Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1942 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 284
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United Press Staff Correspondent Arthur. pino soldiers the field ambulances] the firing line, by these surgeons,
| Field Hospital Moves Often, | But Saves Hundreds of | | WITH GEN. MACARTHUR. Feb. 5.—Shortly before midnight] of blacked out Bataan Field Hos-| pital No. 1. which handles about 9 I have just watched the dozen swift, efficient surgeons, who often| are bringing in from the battle | front. as well as men and women nurses, working tirelessly without thought
Heroes’ Lives. By FRANK HEWLETT last night I stepped from tropic moonlight into the operating room| per cent of the casualties among the men of Gen. Douglas Macwork 36 hours at a stretch, operate] en four of the American and Fili-| Lives of hundreds of soldiers are being saved, only a few miles from of personal glory. Hospital Moves Often |
The equipment and space is lim-| ited. There are no X-rays because there is insufficient electrical power. The hospital has moved five times | since the Japanese first attacked. |! Col. James W. Duckworth of San Francisco was in command. A veteran of the last war, he headed a nedical receiving station in France. Despite frequent moving, by sea as well as land, always at night so] that the Japanese cannot bomb the] wounded, the patients have not] suffered. Great Handicaps {
The first operation I saw was on | a sergeant who had a complicated low abdominal wound, caused by a| 50-caliber machine gun bullet. It was necessary to make incisions from the back to repair damaged |
organs and to remove the bullet—| and this without an X-ray. It was] determined an amputation was not| necessary. Lieut. Col. Frank Adams. | the surgeon, used spinal anasthesia.| Next I saw the amputation of the] mangled right leg of a Filipino scout, who had been shot charging a Japanese who was pumping bullets at him from a sub-| machine gun. | Save Limbs of Many The surgeon, Capt. Alfred Wein- | stein. took a swab for a gas gan-| grene test. Then he comforted the]
MacArthur—Fighting Man reat Career Dims Heroes of Fiction
Gen. Douglas MacArthur . , , a soldier's soldier.
Life Story of Bataan Defender Crowded With
Firsts, Onlys and Bests from Earliest Days.
By TOM WOLF
Times Special Writer THE LAST official act of Gen. Douglas MacArthur ss he ended his tour of duty as Chief of Staff in 1935 was to pen a message for the officers and men of the United States Army—whose boss he had
while! peen for the unprecedented term of five years.
“I want them to know,” he said, “that I have gone my best. that
Back-to-the-wall in a tiny Philippine island, Gen Douglas MacArthur — leading fearless, fight-spirited American and Filipino troops—is
fighting Filipino, who said he had |
killed two Japanese just before he was wounded. Within five minutes the laboratorv reported tnat the test had been positive. The scout was transferred to the isolation department for gangrene cases. Despite the handicaps, however, this hospital is saving the limbs and lives of many men. Surgeons say that getting air to dead cells is the best way to combat the germs which multiply in wounds. ‘Sniper, He Go Zoop®’
During the last war gas gan-
grene killed many men and left]
many others without arms or legs. The gangrene ward here keeps a wound open until negative tests have been obtained and saves about 75 per cent of cases. The surgeons call every Filipino Joe. They still laugh over the remark of a Filipino who narrowly escaped death when a treesniper shot him with a bullet which went through the brim of his pith helmet and then, plunging down, hit him in the foot! “Damn sniper he go zoop! Bullet go through my hat, shoot off little toe!”
STREAMS UP AFTER 1.44-INCH RAINFALL
Streams throughout Indiana were
day's state-wide rain. Only the lowlands near some of the smaller creeks were flooded, J.
Bureau in Indianapolis, reported. Most of the streams were low and still can receive more water. The rainfall in Indianapolis amounted to 1.44 inches. Mr. Armington pointed out that the rain was of little benefit to farms because the soil now is frozen
and therefore unable to absorb
moisture,
§ Worn aig i |~SOS” without waiting for the sub- | 3 result of yester-|
waited tensely for the next move, {the roar of airplane engines was
H. Armington, chief of the Weather | Deard. The submarines submerged
| LOCAL TEMPERATURES
writing in blood a saga of battle against overwhelming odds that will live as long as poets sing of courage. So you may know this great American soldier herewith is the first of three articles on the thrilling fiction-seeming story of his career.
