Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1942 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 53—NUMBER 287
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1942
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MIAMI BEACH. Fla, Feb. 8 (U.P) .—George Ade, “the only reporter covering Sullivan-Corbett fight who is still alive,” 76. h birthday anniversary today—still “able to do anything except run foot race or enter a rhumba contest.” The Hoosier humorist, healthy and—as always— jovial, sat “in ihe
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unshine in front of his Miami Beach winter home and declared— | between interruptions of telegraph
boys bringing congratulatory messages—that we've got to win the
war because “we decent people simBEGIN WAR TIME : ply cannot let roughnecks walk over |
Distusuion of the war brought up! the question of preliminary posals that the United States adopt’ voluntary prohibition for the dura- | tion. Mr. Ade was one of the lead-; ers of the fight to repeal the 18th! | Amendment.
Quit Being Horrified
“It’s just a case of the fanatic dry trying to use the war as a lever.” today began to collect he said. “We tried prohibition once dailv dividend of daylight. and it was a flop. I don't think vou the nation went on|Can make people moral by legisla- |
schedules were HON. Act tually, | “Bui then came repea: and the fac- swing was the other way, With] drinking places opening all over. It's leveling off, though, now. Really,
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2 3 nm War Time.” li moved an hour ahead. many of the clocks in offices, tories, restaurants and other places] where numerous eyes watch the time were stepped up during the day. Few happened to be around at 2 a. m., when it was tithe to push the hour hand ahead. In Indianapolis, many workers; started to work while it still was! dark. The sun rose today 7:45 a. m. War . Tune and it will set at 6:13 p. m. War Time. An act of Congress provides that War Time shall continue in effect! Japanese side of the war.” inti] six months after the war. made four visits to Japan, the last By collecting their daily dividend in 1928. of darlight, Americans will conserve | 763 million kilowatt hours of elec-| Gets Hundreds of Cards tricity, and untold tons of coal and! “When I was in Japan, all non-| barrels of petroleum, for purposes. Train Crews Switch
| But it didn't seem to horrify anybody else, so I just stopped being horrified “But as far as the soldier drinking
drink a little beer. But what of it?”
Mr. Ade said he had been doing a| great deal of thinking about “the!
{for the Jap. He's tricky’ found this to be true,” the author es her advantages of the new pro- Said. “The Jap would bow and ram were cited. Sports followers | smile and still will but he will skin and gardening enthusiasts, it was You if he can. And dont forget pointed out, will get an additional that the cashiers in Japanese places hour for their hobbies, and children 2r¢ Chinese. The Jap trusts the will have more sunlight in which to| Chinese but deesn't trust the other play. Traffic experts predicted that|Japs.” the 60 added minutes of dayight| Mr. Ade received a vast quantity 1d reduce traffic accidents, save, of letters of congratulation and hunmany lives. dreds of birthday cards. Statistics show that a fatal traffic’ “The hardest thing for me to accident six times likely to realize,” the Hoosier said, “is that occur in dusk or darkness as in it is just 50 years ago since the daylight. spring and summer of 1892 when I! Railroads took special precautions covered the Sullivan-Corbett fight against accidents at the time of the in New Orleans and the Republican change from Standard Time to War national convention in Milwaukee. Te Locomotive engineers were'yr wag 26 years old then.
nstructed to stop their trains at 2] Believes Allies Will Win
a. m. and all members, of train crews, then moved their watches an hour] «1 am thinking of last year and (Continued on Page Two) of how sick I was,” he said. “One time a friend called and said that he had been in the day before and
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I wouldn't know, but I do remember once while lving there that I heard some kind of a noise and I didn’t {know whether it was the sizzle of | lames or the rustling of angels’
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of ¢ the war, he concluded: “I just have to believe in the ulti7 mate success of the Allies. We simMrs. Roosevelt 9) ply must use every bit of our wealth Serial Story ..15 and resources and manpower to win Homemaking .12 Side Glances .10 eventually. We just don’t dare In Indpis. . 3| Society ...1l1, Inside Indpls. 9 Sports ...... 6, 7 simply cannot let roughnecks walk Jane Jordan .12|State Deaths. .13 over jus.”
