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TUESDAY, MARCH

31, 1942

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Jap Bases Bombed; Gandhi Balks On Indian War Ai

NAZIS ROUTED IN ARCTIC SEA

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REUTHER PLAN DEBATED WITH GM PRESIDENT

UAW Leader Argues It Will Meet Plane Goal. but Wilson Raps It.

DETROIT. March 31 (U. P)—A champion of labor and a general of industry—Director Walter P ii ther of the United Automobile Workers and President C. E. Wil- | son of General Motors Corp. today submitted the issue of all-out war production to a debate unique in the annals of American industrial |

relations. In an unprecedented joint press; conference between representatives

of labor and management, they de-

bated before an audience of newspaper men, army and navy representatives and groups of their own partisans the merits of the so-| called Reuther plan for the auto-| mobile industry to produce 500 airplanes a day. The press conference was arranged on Mr. Wilson's invitation after the U. A. W.-C. 1. O. rejected his proposal that current contract negotiations be opened to the press. as ‘representatives of the public, in! view of the fact that the company! is engaged solely in war work for the government,

Plan Called Impractical

Mr. Reuther said he would be agreeable to admitting the press when the dispute reaches the labor board at Washington, as both! sides agree that it will Mr. Wilson said the Renines Fan was impractical because verse types of planes Se ers, fighters, interceptors and troopcarriers. He said such mass production would call for the utmost in standardization. Mr. Reuther countered: “Before this war is over there is going to have tu be much more standardization of airplane design than we} have today. Only by reducing the types of planes can we produce them | in the quantities we need. That's! the way Germany did it.” WASHINGTON, March 31.—A toThe so-called Reuther plan was tal of 4230 houses for Indianapolis read. The U. A. W.-C. I. O. sub- war workers, to be erected at an, mitted it to President Roosevelt in estimated cost of $5,000,000, are proDecember, 1941 th a claim that it vided in the order signed by Presiwould enable the automobile in- dent Roosevelt and turned over to] dustry to build 500 airplanes a day the national housing agency today.!

1. The centuries old Santo Domingo cathedral, in the heart of Manila’s walled city, burns as the Japs bombed the defenseless area following the withdrawal of native and United States troops during Christmas week. 2. Little Arthur MacArthur, 4-vear-old son of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, stands near a tunnel on the island fortress of Corregidor before the spectacular dash with his parents to Australia.

3. Gen. MacArthur's wife stayed by his side on Corregidor. In this picture they are shown leaving officers’ mess,

DEFENSE HOMES

Workers at t Naval Ordnance Plant to Get First 750 Under FDR Order.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer

while still producing 4.000.000 automobiles a year.

Challenges Results

Of the total, 1250 will be erected by the government and 3000 by pri- | vate builders for whom priorities |

will be provided. Mr. Wilson challenged the pro-' Naval ordnance plant employees gram as “a guns and butter plan to will get the first 750 houses to be produce something our military|built by the government near the, authorities did not require and still| Irvington plant, officials said. do not require even in this war emergency.” Defer Work on 500 He pointed out that the Reuther Construction of the remaining 500 plan called for a number of planes Will be deferred until sites are seof a single type that surpasses the lected, but they also are expected quota set by President Roosevelt for to be built by fall. All will be perbetween 35 and 40 types of planes. manent units rather than of de-| “As I understand it.” Mr. Wilson | mountable type. said, “the president's quota for total} Rep. Louis Ludlow. airplane production of planes in 1943 includes all these houses are estimated at $3,000,000. types of planes—a grand total that) According to housing officials, 350!

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pos ed to manufacture of just one between $1800 and $2500 and 375 to type those getting from $2501 to $3200. Plan Offered Government Twenty to 25 per cent of the en{tire total will be one bedroom housMr. Reuther countered that Mr. {ing units. 50 to 60 per cent ee

Wilson “failed completely to under- | bedrooms and 20 to 25 per cent oo stand the plan.” He said it con- {three bedrooms.

templated not only production of 300 planes a dav but also was de-! signed “to obtain maximum utiliza- | tion of the automobile Industry's; machine and man power.” We put forth the plan because | President Roosevelt said we needed’ 50,000 planes.” he said. “We Knew that the automobile industry was the only hope for such a program.” Mr. Reuther said the plan was offered to the government rather than industry because “only the government had the authority to! move in and set up machinery to! get this thing done on a industrywide basis.”