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PLANES SCARE SUBS, SAVE BIG U. Si SHIP
Skipper Amazed at Swift Response of Bombers. |
NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (U. P)—| | The captain of an American pas- | jsenger liner reported today on his | {arrival here that the swift response | of three huge patrol bombers to | ‘his radio appeal for help frightened away three submarines which had {broken the surface close to his ship] {shortly after leaving a southern!
port. “One close we might have rammed her, isaid a member of the ship's crew. | Capt. Nels Helgesen, said he or-| |dered the radio operator to flash
of the submarines was so;
marines to take action. Then, while passengers and crew
{and by the time the planes arrived {the Caribbean was calm and peaceful as it had been before the U-
{boats appeared.
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I have kept the soldier faith.” That one sentence is the biography of Douglas MacArthur, whose present gallant battle to keep that faith in the face of overwhelming Japanese odds in the Philippines is a fitting climax to a magnificent fighting man’s career. The life story of Douglas MacArthur reads like a “Tom Swift In the Army,” full of firsts, onlys, bests.
He was graduated first in his West Point class, was first cadet senior captain; he was the youngest division commander in France, youngest commandant in West Point history, youngest American Chief of Staff in history; he is the only Chief of Staff to hold that office more than four years, only American officer ever to become a field marshal, =
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62, but Looks ‘Younger
WITH ALL that behind him.
| Gen. MacArthur has just reached
62. Tall, lean, handsome, the erstwhile “D’Artagnan of the A. E. F.” looks 15 years younger. His dark hair is thinning, but he combs it proudly over the bald Spots. His features and bearing are military, intense; high forehead; narrow face; thin, sensitive nose and mouth: dark, fiashing eyes. According to all the rules, Gen. MacArthur's military history should have ended on Dec. 31, 1937, when he retired from active duty in the U. S. Army. But rules, which he once called “the refuge of weaklings,” have seldom governed Douglas MacArthur's life.
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Like Father, Like Son
WHEN THE Far Eastern crisis began to reach a head last summer, President Roosevelt called MacArthur back from his “retirement”—which he had been spending helping the Philippines build a native defense. If Gen. MacArthur's present post-retire-ment exploits are but a P. S. to
‘evident that (troop reinforcements have arrived |
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IAPS ATTACK GUNS BLASTED BY DEFENDERS
Enemy Moving Huge Forces To Johore Shore; Java Is Bombed Again.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The bastion of Singapore— garrisoned by the biggest|: force in its history—today | blasted Japanese attack guns but powerful new enemy forces were sighted pouring down to Johore straits for a| fierce Japanese offensive. The Japanese struck hard by air again at the major united nations’ base of Soerabaja on the island of Java and were pressing the British at Pa-an, 30 miles north of Moulmein in a flanking attack ‘toward the Burma Road. ; | NOWSDADERS A dispatch by Harold Guard, Papers; United Press staff correspondent, |
from beleaguered Singapore made substantial British |
WA I NAA ER
at the strategic island for the big] battle.
& # # as the biggest garrison in Singa-| Bi pore’s history and possibly bigger in Malaya a few months ago. But : : strict military censorship prevented | Grind as Spokane Bids the size of the reinforcements. Adieu to Caravan. However, it is known that Singa-| heavily garrisoned and a few months —Police roped off downtown streets ago the British at Malaya were today and newsreel photographers “What a story I could write to- of the “bundles for Congress” camday!” Mr. Guard cabled, explaining |paign, which began as an idle prank patch through four censors forced| Nearly 15,000 bundles were being him to write in most general terms. |packed into three trucks—bundles of now permitted to report, is pre-|crutches, glass eyes, broken phonopared!” graph records, old shoes and
Mr. Guard described the Jorces) than the entire Imperial strength Streets Roped Off, Cameras him from giving any indication of} pore never has previously been] SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 5 (U. P)). woefully weak. {trained their cameras for the climax that necessity of passing his dis-|and grew into a national jest. “Singapore,” he cabled, “ I am cracked dental plantes, wooden legs, feminine undergarments.
The above cartoon ridiculing Congress Spokane, Wash., spoofers originated the drawing and which is unfunny to most Congressmen.
Silence Japs’ Guns
There was no indication of the | nationality of the troops which have arrived at Singapore. It is possible the force might contain American doughboys although Washington never has indicated whether any U. S. troops are included in the stream of aid which is being rushed to the southwest Pacific. "A British communique reported that Singapore's batteries, firing across the half-mile to one-mile (Continued on Page Eleven)
‘On the War
SINGAPORE: British heavy guns, probably including 18-inch | fixed rifles, blasted troops and silenced enemy batteries firing from the Malaya mainland across Joiore Straits. Dispatches reported the biggest garrison in history braced to defend Singapore, indicating that reinforcements ! are flowing in,
BATAVIA: The Japanese again attacked the important Scerabaja naval base but American P-40 fighters thrown into the Far Eastern battle brought down two enemy planes in an attack on superior enemy formation.
