Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1941 — Page 10

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DUSTED OFFICER BORN IN INDIANA

Martin Wis Former Head of Army Air Corps in Hawaii.

Times Special ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Maj.

Gen. Frederick L. Martin, who was reffeved of his command as chief of | the Army air force in Hawaii, is a Hoosier soldier who won the Distinguished Service Medal for preparing the American around-the-world flight of 1924.

Piloting one of the Army ships himself, he was forced to relinquish command of the squadron when his plane crashed into an Alaskan mountainside. After 10 days of hardship he and his mechanic reached a settlement. He was born at Liberty, Ind., Nov. 26, 1882, and commissioned a second lieutenant of Coast Artillery in 1908. He first entered the air arm in 1918 and served in France in the supply section. Returning to the United tates, he held several aeronautical service posts until 1921. Then he was designated commanding = officer of the United States air service around-the-world-flight. On Oct. 1, 1940, he was. promoted to be a major general (temporary ! rank) and assigned as commander of the Hawaiian air force.

TAKES I. C. C. POST HERE FT. WAYNE, Dec. 18 (U. P.).— H. E. Fairweather, for the last five years Ft. Wayne district super-

visor for the Interstate Commerce Commission Bureau of Motor Carriers, has been transferred to a similar position in Indianapolis. No successor here has been named.

| family of sailors was killed in ac-

| and Mrs. Joseph A. Lynch, 1030

The Lynch family has been represented in the U. S. many years. Robert (upper right) was reported “killed in in the Pacific last week. Joseph C. (upper left) also is in the Navy and two other brothers, Justin (lower left) and David, recently finished enlistment terms in the Navy. : = = 2 » 2 =

One son of an Indianapolis Cal, and David is a -Greyhound bus driver here. ’ Robert enlisted in 1938 for four years and would have been scheduled for discharge next September. He was a graduate of Technical High School and had attended the First Evangelical Church. Surviving, besides the parents and three brothers are two younger brothers, Daniel and Brian; three sisters, Veronica, Teresa and Gene, and a grandmother, Mrs. J. J. Lynch, of Janesville, Wis.

tion during the attack on Hawaii Dec. 7, according to word received here. He was Robert Lynch, 21, an electricians’ mate and son of Mr.

N. Sterling St. One of Robert’s brothers, Joseph C., 20, is in the Navy and two other brothers, Justin, 25, and David, 23, recently finished terms in the service. Justin is in the shipbuilding yards at Long Beach,

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PACIFIC FLEET

Aerial Attack Stressed in Army-Navy Shakeups in Hawaii Commands. (Continued from Page One)

guard, meets for a second secret meeting today.

chief of the U. S. fleet and two high generals in command of

| Hawaii's land and air defenses.

.Demotions and Promotions The oustings were described officially as made “in view of” Mr. Knox’ findings on his flying visit of inspection to Pearl Harbor where the assault took a toll of 2897 Army and Navy lives, destroyed many planes and sank six American war-

ships, including the 32,600-ton battleship Arizona. Relieved of their commands at “this critical hour” were: Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 59-year-old commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet and functional commander of the Pacific fleet, who was replaced by Rear

the Bureau of Navigation, who was commander of this country’s first submarine flotilla. Mr, Nimitz will be jumped two ranks to a full admiral

President Roosevelt today nominated Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs to succeed Nimitz. Lieut. Gen. Walter C. Short, commander of the Hawaiian Department land and air forces, replaced by Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons of the air corps who visited Great Britain last summer and upon his return took a hand in the reorganl ization of the U. S. air defenses on the. basis of his study of Nazi air methods, including establishment of interceptor commanders. Maj. Gen. Prederick L. Martin, commander of the Army air corps at Hawaii, replaced by Brig. Gen. C. L. Tinker of the air corps, a veteran of service in the Philippines, who was promoted to brigadier general (temporary) last year.

Aerial Defense Stressed The selection of Gen. Emmons as commander of the Hawaiian important significance in view of the

jf vast and destructive role played by

air forces—even against battleships

£|—in the battle of the Pacific.

Military men said that two hard-

Mi fisted flying fighters will have the

defense of Hawali in their hands in the combination of the 53-year-old Gen. Emmons and Gen. Tinker. The removals were carried out in lightning wartime moves and Admiral Kimmel was instructed to turn over his command to Vice-Admiral William S. Pye, commander of the battle force and second in command of the Pacific fleet, pending the arrival of Admiral Nimitz on the scene. Gen. Emmons already is at Honolulu, having been relieved of his former duties as chief of the air force command. Gen Tinker is * to Hawail after giving up his duties with the third interceptor command of the Third Air Force at Drew Field, Fla. The removal of Mr. Kimmel Mr. Short and Mr. Martin does not carry any connotation of guilt for what happened at Pearl Harbor, it was explained, although they, as the ranking commanders of the Pacific defense forces, are the key figures in the presidential inquiry. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in the Army’s announcement, issued simultaneously with a Navy announcement, said the changes were made “in view of the preliminary report of the Secretary of the Navy with whose views as to the unpreparedness of the situation of Dec. 7 the Secretary of War concurs.” The Navy's announcement refrained from any explanation for Mr. Kimmel’s removal, but it was | believed that the reasons given by { Mr. Stimson for the Army shakeup | applied as well to him.

