Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1942 — Page 11

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, One Newspaper Is Critical

MORE AI BY AUSTRALIA

"0f U. S. for New Troops

In Ireland.

MELBOURNE, May 20 (U. P.).— Australia renewed its demand for more planes, men, guns and ships today as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's allied air force continued its wide reconnaissance flights in search of an enemy invasion fleet. * One newspaper by implication criticized the United States for sending additional forces to north-

ern Ireland unless they are intended |

for an immediate offensive against the German-held continent of Europe. Air Minister Arthur S. Drakeford, in a statement, said: “The need for planes can not be too strongly stressed. . . . Our slogan should be planes, more planes and still more planes. Without them our task will be made heavier and longer.”

One Newspaper Critical

* The critical newspaper, the Sydney Daily Telegraph, commenting on the arrival of American troops in Australia it said: “Australia would be the first to cheer the Americans if they were bound to Britain to participate in the coming critical weeks in an offensive against the axis. “But we shall not be so pleased if the Americans are going into camp for the summer. . “The united nations should be rushing more men, ships, guns and Planes to points .where fighting is actually taking place.” (At his press conference yesterday, President Roosevelt was told that some Australians feared the arrival of more American troops in northern Ireland, might mean the United States was minimizing the dangers in the southwest Pacific. Mr. Roosevelt replied that he hadn't heard of it.)

HIMMLER DELEGATED T0 CRUSH THE DUTCH

LONDON, May 20 (U. P.).— Heinrich Himmler, Nazi gestapo chief, has been made supreme pelice chief in the Netherlands in & new German attempt to crush the spirit of the Dutch people, Stockholm press dispatches reported today. United nations sources reported that the Germans planned soon to incorporate the Netherlands into Germany as a province to be called Niedermark, and it was asserted that the Germans had shot 15 Belgian and five French patriots because other men had opposed the German regime. It was reported also that the Germans had sent Dr. Didrick Akup Seip, rector of Oslo university and visiting professor of the University of Minnesota, to Poland under a sentence of hard labor, and that Vichy authorities had arrested 19 French patriots at Roanne, in the

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|Planes and Tanks Support

Columns Striking at

Allied Air Bases.

CHUNGKING, May 20 (U, P.)— Chinese demolition squads and guer-

e-sup-ported and reinforced enemy columns drove toward allied aerial and supply bases. A Chungking communique described bitter fighting in Chekiang province below Shanghai where the Japanese were pressing southward along five routes toward the air

day in eastern China as pian

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Pvt, William Driscoll of Lafayette, Ind., rear gunner of this flying fortress of the Guatemalan bomber command, is ready to deal plenty: of trouble to any enemy.

NIGHTMARE RIDE

3 on. Raft After Sub Sinks Ship—Only 1 Finally

Comes to Port. GEORGETOWN, British Guiana,

posture and exhaustion. went out of his mind and leaped into shark-infested waters. That was part of the story told today by Michael Wajda, 28-year-old electrical engineer, of New York City, the survivor of three man who climbed onto a life raft after their ship was shelled and torpedoed by an enemy submarine in the Atlantic. ; For 46 days, the raft drifted with the winds and currents. Then it was sighted off the Guiana coast. A rescue boat reached it. Waida could hardly speak, his sight was impaired and his body had been burned black by sun and exposure. Medical examination showed also that he had shell wounds on his left ankle and right temple and a badly bruised cheek and right hip. Nevertheless, physicians at the hospital where he is a patient, said he would live. Mahlon R. Benton of North Carolina, second engineer on the torpedoed vessel, died first—of exposure. Eleven days later, Third Engineer Lindgren Bancroft of New York City, could endure no more and leaped into the sea.

BARNHART RE-ELECTED Times Special NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind, May 20.—Wilbur Barnhart of Indianapolis has been re-elected for his fourth three-year term as alumni representative on the Manchester

Vichy area, as “Communists.”

college board of trustees.

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May 20 (U. P.).—One died from ex-| Another|. .

