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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 265

Indianapolis Times

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (U. B).| @ ground, accordNN 3 ing to news dis-

—Price Administrator Leon Hen- | J patches from derson today disclosed plans to re- Buffalo. N. Y. lease from $14,000 to 674.000 new) J An Army cars for sale by dealers under a| spokesman said rationing plan similar to that in Lieut. Miller operation for tires and tubes. : . “remained with Mr. Henderson made the state- Lieut. Miler the ship after it ment in testimony before the spe-|had burst into flames rather than vial House committee investigating bail out.” He is said to have made the impact of the industrial war|a perfect landing near Buffalo aireffort on small business. He said port and jumped out of the cockpit that between 550,000 and 600,000 just before flames enveloped the new cars, now frozen by Govern-|ship. ment orders, will be subject to| -Lieut. Miller enlisted in the Army rationing. A share of the 204,500] Air Corps March 17, 1941.

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the same category.

Of the January production, Mr. Henderson said, the plan contemn-

plates freezing from 130,000 to 140,B00 for about a year to provide a stockpile for future necds. The remainder, he said, will be

Buring January will be placed in

thrown in with present floor stocks to be rationed to the public, and thus afford some relief to dealers]

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faced with a possible shutdown. |

Plan Maximum Price Criminality. He did not give details beyond | By NOBLE REED saying that the 5000 local defense| : ‘ councils throughout the country] One of the strangest psychological would determine who should get €ases of juvenile delinquency in the the vehicles. history of Marion County courts is Under the rubber rationing plan, 2¢ing investigated by Judge Wiltires and tubes will be sold to doc- fred Bradshaw of Juvenile Court. tors, visiting nurses, essential] The possibility of brain surgery wholesale firms, bus and truck lines, | iS being considered in an unprecemunicipal firefighting and police| dented attempt to unravel circumequipment and the like. Presum-|Stances of the mysterious conduct ably, an auto rationing plan would|of a 14-year-old son of a well-to-do follow similar lines. Indianapolis family. Mr. Henderson said he expected! During his early childhood the a maximum price to be placed on Youth was considered a model boy

rationed cars, to be determined by|® his community, active in all

what he called “Formula A.” This, | church activities and a leader in he said. would be the manufac-| Wholesome recreation with not even

turers’ list price, plus the Federal | (0€ Signtest mark ot Incoiginle conduct against him.

excise tax, plus a transportation al-| : pl Po ~ | Then, without any trace of pre-

y , pl iti 5 per| . lowance, plus an additional 5. peri. tendency toward delinquency,

Dt ie al oe rice or $75, the boy stole an automobile and was 3 . caught by police. Prices to Incerase The first offense always is treated a {as a slip in conduct and the boy As the 130.000 to 140,000 cars ‘O|..." o)ahiitated With lectures and

n from January output] 3 be froze o Yaz) PUt| harental co-operation.

come off the assembly lines they | : a will be offered to dealers for stor-| However, a few weeks later the mge, Mr. Henderson said boy was caught stealing several “When they are sold, the dealer |S'S I one. day without showing would be entitled to add to the |S, Other laxity in discipline. . EF “Usually after the second crime

sales price a further amount of 1 Conti : . . onti Page Tw per cent of the list price or $15 (Continued on °)

(whichever is lower) for each month “that he has acted as a Government storehouse.” | Final plans. have not been completed, Mr. Henderson said, but he assured the committee that when they are, they will contain “such terms as to permit the dealer to! maintain some status in commercial life.”

Spills Secretary Testing New Bike

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (U. P.) —Leon Henderson took time off from price administering today to go cycling, with a Government stenographer perched on the handlebars. Wearing a large felt hat and puffing a long black cigar, Mr. Henderson wheeled up and down the Mall near the Capitol steps. Sitting in 8 wire basket over the front wheel was Betty Barrett of York, Neb., an OPM stenographer. The Price Administrator was demonstrating for newsreel men and photographers a new ‘“victory model” bicycle which had no accessories or frills. It weighed 20 pounds less than regular peace-time models. Mr. Henderson seemed io get

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Martial Setting Arranged For Carole in Ceremony At State House.

By LESTER POSVAR

A fanfare of bugles— Near the east portico of the State House, four men, each wearing a distinctive uniform, instinctively will stand a bit more erect at the sound of “To the Colors.” A pretty young woman, with the glamour of Hollywood and the friendliness of Hoosierland about her, will step forward. Then the Stars and Stripes will rise. Other ‘Cast’ Members Carole Lombard, Ft. Wayne's favorite daughter, will have acted her part in the first scene of a great drama. Will H. Hays, favorite son of Sullivan, Ind., and the ‘‘czar” of the movies, will be there on the State House grounds at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. He and Governor Schricker and other dignitaries will watch as the film actress performs with the four uniformed members of the cast — a first sergeant of Marines, a veteran “top kick” of the Army, a youthful metalsmith of the Navy and a member of the American Legion, still young enough for another war.

