Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1943 — Page 7
g ‘furiously In the wreckage of a London sehoo 1 where 100 children were buried in the |
st daylight air rald London has seen since 1940. . The rald was apparently in retaliation for recent
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NAZI DAYLIGHT RAIDERS RETURN
Rescue Squads Still Dig for -Vietims of Stuka Attack.
LONDON, Jan. 21 (U. P.) —German daylight aerial raiders returned
to the attack on. southeast England}
today while rescue squads worked inrelays still seeking additional survivors of upward of 100 small chilen and their teachers buried in the ruins of an elementary school flattened yesterday by a dive-bomb-ing plane. British fighter planes were waiting for the Germans as the second day of daylight raids started, and ~ one German fighter plane was shot down quickly off the southeast coast. |
“LONDON, Jan. 21 (CDN) .—Hitler’s luftwaffe has destroyed a total of 1103 British schools—970 elementary schools and 133 secondary or high schools—since the autbreak of the war.
38Set anew. -
Forty-eight were known dead and 80 wounded were in hospitals, and 20 still were missing in the school bombing. During the night six more children, their bodies crushed, were taken out of the ruins of the school but all died on the way to hospital or soon after they arrived.
Five to Eight Teachers Dead
5 “Among the known dead were five | 1 of the eight teachers in the school’s junior section which was hit. Authorities moved to investigate charges that air raid sirens did not d until after. the school was
bed “and that barrage~balloons| |: did not rise. Parliament discussed| evidence that many raid shelters}
4+ were locked, and that children from a second school: could not get into the shelters. and were ‘machinegunned in the street with their teachers by a German plane. Home Security Minister Herbert Morrison said that those responsible
for the maintenance of shelters kept} .
many of them locked “owing to the scandalous misuse of the shelters by citizens,” and that it is difficult for wardens to unlock them when there is little time between sirens and bombs. Only the smallest children in the elementary school were involved. They. were assembled in a first floor, at lunch with their teachers, while the older pupils lunched at home. ‘Excavation squads had to be called out to reach the room, now just a pile of debris, including the splinters of school desks, from the three floors above which had crashed in on it. Among the volunteers who worked throughout. the night, refusing re- , Hef, was the father of one buried child. Pour air raid alarms were sounded as the workers dug through the ; night. Each time flares and shaded = gontinued digging and hauling out debris by the light of the moon. Berlin said German bombing planes attacked targets on the south coast during the night and also “penetrated the London area and dropped high explogives and incendiaries.” Actually only a few incendiary bombs were dropped in one southeast district during the first of the four alarms sounded in the metropolitan area before midnight.
LEGISLATORS ASK WILLKIE TO SPEAK
Indiana’s legislators have asked Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 G. O. P.
presidential candidate, to address :
them ‘Feb. 12. Their invitation was hy Willkie yesterday in New ork, “Mr. ‘Willkie is scheduled to speak Before the Indianapolis Women’s Republican club the evening of _ Feb. 11...
BACKACHE, LEG PAINS MAY
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enemy is “now facing a different co B. breed of cats.” “He doesn’t quite understand it,” Hunt said. “He keeps piling men in and piling ’em in, and he gets nowhere. They want back that island plenty to save face.” Hunt, who ended the order of the day on the eve of the Solomons landing by saying fo his men, “Good luck and (God bless you and to hell with the Japs!” used phrases as colorful during an interview at|¥ marine corps headquarters here,
Soon: Settled Down American boys, he said, are “the greatest potential soldiers in the SOBtID) of me
world.” “Anyone who says he’s not afraid |, WB 188-— (Woodard)—Makes automubile of $500 revocation’ of license
going into battle Is either lying or|fine and crazy,” Hunt said, “Taking to the insurance; sets for Sallure to eh assault boats, the impression I got 33000 to one person; $10,000 was that the knew that thein injury sad dent. (PubIE. Batety C0 pressure was on, that they were go-
in any one a H. B. 130-—(Steele)—Abolishes necesing to play marbles for keeps. ~ |sity for continuous = applications for ap“They were quiet, methodical and |; of teries
ropriations for the u ceme! which any service man is buried. (Milyou could see some of them swal-|itary Affairs.) lowing hard. B. 140—(Malone Hunter of Madison) “They got over that phase though, Ep tf Shore oom when they got into the game. They riles whele there are no child found the Japs were not SuUpermen, | vides for the method of proof Of separhthat we had weapons better than|tion. (Public Morals.) those of the enemy, and that it took only a bit of teamwork to beat them at their own game.” - Hunt, a veteran of the famous|m stand and counter-attack of the marines at Belleau Wood in France, said there is no difference between the fighting man of today and those of 1918, “except perhaps. the boys| today may be a little smarter and they yap a lot more.”
