Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1943 — Page 16
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the navy Spokesman de-| the action as he saw It]
mat- ; take|night when U. 8. naval gunsirs organ took over and 8. Sgt.
uce the effects
: Southwest Pacific, Nov. § (U. P)~| goes through yy, japanese warships were: sent
to the bottom or damaged Monday
“|before “Holly” was married. Mrs. Jearned that her son was Aan|again sometime soon. Mrs. Holli-] 3
_ | reports of the 90-minute battle, in-
Leven greater American victory when
of Ville,” said Saylor. “We small-craft {men take a swell plastering from
the Nips and get plenty of ma-chine-gun fire from shore, but we {always land and discharge our car-
from the lofty lookout of one of 808”
, the warships. “You Can't Play Horse”
“Today 1 talked with some of the | Sile “of the crews which took [ques the battle, Everett Billing-
Jap gunner is not too hot ‘t play horse when he's
distance,
night action, Jap er and dropped dou-
ble flares which lighted up
maybe others, but it] me ours was the only one & giare==like a Ohristmas-tree;
s front window. Toward
Back to the base, traveling at high speed on a PT boat, we carried a
‘{dicating it may turn out to be an
full details are disclosed. "Not -an American vessel was lost although -some were damaged and there were casualties in the fight which took place only 40 miles off the beachhead won on Bougainville, northernmost of the Solomons, by U. 8. marines only 12 hours before.
Seventeen Japs Downed A previous communique had dis-
rare curiosity—a live Jap prisoner.i i ..q the engagement but gave no
The skipper willingly deposited
cannet prevail,
. Sen — g flight of Jap en me. 00 F IRE MENAGES SIX,
90. Twelve peeled off and dove on us, b "vay over.
~~ hoiie at 43d st. aiid Emerson uve.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Phelps and {their four children were routed out of their beds last night by fire that
destroyed their seven-room: farm | Mr. Phelps said he was awakened {by flames shooting through the {second floor ceiling in his bedroom.
nt and refusing any reply 0 OUr| goqjls Jt was fought while transtions, he shielded his face from| +s were still unloading off Bouthe sun, only rarely peeking at the| gainville. The next day the warcurious crowd looking from SUr=| chips brought down 17 of 87 {rounding decks. Marines had picked | Japanese planes that attacked them. {him up on the beach at Empress] bay.
{Berlin broadcast a Tokyo dis{patch which apparently referred to
{the same engagement. It said
him on the dock. He was the first, . heavy damage” was inflicted on the our |and maybe the last, piece of flotsam from ‘the great drive northward against which his countrymen
American fleet units but gave no | etails and said “more than half” the Bougainville landing force had been wiped out and a “large number” of landing craft Were sunk.) Twelve Jap ships, including four cruisers and eight destroyers, took part in the fight. One cruiser and
four destroyers were sunk and two : cruisers and two destroyers dam-
aged. On Tuesday allied planes in a heavy raid dealt a strong blow at
Rabaul, big enemy base on New Britain, . had sunk or damaged three
enemy. destroyers and. two --largel..
cruisers. ig Resistance Crushed
and possibly more, for they've writ-
; fields and pa ye ___Iten to relatives of the co-pilot; navi- Betker of ‘The crew really was made up in|gator, bombardier, tail gunner and Venu Tucson, Ariz, in December, 1942.| radio operator. Iacein the R. A. point and Cassino, . . They were filled with joy when|p. and was | in action over| The south bank of the Gariglianoied today.
