Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1942 — Page 1
FORECAST: Somewhat warmer this afternoon and tonight, with light rain before morning.
“FINAL HOME
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VOLUME 54 — NUMBER 7
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1942
Issued daily except Sunday.
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U.S. And Aussie Bombers Smash 3 To 7M
TOP SPEED OF 45 NPH URGED BY SCHRICHER
Proclamation Calls Upon Hoosier Drivers to Sign Pledges.
Governor Schricker today called upon Hoosier motorists to set for
themselves a speed limit not to ex-|
ceed 45 miles per hour. The chief executive’s formal proc- * lamation followed the statement issued by President Roosevelt last Saturday asking governors of all states to establish 40-mile-an-hour limits. Governor Schricker said he believed “there would be a finer compliance in Indiana under a 45-mile recommendation than under a 40mile,” : Tire Wear Is Same
He pointed out that tire experts said there is 'no greater wear on tires at 45 miles an hour than at 40 and that in Indiana there are a lot of straight roads on which 45 miles is a modest speed. State police will be instructed, the governor said, to caution motorists going over 45. They cannot arrest them for higher speeds because Indiana has no speed limit law. “I sincerely hope’ the people of
Indiana will adopt voluntarily this
: ‘out that unless private pas- > _senger cars are kept in running order as long as possible public pas- - senger transportation facilities will eventually be unable to handle all
the passenger loads. “I urge sll this in order that the pople of Indiana may enjoy the benefits of safer automobiles trafic I a longer period,” the governor
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MYSTERY DEATH OF CHILDREN PROBED
BRAZIL, Ind, March 18 (U. P.). —Authorities today investigated the mysterious death of two Coalmont youngsters, who died in the early “hours of the morning,-apparently poisoned by Something they had eaten. Ruth Hughbanks, 3, died shortly after a physician was called to at tend her, and her brother Robert, 4, succumbed on the way to a hospital. Both were children of Emest Hughbanks, Dr. F. C. Dilley, acting coroner, said-the contents of the children’s stomachs had been sent to the state chemist for analysis.
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Eddie Ash ... 22 Kings Row... 27 Vern Boxell... 3 Kirkpatrick « 16 Business ...., 12 Movies ...... 21
Clapper ...... 15 Music 3 Comics ... 2 a paar “ne
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Australians, but they love it.
was made.
No Aussie Brides, Doughboys Teld
MELBOURNE, March 19 (U. P.).—The sweethearts back home. needn't worry about their American soldiers forgetting the old home ties and coming back from the war married, for the army has forbidden them to marry while here. That restriction, however, hasn't dampened the enthusiasm with which the Austrlian girls have received the Americans, and the theaters, cafes and beaches are jammed with the soldiers in their distinctive olive drab uniforms and their girl companions.
Would Affect 17 States in East, 2 in West, Now Short of Oil. WASHINGTON, March 19 (U.P).
line consumers in all areas affected by transportation shortages will be installed “as soon as Mr. Henderson ean get around to it,” Oil Co-ordin-ator Harold L. Ickes said today. Mr. Ickes told a press conference the card rationing plan—replacing the 20 per cent limitation going into effect today on gasoline deliveries to filling stations in 19 states—would be initiated in a month or six weeks. The direct rationing of consumers will be carried out through the Office of Price Administrator Leon ‘Henderson.
Cut Deliveries in 17 States
The gasoline rationing presumably will. be applied in the 17 eastern states and in Oregon and Washington, which are affected by today’s delivery curtailments. “We have not felt we were justifled in cutting gasoline sales, even fractionally, in areas where there are sufficient supplies and transportation,” Mr. Ickes said. Previously he had said rationing, if if Ordered. would affect the entire on Mr. Ickes said details of the system are up to Mr. Henderson. He (Continued on Page Ten)
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Crossword ... 26 Pattern ...... 20 Editorials . Mrs. Ferguson 16 Radio ...c..s . 12 Mrs. Roosevelt 15
16 Side Glances. 1 7
Hold Ev'thing. 11 Society 18, 19, 20
In «e.»s 3: State Deaths. _ Inside Indpls. 15! A, T. Steele... 16 In Services... 13| Voice in Bal.. 21 Jane Jordan.. 20; War Quis .... 15 Johnson coven 164 Wath Pentien 15 4 2 8
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Homemaking.. 19 Sports | g Fairbanks and Mrs. Fairbanks, now of Chicago, was married
. 16'Pyle .......,. 18’ Late - Publisher's Daughter
Wed at Crown Point.
