Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1942 — Page 9
| WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14, 1942
Hoosier Vagabond
SCOTTA, Cal. Jan. 14 Since I have become a dog man, I am easy prev to any and all dog storieg. This one is about a dog named Blondie. Blondie belongs to Stan Murphy, president of the Pacific Lumber Co. As I told you, Murphy is a hunting fiend. It was natural that sooner or later he Te - should have an outstanding dog. ow \ Blondie was that dog. He (yes, ¥ N Blondie is man-dog) has often : sw been referred to as the greatest \ i py hunting dog in California. TR Blondie 1s a setter, Pure white, : except for one black ring around his tail. He loved to “work,” as hunters He was the workingest ever known in this
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|ayv. setter state One day Stan Murphy and Blondie went for a little hunt by themselves, not far from Murphy's mountain lodge. Murphy climbed a high hill and stopped to look i. Down below him Blondie was frozen in a set, if that's the right hunter's word. Murphy's cue of course was to go back down and beat out the bird. But I was just too lazy to lose the altitude I had gained,” Murphy says. So he gave the order for Rlondie to go in after the bird himself.
‘Retrieving’ a Porcupine Finally, after many shouted orders, Blondie did go into the brush, Murphy waited. No bird came out At last he saw the dog come bounding out of the brush, headed uphill. He had something in his mouth. Murphy thought it was a bird, and since it looked all bloody, he was getting ready to give Blondie
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a scolding for “mouthing” 1 And then to his horror he saw that it wasn't a bird all the Blondies head was a solid mass of porcupine quills. Blondie had simply rushed in and dived onto the
porcupine, and the result was nearly fatal.
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Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
TOE TYNAN. Chief Deputy County Recorder, and County Clerk Charles Ettinger are in the midst of a how to displav the flag. Each the chandelier in his office Trnan's flag is suspended the field of stars to the obfollowing the rule for either horizon-
dispute ovel suspended from rules with server's lett. flags “displayed tally or vertically against a wall.” Ettinger placed the field at the right. The rule he followed says: “When displayed over the middle of the street, the flag should be suspended vertically with the union to the north in &n east and west street, to the east in a north ana south street.” Tynan, determined te prove he’s right, tried the hbrary and even place he can think of, but can't find anv rules hanging a flag on a chandelier. Why not erect That would settle it
different
or
has other for a flag pole?
Honolulu Mae
A YEAR-OLD SCOTTY dog that went through the S > 2itack on Hawaii Dec. 7 and then came > alone by boat and train from Honolulu, has taken e with the J. W. Fords at 3951 Broadway. o> is Mac, ana he’s rather lonesome for his and the Fords’ son, First Lieut. J. W. Fora of SQ. Air Corps. Mr. and Mrs. Ford received a rom th son last week saving Mac was on his i Mrs. Ford would follow shortly. Mac arrived ensconced in a traveling cage built like a litIt had his name painted on the door. Mrs. Ford's parents, Mr. and Mis. J. H 302 E. Maple Road. received a letter saying
Ford had decided to stay with her husband
Tans QIrNrice
is’
ell
Sticham, hat Mrs at Hawall So it looks like
Honolulu-born Mac will have to here for the duration, sharing quarters with Lieut. Ford's other pet, Monte Blue, a Pomeranian
ent that will be 17 years old Feb. 18.
Washington
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14 —To those who read between the lines, Secretary Knox, in his address to the Conference of Mavors, answers the nation’s question of the week: Where is the fleet? In a word, the Secretary of the Navy tells us not to expect fullscale naval engagements in the Pacific, or a conclusive showdown with the Japanese Navy, in the near future. That should be sufficient information for our purposes here at home. Of course we all have strong personal curiosity for more details. But of what use would those secret details be except possibly to supplement the information of Japanese intelligence services? For our purposes we know all Our common sense will tell us the We know we have suffered a severe blow in the Pacific. We are told not to expect a full-scale naval assault on Japanese forces in the near future. We know that Japan thus far has advanced rapidly through sea and air superiority. We know that until we can throw large numbers into the southwest Pacific, the Japanese ush probably cannot be stopped Since we are ! to expect a naval attack on Japanese forces, we must look to the air, and must put our effort there.
