Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1942 — Page 1
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‘A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard, Newspapers
. 14.—Heavy turnover in Conoth primaries and
WASHI (GTO gress looks increasingly probable. elections are expected to unseat many. Aspirants 4 licking their chops over [the Congressional self- ‘« pension “scandal.” Jittery incumbents are swarming onto repealer
bandwagon. ‘Bad war news;.if not reversed (in time, will do incume béfts good. TaXes, tires, sugar, prices, waste,
n Tne 2 fluff, are sources of cumulative -irri- |
tation which some voters may “take out” on Congressmen.
Reports just in from |industrial areas suggest that more than the Treasury’s $80,000 Donald Duck film is needed to glamorize¢ income tax for millions for first-time taxpayers. Revenue men who have visited factories say a few workers are refusing even to fill out tax blanks, and others—apparently large numbers—are filling them but muttering that they won’t pay. It'll be easy to deal with the first group} one or two from each place can be arrested. and alized. Second group is tougher: You can’t jail a man for non-payment, ‘as # |» 0,000 despite Congres-
FX » » ” | Treasury says Walt Disney will get his sional “veto”; out of funds already on han D. Duck tax film, made by Disney at “cost,” atcually leaves him out of" pocket. Reason: Its use by theaters cuts into sale of Tegular Disney shorts. 1
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Washington. Prime results 1. Mrs. Roosevelt's dec 2. F. D. R.’s order to thi
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oi Bit the President Yemained lukewarm on sharp cuts in porwr ays, pushed by Byrd et al. 'He pressed publicly for the’ billiona i river-harbor pork barrel, including his St. Lawrence pet. And his press-conference attitude on economies was fijppant, even cynical. By passing economy buck to Congress, while in same breath de8 CCC and NYA, he aggravated election-year Rervoliiete at capitol.
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A Move to Gain Time? | House debate on River-Harbor Bill is set back again; leaders now talk of mid-March. Opponents say this is administration move to|gain time for bolstering bill’s support, believed waning under public clamor ot non-urgent spending. | wv 4 B= si ® = = _ Congressmen Sate fuming at signs of negligence in Normandie | fire; they compare it to unalertness at Pearl Harbor. Special tp 4 talked; Navy brass hats may have to do some explaining. : # z's » 5» Prophecy? From OFF’s report to the nation: “All men 18. to 64 years old, inclusive, are required to register for war work. Maybe OFF didn’t know that those 45 to 64 are not liable, under present law, for any service, war or otherwise. Or maybe OFF was forecasting new legislation. . » ”
MacArthur to Stick?
One question in the tentative questionnaire for the 45-64 group indicates OFF may have been forecasting. The registrant would be asked if he objected to working some distance from home. 8 = = = = = Friends’ guess on MacArthur: He'll stay with his men come hell, | high ‘water or Hirohite. . | | 8 x = ss x = | Press-gallery reaction is that Willkie’s unified-command speech, and Senator Tyding’s speech yesterday calling for military rather than political (i. e,, F. D. R.) control of strategy, have kicked the lid off a | super-hot issue,
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TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 14 (U. P.). —Premier Mitchell Hepburn an-}. nounced today that Dr. Allan Roy| Dafoe of Callander, Ont. has re-{C signed as physician to the Dionne I quintuplets. | ‘Hepburn said Dr. Dafoe’s resignation was received “several days ago | but “has not yet beén accepted.” He said the would be has brought before the Ontario Legisla~ {1 ture for consideration next week. yea The Province of Ontario is one of|f | the guardians of the children.
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| NEW YORK, Feb. 14 (U. P.)~— The 2 tirg Naval Distries anounced
30,000 DUE TO REGISTER HERE
Monday Between 7 A. M. And 9 P. M.
(Specimen registration card and list of registration places, Page 3.)
By EARL RICHERT Volunteer registrars will “be at their desks at 128 places in Marion County at 7.a, m. Monday to begin
registering men between the ages of 20 and 44 for possible military service. There registrars, shifts, will keep the registration
chance to register at night. All men born on or after Feb. 17, 1897, and on or before Dec. 31, 1921,
tered must register. Here's what your registration will consist of:
between 7 a.m. and 9 p. m. of registration places is being carried on Page 3. If you are away
available place.) Nine Questions A registrar, wi = i yout mips gues-
name and address of person who will always know your address, em-
place of employment or business. The registrar will write all this down on a registration card which will be filed in your local draft board's office. The registrar will then fill out a billfold-size certificate stating that you have been duly registered and will give it to you. You place ‘the certificate in your wallet and walk out. You have registered. Draft officials ‘estimate that the rogisiration of each individual will consume from two tc five minutes. Registrants must carry registration (Continued on Page Two)
NEW REGISTRANTS FAGE EARLY DRAFT
Some May Be Called With Remaining 1-A’s.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U. P.).— Selective Service headquarters said today that some of 9,000,000 men registering Monday will be called to service simultaneously with remaining Class 1-A men among the 17,000,000 already registered. - After the last registration on July 1, 1941, affecting men who had turned 21 since the first registration on Oct. 16, 1940, the 750,000 additional registrants were inserted in the original order lists at intervals of approximately 10 numbers. , Officials said this may be the system used this time, or a new order In the latter case, men .would be drawn from both lists at the same time,
CITY MAN FOUND DEAD IN PLEASANT RUN ‘Apparently the victim of aceidental drowning, Gervis Jackson, 87, of 1306 English Ave., was found dead in Pleasant Run today. ‘Mr. Jackson's body was discovered by 12-year-old Ed Oliver, 1629 S.
