Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1942 — Page 9
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By Virginia Hatfield
‘week. and “Invisible Agent.”
THREE WAR. FILMS will go to the neighborhood theaters this They are “The War Against Mrs. Hadley,” “Desperate Journey”
Washington is the setting for the first movie in which Fay Bainter and Edward Arnold are co-starred. Miss Bainter portrays the titl€ role, that of a wealthy society matron : Who refuses to have her life
changed because of the war. Although she struggles to mainitain her accustomed standards of “living, Mrs. Hadley .is faced by Her son goes to the army, her daughter marries a sergeant and her admirer, Edward .Arnold, busies himself with war work. The outcome of her attitude is for you to see at the Fountain Square today through Friday; the Belmont, today through Saturday; Speedway, tomorrow through Saturday, and the St. Clair, Uptown and Rivoli, Sunday through Tuesday. 8 5 8 “INVISIBLE ‘ AGENT” is the latest of a series of unique melodramas which began with the filming of H. G. Wells’ best seller, “Invisible Man,” by Universal several years ago. It is the-dra-matization of the adventures of a daring united nation's secret operative. Because of his ability to achieve invisibility, Jon Hall as the agent, is able to penetrate enemy headquarters in Europe and ferret out valuable enemy military secrets. Ilona Massey is cast as a mystery woman who, known in the field of international espionage, seemingly favors the axis in her work. To add to the thriller, Peter Lorre portrays a ruthless Jap diplomat in Berlin and Sir Cedric Hardwicke appzars in the role of a higher-up in enemy espionage. With an invisible man and
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Peter Lorre cast in the same film anything may happen. Need I say more? The picture will be at the Old Trail, tolay and tomorrow; Belmont, St. Clair and Uptown, today through Saturday, and the Irving, tomorrow through Sunday. : ” ” 8 WHAT HAPPENS to five R. A. F, fliers downed in Germany, couldn’t happen fo any normal human being. But it does in “Desperate Journey,” featuring Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Arthur Kennedy and others. The obstacles they confront would confuse “Superman.” The film, taken from an English story, “One of Our Aircraft Is Missing,” takes the fliers on their escape trip through Germany. They overpower Nazi soldiers, disguise - themselves as Nazi officers, are objects of a mass man~hunt, set fire to a factory manufacturing incendiary bombs and otherwise leave Germany in a state of frustration. No such movie could be complete without a good ‘samaritan. That's where Nancy Coleman comes in. She's the anti-Nazi Nazi. Of course, there’s a recon=ditioned bomber just waiting for their appearance. Do they get away? What do you think? Showing the picture are the Rivoli, Vogue and Zaring, today through Saturday; the Granada, tomorrow through next Wednesday; Irving, tomorrow through Daisy and Speedway, Sunday and Monday, and the Belmont, Sunday through Tuesday. BELMONT—Through Saturday: ‘War Against Mrs. Hadley” and invisible
CINEMA—Through Saturday: Rendezvous” and ‘Panama DAISY—Through tomorrow: and “Friendly Enemies." EMERSON~—‘Talk of the Town' snd “Tish.” Tomorrow through Saturday: “Top Sergeant’ and “Affairs of Jimmy Valentine.” ESQUIRE— Midnight” and “Safari.” FOUNTAIN SQUARE—Throungh ¥riday: “War Against Mrs. Hadley” and “Atlantic Convoy.” GARFIELD—Through “Murder in the Big House"’ Time for Keeps.” GRANADA—"‘Iceland” Correspondent.” Tomorrow through Wed nesday: ‘Desperate Journey” and “Busses Roar.
“Pacific tie.”
“Tish”
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AMILTON—‘‘Tales of Manhattan” and “Mokey.” Tomorrow through Saturday: ‘‘Across the Pacific” and “Tish.”
