Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1942 — Page 3
TUESDAY, JUNE 9,
‘WAKE CRIPPLED, SAYS LOCAL PILOT
Col. Arthur Meehan Led Raid on Jap Base, Navy Reveals; Shattering Blow Termed First Dividend of U. S. Victory in Midway.
HEADQUARTERS, Hawaiian Air Force, June 29 (U. ).—An army bombing raid which put the Japanese air base on Wake island out of commission is but the first dividend on the Midway island naval victory, well i}
P.) (Delayed
informed quarters said today.
SOUGHT ACTION, MEEHAN | WROTE
Ready to Put on Good Show, He Told Parents Here in Last Letter.
When Col. Arthur W. Meehan, staff officer of the Hawaiian air force, wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs, S. S. Clement, 115 S. Belmont ave, earlier this month, he told them he was ready to put on a good show. < Little did they realize, however, how big a show Col. Meehan meant, for, according to a United Press dispatch, it was he who led the| squadron of American bombing | planes in the raid an the Jap-held | base at Wake Island. Col. Meehan was here last in November. He returned to Honolulu] from his visit just three days be-| fore the raid on Pearl Harbor. | Graduate of Tech
Col. Meehan is a graduate of | Technical high school and attended | Indiana university. He received his | commission at West Point in 1928, graduating from Kelly field in 1929. Mrs. Meehan has not seen her| husband since she left Honolulu with her two daughters to live with her mother in Newburgh. N. Y. They stopped here last January on their return from the island. His mother and stepfather are! mighty proud of their son's accomplishment. They said today he talks] little of his military duties. His] chief concern are his children. Mr. Ciement is foreman of the storeroom at Kingan & Co. hav-| ing been employed there 26 years.! Both he and Mrs. Clement are active in the Washington Street Presbyterian church.
NEWBURGH, N. Y., June 30 (U. P.) —Mrs. Arthur W. Meehan con-|
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ceded today that her husband had|2
the best excuse in the world for failing to write home. He's been too busy bombing Japs. Colonel Meehan led the U. S. army air force unit which bombed Jap-| anese-held Wake island Friday. | “I can understand now why he! hasn't written very often,” Mrs. | Meehan said. Mrs. Meehan, talked by telephone | with him vesterday. i “He didn’t say anything about the | raid, though, for military reasons. He asked about the children and| how I was getting along.” Informed that American bombs| had blasted the Jap airdrome at| Wake island, Mrs. Meehan ex-! claimed. “That’s perfect!” The last letter she received from her husband, a former West Point | quarterback. was one June 18 in! which he mentioned the battle of | Midway. |
result of the shattering biow ‘dealt to the Japanese fleet,
the runway,
It was forecast that, as the
the Wake raid would be followed by other against even more inportant enemy bases in the vast fic area west of Hawaii. ee to Wake's position west .of the international date line from which various zones of time are computed, the United States army | planes left their operations base last | Friday, bombed Wake Sunday mornling and returned to base Savurgay, Local Man Leads Raid
“I believe we pretty well crippied] Wake’s efficiency as an operations ‘base, at least temporarily until it {can obtain replacements to repair| the heavy damage,” Col. Arthur W. | Meehan, 38, Indianapolis, who led! the raid, said. Col. Meehan praised the crews. | especially the navigators who took!
the planes on an over-water flight yccerted here today in an address before the Democratic state convention that congress “The whole thing hinged on navi- tioned well” in meeting the de-
of more than 2000 miles—one of the longest over water bombing mis-| sions ever accomplished.
