Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1941 — Page 2

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“Luzon Invasion Area Is Pounded Fiercely by U. S. Fliers. (Continued on Page Two)

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harmlessly into the sea and - > nila Bay. | Express Confidence

~~ A review of the first week of the war by U. S. headquarters in the Far East, announcing the situation’ ~-well in hand. added to the atmos-| . phere of confidence. | “The situation both on the ground and in the air was well in hand as| the first week of operations came) to a close,” the communique said. “The. resume of operations last] week follows: . “The enemy carried out 14 major _ air raids on military objectives in| the Philippines but paid dearly in| Joss of transports, planes and troops © “At least two battleships were

wt i i oi STATE. SALUTES ITS FIRST HERO OF WAR

.. action of our air and forces. | “An énemy landing was attempted | FT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 15 (U. | P.).—Indiana today saluted its first

in the Lingayan area but was re- | pulsed by a Philippine army di{hero of World War II, Lieut. Lewis those areas. Enemy naval units, | M- Sanders. to have been sunk and three others! “First Lieut. Lewis M. Sanders, units marked the week's operations plane go down in flames, He imHe spent week-ends-in Indianapolis

all causes during the week are not jearning to pilot a plane and in less than 40 actually accounted for,1937 was awarded a commission in and probably many more cports| 5 Army Air Corps Reserve.

Admiral Walter S. Anderson is commander of the Scouting Fleet in the Pacific, whose job it is te scout for and detect an enemy approaching. It is believed he was on duty when the Japanese struck.

vision. “The enemy effected unopposed landings in limited numbers in the | Vigan, Legaspi and Aparri areas but there is only local activity in troops and material on the ground| He was one of six fliers cited this were bombed effectively in the | week-end for bravery during the atVigan and Aparri areas, hampering tack on Oahu last Sunday. The landing operations. special War Department communi“Four enemy transports are known [que said: seriously damaged by our air force of Ft. Wayne, flying at an altitude in northern Luzon. of about 300C feet, saw a dog fight “Individual deeds of heroism and between an American and a Japbravery on the part of American anese plane. As he banked to join and Filipino ground troops and M* [ihe fight, he saw the. American and accounted for the destruction | mediately engaged the Japanese of 11 enemy planes in the air and plane in furious battle and shot it on the ground Thursday. | down.” “Morale Is Splendid” | Lieut. Sanders, 34, formerly was ; ! employ n an Elkhart factory. “The. total ‘enemy air losses fram ployeq 1 3 4

colild not be verified. As no reports| He later moved to Ft. Wayne, have come in it is assumed that cas-| where he was employed by Standualties and property damage have| ard Oil Co. In 1938, he was called been negligible. . ito active :duty at Selfridge Field, ‘Gen. MacArthur (Lieut. Gen.| Mich, and later at Randolph Field, Douglas MacArthur, commandér-in- | Tex: Boo wy chief) has expressed favorable com-| "His wife, Madge, is serving as an ment upon the splendid morale | ambulance driver in Hawaii. His which exists not only throughout|father, Charles Sanders, lives at the military forces but throughout] Bristol, Ind., and his mother, Mrs. the entire population, he states.” Fred Rapp, resides in Florida.

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Claims Philippine. Army Barracks Destroyed, Gains in Malaya.

TOKYO, Dec. 15 (U. P)—(Official Japanese News Agency dispatches recorded by United Press)— Japanese imperial headquarters asserted today that Japanese troops had attacked a United States army headquarters at Tarlac, 70 miles northwest of Manile, and destroyed The Japanese troops penetrated to Tarlac, on the main LingayenManila railroad, after marching 40 miles inland from the West Luzon coast port of Iba, it was asserted. The communique said that in the Aparri sector on the north side of the island, Japanese planes had shot down a Curtiss plane and said “Japanese troops are overcoming enemy resistance according to plan.” Take “Important Point” In another communique imperial headquarters asserted that Japanese troops had taken an “extremely important” point on the west coast of Malaya and were advancing rapidly. The Ja had announced a full scale attack on Hongkong and claimed deep penetrations into Malaya as the imperial diet met for a two-day extraordinary war session to hear speeches by government leaders and to vote a special $658,000,000 war credit. Imperial headquarters asserted that on the Singapore front, Japanese troops had advanced along the east coast of Malaya to within 155 miles of Singapore after “wiping out” a British armored division and capturing 20 tanks, 60 trucks and 16 gnii-ihk fu Newspapers reported at . Japanese forces marching down from the Thailand frontier now had mechanized equipment. Raid British Airdromes

A vtommunique. “said. Japanese planes were heavily raiding British airdromes, especially on . Penang Island, off the West Malaya coast, and in southern Burma. It sald mass raids had been made on Victoria and Mergui air fields, Burma, and ‘Kuantan air field on the Malay peninsula. It was asserted that two transports had been sunk and one damaged in the Penang attacks. This communique reported a U. S. submarine sunk Saturday off the Philippines and said that in airplane attacks on Luzon one American plane had been shot down and 43 destroyed on the ground against a loss of two Japanese planes.

