Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1942 — Page 1
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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
Allied armed forces, sparked by slashing American aetial attacks, smashed a Japanese invasion fleet and hammered heavily today at enemy forces threatening Java from ‘east
On the eastern approach, the Japanese seized the | Bali airdrome at Den Pasar and swarmed over the pict little island a mile from Java, but at the cost of destruction‘ or damage to all but one vessel in their Bali invasion fleet, Air attacks on their land forces continued.
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On the western approach, allied dive bombers set a 105 000-ton ship aflame in attacking a number of enemy vessels in the Banka strait off Sumatra, where enemy reinforces
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within the next few months, according. to local draft officials. \
This will be necessary, they said, because most of the boards already
of supply of Class 1-A men. | | And it will be late spring, probbly May, before the new reservoir
f manpower created by last Mon- |
ay’s registration can be tapped. e lottery determining the, order umbers of the new registrants will ot be held until March 17 and it ill take several weeks after that classify them. :
Class 1-A Group Shrinks
|'A few of the local boards still ave some Class 1-A men lefi that ave ‘been re-classified from 1-H over 28), 1-B (minor phy: ‘dets) and 1V-F (physically unfit). ut this group is diminishing rapidly and these boards will soon have tb start re-classifying Class II men, The men originally placed in 1-B 1V-F are being or already have n re-classified in view of the 's lowering of eye and teeth ds
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: Hundreds of married men in the 21-35 age Z¥oup who| . do not have children and whose wives are working or have an independent source of income will be called to the army
<A Group Shrinks.
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AT WELFARE DIVISION
Niblack Critical of Old‘Age Administration.
: The Marion county welfare department received additional criticism today from Municipal Judge John Niblack. | “Someone ought to investigate the investigators at the welfare department,” he said when an old-age pensioner appeared in court for the 33d time in 17 years. ‘The pensioner was charged with disorderly conduct and the previous 32 arrests were for drunkenness. Twenty-five years ago he served tiine for forgery. Judge Niblack said the 7l-year-old man had been an inmate of Julietta for four years but on Jan. 1 ‘the welfare department granted hin a $25 a month pension. The judge sentenced him to 60 days on the state farm and fined him $1 and costs. “I'm going to write a letter to the superintendent of the state farm and see that you get proper medical attention,” the judge told him. “I'm also going to recommend to the Welfare department that you be returned to Julietta where you will get the care and attention you need.” Last week sidge Niblack said he woiild ask the grand jury to investi-
old-age pensioners after the operator of one of these homes was convicted on an assault and ley age.
FIRST LADY PAINTS BRIGHT OCD FUTURE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.). —Mirs. Franklin D. Roosevelt— “closing: the subject of OCD” as far as she is concerned—predicted today a valuable future for the OCD. The section has been renamed the
author.
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IN PAYNE
One Woman Is Included; State Calls Accused The ‘Aggressor.’
By JOHN L. BOWEN Times Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, Feb. 23..— A jury of 11 men and one woman was sworn in. at 10:42 a. m. today in Monroe [circuit court here to try Mrs. Caroline Gladys Payne on charges ‘of first degree murder in the death of her one-time fiance,
apolis, | The jury consists of six faimers, a farmwife, a furniture fdctory worker, a carpenter, a merchant, an unemployed railroad worker and a negro barber.
Seat Juror With Opinion
Filling of the jury box came after three and one-half days of haggling between Mrs. Paynes counsel,’ Q. Austin East and J. Frank Regester, and the youthful prosecutor, Sylvan Tackitt, and his deputy, Robert McCrea. Under circumstances which may be unprecedented in Monroe county court history, both sides accepted a juror who acknowledged a “fixed opinion.” He was the last juror passed—Maurice Evans, a negro barber, of Bloomington. In previous examination, all talesmen professing fixed opinions were excused for cause.
Made Up His Mind
Before the swearing in of the jury, Evans said from his chair in the box: “I don’t think I should serve because I have already made up my mind about the defendant.” ' ° (Continued on Page Five)
OCD GETS 100 MILLION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.. —President Roosevelt today signed a $163,000,000 deficiency appropriation bill providing $100,000,000 for the embattled OCD. The measure bars use of the OCD funds for dancing or other forms of Publis
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LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m....2 10 a. m.. .. 27 7a m....20' 11a. m.... 27 8am . 21 12 (Noom).. 30 9a. m....2 1p m....31
A snow and sleet storm was forecast for this afternoon and tonight, but the Weather Bureau explained that the cause of the storm would have. to -be .a “war-time mystery.” The bureau even declined to say whether the “heavy drifting snow” would come from the north. Publication of such data, it pointed qut, might be helpful te the enemy. The forecast, one of the longest in weeks, follows: “Heavy . drifting snow with some sleet beginning this afternoon and continuing tonight, making streets and highways hazardous; Slowly} rising temperature.”
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TANKER IS TORPEDOED 100 MILES OFF ARUBA
« WILLEMSTAD, Curaco, Feb. 23 (U. P.) —The 1100-ton Panamanian tanker Thalia was torpedoed today near the Moncos islands, about 100 miles off Arabu, the \Dufich news agency. Aneta reported. Three lifeboats,zcarrying members of. the crew, were sighted in the vicinity of the Moncos islands, but it was not known how many of the crew had gotten oft the tanker safely. The torpedoing was the first reported activity of enemy submarines
entertainment.
