Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1942 — Page 5
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Provan Follows Shelling Of U. S. Freighter In Pacific. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5 (U. P.).
/ “—Lieut. Gen, John L. Dewitt, head of the western defense command,
announced today that the Pacific coast, from the Canadian to the Mexican border, will be dimmed out Aug. 20 for the duration as a precaution against enemy attack at sea and on the shore. Gen, Dewitt’'s order was given
‘emphasis by the announcement by
the 13th naval district of the shell-
ing of an American freighter in the |:
North Pacific July 14, which’ resulted in eight deaths, two by shelling and machine gun fire. Six others died of exposure as they drifted ‘eight days on the open sea. Nine survivors have beén landed safely.
4th Attack Since June 7
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lishments last night.
Housekeeping ‘store, ave.
jewelry store, said,
00 IN LOOT IN BURGLARIES
Downtown and North Side so before the county grand jury ~ Stores Entered; Same
Man Suspected.
Burglars, operating through the |8irls were rounded up over the weskfront door of stores by removing the cylinder from locks, tween $3000 and $4000 worth of cash [robbery. and merchandise from two estab-
More than $3000 in merchandise an attack upon an expectant mcther was taken from the Marcus Jewelry |which occurred last Sunday after {store at 112 N. Illinois st. and $195|a week in which three police patrol in cash and goods from the Good |cars were overturned to prevent of3839 Central |ficers from making arrests.
Lieut. Harry Schley, head of the|was made hy five girls, runging in burglary division of the detective age from 14 to 19 and all professed department, stated that the methods| members of the “bowlegs division” used indicated it. was the work of |of the 38th st. gang. the same man in both instances. Albert Marcus, proprietor of the|is the ‘Black Legion,’ “The | burglars |auxiliary is known as tHe ‘Black evidently had a good knowledge of |Widows’,” Sheriff Biscailuz said a
Loos of the. patty, including women, were injured. lon were wrecked, tires cut and: destroyed. :
Juvenile Gang War Probed After Youth Dies of Beating Probation Officer Earl Holton \ gl. that at least 50 per cen
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (U. P.).—|Bombers” weer taken into custody|the youths involved have refuse Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz’ deputies|in connection with that episode. jobs. He said that some sort of Diaz was beaten to death when|“work or fight” order was consid today seeking 30 indictments which (a ‘gang raided a ranch during alered as a solution to the juvenile they hope will end a bizarre and|birthday party. A half-dozen mem-!crime problem. bloody warfare between Juvenile : East side gangs. More than 150 *teen-aged boys and
end and®’the jury started an investigation of a series of juvenile crimes took - be-|ranging from murder to assault and
Arrests followed the beating to
death of Jose Diaz, 22, the attempt~ ed drowning of another youth and
Identification of those arrested
“One of the wildest of the gangs whose girl
jewelry for they took nothing but|14-year-old girl told him. “The boys the most valuable watches and dia-|wear black peg top trousers, black mond rings from the floor and wall shirts agd black sombreros. The show cases. They even took the lock|girls wear green blouses, black
cylinder with them.” skirts and green, high-heeled ~ C. L. Kittle, operator of ithe Good shoes.”
