Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1942 — Page 2
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U.S. SUB SINKS PLANE CARRIER
Toll of East Indies Sea. Battle Estimated at 30 Enemy Ships.
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25 miles north of Mersing, where a cruiser was hit and 12 hits were scored on a troop transport. Twelve Japanese planes were shot down. But on land, the enemy had pushed to the coastal road running across the Malaya peninsula, about) 80 miles north of Singapore island and fighting was fierce along several points on this road. The Japanese made their usual) exaggerated claims, reporting that, they were fighting on a 30-mile long front that was closing in on Singapore and that their next objectives included Johore Batu, which lies just north of Singapore island. There were two new air raids on Singa-
pore, the first in several days. Aussies Raid Fleet
Off the northem coast of Australia, the Australian Royal Air Force struck at a big Japanese invasion fleet in Rabaul harbor in the Bismarck Islands, damaging three ships. Pilots said they saw
three invasion ships burst Into} voy get plenty of whisky?” flames. questions were asked evervone they Australian militiamen are re-| The United States Navy, ported fighting Japanese landing! nies of submarine-infested ocean, forces, estimated at 10000, in the] , ier havng lost a troop transport.
Rabaul area ! Unofficial Australian reports said | the Japanese already were operating planes from a base or bases in New| Britain Island of which Rabaul is) the chief town. Other Japanese, planes are operating from aircraft] carriers, The Australian Government remained gravely concerned, believing | that the enemy meant first to bomb | and then to attempt to invade the | Australian continent. There were indications, however, | British food on the ship which the) that the Japanese threat to the men generally agreed was vital sea lanes north of Australia/ble.” "The first real meal I had and to the Australian mainland it-| self was less immediate than previ-|
Most of the Yanks had never the skyline faded outside of an ea departure and the ship gave its firs
friends they had eft behind. couple of miles of water was over,
came “Give My baman with a harmonica.
to get things ready at camp, but
mutton at
ously indicated. | “anor { Police boats began patroling up Another, when given a Britishjand down. A fog horn blew disBurma Forces Holding |cigaret, said reflectively after tak- mally. Along the coastal road In Burma, the British reported|ing a couple of puffs: “I think I'm/masked automobile headlights
that the Japanese were making going to smoke Bull Durham over| virtually no progress in their arive | here. > on Mouimein and the Burma Road, | The British were doing all they and that new enemy aerial attacks {could in the food line, but it was
with the loss of three more Japa- west who had their own ideas of
No Leaves for a Month— Doughboys Are Unhappy
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“Where are the girls?”—These and other
bringing this little army aeross 3000
A few of the 42 Army nurses of the new A. E. F. shed a tear for boy Soon the first shock of realizin Regards to Broadway,” The British Army hosts of the Yanks had done all they could
American food and American cooking. “I was sick four days on the boat,
“terri- mist yesterday morning. The big /ships looked mysterious until it got when I came out again, they threw lighter me and I was sick against the sky.
twinkled like fireflies.
the docks, some of them manning anti-aircraft guns. on Rangoon had been driven off, not enough to men from the Middle}airplane motor broke the stillness and everybody looked up, wonder-
talked to. |
jad lived up to its tradition of seen the ocean before, and when
stern United States port on their t roll many had an empty feeling.
g they were bobbing on top of a and from the forward well deck accompanied by an Ala-
the Yanks were frankly eager for
7 said one Yank, discussing the
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and they were silhouetted
British troops stood at ease on
The road of an
Bishop Richard Kirchhoffer (left) was principal speaker at the annual Community Fund banquet which honored Mrs. Brandt Downey (center). Harold B. Tharp, Fund president, presided. s =»
PRESENTED 220 MEMBER AWARD
Long Service Is Praised at Annual Dinner; Shipnes To Again Lead Drive.
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long period of time for the benefit of others. “They include specific work for the general good expressed, in large measure, through the Community Fund. They include personal character of pre-eminence.” Mrs. Downey responded, in part, as follows: “In thinking back over the years of my association with the Community Fund, I can say that I am the privileged one; in giving of my time and effort to this work, I gave only a little help where I could, but I have gained a soul satisfaction beyond price; dividends greatly overbalancing my small share of work. “From my experience in the work | of the Community Fund, I have found that there is a place for averyone,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Fund Honors Mrs. Brandt C. Downey
CHURCHILL: ‘BIG A. E. F. COMING’
American Fliers Will Bomb Nazis, He Says, Asking Confidence Vote.
