Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1943 — Page 9

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DANCE WILL HONOR

— ee THE INT |\BOOTH OPENED

U.S. PRISONERS

La Guardia Says He Talked ‘With Bitter Italian

Army Leaders. |

{ WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (U.P.).— Mayor Fiorello H, LaGuardia’s recent “interesting talk” with nine high-ranking Italian generals, who may be in the United States, was

impressive evidence today of the}

scope of the American peace offensive against Italy. Mayor LaGuardia, of Jewish and Italian descent, has been participating in that offensive with a weekly short wave broadcast to the Italian people—part of the campaign to precipitate revolt among the war-weary Italians against their Fascist rulers. He speaks Italian fluently. : In his broadcast yesterday, he told the Italians that he had talked recently with some of their wellknown generals, including Gen: An~ nibale Bergonzoli, who is known throughout the world as “Old Elec. tric Whiskers.” -|

Frustrated and Hopeless

LaGuardia described all the generals as “aged beyond their years” ~—3 group of frustrated and hopeless men who ‘Were once great army aders. ‘He did not reveal where he conferred with them, but presumably it was in this country, probably Washington. The conferences could . have been in Canada, although it was believed that LaGuardia has not been out of the country. He has made several trips to Washing- { ton. Neither the war department nor the state department would comment on the radio broadcast which was supposed to have been secret. When it leaked out, however, the office of war information released La Guardia's text.

Once-Highest General Included

La Guardia listed, in addition to Bergonzoli, these other prominent generals, who Were captured in the allied campaigns in Egypt, Libya and Ethiopia, and with whom he had talked: Gen. Pietro Gazzeri, ex-ministér of war and former military governor of Abyssinia (governor-general of Galla and Sidamo), and once the highest ranking officer in the Italian army. Gen. Claudio Trezzani, former vice governor general in East Africa. Gen. Carlo de Simone, ex-gover-nor of Somaliland and Harrar.

Gen, Enrico Pitassi Manella, who |}

had command of “the division” in Libya. Air Marshal Gen. Pietro Pinna. Maj. Gen. Francesco Guasco. Army Corps Gen. Ferdinando Gona. Army Corps Gen. Luigi Prusci.

Reported Aiding U. S.

. There have been persistent re-| ports that Bergonzoli and other prominent captured Italians were

Mercy on

the March

Army's Portable Hospitals Follow" Troops to South Pacific's idungle Battlefields.

FOR GARDENERS

War Memorial; Vacant Lots Listed.

The office of civilian defense observed Georg€ Washington's birthday in an unusual way this year. Today was not a holiday. Instead, the garden department of the OCD opened an information booth at headquarters in the world war memoral to give victory gardeners in-

#8 | formation on lots and plowing.

hind the fighting lines. Despite

ready to operate in 30.

co-operating with the U. S. in a|§

dramatic propaganda aimed at weaning Italy away from Germany.

La Guardia gave not the slightest || intimation that the nine generals |

he enumerated were those of possible war prisoners. But an Italian hearing the mayor's words in the fluent Italian that he speaks could get no other impression than that the men were in the U. S. and that they were glad to be out from under Benito Mussolini’s heel.

Communiques

MacARTHUR COMMUNIQUE

(Issued Monday, Feb. 22) NORTHEASTERN SECTOR:

SOLOMONSL Buin-Faisi — Our medium bombers in a night attack again bombed enemy airdromes at Kahili and Ballale, staring large fires visible 50 miles. At least two enemy aircraft caught on the ground were destroyed. A large hangar was demolished. and other damage was caused in the building area. Heavy antiaircraft fire was encountered, but all our planes returned. NEW GUINEA: Mubo—Our attack planes swept the area in two waves, bombing and heavily strafing enemy installations and adjacent tracks (trails). Fires were started and Waipali village was completely destroyed. Buna—Enemy planes made two nuisance raids in the area under the cover of darkfess, causing neither damage nor casuales

Ine Bay—Two enemy bombers ineftudlly raided at Ah ad dropping bombs ie LA in the b NORTHWESTERN SECTOR:

Ambon—Our heavy bombers strongly attasked the town areas and shipping in the harbor. Clouds prevented observation of results. Two of six intercepting fighters™ were shot down and two others were prchably shot down. All our planes returned.

