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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 15 SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1942

U. S. May Yield To Pressure For A. E. F. In Russia

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COMMANDOS ATTACK SUB BASE

HELP FALLING SHIPPING SPY SHORT OF WHAT RING SMASHED, SOVIET ET WANTS ‘BRAZIL CLAIMS

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More Donors Needed at Red Cross Blood Bank

Mother Who Lost a Son at Pearl Harbor Helps Maintain the Lifeline to Battlefields.

By FREMONT POWER AMERICA NEEDS BLOOD.

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Mere Man Loses |

STILL FIGHTING IN ST. NAZAIRE, VICHY REPORTS

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sireup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, March 28.—Ramparts around 40hour week were crumbling when Standard Oil scandal, Jack & Heintz salary and bonus grab broke. Now congress will take advantage of two weeks timemarking period to make a new check of public fury, see whether it changes direction or simply covers more ground. Chances are that profits, bonuses, white collar salaries will feel the knife, too, if time-and-a-half for overtime goes. Retreating defenders of 40-hour week are talking about ways to assure labor that time-and-a-half it loses won't go into the boss’ pockets. Suggested so far: Flat limitation on profits. Payment of overtime in government bonds. Requiring war contractors to return to government difference between straight time and time and a half allowed for in contracts Pay rasies, retail price ceilings, along with 40-hour week repealer. Limit amount salaries which corporations may include in business expense as income tax deductions.

Australia Still Gets Air Mail

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 28.— Have you a soldier in Australia? Airmail’s still operating there. It's six cents a halfounce or fraction if the mail's addressed to a member of the armed forces; 70 cents a halfounce or fraction if it's addressed to a civilian. Sorry, can’t tell you how long it takes. Military information.

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Defer Trust Repealers

NO MORE about repealing for the duration. story ended that. Instead look for more use of the new anti-trust double-piay formula, Truman committee to Thurman Arnold to the public. It involves stopping offenders with a consent decree. trying them at the bar of the Truman committee. In Standard Oil-I. G. Farbenindustrie synthetic rubber ease, company released its patents for general use, escaped prosecution and heavy fines, faced public odium. Government saved years of litigation,

got action quick.

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talk in congress anti-trust laws Standard Oil

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Rayburn Seeks Sentiment at Home

SPEAKER RAYBURN, Democratic Floor Leader McCormack head list of congressmen who are going home to see how voters really feel. Others think theyll do better staying in Washington, shouting for action. Rayburn's under fire from one of the most influential papers in his district for “ill-advised bawling out of the people for using their right of petition.” also for taiking about parades when industry and labor are not operating on full-time basis. Ravburn, never enthusiastic about 40-hour hour limit,

week, is out for 4¢8-

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Need a Word for War Offices

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Expeditionary For Force, While Desirable, May Be

impracticable.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, March 28 —An A. E F and a B. E. F. to Soviet Russia this summer, in lieu of a, |“second front” in Europe—some'thing few now seem to believe posjsible—would not surprise observers ‘here. For months Moscow has been

pressing for a second front some- | | where in Europe, This week the Russian ambassa-

(dor in London, Ivan Maisky, warned | §

{that it was all very well for the united nations to be preparing to win the war in 1943, but if they did not watch out Hitler might win it} in 1942 i The war, he said, might be won by the allies right now on the Russian front if they would throw in| everything they've got without wait{Ing until “the last button is sewed ‘on the last uniform of the last soldier.”

Agreed, but How? In principle, London and Wash-

ington are in complete agreement | Se Both are

with the Maisky thesis. doing their utmost to send war ‘supplies to Russia. But opening up 4 second front on the European continent is a different matter. The seemingly irrefutable argument is: If the Nazis, with their long preparation, their superiority

in the air and mechanical equip-| 3

ment, have not been able to invade England, how can England invade Europe? On the other hand, I find the ut- | most desire in Britain and Amer'ican circles to do every thing possi- | ble. Vast quantities of material have been and are being shipped. | Yesterday it was announced that | ' President Roosevelt had instru ucted | every department of government to! give priority to shipments to the Soviet Union.