yette, the 3 the Normandie, in New York Feb. 9, the Navy an-
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So when I see’you walking down the street, ‘Making other girls seem old-fashioned, - “Gee, I'm glad teachers can’t be rationed! - °° -P. S—Miss Graf’s school is located on Sugar Grove Ave.
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her to form ga student vigilante committee which will’ act to forestall any such vandalism and robbery. Walking through the university parking lot yesterday, Miss Busch-
from one of the parked automobiles. When ‘he put the wheel and fire into his car and drove away, she jotted down his license number.
Sins Confession
Police traced the number, They arrested James Ahern, 46, of 3216 Northwestern Ave. He was charged with petit: larceny after signing a confession and appeared in Municipal Court 4 today. In pronouncing sentence, Judge John L. Niblack remarked that tire-stealing is very mueh like horse-stealing and that had always been considered a serious offense, Commenting on the establishment of a vigilante commitiee at Butler, Miss Buschmann said, “The students have always been observant, and it will be necessary to keep on" béing observant.” SE. The council is a complement to the Faculty War Emergency cil and is composed of a - tives of all the organizations at Butler. Miss Buschmann, a miember of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, lives at
Coed Helps Nab Tire Thief : Who Draws 180-Day Term
. Recognition for her alertness came quickly today to Jean Blischmann, a Butler University junior, who yesterday directed the catching of a tire| thief, who received a sentence of 180 days on the State Farm and $500
Miss Buschmann was appointed today to the Butler Student War Emergency Council by President Daniel ‘S. Robinson, who also delegated
mann saw a man removing a.tiref
DUTCH GIRLS HOPED T0 SEE: FILM HEROES
It Was Only Rumor That 3 Were in Archipelago.
BANDOENG, Java, Feb. 14 (CDN).—A wild report that Errol Flyan, James Stewart and John Payne were piloting flying fortresses against’ Jap bases in the Dutch Archipelago today gave hundreds of Dutch girls sudden cases of palpitation of the heart. Netherlands East Indies damsels have seen so many Hollywood war pictures that their reliance upon American help is unquestioning and it seems to them altogether natural
that stars might arrive personally. The bottom fell out of the world for the feminine adorers when they learned that the rumor was caused by three fortress crewmen who entered a jewelry store, ordered gold wrist. watches and commanded that the names of the three stars be
‘movements resulting from dispatch
FLOWN FROM MIDDLE EAST,
CHINESE TOLD
Are Confident They Can Stop Jap Onslaught.
By KARL ESKELUND United Press Staff Correspondent KUNMING, China (delayed), Feb. 13.—Travelers from Burma said to-
group and the Royal Air Force defenders of ‘the Burma Road. Trafic in Burma and on the Burma Road to China was described as difficult due fo extensive military
of Chinese troops to aid in the defense of Burma and the movement of reinforcements to the fighting fronts. ; (Rangoon dispatches this week said that the Chinese had been in some action in Burma and were expected to Jay an important role
Burma area.) Saw Hundreds of Planes
eler from Rangoon said.
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Burma and that they w they could defend ti front.” S————————C—
Yanks in Java, Chinese Report
CHUNGKING, Feb. 14 ‘(Official Chinese Broadcast).—A ‘commentator speaking in English said the Chinese people “are happy tonight” at the news that American units are in Java.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (U. P.). —The Chungking broadcast regarding American forces in Java was understood here to refer to units of the American air force, which have been announced. by the War Department as having been in action against Japanese planes over Java and adjacent’ . regions.
SOVIET" CALLS UP MORE
bodied male essential war industry work.
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day that hundreds of airplanes nowt reinforced the American volunteer
LIBYA: No change.
“A huge humber of R. A. F. planes ‘land pilots have arrived,” one irav-
3 talked with a Br
“We sw hundreds of A. Vv. G. and R. A. P. planes over the road, both fighters and bombers in squadron
formation. “In- Burma the train was under curtailed schedule because of ‘the emergency and many trucks have because the military has commandeered them or needs the gasAll the trucks in Burma have been taken over for anyy|
concentrating a large air force in : confident
GRITIGISM PILES UP
MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (U. P).—A government decree today provided for mobilization of the entire ableand female urban population of the Soviet Union for
By NO REED A wave of adolescent restlessness
induced indirectly by war and its effects on home life was attributed
1031 last year.
