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Sausage and Most Canned Meats Exempt; Retailer

Warned on Prices.

WASHINGTON, March 10 (U. —A’ temporary wholesale price x

possibly a slight increase to reflect changes in replacement costs.” The ageiling does not affect ‘farmers, he

said. “OPA already has established wholesale price ceilings for 25 vari-

ties of canned fruits and vegetables.

Seek to Stabilize Costs Officials said today’s move was signed. to further stabilize food costs for: the consumer. . They poin out that pork is particularly im tant item on the food budget ot low income families. OPA officials said the Ameri

The temporary ceiling will be placed isin 0. days by a p

| Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden asserted in the house of commons

“Any Justified ‘complaints of price fusing wi be faliowed by prompt controls at the retail sources,

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Officials said recent advances in

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. REPEALER IS SIGNED a

WASHINGTON. ‘March 10 PB) ~Presidént. Roosevelt has

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increasing by 10 per cent the of army officers on ove

on of a new lock on the St. ‘camal at Sault Ste.

E | WASHINGTON, March 10 Iu. " P) Production of farm tractors using rubber tires will be halted E May 3 Sel a Sew fuiges

300 |8ress to scrap. treasury proposals for

x AP ATROCITIES

o | nESSES had established tlie fact of

_|of the British army, bound hand

1a camp- of brick huts without doors,

7 HINTS. U. S. TO NAME “CHIEF COMMANDER

Yank Down Under

In one of the first pictures from Australia since America entered the war, a crew member of an army air corps. flying fortress wears his oxygen tent and gives a “thumbs ap” sign before taking of on a flight. The plane is one of those which were in ‘action against the Japanese in the Philippines.

IN CAMP TOLD

Co) Prisoners in China; Many Bayoneted.

LONDON, March 10 (U. P).~

today that testimony of eye-wit-

Japanese-atrocities against military prisoners and civilians at Hongkong. He charged that 50 officers and men

and foot, had been bayoneted to death. “Women, both Asiatic and European, were raped and murdered and one entire Chinese district was declared a brothel regardiess of the status of inhabitants,” Eclen said.

‘Victims Buried in Camp

All survivors of the British garrison, he charged, were herded in

windows, lights or sanitation. “The dead were buried in a corner of the camp,” he said. . “No Sibies or Hegical | fanilities were sup-

tive of the Infernational committee to visit the government was - unwilling to publish any accounts of Japanese atrocities until they were confirmed beyond the possibility of a doubt,” Eden said. “Unfortunately, there i no longer room for |

N. Y. State C. of C. Asks.

WASHINGTON, March 10 (U. P.) ~The New York Stute Cham-

ber of Commerce today urged Con-

an additional $6,000,000,000 in individual. and corporation income taxes and to make a sales tax, with no exemptions, the basis of the 1942 war revenue program, ‘The chamber proposed a retail ‘sales tax of 2 or 3 per cent on food; a tax of 5 per cent on pther utiliconsumer goods, and a tax of ‘per cent on: luxuries. a aan mated ‘would - yield $4,0)0,000,000.

AY [Java fel because the little Dutch

{the biggest invading force of the

1“hundreds of thousands of men.”

Diful of allied forces. They were being battered and blitzed by al

western end I saw many beaches

‘Hundreds of _Thousands’ Landed, Dutch Couldn’t

‘Plug the Dike.

‘By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent SYDNEY, Australia, March 10.—

boy’s finger was too small to plug the Japanese dike. The Japanese threw against Java

Pacific war and there just were not enough Dutchmen to stop the

mated that the Japanese landed

That is my outstanding impression of the Japanese success in the Dutch Indies, based on what I saw there after covering the Malayan campaign. When I left Java a week ago the Dutch military command still hoped that it would be: possible to emulate Gen. Douglas MacArthur by making a stand on the Bandoeng plateau.

Dutch Hoped in Vain

The Dutch officers insisted that the Bandoeng defenses could be defended even against the most powerful Japanese land forces and, on inspection, I found the fortifications impressive. - However, it now appears that the Dutch hopes were vain. i I must say that I felt some skepticism over the impregnability

anese air tactics in ya. anese air power there was oi cient to overcome even powerful natural obstacles. The trump card of the Dutch seemed to be their stolid courage. Nine days ago I was having breakfast in Bandoeng’s Savoy-Homann hotel when the Japanese bombers came over for their first attack.

