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The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 53—NUMBER 264

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FORECAST: Fair and somewhat warmer this afternoon and tonight; lowest temperature tonight about 30.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1942

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A. ‘UMPIRES OF WAR LABOR

Willkie, Farley, Hughes And Smith Studied For New Board.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U. PD) — President Roosevelt today was reported to be considering the selection of Charles Evans Hughes, Wendell L. Willkie, James A. Farley and, possibly, Alfred E. Smith as members of a supplemental board of “umpires” to assist the new National War Labor Board. The White House announced that Mr. Willkie, 1940 Republican Presidential candidate, was under consideration for such appointment. The report regarding the others could not immediately be confirmed.

Mr. Hughes retired last year as!

Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. Mr. Farler resigned the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee and the Postmaster Generalship in Mr. Roosevelts Cabinet after the latter's) nomination in July, 1940, for a third! term. : Mr. Smith was Democratic Presi-| dential candidate in 1928 and op-| pesed Mr. Roosevelt's nomination in 1932 and renomination in! 1936, bolting the party in the latter year in protest, i

Willkie to See F. D. R.

Mr. Willkie has arranged to confer with Mr. Roosevelt today, but| White House Secretary Stephen | Early said he did not think the! probability of Mr. Willie's appoint-|

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ment to the supplemental body was! the primary purpose of the con-

Mr. Roosevelt created the war|

ference. i 0 labor board by executive order yes-| OFF N

terday. National Defense Mediation Board! and made William H. Davis chair-| man of the new board, as he had been of the old one. | Mr. Early disclosed that Mr. Willkie was one among several persons on a list yet to be completed by the| President for assisting the new! labor board as “umpires or arbitrators.” In most important cases that come before the War Labor Board. Mr. Early said, the bosrd members will sit as a panel with selected umpires from the supplemental list.

Ignores Suggestion Meanwhile an gxamination of the issues confronting the board showed that the President declined to follow! primary recommendations of man-! agement leaders. The 12 employer members of the recent mamfigement-labor conferences, while “indorsing without res(Continued on Page Two)

MERCURY IS HELD UP BY DOWNTOWN SMOG.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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The smog in the downtown sec-| tion today kept the temperature! higher, : You might call blessing,” declared Weatherman H. Armington in reporting a low temperature of 22 at the Municipal Airport, compared with 30 degrees downtown. "And I am not referring to the mixture of fog and smoke. Thats bad for people with respiratory trouble.” The smog began to disappear as | rising temperatures dissipated the fog.

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MUST WIN THE HARD WAY

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The kid from Kokomo . .. Kenneth (Red) Little,

SHIP TORPEDOED

Strikes 80 Miles From Shore, 89 Saved.

OTTAWA, Jan. 13 (U., P).—The torpedoing of a freighter 180 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia was revealed today with the arrival here of 89 survivors. They said 91 others lost lives Authorities

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the attack off coast was the closest !o the Canadian.shore of any during the present wra. One vessel detected submarines when it was only 80 miles off shore, but eluded them. The name

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of the 10,000-ton

3 freighter was not disclosed.

Two torpedoes struck the vessel the survivors said. The survivers! drifted for several hours in an open boat before they were rescued. Thirty-two of them were taken to a hospital. Doctors treated the others for shock and exposure, | The sinking recalled the warming! issued last fall by Naval Minister Angus

‘miral Percy Nelles, chief of staff, (that enemy submarines were oper-

ating off the North American coast. There had been reports of merchant shipping encountering hostile! undersea craft in the vicinity of Newfoundland.

'SMOKE ABATEMENT

SURVEY 1S STARTED

Engineers Check 213 City Heating Plants.

A group of 10 engineers, acting in the Appalachian Coal

| Producers of ®incinnati, today be-

91 Lose Lives When Sub)

He's Typical of 600 Hoosiers

VA SCOTIA Trying to Join Navy. Same Day

By LESTER POSVAR The red-haired kid from Kokomo threw himself on the floor of a long corridor in the Federal Building. He propped an elbow under his head, pulled his feet out of the way of passers-by—and relaxed.

Kenneth Little, the kid from Kokomo, got tired of waiting in line

to join the Navy. Lying down and]

resting while waiting for his chance) to get into the recruiting office— | SOLUM IS CAPTURED

that was another way for “Red”

Little to take the war in his stride. | BY BRITISH FORCES = = »

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Isolated Axis~ Stronghold in Libya Falls.