Reception for Carole

The flag ceremony over, Miss Lombard will “co-star” with Governor Sethricker in another scene in the south rotunda of the State House. Seated with the Governor at a table in front of the Culver Military band, she will sell defense bonds, and the buyers will get a receipt with her picture and her autograph on it. The autograph will read: “Carole Lombard Gable.” Miss Lombard will be the guest of honor at a reception at the Governor’s Mansion in the afternoon. The guests will be members of the State and County Defense Savings Staffs. Mr. Hays also will be entertained on his home-coming to Indiana. His friends of the days when he ran the Liberty Bond selling campaign that (Continued on Page Two)

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The schedule of events for the opening of the Defense Bond selling campaign in Indianapolis tomorrow follows: 8:44 A. M.—Will H. Hays arrives at Union Station. Noon — Luncheon for Mr. Hays at Claypool Hotel. 1:35 P, M.—Carole Lombard arrives at Union Station. 2 P. M.—Flag-raising ceremony near east portico of State House. 2:30 to 3:30 P. M.—Selling of Defense Bonds by Miss

RUSS PINCERS BEGIN TO CLOSE

Reds Face Supreme Test In Effort to Trap 100,000 Nazis.

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Jan, 14.— The Red Army; by extending a

Lombard at State House. 4 P. M.—Reception for Miss Lombard at Governor's Mansion; guests limited to women members of State and County Defense Savings Staffs. 6:30 P. M.—Doors of Cadle Tabernacle open. 7 P. M.—Purdue and Indiana University bands and Culver Military Academy Drum and Bugle Corps start concert in Cacle Tabernacle. 8 P. M.—Nation’s first war rally program begins in Tabernacle.

gigantic northern and southern pincers on the central front, today faced a supreme test in its counteroffensive to trap an estimated 100,000 Germans in the Mozhaisk sector alone. The pincers, now starting to close, were driving westward and had entered widely fortified arcas. German garrisons at these points are well armed and offering stubborn resistance to the Soviet advance, which, thus far, has freed, according to S. A. Lozovsky, chief war spokesman, more than 32800 square miles of territory since Nov. 16. Lozovsky said that Russia will continue the attack until the last

NELSON ASKS SPEED IN DEFEATING AXIS

Outlines Aims in Letters to

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Russian tactics resulted in isolation of scores of German strong

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Production Aids.

(Another Story, Page Nine) WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (U. P.). —Dounald M. Nelson, America’s new war production and procurement chief, declared today his aim is to produce enough war weapons to whip Germany and Japan “in the shortest possible time.” In letters to OPM Director General William S. Knudsen, Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Undersecretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, Mr. Nelson said that any organizational changes needed to “lick Hitler and the Japs” will be made.The present defense production set-up “must and will evolve into the most effective possible instrument to do it,” he said.

GRAIN MEN TO PRAY CHICAGO, Jan. 14 (U. P).— Grain men on the Board of Trade will pause each day at 11 c’clock to engage in silent prayer for vic-

points, in which the stubborn defenders were being pounded into submission by artillery, and a large quantity of minethrowers and mortars. ‘Russian victories were reported in

five key sectors of the 450-mile front between Leningrad and the

Vyazma-Bryansk roadroad as the Russians on the three great fronts, Leningrad, Moscow and the Crimea, were driving relentlessly against the Germans.

Leningrad Gets Supplies There also were unconfirmed re-

ports here that on the fourth front, in the Ukraine, Red forces were but

12 miles from the industrial center of Kharkov in the Donets River

Basin.

Full railroad communication had been re-established with “besieged” Leningrad from the east and it was possible for men and weapons to pour into the old capital for a real counter-drive. Danger to the Germans on the Moscow front had reached the acute stage.

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Germans Fear Typhus Spread

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

Copyright, 1942, by Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc,

LONDON, Jan. 14. — The spread of typhus westward is feared by several national Red Cross organizations here, The existence of a virulent typhus epidemic in the German army is confirmed by reports received by the Red Cross. Most of the cases apparently have been caused hy Germans taking Russian ciothing which often is verminous. The Russians are more or less immune but the Germans are susceptible. The Germans are known to be exceedingly anxious lest the epidemic spread to Germany. The British are taking the necessary steps to protect British prisoners in eastern German prison camps.

ALLIED BLOWS DELAYING JAPS

Dutch Land, Air Forces Fight on All Fronts;

Wavell in Indies.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Allied armed forces struck sharp offensive blows against the Japanese in the Dutch East Indies today and braced against enemy offensives aimed at Singapore and against the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. Dutch soldiers went into action against the Japanese on the borders of Sarawak Province on Borneo while Dutch airplanes bombed an enemy ship at Tarakan Island and an enemy air base in the southern Philippines. American and Filipino forces threw back two more Japanese thrusts. on Bataan Province and American bombers were co-operat-ing in attacks on enemy bases and warships off Tarakan and elsewhere in the Bast Indies.