Herschel McKee, Ace of

Herschel J. McKee, an ace of the last war and an engineer at Allison’s, has been called into Uncle Sam’s air corps as a captain to use " his technical . ability to “Keep ’em Flying.” i A member of @ the French foreign legion, in 1916, Capt. Mec-

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to the Lafayette Escadrille, the kt American eagles “an of the first world ; war, and downed Capt. McKee 12 German planes. He was shot down and captured by the Germans, but on Feb. 8, 1918, after eight months a prisoner, he made his escape back to the French lines, along with Tommy Hitchcock, famous American polo player. He has ridden with many of the top-notch race drivers and driven relief in the 500-mile race. He has also driven on most of the board and dirt race tracks of the country,

KAHL IS NAMED TO PROSECUTOR POST

Archie J. Kahl, a Democratic-at-torney at Danville, was named prosecuting attorney of Hendricks county, a G. O. P. stronghold, yesterday by Governor Schricker to fill the unexpired term of George W. Hadley, a Republican. Mr. Hadley left his office this week to enter training at the Notre Dame navy. training school as a lieutenant, junior grade, in the U. S. naval reserve. Mr. Kahl, a leader in the war

savings bond drive in Hendricks]:

county, will hold office until Dec. 31 when a new prosecutor elected in

the general election will take office.

War I, Returns to Service

escaping death many times in aeccidents. Capt. McKee’s home is at 3850 W. Washington st. He has been assigned to Mobile, Ala., as an engineering officer. It will be his duty to see that planes of the air force are kept running in good condition.

Stationed in Hawaii

Fred N. Clements of Indianapolis was a little late for the attack on Pearl Harbor but he has been on 7° watch there since # January. 4 The son of Mr and Mrs. Fred A. Clements, 25 N Alton ave., he enlisted in the navy last Dec. 26 and after three weeks training at the 5% Great Lakes naval station was Fred Clements sent to the islands. Seaman Clements is 20 and formerly attended Washington high school.

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In training at the marine corps base, San Diego, Cal, is James H. Pruitt, who for the last 12 years has been a resident of Mickleyville. He was a truck driver for seven years before enlisting and is the brother of L. A. Pruitt, 1008 Wald- . ..., emere ave. He is a native of HousJames H. Pruitt ton, Ind., where

he attended high school.

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The Japanese were basing their southward drives from Chukihsien, evacuated by the Chinese Sunday night after severe street fighting, and Fengchiao, reported taken by Japanese spearheads Tuesday. The drive also was aimed apparently at Kinhua, a distribution center for goods filtered through the Japanese blockade.

Tanks Spearhead Japs

Enemy forces were officially reported storming the town of Tunglu along the Chientang river, 30 miles south of Anking and to the west of the heavier assault. For the first time since January, the communique revealed, the Japanese have opened offensive action in North Hunan province. Japanese units in southwest Shansi province, supported by tanks and artillery, were reported attempting tor wipe out Chinese guerrillas in the Fen river valley.

Destroy Burma Road

Further Japanese thrusts from Burma into southwestern China were believed to have been averted temporarily by Chinese demolition squads who blew up bridges and sections of the famous Burma road in Yunnan province in a move that appeared to have halted the Japanese in the Lungling sector, 40 miles inside the Chinese border. The destruction of the Burma mountain road, built by many thousands of Chinese workers with unprecedented speed as a military life line, was another big sacrifice by the Chungking government, but essential to defense against the Japanese mechanized armies. Fearing a possible Japanese

‘|thrust from the Indo-China frontier

on the south, the Chinese also have dynamited large sections of the railroad between Laokoi, Indo-China, and Kunming, Yunnan province capital.

rillas have stalled Japan's invasion |: | machine along the Burma road, but|: a serious new threat developed to-|

~ HAROLD D. (MYRT) FORKNER of Indianapolis, a member of a U. S. army engineer regiment stationed in British Columbia, Canada, is reported by army officials to have drowned near his station last Thursday. Details of the accident were not made known to the famfly here, but Pvt. Forkner’s regiMr. Forkner Ment was en.gaged in building the new military highway

Harold Forkner Drowned Near Army Post in Canada

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from the United States to Alaska. Burial will be in British Columbia and the body will not be returned here until hostilities have ceased.

Pvt. Forkner was 22 and a nas

tive of Indianapolis. He was a graduate of Technical high school and a member of the DeMolay. He entered the service Oct. 20, 1941, and had been in British Columbia since the first of March. His home was at R. R. 6, Box 481-K. Surviving are his father, Marvin D.; two sisters, Mrs. Ray Hutchison and Mrs. Samuel E. Becker, and three brothers, James R. Kenneth and John, all of Indianapolis. z

DAVIS IS BEATEN IN PENNSY VOTE

Senator Loses to Soldier By 100,000; Dead Man

Renominated.

