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To Be Moin Sehricker Told.

‘Cons of dwellings for 1000 - families

‘ernor Schricker of’ @ special com-

ion investigating '1ocal housing. |.

report was based ‘on a threes

.m iths study by - the commission].

which was appointed by the goverhor last fall when plaints of - 8 “shortage of

ropolitan Indianapolis, Tecom-

dnd state housing codes: | 2. The appointment ‘of a citizens’

housing project here. | 3. P ositive action to “alleviate “the | critical condition existing in parts of the community ocby Negroes” by the governif private initiative fails to t the condition.

Health Angle Stressed

| 4. permanent organization set up within the appropriate defense agency to place defense workers in suitable living quarters. ; 5. Health authorities be instructed enforce the state laws and city ordinances requiring property owne fit dition or W remove it al- . together. # ditions pxlstine in dreds: of are a menace to health and safety and a serious threat to the effectiveness of our war effort,” the CO! ion reported.

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purchase price range of $25. to $50 a month will be needed here this year. . With private builders capable of (Continued on Page 15)

Sevitzky Gives "Russian Voice

A RUSSIAN technician from Moscow came to visit an Indianapolis defense plant today and a delicate situation arose. ). Russian engineer couldn't speak ‘a' word of English. The ‘people out at the defense plant, couldn’t speak a word of R

n. JE So| straight to the Murat Temple they brought the Russian t Fabien Sevitsky, indianSyughony orchestra con-

Mr. - Sevitzky can speak and he’s going to act as

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the Indianapolis areal’ ee Division of Defense|

Housing Co-ordination was recom-| mended today in the report to Gav-| |

repre-|’ tive civic body to study hous- | E—— conditions and problems inf ea

to keep rental property in|

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| oy Distribute Pins to Navy Mothers.

“Mothers who have sons :in the navy will receive a tribute -from Katherine Cornell Sunday. The actress will appear in‘ the Indiana navy booster -day rally at Butler fieldhouse, and she will pass out pins to the mothers of men now wearing the navy’s blue. Miss Cornell, the star of “Rose Burke,” opening Monday at the English theater, today assured Russell W. McDermott, secretary of the Indiana Navy Booster club, that she will come to Indianapolis a day ahead in order to take part in the ceremonies . scheduled to start at 7:30 p. m. Sunday. Mothers of Indiana men in the navy will’ be ‘seated in. a special section of the fieldhouse for the program, which will begin at 7:30 p. m. Governor Schricker will appear on|

-{the program along with civic Smale

and navy officers. . Program Free to Public : A group of navy enlistees will be’ given the oath of service by Comm, R. H. G. Mathews, head of navy recruiting in Indiana, at the rally, A war song “Come On and Fight” composed by Howell Ellis, Indianapolis attorney, Mrs. Jerome K. Bash and- Mrs. Grover :B. Turner will ‘be ‘heard for the first time. The, sqng, arranged hy Henry Watkins, will be sung by_the ButlerJordan philharmonic chorus. A‘ portion” of the rally will: be (Continued on Page 15)

WHAT CIVILIAN DEFENSE MEANS—

Since fateful Dec. civilian defense has become a prime civic responsibility. How are Indianapolis and “Marion County meeting this challenge? What can citi zens do. to’ prepare ‘them-

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ey? ‘What does civil de_fense. mean in terms of bombs and blackouts? These and other gques- ‘ tions are .reviewed in The

| Indianapolis Times today ‘on Bud a

Turayne Obornoltas ‘Mattingly is shown’ at! he Bloominglon with Mr, and Mrs. Henry Mattingly, Parspts of her slain hushand, Charles O. Ag,

a. ton for it, and that it would cost

for the city.

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Resigns So Will Not ' Hamper Work of OCD. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U. P..

—-Mrs, Franklin - D. Roosevelt resigned today as assistant director

of the office of civilian" defense 50}

that “those who wish to criticize

. Ime” will not be able to make the

OCD suffer from her continued presence in. the agency. Mrs. Roosevelt, who had been assistant director in charge of voluntary participation since last Sept. 29, . submitted her resignation, effective, immediately, in a letter to OCD ‘Director James M. Landis. She said she. knew that the OCD in- the hands of “completely competent people.” 5 ‘Good Program’ Important Mrs. Roosevelt said that by retaining her OCD post “I would only

~~ |make it possible for those who wish to attack me, because of my be-

e mss to the people, that it

should be free of attack in order to render its maximum service.” .- She added that “no individual is|

Senity will B Be Mn f tose

‘By, JOHN’ L. BOWEN 4

fT Waiter

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 201 -Adtual’ mrdsestation of. ‘the evi-

here today. in Mongare Circuit Court.

36 MILES OF ALS WILL BE. REMOVED Unused Streetcar Tracks

To. Be Sold as Scrap.

