Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1942 — Page 3

Four Jap Carriers Sunk At

Army Rewards Fliers for Raid on Tokyo

ENEMY’S LOSSES PUT AT NEW HIGH

2 or 3 of Tokyo's Battleships Also Damaged in Battle, According to Pilots’ Latest Reports;

They Lost Cruisers, Too. By WILLIAM ¥. TYREE

United Press Stat Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, June 28 (Delayed) .—Japan definitely | Jost four carriers, including its two largest, in the Midway

island battle, the navy announced today in a final com-|

munique on the American victory.

It suffered damage to two and probably three week A F. BATTERS

ships, one seriously. Reports of airplane pilots who participated in the battle left little doubt that one of these ee was sunk. In addition, the Japanese lost two | heavy cruisers and three to four desiroyers sunk, three or more heavy cruisers damaged, one light cruiser damsged and four transports or x me cargo ships damaged or sunk by Raid on Bre n Stith 2a HE mo St LONDON, Juite 28 (U.P). British | possibly : ps | bombing planes concentrated their

probably sunk. " Go - | attac S on the rman submarine Adds Victory Reports tn y Po " lbase at St. Nazaire, on the Bren ® communique, issued at Paci-/jovedion coast. last night fic headquarters by Admiral Chester) . I i re F. Nimitz, commander in chief, hot! Ee TH HY only confirmed previous reports of air fields and railroad objectives in the magnitude of the United States occupied France and bombed shipvictory, but added to it. ping in the English channel. Further, the statement in the German planes made their sharp-

Bombers After Second

Bad Weather Gre Grounds Big

idway, U.S. Navy Reveals

SIX SHIPS SUNK: 79 FEARED DEAD

‘Sub Commander Tells Norse Skipper Hell See Him In Oslo After Wan.

By UNITED PRESS Seamen who had survived two torpedoings ih ohe voyage-—losses that brought to 332 the total of | united ‘nations ships sunk by enemy | submarines off the Atlantic coast,

in the Caribbean and the Gulf of | Mexico—have arrived at a ‘Gulf coast port, it was disclosed today. | They were among survivors of six | | sinkings disclosed yesterday and to- | day by the navy, attacks believed to have taken 79 lives. A ‘total of | 75 were believed lost in the sinking! A four American merchantmen, Two of the 33-man créw of a Nor- | weginn ship were believed dead, as Pay two of the 41 sailors aboard & Jugoslav ship which rescued them, only to be torpedoed jin turn five hours later.

| "I'l See You After the War”

| ‘The double sinking occurred in

| the Atlantic off the northern coast of South America, according to ‘havy announcement in Washington. Chief Mate Kjell Markussen of ‘the Norwegian merchantman said & 'single torpedo hit his vessel May 11 [and survivors took to two lifeboats. ‘Tl see you after the ‘war in oslo, " the sub commander told Markussen in English, They drifted (nine hours and ‘were picked (up by ‘the Jugosiav vessel. Five | hours later they were in lifeboats. again, while the crew of & subNrrine which WMarkussen believed

CHINESE CLAM 5000 JAPS SLAIN

Invaders Are Routed From Important Invasion Base of Linhsien.

CHUNGKING, June 30 0, P) == Chinese troops have #oed a “crushing victory” over Teeg Japanese oops in the Shans Honan wector where the MVAARs had been routed fiom the Impors tant invasion base of Linhuien, & high command communique said

today. Military headquaiters sald that 5000 Japanese had been Killed in “bloody battles” on the southeast slope of Taihang WoOunRs {aing in woutheast Shansi provinoe during the fighting of the last week, and that another 500 had been Killed on the wsouthwestera slope, A In an attempt to offset the 1088 of Linhsien, strong Japanese ©ob umn were converging on the small ection of the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway still in Chineve hands, From Tecaptured Kweiki, 80 miles southeast of Nanchang, the western Japanese Prong was 1eported oreeps Ng forward, lexs than 50 miles from a Junction with a walled cavteorn column, : The Japanese Tesccupid Reiki lagt week after being driven back 12 miles,

