Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1942 — Page 6

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- Links Workers Here and Victory: Over Java.

f - General Motors, said fighter “planes are getassignments over the ‘Netherlands Indies”—and showing ‘that both- American fliers and can fighters are tough.

: Pilot Saved by Parachute : “Last week 16 Curtiss P-40 fightintercepted 25 heavy Japanése and two | fighters over the message said. “Our destroyed five of the (enemy and one fighter. “We lost one plane but the pilot uted to safety. “Nine other Curtiss fighters inter-

Java,”

kept right on to a ae

held air field in Sumatra and de-

‘spite intensive anti-aircraf( fire, ‘bombed installations there. All returned safely to their base.” ; ‘Keep on Giving’ | Mr. Lovett closed his telsgram

~ with this greeting to Allison em-

_ ‘ployees:

- “Credit for these operations must be shared by you men and women who helped make these planes. You keep on giving them to us And we'll

| keep on fighting them.”

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” Rand Beckett Enters G. 0. P. Primary for | Superior Court.

Joe Rand Beckett, former state senator and former assistant attorney general of Indiana, today announced ‘his candidacy for the Republican nomination for judge of superior court, room 4. While a member of the state senate, Mr. Beckett was active in tax reduction legislation and served secretary of the tax commission created by former Governor Leslie.

Helped Get Convention Admitted to the bar in 1916, he

his father, Wymond J. Beckett. He was active in obtaining the American Bar association convention for Indianapolis last year and served as general chairman of arrangements. An overseas veteran of the first world war, Mr. Beckett was an artillery captain and later major. He has been active in Legion affairs and has served as its state legislative chairman. Four years ago, he assisted in the reorganization of Republican veterans and has served as chairman of the board of directors.

Native of City

Born in Indignapolis in 1891, Mr. Beckett attended public schools here ual High school. He/attended the University of Illinois/and received his law degree from the Indiana| Law’ school. He is married and live fin Decatur township. Tio /i a inember. of {the Indjanapolis, Indiana and erican Bar associations, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Service club, of which he is past president; Forty and Eight, Beta, ta Pi, Masonic lodge and is a Methodist.

PEDESTRIAN STRUCK; CONDITION CRITICAL

Henry F. Pottschmidt, 61, of 2622

b-{E. Michigan st., was in critical con~ d | dition at City hospital today from

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by uders, many| doctors and ask any druggist for Mother's

injuries: received ‘yesterday when

> [struck by ah automobile driven

by Gus Rosenbarger, 21, of 87, N. Irvington ave. Mr. Pottschmidt was Ww across the street at Davidson

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U. S. and Britain Sign Paot|

Assuring Each Access To Raw Materials. - WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U. P.). —Great Britain and the United

States agreed today to postpone in-|

definitely the final day of settlement on the costs of We lend-lease

program. The agreement, which was announced by the White House and

in London, was signed yesterday by acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and the British ambassador, Lord Halifax. It committeed both nations to virtually unlimited free“trade and access to raw materials. “It is too early in this struggle to foresee or define the precise and detailed terms , , , of settlement between the two countries,” the announcement said, adding that “full account will be taken of all reciprocal aid” when a final accounting is made. Supporting the basic premise that Great Britain and the United Statés “shall fight together to the final victory,” the agreement stated that the final /determination of the benefits provided by this country to the British under lend-lease would not “burden commerce between the two countries.”

SOVIETS SQUEEZING SMOLENSK PINCERS

LONDON, Feb. 2¢ (U. P.)—Russian - commupiques - indicated today that the jaws ef a pincer movement were rapidly closing on Smolensk, bastion of Germany's hard-pressed defenses on the central front. Radio Moscow broadcast that Soviet forces had occupied ‘several inhabited localities, among them Dorogobuzh.” ‘Reports from the front spoke of “increasingly stubborn resistance,” and the Russians said they were throwing large reserves into the battle,

continued series of successes. In so doing, however, the Japanese have spread themselves rather recklessly thin. Since the allies are likewise spread thin, it is a safe enough Japanese gamble for the time being. May Reverse Process The allies are not yet strong enough to take advantage of Japanese over-extension. The enemy may and probably will run Gen. Douglas MacArthur out of the cen Philippines; they may take Java and thus command all of the Indies. But this vast area of land and sea, once taken, will have to be held. It entails a staggering problem of communications and. supply lines, with a wide diffusion of naval and air strength for protection. It is conceivable that just as the Japanese have swept through the islands, the united nations will be able to reverse the process and take them back one by one when they have reached full .and attained definite superiority at sea and in the air.

Another Luzon Predicted

ment off Bali, the Japanese succeeded in taking the island, although the Japanese schedule was set back. But another expedition may be expected at Bali shortly, The Japanese, meanwhile are blasting Java from the air in preparation for the invasion. The battle of Java may be expected to result in the severest fighting so far in the southwestern Pacific. Java not only is the most strongly. defended island but the most defensible. Its terrain, including the mountains, gives at least the prom-

ises of another Luzon.

Despite their losses in the engage- | ury.

defenses of the united nations scattered. The oeptuate for the defense of any. given poi, for 8

of the war without interest. The rejection was made in a letter to Daniel J. Tobin, teamsters’ president, from Henry Morgenthau Jr., secretary of the treasury. “I am especially glad to have seen your letter becayge of the fine spirit of patriotism which prompted you to send it,” the letter read. “It should be an example to the country. We at the treasury feel, however, that it would be unfair to accept your offer. After all, we

‘pay interest to millions of other {OF

holders of government obligations | the and there is no reason why we should not do the sams for your union. ”» : The union, which already has purchased more than $2,000,000 in defense bonds, offered to sell the bonds back to the government without itnerest and add to it six million dollars already in their treas-

Mr. Tobin, who is to leave today for a conference with President Roosevelt in Washington, said that he appreciated the fair attitude of the government. “The offer still stands, either as individuals or a union, to do anything necessary to win the war,” he said.

EVANSVILLE FIRE KILLS ONE

EVANSVILLE, Feb. 24 (U. P).— George G. Rosenkranz, 25, Evansville, died yesterday of burns received last Tuesday when kerosene he was using while working in the family’s commercial garage became

ignited.

Sweeping

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~ | Tokyo Liem A Address to ; ie by a Foot-

y likened President

Roosevelt's Washington's birthday A Horn pd nd characterised it as a “fireside ga said the speech was couched in generalities and offered only hope for a victory in the distant future. It said a “noteworthy naval commentary to the speech was furby a report that a Japanese warship was shelling objectives on the American mainland at about the same time Mr. Roosevelt was pouring out his speech to the world from the White House.” Authoritative naval circles belittled the sident’s assertion that only three American warships were permanently disabled in the attack on Pearl Harbor. They said that united nations’ naval activities in the Pacific amounted only to a record of defeats without a single outstanding victory to date. Observers described Mr, Roosevelt’s assertion that “this war is an entirely new type of ‘warfare as an attempt to defend the allied defeats, particularly of the United States navy, by the Japanese navy.

‘KEEP AXIS APART -—PEPPER LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24 (U. P.. —Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) said last night that the united nations must prevent a junction of German and Japanese forces “at all costs.” He spoke at a Washington’s birthday dinner.

RAPS FOOD RACKETEERS LONDON, Feb. 24 (U. P.).—Solicitor General Sir Willlam Jowitt advocated today that a war court be created with power to sentence Britian’s “black market” racketeers to death before a firing squad, if

necessary.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (U. P).— Former President Herbert Hoover Shoughyy hat, Presiden; Roosevelt's

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