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ALLIES RULE AIR OFF AUSTRALIA

First War Pictures Arrive In America From the Philippine Islands

In these first war pictures from the Philippines American troops are shown inspecting damage caused in

Paranque by Jap raiders.

Barges and docks burn in the Cavite navy yards following the enemy raid of Dec. 12.

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supplied by the army signal corps through Acme Telephoto.

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SHOOT’, FLIER SAYS ARCTIC CONVOY

Lieut. 0° Hare © Who Plicked| 6 Jap Planes Tells How |

In Own Few Words. | By ROBERT J. CASEY

Coby light. 1942. by The Indianapolis Times | nd The Chicago Dailv News

PEARL HARBOR, Honolulu, March 30. — There were nine Jap planes coming at him so he shot] down six, and very likely seven, and knocked odd bits from the eighth. | And when vou've said that, there; doesn't in going on with the story of Lieut. Edward H. O'Hare who, in four or five busy minutes, edged into a class ell his own in this war's aviation. That, in all modesty, was the po- | gition taken by the young lieutenant himself today as he faced in-| gerviewers and seemed shyly surprised at all the fuss. “The Japs were heading toward) the carrier and there seemed noth-| ing else to do, so I went in to about | 100 vards and started to shoot ‘em he said.

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The Japs were flying in a “Vv” of| “y's” then at about 12,000 feet, he gaid. “On my first pass at them, two from the after end on ine right side of the 'V’ dropped out.” he added. =Then I moved over and went up the left side of the ‘V.’ I'd shoot one and after she dropped out, I'd pull out of the way, then go after the next—I had to pull out fast to keep from letting the other Japs bring their guns to bear. “I repeated the process five times. The last time I got out with only ghout 10 rounds of ammunition left gnd with my gun jammed.” It took a long time to gel even

that much information from Mr, O'Hare. His whole life, up to now, has been one of continuous seli-

and discipline—military school at Alton, Ill, the naval academy. the naval flying school and the routine and not too interesting service aboard battleships and carriers, He 8 full of the navy tradition that young lieutenants don't talk about anything, least of all about themselves. And all this attention, gll these personal and impertinent questions, all this sudden semi-offi-cial prodding toward speech and] (Continwted on Page Five) |

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‘ures, Senator Reed said 520,000 peo« ble were employed on war aepari- ask Admiral Ernest J. King, chief

March Lamb Has |

Berlin Admits Destroyer

That Was Only "Lost in First Naval Battle in North,

Bad Moment | BY UNITED PRESS

Times Special | | Germany lost a destroyer in a Ean SARBOR Nake naval Battle fought in an arctic hack 1eu ¥ a = o np | snowstorm during the first attempt oft er . . Ro 0 d |by Nazi surface sea raiders to break ; OIE + gt nach s tne united nations’ supply line from nine Japanese bombers in the | | ay erica and Britain to Soviet RusPacific. That was when his radio Fein Berlin radio acknowledged Di en hong ene | Indicating that Hitler is increas- > : r : ingly fearful of the weight of allied

I had forgotten to turn the switch, I velled again and my voice was ail right.”

said that Axis destroyers Sunday attacked the convoy north of Sweden, en route to the Soviet _aretic port of Murmansk. : The broadeast claimed a nazi torpedo hit scored on a British cruiser {of this 8100-ton Southampton class. Three other allied ships were sunk, | easing a 10,000-ton American

CLAIMS UNION ‘TAKE! [EXCEEDS 30 S 30 MILLION essel from New York carrying

Senator Reed Ra Raps Labor, ‘Russa, the German broadeast said

| R. A. F. Raids Shipping Chiefs on War Jobs. | Meanwhile, British coastal comWASHINGTON, March 30

{mand planes striking in swift, (U. | moonlight raids were believed to P).—Senator Clyde Reed (R Kas) have sunk two and perhaps four charged in the senate today that| German supply . ships along the the union “take” in dues and mem- Norwegian and Danish coasts, the

|bership fees on war department! British air ministry said.