Job Is Plainly Marked Out
WHAT ELSE DO we need to know here at home? ! The job is plainly marked out. It is to ump planes and more planes and vet more into the Pacific until the Japanese are driven out That job starts here at home Winning this war is going to be the hardest job {his nation ever tackled. There isnt an informed person here who doesn't realize it.
My Day
WASHINGTON, Tuesday —It Is some af us can smilingly take stories in the newspapers, which would have no particular point, unless to make trouble between Government officials. It 1s glso amusing to note statements with great prominence, which either have no truth at all. or which are misinterpretations; while the corrections are carried as inconspicuously as possible. Long ago. I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit. However, when such stories concern some one else, the situation changes. In a news story, carried in a Washington paper vesterday, it was said that I had “lambasted” a certain official. He happens to know exactly what I said, because I said it to him and said §¢ about a situation which I brought to Mr. Knudsen end Mr. Hillman's attention, and of which they were plready cognizant. §
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Thev rushed Blondie to the nearest animal hospital, at Eureka, 40 miles away, The vets put him
under anesthetic and kept him there longer than they P LOTS TREAT had ever kept an animal before. They stacked up the
quills in bunches of 25, and when they were through they-had taken more than 600 quills out of Blondies Did You See That Buff? It Scraped a Tree
mouth, face and ears, For three weeks he was a terrifically sick dog. But ’ Coming In. By LELAND STOWE
he came througn it. Four years ago Murphy went to Mexico on his an- « t. 1942, by The Indianapolis Times | The Chicago Daily News, Ine, |
nual hunting trip. It's always a big party, with a] bunch of San Francisco sportsmen making the trip. They take their own dogs, and for years Blondie has been the acknowledged peer of the pack, man or dog.
He Decides to Retire THEY DROVE several miles from the camp to the Conyrich vlace where they were to start walking, Gear was) raed and the hunters made ready. The dogs | WITH THE BRITISH-AMERI-were turned loose, and the hunters started off. Stan CAN AIR FORCES IN BURMA | Murphy walked up the hill a little piece. Jan. 14 —Across the drome, the] Usually Blondie was so eager for the hunt that umbrella-topped frame of the forest Murphy would have to keep ordering him to “heel” as trees suddenly stands inked out) they started out. But suddenly he realized ut] ageinse the sky. Tropical twilight | Blondie wasn't ahead of him. He stopped and looked! comes with a rush along the Irra- | back. And where was his great hunting dog? waddy Valley and the British-U. S|
Sitting in the front seat of the car, looking out of | fliers are trying to beat it in. the window! It is a pretty tight race tonight Blondie has never gone hunting again. He simply but there are a succession of blindmade his decision, and stuck to it. Murphy is not sure! ing dust swirls off the lower end what lav back of it, in the dog's mind, He thinks of the runway. Most of them must Blondie simply retired one day, all of a sudden, Just | be in—in with the first stars. because he wanted to. Blondie is 12 now, and age is| “Have you heard what they got?” in him. He sleeps about 22 hours a day. li « « “Not yet, old boy. Theyre Hunters tell me they never heard of such a thing just tucking their kits away.” . . | happening before. Murphy starts his story with, “Da "Did you see one of the Buffs?) vou ever heat of the day Blondie quit?” Instead of He scraped the trees with a victory | being disappointed, he seems to admire his great roll before he swung round. Bloody Blondie for the firmness of his decision. And so I.!fast one, too. ... They must have What Blondie did is what I've wanted to do for 20 dished it out to them again.” . ..
vears, Maybe this will give me courage, (“Sure thing, brother. When our guys come in like that it don't]
mean a thing but bad news for the! fJaps.” “Are They All in?”