School 3% Woh. In Flag Contest

FIRST PLACE in the plays ground {lag contest held Saturs day at Brookside park community center was won by Sohool 38,

This scene took place at Bolling Field tn Washington as 23 army fliers, ‘members of the group led by Brig, Gen, James H. Doolittle in the air raid on Japan, April 18, were presented distinguished fiying crosses. Lt. ‘Gen, Henry HW. Arnold, commanding general of the army air forces, is blotured awarding ohe ot the medals as Gen. Doolittie watches.

communique that “analysis of all est attack in weeks on SOULhWESt | may have been the same passed oul reports now permits the announce- England and started fires in one onves of bread. ment of & more complete list Of area. : : y 2 Javs losses inflicted on the Japanese” Long-range bombing planes were| ; Drifted Nine Da left the possibility that even more Markussen and 10 companions, |

enemy craft were sunk or damaged. It was evident that the communique's listing was that of minimum enemy losses, “Personnel losses on ships sunk is known to have been extremely heavy and ships receiving bomb hits probably suffered heavy losses in this respect,” the communique said.

Planes Lost, Too

Tt reported kiso that with the four Shemy carriers sunk went all their planes, totaling about 275, and al plane crews. The entmy carriers sunk were the 26.000-ton sister ships, Akagi and Raga, the only two in their class and the largest in the Japanese navy, and the 10,050-ton Soryu and | Kirvu, likewise sister ships in a) class of only three. Cruisers known sunk were Sn] ably the Mogami and Mikum 8500-tons with 15 6.l-inch a each, sister ships of the foue-ship, Mogami class. This correspondent was with ve fleet at Midway. Reports to the fleet during the battle, after the enemy had been | beaten the first day and was being | pursued the second (June 5) said | that at least four direct bomb hits] were scored on one of the Japanese battleships.

Left Battleship to Fate

On the third day, as the fleet closed in at 25 knots on the fleeing enemy remnants, the planes went out and found a single enemy battleship, & cruiser and five destroyers steaming at 10 knots 150 miles away. The battleship had been left dee hind, to its fate. Three heavy bomb hits were made on this crippled enemy craft, one “smack between the stacks” as & reporting pilot put it. Here are some excerpts I jotted down at the time from the radio! telephones of pilots during the aft.) ernoon: “Hey, any of you fellows got any bombs? There's & Mogi class cruiser In the rear. Oh, baby! Did we put, that damned can on fire! Looks, like the battleship blew up 00.” “That battleship is stopped dead now. The heavy cruiser is burning | fiercely but is still under way.’ |

Explodes Once More

“The battleship is asking for help © to remove personnel, She just ex-| ploded once more.” Pilots later reported that either the battleship or the cruiser had | been abandoned, but it was dark and | the plane crews could not say def- | Initely that it was the battleship, But & fying fortress pilot reported later that an unidentified cruiser -Japanese—was firing at a battle. ship in the vicinity, ing to sink it so that the rest of the enemy Ships could flee unim-| peded. In the Midway battle the Umited States lost one destroyer sunk and one aircraft carrier damaged.

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obviously try- IR

grounded because of the weather |

after raiding Bremen Saturday | night for the second time in three days. Tt was indicated that 300 or more planes made the second raid and the air ministry said they left large fires burning. A United Press Ankara dispatch

[quoted travelers from ‘Germany as| reporting that though Cologne, the [first target of & British 1000-plane Tad,

suffered heavy damage, de-| struction there was paled by that

at Emden, German North sea naval |

| base. Repeated dig raids on Emden, the | travelers said, had destroyed nearly the whole town and completely wrecked port and factory installations.

(CHURCHILL EXPECTS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

LONDON, June 20 U. P). Prime Minister Winston ‘Churchill has perfected his strategy and tacties for a two-day full dress war debate in the House of Commons, [it was understood today, and is con|fident that he will win an impressive vote of confidence.

Churchill spent much of the week-end in conference with Maj.

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{Clement Attlee, deputy prime mine

ister and leader of the labor party; [Sir Stafford Cripps, lord privy seal, and other members of the war ocabinet, It was indicated that Churchill, adopting the course which his &dvisers had recommended, would demand & vote on the most hostile of a series of motions on the direc tion of the war, a motion which attacks him directly in his capacity of minister of defense. Adoption of {such a motion would mean Churchill’s resignation.