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The Gossip Is . . .

. That the day before, Peart Harbor, the Japanese

credit at Honolulu bars, questing them to serve American service men free. Thus, on Dec. 7, the Ameria] can navy had a hangover) paid for by the Japs.

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14 Johnson . 0h .. 15 Movies .. 13, Obituaries 3 The Facts Are . . . Comics . 21} Pattern 17 Crossword ... 20, Pegler . That the Roberts poard| Editorials ... 14 Pyle of inquiry re “ExMrs. Ferguson 14) Questions Jur por ted: Ex-| Financial .... 15 Radio cept for a negligible mumForum . 14 Recordings ber. the use of intoxicating Funny Bus. .. 7 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 : . mt Harold Guard 2 Serial Story . 3t |0uor on the preceding eveHold Ev'thing 13/Side Glances 14) ning (Saturday) did not afHomemaking . 17 Society 16, 17, fect their efficiency.” In Indpls. 3 Sports ... 18, 19] Inside Indpls. 13|State Deaths. | ... Read The Times ol In Services. . 4, 8 War Quiz TL duns 26, Page 3 column 4

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Harry Geisel, Veteran Ump, Is Candidate for Sheriff

Harry Geisel, veteran American league baseball umpire, today an- reiting did not mean collapse 120.000 congressman, was told that the 730 ounced Lis candidacy for county sheriff ‘in the Republican primary of Cripps’ efforts to bring about an

election May 5.

Because he will report soon to begin his 18th year of big league | is less than the Reuther plan pro- will be rented to workers drawing service, Mr. Geisel said he would be limited to a brief personal campaign |

preceding the primary and a longer one preceding | the general election SUSPEND ‘GALILIEAN. ’

{in the event he is nominated. i “I have reached this decision as a result of the suggestion of count- | eer friends that I have the quali-

fications to serve sheriff.” Mr

| Geisel said in his ‘announcement.

“It is the first itime in my life that I ever serientertained

Far, the impor- | tance of efficient

| administration of Harry Geisel

STATE GETS PLANT FOR SHELL LOADING

Gass-Wiam to Be Site of $750,000 Project.

LOGANSPORT, Ind, March 31 { (U. P.).—Plans for the construction

{of a naval ordnance shell-loading Iplant, to cost an estimated $750.000 |

| with employment for about 600,

local law-enforcement agencies be- | ‘were revealed today.

comes increasingly greater.

The disclosure came with the fil-

“The tremendous expense of the; » ot 5 jease for 650 acres of Cass

jwar, which no good American can embassy there established begrudge, means simply that local|20d Miami county farmland by the re- officials must operate with a maxi-| Victory Ordnance Co. of Indiana. As an individual!

mum of economy.

The latest addition to be an-

'I have never been wasteful with my ‘nounced in Indiana's vital chain of

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defense plants, the new factory re‘portedly will be constructed with

| funds granted by the federal gov-

jernment, but will be operated by

‘the corporation.

Construction is expected to begin {in three weeks, with full operations {scheduled for about Aug. 1, it was |reported. Approximately 80 per cent of the employees wili be women, according to preliminary plans. The plant site, compromising 350 fecres in Cass county and 300 in ‘Miami county, will be leased from [its five owners at a yearly rental ‘of $15 an acre for five years, with the corporation granted an option 10 buy the land outright for $150 acre, ag

GANDHI PERILS | BRITISH OFFER

| Reports Say He Has Swung All-India Congress Group Against Cripps.

