Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1942 — Page 2

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THAT'S. HOW | GOT IT IN LEG’

Writer Describes Fury of Japanese Last Attack On Malayan Tip.

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were frightened refugees. There were men who defied the enemy bombers. There were camera men who kept their machines grinding as the enemy hurled bombs at the causeway. And there was one among the many unsung heroines who refused to seek the comparative safety of Singapore Island. She was Mrs.| Stanley Baillie of North Berwick, Scotland, who indignantly refused to accept advice that she leave a hospital base where wounded sol-| diers could not be moved. |

Entitled te Salute

Mrs. Baillie said farewell to most| of her friends and said she would | stand by in one of the most dan-| gerous areas. Her husband is in| the army. We saluted her as she] turned down the opportunity of joining a departing unit. The traffic southward was not as heavy as might have been expected, but the evacuees were forced tol move slowly and to keep to the side | of the road. I saw one group wearing red fezzes, presumably Egyptians or Arabs. Behind them came tricycle carriers piled high with a jumble of household effects, including a number of Chinese flower-painted pottery pieces. In various villages small parties joined up under direction of local leaders. Many carried palm and pineapple fronds to shelter themselves from the scorching sun.

Boys Guard Rice Cargo

Two little boys pulled a home- | made trolley on which they had] placed a big bag of rice which| they guarded as if it meant life}

or death to them—and perhaps it| [58

will. i Many bent and wrinkled natives] plodded along, apparently without | knowing where they were going. | Many women carried tiny babies] on their backs and some carried | the much-prized Westminster chim- | ing clocks that are popular in na- | tive villages. | There did not seem to be many *good Samaritans” among the per-| sons with motor transportation, but’ the others all helped each other] and many women were given prior-| itv on official lorries | Snap Pictures Despite Planes Dust raised by the retiring armed |

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East Indies J) JAPAN

BKYO To India: 4000 mi. To Singapore: 3300 mi. 2) To Australia: 3500 mi.

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The increasing peril to the Dutch East Indies is shown in this map. The large arrow indicating

Japanese objectives takes in Amboina where a full scale invasion attempt was launched today.

United Nations defense lines are also shown.

forces settled on the sweating lines of refugees and half-naked bodies glistened under the hot sun. Traveling in an automobile with news reel men, I arrived at the Johore Bahru causeway at a time when the light was excellent for rhotography. The film men stopped and set up their cameras. A flight of 24 enemy planes ap-

peared overhead, speeding straight :

for the causeway. Three of us dived for a fox hole:

that had been dug for one man | — —

We covered the hole with a sheet of quarter-inch steel which gave more comfort than protection. Just then the Japanese dropped their bomb loads and the whole earth seemed to shake,

Clouds of Dust

Two fellow shelterers muttered unprintable words starting “the little yellow . . .” Near us there after detonation. After several minutes we raised a corner of our cover and looked out. Clouds of dust were every- | where. Anti-aircraft guns were! barking on zall sides It was then that I got it in the| leg again. A bomb stick burst near me as I lay prone on the ground and 1 was showered with slivers of rubber trees, loose earth and small shrapnel splinters. One splinter drew some blood from the calf of my right leg, which has always persisted in getting into the wars. (Mr. Guard's right leg was partly disabled in the World War; he was a submarine officer.) | Everywhere I saw 2a determina-| tion to delay and disrupt the Jap-| anese as long as possible. The natives especially were cheer- | ful, holding their thumbs up in greeting and giving every co-oper-ation to the soldiers. The soldiers themselves are now completely bronzed except for a prief section which they cover with the shortest of shorts —the sole uniform of the Malaya campaign. Bomb Upsets Tea Kettle Japanese planes droned low over us, making their way toward Singapore. The soldiers began moving cautiously out of the rubber fields and the ditches when suddenly a single Japanese bomber, diving out of the sun, came so low I saw its markings. I had scarcely thrown myself on the ground when machine-gun bullets began spattering closely and! the plane loosed its full bomb load.! I joined a group of British soldiers when the plane disappeared, and found them seething with anger. The bombs had upset the mess kettle in which they had just brewed a fresh lot of morning tea.

