Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1942 — Page 12
| Nippon Forces in OiviGorari Sector Threatened With Annihilation.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S . QUARTERS, SOMEWHERE IN ” AUSTRALIA, Nov. 12 (U. P.).—Jap-
‘HEAD-
FOE MUST FALL BACK, RUSS SAY
Lacks Protection Against|
Cold Near Stalingrad, Moscow Reports. MOSCOW, Nov. 12 (U. P). —
| winter has crushed German hopes
anese forces in the Oivi-Gorari sec- |}
tor in New Guinea were trying desperately to escape annihilation by Australian troops today, but their
chances were slim because the rug-|i% «=
ged Hamaba hills blocked their only line of retreat.
A communique from Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters said the enemy was “endeavoring to cut his way through to the rear”’—to the - east—but were opposed by Australian units which had cut around the southern flank to come up behind the Japanese. . This advanced Aussi spearhead has reached the main jungle trail six miles east of Gorari and is less than 45 miles southwest of Buna, enemy base on the north coast which is the main objective of Australians and of American troops advancing somewhere southeast of the Buna-Gona area. A military spokesman said 150 Japanese were killed and a number taken prisoner when an enemy force was encircled and wiped out two miles south of Gorari. This brought the total of Japanese killed in the Oivi-Gorari sector in the past four days to 300. MacArthur reported that Japanese near Oivi, nine miles east and six miles west of Gorari, were forced from their main positions and that f the enemy suffered heavy losses. The enemy still held positions along the trail from a point east of Gorari running through to Buna. Allied planes, however, were reported to have battered the Wairope bridge over the Kumusi river so badly that the Japanese were forced to use a pontoon bridge.
CHAPLAIN PROVES MAN IS INNOCENT
NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (U. P)— Frank Davino, who spent 18 months in a deathhouse and watched 21 .other inmates go to the chair, was a free man today largely because of the detective work of the chaplain assigned to comfort him in his last hours. Convicted of the slaying of a fireman, Davino told the Rev. Bernard M. Martin that he was innocent. Father Martin had heard this protestation many times before but never before had other convicts sidled over to whisper “the guy got a bum rap—we know who did it.” So Father Martin started an inquiry that took him to several other prisons and to Brooklyn, where he interviewed scores of per-
of taking Stalingrad and the exhausted Nazis now have the choice of freezing to death on the steppes or retreating 40 miles beyond the Don river, where the weather is milder, battlefront dispatches said today. : The Soviet noon communique reported the smashing of enemy attacks, apparently not very powerful, and dispatches from Stalingrad said the front had been firmly sta-
/ | bilized since last Saturday, when the
ders has returned to Great Lakes after spending a short leave with his wife and son at their home, 212 Schaff st, Beech Grove. He is a motor machinist’s mate, first class, and will soon be assigned to motor repair and maintenance work with the navy.
Larry Childers, five-year-old son of Frisky Childers, former race driver and mechanic at Speedway track, salutes his father who is now in the navy and is
stationed at the naval training station, Great Lakes, Ill. Chil-
Gen. Brereton Gets Cross; 2 Hoosiers Receive Awards
CAIRO, Nov. 12 (U. P.).—Maj. lied headquarters at Cairo anGen. Lewis H. Brereton has been!nounced today. awarded the distinguished flying] rjeut, (J. g) Norman F. Vandicross for “extraordinary achieve-|vier, 26, R. R. 4, Franklin, was ment” while leading an attack by|among the 16 naval aviation officers decorated for heroism in the heavy bombers on Port Blair in the battle of Midway, the navy anAdaman islands on the night of }q need today. Lieut. Vandivier reApril 2, it was announced today.
ceived the navy cross. Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews,
new American commander in the REPUBLICAN SPEAKER Middle East, pinned the DFC on URGES 4 FREEDOMS
Brereton, chief of the U. 8S. air forces in this theater. L. L. Castetter, editor of the
Eighty-nine officers and men of| Hoosier Republican, told members the American forces who have been|0f the Warren Township Republicin action over the western desert(an club at their victory meeting last received decorations. night that “in order to have either Brereton commanded a Syiagsen religious, economic, political or soof six B-17's in the attack on Port cial freedom, we must have all” Blair, involving a flight of 789 miles His subject was “The Real over water and nine hours and 49 Micedorra : minutes flying time. The raid was edoms. made in ny support of the Burma] The meeting was held at the home campaign.
first freezing weather arrived. The ground already is frozen too hard for the Germans to dig dugouts, these dispatches said. Hence, their only alternative to quick freezing is to fall back beyond the bend of the Don. ‘ Any day, some of the most terrible blizzards in Russia will begin sweeping the steppeland around Stalingrad. Operations are almost impossible under such conditions. Besides, the German air force has drastically reduced its operations, according to dispatches. Its bombing now is limited to a comparatively few sorties over a 24hour period against villages and communications in the left bank of the Volga.