BURMA: British bombers resumed attacks on the Japanese | after defense forces wiped out a number of enemy patrols that pushed across the Salween River in a drive on the Burma Road and Rangoon. Japanese thrusts continued toward Martaban. Indian troops reinforced the defenses.
AUSTRALIA: Japanese flying boats bombed and cannon-strafed Port Moresby on New Guinea, north of Australia. American wounded soldiers and nurses on a hospital ship from the Philippines reached safety after being attacked nine times by enemy planes.
LIBYA: British were seeking to stabilize the desert fighting lines | as Axis troops were reported by the Rome radio to be pressing eastward from Derna toward Tobruk.
RUSSIA: The Red Army reported 11 villages taken and 5700 Germans killed in continued advances which hammered at Bel-
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Tried The WPA?)
(frankly, Bradford says ‘that “the hooks” the deal up to {date and if anylone doubts him {they have only | to consult his neatly kept records in gorod, north of Kharkov, and | nis office in the Knights of Pythias
The trucks leave for Washington at noon along an itinerary. Mr. Wheeler on List
Perspiring employees of the
| Spokane Athletic Roundtable, spon- |
MAYOR REGEIVES
sor of the campaign, worked through the night addressing packages to such persons as: “Hon. Burton K. (At Last I've Got a Pension) Wheeler. “Senator Homer K. Bone, roses are red, violets are blue, so you can keep out of the red, here's a bundle for you. : “Senator Mon C. (Have You Wallgren.” Into one bundle went a cracked phonograph record with the title
Fronts “We're in the Money” on one side
and “I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby” on the other,
Launched Last Week
The Roundtable Club launched its campaign last week to badger Congressmen for passing a biil making themselves eligible to participate in the Government's pension program.
istically was mixed. Some Congresment thought the nation needed a laugh; others objected to ribbing the lawmaking body during a vericd of national emergency. Club officials planned to start their three trucks, covered with “Bundles for Congress” signs and
pictures of “Esmeralda,” the club's] | measure,
equine mascot.
By EARL RICHERT James Bradford may be smiling a month from now, but right now
he is about the most dejected man
in Marion County. For the county auto tag agency,
| considered the most juicy of all political plums, so {far has a taste |quite like that of (a lemon to Mr. Bradford.
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Bundles Head Toward Washington
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for voting its members pensions appeared in Washington, D. C., “Bundles for Congress”
campaign
Tharp Re-Elected | Fund President
HAROLD B. THARP was reelected president of the Indianapolis Community Fund at a meeting of the board of directors at the Lincoln j i Hotel today. Other officers also were reelected, as follows: Perry W. § Lesh, first vice § president; Miss Gertrude Tag- § gart, second vice president; Otto N. Frenzel, treasurer. Harold Tharp Evan B. Walker was made a member of the Community Fund’s board of directors by virtue of his office as first vice president of the Employees’ Fellowship of the Community Fund. He is serving in the place of William B. Freaney, Fellowship president, who recently entered the Army.
EXTRA WAR POWER
Council Allows Him to Act in Defense Emergency.
Mayor Sullivan received emergency civilian defense powers from City Council last night. Meeting in special session, the Council passed the Civil Defense Ordinance. It gives the Mayor broad powers in naming air raid wardens, auxiliary police and firemen and other defense personnel. The ordinance sets up the machinery for blackout enforcement and air raid warning systems. It specifies, however, that blackouts
Congressional reaction character- can be ordered by civil authorities
only with the approval of military authorities. Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, County defense director, and the Mayor discussed the ordinance before the Council. Both agreed that it was needed and Gen. Tyndall indicated he would ask officials of
towns in the county to adopt the
Political Plum Tastes More Like Lemon, Says Bradford About Auto Tag Agency
“rd like to talk to those people who say this job is worth $18,000 in fees,” the county G. O. P. chairman said grimly. “If I get back the $2100 of my own money I have already put into this and make $1800 profit, I'll feel lucky.” Mr. Bradford was appointed auto license branch manager in Marion County last August by Secretary of State James Tucker when the Republicans took over the Motor Vehicle License Bureau. He set up four license branches and financed them during the months of August, September, October, November and December chiefly from his own pockets—the fees received from issuing license plaies, drivers’ licenses and titie certificates being very small during
RUSS MAY QUIT, CAPITAL HEARS
Diplomats Irked by Hints "That Soviets’ Course Hinges on New Aid. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
U. §. FIGHTING PLANES DOWN 2 JAP RAIDERS
One Yank Air Craft Lost In Fierce Encounter;
Lull in Bataan.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (U, P.) .—American Army fighter planes, going to the aid of bomb-wracked Java in the Dutch East Indies, have shot down {wo Japanese ware planes, one of them a bomber, in an air battle against heavy
odds. The War Department said today one of the small formation of U. S, P-40 fighters was lost in the ene counter over Java where the Jape anese air force has been assaulting the united nations’ base at Soerae baja, starting big fires. Part of Reinforcements? Military experts attached impore tance to the disclosure that Amere ican Army fighter planes are in ace tion over the Dutch East Indies, This followed yesterday's declarae tion of Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, supreme commander of the united forces in the southwest Pacific, that U. 8S. and British reinforcements were en route to the far-away bate tle zone. ; Today's War Department commu nique—which- also reported that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Philip= pine forces have broken at least temporarily the fury of the Japanese offensive on Bataan Peninsula —showed that the vanguard of fighter plane reinforcements had
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.— Hints from diplomatic sources that Russia may eventually drop out of the war unless she gets more help from the united nations are causing anxiety, not unmixed with irritation, here. Similar reports that China's ef-] forts may lag, unless the United! States and Great Britain extend
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reached the southwest Pacific af last.