IRVING—'Bugle Sounds” and ‘Berlin Correspondent.” Tomorrow through Sunday: “Desperate Journey’ and “Invisible Agent.” MECCA—Through tomorrow: “Wild Geese Calling” and “Girl's Town.” OLD TRAIL—Through tomorrow: “Invisible Agent” and ‘‘Lady in a Jam.” ORIENTAL—" ‘Escape from Crime” and ‘‘Blondie’s Blessed Event.” Tomorrow through Saturday: “Tales of Manhattan” and ‘Nazi Agent.” PARAMOUNT—‘‘Come On Danger” and ‘“‘Scattergood Rides High.’ Tomorrow and. Friday: “Talk of the Town’ and “I Was Framed.” PARKER—Through “Wake Up Screaming” and of the Hills.” REX—Through tomorrow: ‘Mad Doctor of Market St.” and “Roundup.” RIVOLI—Through Saturday: ‘Desperate Sourner® and ‘Busses Roar.” ST. €CLAIR—Through Saturday: ‘Ine visible SLA. and “Lady in a Jam.” SANDERS—‘The Lady Is Willing" ahd “Mad Doctor of Market St.” Tom row through Saturday: 4 LL Dell Pays Off” and “Riders of the Badlands.” SHERIDAN—‘'Panama Hattie’? and ¢“Miss . Annie Rooney.” Tomorrow through Saturday: “Private Buckaroo”
tomorrow: oy “Bad Men
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; SPEEDWAY—'Friendl, “Sweetheart of the eet.” Tomorrow through Saturday: “War Against Mrs. Hadley” and “Lone Star Ranger.” STATE—Through tomorrow: ‘‘Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost” and “Criminal Investigator.” STRAND—Through Saturday: “Iceland’’ and “Berlin Correspondent.” STRATFORD—Through tomorrow: “Skylark” and “Mexican Spitfire at Sea. s TACOMA—Through tomorrow: ‘Almost Married’ and “Unseen Enemy.” TALBOTT—Through tomorrow: ‘Pierre of the Plains” and “Miss Annie Rooney.” TUXEDO—Through tomorrow: “Night in New Orleans’ and “Remember Pearl Herpes " OWN-—Through Saturday: visible Agent” and “Lady in a Jam.” VOGUE—Throu uh Saturday: ‘‘Desperate Journey” and ‘Orchestra Wives.” ZARING—Through Saturday: “Desperate Journey’ and ‘‘Busses Roar.”
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NEW. MEMBERS
School Commissioners Ask “ Three Electees to ‘Sit In’ Dec. 29.
The three newly-elected members of the Indianapolis school board, Mrs. Eldo I. Wagner, Edgar A. Perkins Sr, and Dr. Hemry G. Mayer, have been invited to attend the next meeting of the present board Dec. 29. The new members will take office
Jan. 1, and will succeed Mrs. Carl J. Manthei, Harvey B. Hartsock and Evans Woollen Jr. The vacancy created by Mr. Woollen’s resignation has not yet been filled.
Grant Teacher Leaves
Two other new members, Howard S. Young and Clarence Farrington, will take office Jan. 1, 1945. The board, on the recommendation of DeWitt S. Morgan, schools superintendent, accepted the resignation of Mary H. Simmons of school No. 46, and granted leaves of absence to Berta B. Romine of school No. 62 and LaVerne E. New-some-of Crispus Attucks high sé¢hool. Mr. Newsome is entering the military service. The following appointments to teaching positions were announced: Floetta G. Nutter, school No. 27; Robert L. Green and Gertrude B. Eckert, Shortridge; Alfred K. Jones, Washingten high school; and Alice C. Hankins, Howe high school. The resignations of Helen B. Bar~ nell, ‘Fay VanArendonk and ‘Ruth Richardson from the staff of library assistants was reported by L. L. Dickerson, librarian.
