Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1942 — Page 3
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Many E AWARDED 70 PEARL HARBOR
Undersecretary of Navy and Chief of Ordnance Fly ‘Some Thousand Miles’ to See Beginning of Movement to ‘Teach Japs Lesson.’
HEADQUARTERS U. S.
PACIFIC FLEET, PEARL
HARBOR, Sept. 7 (U. P.).—Undersecretary of Navy James VV. Forrestal, back today from an extensive inspection tour of Pacific ocean war areas, said the only request made by the United States forces he visited was for “weapons and “more weapons with which to kill our enemies.”
Mr. Forrestal flew over ¢
‘some thousand miles” of the
Pacific theater in a navy patrol plane, but he said he did, not| :
enter the real war area. Accompanying him were Rear Admiral William H. P. Blandy, chief of the bureau of ordnance; Comm. John E. Gingrich, Mr. Forrestal’s aide; Comm. Lewis Straus, Admiral " Blandy’s aide; and Frank Folsom, civilian assistant for the navy’s office of procurement. Mr, Forrestal presented Rear Adsmiral William R. Furlong, commandant of the Pearl Harbor navy yard, with the “E” pennant for efficiency in war production. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of ‘the Pacific fleet, attended the ceremony and presented an “E” pin to Albert Blatt, shopmaster with the longest record of service for an employee of the yard. Mr. Blatt, who has worked at Pearl Harbor since 1912, accepted the pin in behalf of all other yard employees who also received pins.
‘Kill or Be Killed’
“Mr. Forrestal also awarded an *E” pennant to the U. S. naval ammunition depot of Oahu, with Capt. J. S. Dowell, inspector of ordnance, accepting the award in behalf of the station. Speaking at the navy yard, ‘the undersecretary ‘said his trip had convinced him he had seen the atmosphere of a war of annihilation— a war in which there are no rules except the ultimate rule of the jungle: Kill or be killed. “Never once, whether from soldiers, sailors, marines, workers of the wounded, have I heard a whimper of protest or a ‘word of complaint,” Mr. Forrestal said. “All they asked for was weapons and more weapons with ‘which to kill our enemies.” He told the yard workers they|’ had done “fine work (and) the fighting men at Guadalcanal and on the fighting ships know it ‘and are grateful.” Pushing Japs Back Admiral Blandy ‘made sentation speech at the Oa munition depot. “We flew some thousand miles where our soldiers, sailors and marines are holding the front against the Japs,” he said. “Holding is hardly the word for it. “With the ships, guns, planes and ammunition we are sending them they are pushing these sons of the rising sun off the islands and are commencing a great movement, which may ebb and flow, but which will only end when the last Jap ifvader has been swept from the lands they have ravished and the Jap nation has been taught a lesson and rendered incapable of repeating this historic. treachery.” Admiral Blandy paid tribute to men like Dowell, who, he said, were delivering munitions “red hot” to the front lines.
BISMARGK’S GOUSIN IS KILLED IN EGYPT
CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 7 (U. P).— Maj. Gen. George Von Bismarck, commander of the crack German 21st tank division, has been killed in action on the Egyptian front in the fighting which resulted in the defeat of Field Marshal Rommel in the first phase of the fall offensive, German prisoners said today. He was a first cousin of Prince Bismarck, founder of the modern German empire. He took over the 21st German " armored division, one of the two German panzer korps on the African front, when its former .commander, Gen. Ravenstein, was taken prisoner in Libya months ago. Bismarck was born at Koenigsberg. East Prussia, Feb. 15, 1891.
DENY ENEMY LANDINGS SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7 (U. P.).—The Western defense command today dismissed as unfounded the report of a landing
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NEW RATIONING OFFICE SET UP
Jesse Moore to Head North Central District Headquarters.
