Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1942 — Page 7

tte is opined at maximum range) £ The Japanese flying boat at-| tempted to swing its tail turret guns across the fortress. | * Kawanishis have tail and nose turrets, firing cannon, and machineguns amidships. | Staff Sergt. Ed Perry, and Sergt. Verne Nelson, put the Japanese cannon out of the fight with a * | burst of their side guns. |, The fortress pressed home ifs atat close range “Once we were almost wing tip to wing tip,” Perry said.

The fight lasted 25 minutes and|_ jefenst the great planes had gone 60 miles| self-imposed : Ve strategy

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may. be forced to continie -their[Hke. HUREarY Rumania, in| 8nd Finland, which can embarrass, W. Wash—as

which, not much over a year ago, N. Wash

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leved to be powered by Japanese-

made Rolls Royce motors. The planes met thousands of feet Up over the Pacific and hundreds of miles from their home bases.

Japanese plane, going up - from ‘below and off to the side, and|shore in search of shelter.

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a Jap. Lets ,”? Malizeski said. The fortress started for the

four motors.

before Nelson and Malizeski hit and set fire to three of the Kawanishi’s

The Japanese landed their plane near an island and taxied in‘ toward

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS

the war of the Pacific throughout the coming winter.

factors: 1. Japan’s lines of communication

nto the conquered areas.of the Far East are, becoming increasingly ex-

Japan’ S manpower resources.

Russia. g Japan now finds the allies attacking on her left flank, with the pos-

Ireland will be retaken 'by United States forces if the Solomons are held. Periled in New Guinea

sibility that New Britain and New

and even endanger Hitler's conduct as {Germany and Ciano of Italy

economically. Sometimes they get

restive.

symbolical duty from

bolshevism or Jewish-Demo-cratic plutocracy is not enough of

ment of all frontier and territorial difficulties (at the enemy’s expense) often works better.

Foreign Ministers Ribbentrop of

with fine imperious gestures at the Vienna conference. Things are becoming unstuck in Masedonis. with sharp local dis-

bane. thing which showed the spirit, or lack of it, behind the whole Nazileadership setup was the withdrawal

“lof the. Rumanian troops for rest

and recovery after the fall of Odessa. The “victorious” army which I saw on the roads leading west to bed, baths and food, a few days after the fall of the city, did not, however, look spruce or even happy. It looked plain disgusted and fed up, a dirty, footsore, weary and demoralized mob, ambling along in a stupor. Many of the men were barefoot. None of them looked well fed.

workers on the functions of the war

relief, civilian and service organiza-

tions in the fund. The campaign} to raise $1,500,000 in Indianapolis 8

will be Oct, 5 to 23. Stanley W. Shipnes, campaign lf chairman, described the drive as “the big task which lies ahead of

us” and urged the volunteers toll

make diligent solicitation.

Don Abel is chairman of the in-|}

dividual gifts division and Paul}

Boardman is associate chairman. Describes Jap Attack

Lee Hullett, Tech student who was|}

with his father at Schofield barracks, Hawaii, last December, de-

scribed his experiences during the}: Jap attack on Pearl Harbor. Others ;

who spoke were:

J. J. Kiser of the Indianapolis|}

It will be part of Hitler's and{USO council, Mrs. Thomas D. Mussolini’s work at Vienna, if they|Sheerin of the Indianapolis service do meet, to whip up new “enthusi- men’s center, Charles Holder of the asm” for the war. Polish war relief society, William

This would make Japan's hold ‘on New Guinea untenable, actording to the general view held here. Experts believed increased allied air and sea power in the southeast : Pacific and the accompanying strain | 8 : on Japan's overseas lines of communications probably prevented an attempt to conquer New Guinea|E: and establish bases in northern|E Australia and New Caledonia. . The comparatively late start of Hitler's eastern campaign and the stubborn Soviet resistance probably forestalled a Japanese invasion of Siberia—an invasion which most Chinese authorities believed was on Tojo’s urgent time table. American occupation of the Solomon islands has placed Japan's left flank in acute danger. Her southern right flank is exposed to the possibility of an allied attack again Burma and China ‘and In-

Ends Home Threat : Japan, however, temporarily has

eliminated the “threat” to the home Hy : islands by destroying the air bases ; K p « inn. _— i B L 5% S E 5 of eastern China. The Japanese now have about BE :

three and 4 half divisions in Burma. —FExciting New Styles!

They know this small army is not sufficient for a conquest of India. «Unusual Values!

The conquest of Siberia is still a vital military necessity for the Japanese, but not of immediate urgency. It is almost certain Russia will not attack Japan, entangled as shel: is with Germany. A quick Japanese

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MERZLLRE

But, what with Hitler's new Bu-

rope becoming less of a certainty, classic old squabbles are flaring up

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victory in Siberia would free large units of an estimated 500,000 Nipponese soldiers from Manchuria, but a long war in Siberia might entail terrific aerial bombardment of Japan by American planes based in

Russian territory.

WOUND IS FATAL: WIDOW ARRESTED

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (U. P).— Mrs. Anna Harrington, who shot her husband fafally in an “in-law” quarrel and then, for most of the three months he lay dying, bitterly opposed efforts to have their four children visit him, was arrested today on a homicide charge, Detectives found her at the Queens village home of her mother, Mrs. Anna Mirra, after seeking her since late yesterday when Alman Harrington, 23, died of a bullet wound in the spine. She shot him in the back during a quarrel}about some money she had lent to her mother. The 21-year-old Mrs. Harrington, pert and pretty, was married when she was 15. The oldest of her four children is 5. Harrington finally was forced to obtain a court order “to brighten his short life span” by seeing his children,

NAZIS SAY ALLIED CONVOY SHATTERED

BERLIN, Sept. (German

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