Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1941 — Page 12
PAGE YY oe iba LAWRENCE CIVILIAN Eh Re m— In The War Zone— DEFENSE ORGANIZED ~ wove em REPORTED SAFE
K. H. Stephens, health; Ernest L.
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Hoosier Admiral
ey __ MONDAY, DEC. 22, 1041 Wounded Stuck by Their Guns on Arizona After Captain Was Killed on Her Bridge
FREES 4 SEIZED
The Lawrence town board has or-| McCoy, William E. Hunter, Ernest
ganized a community civilian de.|Bragdon, H. F. Asbury and | defense; J. T.
Jack Thomas, guard;
fense council and a list of repre. | Staley,
Plummer,
sentatives of civic groups was an- Clell Gibson, Harold Johnson and
nounced. The organization will co-operate| Schaatz, employment; with the Marion County Defense Council directed by Maj. Gen. Rob-
ert H Tyndall. The Rev. Olin E Parrett was named council director
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‘Relatives Receive Messages From Ray Waltman, Sgt. Anderson and Wife.
stationed at Pearl Harbor, has sent word to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Waltman, 822 N. Tux0, Ste tat ne and HIE wiiS ase 1. Mr. Waltman has been in the service for 19 years and from 1936 to 1939 he was a recruiting officer here, Mrs. Waltman wrote to rela-
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‘Sergeant Is Safe
A letter from staff Sergt. David Anderson informed his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, 1246 W. 34th St., that he is safe in Hawaii. Sergt. Anderson is 22, and has been in the service six years, having spent the past year in Hawaii with the Signal Corps,
The sergeant’s sister, Miss Agnes | Anderson, is an nurse at | Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill. He has |a brother, Thomas Anderson, who |lives with his mother. | The War Department today noti- | fied Mrs. Sarah Foreman of Delphi, {Ind., that her grandson, Lee Forejman, 25, is missing in the Pacific | War area.
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Was He Glad He Joined the Navy?
LITTLE FERRY, N. J, Dec. 22
| (U. P.).—Barber Frank Circkirillo
paused as he shaved a customer
today and, the razor resting on the man's throat, remarked: “I know you. You're the man who stole my boat five years | ago.” | The thief who had robbed the | barber and his brother of a boat | and then fought them off with a | knife, had a bad moment. What did the barber do? ! “Oh, I let him go when he | showed me an enlistment for the Navy,” Mr, Circkirillo said. “Now { he'll have a real ship and I hope | he proves himself worthy.”
| DELPHI YOUTH IN NAVY DIES
DELPHI, Ind. Dec. 22 (U. P).— Henry Brookshire, Delphi, was noti-
fied today of the death of his son, Raymond, 19. The Government's {communication stated the youth was asphyxiated by gasoline fumes during naval service in the Atlantic. |The body will be returned to Delphi under military escort.
DUTCH WAR ON ITALY | LONDON, Dec. 22 (U, P)— Netherlands declared war against Italy today.
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Royal E. Ingersoll
LA PORTE, Ind, Dec. 22 (U. P) Citizens of La Porte noted today that Rear Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, the new commander of the United States Atlantic fleet, is a native of La Porte, Admiral Ingersoll maintains a home in La Porte, votes here and customarily spends his regular leave in the city. He is the son of the late Admiral Royal R. Ingersoll of La Porte, who served in the Civil, Spanish-American and first World War. Mrs. Ingersoll is the former Louise Van Harlingen of Riche mond, Ind. Their son is Lieut. Royal Rodney Ingersoll II, who is serving aboard a U. S. warship. Admiral Ingersoll was a U, S. Navy technical expert at the London naval arms conference in 1935-36.
BEESLEY RETURNED 10 TRUSTEE'S POST
VINCENNES, Ind, Dec. 22 (U. P).—1. Grant Beesley, removed from the trustee's office on March 25 when Special Judge Frank E. Gilkeson of Daviess County found him guilty on three of 12 impeachment accusations, was back in office today.
The Supereme Court, on Beesley's appeal, reversed Judge Gilke-
son's ruling, and Ray Sparenberg, former Vincennes policeman who was appointed trustee the day after Bessley was found guilty, turned the office back to him. Attorneys said that, under the Supreme Cuort ruling, Beesley would collect his salary for the time he was out of office.
Army Develops
Wire-Thrower
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U.P). —The Army Signal Corps has developed a wire-thrower to speed up the laying of field communications under actual combat conditions. Wire can be thrown with the new equipment a distance of 125 feet from trucks operating up to 35 miles an hour. An operator controls the distance and slack by varying the speed of the thrower, the War Department said. Formerly, field wire was laid and recovered by soldiers on trucks using power driven reels. The new thrower was designed to meet the faster pace required by mechanized warfare.
NO JUNK_ANY MORE, PRICE CHIEF ASSERTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (U. P.). —There “is no longer such a thing as junk,” Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson said today. Now that the nation is at war, Mr. Henderson said, so-called junk
can be rehabilitated for the production of tanks, bombers and bullets. A pile of old newspapers, he ob-
IN BINGO GAME
Grand Jury, However, Asks Civil Suit to Clear Up Legal Status.