INDIANAPOLIS OWN’ NAVY UNIT SWORN
squadron was announced today. Nine new: members, sworn in on the eve of the new draft curtailment
order last week, were added to 16 already enlisted to form the 25-man are: George Sims, 4340 Park ave.; “Indianapolis Own” ‘unit, The newly enlisted fledgling pilots Albert Frank, 1211 N. Rural st.; Thomas Gibbons, 2020 E. Washington. st.; John S. Bond, 623 N. New Jersey. st.; Billy E. Smock, 1820 Christopher Lane, Speedway; Jack A, Taylor, R. R. 1, New Augusta; James E. Moore, Connersville; Will Smith, Greencastle, and John MecKinnon, Noblesville. Comm. Carl G. Olson, officer in charge of the Chicago naval aviation cadet selection board, ‘emphasized today that Indianapolis men with applications pending for navy flight training may be enlisted until Dec. 15.
AUTO" DEATHS DROP 15% DURING YEAR
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. PJ). —The commerce department announced that there were 4607 motor vehicle accident deaths in 153 major cities in the first 47 weeks. of
comparable 1941 deaths. The department said ‘the decline indicated “that curtailed automobile traffic this year may have been responsible for the saving of nearly 1000 lives in cities.”
8,000,000 TIRES ACQUIRED BY U. S.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (U. P..— The OPA reported today that approximately 8,000,000 tires had been forwarded to the government by Nov. 28 under the idle tire purchase plan. About half of all tires turned in are so badly worn or damaged that they cannot be put into shape for resale, the OPA said. These: will
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1942, a drop of 15.9 per cent below]
By HAMLIN WELLING
Pvt. Royce Stull, an Indianapolis marine just turned: 19, matched wits and markmanship with the Japs for
[67 days in the Solomons.
He didn’t get hurt—but a lot of the Japs -did, probably fatally. Pvt. Stull said he wouldn’t know about that, though. “When we shot at Jap. patrols from our outpost on Guadalcanal, it was enough for us to see them fall. None ¢f us were going to leave our post to see if they were kill he said.
Birthday Dec. 7
He's back home visiting his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Stull, 2319 Central ave. He is a graduate of Technical high school. He'll be home through Christmas, leaving Dec. 27 to return to duty. He returned to this country Nov.
of time to observe his 19th birthday on Dec. 7, anniversary of the treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor. Enlisting in the marines March 9, 1942, Pvt. Stull was trained for three months in San Diego as a
sent to Hawaii. After two months there, he was ordered aboard an aircraft carrier with a squadron of fighter and dive bombing planes.
Yanks Bombed Daily
The carrier arrived near the Solomons -about a week after the first American landings - there. U. 8. troops had fought that time without aerial support and were. bombed daily by Jap planes. Pvt. Stull said American troops were so happy to see the U. 8S. planes come in that they ran out on on Henderson field and hugged the pilots.
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“From then on it was a different story for the Japs,” he said. “They no longer had things all their own way. They would come over every day between 10 a. m. and noon, and the first day our major knocked off four Jap planes. “As far as we could figure out, the Japs would send over only one navigator and one trained bombardier in each squadron of 27 to 32 planes. Time and again our fighters would knock off one plane and all the
Foes) Marine Back From Guadalcanal: . Matched Wits With Japs for 67 Days
‘general direction ‘of ‘their base.
Other times one Jap- plane would |
drop its bombs and ‘the. others would follow suit immediately: “Apparently, they were trained to follow one navigator and one bombardier, dropping their bombs when they saw his fall. “Most of the time I spent in mechanical work on the ground—but I did get up four times as a relief gunner on a dive’ bomber, “That was when. we spent two-and-one-half days wrecking the Jap ‘attempt to land some: 40,000 or more reinforcements. We played nell with them. “I only got two chances to shoot af: Jap planes. Both times I saw my tracer bullets heading either into the wings or motors and both planes started smoking and broke® off action.”
\ ‘Spooky, Out There’ Every four, days, Pvt. Stull had to stand guard with two other men, manning a machine gun and two sub-machine guns set up at an outpost. “It was awfully spooky out there,” Pvt. Stull said. “The outpost was set up in dense jungle and it was pitch black. The Japs would be almost next to us before we’d know it. “We'd grab our guns and start blazing away at them. Boy, we were lucky to drive them off.”™ Another experience he. underwent there gives him a chill every time he thinks of it. That was having to eat Japanese rice and barley for three weeks when they ran out of food. He had to smoke Jap cigarets, which he compared to corn silk and grapevine leaves. After 67 days, the fliers were beginning to get “pilot fatigue” and the squadron was ordered back to
others would start heading in the this country.