The new Juvenile Court law, effective last July 1, brought 275 additional cases into court, but this leaves 756 cases in the regular age group, an incregse of 318 over 1940: The new . broadened the Court's jurisdiction to include boys bétwen 16 and 18. . ‘Randel Shake, ‘chief probation
fi comprised” the main offenses of the
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Local Juvenile Cases Show Big Increase; Restlessness Growing Out of War Blamed
“More girls were brought into Court for delinquency, during the last six months of 1941 than during the whole year of 1940,” Mr. Shake said. Records show that running away from home and sex delinquencies
‘teen age girls. " are particularly disturbed over the increase in delinquency among girls since this indicates there will be a growing unmarried -mothers,” Mr, Shake said. Juvenile - Court social workers who * investigate every case, reported that
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jobs in war industries and also by the fact that the fathers are working more hours, thus weakening the usual home* ties,” Mr. Shake explained. Records from Juvenile Court here
. |Britain’s traditional sea power and
. . | On the War Fronts SINGAPORE: British resist Japa-
nese attempt to advance on heart of city.
BURMA: Heavy air reinforce.ments reported for defenders of Burma Road; Jap attack on 30-mile Salween River front re-
ported stopped.
PHILIPPINES: Military experts stress difficulty of sending help to MacArthur; Bataan artillery duel continues.
BATAVIA: Dutch. fight off paratroops attempting to invade Sumatra.
MOSCOW: German positions at|,
Smolensk appear more seriously menaced by Russian pincer in central front.
‘PREFER DEATH, SINGAPORE SAYS
British Resist Ev Every Foot; das SHR Hold
CALCUTTA, Feb. «14 (U. P).— British Imperials defending Singapore “are determined to die” rather than yield to the Japanese tank, aerial and artillery onslaught, the Singapore radio said today. The voice of the Singapore broadcast, coming defiantly from the center of a furious last-ditch battle on the island, calmly told the Asian world that every inch of the battleground ‘ was being: contested and that. the defenders still were counter-attacking the overwhelming Japanese forces. In another broadcast . at 9:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) Radio Singapore said the continued attacks were “meeting stiff resistance.” :
Attacks Ceaseless
(In London, a war communique said that the Japanese were being fought every step of the way toward “the heart” of Singapore town but that enemy attacks were being intensified on the eastern-half of the island and had to the Paya Lebar sector, about three miles north of the city, apparently after having overrun the reservoirs«n the center of the island and captured the naval base on the north coast.) The radio announcer then read the official communique, which told: of shelling of the city and of ceaseless (Continued on Page Two)
AGAINST CHURCHILL
‘Our Seapower Challenged, Hore-Belisha Chies..
LONDON, Feb. 14 (U. Pa, -A serious threat to ‘the binet of Prime Minister Winston . Churchill mounted today when. former War| th Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha declared ‘Germany has - challenged
peril is closing around the empire. Speaking at Keyham in Devonport, Mr. Hore-Belisha described the escape of a German battle fleet through the Dover Strait as most significant event of the war” because “we know now that our .own coastal waters are not inviolable and that our traditional seapower is in-
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HEAVY TOLL OF
AERIAL AL FORCES
Hundred Fost Planes ‘Used in Seeking Bases i For Blow at Java.
BULLETIN SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. 14 (U. P.).—The Sydney Sun said in a dispatch from Batavia today that Australian and ofher empire’ troops were pouring into the Dutch East Indies and “moving up into defense positions.” ; By JOHN R. MORRIS United Press Far Eastern Manager
BATAVIA, Feb. 14.—De-! fense forces of the united na-* tions were reported battling successfully today against a attack on Sumatra island that ap~ parently opened Japan's all out pincers drive toward rich, strategic Java island in the Dutch East Indies. Pressing closer to allied supreme headquarters and the important naval base of Soerabaja, the enemy struck along two stepping stone
routes toward the island of Java: | EASTWARD VIA SUMATRA-
of Palempang, only 200 miles west of Java.
Dozens of Chutists Killed
A communique said “dosens™ the parachutists were killed that Dutch forces were sticcessfiil battle against the | who had not yet threatened ne bang; which lies 5¢ miles inland’ on the ‘Musi River, or Pladju, sn im+ portant oil town, three miles to the west. ‘ SOUTHWARD VIA BoRNED ——, The Japanese were reported to have taken the town of important port on the south. coast of Borneo, about 300 miles : across the Java Sea from Soerabaja. Dutch defense forces which put up a hard battle for Bandjermasin des. stroyéd everything at the wr Java Braces for Attack
The attack south also hit at the Ni tin islands, which provide stones toward Sumatra with bombers raiding Padan where there were alties. Other enemy squadrons attacked scattered poinis in the islands. The Aneta Agency reported: tht ber of bombers had made. B- | r o reconnaissance ght.
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lation" of 110,000, includ Europeans. : | ‘Japs Realize Need for The thrust at the main lands indicated that the were moving with every |
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