Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1942 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Time
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 282
U.S. PLANES SLOW JAP ADVANCE
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1942
This photo released by the U. s. Navy shows the — hulk of the U. S. S. Arizona, after the Japanese had bombed
‘BUNDLES FOR CONGRESSMEN’
Spokane Starts Campaign To Help Members Who | Want Pensions.
SPOKANE, Wash, Feb 3 (U.P) —A “Buntles for Congress” to * keep ‘em laughing” campaign swept merrily along the West Coast today, bringing forth contributions of rats’ nests, wooden legs, glass eves, false teeth and moth balls Residents rummaged through at-| tics and cellars for “presents” for! their Senators and Representativeg al Washington and articles of every size, shape and description deluged the official “bundle headquarters™ at the Spokane Athletic Round Table office, where the stunt originated to rib Congressmen who voted pen- | sions for themselves
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A large corps of women workers were far behind in their wrapping and packaging chores, but said they! hoped to catch up by tomorrow when a special truck leaves Spokane | to carry the “bundles” to Washing. | ton. | Round table members. dum-| founded by the reception accorded their plan said they had been swamped with telephone calls from cities along the line of march. Many asked permission to add a truck to| the caravan and other munieipali-| ties said they would have the Mayor | and town band escort the trucks] through town. One advertisement read: “They need help back in Washington. Forget Pearl Harbor and the war. Mail a bundle to your Senator or the other fellows Congressman.”
6 BILLION FOR BULLETS
" WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P).—
expected to fire so many shells’ torpedoes, machine gun bullets and pombs during the next five months] that it will take “the major part” of a $6.000.000.000 appropriation to replace them, published testimony before a Senate appropriations subcommittee disclosed today.
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CHAPTER II—OFFICIAL THUGS By HALLETT ABEND
It is no light matter to any settled way of life, to
wiped out, to abandon hastily well-loved homes and
friends.
It is a serious thing for your men, who are beginning to succeed
in chosen careers, to have to pack
middle-aged men to let their businesses go for a song in depreciated to the oid to be uprooted thus violently and abandon settled ways of life and what seemed security. Manchukuo, coastal China, Indo-China and in
Hongkong American women began packing and
currencies, All gver Japan,
sorting their household things, what to leave behind.
Men and women who stayed awake through the hours of the dark, because of the gnawing worry that they might not get their children onto ships before the anticipated storm broke, faced the daylight wearily and with heavy hearts. For then they had to discharge ig servants and
office helpers.
They strained their see to provide pens | sions or farewell gifts of money to those dependknowing that new jobs would be almost impossible to find and that at doubtful best these people would have to work for harsh and domineering Japanese.
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HUNDREDS OF American women up and down the China coast | those days were going with strained facet to pay last visits to little tablets in foreign cemeteries. For the last time they pulled the weeds from the graves of their loved ones, and then with heavy hearts went home to face the problems of pack-
ing up and getting away.
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THOSE CUTE CURLS MAKE LAST STAND
Hair to Be Worn Shorter, Milady Is Informed.
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| —Ladies, take a last look at those
exotic tresses and fluffy little round-the-face curls for they're on their way out with hairpins, aluminum curlers and bobbie pins. Milady's hairline, like her skirts
goods, is going up. ‘Hair a will be shorter this vear because men like it short-
—American women were assured today that theres no need to sacrifice glamour for natienal defense. The cheering news came from official spokesmen for the corset in- : © dustry. They told the nations buyers that despite rubber chortages: U5 Save vessels an) pious sit “There'll always be a corset industry and theres good foundation for
Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7.
have a definite period put to have savings endangered or
up and sail to a jobless future, to
RULE GETS 0. K. Safety Board Backs Loer
Plan to End Congestion At Intersections.
The “left or center” left-turn proposal made by City Traffic Engineer James E. Loer was approved today by the Saféty Board. The Board also adopted a resolution, recommending the City Council make the required change in the City Traffic Code.
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manufacturers added that they meant any one of the ven basic type figures to which ey plan to limit wartime corset production. Manufacturers said they were through with making odd assortments for the duration. Henceforth, they will concern themselves with putting the curves in the right places only for those
» “Junior gure.” “misses figure,” an “average short “average full” “average tall,” and “short full They said, however, that derubberized corsets won't be put on the market until present pre-war supplies en route to retailers aré exhausted which may not be until late summer.
