Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1942 — Page 8

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JAPANESE NEAR

BURMA OIL AREA

AVG and RAF Battling

Against Severe Odds.

As Defense Cracks. (Continued from Page One)

uperiority, Chinese military leaders

announced.

“The American volunteer group is in constant action over our forward areas, supporting our troops,” the|

Three Jap Bombers Wrecked

The American fliers

in the Toungpo area.

way where Chinese forces,

valley

the Japanese advance. Around SWA the Japanese were less than 20 miles from the oil fields and the fighting around Kyangin, where the Japanese were said to be using tanks, artillery and planes, indicated the Yedashe—18 miles north of Toungoo—had been abandoned. Chinese military quarters predicted that drastic measures to rein-

force the allied defense forces would result from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s week-long in-

spection tour of the Burma front. Burma's Defense Stressed

Chiang’s second trip beyond China's borders since 1927 was evidence that he had concentrated his energies on the defense of Burma to prevent the Japanese from disruptChina's new supply lines from

Accompanied by Mrs. Chiang, Chiang conferred with Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell and the British commander, Gen. Harold R. L. G.

Alexander. These discussions, it was said, spurred hopes of field leaders that infantry reinforce-

ments for the hard-pressed British along with a strengthening of al-

lied aerial forces throughout Burma would be forthcoming at once.

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destroyed three large enemy bombers yesterday in an attack on an airdrome|

| Philippine

This picture of smoke rolling

| the west Pacific war zone. The picture was sent from Japan to Russia, then radioed to the U. S.

Air Field Fired, Japs Say

skyward was purportedly taken

| “Taylor airdrome” in the Philippines. U. S. authorities have no record of an airfield by that name in

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Japanese airmen as they attacked

RAF Bombs Factories in Italy; Ruhr, France Also Raided

(Continued from Page One)

| tions in London among Gen. George |C. Marshall, U. S. chief of staff, fand British strategists. | While the R. A. F. was carrying lout its wide ranging attacks allied fliers on the other side of the world, | including American flying fortresses, were striking at the spearheads of the Japanese invasion threat to Australia. | The firing fortresses in week- | Japanese ships around Rabaul, New | Guinea, and destroyed or damaged 25 enemy planes in “pay-for-Pearl- | Harbor” attacks. | Protected by Australian fighter planes, American bombers bombed Rabaul, Koepang on the Dutch island of Timor, Lae on the New Guinea coast and Faisi near Bougainville in the Solomon islands.

Airdromes Destroyed

The attack on Faisi, called one of the most widespread and efficient of the war around Australia, marked the first time that the allied fliers had struck at the southernmost base of Japan's invasion zone. Airdromes were blasted, buildings set afire and planes on the ground were wrecked in the attacks which spread along a 2200-mile front from

|along the Irrawaddy and Sittang |rivers as the Japanese started a big new declaration of Indian policy |attack southwest of Taungdwingyi end attacks damaged two largelin a flanking movement through the |g. 1v aroused to the Japanese in-

|, Timor, up around the northern flank of Australia and down to the Solomons. Japanese navy “zero” fighters attempted to break up the attack, but were driven off. | On the Burma front the British land Chinese were making desperate

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| | Pegu Yoma mountains and an al- | lied communique said the enemy was “pressing hard” northward.

Fierce Burma Struggle

Another Japanese column moved up to the main road to within 20 miles of the Burma oii fields from Inbaungwe on the east bank of the Irrawaddy, 35 miles north of Magwe. Taungdwingyi, between the Irrawaddy and Sittang, is only 140 miles southwest of Mandalay. American volunteer pilots and British air units, outnumbered by the Japanese, were throwing all their available strength into the istruggle in an effort to halt the Japanese drive and the American fliers, in a Sunday attack in the Toungoeo area, destroyed three large enemy bombers.

