Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1942 — Page 2

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MacArthur Reports Lull in Fighting After 2d Big Assault Is Halted.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Stal Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 19 _Japanese forces have sent skirmishing parties against Gen. Douglas MacArthurs Bataan lines, the war de-| partment reported today, possibly] in an attempt to find an opening for a big new attack. There was a lull in major operations, the communique revealed, and fighting was of a “desultory” nature. The pause in the Japanese attack appeared to reflect Gen. MacArthur's success in beating off the large scale frontal and infiltration efforts which th® Japanese have launched in the past week. The communique reported

that

Japanese patrols engaged in brisk] |g, EIN eo. Sood [Ts Ne et activity but that nothing more than| { Baltic ~~ —7 & “incidental skirmishes” occurred with “indecisive results” The Jap-

anese air force was inactive, Jap Measures Harsher

Gen. MacArthur reported that the Japanese are introducing increasingly harsh measures upon the Philippine areas under occupation. “Filipinos in the occupied areas.” said the communique, “have been summarily dispossessed of their means of transportation and other equipment. “Native farmers have been evicted from their homes and formed inte labor groups i “Harvested crops and food stores) have been seized by the invaders = American and Philippine veterans]

combat against great odds—for a second time smashed a major Japanese challenger to their Bataan stronghold and won a new, if brief, respite in their bloody war, it was] announced yesterday Tribute Paid Treeps Despite a weeks hammering Japanese frontal attacks and deadIy bands of skilled infiltration troops. the U. S. forces still packed sufficient punch to counter-attack and regain positions which fell temporarily into Japanese hands “In

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It was just six months ago that the Germans were driving on of the hardest school of war—actual] gugiensk, but now the Russians are doing it, from the other direction.

Nazis at Mozhaisk and drives on other towns as Germans retreat and leave a widening gap of territory retaken by Russiuns on the Moscow

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marine. ‘The submarine made no effort to board the ship or to pick up survivors. “Then we rowed for about 1!% hours until practically exhausted, then rested. We rowed some more and at five minutes of 6 we spotted a naval vessel. We sent up flares and she had us aboard at 6:10 a. m.” Ross F. Terrell, able-bodied seaman from Jersey City, N. J, another survivor, said there was not

struck the tanker, : “We were struck by two torpedoe —one right after another,” he said. “The oil splattered all over the ship and for 300 feet all around. The ship was ablaze from stem to stern immediately and all the surrounding water for about 300 feet in all directions caught fire. Flames leaped at least 100 feet in the air, “I jumped into a lifeboat which we pulled into the wind in order to escape the flames. Then we rowed out ‘beyond the circle of fire.”

All Struck Without Warning

The other two ships sunk since last Wednesday were the Panamaregistered tanker Norness, torpedoed three times off the eastern end of Long Island, and the Coimbra, a tanker flying the flag of an Allied nation, sunk about 75 miles from the port of New York. Two of the Norness’ crew were unaccounted for, and 39 have been rescued. The number rescued from the Coimbra has not been revealed. The tactics of the attacking submarine were the same in all three cases—the launching of more than one torpedo at the boat without warning. It was recalled that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew all the way when he returned to London last week. Speculation here

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Menaced by Russ Advance

LONDON, Jan. 19 (U. P.).—Mozhaisk, Orel, Kursk and Kharkov, the four anchor points of the German line on the 600-mile front between his message to the War De. Moscow and the Sea of Azov, are all imminently threatened by ferocious partment.” said the U. S. communi- Russian attacks, Russian advices indicated today. The Russians claimed to be within 60 miles of Smolensk. Loss of this

was that he elected to go by plane instead of boat because of the submarine menace off the Atlantic Coast.

AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT, Jan. 19 (U. P) —A British freighter was reported in a sinking condition today after running aground a few

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As Jap troops surge southward in Malaya, British defenders of Singapore are making their stand on the lower part of the Malay peninsula before retiring behind the big guns of the island base itself. British sources today admitted the defenders had retired to within 90 miles of Singapore. Japanese radio reports claimed the invaders had reached Johore Babu, across the strait from the British fortress. 2 2 2 2 ” o

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By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Cosrespondent

SINGAPORE, Jan. 19.-—Japanese

gunners single

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praised the troops vhder his com- city might force the Germans back to the Dnieper River, 300 miles mand for their courage and deter- from Moscow.

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“Six weeks of hard fighting have Sian made veterans of the soldiers of] Germans | streets the difficult Moscow said, while massed fleets of school of actual combat and their! German dive bombing planes sought steadied desperately to impede the attack by

them and developed their initiative bombing the Russian rear.

the Philippine Army. Their training in have

battle experience

Mozhaisk was aflame and Rustroops were fighting the hand to hand in the the flames, Radio

miles south of Orel, the Russians were reported fighting their way| toward the city through the outer suburbs.

