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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 298

aval Battle Still Rages As Threat To Java Increases

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1942

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| VASHINGTON, eb. 21.—Get set for more bad Ha —plenty of it; plenty bad—from all or almpst all

Next six months can hardly bring substantialgood news from ‘any theater, except’ assembly lines at home. F. D. R, in Monday speech, may prepare nation for hard blows. He asks listeners to have world map ready; map-followers will find small immediate comfort in his text or tone. Impending military’ events should dissipate complacency in and out of Washington; reconcile public to real belt-tightening; even pierce the thick- “ hided consciousness of pressure groups. ; # nn = ’ WHY MUST UNITED NATIONS keep on retreafing, shining only in rear-guard actions and hit- ; run/ raids, being always too late with too little? LL Answer is simple enough: Hitler and Japs 1 MacArthur planned for years, piled up great stores of arms, ions, raw ‘materials; trained vast task forces; drilled their es in privation; struck when their war machines were at top form. ur job of overcoming that initial (and continuing) advantage is st hf largely in tooling stage. Challenge to U. S. producers is: Can

i going at top speed betord 4 #xis can exploit its gains?

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entment Piles Up

Vashington fears dangerous reeriminations among some of united ns as reverses continue. Resentment among Australians, Dutch, ete. at paucity of ald is rs I, inevitable. Help is coming, some day, with the rush and roar agara. But today it is: still-in blueprints, on shipways, in toel foundries, assembly lines, training camps. And patience is a wolves are a your Jugular..

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= * 7 Be 4 3 ot the least of the fronts on- whieh disaster is feared is ‘North 3. Reinforcements from across the Mediterranean are believed

po building. up Rommel's ironclad legions for a thrust to Suez and

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ichy’s known assistance in delivering munitions to Rommel nas y- led state department to cut off. all exports to the French. Minds aren’t yet made up on question whether recall of Ambassaeahy would push Vichy into total embrace of swastika. ys LS ¢ ” » Strong sentiment exists among army officers here—off record— [ulvaging” MacArthur, by sub or plane, for future important com-

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Labor Troubles Ahead

OOK. FOR LABOR to get back into page-one headlines quick. - ew war Irbor board is on sizzling hot spot in littie steel-vs.-.0.C. hearings, opening Tuesday. Prime issues: Union shop; koff; $1 a day more. Both sides talking tough. If neither party yields, board may blow up, like its predecessor, tional defense mediation board. Billy Leiserson, sage member of national labor relations board, awled some frank and ugly handwriting on the wall in.New York ech. Predicted ‘stormy career” for WLB; by implication blamed ngress and FDR, who called no signals for WLB, left it to carry il without guidance on policy. If WLB bogs down, look for new pressure in congress for legislan to— : 1. Freeze closed shop, open shop (and variations) at present status. 2. Repeal overtime requirements of wage-hour and other laws. 3. Restrict right to strike (by requiring majority ballot, etc.). Double-time-for-Sunday is another WLB hot potato, now at issue ween U.A.W. and General Motors. Most expect rejection of double time. (U. A. W.’s demand for a $1-a-day boost by G.M. comes up

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ashing Machines Also Face Blackout - WATCH FOR a big ‘push to set aside anti-trust laws—for dura-

Part is already shelved. Price control .act permits “voluntary agreements” by producers and handlers to fix “maximum” prices— oftimes in practice you can’t slip a razor edge ’'twixt maximum and nimurn. Some industries now insist that, for all-out war effort, they must permitted to pool patents and divide markets.

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Retail sales of - washing machines, stoves, other such items, may nr like Teitigtraior sales.

bat one shortage and you aggravate a otner: Sugar-ration ’ (Continued on n Page Two)

Niblack to Ask Grand Jury

Probe Invalid Homes Here

| Judge John L. Niblick of munici-) The matter arose when Edna pel court said today he would ask|Kinsman, operator of a convalescent

fe grind jury to investigate invaliq| "ome at 420 N. gon . homes|in Indianapolis after County :

had bitten her on the d beaten her. Mrs. Kinsman ed $1 and costs and sento 60 days in the Women’s

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Testimony in court brought out that defendant had been sen tericed on confidence game charges, once in Pennsylvania and again in Mive of the ‘eight patients at the home had been. receiving pensions from |the sounty welfare department.

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CONTINENTAL, HAWK. BATTLE 1S POSSIBILITY

Champions ~ in Different “Brackets; Southport, Howe Open Tourney.