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P. V. DuBois has been appointed Indianapolis district manager for the Dodge division of Chrysler Corp., it was announced today by Charles Sering, Dodge regional manager in Cincinnati. Mr. DuBois has been with Dodge in the Cincinnati region for the last two years, having previously worked in Nashville and Dayton.

TIRE. RATIONING BEGINS JAN, 4

Only Motorists Whose Work Is Classed Essential May Buy New Ones.

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be required to eliminate production of golf and tennis balls, bathing suits, stationers goods such as rubber bands, toy balloons and hundreds of other items. Rubber sup-

plies would be guaranteed for the production of fire hose, hot water bottles, syringes, protective clothing, jar rings, surgeons’ gloves, friction tape and essential mechanical goods. Defense officials estimated that the United States probably will produce only 30,000 tons of synthetic rubber next year. This production, they believe, will be used to replace amounts drawn from stockpiles for military and essential civilian uses.

Mr. Henderson said that if no controls over tire sales were inaugurated the nation would be without tires in two months as there are only 8,000,000 tires in the United States and motorists are buying them at the rate of 4,000,000 a month. As an interim measure to the permanent tire rationing program which becomes effective Jan. 4, he said the OPM scon would extend the ban on new tire sales from Dec. 22 to the date of the new order. The tire rationing program will be administered by state and local boards which are being set up by the Office of Price Administration. After Jan. =, would-be tire purchasers will have to convince those boards that they fall within an “eligible list” group, to be announced later by Mr. Henderson, before they can receive a card entitling them to a tire. Monthly tire sales quotas will be determined by the Government on the basis of the amounts of crude rubber which can be used in the production of new tires. Some production of new truck tires will be itted.

The rationing plan also would fixy

prices for new tires, control sales of retreaded tires and the retreading of tires, and carry with it all legal sanctions possessed by the OPM'S priorities division for strict enforcement. In Hartford, Conn, W., Mark Hickey, president of the National Association of Independent Tire Dealers, said the proposal to ration “recap” rubber would force about one-half of the nation’s automobiles off the road by next spring. He added that the rationing of new tires would cut 1942 production to less than 20 per cent of this year’s figures.

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ing Germans, on our way to the front. These defenses were the only remaining sign of the terrible threat from which the Red Army had saved the capital. : Civilian life appeared to be normal. Trolleys and buses Sunping through the suburbs were crowd and there were few uniforms to be seen. Up the Leningrad highway railroad stations, bridges and buildings were intact, silently denying German claims of damage by air raids. Nor, on the way to the front under a brilliant sun, was there any sign of German planes. Outside the outer fortifications we began to come to an occasional shelled cottage, its windows blown in, and vehicles wrecked in recent operations. I saw peasant women, carrying milk bottles, trudging along the road, carefully rounding the wooden poles, buried in the snow, which carried the legend “Opasno Miny”’— Danger! Mines!” Twenty-five miles northwest of Moscow we saw the first signs of

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But when Gen. Vlasov stormed the town, flanking the Germans from north and south, the Germans, Austrians and Finns who made up the garrison had not finished their burials. They left their wounded and much war material also. The Red Army men buried the dead, tended the wounded and collected the war material. We stood in the middle of the

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street, encircled by women, chil dren and soldiers who proudly displayed war trophies and showered us with gifts of German bayonets, shells and gas masks. “See our clothes,” exclaimed a non =~ commissioned officer with peasant simplicity. He asked us to touch his warm felt boots and fur cap, and, unbuttoning his sheepskin jacket, showed us his woolen shirt and flannel underwear. “The Germans are flimsily dressed,” he said. “They can’t stand our Russian winter.” As we watched, groups of women and children emerged from hiding places® in the woods and streamed toward town, hugging bundles and blankets. They found their homes stripped of all foodstocks and wearing apparel. Many of those who had not managed to flee said that the poorly clad and poorly shod Germans took fur coats and felt boots from civilians they met on the streets in sub-zero weather. Elisavera Anisenko, a 67-year-old housewife, showed me a blanke, which a German sergeant stole from" her but abandoned in his flight. § “He ran for dear life when our troops came back,” she said.

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