Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1942 — Page 1
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_ The criminal attack on a 17- : a girl in her home| spurred bers of the Police | Depart-
as : van ordered 'an exjose “manhunt after he was told ow ‘dark-complexioned man,} ut 30, gained entrance 'by a ruse into Woodruff Place Spastment, bound and gagged the girl, whe home alone, and assaulted twice while he held her captive two hours. | “We | must use every the the criminal * Mayor | declared.
Others Molested ‘18-year-old girl and a 54-year--were molested by men in pet last night. The woman. gged into an alley by a ’ » Tan #way’ ‘with hes. purse |
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0 man: who ru ce home! Tae of Fine ie ‘erivatyally as-| saulted three women and girls in
to many others. as being dark- , stocky, about 30 years feet 6 inches tall, and about 160 pounds. He was ing his two-hour stay
ool last June. Her mothis engaged in business, yme about an hour after the man had left the apartment. She notified | the police sud scallion the
e doughter, hearing a buzught there was a. package { Phone call for her at the
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back into the n (she was not A same person who t her |in the hallway) behind the door,
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GREEN-TINTED JAPS SNIPE AT
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Even Dye Faces to Blend With Trees; U. P. Writer
Nearly a Victim.
By FRANK HEWLETT United Press Staff Correspondent WITH GENERAL MacARTHUR
B | Feb. 16 — (delayed) — (U. P)— 8 | Death, in the form of bullets from
the rifle of a green-painted Japanese sniper, whizzed past my head today, and I'm shaking yet. - Walking down these Bataan Peninsula battle paths where enemy
‘isnipers are lurking is like a boy
walking past a graveyard on a dark night, Only you don’t dare whistle. And you don’t dare run, either. Better crawl, and jump from tree to tree. You'll live longer, as three American army. officers and myself
& © | discovered.
They're Hard to Find
These Japanese—nicknamed “the rattlesnakes of Bataan”—take particular pains to pick off officers, but under orders of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, counter measures have been taken and the menace is being
‘| reduced.
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while it was sailing under t orders from Philadelphia along the Atlantic’ Coast at 8 p. m: Monday night. The entire crew of 40 members, including Capt. William LI. Evans
Coast Guard cutter 30 minutes after y had abandoned ship. The ship at last reports was still afloat and immediate salvage operations were ordered. Crew members were unable to
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German submarine. Enemy submarines sowed some mines in this area during [the last war. The Blum lantic Refining Co.
~'MOTORIST KILLED AT CROSSING HERE
A man, po ward Altom, R. R. 1, Box 743-A, was killed instantly at the B. & O. Railroad tracks and Arlington Ave. today when his automobile was {struck by an inbound passenger train
. | Witness | said his body was thrown 30 feet. The car was deboty A former neighbor of Mr. Altom’s said that he leaves a wife and two small ch n, and was employed at the International Harvester Co. plant. | ‘BLAME SORORITY FOR DEATH WHITE S, N. Y. Feb. 18 8| (U. P.).—The suicide of pretty Ruth Murray Li ston, 18, a senior ins the White ns High School, ‘was blamed y on the petty jealousies and Politics of a social sorority. ol
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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oration of a 2000-year-old tragedy, began today for the Christians of 4 In Indianapolis, the churches of most denominations were + this traditional day of humility with special services.
oldest churches, Carist Episcopal
rch, on | the Circle, and St. John’s Catholic Church at Capitol Ave.
and Georgia. St, began the day with lappropriate ’ ceremonies. - The Rev, E. Ainger Powell, rector of Christ Church, spoke at the 10 a, m. services. The Rt. Rev. Richard Ainslee Kirchhoffer, D.D, bishop of the diocese, preached at noon. In his serfnon, ‘Bishop Kirchhoffer called for a turning again to God—"not that He may rescue us from our sorry plight, but that we may gain new insight into His purposes and learn anew to share them.” God and Democracy The bishop will ‘speak again tomorrow and Friday. - He has chosen as his theme for: the three days a phrase from the Collect for Ash Wednesday—“Create and Make in Us New and Contrite Hearts.”
personal sins, our own pettiness often | makes us ‘lose sight of the great sins of which we are guilty as a people,” the bishop said. “It has been brought home to us in no uncertain terms that one of our great: sing has been our loss of conviction in the basic foundations of Democracy. Trace them out and we will find that the foundations of Democracy go back to our belief In God and our confidence in our fellow, men.”
