Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1942 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 277
U.S. Bombers Sink Jap Transport,
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Doughboy No. 1 and Girl Back Home Air Their Love.
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn, Jan. 28! U. P).—Radio offered a helping hand to true love last night for roe trans-Atlantic billing and cooing. From somewhere in Northern Ireland, Pvt. Milburn Henke, first] { American doughboy ashore with the expeditionary force Monday, talked
U. 5. WILL NOT TURN ITS BACK, KNOX PLEDGES
Japs Face ‘Mighty Batties’ In Drive for Indies, He Warns Them.
On Inside Pages
Midway Still Holding Russians Fighting .. Today's War Moves .......... City Blackouts Talked
CHICAGO, Jan. 28 (U. retary of Navy Frank Et ered! Japan today that she faced ° “some| mighty battles” on her way to the East Indies and anncunced that the United States would not turn| its back on either the Pacific or; tantic fronts. i He said “material and men are; moving to the hard pressed fronts in the South Pacific” under naval protection i Addressing the Chicago Association of Commerce, Secretarv Knox acknowledged that he had been criticized for recent remarks sug-
{to the girl he left behind, Miss Iola | | (Squirt) Christensen, of Hutchinson. |
WINANT SAYS
U.S. TO RECRUIT 1,000,000 MEN
Reveals Naval and Air Units Join A. E. F. in
British Isles.
LONDON, Jan. 28 (U. P)-— | American land, sea and air forces | already have taken up stations in {the British Isles in “the first step lon the highway towards ultimate victory,” U. S. Ambassador John G. Winant said today. Winant’s speech, before the National Defense Public Interest Committee, which met for luncheon, was the first mention of U. S. naval and air units in Britain. Winant said the United States
than when it entered the last war. Now, he said, it is planning to recruit 7,000,000 soldiers. Pays British Tribute He paid tribute to British youth for its part in defense of this country and added: “There are no better young people in the world than the youth of
gesting that Hitler was the nation’s greatest foe. He said he had been misunderstood” by those who thought he implied the Pacific war| was secondary to that in Europe. |
It's All One War
F 3 Ly ti ~ &
Milburn (Dinkie) Henke
| “Hello, Squirt,” Pvt. Henke be-! “The war in the Pacific. the war 830 over the short-wave hookup in the Atlantic, the war in China, 2Tanged by the Ble Network. in Malaya, in Russia, in Libya— | “Hello, Dinkie,” Miss Christensen they are all one war. one world replied, nervously eyeing the microrevolution, one bid for world mast- Fro ahd adjusting earphones erv,” he said. lamped to her brown hair, Mr. Knox said Hitler wanted the | ® & o& United States to throw its “grow-| jopLA ASKED her boy friend if he ing strength” into the Pacific butipag “met any good looking girls that “we will not fall into Hitler's| vet. » and. he answered: “No. I trap.” : haven't had time.” “Attacked in the Pacific and the| gyno she asked if he found Irish Atlantic, we have to fight and win| girls attractive. in the Pacific and Atlantic,” he said| «gyre” he said, “We dare not turn our backs to| Minnesota girls.” either front. These criminals are| Miss Christensen turned the air-
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“but IN take
America—none braver, none more generous. better equipped or more determined to see this fight through to a finish. And there are a great many of them.” “If necessary the women of America will scrub, man transports and aircraft batteries and pilot planes and whatever else they do they will do gladly,” Winant said.
Not the Movie Type
“Idleness has no part in our national life. Too many people have been influenced by a screen flash of easy living that is presumed to paint life at home for your amusement. That is not America.” The ambassador said the United States Navy had been taken by surprise in the Pacific but that it would re-establish naval supremacy there.
entered this war better prepared|§
in two lifeboats.
ASK GLOSING OF DUMPING LOTS
S. Siders Claim Conditions Menace Health; Protest
Smoke and Odors.
The owners of three South Side dumping grounds were cited by the Works Board today to appear at a public hearing Feb. 13 to show cause why their permits should not be
Norse Ship Takes Final Plunge
The victim of three torpedos from one or perhaps two German 9305-ton Norwegian tanker, Varanger, plunges to the bottom of the Atlantic.
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increasing Japanese pressure
day noon.
imminent.
submarines off Sea Isle, N. J. ‘the
250 Feared Lost, 71 Saved,
In Sinking Near Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. 28 (U, P) ~The S. 8. Coamo arrived today with 71 survivors of afi Allied steamer, torpedoed in the Atlantic with 321 persons aboard, about 250 of whom were dead or missing. Some of the survivors were picked up Friday night by the Coamo, of the Puerto Rico line, from lifeboats, which had set out from the torpedoed vessel with 76 persons aboard. Five died during the lifeboats’ six days at sea. Twenty-two of the survivors were crew members. Two hundred of those aboard the Allied steamer were swept overboard when the first of two torpedoes struck the snip, an officer of the steamer said. One of the torpedoes struck the engine room and
night was perfect and moonless and the sea was smooth when tne attack came. The rescue took 20 minutes. The ship sank in 25 minutes.” The captain of the steamer was among the missing.
