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CLEAN UP SEWER SYSTEM, C. OF C. PRESIDENT PLEADS; RAPS SKY-ROCKETING TAXES
Yes, It's a Wooden Tire
First Things First, Says Kuhn, Looking Bevond War. By WILLIAM CRABB The president of the Indi-| Chamber Com-|
merce spoke his mind today said what he thought about]
ananolis of
certain problems “on our own! §
doorstep.” told the Rotary sewage system-— a system that permits thousands of basements to be flooded by a oneinch rain and allows sanitary sewage to flow through town in Fall creek He chided suburbanites for trvINE to get city services without paying for them then took to task the urbanites permit a horse-car system of government to skv-rocket taxes $3235 per hundred Calls for Right nd he warned citizens of Indidolis that they would fail in orintelligent foresight “if we t buckle down. survey our sitand the right an-
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MM A Setar engitieer trip through a Yor mn a close-in resiThe e was able to thrust feet below the at many places. because the ttom “had simply washed out.” A good many of vou know that widespread development of air conditioning downtown has resulted! in over-loading the existing sewer facilities with two immediately detrimental effects.” said Mr. Kuhn. “First, it has placed an undue] flow through our expensive sewage! disposal system. which, even with! enlargements is not vet able to treat the entire flow of sewage
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raises the danger of emendous water damage should a! flood follow cloudburst | on a hot, humid day when all the are pumping water for air conditioning.” Mr. Kuhn cautioned that a postwar program of public improve-| ments to take up the employment slack should be along the lines of (Continued on Page Seven)
REPORT LUZAR TO BE RECREATIONAL CHIEF
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l, IS reation director, city hall today. The park commissioners are favorably considering™ Mr. Luzar to succeed H. W, Middlesworth, who resigns soon to become athletic director at Butler university. According to city hall reports. Mr Luzar would take over the city department and this would enable the next mayor, who take: office Jan 1, 1943 to name a permanent director Mr
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DOWNSTATE LAWYER DIES WASHINGTON. Ind. March 24 U.P) —Stephen E. Myers, 57. at-
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NELSON WARNS ON DOUBLE PAY
May Ask Congress to Act: Opposes Provisions of Smith Bill.
WASHINGTON. March24 (U.P) —War Production Chief Donald M Nelson declared today that if labor is unwilling to abandon double pay for war work on Saturdays. Sundays and holidays would ask congress to act within the next 30 days. He
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overtime pay, and the closed shop
and would limit profits on war contracts to 6 per cent He opposed warnmbe reup by
that production might tarded rather than stepped the restrictions. A limit of 6 per cent on profits would increase the difficulty f converting small business to production. Mr. Nelson said Elimination double pay for Saturdays. Sundays and holidays may be possible without legislation. he told the committee. A great
of
deal of work is being done in that
direction, he reported
MYERS FILES, ASKS CLEAN CAMPAIGN
Mayoral Candidate Thanks Signers of Petition.
Judge Dewey E. Mvers called for a vigorous but clean campaign as he
formally filed his declaration of
candidacy for mayor in the May 5
Democratic primary election
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torney, died in Daviess County hospital today after an illness of three Funeral services will be held Thursday.
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Rays he said, "and to select a ticket that will command the respect and the {support of the citizens of Indianaplolis and Marion county. That is a debt we owe the citizens and they will repay it tenfold by electing {Democrats to all offices in Novem- | ber. “We must ndt permit bitterness. intplerance or petty personalities to creep into our primary election campaign. There will be. of course. some contests for some offices but the contestants should wage their primary without taking any steps that might embarrass or discredit them or their party.” Judge Myers also thanked
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petition.” His supporters said there were about 25000 signatures. but that he filed only 1000 with his declaration. “I am honored by their confi- . : < dence.” the judge said, “and I asIn Services 8 War Quiz 11 cure them I will devote my time Jane Jordan . 14 Watch Pennies 11 4,4 energy to insure the election Johnson ..... 12 George Weller 2 of the entire Democratic ticket.”
