Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1942 — Page 2
IAPS’ KOKODA | “BASE ATTACKED
“Waokrthurs Planes Lash + Enemy_ Air Field 55 Miles From Moresby.
.« MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 4 (U. P.).— Allied planes kept up today an untiring attack on Japanese forces which had taken Kokoda air field,
only 55 miles across the Owen ~ Stanley mountains of New Guinea
from the great allied advanced base| - #
‘at Port Moresby. . Fighter planes swept down on the _ Japanese, at the north side of the . mountains, and started many fires . with incendiary bullets. In addition, they raked strong ..enemy combat patrols which had
: . penetrated half way across the
. southeast tip ot the island to seize a strategically valuable airdrome.
Bomb Enemy Base
In a night raid on the Salamaua- . Lae area, 150 miles up the coast .. from -the Buna-Gona zone whence the Kokoda force started, allied planes saw beached and burning a cargo ship which they hit yesterday, and they bombed enemy installations and troop positions. 4%. A special announcement from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's united nations headquarters said Japanese submarines, resuming their activity “off ‘the east coast of Australia, had shelled a 200-ton British trawler. » It was announced also that for the moment the ground situation i fn the Kokoda area remained unchanged, with allied and enemy + “patrols in contact and engaging in * frequent savage, if brief and small ‘- gcale, fights in the jungle.
Japs Move Up Artillery
A special dispatch from ah allied -@dvanced base reported without confirmation that the Japanese in the Kokoda area were now using . ‘light mountain artillery in addition “to trench mortars and machine » guns and other automatic arms. This would indicate that the {enemy intended to make a deter‘miined bid to hold the Kokoda base, which has an airdrome from which fighter planes could rise to challenge allied planes on the way to attack the Japanese bases on the north New Guinea coast and the Bismarck and Solomon islands.
LADY ASTOR SEEKS TO EXPLAIN SPEECH
LONDON, Aug. 4 (U, P.), = In remarking that Russia was fighting for Russia, not for Britain, Lady Astor was only seeking to promote British-American good feeling, she said today in a ‘letter to the Daily Herald. The Daily Herald has been among the most critical of Lady. Astor's “irritating” speech Saturday in which, in addition to ascribing motivations for Russian resistance, she pointed out that Russia didn't become Britain's ally until she had been invaded, whereas the United States had aided Britain before it was actually endangered by he Nazis.
‘She told the Herald that she regarded America’s voluntary aid as “stronger proof of the complete
identification of their interest with|™™
ours than our reinforcement by our ~ other great ally which held its neutrality until the Nazis attacked it.” The Herald printed her letter in juxtaposition to a'column-long editorial criticizing her speech further.
21 MARSHALL ISLAND RAIDERS GET MEDALS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P.).— The navy department announced
today that 21 naval aviators have!
been honored ‘for their exploits in raids on the Marshall islands last Jan, 31. The distinguished flying cross was awarded to two officers and the newly authorized air medal to 19 others. Three of the airmen were hon- . ored posthumously. The . navy filers blasted enemy shore installations, cargo, tanker and auxiliary] transport vessels and enemy planes ‘and flying fields. The two who received the distinguished flying cross were Lieuts. John D. Blitch, 27, Charleston, S C., and James W. McCauley, 29, Fairbanks, Alaska.
A PIG PAYS THE DENTIST
TUNBRIDGE, Vt. (U. P.).—~A pig a year is the price farmer Charles Flint pays for the care of his family’s teeth. It costs Flint about $12 for each pig he turns over to Dr. J. W. Sowles; a Randolph dentist, who looks after about 250 teeth in Flint's family of sight,
2500-Man U
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P). —High government officials and aeronautical experts will testify at a closed session of a senate military affairs subcommittee today on “highly confidential information on shipping, submarines and cargo planes.” . The subcomniittee, headed by Senator Josh Lee (O. Okla) is studying legislation designed to boost production - of huge cargo planes to offset axis submarine attacks on ocean-borne shipping. Those testifying will be Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Grover Loening, war production board consulting aeronautical engineer, and Theodore P. Wright of the national advisory committee for aeronautics. . Sets Up Supply Board
The bill before the subcommittee was introduced by Lee and Senator Ed C. Johnson (D. Colo.) and would set up a supply board to authorize construction of the cargo planes. The program was first proposed by Henry J. Kaiser, West coast shipbuilder, who said a fleet of 5000 transport planes could be turned out each year to supply world-wide battle lines. . = The committee yesterday heard Simon Lake, 76-year-old inventor of the modern submarine, propose the building of cargo submarines which he said could carry 2500 men and remain submerged for 24 hours. Lee declared today he was “deeply impressed” by Lake's testimony, and it was indicated the subcommittee might revise its bill to include plans for building the large submarines. Lake told the committee yesterday that he had “never dreamed”
FIREMEN TO STAGE ‘BOMB EXHIBITION
Simon Lake . . . inventor of the submarine.
Lake Bares Possibilily of
nderseas Craft
of the damage submersibles would wreak and proposed that a fleet of huge cargo-carrying submarines be built to carry materials and men to the far corners of the earth. The white-haired, 76-year-old inventor—who sold his first submarine to Russia just prior’ to the Russo-Japanese war—said he had perfected plans for a submersible with a 7500-ton cargo. capacity which could evade Nazi U-boats now preying on American shipping.
