Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1942 — Page 1

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1942

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the lappropriate measures required by the immiostilities.”

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A Weekly Sizoup by the Washington ~ Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The battle of inflation will rage on three fronts next week:

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1. FARM PRICES: Farm-state senators, heady from 50-23 victory for Bankhead bill (to bar sub-parity sales of government-held cotton, corn, etc.), appear certain to affix the parallel Thomas amendment to army appropriation bill. (F. D. R. would veto Bankhead bill; couldn't veto Thomas rider without delaying 32-bil-lion appropriation.) House is likely to pass Bankhead 'biil; - some “yeas” may be of tongue-in-cheek kind, by politically scared members who count on F. D. R. to take rap by vetoing. Vote on “unvetoable” Thomas amendment may be closer. (Some in congress say a White House red-light against labor's wage demands would slacken farm- ‘ bloc pressure.) # » » 2. WAGES: War labor board hearing begin on $1-a-day raise sought by “little steel” workers; also unicn shop, check-off. One forecast: Compromise on“wage; rejection; or a “stall,” on union shop. (Still unexplainéd: War labor board’s hint in Phelps Dodge decision, week ago, that “an authoritative national policy?’ might be enunciated regarding “union security,” i. e., closed shop, etc.).

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~ 3. TAXES: Morgenthau unveils treasury program to ways and means committe Tuesday. No, general sales tax. Income-tax proposals may stagger vote-conscious members; FP, D. R.’s goal of seven, billions in new levies may be whittled. (But some think ‘treasury and house-sendté tax leaders have: pri vately 1eached ficcord on broad terms.)

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RUDE QUESTION: Knog, at closed session of house navaleaffairs commiltee, was contending that U. S. already had unified war com-mand--i. e., all departments subject to commander-in-chief Roosevelt. “The president is the greatest military strategist of our time,” said Knox: “What are your qualifications to judge that?” he was asked, t J » o “ ® '® Japan has ‘already won oil, rubber, but ne iron to speak of, and her hoard of U, 8. scrap won't last forever. But—flames of Rangoon light her way toward India's iron and other minerals she needs ior self-sufficiency. ”

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One reason Russia doesn’t jump Japan (aside from Jap armies in Manchukuo) : | Soviet ships continue delivering munitions from U, 8S. to ‘Vladivostok.

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Oil ustry is pushing for gher prices, Cites high war-risk insurance on ténkers; war bonuses to tanker crews; high cost of increased deliveries by rail. (Easterners who heat hom "with oil begin to worry. Ickes prepares to preen: “I told you so.” ;

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Tew crucial months. (Nelson h Monday night, billed by Sidney Hillman as “of utmost impo; ," may be kick-off).

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Mrs. Payne Now 'Sane,’ Woman Physician Testifies

. By JOHN L. BOWEN Times Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 28.—Mrs. Caroline G. Payne, who reportedly ‘was “blacked out' mentally on the night her former sweetheart, Charles O. Mattingly, was slain, is now a. sane woman,

according t) a physician who testified for the defense this morning at Mrs. Payne’s trial on charges of

killing Mattingly. Dry Nacmi Dalton, who has been treating Mrs. Payne since her

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Army Faces Annihilation in Northwest; Resistance Weaker, Russ Claim, ;

MOSCOW, Feb. 28 (U. P.).—Adolf

Hitler was reported tonight to have shifted perhaps 1800 - airplanes to the blazing northwestern front in a desperate .attempt to save the 16th Nazi army at Staraya Russa from annjhilation under shortrange blasts of Russian artillery fire. : The Luftwaffe was - suffering heavy losses at the hands of Soviet fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns, official dispatches to the press reported, as the Germans sought to parachute munitions and food to their encircled and battered forces. The newspaper Izvestia said the German Staraya Russa forces had been so unsuccessful that three entire enemy air groups which Hitler had been [holding in reserve were diverted to the scene,

Claim Resistance Weakens

offering’ : . that Russian artillery was pounding him at point blank range and that many German ‘troops were lost in the flaming ruins of battered buildings. German resistance was steadily weakening, the press reported, and the Red Army continued to cut off and pound enemy units along the Staraya Russa sector.

