Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1942 — Page 2

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Roosevelt Aid Succeeds Rear Admiral Willson at Naval Academy.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U. BP). -Rear Admiral John Reginald Beardall, President Roosevelt's Naval aid, was ordered to duty by the Navy today as superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis Capt. John Livingston McCrea relieved Beardall as Naval aid to the} President. McCrea has been aid] | to Admiral H. R. Stark, Chief of] | Naval Operations Beardall succeeds Rear Admiral Russell Willson. who now is Chief of Staff of Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet.

LEGION STUDIES DEFENSE A special invitation has been issued to defense committees of various American Legion Posts to ate tend the monthly meeting of the 12th District at 8 p. m. Thursday at 119 E Ohio St.

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Eye Witness

“Everyone was very csim--I didn't Z | see one case of hysteries!” Every account seems to bear out

the bravery of Americans under fire at Pearl Harbor, just as does that told by Mrs William A. Sandy, who arrived in Indianapolis Sunday from Hawaii with her children, Jacqueline, 7, and Billy, 5. Mrs. Sandy, the wife of Maj. William A. Sandy, a flight surgeon at Wheeler Field, on the island of Oahu. will stay with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W, H. Minter, 3227 Park Ave. for the duration of the war, “It all happened so quickly, and we were used to seeing planes around anyway,” she said of the Japanese raid. “Then we heard the bombs and guns, and knew something was happening. “I was so stunned that I wasn’ afraid. The children took it very calmly. Everyone was calm; there wasn't & case of hysterics, even among the children.” The officers’ wives and children stayed in their quarters at Wheeler Field until 8 p. m.—about 12 hours— then were moved in busses and trucks to Honolulu. They spent that night on a schoolhouse floor and the next day were assigned to homes. “I'd like to pay tribute to the Hawaiians,” Mrs. Sandy said, “they were so helpful and wanted so much

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BATTLE RAGING NEAR KHARKOV

Fierce Fighting Reported; Reds Push On Fast In Crimea.

. LONDON, Jan. 8 (U. P) Rus sia’s southern army has opened a major offensive against Kharkov, great industrial center of the Donets River basin. . Moscow announced that the Red Army had swept 45 miles rons al Kerch Peninsula in the Crimea. An official Russian broadeast heard today by the United Press in London

Sea of Agov, north of Feodocsiya, thus consolidating their reconquest of the peninsula. Unofficial dispatches reported a | ferocious big-scale battle within 30 miles of Kharkov between the army of - Marshal Semyon. Timoshenko, which first turned the tide against the Germans by retazing Rostov on Don, and the once triumphant army of Feld Marshal Walter Von Reichenau. Stockholm reports said there were indications that the Germans were preparing to retreat from Kharkov

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Hospital for the Insane from 1936 {to 1980, when he was called to acitive duty with the medical Corps at {Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill. | He was stationed there until 10 months ago when he was ordered to Hawaii, Mrs. Sandy doesn't worry so much about him, but she's mighty glad to be home with the children. i “I feel that he's big enough to take care of himself, but my, I'm glad to get the children home!” she | said. | Mrs. Sandy attended Technical High Schoo! and the City Hospital | Nursing School. i

PLOT TO STEAL TIRES SUSPECTED, 4 HELD

Four men faced vagrancy charges today pending a police investigation of the attempted theft of automobile tires from a parking lot in B Washington St, 500 block, ‘last night. Howard Eglof, 922 Bugene St, a merchant policeman, captured a 33-year-old man as he ran through the lot where new cars, the property of Superior Chevrolet Co, 552 E Washington St, were parked. Mr. Eglof told officers the man was carrying a tire wrench and that two other men jumped into a car and drove away. Investigation showed that the tire and wheel of one new car was missing and that a wheel of another had been tampered with. After police arrested the man, two

other men later came to Headquarters to inquire about him and were also placed under arrest. The fourth man was captured in a downtown hotel. Detectives said all four were being held as suspects in tire stealing, inspired, they said, because of the quota recently placed on tires by the Government.

WOMEN TO GET JOBS

WASHINGTON, Jan, 6 (U.P) — Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey said in a radio address last night that “a gradual, but econstant” substitution of women work-

before the hammer blows of the Russains who had $wept down suddenly from the area between Kursk and the Don River.