A new district rationing board— North Central District 1—will open headquarters tomorrow at 1524 N. Illinois st., with Jesse Moore, an attorney, as chairman, Boundaries of the district are
south along the center of College ave. from Fall creek to 10th st., west along the center of 10th to White river; north along the river to Burdsall blvd.; east along the center of the boulevard to Fall creek; thence along Fall creek to College. All persons living in the district should go to the Illinois st. address to obtain permission to buy any rationed products. Headquarters will be open weeks days, except Saturdays, from 9 a. m. until noon and from 1 p. m. until 5 p. m. Saturday hours will: be from 9 a. m. until noon. Other members of the board include Joseph Ward, 2116 Boulevard place, retired physician; Frank Jaggers 2954 Talbot - ave. retired wholesale grocer; John Edward Lynch, 1807 Talbot ave.,. retired U. 8. meat inspector, and Miss Helen Irwin, 1433 N, Pennsylvania st., school teacher.
FIVE DEAD IN STATE TRAFFIG. ACCIDENTS
, By UNITED PRESS “Pive persons died in Indiana traffic accidents in the first two days of the labor day week-end holiday. Two small chidlren, Florence Tillie, 4, and Bonnie Lou Tillie, 7 months, were killed in an auto crash four miles east of Michigan City Saturday night. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Tillie of Holland, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. David Lykle of Chicago, were injured in the crash, John Hill, 62, of near Albion, was killed in a highway accident near Ft. Wayne late Saturday. Five persons were injured in the accident. . William L. Thomas, 87, of Phil, Ky., was killed early Sunday as he ‘walked along U, S. 31 near Whiteland. A two-car crash near South Bend Sunday evening cost the life of Slenn Platz, 22, of near North Liberty.
9 OF 41 JAP PLANES DOWNED IN CHINA
CHUNGKING, Sept. 7 (U. P.).— Nine of 41 Japanese planes which attempted to raid allied bases in Kwangsi and Hunan provinces yesterday were shot down by American fighters and Chinese anti-aircraft batteries. The raiders, coming from Canton in seven groups, were engaged for three hours in fierce battles. Meanwhile, Chinese land forces besieging Kinhwa and Lanki in Chekiang provinces were meeting stiff resistance from Japanese garrisons defending these “bomb Tokyo” bases, a Chinese communique said.
MANEUVERS GO “ALL-OUT”
WITH THE U. S. ARMY IN CALIFORNIA DESERT, Set. 7 (U. P.) ~~Poweriul armored units of the “blue” and “red” armies participating in the current desert maneuvers braced themselves today for a final, all-out “battle” before
from an enemy submarine near Santa Barbara on Saturday night.
the second problem of the maneuvers ends tonight,
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SHORT OF FOOD
MacArthur Planes Foe at Kokoda, Bomb
New Guinea Bases,
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 7 (U.
the Milne bay area at the southeastern tip of New Guinea are running short of food and ammunition and are now fighting merely guerrilla actions while the Australians mop them up, dispatches from advanced bases said today.
. Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his communique, reported that heavy allied bombing planes had attacked a Japanese cargo ship, southeast of New Guinea; with results which could not be observed because of bad weather. It was not known whether the ship sought to reinforce or supply the enemy forces in the Milne bay area or was taking supplies to Japanese bases at the northern end of the Solomons islands.
Kokoda Area Gunned
Gen. MacArthur reportedy also that allied planes had made three bombing and machine gunning at-
the Kokoda area in the interior of New Guinea 55 miles across the Owen Stanley mountains from the advanced allied base of‘ Port Moresby. Front dispatghes reported that the allies continued to hold the aerial initiative in New Guinea and it’ looked as if there could be no threat to Port Moresby while the allied dominance lasted. Aside from ° attacking enemy troops in the Kokoda area, allied planes were reported systematically destroying the big Japanese base on the north coast, from which the Kokoda troops were sent.
Fighting Is “Weird”
Australian wounded returning from Kokoda said that the fighting was weird. “It’s like fighting invisible men,” an Australian said. “The Japs camouflage themselves all. over. They are tough, hard, fighters. They move through the scrub without showing a sign, except for an occasional stir in the vegetation. “My unit, in two attacks, got within 15 feet of the Japs and still could not see them even though we could hear their voices. © “They lie patiently for hours, hoping to catch some of us off guard. . “We very seldom see a live Japanese but we've seen plenty of dead ones. Most of the fighting is done at 8 few yards’ range, and the man who is quickest on the draw is the one who comes home.”
