Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1942 — Page 8

LAY FOUNDATION T0 STRIKE BACK

U. S. Air Offensive On, but More Planes Needed in Pacific, Says Brett.

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supreme commander, said. “We are doing our best to hold the Japanese

where they are and to press our offensive. We are fighting in un-

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realize how well our air fighters are

doing up north. “They've got what it takes.”

Big Raid on Robaul

Gen. Brett's statement coincided with a series of other developments including: 1. A communique describing & successful American-Australian raid Thursday on the Japanese base at Rabaul, where at least nine enemy planes were destroyed and much equipment damaged Another enemy plane was apparently shot down when the Japanese attacked Port Moresby today. 2 Prime Minister John Curtin warned that bad news from the war fronts emphasized the formidable if not the decisive nature of the test to be faced in the coming weeks, and said that only the utmost effort could bring success.

Japs Still Come On

3. Air Minister Arthur 8 Drakeford. also warning the people against over-confidence, declared that allied air operations had not yet halted the Japanese advance and still were “far short of what is necessary to lay the hasis for an offensive” The enemy, he said, still is massing strength in the islands north of Australia. despite logs of more than 130 planes due to allied raids. 4 It was believed that the Japanese had occupied Christmas island in the Indian ocean following their expansion eastward into the Admiralty and Solomon groups, but no official confirmation had been received. 5. The Australian government tightened regulations designed to boost Australia’s war effort to @& maximum, deciding on special but unannounced measures to deal with labor stoppages in New South Wales and ordering erection of another aluminum fabrication factory for aircraft work.

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Funeral services for Mrs. Caroline Daumann, well-known South side resident for more than 60 years, were held yesterday at Sacred Heart Catholic

. church. Burial was in St. Joseph cemetery. Mrs. Daumann was 84, the oldest i ’ member of the i AR. Christian Moth- \ § ers’ society at Sacred Heart. She was stricken Monday afternoon while attending an Easter party. at the church and died

Mrs. Daumann

aumann Lived 60 Years on S. Side

Buried:

She lived at 2277 8. Meridian st.

married 58 years. She was a member of the Sacred Heart church for 18 years and also of the Altar society. ‘ Surviving are her husband, Albin, retired farmer; three sons, Adolph, William and John, all of Indianapolis; three daughters, Mrs. Charles Koerner, Mrs. Paul Boeing and Mrs. Mark Bottema. all of Indianapolis; and two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Burckert and Mrs. Carrie Swartzbaugh, both of Dayton, O, where Mrs. Daumann was born. She also had 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Two

sons, Charles and Henry, are de-

that night.

Cebu, after fighting had ceased cn, Bataan peninsula, but not on the rocky island fortress of Corregidor, guarding Manuila bay. The Japanese victory on Bataan may release thousands of Japan's best troops for the new India front.

Sunk Off Ceylon Coast

The naval-air war in the Bay of Bengal, almost within sight of the coasts of Ceylon and India, picked {up fury as India’s nationalist lead'ers—foreseeing imminent extension lof the war to India — appeared | ready to come to terms with Great Britain and set up the first Indian national government in 200 years. New Delhi dispatches reported that within 24 or 48 hours the new India government formula will be announced, probably with the British viceroy heading an executive council corresponding to a cabinet and having 15 members, including Sir Archibald Wavell, British com-mander-in-chief in India. The British admiralty said that the aireraft carrier Hermes was sunk by Japanese aerial forces about 10 {miles off the Ceylon coast and it 'appeared that a large part of the carrier's complement of about 664 officers and men were saved. Earlier in the war, the British had lost the carriers Courageous, Glorjous and Ark Royal to enemy action. Yesterday the British reported the loss of the heavy cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall and several merchant ships in the Bay of Ben-gal-Indian ocean area where the Japanese are believed to have at least two aircraft carriers, a submarine flotilla and squadrons of destroyers and cruisers,

Lull Off Australia

The two British light cruisers which the Japanese said had been |sunk but which the British said | were intact were of the Birmingham and Emerald types. claimed that a | 7270-ton British cruiser was sunk Thursday off Ceylon. The air war remained in a weeklong and perhaps ominous lull on the “invasion flank” off northern Australia, although Japanese planes early today attacked the New Guinea port of Port Moresby, destroying at least one allied plane. Yesterday the allied air forces attacked Rabaul on New Britain island. Australian Air Minister Arthur 8 Drakeford said that in the last month the allied air forces, mostly U. 8 and Australian planes, had destroyed or damaged 1268 Japanese planes.