All of its crew of 42 escaped |
central Malaya had advanced
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OF NEW CRISIS
Four Enemy Columns Advance Slowly on Last Allied Stronghold in Malaya; Macassar Invasion Fleet Pounded Again.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
The British military command at Singapore, faced with
in Malaya, today ordered the
evacuation of the north coast of Singapore Island by Fri-
The order indicated that the Battle of Singapore is
Conincident with British orders to evacuate that portion of Singapore island facing the Malayan mainland, Japanese quarters in Tokyo asserted that their forces operating in
28 miles to within 25 miles
| of the strait separating Malaya from Singapore island.
too good with daggers. “We must not confuse history with strategy. The main enemy] historically may not be the first enemy strategically. We cannot concentrate on defeating him alcne. We cannot take them ou one at a time when theyre coming two at a time.” i
Fight on All Oceans
Although some misunderstood his remark about Hitler, “the Navy didnt.” Secretary Knox said. “Since I made that remark on, Jan. 12, the Navy has accounted for 18 Japanese ships. and probably thiee cthers, and has done a number of other things that discretion forbids me to report.” he added. “And if it is of any interest to the eremy, if its news to them that we have determined grim resoiution unexampled in our history to fight and win this war on| all the oceans and upon all the!
fronts, then I hope they hear it in| frost of Russia and the fever!
the of Malaya.”
Mr. Knox said the United Nations | i “administering a military | in the Malayan theater—|°
were deficit” “a deficit which may not be arrested
| ways over to Pvt. Henkes mother, Mrs. Carl Henke, wife of a German-
| Henke told her son that they had!
with a:
Mrs.
revoked. The Board's action followed for-
born restaurant proprietor.
celebrated the 52d wedding anni-| versary of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Otio Henke. Monday night after receiving news of his landing in Irelanc. x = = THEN THE youths father. who! had ordered his son “to give the] “Germans hell,” began talking. : “It won't be long now that vou boys are over there,” the father said.” |
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REPORT SUB OFF COAST OF TEXAS
mal protest against the dumps by a delegation of South Side residents who said they represented 25Q property owners in the vicinity of the umps.
d ‘Presumed to Be an Enemy, Spokesmen said the dumps created
a serious health menace and have {become a breeding piace for rats {which are infesting homes. Report All-Night Fires
The property owners also complained that operators of the dumps
Craft.’
PORT ARTHUR, Tex. Jan. 28 (U. P.).—Gulf shipping interests were warned todav of the presence of a submarine off Aransas Pass at 9 a. m., according to an announce-
the steamer sank in 25 minutes. The torpedoing occurred at 1:50 a. m. Jan. 19. The steamer’s chief officer said two lifeboats were smashed by the torpedo explosions. “I think two other lifeboats managed to get away.” he said.
“The!
The survivors included construction workers and a 2!;-year-old girl with her mother and father.
“The little girl was very brave,”
(the Chief Officer said. Sixteen of the survivors were from |
St. Josepn, Mo.
Ninth Ship Sunk Off Coast: 29 in Crew of 32 Rescued
WASHINGTON. Jan. 28
(U. P) —German submarines have made
| before the committee which, in its]
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R. Ferguson, naval port director for Port Arthur. An official spokesman said that
had been burning trash day and night to salvage metal. They said that at times they were forced out of their homes because of smoke
their ninth successful attack on Allied shipping along’ the Atlantic Coast within two weeks, but an enemy craft may have permitted a prospective 10th victim to slip out of its grasp, the Navy announced today. The 7096-ton tanker Francis E. Powell, owned by the Atlantic Refining Co., was sunk by a torpedo _Somewhere off the Atlantic Coast
the submarine had been sighted about 15 miles off Aransas Pass at latitude 26 degrees 48 minutes north, longitude 99 degrees 49 minutes west. “It was not determined,” the spokesman said, “whether it Was an enemy submarine, but it may be presumed that it was.”
