the frontier facing Siberia. :
Ziegler, I The department said that the list was only a partial group of casualties.
ALIENS SEIZED IN EAST
GLOUCESTER, N. J. Dec. 9 (U. P.) —Officials at the Gloucester immigration station announced today that two additional aliens taken into custody in the Philadelphia area had raised the total under detention here to 61.
FEAR FOR CAMERA CREW HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 9 (U, P).— Twentieth Century Fox pictures said today a camera crew of six in Honolulu filming background scenes for a marine picture had not been heard from since Sunday's bombing of Hawaii.
Bombs on the other side of the
{world have killed hundreds, thou-
sands. If they ever fall here , . . the only answer police so far can give to Washingtonians who call and ask where their neighborhood air raid shelters are located is: “Washington has no air raid shelters.” Motorists have been asked to dim their headlights. Army and Navy uniforms are a commonplace. Since the order went out for service men—including all
D.| administrative officers—to. appear
| henceforth in uniform, rather than in the accustomed mufti, runs on | military clothing stores have forced |at least two to hang “sold out” Foy . And complete outfits cost | $160, People Feel Cold Anger
There have been no popular dem- | onstrations. Strong police guards | have been stationed at the Japanese, German and Italian Embassies, but there has been no apparent need for them. Washingtonians feel a cold anger that can wait for the ‘inevitable triumph” predicted by the President. Nevertheless, in Capitol corridors, | hotel lobbies, sandwich shops wherever people pause for a moment— the question is frequently heard: “But what are we doing to Japan?” The war is far out in the Pacific. But in Washington executives are sleeping on cots in the munitions building; 500 amateur radio operators have been ordered off the air by the Federal Communications Commission; the Red Cross has announced it has 10,000 trained volunteers ready for action in emergency; all the department -buildings display freshly inked signs: “Show your passes.”
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San Francisco's great bay, which could cradle the combined fleets of all the navies of the world, long has been considered one of the
most vulnerable points in this hemisphere to air attack. The photo above explains some of the reasons for the air raid jitters of that district since the attack on Hawaii. The two great bridges — the San Francisco bay bridge in the foreground and the Golden Gate bridge in the distance, probably
= ” = WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U, P.).— Naval experts today admitted the possibility of Japanese air attacks on San Francisco, Los Angeles and other Pacific Coast areas, but said such action would be suicidal for the fleet and air units involved. The chief objective of any such attack, it was said, would be to lower American morale. Navy officials believed that an attack would more likely have the opposite effect and result in an intensification of efforts to crush Japan. Japanese planes, based on an aircraft carrier which might slip inside this country’s naval defense in the Pacific, might make small-scale
attacks along the coast before being brought into the cross-fire of
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would be the first thrgets of bombers. Destruction of either or both would be disastrous to transportation for defense of the vast Bay
region, Upper left is the business dis trict of San Francisco. Lower left is downtown Oakland, which merges with Berkeley, seat of the University of California, on the extreme lower right. The large low-lying island in the center of the photo is Treasure Island, former site of the Golden Gate Ex-
position, but now a naval aviation base, A naval base also is located on Yerba Buena Island, immediately to the left of Treasure Island. San Francisco’s Presidio is located near the left end of the Golden Gate bridge. In Oakland and adjacent Alameda are vast naval aviation bases and important shipyards. Mare Island, major west coast shipyard of the Navy, is at the northern end of San Francisco Bay, about 25 miles north of San Francisco.
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Raids Possible, Experts Soy
United States defense forces operating from the mainland and Hawail, officials said.
It would be a comparatively simple job, they added, for our forces to overwhelm any Japanese naval units which succeeded in getting within range for bombing planes. Silencing of radio stations on the West Coast caused no surprise here. Airmen can use even commercial radio programs as direction beams to guide them to objectives. Radio stations in Germany and Britain close regularly at the first indication of enemy air activity. While the U. S. Navy is search= ing the Pacific for Japanese fleet units, naval experts agreed that Japan’s two immediate objectives appeared to be to keep units of this
country’s fleet and air force scattered over a wide area of the Pacific, and to prevent the bombing of Tokyo and other industrial centers. In support of the first conclusion, Navy sources pointed to the Japanese bombings of widely scattered American areas, rather than a concentrated move against a single objective. These sources believe that Japan's scattered operations may be a smoke screen for a major operation which, possibly, is in the final stage of preparation. By severing air communications between Hawaii and the Philippines, and then destroying Philippine bases, the. Japanese would reduce greatly the danger of American attacks on Japanese territory.
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' |ducted an over-night round-up of : German aliens,
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Argentina and a member of military intelligence division of: th Alu in the World War, died night, IR
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CALL CONNECTICUT GUARD . HARTFORD, Conn, Dec, 9 (U.
began mobilizing today as Federal agents, state. and local police -con-
JOHN "LEWIS PLEDGES AID
NEW YORK, Dec. 9 (U. P)— John L. Lewis, president of the
pledged his support to the Government today until “the day of its ultimate triumph over Japan and all other enemies.”
COLDWATER, Mich, Dec. 9 (U. P.)~Ten years ago today . Mrs, Blendena Hopkins sat in: the office of her attorney, Irving L. Stansell as divorce proceedings were launched against her husband, Melbert. ; Yesterday Mrs, Hopkins again sat in Mr. Stansell’s office. With her was Melbert, “We understand that in the last 10 years you've become a justice of the peace,” said Mrs. Hopkins, “Well, we want to be married.”
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POPE APPOINTS BISHOP VATICAN CITY, Dec, 9 (U. P)). —Pope Pius today appointed Msgr. Joseph Willging as bishop of Pueblo, N. M. Msgr, Willging is at present general vicar of Helena, Mont. Msgr. Edward Hettinger was appointed auxiliary bishop to Msgr. James Hartley, bishop of Columbus, O.
NEW JERSEY BACKS WAR
TRENTON, N. J., Dec, 9 (U. P). —New Jersey's Legislature pledged all state resource today to prosecution of the Japanese war “to a glori= ous victory,”
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9 (U, P).— Doho, English language Japanese newspaper, said editorially today that “nothing could be more shame=less, cowardly, unwarranted and unjustified” than Japan’s attack on the United States and urged American Japanese to “fight for the defeat of militaristic Japan.”
FORMER U. S. ENVOY DIES
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