Cornelia Warren Fairbanks, daughter of .the ‘late Warren C.
ay in Crown Point: to Daniel’ Ericourt, Chicago concert pianist. The bride is the granddaughter of the late Charles Warren Fair-
"| banks, vice president of the United |States. Her father was publisher
of the Indianapolis News until his death. i
~—A card rationing system for gaso-|
Here are a few incidents typical of the way America’s rapidly expanding armed forces are cutting through red tape and ‘delay sO fast that the Aussies have béen left in a daze: Yankee direct actionists needed tool parts and found the supply store closed and locked for the day. So they removed the hinges from the doer, took what they needed, left good American cash to pay for it, replaced the door and finished the tooling Li
ONE AUSTRALIAN supply dealer has his ony —~ goods sold the Americans, but he was worried for a few days after the deal
The goods were loaded on a truck, but the merchant demanded that he receive confirmation for the order from Canberra.
“I'll send an airmail,” he said. . “Hell, go in and call 'em up on the telephone,” said a top sergeant.
The merchant finally took the sergeant’s advice, went inside, ' completed the call and came out to tell the Americans that the transaction had been approved. The Americans were gone, and so was the truck. ” #" #
FIVE AMERICAN army officers,
badly in need of staff cars, walked into an automobile agency and saw 19 new cars on the floor. “Wrap ’em up,” one of the officers said. Within 30 minutes the 19 cars had been driven away by American soldiers and a dazed salesman was figuring out that he had earned $380 in commissions in
See. IN ONE TOWN the Americans needed a stafl headquarters telephone quickly. They were told it would take two days. A signal corps linesman couldn't wait. He walked into a store telephone. booth and jerked the pay telephone off the wall. Five minutes later he helped himself to copper wire and within 30 minutes the headquarters phone was in service. “Let ‘em spend the next two days rebuilding the telephone booth,” the signalman said.
8 ”® ” THE AMERICANS haven't been able to do anything about ‘the Australi~a practice of quitting work in the aircraft factories for tea each morning and afternoon, but they've reduced the time needed for the function. The Americans noted that the workers walked considerable distances to the tea dispensaries so they converted a number of jeeps into tea wagons, brought the tea
hundreds of man hours a week that had been lost was cut by 75 per cent. ” ” ” BOMBER PILOTS reported that a large tree at the edge of an airdrome made their landings hazardous. The Australians said something might be done in a few days. “Go down there and see what the fellow wants for his house and lot,” the American commandant told an aid. “Pay him what he wants and pull the damned tree and the house down.” The house and the tree were down that afternoon. Md 8 ”
AT AN AIRDROME it necessary to lay underground cables and the Australians said it would delay field operations several days while men with picks and shovels dug the trench. Again the Americans showed them how. A jeep was hitched to a plow and the ditch was dug at 10 miles an hour. Closely behind came another jeep, towing a spindle of cable, and behind it came a third jeep towing a roller that covered the cable and leveled the ground.
to the men at their benches. The
The job was completed in a couple ;
En route to a warmer climate in Australia, American soldiers aboard a convoy submit to a haircut by their fellow doughboys, some of whom are handy i
trim. These men are getting their
Yankees Cut Red Tape, Leave Australians In a Daze
By DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent
MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, March 19.—Yankee ingenuity has stumped, stunned and startled
money's worth.
with the scissors and razor and collect 30 cents a
MWARTHUR LEFT BY SPEEDBOAT
Craft Roared at Night to Plane ‘Rendezvor Writer Svs,
CHICAGO, March 19 (U. P.)). — The Chicago Sun said in a copyrighted dispatch today that a squadron of roaring speedboats care ried Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his party from Bataan to a secret
meeting place where airplanes picked them up three days later for their flight to Australia. A dispatch sent from Melbourne ly H. R. Knickerbocker of the fun’s foreign staff told details of tue bold move to take Gen. MacArthur to his new command as chief of the united nations forces in the south Pacific.
