Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1942 — Page 4
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Week of Torture Ends for 7 at Sea
Navy Men Rescued From Disabled Plane How Albatross Hovered Over Them.
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half days before we could get message out “We had only three-quarters of a can of food daily for each man and the labels had been washed off so we never knew what we were getting. We rigged salt-water condenser from a glass windshield wiper and were able to get enough fresh water for one swallow each The most we got was three-quarters of a pint of water, and was on a good day. “The impact of ian a large hole in our I our clothes, gear and m apparatus were d expected the plane minute so we prepared our rubb rafts and ourselves for away. Two of the men had all the time. We plugged the holes with pencils and that helped keep the leaks down “A heavy wind was the time and we were being sent through the water fast enough to make a white wake. We drifted for 400 miles or more before we, were picked up on the night Jan. 17. Our plane was
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long enough to offer prayers. Some than a mere German retreat. They]
of | in such al broken and damaged condition that] we had to patch it with wire, and! even then the sides bulged and bent]
eirileased here yesterday '/men had landed at Balboa Tuesday fered a serious reverse, but it is not h'!and were taken to Coco Solo for the
War Moves Today—
RUSS DISPEL NAZI" FICTION
ell German Withdrawal Not Orderly as Claimed,
But a Retreat. (Continued from Page One)
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the pathetic trickle of fresh water from their condenser. “No painted ship upon a painted 1t Seems that a large German army, ocean—this one” they joked as the) estimated at about 100,000 men, is plane was endlessly pounded and in serious danger in the Mozhaisktossed by the great combers. And al- Borodino area. Two Russian pincer
ways the albatross spied upon. ims are closing in from Rzhev on them, his cold, terrible eyes follow-| th Pe da Orel th th them as they rode the plane's|'® north and Orel on the south,
wings like monkeys or bronco fight-| threatening to meet behind the reers in a struggle to set up a irans- treating Germans, while their cen-
mitting set there. ‘ter smashes directly towards SmoBy the end of the first day they, > : "1 lensk. had revised the ancient symbol of the albatross and made it into an! The mystery of why the Mozomen of good fortune, Before he haisk bulge in the German line, so
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day and gave his place to another| While the Russians were making] of the same species, the albatross notable advances in other sectors. | has been cleared up. Each morning, when the terrible] The Russians allowed it to stand
into a toruous blast furnace all operations to the north and south. seven stopped bailing or repairing | They were shooting for bigger game
Falls 8 Floors | JAPAN THRUSTS 4d. NEAR AUSTRALIA
Fleet Near New Britain; British Planes Smash
Foe in Malaya. (Continued from Page One)
defense forces in the Philippines, where the entire Japanese 14th Army was on Luzon island, with heavy fighting in progress along the American defense lines on Bataan peninsula.
Stubborn Fight in Burma
In Malaya, the Japanese apparently were meeting stronger resistance and British forces were fighting stubbornly in Burma, where enemy spearheads were pushed through the mountains toward Moulmein in an effort to strike at the Burma Road supply line to China. Japanese invesion troops reeled back from a mass British imperial ambush on the eastern Malaya front as rocket-fast Hurricane. fighter planes, freshly thrown into action over Singapore, shot down five Japanese hombing planes and damaged
Chicago police today were investigating the death of Dorothy Sullivan, 2%, (above), whe fell eight floors to her death, her clothes aflame. Miss Sullivan was to testify in a narcotics case.
200,000 JAPS ATTACK LUZON
S | on the wingtops. some inside, waist- 50ught to pocket and trap a fordeep in the water of the compart- | midable enemy force, and ensuing ment they knelt or bowed and days will show whether they sucpraved—each in his own way. “eed Recall Bedside Prayers
Beside prayers half-remembered came to their lips. The voice of mother’s prayers of their childhood returned. . Our Father « "The
Nazis Not Yet Beaten
It is impossible to predict how far the German retreat will be carried ‘but it seems increasingly probable, as previously predicted, that it will ‘fall back to the line of the Dnieper. The Russians, flushed with suecess, are even talking of driving the iGermans entirely off Russian soil. Even with the bitter winter pulled us through,” said Lieut. | Sutherland.
weather in favor of the Russians, this would be a feat which few Official word of the rescue was re- military observers would care to bet noon. The on. Hitler's powerful army has suf-
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in the air again, flving over the
one fighter in smashing a fresh attack on the city.
A terrific blast of gun fire from all over Singapore island met a second wave of Japanese planes, estimated to number at least 30, and! drove them off before they could| drop more than a few of their] bombs. |
A strong attacking force of British | bombing and fighting planes, in| possibly their biggest attack of the war, wreaked devastation on Japan- | ese transport, trucks and staff cars, on the areas behind the Japanese lines, The bombers left a trail of wrecked vehicles behind them and racing fighters, following. up the attack.! swept down and raked the roads with machine gun fire. A communique issued by British General Headquarters in Singapore!
Fierce Attempt to Blast| McArthur Off Bataan Is Made.
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Leave Trail of Death south from the secondary naval base at Olangapo toward Moron and Bagac on the western Bataan shores while other Japanese forces seek to crash the strong mountainous positions held by MacArthur across the waist of the narrow Bataan peninsula.
Plans MacArthur Tap
Success of these drives would put the Japanese behind Gen. MaeArthur’s very strong eastern Bataan positions and might well force him to withdraw to Corregidor
same area that nearly became thei: grave,
CRASH NEAR INGALLS
revealed the mass ambush on the!
fortress in order to avoid heing cut 8 east coast of Johore Sultanate and |
erations in the Far East and agreed) not to fortify the Philippines or other far Pacific outpost, in return for Japan's agreement to respect the integrity &f China, and other concessions. He charged that the Japanese, violating their pledges, immediately began fortifying their mandated islands, invaded Manchuria in 1931, China proper in 1937 and then went into the southwest Pacific and IndoChina. He said that the purpose of the conference thus had failed with the consequence that the United States was at a disadvantage in the Philippines and the Pacific. The Japanese had a great advantage because of the surprise of their attack, the size of their Navy and their proximity to the scene where, they struck withou warning.
