Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 April 1942 — Page 4

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NAZIS SEEK TO ISOLATE U. §.

World Blockade Strategy Is Mapped to Cut Off War Supplies.

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ing Washington confirms the belief that the Axis now is pretty well convinced that it must force a decision this vear or the iniative will be snatched from its hands. Germany has already some | 2.000.000 men in the Russian campaign, according to the most conservative estimates, and can not afford to allow that sort of thing to continue Decide War This Summer Russia's manpower is more than double Germany's and while the Soviet Union can afford a war of, attrition, Hitler can not. miess Hitler can defeat the! Russians this summer, win through to the oil of the Caucasus, and cut the supply line from America, he! will have lost the war. So Von Papen, Nazi ambassador to Turkey, | is reliably reported to have i mitted. ! Japan, too, faces the necessity ef an early decision. While she has superiority in the air, on the ground and in the western Pacific for the time being, she will not be abi® to replace losses—at least not quickly enough to count, Japs Claim Red Menace

lost

Each plane, each ship, each tank} she loses weakens her by that much. ! She lacks anything like the united nations’ capacity to produce If figures announced here can bel relied upon, Germany as weil as Japan will be snowed under in 10431 by the allied output of material. Neutrals in Tokyo. therefore, re-: port that Japanese subjects are

the Russians. For a time Japanese propaganda was | with regard to the menace of com-| munism. Now, it is said, the mikado’s| subjects are being warned of the, Red menace hanging over them in; the direction of Siberia. Russia May Strike Russia, of course, is alive to the! danger of a sudden Japanese attack. It is entirely possible that she may forestall any such unpleasant

! against

Vice Admiral R. E. Ingersoll

ABOARD FLAGSHIP. U. S. ATLANTIC FLEET. April 1 (U. P.).—The United States is warring with increasing strength the Axis U-boats and “more profitable days are ahead” for the navy’s submarine hunters, Vice Admiral R. E Ingersoll, commander of the Atlantic fleet, said today. “The situation is bound to improve with the placing in service of new destroyers, anti-submarine craft, escort craft, and planes,” he said.

INDIA DEMANDS MORE POWERS

Cripps Advises Cabinet of Possible Compromise on Self-Rule.

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the majority All-India congress and being stirred up once again against other factions, which seemed to! Russian troops to cling te the of- | make after Pearl Harbor,|chance of agreement unless radical; silent{ changes are made in the proposais

clear that there is no

for post-war dominion status, The biggest obstacle has been the Britisn determination to maintain full control of Indian defenses un-

{til after the war.

See Compromise Hope

Now, it was suggested, Mr. Cripps;

has made clear to the cabinet that there is a unanimous Indian demand for a member on the defense

HITLER TO HIT AT NEAR EAST

Ready to Gamble All in Drive to Join With Jap Forces. (Continued from Page One)

main strength in the hope of success before an allied counter-blow can be launched from Australia.

Plan Crimea Smash

In Russia, the Germans were reported by British sources to have indicated their program as based on a drive with maximum numbers of men, tanks and airplanes on the front extending from Kharkov to the Crimea. The plan would be to attempt to hold the central and northern sectors of the eastern front with sec-ond-rate troops while the axis spearhead pounded into the Caucasus and thence—perhaps in cooperation with attacks on Syria and Egypt—into the Near East. Against this plan the Red army, backed by American and British supplies, was pressing the strongest counter-attacks designed to break up enemy bases and concentrations. On the Leningrad front, the Russians reported new gains.

Russians Driving Ahead

On the central front, the Russians said they were nearing Vitebsk. which is 75 miles from the old Polish frontier and 350 miles southwest of Ieningrad. In the same area, the Soviet press reported recapture of 34 villages and the kiliing of 7000 enemy troops. In the south. the Russians said that the Germans had so far lost 45,000 dead in the 150-day siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea. But it was emphasized that the main purpose of all these hardhitting counter-blows is to break up the enemy preparations for summer offensives — to permit the

| fensive as long as humanly possible and, if enough war material reaches them, to keep on slashing ahead this summer,

Hitler's Biggest Gamble On the other hand, Hitler was repcrted ready to gamble on throwing everything into a new German offensive when weather conditions

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{as ever.

(“All roads around here have been jammed on recent Sundays,” he said. (Don Stiver, state safety director, said, however, that driving on state highways seemed to have decreased in line with the state auditor's reports of a 3 per cent dip in gasoline tax collections.