Still Not Enough

But this still falls short of what | Moscow wants. | American forces are now in Aus-| (tralia, China. the Philippines, Ire-|

|1and. South America and elsewhere. | to register for the 1942 primary and| (Undoubtedly an American expedi-| general elections was forecast to-! [tionary force would be sent to Rus-| day,

{sia if the president believed it

EXPECT LATE RUSH

Officials Warn Thousands

“ad- | tinger warned that many thousand

It needs it badly and there is no time to waste.

In a few days the Red Cross fears a serious drop in its blood bank | here for the simple reason that not as many people are coming in

to donate. The Red Cross doesn't want the red lifeline from Indianapolis to foreign battle fields to be snapped. n ” ” SOME PEOPLE, THEY their blood. It doesn't hurt. But—unlike Mrs. Ruth Bridges, of 424 N. haven't got around to doing anything about it yet. didn’t wait. Mrs. Bridges is a mother of a Pearl Harbor victim. = ” 2 ” n n WHEN THE JAPS made their sneak attack that infamous Dec. 7, they killed Harry Lynn Malson, 23. He was Mrs. Bridges’ son. She knows why a pint of blood given by a stenographer, a millionaire, a street cleaner, might save an American life thousands of miles away. Three days bor, Harry mother: “It looks like IT am going to spend Christmas in Honolulu. , . We are well-trained in all phases of combat now and itching for a scrap. , . . Unless we could come home, most of the boys would just as soon be fighting than playing at it.” on ” ”n IMMEDIATELY AFTER Pearl Harbor, Mrs. Bridges offered to donate her blood. When she was called in February, her family doctor, who had been treating her for low blood

5 ” n KNOW, are willing to give a pint of st.—they Bridges

Randolph Mrs.

before Pearl Harhad written his

pressure, advised her against giv-

ing blood at that time. But Mrs. Bridges didn’t let that deter her from other war and defense activities. She is taking first aid and home nursing courses. She worked on the draft registration and she is going to do survey work for civilian defense. “I'll do anything I can when I get physically able,” Mrs. Bridges said. “If IT could put on a uniform, I would be right there with the boys.”

Lo Ms, Ruth Bridges

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FOR REGISTRATION

has another son, Robert, who is |

19. He graduates from Technical high school in June. And he's going right into the navy. The Red Cross is looking for more great-hearted people like Mrs. Ruth Bridges.

Against Losing Vote. |

A heavy iast-week rush of voters]

but County Clerk Charles Et-. #

NEXT MONDAY will be Irv-

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Dane and 200 Aids Seized; Blamed for Numerous Allied Sinkings.

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 28 (U, 'P.) —Police said today the arrest of | Niels Christiensen, a Dane, formerly head of the German admiralty communications department, and 200 of his aids, had smashed a spy ring | responsible for the sinking of merchantmen in the north and south Atlantic. Police later reported the arrest |of additional axis agents throughout the country including a German, who possessed a large number of guns and considerable ammunition, Christiensen, police said, was sent to Brazil to carry on espionage on shipping movements, and that he had hundreds of spies in the United States, England, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and other countries as well as aboard many allied merchant vessels,

Secret Code Seized

| The police confiscated what they | described as the German admiral[ty's secret code, used for transmis‘sion of spy reports from Rio de | Janeiro to Berlin. They said that! the German merchantman Hermes, which ran the British Atlantic | blockade from Bordeaux, France, to |Rio de Janeiro in 1941, was charged {exclusively with the mission of {bringing Christiensen to Brazil to |organize the espionage system. | Among documents confiscated [from Christiensen was a detailed copy of instructions from the Ger-| man admiralty on how to report united nations shipping movements. |

Type of Data Sought |

| The instructions which asked the (spies to transmit their information {to Berlin over secret radio transmitters — several of ‘which were |seized—included orders for the fol(lowing information: | Shipments of minerals from ‘South America to the United States, ‘Canada and England.

Navigation between the United |

Russian surprise attack 220 miles north of the arctic circle was believed today to have dashed German plans for a spring offensive against Murmansk at the moment they were to have been executed.