Plan National Anthem Tribute
THE 128TH ANNIVERSARY of the writing of The Star Spangled Banner will be celebrated next Monday, Sept. 14. Governor Schricker today suggested that citizens of Indiana join in the celebration by singing the first and last verses on that day. “The last verse,” he said, “is so partic ly appropriate that Francis Scott Key might have written it today.” The anthem will be sung at dawn next Monday at Ft. MecHenry, Md., by Miss Lucy Monroe, radio singer, who sang at Garfield Park last night in the last of a series of 10 concerts spomsored by the Indianapolis Civilian Defense council,
CONSERVE PLANT STRIKE SETTLED
Settlement of the strike of workers at the Columbia Conserve Co. plant was announced today by O. C. Chambers, president of the Canning Workers Union 23217 (A. F. of L.. Mr. Chambers said that most questions in dispute are to be left to conciliation by the war labor board. The matter of hourly workers’ pay was settled at the conference,
NAZIS MAY RISK WARSHIPS LONDON, Sept. T (U. P.).=Germany soon may again risk her warships in the battle of the Atlantic because of mounting U-boat losses and a reported decrease in sinkings of allied shipping, military observ-
ers believed today.
MILNE BAY JAPS
P.) .—Japanese forces stranded in|
tacks yesterday on enemy forces in|"
Herbert Cavanah
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Veteran of Flying Tigers In City Visiting Brother
By HAMLIN WELLING
Herbert Cavanah has killed Japs as a member of the flying tigers in China. And take it from him that the Jap is a slippery enemy who will strafe an opposing pilot descending in a parachute. Mustered out of the American Volunteer Group that wrote history in Japan’s war on China, Mr.
‘Cavanah, who is 31, returned to the
United States in July. Since then he has been visiting his parents at Lakeland, Fla. and spent several days with his brother, Cecil, a coach repair man in the Big Four shops at Beech Grove. He lives at Pleasant View, about 12 miles southeast
Cavanah has a financial reason for disliking e Japs and that’s because they never did return to Kunming and give him an op-
portunity to shoot any down. For
every Jap plané knocked out, the AVG pilot received a $500 bonus from the Chinese government. One of Mr. Cavanah’s friends, Robert W. Neal of Seattle, Wash., shot down 19 Jap planes to net himself almost $10,000 in bonuses. The AVG pilots received a salary of $600 per month. . Had No Bombsights
Finding no Japs to fight in the air, the Third Squadron was assigned . to offensive operations,
of here on state road 29. The flier bombing Jap supply trains, troop
left today for New York. Mr. Cavanah had been a pilot in the navy, flying patrol planes, when the call for AVG volunteers came in August, 1941. Less than 48 hours after he applied, Mr. Cavanah :eceived a special discharge from the navy. He was sent to New York where a recruiting squadron for the AVG was being organized, but it never materialized and in October he was sent with 23 other fliers to Rangoon, Burma, by boat.
Six Hours in P-40
Having flown nothing but the heavy patrol planes for years, he was given six hours training in a P-40 pursuit plane powered by an Allison engine and was ordered’ into ferrying service, moving ships up to the fighting airports in Burma and China. He was still in ferrying service when the AVG had its first big aerial dogfight with the Japs. That was on Dec. 22, 1941, when the third squadron of about 25 planes went up to fight off the Japs who had come to bomb the Rangoon airport. “The Japs hadn't expected any opposition and their bombers weren't escorted by fighter planes. Our boys knocked down about 12 bombers and we lost two pilots,” he said. The next day Radio Tokyo promised the AVG a “Christmas present” and their planes returned Dec. 25 in force. “That was 45 minutes of hell,” Mr. Cavanah said. “I watched it from a cemetery which I figured would be a» good place to die if a bomb fell near me.”
Machine Gun ’Chutists _
Two AVG pilots had to bail out and Mr. Cavanah said he saw them floating to earth with Jap planes following them down and sending
streams of pullets at them. They|
killed one and wounded the other. In February, 1942, he was assigned to the third squadron, which had its base moved to Kunming, China, the base’ farthest north ffom the fighting. “Japanese planes had come over the Kunming base once before we
were assigned there and the other|
squadron took such good care of them that they apparently scared the Japs away for good. Thqy never returned to bomb Kunming, a city of about 1,000,000,” he said.
