Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1942 — Page 2
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| CHURCHILL, F.D.R.,
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Hopkins Promises Yanks Will Bomb Germany.
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that “Russia and the Russian army
are in danger” but was confident that ultimately they the Germans from their soil. He promised a second front, and
a third and fourth if necessary to Junk the axis but said that for us|
“dark days are ahead.” The text of the Churchill statement: “The president and the minister, assisted by high naval, miiitary and air authorities, are continuing at Washington the series of conversations and conferences which began on Friday last. “The object in view is the earliest maximum concentration of allied war power upon the enemy, and reviewing or, where necessary, further concerting all measures which have for some time past been on foot to develop and sustain the effort of the united nations “It would naturally be impossible to give any account of the course of the discussions, and unofficial statements about them can be no more than surmise. Complete understanding and harmony exists between all concerned in facing the vast and grave tasks which lie shead. Hint Yanks May Go to Russia “A number of outstanding points of detail which it would have been difficult to settle by correspondence have been adjusted by the technical cfficers after consultation with the president and the prime minister.” A more substantial RodseveltChurchill statement is expected when the conversations end, and that will be soon. Mr. Hopkins promised Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek continued aid and asserted without qualification that the Russian stand against the Nazis is “the most important strategic front in the world’ There was some inclination here to interpret statement and others in address as meaning that American troops, in addition to American tanks and airplanes manned by the Red army, might be to the Russian front
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{were talking,” he said, adding to this prepared text. “ . .. I asked | the president if he had any message for the people here tonight. He said ‘ves, tell them we mean to give Russia aid on the field of battle. Our armed forces will attack at the right time and in the right place. Russia’s line will not fail.’” Mr. Hopkins directly challenged ithose who have become suddenly land sharply critical of the British, |especially since the fall of Tobruk. “I confess that I am getting tired,” he said, “of hearing people {say the British can't fight.” | He cited Malta and the stupenidous defense of the R. A. F. against Germany's 1940 air attack on the British Isles, pointing out that until the Soviet Union came in, the British were fighting the war alone in the west. “We owe Britain a great debt,” he continued, “which we intend to repay in full.
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Bill’ -Henry of Greenwood | Also Was Bombed at Pearl Harbor.
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Supplies Reaching Russia
| “Make no mistake about it, Russia fand the Russian army are in danger—just as they have been in danger for the last 385 days. We know that the Russian front is the most important strategic front in the world. A defeat of the Russian army would be a major disaster and prolong the war for months. “Our flow of supplies is reaching |the Russian front. Our tanks and | airplanes, manned by soldiers’ of | : the Red army, are in direct conflict| about as low as you can get.” with the enemy. But more than| And there, helping in operating that must and will be done. I|ang steaming the boilers he spent believe again that Hitler will not|the battle of Pearl Harbor, which make an irreparable break through pe could hear and feel, but not see. | the Russian lines.” “That was my mother’s birthday. He suggested that Mussolini—!1 had sent her a card and I thought ‘that fat, almost retired exhibition-|q¢ her during the whole fight. ist"—be turned over to the Ethio-| «mothers are funny. When I got pians if the people of Italy fail to home now she told me she knew hang him. something was going to happen just
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Sea,” he puzzled. Ww R BI | The Nevada was damaged slightly. RECEIVED BY HOUSE He was transferred to the Lexing-
ton and sailed away to encounter the Japanese again. This time the (Continued from Page One) {outcome was to be different.