On a bench against a wal’ of the long corridor sat a Shelby County farmer, his wife and their 20-yvear-old son. George Yarling and the 2irl he wooed after World War No. 1 were watching their boy start inj

the footsteps of his father, who was . only 18 when he joined the Navy Imperials have captyred Solum on

in 1017. There were hours andthe Egypt-Libya frontier and are hours of watchful waiting for the advancing with considerable progthree of gH] or in tel =" El Agheila on the Cyrenaicaa Siodtes at Ini. | Tripolitania Hr Thute fal ana University, just as “Red” Little Axis forces concentrated after withleft a job as a drill press operator drawing from Agedabia, south cf at Kokomo, to sign up for the Navy.|Benghazi, a high command com600 Repert in Day | munique said today. They came by the hundreds, these| Capture of Solum, where 350

mills at Gary, from classrooms at/man were taken, leaves only HalLafayette, from stores in Evansville, fava Pass in Axis hands in eastern from farms in Pike and Pulaski Libya. counties. !

Six hundred young men in one GEORGE R. DURGAN REMAINS CRITICAL

Six hundred Hoosier lads literally offering ther lives to their country. | There were so many they had te] George R. Durgan, secretary of stand in line and wait. {the Public Service Commission and Navy surgeons eventually looked former Second District Congressat all of the 600. The doctors/Mman, was reported to be in a critpounded chests, listened to heart! ical condition’ today at his home, beats, examined eyes and teeth. : A staff of 100 officers and enlisted | from a heart attack. personnel of the Navy worked alli Mr. Durgan, who also was Mayor day, selecting out of the 600 those Of Lafayette for many years, was

who are physically sound, mentally appointed to the Public Service (Continued on Page Two) {Commission post last October.

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F.D. R. FIGHTS FARM BLOC'S PRICE APPEAL

Fears Labor Differences i Senate Group’s Plan Is Adopted.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (U.P) — President Roosevelt was reported to (have told members of the House | Banking Committee today that {adoption of Senate farm bloc amendments to the price control

| bill would be likely to cause re-|

{newed labor unrest that would

{ hamper the nation’s war effort. | The President met with five | members of the House committee | for 45 minutes today. One member reported that Mr. Roosevelt's prediction of labor unrest was based on the belief that the Senate bill would permit a substantial further increase in food prices. The five committeemen who met with Mr. Roosevelt will represent the House in the conference to compromise differences between the price legislation passed by the chamber and the Senate. It was understood that the House conferees were generally impressed | wtih the President's views.

Licensing Is Favored

The House conferees, it was believed, also will go along with the President and accept the Senate amendments which restore the Price Administrator's authority to license business as a means of enforcing the legislation. | The House rejected the provisions in the Administration bill that authorized the Price Administration to license dealers in virtually all commodities, and it established a five-man board to handle the price program instead of a single administrator. The Senate restored both provisions to their original form. Mr, Roosevelt was said to have told the House conferees that if farm prices were to rise about 25 per cent, the resultant increase in the cost of living would bring from labor renewed demands for wage hikes which employers might refuse to meet. Labor's answer might be strikes to enforce its wages demands, he | said.

Two Houses Differ

The Senate and House have passed two very different bills and brought into the open a dispute between Secretary of Agriculture Wickard and Price Administrator Leon Henderson over control of farm product prices. i Mr. Wickard wants veto power {over any price ceilings Mr, Henderson might order for farm products. The Senate's bill would give him that authority. President Roosevelt and Mr. Henderson oppose the di-

MacDonald and Vice-Ad- Hoosier lads. They came from steel prisoners, about half of them Ger- vided authority.

Feud Widens

The feud between Mr. Henderson (and Mr. Wickard widened as a re- | sult’ of developments yesterday. | Mr. Wickard, in an interview, Isaid both production and prices of ‘farm products should be controlled {by him to assure adequate fopd sup{plies for the United Nations. He {doubted that Mr. Henderson would “give farmers a square deal.” | Later, Mr. Henderson issued a | statement containing a chronolog"ical report of consultations between ‘his office and Agriculture Depart/ment officials prior and subsequent {to the price order affecting fats and

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Secret Jungle Airports Used; Tarakan is Captured.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS | United Press Foreign Editor

The Allies’ united fighting forces engaged the Japanese (offensive on all fronts in the Far East today and smashed

North Africa. | In the Philippines, American defenders of Bataan Peninsula scored a triumph in a heavy artillery duel! that drove back the enemy, smashed armored columns and broke up infantry concentrations attempting to mass for an allout assault. In the East Indies, Allied air reinforcements appeared to have arrived, probably from America, and intensified aerial action was beginning against Japanese invaders of the Dutch islands of Tarakan and Celebes as well as enemy sea and land forces in the western Pacific and Malava.