The Board of Works reached an agreement with the - Indianapolis Street Railway officials -today for ithe. immediate removal of 35 miles of unused’ streetcar, tracks. Railway officials agreed to turn over to the city all profits from the sale ‘of the rails as scrap metal for defense industry. 1 They also were asked to pay tor repairing the streets and ‘to pay to the, (city money that the railways company would have had “to spend on maintenance of the street between the tracks. : The railways . officials said. they would agree on an addi amount: to pay we oity by Wednes day. tion to start, the . project immediately was rushed by the board after William H. Book, chamber of comrherce secretary, reported that the war production board was demanding more and mare scrap iron

the 35 miles of rails will total 5200 tons,.that they would receive $22.40

about $17 a ton to remove it from the street, leaving %. a ton profit

BRAZILIAN STEAMER SUNK BY SMALL SUB

NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 20 (U. Py.

18 times before sending it to the bottom off the Atlantic const two days ‘ago. The survivors described the sub“pocket size.”

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ry y's entire yore landed here rda; : were

Survives, comprising the :

"| dence by which the prosecution hopes to. send Mrs. Caroline G. Payne to prison for life -in the slaying of Chatles O. Mattingly, may begin

Both state and defense attorneys were in a “mbod to speed" the selection ‘of a jury’ and come to grips in the debate over the all important

question: Was Mrs. Payne of Sond or ‘unsound mind on the night © July 5, 1941? / It was on this night, between 9:30 and’ 10 o’clock, that Mr. Mattingly, attorney-examiner for the Indiana

to death by a mysterious fusillade of five bullets fired through the window of the Gus Nickas home at 702, S. Walnut st.

11 Tentatively Approved

Selection: of the jury to try Mrs. Payne on a charge of firing these shots began: here at rexactly - 9:52 o'clock yesterday ig before Special Judge Chaftles B. Staff! When court adjourned for the day at 4:40 p. m,, 11 jurors, tentatively 2ppraved by both sides, were in the X But three jof the 11 were removed this morning after the. defense exercised three peremptory challenges. It was obvious to all in the courtroom that the challenges were dictated by Mrs. Payne. The three persons removed from the jury box, all men, were a bank employee and. two farmers.

Widow Talks to Prosecutor ' Eighteen prospective jurors were excused for cause, two upon peremptory challenge by the state. The state challenged Mrs. Plumie Meyers. The only other woman examined yesterday, Mrs. Carol Brown, was excused because of a “fixed opinion” as to the merits of the case. Seven (Continued on Page 15)

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public service commission, was shot|

mentioning: erit of het "bes £3 pas ca e-

ney, dancer friend of the. first 1ady,

to the $4600-a-year post of director

lof the OCD’s children’s activities

section of the physical fitness division. Praised by’ Landis

. Miss Chaney resigned Wednesday. Mr. Landis, :in accepting her resignation, paid tribute to her part ‘lin’ helping organize the: OCD, “I need not tell you, what the world knows, that you brought to the office of civilian defense the energy and the vision to carry out those portions of the executive order that directed us to mobilize the energy of everybody behind the defense, now the war, effort.”

KEEP EYE ON GLOBE,

FOR ASKS HEARERS

Review of War on World

Scale Expected Monday.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U.P) — President Roosevelt Suggested today that the American people have world maps or globes ready for reference when they listen to his Monday night fireside chat, indicating he will review the war on a worldfront scale. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said that he believed that

his address, scheduled for 9 to 9:30 p. m. (Indiana war time) Monday night, “it have been made very .clear that the oceans on each of our coast liies are no longer the protection to this country they were said!to be by some not so long ago.” The President, because of a head

ular Friday morning press confer-

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On Inside Pages London Shifts Predicted Page 3 Today's War Moves Nazi Power Broken, Russia

By HAROLD GUARD - United Press Siafl’ Correspondent AT THE SUNDA STRAITS, WESTERN JAVA, Feb. 20—I stodd at the westernmost extremity. of Java today and looked ‘across 15 miles of water to- _ ward the Japanese-held Sumatra shore.” | ‘There was a sinking feeling in my stomach whith I am sure was not entirely. hunger. ‘The Japanese . stand at the Sunda straife in Sumatrs. They Bands

I talked with some of the. Duteh and troops who were evacuated from Sumatra yesterday. a Mked With the ranking ofiess.of the Duteh

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when : Mr. Roosevelt has finished]

cold, was unable to meet his reg-|

Bows to Critics

Mrs. Roosevelt . . . “No individual is more effective than 2a good program.”

LOCAL PLANTS GET WAR GRANT

Pledge $7,200,000 Curtis; Allison to Receive $4,600,000.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, = Feb. 20~The

for

$11,800,000 to expand. war produc-

Detense Plant Corp. president, that. $7,200,000 will be spent to expand

‘the Curtiss-Wright plant at Indi-

anapelis and install machinery, The plant will then'.be turned

over to the Curtiss-Wright Corp. Propeller Division, for manufacture of propellers. An additional $4,600,000 will be spent by the corporation to expand the Allison Engineering Division -of General Motors Corp. by ihe construction of a new building at the Speedway City plant, according to Rep. Ludlow’s information,

Further expansion of the Indianapolis plant of Curtiss-Wright plant, was announced by officials today. The - additional plant space is to be constructed immediately in the area bordering on. Kentucky ave. and to the east of - ‘the present building. Robert L. Earle, vice president and. general manager of the division, said: “The .expansion is the result. .of the need for more aircraft propellers for our fighting aircraft. It "will result in work for more men and women who are anxious to serve their country in defense ine dustries.” Albert Kahn Associated Architects & Engineers of Detroit are architects of the new plant. John W. Ryan Construction Co. of New York is the general contractor.

