Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1945 — Page 8

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NO V1 LETUP

Faces Prospect. of Continued Attacks by Rockets Until Spring.

By EDWARD P. MORGAN Times Foreign Corresponident | LONDON, Jan. 8.—England must face the unpleasant - prospect of continued, and possibly intensified,|230° Bakemeyer- st., is taking basic| German rocket-bomb attacks until training at Camp Fannin, Tex. spring, highly qualified sources said LT ROBEET BAILEY POWERS y ... engineering officer in the merchant I: ~appears Ipessingly i marine service, has left for .the Atthat nothing gas = p ; eM ntic seaboard affer a holiday visi - from fring Lis 1 1 2 § 28 gta with his sister, Mrs. Martin Aldred | this country wai ¥ Dene I ing in Forest Manor, Lt. Powers has thus pushing the roc “®made several trips to the Hawgiian giles out of A "the possibility Islands, Australia, New-Zealand and ways Ir y yossibility |)" CORE he .of allies springing some strategicai the- Aleutians. His last duty on a

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large tanker took him three-fourths surprise, it does not seem likely now | 8

; Netherlands can, or will of the way around the world to| Hah The Nether:ancs can, “Ceylon, India, and the Persian Gulf. |

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NAVY ASSIGNS OWN REPORTERS

Commissioried Officers to Aid Civilian Writers Cover

Pacific Front.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (U.-P.).— The navy has assigned its own “re-

two or three months, at least. See Stepped-Up Attack

Although the V-2 bombardment of England, since it began, with a joud bang, one fine-day last autumn, | fas never approached the ferocity of the summer's V-1 flybomb offen-. gdlve, the Germans probably are gtraininig to step up their "rocket attacks. And flyhombs, launched from airplanes over the North sea, almost always at night, are still landing in| Britain, too. Judging from printed reports:of Incidents, V-bomb attacks - were| - markedly increased last week. They are nuisance attacks, so far as their effect on the course of the war is concerned, - But they still porters” to- cover the war in the yield tragedy to this ‘dogged nation, pacific, it’ was learned today. which has borne so immeasurably | much during the last. 5% years. men-all commissioned officers and As long as the Germans hold the | yt) ay all of them former newsDutch. coast they can apparently | nanermen—are supposed to supplecontinue to launch V-2's Whose. mant put in no way supersede Covrange is roughly 200 myles, {erage by regular war correspondents, Experts believe that the enemy| Tye first group of 20 fleet corhas not developed any rocket which | respondents is already-in the Pawill- do noticeable damage from 8 cific area. Eleven of them have greater distance. - ee | been given fleet assignments and According to the best informa-|ihe remaining nine are still at Pearl tion available, no‘secret weapons” |Harhor awaiting orders. have landed in England, from either. It was understood that the project Norway or western Germany, de- had the full support of Secretary of spite some rather fancy rumors to the Navy James Forrestal, who was that effect. [impressed by the work of marine Defense Is Difficult corps combat correspondents,

Defense against the V-2 is very, difficuit because of its terrific speed,| Under present plans, fleet corresits unheralded approach and the pondents will serve on ships which fact that it requires no compli- do not carry regular war correscated launching apparatus. It can pondents to avoid duplication as be set off from a field, the middle much as possible. However, a naval of a road, or somebody's dooryard | [Spokesman said, in no case will with almost equal facility. [this interfere with the assignment However, the R. A. F, has made of war correspondents to vessels of repeatedly effective attacks on $ome the fleet. site and supply areas and its blows | All news copy written by the to the Dutch railways have made navy's own reporters will be made

Called fleet correspondents, these

Duplication Avoided

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times Foreign Correspondent - , PARIS, . Jan. 8.—Marseille, the second largest city and port in France, | the dust, destruction and debris left by the Germans and by the August battles.

