Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1941 — Page 5
BOTH HOUSES , VOTE FOR WAR
Act swiftly Af After Italy
And Germany Make Declarations.
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ning blow on our naval and air arm in the Pacific. And there was a note of jubilation because, after hesitation and uncertainty regarding events in the Pacific Islands far to the West, the first bits of good news were coming through.
Notified Formally
Word of war with all the Axis reached Washington by radio and news flashes from Germany and Italy and the formal Nazi notification was handed to the State Department at 8:25 a. m. (Indianapolis gtime). Italy goose-stepped into line and President Roosevelt set about composing the 120-word message that was to convey the information to Congress. The German note blamed Mr. Roosevelt for precipitating war and charged that the United States had “violated in the most flagrant manner and in ever increasing measure all rules eof neutrality.” Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, was in the Senate gallery for the votes that made this country an official and fighting ally of Britain against all the axis. The Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, of the one time Austrian royal family, sat in the diplomatic gallery.
Strengthen Coast Guard
White House Secretary Steghien T. Early, commenting on the man and Italian action, told reporters that the “long expected is now a reality.” “And so Germany has declared and Italy has goosestepped along,” he said. Formal spread of the war to the Atlantic meant that eastern sea-| board defenses, already on an “alert” from north to south, would be manned more heavily than ever. Germany's declaration of war against the United States was delivered to the State Department at 8:25 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). German Charge D’Affairs Hans Thomsen delivered the historic papers to Ray Atherton, acting chief of the European division, after a wait of one hour and ten minutes in the gray old building across the street from the White House. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, advised by Thomsen by telephone that the declaration of war had been uttered in Berlin, did not hurty to the Department to receive formal notification. Mr. Hull arrived at the Department at 8:10, but refused to receive Thomsen. Thomsen, accompanied by the embassy’s first secretary, Heribert von Strempel, waited half patiently. “Did I hear the voice of Prince Colonna?” inquired von Stempel hurrying out of the diplomatic waiting room on one occasion, Prince Colonna is the Italian ambassador. “No, were you expecting him?” a reporter replied. Von Strempel smiled, wrinkling the Heidelburg scar that marks his face, and replied: “I don’t know.” The prince arrived at 9:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) to confirm the Italian declaration. Thomsen expressed the opinion that it would be difficult to repatriate the members of the embassy staff, including their families. Also complicating the repatriation problem are the German newsmen here who were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation the day after war began with Japan. American newsmen now have been Arrested in Berlin,
Sees Complications
Evidence of national unity and solidarity continued to flow to the White House from public and official sources as the first steps were taken here to put us into the Axisfomented all out war. Senator Robert A. Taft (R. 0), who was an isolationist last week said the war] probably would last at least five years and that President Roosevelt will have the support of every American. Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, agreed and said: “Of course we shall be forced to ask for recognition of the state of hostilities that they bring to us.”
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BELT-LINE ROAD PLANNED HERE
State Wants Highway to Help Troop Movement And Normal Traffic.
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.|the remainder of Shadeland Ave.
south to Thompson Road has already been surveyed. Highway Commission survey parties are now working on Thompson Road.
In addition to the belt-line road, which Highway Commission offi|eials call the circum-urban road (Latin for around the town) an entrance road of less than a mile will be built around Shadeland Ave. into Ft. Harrison.
Federal Aid Asked
Because of the military advantage of such a road, the Highway Commission has requested the Federal Public Roads Administration and the War Department to include the project in the military strategic network of roads.
The local office of the Public Roads Administration has indorsed the plan which is being studied in Washington. Mr. Hadden said he had every reason to believe that it would be approved. If it is approved, the Government will pay 75 per erent of the costs. However, the Highway Commission plans to go ahead with the building of the road regardless of Federal action. If the military strategic network plan is turned down, the State still stands a good chance of getting the Government to pay 50 per cent of the costs of a large portion since the sections running into Ft. Harrison are already classitied as eligible for Fed-
eral aid. Affords By-Pass
Mr. Hadden asserted that the belt-line road would meet the insistent demand of people from all over the State for roads to facilitate travel in this ares. The road will enable motorists from Chicago to Cincinnati, for example, to bypass the City. If the building costs have to be borne entirely by the Highway Commission, it will probably take three or four years to complete it. But if it is classified as a military road, it probably will be built within the next two years, according to M. R. Keefe, Commission chief engineer.
The decision to build the belt:line route and the actual starting of construction brings to an end 15 years of agitation by citizens for such a route.
Plans Were Blocked
During the 1929 Legislature, the Marion County bloc in the House of Representatives which held the balance of power, voted to increase the state gasoline tax from 3 to 4 cents a gallon with the understanding a a belt-line road would be
The Commission to build the road within a three-year period, but action was blocked by high State administration eircles. There were very insistent demands for road building in other parts of the State at that time. Later Marion County Surveyor Bruce Short made a survey of the route and t CWA funds for the project. uest was turned down because of of a sponsor's contribution, And the plan for the road, as Mr. Hadden pu but definitely not dead since thi
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Radio Correspondent Also Saw Prince of Wales Go to Bottom.