IN INDIANAPOLIS—VI TAL STA TISTICS
MEETINGS TODAY International Association of
Retired Railmeeting, Four wt buiiding, Josie Clerks, | 0908 ! gris hasier.” Tol poor Spink Arn nares club, luncheon, Claypool hotel, - Seantesh club, luncheon, Board of : i En Folumbus, meeting, 308 N.
8 p.m. Delta Rho, Indianapolis
. Trade, noon.
ale club, jmohegm; Spink- Arms hotel, Mercator club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, aha Chi, luncheon, Seville restaurant, oF Men Men's club, luncheon, Central Y. M. Tans fraternity, ‘meeting, ¥Y i c. Ay
i t Alders rial, 8 p.m.
od Otyes y2aarcell 5 “of 1628 os Eile. Btrou , 82, of
Charles dae, Farley, ; Vela Blanche Mette io: honaa Comey:
he James McGurk, Spoils Lois er, 31, both of noni get x 313;
1 A. Oertel, 51. R. R. 11 a i EW on. Aleene Ho orion, 134
LE. y Sherman cer hotel; | Edison.
yette road. Ae A 8) Charles Aivin Les Ir, oor Bag “Donald Lee Rose’ 20, of Ww.
Roa Tattle Elizabeth Norton, 12, of a Livingston Bryant 43, Concord, U. 8. army; Rosemagy Ann Horn,
» Traian na Tom H. illiams, of: 423 Pattison; NS ory Pryor, 33, of 28 Pattison, William
Eas 1 Helen Louise Patdrick, a1, Pt Riley,
Dwight Hazelwood, Nort on lived "18 of Pa2s
Robert James Corman, 22, of 4213 Park; Colleen Ba?
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Dunn, 18, of 1738 Lafa- |theo Harrison: = PX Toor 553 Beara |
cnocentrations and supply trucks. The pursuit planes were rigged up to tarry three, 30-pound fragmentation bombs under the wings. “But our bombing was by guess and by gosh,” Mr. .Cavanah said. “We had no bombsight and just had to estimate where our bombs might. fall. ” In bombing ‘and. dizating troop columns, the planes would get altitude, form’ a line and with all six guns firing would dive on the column, They'd drop their bombs as they neared the column. The guns were divided into two 50-mm. which shot through the propeller and four free-firing 30 mms. Bullets used were assorted incendiary, armor piercing and tracers. While at Kunning, Mr. Cavanah said the AVG lived nobly in a former girls’ college until the Burma road was cut by the Japs. From then on they had to eat either Chinese food or eggs. Mr. Cavanah ate eggs.
Offered Commissions
The AVG was disbanded July 4, 1942, and the fliers were offered commissions in the U. S. air corps and posts with the Chinese National Aviation Corp., the main air line in China. The latter jobs paid $1000 per month. Mr. Cavanah turned down both offers, however, to return to this country. He left Karachi, India, on July 19 and arrived at Miami, Fla., one week later by Pan American clipper. * He hasn't yet made up his mind what he’s going to do. He wanted to accept the CNAC offer but his wife, whom he will meet again in New York this week, has prevailed
NEW Th IDEA:
Series, Army-Navy Game
Gambles Are Suggested
~To Raise Revenue. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (U. P..
|—a national lottery on the World Series and the Army-Navy football ‘|game, designed to raise $6,000,000,000
in revenue a year and to’ pay the winner $1,000,000, has been proposed to the Senate Finance committee, it was learned today. * Assuming that the plan would raise as much money as its author claime, it might end the committee’s search for new methods of tap-
|ping the taxpayers pocketbook for
additional revenue. But so far it has aroused little interest. “You can’t flance total war by running a super-bingo game,” one committee member said. ,
' Other Taxes Considered
Committee aids revealed information about the lottery plan as the committee began gnother week of discussion of the relative merits of a federal sales tax and the treasury’s proposed “spendings” tax. Treasury Secretary Morganthau appealed over the week-end for serious consideration of the spendings tax after a majority of the senate committee had turned thumbs down on it a few hours after it was suggested. His appeal found support in the committee but not enough to indicate its adoption. The lottery plan, whose author’s name was withheld by the committee, is designed to direct gambling instinct’ into patriotic channels. It would pay off the winners handsomely in war bonds and leave the
take to make the Irish sweepstakes look like a penny ante poker pot.