and odors. The delegation protested dumping conditions to City officials last summer, but the officials did nothing about it. Louis C. Brandt, Board president, said he didn’t blame the residents for complaining. “The Board probably will have to revoke those dumping permits in order to remedy these conditions,”
late Monday or early Tuesaay with the loss of two or possibly three lives. The Nazi “rattlesnakes”—so-called by President Roosevelt—may have been less successful in their attack on the 7236-ton tanker Pan-Maine, owned by the Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. A Navy spokesman said that the Pan-Maine’s last message yesterday
“Hope has arisen that all may be well with the ship,” the spokesman said. Submarines have attacked at least 10 vessels in American territorial waters since Jan. 14, sinking all except the 8206-ton tanker Malay and possibly the Pan-Maine. The Malay managed to make the
until our united strength is largely increased.” Will Slow Jap Moves
“But it will be increased with the help of our Navy and the sinister! Jap will find his progress slower and ever more costly as he gets! closer and closer to the prize he| covets,” the Secretary said. | Tola (Seuirt) Christensen “The thief of the Pacific will find Tola chimed in to assure the | some mighty battles between him goigjer that she would be waiting. and the wealth of the Indies, bat- to, ties which like all the battles in this| py; Henke had lost no time after! gigantic battle with thieves, east ne janded in Ireland revealing that and west, will largely depend on US| his wartime biggest worry was! here at home.” |whether Miss Christensen would! Mr. Knox said some persons|yait for him. thought of the Navy “as a fleet of] Now he can concentrate on the battleships, searching, finding and | | Germans. | fighting the enemy's fleet of battle-|
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‘By Permission Of the Governor’
GOVERNOR SCHRICKER received a special delivery letter today. It went something like this: “I have a steady job . . . can support a wife. . . . I have the
consent of hers and my parents.
+. If it is all right with you. . Hoping you will consent . . .” The Governor replied:
. Would be greatly pleased |
to see you happily married . . . heartiest congratulations . . . wish you and vour bride a long and happy married life.” All in a days work for the “daddy” of the State.
ships.” He said, however that the Navy must also protect America’s coasts and bases and the sea lanes of merchant ships, and that it must fight on a “global front.”
A dark, bushy-haired and stocky ‘man of about 28, who threatened {three women with a revolver yes|terday, was hunted today by po{lice and sheriff's deputies. Nearly identical descriptions were ... 5igiven by the three women who ...+ 12 faced his gun yesterday. Police beEditorials . 12/ Pyle 11 lieve he is the same man who has Mrs. Retcussh 12 Radio ....... 17 assaulted a Shortridge High School Financial .... 18/Mrs. Roosevelt 11 girl on Audubon Road and asForum 12 Serial Story. . 18|saulted two young women near the Homemaking . 14 Side Glances . 12 Technical High School football field. In Indpls, 3 Society ... 13. 14 Mrs. Betty Crippen, 22, of 1738% Inside Indpls. 1! Sports 8. 9 Parker Ave. was confronted by a Jane Jordan.. 14 Stage 15 gunman as she walked through Johnson ...... 12 State Deaths. 5 Brookside Park shortly before noon
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Hunt Bushy-Haired Gunman Who Menaced Three Women
(yesterday with her 5-year-old son. He demanded money but fled when the boy started erying. In mid afternoon, Mrs. Helen Johnson, 26, of 8750 E. 10th St., returned home and found a masked man filling the same description in the living room. - She said he pointed a revolver at her. He fled with $220 from a poeketbook when she ran out to call aid. Shortly before sundown, a gunman halted Miss Mary Nieten, 17, of 1635 N. Temple Ave, on Brookside Parkway, south drive, near Rural St, but disappeared when she sald she had no money.
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he said. Proposes Incinerator
He said he will propose construction of a large incinerator at the {dumping ground at Bluff Road and Regent St, target for complaints for years. The otner drums listed in the delegation’s protest are in the vi- | cinity of Minnesota and S. Illinois | Sts. north of the Belt Railroad. One {of them is three blocks long. In promising the delegation that | something will be done, Mr. Brandt said that if the incinerator cannot 'be built, then the Board will take |steps to provide dumping grounds | outside the City limits. Members of the delegation suggested that Bluff Road dump be filled in and made into a park and
playground.
WILLIAM FORTUNE ‘VERY CRITICAL’
The condition of William Fortune, Indianapolis civic leader, was described as “very critical” at Methodist Hospital this afternoon. Mr. Fortune has been seriously ill several weeks.
HELD IN SISTER'S DEATH
INDEPENDENCE, Mo, Jan. 28 (U. P).—George W. Welsh Jr, 27, today was indicted for the brutal slaying of his beautiful 24-year-old sister, Leila Adele Welsh, who was beaten and slashed as she slept in their Kansas City home last March 8.
trip to Newport News, Va., under her own power despite damage
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afternoon had reported a submarine attack, but that no further word
had been received. ” s »
The War and You
Wool Shortage Puts Crimp In Women's Styles for Fall
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (U. P.).—The American woman is due for a shock when next fall's fashion plates roll off the presses. If present plans of industry representatives and War Production Board officials are carried out, Mrs, Jones will have to reconcile herself to seeing her carefully chosen rayon dress almost duplicated on Mrs. Smith. And both will have to get used to wearing just an ordinary hat. The WPB has decided that wool and other clothing materials will have to be conserved for the armed forces and essential civilian needs, and manufacturers of women's and children’s dresses have been asked to simplify their product and to use cotton, rayon, re-worked and reused wool. This does not mean that dresses will be shorter — there’s not much room there for economy—but stylists will be adjured not to lengthen them. Also pleats will be discouraged, and tan, brown or olive drab materials will be unavailable because of the scarcity of dyes and their extensive use in coloring uniforms.