NEW DELHI, India, March 31 (U.| P.).—Mohandas K. Gandhi was re-| ported today to have swung the All-India congress working committee against acceptance of Great Britain's plan for enlisting an in-| dependent India in the war against | Japan. The consensus of the working, committee of the ma jority party. after hearing Gandhi and President Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, was for | rejection of the British plan, So called for immediate Indiana partic- |

‘ |ipation in home and empire coun- | ¢ (cils and post-war dominion status.

Debate Alternative Plan

No flat rejection was made, howjever, because the committee continued to debate on whether to advise Sir Stafford Cripps that the plan was unacceptable or to present to him an alternative suggestion. It was understood that if an al‘ternative sugestion was presented it would include the working com"Te" rejection. The working committee debate

‘agreement among the Indian fac-| (Continued on Page Ten)

NOBLESVILLE. Ind, March 31]

| PELLEY’S MAGAZINE

| (U. P).—The Fellowship Press, Inc., | warranted and untrue.”

William | former leader of the the vigor at my command. I do so

owned and operated by bu udley Pelley, Silver Shirts of America, announced | here today that publication of “The Galilean” has been suspended. Postmaster Gordon Olvey one copy of barred from the mails early this] month “because it was not mailable.”

said

the magazine was]

Vacuum Cleaner Output to Stop

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WASHINGTON, March 31 (U, P.). —The war production board today banned production of vacuum clean-

‘ers after April 30.

Vacuum cleaner makers may con-

[tinue turning out cleaners during { April, but at the same curtailed pro-

duction rate on which they operated during the first three months of this year. Approximately one-fourth of the industry already has been converted to 100 per cent war work, and all companies are engaged in some phases of turning eut of turning out war materials.

STANDARD OIL CHIEF DENIES U.S. GHARGES

Synthetic Rubber.

WASHINGTON, March 31 (U. P.)—W. S. Parish, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, today described as without a “shadow of foundation” charges that his company retarded synthetic rubber production in this country. Appearing before the senate committee investigating the war program, Mr, Farish said that present prospects for development of synthetic rubber in the United States ‘would ~ meager had it not been for wd Oil's pioneering in that ; “I p.ci.ace my discussion by saying that any charges that the Standard Oil Co. or any of its officers ‘has been in the slightest respect disloyal to the United States is unhe said. “I repel all such insinuations with all

|with indignation and resentment.” In previous testimony, Assistant

| Attorney General Thurman W. Arn{old charged that Mr,

Farish's firm and I. G. Farbenindustrie, German chemical trust, had entered into a (Continued on Page Ten)

FIGHT

BRITISH CLAIM 5 AXIS NAVAL CRAFT BLASTED

London Admits Two English Warships Dame aged; Berlin Radio Says 8 Allied Ships Smashed in Three-Day Fight.

LONDON, March 31 (U. P.).—British and Soviet naval forces protecting a convoy of British-United States war

supplies to Russia sank or damaged five Nazi warships and U-boats in the Arctic ocean in a three-day running battle, the admiralty announced today. Two British warships escorting the convoy, the 8000 ton cruiser Trinidad and the 1375-ton destroyer Eclipse, were damaged in the battle but made port safely, the come munique said. The Germans, who admitted loss of one destroyer in the battle, claimed a few hours earlier in a broadcast come munique that four more ships of the allied convoy en route to Russia's ice-free port of Murmansk had been sunk—a pos-

sible total of ogi purportedly sunk or damaged.

The British admiralty said however, that the attack was “beaten off” and the remaining German ships and sub-

marines put to flight after the Anglo-Scviet naval forces had sunk one German destroyer, dame aged and halted another and “severely damaged if not sunk” three U-boats. The convoy was first attacked Sunday morning, the admiralty said in its communique, whose refe erence to “American and British supplies for Russia” indicated that American ships may have been among those attacked. The Germans yesterday claimed that one of the convoy ships sunk was a 10,000-ton vessel carrying arms and materials from the Unite ed States to Murmansk,