Bomb Singapore Area

A Japanese airplane attack was reported on Cebu Island, 400 miles southeast of Manila. Newspapers said Japanese planes were intensely bombing the Singapore area, including the great naval dock, and alleged that the British command had -called urgently for reinforcements, especially in planes and tanks, from the Netherlands East Indies. - From Thailand, the Thai command was reported as announcing fierce on the Burma frontier between Japanese and Thailand and $ _and Indian troops who had” en into Thai in the Chiengmai Deny Lexington Sank Various dispatches reported that | civilians were being evacuated from |key areas in Burma and blackouts |had been ordered for the Calcutta |and Bombay districts. The Tokyo newspaper Nichi Nichi reported that since fighting started the United States fleet had lost 270,000 tons of ships and the British fleet 80,000, damaged or sunk. | (Tokyo “denied” reports, which {previously had been. circulated by the Japancse throughout the world, that the United States aircraft car(rier Lexington had been sunk, Such | reports, and subsequent denials, are frequently disseminated by the Axis in hope of eliciting a statement by | the navy concerned giving information as to the whereabouts of warships). ‘

DIG: IN FOR ‘BATTLE TO SAVE HONGKONG

| SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, |Dec. 15 (U.P). —British Empire | troops from three continents, including Canadians, Scots and Indians, are fighting in -trenches at Hongkong against overwhelming numbers of Japanese land, air and sea fighters after a defiant refusal by the commander to surrender, official dispatches said today. Mile by mile, the imperial forces had retreated through the mainland sector of ‘Kowloon under plans made in 1938 by which the great stand was planned to be made in strong trenches on Hongkong island. Now the British forces were in these trenched, backed by 2000 civila Stlrived “along the wor: mous. ongka kong waterfront, EF a par 5 eavily mined Tr. ~ In their bresent. ppsitions, the Empire troops were less vulnerable to flanking attacks and they had etter protection from their artilery.

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By LOUIS F. KEEMLE = United Press War Analvst A Hitler's reverses in Russia make it increasingly’ _. probable that the main German war effort will be turned eisewhere this winter, However, as long as Russia adheres to her present intention of hammering at a retreating foe, ." Hitler will not be able to dig in with a holding force while he transfers the bulk of his offensive power elsewhere. As Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet Am- ! ah 2 bassador, put it in Washington, Russia does not propose to Jet Hitler sit down or “hibernate” “Russia's continued offensive against the Germans . is therefore of the utmost importance to Britain and the United States: in their strugglee against Japan as well

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).— The House Military Affairs Committee today is expected to complete work on a War Department proposal to. draft men. 19 to 45 years old for military service. - The measure would require the registration of all men between the ages of 18 and 64 to classify their abilities for work essential to the war effort. Some objection to registering men below 21 years for military service

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Japan, Ly That may come later, if the Red Army is able to inflict a major defeat on. Germany. It is to be noted that Litvinov referréd to Japan as the “common enemy.” Apparently Russia's plan is to devote her entire effort in the west for the present apd throw her weight against Japan later, if all goes well.

Reds Chief Brake on Nazis

The Soviet view, as expressed by Litvinov, is that Hitler after all is Enemy No. 1 of all the Allies and if he is ‘beaten his partners in the “gang” will go down with him. Hence, Russia argues that she can do more service to the common cause by keeping after Hitler than by dividing her war effort. =. There has been so far.no outward sign that either Britain or the United States are inclined to dispute this view. In fact, London reports that Britain and Russia plan a conference in Moscow to map out common strategy among Britain, Russia, the United States and their allies and to co-ordinate the efforts of all. Russia, then, stands as the chief brake on Hitler's expected next move in Europe, Africa or the Middle East. A There have been various guesses as to where he will attempt to strike. The most common one is in North Africa through the French colonies to offset the Axis reverses in Libya. 5 ==" Oftlrer Possible Moves If this is accompanied by requisitioning of the French fleet, increased forays in the Atlantic might be expected, with the ohject of preventing American reinforcements being sent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. In this connection, some observers see the possibility of a German move through Spain into North and West Africa. Spain, while neutral, is tied in deeply with the Axis. Another possibility which has been repeatedly discussed and still exists is that Hitler, having been frustrated in southern Russia, may try to find an easier route to the Caucasus and the Middle East through Turkey. The latter, which has been under

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Head of Community Church In New York Says He Cannot Bless It.

NEW YORK, Dec. 15 (U. P)— The trustees of the Community

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