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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 18

U. S. Driving Itself Into Disastrous Rubber

By CHARLES T. LUC

EY AND E. A. EVANS

Times Special Writers

WASHINGTON, April 1 vaguely confident that “som

.—This Micawberish country, ething will turn up” to save

the situation, is driving itself headlong into a disastrous

rubber famine. Nothing is going to “tut No miraculous new soutc

‘n up.”

es of rubber, real or artificial,

is going to be developed before the tires of millions of cars

and trucks, vital to the war present rate of use. When rubber rationing was a national tendency inconvenience.

effort, are worn out at the

was first announced there

to regard it as a temporary

TOO MUCH OF THAT tendency still persists, among the people and in the government.

Other countries at war with little rubber, or none, for civilian automobiles.

United States is different,

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AMERICAN LIFE IS geared to the gasoline engine Our more than 30,000,000 cars and

and the rubber tire.

trucks are two-thirds of the world’s one-third of the world's miles of highway. our passenger automobiles 500,000,000,000 miles a year, more than half of this driving in connection with earning

our livings.

Mosquito Fleet Guards Panama Canal

The deadly midgets race over the ocean with an amazing unity

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1S. TAXES PAID IN STATE SOAR

$1190.662,473 Is Pirst Quarter Total, Gain of 70 Millions.

Hoosiers dug more than onetenth of a billion dollars out of their pockets for Uncle Sam in the first three months of 1942. To be exact, Indiana paid $119.662.473.48 into the federal treasury during the first quarter of this year, will H. Smith, collector of internal revenue, announced today. This sum represented an increase of $70.529.490.49 over the first quarter of 1941, when federal taxes in Indiana totaled $49.132982.99.

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Returns Nearly

Income tax collections accounted for $73.530.956.97 of the $119.662.473.48 raised this year. The first quarter income tax payments exceeded by $51.048.302.90 the first quarter collections last vear. when! they amounted to $22.482.654.07. There were 704658 income tax) returns this vear, compared with] 366.926 filed in 1941. Taxes were paid on 434.400 returns and 270.258 were non-taxable. | | | |

Amusement Taxes Up

Last vear out of the 366926 returns. 204.801 were non-taxable. | only 162,125 taxable. Miscellaneous taxes—beer, admissions, excise taxes, totaled $39.705.387.93 for the quarter, compared with $21 Fg 817.86 in the corresponding per‘od las! vear—an increase of $17.801.570.07. Social security increased payrolls, rose from $4.-| 746510.08 in the first quarter of; 1941 to $6.426.12858 in the first | three months of 1942. That was an’ increase of $1.679.618.52.

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Panty Woes

Who Will Buy Those Undies For This Woman's Army?

WASHINGTON, April 1 (U.P). —1It looks like this

auxiliary corps of women seems due for final approval in congress soon. has to decide what to do about providing not only uniforms but undies for the enrollees. Plans for clothing the WAACS had been proceeding smoothly enough until someone asked, “what about underwear?”

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CONSIDERING that the girls will receive only $21 a month— possibly $42 under the army pav increase bill—and the prices of girdles, ete, being what they ave, the answer could hardly be. “let ‘em buy their own.” But even if the army does decide to issue regulation

the problems of style and material. Inasmuch as the girls will have to wear cotton stockings, it appeared likely that they would have to wear cotton underwear, too—if they stick to army issue.

HINT COMPROMISE SOUGHT FOR INDIA

Cripps Advises Culined on

Self-Rule Demands.