Ashes Are Distributed In St! John’s Church, the Rev. Fr. Bernard Sheridan blessed the ashes which are put upon parishioners! foreheads in the Sign of the Cross as an act of humility. ; The ashes are those of palms, which | were used last Palm Sunday, in commemoration of the triumphal procession ‘of Jesus through the streets of Jerusalem centuries ago, When | His people honored Him, shortly before He was crucified. {Each year in Catholic churches (Continued on Page Two)
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The snipers are still around, though, but they're hard to find. The one. who shot at me and t
why we hadn't ever been able. fo determine where he was firing from.
Sniper Still up Tree
|blended perfectly with the foliage
Dies at 69
Albert Payson Terhune
AUTHOR OF DOG STORIES DEAD
Albert Terhune, Famous Fiction Writer, Was
Prolific Warker.
POMPTON LAKES, N. J. Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Albert Payson Terhune, author of many dog stories, died today at Sunnybank, his home here. Mr, Terhune had suffered for several’ years with an heart aliens. He was 69. : ~“He ‘was one of the most prolific and hard-working authors of his day. Dog fancier and important
He was in green uniform, on the canine family, Mr.
of the high tree he had climbed His face was painted green, his hands were green. He wore green shoes. He wore linesman’s climbers to aid in scaling the trees. His ammunition was smokeless. - Our sniper is still up that tree.
He had tied himself to a limb, and a
when an American rifleman picked him off his body remained high in the branches.
Two Majors Periled
My experience with the sniper came when I accompanied Maj. Joseph Chabot, New York, and Maj. John Pugh, Washington, D. C., to investigate a situation in a sector where a small group of Japanese had been cut off. We were in sight of our destination when we stopped to talk with a tank corps lieutenant. “Any snipers around?” asked Maj. Pugh. “I haven't heard of a one on the trail,” the lieutenant said. We stepped into the middle of the path to talk.
Like Hunting Squirrels
Just then a bullet kicked up the dust a foot from where we were!
Before the third and fourth bul-. lets came, however, the four of us were rolling inr the brush, and then we crawled behind trees. A check revealed all had escaped injury so we started squirming through the bush, flat on our bellies. When we were out of range we got our feet againy and compared notes. No two could agree on where the shots came from. “Trying to find those fellows in the trees is like hunting squirrels,” one officers explained: But all in all, our counter snipers are running up a very nice tally on the enemy. And they aren’t dressing 'in green to do it, either,
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FEAR U. S. OFFICER DEAD LONDON, Feb. 18 (U. P)—A British plane route to Britain was understood today to have crashed at sea off. the south coast of England and it was feared all aboard, including a senior American officer, were lost.
hune worked 11 hours a day, six days a week, for 30 years before he decided to slow down. It was on his 64th birthday that he announced a partial retirement. “I'm going to cut out all serials, articles, stories and lecturing, but I'll continue my weekly syndicated article on dogs, write a book once 2 year and give occasional broadcasts,” he said. “Anyway, if I'm going te get any fun out of life, I'd better start now.”
In this latter resolution, Terhune ‘followed the action of his father, the Rev. Dr. Edward Payson Terhune, who also announced his retirement when he reached the age
of 64. The
Voice of Bugle Ann.”
Surviving are his wife, ays. Anice Morris Stockton "Terhune, noted in her own right as a music composer, and (a daughter, | Mrs. Lotraine
Stevens.
BRITISH BREAK UP
ATTACK ON CONVOY
d Three- Day Battle - Reported
In Mediterranean.
LONDON, Feb. 18 (U. P.).—Brit-
ish planes and warships, fighting off a three-day attack on British convoys in the Mediterranean,
scored torpedo hits on at least two enemy cruisers and one destroyer and downed at least five or nine enemy planes, the Admiralty said today. One of the cruisers burst into flames. Later, a British submarine intercepted the ememy cruisers and scored two torpedo hits on one 8inch gun cruiser, the Admiralty asserted. (It was not indicated whether the cruiser was one which previously had been hit by the planes.) Two British merchantmen, damaged by enemy planes, were destroyed by British forces, as they could not keep up with the convoy. All other ships reached their destination, the Admiralty said.
most famous of Mr. Terhune’s works ,was the moyel, “The
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FEAR MASSED
FORGES TO TRY
FOR KNOCKOUT
| Ef Foe's Bombers Shift 1700
Miles for Blow; U. S.