He said the one thing that played | into our hands to balance that sit-| uation was that he Unied Sates was |
just getting into full production of | big bombers, As the situation grew
600,000 Troops Moved West; Pacific Defense Bolstered
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sent considerable numbers of them to the Philippines, where they were described as doing good work now and already restoring some of the balance between the opposing forces. Crews have been training in sufficent numbers, he said, to match the plane output. Outbreak of the Pacific war, he | said, resulted in the establishment) of a united defense effort by Russia, | China, Great Britain, Australia, the| Dutch East Indies and the United States.
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Times Special |off from his communications port ANDERSON, Ind. Jan. 22.—The, of Mariveles. death toll in a railroad crossing ac-| It was evident that the small cident near Ingalls late last night hgliean and Filipino group — | mounted to three today when Har- espite Gen. MacArthur's astute
__.._generalship—could net continue to \ rv Roland, 15, of Greenfield, died in battle indefinitely against such vast |
wildly pitching wreck. To the seven his presence was like an evil spin! foretelling an inevitable destiny. | Ensign Lahodney recalled some of As they bailed with never a halt | their lighter moments as the crew racked their brains to contrive some struggled to keep up their spirits way to repair the radio and stood! while the hole in the planes side b yreadv for instant escape from | hourly grew larger.
{the smashing of the airplane at-| tack on Singapore by the Hurri-|
canes, which had mowed down Ger- | man attacking craft in the Battle! for Britain and now had arrived in Malaya to challenge the enemy,
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their broken plane, the Navy fliers! found enough breath toe recount bits of poems. It helped to lighten their plight and their realization] that nothing short of a miracle would ever bring rescue before they! died from thirst and hunger, or disappeared under the seas “Water, water ervwhere only one sip a dav saraphased trving to ! A —
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and growing odds. Crisis Point Is Near The exact size of the Japanese attacking force was not revealed. However, the communique reato de Rig Bi Jupnnese Strong imperial forces, perfectly bv Hy WabeF of other nits arth the camouflaged, awaited the enemy in| : the area north of Mersing, which
constantly arriving reinforcements, | : : eh [is 64 miles above str ‘hich | is engaged in the attack. miles ove the strait which
separates Singapore Island from the! Outnumbered 10 to 1
mainland. | A Japanese army is believed to). As the Japanese approached, the comprise up to 12 divisions of Imperial troops, adopting the tac-| about 15,000 men each. This would tics which the Australians had used constitute a force of 180.000 and against the Japanese on the western | with reinforcements and other front, aimed their guns at point | troop units it was believed that the| SARK Mave? and poured bullets and apanese assault t p x SE xk 3 a as oy ay Ren A i western Malaya front the : . : ustralians were reported unoffi-| ir ae > A ass we cially to be fighting heavily against! Ie is OYnumLered. u ‘al/the Japanese in a battle which! umbere y something |meant that the crisis point was ap- | greater than 10 to 1 although it proaching is probable that not all the Japa- | nese troops are actually engaged on the narrow Bataan front.
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The Japanese attack was only lightly supported by aircraft. the communique said, but an attack by 17 Japanesz bombers on the city of Cebd, principal city of a ecentrally located Philippines island of
The Japanese had pushed down ithe east coast from the Endau area, | | 75 miles above Singapore.
Heavy Jap Losses Dispatches asserted that the Jap- | anese were suffering frightful casualties but continued | their attempts to cut inland toward | the main railroad and highway] leading down to the southern tip of | the peninsula. These developments aroused speculation as to whether sufficient Althe SANG Yiahe, WRS revesled. lied reinforcements, especially air-| American military circles de-!|planes, had arrived to hold the! scribed Gen. Homa as a very able enemy back over a long period and commander. At 54 he has a long permit a general counter-offensive.| record of important assignments,| The Japanese apparently con-| many of which have brought him tinued to hold superiority in alll into close contact with the western [branches of war weapons. world. The London press, however, re-| He has long served on the Japa-|ported that Allied warships were | nese general staff and four years operating off the Malaya west coast, | ago headed the “second bureau” of blasting at Japanese lines and] the staff—a section roughly like the breaking up new landing parties. | G-2 section of the U. S. general| Northward, in Burma, the staff, the intelligence section. |
Japanese appeared to have enlisted : He has a good command of Eng-| Thailand troops in a new thrust delish and acted as public relations
signed to endanger the Burma Road officer of the Japanese war office supply line to China. early in the 1030's. He was the Japanese army representative at the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1931 and accompanied Prince Chichibu, brother of Emperor Hirohito, on his trip to London in 1937.
FIRE ON 8TH FLOOR | OF LINGOLN HOTEL
A cigaret, apparently dropped on a bed, caused a fire that destroyed the mattresses of twin bets in Room 827 at the Lincoln Hotel today. The room was occupied by David Hughes of Chicago. Mr. Hughes notified a hotel watchman when he discovered the fire at 1:30 a. m. Firemen under Battalion Chief Charles Gregory threw the smoldering mattresses out of a window, dropping them to the Kentueky Ave, side of the hotel, Hotel employees emptied three fire extinguishers on the burning beds and firemen emptied three more. Chief Gregory praised the employees for telling guests in rooms opening on the smoke-filled hall to open their windows and to keep calm,
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