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RUSS, NEXT ON JAP PROGRAM, ARE HELPLESS
Could Save Singapore But To Do So Might Open
West to Germans.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor | WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—With the fate of her outlet to the Pacific {completely bound up with that of {Singapore and the South Pacific, | Soviet Russia is confronted with fone of the most cruel dilemmas |any nation ever had to face. If Singapore and the Dutch East {Indies fall, Vladivostok and the maritime provinces of Siberia will {almost certainly be next on Ja{pan’s docket. Unless they are stopped soon, | {military and naval experts frankly iwarn, their position will be so strong {in that corner of the world that it would be extremely difficult to dis-| ‘lodge them.
War of Great Distances From San Francisco to Batavia |
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nese invasion forces were landed last night. of Palau Ubin, northeast of Singapore.
The arrow pointing to the Kranji River section of northwestern Singapore Isiand shows where JapaBefore this landing, enemy troops occupied the small island
{via southern Australia is 12.250 | {miles. From New York to Batavia | {is even longer—14,000 miles. These! are the routes U. S. warships and! en A. E. F. would have to take to! get at the Japanese. Even after Singapore was recaptured, the Allies still would be 3300 miles from Tokyo. The one open road to Japan is from eastern Siberia. Vladivostok is only 700 miles or about three;
13 i i and one-half hours by bomber from! They Have Their Offices ! Tokyo and Japan's industrial area. |
Japan Knows Her Peril And | Have Feet™
A strong allied force based - WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P) —/
‘eastern Siberia could pound Japan| Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today | 'so unmercifuly that it would mate-| defended her selection of Mayris| ‘rially weaken if not halt the spread of the Japanese drive in the south |
Hoosier Music Writer Is Dead
Times Special
DEFENDS CHOICE OF MISS CHANEY "2"
| wrote the music for “Back Home Again in Indiana,” died here yesterday following a heart attack.
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First Lady Says to Critics:
laer. Ind., 49 years ago and was | educated in Chicago and at Campion Cecliege, Wis. He also wrote
“Rose of Washingtoyy Square,” “If You Knew Susie,” “Honeymoon Lane,” and “Just a Cottage | Small by a Waterfall” He collaborated with Eddie Dowling on “Sidewalks of New York,” “Rainbow Man” and “Sleepy Valley.”
HIGH WATER CLOSES THREE STATE ROADS
Chaney, rythmic dancer and pro-| Pacific. ‘tege of the first lady, for a $4600-| Japan, of course, is aware of all! a-vear post with the Office of Ci- |
this. Hence her hurry to complete {villian Defense, and called on crit-| the South Sea job and turn northward. ical Congressmen to let her—Mrs. If Russia had a free hand how 'Roosevelt— tell them the truth ishe could stop Japan in her tracks. ous civilian ‘defense.’ But that is a big “if.” Russia’s| Mrs. Roosevelt, associate director] [hands are not free. In Europe she !of the OCD, told a press conference ' lis holding back the Nazis. And all|ihat she suggested Miss Chaney to 'the signs indicate that Hitler is pre- head the children’s division of the paring for a new, all-out offensive OCD’s physical fitness division be-| against Moscow. or the Caucasus, asjcause the dancer had presented a (soon as the winter breaks. childrens’ fitness plan and because Russia's Painful Dilemma Miss Chaney had wider contacts |
The horns of Stalin's dilemma, ae any playground director or | therefore, are extremely painful. pReaer Were he to come into the war Causes House Battle {against Japan right now he might { |save the situation around Singapore histiasure DI lis Chaney's pe
intment, together with designa- | land avoid a dangerous Russo-Jap- po anese conflict 1ater on. tion of screen star Melvyn Doug-
|" But it he die, he might weaken 1s as head of the arts section of) ‘his European front, perhaps fatally. OCD's iniormatioh division,
{the ‘In which event the repercusisons Precipitated a Congressional battle both as to the Soviet Union and her
Temperature to Rise.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 22 10 a. m. ‘ ee 38 11 a: mi... ave 23 12 (noon) .. . 23 1p m,
High water from the Wabash and] Fel Rivers closed three roads in In-| diana today as the Weather Bureau
