Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1941 — Page 19

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TOKYO CLAIMS AIR VICTORIES

Says 197 U. S. Planes, Destroyer and Sub Are Demolished.

By UNITED PRESS Japan asserted officially today that its forces had destroyed 197 United States planes in two days’ operations in the Philippines and had sunk an American destroyer, a submarine and a special service ship in operations off the Hawaiian islands. A German broadcast quoted Tokyo as claiming the sinking of the 33,000-ton United States aircraft carrier Lexington off Hawaii Imperial headquarters at Tokyo asserted that Japanese troops, landing on America’s outpost island of Guam, had taken sbout 350 prisoners, captured much material and seized key points in the harbor without loss. The Berlin radio, heard in London by the United Press, broadcast a Tokyo dispatch that the Japanese had captured Agna, capital of Guam, the governor and military commandant, “Capt. George C. McMillan, and several officers—in all, 350 Americans.”

A 3000-ton American oil tanker | was captured in the harbor, Tokyo |

asserted, and its captain and crew of 30 made prisoners. ‘Objectives Destroyed’ |

It was asserted further than five of a formation of seven American planes had been shot down in air attacks on Wake island and that numerous “military objectives” had ' been destroyed. Tokyo claimed that 45 American planes were shot down and 71 de-

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As United States troops rushed defense measures they threw up a

NEED 15-MINUTE RAID WARNING

Enemy Planes Then Would Be About 60 Miles From Objective.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U. PO. —A man in mufti watches the colored pawns on the big horizontal board.

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line of markers points the direction unmistakably. The man in mufti barks into the telephone transmitter: “San Francisco yellow.”

It really happend in San Francisco. They thought it happened in New York. It may happen here. On the day when a civilian air raid warden in an information center of the air defense command says “Washington yellow” to the operator at her special switchboard,

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the capital will have 15 minutes to (get set for the blow. For “yellow” in the lexicon of air defense means: “Enemy planes 15 minutes—or 60 miles—away.”

Need 15-Minute Warning

MacArthur at Los Angeles harbor

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| Photography

Hints Offered

Lens Care More Important

By TIM TIPPETT

Since a lot of the local shutterbugs are spending the winter hibernating in their darkrooms this is probably as good a time as any to warm up the hypo-stained typewriter with an attempted explana-

“Great Britain's experience,” Lieut. Allen Settle said at Bolling Field today, “has shown that a 15-minute warning is about right.” Not until the raiders are 15 min(utes from a possible objective is it safe to assume that they are headed {for that objective. the| A split second after the warden in amateur groups are that the information center says “Washthis will not happen. {ington yellow,” yellow lights gleam In recent years this hobby has/on alarm boards in the city. grown in great leaps, and generally | At the district fire alarm headthe cost of equipment and materials quarters a crew of four men awaits {hasn't been particularly low. But the signal that may come. Two

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stroyed on the ground in Japanese .. =o. in. Gifference between fine|if there were to be any up in the watch the board. Two handle the

attacks on Iba and other air fields in the Philippines Tuesday against the loss of five Japanese planes. Imperial headquarters claimed that in hig scale attacks on the Manila zone yesterday 45 American planes were shot down and that 36 grounded planes were destroyed. A later communique asserted that in the Manila attacks a transport was heavily damaged and that an! arsenal was exploded at nearby, Cavite naval base.

Claim ‘Suicide Attacks’

Loss of five Japanese planes was admitted. Two of the planes, it was said, dived headlong into their objectives in suicide attacks. | It was said that two British gun-| boats were sunk by direct bomb] . hits in an attack on Hong Kong. It was asserted that only three] Japanese planes were lost in the! attacks by which the British bat-! tleship Prince of Wales and battle! cruiser Repulse were sunk, and Japanese naval planes, attacking the Kuatan air base in Malaya, destroyed 10 British planes. It was asserted that other Navy bombers destroyed a 7000-ton British freighter off eastern Malaya,

Report Jap Ship Sunk

The Vichy radio reported a Japanese naval admission that “a warship” had been sunk yesterday. Germany reported from Tokyo the admission that a submarine chaser had been lost in Philippines landing operations A Tokyo navy spokesman said Japan was determined and Dprepared to assume control of the air over the Pacific and the Indian | oceans. (As heard by the United! Press, he said also that Japan was) determined to get control over the| “antarctic.”) | “The unexpected naval victory off Hawaii reversed completely the naval proportion established by| the Washington conference,” the | spokesman said. “The Japanese fleet wi the facts talk, showing the en

East Indies to Give Up?

Another Japanese broadcast suggested that in view of “tremendous Japanese successes,” the Netherlands East Indies would soon surrender, “to prevent needless sacrni- | fice.” Tokya said that it had concluded a defensive and ‘‘offensive” pact with Thailand today (Thursday), “similar to that with French IndoChina. The Japanese government infor-| mation board said that 270 Amen,cans and Britons had been detained in Tokyo “as a precaution for their protection and well being.” Three to four newspaper men were included.

