Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1941 — Page 11

| Dodge Leader |Unburied German Dead Blot Russian Fields

As Retreating Nazis Are Pursued by Reds

(Continued from Page One)

I ema, on our way to the These defenses were the on maining sign of the terrible TOM yiligh We ped Army Had ved he capital. har life appeared to be normal. Trolleys and buses run through the suburbs were ero and there were few uniforms to be

ININITZ HEADS PACIFIC FLEET

Ary: Navy Shakeups in Hawaii Commands. (Continued from Page One)

OUSTED OFFICER] And One Gave His Life BORN IN INDIANA

Martin Was Former Head o Army Air Corps in Hawaii.

total Yarile: utterly ruined villages, in wi peasants, only recturned f hidi you combing the ruins of their homes. All the villages had been bombed

street, encircled by women, chil dren and soldiers who proudly dis § played 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 . Sop, and, unbuttoning his sheepskin jacket, showed us his woolen shirt and flannel underwear.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. —Maj. | Gen. Frederick IL. Martin, who was |

reffeved of his command as chief of | the Army air force in Hawaii, is a Hoosier soldier who won the Distin- | guished Service Medal for preparing 1

the American 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, Imd., Nov. 26, 1882, and commissioned a second lieutenant of Coast Artillery in 1908. He first entered the air arm in 1918

around-the-world

and served in France in the supply section. Returning to the United States] he held several aeronautical |

service posts until 1921. Then he was

desighated 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. POST HERE |

FT. WAYNE, Dec. 18 (U. P)— H. E Fairweather, for the last five | years Ft. Wayne district super-| visor for the mMterstate Commerce | Commission Bureau of Motor Car-| riers, has been transferred to al similar position in dianapolis.| No successor here has been named. |

The Lynch family has been represented in the VU.

Many years, the Pacific J1ast week. Joseph C.

Robert (upper right) was

“kitted

(apper two other brothers, Justin (Tower Teft) and David, recently

enlistment terms in the Navy. = ® 5

One son of an Indianapolis family of sailors was killed in action Juring the attack on Hawaii Dec. 7, according to word received here. He was Robert Lynch, 21, an electricians’ mate and son of Mr. and Mis. Joseph A. Lynch, 1080 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 Dong Beach

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, and David is a “Greyhound oy 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, Danfel and Brian; three sisters, Veronica, Teresa and Gene, and a ndmother, Mrs. J. J. Lynch, of wesville, Wis.

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chief of the U. 8. feet and two high generals in command of Hawaii's land and air defenses. Demotions and Promotions The oustings were described officially at made “in view of” Nm. Knox’ findings on his flying visit of inspection to Pearl Harbor where the assault took a toll of 2807 Army lives, destroyed many planes and sank six American warships, including the 32600-ton bat-

Rid of their commands at A oe hour” were Rear Admiral Fushand. E. Kim-

fleet, who was replaced by Rear Admiral Chester V. Nimitz, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, who was commander of this AEURUYS first submarine flotilla. Nimitz will be jumped two og to a full ad-

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President Roosevelt today nominated Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs to succeed Nimitz, Lieut. Gen. Walter C. Short, commander of the Hawaiian od ment and and air forces, by Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons of | the air corps who visited Great Britain ast summer and upen his retum took a hand in the reorgant ization of the U. 8. air defenses

on the. baste of his study of Nasi

air methods, including establish-

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commanders. Frederick ©. Nrartin,

} i conmatae of the Army air corps)

NC. IL Tinker of the air R | veteran of service in the Philippines, is Who was promoted Bl general (temporary) last year,

Bat Hawaii replaced by Brig. Gen corps, a

to brigadier

Aerial Defense Stressed The selection of Gen. Emmons as

N [commander of the Hawaiian DeQ partment was regarded as of important significance in view of the

vast and destructive role played by

air forces—even against battleships =n the battle of the Pacific.

Military men said that two hardfisted fying fighters will have the

S| defense of Hawali in their hands in | the combination of the 53-year-old R Gen. Emmons and Gen. Tinker.

The removals were carried out in

lightning wartime moves and AG- % mira] Kimmel was instructed to turn

Miover his command bo Vice-Admiral

S| William S. Pye, commander of the

3 battle force and second in command

of the Pacific fleet, 8 arrival of 2 | scene.

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road stations, bridges and buildings were intact, silently denying German claims of damage by air raids. Nor on the way te 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 Beagant women, yin milk bot trudging the road, carefully rounding ious wooden poles, buried in the snow, whieh carried the legend “Opasno Minny” = Danger! Mines!”

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Only Motorists Wt Whose Work Is Classed Essential May Buy New Ones. (Continwed from Page One)

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plies would be guaranteed for the production of fire hose, hot water bottles, syringes, protective clothing, Jar rings, surgeons’ gloves, friction

Defense officials estimated that the United States probably will pro= duce only 30000 tons of synthetie rubber next year. This production, they believe, will be used to replace amounts drawn from § les for military and essential civilian uses.

My. Henderson said that if ne controls over tire sales were inaugurated the nation would be without tires in two months as there are only 8000000 tires In the United Stal and motorists are buying (them at the rate of 4000000 a month. As an interim measure the permanent tire rationing pro m Which becomes effective Jan. he said the OPM soon would extend the ban on new tire sales from Dee. 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, 4 would<be tire purchase eit will have to convince those boards that they fall within an

later by Mr before they a card entitling them to a tire

Nonthly tire sales quotas will be determined by the Government on the basis of the amounts of erude Rube Which ean be uted in the production of new tires. Some the | duction of new truck tires wil be permitted, The rationing plan alse would fi prices for new tires, control sales of

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oy Hartford, Conn, W. Mark Hickey, president of the National Association of ph Tire Dealers, said the proposal to | “yecap” rubber would force about

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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.

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