4 FROM SHORTRIDGE WIN STATE HONORS

Four Shortridge high school pupils were receiving congratulations today for winning top honors in all-

diana university over the weca-cud. Calvin Hamilton and Caroline Jones won first place in the discussion contest. Joan Bartley was first in the humorous declamation contest and Ann Kahn won the first division piano contest. . Other students from county winning honors were:

Janice Mason, Ben Davis high school, first in poetry readin ‘ Mary radway, Technical, first in violin, first division. Imogene DeWeese, first in violin, fourth division. ; Adrienne Robinson, Broad, Ripple. placed in girls’ voice group, first div . 3%an Ruth Devine, Technical, placed in girls’ voice group, second division. ‘ |~ Clara Masterson, Technical, placed in girls’ voice group, third division. : “Alfred Perry, Broad Ripple, placed in boys’ voice group, first division, | Orville Naylor, Crispus Attucks, placed in boys’ voice group, third division. a amie ——

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Asks Drunks Put In Own Division

BOSTON, April 13 (U. P)— Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey was asked today to create an entire division of “chronic alcoholics” so that draft-deferred drunks can be made to fight “just as much as the college boy or business man.” A letter to Mr. Hershey from Selective Service Board No. 25 of Roxbury suggested that “if you cannot see where there is a place for them in the army of today— why not create a regiment or division of their own?” The board failed to see “why these fellows should be allowed to remain about our corners while other boys whose mothers and fathers have struggled to give them an education. . . . are taken even before they get their diplomas.” :

MRS. WRIGHT QUITS 70 BACK TYNDALL

Mrs. T. B. Wright, for two years Marion County Republican central committee vice chairman, has resigned: “to support the candidacy

Republican nomination for mayor, she said today.

Gen. Tyndall is the man of the hour for our city,” Mrs. Wright said, “and I feel that it is only fair to the county organization that I resign.” The county committee, headed by County Chairman James Bradford, has indorsed the candidacy of Henry Ostrom for the mayor nomination. Mrs. Wright was named vice chairman in 1940 and has served six years as vice chairman of the Sixth ward, a position which she also has resigned. Mr. Bradford said the vice chairman position would be filled by the county committee at the regular reorganization meeting May 9.

PLEAD GUILTY IN TIRE CASE

EVANSVILLE, Ind, April 13 (U. P) —Charles LI. Hart and Russell W. Baker, officers of the LaSalle Motor Sales Corp, of Boonville, Ind, pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges of violating the government tire rationing program.

SOLDIER WEDS IN IRELAND BELFAST, April 13 (U. P) —Pvt. Herbert Cooke of the American expeditionary force in North Ireland, and Miss Thelma Smith, daughter of a Belfast cafe proprietor, were married today and left on an 18hour honeymoon.

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vasion menace despite the failure of dominion status negotiations, well informed quarters reported today. | Indian Nationalist leaders, led by Jawaharlal Nehru, had already pledged themselves to fight any Japanese attack despite the rupture of negotiations which sent Sir Stafford Cripps, British war cabinet envoy, back toward London yesterday. Even Mohandas K. Gandhi, archpacifist, pledged himself to complete passive resistance against the Japanese and said: “I and my followers will refuse any help, even water, for the Japanese even if it should cost us our lives.” “Despite all that happened we are not going to embarrass the British war effort,” said Nehru. Louis A. Johnson, President Roosevelt's special envoy, was the last man to shake hands with Cripps when he left yesterday for London via Karachi. Immediately afterward Mr. Johnson conferred with Nehru. Nehru revealed that Mr. Johnson had suggested that he visit the United States to meet President Roosevelt, but that he had declined on the ground that his place during the crisis was in India.

DELAY SHUTTING OFF MAPLETON BRANGH

Temporary postponement of discontinuance of the Mapleton branch of the Illinois streetcar line was announced today by Indianapolis Railways. The delay, officials said, followed receipt of a request from the Office of Defense Transportation of Washington that it be given time to ascertain whether the abandonment would entail substitution of motor coaches. In March the ODT issued an order against city transit systems substituting bus service for street railway lines except in unusual cases. Indianapolis Railways offi|cials point out that in the case of the Mapleton branch the streetcar line merely duplicates bus service elong the same route which was established about 12 years ago.

