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Nightmare Relived—
62d YEAR—NUMBER 280
The Guys to Whom It Happened Talk It Over
t By DAVID WATSON Wherever sailors of the U. 8. Navy gather, they'll spin tales of the sea and fight old battles.
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And whenever Dec. 7
rolls around, “old salts” like me
think back to the defeat at Pearl Harbor, the subsequent
fight to victory. That's what happened again to-| day in the Federal
Building, ! where I cover the news beat. Yak-|
! Robert Ruark, Page 27; editorial, Page 28; other stories, photo, Page 38.
ing with me about that mnight-|
mare at Pearl were a lieutenant and two chief petty officers of : the Navy recruiting station. Ten years ago today, we fought on different ships moored withth a half-mile radius at that base in| Hawaii.
Greater battles have bee n
fought since then, and other men! in uniform may have been hit! harder, but never was an attack delivered with such “knife in the back” surprise. We didn’t believe it could happen. I was just a civilian-sailor when the.war hit me. Seemed Like Forever I-had gone on active duty with | other Naval Reservists from the] 30th St. Armory, and nearly 200]
of us Hoosiers were ‘the full crew!
on Gunboat Sacramento. A few hundred yards from us was the ill-fated Oklahoma, and a few] piers down the line lay the Honolulu. It was Sunday ‘and we were up early. Most of figured on shoring for a good time, so we were Just] getting dressed. Then it hit. It was hell. Bombs! hit everywhere. We probably] weren't bewildered for long, but it seemed like forever. Under, command of Capt. F. H.| Knachel of Indianapolis, our ship brought its limited gun fire into
+ action,
I still don't know how much good we did. Like my friend at Naval Recruiting said today, some|
~~of the ships were well-armed with
sponges and oranges, but not with guns. Our little Sacramento kept firing. Many of our men went on to other battles, this time to at-| tack and conquer. As for me, in five years more of war, I never fired another shot! in anger. Chief Yeoman Idell Foster, 30, of 2238 Magnolia St., was a third class yeoman in the personnel office of ‘the U. S. 8. Oklahoma when the battle alarm sounded. It's been estimated the Okla-
homa lost 300 men when it rolled | over after taking six torpedo htis.
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(alongsile the Honolulu,
. W. Stepro (left), Idell foster,
Then Chief Foster boarded another ship—but it was put out of {action in 10 minutes. After diving into water swept by burning oil, he scrambled up a lifeline dropped from the nearby Maryland. { The Maryland was hit a few minutes later and her bow set{tled into the mud. Behind his ship, the Arizona exploded from a direct hit; Across the harbor, Lt. Alfred Stepro, 37, of 6208 Commodore Ave. saw the Oklahoma capsize ‘when he rushed to the main deck {of the U.S.8. Honolulu. ; Below decks at 7:55 a. m. he {was packing his sea bag and pre-
{paring to be transferred later
{that day. Then he heard the alarm. © He dropped down the hatches to his station in the fireroom below the water line. Heavy gun-fire burned up the [oxygen around the ship. With the pressure gone, flames from the boilers poured out into the compartment. A bomb sliced through, ex-| | Ploded under the ship. “It seemed to lift us out of the] water,” Lt. Stepro said. “It was| the most awful jolt I ever had.” Ammo magazines were crushed | land compartments flooded, but no casualties were reported. The U. 8. 8. St. Louis, tied] cleared | her lines and prepared to fight her way to the open sea. Chief Quartermaster Paul La-! wall, 38, of 4221 E. 12th St, was aboard the tiny YNG-17 when he saw the St. Louis speeding out of {the harbor with all guns blazing. | She was followed by the destroyer. | Together they knocked two) enemy planes out of the air. “We were on a spot,” Chief La-| wall said. “We couldn't fight back at the planes,” Chief Lawall said. “We| were well armed with sponges and | oranges, but no guns.” | He was a first class signalman then, and had just finished morn-| ing chow when the attack came. He'll never forget that breakfast.” Neither will I.
cloudy, cooler tonight and tomorrow.
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By United Press HARTFORD, Conn.,, Dec. 7-—Two popgunpacking boys, accused in a $112 parking lot theft, were nabbed on a downtown street last night after a snapshot of an 8-year-old sweetheart was found near the crime scene. “I knew sh2'd get me in trouble,” 9-year-old boyfriend. His 10-year-old companion flashed a red ahd yellow plastic popgun at a plainclothesman and warned: “Don’t get tough with me. I know my right. I want to talk to a cop.” Detective Sgt. Joseph V. Meaney assured him he was having that opportunity. Until the boys were shown the picture of the little pig-tailed girl, they were -stubbornly silent. “They were tough to crack,” ‘Sgt. Meaney said. “They wouldn't admit a thing.”
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Chafrman Cecil R. King (D.
in front of/Cal) of the House Ways and 8. Ayres & Co. and the 8. 8.!Means subcommittee investigating
tax scandals said he had been noe {tified by Mr. Oliphant’s attorney {that ‘the man is In no condition ‘to testify today." | “The attorney,” Mr. King added, “said he needed the week-end at
— least to rest-up.”
Mr. Oliphant, a native of Kirks lin, Ind., spurned a subcommittee [“invitation” te testify in private and demanded an opportunity to appear at an open hearing to “re pair the damage done my repue [tation.” He said that charges /that he was one of a “clique” of tax shakedown artists were “baseless and scurrilous.”
Agreed to Listen
The subcommittee agreed t8 {hear his story today. But the {investigators were notified shorte
{ly before the hearing was schede
fuled to- begin that he would not | appear. | Mr. King said Mr. Oliphant will | get another chance to testify, but lit is uncertain when the sube {committee will hear him, | Mr. Oliphant resigned as chief counsel for the Internal Revenue | Bureau Wednesday after he was accused of being a member of a “Washington clique” of high government officials which was said to take part in a shakedown of delinquent taxpayers. | TU. 8. Attorney Charles Ireland | meantime prepared to give a fed|eral grand jury conflicting testi. {mony about the alleged extortion { scheme,
Ordered by McGrath i
{ Mr. Irelan was acting on orders tof Attorney Gen. J. Howard Me|Grath, who directed that the case be presented to a grand jury with. {in 10 days for possible prosecus [tion for perjury. It was under: {stood that Mr. Irelan hoped to have the case ready to present {late next week. The conflicting tetimony was {given by four witnesses, |” Abraham Teitelbaum, Chicago | attorney for the late Al Capone, | testified he was the intended vietim of a $500,000 shakedown, He said Frank Nathan, promoter, {gambler and “influence peddler” {of Washington, Miami and New | York, and Bert K. Naster, Holly- | wood, Fla.,, demanded the money 'to fix up his tax troubles.
| Nathan testified. that Mr. Tel-
|telbaum’s story was a “dirty, (filthy He.” Nathan was backed ‘up by the sworn testimony of his | son-in-law, , Leslie Sale. re Mr. Teitelbaum was {by a woman who self as Mrs. Shyrt
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