» NAVY COMMUNIQUE 288 (Issued Sunday, Feb. 21) 1. The United States submarine Argenaut has failed to return from patrol operations and must be presumed to be lost. The next -of kin of personnel in ihe Argonaut have been so informed ’ NORTH PACIFIC: 2. On I’eb. % a United States naval unit operating in the western Aleutians engaged and sank a Japanese supply ship. SOUTH PACIFIC (all dates are east longitude) On Feb. 18 and 20 United States aireralt executed a number of bombing attacks on Japanese air field at Vila on Kolombangara island and at Munda on New _= Georgia island. Large fires were started and hits were scored on anti-aircraft in- - stallations. One United States plane failed to return from these attack missions. 4. The United States destroyer, which was announced in the nav gomun dis 282 as having been sunk on Feb. 1, 1943, ‘by Japanese Air attack, south of Savo island, was the U. 8. DeHaven.

The next of kin of those Kite, wounded _ and missing have been notified

SEES JEWISH REFUGE AS PEACE FACTORS

.. PITTSBURGH, Feb, 22 (U. P.).— The future peace of the world may depend upon the providing of a place of refuge for exiled Jews, Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley declared here last aight. “This Jewish movement may be vital importance after the w Barkley told 900 persons at & dinner to money for’ the settling of Je refugees in Pal-

department

campaign |

Just as they would in a city hospital, but using the crudest equipment, Maj. J. W. Gurin of Chicago and Capt. Edmund H. Schweitzer of Peoria, Ill, sterilize their hands before starting to operate on men wounded in South Pacific battle areas.

Their stretchers supported by pontoons improvised from tarpaulins, two wounded men are ferried across.a stream, en route to a portable hospital which follows American fighting troops in the South Pacific’s jungle warfare. Sgt. W. H. Manley watches over the casualties as a fellow army medical corpsman pulls the “raft” ashore.

Maj. J. J. Duskas of Erie, Pa., leads a U. S. army medical detachment through a South Pacific jungle to set up a portable hospital be-

difficult terrain, these pioneering

medicos can bring relief to wounded soldiers inside of 10 minutes, are

Only 800 Sarde behind a South Pacific fighting front, two U. S. army surgeons perform a major operation on a wounded soldier. Their portable hospital has a canvas roof. Their operating table was built of wood cut from the surrounding jungle.

The Rev. Stanton Lautenschlager of Chengtu, China, will describe his experiences as a college professor’ in a country under Japanese invasion in ‘addresses before Indianapolis colleges, high schools and churches this week, Today he was to address the students of Indiana Central college at 11:25 a. m.; a luncheon for Presbyterian ministers and lay workers at 12:30 p. m. in the Y. W. C. A, and a meeting at the Wallace Street Presbyterian church at 6:30 p. m. The guest speaker will be heard at Crispus Attucks high school at 10:35 a. m. tomorrow; at the Butler College of Religion, at 11:40 a. m,; Howe high school, at 2:12 p. m,; and at Butler university, at 7:30 p. m. Women of the First Presbyterian church have invited Rev. Lautenschlager to speak Wednesday at 2 p. m.; the George Washingttn high school, at 10:35 a. m., Thursday and the Tabernacle Presbyterian church at 7:15 p. m. also on Thursday. In 1920, Rev. Lautenschlager went out to China with Mrs. Lautenschlager to serve under the Presbyterian church in the U. 8S. A.™ He was a professor of history and sociology in Cheeloo university at Tsinan but moved to the interior city of Chengtu after the invasion by Japan. He traveled by horseback and airplane visiting the populations of whole cities which had taken refuge

1in caves in northwest China. Communist leaders were so im-|

pressed with his influence on the people that they invited the missionary :- to return and build a church and organize a. Y. M. C. A. The Rev. Lautenschlager made a study of industrial co-operatives, and influenced 6000 students to ac-

REMEMBER

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During This Sweeping Wave of

Missionary to China to Tell - Experiences Here This Week

cept. Christianity or at least begin a serious study of it. He is the author of various articles on the war in China, on China's Northwest and on student evangelism. He is a Canadian, a graduate of Kitchener and Waterloo Collegiate institute and of Huntington college.