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NELSON BACKS $1-A-YEAR MEN
Specialists Needed in War Effort, He Claims in Reply to Critics.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (U.P) .— Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the
War Production Board charged to-|
day that criticism of dollar-a-year men by the Senate Defense Investigating Committee is “making good men afraid to come down here and work for the defense program.” Mr. Nelson made the statement
year-end report, characterized dol-lar-a-vear men as “lobbyists” for
large corporations. He also declared that he is ready to be “the goat” if the armamerg drive bogs down, At the opening of the hearing, Senator Ralph O. Brewster (R. Me.), asked Mr. Nelson whether “we are hampering you.” “Yes, definitely,” he replied. “You are making good men afraid to come down here and work for the defense program.”
Wants Careful Selection
Mr. Nelson characterized the use of dollar-a-year men as necessary to obtain the “maximum results.” He laid down four rules for their appointment. 1. A dollar-a-year man should be “of outstanding business or technical ability, of unimpeachable integrity, and especially qualified.” 2. No dollar-a-year man should be appointed if a map of equal ability can be found and induced to serve the Government “on a regular salary basis.” 3. “No person shall be employed in any position in which he will make decisions directly affecting his own company.” 4. All appointments should be made after a “thorough investigation of the proposed appointee.”
LANDED AFTER 33 HOURS IN LIFEBOAT
Survivors of Torpedoed
Tanker Reach Canada.
AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Jan. 28 (U. P.)~—Thirtythree survivors of a torpedoed Brit ish tanker were landed here today after spending 33 hours in an open lifeboat. Survivors said many of the vessel’s crew were killed when a “big submarine” sent two torpedoes crashing into the ship’s hull. It was the third torpedoing reported in the Atlantic off the Canadian Coast within 24 hours. Thirty-three survivors of two other ships sunk by Axis submarines were being treated at a hospital. Twenty-one were Norwegians, the crew of a Norwegian tanker,
their condition were critical. Twelve
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Latest advices said Japanese forces were converging along the four main highways of Malaya, pressing down be-
hind tank spearheads toward the Imperial troops—British, Ause tralian and Indian—who were massing near the tip of the penine sula for the climactic battle of Singapore. The Japanese were last reported 43 miles from Singapore at the nearest point. Up to noon, the regular daily communique had not been issued in Singapore. It was evident that the evacuation order there ape plied only to civilians and civilian enterprises in order to make way for increased preparations to defend the island against frontal assault.
Reinforcements on Way
Only a mile across the strait from the north side of the island of | Singapore is Johore Bharu, north of
| which the British were preparing a | defensive ring to fight the Japanese
on the mainland and, so far as possible to keep Singapore Island out of the range of Japanese land artillery. In London Lord Privy Seal Clement A. Attlee told the House of Commons that additional British troops and other reinforcements were being sent to the Far East, American reinforcements also are pouring to the southwest Pacific.
U. S. Planes Blast Japs
Singapore Island is connected with Johore Bharu by a granite causeway which is broken only by a drawbridge over a channel naviga= ble by small craft. Tons of exe plosives would be required to make it impassable to enemy troops and mechanized transport attempting to reach the island. Some 13 miles from the causeway head is the great Singapore naval base, bristling with long-range coast artillery emplaced to defend the ise land against attack from the sea. Throughout the Far East, the Japanese threat to key Allied bases and communication lines remained grave. But:
Lull Continues in Bataan
American flying fortresses leads ing an Allied drive to destroy the big Japanese Invasion armada in the East Indies sank another large transport, set a second transport afire and straddled an enemy cruise er with bombs, raising the U. 8. toll of enemy ships to 14 or 15 and the Allied toll to 31 in the Battle of Macassar Straits. One American bomber was lost in the fighting. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces continued to enjoy a lull in the fighting on the Bataan peninsula, today’s War Department come munique said. American fighter pilots shot down six to 12 more Japanese in an air battle near Rangoon, where the enemy had attacked an aire drome last night. British Blenheim bombers started big fires in another raid on Bange
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THE BOX SCORE
BATAVIA, Jan. 28 (U. P.).—Of= ficial sources tonight compiled this box score on Japanese naval losses in the Straits of Macassar: By the By the Dutch Americans Total 3 12
Transports .7 12 18
—. Were survivors of a Greek freighter.
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