_ Tickets at $1.25
Here is how the proposed World Series lottery would be set up: Lottery tickets at $1.25 each would carry the names of the competing teams—say, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees. Each ticket would carry a series of numbers representing a guess at what member of each team would be the
ended. For example, a ticket might read: “First game—Dodgers 8, Yankees 17; second game—Dodgers 14, Yankees 11 . , . ete.”
A Million to Winner
war bonds—would go to the holder of the card with numbers most closely corresponding to those on the uniform. of the last batters in | each ‘game; Additional prizes, rang-
be given to 199,999 other ticketholders who came closest to picking the last batters. The Army-Navy football game lottery would be organized in a similar fashion, but the numbers on the tickets would represent guesses at
be resting on at the end of each quarter.
U. S. BUILDS NOVEL TANK LANDING SHIP
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 7 (U. P.).— The first of a new-type mystery “landing ship for tanks,” described as the largest warship yet launched in inland waterways, slid down the
Dravo Corp. shipyards in. special Labor day launching ceremonies.
guarded naval sectet, but. the navy revegled it was “the first of a new type which vary somewhat from an older type.” Completion was a month ahead of schedule.
SPENDING PASSES 10 BILLION WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (U. PJ). —Government spending for war purposes today had passed the $10,000,000,000 mark for the fiscal year which began July 1. During August
Ja day.
98 Hiln to stay 45 Wis county,
Today’
s War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE : E United Press War Analyst A new formula for winning the war is being ad-
vanced in London.
It is based on the premise that
‘the most effective weapon the united nations now have against Germany is ali power.
sive’ . velop the -thesis:
From that, proponents of an all-out aerial offen: Germany on an unprecedented scale de-
that Germany can be defeated by
air power alone: or, if’ not, they argue, Germany can be so weakened by a non-stop offensive against her war industries and communications in the next few months that a land invasion next year will be the
coupe de- grace. There is no disputing that the allies are superior in the air over
; the continent, ‘without
her land power is tied up in Russia and will be tiled up until this summer campaign is over. Therefore, it is suggested, this is the time to
in Britain, even at the expense of other fronts, and deal Germany a blow from Which she Will not recover. : The: combined ‘alr “forces Already
or| have proved what can be done. Last| .
night and today they roared over
JPER- LOTTERY|
government enough of the total}
last man at bat before each game].
The big pay-off—$1,000,000 in
ing from $500,000 in war bonds tof $10 in war savings stamps, would
what yard marker the ball would}.
ways into the Ohio river at the|.
Details of the ship are a closely |
war spending averaged $157,500,000]
concentrate all available air power}
respite, |
10 Per Cent
The names of 15 additional firms were added to the 10 per cent war bond investment honor roll today as Indianapolis observed Labor Day. This brought the names of the county’s roll to 160. At the Curtiss-Wright propeller plant, 2452 employees are investing in war bonds at the rate of 12 per cent of the over-all payroll. Other firms investing 10 per cent or more include the Agriculture Marketing administration, livestock branch; war production board, labor division, 13 per cent; WPB mining branch, 13 per cent; WPB bureau of industrial conservation; WPB production division, 12 per cent; WPB bureau of priorities, 12 per cent; collector of customs; Central States Bridge Co., 12 per cent;
115 More Firms Added to
Betty Gay, Inc.; Miller-Wohl Co.; Merchants Armored Car Service; J. W. Jackson & Sons, Inc. and . & T. , Tool and Gauge Co. :
ANY OLD ‘RADIOS? | ARMY NEEDS THEM
The public has been asked by the
matter whether they are electrical or battery sets, or even whether
LI-1551, to. have radios pickeq; up.
Central Beauty college, 13 per cent;
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