Last night's Russian war communique announced the freeing of Polotnyany Zavod, 18 miles northwest of Kaluga on the railroad be-

amid

miles off the Nova Scotia coast.

troops attacked heavily today at opposite ends of a 40-mile line on the west Malaya front and forced a British withdrawal below the mouth of the Muar River 90 miles from Singapore, a British communique said. The communique also said it was now known that three Japanese

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and resourcesfulness. They exact] Red Army tanks wy Sita med tween Kaluga and Vyazma. the tail of the twin-motored ship|planes were destroyed during the a costly toll from each Japanese|'TOOPS Were Iepor 0 Dave!" stockholm dispatches reported | intact. heavy raids on Singapore yesterday. attack” stormed Orel, 210 miles south of 1 . The casualty list was put at 56 Moscow. The eastern half of the|that the main railroad between| The body of Miss Lombard lay killed and rid wounded p oti of vert " g : : ¢ i i - : ’ Sty ClAdvertisement city including the great factorjes| Moscow and Leningrad was in oP-|peneath on&*wing, almost buried in vilians, bringing the Bl ee which the Germans had converted |eration again as the result of Rus-{,, © ee .

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into fortresses, was reported rve-|/sian successes captured by Red forces. that food and arms were being

ithe Germans in the other half o KANS.—The D. J. Orel, across the frozen Oka River 1413 Lane Bldg. which runs through it, radie reports St. Marys, Kans, manufactures a said.

reported a violent battle in the regio nof Kursk, 85

jt. ter of the Donets River basin, 135

in the north and

sent long under siege. Interest centered on the battle for Mozhaisk, which apparently was one of the fiercest of the war. Mozhaisk is the peak of the present German salient pointed toward Moscow from the west. It is 60 miles from Moscow and 165 miles northwest of Smolensk, on Napoleon’s road of disaster.

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that all must have died instantly. The plane seemed to have plunged squarely into the side of the precipice a few hundred feet below the summit.

treetops and telescoped against the cliff, leaving the tail only a few feet from the face of the Bits of wreckage and passengers’ hats, handkerchiefs and pieces of clothing festooned the pine trees.

inspectors went to the wreck yesterday and began their official vestigation.

in raids Saturday and Sunday to 186 killed and 235 wounded.

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Those who saw the wreck agreed

The Japanese bombed the naval base area and started fires which N was admitted were serious. Despite the admission of further withdrawals on the west coast, it was understood that the situation at the front was more encouraging. The Japanese were reported making their gains by infiltration tactics instead of attacking along the whole front, apparently because of the punishment they had taken at the hands - of Australian and Indian troops. I heard this morning something more of the Indians’ marksmanship. They shot off the tail of a Japanese

CAA Opens Investigation The plane had plowed through

rock.

Three civil Aeronautics Authority in-

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commanding the Australians, said that on Saturday the Japanese attacked in the Gemas sector and their . advanced units shouted as they advanced: “Don’t fire—we are Indians.” The Australians, however, broke up the attack. Gen. Gordon Bennett said that Japanese losses were eight times those of the Australians in the first clashes. The Australians continue to be enthusifstic. They believe they will stop the Japanese. I talked to a disgusted veteran of the last war, now relegated to the post of guard at a railroad station.

Rescue Squads Busy

As he cleaned his rifie and spat tobacco juice, he said: “We old ones can show the voung ones what to do. Gordon Bennett is older than me. What's wrong with me going to the front?” Rescue squads in Singapore were busy all week-end removing bodies from bombed Chinese homes in a congested suburban Area. A Chinese woman still clasped her baby in death. Two young, pretty Chinese girls were drowned ina ditch which they tried to cross to escape. “This is Japan's liberation of Asia for the Asiatics,” a Chinese air

raid warden said bitterly.

conflicts in the contrasting versions of the pending price control bill.

agricultural prices. farm organizations came to the sup-|f. § port of those amendments. They would grant the Secretary|' of Agriculture veto power over any price ceilings for farm products set by would prohibit the pegging of any farm prices below 120 per cent of parity—a provision President Roosevelt has charged would compel in-

Middle of ist Block {East Indies. Gen. MacArthur re-

ported a ull in fighting today.

BATAVIA — Japanese bombed Balik Papan, an oil port on the | eastern Borneo coast, and also at{tacked Sabang Island, north of {Sumatra and close to the Malaya { fighting zone, seeking to interfere with Allied aid from the East Indies to the defense of Singapore, and indicating preparation for new invasion thrusts. Dutch defenders of Celebes Island were believed to be fighting strongly in the Minahassa sector. BURMA Allied defense forces | braced for an expected Japanese in- | vasion following patrol clashes in I'Tavoy sector of southern Burma where the British were said to have

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pind offered “co-operation to the | Japanese and had asked their people | to stop resistance.

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CHINA—Chinese continued their drive against the remnants of the Japanese column about 70 miles north of Changsha, where Japanese reportedly lost 75 per cent of their forces, estimated at from 80.000 to 120,000 men.