‘By FRANK HEWLETT United Press Staff Correspondent WITH GEN. MACARTHUR, Feb. 23.—The latest Filipino hero of the Bataan campaign, First Sergt. Jose Calugas, insists he simply2did his duty by voluntarily abandoning a rear-line kitchen to join an Amere ican gun crew in’ the face of ter-
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in the Caribbean this week.
medal of honor for his bravery, and now he seems somewhat upset by all the fuss over him. As Calugas told me the story of his feat, hie pictured himself as only & minor character. Then I met Maj. Howard M. Batson of Mangus, w. Va battalion o
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. (U. P.).—President Roosevelt addresses the
tonight in the 12th week of war to
explain sthe, United States’ position and how the united nations ‘plan to
“not rule out” the possibility that
h§ would reply to the so-called rumor-mongers whom he already has
denounced as Washington's Cliveden set.
Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, of New York, helped draft the address. Strategy-minded oitizens will listen for some hint whether the first great United States .effort will be directed at Hitler and Germany or against Japan in the Pacific,
Japs Try to Offset Talk
Meanwhile, Stephen T. + Early, white house press secretary, said the white house was. advised that
Radio Tokyo was “putting on its|’
biggest propaganda campaign for the purpdse of tearing down the president’s speech in advance.” Reading from -a' memorandum sent to the white house by: one of the governmént information services, Mr. Early said Tokyo radio broadcast ‘four times this morning in English, “representing the president as dodging all questions at his press conferences, then putting the responsibility for. American entry into the war directly on the president. ”» Y He offered as a sample quotation from the Japanese broadcast: “Good American citizens should (Continued on Page Five)
SIX-DAY STRIKE ENDS * FREEPORT, N. Y. Feb. 23 (U. P.).—Employees of the Columbian Bronze corp., which holds navy contracts for $1,000,000 worth of ship propellers, resumed work today, ending a six-day strike.
SEEKS WIDE ARMY POWER WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U.P.).— Senator Millard E. Tydings (D. Md.) planned to introduce a bill in the Senate today that would place all civilian defense work under the war department. —————————————
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Uruguay Calm “London Cabinet Changes
Bataan Army Cook's Bravery Wins Medal, ‘But He Serves Up the Chow as Usual
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FOR LENINGRAD
Aldut Drive te . Free City Starts as Stalin _ Pledges Nazi Purge.
MOSCOW, Feb. 23 (U.P.).—Heavy guns -on Russian battleships and Kronstadt : fortress jn the Gulf of Finland. roared into action: today while Soviet cavalry launched a new land drive toward beleaguered Leningrad on the Red army’s 24th anniversary. The all-out assault to drive German besiegers from their already weakened lines around the czarist capital was marked by simultaneous artillery and cavalry attacks. The big guns in the Gulf of Finland were trained on German lines while Gen, Gusiev’s ‘cavalry detachments battled to break through and join Leningrad’s defenders. Premier Josef Stalin promised earlier today that the Russian armies would drive the ‘Germans completely out of Russian territory at a not far distant day. Hitler Taunted
He pledged, in one of the most important political announcements of the war, that Russia did not aim at the destruction of the German state or nation. In an order of the day, as supreme commander, on the Red army anniversay, Stalin said Russia now had the initiative firmly in its hands and it was safe from defeat, But he warned that Germany had not been defeated and he spurred the army and Russian war industry to redoubled efforts as part of which new reserves must be organized and sent to the front “to insure victory over the third enemy.” (Continued on Page Five)
COAST GUARD SHIP: SUNK OFF ICELAND
4 Navy Rotors Boss -of Life
Was “Moderate.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (U. P.).— The navy announced the loss of the coast guard cutter Alexander Hamflton by submarine action oft “Tce land.
The ship capsized while bemg towed his port.
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secured in Bali and Sumatra.
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was severed at Pegu.
BATAVIA: Allied naval forces and planes destroy Jap invasion fleet at Bali; 20 to 32 enemy ships dam-
carrying out extensive bombing Tale over Java. =
Java Still, Gravely. Threatened
| The furious allied air and sea ‘assault on the Jupatiesd units off Bali, starting last Thursday, bolstered the hopes of a [strong stand in defense of Java.
Invasion Footholds Won
as pointed out that the Japanese naval and transport fleet-would not be likely to waste time in Bali landed troops. : to escape from allied aerial bombarde ment as rapidly as. possible and would be needed—if they are still afloat—to attempt o bring in more reinforcements,
ments were being concentrated despite stubborn Dutch land
The Japanese armada, except for one ship that fled, was : sunk or damaged by a rain of shells and bombs from Amerie can and Dutch warships and airplanes, according to official ' | statements issued in Java today, 4d American flying fortresses and dive-bombers have taken a leading role in the defense of Jav4. The enemy pincers were battered but still jabbing steadily into the Java defense flanks and Japanese planes ranged over the island today, striking primarily at air bases bate in the, gore :
It apparently was
But dispatches made clear that it would be a mistake to regard these syccesses—in which at least a score: of enemy’ warships and’ transports were blasted—as m there was any change in the grave threat to the last unite nations. base ‘in: the Dutch East Indies. For the moment the enemy invasion troops on Bali are
se of Java will come when nayal forces with more men
" Actual Losses Are Unite
That may depend on information not yet exactly how many Japanese véssels were Sich and how many too badly damaged for use pending repairs. ; Some reports said as many as 32 Japanese ships were i
On the War Fronts:
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The Japanese “conquest of Bali” was a pyrrhic victory, a Dutch communique said, because all installations : ‘were destroyed by the defense land forces fighting a delaying ace
In Burma, the Japanese offensive was still pouiding against British lines on front somewhere between Bilin river and Sittang river, which is only 15 miles from the Rangoon Mandalay railroad feeding the Burma road. The British have no information of a Japanese claim. ‘that the railroad.
American and British airplanes attacked Japanese forces battering against the Burma defense lines, | 'a Rangoon radio communique said. Four enemy planes were. shot down.