USE STAMP MUST BE ON AUTO BY MONDAY

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U. P). —Monday is the deadline for purchase of the new Federal auto-use stamps, but Treasury officials today said the $2.09 stickers will remain Maximum penalty for driving an auto without the stamp after Monday is a $25 fine and 30 days imprisonment. Treasury officials said enforcement rests with collectors of internal revenue. The price of a stamp for a full year is $5 and stickers of this denomination will go on sale before July 1, beginning of the next fiscal & and deadline for putting autos. :

was detonation

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with 25-mile range guard harbor mouth |

The

tack by sea

Some of the world’s biggest long-range guns and jungles as thick as any in Malaya guard the approaches to Singapore Island. The British forces, now forced off the mainland of Malaya, promise a fight to the death at {he naval fortress.

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they'll have enough construction machinery soon to do all the building |

the war program will permit. production. = = ®

CLOSER control of industrial inventories is in thc works. It means burdensome. figure work for industry, big checking job for Advocates say it’s needed so war industry can draw on supplies without danger of running out suddenly.

Government.

» = = THERE'LL BE NO legislation— now, at any unemployment insurance systems

as part of the $300,000,000 benefit | plan for war-displaced workers. |

Sentiment in Congress is strongly for leaving supervision with the

states—which have built up re- |

serves eXceeding $2.500,000,000. = » =

Leon Henderson has requisitioned 300 wage-hour inspectors.

They're watching for chiseling on | tire-rationing orders, working on | stocks of |

inventory of dealers’ tires and tubes. 2 ® 2

REPUBLICAN strategy still

calls for full support of FDR war | program. GOP isolationists in | Congress didn't miss the fact that two recent by-elections went to |

men following the Willkie pattern of liberal, non-isolationist Republicanism. Theyre watching muni-

issue. » ® 2

Opens New TVA Attack

TAXI men in defense areas

| may get tires; it’s not decided.

DOUGLAS Dam isn't built yet but it has already washed out Senator McKellar’'s one-time 100 per cent support of the New Deal. He denounced one-man price control this week; will launch an attack on TVA Chairman Lilienthal.

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FEDERAL Security Adminis-

trator McNutt will take up the |

cudgels for NYA funds for college students. He’s ex-dean of Indiana University Law School, sympathizes with educators’ side of the fight. : bh @

CENSORSHIP has hit capital's best news source—Congressional hearings on department appropriations. Volumes of printed testimony used to be ck, now are slim and unenlightening.

Triple Purpose

LEND-LEASE money may buy South American meat, hides, wheat and other agricultural products for direct shipment to United Nations, thus killing three birds with one stone—feeding Allies, pleasing good meighbors, conserving United States food for homg use. :

: | rate—to federalize | for

tions output; if this t it will | cutting steel for razor blades. Not

be No. 1 Congressional campaign |

Industry can be converted to munitions |

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Cherish those false teeth! Priorities have hit mercury, used coloring dental rubber to make it look like gums.

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I.OOK FOR more trouble from { John L. Lewis. He's crowding | other C. I. O. unions by expanding “District 50” of United Mine | | Workers. It's already a catch- { all for many non-miners; is | reaching out for chemical and petroleum workers.

2 = 2 LICENSED women pilots, snubbed last year by Army’s plane ferry service, are being courted now for civil air patrol. There are 2000 of them; CAP wants them all. = 2 2 NYLON stockings are going the | way of all silk; rayon’s the only thing left for replacement. 2 = 4

WHAT, beards? There's talk

for a while yet, though.

