Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1942 — Page 6
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By LELAND STOWE mp Con LD AR AR me Battle of Atlantic Spreads : : i dian troops to the western bank of| This would not be Fis To Seven Seas, British * Co Lo *. 0 "me. mine. roth Hr cer Heian Commons Told. southern Burma enters its acutest plans were most carefully laid and i e command
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HUR MED Post Essay. Contest Won BACK JAPS| By Legionnaire's Daughter
[Enemy Advanced Posts Are Taken in U. S. Thrusts
"On Bataan Line. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.).
had put the torch to the city of Rangoon, and at least one-third of the evacuated capital was ablaze.
Plans Carefully Laid
| Millicent Gemmer’s belief in ‘the IU. 8. Constitution won high honors and made her father very proud. | Millicent, a senior at Broad Ripple high school, was adjudged the winner of the Hayward-Bar-cus Post 55, American Legion, annual high school Constitution essay contest yesterday, after the
dustry to get their opinion as. to whether certain deliveries should be eliminated in keeping with the nation’s war-time program of conservation. ; In the questionnaires sent to all
MANDALAY, Feb. 26—With the is determined in event ONE FULL YEAR ,
withdrawal of the British and InThe Sittang is the last river bar-|of enemy oecupation that the Jap-
LONDON, Feb. 26 .(U. P.)~All ast rier between the invaders and Ran-|®
«Gen, Douglas MacArthur's little
ants were studied by judges.
compositions of six other contesi~
| ‘The winner’s father, Arthur Gemmer, 9595 Washington blvd. was especially interested because he }
three of the Nazi warships which sallied defiantly threugh the English channel are now .out of action for an indefinite period, A. V. Alex-
from Pegu about 50 miles in a southwesterly direction across rice paddies down to: Burma's empty
goon. A macadam highway runs|®
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es | mission asked whether they favored
wholesalers and retailers, the com-
a four-day a week delivery system to retail outlets, elimination of special deliveries to retail outlets
e|was Americanism officer of the ander, first lord of the admiralty, |shell of a ‘capital. of Indianapolis
battlefront, the war department anunced today. . Striking back against the | numerically vastly superior enemy after breaking three Japanese drives to a standstill, Gen. Mac ur’s army was said to have captured a
positions in the lightning thrust. .~ The attack was “particularly suecessful” on the right flank of the American-Filipino defenders, presumably in the vicinity of the highway center of Pilar on Manila bay about 17 miles north of Corregidor fortress and the tip of Bataan peninsula.
Enemy Holds Main Positions
* The communique said that in this sector “forward elements of the
the strong thrusts of Genergl MacArthur's men. “Fighting is still in progress with continued local successes,” the communique said, adding: oid “However, the main positions of
trated.” There was nothing to indicate that General MacArthur—outnum- . 'bered at least 10 to one in manpower and without fighter planes to challenge the Japanese .dive-bomb-ers—had undertaken any major attack. . Feel Out Jap Strength
the American-Filipino forces off the
Corregidor fortress. i
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number of the Japanese gdvance}
Japanese troops were forced tof withdraw several kilometers” under |
the. enemy have not been pene-|
| Military observers believed that the thrust was intended to break| up enemy preparations for an all-| out offensive, aimed at knocking]
iHayward-Barcus post two years ago. ! In winning the contest, Millicent followed a family tradition, Her brother, Arthur Jr., won for Broad Ripple high in 1940, and her cousin, Robert Gemmer, won last year, representing Shortridge.
public in & broadcast over’ WIRE yesterday by V. M. Armstrong, national vice commander of the ‘American Legion, and chairman of ‘the committee of judges. He was ‘assisted by Dr. C. T. Malan, state ‘superintendent of the national foundation for education in American citizenship. '. The contest rules were established by a committee of teachers in charge of Russell V. Sigler, history linstructor at Shortridge high school. Each of the seven contestants received a silver medal, and Broad [Ripple high school was awarded its second leg on the massive silver cup which goes each year to the school winning the contest. Three more times and’ the cup stays in the ischool’s possession. The subject of Miss Gemmer’s essay was “What My Constitution (Means to Me,” and said, in part: | “My Constitution is not merely a lot of printing on some sheets of paper; it is what I believe in, what
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, Feb. ' 26 (U. P.).—Henry Burkhart, 73
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I live for, and what I will die for.” Recalling that the Constitution is a guarantee of personal rights and freedoms, Miss Gemmer concluded her essay with: “Yes, my Constitution insures my right to justice, to protection, to liberty—in one word, the right to freedom. It is that freedom which guarantees me a future—a ‘future of freedom and happiness for me and my posterity. That is what my Constitution means to me—the youth of 1942.” The other contestants, and their schools, were: ; ; Euloh Nelson, Washington; Mary Louise Ellis, Howe; Dortha Bockius, Manual Training; Donald P. Morgan, Technical; Galvy Gordon Jr. Shortridge, and Jack Clifton Garden, Crispus Attucks.
Hoosier, Tired of Eating Supper at 3:30, Shoots Son
of the afternoon” today. Not®in* the Dearborn county jail.
Police held Burkhart on an open charge after he, tired of eating his evening meal at 3:30 in the afternoon, allegedly fired a shotgun blast in the face of his 50-year-old son with whom he took his meals, critically wounding him. Physicians said the son, Harry, has little chance for recovery. The son, who went to work daily at the Lawrenceburg post office at 4 o'clock, had gone next door where his father lived alone to call him for supper at 3:30 as usual. Trailing his son up the walk, Burkhart, carrying his shotgun, muttered: “A pretty time of day to have to eat supper.” As his son stepped through the door, the father-fired, authorities said. : He was captured after a chase by deputy sheriffs who fired four shots at the elderly man before he was halted. He still held his shotgun. Deputy Sheriff Arthur Voit said Burkhart admitted shooting his son, but insisted his son had fired first. The deputy said he would question the victim’s family, said to have witnessed the shooting, and the elder Mrs. Burkhart, who were preparing to sit down to the table but fled-the house when the shooting occurred.