By HARRY MORRISON The die is cast, Drawings for the 31st annual state high school basketball tourna-

ment opening next Thursday, were announced today by the Indiana High School Athletic Association. A total of 769 quintets, eight less than last year, will compete for the title held by the Washington Hatchets. The draw for the Indianapolis sectional at Technical gym brought a cheer from fandom. It makes possible a clash between the Decatur Central Hawks, county champs, and the Washington Continentals, city champs, for the crown. The Continentals are in the upper bracket, the Hawks in the lower.

Begins at 7 p. m. Thursday

The sectional here starts at 7 p. m. next Thursday, with the South-port-Howe game. Tech, city tourney runners up, drew a bye in the first round and meets the winner of that game in their first: encounter. . The second attraction of the evenng tests the

Broad Ripple against Ben ig

Decatur Central, start their drive at 10 a, m. Friday, meeting Frank-lin-twp., and at 11 a. m., Shortridge meets Beech Grove.

Pick Up Season Rivalry

Warren Central and Central of Lawrence pick up where they left off their suburban. rivalry, at 2 p. m. Friday; New Augusta plays Manual ‘at '3 p. m,, and Tech meets the winner of the Southport-Howe game at 4 p. m. Few of the leading teams in the state drew difficult . assignments for opening games, although Horace Mann, favored in many quarters, | must play Portage, a team . that has lost only one game. In the Muncie sectional, Burris and ‘Central face ‘each other. ‘Central of Ft. Wayne starts off against North Side and must face South Side in the same part of the bracket if they win. Martinsville and Bloomington, arch rivals in their sectional, must meet in the opening round.

ACTORS CAN'T ACT AND FIGHT, T0O

So Draft Officials Face Deferment Problems.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (U. P). —Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Sershey, selective service director, told a press conference today that “eventually we are going to be driven to some sort of allotment of: manpower to definite purposes for which we need manpower.” © -° He said the war effort challenges the American dembécracy’s ability to shift to an all-out.production without the necessity for worker distribution. The immediate need, he continued, is for “closer liaison between the user and producer of labor.” He said local draft boards undoubtedly would be asked to consider key radio and newspaper employees as essential to the war effort. : 4 . Up to Local Boards General Hershey said there had been some misunderstandings 'regarding directives relating to deferment. of essential and irreplacable|"

leaders. : “A deferment because of occupation can be granted,” he explained, “only to an individual by his own local board and all deferments are provisional, subject to withdrawal and given only to serve the national Intergst—not the . registrant's interest.” Asked whether nationally known actors would be deferred General Hershey said he doubted that local boards would be willing to “take the heat” for deferring such men. -- He said too much of the moviegoing and radio-listening population “wants music and wants Jack Benny and at the Same ime Wants Jack Benny to :

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|the Japanese and Gen. Douglas|| . MacArthur's defenders of Bataani|

After Nazi

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Hidden in the clouds of desert sand 1 in Lor are the remains: ‘of m an axis tank which apparently touched off a land mine uring the: Adhiing south of Benghazi.

Tank Hit Mine in Desert

RUSSIANS DRIVE GIANT WEDGES

Gains Reported C Over Wide Front; Artillery Duel

Resumed in Bataan.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

Continued gains were reported to- |.

Air Raid Alarm Tomorrow fo Start Navy Parade and Rally

The program for Indiana Navy Booster Day is ready. It awaits only the air raid alarm at 1:36 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to’ get officially underway here. The highlights of the program'include a mock air raid, a mammoth parade “through downtown Indianapolis and a rally at the Butler Aeldhouse at which mothers of Indiana men in the navy will be 8s 8 honored by Katharine Cornell and state and naval officials. ° It is ‘expected to be the largest patriotic ‘observance ‘that Indianapolis has ever seen and scores of

day by the Russians, who, according to Moscow were “carrying all ‘be-

fore them” in their attack on Ger-|

man last defenses. In the Far East the British continued their strong resistance on the Burma front and heavy artillery ‘duels were resumed between

peninsula in the Philippines. British dispatches said the Rus'sians had made a ‘decisive break through the Nazi lines in the Leningrad sector after a week of ferocious battles.

In the southwest, the Communist

party organ Pravda said, German tank units supported by strong infantry were suffering “exceptionally heavy losses” in a frustrated attempt to prevent a break-through near the western border. Kharkov was reported partially isolated. Increasing Russian guerrilla ac-

tivity was reported in the Crimea,|

probably foreshadowing a new offensive against remaining German

strongholds below the Sea of Azov. The British radio, heard by CBS, said Russian forces were advancing; against the Crimean harbor of)

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On War Fronts

BATAVIA: Japanese smash at allied air bases on bath ends of Java island} American and Dutch naval counter-attacks boost to 18 total of enemy warships and transports - sunk or damaged off Bali.