Traveled by Night
The correspondent reported that the party sped away at night. “One can visualize the blackedout beach and the secrecy with which this little party set out to run the gantlet of the Japanese,” the dispatch said. “They chose to do
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it in speedboats. Once loaded and
with everybody battened down to their seats, the boats crept out and suddenly opened up with full speed. “They roared out, but roaring was preferable to crawling at a pace which the enemy submarines could detect anyway. But_that speed is extremely painful in small boats which skip over the waves like outboard motor boats
at dawn came a respite. They pulled into a jungle cove and hid all day.
Waited Three Days
“All the next night they sped leaping
it
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Swing and Blonds Urged for Yanks
MELBOURNE, Australia, March 19 (U. P.).—Australians, eager to entertain American troops, were advised today to give them par-
{ ties, “with ‘plenty-of swing. rede f--
heads and blonds.”
The Melbourne Sun, giving this advice to its readers, outlined American entertainment prefer--ences as follows: “Bridge—Only if necessary. “Dinner—Better be informal, avoiding dowagers and diplomats. “Movies—Think twice; they've seen most of our shows anyway. “Swimming—Only if very hot. “Quiet evening at home—Well, not too quiet. Please remember the redheads and blonds. : “Dances—And how! But again, plenty of redheads and blonds.”
REPORT. NAZI CHIEFS RETURN TO RUSSIA
Best Strategists Included, Berne Paper Says.
BERNE, Switzerland, March 19 (U. P.).—All leading German military strategists apparently have returned to the Eastern front, the Berlin correspondent of the Swiss newspaper Nationalzeitung, published at Basle, said today. The preview of a weekly German. newsreel, the correspondent said, showed a recent. Nazi general headquarters meeting attended by ‘Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, commander on the central Russian front; Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian, tank commander on central Russian front, and Field Marshal Gerd von Runstedt, comThandie. on the southern Russian ront.
Flood Waters in State Receding
| FLOOD WATERS which inundated the lowlands along the Wabash river and the west fork of
BARE IRISH PLOT T0 GET AEF DATA
Beast Court Jails Alleged
SRR Ha
Army, fit Nazi Link.
BELFAST, March 19 (U, P).—A special court today disclosed an Irish republican army plot to determine the number and disposition of American and.other armed forces in northern Ireland. It was believed the plot may have been Nazi inspired. . : ; 5 The disclosure was made when Herry Lunberg, 43, pestaurant car atteadant on a Dublin-Belfast train, was charged with carrying lelters from Irish republican army agents in Dublin to other army agents in Belfast. Lunberg was sentenced to two years at hard labor. Born in Dublin He said he was a native of Dublin and a former British soldier. He admitted he got the letters from a girl cashier in Dublin but said he was not aware of their contents.
‘One of the letters, dated Feb. 6, requested jnformation regarding the number of American and British troops in northern Ireland, the number of war factories, detailed plans of the factories and information as to the strength and disposition of protective forces. The letter acknowledged receipt of a previous report. Early Report Asked “I am preparing a comprehensive memo for your direction regarding the type of intelligence report required,” the letter stated. “Meanwhile, prepare a detailed report on the whole power system in Northern Ireland with detailed plans regarding the strength, dis-
“Has the new Central Catholic party made any progress?” it asked. “What element is behind it?”
3 ‘RAF BAGS 2 SHIPS SABO, Maren 19 (U. P.).—Brit-
JAPS ON MARCH IN NEW GUI
CANBERRA, Australia,
sible, including 13 warships.)
tralia’s approaches.