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In order that the army’s mili- | tary police be acquainted with all the modern methods needed for proper performance of their duties, the provost marshal’s office has established a school at Arlington cantonment. Here, Miss “Tommie” Shannon, (an employee in the cantonment office) is shown as she disarmed Lieut. Hill Blalock, of Boulder City, Colo, in a demonstration of the art of jiu-jitsu. This was staged to show that a woman with the proper training can easily overcome a man. |

SOVIETS STRIKE | NAZIS IN ARCTIC

Shock Troops Land Behind Lines to Upset Plans for |

Blow at Murmansk. LONDON, March 28 (U. P.).—A

Soviet shock troops, having been

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States and the Red sea, with dates of destination

of sailings, ports and indications of routes. Changes of flags on ships.

| Reports on whether ships sail

{alone or in convoy.

Reports on other ships passed {during voyages, their nationality and where signals were exchanged.

reported from Stockholm.

landed behind the German lines in a spectacular land, sea and air operation, were fighting fiercely along the gulf of Motovoski, near the Rybachi peninsula off the northwestern coast of Russia and the peninsula, the London News-Chronicle

Moscow radio reported air raid

‘Nazis Say Guns Exploded

Destroyer British Hoped To Ram Into Lock.

VICHY, March 28 (U. P.). —British forces including Canadian parachute troops struck at the port installations at the German-held submarine base of St. Nazaire today and one report said the Commandos still were fighting this afternoon in buildings at the mouth of the Loire river, According to advices received here, the British made a land, sea and air attack designed to knock out a base from which German U-boats have ranged far out into the Ate lantic and to the United States eastern coast, and to keep up the

pressure on the enemy's western front, thus weakening the Nazi spring attack in Russia.

* Claim 100 Prisoners The Germans said the Commando

‘attack from the sea was repulsed

with the explosion of a former American destroyer, loaded with dynamite, which the British sought; to ram into the Loire estuary lock | sate. The spectacular thrust ree called the sinking of British ships as blacked the Zeebrugge U-boat Belgium during the World be The Nazi defense forces blew up the destroyer and sank 13 small boats, the German high command reported. The communique also said British Commando forces were defeated after making a landing on the north shore of the Sire estuary in the face of heavy re. The * Germans reported taking about 100 British prisoners and said British losses were high.

Planes Join in Attack

But indicated

unofficial reports

that the raid was at least partly

successful and that fighting still was going on despite the fact that the stranded British forces were greatly outnumbered and presumably doomed because they could not be reinforced. London comment was confined to the statement that there had been a “small raid” on St, Nazaire by

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sirens sounded in Moscow last night. The British Broadcasting Co. reported that Moscow was attacked by German planes during the night and two were shot down,

| visable.” | voters are in danger of disfranchisThe United States sent some! ing themselves by failure to act. 12,000,000 troops to France during Registration will end at midnight thie last war. But then the Ger-| Monday. April 6, at the clerk's of-| 'mans were comparatively well fice in'the court house and at the! blockaded. various branches in the county. __ {Continued on Page Two) Today they have the use of the, Mr. Ettinger estimated that 265, ~ entire Norwegian coast and a con-| 000 voters now are registered, as| | siderable part of the French coast, ‘compared with 310,000 two years {from which to make sorties. The! ago, despite an estimated increase | [transport of large numbers of allied | of nearly 20,000 in county popula-

Claims Wife's Mind Unsound troops with equipment would now tion.

When Teacher Was Beaten be far more difficult and dangerous.| Although the registration has mw

| (Besides, once established on the|averaged about 400 a day during the BACK TO HACKS | | | |

land, sea and air forces. According to the Vichy version of the attack. the parachutists landed in a maneuver similar to the recent British raid that wiped out a German radio location stae (Continued on Page Two) ”

On the War Fronts

(March 28, 1942)

ington Day at the blood donor l. center and about 100 residents, | enrolled through the Irvington | Union of Clubs. are expected to give blood. Go to the fifth floor of the Chamber of Commerce building, | 320 N. Meridian st, or call LI- | 1441, Help an American boy get back to his mother.