1 10,000 JAPS IN ASHES
CHUNGKING, Feb. 8 (U. P).—A
reports, said today that the entire Japanese 18th Di-
This action followed a public hearing in which representatives of two Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce committees expressed their approval of the plan.
Indorsed by Committees
The proposal for the new regulation, which would require motorists turning left to drive to the left of the center of the street inter section rather than driving to the right of the center, was indorsed yesterday bg the engineering and executive committees of the Couns cil of the Chamber of Commerce. The committees’ action followed an explanation of the plan by Mr. Loer, who gave a projector slide demonstration at a joint meeting of the two groups.
Would Ease Hararde
Engineers and others attending the meeting reported that most objections to the proposed change had been withdrawn after more careful study. Mr. Lioer has explained to various organizations that the left-of-cen-ter turn would speed up traffic at congested corners and reduce hazards. He said the present right-of center turn has caused tie-ups in which strings of cars become deadlocked at busy intersections. The left-of-center turn would eliminate such congestion, he said.
Study 38th St. Problem
A study of the E. 38th St. speeding problem is being made by the City traffic engineering staff, Mr. Loer informed the Chamber of Commerce Council. The Safety Board recently fixed a speed limit of 30 miles an hour on E. 38th St. between Road 67 and: Fall Creek. Enforcement, however, has been difficult. Mr. Loer said the survey tay show the advisibility of raising the limit to 40 miles an hour.
GIVEN CORPS. COMMAND
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. Pp). —Brig. Gen. Sherman Miles, 58-year-old assistant Chief of Staff in charge of military intelligence, today was named commander of the First Corps Area with head. quarters at Boston.
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The u. S. S. Shaw, a destroyer, is shown afire in Pearl Harbor following a direct hit bya a Japaicee owh in the December sneak attack. (These official Navy photos were released through Acme. Additional Photos, Page Three.)
Torches Free Boy In Elevator Trap
BOSTON, Feb. 3 (U. P).—Fire« men ‘ahd police worked 45 mine utés with acetylene torches, pickaxes and chisels today before freeing 19-year-old Thomas Cor= coran of North Cambridge whose legs were pinned between a freight elevator cage and the first floor of a downtown building. The delivery boy's legs appar ently had become crossed as he slipped and fell. Throughout the 45 minutes, Corcoran remained conscious. He refused a hypodermic.
GETS LIFE TERM FOR ATTACKING 2 GIRLS
Mandatory Is Invoked.
Burns Sinclair, 37, today was sentenced to life in prison for eriminally attacking two little girls whose parents had befriended him. Judge Dewey Myers of Criminal Court, in sentencing Sinclair, ine voked a new State law which makes life imprisonment mandatory in cases of criminal assault on girls less than 12. The childrén attacked by Sinclair were 8 and 11. It was brought out at Sinclair's trial that he had been a guest at the little girls’ home. The chil dren were assaulted last October and they still are in the care of a physician. Two women also had been criminally assaulted by Sinclair, but they did not press charges against him because the prosecutor sought a life sentence in connection with the law regarding assault on children.
TRUMAN SAYS JAP MESSAGES TAPPED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P) — Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.) asserted today that American agents at Hawaii had intercepted Japanese communications prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He made the statement in defending Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.) from charges that the Montanan had blocked wire tapping legislation,
KIN MAY SHARE DRAFTEES' PAY
Policy is Proposéd for Men With Dependents.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U, P.) = Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national Selective Service director, told a Congressional committee to-
ment plan” is being prepared to make available for the armed services “many” men now deferred be-
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{cause of dependency.
