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The Indianapolis Time

VOLUME 353—NUMBER 278

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FORECAST: Somewhat warmer this afternoon and tonight.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1942

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Hoagy Back, Hurries

Mother and That Apple Pie! FE § HURLED

Composer Talks of New Hits He'll Plav at Field House Party.

By LESTER POSVAR Hoagy Carmichael came back to his home town today, made a beeline for his mother’s kitchen at 3120 Graceland Ave., smelied the newlybaked apple pie and proceeded to tell her about “Mr. Bug Goes to Town.” That's the a movie, an animated cartoon. for which he has written the theme song, “A Couple in the Castle.” He also told her about a couple of his other new songs— Skylark” and “Baltimore Oriole.” ‘It Sure Needs a Plug” “Looks like I'm 2o0ing in for birds this season, doesn't it, Mother?” Mrs. Howard C. Carmichael laughed: “I don’t care how good they are, doubt that they will be as good ‘One Morning in May,” she said. “Ah! And it Hoagy. While the mother loves her “One Morning in May.” he her siring beans almost any from January to December,

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RITES SET FOR WM. FORTUNE

Noted Civic and Red Cross. Leader to Be Buried Saturday.

Hoagy made solemn - announcement: “You, know. mother, I have succeeded in training our cook how to cook string beans the way you do.” The composer gave his mothers SIring Beans a titie that might do for a song—"Kentucky Wonder." William Fortune, civic-and busito alt 3 has id gh, ness leader in Indianapolis for more amount of pork and vinegar with than half a centary, died at Meththe string Qeans.” : . odist Hospital last night after sevMrs. Carmichael returned the eral weeks’ illness. He was 78. compliment by giving a second , member of more than a score piug » ue Morning in May.” of civic and business organizations, Hoagy's sister, Martha Carmichael, some of them national in scope. Mr. put in her plug. too. Fortune was the leader in raising Tells About Sons {more money for public movements -Shetr melody.” she exclaimed. | (220 any other man in the history

song. “A-h-h! A symphony!” breathes Hoagy Carmichael. And he means his mether's apple pie.

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‘MacArthur Says ‘Headlong’ ~ Attack Is Stopped With Heavy Enemy Losses.

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By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspeandent WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. — The War Department reported today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's men have hurled back “headlong” Jap-| anese attacks and U. 8. forces have raised their score to 16 Japanese, ships sunk or damaged in the battle of Macassar Straits: £5 American Army flying fortresses, |carrying out their third attack on the Japanese invasion fleet in Macassar waters, sank one Japanese | transport and set another afire, the | War Department reported. This brought the total of ships sunk by American air and sea forces in the battle to 10. Six {more are listed as probably sunk or damaged.

Attack American Flanks

The total of Japanese ships sunk, damaged or probably lost in the Macassar actidh “was placed estar, dav hy Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell {at 31. If the two ships reported to(day are in addition to his figures, {| the total now stands at 33. | The Japanese hurled “headlong | infantry assaults” at both the right! |and left flanks of Gen. MacArthur's | lines. | However. American artillery again | broke up the Japanese attacks with | “heavy” enemy losses. Japanese aircraft continued to re- | strict their activity to reconnais-

Closed by War

FT. WAYNE, Ind. Jan. 29 (U. P.).—The full rigors of war restriction have descended on Allen County, and minor matters like sugar and tire rationing have

Sheriff Walter Felger today announced suspension of “lover's lanes” for the duration. No automobiles will be allowed to park in dark, cozy country bowers. Sheriff Felger explained that, by coincidence. the more popular lovers’ rendezvous also happen to be in the vicinity of high power transmission lines and other defense areas. Rural defense wardens cannot tolerate a suspicious parked car, which may contain | sance.

saboteurs. | Strike Near Duich Oil Port

So for all-around safety, the sheriff suggests that love return | ope latest Macassar sinkings oc-

JOINT COMMAND

of Indiana. “But I will bet you a 50-cent piece :

In recent years he devoted most

to the parlor for the duration.

.|curred,, the War Department re-

Nurses Reach Iceland

These Red Cross workers, photographed in Washington shortly before sailing, have arrived in Iceland, it was announced today.

