Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1942 — Page 12

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visaged today in al | “point. ‘plan’ proposed by Eo ret M. Dirksen (R. IL). |

necessary ‘to’ do away with’ sore of the time-honored procedures of

"Crouching ow a ut th their gant’ ‘155 mm. Weapon, ‘an American gun crew in’ ‘England awaits th ignal The giant field piece hurls a 95-pound projectile more than 14 miles, (Passed by U. 5, and Brit.

to fire. ish censors.)

“ WIGKARD FEARS DP [Four nescid Fron IN FARM PRODUCTION A fire believed: started by a care-

2 ’ WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (U. PJ). lessly thrown cigaret ‘today : de5 Ag Hm —Secretary of Agriculture Claude|stroyed the main building at St. She. fasts and for ation of R. Wickard said last night<there is|Francis college causing damage esti-

some existing machinery that cre-} : ates a duplication of effort. vg “real question” whether farmers mad 8 Seodm, 1 00 students. and} Too often,” Dirksen said in ‘out-| will be ‘able to maintain their pres- Franciscan: brothers: asleep ‘in the

lining his plans to the house, con- ent record-breaking production next building when the fire started fled]

fessional sols. to aan nts year. to safety. Four older brothers were

: . : from the third ‘floor of the % “glorified ‘quiz pro- ‘New farm equipment’ and farm [rescued : | materials’ are becoming scarcer and|four-story structure, : —— ———— l¢he shortage of farm labor is grow- : ARM WOMAN INJURED -|ing desperately serious,” he said In| CHUNGKING, Oct. 30. (U. P.).— ASTLE, Ind: Oct. 30 (U.|a radio broadcast. “Nineteen forty-|The Netherlands government offi- — Mrs. Charles Rothrock suffered |two may stand as a high mark: in|cially notified China today that it e loss of both legs yesterday when | farm production for many years to/has relinquished its extralentitorial

DUTCH YIELD CLAIMS

BLAZE AT COLLEGE

LORETTOO. Pa., Oct. 30 (U.P).

{at the time of the memorial's con- | struction, also spoke. a { In his acceptance. speech,” Gen.| Tyndall sounded a word of reassurance about’ the present war, . Can't Lose, Tyndall Says “Those who say we are losing this war do not know the American soldier as I do,” he said. can’t lose bécause they won't lose.

FL i Bis 5 {staff of the army, and have known BB i \ |him for years. I know that he had BY OI comprehensive plan worked out

for this war before he knew he would ‘become ‘chief of staff, I know

Bad = Weather, “Kept Japs From. Spotting Occupation.

This is the second of a series of stories on the Aleutians

By B. J McQUAID ' Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times|10St ‘an average of 1000 men a day and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. Were green.|-

ABOARD A U. S, NAVAL’ 'VES- When they ‘had had a Jittle season-

the training program. Our soldiers {are getting the most thorough train{ing Americans - ever ‘had,

only” points toward an earlier vi tory, but it also means the. sa

SEL IN THE ALEUTIANS, Sept. 4. ‘ing they knew better ‘how to pro-| Joseph Ephrata Pond,

“Our men pedication

“I know Gen. Marshall, chief of}

: However: Gen. McNair, ‘who is in charge of]

{Th |into offensive -action in France we| of 1905. MN. Ww

she was run over by a corn picker.

come.” rights there.

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'— (Delayed) —Five days after their arrival, engineers, ' fliers, artillerymen and infantry of the Aleutian occupational ‘forces have set up housekeeping in the Andreanof slands in a big way. . Two days of Williwaw winds “and driving rain held up the show and made life a’ hell for the landing parties. By the same token, however, they prevented discovery of the operation by the Japs and made an enemy attack impossible. Now the troop transports are all unloaded and cargo ships have returhed to the mainland. An -area is being prepared for use as a plane

more will see planes taking off from the island. ;

Pitching Tents

[ tect themselves. A well-trained sol-

dier has a ‘better chance of survival :

than a green one.”

CITATIONS AWARDED INDIANA AIRMEN

Two Hoosiers were among air

corps members decorated for saving planes and other valuable equipment when an airfied at New Guinea |.

was bombed Aug. 17. Lieut. Gen. G. C. Kenney, com-

mander of the allied air forces in the southwest Pacific, announced: landing strip’ “Two or three days|ioday at Gen. MacArire Toor ] quarters in Australia that the In-|’ diana airmen decorated were:

Lieut, Stanley R. Holland, Ft.

Now that the weather shows signs Wayne, and Tech. Sergt. Joseph of clearing, enough tents have been |Markiewicz, Hammond.

pitched: to shelter the-soldiers, ‘but for a couple of days it was “rugged duty,” as the soldiers and sailors call it. Men slept out in the open {in the ‘driving tain: and lived on cold ‘canned beans. No firewood was ere - ‘are no trees on sé. western’ ds. The commanding officer and his staff set! up headquarters in an abandoned;

'. |fisherman’s shack. A few of the

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lads got first call on a handful of fox dens that were part of a fox farm which formerly operated on the island. ‘They ‘moved. into these little tin and wood shelters, eight to a den, ‘and’ felt themselves fortunate, though the ground was about as wet inside the fox cages as out, : Herculean Efforts

The Williwaws drove landing barges high on the !beach on the

{first run in from the freighters and

it required many hours and Her-

Jculean efforts, to float; them again.

