Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1942 — Page 1
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In Easton, Pa., Cement Quarry Blast
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300 RAF BOMBERS BLAST RUHR AREA
Faces C. I. O. Trial
20TON LOAD OF DYNAMITE | SPREADS RUIN
100-Mile Area Is Rocked: Workmen Eating Lunch As Magazine Blows.
EASTON. Pa. March 268 (U. P.).— terrific explosion in a powder at a cement quarry rocked |
A magazine a 100-mile area today and was re-| between 30 and |
ported to have killed 40 workmen Officials of nd Cement
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the Portla the quarry north of here, said there were tons of dynamite in the maga-
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Miss Genevieve Samp, 25-year-old Detroit war plant worker, whe says she accelerated her work by a third after war was declared, will be tried by the C. I. O. United Auto Werkers Union for ‘“‘conduct unbecoming a union memBodies of the victims were SIYeWn| per” Miss Samp said she had about the immediate scene of the| peen called a “job killer” by felblast, police said, and a number of| jow workers. The union says she workmen's homes bordering the€| “created dissension and started quarry were leveled arguments and fights.”
2% Known Missing HELP FOR SMALL BUSINESS 0. KD
FDR Authorizes Three War| Agencies to Guarantee
zine. “The men eating a light lunch” aid
aid.” before getting ready to blast.”
sitting around a spokesman
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an legs of the men] in the ex HloSion were oer] as far as a mile aw gator reported to ret Harry of Easton police A truck had unloaded a quantity esplosives in the quarry this! morning and had just left a short time before the blast went off.” An ambulance driver at Betts) hospital reported that he had seen| “between 30 and 40 bodies.” Company officials said they were Or Grant Loans. only able to report that 28 persons | including three or four powder ex-| WASHINGTON, March 26 (U perts. were missing. | P.).—President Roosevelt today au- : i thorized the war and navy departFelt 60 Miles Away {ments and the martime commission | The explosion shook almost the|to guarantee or make direct loans | ehtire eastern Pennsylvania area [to small businesses seeking to enthe concussion reaching as ot south | gage in war production. Camden. N. J. 80 miles away | An executive order designed to A number of school children in “capital financing on a war the lower Mount Bethel township |basis” was signed by Mr. Roosevelt] school were injured by flying glass|in the presence of congressional as the explosion shattered windows|leaders who have been seeking aid| and hurled debris several miles for small business, from the scene Lieut. Col deputy superin vania motor police “np indication yet of Te a)
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Cecil AM. Wilhelm [make or guarantee the loans tendent of Pennsyl- | A White House statement desaid there was scribed the order as “aimed at cur-| abotage.” but|ing a situation which has interunder in- fered with the all-out participation of many small business enterprises in war production.”
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possibility was vestigation Two FBI agents were sent from Philadelphia, but officials would not The small business loans or guarla ntees “will not be made under | peaceti me credit rules” the White! House said. “They will be made by production men, wherever additional financing is essential for additional production. Peacetime restrictions on credits cannot hold up produc-| Johnson O tion of war supplies needed by the]
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Music... 12 MYERS. REPUBLICAN, | QUITS STATE BOARD
Photography . i Pyle :.cc: ( 18 | Governor Schricker’s office today 15 announced the resignation of Rob8 ert H. Mvers, Muncie banker. from| the state board of financial insti16 | tutions. 19) Mr. Myers. a Republican, was ap-! 23 pointed to the board by the gov- | 9 ernor last year. For the past two! 12 months he has been serving as al! 15/major in the army intelligence! 16’ cervice
Pupils Star Witnesses, Tell How Teacher Got Whipped
cause the Leslies’ 11-year-old Dan-| LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 26.—|ny ran home and informed his par- | An attractive school teacher was to! ents that his teacher had struck] testify in Tippecanoe Circuit court him with a book. about her humiliation in being! Eight of Danny's schoolmates dewhipped before her pupils by the|scribed the incident. One of those mother of one of the children who testified was William Arthur]
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| Australia that he has taken up his {sword [sade of personal liberty”
17th Ship in in Naval Service
19000 busy alr raid wardens.
As soon as the teacher,
Miss Con-
stance Davis, 30, completes her tes-
timony, the prosecution is expec
ted
to rest in the trial of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Leslie, who are charged w
assault and battery. Mrs. Leslie is accused of rush
ing
into the fifth grade room of Long-
lois school on Feb. 27 and beat
ing
Miss Davis with a Boy Scout b>'t
while her husband stood guard at|on Friday,
the door.
Francis J. Murphy, defense at-|that day.” has filed a plea of tem-
torney, porary insanity in behalf of N Leslie.
irs.