NEW DELHI, April 1 | Sir Stafford Cripps was unofficially | | reported today to have told the! British cabinet that a compromise giving Indians a greater voice in

direction of home defense might] avert rejection of Britain's plan for|

Indian independence. Well-informed

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So the quartermaster corps

under- | wear to its WAACS. there remain

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MOTOR BOATS READY FOR FOE

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Prides of Navy, Manned by! Daring Men, Keep Vigil

At Secret Base. By NAT A. BARROWS

1942, bv The Indianapolis Che Chicago Daily News. In

OFF PANAMA, April 1 Deseliier than any other mosquitoes that have ever swarmed over these tropical waters, the navy's battle-proven| PTs,

man's army | | may have to go into the business { of buying and issuing | underwear. ¢ Legislation to set up an army

women's |

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ready to accelerate in a few)

seconds to 60 or 70 miles an hour— or more—if enemy warships venture to approach the canal. This “mosquito fleet,” identical with the PT's which enabled Gen. Douglas MacArthur to carry out his

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orders for escepe from Bataan to end of the seventh day of inces-

Australia. is now here officially. Eager to Show Potency

Loaded with torpedoes, manned by daring young officers fresh from Annapolis or college and old-time {enlisted men, the “mosquitoes”

“| Jap High Command offers

or motor torpedo boats, are| | based secretly somewhere off Pana-| previously

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to their jobs and thousands be terribly handicapped.

WORKERS IN OUR industries—now our war industries—live 10 or 20 or 30 miles from their jobs, driving back and forth daily in their own cars. Other means of public transportation have lost ground to private cars and busses. From many cities, even large ones, streetcars have disappeared. What is going to happen when the tires on the workers’ cars wear thin and go flat, as they will in increasing numbers in the next few months? The only answer apparent here so far, although rubber shortage has been a possibility for two years and a certainty for four months, is that millions of workers are going to have almost insuperable difficulty in getting

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have managed to get along "The

Indianapolis, about 3 per land, 10 to 12 per cent less:

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6 per cent less; in El Paso, 30 (The Indianapolis report

We have We drive

total.

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BATAAN FORCE | Some 20 to 44 Draft Registrants STOPS FIERCE] May Be Called to Service in May

LAND ASSAULT 55 Fd

between registrants in the first age groups and registrants in the second age groups (who registered Feb. 16) will be made the subject of a subsequent memorandum." Selective service officials said the war department still had not instructed them how this should be done. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told a press conference on March 5 that a ratio procedure would be followed, calling men from each group according to their proportion in each local board. Indiana state selective service headquarters said today that "in most cases" Indiana draft boards will be able to fill their May quotas from the 1940 and 1941 registration lists.

service headquarters today instructed local draft boards to use available class I-A men from 1940 and 1941 registrations to fill May quotas if sufficient numbers are on the lists. If A-l reserves from the Oct. 16, 1940, and July |, 1941, registrations are exhausted, boards were directed to induct men who registered on Feb. 16. The selective service directive thus indi-

Apologies for Bombing | Of Base Hospital.

WASHINGTON, April 1 (U.P) —| Waves of Japanese assault troops) launched the long-expected ground offensive against Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainright's lines on Bataan penicieis last night. They were] opped by the cold steel of Amer- | Fane defenders in hours of | bayonet fighting, the war department announced. The Japanese, however, were halted by the defenders before they reached the main American line and | the attack ended several hours “after savage hand-to-hand com-

High Command Apologizes

The war department sy that the Japanese imperial high command in the Philippines had | made “a formal apology’ for bomb- | ing a plainly marked American base

raids on Japan's Timor bases and Australia ordered

sant bombing and shelling of Amer- 'its army to full war sirength. | ican lines and positions by Japa-| Fighting their way through trop-| LONDON: Major naval struggle be- | nese bombers and heavy artillery. ical storms whose flood waters have| tween British-Russian and Geriy \driven Japanese land forces back| man forces, including such ships 'to the New Guinea northeast coast, 2S 35000-ton Tirpitz, expected the allied bombers attacked the! along Arctic route for American enemy airdrome at Salamaua at| 2nd British war supplies to Rus-