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The tire wheel, dry and allowing for splinters. weighs 85 pounds It took just three hours to make On a test run with Mr. Brown at the wheel and a reporter and photographer as witnesses the new tire behaved itself admirably. At the beginning of the run the driver was all confidence. the reporter and pnotographer weren't quite so sure = = 5 AHEAD LOOMED the chuckhole. Mr. Rrown seemed unaware of the approaching menace. The photographer riding directly over the wooden tire. braced himself The reporter just shut his eves. Nothing happened. There was no erasi'. The car went gaily on. picking up speed at every revolution of the tire “Say
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how fast do you think We can go?" asked. the reporter who by now was gathering courage by the vard. Mr. Brown. the true inventor, gave the only possible answer: “Don't know. Let's find out.’ The speedometer went from 30. The roar changed pitch began resembling the quiet f a squadron of Flying Fortresses. The needle slid past 30. 35. then hit 40. By now the cars progress was about as quiet as a tank collision in a boiler factory working on war contracts. At this point the photographer, peering out the back window. observed a small shower of splinters.
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= 2 = HOWEVER. DESPITE the rumbling roar at high speed and a few splinters left idly here and there. the run proved its objective—the tire could take it Rounding the edges of the tire would do away with the splinter problem. Mr. Brown said. and he estimated that the tire should be good for 8000 or 10.000 miles. “If the people can take it can the tire” the way Brown puts it
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NAVY WILL GET BUTLER OFFER OF FIELDHOUSE
School Willing to Spend $50.000 Remodeling It For 600 Recruits.
A delegation from Butler univer [sity tomorrow will present U. S. | | navy officials at Great Lakes with | | detailed plans for converting the fieldhouse into a dormitory and rec- | reation center for more 600 { naval recruits. The remodeling, to be done at the would cost
than
{university's expense, {more than $50,000. | The university also will offer the navy most of its other facilites including the practice field. the baseball diamond, the swimming pool and Jordan hall classrooms in the ; afternoons. “The university prepared to meet every requirement the navy ' might have said John W. Atherton, secretary-treasurer of the university. Remodeling Plans Drawn Up
He said the architectural firm of Burns and James had drawn up the remodeling plans to be =submitted tomorrow The football season will be played according to schedule, Mr. Atherton said. but plans for the basketball season are indefinite, hinging ‘on the navy's reaction to Butler's | offer. Remodeling of the feldhouse {would force the state high school | tournament to other quarters, it is understood. The remodeling would make a dormitory out of the gvmnasium, provide for a two-inch covering for |the track, transform some of the side rooms into a kitchen and provide tiling for recreation quarters,
School's Patriotism Lauded
The navy's plans for using the classrooms are understood to include instruction in physics and mathematics “Ever since Butler was established | in 1850. it has been noted for its spirit of patriotism.’ Mr. Atherton! sald. ‘In the Civil war, nearly ev-| ery boy in the college enlisted and! the son of the founder was a drummer boy at 14. “The present board of directors ind the president and faculty are manifesting the same fine spirit of co-operation.” The Butler fieldhouse, one of the largest college athletic plants in the country, has a seating capacity of] 15000. It is 440 feet long, 210 feet wide and 105 feet high It was built at a cost of $650,000 and the stadium cost $250.000 The delegation attending the conference at Great Lakes tomorrow will include Mr. Atherton, Dr. M. O. Ross, acting president: Emsley Johnson attorner, and Lee Burns, architect
SWEDEN ON GUARD AGAINST NAZI MOVE
Britain Goes on Alert for ‘New Campaigns.’
