Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1941 — Page 3

———

B

a mc

BLOW

OF WAKE BATTLE

Stirring Details of How 400 How 400 Marines Stood Off Jap

Fleet, 200 Planes and Invasion Army in Historic 14-Day Fight.

By FRANK TREM

A Press St

HONOLULU, Dee. 20.-The Navy deseribed. today | how 400 United States marines on Wake Island, with - four planes and a few guns, stood off for 14 days a Japanese fleet, more than 200 Japanese planes and a Japanese invasion pq

army.

On the last day, Dee. 22, Japanese v warships of all types, o

ers, armed with ineendidry-shell cannon. Eight of the Marine planes were being serviced, the other four

their guns blazing, closed in, ! their troop transports close : behind, and Japanese planes

1 swarmed over the island. : The two Marine planes remaining © went up, the Marine gunners and . infantrymen took their posts, and ' the garrison radioed: } “Issue in doubt.” ! Poth Marine planes were shot down after shooting down several . Japanese planes. The ground guns » grew hot as the Marines fired, but : the issue was no longer in doubt.

: Victory Is Costly

The last radio came, that the . Japanese had landed troops from ' géveral ships and that the transports were starting to move in. ; Nothing has been heard since but the jubilant Japanese announcements of their victory. Their victory over a handful of men cost them a cruiser, three destroyers and a submarine disabled or sunk, a transport badly damaged, many planes destroyed and * yheounted men killed or wounded. The first attack was made on © Wake Island at almost the moment Pearl Harbor here was attacked. Wake, however, is across the international dateline in the Far Pacific, . and it was Monday instead of Sun- . day morning there.

Splinter Island Defenses

five days before the end, practically every defense work on the island had been damaged or destroyed. In ite statement of the fight the Navy said: “Official reports indicate that probably no military foree in Amerfean history, not even the defenders . of the Alamo, ever fought against ' greater odds or with greater effect in view of those odds.” As many as 40 planes at a time, some of them great four-motorea fiving boats, attacked the island. Eight Marine planes were de- , stroyed in the sneak attack of Dec. ' 8. Another was lost soon afterward. Two more were lost Dee. 14 but one was patched up during the night, At no time did the Marines have more than four planes in action, and these had to be patched in darkness. During the closing days there were two planes.

25 in Firet Raid

Twenty-five men were killed and many wounded in the first raid. For three days the Japanese cone tented themselves with aerial attack. On the fourth day, they attacked with a fleet, and the Marine guns sank a light cruiser and a destroyer and shot down six planes. The Japanese were using landLhased as well as aircraft carrier lanes, the four-motored bombers,

Two-motored bombers and swarms) of fighters. 1% was believed the lend |

planes might hase been based on the Japanese mandated islands, southward. There were Ss many Japanese planes in the final attack that they could net be counted. When the two

remaining Marine planes went

down, the Japanese closed in, laying down a barrage behind whieh came thelr landing troops,

Fight Until the End

“Even in the final phase, the battories blasted away te great effect,” the Mavy sald. “The last phrase of the last message was the statement that two more enemy des stroyers had been disabled.” Dispatches sent from the island during the 1d.day stand said that after their first treacherous attack the Japanese gave up low-altitude bombing and machine gunning for high level atvacks. The first attack was made by be-

AINE Stat Correspondent

i ¥ 3 he re NR 12500 LANGUAGE |

TEACHERS HERE

Whether to to Dron Cultural

Subjects During War Convention Topic.

teachers from over the country

topie this year's Te hs according to Johnson, chairman

were in the air. The eight planes aground were

and the Marines’ gasoline was safe though that of Pan-American Airways was destroyed. There Were two raids next day; on the next came an at by the Japanese fleet, which shells ontp the island while the planes bombed again, in waves. It was then that the Japanese lost a eru-| iser and a destroyer. Transports were sighted, but they cautiously did not try to approach shore with thelr escore of cruisers and destroyers. Later that day 18 more Japanese planes raided. The Marines had three planes left. At dawn Dee. 11 a four-motored bomber flew over, and the Marine fliers downed it. The convoy reappeared. The three United States planes attacked the whole fleet, severely damaged one vessel and sank a submarine.