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one of the three survivors of that disaster. The destroyer was delayed an hour in picking up survivers and hunting for others and then sped at 10 knots toward Sing-
apore. “I've seen British troops in action
courage of the world, but the courage of the sailors aboard the Repulse and Wales during the attacks was unparalleled. They were in high spirits. ® & = : “SEEING the Repulse and the Wales go down was one of the most tragic sights imaginable. When I was 50 feet away from the Repulse and helped to safety, the stern of the Repulse rose in the air like an ugly red wound and quickly slid below the surface. “I saw a Phe of hoods bobbing nearby the stern ship took the final plunge bug it
was unlikely that they escaped the draw. T Saw the Wales op
Rome he went to the Near Bast then to Cairo, He went to Singa pore two months ago. s = . ON MONDAY he sent CBS's New York office this terse message: “Outtowning four days. Swell story.” His account of the disaster was the first heard from him since. Survivors on arrival at Singapore, said more than 60 Japanese planes attacked the Wales for three hours before it went down. The guns of both the Wales and Repulse, they said, were still in action as the crippled ships, hit several times in vital parts, were on the verge of sinking. It was announced officially that more than 2000 men had been saved (The normal complement of the Whales is about 1500 and the normal complement of the Repulse is about 1200.) The survivors indicated that the Japanese had paid heavily in planes for their attack. Repulse’s guns were blazing fiercely as it listed to port.
War Bulletins
JAPS STILL RAIDING
SINGAPORE, Dec. 11 (U. P)— A British communique today that Japanese mobile air and sea forces still appear to be
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The communique reported that British defenses in northern MaJaya are holding firmly against ‘Japanese attacks.
BRITISH FORCES HOLD
HONGRDNG: Dee. 11 (U. P.) = Besieged by Japanese warships, hammered by Japanese airplanes and sauliey from land by Japate infantry, British forces ted holding their id today after having sunk two enemy {transports and destroyed at least one company of enemy troops. The Japanese claimed that they had sunk two British gunboats near Hongkong.
FIGHT OFF JAP PLANES
SINGAPORE, Dec. 11 (U. P.) = British imperials aided by Brite ish and Dutch fighting planes fought back against a Japanese invasion headed toward the great naval base of Singapore today and reported that, after losing
Kota Bharu airdrome Bege the Thailand border, they ha pre vented any further advances. Japanese still were hammering at the Kuantan area, 200 miles north of Singapore, however, in an ef fort to gain a foothold there.
TALK ON PAN-AMERICA
Charles A. Tehan, Eastern Airlines city traffic manager, will dis cuss Latin-American countries at noon tomorrow at the Optimist Club in the Columbia‘ Club. His talk will be supplemented by a sound and color picture of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras, entitled “Pan-American Paradise.”
FORTY-ONE children were clothed by The Times shoppers and direct donors yesterday to bring the total of the 12th annual Indianapolis Times Clothe-A-Child campaign to 628. Thirty of yesterday's total were clothed by direct donors, persons who came to the Clothe-A-Child office at 46 S. Capitol Ave. and took the youngsters to the stores.
Cash contributions, which enabled Times shoppers to clothe the other 11 children, totaled $223.55, bringing the amount contributed to date to $3168.20. These contributions were
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“The situation is completely in hand. There have béen no major developments since yesterday with the one exception of light attacks by ground troops in the vicinity of Lingayen which were repulsed by one Filipino Army division.” The Manila Tribune reported that an American tank ship was sunk during yesterday's Japanese raids on Manila and that one American and one British freighter were dam- . Several seamen were killed and at least 24 wounded, the Tribune said. The Tribune reported 15 Japanese
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The Bulletin asserted also that in Manila a signal line between Nichols flying field and an air raid tower was cut, Supposedly by Fifth : ate umnists, and
delayed the,
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Andrew Krieger, of the United States Army Air Corps, parachuted to safety from his plane during yes
terday's raids after seeing three Japs parachuting from-a plane. Maj. Le Grande A. Diller, Army gpoketmas, said a check up showed t there was no truth in a report that a German pilot had been shot down in a Japanese plane. . Reporting the new situation, the Army afternoon communique said: “Our scouting planes took to the air during a noon air raid and were reported to have kept a formation of Japanese bombers away from Manila, The enemy aircraft were alarm | reported to have been turned back and were last seen heading in a westerly direction, “There were no further developments in the sithation in northern Luzon. Enemy detachments who landed on the Lingayen coast are
U. S. Claims Ugper Hand Over Japanese in Luzon
planes shot down in yesterday's
being disposed of and mopping up operations are in progress.” A lone enemy plane circled Manila this afternoon, apparently on reconnaisance, The drone of fighter planes, apparently U. 8. Army planes in pursuit, was heard from the United Press offices.
TWO DEAD IN MINE
POWATAN, O., Dec. 11 (U, P.).— Two men were believed killed today by an explosion in the No. 1 coal mine of the Powatan Mining Co. Tigao other miners were rescu
Hope was abandoned for two men who did not escape. The explosion was believed caused by sparks resulting when a power cable fell across a track rail. Powatan is on the Ohio River about 15 miles south of Wheeling,
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JAPAN MISTAKEN HALIFAX ASSERTS
CHICAGO, Dec. 11 (U., P.).—Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to Washington, last night compared Japan's declaration of war with Italy’s entry into the European conflict and said Japan must be shown “that she made the greatest and worst mistake in her history.” Halifax sent a message to the
annual meeting of the American ;
Farm Bureau Federation because he was unable to leave Washington to deliver his addtess. “Just as Italy made the mistake of thinking she had an easy chance of picking up loot,” his message said, “so now the Japanese, no doubt, thought that a golden opportunity offered to drop the mask of peaceful professions and to give full rein to their expansionist ambitions.”
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