construction jobs averages $30,370.- | The Scandinavian attacks fol903 annually. | lowed Saturday night's major raid Nothing that his figures were esti- on Germany's western Baltic commates based on data supplied by, {mercial center of Lubeck where

the army engineers, Senator Reed | heavy bombs exploded with “volsaid the average collection in a vear canic” effect, started big fires and by .labor organizations exceeds the left the town blanketed wit $28,414 647 in federal taxes paid by! hy Somohe. Kansans in the fiscal year 1941. “These figures on the surface ap- FAVOR EXPANSION pear fantastic, but the whoie labor scheme of employment in these] OF NAVAL BASES plants was fantastic,” he said. “This| WASHINGTON, March 30 (U.P.). is government work, paid for with —The senate naval affairs committaxpayers’ money out of the federal tee approved today a $1,000,000,000 treasury. 'expansion in naval aircraft and He called for quick action on his storage facilities after Chairman bill to eliminate union membership David I. Walsh (D. Mass.) disclosed as a condition of employment on'he will call for reports from rankany government financed project. [ing naval chiefs on progress of the Explaining the basis for his fig- | anti-submarine campaign. Mr. Walsh said he will probably

ment jobs in September, 1941. Bsti- | of naval operations, to tell the mating a 90 per cent turnover, he committee in secret session this calculated that about 1.005,101 indi-|week about steps taken to meet viduals would be hired in the Course) the German U-boat threat which of a year. (has sent at least 53 vessels to the bottom off the U. S. Atlantic coast since mid-January.

Snowy Fleece FORM PACIFIC COUNCIL y | WASHINGTON, March 30 (U.

MARCH, which surrenders to |P.).—Creation olga Pacific war counApril at midnight tomorrow, tried {cil which will sit in Washington today to go out like a lamb--like |wds announced today by President Mary's little lamb, with fleece as |Roosevelt. white as snow. Mr. Roosevelt will represent the While the temperatures were United States at the council's first

below the freezing point this meeting. morning, the snow falling in Indi- eee TEXTILE STRIKE ENDS

anapolis left white blankets on lawns and in gardens, but melted FALL RIVER, Mass, March 30 on the pavements, which radiated | (U. P.).—Fall River's striking texheat. tile workers voted today to return It was apparently the dying |to work this afternoon ir 18 mills gesture of a winter that will be [where war production has been paralyzed for a week with about

notable in weather bureau records for a scarcity of snowfall, 18000 workers iis. LJ

NAZIS ATTACK Corregicer s Deadeye Dicks

Bag Jap Plane 5 Miles Up

American Gunners Let Louse.

and Down Comes

Another High Flying Bomber,

WASHINGTON, March 30 (U, P) Up to now the gunners of Corregidor island have just been practicing, it seems.

Today a Japanese bomber, flying at an altitude of five miles over the Philippine Islands fortress to avoid the deadly

anti-aircraft fire,

came plunging down into Manila Bay.

It was the 26th Japanese plane definitely knocked down by

CRIPPS 10 INDIA: § military experts as almost uncanny | 1 and as further proof that the Amer-|

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voice. : “But.” said the ace in a tone | VAT supplies reaching the Red army of great relief. “I discovered | Prior to the expected Nazi offensive, |

the German propaganda broadcast |

Pleads for id In Aid in War on

Japs; Hint Gandhi Opposes

Dominion Offer. By JOHN R. MORRIS

United Press Far Eastern Manager - NEW DELHI, India, March 30.— Sir Stafford Cripps urged India in a radio address today to ‘decide your own future” by accepting a final wartime offer of post-war dominion status and equal partnership in British empire and united nations war councils. Even as Cripps was appealing to the people and leaders of India for full material and moral co-opera-tion in the war against Japan, it was reported that Mahatma M. K. Gandhi was definitely opposed to acceptance of the British plan because it called for participation in the war, Gandhi Opposes Violence Gandhi is opposed to use of violence, but it was said that he was making no effort to influence the decision of other leaders of the powerful All-India Congress party. Gandhi was quoted earlier as saying: “If the All-India Congress asks my advice I shall say: “It is a post-dated check, accept it or not.” It was learned that the wizened Gandhi, on his way from his retreat at Wardha to confer with Mr. Cripps, had found the Grand Trunk express crowded and had traveled in the iceman’s compartment, surrounded by soda bottles. Cripps expressed confidewce of an (Continued on Page Five)