Sinks Enemy Barges.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U, P.) — Gen, Douglas MacArthur's lastditch defenders of the Philippines felt the effects today of Singapore's surrender when fresh Japanese strength, presumably shifted from
the Malayan conquest, struck their
thinly-held Bataan lines. A War Department communique reported blows | by newly-arrived Japanese bombers and artillery. It also reported. that American
flying fortresses, attacking a Japaese fleet off Dutch Sumatra, had
sunk two enemy barges and were “pelieved to have destroyed”. two Japanese troopships.
Jap Attack Is Steady
Indicating that the Japanese allout drive against MacArthur may be beginning, the communique told of heavy reinforcements and “almost constant” bombardment of the American-Filipino lines. More Japanese troops landed at Port, Olongapo on Subic Bay at the top of Bataan Peninsula while planes and’ artillery blasted the defenders in mounting tempo. Military officials said that the Japanese aerial reinforcements un-
doubtedly had been shifted 1700] miles across the ‘China sea. for the
attempted “knockout” of General MacArthur. : Against this growing enemy air strength General MacArthur has only a few P-40 fighters, without hope of reinforcement.
Fortresses Renew Attack The flying fortress attack upon
the Japanese invasion spearheads
off Sumatra was the first report of U. S. air action around the Dutch East Indies since Feb. 10 when a formation of P-40 fighters battled Japanese bombers and destroyed one of them. The War Department communique describing reports from the Pacific battlefronts up to 8:30 a. m.' (Indianapolis Time) did . not say whether this aerial success was the same one reported from Batavia in a united nations communique. The latter said that American and Dutch squadrons had sunk a large transport, hit two others and destroyed “many barges” crammed with Japanese troops. , The War Department spoke ominously of the mounting tempo of (Contintied os Page Two)
On Yaside Pages Today's War Moves ¥ Page 2
Japan re Casesmesnran is Planes Get Priority dasa rensis 1
Pinball Odds— $12—~40 Cents
PRACTICE, at a nickel a game, did not make a perfect pinball player of a 16-year-old newsboy. In fact, his mother told police, the boy put $12 in the machine over a two weeks’ period and the return was 40 cents. The boy said the machine was in a grocery at 223 N. Illinois St., and police arrested Vincent Martoccia, 1236 Edgemont Ave, on a charge of violating the 1935 Slot Machine Act.
DENIES VICHY RUMOR
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U. P.).— French Ambassador Gaston HenryHaye said today that all rumors that France was planning to turn Madagascar over to Japan are “without the slightest foundation,” and that, his country will fight to
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Yank Mobis ‘Chinese Doll’ and Is His Face Red!
| By LELAND STOWE
Copyright. 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News. Inc.
RANGOON, Feb. 18.—“Hey, you . want to hear a really good story?” We said, “Sure thing, Mick,” and joined Pilot Linar Mickelson and half-a-dozen AVG fliers + (American Volunteer Group), who - were standing ready in their dis-
a rope-woven settee aad Leibalt was stretched out on it flat on his back. Pilot Edward J. Leibolt comes from somewhere near Cincinnati, O., but Mickelson, roundfaced and smiling, reached the naval airforce by way of the wheatlands of western Minnesota Fergus Falls to be exact — the University of Minriesots and: North
porsal hut pear one end of: the
“You know, up at Kunming recently Ed and I were just in from a flight when we saw a passenger plane stabled way down the field, He hopped in a station wagon, Found two European men, two Chinese. and two nifty-looking Chinese women waiting for repairs. We took a second look at those girls and Ed says: YoU U3. Wau; 4 Fide ug to y
“WELL, THAT surprised us some ht 1 piled in the back seat with that little Chinese doll.