Lake said the cargo submarines would be economical to build and operate, would be safe and would shorten distances and time of delivery. ; “With such ships, reinforcements could have been sent to the Philippines, perhaps Singapore could have been saved, and Tobruk would not have fallen,” he added.
Higgins Is Interested
He | said that Andrew Jackson Higgins, New Orleans shipbuilder, whose contract, for 200 Liberty ships was recently- canceled by the maritime commission because of a steel shortage, has volunteered to do everything possible towards building the undersea craft. Lake said “I am convinced that enemy nations are using cargo carrying submarines to supply smaller combat submarines along our Atlantic coast and elsewhere.”
City firemen ‘will give an incendiary bomb demonstration tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. at public school 9, Vermont and Davidson sts. The demonstration is sponsored by the air raid warden school of defense district 6. : Norbert Pich, district warden, said some posts are open among senior and sector wardens. He asked persons willing to volunteer to phone him at FR-0462 or Durbin Reeves at LI-3601. Wardens graduated recently were: Claude Crum, Harry Jones, Charles E. Lawson, Harry Martin, George Leach, Harry Lott, Earl Matheny, {Durbin Reeves, Victor Roth, Michael Sullivan, Harold Unger, Walter Barney, Edward Uter, Lester Burris, Kenneth’ Clarksin, Howard Bigelow, William Dehne, Harry Ernsting. ‘Martin Cramer, Lou Cramer, James Griffin, J. C. Ingram, Rowe L. Bess, Arthur Hudson, I. B. Martz, Crodus Cochran, LaVern Bennett, C. S. Berry, A. G. Tate, J. R. Allen, Raymond Adams, John W. Sullivan, Thad Schone, George N. Ross, Estell Packwood, Thomas Moshenrose, L. H, Lomatch and G. V. Lunte. District 8 extends from Cillege ave, and Noble st. east to Stale st. and from E, 10th st. south to New York st.
Protests Halt Building Of Doubles on Emerson
Protests of more than 200 East side property owners last night, re- , sulted in the city council's deferment of action on an ordinance to premit erection of double houses on 50-foot lots on N. Emerson ave., between 14th and 16th sts. ~The protest was made by Edward . Fillenwarth, attorney for the property owners, aftér Councilman Har-
mon A. Campbell, Republican, moved to bring the ordinance out for vote. The property owners contended that double houses on the small lots would depreciate property values. The zoning laws do nbdt prohibit erection’ of double houses in N. Emerson st. area but they do require their erection on lots bigger than 50 feet. The council, however, by majority vote can change the restric-
by councilmen to attempt to reach
next meeting. An ordinance making .Pennsyl-
tions. Mr, Fillenwarth was advised |}
a compromise with the owners pro-| posing the buildings and bring the| matter before the council at its |}
AGEUSED AS SPY
Wealthy
Gestapo Claims Russian Confesses
‘Espionage Plots.
VICHY, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—Serge Tretiakov, Russian czarist leader
and former multimillionaire indus-
trialist, has been charged by the German gestapo with being a secret Soviet gzovernmen{ agent, advices from German-occupied Paris "said today. It was added that the gestapo
planned to take Tretiakov to Ber- |!
lin today for “safe-keeping.” Tretiakov, before the Bolshevik revolution a leading Russian industrialist and afterward a member of the anti-Bolshevik refugee colony
|nere, was, arrested a month ago.
Confession Claimed ‘According to the Paris advices, he “broke down” a week ago under gestapo | “questioning” and implicated himself in Russian espionage plots.
It was asserted that the gestapo!
offered Russjan czarists who had been associated with Tretiakov evidence that he was. involved in
the sensational disappearance from |
Paris in 1937 of Gen. Eugene Miller, then the czarist Russian leader, French police suspected that Miller was kidnaped and taken: to Russia with the aid of Gen. Nicholas Skobline, a former czarist army officer and a member of the refugee colony. Skokline was never found. His wife, the opera singer Nadia Plevitskaya, was tried for complicity in the alleged kidnaping and was sen= tenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. She died in Rennes prison in- 1940.
. Retained a Fortune
The Tretiakovs were one of carz-|= ist Russia’s greatest industrial fam-|E After the revolution Tre-|§
ilies. tiakov came to France with at least
part of his enormous fortune and|§
became a leading member of the emigre colony.
According to the Paris reports:
when the’ Germans invaded Russia the gestapo, documents, had reason to suspect that Tretiakov, ostensibly bitterly
anti-Soviet, was actually a Soviet 3
secret agent.
It was asserted that when his|s luxurious apartment in Paris was|:
searched, it was found to contain
microphones which connected with |= the headquarters of the czarist war|S
veterans’ association on the floor below.
ATTERBURY TO BUY 2300 MORE ACRES
COLUMBUS, Ind. Aug. 4 (U.P). —Some 2300 more acres of Bare tholomew county farm land will be taken over by the army soon for the construction of an air com-
mand support base to be located|=
one mile north of here. - Joseph 'W. Springer, Camp Atter-
bury project manager, said that hej has received instructions to -begin|=
purchase of the land. Bartholomew
county already has lost 25,882 acres|=
of farm land to Camp Atterbury. ,
examining captured
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