COLD TO CONTINUE; MORE SNOW FALLS

Freezing temperatures will stay in Indianapolis for a while, the weather bureau indicated today after an overnight snowfall of nearly threequarters of an inch. A low temperature of 12 was recorded at-the airport and 4 low of 13 downtown.

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There's a Sinking Feeling in My Stomach’; Writer in Java Faces Japs Across Straits

1 COULD SEE the outline of Sumatra clearly across the 15 miles-of water, The fact that it was ‘15 miles instead ‘Singapore, was some comfort but not much when how the Japanese army i rolling a human tidal wave. « : aa) wav ilpot Jind on the western Java shore for some days, but the

of one mile or a half mile, as at

coastal terrain Will not present them with ‘much

* Dutéh staf offioers believe that 200 mare fighter | planes—for which idle pilots are PERV Noqla

urn the tide in Java.

They. regard Java as the first | gr

nd of

campaign. And as they city

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the east and west are gore offensive.

Java is braced for: the have: bee nno enemy’ landings

gn enises.

south. On the eastern flank, the

from Java by only a mile of

Java’s capital, the enemy is Sunda strait.

Three Japanese crdisers,

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On War Fronts

BATAVIA: Japanese land in Bali despite attack by American planes which damages three Jap cruisers, three transports, two destroyers and | destroys | four Japanese planes; Sumatra conquered; Java braces for deéeisive battle,

LONDON: Japanese invade Portu‘guess - Timor; Prime Minister Winston Churchill shakes up government, bringing: Sir Stafford Cripps into inner circle, but many critics still unsatisfied.

SYDNEY: Another air alarm but no attack on Darwin; serious damage and extensive casualties ~ admitted in- yesterday's attacks.

TOKYO: Claim sinking of 6000-ton auxiliary cruiser, two destroyers, one submarine chaser, nine transports and destruction of 26 planes at Darwin; claim 46 allied planes destroyed in Java attacks.

BALBAO: Two more steamers issue distress calls as German Caribbean submarine offensive continues.

BURMA: Critical . battle Rangoon and Burma

BOMBAY: reports : Mohandas x on Sanghi Gann

Kai-shek failed to solve Chine problem. MOSCOW: russians part: Soviet | borer bak Saat)

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Evacuate Civilian Population of Rangoony Tokyo Claims Heavy Toll of Planes In Raids On Indies Airdromes.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

Japan. closed two giant claws on the united nations only remaining East Indies base of Java today with the conquest of the islands of Sumatra and Bali. Fighting is still ‘in progress on Bali, where Japa: ¢ invasion forces landed after American airplanes bombed or sank eight of their warships an dtrnasports, and resistance presumably is continuing on Sumatra. But enemy forces have pushed across Sumatra to the Sunda strait, opposite Java, and for all practical purposes the two islands flanking the allied main base of Java on both

under the tide of the enemy-

Thrust Forward on Burma hi \ decisive battle. As yet thre

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| + ety in the Far Bast. was deiparata, ot

But in Rusisa the Red army was reported putting more and more pressure on the German lines. heads toward or across the Latvian border and Hisruping Hitler’s plans for a spring offensive.

Java Is Encircled

8he Japanese now face fava on three sides—Sumatra to I the west, Bali to the east and Borneo and Macassar to. the Ey

Driving spear

Japanese were striking closer

to the big Soerabaja naval base by over-running the once peaceful and picturesque island of Bali, which is separated

shallow water.

On the western end, within striking distance of Batavia,

just ‘across the 15-milewifs

U. S. Dive Bombers in Ln

American flying fortresses: and - heavy Liberator: dive bombers attacked the Japanese in the defense of Bali,

three transports and two de-

stroyers were hit in the attack. One of the destroyers was

lifted into the air by the ex~ plosion of eight 660-pound bombs. It smashed back into

the water in bits and pieces, Allied naval forces, including sube marines, joined air forces and land troops. in the furious ' fighting around Bali, but it was not define itely known whether American ware ships were invdlved. Simultaneous with thei raction on Bali the Japanese moved into Pore fuguese Timor, only 330 miles across the Timor sea from the Australian north coast and the bombed Abe tralian base of Darwin.

‘ 24 Killed at Darwin

Dutch and. Australian troops had been. stationed in the Partuguese colony as a protection against a Japanese thrust. An Itlaian radio report. claimed the Australian dee

Portugal had a convoy of troops en route to Timor, designed to ree

on. their arrival: What Bttitde would be toward the. Jape anese aggression was not certain. Darwin had an air raid alarm today but no new Japanese Stack

dow of more. tis 109 whith A Damage the 10 wy en

fense garrison had been destroyed,

place the = Australign-Dutch force