Strong Line in Malaya

British Imperials, aided by increased air support, set up a strong line on the Malaya peninsula and were believed to be concentrating on a major stand on the borders of Johore Province, about 90 miles frem Singapore, The British were fighting considerably north of that line for the time being, however, The net effect of these Allied operations under unified command is not a counter-offensive but a defensive action, designed to slow up the enemy in all theaters of the Pacific and stop him wherever possible until full Allied strength can be mustered for big-scale attacks. As the Netherlands forces, in the first big gesture of a completely uni(Continued on Page Two)

GETS 1st STRIKE CASE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (U. P.). —The Labor Department today certified the first dispute to the new National War Labor Board -— a threatened strike of Los Angeles

streetcar and bus employees. MAYORS RENAME LAGUARDIA

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MW ARTHUR MEN HOLD IN BATAAN

Throw Back New Assaults With Heavy Losses and Even Tokyo Admits They Pack Punch After 40 Days of Punishment.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Gen. Douglas MacArthur's men have beaten off two more “determined” Japanese attacks in Bataan, the War Department reported today, and U. S. warplanes have sunk two Japanese lighters in operations for defense for the Dutch East Indies. It was the first time the War Department had officially confirmed that American air power has joined the Dutch in combined efforts to beat off the Japanese offensive against the oil and rubber rich Indies. The American planes—the communique said three participated in the operation— attacked Japanese landing forces at Tarakan, the rich oil island adjacent to the

| taiture of their artillery preépara= tions of the day previous. The War Department character= ized the Japanese operations in Bae taan as “reconnaissance in force” indicating that the Japanese pressed forward in an attempt to find weak spots in the U. S. lines against

northeast Borneo coast, and sank two lighters which were engaged in putting Japanese

which the main assault could be delivered. “These attacks were well supe

ported by artillery and aircraft,” the communique said. “Both were ree pulsed by our troops, with the Japa= nese suffering heavy losses. Amers= ican and Philippine casualties were comparatively small.”

Japs Establish Bases

troops ashore on the island.

Both Attacks Repulsed

On Luzon, where Gen. MacArthur is fighting to turn his Bataan-Cor-regidor positions into an American “Tobruk,” the Japanese launched two more heavy assaults against his Bataan lines. Both these attacks were beaten off. The Americans were said to have inflicted “heavy losses” on the Japanese forces which attempted to

Again, the Japanese air force was employed entirely in support of ground operations and new attacks were made on American fortifica« assault the U. S. lines despite the ars, nee i he rugged rock The War Department reported {that information from Mindanao ‘and Jolo islands in the Philippines

{indicated the Japanese are rapidly ARE TOUGHEST FOE | establishing advance bases there for

tne support of their operations ‘War Machine Still Strong’;

against the Dutch Indies and Doubts Unrest Tales.

Malaya. The U. S. air attack on the Jape anese landing operations at Tarae kan was carried out in unfavorable weather, the communique said, WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (U. P).| which made it difficult to determine —Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox declared today that Adolf Hitler still has the greatest military machine in the world and he warned that Nazi-inspired stories of unrest

the effectiveness of the attack. The U. S. planes returned to their base in Germany apparently are designed to create disunity in this country’s

undamaged. For nearly 40 days MacArthur has held out against devastating Japa= nese assault and today there were hints in Tokyo propaganda reports war effort. “I communicate to you my suspicions, and they are suspicions only,” Mr. Knox told a press conference, “But it is curious to note

and the official American coms=muniques that his forces still pack a potent punch. The Japanese, in fact, went fure that almost every story of unrest in Germany originates in territory controlled by the Nazis. “Apparently the Germans are

ther than Washington's official advices and frankly admitted that trying to take the fine edge off our sense of urgency.”

Gen. MacArthur has launched coune ter-attacks against the troops which He was inclined to believe reports of a recent shakeup in the German

are pressing his Bataan province lines. High Command, but noted it has happened once before. “I don”t think there is a German rout in Russia,” he said. “I think it’s a withdrawal. I don't think that this means that they are licked. “Of course, the Russians have put a crimp in the Nazi war machine, but we mustn't think it’s falling apart. They probably still have some surprises up their sleeves.”

Help by Sea Unlikely

The American reports credited Gen. MacArthur with an important victory in the battle of big guns in which Japanese attempts to soften up Gen. MacArthur's lines for large-scale land assault failed note ably. The Japanese are believed to have lost 4Q to 50 big guns. Gen. MacArthur's position was likened to that of the British at Tobruk on the Libyan shore with the difference that there is only the scantest possibility of reinforcing and supplying him by sea as the Tobruk garrison was supplied during its long siege.

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ORDERS ALIENS REGISTER

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