Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1942 — Page 2

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FIERCE SING

BATTLE IS RAGING

‘Situation Is in Hand,’ British Defenders Say After 11 Hours of Back-to-Wall Struggle With Nipponese.

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filter in toward the interior as they had filtered all the way down the Malaya peninsula. It was then that strong imperial forces were thrown into offensive action. Screaming Japanese dive bombers joined bigger and wasp-like fighters in bombing and machine gunning the imperial lines in the emperor’s shock troops’ path, and British Hurricane fighters went into the fight. Fierce Battle in Air

They shot down three Japanese planes in the early stages, probably downed three others and damaged 13, the| communique said. As the imperial forces fought the Japanese on the | northwest coast, other imperials faced the Japanese who vesterday had occupied deserted, unfortified Pulau Ubin (Ubin island) half a mile off the northeast coast of Singare. ie The general headquarters communique, one of the longest of the campaign, said: “An enemy landing from boats on the northwest coast of the island took place between Sungei (river) Kranji and) Pasir Laba last night.

Dive-Bomb, Shell British

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Dr. Fritz Todt

DR. TODT, ARMY ENGINEER, DEAD

Supervised Road Work in Russia, Built Siegfried Line, Atlantic Forts.

and The Chicago Daily News, Ine. BERN, Feb. 9 — Reichminister Fritz Todt’s death in an “aviation accident” Saturday was reported from Berlin in the newspaper La

Suisse today as “one of the cruelest losses that the Germans have

“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

NEWS ALL BAD IN PACIFIC WAR

Japs Point for Decisive Blows from Bataan

To Burma.

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attacks. still had failed to knock out the hard-hitting British-American

air force defending the Burma front. The fall of Singapore would enable the Japanese to loose large forces in an attempt to break through the Burma front and carry their threat straight to the gates of India. The threat to Australia was equally immediate. A Japanese aircraft carrier has been reported some hundreds of miles off Port | Darwin, the north coast neval base. | Darwin had an air raid alarm {but no Japanese planes appeared.

| Shortly, however, it seemed that the| gregation. ever-lengthening arm of Japanese air power will be felt along Australia’s north coast. Japanese bombers attacked Batavia, capital of the Netherlands East Indies, for the first time after making their fourth raid in six days on Soerabaja, the great Dutch naval base.

CATHOLIC and Protestant clergymen gathered today at the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation for a one-day institute on

Judaism. Rabbis Morris M. Feuerlicht and Maurice Goldblatt, and William IL. Schloss, congregation

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Leaders at Institute

President are hosts to the city’s clergy. The purpose of the | the third to be held in Indianap- | olis, is to present an authoritative speaker on Jewish religious studies. Today's speaker, Dr. Ju-

institute,

lian Morgenstern, professor of Bible and president of Hebrew

Prominent figures at the Institute on Judaism today were Dr. Julian Morgenstern of Cincinnati, Dr. Jean S. Milner, of the Second Presbyterian Church, and Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht, of the Hebrew Con-

Union College, Cincinanti, was to

diccuss “From Nationalism to Universalism.” Almost 100 pastors attended the luncheon served by the Temple Sisterhood. Similar institutes have been held in most of the larger cities of the United States.

Batavia Area Bombed

A Dutch communique reported that the main Japanese attack on Batavia was directed against the Kemajoran and Tijililitan air-fields about five miles outside Batavia. The planes sought to attack

INDIANA, NATION Today's War Moves

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should not prove as easy. There is, however, the danger of massed

The aerial bombardment of Banka Island in the strait; of Batavia

MONDAY, FEE. 0, 1942

DEFENDS CHOICE OF MISS CHANEY

First Lady Says to Critics: “They Have Their Offices And | Have Feet.”

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from the gentlemen. I imagine they will give me the courtesy to let me give them the facts.” Silent on Resigning

The First Lady voiced nc indicae tion that she will resign from her OCD post, but said her tenure would be up to whoever succeeds Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York as director. Mayor La Guardia said in his radio broadcast yesterday that he will relinquish his Federal d~..cs “sometime this week.” She was asked if she had dis cussed with the President the Douglas or Chaney appointments, If the President discusses that mat ter at all, she replied, he will do so with Mayor La Guardia or OCD executive, James M. Lanais. She denied making the Douglas appointment and said salaries were determined in the regular channels —going through the Budget Bureau, the Civil Service Commission and the Personnel Classification Board.