fand tentative adoption by the lallies would be far-reaching in pena gh SR oi mej through this afternoon. extreme. {Dn wiry I yh) i iol Roads closed were 157 north STATE TAXPAYERS entertainment. ‘north of Lafayette; 152 in Ham- | | A show-down vote on the matter mond; 39 south of Tampico, and | JOIN ECONOMY DRIVE was expected in the House later) 235 at Medora. Highway Depart- | The Indiana Taxpayers Associa=1 today. | ment trucks were pulling autos ltion today joined other groups in| Of the Congressmen who have as- | through water covered spots on backing the Citizens Emergency sailed the Chaney and Douglas ap- Road 59 north of Clay City and [Committee on Nondefense Expendi- | pointments, Mrs. Roosevelt said: | Road 234 east of Road 63. tures. | “They have their offices and I| The Highway Commission also | The movement is to eliminate all ‘have feet. I am wailing to hear announced it will close Road 63 non-essential, non-defense expendi- (Continued on Page Two) jeast of Clinton for 90 days to we tures as a measure to insure “eco-| EE | pair § bridge fioor over ihe Wabas nomic stability and hope for toimor- ANOTHER SNEAK ATTACK row. CHINA ARROW NINTH | CINCINNATI, Feb, 9 (U.P) —A
TANKER SUNK BY SUB | tgs supply of Japanese-made fish-|
g poles, in storage since the Dec. sentatives are Clyde EF. Wildman,! NEW YORK. Feb. 9 (U. P.).—The : Be on Pearl Harbor, tumbled ‘DePauw University president; Wil- 8403-ton Socony - Vacuum tanker from a warehouse rack today, kill liam C. Dennis, Earlham College China Arrow, which the Navy an- jhg one man and injuring three |president; Booth Tarkington, In- nounced yesterday had been torpe-| gthers. 'dianapolis author; Evans Wecoilen/doed and sunk 100 miles off the SEAS ‘of the Fletcher Savings & Trust|coast last Thursday, was the ninth] NAVY SUPPLY BILL SIGNED Co, Indianapolis, and Vernon R. tanker victim of the U-boat war-| WASHINGTON, Feb, 9 (U.P). — |Schwalm, Manchester College presi-| fare which began Jan. 14, The en-| President Roosevelt today signed the | dent. tire crew was saved. | $26,495,265,474 naval supply bill.
War Will Give Men's Clothing Simplicity And Pajama Patterns Won't Be So Fancy
By LESTER POSVAR Because of the Japs, men must] |
Every state is represented on the national committee. Indiana repre-
“The margin of profit is so small,;, “The leather for fine gloves used and manufacturers will have to cut to come from the hair sheep in wear simpler clothes, irom the cuffsiall corners. [Alrica, and also from an African | of their trousers to the tips of their | “The size cannot be reduced. Fed- goat,” he said. “That source of caps, but they're getting a real break |eral regulations require us to use/supply has been cut off. So pig during their naps. {from 5¢ to 56 yards in making a skins are getting a great play in Pajamas, for the duration won't dozen suits of pajamas. So the glove styles. look like bad dreams. This was re- | manufacturer must save by using | “The industry also is developing vealed today at the exhibition of | simpler designs and doing away!g way of making fine glove leather men’s clothes under auspices of the 'with the trimmings.” {from pony hides.” Men's Apparel Club of Indiana and/ Hemispheric solidarity can be! The skin of domestic pigs, incithe Indiana Retail Clothiers’ and represented by shaking at Hitler a dentally, is too coarse for pigskin Furnishers Association. |fist clad in pigskin gloves, it was | gloves, Mr. Millage said. “The prices of fabrics that go into suggested at the exhibition by, Sleeveless knitted sweaters will be pajamas are the first to go up on George Millage of Johnstown, N. Y. |popular during the war because account of the war” declared Ed The wild boars of Mexico, Vene- suits, particularly those in doubleShulman of New York, who came zuela and Colombia are providing breasted styles, will be sold without to Indianapolis with more pajamas more of the materials used in the (vests. A display of such sweaters ‘than perhaps all the other travel- manufacture of gloves, he pointed shown by Al Johnson of Chicago featured tans.”
Mr. Hanley was born in Rensse- |
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NEWS ALL BAD
IN PAGIFIG WAR
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0s Point for for Decisive Blows from Bataan
Te Burma.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Japanese planes blasted at the {key points of the Dutch Indies | islands of Java and Sumatra today, {and coupled with the enemy landlings on Singapore island, made it | evident, that the war in the southwest Pacific had entered a phase {” opening gravity. ouglas MacArthur's men ltr B > Se Japanese on Bataan | Peninsula and barred their use of | Manila Bay but the Japanese are |stepping up their attack here, too. There are indications they may | hope this week to drive Gen. MacArthur from Bataan and hole him |
Wabash and Eel Overflow: up in Corregidor or possibly launch |
la simultaneous attack on Bataan {and Corregidor.
