Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1942 — Page 2

ISK IN HELPING ARTHUR CITED

Naval Convoy From Hawaii Might Lead to Majo | Clash in Pacific. wasHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U. P). 2 Douglas MacArthur's force : He Philippine Islands would be

with a large naval convoy fro Hawaii.

hey admitted that such a proj-

gt would involve the risk of a ne jor naval battle with the Japanese and doubted that the united high command was pre-

{ he situation was further aggravated by the threat of the quick pss of Singapore and the possibility of a Japanese thrust soon at the , last important Dutch Indies naval -base at Soerabaja on the island of va. Fighting Continues

. | They said that the loss of either both Singapore or Soerabaja : d be a major setback to the already slim chance of reinforcing MacArthur, im

feanwhile, the ' Japanese .and rican forces duelled with heavy ery and engaged in “aggressive infantry skirmishes,” during the last 24 hours, the War Department Eported, | No change in position of the lines reported,, however, and the

ui mmunjque a that in some sge-

one of the Bataan front “enemy troops are entrenching their posions.” f Hawaii 5000 Miles Away

Hawail is 5000 miles from Manila and any attempt to send troops and : ipplies over such a long. supply he would almost certainly precipi8 an outright test of U. S. naval strength with Japan. us Gen. MacArthur's heroic men, holding out on the jungle-like id mountainous Bataan peninsula gainst at least 10 to 1 odds, faced le prospect of probably ‘Aghting on indefinitely without large-scale

e question of aid for them was raised in the Senate yesterday by Senator Millard E. Tydings (D. Md.) who demanded immediate dis-

Military experts today believed |; at the only way of reinforcing]: s injs8

certificates with them at all times.

pected to register in Mariorn-€ounty and 300,000 in the state.

trants sliould make every effort to register with their own local boards to avoid possible confusion in the future.

away from home’ should carefully specify his home address so that his registration card may be forwarded promptly to his own ldcal board and to insure that he will be in-

Promoted

Ljeut. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, State Director of Selective Service, today was promoted to the rank of Colonel by the War ‘ Department. Col. Hitchcok enlisted ’in the Indiana National Guard in 1916, served on the ' Mexican border and in France as a lieutenant. He rejoined the Guard in 1925 and in 1932 was appointed Assistant Adjutant General, a position he held until his appointment as Selective Service head in 1940.

30,000 DUE TO “REGISTER HERE

128 Places Available in County Between 7 A. M. And 9 P. M.

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Approximately 30,000 men are, ex-

Draft officials said that all regis-

Any person who must register

British Resist Every Foot; Japs Apparently Hold

Some of Reservoirs. (Continued fron Page One)

attacks by artillery, high level bombers and dive bombers on the British troops. “We are. determined to die to maintain our positions,” the broadcast said. “The British are offering: heroic resistance and there is ample indication that the Japanese are not finding it easy to progress.” There was a break in the brosdcast as received here but then the announcer was heard closing his remarks with. this sentence: , . “The people of Singapore are wondering when it will’ come.”

' Siege Enters Third Week

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third week and the Japanese, who had long since announced that Imperial resistance. had been broken, were still taking terrific punishment. (At London: the Cable and Wireless Co., which had maintained service to Singapore, announced that henceforth none but government messages would be accepted to or from ‘Singapore.) EE It was reported from Batavia that shops in Singapore remained open despite an artillery bombardment which the Japanese had turned on the city in impotent rage at their failure to break the Imperial line and win easily their biggest triumph of the war. ‘ Fire 400 Shells an Hour Singapore, In announcing the bombardment, had said that the Japanese were shelling the city mercilessly and it was indicated that airplanes were joining in the attack. British artillerymen, sweating at their guns, were pouring a rain of shells into the Japanese ‘lines and it was said that 400 shells an hour were being hurled into one small sector. : The "Japanese hoped. to cut off the city’s water supplies, but experts said that because of the heavy rainfall at this season, the water situation was unlikely to be a big factor for several days.

The siege of Singapore entered its

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Look for a tightening of installment-buying restrictions, maybe

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers _

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the joint U. S.-Canadian Commission, Interior Department, Alaska’s Governor and her delegate to Congress. But nothing happens. A Congressional committee heard a general staff officer endorse the project, then was told by higher-ups that the President already had power to start the work. So—the committee suspended hearings, Alaska is nearer Japan than. Pearl Harbor is. It’s much the weakest link in our Pacific defense chain. ing that “another Pearl Harbor” may occur in Alaska. . (Note: Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska saw F. D, R. yesterday).