IT’S JUST ORDINARY JANUARY WEATHER

| The colder temperatures ‘which | descended upon Indianapolis today’ is “just ordinary January weather,” according to Weatherman J. H. | Armington. > Light snow this afternoon will (turn to flurries tonight, he said, with no extreme drop in tempera-' turas seen for tonight. The State Highway Department reported three inches of snow on| ‘roads in the La Porte, Valparaiso, | Rensselaer district. It was snowing hard in that section.

LATE FILERS MEET GROSS TAX DEADLINE

Thousands of Hoosiers stood in lines today waiting to pay their Gross Income tax and avoid the 10 per cent (with interest) penalty that takes effect at midnight. Branch offices and headquarters at 141 S. Meridian St. were besieged by persons making returns. Returns sent by mail and postmarked before midnight are ac-

BATAAN BRACES FOR

MAJOR JAP: ATTACK

(Continued from Page One)

Japanese planes—was that if the Filipinos gave up their fight they could erect “your new Philippines for and by the Filipinos.” The appeal, Gen. MacArthur advised the War Department, “has occasiohed much mirth among the Filipino soldiers.” The Japanese appeal appeared to be vitiated by the actual treatment accorded the Filipino population by the conquering forces. The Japanese have introduced a type of rule comparable to the worst meted out

(by the Germans in occupied Euj rope.

Homes Looted

Americans in Manila, it was said, are being allowed clean and fairly comfortable quarters but have been provided with little food because

{ the Japanese occupation army of | 200,000 troops or mere is living off {the land. Both civilian stores and {homes were said | to have been

looted. Most of the Americans in Manila, it was reported, have been gathered in ancient Santo Tomas University. They have been given fairly decent living quarters but only a few handfuls of rice per person per day.

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{Japs Invade Dutch Naval

BRITISH BACK UP INTO SINGAPORE

Base, Seize Moulmein,

Attack New Guinea. (Continued from Page One)

in the assault on Singapore Island, separated from the mainland by the mile-wide water barrier.

Causeway “Breached”

The enemy was blasted by British naval guns, artillery and airplanes as the defense forces withdrew in good order from the mainland under a plan calling for the Imperials to inflict the heaviest possible casualties and delay the Japanese as long as possible. The withdrawal was carried out as scheduled and without serious enemy interference. The causeway across the strait was “breached,” presumably merely broken by engineers in a way that would prevent the enemy from crossing as it is built of granite and would be extremely difficult to blow up entirely. The British command then mobilized all fighting strength in the population of 751,000 persons on the island (30 miles long by 10 miles wide) and issued a communique saying that it would be defended until reinforcments arrived as “most assuredly” they will. London commentators said that the big allied need is more naval strength in the East Indies in order to turn the tide against the enemy by striking at long lines of communications now stretching out into the Southwestern Pacific. A British broadcast reported that reinforcements were arriving in that area, one convoy of 60 ships had arrived, presumably in Australia, after escaping a Japanese air attack. The new enemy thrust into the Dutch islands centered on the Moluccas, lying about 140 miles west of New Guinea, south of the Philippines and 660 miles north of Port Darwin, the main Allied base in north Australia.

Another Jap Sub Sunk

Japanese forces, including three cruisers, six destroyers and four transports, supported by heavy air squadrons have been blasting at the Dutch defense forces at Amboina naval and air base for 24 hours and were last reported storming the coast. The Dutch destroyed all installations at the base and were fighting strongly against the attack, but

again were outnumbered. The Japanese invasion fleet, part of the great sea-borne force the enemy sent into the East Indies in an all-out gamble for quick vietory, was believed to be under air attack by Dutch and probably American planes based in Borneo but no details were disclosed by Allied headquarters. . The Dutch reported that they] had sunk another Japanese submarine, bringing their toll of enemy ships bombed to 55 in 55 days of war, but did not give the position of the attack. Amboina is on an island of 262! square miles but the Dutch defense units there were believed much ine ferior in numbers to thousands of Japanese troops on the invading

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