Alr Attacks ih Waves

There was a lull until Dee. 13, when a great force of Japanese planes attacked by early morning moonight., Anti-aircraft guns held them too high for effective bombing. Next day nearly 50 bombers attacked in waves. Guns and planes downed three and damaged others. One Marine plane was destroyed aground; one was damaged but landed safe. “The Japanese used incendiary bullets and bombs in this raid and caused heavy damage” the Navy |® said. “By pattern bombing they were able to cover much of the area with such a large number of planes.” The Marines patched up one plane overnight, despite the blackout and their wrecked repair shops. No Great Risk in ‘Kil

Dee. 16, 25 bombers attacked. Twenty-five more attacked the next night. By that time almost everything on the island was damaged. The storehouse, with spare parts and other material, burned and the machine shop and blacksmith shop were demolished.

maining buildings with heavy bombs, There was no raid on the 18th. On Dee. 20 dive bombers attacked. There was a lull next day and then the Japanese returned, at no great risk, for the kill

WILLKIE TO ADDRESS BEEFSTEAK DINNER

Wendell ©. Willkie will be in Ine ldianapolis tomorrow to discuss are rangements for delivering the main [speech at the Columbia Clubs ans nual Beefsteak Dinner, Benjamin N. Bogue, club president, said today. Mr. Willkie is expected to drive

i

hig wifes mother, Mis. Phil Wilk, and then to board a train for New York.

54th annual dinner will depend on Mr. Willkie's convenience. The dine ner, always an occasion for an important pronouncement by a nation. ally prominent Republican, is usual Iy given in February or March,

TAG STATION LOCATED

The Official auto license station sponsored by the American Legion will be at the Sears Roebuck & Co. Super-Service Station, 402 N. Ala-

tween 20 and 30 two-motored bomb-| bama Bt, it was announced YoAY:

destroyed by bomb or fire, but the field though damaged was usable

Dec. 18 a heavy force of bombers) [ attacked. They damaged the re-|

from Rushville, where he is visiting

The date of the Columbia Club's

subjects. Prefers Cold Reason Prof. Johnson, who is executive

chairman of the College Engiish said “it is important

tain their interest in emotional education, since it is emotion, rather than cold reason, tha us into and out of war “This morning's headlines Was case in point,” Prof. Johnson “We are. promising aid Philippines. Now, I have no criticize this action; it is mirable one, but in the cold reason, it's tactically safeguard the possible expense of Sgapore” He said also that although a long series of learned debates preceded the Civil War, it took “a badly written novel” Harriet Beecher Stowe's “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” to start the war. Bible of Democracy Urged

At a meeting yesterday of the Col lege English Association in the Claypool Hotel, Dr. George F. Reynolds, of the University of Colorado, proposed that a Bible of Democracy be complied, something that could be compared to “Mein Kampf.” The importance of a knowledge of foreign languages in present-day military efforts was pointed yesterday of Dr. Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of Columbian College and professor of romance languages at George Washington University,

Navy to Use Spanish Book

In explanation, Dr. Doyle today exhibited a book, “Conversational Spanish for Army Aly Forces of the United States” by Solomon Lipp and Henry Besto, which has been in use in Army air schools since June, The book, which will shortly be used also by the Navy, provides a simple grammar and dictionary for modern Spanish, so that filers forced down or working with South American armies may be able to converse, “When the German: moved into Greece last year,” said Dr. Doyle, “they ‘could speak modern Greek,| and I think you'll agree it wag a tremendous help to them.”