1941—'Remember

Pearl Harbor’ |

{| Everyone is wondering just what |

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U. P.).— Another battle cry — “Remember Pearl Harbor”—has taken its place in American naval and military history.

The Office of Production Man- |

agement announced that henceforth all of its press releases will carry the new war slogan. The cry takes its place beside “Remember the Alamo” and “Remember the Maine” of earlier, 18th century wars. The Washington - Post the mew slogan in black-faced type above its masthead in all editions this moming and will contimie to do so indefinitely.

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grain developing and any other

First, realize that the whole

system of photography is based on|

something only half understood. Why should a grain of silver bromide get all upset just because the sun shines on it? Nobody knows why. But it does. Yet all is serene until you place the sun-affected silver grains in a developing agent. Then the grains go wild. In emulsion grains are seperated from each other by thin walls of gelatin. When placed in developer the grains go crazy and tear through the gelatin and unite with neighboring grains, making clumps of silver. The bigger

{these clumps are the grainier the|

negative will be. So the obvious thing to do is tame these jumping grains down so that they do not form into large silver lumps. To do this you can use a slower, less active developing agent which won't cause the grains to move so violently, Also, you can put into the developer some sort of alkali which will not soften the gelatin as much as some. We also must not forget that some is, in itself, of coarser grain than other emulsion, the finergrained type being smaller film sizes.

Also you will increase the graini-|

ness of a negative by over-exposing, and by processing in too-warm solutions. Warm soups not only soften the gelatin, but the warmth may pep up some of the developing agents and thus cause them to get those grains stirred up to greater violence. There are many

negative and brilliance and contrast.

some that provide The best

|is the one that works out satisfac-|able repair shop for a thorough {torily with the lighting, exposure! cleaning.

and subject matter.

various types, and most usually they are, then you

and fix things up in printing.

Don’t Get Careless

It seems too bad to go and take a good picture and exert loving care in processing the negatives—and then ruin the whole job by careless work in enlarging. Here are reminders of what not to do in enlarging: Don't jiggle the enlarger of the paper easel, don't print negatives emulsion side up (so lettering reads backward in the print); don't leave your paper container open in the presence of white light; dont allow paper to curl during printing—it | must lie perfectly flat: don't skimp on developer in the tray. A photographer who wants good pictures ; Just can't be too careful.

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the war will do to the price of pho- | tographic equipment.

(eral indications and a theory or | two. Already at least one of the large {manufacturers of cameras and equipment is Others undoubtedly will get orders if they haven't gotten them already. Just what the orders call for something else. One firm is making lenses for gunsights.

The probiematical.

| shortages.

though is On the

basis of the American supply and! {demand system, it would seem that 1

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|costs certainly there might be a de- alarm system. |cided waning in the popularity of | One plug by the operator at the amateur shooting [information center—which may be try will do their utmost to keep lights to flash in the threatened prices at popular levels to preserve | City. the large market they already have, | » ~ 8

Thousands of Observers

| Five minutes after “Washington Still available are copies of the vellow” the warden mav signal, report on the Agfa Ansco camera .ix vind hod . club survey. If you do not have a| Washington blue"—the enemy Is

(now 10 minutes away. copy, drop a card to the Camera ts Y 0A AE Club Department, Agfa The final warning, after which

Ansco, | : Binghampton, N. Y., giving com- 1$he issue 1.11 He lap UE Wie quds plete address of the club where you |’ Washingion Tet. ui wy 3 “Red” means “five minutes away would like one sent. The report cov- | —or less” ers all phases of camera club ac-| Or the light that flashes may be tivities and should be of value 0 | white, for all-clear. program chairmen in planning pro-| mye Air Defense Command's first grams. interceptor area, from Maine to Cleanliness has paid magnificent | North Carolina, has 40,000 observers photographic dividends to those few on duty. photographers who knew its value. In the Washington metropolitan How many darkroom fans are area alone there are 13,000 volunstocked with a camel hair brush, teer civilian air raid wardens. In {rubber syringe, lens tissue and ab- New York, San Francisco, Los An'sorbent cotten for use in the davrk- geles there are more. room? Not enough fans have these : {necessary items, About the worst dust-catcher on any camera is the bellows. Each time the camera is used dust out the interior before reloading. The proper way to clean a lens (and take care of your lens for the war may prevent vou from getting | another) is to breathe on it and | Moscow said today. then wipe the condensed moisture | Describing winter's effect on Axis off with lens tissue. { trops. the broadcast said: And in the darkroom filter vour “They tremble. Their teeth chatsolutions and keep negatives, trays, ter. They sit down and cry. It is tanks and other equipment dust- not pity. because these beasts dont | proof for successful results, know. pity. They cry because of Never attempt to take the ele-| cold.” German soldiers, more resistant than the Italians, sometimes joke about “General Winter,” it added. “But for how long will they go on joking?”

