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SMASH 2 NEW | BATAAN RAIDS

Landing Barges Battered! By MacArthur Men Midnight Attack.

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Peninsula were crushed with heavy enemy losses. the communique said. At dawn a number of shattered Japanese barges some ablaze and others bullet-riddled and adrift, were seen along the beach. It was evident that the Japanese. using their best troops Ine ruiniee the “Tatori” which cor tessionnd to} the famous Commandos, were making desperate and costly | attempt to drive Gen. MacArthw American and Filip forces from their last foothol the Philippine mainland i The attempted Japanese landings from “a large number of bas ges under naval escort™ along the Bataan

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west coast began under protection of darkness | rateining, expected to begin Feb. The first assault was “fhustrated Shiny automobiles? by our artillery fire.” the War Department said Planes Discover Raiders "A second and more serious - tempt was made at midnight SCH OL BOARD large number .: han under nave : escort approac! the coast, raid was ee by a few Mo ou night flying pursuit planes whi eh m I ame pirsill Mame wh | Citizens Committ ittee Wants with light bombs and machine ” un | Candidates in Race on fire. “As the enemy troops approached Non-Partisan Basis the shore our beach defense force! i attacked with artillery and machine! The Citizens School guns, heavy casualties in men and boats” Naval Vessels Flee The Japanese nave! vessels were unable to protect the Bases against

Committee lect five candidates for the City Schoo! Beard in the November general elections, Judge John Niblack. executive vice chairman of the com- | mittee, said today. Until the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that the Indianapolis City election would be held this vear, the School Board election was in doubt. since the Schools and Mu-

and planes and fled out to sea. The communique revealed for the first time that Gen MacArthur's forces were using night fighter planes in their defense. And for the first time in recent currently,

days, the communique told of tod heavier Japanese serial sttacks ! 300 Petitioners N

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Telegraph Briefs

ESPIONAGE JURY CHOSEN NEW YORK, Feb 3 (U. P)— An all-male jury was selected in an hour and a half today to try seven persons, including one woman, ion charges of conspiracy to violate ‘the espionage laws.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P.. —The public debt reached an alltime high of $60,011,579,351 on Jan. 31 under the impetus of budget-wrecking war spending the Treasury reported today.

INDICT EX-GOVERNOR

ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 3 (U. P).— The Fulton County Grand Jury to-

. Rivers and four other former) ISeate officials on charges of conispiracy to defraud the state “of

The communique disclosed also] School Board members. who serve large sums of money.’

that Brig. Gen. was slightly wounded in recent] tition instead of by fighting. The nature of his wounds | or how he received them was not! disclosed. He is the first American general to become a casualty in thet present war

BOY, 12, IS INJURED SERIOUSLY BY AUTO

Twelve-vear-old Har burg, 1318 N. Pershing S jured seriously last night \ car driven by Fannie Snyder, 4032! E. 34th St, struck him as he ran Comfsitiee would seek five citizens across Lafayette Road in the 1800 Without regard to politics as candiblock. He was taken to Citr Hos-| gute, pital. The committee was organized to) A police squad car driven by Pa-|elect non-partisan school boards in rolman Ray Smith, 1523 Pleasant 1929. Its candidates have been Run Drive skidded out of control elected continuously since. Between on the fee at Sherman Drive near elections, the committee has reProspect St. and struck a car in! imained inactive, its only function which Alfred Rouse of 2010 E 10th being to nominate suitable candiSt. was a passenger. Mr. Rouse was! dates, Judge Niblack said. taken City Hospital for ment.

election procedure. At least 300 petitioners are required by statute to place the name of a candidate on he general election ballot. Since members serve staggered terms, three candidates will be nom-

to 17 and two candidates for the second term, IMS to IMT, giving the board experienced members continuously Politics Discarded

Judge Niblack said the Citizens’

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BOSTON, Feb. 3 U. P)—The

new destroyer Fitch was commis > 1040, are the holdover members, sioned at Boston Navy Yard today. {in A ne.