LONDON. March 24 (U.P) Great Britain went on the alert today in preparation for "nhew campaigns” and a flurry of rumors pointed to Scandinavia and particularly Sweden as a likely new theater of action. | Unconfirmed reports said that | Germany was massing forces along | the Baltic coast and in Norway| but whether as a precaution [against a possible British offensive or for a direct move against] | Sweden was not certain. London newspapers reported that Sweden has quietly brought her jarmy up to maximum strength by | ' mobilization of reserve classes and] that Swedish troops and planes are | carrying out extensive maneuvers. A reliable neutral informant said he understood the Swedes were preparing for any eventuality but] were calling up men individually! for army service rather than by entire classes in order to conceal (Continued on Page Seven)
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An elderly crippled man was killed today by the hit-skip driver of a taxicab at N. New Jersey st. ahd Ft. Wayne ave. The taxi driver. captured a short distance from the scene of the accident, was taken to police headquarters where medical tests showed he had been drinking. The accident occurred during the morning rush hour. The man killed was Edward T. McHenry, 63, of 838 N. New Jersey st. His landlady. Mrs. Irene Harrison, identified him. She saw a crowd at the street intersection, about a block from her home. Learning that there had been an
and John Kestler showed her the body, she knelt and said: “Yes, it's Eddy.” The driver of the taxi said he had been employed by the cab company for only four days. His license showed he was 35 years old In a statement to police, the taxi driver said he had been drinking whisky which a woman passenger had left in the cab after taking two drinks out of the bottle. He said he formerly lived at 837 N. New Jersey st —directly across the street from the house where Mr. McHenry roomed. For the last 10 days, he said. he had been sleeping in the back seats of taxicabs where they were parked for the night. Two City Workers Spot Him He was captured in front of 510
24, 1942
NAZIS ATTACK IN R JAPAN FEARS ‘LETI
Tokyo Spokesman Says Nippon Is on
‘Defensive.’ By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign Editor | United nations leaders today cited heavy fighting in Burma and along the island front north of Australia as a prelude future “disap-| pointment and retreat” for the Japanese. The forecast of impending effective counter-blows against the enemy in the southwest Pacific was Australian Premier John
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made by Curtin, The same idea was echoed in Chungking and—for propaganda purposes—at Tokyo, where a naval spokesman warned the Japanese of impending difficulties due largely to long communication lines. {
“Japan on Defensive"
The Japanese propaganda state-! ment, signed by Capt. Hideo Hiraide, said that temporarily Japan | “seems” to be on the defensive and! tne allies on the offensive, prepared | to strike heavier air and sea blows! against Japan. { This appeared to be an effort to prevent any Japanese letdown as a| result of their gains in the southwest Pacific, but Hiraide promised | that the navy was prepared for the | difficult task of breaking allied! power the Pacific and Indian, oceans. But the propaganda viewpoint expressed at Tokyo was reflected in part by official statements in Australia and Chungking. Australian Air Minister Arthur Drakefora said “we shall seek out! the enemy and shower our heaviest blows on him wherever he may he found.” Raid Port Morseby
Foreign Minister Foo Ping Chang said it was believed that Japan had “reached the peak” of her military power and that progress was being made in building up allied strength for counter-bhlows Although the Japanese today again raided Port Moresby, on the south coast of New Guinea, losing one plane, it appeared that they had made no further progress in that area in the last few days. Axis broadcasts claiming Guinea had been “occupied” appeared to be exaggerations. They also claimed occupation of Buka iclend in tha Soloinon group. close to the American supply line to Australia. which appeared more likely.
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Fierce Battle in Burma
In Burma, Chinese troops seven miles south of the railroad town of Toungoo under direction of Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, U.S. A., were fighting a furious battle with the Japanese. A communique said they! had the situation “well in hand.” American volunteer groups and R. A F squadrons raided Japanese bases. destroving a number of planes The Japanese attacked in force. using airplanes in large numbers against the Chinese. who were with(Continued on Page Seven)
NEW JAP BOMBERS HAMMER BATAAN
Fleet of 54 Planes Blast At Corregidor.