The proposal, which will require Congressional approval, has been worked out by the Army and the Social Security Board and will be submitted to Congress soon, the draft head said. Government to Help He testified before the House committee investigating labor migration resulting from war production. Gen. Hershey did not reveal details of the plan but said it will re« quire service men to allot part of their pay to the support of their families which the Government will match or more than match. Although the amounts will be different, the program will be similar to the World War I law which granted Government allowance of half the Army pay but not more than $15 a month, plus $10 for the first child and $7.50 for each additional child, the total not to exceed $50. Can’t Defer All Families The selective service system, Gen. Hershey said, has found that there is need for “more detailed and more accurate information” on types of skilled labor available for war production and is taking steps for a new survey of that field. Gen. Hershey said there are “local shortages” of agricultural labor caused mainly by the shift of farm workers to industrial produttion and by recruiting for the armed services. He recognized that a farm worker removed is “practically irreplacable” but added that “we cannot defer
every farmer.”
The impulse to destroy, expressed by four boys who smashed all the windows on the third floor of School 78 before their capture last night, baffled Juvenile Court authorities today. Damage discovered this morning in School 51 was blamed on the same group of boys, who are 1§ and
16 years old. A fifth boy, Wao escaped after and a'group of cit
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Four Youths Arrested After Vandalism at Two Schools
who fired a revolver at Patrolman Frank E. Lots Three of the boys admitted taking part in nine burglaries in recent months. Property damage in these burglaries was estimated at $3000. “They said they broke up things out of pure orneriness,” Lieut. Charles Weddle, in charge of Juvenile Aid, declared. Three of the boys were captured at the school and the fourth was
day that an “allowance and allot-
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SHIPS ARE SUNK
Death on Singapore,
Damage Big Naval Base in Java.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
Foreign Editor
American and British bombers struck today at Japanese
thrusts toward the Burma Road, Singapore and vital Allied
Java, site of United Ndtions The operations brought
WARTHUR'S FORCES SMASH NEW RAIDS
Large Fleet of Invasion Barges Knocked Out.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P).—
on lower Bataan Peninsula in a savage night battle have smashed two more Japanese attempts. to land shock troops from a large fleet of invasion barges for a knockout as-
CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 3 (U. P.) Army Minister Francis Forde messaged the defenders of Singapore today that large-scale aid is being moved to theiz support. “Everything in our power is being done to insure that the greatest degree of help will reach you with all possible speed,” he said.
sault on Corregidor fortress, an
Army communique said today. The objective of the Japanese invasion attempts is to wipe out American-Filipino resistance on the lower half of Bataan Peninsula— the last obstacle to a finial direct assault on Corregidor fortress. Under the pounding of Gen. MacArthur's artillery, machine guns and the bombs of low-swooping U. S. pursuit planes, the attempted landings on the west coast of the
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BEHIND THE ARMY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U, P.).— Donald H. Davenport of the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated today that there would be 4,200,000 men in the armed forces, 15,000,000 in
and 21,800,000 in
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces|;
bases in the Dutch East Indies. United States Army battle planes sank two and probably three more enemy transports off the east coast of Borneo. Half a dozen more Japanese planes were destroyed during raids of a pre-invasion character on the island of
Supreme Headquarters. the toll of Japanese ships in
the Macassar Strait to 35 and of planes to about 30 but
the big Dutch naval base of Soerabaya was damaged by air attack. On Singapore Island, the. British defenders withstood heavy all-day Japanese air attacks including feroe ciaus dive-bomber raids, and R. A, F. bombers strongly attacked Jape anese bases, communications lines and enemy troops, including the Emperor's Guard, that were masse ing across the mile-wide straits for a direct assault. An artillery duel was raging across Johore Strait, Action reported en tne world bate tle fronts included:
“MELBOURNE: An Australian passenger transport was shot down by the Japanese; air mail service to British Empire points was suse pended; practice blackouts were held in the Sydney region.
RANGOON: Japanese forces crossed the Salween River barrier, but Imperial troops quickly mopped up most of them and prevented a large-scale crossing. The Japanese forces also attempted to land along the Burma coast in the Gulf of Martaban north of Changson Ise land, but were said to have been repulsed.
RUSSIA: Russians started ate tacks to regain Novgorod and Rzhev, but evacuate Feodosiya in Crimea.
LIBYA: British troops fell back in Jebel Akdar region.
ROME: British planes attacked Naples and Palermo.
PHILIPPINES: Gen. Douglas MacArthur's American and Filipino troops on Bataan peninsula beat off two Japanese landing attempts on
«(the west coast of the province, ine
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