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Defying critics who demanded a reshuffle of his Cabinet, he said he did not intend to throw Alfred Duff Cooper, Cabinet minister recently recalled from Singapore, “to the
wolves” and that he would not pick|
scapegoats among generals, airmen and soldiers.
Accepts Blame “Why should I be called upon to drive away loyal and trusted colleagues and friends to appease the clamor of a certain section of the British and Australian press,” he demanded. “If we have not got large and modern air forces and tanks in Malaya and Burma no one is more accountable than IL.” But, he added, it would have been ruinous to have scattered the Empire’s strength wherever in the Far East any enemy might have conceivably attacked. Mr. Churchill said that Singapore would be defended to the last inch and that the imperial forces had heen strengthened last week.
Predicts Eventual Victory He said that the weeks since Ja-
Fine, Prexy Says Of Earlham Hero
RICHMOND, Ind, Jan. 27 (U. P.) —Ensign George Cox Jr, Watertown, N. Y., the commander of a iorpsts boat which sank a - 5000-ton Japanese vessel in Subic Bay, did not surprise his former college president with his heroism. “That's cer = tainly fine. I'm not surprised at George doing ¢ that,” President William = Cullen Dennis of Earle ham College said today. Mr. Cox was graduated from Earlham in 1939 after playing end on the football team and running the hurdles in track. He was a prominent and popular man in campus activities. Serving with the American ambulance corps in France during the historic German invasion, Mr. Cox was warded the Croix De Guerre by the French Government for his services at the front when the Nazis began their drive on Paris.
George Cox ‘
U. 3. AND ENGLAND POOL WAR SUPPLIES
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-___ TUESDAY, JAN. 27, 1942 DELAY DINNER MEETING . The dinner meeting which the Indiana Association of Women Lawvers was to have held this evening at the Canary Cottage has been® postponed indefinitely.
8. Navy as commander of all naval forces in the Pacific. These committees “will advise on all assignments” of munitions “both
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pan attacked had not been spent in apathy or indecision and added: “I must profess thankfulness for what has happened throughout the whole world in the last few months.” He predicted that Japan would not try to invade Australia—"a very ambitious overseas operation
lin the precarious and certainly
limited time before the British and American navies have regained, as they must regain, ultimate command of the Pacific.” “It looks as if we were in for a very bad time. But providing we all stand together and throw in the last spasms of our strength, it also looks more than ever it did before as if we were going to win, “We have had two and a half years of fighting, and we have only just managed to keep our heads above water.” Mr. Churchill said Rudolf Hess,
Nazi No. 3 who flew to this country, had firmly believed that he had only to reach ‘‘certain circles” in
irrespective of color or, Britain to overthrow him (Churchill)
creed, who is willing to equip him-| and his Government, and to effect
self to serve.”
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the three boards indicated that the munitions unit would be the most important. “The entire munition resources of Great Britain and the United States will be deemed to be in a common pool, about which the fullest information will be interchanged,” the announcement said. Munitions committees will be formed in Washington and London “under the combined chiefs of staff in a manner similar to the Southwest Pacific agreement” in which Gen, Sir Archibald Wavell, British commander in the Far East, was made supreme commander with Admiral Thomas C. Hart of the U.|
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nese planes The Japanese, however, reported that Mouimein was “encircied” and that British forces were ex acuating |
'both food and cooking.
ing for a moment of it was a German plane. “It's a Spitfire,” someone said. The band of the Royal Ulster Rifles began tuning up.
Fleet Looks “Mysterious” “We have brought our best cooks
| Assistant principal of School 32 and |
Served on Board | with which Hitler might negotiate a Mrs. Downey has been a member | “magnanimous” peace. of the Board of Directors of the| Turning to the newly troubled sit(Fund since 1929. She formerly was uation in the Middle Bast, he said: “We have not succeeded in de-
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that port. Tokvo said 100.000 Thai- | from all parts of the British Isles,” land troops had joined in the a British officer said. “Your men Burma offensive will get the best food possible and The British defenders prepared 3 higher scale ration while they for decisive action by placing get settled. The bes: our Army can Moulmein under military control “in| supply is theirs.” preparation for future operations.” | pyr their first breakfast ashore Dutch land and sea forces con-| y ‘tay, tinued to oppose enemy landings on| ridge, stewed fruit, kippered her-
the Borneo and Celebes coasts, . while Japanese planes today bombed Ee wh i BA Sele Quine) wh oo an There was little pomp in the artions in the same area. Tokvo re- rival of the new A, E. F. Shiver. ported 13 Allied ships. totaling some ne in a bleak : HoMbern dawn, $3000 tons hat been sunk in the American and British officers and East Indies (officials, watched the newly arrived > fleet wallowing at anchor in the
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! : ‘ ;mander in chief, came first, then
“We We glad the Americans are|pregidgent of the P.-T. A. at School 27| stroying Gen. Erwin Rommel's army
British officer said.
