Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1942 — Page 2

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HOPE ABANDONED FOR SINGAPORE

British Defenders Are Falling Back as Huge Flights of Jap Planes Dive-Bomb and Machine-Gun Them —At Their Leisure. (Centinued from Page One)

near the causeway from Johore Bahru and the railroad line = JV (an said.

leading to Singapore City.

(Japanese broadcasts claimed they were within eight the long battle to save the world's

miles of Singapore City, in the vicinity of Panjang on the railroad. That would indicate] a junction had been made by| =i tiovd vanks: somewhere ‘0 the the two main Japanese inva-| japanese planes brought their acsion forces and that they held | tivity closer to the city as the morn-

" b3 ing drew on, and I had difficulty, the northern section of the leaving fy subirban home because

(A London military commentator,’ of the rapid succession of air raid admitting that the government had alerts, the intensive anti-aircraft no information of Japanese claims fire which sent shrapnel fragments

that the causeway between Singa-| Showering into the roads and

: streets, and the artillery fire, the pore and the mainland had been |ghejis of which were still reaching repaired, said that it was conceiv-

into the outskirts. able the breach had been closed by| I vacated my plaster-strewn house Japanese engineers. The com-

and took up an emergency camp in mentator made the admistion when

my city office building. asked about Japanese reports that Army Camp Near City enemy troops were pouring across

had blown y great break.) a vacant flat within the next few

days but it is questionable whether Rumble Grows Louder I will require it. | As the Japanese guns foretold the! (This ominous sentence evidently new attempt to land troops during referred to the possibility that Mr. the night, the ringing notes of the Guard might be compelled to evacubugles, sounding the alaxm sent|ate) Imperial reinforcements to battle] On my way to town, I passed at! positions to meet an attack which, |the roadside military trucks and it was taken for granted, would be front-stained soldiers, breakfasting | even more ferocious than that|in the city outskirts. | which had driven back the defense! The outskirts are more and more, forces steadily all day yesterday|an Army camp, a front area camp, despite their attempts to take the in which the soldiers sleep under) offensive. | muddied transports. Throughout the long night, the| Never have I seen uring IRY years portentous rumble of the artillery|2S 8 War correspondent a grimmer

grew steadily louder in the ears of| Scene than last night's bombard-

! t when out of the deep blackthe helpless hundreds of thousands MR | of civilians in the city, and in mid.| "ess blazed the explosions of the

morning the chatter of machine. ENS ANd the earth quivered under | gun fire became audible in the ex. [tPES pi Re ¢ att night. 1 treme western suburbs. was challenged five times by sentries Shells Fall in Outskirts during my slow three-mile drive. As the ground troops came to] MET ta tI STRSTR $b AF close grips in the late forenoon, the; FRANKLIN JR. UNDER KNIFE | artillery fire diminished somewhat! NEW YORK, Feb 10 (U.P) .— It burst into a roar intermittent- Lieut. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. was Ir as Japanese gunners on the Jo- operated on for appendicitis today hore shore picked new targets. at the naval hospital in Brooklyn. The white puffs of anti-aircraft The hospital said his condition was shells dotted the blue sky around “satisfactory” and that he was a huge billow of smoke, resembling! “resting quietly.”

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juntil her port side rested on the

the fire damage was ithe interior of her bulkheads and remained dry {while she was partly under

{that she remained structurally in(tact, both above and below the main]

| Bredell,

CAUSE OF BLAZE IN LINER SOUGHT

‘Sabotage Not Entirely Ruled Out; Disorder Among

Workers Denied. (Continued from Page One)

disorders among workmen, and that the ship could not be salvaged. “The Navy supports no such con-

Fire officials who helped direct

second largest vessel from the fury of a five-alarm fire, estimated that loss might amount to $5.000,000 a minor matter to naval officers, who were more concerned about the time lost in conversion of, the 83,-000-ton liner. During the night thousands of tons of water had been poured into the vessel. The fire was extinguished, except for a few smouldering portions in remote portions of its great interior, but the weight of the water left the liner topheavy on the incoming tide. Twelve hours after the blaze started, the Normandie rolled gentlv away from her dock early today

silty bottom. Fire Blazes Again

Immediately fire blazed from the seared interior of her

again

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES List Develops as Fire Sweeps Normandie’s Decks

TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1942

The Normandie begins to list as fireboats pour tons of water onto her blazing upper decks.

