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AJOR NAVAL BATTLE ON IN PACIFIC

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Allies Seek To Half Japanese Drive In China Japanese Seeking To Trap Allies In Central Burma Chungking, .May R < t'Pl- -l.p.iit i (Jen. Joseph W Stilwell, I'nlted | States commander of Chinese for- ! res In Hurma. was reorganizing I his lines above Japanesedield I.a shin and .Mandalay today In a determined effort to stop the enemy advance northward into China (The London Star, in an un- ■ credited dispatch. said Allied bombers had raided the Rangoon ! area again today.) General Stilwell. It was said, has organized two regiments from the ; Kachin tribesmen the most ferocious natives of northern Burma. The Japanese were advancing toward Yeu. 7o miles northwest of Mandalay, and northeast of Mandalay on ('hindwin Their objective appeared to be the closing of a pincers somewhere in northern Burma to trait Allied forces in central Hurma. Well Informed sources here said the Japanese had bombed .MyitkyIna. in the center of the northernmost Hurma plateau, for three consecutive days. Thete was no confirmation here of reports that the Japanese had entered India near Chlttagons hut such an invasion would not lie unI eipected. A Japanese landing at Akyab, on the Ray of Rengal, near the Indla-Hurina border, was considered a prelude to a drive northward through Chittagong . The Japanese, evidently fearing that Allied long-range bombers would soon be using Chinese airfields to bomb Japanese cities. ■ were making a determined effort j to bomb airdrome.* In southern China out of ezlstenc- The central China news reported that Jap(Turn To Page *, Column S> o Income Tax Proposal Submitted By Stall II Would Keep Present Base Os Exemptions Washington. May I—(UP)—-The house way* and means committee's staff of eiperts today proposed an Individual Income tas increase that would yield less than half the IL--300.000 sought from Ibis source by ■ the treasury. i The staff plan was presented to ! the committee this morning by • Colin BUm. who said it would j -alse >1.900.000.000. Siam proposed, commltte-- members said, retention of the present individual Income taz ezemptlons of 11,500 for a married couple. 1750 | for a single person and 1100 for ' i each dependent. i The difference in '»«es between the Stam plan and the treasury • program on a lio.ooo incom- would amount to adiout 51.000 Committee members said that a married man earning 110.000 a yea r would pay >2.400 In tales under the treaaury's March Jrd proposal and nearly 5J.000 under the new treasury program submitted yesterday. Under the Stam plan he would pay about fI.MOO. In the last few years the ways and mean* committee has leaned heavily on Burn and his staff in writing its taz 4>ili. o Decatur Woman To Give Book Reviews Mm. Leonard Baylors will go io ; Fort Wayne Saturday where she Will review the book by Bees Aldrich Streeter. “A Lantern in her > Hand." for the national college > sorority. ZeU Tan Alpha The review will follow a mother-daughter luncheon at Fairfteld Manor , On Monday Mrs. Baylors has been ! asked to appear on the program . that the Pel lota XI sorority of Bluffton wIU give honoring their patronesses at the Fsi lota XI hail i in that city. Mrs Saylors has selected the dramatic narrative poem. “The 11 White Ciffs," by Alice Duer Miller, and wIU be assisted la her presen tattoo by Mina Helen Haubold as pianist and Mrs W. J Krick ss vocalist

Lt. Bulkeley, Torpedo Boat Hero, Baek in U. S. i _ — • > w ' • Mt i as M B *1 w ■ ' fa wn ill ■■l w\ V vv 4 Hr z * - it Mi ■ J*’ I' ’ ,- T|' y/ ■ ■ ■ BiF? <<_ _ The I S Navy's torpedo boat heroes In the Pacific are pictured as they arrived In San Francisco for a short furlough Among them is Lieut John D. Bulkeley, who carried Gen Douglas MacArthur and his party in a torpedo boat on the first leg ot their historic escape from Corregldor to Australia. Left to right ar. Knsign A V Akers. Lieut. R. B. Kelly. Lieut. Bulkeley and Ensign G. E. Coz.