WASHINGTON. March 24 (U.P). —A fleet of 54 Japanese heavy bombers today hit the Bataan battlelines and the island fortress of Corregidor with a thundering bombardment that may mark the start of Japan's anticipated new offensive in the Philippines. It was reported unofficially that the heavy bombers used by the Japanese today had not been seen before on any war front, Aviation trade circles had heard rumors that the Japanese were developing a new big bomber. akin in some respects to the U. S. army's flying fortress. Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M., Wainwright presumably will attempt to provide a more detailed report of the ‘new type” bombers. “The damage inflicted on our military installations was of slight consequence,” a war department communique said. At least three of the enemy bombers were shot down. While the big Nipponese planes heaped bombs upon Corregidor and the American-Filipino lines several sharp encounters occurred on the ground along the 15-mile Bataan front. Gen Wainwright's American artillery blazed into action and was believed to have inflicted ‘“‘considerable losses” on the numerically st-
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| Yamashita, Japan's new command-er-in-chief in the Philippines,
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Hawaii Now 100% Citadel of Defense
Islands Are Masterpiece of Military Genius; Same Unity on Mainland Would Offset 100 Axis Divisions, Roy W. Howard Says.
By ROY W,. HOWARD HONOLULU, March 24.—Dangerous gossip, an almost inevitable result of press censorship, following the Dec. 7 attack on Pearl Harbor flooded the mainland with wild rumors, dangerous whispering campaigns and erroneous impressions. One of the most baseless, but at the same time most dangerous, was the intimation that the Jap attack had been so devastating that the government had never dared reveal the full truth. Even unequivocal statements by the president and by the seeretary of the navy failed to scotch these poisonous grapevine rumors. One report has persisted in many mainland communities that the base at Pearl Harbor had been rendered useless. Another claimed that the entire Pacific fleet had been cracked up so completely as to leave not only the Hawaiian islands but the whole Pacific coast, at the mercy of the Japs.
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Hundreds of deadly machine gun nests dominate every landing spot reachable by plane. boat or parachute.
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Masterpiece of Military Preparations
A THIRD RUMOR had the admittedly hard hit air force wrecked beyond recovery. (Today the air force in service in the islands, ready to fight on a moment's notice, greatly exceeds, not only numerically but in fighting power, the total force here on Dec. 7.) For the last week the writer has been afforded opportunity by the navy and military commands for a complete, uncensored perscnal survey of ‘the defenses of this and other of the islands. Against a background of nearly 20 years acquaintance with the Hawaiian islands and their military set-up, the picture presented tocay is a masterpiece of military accomplishment. The results achieved are literally thrilling. Hawaii today is 100 per cent war conscious. cussion. The demands of self-preservation have forged a unity which, either profits or wages and hours of labor are not even topics of disif it can be duplicated on' the mainland, will be more deadly to axis hopes than a hundred divisions.
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The ensemble constitutes an invitation to certain death on a stage of tropical beauty amidst gorgeous settings.
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Island Defenses Approach Perfection
BACKED AND SUPPORTED by this unified civilian support and co-operation, there has emerged a defense set-up which, as it stands today, is a lethal tribute to the organizing and construetive genius of the army and navy, with civilian co-operation, have literally re-made the topography of the island of Oahu. In the light of the revealed effectiveness of modern military attack, it is no longer possible to say that any defensive position is im-= pregnable. It is, however. well within the facts to say that the present defenses of Oahu approach as near to perfection as anything yet produced by military science. Dominating every landing spot reachable by plane. boat or paracnute are hundreds of deadly machine gun nests, and completely conceaied batteries commanding and enfilading every foot of beach and acre of traversable ground.
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Engines of Death Co-ordinated
THE ENSEMBLE constitutes an invitation to certain death on a stage of tropical beauty, amidst gorgeous settings, in which mother nature, the mistress of camouflage, has co-operated lavishly and dexterously with the military imitators of her art. On every hand, above and below ground, are mobilized and coordinated engines of death. Aircraft and anti-aireraft defenses, obviously not to be described, embody lessons in defense and counterattack learned in battles fought as late as a month ago. Communications, transport and strategy-direction, designed to meet the demands of the latest attack technique, have been combined and interlocked to make the island of Oahu a defense citadel compared with which anything yet encountered by Japanese troops was as obsolete as a wooden blockhouse.
