Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1942 — Page 12

*Kokoda by Christmas’ Cry Comes True and Now It’s ~The Japs Who Are on the Run; Australian

Paths Cleared by U. S.-Made Planes.

By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

: ALIA, Nov. 5—Although muggy, humid weather is descending upon New Guinea, which will prevail for the next ~ five months, spirits are riding high.

The recapture of Kokoda,

it can be assured, will not sat-

isfy Australian and American fechnicians in the fields of Supply transport, who are co-operating with the landwise

advance. The cry of “Kokoda by

Christmas” that was raised

when the Japs were only 82 miles from Port Moresby has now come true with a delightful rush that proves the Aries

‘can be early with plenty as ‘well :as too late with too little. : - Thanks in part to their sweating “determination and strong hearts in ~ face of every disease from malaria and dysentery to conjunctivities and athlete’s foot, the Australian troops have conquered OwenStanley -range and given Gen, Douglas MacArthur what may well be—providing the problems of fuel supply and anti-air-craft can’ be ; solved — the comMr. Weller 1 der -in-chief’s ‘Most advanced fighter base and the next most important after Milne bay. A-20 Havocs, eS by

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American Airacobras and Austra-lian-manned Kittyhawks, have cleansed the way ahead of the Aus tralians along the mountain path. Now that the long, rolling hills, sloping away from Kokoda’s 1500foot level to Buna 60 miles away, remain to be scoured, the American attack bombers with their numerous nozzles of obliterating fire can be expected to be even more effective than they have been during the last few days in the wet, green fastnesses at the “top of the world.” It is the Japs who are retiring now and although they always fight to the death it remains to be seen whether the Jap commander will make another attempt either to rescue or reinforce them by way of Buna. The westward push by the American marines in Guadalcanal, announced in a Washington communique, was greeted jubilantly in military circles here. Their advance near the western end of the controlled zone across the Matanikau river, for which the preliminary ironing work has been done by divebombers and fighters, seems to indicate that co-operative work like that accomplished by Australian infantry and American and Australian airmen in the Owen Stanleys is proving effective likewise on Guadalcanal.

Dotted By Mountains Between the islands of Florida and Guadalcanal lie some three miles of seaside plain occupied mostly by cocoanut plantations and traders’ houses. The headland, shaped roughly like a triangle, which the Americans have pinched off, is called Lunga point. Bétween the Tenaru and Matanikau rivers, both of which empty into sealark channel. At the rear of this sea-level plain stands 1500-foot Mt. Austen with other peaks of the Kavo range rising to- 8000-foot heights flanking the south side of the island. Where the Japs are located on Cape Esperance the peaks are nowhere more than the 3560-foot height of Mt. Gallego but are densely wooded with many rivers.

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WELCOME AT Y’

Swimming Parties, Dances|

Are Held; Lounge Open Every Day.

There’s always something doing for soldiers, sailors or marines at

{the Central Y. M. C. A. here.

Take .any Sunday, for instance.

From 8 to 10:30 a. m., the swimming| ; pool and showers are open to men]: in service, and from 8:30 a. m. to|

9:30 a. m., a free breakfast is served. For those whose tastes are mu-

sical, there is a music room with a| $8

victrola and a number of classical and popular records. If a man in service needs to shave, shine his shoes or mend a tear, he'll find all the equipment he needs at the “Y.” There even is an iron for pressing. ‘Hold Swim Parties i From 3 to 5 p. m. Sunday, the man in service can swim in the “YY”

pool again—but this time the “Y”| E&

cadettes will be there for a co-ed splash party. A community sing for service men is held each Sunday from 5 to 6 p. m. with the cadettes in attendance. In the way of other activities, men in service are invited to use the camera club’s darkroom if they are experienced amateur photographers, to attend each Wednesday evening the dinner meeting of the Bible investigation club, to attend a dance held each Saturday night, and co-ed swims open each Friday from 7p. m. to 9 p. m. Lounge Open Daily The service men’s lounge is open daily from 8:30 a. m. to 11 p. m,, and “Y” cadettes are on duty there from 5 p. m. to closing time. In the lounge are magazines, games, stationery, a piano and a record player. For the service man who doesn't get enough exercise, there are three gymnasium floors open daily except Sundays and three handball courts, open at the same time. And for the out-of-town service man, there are nearly 125 beds available for a small fee in which he can spend the night at the *“Y.”

Speedy Rescues Made by Navy

By UNITED PRESS The growing speed with which the navy patrol is able to rescue the survivors of torpedoed ships was revealed yesterday by survive ors of two ships who have reached east coast ports. The captain and 46 crew members of a Danish vessel sunk in the Caribbean 'in mid-September were saved by the navy after being adrift in their boats only two hours. There were no casualties when the ship was torpedoed at midnight by an unsighted U-boat. The second engineer and five

seamen were killed by the blast

when a small American ship was ~sunk off the northern coast of South America early in October. The 25 survivors were picked up by the navy after being adrift only four hours. The ships were the 541st" and 542d sunk in Amer-

ican waters since mid-January.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur inspecting united nations positions in New Guinea from the front seat of a

jeep. soldiers.