SPECIAL TAVERN OWNERS MAP

‘WAR ON BOOTLEGGER Oil Permanent

The Board of Directors of the With Haircut.

| State Retail are 3 Wo yaive Association formulated 8 plan to

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| Tavern owners will report in-| ADVERTISED

| formation concerning bootlegging | £4 Work GUARANTEED bs EXPERTS

| activities to the association's s offices | 10¢ U. 8. Defense Stamp

{here and the association will in| GIVEN with Each $1.00

{turn give the information to the |

| Alcoholic Beverages Commission. Co! 208 ODD FELLOW BLDG. Lr-siet.

Willlam J Lamb, Lafayette, president of the association, said tavern owners have pledged co-op-

all types of liquor law violations.

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already wrapped ____ with complete instructions for mailing

Actual sales records in Post Exchanges, Sales Commissaries, Ship's Stores, Ship's ServiceStores,and Canteens show that with men in the Army, the Navy, the Marines, and the Coast Guard the favorite cigarette is

Clinton A. Pierce| without pay. are nomirated bv pe-| the primary:

inated for the first term from 10943!

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Board members whose terms ex-| pire this year are Evans Woollen Mrs. Carl Manthei Chairman Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) of} |Christian Church this evening.

Alcoholic Beverages)

eration with the A. B. C. to curb]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—The ulster government may hoist the American flag alongside the Union Jack over the Northern Ireland Parliament building, it was indicated today.

ANNOUNCER KILLS SELF NEW YORK. Feb. 3 (U. P.)., David C. Teague, 29, of Wabash, Ind, an employee in the publicity department of Columbia Broadcasting System, left his office in “excellent spirits” before he committed suicide in his home yesterday, officials said today.

FEARS FAR EAST OUTLOOK Feb. 3 (U., P)-Dr Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to Britain, told the Roval Empire Society today that the immediate outlock in the Far East was “grim.”

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S. PROBES POLL TAX WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P)—

Economy | that

the joint Congressional Committee announced today

lic hearing on charges that Fed-|

sral funds have been used by the Defense.” Administration to play the harp and the Rev. Robert

Farm Security pay state poll taxes of persons residing in Jn Hale County, Ala,

‘RADIO NATIONS,’ VOICE OF LEAGUE, IS SOLD

BERNE. Feb. 3.—Already a much decrepit institution, the League of Nations found itself today depleted of perhaps the most important asset of its former world mission— the powerful radio station which broadcast the league's decisions. “Radio Nations,” according to the { Swiss press, was sold yesterday to | Radio Suisse, semi-official radio station. Radio Nations was built at a cost of 4200000 Swiss francs. Its sale | price today does not exceed 300,000 ' francs, according to reliable sources. | As currently quoted the Swiss franc is worth about 234% cents.

SECOND SEMESTER OPENED AT DEPAUW

Times Special GREENCASTLE, Ind. Feb 3 — | DePauw University began the second | semester as university officials anticipated some loss in enrollment. Registration was held yesterday with a number of men who are registered for selective service choos{ing branches which will enable them {to continue their college work. | President Clyde BE. Wildman addressed the first chapel service of the new semester. He discussed the place of the college in a war situaition and was to clarify for the istudent body the university's war | policy and aims.

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It's the Manufacturers’ Building at the Fairgrounds

line despite intervention of excep- ! {tionally large forces of Nazi dive-

| Timoshenko's men, nicipal elections are conducted con- GY again indicted former Governor | pounding attacks on railroad june(tions, |

{to have speeded up their attack in /the Rzhev area northwest of Mos-

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RUSSIANS DRIVE ON IN UKRAINE

Hitler Hurls Big Air Forces At Reds in Effort to Halt Offensive.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

These Autos Will Be Rationed Here

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‘estimate was somewhat low, but it

TUESDAY, FEB. 3, 1942

U. S. SINKS 2

Dive Bombers Blast Singa- | pore; Enemy Moves

Against Java. (Continued from Page One)

flicting heavy losses upon Japanese troops and boats. | There was little or no optimism in the dispatches from the southwest’ Pacific fighting front. . ‘Soften Up’ Singapore

British forces at Singapore blasted back across the Johore Straits at Japanese artillery and assembling enemy troops which are expected to launch an all-out in-| vasion attempt as soon as bombing softens the powerful, fixed defenses of the British sea base. The softening up process already had begun. Two heavy Japanese air raids, including dive-bomber attacks, were reported and it was admitted the Japanese started fires and caused considerable damage. The Japanese claimed Britain has eny 14,000 troops on Singapore Island to beat off an assault by ine vasion forces which probably nume ber upwards of 200,000.