The assault allegedly occurred be-
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Burroughs, 10, who sat in the wit-! ness stand with his feet dangling | a few inches above the floor. “Now, William, you know what| it means to take an oath? Dan P. Flanagan, special prosecutor, asked. “Just call me Bill.” said William. | “Do you remember, Bill, anything! j unusual that took place at school Feb. 27?" “Yeah, Miss Davis got beat up|
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Bill was asked whether the teacher had hit Danny Leslie with a book. “Miss Davis only turned Danny's head around with her hand,” Bill said, after relating that Danny had| been whispering to a boy petting) him, and that Danny ran home|
| measure now goes | House.
'WIN-OR DIE" WAR PROMISE OF WARTHUR
Voices Faith in Victory In Speech at Capital Of Australia.
By FRANCIS M'CARTHY United Press Staff Correspondent CANBERRA, March 26—Gen. Douglas MacArthur tonight told
“as a soldier in a great cruand that “we shall win or die” He made this declaration at a dinner after conferring with the Australian war council on the strategy to be employed in carrying the war back to Japan. “My faith in our ultimate vietory,” said Gen. MacArthur ‘is invincible. I bring to vou tonight the unbreakable spirit of free men as opposed to perpetual slavery.
United te Death
We fight for the things that are right and condemn the things that are wrong. Under this banner the free men of the world are united to death. There will be no compromise. We shall win or we shall die.” Gen. MacArthur pledged to Australia the full backing “of the] mighty power of my country and al the blood of my heart” Premier John Curtin revealed that Gen. MacArthur had discussed with the war council all problems of his new command, including structure and disposition of his] forces, Japanese tactics and strategy with the Australian war council. In a brief visit to the Australian parliament Gen. MacArthur told the speaker: “If the men of Australia fight as well as they argue | we are certain of victory.” Mr. Curtin declared after the war | council session with Gen. MacArthur thar “news of what we have
and high offi- | ‘done and not of what we intend 15 aent Roosevelt and industrial war | cials of the departments which will ldo will be the only kind of news workers.
that the war council can from: now on make available.”
COAST CUTTER SUNK IN GARIBBEAN AREA
Lost by Enemy Action.
WASHINGTON. March 26 (U. P). —The 1130-ton coast guard cutter Acacia, a small unarmed ship of the |tender class, was shelled and sunk in the Caribbean area, a navy comimunique announced today. The at[tacker presumably was an enemy submarine. The Acacia was sunk some time (this month, the navy said. and all personnel aboard were rescued withjout a single casualty. This was the 17th ship in the inaval service to be lost by enemy
GREEN, MURRAY
{tives said today that proponents of
| very lives.”
Manila’s Wounded Arrive in Australian Port
Wounded during the Japanese atta
ck on Manila, these soldiers are shown upon arrival in Darwin, Australia.
a small freighter chartered by the American Red Cross.
RAP SMITH BILL
Charge Undeclared War’ Waged Against Roosevelt And Workers.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (U. P). —The nation’s two top union execu-
restrictive labor legislation are waging undeclared war against Presi-
C. I. O. President Philip Murray fand A. F. of L. President William {Green urged the house naval affairs committee to reject legislation to he overtime pay for work in xcess of 40 hours a week on grounds that it would weaken the war effort. “America Is at war against powerLat foreign foes who threaten our | possessions, our freedom and our Mr. Green told the committee. “We cannot afford in such a crisis to take ‘time out to fight another and undeclared war among ourselves here in America. “I charge that the sponsors and supporters of this bill are now waging an undeclared war against President Roosevelt and against the workers of America who believe in the policies of his administration.”
Murray Repeats Charge
Mr. Murray made similar charges, and continued: “With their backs bent over their machines, their hearts and minds devoted to increased and ever in-
action. he Acacia, built in 1919, was used by the coast guard to service buoys and lighthouses. The coast guard) has been operating since the war as] on of the navy. |
BOMBERS’ MOON MARS 'NEW YORK BLACKOUT
NEW YORK, March 26 (U. P).— | Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia said | today that last night's blackout of {almost a quarter of Manhattan is{land was “100 per cent perfect,” but | his praise didn't take into account the bombers’ moon that mocked
Wall Street, Greenwich Village and some of the world’s most famous buildings were included in the 20minute drill, but enemy bombers probably would not have had trouble picking their targets by a brilliant
DEBT BILL GOES TO F. D. R.
WASHINGTON, March 26 (U.| P) —The house today completed congressional action on a bill raising the federal debt limit from $65.000.000000 to $125.000,000.000. The to the White
DEVELOPS WOODEN TIRE
NEWARK, N. J, March 28 (U. P.).—George K. Batt, vice president of a bakery firm, announced today nis company had developed a truck
{behind them.