28-Man Crew of

BOSTON, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—The rescue of the entire 28-man crew of a Norwegian tanker torpedoed by an enemy submarine, off Nova Scotia eight days ago was reported today when the Boston trawler Grand Marshal arrived here. The rescue story, told by trawler crew members and authorized by the Navy, described how they found the tanker's ciew adrift in two lifeboats Friday off Seal Is-

RULES IN HAWAII

Army-Navy Also Unified in Canal Zone and Carib-

bean Area.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 29 (U. P).— Unified command of Army-Navy forces hidg been instituted at Hawaii, the Papas’ Canal Zone. and the Cariboant area aswell as in the Far East, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today. He disclosed that Admiral Ches-

a Nova Scotian'port. The tanker’s crew, all Norwegians except one, described as

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BATTLE RAGES 30 MILES FROM TIP OF MALAYA

Churchill Wins Vote of Confidence, 464 to 1, in Commons; British Lose Important Libya Base; Russ Surge On.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The United Nations battled desperately today against Axis offensives that cut deeper into the East Indies, surged to within 30 miles of Singapore, and re-entered the important Libyan desert base of Benghazi.

Although the Red Army battered forward on the southern sector of the Eastern front and Prime Minister Winston Churchill expressed increased confidence in final | victory, the enemy threat to Allied lines of supply and key bases in both Africa and the southwestern Pacific mounted for the time being.

In Libya, the Axis armored column sent slashing back almost 200 miles across the desert under direction of Nazi Gen. Erwin Rommel re-occupied Benghazi at dawn, a German communique said. The British had occupied Benghazi on Christmas day. ; The full extent of Gen. Rommel’s counter-thrusts could not yet be determined, but,

t was obvious that reinforced *%, 2" ee” Tap So vy | Ris. units were surviving] "A Dutch military official in Java battering R. A. F. attacks|told the United Press today that and threatening to nullif ,| Dutch defenses of the Borneo coast,

a New York City resident, were reported in good condition and warmly dressed. The only man injured. it was said, was the American who received a broken ankle.

RUSS ROLL ON AGAINST NAZIS

ter W. Nimitz, new commander in chief of the Pacific fleet, had been placed in complete charge of Hawaiian defenses. Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, Army, commander in Hawaii, is his subordinate. Criticism May Ease Disclosure bf creafion “of ‘a uni- | fied command at that vital bastion was expected to soften to some extent congressional ‘criticism of the Army-Navy administration in Hawail. Mr. Stimsone said that all land.

Oo : : including Balik Papan, never wers the British triumph in east- counted on to do more than delay (ern Libya.

| the enemy, Interest centered on the commu- 1 0€ Dutch, -he said, expected their {nications junction of Mekili which

|defenses to hold out only long . a 3 | enough to permit destruction of all Rommel probably was aiming at in|, . an effort to cut off the British 8tp | installations that might be useful army but there was no indication W tie saemy and, after the Japof developments there. anese thrust started, that was what Vote Churchill Confidence

happened. Mr. Churchill in winning an ex-

American and British pilots ‘des stroyed at least nine and probably {pected vote of confidence—by 464 to

16. Japanese fighter planes in the Rangoon area today, losing only one

1-wgs Gnagle io brishien the Tomahawk fighter. One American

[cious war picture in his speech

you have a hit in “The Couple in of

his energi the Indi i the Castle’ is energies to the Indianapolis

: IRed Cross of which he was chairIt yas Hoagys first home-com- man for 25 years. He was a ing since last fall when he re- member of the board of incorporaturned to the campus of his almaligrs of the National Red Cross and mater, Indiana University, 'o d0| was a director of both the Indihis bit for a scholarship fund. The anapolis Chamber of Commerce and occasion for his return is the Pres-!the United States Chamber of Comident’s Birthday Party tomorrow merce at the time of his death. night at Butler Fieldhouse in which Born in Boonville

he will take a leading part. s : ; Hoagy flew ii from Hollywood Funeral services will be held at