Blast Malaya Airdromes It appeared that the Japanese

is known that the Singapore defense corps is outnumbered, pars ticularly in the air. British planes were concentrating | upon attacks against Japanese-held

MOSCOW, Feb, 3 (U, P.).—Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's Ukraine army was reported advancing steadily today toward the Dnieper River

bombers, level bombers and fighters seeking to halt the Soviet attack. However, Soviet bombers were deseribed as pacing the advance of carrying out

troop trains, supply columns and rear concentrations. Fighting was said to be reaching new heights of ferocity as the Russian and-German armies engaged in a “race against spring.” The Russians were seeking to shatter or cripple German offensive power before the Nazis can launch a spring offensive. Dispatches from Stockholm told of fierce fighting north of Lake Ilmen where the Russians apparently had reinforced a drive in the Volkhov River area with Novgorod, 100 miles south of Leningrad, as their objective, The Russians were reported also

cow in a new threat to the German positions along the whole west Moscow W fran:

SOUTH SIDE C. E.

airdromes in Malaya, particularly {the central Mslaya air base of | Kluang. The Japanese air attack against Soerabaya and half a dozen other Java points, particularly Dutch flying fields, emphasized the developing Japanese offensive against this key island of the Dutch group.

Australia Alarmed

The Japanese bombers which attacked Soerabaya were escorted by fighter craft, indicating the use of carrier-based planes to back up the operation or the establishment of airdromes within 700-mile roundtrip ‘flight of Java. Normal range of fighter planes does not exceed that distance and they ordinarily are not employed for round-trip operations of more than 500 miles or so. Australia, more and more alarmed at the approach of Japanese operations, suspended Empire air mail service and conducted a sudden test blackout of 127 miles of coast in the Sydney area. Melbourne reported that an Empire passenger plane has

MORE JAP SHIPS,

been shot down by the Japanese. Flank Burma Defenders

Refugees from Rabul, important! air base in the Bismarck islands| which has been seised by the Jap- | anese, revealed that—contrary to] previous statements—no “scorched | earth” policy was carried out there, and the base fell practically intact |

TO SPONSOR RALLY

Young people from a dozen churches included in the South Side| Section of the Capitol District! Christian Endeavor Union will hold | a rally in the Fountain Square]

Miss Dorothy Lehman of Mishawaka, field secretary for the In-

_|Roscoe Conkle, whose terms began subpenas will be issued for a pub-/diana Christian Endeavor Union,

| will speak on “Our First Line of Miss Roberta Bland will

| Lewis, host pastor, will direct the pep singing. © ore ere will be conducted on er meeting, executive, lookout, publicity, social, missionary and high school material.

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FIRE DAMAGES HOME

A fire of undetermined origin today caused heavy damage to the home of Mrs. Raleigh Phillips, 545 Tecumseh St. It swept both the first and second floors of the frame building. No estimate of the loss

into Japanese hands, { On the important Burma front]

| the Japanese appeared to be slowed ! {down by the Salween River.

How- | ever, danger of a flanking operation | north of Moulmein was growing. | { The flanking movement constitutes an almost immediate threat to the Burma supply route to China.

| Nazis Gain in Libya | |

Reports from Russia revealed that | the Soviet winter offensive still was rolling along. In the Mediterranean-African theater the Royal Air Force inter- | vened to bring aid to British troops| hard-pressed by Gen. Erwin Rommel's counter-offensive in Libya. The R. A. F. carried out strong attacks against Naples and Palermo, the Italians admitted. Whether that | indicated that the British air forces] at Malta, battered by constant Axis attack for nearly six weeks, have been reinforced was not known. In Libya the British still were falling back slowly toward Derna,

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fighting a hard rearguard action.

of their gang. They said that this boy had no part in two previous outbreaks of vandalism. One of those outbreaks occurred at School 69 last week, when windows were broken, and several hundred dollars’ worth of supplies in the stock room were torn up.