Lit’ry agent here from N. Y. this week urged Government to unfreeze his share of Hitler royalties on “Mein Kampf.” :

Great disparities in efficiency among plants doing identical or similar war work are engaging WPB interest. Efforts to bring laggards

Secretary Wickard and Leon Henderson lunched together at press club yesterday, for obvious purpose of letting reporters see them fraternizing re farm-price control. :

The $300,000,000 bill to boost unemployment benefits for workers disemployed by conversion of industries is sunk, at least in present form. States are screaming at “federal power grab.”

House vote on Dies Committee extension may come next week. May produce a few more noes than last year, but easy passage

Don't discard empty toothpaste (etc) tubes. Druggists are mobilizing to collect them for tin salvage. Old tin cans aren’t wanted yet except in a few areas near shredding and de-tinning plants.

Postwar prospects: Terrific tourist rush to London, financed by heavy pound-sterling balances now piling up in many countries.

Come-out-of-the-kitchen note: to need a million women this year. in airplane manufacture can be handled by women.) .

One field in which “hoarding” “is constructive rather than mis-

Both home and factory consumers are being exhorted to stock up, to avert future trouble if railroads are swamped.

Alaskan De Dimond is warn-

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cluded among its registrants and in its quotas if he is found to be qualifiled for military service, they said. Special registrars will be provided to register men who cannot appear; at a designated registration ‘place becausé of illness or other incapacity. It is incumbent upon these men to advise a registrar in their local board area of their inability to appear at a registration place, draft

patch of fresh troops for the “brave fighters of Bataan.” It would be a travesty, he said, if their stand . proved “but a sham due to a political approach to the greatest _ struggle in all history.”

GURTIN RESTS HOPES

ONE SOVIET FINGER | cer ttt PERILS SMOLENSK

loan sharks. Inquiry by a Federal grand jury is possible. Justice experts say that as much as 10 billions is outstanding in loans to consumers for all sorts of things. Maybe as much as $100,LONDON, Feb. 14 (U. P.).—The 2; - a 3 Soviet thrust ‘into White Russia 000,000 of this was lent by.“sharks,” chiefly in South and Southwest. showed today that at least one tentacle of the Russian pincers on“the

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Hoot a oad al expose; of ho ne .home¥and happiness on week-ends in big city hotels—and how they later repent.

(Some foresee a killing by loan sharks comes income-tax day.)

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th well decide the battle for America, Premier John Curtin predicted today in an exclusive! interview.

independent Australian strength and deplored compl pendence on the 2 doi to defend Singapore and ‘the lieved that war for, the very existence of the “down under” t was inevitable. y, with Japanese pre to Singapore and Japanese troops and planes in the Netherlands Fast es, less than 500 miles away, Mr. is plac great hope - ald he expec from the tes |

X-SCHOOL | OFFICIAL

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P.)~Clyde Chatt: former schol

was struck by a fast New York Oentral freight train. ! je four school pupils who were injured were Ann Chattin, Shirley ; 8 Janet Kantner and Peggy Huffer.

. Chattin was returning the up from a high school basket‘game at Lynn.

USTRALIA SEES NEW PERIL ANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 14 . | P)~The dangers created by the spreading Japanese offensive in Southwest Pacific were emsized in Australia today. The ment said that consideration | being given to proposals to re-

officials added.

ates air power can and will who is an inmate of an asylum or the/Baitle of the Pacific because |penal institution on Monday is .rebattle for Australia may |very quired to register on the day he leaves the institution,

delivery route which goes through - Curtin, who has campaigned |two states is required to indicate air| the location of his residence, rather de-|than his mailing address.

uth, always be-and 44 who have not previously registered, including those who have con-| declared their intentions of becoming citizens, must register. The only On | exceptions are those who are in the diplomatic service of a foreign country or those who are in the active service of a co-belligerent or neutral country.

registration, another lottery will be held in Washington to determine the order in which your name will be integrated with those now ‘on the [draft board lists. :

naire and from this the board will classify. you. from the information you give on your questionnaire, that you are fit for military service (counting dependents, the type of Job you have, etc.) it will place you tentatively in

Aliens Must Register Every magn subject to registration

A registrant who lives on a rural

All aliens between the ages of 20

Draw Numbers Later Within a few weeks after the

You will then be sent a question-

If the board thinks,

Class 1-A, Then, if you pass the physical examination given by the Army examining board it will be only a matter of days before you will become one of Uncle Sam’s soldiers.