Flow of Supplies Checked

Izvestia said “active interferénce” by Soviet planes and anti-aircraft batteries prevented most of the supplies from reaching the encircled German troops by parachute. Another Izvestia dispatch reported that a German battalion on the southwestern front was almost annihilated. “The battalion carried out a psychological attack and advanced at a marching pace with bayonets forward while shouting, ‘Russians, surrender,’ ” the dispatch ‘said.

Battalion Nearly Wiped Out

The Russian infantry was said to have withheld its fire for 10 minutes, allowing the Germans to. approach. ' Several sudden: Russidn artillery salvoes practically wiped out the battalion and only 15 Germans escaped, Izvestia said. “There ‘was only a black spot on the ‘snow where the Germans marched,” it added. Leningrad dispatches said eight trainloads of munitions and foodstuffs reached the czarist capital last Sunday on the eve of Red army day, indicating the siege has: been relieved sufficiently for re-establish-ment of communications with MosCOW. Ngrth of Staraya Russa, hundreds of thousands of Russians hurled themselves day and night at German defenses around Leningrad and its complete liberation was expected shortly.

The War and Yor PRICE CEILING PUT ON CANNED 60ODS Order Lists 2 Varieties; Plan Sugar Registration.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 28 (U. P.).— Price Adniinistrator Leon Hender-

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The sweetheart of Butler university’s sophomores is Miss Mary Elizabeth Gessert, who reigned. over the annual Cotillion last’ night in the Murat temple. She is fae ta dnughter at hows Gessert, of Pi pn “Phi We Gessert was not one of the three candidates whose eigiitiey had heen challenged.

U3. ATTACK ON WAKE REPORTED

Tokyo Admits Lostes in Naval Smash at Island; Washington Silent.

' B¥ UNITED: PRESS Japan reluctantly revealed today that the United States -mavy had attacked Wake Island where a small band‘ of heroic ‘marines held out for weeks against almost continuous Japanese’ aerial and ‘sea assaults. . The attack occurred Tuesday, the Japanese comniunique said. It revealed thatiit had. been Sarried out with considetable: farce. In Washingtan, a nayy spokesman said the mavy ‘had ne information on the reported attack. Radio Berlin, in a broadcast heard in London, reported that-“a number . of Japanese. soldiers , were killed” in the action.” For days, Japanese’ propagandists had hinted that there had: been a clash between :United States and Japanese armed forces, presenting a number of, contradictory claims. Only today was ‘it ackhowledged that ‘American’ forces had swooped down on the" scene of the valiant and hopeless battle of out-numbered American fighting men. Admit “Few” Casualties ' The ‘Japanese communique admitted only that a Japanese patrol boat had been sunk, that military facilities on ‘the island had been “slightly” damaged. that there had been a “few” casualties. Radio Tokyo also reported -that Japanese planes had intercepted and attacked a United States naval force which was described as headed for Japan. The Tokyo broadcast claimed that 10 American (Continued on Page Two)

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Daughtoys Now in Ireland Soon May Get Chance

To Attack Continent.

By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Feb. 28.—A successful British parachutist and Commando attack on the northern coast of France was described in unofficial military sources today as a prelude to widespread invasion raids against the German army in Europe. The attack in'which air, army and naval forces participated was believed to be part of a plan by which the British, if they cannot open a second front in Europe, will open and close at their own convenience

Such a plan of. stabbing attacks

sion in the west and weaken the German forces-assembling for a new offensive against Russia in the spring, these squrces said. American doughboys may soon be given 8 a chance to participate in

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get into action. On Clock-Like Schedule

The Evening Standard said that ‘the raid was carried out on sa clock-work time schedule, with bombers and night fighters attacking the German airfields &nd gun positions and then paratroops descending from the bombers on the enemy to attack a radio location post. The withdrawal later was covered on land by infantry and from the sea by light warcraft while the R. A. F. maintained offensive patrols over the whole area until the operation was complete. The R. A. P. it added, had established that Germany had built a chain of radio location posts. along the channel to aid in combatting}: British air sweeps over northern France.