“They always end wars.” —General, Then a Private steamer
A one-time channel
Then the Americans started pour-|
ing off, on a bleak freight shed unity Fund, Mrs. decorated for the occasion with the found time to be president of the set naval flags and a couple of dole | lars worth of bunting which someone had been able to get in time.
Maj. Gen. Russell Hartle, com-
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and also at School 70. In 1933, Mrs. Junior Speakers’ Bureau, organized by any Community Fund. | This bureau, composed of speakers
the troops had cercal or por- started in from the fleet, where it| from public and parochial high | had taken on its first load of troops. ! schools;
has been widely throughout the country. Despite her work in the ComDowney has
copied
Y. W. C. A, to serve on the board of the Alpha Home, and to be active in the National Probation Association, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Indianapolis Council of Affiliated Church Women. Bishop Calls for Faith The Rt. Rev. R. A. KirchhofTer, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Indianapolis, delivered the principal address at the meeting.
| but Downey founded the, the first
nearly two-thirds of it are wounded, Dr or dead.” |
SHEPARD IS ELECTED UNION COUNCIL HEAD
The Indianapolis Industrial Union
Council elected Joseph K. Shepard,
secretary of the Indianapolis Newspaper Guild, as president at a meeting in Amalgamated Hall last night. Karl Baker of Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Andrew Pelfrey of United Auto Workers and Hilliard Abel, of United Packing House Workers, were elected vice presi-| dents. | Other officers elected were John | Whallon, of Steel Workers Organ- | izing Committee, secretary; Theo-| dore Venckeleer, also of S. W. O. C.,! financial secretary, and A. J, Mer- | ritt, United Packing House Work-|
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| “The Star-Spangled Banner,” timed to begin as Gen. Hartle reached the dock. The men waiting on the decks ‘started whistling. Most conspicuous among them was a giant staff sergeant who fondled a garand rifle lon the forward deck.
‘Good Old Land’
They talked quietly or were silent. A few grinned, a few waved, one cocked his tin hat over his ear and brandished his rifle. The music stopped for a moment and the first comment audible from the disembarkation boat was “good old land!" Someone else made a remark the only word of which, audible to those on the dock, was " . «+ limeys)” As Gen. Hartle stepped ashore to the “Star-Spangled Banner,” with Priv. Henkle right behind him, the men on the dock snapped to the salute for the national anthem. Everyone on the dock tommented on the trimness of the American troops—“they all look like officers,” a woman commented later as they marched through the streets.
March on Wrong Side
They marched off in companies, behind the band. People in the streets, many of whom thought at first they were British troops, stopped suddenly to stare and wave, Small boys ran alongside while the troops waved to babies, and girls, in the windows. Some of the troops started marche ing down the right hand side of the street until the British sergeants acting as guides smilingly told them it was left-hand traffic in this country.
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“Our country has had its Pearl Harbor,” he said. “The results have been profound. It has given us some pure pessimists. It has given us|! some hopeful pessimists. They remind me of Ecclesiastes, who was very wise in many things, but a confirmed fatalist. “We can believe in much that he says of man’s struggle against the scavengers of | = greed, of fear, of privilege, of power, | % A of oppression, of poverty and disease] and ‘injustice and cruelty. “But we must profoundly disagree | {Al with him because he has no belief in the future. If we have no faith in the future, resistence to evil is pointless. Harold B. Tharp, president of the] | Community Fund, presided. Four new members were elected to the Fund board. They were H. S. Morse, Philip Adler Jr, C. C. Livingstone and Elias C. Atkins, i The following were re-elected tol’ the board: Mr. Tharp, Alex Corbett Jr., Miss Gertrude Taggart, Robert A. Efroymson, A. W. Metzger, W. C. Griffith and Harry T. Pritchard.
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