Air Superiority Near

High London officials predicted the Allies will have air superiority in the Singapore area within the next few days. Dutch bombers, using some of the 50 secret jungle airdromes prepared against the Japanese, roared eastward over Borneo to strike at the {enemy naval and land forces in the | Tarakan and Celebes Islands. Dutch [officials said that“ a program of heavy, systematic bombing of the enemy was starting. | An official statement said that the | scorched earth program had de|stroyed all oil resources on Tarakan [Island before it surrendered to the Japanese.

Ritter Fight in Malaya Increased allied

air forces ap-

where the Japanese made their most severe night and day air raids on Singapore but suffered losses of almost 10 per cent of the attacking bombers. British defense forces were reported fighting ' bitterly on the peninsula about 150 miles north of Singapore but there was no word of any important change in positions. Northward in Burma, there was another air alarm at Rangoon and indications increased that military operations were impending. Axis sources have reported that the Japanese were moving against Burma while Allied reports have indicated that the British, with the help of Chinese troops, might strike at Japanese rear bases in Thailand.

Axis Claims Weaker Axis claims of triumphs were less vigorous today, although the Berlin official news agency broadcast said that a battleship reported sunk “off| Egypt last November hy a German |

| Britain's 31,100-ton dreadnaught Barham. London made no comment. |

Hitler has moved his headquarters from Smolensk because of a great

In the Crimea, new Russian land-| ings were reported to have increased

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at the Axis in Russia and

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Reports from London indicated!

Russian pincers, which is making | mukye's {progress in closing on the Vyazma- _ ° {Smolensk highway west of Moscow. |

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Lieut. Gen. George A. Brett, U. S. Air Corps officer and second in command of the Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific, holds a vital role as air reinforcements reach the East Indies and Singapore areas,

HITLER FLEES AS REDS GAIN

Leaves Smolensk; Nazis Fall Back All Along

Moscow Front.

By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Jan. 13.—Adolf Hitler has fled from his new headquarters at Smolensk, 230 miles southwest of

Moscow, before the relentless coun- | ter-drive of Russia’s- Red Army, | Swiss reports from Berlin said toa

A Zurich dispatch to the Ex- | change Telegraph, quoting unquestionable Berlin sources, said Hitler had left Smolensk, key town of the Moscow front, for a new headquarters somewhere in southern Russia. Russian forces are within 110 miles of Smolensk, on the tragic road upon which Napoleon's Grand Army died after capturing Mosalsk. It is plain that the new headquarters which Hitler established in Smolensk just before Christmas, when he assumed the supreme com=mand of the army in pursuit of an “inner call,” are now threatened.

Reds Speed Up Advance

Kuibyshev dispatches said the Russian advance had been accel erated all along the Moscow front. The advance was said to be especially strong on the southern flank, aimed at Smolensk, where one Red Army unit advanced nine miles in a single day. A big force of expert Russian ski troops were thrown into the front

U-boat had now been identified as!lines to harass communications and,

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§ U.S. WINS BIG GUN DUEL IN LUZON |

WARTHUR'S ARTILLERY DRIVES BACK ENEMY; BLAST INDIES INVADERS

Keeps 'Em Flying Knock Out 11 Nippon

Japs

Batteries; Shatter

Tanks, Infantry.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.— The War Department reported today that Gen. Doug-. las MacArthur's big guns won the opening round of the battle of Bataan, shattering Japanese tank and infantry concentrations, knocking out 11 Japanese batteries and forcing the enemy to fall

back. The official American communique claimed a maJor success for Gen. MacArthur's men in the vital artillery duel in which the Japanese had hoped to soften up U. S. positions in preparation for a final assault.

For 24 hours, the Department said on the basis of reports from Gen, MacArthur, the battle raged without cessation with tlie boom of heavy gunfire rolling like thunder over twisted jungles and mountainous peaks of Bataan province,

Jap Batteries Smashed

« “Columns of enemy tanks and other armored units as well as infantry concentrations were shattered and dispersed by our fire with heavy Japanese losses,” the communique said, Eleven Japanese batteries were smashed out of action by the accurate fire of the American guns, The Japanese were forced to withdraw their batteries “well to the rear of the positions formerly occupied.” Gen. MacArthur's feat in besting the Japanese in the artillery duel was regarded as spectacular evidence of his intimate knowledge of Philippine terrain and tactics.