‘SHOCK TREATMENT’ IS BOURNE’S TOPIC

J. E. Bourne, professional representative of E. R. Squibbs & Sons, will speak on “Shock Treatment” at a meeting of district 39 first aiders at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Uni-

29th st. and Kenwood ave. Mr. Bourne will base his discussion on official findings and experiences of the British emergency medical corps. He has been. connected with first aid work for many years and was formerly chairman of the health and safety council of the Boy Scouts. Robert S. Swanguer, district chief, has urged -all first aiders to attend the meeting.

. {OCD committee.

versity Park Christian church, W.|

That's how the organization celebrated the birthday of this country’s most noted gentleman farmer and at the same time the inaugura-

tion of the point rationing system §

for canned goods. Persons who want victory gardens and who do not have plots on which

to plant them may apply for ground | ;

at the new office. The OCD garden

committee, headed by Mrs. Merritt: §

Woolf, will assign the ground to them. After the assignment is made, the applicant must see the owner

to make arrangements for using the| }

land. . Vacant Lots Listed

For some time J. W. Van Briggle,

as a member of the committee, has| |

heen locating and listing vacant lots. Mr. Van Briggle also has been working with Robert Mason on the Indianapolis real estate board’s victory garden committee which also is listing available land. Information on plowing has been cbtained by Harry Myers of the Through his efforts, the office has a list of men in various districts, each of whom will do the plowing in his particular district. When the office opened at 9:30 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Woolf was at the information booth. Mrs. Hester M. Hart will be in charge of getting volunteers from the city’s 19 garden clubs to man the booth each day from 9:30 a. m. to 4 p. m,

AIR SCHOOLS IN CITY ON GAA LIST

Hoosier Airport and Turner Company Among 200. Offered Contracts.

The Hoosier airport and the Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corp. were invited today by the civil aeronautics administration to sign contracts to train army aviation cadets and non-combatant elementary and advanced army reservists,

Invitations were extended to 200] 4

flight schools, listed as the largest and best-equipped training centers and chosen in line with the army’s

‘i policy of centralized flight training.

The Hoosier airport. was offered) a contract to give elementary flight instruction to army aviation cadet

‘| candidates, while the Roscoe Turner

school was included in ‘the list of schools to provide non-combatant

elementary and advanced instruc-| § tion for air forces enlisted reserv-

ists. 200 Schools Ignored

of the 500 flight schools in operation, 200 were invited to sign contracts, 100 are training naval personnel, and 200 are left without business. . A CAA spokesman in Washington admitted that the program envisages the elimination of 200 other schools which may be forced to close for lack of revenue. He said the army will offer to purchase the equipment of those schools not invited but that even then the operations will suffer a financial loss.

CHURCHILL PASSES COMFORTABLE NIGHT

‘NAVAL GRADUATES:

Times Special

TT Ind, Feb. 22. — As reward for 1s ‘weeks of fic Jo eel study, the naval training Information Available at school at Purdie university will |entertain 193 men who are graduating as members of company 6 at a dinner-dance in the Memorial

union building this evening.

The bluejackets who arrived here, Oct. 30, from San Diego, Cal, and have: spent the

Great Lakes, 1,

tricians’ mate, third class.

ee ——————————— R.A. F. SETS FIRES IN BURMA NEW D; Ft. Duff Japaneseingyan,

by royal night, a h

fires” at buh places.

for the petty officer rating of elec-

Feb, 22 (U. P.)— near Mandalay in pied Burma, and Myapproximately 60 miles southwest of Mandalay, were raided air force bombers last quarters communique said today. | The raiders set “good

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. (U. P.). —Rep, Daniel Reed (R. N. Y) today predicted that a. compromise pay-as-you-go income tax plan designed to meet objections: to the Ruml plan and various alternates would be proposed to the house ways and means committee “within a few days.” Reed, a member of a » subcommittee named to work out a solution

at reports that it would take three

to the income tax problem, scoffed’

on many features that must be incorporated in the new law,” he said, “and we also have a pretty clear idea of what the committee does not want to include.”

CIGARET SUPPLY AMPLE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (U, P.).— The war producion hoard assured smokers today that there would be no restrictions on the manufacture or distribution of cigarets “for the present.”

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LONDON, Feb. 22 (U. P.) —Prime §

Minister Winston Churchill, suffering from inflammation of a lung, passed a comfortable night and his general condition remains practically unchanged, it was understood today.

A bulletin from Churchill's office | § improved | 3

yesterday said he had slightly over Saturday, when a small area of inflammation on one lung first was reported.

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