PHILADELPHIA, May 20 (U. P.). —Maj. Gen. Edward Martin, a lifelong soldier, and Auditor General F. Clair Ross, a World War I flying cadet, were chosen respective Republican and Democratic gubernatorial nominees by war-conscious but generally apathic Pennsylvania primary voters, nearly complete unofficial returns showed today. Martin, who recently was retired from active duty by the army, won over Senator James J. Davis by a plurality of nearly 100,000 votes. Ross led his nearest opponent, Judge Ralph H. Smith, Pittsburgh, by 60,000. Rep. Patrick J. Boland, Democratic house whip, who died Monday, was nominted in his district. Party leaders said they believed they later could choose a nominee on the theory that the nomination is vacant. Republicans, however, said they were of the opinion that their candidate, James Peck, who was unopposed, would be elected automatically.

PROCLAIMS SAVINGS DAY Governor Schricker today proclaimed Monday as summer savings pledge day in the schools of the state and recommended “to our younger generation that it realize its obligation to the nation by con-

tinuing to earn money . . . to invest in war stamps and bonds.”

Air Corps to Use

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Indiana Central

THE ARMY AIR CORPS will take over several buildings on the Indiana Central college campus this week for the training of flying cadets, it was announced today. : About 200 cadets will be moved onto the campus the last of this week for two weeks’ technical study of Allison airplane motors. About June 5 another group of

200 cadets will be moved in for study, and so.on every two weeks for the remainder of the summer. . Allison Corp. officials will conduct the classes. The buildings to be used include the men’s hall dormitory, the Kephart Memorial auditorium and several classrooms.

DRIVER LEAPS FROM

TRUCK BEFORE BLAST

MADISON, Ind, May 20 (U.P). —More than 4000 gallons of gasoline destined for the city’s dealers, was destroyed when a tank truck exploded and burned one mile north

Pocket Veto Agreed to on Measure Involving Sale

Of Surpluses.

WASHINGTON, May 20 (U, P), —The administration today ap=proved an informal “pocket veto” of a bill carrying new price control authority to satisfy fears of the congressional farm bloc that it might be used to depress agricultural prices. iE Senator Prentiss M. Brown (D, Mich.) was commissioned to write a substitute which would protect farm prices from manipulation in buying and selling operations proposed for the reconstruction finance corporation in connection with the p control act. Siig The senate banking and currency committee was expected to approve the substitute measure today, and Chairman Robert F. Wagner (D. N. Y.) was advised to dispose of the original measure, already approved for floor consideration, by “forget ting” to report it to the senate.

Fight Over Surplus The new concession to the farm bloc came in the midst of a senate fight over the authority of the government to dispose of surplus agricultural commodities it owns or controls—a fight arising out of debate on the $680,383,695 agriculture department appropriation for 1943, With the farm bloc seeking to prevent any sales at less than parity prices and the administration desiring a free hand, the senate. was scheduled to vote today on a compromise = offered by Senator Richard B. Russell (D. Ga.) guthorizing sale of corn and 125,000,000 bushels of wheat at 85 per cent of the parity price of corn, but only for feeding livestock and poultry to raise meat production, or for pro-

ducing alcohol, acetone or rubber.

2 MORE U. S. SHIPS ARE SUNK IN GULF

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of here late yesterday.

Samuel Hulce of Marion, driver of the truck, leaped from his cab before the explosion threw a flaming spray 200 feet into the air. Hulce told police he first saw the flames through the rearview mirror

as he shifted gears on a hill

Authorities believed gasoline spilling onto the truck’s hot exhaust pipe caused the explosion. Ten new tires .carried in the truck were de-

stroyed in the blaze.

Two more American ships and 33 more lives were added today to the depredations of axis submarines in the Gulf of Mexico. : One was a medium-sized cargo vessel. A submarine that the gun crew never saw fired one torpedo into her amidships late on theé*night of May 12. . She burst into flame, and 20 men were burned to death or killed by the torpedo’s explosion. Twenty-five were saved.

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