Marshall Going to Cairo?

In London the chief of staff of the U. 8 army, Gen George C. Marshall, conferred with British strategists and prepared to talk with leaders of the European exiled governments on the role the underground armies in Hitler-occupied countries will play in support of an allied offensive carrying the war back to Europe. Gen. Marshall, it was reported, may go on to Cairo to confer on iplans for combating the axis spring threat in the Near Bast, aimed at the Suez canal and a wide flanking of the allies on both sides of the Mediterranean.

ceased.

British Plane Carrier Sunk By Japs Off Ceylon Coast

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ment of the axis northern African forces. British submarines continue to strike telling blows in the Mediterranean. Two enemy supply ships and two schooners were sunk by submarines which attacked a convoy bound for Tripoli, the British reported. Yesterday the British announced the sinking of a 10000-ton Italian cruiser in the Mediterranean. Fierce action continued along the battle fronts in Russia, but the Soviet chiefs merely announced that a heavy German counter-at-tack was smashed on a sector, which was not named, with more than 4400 Germans killed in the action. The Red army claimed heavy casualties were inflicted on the Nazis in the Leningrad region.

OFFICERS ELECTED BY JUNIOR CHAMBER

Jack E. Reich will be installed as president of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce next month at the regular meeting of the organization. Mr. Reich, field representative of the state chamber of commerce, was elected last night at the annual organization meeting in the Athenaeum. Arthur R. Wengel, supervisor of method, Citizen's Gas & Coke utility, was named executive vice president; James R. Gregory, advertising manager of Rough Notes, was elected secretary, and Carl W. Seet, Indiana National bank teller, was chosen treasurer, Directors elected are Roger A. Beane, Evan B. Walker, Ralph M. Bradford, Carl R. Dortch, Maynard R. Hokanson, C. Hollis Hull, Harlan B. Livengood, Albert S. Mendenhall, Ernest LI. Miller, John M. Miller, H. Burch Nunley, Ernest Ohrstrom and Donald E. Shafer.

SETTLE UNION DISPUTE WASHINGTON, April 10 (U.P). ~The national war labor board today resolved a union security dispute in a Plainfield, N. J, machine tool plant by directing that mem-

union since last Nov. 27 be required to rejoin.

An Indianapolis resident since she was a girl, Mrs. Daumann had been

~ QUIT FIGHTING

But Struggle Continues in Jungles and Hills of Other Islands.

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was being subjected to a cross-fire of shelling. Enemy artillery on Bataan blasted it from the north. Batteries on the southeast shore of Manila bay continued to pound it

from that direction. From now on the beseiged fortress, it was expected, will receive heavier shelling than any it has yet experienced. Only two miles of weter separate it from the tip of Bataan. With Bataan conquered, the Japanese apparently were wasting no time in resuming efforts to subdue the remainder of the Philippine islands, at least half of which remain in American-Filipino hands, though weakly defended. :

Fighting in Jungles

Gen. Wainwright in a message to President Roosevelt thanked the commander-in-chief for the confidence placed in him. When it first became apparent that Bataan was doomed, the president had authorized Gen. Wainwright to take whatever steps he deemed appropriate. Although the battle of Bataan was ended, the battle of the Philippines was continuing—on Corregidor, on the sea lanes off Cebu, and in the jungles and mountains of many islands where guerrillas are still active. Japan will have the same ally in its battle for Corregidor and the other bay forts as it had on Bataan —exhaustion, the enemy of a fighting force against which there is no man-made relief.

