Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1943 — Page 6

E VOTE KILLS

( BOARD REFORM|

senate yesterday virtually a bill which was originally 2d to keep public officials off ty tax adjustment boards. motion introduced by Senator ward V. Johnson (R. Hendricks) delay action on the measure for

d by a voice vote, third reading of the bill was ded by members who sought

4 0 amend it in various ways. One

mendment would have destroyed ie intent of the bill by striking out

clause prohibiting public offifrom membership. Another

| ‘Sweater Gir "Call Off Strike

. STRATFORD, Conn., Feb. 12 (U. P.)—Fifty-three * girls, still unconvinced that their bosses

‘meant safety first when they for-

bade them to wear sweaters for

their own “protection,” returned

to their jobs at the Sikorsky aircraft plant today, in jackets. The sweater girls were sent home yesterday until they could make up their minds to wear regulation uniforms, slacks and jackets over blouses. Twenty-two girls who were wearing jackets walked out with them in sympathy. Their C. I. O. shop steward persuaded them to go back. They agreed to, “pending negotiations.”

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IN WAU BATTLE

12-Day Battle Costs Enemy|

1000 Dead, MacArthur Communique Says.

MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR-|:

TERS, Australia, Feb. 12 (U. P.).—

Decisively defeated Japanese troops i in northeast New Guinea are fleeing:

toward Muho village, approximately

12 miles southwest of Salamaua,]; : after a 12-day fight in the Wauj: sector which cost them nearly 1000] §

dead and many more wounded, a

unique said to-|}

{amnesia while

a 24-hour leave Jan. 30 from. : McDowell and took a ‘ferryboat to cross the bay to San Francisco. Someone hit him on the head and

Jakie) We Tee on ” combat hours. He said he had day that he would tell a military| His mother, Mrs. W. Seward Webb West Port, He poled poy fe court-martial he was suffering from of New York and Palm Beach $0-|g,u several times with Kelly and posing as a heroiciciety, arrived by plane from San|... J Pear] Harbor on Dec, 7.|the next thing he remembered was captain of the army air force, boast- | Francisco last night and had Bobert [ire aid his best friend had been when military intelligence officers ing to divorce-seeking women in a|Miller, manager of her hotel, issue (killed and it made him so mad he|20d FBI agents arrested him and hotel cocktail lounge of having shot |a statement to reporters: “My son, | ant up and shot down his first he found himself, unaccountably, down 63 Japanese planes. ~~ |Jacob, is held in the Reno army air |plane. ‘ in the uniform of an air corps cap= Webb, a descendant of Commo- base for court-martial. I shall issue| «He said he was one of the five| il : dore Cornelius Vanderbilt, is in the a statement tomorrow after talking |surviving pilots of the Flying Tigers guardhouse of the air base near with John N. Jeffers, commanding of China and the Chinese governhere, awaiting court-martial on a officer of the air base.” ment. had given him $6000. He said charge of impersonating an army| Webb had been a patron of Mil-|he was sent here for rest after sevofficer and “bringing disgrace to the |ler’s hotel and Miller recounted his|eral months of combat duty in the would have to close 50 of New York uniform of the United States army.” |stories: - Solomons and New Guinea.” City's 650 public buildings beca Army authorities said Wébb act- “He said he was the fifth ranking| Webb's own story, as relayed bylof a fuel oil shortage. ¥

FEAR SCHOOL SHUTDOWN

. NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (U. U)— Officials feared today that they

army authorities, was that he gob Si

day. The unsuccessful attack, which began Jan. 30, was directed at the| valuable allied airdrome at Wau, ap-

d have restored the selection of have initiation ceremonies tomorbership to its present status. Irow at Castle hall, 230 E. Ohio st.

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proximately 31 miles southwest of Salamaua an ever-present pistol pointed at the invaders. \ Australian jungle fighters, who pushed the main enemy force back six miles on Wednesday, continued to hammer the columns retreating in the direction of the Salamaua base, which they have held since March, 1942. -

" One Regiment Defeated It was the first major allied tri-

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enemy was swept from the Papuan section last month, after a bitter struggle which cost the Japanese around 15,000 men. “This force is believed to have been about one regiment, normally around 2800 men, plus some engineers,” an army spokesman said. “Many of the 200 bodies counted yesterday were victims of allied artillery action along the Wanduma trail, southwest of Salamaua, on Tuesday and Wednesday. “Our forces also’ found a number of Japanese graves around Leahy’s farm, southeast of Wau.” Oth¢r Japanese casualties, includinig the wounded, were probably much greater than the number of abandoned dead, the communique said, while allied losses were “relatively light.”

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‘Man With Fountain Pen; Flashlight’ Gets $135

In One Home.

- “The man with the fountain pen flashlight” struck again early this morning in the city’s “burglary belt.” At 2:05 o’clock this morning, “a man holding a fountain pen flashlight” put his arm through a bedroom window at 1230 Central ave. Herbert Marshall, 35, yelled and

the man ran, but had succeeded in grabbing a suit coat containing $135 and a gas ration book. At 2:30 o’clock the man with a small flashlight was busy at the home of Robert Ogle, 29, 1437 Park ave., and took $1.30 from Mr, Ogle’s trouser’s pocket. A 3 a. m, he showed up at 1232 Carrollton and flashed a “pencil flashlight” in the face of Mrs. Carl Brebberman, 30. She screamed and he jumped out of the bedroom window. Description Given Police

Wilson Flanigan, who rooms at the same address, found that he also had been if his room and taken $10 from his trouser’s pocket. Mrs. IL. H. Moe, 718 E. 11th, was awakened at 3:28 a. m. by the sound of a jar falling from a window in her bedroom and the noise evidently scared the prowler away. A description of the man was given to police by Mrs. Ruby Palmer, 30, 1567 Broadway. He awakened her at about 4:40 o'clock this morning, flashed the light in her face and then left. “Dark and Swarthy” She described him as having a “dark, swarthy complexion, $0 to 35 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 135 pounds. She told po-

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cropped mustache. He was wearing, she said, .an overall jacket, light shirt, gray pants and light cap with long visor. At 5:03, William I. ‘Kaiser, 32, 645 E. 17th st., was awakened by a flashlight beam in .his face. He got up and took after the prowler and chased him twice around the. house before he escaped.

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