No Encouraging News
There was literally no encouragling news from the southwest | Pacific. From the Philippines to [the jungled banks of the Salween {River in Burma, it was all bad. And even worse news was betokened [for the immediate and more distant | future. For the moment the Japanese in Burma was halted or | slowed along the Salween, roughly {100 miles from Rangoon. The Japanese despite willingness to absorb heavy losses and constant (Continued on Page Two)
On the War Fronts
SINGAPORE—Japanese troops land on Singapore Island un- | der air and artillery bombardclimactic battle for Eastern
ment; | possession of Far stronghold rages.
PHILIPPINES — American and Filipino defenders beat back heavy new Japanese attacks on Bataan.
BATAVIA — Japanese attack Batavia for first time; raids on other Dutch strongholds indicate assault on Java and Sumatra may start shortly.
MELBOURNE — Japanese aircraft carrier spotted several hundred miles off Darwin, northern naval base.
RANGOON — Civilian populace being evacuated; Salween River line holds.
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BACK-TO-WALL BATTLE FOUGHT WITH INVADERS
‘Situation in Hand,” Defenders Report After 11 Hours, but London Doubts If It Can Be Kept That Way.
By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent
SINGAPORE, Feb. 9.— Japanese assault troops splashed ashore on Singapore Island today under cover of darkness and a heavy artillery barrage but at 11 a. m. (9 p. m. Indianapolis Time Sunday) British Army Headquarters reported “the situation is in hand.” This word came after more than 11 hours of bitter fight. ing against Japanese forces driving forward along a half circle of Singapore's northwest and western coast line. (There was no assurance the situation would remain “in hand” long. There was no optimism in London official circles that Singapore could hold out against the Japanese batter-
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British Falling Back
At some points the British defenders pushed the Jape anese back with paralyzing direct attacks. At others, the | British fell back, fighting a delaying action in accordance ' with pre-arranged battle plans, (Tokyo radio reports, relayed through the Rome radio, ‘claimed that the Japanese already have captured the British |airdrome at Tenga, four miles from the central western Singapore coast, the army wireless station three miles northe | east of Tenga and oil dumps at Kranji just west of the 'destroyed Johore-Singapore causeway. (There was no confirmation of that report from Singapore but it was admitted Imperials have fallen back to a shorter, more defensible line, along two creeks, presumably the Tenga and the Jurong.)
Back-to-Wall Battle
It was a back-to-the-wall battle for the defending forces which comprises British, Australian, and Indian regular troops and a volunteer corps in which Singapore's Asiatic populace is represented. Army headquarters, describing the opening of the Japanese attack, declared that the enemy launched the most intense artillery bombardment of the Far Eastern war about midnight. The Japanese fire was concentrated on imperial beach positions and the searchlight batteries which had been set up along the shore to spotlight any Japanese troops trying to cross the half mile Johore straits.
Japs Rake Island Roads
Large shells from the Japanese batteries fell on the British forward positions and raked the island roads, at-
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tempting to interfere with efforts to move up reinforce-
ments to the threatened eastern sector. Japanese landing parties then put out from the Johore side, many of them wading across shallows where the water is only a few feet deep at low tide. The Japanese scrambled ashore at points from Kranji, just east of destroyed causeway which had linked Singapore to the mainland, to Pasir Laba, a few miles further southeast. Employed Small Boats
Army headquarters said the Japanese employed small boats, some of them built along the Johore shore during the past week’s lull in fighting and others presumably rushed up by truck and railroad. At daybreak great fleets of Japanese fighter and bombing planes came to their support, raining bombs and machine gun bullets into the imperial lines. Snaking through the swampy jungle along the west
| coast’ from the Kranji river southwards, the Japanese starts
ed to push back the imperial troops at some points and to (Continued on Page Two)
Today's War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The 10th week of the war in the Pacific promises to be a critical one for the united nations. Not only does Singapore face the supreme test of its ability to hold out as the last bastion of British strength in the Far East, but the Japanese are giving increasing signs of an early assault on Java. Now that the Japanese are on the island, Singa= pore admittedly is in acute peril. The Japanese are determined to take it by storm before that long-promised aid arrives from overseas. Much depends on the ability of the imperial air forces to keep flying, and
perhaps to get reinforcements. The Japanese preceded their as-|took place on the Malay peninsula, sault by days of incessant aerial and The imperial defenders, numbering artillery bombardment of the is-|perhaps 50,000, are concentrated in land's defenses and air fields. They the defenses of the island, which engaged the defending planes in have been feverishly strengthened constant action. The softening up in the past two months. process completed, they attacked, The Japanese infiltration tactics,
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