HOBART MAN DIES IN CRASH
LAPORTE, Feb, 26 (U.P.).—Clarence W,. Leynes, 36, Hobart, was killed today when his car skidded on U, 8, 6 south of here and struck
told the house of commons today. This announcement came as Britain and the United States scored new successes in the spreading battle of the seven seas. A 10,000-ton cruiser of the Prinz Eugen class, presumably the Eugen itself, was torpedoed and severely damaged by the British submarine Trident off Trondheim, Norway, naval sources reported today. Battleships Disabled
Both the 26,000-ton battleship twins, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst,
appear to be in German drydocks. British air reconnaissance photographs showed one in a Kiel dry-
{goon.
The Nipponese have cut the Burma road in the vicinity of
possible there. They have also suc-
goon ‘commercially. Magnificent Defense But the magnificent fight made on the eastern side of the Sittang by the British and Indians has saved large amounts of valuable materials and has allowed time for last-stage operations inside Ran-
It is unofficially reported that.the Burma oil company’s big refineries opposite Rangoon have been fired. American volunteer airmen reported at their headquarters in
since ordinary trafic no longer is] ceeded in closing the port of Ran-|
(Reports from airmen and refugees to the United Press indicated that the imperials were swinging northwestward in a long arc to change
the north-south battle line to one|
railroad with the bitter struggle apparently forcing the defenders back
southwest China that the British
slowly.
dock and another in a Walhelmshaven drydock.*® Both ships, said Mr. Alexander, were “severely damaged” in the daring run through the English channel. In the Mediterranean a British submarine took a new toll of axis ships supplying Marshal Erwin Rommel’s afrika korps. It was reported to have sunk three ships from an Italian convoy. The picture was not without dark tones, however.
Mr. Alexander said that the battle of the Atlantic now has spread to the seven seas and that Germany is waging an unprecedented and clever campaign of submarine warfare.
British Strength Revealed
He asserted that the British nfvy now is three or four times its peacetime strength, but made plain how tenuously these forces must be spread by the revelation that at any given time some 2000 ships are plying the ocean supply routes throughout the world—all of them in danger of German U-boat attack at any time, Nevertheless, he said, British convoy losses have been held down to about one-half of one per cent. In the Africa war, he estimated, Axis convoy losses have been about double those of the British in the effort to supply the armies facing each other in Libya.
Axis Shipping Blasted
Britain, he revealed, has suffered recurring but repairable damage to many large warships. He named the battleships Nelson, Resolution and Malaya as having been damaged but repairéd-—the Nelson on two occasions—and the aircraft carriers Illustrious and Foymidable. Despite these handicaps, he estimated that 2,500,000 tons of axis shipping has béen put out of action by allied war effort, not including ships damaged, sunk and captured by the Russians. The British naval review coincided with another Nazi claim of U-boat successes. The German communique claimed that seven ships of 52,000 tons have been sunk in the Atlantic and seven more badly damaged. London was aroused by reports of the London Herald of great tension along the English channel coast due to unusual action by both the British and German forces which face each other across 22 miles of water. However, Dover said it had seen
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Russia:
Crushed as Reds Smash Ahead
German Divisions in Ukraine
MOSCOW, Feb, 26 (U. P.).— Russians have crushed four German and Rumanian divisions — 60,000 soldiers—in the Ukraine and killed or wounded perhaps 26,000, Soviet sources said today. } The blow to the invader, from the standpoint of casualties, apparently was greater than the Nazi debacle around Staraya Russa. It fell upon the Germans and their Rumanian allies several days ago. They carefully prepared a coun-ter-attack in an effort to break
junction lost to the Russians, it was said. But they met a stone wall defense, and captured officers and men said the four divisions lost 40 per cent of their manpower.
2250 Left Dead on Field
Then Russian cavalry and infantry took the offensive. The German survivors retreated, leaving 2250 officers and men dead upon the field, these sources said. : In still another sector, farther south, the Russians on Feb, 22, were said to have encircled a strongly fortified enemy salient and smashed three German regiments, taking two railway stations and seven villages. The govérnment newspaper Izvestia reported that the position of the 16th German army encircled at Staraya Russia is “hopeless” after two weeks of one of the bloodiest battles of the war. The 16th German army was said to have launched wild attacks in all directions “in order to escape
strangulation.” However, Nazi efforts to break out
BANS RUBBER THREAD IN CORSETS, GIRDLES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U.P) — To American woman's regret, the war production board has banned use of rubber thread in corsets, girdles, brassieres and foundation garments in general. The men, too, will be affected by the new curtailment. There's likely to be less elasticity in sushenders, garters, arm-bands, elastic top socks, elastic-supported undergar-
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of the Soviet ring were said to have failed at all points. Russia forces were reported hunting down isolated German detachments and wiping them out one by one. A report to Red Star, red army organ, on the Leningrad sector asserted that snipers are increasing their activity against the Germans. Leningrad troops were credited with killing 10,784 Germans in 21 days fighting, However, German guns were said
and the elimination of home deliveries of beer. | John F. Noonan, ission secretary, said he believed that the majority of wholesalers and retai-
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