CINCH TO FIRE WRITER FOUND

PM Says Their Reporter Found Conditions on Ship Were Lax.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (U, P).— The newspaper PM revealed today that on Jan. 3 one of its reporters,

Edmund Scott, after a personal investigation of the water front, had written a story that would have told “any agent or crackpot firebug just how to go about setting the Normandje afire, just how easy it would be.” Because this story was “a blue print for sabotage,” PM did not print it, but told Capt. Charles H. Zeerfoss, chief of the Anti-sabotage Division of the U. 8. Maritime Commission “that we had discovered sabotage of war cargoes and ships would be a cinch. That we actually had a reporter working on a U. S. ship of vital importance to the war. ‘Didn’t Even Ask Name’

“Capt. Zeerfoss didn’t even ask the name of the ship,” PM's story today continued. “He just said: ‘Better get your reporter out of there before he gets shot.” PM yesterday published the story which Scott wrote on Jan. &

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super-structure, but it was extin-,

guished in 40 minutes. The weary hundreds of naval and municipal fire-fighters who had |

battled to save her -since yester- i day afternoon, left her to the salvage engineers. | Tremendous Power Thrown Into Thrusts Along | Pacific Fronts.

The vessel was a sad sight 25) dawn revealed her crippled hulk, | (Continued from Page One)

one-third of her superstructure | and bridge under water and her) giant stacks and her masts a few] feet above the ice-choker pier. But there was some good news to allay the disaster of the accidental fire which raged in her decks for three hours uncontrolled yesterday afternoon. | simo, there to discuss the defense of Hulk Interior Sealed | India with British officials. | One of her former French offi- Cen. Chiang’s surprise visit clear- | cers said that undoubtedly she ly envisaged military strategy to be | could be righted and repaired—and employed in an attempt to halt the with a speed that would surprise Japanese before they smash, the layman. | through Burma to Rangoon and Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, the Burma Road, cutting China's commandant of the Third Naval Supply lifeline, District, said that there was no| It seemed likely that Chiang possibility of the fire having been hoPed to arouse India's vast native set by saboteurs. | population toward all out particiNaval censorship prohibited a bation in the war which is rapidly too-detailed account of the damage, SWirling toward India’s borders and | but it was permissible to say that the richest storehouse of treasure! entirely con-|in the whole east. fined to the three upper decks, that More Churchill Criticism

hull had been h ” £ win . { He was conferring with the Mar- | sealed by her water-tight doors and quess of Linlithgow and expected

wee [lo talk with nationalist leaders in-| [eluding Mohandas K. Ghandi. There were repercussions of the deck. Singapore battle in London, where Rear Admiral Andrews left thelll Was expected to reinforce the descene at 3:30 a. m.. after losing a mands of critics of the Churchill dramatic and heart-rending battle/SovVernment that the prime minister to keep the 80.000-ton bulk upright.

jreorganize his cabinet. But there {Was no indication that Prime Min-

ister Winston Churchill would bow

EEKS GROUND | to this demand. : 0 The hand of the critics also was

'Strengthened by the switch in the] AT JEFFERSONVILLE North African situation which now! finds Gen. Erwin Rommel driving! (Continued from Page One) Fgh Lowara the Egyptian frontier. | lawyers with offices at 1356 Cone... . bombers and mobile ground solidated Building. forces were harassing the Axis colMembers of the first board of

jumns and apparently had slowed : .__|the advance. directors of the company, according to the articles, are Mr, Miller, Mr,| Trouble Brews in Africa Mr. Kinnally, Mrs. Alma! Trouble was brewing, farther E. Theobald, a stenographer in the west in Africa at Tangier, where | law office, and Harry D. Winnie, a a still-obscure riot directed against! business associate of Mr. Miller who the British caused a proclamation | is in the mining business in’ Ken- of martial law. An American diplo- | tucky. | matic officer was en route from Lib- | Mr. Miller declined to comment son to investigate the Tangier situ-| on the condemnation proceedings. ation. | | According to the articles, the; The British reported that three Howard Shipyard Properties, Inc,|more Axis supply vessels have been | was incorporated “to build, con-| blasted in the Mediterranean by a struct, assemble, manufacture ships, | British submarine. One was sunk, ! boats and barges of every nature One probably sunk and one dam-| and kind.” The new corporation aged. ‘was to begin business, the articles] There was little new on the Rus-| | stated, with a capital of $500. |sian front, where the Germans ap-| B. Howard Caughran, U. S. dis- Peared to be stiffening and slowing trict attorney, said he was unaware the pace of the Soviet advance.

that the Howard Shipyard and! Dock Co. was under lease to How- | LOCAL SAILOR AMONG NORMANDIE INJURED

ard Shipyard Properties, Inc., and| Joseph Clossin, Indianapolis sai-|

(that the latter firm had not been | made a defendant in the condemnalor assigned to guard duty aboard | the Normandie, was listed among

tion suit. He said he would check those injured in the fire on the!

into the matter. ship yesterday, according to the

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