9. : and told his mother all about his ---0.P- M- Saturday at the residence sons, Hoagy Bix, 3. and Randv Bob | 2% Traders’ Point. Dr. George A. 13 months : ® ‘| Frantz, pastor of the First PresbyTF was about Hosgy Bixs agé terian Church, will officiate. I s 1 ; ial Servi sii aus when You bought that oak and gold Burial services at Crown Hill will

ia be private. piano on which I learned to play. Fk in Boonville, Ind. on Mav Remember. it, mother?” , : oy

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vealed, in an attack by five heavy U. S. bombers on Japanese trans- { port concentrations at Balikpapan, the Dutch oil port on the Boreno coast which has been seized by the! enemy. One transport was sunk and an-| Sant ‘other was set afire. Two Japanese Check Mission of Mystery planes were shot down and a third : | was damaged. All the U. S. planes _ Planes at Night. |

returned safely to their base. Mysterious planes flying at night over the Great Lakes-Mississippi River area of tne Midwest placed the Army Air Corps and the Civil! Air Patrol on the alert today. A careful check is being made to determine the mission of these planes which are not authorized ‘flight under wartime Civil Aeronau-|4

CIVIL AIR PATROL HERE GETS ALERT

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QUITS RATHER THAN SELL PUPILS STAMPS

REEDLEY, Cal, Jan. 29 (U. P.).—| Miss Florence Auernheimer, kinder- | garten teacher, resigned her post at Washington. school today at the re- | uest of school officials who said she |

in the House of Commons but he (emphasized that the American exog ha, : | peditionary force had dimmed Axis Line; Score Triumphs hopes of a “total victory” both in | A oti Europe and the Far Bast and said n Arse. that America wanted the mass of MOSCOW, Jan. 20 (U. P.)—The United States forces in early and

new southern offensive of Marshal Cl0S€ contact with the enemy. Semyon Timoshenko, which in three| In the Pacific struggle, American ays has cost the Germans more defenders of the Bataan peninsula

han three regiments in casualties clung to tneir Philippine positions olled onward today under the im-|2d used artillery to break up petus of fresh reserves and the at-| headlong enemy infantry assaults tack of Cossack cavalry. ; both flanks, inflicting heavy command. | (The British radio. heard in New |l0sses on the Japanese. ; “The only thing that I can say yok py CBS. said the Russians | American and Dutch aerial atis that thie matter is under careful! j,ye penetrated deeply into the !2Cks on the big Japanese invasion study and consideration,” the Sec-| German lines between Orel and fleet in the East Indies continued retary said. Kharkov and in the course of one With a total of 33 enemy ships | week Russian forces advanced here Knocked out, but the enemy had

sea and aviation, forces in the Panama area are under the supreme command of an army air’ officer, Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews. In the western Caribbean the U. S. fighting forces are under the command of a naval officer, Rear Admiral J. H. Hoover.

Study Short's Status

Mr. Stimson was asked what the | { Department is doing about the case, of Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short, who | was relieved from :hiss Hawatian |

Break Germans’ Southern

{ 27, 1863, the son of William Harri- = Exp Ba son Fortune an ary Sinclair SALE OF AUTO USE 4 Bor caters 3 TAX STAMPS SLOW

Less than ha!f of Marion Counfr chased “use” tax stamps. The deadline is midnight Saturda: After that it will be illegal to drive & car without one. The siamps are on sale at the Post Office and its substations and

automobile owners have pur-

Fortune, he started his career as a tics Authority regulations. = {refused to sell defense stamps to reporter on a Boonville newspaper.. Reports of these unidentified air- Pupils because of her opposition to A huge stone memorial marker craft operations were received here War. : : : stands at his birthplace in Boon- yesterday -by Walker W. Winslow, | In a letter of resignation, Mis ville. ; Indiana Civil Air patrol commander, | Sehmes said He loved ana re! At the age of 18, Mr. Fortune|from Lieut. Col. Floyd E. Evans of | Pee = PE | is xe uses came to Indianapolis as a reporter|the Army Air Corps, Civil Air Pa-| 0 is in a hysteria that wit sooner for the old Indianapolis Journal trol Commartder for ‘the’Fifth Re- WLC T° Co |In two years he became city editor, gion. ui RR A succeeding Harry S. New who be- Col. Evans urged all citizens ‘who QUISLING MAY BE NAMED came U. S. Senator and later Post- hear unusual aircraft activity at RERN. Jan. 20 (C. D. N.)—The

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the Internat Revenue Departmen:. master General. There are an estimated 150,000 Started Grade Elevation

autos in the county ‘ : night the Post ae ne oa Mr. Fortune later became editora ial writer on the Indianapolis News.

the police department or the sheriff so that a check-up can be made.