R. A. F. Jumps to Defense

Nine Japanese planes scooped low over the hotel with their machine guns stuttering. Two Royal Air Force officers who had come in from Malaya and three American journalists promptly dived toward the shelter. The Dutch were somewhat shocked when the zero hour of the Japanese attack came at the paucity of aid from their allies. They found some consolation in the transfer of the military command to Gen. Heiss Ter Poorten when Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell went to India. They were equally proud when U. 8. Admiral Thomas C. Hart turned over the naval command to Dutch Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich, But soon the Dutch were leading only Dutchmen, except for a hand-

huge Japanese invading force. Repeat Malaya Mistake

To some extent the Dutch repeated the mistakes of Malaya. They underestimated Japanese power. For the most part the Dutch limited their preparations to demolitions.

In Bantam province on Java's

suited for Japanese landings. Bantam has longer beaches and is linked to the inland by a better road system. There was plenty of room for the landing of three times 30,-

ashore on the Bantam coast alone. The landings in the Semarang

|area probably were effected from

Borneo.

U.S. Steel Gets

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TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1942

AGAINST JAVA

enemy, Some Dutch officers esti-}

1s of the ‘Bandoeng defenses because Witnesses Reveal Graefty-tor . haan

An Editorial

Wake Up, America—lIt's latel

Editor's Note: This Indianapolis Times editorial of last Thursday has aroused so much discussion and so many requests for reprints that we are today reproducing it. Individuals or organizations desiring additional reprints can obtain them through The Times.

‘HE nation needs to awaken to the full gravity of the peril that

confronts it. It needs to appreciate how badly we have been defeated in

three months of war.

It needs to realize that there is a grave chance of the Japanese pushing through India and the Germans driving through the Near East, to join their armies and resources in an almost unbeatable combination. It needs to get away, once and for all, from the comforting feeling that while we may lose at the start we are bound to win in the end. Only when fully aware of existing perils will the United States do its utmost. Pray God that awareness will not come too late, as it did in France!’

PRODUCTION DIRECTOR DONALD NELSON appeals for vastly increased industrial output on a 24-hour, seven-day basis—168 hours a week. Maximum production, in short. Can we get it? Not until we quit thinking i in terms of less work for more money. Not while there is greater concern about overtime pay than overtime production. Not while farmer politicians are more interested in higher prices than raising more essentials.

Not while an army of federal press agents clamors to promote and perpetuate activities that have no present need or.

value. Not while WPA, despite a shortage of labor, seeks to carry

for performing. Not while CCC and NYA stretch greedy hands for funds to pamper young men who ought to be in the armed forces or the war plants. Not while the life-and-death need for uninterrupted production is used as a weapon to put over the closed shop.

Not while fifth columnists are pampered and enemy sliens «move freely in defense areas. ; Not while the grim job of preparing our home communities

against air raids and sabotage is gummed up with a lot of highfaluting, boon-doggling, social service activity.

E will not get maximum prodistion, in short, unless, first, we fully realize our awful peril; and, second, get over the gimmes.

Gimme shorter hours, gimme higher wages, gimme bigger profits, gimme more overtime, gimme less work, gimme more

pensions, gimme greater crop benefits, gimme more appropria-

tions and patronage, gimme plants for my congressional district,

gimme fees and dues to work for Uncle Sam, gimme ham ’n eggs, gimme share-the-wealth, gimme $30. every Thursday. France had the gimmes, too—had them till the Germans were close to Paris. Then everybody went frantically to work— too late. France has no gimmes today—except gimme food for my baby, gimme a place to lay my head, gimme death. Will the United States wake up too late?

“on projects which it doestt haverths men to'perforprorthe need esd

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MALTA BOMBED FOR 24 HOURS STRAIGHT

\Germans Unable to Cause Losses, London Says. LONDON, The German luftwaffe has been pine bombing and raiding the island of

000 men and I would guess that at| _ least 100,000 Japanese were put

dirap Income Levy Boosts,

Rip Up Unused Streetcar

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work down on ave. where it runs into 8. Pine st.

Rails Out Lexington Way

About the time you tossed a shoe at the noisy alarm clock this morning and wished for “just one more hour,” 20 overall-clad men started

may some day rue this day at Lexington and

history of American industry.-

the chamber esti-| gg

that another| om

increases in individual and corporation income taxes.