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grega torneys of $7000 annually.
H. B. 135-—(Claffey, sy. Hottnan couse method of appointment of the state Sl ing” cone appropriates $12,000 annually ”» “
istrative pu jacmbets Rh Tei0 per dis ays and
H. B. 136--(Eh} Downey of —“ Provides that he Sounty ¥, Board of pubic Judge of the county instead of circuit in counties with a po
H. B. 141 ~(Eendall) ~Sirengihens - panclal Saniuy responsibility of automebile requiring that person Bt Fen show financial Tesponai-
lor the future and 4 guarah tee pa; ained men CE any siamage os by the
H. B. 142-—-(Henley, Hellou 4Seng Sax ob “fuels o 4 an_gas vaed in hicles opera ul highware. (Ways and" Means Jn aie
= R_B xe S(O Routke, Stasie)=prolib8; prescribes conditions under bon de sales can be made; sets Pe for violations a a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500 and imprisonment in the county a for not less than 10 days nor more than six monihs, or both. (Judiciary A.)
H. B. 144— (Willis, Slenker)—Establishes retirement system for eligible aonteaching public school employees; monthly deductions from wages not to gxsesd 5 per cent; contribution of school to determined ‘by “pension Sonsultane; a member a refund annuity a a pension; provides Io disability a at i of $41.66 per month. (Ways and
Mayor Names Tin Salvage Board |:
MAYOR TYNDALL yesterday named & committee which will direct the collection of tin cans within the city. The Marion County Salvage for Victory committee and the Indianapolis Junjor Chamber of Commerce will co-operate in conducting can collections. On the mayor's committee are Harry R. Calkins, secretary to Mayor Tyndall; William H. Trimble, chairman of the Marion county salvage committee; Luther Tex, city street commissioner; Ray Fisher, county road superintendent; Mrs. Lowell Fish~er, OCD representative; Lyman G. Hunter and James B. Clements, Junior Chamber of Commerce members and Blodget E.
H. B. 145— (Korn, Bond)-—Provides where a director of an ‘CO!
an. not less than $1000, one who owns DE a ts Fa an a a a of not less ti $5000. i Sgregal ce.) Yale
Bills Passed en
H. 12 (enles, Kreft) — Increases maximum weekly benefits - for Sisability because of occupational aibase from $16.50 to $18.70, Inereaer juneral allowance. from $100 to $165, increases
Jenefiis & from $5000 to "35500. ®0° aves,
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ON NEW ARMY
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- Help Form 250 Divisions For Russian Drive.
By PAUL GHALI Copyright bls by The a napolis Times
today indicate that the Nazi leaders are busily preparing the forma-
tion of a new army to be drawn int| from the last manpower reserves
andlon this: continent us a final and,
they hope, decisive effort to stop and drive back the Russian hordes
1-| next spring.
The Basler National Zeitung disclosed yesterday that the new army will be 250 divisions strong, half of which will be raised in Germany.
Recalls Napoleon
will get—at least he hopes—from
| his axis partners and satellites, or
benevolent countries such as Spain and France under the form of antibolshevik contingents. This Nazi .drive to get more and more cannon fodder as the German divisions fast disappear in Russia's icy steppes strongly recalls Napoleon’s calling upon his last French and European reserves after his disastrous retreat from Moscow to fight in Leipzig what was significantly called the “battle of nations.” The European levies were not then of great help to the already defeated emperor.
CLUB PLANS PARTY. FOR SERVICE MEN
The Grain Dealers. Service club will have a party for service men from 2 to 6 p. m, Sunday ab the
st. Ted Campbell and his orchestra will play for dancing. Hostesses will be the Misses C. Piper, Gertrude Soeurt,
te | Margaret Amelia’ Gebhart, Geneva Thompson
Brennan, county salvage director.
and Freida E. Waddell.
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BALDWIN PIANO Sa
WAREHOUSE CLIAR
Partial List of Pre-Owned. Pianos on Sale:
BALDWIN, KIMBALL, ESTEY, KRANICH & BAGH, KURTZMANN, HAMILTON, WHITNEY
and MANY OTHERS
UPRIGHTS. trom......> 1D
MODELS from.........3 10
tows rr 3150
SPINET PIANOS, formerly $525; reductions of
125 5225
So spontaneous was the acceptance of In= diana Piano Buyers to our great preChristmas Sale, that we now have an abundances of Teatiotn and Pre-Owned + «all. styles and. , Some.
ALL TO GO
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