REFUSES ATTACK PROBE

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BIE EO I a forthcoming appointment of Maj. Vidkun Quisling as head of the German puppet government in Norway is ‘reported today from

MEDAL GOES TO HERO 5 mic" admit a grave break SLAIN IN PHILIPPINES grave break-

| front, WASHINGTON, Jan. 39 0. P| fruitlessly threw reserves, mostly —President Roosevelt today award- second *1in€ troops hastily transed the first Congressional Medal-of | ported from -the occupied ScandiHondr of World War II posthu- | havian’ countries, into the fighting mously to 2nd Lieut. Alexander R.|On the northwestern front. but sufNininger Jr. of the 57th Infantry fered almost equal casualties in that “for conspicuous gallantry and in- | area. trepedity”’ ‘in the . battle of the Philippines. | Under the sea and in the air as Young Nininger, who was gradu- well, the Russians were scoring ated from West Point in July, met fresh triumphs, aided ‘by the bitter

Triumphs in Arctic

{made a new landing at the Dutch | Borneo port of Pemangkat and was (down the west coast. | This was a distinct threat to Java, Sumatra and Singapore, only {320 miles across the island-dotted [South China Sea. | The United Nations attacks on the Japanese in the East Indies still were in the nature of counterattacks, although the enemy armada, originally ships, has been so heavily battered that much of its force has been de-

consisting of 100]

pilot was injured slightly. Japanese Losses Heavy

In Malaya, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties including 450 dead in one counter-attack by Australian units but pushed forward to within about 30 miles of the big British naval base, which clamly prepared for a fast-ditch defense as Japanese planes again raided the Singapore area. Japanese planes again bombed the port of Emma Haven, on the west Sumatra coast, and attacked Singapore, where 105 persons were | killed and 243 injured in yesterday's air raids. : On the Malaya enemy

land front, the pushed forward to Layang |Layang on,the central sector, only (about 30 miles from the Strait {guarding Singapore Island. A

rough at Kursk on the southern Pushing southward from Sarawak United Press correspondent, visiting the hard-pressed Germans '" 2 combined sea and land drive British headquarters, said that the

[roar of heavy guns could be plainly (heard in Singapore. { The British, having evacuated {civilians from the north shore of | Singapore Island, obviously were ate [tempting to set up the strongest and shortest defense line which would keep the Japanese beyond artillery range of the island. | It was believed that the laste {ditch battle would be fought out= |side the city of Johore Bahru from

stations had sold only 65.789 stamps WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (UP). — Stockholm and Berlin. If this re- [death in desperate hand-to-hand winter. stroyed and Japanese landing par-| (Continued on Page Four)

and the Interpal Revenue office

His first civic venture was organiza-! tolaiit tion of the old Indianapolis Com- The House Naval Affairs Committee port is confirmed the slogan “Quismercial Club in 1890. forerunner of | today rejected by a vote of 14 to 8 ling government” will be a fact. Up the Board of Commerce and later the demands of several members for vo now Quisling has only been the

fighting Jan. 12. Red Star, the army organ, reThé medal will be presented to ported a drastic reduction in Gerthe dead youth's father, Alexander man aif activity and amazing ex-

31865 ONE-WAY TRAFFIC | the Chamber of Commerce. { In the 90s he was originator of

retary of Navy Frank Knox that|in the winter of 1894 and sponsored

American warships “are getting a| {Continued on Page Four)

number of enemy subma ” inl U. S. coastal waters. fe NAZIS HAVE 250 SUBS | WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (U. P). ‘Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R. Pa.) a Naval Reserve officer who recent-

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tive service with an Atlantic convoy, said today he had been in-

«.++.17/ Model Planes 7 Movies ....14, Crossword Music Editorials 18 Obituaries Fashions ...... 20 Pegler Mrs. Ferguson 18 Pryie Questions. 17,

Clapper Comics

-13 950 submarines and that usually 13] about one-third of them were at 9 sea” at a given time.