But ' when - the ' winds fell they were floated and then the heavy stuff began to move at an incredi-

ble tempo. This included giant bull-

dozers, necessary for the construcTtion of the landing field. It included fighter planes and ‘spare parts, as well as tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline, ‘Now that the weather shows signs | T® of clearing, the Japs show: signs of attacking.

Up to now, they have mystified i

all of us by letting this operation severely aloné. It is still an even bet that they ‘haven't discovered

| | what’s going on. There are, how-

ever, some thoroughly’ ‘disquieting

“jreports- — including ‘word that the

Japs finally have finished a field on Kiska, and are putting up twin-en-gined, land-based bombers. If this is true, hell 1s most certainly due .| to pop. Sound an Alert ‘This morning there was ‘an air alert, as there has been nearly every day. But so far the visitors have always turned out to be our own

bombers, ranging out from eastern]:

bases for attacks on Kiska.

x Today, prospects * look: - especially

bright, We hear that a big convoy Kiska from the ‘west. A logical con-

cided to occupy the Andreanofs

themselves, all unaware of our own iviiies! Or perhaps they have an 3 on Atka, which ‘would explain ‘their recent activity in Nazan

If the Japs are’ heading this way Hors ae Jape ere heading fils way

|are in for the surprise of their

pt be. 3 etter stony

|i it could wait'a few hours, but| fwhen your communications are| working re, you do “well to

The citation lauded the men for

“singularly meritorious acts essen- |

tial to the service.” Three sergeants received silver

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ont. Scouts : ‘week, “Thank ¥

EVENTS “TOMORE, ow

Bull r university | -com tier, vs. Deeaiw, ‘Butler ¢

: Bn ) National Society of Professionsl Engineers, convention, STaypool hotel, all day, Indiana Society of Professional Engineers, convention, Claypool hotel, all day.Indiana Engin er Sounl, convention,

Claypool Total & 4 d bow Division Memorial morial, 2 p. ! path ‘day of obser ‘United States Stein club, luncheon, Hotel verin, agen, Tard Sterks, Rieeting, Hotel #everin, 9:30 Indians ‘Employment servic, meeting, - Hotel Severin, 9:30 a

Gideon ‘society, meetin 5 3 . m., dinner 6:30. p. oH iningion”

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MARRIAGE LICEN SES

Thess tists sre from official as’ in Tt iE oe ate "

1, despot, Jn $i Doroiny Lee’ Dots alv Robinson, 38, of 1926 N. iol; ering Pearl Coleman, 21,

: © Sonngton, 25, of 504% W. Washington Marie "Anderson, 20, of ~1138 B:-'Washin

Clarence C. Rumer, 46,’ of 2634 Carrollton; Dorothy Mowry, 25; Etinceton, Ing.

Marian Ruth Greene, 17, of igh School rd. : , of 150 E. Erie; Sarah Ellen Gray, 29, = Se Lynhurst dr.

[enneth ene Watson, 21, of 926 Spru Meta Louse Prange, 21, ‘of 4758 uh

eastern. Philip

Worthly Hammond, 38, Dayton , 0: Margaret Sands Livingstone, 35, of ‘4318 :

Broadway. Harry Lloyd Patten; 25, ‘of - 1217"N. DelaEe 20%: Betty ‘June Tice,” 21, of 1217 N. ware, exander, Morse, 28, Ft. Harrison; ary Stump, 21, of 2130 Madison, Nye Hurd, 40, Chicago; Wilma ards, 27, of "530 E. 25th. Willian Bag oun ner, 30, Y. M. C. A;

U. S. Weather Bureatl mt ~ + (Central War Time) : Sunrise ......%:12 | Sunset, ....... 5:45

TEMPERATURE —0ct. 30, 1941

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7:30 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 3 ‘Excess since Jan. 1

‘WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES

The following table shows the tempers - : High Low }

tures, in other cities:

stars “with oak leaf clusters: for Ausn

shooting - down 12 Japanese: zero fighter planes over the Netheflands East Indies, © -&

CONTRACTS AWARDED

FOR COUNTY BRIDGES i=

Award of contracts for ‘three highway projects was made yesterday by Samuel C. Hadden, chairman of the state highway commission, to low bidders for Marion county, South Bend, and Ft. Wayne improvements. Smith & Johnson were awarded the contract for two Marion county brides on-a low bid of $69,036.46. One of the bridges will be constructed aver Little Eagle creek three miles west‘of the Indianapolis city limits, and the other over Dry, Run ereek 45 miles west of the city limits,

The L. W. Dailey Construction} Go. of Pt. Wayne will pave .257 of | ‘versity - will speak tonight at the

a ‘mile in Ft. Wayne at a cost of $11,987.87. The other contract was awarded to the Rieth-Riley Construction ‘Co., Goshen, for paving and resurfacing 792 of a mile on road 31 in South Bend.

. Louis Washington, D.C.

DANISH KING IMPROVING BERLIN, Oct. 30 (German Broad-

cast Recorded by U. P. .in New; York) —The Trans-Oceanic Agency reported from Copenhagen |]

today that the condition of ‘King.

Christian is slowly improving: The

Danish monarch was injured in a fall from his horse last week.

KNIGHT TO SPEAK Dr. F. B. Knight of Purdue uni-

Flanner House harvest festival “to be held at 8 o'clock in Crispus Attucks high school guditorium. Special music, garden exhibits and motion plete ) will be other features.

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