Today
The situation
for long. Heavy allied attacks on Western Europe make it imperative for them to keep a strong force on guard, which means tieing up not only a great number of planes but specialized crews and pilots who must by now be all too scarce. With the Russians on the offensive, it is fairly obvious that the Germans cannot afford to strip their air force there any more than they have. Italy is similarly occupied with defense. The latest heavy raid on Turin, coupled with attacks on the southern tip of Italy and on islands in the eastern Mediterranean, are a reminder to Italy of the necessity of home defense. Prime Minister Winston Churchill in his .recent speech warned the Italians what was in store for them unless they got out of the war. The allies meanwhile are outstripping the axis in plane production. Losses in current engagements are about equal. German air power appears to be on the downgrade and the process of attrition alone should knock it out of the air. Moreover, as Germany weakens and the allies grow stronger, the process of disintegration should become progressively more rapid. The situation was summed up at a press conference in Washington yesterday by Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold. He described the aerial
struggle in Africa as a close one but was ut was optimistic about the the out-
MRS. PAYNE DUE AT PRISON TOMORROW
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 9 (U. P.).—Monroe County Sheriff Earl Baxter said today he will take Mrs. Caroline Payne, convicted slayer of Charles O. Mattingly, to the Indiana woman’s prison at Indianapolis “sometime Thursday.” “Mrs. Payne had a few personal affairs to finish around here and I allowed her a few days to gét them done,” Sheriff Baxter said. . The 45-year-old Bloomington newspaper woman was convicted of voluntary manslaughter last Friday night and sentenced to 2-to-21 years Monday by Special Judge Charles B.
‘| Staff for the fatal shooting of her
former sweetheart.
TWO VICHY OFFICIALS SWING TO DE GAULLE
LONDON, Dec. 9 (U.P.).—A fighting French spokesman said today that Xavier Gauthier, French consul at Malta, and Eugene Emmannelli, French charge d’affaires in Liberia, had submitted their resignations to the Vichy govermment and joined the forces of Gen. les de Gaulle: Gauthier, it was said, wired Pierre Laval that he was placing himself at the disposal of the “only French leader who has continued to fight.”
HINT NAZIS UNEASY OVER FOREIGN LABOR
By UNITED PRESS “Schwarze Korps,” official publication of the S. 8S. elite guards, gave the first indication today that Nazi officials were becoming uneasy over the presence in Germany of millions of foreign workers drafted from occupied European countries. The paper, according to the London radio, pointed out that the foreign workers owe no allegidnce
every crack in Germany's borders is sealed against enemy countries.” The dispatch coincided with reports of new unrest. r
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By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The British-American campaign in North Africa and the Mediterranean is putting German air power to the supreme test. luftwaffe which in due course may break it and contribute greatly to a speedier ending of the war.
It has put a strain on the
shapes up favorably for the allies.
Germany has attained momentary air superiority in Tunisia but at the cost of drawing dangerously on its reserves in Europe and on the forces needed for the long Russian front, It is questionable if the Germans can maintain superiority in Africa
come. The question of air control over Europe is likely to be decided there, he declared, and he left little. doubt as to who he believed would win it.
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Order Men to Die
The newspaper Pravda sald prisoners reported that special discipline detachments had been sent to the Rzhev front, 130 miles northwest of Moscow, to shoot axis soldiers who attempted to retreat before’ the flerce Soviet onslaught. It said the German high command had issued a new order to its central front troops to die on the spot rather than retreat an inch. ere was little doubt that the Germans were dying ‘on the spot— before the deadly fire of the driving Russian troops. Soviet communiques reported that upwards pf 4000
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