JAPS FORGE AHEAD

cates that some of the latest registrants— before June. "The precise method," the memorandum said, ''which will be followed for the filling of ril 1, 1942) AT JAP | BASES BURMA: British break through, “FOR NEAR EAST Prome but enemy commands approaches to town and allied reRaid Two Velarde Today as tirement northward toward oil Vast Arye Is Massed to INDIA: Final decision on British | hospital in Bataan. The hospital, Enlarged | plan for Indian independence de- Summer. g | layed, but majority party agreed bombers, was hit on Monday and | GEN MacARTHUR'S HEAD- By JOE ALEX MORRIS several casualties resulted. . United P Foreign Edi In a radio broadcast, according QUARTERS. Australia, April 1 (U.| AUSTRALIA: Allied planes bomb MM rym tun ; : Guinea. tions to gamble everything on a army spokesman said the bombing bombing squadrons today renewed | German drive through the Near. was “unintentional. New Guinea and RUSSIA: Hitler reported massing East to join Japanese forces which Last night's attack came at the 1,250,000 of best troops for offenIndia. On the immediate fighting fronts, the British and Chinese troops in ing through enemy encirclements in the Precme and Toungoo sectors and the Red army smashed so deeply

men of 20 and 36 through 44-—might be called calls for June, and for subsequent months, as Japanese encirclement south of! fields expected. | Australia’s Army Is | Strike Caucasus This avoided by Japanese that plan is unacceptable. The axis hinted today at preparato the war department, a Japanese P.). — American and Australian! Jap bases in Timor and New _ ° y 2. Diop would move westward through sive into Ukraine. Burma reported success in breakinto Nazi lines that the capture of

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less; in Cincinnati, 8 to 10 per

in the city itself had not dropped appreciably. Sheriff Al Feeney reported that traffic was just as heavy

(U. P)— An enemy bomber flying at a high communique revealed today.

sources said il was Mayor F. H. LaGuardia said today to withdraw from Prome and fight| the city editor's The federal communications com- believed Mr. Cripps had advised the that if enemy

granted Associated British cabinet of the reaction of york

low level and scored direct hits ton | funvaye e attack on the Japanese base! ot ra on Timor brought to Ss 30 the total of enemy planes destroyed or damaged this week, a communique said. | On land the allied forces (Continued on Page Four)

{prowl off shore eager to show the |

| potency of their stingers. By adding them to the defense.

barriers around the Panama canal, :

| Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, su- ‘Enemy Rules plronhe

preme commander of the Caribbean defense command, and Rear | To Strategic Prome. NEW DELHI. India, April 1 (U/|

Admiral Frank H. Sadler, com- | mander of the 15th naval district. ! have tightened the fence just so P.).—British imperial forces have! : ; much more. fought their way through Japanese ROBIN ANNOUNCES Wg from Argentina today unencirclement on the allied western! til she shows evidence of greater flank in Burma, but the enemy now | SPRING COMEBACK co-operation in hemispheric defense

controls the approaches to strategic problems. P.).— Prome. an India-Burma strategie LOCAL TEMPERATURES It was explained authoritatively a.m... 3 . 44 [that the American policy is to give s+: 20 47

| preferential treatment on war maLi 48 |(teriel to those Latin American re- . 39 49 [publics which have declared war on

BATAAN: American troops fierce Jap land attacks.

WAR SUPPLIES FOR

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took WASHINGTON, April 1 (U. P.).— American war supplies are being

GIBRALTAR IS BOMBED

GIBRALTAR. April 1 (U, 10 a. m. 11a. m. ... 12 (Noon .. I p.m. ...

{altitude dropped bombs on Gibraltar, The stage apparently was set for early today but was quickly engaged a decisive action. by defense forces, There were no To keep the enemy from splitting | casualties, the Sino-British line across south| [the Axis or expelled Axis agents. central Burma, it was feared Gen. Don't look now, but spring is here| The United States takes the po- | Harold R. L. Alexander, the British again. |sition that Argentina has a perfect P.).— commander, soon would be forced A robin was reported siting on right to determine her own policy, desk at 5 a. m. to-|but that since she is not contribplanes threaten New a desperate delaying action in an| |day and one reporter came to work |uting in any effective way to hemi“the city will be as black as effort to save the Yenangyaung oil | with a flower stuck in his hat, gay | Hitler's heart.” fields 100 miles north. fellow!