Housekeeping store, said that $100] The juvenile gang warfare broke gh / lin cash was missing from ihe safe|out, Sheriff Biscailuz said, whenT a S WwW ar Move S and approximately $95 worth of ever the “Black Legion” was able to O ay merchandise in such articles 8s|optain marihuana cigarets. Sources
Sv LOUIS F.-KEEMLE portable radios and electric razors.|of some of the marihuana was rey . limi
vealed by an unnamed young girl United Press War Analyst ‘7- INTELLECTUALS’ IN
after her boy friend, 28, was shot As Mohandas K. Gandhi and his nationalist lead- ! and seriously hurt in a fight at a ers were reporfed preparing to serve\an ultimatum PARIS IMPRISONED |eravel pit sunday. Francis Craze, | 18, was thrown into the pond, but By UNITED PRESS
demanding complete independence, there is evidence that the Japanese were massing troops in upper| escaped drowning. Eleven suspects, Burma and along the Bay of 1, presumably] The German gestapo has arrested|alleged members of the “Mateo to strike at India when conditions are right. Gandhi’s|seven internationally famous French 4 India's 300. WE nalin Wide Sh Yisohediones eampaigh intellectuals in a new campaign of among India’s will present an opportunity whic e Japanese \ Ea P). probably will not be slow to seize. The revelation of Gandhi's proposal| ‘éPression in Paris universiiy circles, WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 U0 Ho. to “negotiate” with Japan shows how deluded he is with respect to|reliable advices said today. Donald M. Nelson, Director Elmer sels agairst the glare above coastal Japan’s intentions and methods. ; Advices said also that the gestapo Dons, oF ihe Office of War Infor cities, making them easy targets for a0 view of Gandhi's attitude, arid{boundary between upper Burma and had condemned Ll ren Fon ng mation and Admiral William D. : > ritain’s determination not to grant|India. ’ a i i tives of the personnel division, 4 : : : old boy, as members of a “spy ring” Leahy will participate in a broadoffice of chief of ordnance, put it: Indian self-rule in this critical pe-| But the rains which fall so heavily y
enemy submarines. Present limited dimming has net proved effective. “The = Producti Crisis” : oadcasi secretly | cast on e Production “The air corps keeps 'em flying, |Fi0d "Of history, there seems little|on the western slopes of the moun- alleged to have broadcast secretly vee the Coluinbls rietwork from
The naval announcement said the submarine machine gunned one of the lifeboats after subjecting the ship to such terrific shell-fire that the captain ordered his vessel abandoned. This was the fourth Japanese submarine attack on a vessel in the north Pacific since June 7 when a freighter was sunk. Point Estevan on Vancouver island and Astoria, Ore., have been shelled by subma~rines.
Nick Vuko (left) receives aid in filling out his application for army ordnance work from Maj. McGehee (standing) and Capt. Isaacs while Charles Kline (right) consults with Capt. ‘Ewing (seated) and Mr. Schaefer and pape. amie (standing),
GALL IS ISSUED T0 TECHNICIANS
dimmed after the announced date Two Companies Composed in a coastal strip extending through of Hoosiers Only to Be
Washington, Oregon and California Formed for Overseas.
and inland as far as 150 miles, The dimout, as on the East coast, The army ordnance branch wants men.
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Residential lighting will not be affected except in cases where windows and doors are visible from the sea. In such cases they must be covered. Street and highway lights visible from the sea will be dimmed. Automobiles on streets near the
we keep ’em firing. And a gun that won't fire, a plane that won't rise and a tank that won't roll will not win the war.” And so today through Friday, a recruiting office has been set up at 125 W. North st. to enlist 280 tech-
nicians such as machinists, me-
prospect that the disobedience campaign can be averted. Its effect on
India’s war effort by the slowing down and stoppage of work will be
tremendous. The strike is likely to be protract-
ed for months. Even if the Indians
realize their peril when the Japa-
ocean must use small lights. In- 'thanics, welders, carpenters, paint-|1€sé are upon them—when the Jap-
dustrial fires must be shielded. Penalty for violation of the order, Gen. Dewitt said, may be “immediate expulsion from the territory of the western defense command” or other penalties provided for violation of military orders in the area.
2 MORE SHIPS SUNK;
ers, electricians, cooks, tool makers, gunsmiths and leather and canvas|Of the great city of Calcutta—it may workers.
Plan Two Companies Two companies of technicians
one to be headed by Capt. Coleman L. Isaacs and the other by Capt. T. 0. Ewing, will be composed entirely not be far off, perhaps soon after| the end of the southwest monsoon] interested must be 18/in September.
of Hoosiers.
Persons
anese, for instance, are at the gates
then be too late. Rains Delay Invasion
»| Japan obviously intends to invade India when she can. The time may
The weather in that area makes
: through 45 years of age and pass| ATLANTIC TOLL 433 the physical requirements for un-ian invasion impracticable now. JaWW limited military service. Those 18
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to 21 must have the consent of their Burma makes Japan’ Ss
Sinkings of united nations ships|parents to enlist.
in the western Atlantic since mid-] January reached at least 433 today with naval disclosure of two Jor pedoings. = Ten crew members died and thes captain and 55 others were rescued when a medium-sized American
Following six to eight weeks of basic training the men will be given Japanese concentrations in upper advanced instruction until ready for| Burma and on Akyab, on the Bur- / overseas service. Bal iden
Consist of Mobile Shops
Capt. Isaacs will head the 122d
freighter was torpedoed 200 miles|°rdnance company,
off the Atlantic coast early in July.