WANTED, A WORD: For telephone operators to use when they answer calls to numbers where war production board, OPA and other new agencies are handied through one switchboard. Girls now say “national defense.” Rep. John Vorys protested, suggested “war work.” But war department says that will lead to confusion, wants civilian

Today's Rumor

Nazis Massed Paratroops This Times “series is designed to

help vou. If vou hear a rumor don't pass it on! Call us or write us and we'll check it for vou. if it’s true, we'll tell vou so. If not, we'll give you the facts,

On the northwestern front Moscow said a German column was “desperately” but vainly battering at Soviet lines in an effort to relieve Nazi forces trapped at Staraya Russa. The German mass air attack on] Murmansk Wednesday was under- LONDON: Commandos strike at stood to have been the tip-off to| German sub base in St. Nazaire, the Russians that the Germans| . France, as R. A. F. raids Helgoe were ready ‘to begin their offensive| land naval bases; Berlin says St. to cut the Barents sea route for| Nazaire raiders wiped out. llied s lies to the Soviet, it’s a blanket call and no one > EE for the at- [PHOAPPIY ES Americen a Fille 1s being re-examined or re-|tack included the concentration of P. oh ay a ay

classified. Juche Sara ro0ps; ti tinued relentless heavy bombard« (Continued ed 0 on n Page Two Two) ment, especially against Corregie The Facts Are . . . dor fortress. + + + No 1-B's are being

called. Several 1-B’s have, 'HELGOLAND TARGET been re-classified, but thy OF BRITISH FLIERS

are going into the army as | 1-A. The army still doesn’t want 1-B men.

The Gossip Is . . .

«+. That all 1-B men (slight physical disability) are about to be called to the colors under selective service. That

| Russian front, the troops would past week, officials recalled that| MIAMI, Fla, March 28 (U. P). [have to be supplies. {there always have been last minute —The city planning board had unhowever. little Danny An American or British expe- | |splurges to get under the wire and|der consideration today an applifrst withess In Danny | Ao ny force to Russia, therefore, | said they were set up to handle cation for permission to erect two of his parents, testified it was Ln “desirable” might not be|the usual rush. livery stables in downtown Miami. grade pupils, testified today that she| “practical.” And, with approximate-| Some politicians have forecast a|The request was made by a taxicab

feather-like tap when Miss Conwhen the Stance Davis, his teacher, whacked = 190,000,000 people, Russia would light vote in the May 5 primary, company, which recently announced |

LAFAYETTE. Ind, March 28 (U.jin the classroom” was not in court! ). —Art Leslie. whose wife is|today. DS Co \ con's |. yesterday, charged with whipping her so S| Leslie, 11, school teacher in front of her fifth

“was of unsound mind.” whipping took place. Mr. Leslies testimony terrupted by a short intermission at the request of defense attorneys because “of Mr. Leslie's nervous condition.”

was in-

RUSSIA: Surprise Soviet attack in far north believed to have thwarted German plans for spring offensive against Murmansk.

a: Allied planes, believed to include flying fortresses, raid Japanese invasion base at Koee pang, the capital of Dutch Timor} direct hit scored on 7000-ton Japanese ship; Port Moresby raided again.

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Fifth Column Chickens Scratching Up Victory Gardens Draw Ire of Hoosiers

And come to think of it, hanged if the governor knew! “What do they expect me to do?” asked the governor, with a trace of exasperation. “Should I go down there and trim their nails or put corks on their spurs?” The author of the chicken letter said there should be a law passed slapping definite control on neighboring chickens inclined to scratch up “victory gardens.” The chickens, though, are not the only ones kicking up defense bottle-necks. It's the dogs, too. The anti-dog citizen from the other end of the state put his complaint to the chief executive

Allied Planes es Fire Jap Ship Off Dutch Timor.

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British airplanes continued their | CHUNGKING: Savage Japanese aif aerial spring offensive today, strik- attack in northwest China bee ing at naval installations in Helgo-| lieved prelude for attack on land. Four British planes were lost! Russia. in the Helgoland attack. In the Far East allied forces, be- | LIBYA: Axis claims capture of lieved to include American flying “some dozens” of British troops fortresses, scored again in the bat. South of Tmimi: new air raids on tle for the approaches to Australia) Tobruk and Malta. R. A. F. ate \while Japanese aerial raiders re- ‘tacks Benghazi.

peated their assaults on Port BURMA: Reinforced Chinese fighte

Moresby in New Guinea, . ing stubbornly after recapturing The Australian and American| i qrome north of Toungoo on

bombs, struck aw 7000-ton Japanese! contra] front: British fall back vessel at Koepang, capital of Dutch| ward Prome to straighten line, Timor, Prime Minister John Curtin| ais broadcasts claim Toungoo ene of Australia revealed in a com-| (icleq and report Japanese troops munique.. The Japanese ship Was| 39 miles south of Prome, an adleft blazing at the enemy Tnvasion vance of about 30 miles,