the mother of 8. Sgt. John Gafl-| prance. - — ie Voir Civistnas Sovpiae Row SE Bowes
Milwaukee,
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Holliday came into the picture Jan. [Italian prisoner and no longer day's leaving for Louisville, Ky. 16, 1943, at Almogardo. She lived [among the missing. today. Mrs. Morgan is going back with 8. Sgt. Holliday from her| But there's no better way 10/to work here but intends to go to wedding day until he and Lt [compare notes than a face. to face Texas soon to visit the mother of ‘were vent overseas Marth 28. meeting. So Mrs. Holliday rone-of the ‘missing crew members| & — After Lt. Morgan's original crew {she needed a trip, took off a few} And until-they see—each other! ff was split up, he and “Holly” stil|days from her Red Cross canteen|again, they'll be wearing those little stayed together. Rated as “green-|corps work and came to Indian-|silver wings . . . in fact, it'll be horns,” they were assigned to ships|apolis to see Lt. Morgan's wife. . |silver wings for: the duration, with experienced men on the first| “The first person I looked at was er three missions. But they never|her,” Mrs. Holliday said. “She said made the second and third trip. ‘Are you Peggy?’ and from there While bombing the Messina har-|on we had no trouble.” bor in Sicily April 30, their ship was| Mrs. Morgan couldnt take a attacked id SA German ip yas week’s vacation from 'her work gay hat ai Workers o 8 Oopenschmidts. The U. 8. bomber went |here as a dental technician, but SGENn hava yar nec ar down the main topic of the evening for deciding on the mass deflance of a : : German demand that they repair Through news from the Red|the last five days been| scuttled Danish warship which Cross, the war department and men | “Dwight” and “AL” P ES the Nazis salvaged.
DANES DEFY GERMANS
STOCKHOLM, Nov, 5 (U, P)— The Danish press scervice said to-
has
DENTIST
ROOM 301—3rd Floor ROOSEVELT BLDG.
N. M. . . . that he worked for|for a fourth war loan drive early Against Japs.
. JS . Plan Another Meeting . : : | : 1 “Peggy” learned that Li. Morgan PLAN 4TH LOAN DRIVE ' n ' took pre-flight training at Santa| NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (U, P)— . Edward B. Hall, assistant to the General Motors Corp. here before|next year in which increased emin February, 1942, that he|phasis will be placed on sales to| J (Continued From Page One) Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese mili-
: Ana, Cal.; primary, Phoenix, Ariz; CHINESE CONFE ne nai tary leaders.’ :
basic, Baker's Field, Cal, and re-|secretary of treasury, celved his’ commission at Roswell, | night that plans are being made President Reveals - Stepup|sraduated from ~Tech- high - shoot | individuals. Near in Campaign a Mr. Roosevelt described as a
|grand idea the decision of the
Stanley HollMay, | Venafro by slicing a road between ing to Moscow soon to complete the formalities, reliable sources report- -
While the marines who landed at|senate foreign relations committee
{He rushed to two other bedrooms | py, rags Augusta bay on Bougain{to awaken their four children andi; ie fought their way. inland ex-
spread the alarm to the Lawrence volunteer firemen and the Indianapolis fire department. Volunteer firemen and neighbors
pecting counter-attacks, Japanese resistance on Mono island, largest of the Treasury group 30 miles south of Bougainville, was crushed by allied
succeeded in saving most of thei, .,,; who went ashore there Oct.
furniture but their victory garden
lm to begin the last phase of the
canned ‘goods valued at about $300)... aien through the Solomons on
were destroyed.
Firemen fought the blaze for three ‘hours but were unable to save anyiina¢ It. Gen. Alexander Vandegrift,| right, but the dominant question is |
of the house, The cause of the fire was notsdetermined.
“700,000 JOBLESS IN U 8.
3 > gr ON
Unemployment in the United States | their progress. : {in October; amounted to only 700,000, the bureau of census reported Hoday-: This-compared with 800,000
the southeast approaches to Rabaul. A Guadalcanal dispatch revealed
hero of the conquest of that island,
{was —in—-personal charge of the y {marines on Bougainville, “The &om“N “WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UP) munique contained no new-report-of
Damage Transport . The latest communique reported
in September and 1,600,000 ‘in Oc- ONY Slight damage and scattered
|aerial activity in Gen. Douglas
to include in its posi-war foreign policy resolution section four of the ny four-power Moscow declaration, i} — calling for creation of a “general; international organization” to maintain peace, ) : He said that in the case of proposals for relief of hungry and dis- | : tressed Europeans the heart is all
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