ITALIANS DIE LIKE FLIES AND NAZIS CRY

LONDON. Dec, 11 (U. P) —German soldiers “cry like children” and Ttalians “die like flies” in the severe cold on the Russian front, Radio

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (U. P). —Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in the First World War, has offered his services to President Roosevelt. Gen. Pershing, who celebrated his 81st birthday last September, wrote the President: “As one among these millions, hasten to offer my services, in any way in which my experience and my strength, to the last ounce, will be of help in the fight” In his letter to President Roosevelt, Gen. Pershing expressed “supreme confidence” that under the Chief Executive's “calm and determined leadership, we will retain our balance, despite foul blows.’ The President's reply to Gen. Pershing said: “You are magnificent, You always have been—and you always will be. I am deeply grateful to you for your letter of Dec. 10. Under a wise law, you have never been placed on the retired list. You are very much on the’ active list and your services will be of great value.”

FORESEES AXIS. DOOM IN LIBYA

Enemy’s Armored Forces Face Destruction, Lons don Spokesman Says.

LONDON, Dec. 11:(U. P).~Destruction of the entire German and Italian armored forces in eastern Libya appears now to be a probability, an official spokesman said today. “On Nov. 18 Gen. Auchinleck set out to destroy the entire armed forces of the Germans and Italians in Cyrenaica,” he said. “Now, on Dec. 11, I am bound to say it seems very probable he will do so.” He said Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham, who started the Libyan campaign under Auchinleck’s command, has been succeeded as commander of the British Eighth Army in Cyrenaica by Maj. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie, 44, ‘Cunningham, 54, was reported suffering from strain and has been granted sick leave, Cunningham formerly commanded in East Africa where he reconquered British Somaliland and took Italian Somaliland, Eritrea and Ethiopia from the Italians.

FLAMES DAMAGE 10 PRINTING PRESSES

Fire swept through the Richardson Printing Co. plant at 653 Virginia Ave, today, damaging 10 presses and destroying a large stock of paper, The fire started when a pressman struck a match and the head of it flew off into oil-soaked paper, firemen said.

Charles Richardson, proprietor of the plant, said the loss will amount to “several thousand dollars.” None of the employees was injured, all of them escaping through exits.

Sonja Henle

Sonja Henie, Gene Turner, and 100 other skaters will perform their nightly miracles of grace and precision for the last times tonight at the Coliseum. The company and its stars have been thrilling packed houses of Indianapolis audiences every night since Friday. After the settings are dismantled tomorrow, the whole outfit will do an “off to Buffalo,” where they open Monday. One of the big thrills of the show continues to be the opening number, “Hats off to Uncle Sammy,” a patriotic precision dance on skates, Miss Henie will join her troupe in Buffalo after spending the weekend in Chicago with her husband, Dan Topping.

DIES OF TULAREMIA

SEYMOUR, Dec. 11 (U. P.).—Mrs. Pearl Talley, 49, of near Seymour, died yesterday at Schenck Memorial Hospital here of tularemia (rabbit fever) after an illness of a few days.

Civil Council Organized; Patriotic Groups Will

Supply Volunteers.

The Marion County Civil Defense Council was organized today and ready for action, Representative of towns around

Indianapolis, Mayor Sullivan and

County officials met with Gen. Rob= ert- H. Tyndall, County Defense di= rector, last night. The representa tive plus City and County officers form the Council. Gen. Tyndall outlined the general plan of civilian defense in Marion County to the officials. Details, he said, would come later. The immesdiate task, he said, is to perfect the Council's organization, Volunteers for civilian defense work will be supplied through the American Legion and other patriotic organizations, he said. Te Legion posts will be assigned work through the Council, the co-ordinating agency for all civil defense. Towns represented at the meeting were Lawrence, Lynhurst, North Crows Nest, Ravenswood, Rocky Ripple, - Shooters Hill, Southport, Speedway City, Williams Creek, Woodruff Place, Wynndale, Shore Acres, Meridian Hills, Beech Grove and Brendonwood.

Y. M. C. A. TO HONOR 4 PAST PRESIDENTS

Four past presidents of the Young Men’s Christian Association will be honored at 6 p. m. tomorrow at the 87th annual meeting of the organiza= tion in the Central Y. M. C. A. They are John Shaffer, 1888-1801; J. K. Lilly, 1901-1903; James M. Ogden, 1920-1926, and Edgar H. Evans, 1926-1934. An election of the 1942 board of directors will be held and two trustees will be named. Members of the annual meeting committee are William H. Remy, DeWitt 8. Mors gan, G. V. Carrier, Crawford Bark= er and Senator R. L. Brokenburr,

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