{ without doing anything about it,
creased production, the workers now look over their shoulders and find with knife upraised, (groups who would at this time renew jold attacks upon the working man {and his organization.” “This committee has the grave responsibility of determining whether that knife will be plunged or whether the faith of labor in the agencies of government wifl be fulfilled and those who seek to drive (Continued on Page Seven)
Little Freighter Rams, Sinks Sub
NEW ORLEANS, March 26 (U. P.).—A trim little freighter, anonvmous because the captain and navy censors want it that way, sank a Nazi submarine by turning on it suddenly and ramming it. simply because the ship's crew was unwilling to be torpedoed
navy officials said today. The ship was without guns, armor plate or any other offensive or defensive equipment. The submarine, expecting an easy victory, was unprepared and could not escape. The action took place this year less than 100 miles from Colon at the gulf entrance to the Panama canal, but news of it did not leak out until today. The ship put in dry dock here for repairs
U. S. Raiders Leave Wake
Barren as Lunar Landscape
By ROBERT J. CASEY Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and the Chicago Daily News
WITH THE PACIFIC FLEET AT SEA, March 4 (delayed) .—Wake island lies behind us, a bit of coral desert as useless, at the moment, for war or other human enterprise, as it was before Pan American Airways found it
on an old chart and subdivided it. It is as flat and empty as Wotje—which at the last writing was like a section of the lunar landscape—and mortuary plumes of smoke rise up from it into the blazing afternoon sun and jets of flame color its sky at night, just as in the Marshall islands after the fleet passed by. At least part of what is due the United States marines. the defenders of Wake in its previous visitations, has been collected— and if Japanese inspectors have got around to look at what is left of this historic island, they can guess some of the details of the probable next payment, ” 8 8
A Matter of Concern to Japs
THAT THE ADVANCE line in the Pacific, through the Gilberts, the Marshalls and this forsaken archipelago of coral corpses, is now definitely wiped out must rate as a minor annoyance to the Son of Heaven. That the United States is able to go right on catching Japan's heroes with their supposed naval and ai rstrongholds as wide open as a First ward clambake, must be a matter of even greater concern— at least, that is the thought that comes to you as you watch a fairsized powder magazine blow up and a good chunk of airport installas
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Breath of Summer Passes; Rain Today, Colder Tonight
Yesterday's interlude of summer, Wealher ‘appeared today to be
only a. passing fancy. The weather bureau predicted showers today and rain and colder
tonight. a 3:30 p. m.
EMPHASIS TURNS TO GOUNTY FAIR
Gains Prestige With State Exposition Canceled.
County fairs—and Marion County's especially—gained in importance today with the Indiana state fair | shelved for the duration and its buildings. with the exception of the Coliseum, under army control, The 1942 fair was canceled yes-
Jesierday the mercury rose to 75. only five degrees under the record of 80 set in 1939. The wet prospect for today, however, was good news for the firefighting crews in Martin county, who guarded against rekindling of a blaze yesterday that swept 200 acres of second growth timber. It took a seven-hour battle to bring it under control. Started at Sawmill Fire crews, depleted by the armed services and CCC transfers, were unable to stem the original blaze which started from sawmill sparks and was fanned by a brisk wind. Paul Yost, state forester, said fire [towers would be manned 24 hours daily to guard against fires started by farmers’ burning their fields while vegetation is dry. The fire ranged within four miles
terday by the Fair board when a
three-man committee returned from a conference with air corps officers at Wright field, Dayton, O., and reported that the army’s need for the fairgrounds was “urgent” and could not be delayed. The interests of farmers, livestock breeders and 4-H club members normally served by the state fair will be taken care of, in part at least, by the expansion of county fairs, 1t was understood. It also was reported that Purdue university may expand its services to make up the loss to Hoosier agriculture, Officers of the air service command at Wright Field said the site not only would be used as a storage headquarters for war materials,
of the Burns city naval ammunition depot. At Columbus, a bonfire, fanned by a high wind, spread over a 12acre area west of the town, and halted only 50 rods from a Trojan Powder Co. storage dump. Fire Wardens Mop Up F. T. Miller, Martin county state park forester, and volunteers mopped up and maintained watch throughout last night. The bureau here said there would be showers there today, becoming colder in the southwest portion this afternoon, that there would be rain and colder tonight, with [resh
to strong winds. 2 ” ”
said 11 fire wardens|,
Acme Telephoto. Their rescue ship was the Mactan,
ATLANTIC WAR SETBACK AIRED
‘Turn for Worse,’ Says Churchill; Japs Drive
Hard in Burma.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Prime Minister Winston Churchill admitted today that the vital battle of the Atlantic has taken a turn for the worse—presumably due to the heavy Nazi submarine campaign in waters off the American coasts. Mr. Churchill coupled the statement with the assertion that the united nations now have formed a front so strong that they can not lose the war except through their own faults and errors. There was little optimistic news toe provide a background for Mr. Churchill's address, and he admitted that Britain nad passed through a solid year of military misfortune and probably would suffer more heavy blows.