Just the same everybody is won-| | dering about the score and somePretty Dorn Good body asks what everybody is think-
EUGENE W. DORN, the amiable druggist, has his ing. “Are they all in?" friends puzzled by his ability to get low license num-| A red-faced, unshaven, bers, no matter which party has control of the license [Sergeant mechanic from Ohio Says bureau. Gene, raled as an ardent Democrat, drew| BY my count, there's still one more license 415 last vear while the Democrats were run-|H-40 to come.” ning the bureau. This year, with the Republicans in| Somebody wants to know about power, he somehow managed to get license 10,046 |the Americans’ squadron leader. which is pretty good when you consider the numbers = Yes, he's in. | started at 10001. His brother, Leo, got 10,045. Gene I reckon he’s reporting to the won't reveal the secret of his success; just smiles and C- O's office.” savs it's because he's “such a good Republican.” (The! The roly-poly sergeant churns a|
inside dope: He's a friend ot Bob Loring of the Sec- | jeep down the field. He's looking retary of State's office.) {for that last plane and he's back|
. y . plenty fast. Electric Mixup “They're all in—all the Buffalo, | WHEN THE ELECTRIC current somehow was shut io: he oo > Nope, } didn b talk) off for half an hour the other day. the Hook drug! 0 any of the pilots but they got slore at Alabama St. and Massachusetts Ave. was in a bad way. They couldn't mix any hot chocolates or!
{something all right.” other beverages requiring the electric mixer, but the;
It is so dark now you can only distinguish the faces of the Ameriworst part was thev couldn't get the cash register can and British ground crew men at open to make change. . .
roly-poly
I saw his plane |
| close range but the accents, Cockney, Texan, Yorkshire, or Midwestern "American, simplify matters.
Caught Flat-Footed
A Royal Air Force ground officer | waits for. the American squadron
. Tayvstee Bread salesmen started out Monday to take orders {or defense bonds and stamps. Salesman Richard Feldman was the champron. He came in at the end of the day with an | order for a S1000 bond. He delivered it yesterday to Mrs. Kate Bryan, 1746 W. Morris St. leader and hurries over as a tall, |
How to Save Juice \ WEL boyish-faced, smiling chap steps out IF THERES EVER an electricity shortage here, of the car that has rolled up from it would be to black out the the other end of the field. The
Clavpool's Riley Room. Most every diner there at squadron leader, ‘Who is a former some time or another counts the lights.’ The most Navy flier and hails from Scarsdale, recent unofficial tally totaled right at 750 bulbs, with N. Y, takes all questions in his about a dozen out. Wonder how often they burn out Stride. a light meter. , . . The $60,000 that Eli Lilly employees NO. I don't think we got the have invested in defense bonds since last August is fourth but we got three all right. enough to buy three million 45-caliber cartridges for ‘© Caught the Japs flat-footed our Army. Or it would pay for 1440000 yards of working on their planes. They were
barbed wire (ouch) or 10,000 anti-tank shells, or 2ll Pursuits. No, we didn't lose any. even 11 barrage balloons. My ship collected a few bullet holes. |
| You should have seen them scatter ‘ jon that field.” By Raymond Clapper at once. We wanted to find the But here at the center of the effort we have shaky. New Zealander who did the victorv| confused, uncertain direction or lack of direction. po) but he was down at the other | This 1s having a befuddling effect on the whole town side somewhere. Another pilot was! and likewise on those who must deal with Wash- | explaining how the American and! ington in doing their war work. The place is seeth- | British fighters had dived from 10.ing with feuds and backbiting. 000 feet and some had raked the Because Mayor LaGuardia and Mrs. Roosevelt are jap air base only a dozen feet off! stubbornly sitting tight at the Office of Civilian De- the ground. fense, despite the appalling dissatisfaction inside and “We cleaned that field outside that organization, Mr. Roosevelt makes 8 quick.” he said. “You should have slight reshuffle and slips in as an executive officer seen Jack catch that truck. It was! Prof. James Landis of Harvard. He is a brilliant man rolling across the runway when he in his field, but he has had no notable experience let loose. Then it ran wild. smack in such a nation-wide job of organization. into a burning plane. Some of the. Meanwhile, a man like Jim Farley, who knows gang machine-gunned hell out of!