(Incidentally, Sheriff Feeney said that while Indianapolis traffic still was heavy, he thought drivers were being more careful.) Gasoline tax collections are down about 20 per cent in’ Birmingham, Ala., indicating curtailed driving. Auto license sales are off about 15 per cent in Albuquerque, N. M. But Knoxville, Tenn. reports no decrease, while Columbus, O., reports an actual increas® in driving since tire rationing began, with automobile registrations up 5 per cent. Various checks show a marked drop in long-distance touring at this season of the vear. But remember that almost half of America’s driving for many years was pleasure driving. Evidently most of that is still going on. Meanwhile, waste of rubber 1s still being enforced by government regulation which permit trucks to carry loads in only one direction, and by union rules which bar business efforts to eliminate deliveries and consolidate hauls. Rationing rules, as one Ohio board has just discovered, provide new tires for a truck to deliver goldfish but not for war-workers’ cars. Meanwhile, also, most if not all

PHE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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Rubber Survey Reveals

on President Roosevelt's appeal for a nation-wide speed limit of 40 miles an hour to conserve tires. If we had known, two years ago, that by early 1042 the Japs would have seized the East Indies and cut us off from our only important sources of raw natural rubber, super-human efforts might have been made to build up bigger stock piles and to get huge artificial-rub-ber factories built and into production. There is no longer much point in arguing about why these things were not done, or in trying to fix the blame for failure to do them. The fault was a lack of foresight, for which almost everybody was in some degree responsible.’ We didn’t know what was going to happen, and we took a chance.

Wearing Out Too Fast

But now we know that our present stock of tires if wearing out too fast. We've started at last to seek substitute sources of real rubber and to develop big-scale output of the artificial varieties. But all that can be done in the first respect, and all that has been planned thus far in the second, promises not much if any more rubber in the next two vears than will be urgently needed for actual military uses. Lack of foresight can never be pleaded by citizens or their government as an excuse for failure to conserve to the utmost what rubber we have—and to plan to get more— for the war workers, the war industries and the essential civilian activities which are equally im-

of the states are delaying action

portant to victory.

Japs' Bases

advantage of Japan's troubles]

around the New Guinea and New Britain invasion ‘‘springboards” to push at top speed preparations for repulsing any large-scale Japanese invasion attempt.

Order Army Enlarged

Australian War Minister Francis M. Forde announced that the na-

are suitable, seeking to break through the allied barvier in the Middle East. join hands with Japan| and thus smash the united nations!

tion's armed forces will be brought!

to full war strength immediately and Premier John Curtin promised that if the Japanese attempt an

Allied Airmen Keep Pounding

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Near Australia

by Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, Aus-| tralian chief of allied ground forces. | Authorities said that many of these might be kept secret so the enemy would not get a hint of the strength or disposition of allied forces.

Army Minister Forde announced: “Gen, MacArthur has made certain suggestions regarding Australlian defense which will have my immediate attention.”

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Hokkaido, one of the principal; Sepry, chairman of the non-party| y¢ wag intimated that the great-| {leaders, urging appointment of an, g [fall upon Gen. Douglas MacArthur, were expelled from school for refusing to pledge allegiance to the

islands of Japan. ] ag jest naval battle of the war might .! Indian member of the defense coun- ‘Don’t Spare the Red Tape’ Ameican flag.

Certainly the Russians would need {be fought off the northwest NorThe Sydney Bulletin published a The religious sect believes in no|

council or some similar power i which, if conceded. might conceiv‘ably avert flat rejection. “| Previously, Mr. Cripps had emAre! hasized that the British offer was {“final” and that no change could

surprise by taking the initiative herself. In any event, Tokyo seems to fear

this may happen, for reports

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Ayres Is 'Happy'; Nears Work Camp

PORTLAND, Ore. April 1 « P) —Film Star Lew Ayres, happy” because he chose to be classed as a conscientious objector to war, arrives here today en route to the Cascade Locks camp, where he will be assigned to non- | combatant work for the duration of the war The camp. 30 miles east of Portland, is operated under supervision of the Brethren and Mennonite cnurches More than 139 conscientious objectors from the West Coast work 40 hours a week at the camp on road, farm and forest projects. The actor said he had “insure mountable scruples against joining any fighting branch,” although he had offered his serve ices to the army medical corps. When his request was rejected, he asked to be classed as a conscientious objector.

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Princes Also Balk

Leaders of the chamber of princes, who are the most favorably inclined toward the British, also were reacting unfavorably to the plan because they had failed to obtain explanation of provisions which most directly affect them. The congress reply to Mr. Cripps

Iwas being completed by C. Rajago-

palachari, a moderate pro-British member of the working committee, indicating that counter-pro-posals might be expected. The reply may be ready on Thursday. The possibilty of unfavorable re-

action in the United States delayed completion of the statement by the leaders explaining why they are “compelled” to turn down Brit-

ain’s self-rule offer.

ATTORNEY GENERAL OF OHIO TO SPEAK

Thomas Herbert. attorney general of Ohio, will speak at a dinner meeting of the Indianapolis Bar association at 6:18 tonight at 224 N. Meridian st. Mr. Herbert, who is vice president of the attorney generals’ association of the United States, will speak on administrative law. B. Howard Caughran, U. S. district attorney and president of the Indianapolis Bar association, will preside.

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MacArthur ‘Suggests’

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