Japs Gain in Burma
Meanwhile, in central Burma, the Japanese were using parachute troops and increasing numbers of infantry and airplanes in two main drives toward the Prome oil fields and Mandalay, The enemy parachutists were dropping down behind the British-Chinese lines in an_ effort to organize traitorous Burmese groups against the allies. The Chinese forces fighting in the Toungoo area, on the railroad leading from Rangoon to Mandalay, were trapped by strong énemy (Continued on Page Seven)
FIGHTING BLAZES ON VAST RUSSIAN FRONT
Reds Near Staraya Russa;
Air Battle at Murmansk.
MOSCOW, March 26 (U. P.).— Red army attacks and German counter-blows on land and in the air appeared to be increasing steadily today along most of the vast Russian front. In the far north, the Russians shot down 10 Nazi planes in a series of big-scale air battles that turned back an enemy raid on the Murmansk sector. In the Leningrad-Novgorod sector, a big battle was raging and the key strong point of Staraya Russa was reported almost in Russian nands. (Berlin reported a thaw had started on the Russian front.) (Stockholm dispatches to the London Daily Telegraph said heavy tank units and shock troops of
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PROBE LUSH SALARIES
WASHINGTON, March 26 (U.P), —The treasury was revealed today
DEADLY BLOWS ARE DEALT T0 NAZI INDUSTRY
Flight of 100 More Planes Heads for South Coast During Daylight.
LONDON, March 26 (U. P.).—Hundreds of giant British bombing planes rained hundreds of tons of bombs during the night on the Ruhr, heart of German war industry in probably the greatest raid of the new British spring aerial offensive. For hours, the British planes, ree ported to number at least 300, hurled bombs on picked targets in key industrial areas, mixing ine cendiary with heaviest type exploe sive bombs. Early reports said the raid was most successful and the British planes which included the heaviest
new bombers, had dealt a body blow to the attacked area.
Bombed in Hearty Fashion
“We plastered them in juicy, hearty fashion,” an informant said, A German communique said “the enemy dropped explosive and incendiary bombs over several places in west Germany. Civilians were killed and injured.” The commungiue said German planes retaliated with a new raid on ‘the harbor district of Dover and important military establishments,” causing “great damage.” Other R. A. F. planes dropped thousands of leaflets over Paris during the night warning workers that “we bombed Renault and we are coming back again to get the others,
Intended for Workers
The leaflets were directed to workers in arms factories. Today, another flight of about 100 British bombers headed for the south coast. The planes were observed flying straight over the central section of London. Wing after wing of bomb=ers, flying in formations of 13, droned across the city. It was the first time since the start of the war that such a formidable British air striking force had crossed over the main sections of the city in daylight, The attack on the Ruhr was all the more ferocious because it followed a (ause, necessitated by the pressure of fog around air fields, which had interrupted the promised bombe ing offensive. It was made known that the bomber command had its plans all charted to take full advantage of fhe good weather. It was indicated that the attack was only the first in a series. Photos Show Damage The air ministry's communique said the royal air force ‘‘very heave ily bombed” the industrial area. If said docks at St. Nazire in occupied France also were bombed and that “many” mines were laid in enemy waters. Eleven bombers were misse ing. “A large number of photographs were taken and are being examined,” the communique added “These photographs confirm reports of results achieved during recent bombings, particularly of the Ruhr on the night of March 9-10 and of Cologne the night of March 13-14." ” ” o
On the War Fronts
(March 26, 1042)
LONDON: Prime Minister Winstor Churchill warns that Atlantic battle has taken turn for the worse; predicts allies will suffer more heavy blows but says they cane not lose the war except by their own errors; R. A. FP. blasts heavily at Ruhr in spring's biggest raid; reinforcements dispatched ta Burma front as Japanese drive ahead toward Prome and beyond Toungoo.
CANBERRA: Gen Douglas MacAre thur and staff confer with Pre« mier John Curtin and Australian leaders on war plans; New Guinea air front quiet.
BATAAN: Corregidor goes through heaviest bombing attack, follow ed by artillery bombardment; damage slight.
TOKYO: Spain reported getting ready to seize Gibraltar and Tangier,
MOSCOW: Big battle rages between
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Cecil Carnes
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after the teacher reprimanded him, |tire made of wood and surfaced only to return in 15 minutes with|with brake lining. “Road tests to his parents. | date show that at 25 to 30 miles
Bill said Danny's father stood at|an hour these tires steer even easier AContinued on Page Seven) than rubber es, Mr. Batt said.
Germans—probably on the deck of the U-boat, were heard screaming as they floundered into the
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Leningrad and Novogorod. NEW DELHI: Mohandas K. Gandhi
leaves Bombay for conference wilt ae Station