{ Survivors reaching an East ceast port said the ship burned and that}
the sea around the vessel became a mass of flame. Ome lifeboat burned in the water. Earlier, survivors of a mediumsized British merchantman said an axis submarine commander used three torpedoes, fired in quick succession, to sink the ship 10 miles off a West Indian island during a midJuly storm.
Nazi Submarines
More Wary Now
LONDON, Aug. 5 (U. P.).—German submarines no longer re-
gard the American coast as a soft spot and may have been forced to seek other waters in which to prey on allied commerce, official British sources said today. : Increased defenses and adoption of the convoy system in the Panama and Caribbean areas were cited as coinciding with a decreased scale of submarine attacks. “The bottleneck regarding engines for sumbarine chasers, defensive craft and dirigibles has "be overcome and defensive crate coming forward in increas numbers,” an informant said.
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TAKES QUITE AWHILE|
REYKJAVIK, (U. P.).—A Norwegian naval air force pilot has arrived ‘n Iceland from Norway, only 700 mires away, after a wip of more than 26,000 miles.
He escaped to Sweden shortly be-|
fore the Russian-German war. He flew to Finland, went by train to Leningrad dnd Moscow, then south to Odessa, across the Black sea to Istanbul, by train to Baghdad, airplane to Karashi, India, and train to Bombay. There he boarded a Norwegian ship and sailed to Colombo, Ceylon; Capetown, South Africa, and then for 30 days’ across the Atlantic to
. Montreal.
After several months in Little Norway, the training camp at Toronto, he went by ship to England, and finally by ship to Iceland.
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“The organization will consist of mobile unit shops,”
he said. shops themselves will be out of range of enemy artillery but it will be necessary to repair some material on the battlefield and remove others while under fire.” Capt. Ewing will head the 256th ordnance company. Assisting in the work is s the Automobile Association of Indiana, Inc, urider the direction of Herman Schaefer, executive secretary.
NAVY FLIERS TOOK 13-1 TOLL OF JAPS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (U. P). —A squadron of naval pilots, Jparticipating in both the battle of the Coral sea and the battle of Midway, shot down at least 13 Japanese
planes for each of their own losses, the navy reported late yesterday. The squadron lost four planes, two being shot down and two forced to land at sea when they ran out of .gas. The squadron was credited with 54 Japanese planes known to be destroyed and 18 others probably destroyed. In the Coral sea battle the Grumman “wildcats” based on the carrier Yorktown accounted for 28, and possibly seven more, enemy planes in one dogfight. ‘Three other engagements, June 4, during the Midway battle resulted in 26 enemy casualties, with another 11 possibly shot down. The squadron was under the command of kieut. Comm. John S. Thach, 37, Fordyce, Ark.
BECHERT TAKES NEW CONSERVATION POST
Charles H. Bechert, formerly sanitary engineer with the state
department of conservation, is the new head of the division’s engineering department. He succeeds Denzil Doggett who will report Friday for service as a captain with the army air forces at Scott field, Belleville, 111. : Mr. Bechert is an engineering graduate of Purdue university and has been with the conservation department since 1929. He became assistant head of the engineering division in 1932. «=. ITALIAN VESSEL SUNK LONDON, Aug. 5 (U. P), — A British submarine has torpedoed and sunk the 800-ton Italian steamer Adda 'n the Mediterranean and badly damaged another enemy sup-. ply ship which was run aground under protection of Italian coastal batteries, it was announced today.
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pan’s conquest of upper and eastern intentions toward India obvious. Frequent British bombing raitsio on
{mese coast of the Bay of Bengal, indicate British concern over Japan’s preparations. Brig. Gen. H.'S. Sewell, British war commentator, points out that the monsoon still hampers activity in the Bay of Bengal and in the
mountain chain which forms the
tains do not “interfere greatly with|to Great Britain.
operations in upper Burma, he said. The high water at this season in both the Chindwin and upper Irawaddy rivers would make the concentration of troops and material easy. In addition to their activity in upper Burma, according to this British commentary, the Japanese also are advancing up the coast .of the Bay of Bengal from Akyab toward Chittagong, the terminus of the railway from Calcutta. There are no roads along the coast and the country is unsuitable for military operations.
. Main Thrust at Assam °
But by gradual infiltration along the lower slopes of the hills, the Japanese may be able to consolidate their position sufficiently to combine their air, sea and land operations in this direction with the more direct thrust overland from Burma toward Assam. Before the war Akyab was an important airport on the regular route to the East Indies and Australia. The British thoroughly destroyed it before they evacuated it, but the Japanese probably have restored it and are building other bases for combined dir, maval and military
operations.