Official dirtles suggested ‘results
In the Rabaul attack thr and two large vessels, were
Port Darwin
The Japanese attack on small-scale affair. Hheavy
ican forces are among those
STAWELL DIRECTS CHINESE IN BURMA
Named as Japs Thrust Way Northward.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor United States leadership of the war in the Far East was further extended today when the war department announced that ‘Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell of the U. S. army has taken over command of two Chinese armies on the Burma battlefront. Gen. Stilwell — 50 today — was named to the command two days after the arrival in Australia of Gen. Douglas MacArthur to become commander-in-chief of the united nations forces in the southwest Pacific. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek recently had made Gen. Stilwell his chief of staff. Gen. Stilwell faces the task of beating the Nipponese forces back from their efforts to slice China's lifelines of supply. . It is in north Burma where Gen. Stilwell assumes command of the (Continued on Page Ten) ss = On Inside Pages
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' By GEORGE WELLER = Cong. 106. by Tou Insanavels Times snd the Chios Daly News AUSTRALIA, March 19. with Holmes floating light attached, tossed overboard from the cruiser Houston in the laster Java éea, not only Shved cha Jives of 116 math bu have brough
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eudinie; rootn, dstroping. No. 3:boller room ab the munition Wagasibts. The Kortenaer. split amidship and separated fore and stern, sinking
perpendicularly, “like stakes driven into the sea,” within two minutes.
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JUNGLE FORC IS MOVING ON RT MORESBY
Intense Enemy Land Thrust Is Made Toward : Springboard to Continent; New Darwin © Raid Does Little Damage.
By FRANCIS L. McCARTHY United Press Staff Correspondent
How,
March 19.—Japanese jungle
troops hacked their way southward across New Guinea is = land for an invasion thrust against Australia today. Meanwhile, new allied air attacks off Rabaul, New Britain, were reported officially to have blasted a 10 ,000-tom Japanese cruiser and possibly ‘six other vessels. (This raised the toll of Japanese ships sunk or damaged’ : in the islands north of Australia to 26 definite and 82 pos
These developments, together with another enemy alr raid on Port Darwin today, intensified the battle’ for Avge
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U. S. Planes Lead Attacks
The heavy blows at Rabaul and arodnd New Guinea were regarded as a clear demonstration of the sustained effectiveness of the allied aerial counter-offensive.
that allied estimates of Japs :
Ses in i waters 8 Juight grove COuser Vani,
fleet: Only oné allied plane was lost in the two operations,
ee ships, including the cruiser known damaged and two to
four more were believed injured. «
Raided Again
Port Darwin, was: a relatively bombers dyopped fagmenta~:
tion bombs which are. designed to injure personnel. Amer.
stationed at Darwin. Casuals;
ties and. damage were reported light. War Minister F. M. Forde said that the fullest co-oper- 5 ation between Australian and American armed forces is. i being developed am that “everything possible” is being
done to aid the American ex! 3 peditionary force. Ee The attacks on Japanes ships off New Britain on Wednesday were disclosed in a war communique at a tim when the united nations forces under Gen. - Douglas MacArthur
were intensifying the struggle fi air Supremacy and for invasion bases. yh Other ‘Developments bins Developments included: : : 1 A new raid by Japanese heavy bombers which made three runs over: Port Moresby, but apparently failed = to cause serious damage because of strong defensive fire. | 2. A dispatch from Port M saying that Japanese forces cutting through the 110 miles rugged jungles across New Guinea in ‘an effort to flank that vital invae A
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On the War Fronts
CANBERRA: U. S. and Australian. . planes hit three to seven Jap ships : in attacks at Rabaul and Koepang; Japanese attack Port Moresby, Port Darwin and Cape
north of ‘Rangoon.
LONDON: ‘Military spokesman, su gested Japs may strike to Fijis to cut U. 8.-Australia insted of making frontal on continént; goverriment th