Cor[Faia batteries. The latest feat was described by

ican gunners are able to dish it out as well as take it. In the land fighting there was a { lull, except for patrol activity,

Japs Still Nurse Wounds

Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Walnwright's Philippine defenders inflicted such heavy losses on the

Japanese when they attacked his lines Saturday that the enemy has not attempted any further assault in force, the war department ree ported today. a, A communique said the sharp fighting of Bataan peninsula throughout Saturday night died down at dawn yesterday, the enemy's assault having been repulsed with heavy losses.” Enemy dive bombers continued to attack Gen. Wainwright's front lines and rear areas, Japanese air raids on Corregidor continued through the day and night but they inflicted “no serious damage.” Skirmishes on Mindanao

On Mindano, large island in the southern part of the Philippines, “there were several local skirmishes between patrols at three widely separated points.” This was regarded as further evidence that the enemy is attempting to clear defending forces on Mindanao, where Gen. Wainwright has a small garrison of American and Filipino troops. Many invasion boats, 10 miles south of Corregidor, obviously headed for the island forts, “were destroyed by our shell fire,” Gen. Wainwright reported.

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Baby Dies After Dog Bite; - Three Treatments Fail

A little brown dog who bit the lip of 1i;-year-old Priscilla Marie Lawson was believed today to have been responsible for the child's death. Bitten by the dog Saturday at the home of a friend of her mother, Alice Marie Lawson, 1444 Nelson st., the child died today after having been treated by a physician three times. Although the dog was penned up today on orders of police, Dr. Herbert Collins, deputy coroner, said

it would be probably two days be- §&

fore the exact cause of death could be determined. The father, Irvin, called the doctor at 3 a. m. but when he arrived, the child was dead.

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BURMA FORCES LOSE TOUNGOO

Chinese Defenders Making

Heroic Stand After Key City Falls.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Ouinumbered Chinese forces |imade a heroic stand in central Burma today while in New Guinea Japan's offensive was disrupted by torrential floods. Thousands of Japanese troops, converging on Toungoo from three directions, virtually overran that key city on the eastern allied flank in Burma as the Chinese defenders fought their way eastward to new

positions. The Japanese admittedly had fought their way into Toungoo,

which lies 166 miles north of Rangoon on the railroad to Mandalay, which is 180 miles farther north.

Bloody Battle in Burma

But, time after time, the Chinese troops struck back, destroying the Japanese at an airdrome north of the town and later breaking through enemy encirclement to the east. The Burma battle was one of the bloodiest of the Pacific war and last reports from New Delhi said that the Chinese, under U. S. Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell, still were

{turning back “wave after wave” of

enemy troops. Chungking = reported, however, that the defenders had been forced to yield ground and that there was fighting north. of Toungoo as far as Yedashe, 20 miles away.

More Chinese Move South

Additional Chinese units were massed south of Mandalay or moving down to join in the battle. The Toungoo sector is the eastern flank of the Burma battlefront. The western flank, which the Japanese are trying to split off, centers in the Paungde sector about 30

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CHARGES MATE SOLD WASHER TO GAMBLE

Wife's Complaint Leads to

Arrest of Pair.