Category System in Draft Not Ready, Hitchcock Says
Draft hoards’ primary duties will be to fill orders as they come until the “category system” of selection is put into workable opertion, Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state draft director, told the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce today. Col. Hitchcock read from a Washington directive which said that "local boards are authorized to vary from the general order of selection of registrants with dependents when it is neecssary to fill the call, provided the registrants who are selected have ‘been classifled as available for military servicee under former regulations. The “category system,” he said,
9 PERSONS INJURED IN AUTO CRASH HERE
ls TWO persons were injured shortly
before midnight last night when two cars collided in the 1200 block, W. Michigan st., after which one of the cars struck a truck. Drivers of the two cars were Ruby Hansing, 32, 1225 Woodlawn ave., and Howard Williams, 25, of 932 E. Market st. After the collision, Mr. Williams’ car collided with a truck driven. by Damon Yates, 20, of 554 N. Miley st. Mr.. Williams suffered a broken right arm and leg injuries and was taken to City hospi Russell Smith, 20, .iving at th Y. M.C. A, who was riding with Mr. Williams, received a cut hand and leg injuries and was treated at City hospital.
is for the general purpose of calling men in the following order: (1) single men with no depend-
ents, (2) single men with depend-|
ents, (3) married men with no children and (4) married men with children. Meantime, He said that Indiana selective service officials started calling up 1-B’s Monday. The number being taken, he said, is 10 per cent of the number of 1-A’s called.
OBJECTOR BEGINS 40TH DAY OF FAST
ELKRIDGE, Md., Aug. 5 (U, P.). —A protest against the “obsolete” practice of conscripting men for the armed forces, plus a demand for a furlough to wind up business affairs, ‘today sent 36-yearsc Corbett Bishop into the 40th day of his hunger strike. < Bishop, who is at the Avalon conscientious objectors camp, ‘was down to 132 pounds from his top weight of 173 pounds on June 26, the -day he stopped eating because camp officials would not grant him a 60 or 90-day leave to close his bookstore. They said he had already been given two months.
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There has been considerable praisé“of late for the way in which railroads have handled their wartime responsibilities. Much of the . credit should go to Army and Navy officials for their foresight and unfailing cooperation.
in America’s War of Movement!
But we would be less dn just if we did not also express our gratitude to our passengers whose willingness to adjust their travel - habits to wartime needs has done so much
to help “keep em rolling.”
TO MR. McPHERSON for stopping by in person!
By stopping in for formation Snstend of making several telephone calls, many travelers are planning their future trips with maximum efficiency and at the same time helping ustokeep the telephone lines open.
TO MRS. PICKETT
for the sarly date at which she bought her ticket!
We are glad to report that passengers are coming to the ticket office to make reservations and buy tickets well in advance. This spirit of helpfulness allows us to allocate
equipment more efficiently and helps avert
last minute jams at the station.
TO MR. GRANGE
for canceling promptly when his plans change!
Here is another fine example of how the
. considerate actions of our passengers serve
the common good. Prompt cancellation of unused reservations makes possible someone else’s trip—prevents the waste of precious travel space.
TO MRS. WHITE for traveling light!
Nowadays, with both Pullmans and coaches at near capacity, a minimum of luggage leaves more space in accommodations and facilitates transfers. We are grateful that so many passengers are adopting the motto “traveling light is traveling right!” | .
TO MR. SKINNER
for not lingering at his table after dinner!
With train traffic increasing, and with no material available to build new cars, we must serve a great many more meals per diner. Therefore, the consideration of pancagers who leave their tables prompty when they finish eating is very much appreciated these days.
TO MR. TRIPPER
‘who isn't a passenger at all, but a shipper!
We include this tribute because we want everyone to know how helpful our shippers have been. By ordering only the necessary freight cars, by loading and unloading promptly and by loading to full capacity, they are helping us greatly to make maximum use of our equipment.
We know many others to whom we should like to pay similar tribute. There’s Mr. Peek who now travels in the middle of the week +. thus lessening weekend and holiday congestion. There's Mr. Tupper, whe cheerfully accepts an upper...or whatever accommodation is available i in these times when so many
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cars are in use by the fighting forces. And especially, there’s Mr. Rood whose “thumbs up” attitude toward occasional wartime de+ lays and inconveniences is more important than he perhaps realizes, because such spirit is catching and cheers on those who are waging America’s War of Movement. ;
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