SEES HITLER CHIEF FOE MEMPHIS, Tenn. Feb. 14 (U. P.)—The United States must remain on the defensive in the Pacific, probably until 1943, and the Battle of the Atlantic is the most important phase of the war, retired Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr. told the Memphis Executives Club

R.A. PF. in Britain. |

last night.

central front endangers Smolensk, Generalissimo Adolf Hitler's purported winter headquarters. Military observers regarded as- of almost equal importance the fact that the Russians have been able o send fresh troops and supplies to long-besieged Leningrad. The strongest German efforts to relieve Rzhev, including the bringing up of fresh reserves by plane, were reported fol have been thwarted, the reserves annihilated. The loss of Rzhev, northern anchor of the German. line before Moscow, would be serious to the invaders. Reporting continued’ advances, Moscow today said that on one sector the Nazis left two damaged tanks, two guns and about 300 dead on the field. On another sector, where 200 German offices and men were killed, the Russians captured two machine guns, one gun, 2000 shells, 1670 mines, 1000 hand grenades and 60,400 cartridges. On the Kalinin front a Soviet tank unit captured a strongly fortified populated place and .destroyed nine German blockhouses.

LOCAL MAN KILLED AT RAIL CROSSING

Harry Farrell, 50-year-old restaurant worker, was killed yesterday when struck by a train at BE. St. Clajr 8t. and the Big Four railroad crossing. Mr, Farrell's only known survivor is a sister living in Cleveland. He had lived at 407 E. Ohio St.

‘NINTH INNING’ BOOKED “The Ninth Inning,” American Legion official motion . picture of 942, will be shown Tuesday at a int . luncheon meeting of the Lutheran Service Club and the Mercator Club in the Hotel Lincoln. The movie is dedicated to the late Lou Gehrig. In the cast are Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Joe McCarthy,

Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio.

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By TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent HONOLULU, Feb. 14—A United States destroyer, in a brave if bloodexploit, has rescued six hungry, ty and almost naked ericans tiny Howland and Baker is- , 2140 miles south of Honolulu, was revealed today. were eight men on the iss, all Department of Interior mployees, when the war began. heard the war news by radio. on the Japanese were bombing, ] and she ‘the less islets in e and attack, and they killed men—Joseph Keliihananui and * Whaley—of the four on

The survivors are Thomas Bedern, radio man, and Elvin Matson, stant weather observer, of How0 and Walter Burke, 10 man, Blue Makua, James Coyle and

James Pease, weather observers of Baker.

The American destroyer, whose crew did not know whether they were heading into Japanese gunfire, steamed up to the islands on Jan. 31, just befors the fleet attacked the Marshall apd Gilbert islands to the west, and rescued the survivors, somerof whom had to swim through the shark-infested surf. The destroyer arrived off Howland at daybreak. A landing party went ashore, heavily armed. They found and returned with Bederman and Matson. 4 : : Then the destroyer went fo Baker, 35 miles to the southwest, arriving about mid-morning, and investigated in the same way. A rescue party was sent toward shore when there was no fire. They

boat through the surf.

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S. Destroyer's Rescue of Six Americans On Two Tiny Pacific Islands Is Revealed

“Two men came out through.the surf in a small two-man boat fitted with outriggers,” an eyewitness said. “One of them returned with the boat and picked up a third man. But when he was starting on the third trip the boat smashed in the surf, with one man still ashore, “The best swimmer among the survivors already. rescued swam back to shore with a life ring attached to a rope? This was given the last man, who was a poor swimmer, After a bit of hesitation, he was induced to venture out among the sharks and we hauled him into the boat.”

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Rapist Gets Life in Prison Instead of College Career

CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (U. P.).— Judge Julius Miner “today declined the appeal of David Reese Stefféy III, 18, for scientific treatment of his mania for attacking women and

sentenced the handsome high school

athlete to life in the state penitentiary. Steffey had pleaded guilty to raping two women and had confessed similar attacks. In his own defense he had testified that he was a -schizophreniac—a victim of split personality—and had lectured the court on the futility of moral codes. He had asked the judge to send him back to school so that he eventually might go to college and educate himself out of his mania. “The court tried to analyze the life of this young man,” said Judge Miner, “a remarkable student, respectful, quiet, a conscientious at-

' |tendant at church, a son that any

parent might well be proud of, until a year ago when he became obsessed with Nietsche’s philosophy of the superman.” Steffey listened to the judge with curled lip. As he was led away he

tumed toward the bench and sneered: “Aw, the heck with it—children, that’s all!” He was given a stay of 60 days in the county jail where authorities decided where to send him.

FLYING ASPIRANTS TO GET INTERVIEWS

Hoosier college men who are interested in becoming Navy fliers will be interviewed Monday and Tuesday by Ensign Robert Childes, USNR, a member of the U. 8. Naval Reserve Flight Selection Board. Ensign Childes’ headquarters while in Indianapolis will “be the Naval Armory at 30th St. and White River. The Navy has announced that age requirements for college men to be trained as fliers have been lowered. The minimum age is 19 years, and the top is 26.

PARAGUAY BARS AXIS SHIPS ASUNCION, Feb. 14 (U. P.).— Paraguay closed her ports to Axis ships today and imposed strict control on the movements and conduct of Axis citizens.

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