the people in every county of the country and who their administration building. Those can get things done, is left outside to sell soft drinks.'little yellow devils didn't seem to
< Si want to stay around there—not at Needed: Some Fresh Faces
all.” NOT ONLY REPUBLICANS like National Chair- _ IU was tough luck that we couldn't man Joe Martin, but many ordinary citizens. are ask- find the British pilot but everything ing when Mr. Roosevelt is going to use the talents here was all teamwork anyhow. The of Wendell Willkie. only nationality these fellows. This war is big enough to need all of those Srouped together in the darkness, men like Farley and Willkie who have long ago dem- Seemed to have lay in their accents. onstrated their lovalty and capacity. Plenty of others Lhe R. A. F. officer and the squadcould be used to great advantage in this total effort, Ion leader from Scarsdale might as Mr. Roosevelt is finally again using Bernard M. have been flying together for years. Baruch, after a term in the doghouse. Some fresh faces around here would be a tonic relief from the feuding, from what Secretary Ickes
one way of relieving
Deluge of Questions { Everybody was asking questions
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All Eager for Supper
“You know, I thought that truck! might be carrying ammunition so I!
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army
By JOHN W. LOVE
Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Jan, 14 —Upon
the square shoulders of a tall, gentle-mannered merchant, Donald Marr Nelson, falls the assignment of heading the purchase and production of upwards of $100 000,000,000 worth of war goods.
His is now the direction of “the
Mr,
Quartermaster the united nations. His appointment Roosevelt to | Production Board closes the yearlong debate over whether Amershould have a civilian ministry of supply or continue with the poorly linked buying departments of the Army. Navy, Office Lend-Lease Administration, and Maritime Commission, the advisory Office of Production Management.
Nelson
by head a
functions
» on ”
job of fantastic size,” as he described it last fall—the management of the world's greatest procurement program and its rapidly complicating problems of outbecomes No. 1 purchasing agent, General
the
of
President new
War
and
of the
Job Parallels Baruch’s
THE NEW War Board closely parallels the War Industries Board of the last war, and Mr. Nelson's position that of Bernard Baruch. ! often urged President Roosevelt to set up such a board, and he described as “a faltering step forappointment last August as executive director of the Supply, Priorities and Al locations Board. The Nelson ! ends the rising speculation of the last four or five weeks over who of the single supreme agency whose need was becoming so obvious to all. Among those who had been | for it were Vice President Henry Associate Justice William O. Douglas and Milo Perkins, executive director of the Board of | Economic Warfare.
Mr.
be director
Mr,
Nelson's
appointment
Production
Baruch
also
mentioned
Mr. Wallace, who will sit on the
| SPAB’s executive, member of it. Weirdly complicated relationships existed on the organization charts between Mr. Nelson, Leon Henderson of the Office of | Price Administration, and William | 8. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman, directors of OPM.
o Complicatio SEVERAL FACTORS making imperative at the clearer stream-lining of authority. complications munitions lowed the cutting off of imports of rubber, tin and tungsten, Others were increase
in
One
» on
was the in the industries
the
the production gram for planes, tanks and antiaircraft guns, the acceleration of shipbuilding, and the plan to redouble many of the tries, inciuding the Government's string of ordnance plants.
war
new board. has been chairman of
SPAB. Though Mr. Nelson was he was not a
ns Grow
were
this time
growing
American which
simultaneous
pro-
indus- |
But what seemed to many for a
could not
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has
long time to forecast a fundamental revamping of procurement was the vast needs of England and the other Allies as provided for in the original lend-lease program. The Army's and Navy's curement divisions and their coordinating Army and Navy MuniBoard adapt themselves to provide these countries with what they The scattering of that job in several directions, including the Treasury and the DepartAgriculture,
readily
not
Too Much Time Lost
TOO MUCH TIME was lost be-
Some
New
of
tween these agencies, the armed services and the OPM on conferences and debates. tions arose daily which could not be settled without being taken to the President. waited weeks for decision.