of Babel today, as 2500 language] |

moved in, to register with their| |

favor of more immediately practical

Association, that the teachers of American re}

a

Ipoh reported today by Tokyo,

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Hollywood Correspondent HOLLYWOOD, Dee. 20.-<Seven-teen-year<old Gloria Vanderbilt, who inherits $4,000,000 of the Van= derbilt fortune when she is 21, and

her 32-year-old husband, Pasquale J. Di Gieco Jr, son of Long Island’s broecoll king, were headed for Mex-« ico today for their honeymoon. Miss Vanderbilt, whose childhood provided reading matter for millions ag a sensational custody suit over Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt's fit ness as a mother bounced in and out of the courts, and her Hollywood man-about-town were married yesterday noon in the Santa Barbara Misgion. They wil! return from the Mexi« can honeymoon, Di Ciceo ane nounced, to settle down here, where he is an actor's agent, having fore saken his career as a stage dancer. The new Mrs. Di Cleco will receive $750 a month until she comes into her millions. Under California's inflexible law, she undoubtedly will be a school= girl bride, The law demands reading, writing and arithmetic for all children, married or single, wealthy or poor, until they are 18. The custody battles seemed to be a by-gone well forgotten during the ial and post-nuptials. Mrs.

Gloria Vanderbilt Becomes Bride of Broccoli King's Son

H. H. Morgan, the bride's grandmother, who had been mutually silent and cold-shouldered in recent years, appeared on cordial terms. They occupied the same pew. Lady Thelma Furness, the bride's aunt, who once had custody of the bride on court order, held a reseption at her Beverly Hills home after the ceremony. Across the aisle from the Vane derbilts and Morgans sat Di Cloco'’s aged mother who came from her husband's truek farm for the ceremony. Once before she came West for her son's marriage, when he wed the late Thelma Todd, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning under mysterious circumstances in 1035, a few months after divorcing Di Cieco. The bride, described by the soolety editors as “radiant” wore white satin in colonial style. Her train whipped into her face and displayed her petticoats when she posed for photographers after the ceremony. The wedding party drove to Beverly Hills in a parade of automobiles containing relatives, movie ac tors and one Prince, bogus, name of Mike Romanoff, Shirley Cowan maid of hon or, Bruce Cabot, the movie actor who has spent much of his time in the New York hot spots, was best

Vanderbilt, the mother, and Mrs.

man, {

Reward

Local Man Offers $100 Bonus to Bomber Of Tokyo.

WALTER ST. CLAIR, 830 Fair field Ave, has joined scores of others in offering a bonus to the first American filer to bomb Tokyo. He will give him a $100 defense bond, Several men and women have telephoned Mr. 8t. Clair offering to raise the bond prize to several hundred dollars. “I'm getting plenty sore about the bombing of Manila,” Mr. St. Clair said, “and I want to give the Japs something to really be ‘so

gory’ about.” A retired attorney, Mr. St. Clair rates several farms in Boone, ricks and Marion counties and is one of the largest producers of popeorn in Indiana. A former Army officer in the last war, Mr. 8t. Clair doubts we can bomb Tokyo now, but he is counting on American bombers and in the Duteh Bast Ine dies Russia to tackle the job soon,

WASHINGTON, Dee. 20 (U, P), ~The Declaration of Independence and the Oonstitution today are stored side by side with the British Magna Oarta in a secret pombproof repository for the duration of the war, Removal of these documents from the Library of Congress was the first of a series of evacuations which will see the nation's cul tural, historical and scientific possessions of intrinsic value going “underground” for protection against the possibility of bomb

ing. Officials said many prized pieces of art still will be on display for tourists visiting the National Gallery of Art and other build

ings. Great Britain originally moved its valuable paintings and other works of art out of museums, but then reversed the procedure to “boost” the morale of the citi« genry who sought solace from the horrors of bombing by gazing at | the works of the masters,

IN INDIANAPOLIS—VITAL STATISTICS

Here Is the Traffic Record),

County City Told w 60 83 BARRA ANS La 84 Det, Wee Accidents. ... 51 | Arrests....... 284