8 a 18 CANADA TO RATION GAS 17° OTTAWA, Jan. 29 (U.P.).—Gaso18 line for private use will be ra16 tioned in Canada after April 1. 17 C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions ..2T.and Supply. announced today. 12 Owners of private automobiles will 20 be allowed, under the plan, between 22,23 300 and 380 gallons per year, Deaths... § enough to drive about 5400 miles,

Jane Jordan . 20 Socifty ....19, Johnson ,.....18 Millett besais 200

lv completed a tour of duty on ac-|

formed that Germany had about

ja commi | Pearl Harbor attack.

ttee ihvestigation of the head of the Norwegian National | Socialist Party.

Former Secretary, Long Ac

; i _lexecutive behind the scenes of G.; Harry C. Fenton, Indiana Repub 10. P. tak vei. He was elected secretary of the State Committee in 1925 after a long career as a newspaper reporter iin Indianapolis and Washington, Gs Although Mr, Fenton furnished (the ideas for many political speeches land wrote some of them, he never made a speech in his life, accord: ing to his close associates. “He never was persuzded even to sit at He eal le, ways preferring n the rear N row,” a friend said. i a 1 Mr. Fenton alse was active in { ‘For 16 years he Mr. Fenton |jegisiative matters, having helped ‘was secretary of draft and pu

|the State Republican Comittee sral Assen ‘and was regarded then as the Main now

lican leader and member of the | State Alcoholic Beverages Commis-

jsion, died today ‘at his home, 4030 |E. 62d St., after long illness. HH was 54 yesterday. Mr. Fenton, ‘a | native of Crawfordsville, was (recognized as one of the outstanding political analysts ‘and strategists in | Indiana.

Harry C. Fenton of ABC Is Dead af 54; tive in G. O. P.

R. Nininger Sr, who lives at Ft. Lauderdale, fra.

He helped draft the Stout Liquor Control Act passed by the 1941 Legislature. During the.lean years of the Republican Party back in the early Thirties when the party lacked ready

ploits by the Russian Arctic submarine fleet, which so far has sunk 45 German transports totaling more than 200,000 tons in the Barentz sea. The German luftwaffe was badly hamstrung by the cold, curtailing

{cent on some fronts.

'TEAMSTERS OFFER $8,000,000 TO U. S.

MIAMI, Fla. Jan. 20 (U. P).— The International Brotherhood of Teamsters was on record today as

its flying activity, almost 50 per |:

Japan's appa protection for th she sent into the

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Today's War Moves

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE

nited Press War Analyst

Another such costly mistake as the Battle of Macassar Strait and the Japanese will have materially reduced their chances of attaining their East Indies objectives before the United Nations sufficient forces to drive them out.

accumulate

rent failure to provide sufficient air e armada of some 100 vessels which

narrow strait toward Java seems inexplicable, unless

the Japanese underestimated the air and naval strength of the Allies

in that area. The upshot was

cash, Mr. Fenton served as publicity director and committee executive in addition to his secretarial

Sher i United States, “With | feet has been destroyed or crippled, or without interest,” $8,000,000 with the estimated loss of about Which it has in its treasury. 35,000 Japanese. The battle is reduties. . : President Daniel J. Tobin made ported still in progress. ' 1t was then that party leaders, the offer following a meeting of Tye British are expressing doubt baffied for lack of issues to combat the executive board here. He said nat the survivitig chips will be sufDemocratic landslides, leaned heav- that the union already has pur-|fcient for a successful attack on the 4 Mr. Fenton for strategic chased $2,000,000 in defense bonds. presumed objective, the Island of ; Java, in Political opponents and party as- If this proves true, it will be by sociates alike often referred to him as the “brains behind the Repub- far the most important score made by the Allies in the war to date.

py JE i dvidels knogn for his It would probably be at least a ~ (Continued on Page Four)

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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assemble the ships, men and equipment necessary for another such expedition. The time gained would be of ute most value to the United States, {whose flow of planes, ships and {material to the Far East increass in proportion as the weeks pass. The results of the Macassar bate tle strikingly illustrates the ime portance of air power in this - gle among the southwest islands, »