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These results have been achieved by enlisted personnel, working |
unclocked hours under conditions that should put to shame any man, in any walk of life. or in any line of labor, who is contributing less tnan his full quota of mental or physical effort to this country’s needs.
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This is the second of three articles written in Honolulu by Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, disclosing conditions as they exist there following the Pearl Harbor attack. a 1 i ei Xs
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USSIA;
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Half Million Reserves Sent Into Battle By Hitler.
By M. 8S, HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, March 24.—Gersmany has thrown more than 38 reserve divisions—approxe ‘imately 500,000 men—into |the fighting on the Russian | « . front, and is starting largescale counter attacks, unoffie i a A ‘cial reports said today. Prisoners captured in recant fighting said Germany was rusning up reserves from all parts of Eu ‘rope, and the fact that Germany has been using full divisions in counter attacks tended to confirm these stories. Hitler is hurling more planes and tanks into the attacks. Violent air battles have been fought the last several days for ' mastery of the air in the Leningrad area, and today ‘it was reported that two groups of Russian fliers totale ‘ing 13 planes had shot down 31 enemy planes in six days.
German Defense Stiffens
On the northwestern front one Russian regiment was reported to have advanced 42 miles behind the German lines in 40 days, capturing 19 inhabited points. The encircled 16th German army, trying to break through the Ruse sian lines near Staraya Russa, is concentrating artillery fire on Russian strong points and counter« attacking repeatedly, aided by [tanks and planes, dispatches said, On the central front the strength |of the German resistance was ine creasing daily, it was said, but the { Russians, after two days of fight ling at one point, punctured the German lines and destroyed 57 shelters. They repulsed three Ger= man counter attacks in four hours, (apparently at {hls point.
Novgorod Surrounded Russians have surrounded “an | ancient walled city,” believed to be | Novgorod, and killed 1800 Germans in two days on the Leningrad front. an earlier communique said, The official news agency Tass ree ported that the Soviet air force was using ‘large quantities” of Amerie lcan-made Airacobra fighters, and IAmerican specialists were instructe ling the Russians how to use them lat a training center deep in the [Russian rear. | (The Soviet War News, published |by the Soviet embassy in London, [revealed in detail how the Russians are being trained to fly Airacobras land hinted that more Americane ' made planes were on the way, ine cluding Tomahawks (Curtiss P40 A'S),
On the War Fronts
LONDON: Establish general proe duction staff and plan co-ordinae tion of united nations’ war pro= duction; ‘new campaigns” about to start; Sweden reports mobils izing as Germans mass troops in Baltic and Norway; Germans bomb southeast coast town in heaviest attack since last May; establish British army air corps, including plane troops, paratroops, glider force.
MELBOURNE: Gen. Douglas Mace Arthur promises full truth on southwest Pacific, warns that “we need the maximum in order to win”; U. S. submarines sink 30 Jap transports, five destroyers and probably one aircraft carrier; damage another carrier, four or five cruisers; Japanese attack Port Moresby again.
BERLIN: Japanese claim Port | Moresby evacuation starts and New Guinea lost to Australia; claim 151 ships, including 1,029,000 tons of tankers, sunk in western hemisphere since Jan. 14; high command claims 13 more ships of 80,300 tons, including seven tankers, sunk.
MOSCOW: German resistance stiffs ens. Novogorod believed ene circled; Hitler mover 500,000 ree serve troops to front.
| NEW DELHI: Sir Stafford Cripps starts conferences on Indian political concessions; battle rages in Burma. ”
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0. Ks 162 MILLION BILL WASHINGTON, March 24 (U.P), —The house appropriations come mittee today approved a $162.634,855 interior department supply bill for the 1943 fiscal year, a reduction of 31 per cent below the appropriation for the current fiscal year.
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