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

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Natives Use Bolo Knives to Fight Off Invaders in Luzon.

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regidor, the most strongly fortified point in the Philippines, about miles out from.she capital. The anti-aircraft fire was particularly strong in the Corregidor area and huge white puffs could be seen in the sky over the fortress. Previously, the Japanese had raided populous Iloilo on Panay Island and had attacked military establishments at Tarlac, 50 miles north of Manila. Lieut. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commanding the combined forces, announced today that the death penalty would be imposed on persons who entered closell Japanese establishments or ‘took anything from them without permission. Refugees, streaming into Manila disclosed that hundreds of Filipino civilians, armed only knives and sharpened bamboo poles, had charged into Japanese rifle and machine gun fire beside United States and Philippine troops to hold off the invaders in southern Luzon. Using such weapons as they had in their homes and fields, witnesses said, the Filipinos fought furiously, running into the Japanese bayonet lin 16s, to enable their women and children to escape to safety in the] interior.

Sheot Non-Combatants

A woman refugee arriving from | the area, said hundreds of women

and children fled from Legaspi, the

southern invasion center, because Japanese soldiers were shooting ali non-combatants who refused to *“‘cooperate.” A dispatch to the newspaper Tribune from Baguio, in the north,

gave a vivid description of the Jap- |

anese landing at Vigan, on the west coast. Delfin La Chica, a bus agent who | escaped with his wife, told the story. At least seven Japanese transports took part in the landing oper-| ations, La Chica said.

Filipino soldiers, heavily outnum-|

bered, attacked the Japanese at] nce, La Chica said, and fought until they were encircled. Then they fought their way through! the Japanese lines and escaped Another refugee said that the Japanese found Vigan almost de-!

serte dexcept for its little group of |

serted except for its little group of He described United States planes ttacking Japanese transports and | ov d he saw three of the transports!

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JAPS SUPERIOR IN FAR PACIFIC

Enemy Army Also Strong, Knox Warns in Address At Annapolis.

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where most of the sea fighting will be done.”

Final Victory Promised

Mr. Knox did not elaborate on his statement of Japan's naval superiority in the Western Pacific, but it was assumed he meant in the area west of Ha probably in the vicinity of the Philippines where this country’s Asigtic fleet is based. The United States fleet is divided into three units—the Atlantic, Pacific and Asiatic fleets.

While in its immediate effects and nearby results the attack on Pearl Harbor was a successful engagement for the Japanese, nevertheless, Mr. Knox said, “in its longtime effects and its ultimate results it will surely contribute to our certain victory”; Japan's treachery “A more damning account of infamous treachery was never recorded in the history of the world,” he said.

turning from a flight to Bantangas Field. i The youth, who led a daredevil squadron of six Filipino pilots in | erstwhile training planes who took on 54 Japanese air raiders last Friday over Bantangas and shot down two, said today he “got so | | mad” he forgot to be scared.

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SOUGHT PROFIT IN SHIP FIRM--MHALE

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| for $687,000 for fees for his services. Unlike Tommy Corcoran, who also | appears and disappears in the Em{pire picture, Mr. West is not a lawyer. Mr. Cohen testified that Mr. Mec{Hale has been his lawyer for five or six years. This Mr. McHale t| readily admitted, pointing out that {he handled the transfer of the Re{serve Loan Life Insurance Co. from | © | Indianapolis to Dallas, Tex., for Mi. | Cohen. | The Senators brought out that Mr. Cohen has been mixed up with life insurance companies, state insurance commissioners, courts and {the like for many years. At one {point he was asked if he ever was {connected with any business which

“But we ought to have been on our guard against treachery. If we had studied Japan's record in the war with Russia when, in a similar manner, they descended upon the! | Russian “fleet at a moment when | those two nations were still at peace land destroyed that fleet without warning—if we had studied that and remembered that, we would not have been surprised.”

Battle of Philosophies

He told the midshipmen, virtually all of whom received commissions today in the Navy or Marine Corps, that millions of young men would like to be in their places.

“You are about to enter a world battle not merely of men and ships and airplanes but of ideals, philosophies and economic system.” he said. “Our enemies proclaim the virtues of so-called superior races with a mystical right to oppress all the other peoples of the earth. We fight for a world where every race and every nation will have an equal chance to grow and prosper. “They proclaim war as the ultimate function of man. We see war as a horrible necessity, to be resorted to only when all else has failed.” Calls Roll of Allies

The things which “we are fighting for—and what we are fighting

Moose Women Mark Yule

Left to right—Mrs. Edna Mershon, Miss Katherine Smith and Mrs. Frances Wiebke.

The Women of the Moose held Ine Asadeimy of ISriendsiup. Miss {ure their annual Christmas last Smith was presen a huge night in the Moose oS Jerky Santa Claus with electric . eyes.

. Mrs. Mayme Whiting, MooseKatherine Smith, Washington, Blue, Sunshine sister chairman, D. C., grand chancellor of the

were in charge of entertainment. Women of the Moose, and Mrs. = Mrs. Edna Mershon is grand Frances Wiebke, grand dean of

SEND GERMAN STAFF, TO WHITE SULPHUR =<

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (U. P) ood] The staff of the Hungarian Lega-| The German Embassy staff and tion here. and Hungarian consuls |W German news correspondents havelalso will be concentrated at White | been removed to White Sulphur|Sulphur Springs. Springs, W. Va., fashionable resort,] Japanese consul ar staffs from pending completion of arrangements | throughout the United States will for their departure from this| be concentrated at Hot Springs, Va country, the State Department an- The Japanese Empassy is remain. nounced today. | ing in Washington for the time The treatment accorded the Ger-| being.

mans is similar toghat given Ameri-, ican embassy officials and American | {correspondents in Germany, who | © havé been concentrated in Bad Nau-,

| |German lines oft the Moscow-Len-|ingrad railway).