Study Appropriation

The Congressional storm over the appointments was expected to reach its climax today when the House resumes consideration of a de-

BEGIN WAR TIME

Tandjong Priok, the harbor for Ba- ficiency appropriation bill carrying

t sustained.”

“The landing was preceded by a heavy artillery bombardment of our forward positions in this area and from daybreak was supported by considerable numbe

and bomber aircraft.

“Our forward troops were pushed back at some places, Added to his roadbuilding task,

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rs of fi hter work, impressively enumerating his g lautostrades, the Siegfried Line and

tavia, but were driven off by heavy anti-aircraft fire. The Japanese planes also bombed | | Palembang, oil-rich center of southfern Sumatra, and Bangka, tin (island off Sumatra. Japanese land

The Nazi press reviews Dr. Todt’s

e Atlantic fortifications.

New Schedules Adopted for

and Soerabaja would be preliminary to its arrival. The Japanese are probably making better preparations than they did in the strait of Macassar, where their transport losses were heavy.

parachute descents, which would | accomplish the same purpose. The defending air force probably could not prevent it. In landing in the northwestern

Duration to Conserve Electric Power.

$100,000,000 for the OCD. The “no entertainment” amendment was designed to prohibit the OCD from financing “fan dancing, street shows, theatricals or other public entertainment.”

Dr. Todt had been charged since] : the war with the difficult job of | Patrols were driving toward Band-

8 4 tf terial Jermasin in southern Borneo and me Hie Guest: Tor Mktena | at any moment were expected to at-

oq tack Macassar on the southern Two months ago he was relieved Celebes tip.

of responsibility for Germany's mo- 1 tor transport questions by Hitler's|, T'1°% moves made it evident to reonal friend Jakob Werlin, di| e Dutch that the major battle of Dt of the MercedesBens auto- | He Indies—the fight for Java and mobile factory. Werlin also was the | Sutuatra=is just around the Corner: ” | In Europe there was no radical creator of private cars for the| an in the situation Reich's leaders. These cars are ge : Crisis at Tangier

equipped with the most modern The Berlin radio claimed that 10

comforts—“armor plate and machine guns.” British warships were sunk in the Most of the German papers ¢on- |. week and eight damaged. Gerclude with the significant words: | an submarines were said to have “Todt held an essential post. He qx 12 more ships of 75,000 tons

Advertisement | engined bombers were dam- will be most difficult to replace.”|oq the U. 8. coast, bringing their Dr. Todt’s death comes at an in- yaa) to 55 of 387.000 tons.

Asthma Treatment aged. opportune time with Germany's, There was a crisis at Tangier over

“In the second raid two enemy... army transport problem made | ; : aircraft were destroyed and three |, oher by pop» {the explosion of a bomb in the

x i General Mud, soon to ; ¥ : On Free Trial |probably destroyed and seven Were ,.ceeq General Winter lijgha%e ©1 & Eviuch wntilar oS landing. Ramee IS : ficial. i [that the loss of an hour would be Making Better Pr ti ST. MARY'S, KANS.—The D. J. ' = Communications with Tangier bad. Malheure means “bad hour” ating Beller Freparaiions

Mr. Douglas yesterday issued a formal statement accusing his congressional critics of attempting to isolate the entertainment world from the war effort. He also volunteered the information that he was serving in OCD without compensation; not being paid $8000 a year as his critics claim.

If the Japanese can get a solid foothold on Java, they will be well on their way to conquest of the entire Indies group, with its wealth of war materials. The allied stronghold then would have to be Australia, an eventuality which is being discussed seriously by the Australians.

ecvices

part of the island, the Japanese are (Continued from Page One) only a few miles from the municipal

ahead. Airline officials said the | Water catchment area, Singapore's

switch was automatic and simple, | Only remaining source of supply. Persons traveling eastward from Water Supply Imperiled Se nen hiner If the Japanese can battle their traveling westward between two. eastwarg ang gcolipy the ‘two time zones could leave their watches! big reservoirs, the garrison and the untouched | civilian population, augmented by

Payroll clerks at many defense thousands of refugees, weuld be in

plants, operated by night shifts a bad way and might have to capitwere finding the change something use. . i of a headache. Somebody had to While they are making their big

decide whether an employee working| 2552ult on Singapore, the Japanese from midnight, Standard Time, to| have not lessened their pressure on

8 a. m, War Time—seven hours in| the wide battle front of the southall—should receive eight hours’ pay.| west Pacific. They have loosened Few Places ‘Hold Out’ an all-out attack on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's valiant little band on A few communities “held out”| Luzon and are battering at Java against War Time,

in apparent preparation for a Malheur County, Oregon, decided

and there has been some enemy infiltration eastwards. “Offensive action has been taken to mop up the enemy. The results of this action have not yet been received. “Elsewhere in the island the enemy is continuing to dive bomb and shell forward positions.