‘AAR E SRAARARAS

SATURDAY TRAFFIC COURT

‘1948 1841

SRRARRRANS

Cases OConvie« Fines

Sl aus wf Size. . 82

A SG et

GEIL SW A

ng

oh hy fancheon, Claypool Hotel,

mA Ed Rt

i it of SE

PE eli SE TO

J ARMA SHE Wr on [}

at 333¢ N. Ilinols, at Coleman, oar

EE

J. Watters, 61,

that Prime | Churchill had sent Stalin an invie

at ees Si y tuberous |X

at City, ear <

Independence Declaration, Magna Carta Moved to Vault

The Magna Carta was shipped to New York from London for the New York World's Fair, President Roosevelt recently named a “committee o' conservation of cultural resources” in whose care were placed $50,000,000 worth of objects in the National Gallery of Art, $70,000,000 worth of books and other materials in the Library of Congress, invaluable records of the national archives, and millions of dollars worth of materials, normally

protec from bomb fragments and ine cendiary projectiles.

REPORT STALIN INVITED WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U, P).

ry-Go-Round, said last night in a radio broadcast that Soviet Premier Josef Stalin has been invited to visit the United States. They also said Minister Winston

tation to stop off in London.

OFFICIAL. WEATHER

——— 8. Weather Burst} INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST--Cloudy to partly cloudy and continued oold this afternoon and tonight; lowest temperature tonight about 18, 5

Sunrise ..... 7:07 | Sunset ooooo 98

waDee. 29, 1048 tam. ....... 8 1 Po Miia, #1

Precipitation 24 hrs, ending Ya. mm... 00 Total precipitation since Jan, 1...... 20.08 Deficiency sinee Jan, 1....c.oviviie +. 10.87

SRsRes at at RERe Dy eedacgrrtssans i SHANA ENB EARN B RRS SAAR ARLMNET REBAR Er tae — SANRARRIRANSI IRR any Hn SARE RAN Rr ARRAN SARARARARAE Ana Rann SAAtRataastananans Set RatnNRRN safensscsnnnes Sess tAB IE SRRBBERRR RR SAAB ALRRBRRRRLR IE

SAAR NRNRRERIIRRNR SRA RtRRANERIILS ARAB ANR AEN BARREL BRRB RRR

x Re OR a

SAS ERAEIAS Lass ssanssasanns FRAN SERRE RN Ra DO. CARIN BRR IYS

Spateee thew In he Tor Baits J Spenlitads from the with of Tom aimed af Hisuie, 2 Japanese drives from the south on the Philippine capital. 3. Japanese landings in Saravak, 4. Drives

PLEDGE UPHELD ON U. S. FLEET

Jap Ship Sinking Report Made as ‘MacArthur Strengthens Lines.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U, P.)= The Navy announced today in a communique that U. 8. submarines have sunk a Japanese and a supply vessel and that a U. 8. destroyer suffered slight damage from aerial bombing. Almost simultaneously, a War Department communique said Gen. Douglas MacArthur has consolidated most of his Philippine and American forces northwest of Manila to make the best possible use of available men and material in a

reinforced Japanese invaders. The Navy's disclosure of further successes followed the announcement that the fleet was not “idle” and was following a well-planned campaign for “positive assistance” to the Philippines. So far, American submarines have sunk four Japanese transports, a destroyer, a mine sweeper and a supply vessel and probably another transport and a seaplane tender, Gen, MacArthur has concentrated “the majority of his troops” in Pampanga Province, the Army report said.

The Province is on the northern shore of Manila Bay, its southern boundary is only about 25 miles from the city of Manila, The northern boundary is about 60 miles south of the Gulf of Lingayen, scene of the heaviest Japanese landings.

FORUM TIME CHANGED

Th) Butler University Forum will be held Tuesday, Jan. 6, inrtead of tomorrow night, as had been scheduled,

determined stand against heavily special

Powerful Nippon Station

San Francisco.”

SPECIAL TAG? ADD 50 CENTS

Fees Will Cover Costs of Handling Requests of 12,000 Motorists.

Motorists requesting particular

2 |1942 license plates will have to pay

a fee of 50 cents to cover the costs of handling and mailing the plates, Secretary of State James Tucker said today.