gation,” he said. After telling how the army planes flew through clouds until they were within four miles of their objective, {and then emerged at 12:05 a. m. to, find their target lighted by the moon, Col. Meehan described the futile enemy attempts at defense. The first burst of anti-aircraft fire, which “shook hell out of us and scared hell out of us” was the only one which came close, he said. It put the instruments of one plane out of commission temporarily. But the planes went on and Col. Meehan’s bombs struck a big airdrome building, setting it afire, and wrecked planes on the apron. Like Coney on July 4 “We blasted hell out of the air{drome and leveled above ground in- | stallations,” he said. “We did not see lany Japanese personnel or lights. They were very slow with their antiaircraft fire. “They couldn't see us but when their fire did start it looked like Coney island fireworks on July 4.” Only three enemy planes got off Col. Meehan said, and they did no damage. One enemy planes was trying to take off when bomb hit the runway. Col. Meehan, a former West Point | backfield star, coached the West Point football team from 1932 to 11939. His wife and two daughters live at Newburgh, N. Y.
SUIT OVER WEALTHY WIDOW’S WILL ENDS
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. June 3
the late Mrs. Anna H. Paton, wealthy widow, was dismissed by Surrogate Charles D. Millard today
land the will was admitted to pro-
bate. The will was contested by three! of Mrs. Patton's relatives, who | charged that she was unduly in| [fluenced into bequeathing a large! share of her estate to the Rev. Henry Darlington. rector of the fashionable New York City Church of the Heavenly Rest.
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The Central Y. M. C. A. was busy this morning as the 18 through 20 age-group of America’s men put their signatures on the selective
service roster. nation as they answer the call: and Henry Heimansohn, »
Left to right are
‘CONGRESS DID Brief Platform Pledges Full
JOB-VANNUYS Support in Winning of War
Various War Acts Cited By Senator in Talk to State Democrats.
Answering congressional critics, U. S. Senator Frederick VanNuys
“has func-
mands of this crucial period. He cited the selective service act, the act providing for the building up of stockpiles of strategic materials and the various huge appropriations for the army and navy as evidence that congress was keeping abreast of the times. “Three years ago,” the senator said, “congress passed an act . providing for building up stockpiles of critical materials.
Money Requests Granted
“If we suffer from a shortage in any such materials today—and we do—the blame cannot be laid at the door of congress. Congress, he added, has been asked for billions of dollars for the prosecution of the war and all such requests have been granted. The military and naval departments as well as the lease-lend agencies have in no wise been han-
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Turning to the war situation, Senator VanNuys said that he had every confidence in our ultimate victory. “We entered this war after hurried by commendable preparation,” he said. “We come in with a new and fresh army of 3,000,000 men; a navy of nearly 1,000,000 and an air force soon to approximate 2,000,000. “Our principal enemies have ‘waged war for years and on most fronts show evidence of physical land economic exhaustion. It is
sensus now that he never will.” Approves Home Conditions
three of the younger men of the
Joseph Howett, 19; James Green, 18, Al make the “Y” their home.
By WILLIAM CRABB
Placing the responsibility for the present war on “the vicious and unstatesmanlike opposition” of the Republicans in 1918, the Democratic state convention today pledged its party’s “wholehearted and unstinted” support in the winning of this war. The Democratic delegates, meeting in the Coliseum, praised the Democratic leadership in the last 10 years despite the “opposition, accusations and ridicule” of the Repuklicans. The platform they adopted was one of the shortest in recent party history. “The origin of our participation in this war goes back to 1918,” thé platform said. “Then a courageous and resolute president proposed and formulated an instrument for humanity, designed as a deterent to the institution of any more wars.
Wilson’s Courage Cited
“That program met the vicious and unstatesmanlike opposition of the leaders of the Republican party which prevented its coming into being. That instrument was the League of Nations and that cour-
|ageous and resolute president was
Woodrow Wilson.” The platform charged the Republicans with crying “war monger” when the present Democratic administration warned that conflict was imminent, “When it was proposed that the boys in the civilian conservation corps be given military training, Republicans in congress cried out in bitter protest. When our presi-
Matruh, strong in itself, was isolated when the enemy cut the coastal road at the Garawla road and railroad crossing Saturday night. With two other correspondents, I escaped from the Matruh defense perimeter a short while before the Africa Corps cut the road.
Home conditions, the senator said, |
jare wholesome.