Bridgehead Established

The paratroops of a specially trained air borne division attacked the radio locator and were re-em-barked successfully by ships of the navy while the Commando infantrymen held back German reinforcements and the warships’ guns covered them. It was understood in well informed. quarters that the parachutists opened the invasion raid, landing at specified ground objectives, and that afterward. the infantry landed on the coast and established a bridgehead through which the parachutists withdrew, At the same time giant bombing (Continued on Page Two)

NAVY WILL NSPECT | BUTLER EQUIPMENT"

Officials Meet Monday on

Training Station.

Plans to establish a naval training station at Butler university progressed today, as university officials prepared to meet Monday with Commander O, F. Heslar, person-

trict. Commander Heslar will inspect thé university especially for its athletic facilities, according to J. W. Atherton, Butler secretary. “Butler has altogether 40 acres devoted to athletics,” Mrs. Atherton said. The plan is to house about 500 men at Butler for a “four-mon officer's training course. - Classes of them will graduate: each month. They will attend - regular ‘Butler classes. “Butler has” given’ hér men to all the country’s wars since the Civil war,” Mr. Atherton said, “and the board of directors -feels that the [interests of the country come » Those who will meet with the

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Batavia Discounts London Reports That Sev eral Enemy Warships Were Destroyed ‘And Pacific Tide Has Turned.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, in Java, Feb. 28 (U. P.), —American and Dutch naval and air forces smashed back the first powerful Japanese sea invasion thrust toward Java with severe losses and mustered allied fighting power today, against expected new attacks. (A dispatch from Batavia to the London Star said that the Japanese were reported to have lost several warships

and five transports. It added that allied heavy warships, presumably battleships, were involved in the fighting and that the Japanese were so severely defeated that they returned to their Borneo base and that “the action might weil be the turning of the tide as we have greatly reduced the fighting strength of the Japanese navy.”)

Renewed Attacks Expected

- indiuthorilative sources:-here. strongly London report. They pointed out that oly ‘medger 0 reports had been made available concerning the action and that Java must be braced for all-out invasion blows by a powerful enemy. The Japanese fleet was “driven northward in retreat toward Borneo, according to a communique, and the allied forces scored an important triumph despite the fact that they suffered losses not yet announced. (A broadcast by the Imperial headquarters in Tokyo said the Japarese sank one enemy cruiser and three destroy ers and added: “The Japanese forces are now chasing the fleeing eneniy.”) : But officials emphasized that the enemy was using “several tens’ of warships and transports in the operations and that renewed attacks must be expected as quickly as the Japanese armada can realign its forces. The fighting appeared to have been one of the biggest clashes of the war at sea in the southwest Pacific. Flying Fortresses Used

The Dutch said the main Japanese attack was expected against the Soerabaja naval base, near the eastern end of Java island, and at Batavia, on the western end. Both were bombed agai by enemy planes today. There had been no landing on Java island up to a later hour tonight but it was difficult, allied sources said, to make an accurate estimate of the damage inflicted on the enemy invasion armada. It was indicated that United States flying fortresses and dive bombers, which took part with such success in the bate tle of Bali, were used |in the engagement.

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munique said. | As the Japanese invasion fleet was beaten back, Jap-

anese air fleets renewed with great ferocity, their raids on

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Onthe War Fronts

2 JOE ALEX MORRIS + [Dnited Press Foreign Editor Fighting appeared 1 to have blazed on an unprecedented scale over world-wide fronts as the allied forces, for the moment at least, were struggling to take and hold the offensive against powerful axis

forces. The dispatches from. these fronts showed:

BURMA: The British reported they) WAKE ISLAND: Although Wasl were standing off strong Japanese| ington was silent, radio ‘attacks west of the Sittang river reported that on Tuesday a ste in the Japanese drive toward fire-| attack was made on little Wake ravaged Rangoon. London ac knowledged that the Japanese! warships probably had iid the Rangoon-

MOSCOW: * Soviets intensify of-| fensive from Leningrad to Cri-| pb mea, ' tightening encirclement of| : | 16th German army’ at Staraya| JAVA: A Japanese invasions Tl ‘Russa; Hitler reported sending| Was attacked by allied planes 1800 planes to rescue. warships in the Java sea driven northward. JR Allied war council

reaches ager on oflnsive LONDON: Britian paca strategy; Australian