U. 8. Positions Strong

Despite the numerical inferiority of the American and Philippine forces and the fact that the Jape anese rule the air over the U, 8, ° positions, Gen. MacArthur was able to emplace his guns and direct thejr fire so successfully that the Japanesé superior weight of men and metal was more than compensated for. Even with the aid of dive-bombe ers, the communique said, the Jape anese were able to inflict relatively little damage on the American posi tions—further proof that these pree viously « prepared positions were well-selected and well-camouflaged, “Losses to American and Philipe pine troops were relatively slight,” the communique said.

Air Activity Lighter

Despite the American success mili tary observers here cautioned against over-optimism. The communique produced further evidence that the Japanese may have transferred the bulk of their air forces southward to back up the spreading attack on the Dutch East Indies. It reported that “enemy air ace tivity was confined to attacks by dive bombers in support of are tillery fire. No enemy bombing

attacks were made on fixed fortie

{ fications.”

Meanwhile, American air reine forcements were striking forcefully (Continued on Page Two)

| half of {the threat to enemy forces on the peninsula. In the Ukraine, the Rusy sians are driving closer to Kharkov. | In eastern Libya, the British re|duced Axis defenses of Sélum, leav'ing only Halfaya in Axis hands,

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War Moves Today

By LOUIS KEEMLE United Press War Analyst A barrage of reports from Swiss, Swedish and other sources indicates that in addition to his military reverses on the Russian front, Hitler is having trouble at home, within his army and in the occupied countries. All these reports cannot be taken at face value, but there are so many of them, and from such varied | sources, that they cannot be entirely ignored. If it lis true that Hitler has lost 25 of his generals in the wake of the dismissal lof Field Marshal Von Brauchitsch, there must be considerable dissension You. ma Our | in the German command. ” ‘ ! Yer ' 4 YOUF | At a time when leadership and|effect on the morale of the troops stamps in nt denomi- (energy are needed to halt the Rus-|already reported deteriorating. nations each week and pay [sian advance and save the German| The bitter cold, the lack of proper for them on delivery. armies from a winter rout, this|clothing and shortage of rations bee Ask your carrier ivi HS ore caver ot transportation difficulties,

NEW YORK, Jan, 13 (U. Wendell I. Willkie warmed last in Indianapoli : polis. night that Americans must “lead| jue Vogele, field representative. Spartan lives” while the United and Carroll F. Hardy, fuel engineer States wins the war “the hard way.” of the Appalachian Coal Producers, . said their findings would be the, ‘basis of recommendations to Mayor TIMES FEATURES Sullivan fSr smoke abatement. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—A

ON INSIDE PAGES a py rg eS be Studied] contest developed among Hoosier 'apartment buildings. The list was Congressmen today over selection

Alley Oop ... 13 Movies ......, 6/selected by George R. Popp, cit? of a name for the new Army canClapper ...... 9 Obituaries .., 7 building commissioner, and Roy tonment near Columbus, Ind. Comics ...... 17 Pegler ....... 10/Gillum, city smoke inspector. Because the camp is in the Crossword ... 13 Pyle ......... 9) Cost of the survey, estimated at! Ninth District, Rep. Earl Wilson Editorials .... 10 Question: ..9, 10, $4000, will be borne by the Cincin-| (R. Ind) suggested that he be Mrs. Ferguson 10 Radio 8 nati organization and Indiana coal’ allowed to select the name. The 9 operators. War Department, however, pointvy... 17] “The St. Louis plan of smoke ed out that while they would ac- . 10 abatement has failed™ Mr. Vogele | cept his suggestion for considera12/said. “They stil have blackouts’ tion, Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind)

Name for State Army Camp Debated:; Rep. Wilson's Choice Is 'Bartholomew

action in the A. E PF. during World War One. Another suggestion is that of | Pvt. James B. Gresham, Evans. ville, the first American soldier killed in France. The Congressional Library re- | ported to Rep. Wilson that Col. Bartholomew was one of 126 wounded in the battle of Tippecanoe in November, 1811, and was | Commander-in-Chief of the 137 militiamen who repulsed Indian attacks at Vallonia in June, 1813. | He was one of two Presidential | chosen under the new State Constitution on Nov, 14, 1817, and later was a State Leg-

J—igan a survey of 213 heating plants

Final decision rests with any Army board selected for that purpose. . Rep. Wilsons choice is “Camp Barthclomew” gnd he points out that this wo serve a double purpose. First the camp will be in Bartholomew county and second it would honor Col. Joseph Bartholomew an early Indiana settler and Indian fighter. Usually the names are of outstanding Army heroes, the War Department pointed out. Rep. Ludlow offered that of Ist Lieut. Francis A. McIlvaine,

an officer in the Rainbow Division

who is rated the first officer to he ‘dlled in

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

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