Says Nation Fighting For Very Existence Ohio Legion Leader Is Speaker Thursday In the principal addres* at the fourth district American Legion meeting in thia city last evening at Adam* Poet 43 home, Ohio district commander Floyd Hartpence or Waterville, said, "we are fightIng thia war for our very existence Nazism and Japanese imperialism are directly opposite to our free way of life and our form of government. Our enemies must be wiped out. for we either win or lews." The meeting was attended by about 250 Legionnaires, headed by Indiana commander W. Carl Grain in. fourth district commander A. R Vegaiues. both of Fort Wayne; district commanders Richard Lini deman of Delphos and T. C. Hipakin of Leipsic. Ohio, and delegations from over the district, and , Ohio. Fred K. Miles of Indianapolis. * former state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. C. A. Davis, former commander of the Freeport. 111., post. J. K Foster. , ’ former commander of the Muncie |MMt and Jean Wells. Indiana fourth district adjutant, wre guests. Norbert Holthouse, program chairman, read inessag- a from William E Sayer, Indiana department adjutant and V. M. Armstrong, national vice-commander of the American Legion, who were unable ' to attend. Charles Weber, post commander, presided as chairman and fourth district commander Vegaleua acted ' as toastmaster Dinner was served by the women of the la-gion Auxiliary In the assembly room of the home. State commander Graham, before introducing the Ohio commander az the speaker, outlined several of (Turn To 7. Column St , | __ o Ima Leona Lee Dies Thursday Evening I ’ T Pneumonia Is Fatal To Decatur Woman .Miss Ima Leona Lee, 39 daughter of Mrs. J. C. l-ee. of this city, died last evening at 5 o'clock at the Richmond hospital. Death was , attributed to pneumonia, following an Illness of one week. Mlm Lee was born In Decatur on September 4. IM»2. the daughter of J. C. and Mary T iser lase. Rhe was a member of the Pythian dieters lodge and of the First Evangelical church. The father preceded her In death about 1® years ago. Surviving are the mother and two btothers. Herman Lee of Fort Wayne and Chai mer Lee at home Funeral service* will be held , Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at , the Black funeral hom*. with Rev. George 8 Logter oMciating. Bartel will be in the Decatur cemetery The body may be viewed at the , Biack funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening

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Decotur, Indiana. Friday, Moy 8,1942.

To Spend Mother's Day With Air Cadet Son At Turner Field Mrs Alice Christen of Winches ter street left today for Albany. j Georgia, where she will spend 1 Mother's Day with her son. air cadet James Christen of Turner Field. Mrs. Christen received a personal Invitation from Captain J. Weller to attend the Mother's Day program at 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening at Turner Field, where a parade will be given for the special pleasure of the mothers anil a party for cadets and their mothers in the cadet rooms She was accompanied by two of her daughters. Mis* Jeanette Chris-1 ten of this city and Mrs. Myron < Ralston of Van Wert. Ohio. 20,012 Persons Sign Sugar Registrations Over 4,000 Report Excessive Amounts A total of 1.918 sugar ration books were Issued In the county on the last day of the registration I —the lowest number issued for any one day of the registration. The number of nooks fell off In Decatur to 6C4. compared to 1.128 Wednesday. 1.571 Tuesday and • 1.822 Monday Decreases were approximately proportionate in the tralance of the registration sites. The number Issued at the various sites yesterday: Blue Creek. 87; French. 84; | Hartford, 49: Jefferson. 33. Kirkland. 87; Monroe. 171; Preble. 76. Root. 65. St Mary's. 113. t’nioii. 95; Wabash. 232; Washington. 133: Berne. 19 and Decatur. 561 Equipped with a ration book for each member of the family—except in those ease* where book* were not Issued- the populace may once again start buying the sweet, except that now the amount of their purchases is limited Each stamp covers the one pound purchase for two weeks at which the rationing program has been compiled over a period of eight weeks. The amount which will be rationed after this time has not been set as yet. Mr. Hill again called attention .of persons who had excessive ’ amounts of sugar on hand and did ■ not receive books that It will nevertheless be to their advantage to use this sugar under the ration Ing plan. The sugar they have on hand will be computed at the regu (Turn To J. Column O O Medical Society In Meeting Thursday The Adams county msdicsl society met last evening In a dinner meeting at the Rice hotel. All doctors in the county were present at the meeting W Ony Brown, president of the Adana county welfare department and Mrs Faye Smith-Knapp, county welfare director, were also In attendance Dissuasion concerning be relationship of the county welfare program to that of the medl- .•*! services during war time* was I the chief topic m the meeting