BRITAIN DETAINS BURMA'S PREMIER

LONDON, Jan. 19 (U. P).—Premier U Saw of Burma was held incommunicado today by British authorities, apparently somewhere in the Middie East, on the charge that he had been in contact with the Japanese since Japan attacked Great Britain and the United States. Authorities said he would not be permitted to return to Burma. A few hours earlier, the German radio broadcast Tokyo newspaper allegations that the sultan and other dignitaries of British Borneo

There was no indication when, how or where U Saw got in contact with Japanese agents. He left London Nov. 5 after expressing disappointment the Britain was not ready to make Burma a dominion. He went to the United states, saw Secretary of State Cordell Hull at Washington, and had

home when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7. He left Lisbon Jan. 3 for Cairo by airplane.

NEW AXIS PACT SIGNED

BERLIN, Jan. 19 (German broadcast recorded by United Press in New York and London)—Germany, Japan and Italy have sighed a new military convention outlining “common operations against common

ae in 8 Eypesures (Continued from Page One) mystery pending release of the|pomber, flying high, with a single ES a 4x6 25 | CAA" report. shot. It was the second enemy ENLARGEMENT planes, maintaining a threat to the communicating with Japanese and plane shot down by Indian antiELMER DAVIS Studio Japanese flank and delaying the of-|refusing permission for him to re- | 242 Mass, Ave. fensive against Singapore and the|turn to Burma. RURAL YOUTH GROUP

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A “get acquainted meeting” of the Marion County Rural Youth group will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the Marion County Co-op-erative building on Kentucky Ave. Group singing, discussions of plans for the coming year, the reading of a new constitution to be voted on, reports on the January Rural Youth meeting at Purdue University by Martha Delong and Ann Jordan, devotionals led by Bob Mahan and refreshments in charge of Clarice Mpod will round out the program, New leaders to assume office at the meeting are Dorothy Steinmeier, president; Mr. Mahan, vice president; Maudellen Chappell, secretary; Herschel Apel, treasurer; Vance Lockhart, recreational and song leader; Evelyn Long, publicity director; Mary Ann Grove, devotional leader, and Phyllis Johns, pianist. Miss Steinmeier, who is district] secretary, has also announced a “farm frolic” at the Frankton school building tomorrow night in conjunction with a district meeting. Boys are to dress in overalls and girls in gingham dresses.

HORSE ASSOCIATION OFFERS DEFENSE AID

The Indiana Saddle Horse Association today offered its services to Governor Schricker and the Marion County Civil Defense staff in case of war emergency in the Hoosier State. The 1000 members who own or are able to ride a horse have been listed and they will carry messages in event communication lines and transportation facilities are disrupted, E. A. Crane, president of

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Rumors of Purge Growing After Nazi General Dies

LONDON, Jan. 19 (U.P. —Radio Berlin broadcast today, two days after the “mystery” death of Field Marshal Walther von Reichenau and amid swelling rumors of a German Army purge, that Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had undergone an operation which would keep him from action “for a long time.” The British Broadcasting Co. said that Moscow believed Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German High Command—a post equivalent to War Minister—also was i”

Gen. Brauchitsch, ousted by Adolf Hitler as commander in chief of the German armies after the turn-about in Russia, was said to have rallied from the operation despite a serious heart trouble which began two months ago. Hitler, according to Berlin radio accounts, sent Gen. Brauchitsch a note of encouragement and “hoped for his speedy recovery.” The British press viewed skepti-

his military failures placed him in extremely bad grace. Hitler's designation of Field Marshal Hermann Goering and Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt to attend a state funeral for Gen. Von Reichenau was viewed by Russians merely as an attempt to cover the fact that he had been murdered by the Gestapo.

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for soup,” he said. “We searched for anything to eat. At the same

A British medical orderly who attended the British wounded held up a pair of blackened hands. “That’s iodine and dirt combined,” he said. “We saved all our wounded, but I don’t know how it was managed as I became too weak to

from the Germans, They were unable to come to us because of the intense, murderous fire, Nobody dared move.” . Another medical officer who used a pen knife to amputate the arm of a German hit by a British bomb won the prisoners some cigarets

reward for saving the German's life. “It was a difficult task,” he said, “as there were no bandages and it was very hard and dangerous to get any water with which to wash the wound.” British soldiers in another tent told me they knew when the Germans were about to surrender “because they restored) many belongings the Italians had stolen from ofl

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trooper related, “but we were unable to believe it until we saw the Nazis line up three abreast to await the incoming British troops. “When we saw ‘the Imperials someone sang ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and we were all in tears as we hobbled from the caves, which were lower down the wadi than the German main positions.” One Tommy, grinning through a seven-weeks’ beard, looked forward happily to a bath. “Do you know,” he asked, haven't washed since Nov, 25?” I drove through the dugt-smoth-ered sunlight down Hellfire. Amid the ruins of many weeks’ battles I saw twisted and charred Messerschmitts and the relics of British and German tanks. All down the pass I saw the devastating efforts of the British barrage. The Germans had ingeniously built concrete pillboxes with turrets converted from our tanks. An impressive number of German heavy guns had been dug into the side of the wadi.

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