Admit Wrecking Groceries

The other outbreak occurred in the grocery store of John Weaver, 34th St. and Forest Manor Ave. Three of the four boys admitted that they had done ail these things at the grocery: Cut open several sacks of sugar and scattered the contents over the fioor.

Scrambled 11 dozen eggs and four

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Atlantic Coast. in a day's work."

Sighted our STOKOL stokers, DUO-THERM heaters and WARM MORNING stoves and are buying same. ‘retaliatory

should set your “sights” in this direction.”

METROPOLITAN & Ol, CO.

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Four Youths Arrested After Vandalism at Two Schools

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boxes of fancy grapes with sawdust, also on the floor. Poured several bottles of laundry bleaching fluid over the meat in the refrigerated display case. Showered 10 sacks of flour and corn meal all over the store. Alertness of Harold Edwards, 38, of 2038 N. Gladstone Ave, custodian at School 81, brought about the arrest of the boys at School 73, which is near his home. He saw them drive up to the building in an old sedan, break a basement window and crawl in. He called police, and Sergt Chester Timmerman and six patrolmen soon surrounded the school. The officers were joined by a group of angered citizens, who -|heard the smashing of the windows on the third fioor. Sergt. Timmerman and Patrolman Lots entered the building, chased the five boys out of the building. Three of them were captured at the entrances.

One Fires at Patrolman

The boy who escaped fired twice at Patrolman Lots. The officer fired back, shooting over him. School 73 is at 30th 8t. and Forest Manor Ave. School 51 is at 2301 N. Olney St. Police expressed the belief that the boys raided School 51 before they entered School T3. Obscene words and phrases writ ten on the blackboards led to the theory that the same gang had operated at both schools.

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Ruling on Fair Control Adds Chapter To ‘Rise and Fall of Charley Dawson’

ing over the State Senate whict with the House was passing the socalled “decentralization” program which would have stripped the Governor of practically all patronage and given it to Republican state officials. And under the Republican program, which was knocked out by the Supreme Court “ripper” suit decision last summer, Mr. Dawson would have had a major share in the control of state patronage and the running of state departments. And to top things off, it looks now as if the State Fair Board will (oust his secretary, Paul S. Dunn, as {manager of the Fair. Mentioned to {supplant him are Guy Cantwell of | Gosport or former State Senator |E. Curtis White of Indianapolis. | But while the tides of politics have been running against him recently, Mr. Dawson's friends point to one important fact: He now is in exactly the same position and with the same powers as were former Governor M. Clifford Town-~ send and Governor Schricker when they were lieutenant governors. And look what happened to them

By EARL RICHERT : Jokingly, of course, Lieut, Gov. {Charles M. Dawson sometimes tells friends that he could write a book | Irene “The Rise and Fall of | Charley Dawson.” It certainly would be a book that| would teil a story unique even in| Indiana politics. It would relate how the trustee of Washington Township (north Indianapolis) in the space of a few months almost became the most powerful political figure in Indiana. more powerful even than the Governor. And it would tell how, in the space of the next few months, he \ was relegated to a position in the Indiana governmental set-up com-| parable with that of the fictional! Vice President Throttlebottom. Yesterday, Mr. Dawson reached the bottom of the political ladder as far as power is concerned when the attorney general took away his control of the State Fair Grounds property and handed it to Governor Schricker. The Governor, in one of his better

Charles M, Dawson

chief task of a lieutenant governor between legislative sessions. And before the ruling he was responsible only to himself as Compolitical moves, immediately handed | missioner of Agriculture. (The atit right back to Mr. Dawson by torney general held that the portion appointing him as Commissioner of | of the '41 law passed by the G. O. P. Agriculture, | dominated legislature making the But that means that Mr. Dawson, lieutenant governor Commissioner a Republican, will now be respon- of Agriculture was invalid because sible to the Democratic Governor|the legislature does not have power for practically everything he has toto name persons to jobs. do, since performing the duties of | The ruling came only a year from |military mission will aid in reorDawson was presid-'ganizing Ethiopian armed forces. ERR

SIGN ETHIOPIAN PACT

LONDON, Feb. 3 (U. P.) —Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Commons today that a British-Ethiopian treaty was signed at Addis Ababa on Jan. 31 under which a British

Commissioner of Agriculture is fieihe bu time Mr.

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