Base For Gasoline Rationing Announced Three Gallons Week To Non-Essentials Washington. May 8 — (UPI — Price administrator Ix-on Henderson declared today that the basic gasoline ration for non-essential motorists In the east would lie two or three gallons a week He confirmed that the western parts of New York and Pennsylvania had been withdrawn from the rationing area, along with West I Virginia. Henderson told a house interstate commerce subcommittee that the east coast gasoline supply, which will be rationed after May IS. would permit distribution to non essential users at a rate "be tween two and three gallons a week, probably nearer two. with no prospects of getting it above three" die eat Snared .however, that non essential motorists accounted for only about one-third of all car awnors in the rationed areas. Toe term non essential, he said, is applied to "automobile* not used for vocational or necessary purposes." The other two-thirds will get varying additional amount*. "We will furnish enough gasoline to get the worker to and from his job. "Henderson told the committee. I « ll» —i—. ■ —■ —— Refuses To Return Prisoner To Missouri Indianapolis. May 8 — <LP> — Governor Scbrlckrtr today refused to return Albert H. Matthews, key worker In an Anderson. Indiana defense plant, to Missouri to finish out a prison sentence from which he escaped 22 year* ago. Organize Auxiliary Police Here Monday Police Chief Borders To Give Instructions The organisation meeting of the auxiliary police unit of city civil-1 ten defense will be held Monday night at 8 o'clock at the city hall. It was announced today by police chief James Border*. The meeting will be the rtrst in a series of approximately half a doses. held every other week at the city hall, embracing a course of instructions Auxiliary police officers upon completing the course will be sworn in and given proper Identltlflcation of their position in civilian defense corp* Chief Border* will act a* instructor In recent months he ha* completed several course* In FBI training, civilian defense training and emergency corps action, which have qua II ted him as sn instructor. I Vpol- completion of the organisation the auxiliary police unit In Decatur will embrace approxlmateily 30 men A large share of these 'have already been selected

1 7 Japanese Ships Are Sunk Or Damaged As Great Naval Battle Moves To Fifth Day

Class 3-A Men Face Induction In Army Urqe War Work To 3-A Registrants Indianapolis. May s — (UP) Hoosier draft registrant* In the 3-A | group, who were deferred from | military service solely on the grounds of dependency, face indue-1 tion into the armed force* In the nezt several month* unless they are employed in war industries. Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state director of selective service, coupled this announcement with a plea that all such registrants now employed in non-essential Jobs endeavor to secure employment in war work. "We are rapidly approaching the stage where everyone must be working or fightin* to win the war,” he warned. Col. Hitchcock said that local boards wore now reconsidering the I 3-A registrants for two purposes to eliminate those whose depend-1 ent* do not need their earned income and those who "acquired" dependents to avoid service, and to ’ distinguish between those men with dependents whose civilian ' jobs contribute to the war effort and those whose activities are nonessential. "it is desired to Induce a volun-, 1 tary movement ot this latter group ’ into the essential work, tr.ua reI leasing for military service men II without dependents but who were defererd a* “necossa ry” in produe- • tion until they are replaced.” Col. Hitchcock said. He warned, however, that per-! .Turn To Page I, Column it ' O School Programs On Child Health Week I I ■ Special Programs Held This Morning The rtbservance of national child health week in Decatur was cll-j mazed today with special programs ■ In the public and Catholic school*. Dr. Gerald J. Kohne, chief of the ■ county emengem y medlcai services j corps, and Dr. James Burk, city h.-alth officer, were the speakers, j Both stressed the Importance of Immunization against dlpjtheria small poz. espcially unconformity with civilian defense measu.es. citing the catastrophe of an epidemic of such diseases during a period of emergency. Dr Burk spoke to the students of the Decatur public schools thia morning during a special chapel period, while Dr Kohne addressed , the Catholic school students In a special assembly period. Child health week Is being observed throughout the nation from (Turn To Page 3. Column O O U-Boat Victims Tell Os Machine Gunning By Two Submarines Key West. Fla. May 5— (UP)— . Two German submarines — one freshly painted without a spot of rust, "looking as If she was just out of drydock" each fired a torpedo I Into a small American merchant j man In broad daylight and then sufraced to machine gun crewmen buddled on the flaming ship, her tour survivors related today. Flfty-siz men were reported lost In that action and in the sinking of a larger American merchant man by the same U-boats three hours later—M men missing from rah vessel. Both torpedolags, ta the Caribbean area, were aanounc ed by the navy today, the 7th and Bth torpedolngs disclosed since Bunday from which survivors have been landed at Florida ports A Norwegian ship which disre garded the danger picked up the four survivors of the small ship and navy aircraft rescued the 10 men who got off the larger vessel lin Hfdboats , ' I