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MEETINGS TODAY

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picked up after nine days, ware! ‘taken to a South American port. They heard their shipmates had ‘been landed in the British Waost | Indies but they did not know what | became of the 39 survivors of the | Jugoslay vessel. The Jugoslavs | landed at Bridgetown, Barbados. | | Thirty-three survivors of 38 crew | men aboard a medium-sized Ameri [can merchant ship sunk by a tor pedo off the Atlantic coast, were | [landed at an Bast coast port. Two | sailors were killed in the explosion | land one other was believed lost. | Capt. Oonrad Nelson, Who Was, stunned when the blast knocked him against a steel! bulkhead, said | he and his crew were rescued by a navy patrol vessel after drifting only a few hours, The other American sinkings announced by the navy were a small vessel sunk in the gulf June 22, a small merchantman sunk May 18 in the Atlantic and a medium-sized ship torpedoed in the Caribbean June 2.

Pets Parade in

Park Tomorrow

A CHILDREN'S pet parade will be held at Christian park at § PD. mM. tomorrow under the direc tion of Mesdames A. D. Scanland, Fayne Ottinger and John Salz Jr, who will act as judges. Prizes will be given for the smallest, largest, prettiest and most unusual pets, the only requirement being that ail pets must be in & cage, & bowl or on a leash. Decorated bicyeles will participate in the parade.

GROSS INCOME TAX YIELD BELOW 1941

State gross income tax collections for the first quarter of 1942 show a decrease of 6 per cent as compared to the corresponding period in 1941, Collections from April 1 to June 30, 1942, on income received dur ing the first quarters of the year, totalled $496781537 against $5 272,356.01 for the first quarter of 1941, a decrease of $304 540.64, The drop, according to officials

retailers, laundries and dry cleaners, Officials expect a greater decrease in revenue during the re mainder of the year, when the full effect of the lowerad rates and the operation of the rationing and priority programs will be felt.

SERB PATRIOTS USE PLANES LONDON, June 28 (U. P).—Gen. Draja Mikhailovitchs Serbian patriot troops are using airplanes in

occupying their mative Jugoslavia, | 1; was disclosed today.

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2 LOSE LIVES IN!

LOCAL STREAMS

One Drowns After Reseuing, Two Brothers; Youth Slips Into Hole,

were drowned in Marion county streams yosterday. FRED VANARSDALE, 383, of R.. R. 3, box 123, near Bridgeport, lost | his life in White river near the Southport road after rescuing his two brothers from a whirlpool undevtow, ROBERT DAKIN, 99-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Maurice Dakins, 2174 Ringgold st, drowned when he stepped into a deep hole while wading in Buck creek at the Thompson road where his family had gone for a picnic. Caught by Undertow Mr, Van Asdale and his two brothers, Cecil, 25, and Loren, 40, were wading in White river when Oecil, who could not swim, was caught by an undertow. Fred VanArsdale went to his rescue ane “ad him to safety! At the sar «¢ Loren, who also | had attemy.. ¢@ help rescue Cecil, | got into tro ole fighting the under | tow and Fred then went to help him out. After getting both of his brothers out of the danger zone, Fred ol lapsed from exhaustion and sank. His body was recovered by the police emergency squad three hours later, Besides the two brothers, he is survived by the widow, Mrs, Justine VanArsdale; two children, Roy, 11, and Sandretta, 2. The body was taken to Plainfield pending funeral arrangements,

Boy Slips Into Hole The Dakin boy was wading In Buck oreek with his sister, Betty, 12, and Mrs, Violet Miller, 24, of Bargersville, when he slipped and fell into a 15-foot hole, Mrs, Miller said she grabbed the |

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boy, but that the child fought her indicates strongly that some cons until she was forced to release her crete plan of action has been de-

grasp due to exhaustion, His body | was recovered by deputy sheriffs 20

minutes after they arrived.