“We Got Even Then” too. Although heavily censored to]
Thomas A. Henry (left) and his son, Bill . . . his mother knew something was going to happen.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Home From Lexington
keep military secrets, publishable] “We caught the Japs totally un-| parts revealed that: aware May 7, the first day of the] 1. Aircraft factories under con- battle. And boy did we get even| {tract to the army will produce in| with them. Why, when I was rescued | | 1942 and 1943 at least 148.000 planes by one of our destroyers, there was| |—the army's share of President nothing left to give us any action. | Roosevelt's 185.000-plane goal for| “The first day of the fight was| those two years. “It is our judg- pretty rugged, but we got through | ment that that goal will be real-|that all right. It was on the sec- | ized,” said Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arn- ond day that we got ours. Guess we old, army air corps chief. “Wel!got hit by two or three torpedoes, must realize it. We cannot fail.” ‘but we weren't anywhere near, 2. The army wjll have a strength! knocked out. Hell, we were getting of 4500.000 men by the middle of away,” and he laughed. 104: i 3 A 1943. Lieut. Gen. Brehon B. Som- Trapped in Air Vent 600.000 men by Dec. 31, 1942, had| Later in the dav internal exbeen “materially increased.” It will plosions put the Lexington in crit-| cost $1.290,000,000 to feed next year’s ical condition. Then Mr. Henry and| army. | five companions were trapped in an| Train Youths for Combat Duty air vent. They had been ordered to] 3. Youths of 18 to 20 years of age | leave their stations and were trywho enlist now are being trained |g to make their way clear when [for combat duty. Maj. Gen, J. T|trapped. ; ; | McNarney, deputy chief of staff, | “But being trapped in an air vent| |said the army knows that in cer- | doesn’t mean anything. You see the ltain assignments those youths vent leads to the side of the ship] “make the best soldiers.” just below the flight deck. We had | 4 The army is planning for mass|t0 stay there, though, because the evacuation of wounded by air, a order to abandon ship hadn't been]
[system successfully used by the Ger- | given. | mans. The committee was told| “When that came we could have Germany had evacuated more than Jumped into the sea, but a destroyer [200.000 men that wav and during came right to the side of our ship. | {the battle of Crete transported their | All T had to do was step aboard her {wounded back to Berlin by air deck. {within 48 hours | “I saw the ship go down, but that | 5. Offensive gas warfare is getting | was all. Except for planes we weren't | the major attention of the chemical any closer than 175 miles to the) warfare branch of the army. The |Japs. This war is fought by planes | | war department asked for $620546,- | —why I haven't even seen a battle[241 for that service for “both of- ship fire a gun.” fensive and defensive” training. Misses Excitement 6. Alaska—the newest war thea- : fer—may be served eventually by! And then as an anti-climax, he] la railroad. Gen. Somervell said the | said, “Everything happens while I'm | army hopes to have four ways of | away. All the kids are getting getting there—by sea, by air, py | married and the high school I went
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| construction is completed, and “one | William is not the only son of Mr. (route) may be by railroad.” The|and Mrs. Thomas A. Henry who is bill includes money for a survey of servinkt his country. An older brothland for such a railroad. | er, Thomas, is back in the navy 7. Part of the need for army of- | after serving a six-year hitch. ficers will be met by increasing the! The navy got two, the army one. | strength of the West Point cadet| Richard Henry, another brother, is corps from 1807 to 2440 men next @ corporal stationed in San Franvear. Hereafter all cadets will be Cisco, Cal, and has been in the serv‘eligible for aviation training. ice for two and a half years. Ac-|
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UTICA, N. Y,, June 23 (U. P.). —Danny Gifford, 10, has it directly from Gen. Douglas MacArthur himself: The Japs haven't taken Pearl Harbor and they won't take it. Danny had written the general, asking him to settle an argument with another boy, Jackie Fahy. Danny contended Pearl Harbor had not been taken, and Jackie said it had. “I read about you,” Danny wrote, ‘and think you are very brave. A boy of my age, Jackie Fahy, says that the Japs have Pearl Harbor but I say they haven't. Please write to me and say they haven't. I will show- it to the boy.” Gen. MacArthur's broadcast to Danny said: “Dear Danny: They aidn’t take it. So don’t be afraid Danny. They won't take it. Gen. Douglas MacArthur.”
U. S. BOMBERS DEFEND EGYPT
American Fliers Helping RAF Blast German Bases in Libya.
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commons that reinforcements were moving into the Egyptian front. A message from British middle east command, Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck, was read by Mr. Attlee. The commander said that the battle exhausted both sides and, when the time came, he was unable to muster power to strike a decisive blow that “might have turned the scale.” There were reports from the Libvan front that Rommel had used paratroops in the attack on Tobruk (although Mr. Attlee did not mention this) and that Nazi Gen. Kurt Student, pioneer in parachute attack, had massed 250,000 such troops for use against Egypt or Syria. Hitler apparently expected, however, to break through the Russian Ukraine front in a push toward the Caucasus, coinciding with Rommel's advance on Egypt. Russian dispatches, reporting 3.500,000 Germans killed and 10,000,000 total casualties so far on the eastern front, indicated that the Caucasus drive still was being held back, although it seemed likely that { Sevastopol would fall soon at a cost (of some 100,000 Nazi dead.
URGES U. S. INSURANCE WASHINGTON, June 23 (U. P). —Chairman Walter F. George (D. Ga.) of the senate finance committee, today proposed government in- | surance for civilian defense workers to replace a monthly benefit bill | now before his committee. George charged that the bill, sponsored by Senator Claude Pepper, would “put practically everyone on a pension list.”