British Take Over Control Os Madagascar • Vichy Says American Units Pouring Into Madagascar Posts London, May B.—(UP) — American units and huge reinforcements ‘ of South African troops are pouring into the Madagascar naval ban.at Diego Suarez along with masses of artillery and airplanes, reports reaching here eaid today. The naval base was understood to have been handed over practically Intact by the Vichy defenders after the lightning British conquest. Authoritative sources said BritI ish casualties in the Madagascar campaign might be considerably I less than 1.000. There was no official coAment <nt ‘ a Dally Mail dispatch from Madrid, i quoting Vichy reports, that Amer lean units bad landed at Diego Suarez The Ixmdon Star publish- ‘ ed a radio Vichy report that an American ezpedltionary force had landed n't Natal. Sduth Africa, near Madagascar The Daily Mall said the South I African and American forces had been dispatched to Diego Suarez !to "make It Impregnable against possible Japanese attacks and to consolidate it as a British bastion." The naval base has little modern armament, but possesses great po- • tentlal value as a I'nlted Nations outpost to guard supply lines crosaIng the Indian ocean The surrender term*, according to Vichy reports, included “honors of war” for the French defenders who guarantee that they would not destroy army, navy and air force material at the Diego Suarez arsenal. The terms were believed to Include British control of all Important ports and potential air and warj ship bases on Madagascar. These I bases Include Diego Majunga. Fort Daughpln and Antogalbay on the i Indian ocean coast and bauot 10<) different points described ua either regular or auzlliary air fields It was assumed that there were ; few French troops south of Diego i to defend Madagascar evm if they i were so disposed, and the population, strongly pro-ally. wa« ezpect<d to present few difficulties. Shortly before noon today. Brlt- )•)» troops began to take over the French positions at the naval base. They marched Into the base preceded by light tanks and armored care. Obstructiona which had blocked all roadw were removed by ; the garriaon. The French troops, their arms stacked, saluted. Meanwhile, marines disembarked tTurn To l'a<e 7, Column 1) ■ ■ - -O —- Release Figures On Commercial Users Rationing Director Announces Figures Figures concoraing the commercial sugar reagistration conducted in the county and the laat week In April were released today by Gienn Hill, rationing administrator. A total of 27 retailers and 25 Industrial and inatltatiooal asers registered who did not receive sugar purchase certificates. The retailers registered 11914 pounds and the other* 4.919 pounds of sagar There were >7 retailers with a total of 4.8 M) pounds and 52 Inal Itat lona I and industrial users with 2>77 pounds who were issued certificates Uertincates embracing «JO2 pounds of sugar were Issued to these retailers and certificates covering lI7M pounds to the Indus trial and iastitutloual a*e r s Tbers were uo wholes! -r* of aa- J gar refftatared ta th* county.

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United States And Allied Naval, Air Forces Lock Japs In Knockout Battle Gen MacArthur’s Headquarters. Australia. May 5— (UPI —United States and Allied naval and air forces have sunk or damaged 17 Japanese ships. Gen Douglas MacArthur announced today, in a knockout battle, now In its fifth day. on which the whole strategy of the southwest Pacific war may hinge. The greatest naval battle of the war, one which hade to be historic, was being fought 1.000 miles off the northeast Australian coast Thousands of American soldiers, ready for battle, and 7.000.000 Australians who jubilantly read reports of American surceases, be came tens*- as the hours passed and warships and planes of all types remained locked In battle. One Japanese aircraft carrier and one heavy cruiser were sunk and one aircraft carrier and one heavy cruiser were damaged In tne second phase of operations. MacArthur announced in a special communique today. The damaged aircraft carrier was eZpected to be a total loss "Heavy naval and air fighting continues," the communique said ". . . our own losaes have not been reported." In the firat phase, which was fought last Monday, u Japanese light cruiser, two destroyers, and four gunboats were sunk, and a 9.000 ton seaplane tender and a light cruiser damaged, in addition ' to transports and cargo vessel, sunk or damaged Members of the Australian house of representatives, who cheered wildly when prime minister John Curtin at Canberra read them the first reports, sat hushed and *azlous when he said later, speaking gravely and slowly, that he did not know how ihe battle would end and that he must ask every man and women In the country to join In forming a second line of de sense of their country behind their fighting men Then In a special radio broadcast to the nation Curtin said' "Invasion is a menace capable hourly of IM-coming an actuality. I tell you bluntly that the whole (Turn To Page 3. Column C> War Bulletins Esler Field. La.. May t. — (UP* — An army B-25 bomber craehed in ewampe near her* yesterday, killing five officer* and one enheted man. The cause of the crash was aspect ed to be determined through an official investigation. The plan* we* on a training flight. Tampa. Fla.. May K—(UP)— A flying fortreee carrying 10 men ha* been missing on ■ routine training flight from MacD'll Field since midnight Wednesday, the army announced today. The big bomber carried only enough gasolina to keep It in the air until 3 a. m. Thursday but a wide ar.d continuous search has failed to died*** any trace es it, an air corps spokesman said. Ciudad Trujillo. Dominican Republic. May B.—(UP) — The secretary of war and marine announced today that a Ger man submarine had sunk the Dominican steamer San Ra*a*l and that only eiffht es its 40 crew members were known to have been saved. The announcement caused great indignation throughout thio capital. TCMPffRATURK R LADING DEMOCRAT THKRMOMETCR 8:00 a. m. 42 10:00 a. m. 81 Neon 00 8:00 p- m. 88 J 00 p. m. 70 Warmer th’* eNemeen, net «*.'** as evd trei'jM anJ SaterdAp UrsnuoM. ,