INDIANA CENTRAL ADDS NAVY PROGRAM

Indiana Central college has been approved by the U. S. navy department for the naval reserve V-1 training program. The program is open to unmarried men between 17 and 19 who meet physical qualifica< tions. At the end of two years of traine ing, some students will go into service as enlisted seamen, others will be transferred to class V-8, aviation cadet flight training and more will go to class V-7, officers training. They will be permitted to complete the four-year course at Indiana Central provided they maintain satisfactory academic standards.

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British Air Power Knocked Out in Ceylon Attack,

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comalee, Ceylon were “knocked out damaged or became unserviceable.”

Says Churchill.

FLEET Russ Press Warns Tokyo Against 'Prattle’

About 'Annexationist War' on Siberia

Dozens of tanks, charging, wave admitted that some of the war’s after wave, against the Russian bitterest fighting is in progress in

with Japan.

(There were increasing indications

ing no questions unregulated,” 8&||jnes on the Southwest front were the mud of the Kerch peninsula, Pravda editorial said on the first|battered to wreckage by Soviet aranniversary of the neutrality pact tillery in the sector between Orel {and Kursk, 200 miles southwest of (Meanwhile, the Red army has|Moscow, reports here said. Unable smashed acréss the river Desna on|to penetrate the Russian harrage, the central front and practically |the Germans retreated, leaving more encircled the key city of Bryansk,|than 1000 dead soldiers on the batone of the strong points of the Ger- | tlefield. man defense line, said a dispatch

from Stockholm to the Exchange that Germany had started the first

lin the eastern Crimea, and the fate of this sector was expected to be decided within a fortnight.)

Strong Russian forces started heavy assaults against German defense lines on the southwest front, attacking concrete fortifications. Farther north, on the central front, German tanks suffered anSeveral mechanized

Refusing to disclose the strength or disposition of the British fleet in Indian waters, he announced that Admiral Sir James Somerville,

commander of the ships which evacuated the British expeditionary force from Dunkirk and who since had been in command in the western Mediterranean, was now in the chief command in the Indian ocean area. This indicated that a sizeable British force was in the Indian area. Mr. Churchill also disclosed that Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of King George and one of the naval heroes of this war, had been put in charge of British commando op- | erations, which are expected to] strike with increasing frequency this | summer at the axis-held coast of | Europe. The tall, handsome Mountbatten, who has been in command of four torpedoed destroyers since the war started, is regarded as a daring commander and would be expected to strike boldly on the western

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front. He succeeded Admiral Sir Roger Keyes. Mr. Churchill announced that,

within the next two weeks or so there would be a statement on the | course of the war at a secret session of the house of commons.

Study Malayan Occupation

Regarding the rupture of negotia- | tions at New Delhi with the Indian Nationalists, he indicated that he would not make a statement until | the return of Sir Stafford Cripps, | war cabinet envoy to India, who “may be in a position to make a| personal statement.” | Of the Indian defense situation, | Mr. Churchill said the main pre- | occupation of Gen. Sir Archibald | Wavell, commander in chief, must | at present be to conduct the war on | the frontiers of eastern India. | He said all available information regarding the Malaya campaign would be studied closely for the lessons in it, but he would not] promise te publish an official white report on it “within a foreseeable time.” He Said also that a report on the campaign received from Maj. Gen, Henry Gordon Bennett, commanding Australians in Malaya, would not be published.

No Time For Judgment

He added that this was not the] time to pronounce judgement on the Malayan campaign and that it would not be in the general in-| terest to name an investigating commission. oH Commenting on the sinking of} the Hermes off the northeast coast} of Ceylon he said: “It is impossible *to afford con-| tinous air protection by shore] based or carrier borne aircraft to! all our ships at sea.” He admitted that the attacks on Colombo and the Tincomalee naval station had been severe. “The attacking force suffered heavy losses at bath places, from British fighter protection and antiaircraft batteries,” he said. “We also suffered to a lesser extent, but seriously to our aircraft.” He admitted damage to a few ships in Trincomalee harbor, and to shore establishments.

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