Obsolete planes now are operating
in small groups and dropping small
bombs that do insignificant daraage.
These same conditions, it was said, now characterize the Tuapse and Nalchik fronts in the Caucasus, where the Russians have developed their initiative and improved their positions. The noon communique reported that the Russians southeast of Nalchik had repulsed a flanking attack by two battalions (2000 men), killed 200 of them and destroyed three tanks. The Red army attacked southeast of Nalchik yesterday, destroying three German tanks and additional war material.
LAYS WIFE'S MURDER TO ‘MONEY TROUBLE’
GLENCOE, Minn., Nov. 12 (U. P.). —William Ahlbright, 83-year-old bridegroom, killed his wife with an ax, set fire to her bed and then sat down on the porch of their burning home to smoke his pipe, he told police today. Ahlbright said he killed his wife, Albertine, 58, whom he married last summer, because they had “too much money trouble.” The slayer, a well-to-do farmer,
iddle East Ace Awarded D. S.C.
CAIRO, Nov. 12 (U. P.)—Pirst Lieut. Lyman I. Middleditch, Highlands, N. J., whose destruction of four Messerschmitt-109 fighters, three in one battle, makes him the most successful U. 8. fighter pilot in the Middle East, today wore the distinguished service cross, for extraordinary ‘heroism, He 'was one of 81 American officers and enlisted men participating in the battle against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika korps and who were decorated “yesterday by Maj. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commanding U. S. air forces in the Middle Fast.
HOLD FURLOUGH TO SEVEN DAYS
New Order for Draftees to Be Effective Dec. 5; Begin Cut Tuesday.
Because of military expediency, the furlough period for draftees in Indiana will be cut from the present 14 days to seven days by Dec. 5, Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state draft head, announced today. Selectees inducted Nov. 17 to 19 will receive a furlough of 13 days; men accepted Nov. 20 and 21 will be granted 12 days; men inducted Nov. 23 and 24 will get 11 days; those taken Nov. 25-28 will have 10 days; inductees Nov. - 30, nine days; Dec. 1-4, eight days. Beginning Dec. 5, all men accepted will receive the seven-day furlough.
DECATUR, Ind. Nov. 12 (U. P.). —Victor H. Eicher, 43, Adams coun« ty, auditor since 1939, was arrested yesterday om eharges of embezzlement. Charges were filed against Eicher by Prosecutor Lewis L. Smith, who said an investigation by the state accounts board showed a shortage of $7575.89. Eicher, who was re-elected last week, is confined to a Decatur hospital by injuries suffered when he
was: attacked last week by an’ un-
known assailant. The. accounts board examination
Col. Hitchcock sald that if. se-||
lectees are held overnight and inducted on any day following the day they were ordered for induction, the furlough' period will be given from the day on which they are actually inducted. This applies also to men who are held over for clinical study in completing medieal records. National draft headquarters ordered a reduction in the furlough
period and the plan of going gradu-
ally to the seven-day period was worked out between state officers and headquarters of the fifth service command at Ft. Hayes, O.
U. S. MAY SPONSOR A FOREIGN LEGION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U. P.) — High government officials are considering a proposal to form a foreign legion under the sponsorship of the United States, Louis Adamic, author and one of the originators of the plan, said today. Writing in the New Palestine, of-
of Superior Court 5 Judge-Elect and |admitted battering his wife with an [ficial publication of the .Zionist or-
Brereton got two direct hits on|Mrs. Ralph Hamill, 6033 Pleasant|ax and setting fire to his home, his|ganization of America, Adamic said
a Japanese cruiser.
— ident, presided. Staff Sergt. Dennis W. Lawrence
Election of officers will be held at sons. The leads he furnished were|of Gary has been decorated with |the meeting at 8 p. m. Dec. 9 at the|so
which he owned, “I wanted to destroy everything there would be nothing left for
of value in finally freeing Davino|the order of the purple heart for|home of Mrs. Ethel Conard, Cum-|our children to fight over,” he told
from Sing Sing.
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