“Never in the history of nations)
have industrial organizations projduced as American industry is pro- | ducing today and will continue to produce in ever (tities as long as it is necessary,”| {he continued. |
increasing quan-!
“Our people are united and]
They are willing to sac-
They have shown that they |
Senator VanNuys praised the role | is playing in the war
He asked the convention delegates
to minimize the controversial domestic problems and to spend every Denver {ounce of their energy in the war Ey Wwe effort.
Senator VanNuys also praised |
Governor Schricker highly and as-| Cea serted that “in Henry Schricker we | Ber noma, ity. Okla. he have one of the most popular and! | mane, Neb.
that Indiana
At that time the bulk of the British fighting troops already had
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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(Central War Time) Sunrise ..... 5:19 | Sunset ....... 8:18
TEMPERATURE —June 30, 1941— Ya. NDIANA—Somewhat cooler this afternoon through tomorrow forenoon; fiktle
change in temperature near the 0 Eo tonight. *
tion 24 hrs. ending 7:30 a. 1, 00 ecipitation g 3 "95" 53
[Ee cess since Jan.
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“I believe we younger men should be called before those who are married,” said Harry E. Joslin, 511 N. Emerson ave, as Mrs, A. M. Wettrick, 24 S. Gladstone ave, signs him up in the fifth call on America’s manpower, Mr. Joslin is 18, the son of a Mexican border veteran.
He is employed by the Indianapolis Union Railway.
dent and Gen. MacArthur asked to increase our armed forces in the Philippines, Republicans in congress | voted against it. “When our president asked for an appropriation for the fortification of Guam, Republicans in congress voted against it. Then came the treacherous attack of the despicable Jap at Pearl Harbor after which nothing has been heard of the senseless logic of that Republican leadership.” Platform Planks
The platform included: AGRICULTURE—Pledged legislation to keep agricultural commodity prices tied to the parity concept and recommended that management of the state fair be returned to the state board of agriculture. EDUCATION—Recommended that teachers’ salaries be increased and that the teaching unit allotment be increased from $700 to $800. Also favored free text books in the first eight grades of public schools. LABOR—Favored enactment of a state labor relations act; increase of maximum unemployment compensation benefits to $20 per week for a maximum of 20 weeks; liberalization of workmen's compensation act; placing all mines under supervision of the state department of mines and mining and giving labor representation on state boards and commissions. TAXATION — Approved present gross income and intangible taxes and opposed any atiémpt to burden further the lower-income group by
British Abandoned Matruh To Avoid Trap, Says Writer
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enactment of a sales tax.
been withdrawn, so they could be of more aid in the fight that is to come, the battle for the Nile, As the British forces came out they immediately went into action against the sides of the Nazi armored and infantry formations which slowly were elbowing their way through the gaps in the British mine field south of Charing Cross, the road junction a few miles southwest of Matruh.
EGYPT'S ARMY IS REINFORGED
British Get New Tanks, Fresh Troops: Nazis Still Going.
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through the Indian ocean seemed to rest in Egypt for the time being. The battle lines in Egypt were changing rapidly, but still in favor of the axis. Rommel now stands within striking distance of his first big goals—
Alexandria and Cairo, which would mean the conquest of Egypt and the opening of a road toward the Near East oil field and allied supply lines. There was considerable speculation that he would strike first at Cairo if possible because that would permit him to avoid difficult terrain before Alexandria and, if successful, would isolate Alexandria and make it impossible for the British fleet to remain there,
Rommel Faees Obstacles
But there are several major obstacles which Rommel must over=come before he can reach either Alexandria or Cairo and Britain's foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, again assured the Egyptian government today that the allies would and could stop the enemy. The British now are expected to make their main stand in the El Daba sector, where the almost impassable Qattara depression narrows the fighting front to about 50 miles—the firm ground between the depression and the Mediterranean coast—and thus protects the British flanks. There was little definite information to show the extent or type of reinforcements reaching Egypt, except for confident British official statements in London that Rommel would be halted. But dispatches to London newspapers told, without details, of American reinforcements by the thousands moving into the front line sector, of more American air units reaching Egypt and of still more en route.