ques-
them
The absence of a vigorous Sec-
ibuted to the
retary of War who could follow the rapid physical growth of the contr sion of effort.
confu-
In the last war the Allies had
pro-
The Indianapolis Times
By Ernie Pyle YANK AND RAF Nelson, Tall, Cool and Balding, Becomes The World's No. 1 Purchasing Agent
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SECOND SECTION
IAPS BLINDLY DROP BOMBS ON SINGAPORE
Unable to See Target, So The Island Learns How
Manila Suffered.
By GEORGE WELLER
| Copyright. 1942, bv The Indianapolis and The Chicago Daily News, I
SINGAPORE, Jan. 13 (Delayed) —With their objectives hidden by monsoon clouds and pouring rain drenching all Singapore Island, Japanese bombers launched today their first blind or indiscriminate raids upon the city of the type which Manila suffered. Numbers of aircraft remain a taboo subject but afternoon newse papers were allowed to say that yes terday’s raids included three waves consisting of 70, 20 and 35 planes. Today's bomb-dropping seemed considerably heavier, perhaps be= cause it was much nearer where your correspondent happened to be.
Times nc.
Culverts Are Refuges
Throughout the raids rain poured unremittingly into the ditches, slit trenches and stony culverts which are the principal refuges of those
Donald Nelson , , . gets that job of “fantastic size.”
already developed their buying agencies in this country before the United States joined them in the field, and Mr. Baruch's task of 1917-18 was simpler in those respects than that whi#h confronted SPAB, the Lend-Lease office and the others. Mr. Nelson has long been aware of the need for reorganization. His thinking in recent weeks has been in the direction of enlarging the work of the Army and Navy Munitions Board and fitting into it the industrial advisers now working in the OPM.
on on ”n Expanded SPAB Scope At the beginning of his service as head of purchases in the old National Defense Advisory Commission, shortly after he had come here from Sears, Roebuck & Cec.,, Mr. Nelson was regarded by some of his conservative acquaintances as a New Dealer, un ” ” THAT DESCRIPTION slipped off him. however, and he was more correctly described as an
fol-
"Write Your O
Says FDR to Buyer Nelson
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (U. P.O). ply Council. There has been corel permit siderable speculation that such an!
| President Roosevelu will Donald M. Nelson to write his own ticket in setting up the new supreme War Production Board, which the Chief Executive soon will authorize as the nation’s overall defense agency, the White House said today. Secretary Stephen Early said the executive order formalizing Mr. | Roosevelt's announced intention of {making Mr. Nelson the generalissimo of American war production would be prepared “to conform with
Mr. Nelson's recommendations or Of the nation’s largest mercantile!
| wishes." Mr. Early explained that aration of the executive order creat-
ing the War Production Board and With Ellis Gimbel, chairman of the
designating Mr, Nelson as chairman was being held up for the present |“because we are waiting for Mr. Nelson to tell us the setup he wants.” | Mr. Roosevelt said last night that Mr. Nelson, as chairman of the (board, would have “final” say on all lquestions of procurement and production. That, together with Mr. |Early's statement today, confirmed ‘that Mr. Nelson will have sweeping [powers and be the undisputed boss of the gigantic war production progaram. Mr. Early said he had no knowledge of reports that Mr. Nelson {might head a Supreme Allied Sup-
thinks of Harry Hopkins and vice versa. and what Secretary Wickard and Leon Henderson think of each other, and all of the inside gouging around OPM and SPAB.