Selling the family washing machine for money to get in a dice game is too much, an Indianapolis housewife decided yesterday. Her husband, police reported, sold the machine for $20. The wife called the police and they raided an establishment at 906 Marion ave. Howlis Dukes, 34, and Fred Weidman, 19, were charged with keeping a gaming house and in addition, Dukes was charged with contributing to delinquency. A 21%. year-old child was found in the establishment. One 16-year-old and another 17-year-old youth were among those taken into custody at the dice game. Dukes operates a used furniture

“|store at 1141 Oliver ave., where the

washing machine was found,

miles southeast of Prome, which is |:

5 OR 6 ENEMY CRUISERS ARE KNOCKED OUT

U. S. Fliers Lead Start of Offensive to Push Foe Northward; 40-Inch Rainfall

Mires Nipponese Forces.

By ‘BRYDON TAVES United Press Staff Correspondent

GEN. MacARTHUR'’S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, March 30.—American-led forces of the united nations claimed air superiority on the approaches to Australia today. This was the first allied triumph in the bitter struggle to launch counter-blows against Japan from New Guinea to Burma and India. Australian Air Minister A. S. Drakeford said that allied planes had wrested control from the Japanese over New Guinea and New Britain, where a tenth of the total Jape anese cruiser strength (at least five or six warships) had been sunk or damaged. That, Mr. Drakeford said, meant a strategical turning point in the mobilization of united nations power for the southwestern Pacific counter-offensive.

Darwin, Moresby Raided Again

The air minister also reported that 48 Japanese bombs ing and fighting planes had been destroyed or “probably, destroyed” the last three weeks with at least 15 others damaged. On land, Japan's invasion forces, threatened with dis aster by New Guinea tropical floods, were reported fleeing back upon their north coast invasion base of Lae in the island sector where allied warplanes have crippled more than 10 per cent of Japan's pre-war cruiser strength. Port Darwin was raided by Japanese planes this afters noon, but details were lacking. A Japanese bomber, accompanied by three fighter planes, were driven off Port Moresby on the southeast New Guinea coast before they could inflict damage.

Flood Forces Jap Retreat

The Japanese withdrawal back upon the heavily-bombed port of Lae ahead of the New Guinea flood waters was called the biggest enemy setback of the struggle at the northern gateway to Australia. The huge floods threatening to mire Japan's invasion forces were said to be pouring down the Markham valley, of New Guinea. Rainfall exceeding 40 inches had turned mountain tributaries into roaring torrents which were flooding the valley down which the Japanese had started toward Port Moresby, opposite the Australian continent. The main body of the Japanese was reported already to have fallen back on Lae from Nadzab, their new base 27 miles away, while others were struggling back, abandoning the airdrome sites they had selected as bases for attack on Australia. Entire Valley Under Water

The entire valley between Lae and Nadzab was reported flooded, and raging rivers impeded the retreat of troops still trapped. Advices from Port Moresby and Australian patrols in the interior reported that the Japanese now possessed only their north coast bases where they were open to the hammering blows of the allied air forces. Heavy rains were reported on the north coast, making an immediate Japanese advance almost impossible. This bad news for the Japanese after their triumphant procession through other southwest Pacific areas came as high officers of the United States army air corps revealed that a counter-offensive against Japan was already under way. : “We are all through with the fire-and-fall-back policy,” one officer said. “This is as far south as we are going, From now on we are going north.”

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On The War Fronts

INDIA: Invasion threat speeds up Indian action on British proposal for dominion status after the war, with the right to secede, but nationalist All-India congress ree ported split.

GERMANY: Nazi radio reports one German destroyer lost in first surface attack on allied convoy

(March 30, 1942) AUSTRALIA: Floods in New Guinea force Japanese retreat in Markham valley to Lae, on north coast; air ministry reports 10 per cent of enemy cruiser strength sunk or damaged, indicating five or six knocked out so far; offensive against Jap island bases under way as allies claim superiority in air over.New Guinea and New Britain.

BURMA: Chinese cling to Toungoo sector after city falls in furious fighting against strong Japanese forces; British clash with enemy 20 miles south of Prome,

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