Vague on Reinforcements
These dispatches were published under Cairo datelines by the Lon-
At the same time the tanks on the southern flank attacked the German armored forces. This phase of the battle continued until Rommel’s tanks broke through to the coast in a fast-mov-ing, strong column. Many of the men were threatened with being scooped up in a Nazi net as the enemy closed in on Matruh. Instead they fought their way through the thin enemy rear columns and, marching southward, turned east to rejoin the main army along what has now become the front line in the battle. (Richard Mowrer, correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and The Indianapolis Times foreign service, reported from Cairo that the axis claim to have taken Matruh by storm was incorrect, since there was no fighting inside the Matruh| perimeter, but only outside. (Since the British have not enough tanks, Mr. Mowrer said, their greatest need is more artillery,
best weapon to halt tank attacks.)
don Daily Mail and the Telegraph, but United Press dispatches from
| Cairo sald merely that there was | no official information available.
The dispatches did not deny that American reinforcements had reached Egypt, but indicated that the censorship was not permitting any definite information regarding United States forces to be sent from Cairo. This in turn suggested that information may have leaked out in London but it also was possible that the arrival of American air reinforcements or ground personnel had resulted in exaggerated reports of United States reinforcements pouring into the Egyptian front.
CROSLEY III SEEKS DIVORCE
MIAMI, Fla. June 30 (U. P.).— The divorce suit of Powell Crosley |IIT against Mrs. June Houston Crosley was on file today in circuit court. He accused her of extreme cruelty and habitual indulgence in a violent and ungovernable temper.
IN INDIANAPOLIS—VITAL STATISTICS
County City Total (canines 9 37 2 Ciseavne sen 19 39 —June 29— Accidents 25 Arcests Injured ... 5 Dead MONDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines Tried tions Paid . 43 43 $308 12 1 50
through street. 6 10
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Totals ......... 163 $519
MEETINGS TODAY State Democratic convention, Coliseum, y.
nr tary club, Claypool hotel, noon lunch-
noon Lincoln hotel, Columbia club,
University of § Sichigan club, Board of Lincoln
Mercator club, noon
noon
Lutherans Men’s Service club,
Group. hors grill,
Phalanx joreraity, meeting, Y. M, C.
The Forty-Niners, Columbia club, noon] cis
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| lers hotel, Y. M.
v 40|Y.
Diviian glticnse eoineil workers, meetin, ar Memoria a Lawyers ussosiation, picnic, Oscar Jose p.
farm, 3:30 Indianapoiis ewhays Band Washington hotel, noon luncheon.
Theta Delta Sigma, meeting, Washington
, 8 p.m Indiana Coal Merchants Sexeriy hotel, noon luncheo Fire ‘Prevention cemmitiee of Chamber of Commerce Safety council, dinner, Severin hotel, 6 p. na. Hoosier Veneer Co., hotel, p. arm Seeuiity Seyeiin hotel, 1 m. Arthur W. Potts Yuncheon, Severin hotel,
association,
meeting, Severin
association, meeting,
MEETINGS TOMORROW Indiana Motor Truck association, noon luncheon, ~ A. Camera Sb, meeting, Central Y. OC. A, 1: aan pi Py Biv Lous, noon lunch-
Ant-
Young. Men's Distussion club, dinner, M
6 p. Purdue Alumni assaciation, Severin hotel, noon luncheon. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Board of trade, noon luncheon. Indianapolis Real Estate board, prop. erty managers division, Canary Cottage, noon luncheon. Indiana society, Sons of the American Revolution, Spink - Arms hotel, noon
luncheon. Delta Theta Seville restaurant,
noon luncheon Co-operative ‘Club of Indianapolis, Columbia g¢lub, noon luncheon Junior Chamber of Commerce, Canary Cottage, noon luncheon. 2 Prd club, THEGHHE) Chamber of Commerce, “a " Columbia club,
He luncheon. Indiana Automobile Insurers’ association, Washington hotel, noon luncheon.