No British Air Losses

“Hurricane fighters of the Royal Air Force, supporting our troops, successfully intercepted enemy raiders today, destroying three and probably three others and damaging

13. Details are as follows: e “In the first raid this morn-| destroyed and two army-97 ing one army-97 bomber was bombers and one navy-0 | fighter and three other two-

Lane Company, 1413 Lane Bldg. ih i were cut off and Spanish territory in French. The county, which| Nothing further has been heard on the African side of the Strait of borders on Idaho. “annexed” itself Gibraltar was under martial law|to that State, which uses Mounafter anti-British rioting said by tain Time, and thus “seceded” London to have been inspired by from Oregon's Pacific Time zone. German agents. | Farmers in many states turned _ The explosion, occurring last week their clocks ahead with reluctance. in British diplomatic baggage, killed They objected on the grounds that

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“Later a patrol of our fighter airlorry

CALLS MISS INGALLS TS Sa \ANGUARD OF HITLER

fighters returned to base without! EE | WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U.P) —

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of the invasion fleet which was reported last week to be steaming southward along the China coast, but it would not be surprising to find it moving soon through the strait between Borneo and Sumatra towards Java,

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siege guns on forward positions had accused of being a paid Nazi agent, made it certain during the night was described before a district Thousands have taken advantage that the Japanese would attack, and court jury today as having atof this offer. Send your name and the imperials were ready when I tempted to “prepare this country to address today. |visited the rear area of the fight- receive Adolf Hitler.” —F ing lines | Special Prosecutor M. Neil An-! | Troops were moving steadily into drews accused her of “spreading Radio Berlin called the explosion ET es battle positions throughout the Nazi propaganda from one end of a “new British crime against spain,”| V25 “trying to hold back the sun.” ‘night, under the fire of the enemy the country to another, : |intimating that the British were! Hawaii, Where Japanese airplanes guns. Mr. Andrews told the jury that trying to smuggle bombs into the bearing the sign of the rising sun } || The Japanese used mainly mor- Miss Ingalls served the German Spanish area for undercover work|Prought the war to American soil fos tars, firing blindly into the north- | Reich or its representatives from and that one exploded. last Dec. 7, saw the sun rise as usual ) | «dl western area of the island. March 1, 1941, to last Dec. 18—11| It charged that the blast scat-|!0day. War Time does not affect British Troops Jubilant | das, Cg Japanese attack on Sol Prifesanaa leaflets secreted us Jyiana territory, but applies to | The defending troops were jubil-| The prosecutor said that Miss wh * er EEE for Canada joined the United States it 3 oe Sng: > ponnE ih | Ingalls worked particularly under against the Madrid government. n 8 universal adoption of War Time. the Japanese wht had fitered | OC direction of Baron Ulrich von Moscow reported that fresh Soviet Danesion a went on Daylight through the jungles of Malaya (Gienanth, second secretary of the troops have smashed new holes in|>2VINgs Time last summer, and re- : MAY, | German Embassy. the German lines around Leningrad. tained the program for the winter. never venturing a frontal fight de- | Miss Ingalls also communicated, The Germans lost one of their most A NeW law, also taking effect at spite their overwhelming numbers. ihe prosecutor added. with Dr. Hans! valued technical experts—Maj. Gen.|2 8. m. today, extended Daylight In the complete blackness of the Thomeen, German charge aaffires, Fritz Todt, builder of the West Wall Savings Time to the entire dominforward area, light artillery wheeled | 3,4 Fritz Wiedemann, German con- and many other major Nazi en-|ion. into pace quietly and from a hut 'g,) at San Francisco. |gincering achievements. He was said |

