Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1942 — Page 10

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ong-Quiet Island Zone N. w. of Australia Is Allied’ Target,

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the Tanimbar islands, and Koepang, |

in the Dutch part of Timor island. ~~ Lockheed Hudsons made the’ at“tack on Saumlakki, in Jamdena, principal island of the Tanimbar roup, bombing ‘a medium sized enemy transport at the dock ‘with _Tesults which their crews could not

see because of clouds.

While the Hudsons attacked the ‘Saumlakki area, 300 miles north of “Darwin, allied base on the north “Australian = base, reconnaissance bombers bombed an enemy vessel "at Koepang, 600 miles west southwest of Saumlakki and 600 miles West northwest -of Darwin. Here, also, unfavorable conditions prevented. observation of results. Mediu. and: attack planes, be‘lieved to inc’ude Douglases, bombed and machine-gunned the Japanese Tear communication line between Kokoda, on the northern slope of the Owen Ctanley mountains, and Buna, the big’. base on the north coast of New Guinea.

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Oct, 9 (U. P.).—Allied planes have opened

Dates give time of re-| capture by Australians

By UNITED PRESS Japan anhounced today that the Japanese in the Owen Stanley mountains had seundly trounced the Australians by forc-

2250 Honored

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P.).— More than 2250 soldiers, sailors and marines have been decorated for gallantry in action against the enemy and other heroic achievements since .the start of the war. The army leads the awards list with 1502 decorations for gallantry in action alone, plus’ more than 40 for meritorious service not involving actual conflict with the enemy. In addition, the army has decorated 303 members of the naval service, mostly for action on ‘Bataan and Corregidor. The exact number of naval awards is not known, but officials placed the figure at approximately 400. They said many have received medals from their commanding ‘officers in far off places and the awards have not yet been placed on

the records.

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ing their withdrawal “to their starting. position south of Kagi.” As the map shows, this actually was a Japanese admission that

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Army Heros Lead List

‘Army officials said the war :department’s records also were incomplete, since many awards had been made in the field. Yesterday, President Roosevelt awarded the first merchant marine distinguished service medal to a seaman who! helped rescue shipmates by maneuvering a life raft through bufning water by swimming under’ water. He said there would be more. Army men during the first world war received 95,949 decorations, but war department officials pointed out that a large percentage were made after the war. J They said more men are involved in direct contact with the enemy in current battle tactics, and men have more opportynity to show heroism than men {fighting in trench warfare. They @xpected more decorations in this war than in the last.

CALLS ON NEGROES T0 VOTE REPUBLICAN

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P).— Edward G. Brown, director of the National Negro council, today called on Negroes to vote the Republican ticket in November because “the socalled New Deal Democratic party has gone sour on the Negro.” , » Brown, who also is president of

the United Government Employees,

said he “can no longer support the present administration and the Democratic party in their attitude toward 13,000,000 Negro people, 400+

ices fighting and dying for democracy abroad.” He charged the Democrats had

1} “capitulated body and soul to the

“Jim Crow” disfranchisement and discrimination pattern of the South.” Brown said he had supported the Democratic ticket since 1920, but “active opposition of the Democratic leadership” to mnon-discrimi-nation measures had made him change his mind.

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the Nipponese had been thrown for a 40-mile "loss from their previous positions 32 air line miles from Port Moresby.

JAPANESE NOW PULL IN HORNS].

Allied’ Submarine Toll of Nipponese Ships May Be Reason.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 9.—Japan has begun to pull back in" the Pacific because of the tremendous difficulty of maintaining her supply lines across thousands of miles of sea, informed quarters believed today. Save in the Solomons where they have been forced into action, the Japanese have. seemingly lapsed into a static situation. If anything, high sources here believe, Japan is on the defensive. . After the initial successes with which it began the war, the Japanese have run into reverses, some of which may not be important but all of which are symptomatic. * They included the severe air de- | feat in the attempted surprise at-| tack on Ceylon, the heavy naval | losses in ‘the .battles of the Coral sea and Midway, and the American | successes in the Solomons. | Now the sudden move out of the Aleutian and New Guinea outposts point up this pulling in of the Nipponese horns,

Fall Back in China

Transport is believed to be the answer. There is no doubt that Japan has suffered extremely heavy shipping losses. from air and submarine attacks. Probably the Jap‘anese form of blitzkrieg also is hamstrung by the necessity of putting its best vessels into slow convoys in order to give them adequate protection. Now with the first anniversary of the Pearl Harbof attack just two months away, the picture shapes. up something like this: The Japanese apparently have tried to reduce or perhaps eliminate entirely, some of their commitments in China by withdrawing from Chekiang province when Chinese pressure developed there. In Burma there is no real evidence that the Japanese garrison is about -to take the offensive either against India or China although both appeared imminent a few months ago. :

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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 9 (U. P).—~ Rudy Vallee’s radio program today became the second nfajor show to be canceled on .the west coast because of the ban on recorded music by James C. Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians. F Don E. Gilman, vice president of the Blue network, said the Vallee broadcast, usually repeated to the coast by transcription, was net heard in the West last night. Last week network officials announced that Petrillo’s action forced cancellation of the transcribed repeat broadcast of Jack Benny's Sunday night program. Officials indicated that the Information Please program, also repeated by transcription, would be forced. off: the air in the West un-

cless musical portions of the broadcast are deleted.

Louis United Press War Analyst A sudden change of ‘tone in German statements about the situation in: Russia seems to be a tacit admission that the summer campaign has failed and the Nazis are preparing to dig in and stand on the defensive during the winter which is fast approaching. If that is the ‘correct interpretation of the Berlin broadcasts, the Russians have gained a signal vic|luncheon tory for themselves and the united nations. The Russians report furious fighting still in progress at Stalingrad but the Germans themselves say they have changed their tactics and

intend to reduce the city by bomhardmgns before attempting to occupy it. The Germans were careful to point out that it may be some time before they will be able to announce the capture of the city. That implies, apparently, that the Germans are not as sure of taking Stalingrad as they were nine days ago, when Adolf Hitler assured the people that the city would quickly be in German hands. Meanwhile, Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s forces . continue to drive into the enemy flank above the city between the Volga and Don rivers. His objective is to get behind the eGrmans at Stalingrad. If he succeeds, the German position would become precarious and a retreat from the Volga would be necessary. The Germans also announced that the situation on the Moscow front has changed from a war of movement to a war of position and that they were digging in to hold their positions.

All this is in sharp contrast to previous German boasts of their ability to “annihilate” the Russian armies. If the current announcements are to be taken at face value, the Germans have about given up hope of advancing much further in north and central Russia and the Don-Volga area this year. That would leave the Caucasus as their remaining objective for the time being. There is no definite news of progress there wut the Russians appear mot only ‘to be holding out but to be capable of counter-attacking. Even if the Stalingrad drive is abandoned, it is doubtful if the battered army there can be diverted in any strength to the Caucasus, as long as Timoshenko’s forces remain intact, tI would be unwise to whip up too much optimism over the general European war pilture on the basis

of possibly specious German an-|

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