BIRTHS
n Girls of derek. Mattar Corney, at St. Fran-
Girls Frank, Dorothy Goodnight, at St. Fran-
Waiter, Mary Stringham, at St. Fran-
Tau,
noon
alumni, | P'2
Mason, El beth er, at St. Francis, AER BE Boat a Mindi, core "Bidio._ suave "yenak
William,
Delitha Wills, at Methodjss. Chester, Cit
Margaret Simms, at Walter, Loretta Bland, at City Joba, Ethel Jones, at 2725 Wonkiin
Arthur, Gayther Lee, at 1716 Columbia. Lenored, June Mays, at 1147 N, Illinois. Frederick. Katherine Woods, at 648 ussell. Kenneth, Mamie at 2250 N. Capitol.
Dickerson,
Boys
Max, Mary Sarquer, at St. Francis. Lloyd, Mary Beatty. at St. Francis. . Ruth Foster, at Methodist. Charles, Maxine Hess, at Methodist. Keich, Mary Beechier, at Methodist. Keit jJiene Krug, at Methodist. Fran Trompe n, at St. Vincent's. William “Alta at St. Vincent's. Cha arles, Mary Grabhorn, at St. Vi cen Harry, Martha Wall, at 907 Medison. Robert, Wanda White, at 313 N. Pine Lester, Mossie Glenn 07 N. Nia st. Howard, Elnora Daugherty, at 510 E. 9th. Theodore, Mar at 636 Blake. Barney, Mary Samples, at 1526 W. Ohio. ’ William, Elsie Johnson, at 1011 Drier ac
Fred, Mary Kehl, at 412 W. Bernard.
in-
DEATHS
Samuel Frank Mitenell, 79, at 4206 E.
Michigan, carcinom Mary lestia Chambers, 75, at 512 E. “chronic nephritis.
Minnesota, arteriosclerosis John Simms, 79, at ho Herbert Clay, 59, 42 Douglas, aortic stenosis. argareta Rockne, 73, at 314 Lincoln, diabetes mellity Dorothy E. Costas, % ai at 910 E. 22d, pulmonar ha 0si dling, 33, Se Central, broncho he Wiliam Colvin Staring, 69, at Methodist, coronary occlusion. Roberta Pope, 25. at 309 W. Vermont, tuberculosis. Gertrude Pierce Coleman, 68, at 813 W. 27th, yiastrie ulcer By s M. Myers, 63. at Veterans, mitral sten illara Berry, 59. at Long, carcinoma. Willia L. Phipps, 41, at Veterans, carcinom Rose C ampbell Anderson, 82, at 3025 N. Meridian, cerebral hemorrhage. ymond Daniel Miller, 48, at 717 E. 19th, Y Caroinom: ; Charles L. ® janey. 69, at Veterans, 1510 Everett,
cerebral thrombosis. Wh am Morgan, 72, at
mia. Elsie Hand, 60, at St. Vincent's, ulcers. h Sm 63, at 1437 N. Con-
Hortense Swanagan, 38, o
ra Wasson, WELT
70, at 1015 E. Morris, James C. Mathews, 69, at 1340 Shelby, coronary occlusion.
al Nora Aton. 47, at City, pancreatitis. My Ethel Brandenburg, 61, at 38 S. Msaie, carcinoma
Irene Sdwaras, 47. at City, thrombo
Matie “Byfield, 87, at 1828 N. arteriosclerosis.
MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the county court house. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.
coronary Illinois,
Rowlett, 49, of 618 Dorman;
S. {f 1508 Broad-
William
way. William E. Forest, Mich.; Mary B N. Meridian. Leon M. Bailey, 30, of Munclh. Ind.; Jessie H. Reagan, 26, of Muncie, . Clede E. Wininger, 21, of 937 N. Tuxedo; Wilma P. Wallace, 22, of 941 N. Tuxedo. Roy Oliver, at, ol 2755 Hillside; Delores Edwards, 18, of 821-8. Pershin Mack H. ar 21, of Camby: Naomi R. Shaw, 21, of R. R. 1. 198-C, Say
Stuckigeyer.
ett 29, ‘of C3T0n
M. 24, of Rantoul, Ii; cau, Holeapiol ge of 3437 Hillside. Mathew E. 2, of 441 N. Haugh; Grace Gorell, ME Tot ir Tall. Samuel E. a rer, 19, of 648 S. Taft; m ole, 16, of 1127 Denison Das yton, O.: Catherine
yton, O. Harry S. Dennison, 32, ' of 859 Broadway; Burtie L. Carter, i of 89 2 Robson: Mi Franklin Click, 2 f 312 Robson; Marie
Hileenaork % obo Eugene A. Aiexander, 28, of 130 N. Euclid; 1836 N. Delaware. A . "25 ot Coluiibus, 2; Mabel M. McNamara, 27, o i Jesse J. McKinney, 40, or SL N Call : Edith Lang, 42, of 401 N. Calis fornia. Gerald L, Frances, 30, »% 30 N. Iinole; Lambune E. Prises, 26, of 3 ? f . Wallace:
Alan Marseall Mildred Gordon, 19, LaSalle. adwards, 33. of 1627 CarM. Harlan, 28, of 527 E.
Snider,
Wayman O. rollton: Ruth Market. Charles Miller, 28, of Cleveland, O.; Edith Rowe, 22, of Cleveland, O.
ir Ed of lh Hd
James Crews, 84 N. Destborn st., 19-year-old son of a World War ¥
army and navy veteran, registers
follow his father’s path into the navy.
for selective service and hopes te The youth towers 6 feet 5%
inches. Registering him, to the right, is Ed Gardner of local board & The registration will continue until 9 o'clock tonight.
Gen, Wavell’s reports would ‘cause a great deal of ill will throughout the British empire.” ‘He refuted Mr. Stoke’s suggestion that it was understood that he would make a further statement on Malaya and Singapore when he had received Gen. Wavell’s reports. “I have no statement to make, based on these documents, at present,” Mr. Churchill said. He then added: “I do not propose to make any statement today regarding the momentous battle now being fought in Egypt, but I feel that the house would wish to know that Gen. Auchinleck has decided to assume command of the eighth army personally in succession to Gen. Ritchie.
Ritchie Served Seven Months
Gen. Ritchie stepped out of the Egyptian picture seven months after he had stepped into it, at 44 years of age the youngest senior commander in the British army, last November. He took over midway in a campaign, at a moment when German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel seemed on the verge of turning a British offensive into a disaster. On the critical side, it was held that when the Germans were caught, at the start of their pres-
Churchill Answers Critics; Confirms Ritchie's Ouster:
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ent offensive, in a position betweems the main British * armored force and the British defense line, the British command instead of coun= ter-attacking waited “to see wha$ Rommel does next.”
Split Up Forces, Critics Say Secondly, it was held, the British
command too often split up its are
mored forces and made them prey to Rommel, adept in swift concen trations.
Thirdly, it was held, there wag
indecisiveness in the British come mand, as in the question whether to hold Tobruk. There were some who suggested that Gen. Ritchie might have wanted to abandon it when he could but that he go$ orders to hold it. The . defenders of Gen. Ritchie said that the primary causes of failure in Egypt were inferior tanks, inferior anti-tank weapons, lack of experience in large armored
masses and lack of conception of
combined air and land forces opere ating as a combat team.
DEFENSE GROUP TO MEET Civilian defense district 6 will meet at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow night in School 13, Raymond st. and Lyndhurst drive. Albert Stump from county civilian defense hearquarters will speak. District 6 defense
classes will begin July 19.
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