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TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1942
'| Saw a Ship Sunk by an Enemy Mine,’ Says Reporter After Coast Guard Trip
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ships. Debris went up about 100 feet. A few seconds later I heard the boilers go. At 7:51 a. m,, the ship had settled very rapidly forward and at 7:53 a. m. had completely capsized. Everyone agreed the ship had been struck by a mine. At the first blast the commanding ensign sounded the battle alarm—a weird sounding klaxonfoghorn—and in seconds the crew was at battlestations. We pieked up 14 survivors and took 14 from a mine-sweeper which in turn was sunk about an hour later. 2 » o WE WERE kept busy wrapping the survivors in blankets and giving them cigarets. About 10 went below and ate the breakfast which had just been set out for us. I gave first aid to two or three men and helped scrub the oil from a navy gun crew captain who had gone into the forecastle when the explosion came. He was trapped and swam out. During the search we damaged our propellor and the radio ordered us back to shore but we were too busy to listen to the radio. The excitement had just died down and the ensign and I were in the wheelhouse. There was another explosion and the ensign cried out: “They got the (another boat like ours).” She had disappeared from view and as we took some spray across the window, I had to run on deck to see what had happened. The other coast guard cutter had not been hit. It had dropped a depth charge between us but soon came in sight again. We were pretty well keyed up then and saw a periscope in every wave, ” ” ” OUR COOK, a second class sea= man, was a good one and when he yelled “Chow's down” at about 1 p. m~—two hours later—we
found a beef roast, hot biscuits, boiled potatoes, lettuce and tomato salad, coffee, green beans and peas and carrots. Also some fresh fruit and a dozen different kinds of cookies, jellies, marmalades, jams, honey, preserves, pickles and olives. We had one meal during rough weather. The plates slid from one side of the table to the other. The coffee sloshed out of the cups. Food bounced off the table. The crew thought it was funny. One of them laid down and bounced from a lower bunk to an upper one on the other side of the forecastle—about six feet. Our next hit of excitement came at 2:30 p. m. I was on the bridge with the ensign when he yelled “Torpedo wake off the starboard bow” and fired the signal. We circled at full speed and dropped four depth charges because you don’t take any chances with a convoy. It was a whale. Hundreds of fish were Killed, but no sign of action. n on n WE ARRIVED off a port at dawn and our convoy continued northward. We were low on water, food and gasoline and we needed to replenish our four depth charges. We headed for the coast guard station, but were told the water was too shallow and finally tied up alongside another craft. In the meantime we had sailed for four hours up and down the harbor—a deathly still harbor —looking for a place to refuel. The army let us tie up and gave us 1000 gallons of 70 octane gas— we burned 84 octane. But we had to get fresh water from a fishing dock and food from an A.&P, store in town, opening a charge account in no time at all. The navy wouldn't supply us. with a station wagon to get supplies and the ensign and I had to hitch-hike into town on an army truck to borrow a coast guard truck. The coast guard base informed us then we had been sailing
through a harbor mine field for four hours; that the army mines had broken loose and that submarines had laid three-foot cone tact mines. The harbor had been closed to all traffic for 24-48 hours, ” ” 2 THE TRIP HOME was without incident. All that happened was a storm. Not a big storm, but waves were 20 feet high and the boat didn't quite reach from chest to chest. We'd reach out for a wave and fall flat with a huge smack that jarred our eyeteeth. The strain eventually opened the boat's seams. We also had rammed a trawler during the night and smashed one of our rails. When we got into port we were again without food, water, fuel or depth charges; our engines were performing miserably on the low octane gas—one of them cut out suddenly and swung us into the trawler. We had busted another rail transferring the survivors, The captain of the sunken mer chantman was wounded and he had to be handed across on & stretcher made from one of our life rafts. We also had lost a lifeline from the pounding and had to depend on some cord to keep from falling overboard on the starboard side.
FIVE ARRESTS MADE IN ANTI-VICE DRIVE
Chief Morrissey's order for a con= tinuous campaign against gambling and vice was followed early today by the arrest of five persons, In an order to his officers yestere day, the chief pointed out that gamblers and prostitutes are prey= ing on the members of the armed fores and defense workers.
BRAZIL FLIER INJURED BRAZIL, Ind, June 23 (U. P.).~ The war department notified Mr, and Mrs. John Christman that their son, Pvt. Paul Christman, was serie
| ously injured in a plane accident near Newark, N. J. yesterday.
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