There was one passenger left, a
Chinese civilians with a muffler pulled around his mouth. I asked, shall we take him? But Ed yelled, ‘no room.’ “Our car smothered him with dust as Ed went into high.®
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Bows Out
Miss Mayris Chaney
MAYRIS uITs POST
Dancer-Friénd it First Lady Lauded on Resignation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (U, P.) — Resignation of Miss Mayris Chaney, dancer and close friend of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, from her $1600-a-yer r-job with the OCD today was e“pected .to hasten final enactment of the $163,789,819 Deficiency Bill which provides $100,000,000 for equipment for this unit. Rep. John Taber, N. Y. ranking Republican member of the House
.| Appropriations Committee said her
resignation indicated a trend on the part of:the OCD, “to get rid of its activities that are outside the law.”
to those things the law permits. "If they do that. they’ll have eoigh to do.”
“To End Controversy
her reason a desire to end the controversy which centéred about her as head of the Children’s Division, physical fitness in division in Philadelphia. Her action renewed speculation as to. the probable date when Mrs. Roosevelt and Actor Melvyn Douglas will also leave their posts—all anticipated as part of the contemplated reorganization of OCD.
of OCD and head of the voluntary Participation Division, ‘has said she will resign’ as soon as her depart ment ‘is operating efficiently. Mr.
“I hope,” he said, “that [those inj charge will confine themselves only |
- Miss Chaney's resighation gave as!
On the War Fronts | b
Mrs... Roosevelt, assoicate director!
employers
Douglas, head: of the arts counecil,| reportedly has been advised that his| in Hollywood cannot | spare his services in' deference to his| civilian defense . work.
said he thought Miss Chaney should be commended for her patriotism. “She undoubtedly thinks she can best serve her country by ri from the limelight. I th country could be better off
the others
-| would - do the same thing.”
REPORTS NAZIS IN ‘GREATEST EFFORT
Briton Says Big Gliders Among Arms Output.
LONDON, Feb. 18 (U. B) san. official British spokesman said day Germany was making her “greatest effort in war production,” presumably for a large-scale Nazi offensive. : He described’ the German effort as “the greatest ever known” and sald the Nazis were known to be
ders in large numbers. radio, A. V. Alexander, first lord
of the admiralty, said
Rep.’ Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.) |
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manufacturing troop-carrying gli-
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U.S. AVIATORS
SMASH ENE
SHIPS OFF JAVA
Pincers Drawing Closer to Major Bases in Indies;
Burma Road Periled.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
‘Chinese troops invaded Japanese-controlled Thailand
| today, but the enemy’s Far
Eastern offensive hammered heavily against allied | defenses in Burma, the East
| Indies and the Philippines,
The allied main basé on Java and the Burma road to China were thost seriously menaced by the costly Bus still advancing Japanese drive. The enemy was suffering heavy losses, however, in stinging counter punches by American, Dutch, Brit. ish and Chinese forces. :
Sink 2 Jap Transports
Two enemy transports were be« lieved sunk by American flying
[fortresses in Sumatra waters, and
many troop-laden Japanese barges were -sunk. American: and Dutch: planes shot down five enemy bombers in a new raid on the Soerabaja naval base. . Six other Japanese planes pers downed over Sumatra, ; 4
alr and artillery units and a an intensified assault by enemy in. vi
{fantry reserves landed on the Bae |taan peninsula.
The radio at Saigen, in Japa. nese-held Indo-China, reported that Chinese army units were driving in« to Thailand, ‘near the Indo-China border. ‘Cross Rilin River
Chinese forces have recently are rived in Burma in large numbers and Japanese troops were said to be concentrated in large numbers in northern Thailand, in preparas tion to stem an allied thrust. Broadcast by the All-India radio, heard in London, said that the Chie nese troops invading Thai were fighting toward the railroad town of Chienmai. The British position along ithe Bilin River, in Burma, only 50 miles from the railroad running northe ward from Rangoon to China, was
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EAST INDIES: American | and Dutch fliers sink one large Jap transport, damage one or two others in Sumatra waters; enemy closing pineers on. Java.
PHILIPPINES : American forces on Batdan under heavy attacks by fresh Jap troops.
AUSTRALIA: Lieut. Gov. H. J. Van Mook . tells . Australians United States is sending “every{thing it can lay its hands : on” to southwest Pacific’ | for united nations defense.
BURMA: as troops invade Thailand; Japs cross Bilin river toward Burma road,
LIBYA: British desert patrols holding.
MEDITERRANEAN: Brit ish naval torpedo planes and submarines sco re hits-on two or three cruisers and one des er in three-day sea
. over the British|