‘ROAD WORK LET| -

The Indiana highway commission | Saturday announced the award of | $2,316,911 in contracts for bituminous resurfacing and concrete widening projects. They included: { William D. Vogel, Indianapolis—$336,117.12 | for widening of 2552 miles on Ind. 274

TEE 50 east of Brownstown, "| did everything in- their power to | render useless, serves as a supply { base -for thé American 7th army Har Hons \g I, Constiveuion oo. > Elk | and, in addition, for French imnT 8.6 from U.S 33 east to the| POrts from African territories, Noble DeKaib county line;” John Rehner, | 2 2 s

Inc, Ft. Wayne—s$246.745.92 for widening | 2 : 120.20 miles on U, 8 west from the/ AT FIRST sight when driving Ohio-Indiana state line 7 ER 5 . Greenfield district: W. L. Magaw of | into’. Marseille, the city appears Richmond—$347,521 > for ; widening eH little changed.-Here and there are resutizcing of 14.90 miles on Ind. shelled houses, tokens of a foughtover city. Cannebiere ave., which Marseillais consider more beauti-

Ft. Wayne district: Hipskind Drainage | Co. of Ft. Wayne—$106,981 for JesuTiscing of 7.85 les on Ind. 9 southgob

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east of Anderson 1 La Porte district: Rock Road Construc-| tion” Co.—$125,188 for resurfacing of 9.04 miles-on Ind, 2 west from La Porte; 8. G. Hayes & Co. of Chicago—$111,332.40 for | resurfacing 1.70 miles on U.S. 112; .85| of a mile on U.-8.-20 and 1.95 miles on Ind: 12 in Lake county. |

relatively untouched. But coming to the old port and

CONFE RENCE CANCELED |

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (U. Py Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, president of the U. S. conference of mayors, = It, and the rest of the old port announced that the annual, con-| is & PERAHS heap of rubble. veption-set.for-Jan. 25-287 in, Wash z..a ingtgn, DD. co: had been “cancelled. i FROM THE Quai du Vieux- Por

rant where we used to eat bouillabaisse, «= our: first impression Tehanges.

the German transport problem ex- available to war correspondents to |-

tremely complicated. {enable them,

on if they wish, to fill in The efficiency of these counter-!any gaps in

their coverage.

The |

measures is’ a pretty comfortable | fleet correspondents also have been!

guarantee that the Germans will instructed

to assist the

civilian |

‘never be able to make their rocket | |hews-gatherers if such aid is re-!

attacks as intense as they had | quested. ° originally hoped. - |" News. stories written by the fleet | But, if you are inclined to forget | correspondents will not be trans-| now and then that England is still mitted to Pearl Harbor to be made a baitle area, you might ponder {avajlable for general release until the fact that in all of December's | {after all war correspondents’ copy . 31 days, there were only._three 24-| {has been dispatched. hour periods -when there ‘was no enemy air activity (either V-1, v= 2] or both), ” |

LACEYS CELEBRATE 60TH ANNIVERSARY

Mr. and Mrs. John Lacey, 703 S.| Tibbs ave., celebrated their 60th| wedding anniversary Sunday with a! family dinner. Married Jan. 4, 1885 near Royalton, Ind., the couple has reSided here for 36 years. Mrs. Lacey, who was Florence Stanley, of Coatesville, is 77 and Mr. Lacey, who ‘is 83, -was born. at Royalton. - The Laceys have a son, Roy, five daughters, - Mrs. Mabel , Prasuhn, Mrs. Nellie Vidito, Mrs. | Brae Bertha Young, Mrs. Hazel Chapman, | Cpl. Ernsberger and Mrs. Fay Gaulden, 14 grand-| children, one of whom is in the serv- | ice and several great-grandchildren.

Cpl. Ernsberger Serves in Belgium

CPL. HAROLD R. ERNSBERGER, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Ernsberger, 2226 Guilford ave. is serving in Bel gium in an antiaircraft artillery gun battalion. He previously served in Ice =~ land, England and France. He entered the army Jan. 13, 1942, and seven months later went to Iceland, where he served 15 months. He entered France in June.