I es from slight! sure

WASHINGTON, March 10 (U.| prise P)—Senstor A.B. Chandler - «(D.| unde:

n is giving considera-

Billion Insurance

NEW YORK, March 10 (U.P). —The United States Steel Corp. announced today- that it had insured its facilities for ‘$1,000,000,000. the largest insurance in the

Malta in the Mediterranean almost continuously for the past 24 hours, the air ministry said today. At times the air was filled with battling planes. Malta was bombed almost daily for more than two months by German and Italian planes, but the

The ix nity uid tat dept

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among the attacking planes.

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non-stop effort of the last two days| {apparently is the most severe at-

about 35 miles of unused rails. The

steel, worth $22.50 a ton, will Malleable|

That was when the Indiana Asphalt Paving Co. started ripping out streetcar

asphalt company gets $13 8 ton for the excavation. : “Thus the board of works will. receive $67,000 for repair of the streets

_ | (estimated cost: $100,000) and also ‘an additional bonus of $17,500 under

Vichy’s Fleet Are

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investigating reports that the

been received of the reports.

KRUPP PLANTS BOMBED AGAIN

Huge Fires Are Started by R. A. F.; Other Targets,

Se, LONDON,

Big British bombeérs inflicted heaviest damage on Essen factories and

said today in a communique reporting that waves of R. A. F. planes spread huge fires over their targets. “Even before the attack reached its climax the Ruhr was a beacon for successive waves of tombers,” the ministry said. The attack for - the. second straight night on Essen, seat of the giant Krupp war industries, started fires that raged “with great intensity,” it added. Invasion Coast Bombed In daylight raids on occupied France yesterday British fighter planes shot down five German fighters and bombers shot down one,

fighters. British planes heavily bombed the French invasion coast during the night and British guns: blazed: along the Dover strait, apparently at enemy ships in French waters. Coastal Guns in Action German guns sent up tremendous quantities. of shells, the watchers reported, in their attempt to drive off air raiders, and the sky seemed pitted with flashes of shells. i It was about midnight when the English coastal guns went into ac-

salvoes, they kept up a bombardment across the misty strait.

BRITISH IN BURMA

Japs Land New Invasion

Forces in New Guinea.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS ‘® United Press Foreign Editor Japan drove toward India and Australia today but on European fronts the Royal Air Force and the

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against the loss of three British|

Hon an tant firing in four-gun|

RETREAT ‘TO NORTH =

"HANDED OVER, RUSSIANS SAY

Persistent Rumors Claim Movements of

Ominous Threat to

Allies’ Position in Mediterranean.

RUSSELL

United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, March 10.—Allied intelligence agents are

Vichy government has ‘handed

over to Germany about 40 French warships which were in- : complete when France collapsed. Ae Both the British and American governments are watchs ing developments closely, it was understood today. = = = Reliable quarters said that so far no confirmation had e

Observers agreed, however, that persistent reports of 2 French fleet. movements in the Mediterranean, which pres A ceded the eharge that warships had been delivered to Gers

many, offered a most ominous 3 3 threat to the allied position

in the Mediterranean. It was believed in some quarters here that if the alliés received cone firmation of charges that Vichy ine tended to give: ‘naval co-operation to

Germany's Ruhr war industries|C during the night, the air ministry

It said the ships were of various classes and included the 35,000-ton battleship Clemenceau, one cruiser and many submarines. ] The Clemenceau was laid down'at Brest Jan. 17, 1039, and was not completed when France collapsed ; and signed ani armistice with Ger: : any. 3 Italy Stirs Up Trouble 3 Shortly before Russia made its

official Italian news agency in & Lisbon dispatch, had said: Go. “London political circles believe that a break of diplomatic relations between Washington and Vichy is imminent. “The pretext given will be the charge that Vichy has given supe plies to axis submarines and axis troops in Libya. In fact, Mr. Roose velt will clear the way for the ocous=

larly of Martinique (in the ‘West Indies) and the French Pacific ise lands.” ; The British radio charged that Jacques Benoist-Mechin, Vichy minister of state for “French: : man relations,” had told the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri in an interview that if “necessary” Vichy might

with the Vichy government. : Mr. Welles said he has nor official reports from abroad that about 40 French war ships, being built at the time of the fall of France in June, 1040, had

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charge, the Italian radio, quoting the