RUSSIAN SMASH STAGGERS NAZIS:

New Push West of Novo : Sends Invaders Back on Napoleon Road. *

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The Germans were said to have five divisions (about 75,000 men) in the Mozhaisk area, 60 miles west of Moscow, and to have moved up

another infantry division and one motorized division as reinforcements. (London dispatches said that the Germans still were falling back toward Kaluga, west of Tula, on the front south of Moscow; that more than 400 villages had been captured on the southern front and that fighting was surging into the Kharkov area. In the north’ the Russlans were reported strongly attacking and driving back Finnish

SE Abustuctiits 0 Vo nor and south had broken the enemy lines German armies

por hea Boag gl s on rman right and left flanks. . Hundreds upon hundreds of villages, and some big towns, had been retaken. | The Russians were threatening! Voklhov, on the Deningrad front, | and Kharkov, the great Ukrainian industrial center on the far south-| estern front. | Today's first war communique announced the recapture of Alexine,|

|20 miles northwest of Tula on the

front south of Moscow, in a fight which cost the Germans 1000 men. In the ‘Tula area generally the! Russians were now retaking coal mine regions, vitally' important. ‘The communique announced the Va. recapture within the last 2¢ hours of 24 towns and villages on the west-Moscow front. and the wiping out of a complete German bat

talion of 1000 men in one fight. The Russians were advancing on all fronts. The reports of destruction of hundreds of trucks was es as

how | an planes Wer Were en the “rear, impeding the retreat, As the Russians advance ‘on the Moscow front they were rebpening many secondary roads fanning out

from the Moscow area.

The British padio. heard. by the

United Press York, reported that in ea, Russian guerrillas were hag at the Ger-

man rear at every opportunity and had destroyed the only coal mine ¥

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in the Crimea, along with a reserve dump containing 5000 tons of coal Reporting also that the fierce Russian drive continued along the Finnish front, the radio said there were signs that the Germans would withdraw their men from that front and the Finns were increasingly anxious. If the Germans are withdrawing troops from the Eastern front—as is generally supposed—for new tace tical operations elsewhere, force: from Finland may be being sent t. Norway for possible employment in such a move as an attempt to seizg

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against” are our greatest assets, he said, and ‘“victory—eventually and inevitably—will be ours.” In addi-

nm lames failed or gone through bankBy the second day the whole hades alla ed in a highcoast was lined with Japanese|pitched, but somewhat pleading ; warships and transports, the wit-|voice, that that sort of thing was tion, he continued we have the na-

ness said, and-at least two aireraft|“ynfair.” | tons and peoples who are with us carriers lay outside. Claiming that Mr. Cohen is an| {in this world baitle. He called that |able promoter, Mr. McHale said Toil: {that he has a Ph. D and at one! The British commonwealth of |time taught economics at Columbia nations—“a ,mighty union of de- | University. mocracies, rich in resources, rich

PROMOTES MacARTHUR WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (U. P.).—

Give Him Comfort This Christmas FOR the Home This Christmas

President Roosevelt - today sent to| the Senate the nomination of Lieut. | Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur, com-| mander of the United States Far Eastern command, to the rank of] full general. Gen. MacArthur is di-| recting the brave resistance of

American and Filipino troops in the!

Philippines. STATE PUBLISHER DIES COLUMBUS, Ind. Dec. 19 (U. P).| —Michael A. Locke, 74, veteran newspaperman, died here today. He published the Columbus Daily Herald for 49 years. He was active in Democratic politics,

Mr. McHale came here with HerJ. Patrick, his associate, to {plead the case of the Universal Car} 1} loading & Distributing Co., Inc., |fore the Commissioner of Infernal Revenue. “I didn't come down for the Senate hearing,” he said. “But I have read a transcript for the testimony, just to see what they were saying {about me.” Mr. McHale left for New York {today where he will visit Mrs Me|Hale, who is confined to a hospital there. with a spinal ailment. He appeared entirely unruffled by the Senate investigation.

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in production facilities, rich in fighting tradition and the will to win.” = The republic of China—' hundred million people, united a determinaiton to control their own destinies.” The Soviet Union—“a great Stay people . . . fighting a heroic battle to drive the German invaders back.” Numerous smaller nations—“our sister republics of the Americas and the gallant governments in exile.”

List Millions on Our Side

“There are many, many millions whom only the threat of the firing squad or the gallows keeps from open ellegiancé Yo our cause,” he said. “Brave burghers of Holland. Sturdy fishermen of Norway. Workers of Belgium. Frenchmen who have not forgotten Valmy-—dr Verdun. Greek shepherds in their hills, Czech craftsmen. And the Serbs and Albanians whose valor already has created a new front, in the heart of conquered

- {kong indicated that the British gar-

“las an example of heroism and

Addressing the graduates directly he concluded: “Your comrades at Pearl Harbor have shown that they were physically ready when their hour of trial arrived. It will be your task to emulate their achievements. . . . “When the full story is told, Pearl Harbor will be permanently enshrined in our national traditi

votion to duty. I was never prouder of the fighting qualities of our Navy than during my recent wisit to “There are names which are fragrant in our memories we think American fighting spirit. Valley Forge and Belleau Wood. Bunker Hill and Mobile Bay, Gettysburg and Chateau Thierry. “Today we have a new pearl to add to the rosary of memory: Pearl Harbor.” :

TOKYO ANNOUNCES FALL OF HONGKONG

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are being Pursueq everywhere on the island,” y headquarters asserted. Japanese government sources called the Australian-Netherlands occupation of the end of Timor island ° example of flagrant violation of the neutrality of weaker countries.”

British Say Garrison Still Is Resisting

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