Sir Thomas Blamey, commander of Australia’s land forces, rides in the rear seat, talking to passing

BRAZIL BUILDS ROAD "AND RAIL SYSTEM

RIO DE JANEIRO (U. P).—A 2000-mile highway and railroad system will soon be in use in Brazil to speed war materials and men from the industrial and more populous southern centers of the country

‘to the northeastern “bulge”—the

western hemisphere’s Achilles heel only 1700 flying miles from Vichy-

controlled Dakar in French West Africa. The axis submarine warfare on the Atlantic coast of South America has endangered Brazil’s principal line of communication between its northern and southern states.

They Give Blood

To Aid Buddies

THIRTY EMPLOYEES of the

‘Indian Refining Corp. filed into

the Red Cross blood donor center this week. They wanted to contribute blood for their “buddies,” they said.

The story behind it is this:.

Fifty-two of their former fellowworkers are serving in the armed forces. home front wanted to contribute a pint of blood each for those men. The 30 did. Twenty-two more donations wil be made soon, they promised, to bring the total to 52.

- Those still here .on. the

Loven USELESS TO THIS SOLDIER

OAKLAND, Cal. (U. P.).—Tears filled the eyes of Pfc. Roy Suyeinoto, graduate of Techincal high school, when he returned here on a. 15-day furlough from his army, duties at Ft. Warren, Wyo. . He was told that he would not be able to see his parents, JapaneseAmericans, because - they were in-

terned at Tanforan. When informed that he could not even remain in ‘his._home town without a special permit, he went to the local police. station and was turned over to the military police, who returned him to his camp.

BUILD 81 SHIPS

DURING OCTOBER

Kaiser’s Yards Share Top Honors for Month’s

Launchings.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (U. P.).— U. S. merchant ship production dropped to 81 vessels last month, compared with 93 in September, the

Maritime commission announced yesterday. October deliveries totalled 890,700 deadweight tons, bringing American ship‘ production thus far this year to approximately * 6,000,000 deadweight tons, the commission said. It attributed the October drop in deliveries “to the temporary diversion of a considerable amount of the merchant shipbuilding capacity to emergency Vconstruction of special craft for ..ie armed forces.” Henry Kaiser’s Oregon Shipbuilding . Corp., Portland, Ore., shared top . production honors for the month with the California Shipbuilding Corp., Wilmington, Cal. Each delivered into service 12 Liberty ships. = Sixty-five of the 81 vessels were Liberty ships. ‘Other ships delievered were three cargo carriers for the British; eight C-type ‘merchant ships, four large tankers, -and one ore carrier. West coast yards delivered 43 vessels, East coast yards 24, Gulf coast yards 13, and the Great Lakes one. The second highest individual production of the month was attained by Kaiser's Permanente w*Ietals Corp., shipyard No. 2, Richmond, Cal, which delievered 10 Liberty ships. Permanente yard No. 1, also at Richmond, was third with seven Liberty ships.

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SPECIAL TRAIN roars through a sleep-

ing crossroads village—and then another —and another. All through the night the trains thunder by. An army is on the move. Yet not one word of this gigantic troop movement escapes into print or onto the air waves. Press and radio — army and ‘government —railroad men and civilians—have cooperated in the greatest example of voluntary censorship the world has ever known.

The morning after Pearl Harbor this gi-

gantic movement of troops toward the world

fronts began—infantry companies with full equipment—mechanized battalions complete with tanks and trucks—an army ready to fight the moment it reached its destination. In the intervening months approximately

8,000,000 troops on active duty have been

the hands of the individual railroads over

whose tracks the trains are routed. But the center of this mass movement is a

.room in the War Department where some 75 railroad people work in cooperation with

War Department experts—and where the exact location of every troop train in America

"is known 24 hours a day.

Major General Charles P. Gross, Chief of the Transportation Corps of the Army’s Services of Supply, has said: “In the war effort no group, no ‘agency works more wholeheartedly, more energeti-

cally, to fulfill the war mission than do the

railroads and their national organization, the Association of American Railroads. Their

team play has been superb. They respond to

carried by" the American railroads—not to’

- mention the enormous number of individual . . ‘soldiers carried home oh furlough.

Actual | banding of F wioop movements'i isin

the War Department immediately and to ‘their full capacity. My relationship with them has been one of the most heartening experiences I have ever had. The railroads have the spirit that will win this war, and I am happy to salute them.”

Despite troop movements and the huge increase in transportation of war supplies, there has been, so far, but slight interruption of essential civilian traffic. But, as the grim demands of war grow, the railroads face an increasingly difficult task— a task which must be done. And, with your understanding, patriotic cooperation, railroad men are confident that it will be done. The lights are green. The tracks are clear: The trains are rolling.

) ONE OF AMERICAS RAILROADS dL MOBILIZED FOR war!

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