Four men, arrested on gaming charges in a police raid on a bingo game at St. Anthony's Church school Nov, 27, were discharged today by the Marion County Grand
The jury, however, issued a plea to Criminal Court Dewey Myers that a civil suit be filed in the Circuit or Superior courts to determine the status of bingo in Marion County. In its report, the Grand Jury found that there is confusion in the public's mind on the legality of the game. “This confusion seems to have résulted not so much from a misunderstanding of the game laws” the report said, “as from a lack of uniformity and consistency of police officers of the city and county in their application of those laws to the game of Ringo during the last few years.” ‘ Sought Test of Law
The jury said it believed that the four men arrested had conducted the game in the hope that the arrest which they expected would result in 2 Judicial determination of the game's legality, However, the jurors said they felt that although the game is illegal under state gaming laws, the men did not realize the consequences of the criminal indictment and conviction and therefore should not be indicted. Those who were arrested were: Oswald Litzelman, 3455 W. Vermont St; Clifford Pluckebaum, 205 N. Mount St; Louis Pluckebaum, 218 N. Mount St, and George Usher, 2614 W. Washington St,
Confusion Exists
The Grand Jury added in its report that these men were “rendering a public service” in seeking a test case, but that the status of the game should be tested in a civil suit. The jury said it believed that there are sufficient grounds for such a suit, which would clear up the confusion surrounding enforcement of gaming laws relating to bingo.
BANKER'S WIFE DIES SAN MATEO, Cal, Dec. 22 (U. P.). —Mrs. Clorinda Cuneo Giannini, 72, wife of Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder and chairman of the Bank of America, died yesterday.
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Dec. 20 — (Delayed) —(U. P.). ~The Arizona, the American battleship destroyed
in the Japanese sneak attack on Dec. 7, was struck by a torpedo before a bomb dropped into her stack,
survivors said today.
The survivors’ accounts, approved by authorities, reflected naval courage and morale. They told of subordinates carrying on the battle when their captain was killed on the bridge; of gun crews protecting their ammunition with their own bodies; of a Marine remaining at his gun after a comrade had extracted a piece of shrapnel from his back
It was disclosed that two Japanese submarines which managed to enter Pearl Harbor were blasted to the bottom. A senior officer was aboard the hospital ship Solace, preparing for mass when the Japanese attacked. “I saw planes headed toward the battleship row, dropping torpedoes,” he said. “I even saw one headed for my ship, but it hurst into flames. “I was stunned by the horrible~ ness of the thing, but I squared away and went for my own ship. The air was literally filled with planes. I couldn’t understand why many raiders didn’t come down in that blaze of fire from our ships. “I went through a strafing attack as I approached my ship, but I got under cover of the starboard gangway and went up to seek my battle station.
Sees Arizona Hit
“I saw a torpedo hit the Arizona. It was a dead sound, like a big swish of wind going through foliage. Another bomb went down the Arizona's stack. “I believed the flames would reach our ship and suggested that we get underway. We cast off. We cleared the Arizona and a repair ship which was alongside. “Our gun crew shielded ammunition with their own bodies as we moved past the blazing Arizona. As we squared off down the channel, the Japs began dive-bombing. The ship was hit several times and shook while our batteries took the Japs under fire. ; “Then we got a signal not to proceed out of the harbor so we backed our engines and halted at the side of the channel. I saw acts of heroism I'll never forget. “I saw a marine second lieutenant pull a piece of shrapnel out of another marine's back and this marine continued to work his machine gun throughout the attack. A commander who stood on the
hot decks of the Arizona directing the fighting said: “I had just finished breakfast when I heard the alarm over the loud-speaker system, “I went up the passageway with the captain just ahead and we went to the bridge together, The captain, who was on the bridge, groaned and said, ‘I've been hit’ He was hit in the stomach and I saw he was mortally wounded. “Fires had spread. I was cone cerned for the safety of the magazines, so I had the men flood them and then began evacuation of the wounded. “I was anxious to get the captain off the bridge but he emphatically refused. The ship still was subjected to dive-bombing and a high hori-
body was placed in the chart house. These officers discovered they had been cut off from the lower deck by a raging fire, However, they got a line to the bridge of the next ship and went hand-over-hand to the adjoining vessel. “Probably 70 planes attacked us. Dive-bombers pulled out of dives at about 50 feet. Torpedo planes. leveled off at 40 to 50 feet. I saw a few enemy craft burst into flames but I was pretty busy and unable to notice.” A senior medical officer said all the Japanese he saw were dead. He sald he saw 17 bodies.
CAPERTON RITES SET
NEWPORT, R. I, Dec. 22 (U, P.)~Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Rear Admiral Wil.
zontal attack and machine gun strafing. Two officers stayed with the captain throughout the entire engagement until he died and his
yesterday.
liam Banks Caperton, 86, U. 8. N, retired, World War commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, who died
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ZIONSVILLE SOLDIER, FEARED DEAD, LIVES
that he was only slightly bruised in the Japanese attack on Hawaii.
liam G. Stultz, were informed more than a week ago of their son’s death. The air mail special deliv-
postmarked in Hawaii on Dec. 15.
SEASON'S GREETINGS!
It is our desire to wish a MERRY CHRISTMAS to each and everyone of our friends and neighbors for the confidence and good will which the community has
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Reported dead by War Depart-|¥ ment officials, Pvt. Julian C. Stultz has written his parents in Zionsville
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