Exhaustion Takes Toll

The men on Bataan — 36,853 Americans and Filipinos—kept much greater and better equipped enemy forces at bay on the peninsula for three months. They finally succumbed to the relentless attacks of fresh troops, tanks and planes only when hunger, sickness and physical exhaustion began to take their toll Much of the food consumed on Bataan—and those were short rations—came from reserves stored on Corregidor. How much food remained was not known but it was doubted that there was sufficient to permit prolonged resistance,

U. 8. Ships Kan Blockade

Since the withdrawal of the American forces to Bataan, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, said vesterday, supplies had been kept going to Bataan through the Japanese blockade from Australia. Mr. Stimson said the defenders never have been short of munitions, but that the troops had been short on rations for some time, Running the blockade was done at a great cost to American lives and ships, Mr. Stimson said. For every ship that reached Bataan with supplies, he said, two were lost.

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knock them over the head and drag 'em in or something,” Chief Leitch agreed. Ahd so the two navy recruiters meandered off down N. Illinois st. and spotted a bunch of boys looking wide-eyed at a theater billboard.

Brother in Service

“How old are you,” Chief Leitch asked a rosy cheeked boy in an R. O. T. C. uniform. “Sixteen.” . “Well, when you turn 17 come around and see us,” Chief Stine suggested. “I got a brother,” the boy said. “He's in the naval air corps.” With that the recruiters — two doughty veterans who obviously were enjoying their work—headed south and turned left at Washington st. ; Dropping a Hint

There was a group of people looking at the service display in the L. S. Ayres & Co. window at Meridian and Washington sts, The two navy veterans paused. A young fellow, shivering in the cold wind, stopped to have a look. “Say, you'd look good in a uni-

Navy Recruiters Carry Plea To the Man on the Street

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form like that,” Chief Leitch suggested, pointing to a window model wearing a navy uniform. “Yeah, they'd probably have to make it a little bigger for me, though,” the prospect replied.

A Likely Prospect

“Well, they'll feed you up in the navy. You'll get one of these for nothing,” said Chief Stine, The youth got interested. “Say, they takin’ any aviation mechanics?” “Got experience?” they asked. “No, but I'm going to Roscoe Turner’s school now.” “Well, how do you stand in the draft?” “Pretty close, I expect. I'm married but my wife is working.” A Knowing Wink “Why don't you go over to the fourth floor of the federal building and have them give you all the dope. You might get a rating out of it,” Chief Leitch proposed. The youth headed off in the direction of the federal building. Chiefs Stine and Leitch looked at each other, Chief Leitch winked. The navy probably got a recruit.

KNUDSEN HERE FOR WAR PLANT VISITS

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middle of the summer. officials had no comment.

Gen. Knudsen wore a khaki uniform, with a long coat, which had three stars—the insignia of his rank —on each shoulder,

Finds Will to Win

Before leaving Washington, he issued a statement and expressed confidence that America would win the battle of production, and therefore would win ultimate victory on the field of battle. “I am encouraged bv the progress shown in tackling the munitions manufacturing problem,” he said. “Production is improving every month. I find that the will to win is taking hold of everybody in the shops—men and women alike.” Gen. Knudsen has visited 147 plants in 40 cities since he was appointed a lieutenant general on Jan. 28. Gen. Knudsen planned to spend

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the entire day in Indfanapolis. He and the members of his party were to be guests at an informal luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic club, The Knudsen party included the general's secretary, W. M. Collins; Brig. Gen. K. B. Wolf, of the army air force, Wright Field; Maj. R. L. Finkenstadt, also of the air force, stationed at the Allison plant; Col. Fred A. McMahon of the Cincinnati army ordnance district; Lieut. Col. W. R. Martin, also of Cincinnati,

and Capt. Carl G. Freudenberg of ||

the air force, Washington.

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DELUSE RESIGNATION

The city council, at a special

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meeting today noon, formally inl cepted the resignation of Albert O. | Deluse, council president, who has| received a commission as first lieutenant in the army. The council will fix a date for another special meeting at which a new council member and a new president will be elected to succeed |

Mr. Deluse,

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