just let her have it.” the squadron leader was saying. Then he laughed | lightly. “You know what Pete said? He
HOLD EVERYTHING
Total harmony is a futile dream. but the demoralization here has reached the point where it is interfering with the whole-hearted, aggressive direc- jnts the plane that wasn’ " tion of the total war effort that must be had be- 5, fire? JF RS ila fore the short time that has been left runs out. Another pilot chimed in. “anyhow. Jack, youre the first A. V. G. | (American Volunteer Group) to bag By Eleanor Roosevelt r iw trux | By now they were all in a hurry to get supper and the squadron
It was one which, in all probability, will be re-|leader still had his report to make. The R. A. F. officer shook his hand |
peated in many parts of the country because, as industries have to change from peace time to war-time|as he said goodnight. Then, as he! production, there is bound to be considerable tempo-| Walked away. he called back. “good | rary unemployment. This creates hardship and un- | show.” | certainty and is very bad for civilian morale, | Yes, it had been a good show all| I am concerned with civilian morale, as is every |right—just a new kind of Anglo- | other citizen of the United States. I feel that a pat-| American show, the kind where a| tern for meeting this situation must be developed, and| dozen different varieties of Englishthat none of us, whether we are Government officials SPeaking accents do not matter in or private individuals, can afford to sit back and wait | the least. for the development of these problems without feeling the urgency that a group of hungry children in our homes would put upon us. I said all this to Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Hillman in somewhat forceful terms, but without any criticism of| them, only because I felt the situation must be put ; before them, since they could help to develop the pi mith Dyn a 3 proper solution. I cited this situation to a group of 2327 Brookside Ave. > A Negro 4-H Club people as an example of the type of thing jumped out, grabbed Mrs. Smith's | for which we must watch. purse, : | I said that, to some of us, hunger was more aca-| But she held on to it. They tugged at | Sernie then peal, but that we must iy la velop ais purse for awhile and as possible | ability eel the urgency of such a situation. I sai approached, the man derogatory Apron, nd Hothiy Waish ack into His auto and dre not apply to myselt, leaving Mra. Smith with her pu i & SH
said, ‘vou're a lousy billiard player. | | Why didn't you carom that truck
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KEEPS GRIP ON PURSE, WOMAN BALKS THIEF
An auto stopped as Mrs. Jose-
prep-
expansionist, an advocate of rapid enlargement of and tories capable of handling muni-
mills fac-
tions orders. Socn after he took the management of SPAB, he staked out a wide province for its activity. His questioning of Jesse Jones, Federal loan administrator, as to
reason for delay in the financing |
of aluminum plants was taken as evidence of the energy which President Roosevelt expected of men in new agencies. Mr. Nelson is a tall, cool, balding, slow-spoken, pipe-smoking individual who believes that no job is too tough for him to tackle. He was born Nov. 17, 1888 at Hannibal, Mo.,, Mark Twain's home town. He graduated in 1911 from the University of Missouri
and after accepting a job in the
Missouri Agricultural ~~ Experi-
ment Station, entered Sears, Roe- |
buck in 1912, After that he became executive vice president, chairman of the executive committee and a member of the board of directors.
wn Ticket,
organization is in the making.
Nelson Cancels
Vincennes Speech
VINCENNES, Ind. Jan. P.). — Donald M. Nelson,
14 (1. newly-
‘named czar of U. S. war produc-|
| tion, today cancelled his trip and scheduled speech tonight at the [centennial commemorative dinner
for Adam Gimbel, Vincennes “mer- |
chant prince” and founder of one
empires. But the remainder of the program was to be carried through
board of Gimbel Brothers stores, and Bernard Gimbel, his son, as the guests of honor. The two Gimbels, son and grandson of the pioneer merchant, were to receive honorary degrees from | Vincennes University this afternoon. | Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Curtis Shake of Vincennes will serve as master of ceremonies tonight as 500 Hoosier civic leaders and friends honor the family.