(came the wheezing of a grama- —_— (to have been killed in an air crash! THREE HELD IN DEATH

phone, “We Are Soldiers of The! lon the eastern front. King, My Boys.” OF WOMAN AT PARTY POLICE ARREST 23 IN TWO RAIDS HERE

| “Listen to them guns up front” |2 man in the rear lines commented. {1 bet them little yellow b « = = = § jare trying to land now. held by police today in connection Twenty-three men were arrested In Island Danger Spot with the death Saturday night of by police in two raids Saturday They were in the acute danger en Minnie Jones, 55, of 212 S. night. x : spot of the island, the jungly,|California St. At 8a y . work inaccurate. Be sure yeu are swampy northwest coast, a 10-mile| Mrs. Jones was found on the Solr as fe % Re doing your part by having your stretch of mangrove and patches of [of her home with her skull frac- Ilinois St. on a charge of keeping tured following what police de- a gaming house. Eight others were scribed as a fight during a party. held on charges of visiting a gamThe three held were said to have | ing house.

eye: emamined today. jrubber and pineapple plantation, | which assumes an undulating char- | acter inland. , | The strait there is narrow and un- {been guests at the Jones home. At 1608 College Ave. officers ar{usually shallow. It is hardly more| Mrs. Jenes is survived by herrested Lewis Sowers. 32, of 2845 optometrist | than half a mile wide at high tide.| mother, Mrs. Lou Starling, 433 S.|MacPherson St. and N. W. Mich(At low tide the water is even more | West St. Funeral services will be ler, 42. of 1234 Broadway, on held at the mother’s home at 2 p. charges of keeping a gaming house. m. tomorrow. Burial will be in Flo-| Twelve others were held on charges ral Park Cemetery. of visiting and gaming.

Sixty Catholic Boy Scouts Get Ad Altare Dei Medal

{the British defense garrison at Sixty members of Catholic Boy, Hall, in which the Central Council's SYdrities sre suampling 10 lo-

{Singapore at 20,000 men. Since the !Japanese drive on the islands is s i | : 200 troo jcate relatives of Andrew Clark ia troops received the Ad Altare, ops and more than 80 eubyeeq ‘who was found dead in his | Det medal yesterday at SS. Peter Packs will take part,

backed by 150,000 to 200,000 men, ‘the odds on a long continued dei fense of Singapore seemed slim. { (If the Japanese win Singapore there will fall into their possession |one of the world’s finest naval bases —the only one of its kind between Yokohama and the British Isles) ....|one-room cottage, 1603 Ruth Drive and Paul Cathedral as part of tiie, OT FT0RY, Sols BC Big ol in Ravenswood, yesterday, He was |observance of the week-long cele-\of their trainin : 66. | ] a g in civie affairs. - ; : [ation of the 32d anniversary of gecouts who received Ad Altare Ti Jad Lived a Sings |S . De s : : L ‘ 5 | The medals were presented hyo pcdals are lived at 2164 N. Illinois St. He was the Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, | grt Stand, k a salesman for a novelty printing bishop of the Diocese of Indianapo- Tre Company.

iis. | Another highlight of the week will be the mammoth court of honor Wednesday night at Tomlinson| Josep!

three British consular functionaries,| “cows can't read clocks” and that eight other persons, including two | “farms are run by the sun, not the Europeans, and wounded 36, the of-| ojock.” ; ficial Spanish news agency reported. Canada Adopts Change

An agricultural spokesman in Nebraska said President Roosevelt

Cashier of City Railways Dead

HORACE K. BUSKIRK, cashier of Indianapolis Railways, Inc, and former desk sergeant of the Police Department, died yesterday at Leesburg. He was 67. Mr. Buskirk was born in Paoli and came to Indianapolis about 1900. Funeral services and burial will be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow in Leesburg, He is survived by his wife, Anna; a son, Thomas, both of Leesburg; three sisters, Lois, Mabel and Myrtle Buskirk, and two brothers, Thomas and George, all of this city.

Russians Claim Gains

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A QUIZ PROGRAM on the life of Abraham Lincoln will feature the Washington Township Republican Club's Lincoln Day meeting tonight at the club rooms, 61st St. and College Ave. Part of the program will be broadcast by Radio Station WISH, according to Club President Mark W. Rhoads. William Frost will be the quizmaster and the two teams will include Mesdames Davis Harrison. George W. Eggleston, Charles Kellogg, Alex Clark and Myrtle Newlin for the women and Dr. Clifford Chambers, Neil McKinstray, Harry Wells, Harry G. Gause and John Riddle for the men. Emsley W. Johnson Sr. local attorney, will speak on “The Influence of Lincoln on American Life.”

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