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CHICKENS WHO scratch about promiscuously without regard to the national war effort had better be stopped right away, Governor Sc hricker was informed today. The {| governor has been getting letters about this matter. “How,” asked an irate antichickenist from southern Indiana, “can we be expected to raise gardens for defense when there is no enforcement against the neighbor's chickens crossing. the fence and eating :

“We have been asked to plant ‘victory gardens,’ but we will never put them out as long as dogs are permitted to run loose and destroy our gardens. “We asked the dog catcher for help, but he told us to catch the dogs and hold them for him. As governor of this state can’t you do something?” The governor doubted seriously that he could. He turned the letter over to the state defense council. A spokesman there said today that that agency felt that chicken-seratch-ing and dog-pawing were strictly local problems and would fave, vy: be bandied by

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him on the head with “Treasury of |Nardly seem to be in need of man- pointing out that a small vote prac- plans to place horse-drawn hacks) Life and Literature. Vol. IL.” PRR SR ihe might tically assures the nomination of in service here. « ouch. that hurt.” pe 2€ used to better advantage carry- jorganization candidates in both AI . Chi “ana Miss Davis Fits te ing munitions to supply the Rus-| parties. Anti-organization leaders, NAPOLEON'S VEST SOLD it to hurt’ sians already on the ground. {especially on the Republican side. | BY UNITED PRESS He insisted it was nothing like Tome are urging all voters to register and The German radio said today | the gentle demonstration tap Miss > FOR cast their ballots. ‘that a vest of white pique, once Defense attorney Francis Murphy Davis gave Prosecutor Dan SIGNS WAR worn by Napoleon I during his exile | is attempting to prove that Mrs. Flanegan in the courtroom Wedne lat St. Helena, had been sold at] Leslie whipped the teacher because day. INSURANCE BILL |public auction in Paris for 36,500 “even an animal will fight to pro- “You can use my head to illus- francs, or about $900, but did not tect its young.” trate what the blow was like, say whether the buyer was German! The defense was expected to rest| Danny,” Mr. Murphy offered. lor French. today and testimony this afternoon| The boy in the plaid shirt 0, K.'s Measure Extending bv two court appointed physicians (Continued on Page Tw on the mental condition of Mrs. SR RRR Seizure Powers. slie was to close today's session. Lelie boy who caused the “tempest | ADELE STORCK T0 BE WASHINGTON, March 28 (U.| | DEPUTY PRO SECUTOR! | P.).—President Roosevelt has signed | 'a bill providing for federal insurMiss Adele Storck, a practicingjance of homes, factories and farms | attorney here for several years and!against damage inflicted by enemy {for five years Family Welfare action. ‘society attorney, will become deputy; The president also has signed the prosecutor in juvenile court Monday, sacond war powers bill establishing | 14 Prosecutor Sherwood Blue an-|criminal penalties for violation of 14 nounced today. government priority orders and ex11 She succeeds Frank Sisson, a|tending the chief executive's propPyle .......... 7/deputy prosecutor who resigned erty seizure powers. This bill also Questions .... 8 recently. provides free postal service for Radio ....«.. 9, “Miss Storck is particularly fitted | members of ithe armed forces servMrs. Roosev elt 7ifor the position in view of the ing abroad. Serial Story.., 13 experience she has had in juvenile] The insurance law authorizes the! Side Glances.. 8 work,” Mr. Blue said. “Appointment War Damage Corp, an RFC sub8 of a woman deputy prosecutor in|sidiary, to establish uniform rates 4, 5 juvenile court will, we believe, pro-| throughout the country for insur10 duce a more harmonious situation!ance which may be obtained on all In Indpls..... 3 11 because of the many cases involving | tangible real and personal property. Inside Indpls.. 7,intimate details of family life as| The WDC is capitalized at $1,000,Johnson eens 8 Watch Pennies 7 told by women." . 000,000

State Deaths All the allied planes returned, NEW DELHI: Cripps expected to despite. heavy anti-aircraft fire.| announced home-rule offer which