ALLIES RENEW AIR OFFENSIVE

Bomb Invasion Bases North Of Australia; Burma Oil Fields Periled.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Allied air squadrons ruling the air north of Australia bombed Japanese bases again today in the New Ginea port of Lae and the Koepang airdrome on Timor is-

Joy fighters raided Port Darwin in

land. But in Burma the enemy ignored heavy losses and pushed northward | toward Mandalay and the Prome oil fields. Seven Japanese bombers escorted

Arctic Struggle Widens The rapidly widening sea and air struggle for control of the northern supply route to Russia, followed ree ports of German naval forces gathe ering in the area. concentrating| It had been reported that the

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the airdrome. Details are lacking. The critical state of the war in Burma may have been reflected in India, which many observers believe will be the next objective of the Japanese if the Burma gateway can be conquered. Great Britain's plan for granting Indian independence under a dominion form of government and thus enlisting Indian aid in the war against Japan was threatened with mounting difficulties if not with collapse. The offensive blows, led by American flying fortresses north of Australia (followed a statement by Col. Eugene L. Eubank, American air commander in Java, that his forces had knocked out 16 Japanese (Continued on Page Ten) ” ”

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By M. RICHARD APPLEGATE (Copyright, 1842, by United Press) EN ROUTE TO PORTLAND, Ore., March 31.—Lew Ayres, the movie star and first prominent American to refuse to shoulder arms because’ of religious scruples, sped toward a conscientious objectors’ camp in Oregon today, and said that any other course would cause for him “a nightmare of hypocrisy and deceit.” Nervous, and as he put it,“emotionally upset,” the handsome hero of many a movie epic, including Hollywood's first preachment against war, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” boarded the train at a flagstop north of Hollywood last night. “The whole thing is almost too close to me to talk about now,” he said, pulling his brown tweed

coat about his shoulders snd | setting down in the tourist

Lew Ayres Goes to Objectors'’ Camp: ‘All Is Quiet’ Role Led to Anti-War Stand

sleeper berth for which the government had paid. Traveling with one other conscientious objector, a mechanic from Hollywood, Ayres said that his motives were almost entirely “religious.” He said he believed that his experience in making “All Quiet” had had a tremendous effect on his outlook, and added that he would be sincerely sorry if his picture career had been ruined.

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FROM HIS POCKET he took a prepared statement which he had intended to release when he reached the camp at Cascade Locks, Ore. The statement—one

German warships Tirpitz, Pring Eugen, and other vessels were ready to go into action against the Ruse sia-bound allied convoys there, but the battle reported today apparently involved destroyers and submarines rather than heavy craft. Military observers said that the battle strengthens indications that the Germans will make a desperate effort to hamstring the vital supply line, which began functioning on a major scale last year about the time that the Arctic winter made naval operations difficult. Fought in Heavy Snowstorm

The running battle between the British-Russian and German naval forces was fought in a heavy snowe storm, according to ‘both British and German communiques. The Germans attacked the cone voy first with surface vessels and then with U-boats, it was stated. The Berlin radio heard here, de= scribing a naval battle that began Saturday, told of a heavy air bombing of Murmansk and a “further [successful attack” on an allied cone voy off the Russian coast by Nazi [Submarines Hanes and destroyers, ” "

On the War Fronts

(March 31, 1942)

LONDON-—British and Russian naval forces sink or damage five German warships, including dee stroyer known sunk and a des stroyer and three U-hoats sunk or damaged, in protecting a Brite ish-American convoy of war mae terials which presumably reached Murmansk; admiralty reports ate tackers beaten off in Arctic snowe storm despite Berlin propaganda claims of four to eight ships sunk.

AUSTRALIA: Allied planes bomb Koepang and Lae bases of Japanese, destroying six planes and * doing much damage.

INDIA: All-India congress leaders reported split on acceptance of British independence plan.

RUSSIA: Red army gains on cena= tral front, closing trap around Vyazena,; new advances near Leningrad reported.

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| BURMA: Japanese advance 20 miles to within 10 miles of Prome; Chinese fight through Ja lines and mass north of ' for battle. :

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