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‘BLACK AT HITLER'S HEART’ NEW YORK, April 1 (U,

| pect American assistance.

ARGENTINA HELD UP

spheric defense she should not ex- |

Vitebsk near the old Polish frontier seemed likely. In the islands north of Australia, the united nations’ bombers again smashed effectively at Japan's bases on Timor and New Guinea islands. But the pattern of the impending spring and summer campaigns ap-

peared to be taking shape on a vast scale for the first time this year| as a result of military reports from | Russia and the possible breakdown | of negotiations for Indian aid in| the war. The pattern extends from the] arctic waters north of Europe, where a great British-German naval! struggle is expected to develop along the allied supply line to Russia, to] the Ukraine, where Germany is reported massing 1,250,000 men for an offensive into the Caucasus oil| fields. And it stretches on to India and Burma, where the Japanese ap-!

parently are concentrating their! (Continued on Page Four)

A column of smoke marks the spot where a Japanese bomber crashed and burned after being downed a “somewhere in the Pacific’ by the American 3 mpd a suicide dive at the U.S. earsiera fa ett, 1 dire Wis when the bomber was. only 200 yards

Carrier Finishes Off Jap Bomber . .

flier, Lieut. Edward H. O'Hare. Falling, the Jap pilot atbut the ship's anti-niretalt ur opened up and scored

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Enjoy Meal After Battie in Pacific . . . .

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UNNECESSARY driving has decreased, but not enough. Traffic authorities make these estimates:

cent less driving; in Clevein Pittsburgh, 10 per cent cent less; in San Francisco, per cent less. indicated that driving withIndeed,

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AXIS SETTING UP VAST BLOCKADE IN ATTEMPT TO ISOLATE AMERICA

HITLER HOPES TO GUT ALLIED SUPPLY LINES

‘Atlantic Thrusts Expected

At American Arsenal

Of Democracy.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, April 1.— The vastest blockade ever

conceived by man, according

to some of the best posted military men here, now seems to be the motif of the Axis war plans against the united nations. The aim of this unprecedented, world-wide barrier will be to isolate Great Britain, Russia, China, Australia and South Africa from the United States “arsenal of democe racy,” from the western hemie sphere generally and, as far as pose sible, from each other. Its coroliary, of course, would be to give Germany, Japan and Italy not only the: comparatively safe, inside lines of communication but also easy access to coal, iron, oil, cotton, rubber and other vital mae terials abundant in the Caucasus, the Middle East, India, Africa and the East Indies.

Thrust

Such appearing to be the broad outline of axis strategy for this year. the same authorities believe Germany must now thrust in two directions: First. against Russia, the Caucasus and the Middle East and, second, into the Atlantic The Nazi aim would be to cut Russia off from outside supplies, gain control of the Russian and Middle Eastern oil fields for herself and, finally, help Japan cut Britain off from India. The Japanese would be expected to push their advance into India to join hands with the Nazis, and across the Indian ocean perhaps as far as Madagascar.

Cut Off United Nations

At the same time they would ate tempt to cut Australia, China and

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Russia off from the United States

and their other allies: 1. By completing the occupation of Burma. 2. Taking over more of the iSe lands around Australia. 3. Attacking Vladivostok and easts ern Siberia, In any event, information reache

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| Today's Rumor

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

The Gossip Is . .

. . . That women taking the Red Cross first aid courses will be commandeered for service on foreign battles fields. Once the course ig completed, the woman—be she housewife, mother or single—is entirely at the mercy of the Red Cross.

‘The Facts Are . . .

Highly jensed with their work against the Japs, enlisted men aboard one of the warships of a task force of the United State Pacific fleet, enjoy a quiet meal in the ship’s mess room. These are the type of young, energetic Americans aboard Uncle Sam’s battle Best; which has been siriking ai Japanese in

. No one taking a first aid course is going to be ordered any place by the Red Cross. The purpose of the course is simply this: In any gathers . ing of 10 or more people in the United States, at least one will have been trained “in first aid. i