Survivors besides the parents and | sisters are two brothers, Donald and | Billy Dakin, Funeral services will be at 8:30 a. m. Wednesday at the G. H, Her. |

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stronghold west of Alexandria

presenting a grave threat to that naval base and con | sequently to the Suvz canal and the Middle Bast, London military observers, reviewing the situation, could offer little in the way of encouragement today.

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they admitted that further withdrawals may

He expected as Gen, Sir Claude Auchinleck, the British ‘commander of

[the Middle East proparved for a between Matiuh and Alexandria. ‘tration at various points and a fallling back of the defenders to Posi‘tions in the rear. The British concede inferiority in| [tanks and anti-tank weapons and | [while at Toast equal in the air, definitely do not have supremacy, Oonsequently, it is doubtful if they could bear the brunt of a frontal attack on the coastal plain east of Matruh, Rommel Reinforced Their situation is made more difficult by Marshal Erwin Rommel's flanking tactics. One of his columns appears to be moving southeast from Matruh to sweep up to the coast in the British rear. The Ttalfans claimed that a spearhead already had reached the coast 18% miles east of Matruh, Rommel apparently has been and is being considerably reinforced, which adds to the weight of his

threat, Ankara reported today that two

into Greece and are being transported to captured Tobruk in Libya by boat. Rommel’s chief problem appears to be to maintain his lengthening lines of ‘communication and supply, including water,

24 Front May Be Near

The reverses in Libya and Egypt may tend to increase the demand for an immediate offensive against Germany in Europe, The responsible government heads have made it repeatedly clear that they do not intend to be stampeded into precipis

disaster, However, the Roosevelt=Churchill statement coupled with the “second front” understaning reached with Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov

cided on, Molotov appears convinced of it. ‘He is reported from Moscow today to have told Admiral William H, (Standley, U, 8, ambassador, that | absolute agreement on a second front has been reached. Molotov was said to have brought

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Junior Citizens Will Hold Circus

A STREET parade will precede the Junior Citizens’ Free Circus and fair which will be held for six nights, starting July 13 at the Keystone Community center, The circus is sponsored and presented by the Youth Councils of the South Side and Keystone | community centers. The committee in charge cons sists of James Russell, Mrs. Paul Burton, Mis. Mel Shaw and Dr. A. ©. Harvey,

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Life Saving 2 Children

At Lawrenceburg.

LAWRENOEBURG, Ind, (U, P).==John Brickler, 6i-year= and five of his children died early yesterday in a fire which razed their small, three=room cabin, Mr, Briokler apparently 10st his own life in saving two other mems bers of the family, He and the five children, Matita, 4; Roman, 8, Paul, 1.7 and Lester and Sylvester, 13-year-old twins, were trapped when the roof collapsed, County Coroner Haily Moon said he had been unable to determine the cause of the fire, which leveled the cabin before neighbors could

come to the rescue,

The two e¢hildren who escaped were Viola, 9, and Magdalen,

"IT'S ONE DAY NEARER TO VICTORY"

Second and third places were

Apparently Lost

June 29

won by Golden Hill and Riley park, while schools 28 and 3 weie awarded honorable mention, District winners out of the 5» plaggiounds participating ware | Rhodius, Claypool, Kevitons, | School 13, Hill, School 43, Cor» nelius, 40th and Airwenal, Oak Will, Lents, American Legion Auxiliai'y and Ellenbeirger, Rimer I. Taflinger, local artist, werved ay ode,

Y. M. C. A. BIBLE CLUB T0 HONOR GIDEONS

Grideons of Indiana will be hone ored at the regular meeting of the Y. M. ©. A. Bible Investigation oud Wadnenday., Speakers at the meeting which will follow a 8 p. Mm, dinner nolude William Sehmelzel, president of the State Gideon society; John Neuman, ytate treasurer; Wail Sigmund, presis dent of the local Grideons, and Roft Regal, local HeSretaTy= treasurer,

AUSSIE DESTROYER LOST

nounced today the loxs of the 1890« ton Australian destroyer Nestor,

MEN ON THE PRODUCTION LINE MEN IN THE ARMED SERVICES

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WUITARY CLOTHES AND ACDESSORIES — (INCLUDING INSIGNIA) ON THIRD FLOOR

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