RUSSIA—Red army reported breaking through two German lines on the Leningrad front and attacking strongly in the Crimea; fighting in Ukraine city of Kharkov reported.

WASHINGTON—J apanese and

Gen. MacArthur's forces resuize :

heavy artillery duel.

BURMA—British reported holding along Bilin river front.

AUSTRALIA-German

local organizations and individuals are participating to Wake the day a success. ' Fieldhouse Rally 1s Climax The rally at the fieldhouse will be the climax of the day’s program. ‘Hundreds of invitations have been sent to mothers. of ‘the navy and those who attend will be seated in a special section of the house, The

service will be given the most prominent seat. Miss Cornell, tathows, actress of the stage, will pass out silver navy mother pins to the guests of honor. The pins are embossed “with the words, “My Son: Is in the ‘Navy.” The . actress, - starring in the play “Rose Burke,” opening at English’s Monday, has assured Russell W. McDermott, secretary of the Indiana Navy Booster club, that she will arrive here by plane tomorrow. She Is also expected to speak briefly of the public’s appreciation of Hoosier mothers.

N. ILLINOIS ST.

N. PENNSYLVANIA ST.

mother with the most sons. in the} °

DIVE BOMBERS

FROM AMERICA JOIN IN ATTACK

Among Those Sunk or Damaged; Enemy Hammers Island Bases.

By JOHN R. MORRIS United Press Far Eastern Editor

BATAVIA, Java, Feb. 21.—Eighteen Japanese shipeis including five cruisers and four destroyers—have been sunk or damaged in a great three-day naval battle in defense of Java, it was officially reported today. The battle continues tonight as American and Dutch warships and planes are striking back hard at the Japanese assault toward the united nations headquarters, Official reports of the: battle indicated that of the 18

| Japanese ships at least two cruisers were set afire and pre-

sumably lost, one cruiser exploded and presumably was Suni and one transport was sunk. The battle began Thursday morning with Japanese ine vasion of the island of Bali, only a mile east of Java, but it spread throughout yesterday and today to Japsneseneld Sumatra on the west flank of this island.

Hammer Bases in Java

But,the enemy. offensive was’ still hammers heavily

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i naval bi se, with Japanese bombers striking at both ends .|of Java island in an attempt to knock out allied aerial

defenses. ; Bali was submerged by an encircling Japanese attack from all sides, including the main airport on the south coast, despite furious counter-blows by American flying fortresses and dive-bombers, Dutch cruisers and United States and Dutch destroyers which inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, set one cruiser aflame and blew up Sngbjer in a huge explosion. The allied losses included a destroyer sunk by a torpedo and another ship damaged with theloss of 10 lives. More than 18 Japanese vessels were bombed in the allied attacks Thursday and yesterday, according to.today’s communiques, but it was pointed out that there may have been some duplications. Official Listings The official list of bombing attacks, including possible repeat or duplication attacks, for the two days up to last night showed: 1. Three Japanese cruisers hit by American flying fortresses and dive bers off southeast Bali and two or three enemy cruisers (including one that exploded) damaged by American and Dutch warships off Bali. 2. Two enemy destroyers directly hit by allied. aerial bombs off the important Den Pasar airport on the south Bali coast which the Japanese assaulted. 3. Two enemy destroyers damaged by American and Dutch naval forces off Bali.

4. Four ships, apparently transports, hit by U. S. dive

bombers off the Den Pasar airport. 5." Three enemy transports and supply ships totalling 21,000 tons hit directly or damaged by near misses in the Musi river, on Sumatra. 6. Two enemy transports or supply ships, including the. 5000-ton merchant ship Koapang, hit in the Banka strait off Sumatra. Use Curtiss P-40s

The crack allied and Japanese air

A new war song will be heard for (Cantipned on Page Two) - ”

Rally Program

The line of march. 'in tomorrow's Navy Booster Day parade. 1: an raid alarm.

PRO-AXIS URUGUAY |: FACTION TRIES COUP, “Juz ie” = re

47—Parade starts from vania and St. Clair sts. Proclaims New | President: Police Break Up March,

m; 30—Flag unfurled. Invocation. ] : ~ Seng, “Come on and Pight” by Butler-Jordan Chorus. “Motion pictures of London bombing. Talk by L. T. Dwyer, chair Navy

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American Curtiss P-40 fighters and Japanese navy “0” fighters, engaged in the battles, with the Dutch reporting that the enemy’s “0” fighters were driven off during one engagement with three shot down. Two allied planes were lost. (At Washington, a communique said four Japanese fighters were shot down and four American craft were lost, including two dive bombers and two Aghters. :

forces in the air-naval battle Sud Iga included:

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Five Cruisers and Four Destroyers Listed i