WOMAN BADLY HURT WHEN STRUCK BY CAR
Walking arm-in-arm with a friend, Mrs. Pearl Hoffman, 48. of
[606 Waldemere St., was badly in-|
jured when struck by an auto at | Washington and Morris Sts. today. Her companion, Beulah Wall, 28, of 629 Waldemere St., was unhurt. |Mrs. Hoffman received head and chest injuries. She was taken to | City Hospital. | William Turtlebugh, 47, Plainville, | Ind., driver of the car, was released after questioning by police. | A taxi driver and his passenger | were injured today | with a delivery truck at Illinois and | Merrill Sts. The taxi driver, William H. Ayres, 21, of 433 E. Washington St, was knocked unconscious. The passenger, Miss Betty McKnight, 19, of 2195 Dexter Ave. was cut. At City Hospital, it was said neither was seriously injured. Ed Stuart, 20, of 2544 Boulevard Place, drove the truck.
4 DIE AS HOME BURNS
{ DETROIT, Jan. 4 (U. P).-—A {young mother and her three small
fire which destroved their Dearborn cottage. The victims were Mrs. Mabel Cardiff, 26, and her children, Clara Mae, 3; Donna Jean, 2, and William, 1, The father, Clarence Cardiff, 27, was at work. He had
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in a collision |
‘children perished early today in a!
yeat ago.| be undertaken.
caught unawares. There was not the slightest pose |sibility of the Japanese seeing any- | thing whatever of their targets and what bombs were actually aimed [must have been sighted by instru= ments alone.
The Building Trembles
Drenchin~ white clouds covered leverything, blotting out anchored {ships and the whistling planes over= [head. The whine of their wires as they pass overhead sounds exactly like a falling bomb and more than once your correspondent nearly hit ° {the floor before bombs actually be gan falling. | When the thuds actually began [to be heard, the building where I |was trembled as though shaken by an earthquake. Plaster fell from the ceiling and the bathtub become {poked with black soot.
He Finds a Corner
Your correspondent found a core ner between the walls that seemed [to offer an invitation to lay his (still unhelmeted head. A confrere appeared soon, covered with yellow mud, and drenched; he had dived linto a culvert as the bombers sang overhead. Singapore's beautiful, deep cule | verts were brooks full of water, | Despite zero visibility, British and | Dutch pilots kept their Brewsters roaring through the wet clouds searching for the enemy. Again today the Asiatic populaw | tions behaved in an orderly, discip= [lined manner. Few people can imagine how terrifying an air raid’s effect can be upon the simple minds of people who understand nothing fof air tactics and cannot compres hend even as to when they are ade= quately protected. }
Have Faith in British
The Chinese, Tamils and Malays [are placing complete faith in Brite lish and Imperial prestige with | Asiatic peoples, an element so jeale | ously protected for 100 years that [it will stand or fall on how the | British emerge from this strategic dilemma. Today lone coolie
correspondent saw drop his ricksha as ‘though it were on fire and dive {into a culvert. Another jumped so | fast he left his sandals in the mide
your
|dle of the rain-wet street, and they
remained there most of the morne ing.
" 0.K. FIRE FIGHTING FUND
HUNTINGTON, Jan. 14 (U. P.) .~ The Huntington City Council has provided a $4000 appropriation for the establishment of a volunteer 'civilian defense fire department and [for the maintenance of a 24-hour guard at the city’s airport as ree [quired by the CAA.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
'1—An explosion outside a building is likely to cause the window panes to be blown inward or oute ward? . 2—Hitler's original followers wors brown, silver of black shirts? 3—Who was President when the | Hawaiian Islands were annexed | to the United States? (4—What was the official name of | the troops sent overseas for serve | ice during the World War I? |5—What city was famous for its | gladiatorial combats? 6—A follower of the yoga philosophy is called a yokel, yogo, yogi, or an ogre? T—Name the author of these famile jar lines: “Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great!” {8—The process of joining two pieces of metal without rivets is called W==-ing?
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Answers 1—Outward. 2—Brown shirts. |3—William McKinley (July 7, 1898), {4—American Expeditionary Force. 5—Rome. 6—Yogi. T—Longfellow. 8—Welding. on ” on
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