The 50-cent fees, he said, would be turned into the state general fund. Approximately 12,000 motorists have written to the License Bureau offices at the State House requesting plates with particular numbers, most of them corresponding with their house numbers, wedding dates, eto. Told to Add 50 Cents

Motorists requesting special plates are being told by letter to have their applications notarized at their branch offices and then to send in their checks for the amount of the plate, plus 50 cents to cover the cost of handling.

All special plates are being sold from the License Bureau offices at the State House.

The idea of charging 50 cents for the handling of the special plates has been tried for brief intervals during past years but it had never been adopted as a permanent policy. “We think the persons who want plates should have to bear the cost of the extra work required and we intend to make the plan work,” Mr. Tucker said.

Sale Opens Friday

License plates and drivers Ilicenses go on sale at auto license branches throughout the state Friday. There is no change in the price this year as compared to last, Motorists this year, however, must present their personal property tax receipts at the auto license branches in order to get their plates and drivers licenses, This is required by law passed by the '41 legislature, Application blanks for 1942 plates and drivers licenses were mailed to motorists by the License Bureau today.

MISSING IN PACIFIC FT. WAYNE, Ind. Dec. 20 (U. P.). —Larry A. Crabbill, Ft. Wayne, is missing in the battle of the Pacific, according to word received here from the Navy Department by his sister, Mrs. Mildred Gustafson. He hai previously been reported wound-

MEAAA! | HN

ZS

ed In action,

U.S. FIRES BACK IN JAP WAR OF WORDS

Meshes Into American

Broadcast to Flash False ‘Bombing of Frisco’; Seize Alien Short-Wave Radios.

. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29 (U. P.) ~The War of nerves in the Pacific was on today as the Navy announced that a powerful Japanese radio station had interfered with Amerjean international broadcasts to announce the “bombing of

“This was the first evidence of an apparent new propa-

ganda technique by the Jape anese—an effort to create panic by means of the direct lie,” the Navy said. “Actual« ly San Francisco spent a quiet night.” Accompanying the announcement was a Navy warning that listeners should remain alert for enemy ate tempts to confuse them by injecting false reports into American broads casting wavelengths. The Japanese radio operated on the same wavelength as KGET, Gene eral Electric's 50,000-watt internae tional station here. The Sunday ine terruptions were picked up in Manila during KGEI's broadcast directed to the Orient. “Manila listeners,” the Navy ane nounced, “were amazed to hear that the city by the Golden Gate had sustained a bombing attack by ‘a fleet of Japanese planes’ and ‘that

buildings were in flames.’ “Naval intelligence at Manila reported that the regular early morne ing Far Eastern broadcast from . KGEI was cut into three or four times. “Bach time an English-speaking announcer would present a ‘flash’ detailing more news of the ‘San Francisco disaster.’” The United States is well-equipped to participate in the war of nerves. KGEI, designed for ternational foreign-language b: to foster the “good neighbor” policy in South America and the Orient, has been bombarding the Far East with American news to counteract the Japanese and Axis propaganda,

Seize Short Wave Radios

The Government recently ane nounced plans to move another

General Electric transmitter of 100,» 000 watts from Schenectady, N. Y. Short wave listeners on the coast who have picked up the Tokyo radio have been treated to Jape anese propaganda that amuses and sometimes infuriates but has failed yet to alarm, Possibility that unauthorized radio messages also were being ree ceived, and possibly transmitted, on the West Coast was seen in as Government order that all alien Japanese, Italians and Germans in eight western states must sure render their short wave radios and cameras to local police today. The states are California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Arizona. Attorney General Francis Biddle issued the order after apprehene sion was expressed by local avthorie ties concerning espionage and Fifth Column activity along the Pacifio

slope.

STRAUSS SAYS:

Be vig this little sketch with the remark, “If there is anything that will save this fellow from his doom—arouse him and cause him to leap into ee BgRlin the four little words; ‘The Sale is On’. So it's not only a