Retreat. From Kharkov

Successful development of the Russian drive would be a threat to the entire German position in the south. Freeing of Kharkov would leave only Kiev, 250 miles to the west, in German hands among the four big cities of European Russia. A dispatch to the Russian army newspaper Red Star reported that shock troops under Lieut. Gen. V.N. Lvov had dislodged the Germans from almost the whole of the vital Kerch Peninsula, at the eastern end of the Crimea, by a 45-mile advance in 48 hours. Axis reports indicated that Ger-| man, Italian and Rumanian troops were attacking Sevastopol, the naval base on the southwest corner

aggry in a desperate attempt to capture it position.

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of the Crimea, with intensified sav-

Ski Troops Active

Last week the Russians an-| nounced the capture of Feodosiya,! only 95 miles from Sevastopol, and it was indicated that their present line was substantially nearer, Kuibyshev dispatches noted that in capturing Koeelsk, 130 miles south of Moscow on the southcentral Moscow front, the Russians had freed the first town inside the Smolensk administrative district. It is at Smolensk that Adolf Hitler is reported to have established headquarters. On the Moscow front, advanced Russian shock troops on skis and horseback had been sent to dislodge the Germans holding Moshaisk. Dispatches indicated the Russians had pushed considerably beyond Mozhaisk, leaving more than 100,000 Germans in what threatened to be their death trap. Russian armored forces and heavy artillery had been massed in the Maloyaro Slavets-Borovsk sector to the south for the kill, it was reported, while Russian big guns opened & bombardment on the Germans.

ALL TIRES ON PARKED AUTO ARE PUNCTURED

John Barton, 1618 N, ‘Delaware

POLIS ; a wma a. « Losing Race With Police C Eric Dodge, 18, paid $30" in Mu= of North Side alleys for two hours,

{ nicipal Court today for finding out [they still’ couldn't catch him. : rgd police —- catch his joy] AS first, they thought they were on the trail of a bandit, reported model auto. to be fleeing in an auto of the same He found it out in the early model.

morning hours of Dec. 9 after he| “Why, you were playing cops and whizzed past a police cruiser to in- robbers,” Judge John L. Niblack observed. vite a chase. Patrolmen John Foran “Yeah, I was playin’ with the and Wilbert Gruner chased him all

police,” Eric said with a grin. “I right, and after breezing in and out (didn’t think they could catch me.”

osts Youthful “The big tail light on his car saved him from being shot,” Patrolman Foran declared. “The bandit car was supposed to have a small tail light.” A former dirt track race driver, Patrolman John Jones, joined the chase. And Patrolman Jones won \another race. He pushed Eric Dodge's pride and joy to the curb at 3100 College Ave.

Motorist $20

Besides fining the youth $10 and

TES! 94% costs, Judge Niblack also suspended

his driving license for 60 days. Dodge lives at 2220 Lentral Ave.

WEAR MOSQUITO MASKS SINGAPORE, Jan, 8 (U.P.)~— Imperial forces battling the Jap-

anese in the jungles today wore mosquito masks in the steamy Mangrove swamps and mudflats along both the Bernam and Perak Rivers.

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PROMOTE FRANKLIN JR.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U.P). Franklin D, Roosevelt Jr., the President’s son, has been promoted from Ensign to Lieutenant, J. G., the Navy said today. He is a member of the Naval Reserve and has been

had ‘punctured all four tires on his Car.

SINGAPORE SAVES WATER

SINGAPORE, Jan. 8 (U. P) —Authorities on Singapore Island have requested the utmost economy in the use of water, even for baths, and the washing of vehicles, was pro-

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War Moves Today

By LOUIS KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

The increasing Japanese threat in Malaya brings into focus the immediate problem of the Allies in the! Western Pacific—the urgent need to defend Singapore at all costs, | The time element is vital. The Japanese are rac-

themselves in the great British naval

station, last major allied base in the Far East, before énemy reinforcements can arrive.

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cated by the necessity of guarding the Burma Road, China's life-line of supply, and the gateway to India. Burma extends a slender finger all along the border of Japaneseheld Thailand down into the Malaya Peninsula. It would be possible, with sufficient forces, for the British to drive from southern Burma aeross the neck of the peninsula to Bangkok, thus cutting the Japanese landward communications. However, a full British concentration in southern Burma would leave the northern area subject to & Japanese counter-attack from Indo-China towards Mandalay and the Burma Road. The Chinese, nevertheless, are not only pouring into Burma but are reported to be massing across the border in Yunnan (Kunming) province of South China. This sug gests preparations to guard the northern flank while the attempt to

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