One U. S. Plane Lost
" Details as to the extent of this force were lacking and the come munique spoke only of a “small formation” in action over Java. The P-40 fighters, the same type which has achieved thrilling vice tories in support of Gen. Mace
prompt aid, have met with a some- #Ithur’s troops in the Philippines, what different reaction. (were said to have “encountered a Russia, diplomatic observers in 8T€atly superior force of Japaneses London suggest, may halt her ad- bombers escorted by pursuit craft” vance at the German frontier—in °Ver Java. : the event she pushes the invaders 10 the ensuing combat one back that far—and ask the Allies) S¢MY bomber and one enemy purto open a second European front SUll Plane were shot down. One of
before trying for the knockout, jour planes is missing,” the come munique said.
MacArthur Gets Rest
The rather unpleasant implication| U.S. flying fortress bombers, with would seem to be that once her tremendous cruising range, have own territory is freed from the | been in action in the Far Pacific enemy, Russia may insist on a new| for weeks but the P-40 fighters have deal with her Allies or else make a comparatively short range—about separate arrangement with Ger-/800 miles—and it is difficult to
Implies Separate Pact
many and allow the war to proceed without her. In the case of China, her spokesmen have asked for, and received, the assurance of large loans from the United States and Britain. The House yesterday agreed to advance her half a billion dollars. Britain will let her have 200 millions. The money is to help China in her war against Japan. In asking for the loans, however, the Chinese said that, loan or no loan, they would go right on fighting. Russia, say the diplomatic sources,
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JAPS BOMB REFUGEE SHIP
BATAVIA, Feb. 5 (CDN).—Seven-ty-seven American refugees have arrived here from Singapore aboard a freighter, the bridge of which was |
scarred with shrapnel from Jap-|
these months. iss. ;
anese bombers.
went on sale and the “gravy” was supposed to start pouring in, Mr. Bradford, through the 16 license branches which he owns, received $5081 in fees. Operating costs in the 16 branches during the same period cost him $4875, leaving him a net profit for the month of $206.76, he said. The license branch manager must pay all costs of operating the license branches, He must pay the two employees in each of the 16 branches, for the equipment (counting machines, typewriters, paper cutters and pens and ink) and for the service of Brink's, Inc. ¥hich picks up the money each evening. He also has to pay the cost of operating the central office and the salaries of the five employees working out of it. And so far,
he says, he hasn’t ‘on Page
transport them quickly to far away battle areas. Today’s communique said that Gen. MacArthur's outnumbered and weary forces on Bataan peninsula, about 17 miles above Corregidor fortress, had broken the “savage character” of the Japanese drive which has been almost continuous for the past two weeks. During the past 24 hours, it was stated, fighting was limited to “relative minor patrol actions.” The Japanese forces facing Gen. MacArthur's right sector near the Bataan east coast are under come mand of Lieut. Gen. Akira and those on the left near the China Sea are commanded by Lieut. Gen, Naoki Kimura, it was stated. ” ” = On Inside Pages The War and You Russian Fighting Why Rommel Gains in Libya. Today's War Moves Japan Unmasked
HITLER ON ‘VACATION’ LONDON, Feb. 5 (U. P.).—British sources quoted neutral informants today that Adolf Hitler had retired to his Bavarian mountain villa for a vacation after issuing a “stand or die” order to his men fighting on the Russian front in temperatures ranging down to 40 degrees below zero.
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