Air-Battle Wagon Mystery

Cleared by Navy Photos

By SANDOR S. KLEIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Some of the mystery -surrounding the Japanese battleship-aircraft - carrier, which made-its first combat appearance during last October's Philippine naval battle, was removeed today by a study of photographs which indicated the ship carried at least 30 float planes.’ Naval experts had a pretty low regard for the Japanese innovation They said the ship could be neither an effective battleship nor a useful plane carrier, ; {suffered numerous bomb Hits Photographs made ‘during - the! battle showed the hattlewagon with short flight deck aft, ‘covering at least a third of the vessel's length. Its main battery was confined to the forward part of the ship. aircraft carrier is—or was~—the only Since the flight deck was too!ship. of its kind ‘in, the short for landings or take- ce-off, pho- navy.

tographic analysts deduced that the aircraft complement was composed entirely of seaplanes The planes evider tly were stor on the hangar deck be low the fligh deck, believed merely a space for handling . the planes for catapult take-offs and for recovery from water landings by cranes: According . to the navy, appeared to have been a rebuilt sion of the Ise class battleship, a 29,900-ton craft built in proved completely ineffective Philippines sea battle. The

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RATION CALENDAR

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FUEL OIL—Period 4 and 5 cou | 1945.

is slowly emerging from:

The port, which the Germans |

ful than Paris’ Champs Elysees, is |

looking instinctively fer the restau |

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| Americans,

Thuge triangle, bounded on its other sides-by the Rue de la Republique and the Quai de la Joliette, ‘the city Is a mass of rubble, - the result of German dynamiting two years ago. The oldest quarter of Marseille was undoubtedly the dirtiest, un= healthiest and most unmoral sec=tion of. this. or most other cities in the world, vying with Shanghai and Singapore for unsavory character, But the Germans didn't wipe it out for altruistic reasons. 5 » » . THEY CLAIMED, and with

some reason, that Britons and

tortuous streets. And the gestapo didn't dare venture in to hunt for them. The port itself looks as Naples, Cherbourg, and- all -other European ports which the Germans have attempted to demolish look —: great cranes hanging crazily qver the water, packed with sunksen shipping, fine modern ware=

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French DeGaullists | and all others hiding from the Nazis found. safe refuge in its

Kotises™ ‘and ‘whart buildings sagging or broken to bits, like aband-

5 8 =» ’ IN THE center of town life begins to move briskly—as briskly, that is, as any Mediterranean life is' capable of moving, Food is slowly ‘coming in. Those Interested in working can find jobs with the American army or in reviving the economic life of the region. In official quarters—at the prefecture where Regional Commissioner Aubrac makes his headquarters and at subsections of government ministries, there is a decided acceleration in the pace of the work, according to those who have been there since Marseille was. liberated. " ” » ¢ HERE AS in few other sections of France, since N8rmandy, we found French and American .officials intermingled in military and civil officers.

* They were working in apparently_perfect. harmony and::with- an

efficiency seldom achieved é&lse-

* Marseille Slowly Rises From Nazi Dust od Debris

where where liaison is effected by means of telephones, formal letters and missions. * Marseille has a leftwing local administration with some Communist partieipation. 8, 8 UNDERNEATH, however, one notes considerable deference paid to the Communist party there and _to the Communist deputy, Things are quiet in Marseilles, but there is still a Doticeable tension, This is caused probably by the uncertainty of life and by the inflammable character “of these highly volatile- people.

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TAX RATE. INCREASE

and The Chicago Daily News,

By UNITED PRESS

an unhappy year, Tokyo

warned

poration taxes,

APPROVED IN JAPAN

| Oh} those lawyers.

= IHANILE' DROPS H

SUIT AGAINST SISTE

-NEW YORK, Jan, 8 (U. PY Tommy Manville said today. ti he had dropped a suit started J} October in Manhattan supre court against his sister, Mrs. raine Manville Dresselhuys, to §

{gain control of a $2,000,000

fund.

Mrs." Dresselhiiys said her broti sent her a telegram which said | would cancel the suit. 9

Manville had sued to regain poy! of appointment ‘over the full which, was left him by his fath and signed over to him by his sis A in 1942, s Asked {if Mrs. Dresselhuys Nn retained control, Manville said ! had “never lost control of the fun | Asked why he started the suit sald, “Who started the suit, Anyway the s§ lis off and all my. dough is going

Japan's lowly taxpayer is.in for|the medical schools.” radio in answering . cabinet-ap-proved tax Ingreases of 1,700,000,000 yen Annually. dn income. and. cor- were—enly-rfour-gutomobiles int

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