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Ryan a Candidate

ASKS TO RETAIN SUPERIOR BENCH

Tough Assignment Mr. Newhall’'s official title is “co-

Active in Democrat Work!

Many Years: Served in World War I.

Judge Russell J. Ryan, completing his second term as a superior court judge, announced today that he would seek renomination to the room 3 bench in the May 5 primary. A Democrat, Judge Ryan first was elected to the bench in 1930 as judge of room 5 and returned to private practice after serving one four-year term. He was elected to his present court in 1938. : A widely-known attorney, Judge Ryan has been active in Democratic politics for many years and for a time was county chairman. He served on the state alcoholic beverage commission in 1935 and in January, 1937, he was named assistant general counsel of the U. S. bureau of internal revenue. He served in World War I as a major in the 159th infantry. He attended Wabash college and Cornell university, where he received his legal training. He was graduated from Shortridge high school here and was a star footoall player. Judge Ryan also has been active in civic and fraternal affairs, is married, has two sons and lives in the Winter apartments on N. Meridian st.

ordinator.” He may need to use something very like dictatorial methods to carry out the assignment just given him by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the war production board. If so, the country should welcome them, insisting only that they be fair and intelligent methods. Soft and easy methods won't save enough of the rubber we now have on hand, and insure the finding or

BULGARS TO HELP NAZIS

BERN, April 2 (CDN).—Bulgaria as decided to give the Nazis complete military help in their spring offensive against Russia as a sequel to King Boris’ visit.to der fuehrer,

M. i A / errily Along, Check on Indianapolis Traffic Shows That Few Drivers Are Doubling Up to Save Their Automobile Tires. By FREMONT POWER Most Indianapolis drivers still are lone eagles. They don’t carry anyone to work but themselves. And this despite Price Administrator Leon Henderson's plea that auto owners double up and save rubber. Authorities estimate that auto traffic has decreased only 3 per cent here since the rubber rationing. Or in other words, Indianapolis drives blithely along, apparently confident that something will turn up to save the day when their tires go thin—and flat. As two Washington correspondents for The Times 4 8 (pointed out yesterday: “This] 4 § \Micawberish country . . . Is |driving itself headlong into a ‘disastrous rubber famine.” RUBBER NAMED A check of traffic here bears out fist warning, — Four Spots Checked ’ Newhall S Job Is to Get! Times reporters checked four | strategic spots in Indianapolis this 15 Federal Agents | week, where the 7:30-8 a. m. traffic y ‘ : | flows thick and heavy, and found: y Working in Unity. | 1. Fifty-eight per cent of the cars By CHARLES T. LUCEY AND carried only the driver. E. A, EVANS 2. A clear majority of the cars Times Special Writers carrying a passenger and the driver WASHINGTON, April 2. — The|.,.e the appearance of wives takin United Stctes at last has a “dicta-|° pe ct she tor” for rubber. His name is Ar. | husbands to work, with the wives thur B. Newhall. His appointment! taking the cars for the rest of the has come not a second too soon. |day. For at least 15 different federal] 3 only about 10 per cent carried agencies are trying to deal with two or more passengers besides the as many phases of the rubber prob-|griver. lem. we By sections of the city the survey This multiplicity of agencies has shaped up like this: caused confusion, duplication of effort, division of responsibility. It NORTH is partly to blame for the too preva-| 16th and Meridian sts—Of 1098! lent, complacent—and wholly mis- cars which went past between 7:30 taken—public belief that somehow! ,,q g a. m., 625 (56 per cent) carthe rubber situation will solve it-| joq only the driver. A great numself. ber carried a man and apparently his wife, and in the last half of (the survey period, a sizable num‘ber of cars were driven from the downtown district north by en, with no passengers. SOUTH South and S. East sts.—Of the 872 cars which passed, 552 (63 per cent) carried only the driver. Of cars which had a passenger, not more than seven carried more than two passengers. manufacture of enough new rubber, EAST to avert the actual famine now New York st. and Arsenal ave— Sennitely in sight. : : Of 651 cars, 355 (54 per cent) had Mr. Newhall is interested in get- {only the driver. Two hundred seven ting started, not in making Prom-| hag one passenger, 67 had two. 10 1ses about what will be done. had three and five had four passObviously, however, his task is to|engers besides the driver. Seven get all those different federal agen-| hag five passengers. As the time cies pulling together, in accordance| neared 8 a. m., there was a marked with one general plan, toward one decrease in the number of passendefinite goal. It will have to be a|gers. Not more than 12 persons very hig goal. passed the corner on foot. WEST ‘ Ti SPEED AN ACCIDENT, | W. Washington s*. and the White FERRY PILOT FREED river bridge—Of 216 cars, 119 (55 : per cent) contained only the driver LONDON, April 2 (U.P). —A civ- and at least 90 per cent of the ilian ferry pilot who violated the cars with a passenger had no more “speed limit” in flying an American than one passenger. Of those with bomber from Newfoundiand to Brit- {one passenger (35 per cent) most ain in the record-breaking time of of the passengers appeared to be 6 hours 40 minutes was exonerated|the wives of the drivers. Ten per today after explaining that it was cent of the cars had two or more only an accident. passengers besides the driver. The pilot, whose name and na-, ¥ tionality were not revealed, clipped | “i i off more than one hour from the, A “car club” plan to stagger the previous mark for the 2400-mile! use of private autos has been started journey across the Atlantic. He av-| Js Pontiac, Mich, but In Indianeraged more than 330 miles an hour. | apolis the lone eagles prevail. Speeding by bomber ferry pilots is a punishable offense, but an inquiry | revealed that the record-breaking | flight was accidental and due to alp tailwind and exceptional navigation | conditions.

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BARRAGE BALLOON RIDES OHIO WIND

Breaks Loose at Akron With 1000-Foot Cable.

AKRON, O., April 2 (U. P)—A Goodyear Aircrafi: Corp. barrage balloon tore loose from its mooring winch today and trailing 1000 feet of steel cable took off in a northeasterly direction toward Pennsylvania. { The company’s officials said that all airplanes had been warned. The balloon snapped its cable in| a high wind, officials reported. Com-| pany cars were dispatched with air- | craft crews to follow its flight. Police of Ohio and Penrsyivania| were notified.

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HOGS SET RECORD

A new record in hog prices—the| highest in 16 years—was set at the Indianapolis stockyards today. The top price was $13.80 per 100 pounds, the best since 1926.

NEW ATTACKS HIT FACTORIES IN PARIS AREA

Hundreds of Planes Strike!

In France, Germany,

Belgium, Holland.

LONDON, April 2 (U. P). — An armada of British bombers—probably several hundred-—-struck across Nazi-held western Europe last night. The heavy attack extended from the suburbs of Paris across Belgium and Holland and deep into western Germany. British pilots who dived low over their targets, effectively bombed the big Matford motor works in Poissy, a Paris suburb, the air ministry announced. Pilots Swing Low

The air ministry said the pilots swung as low as they could without endangering their planes from the repercussions of their own bombs and thus were able to confine the damage to a small area. The factory was “well and truly hit,” the pilots said. Vichy reported that in addition to the Poissy raid, bombs were dropped on Sansois, Rueil and Corbeil-En-Parisis, other Paris suburbs. The Vichy radio said five persons were Killed. : The vast R. A. F. assault evidently was aimed at crippling and disrupting the supply centers of Germany’s anticipated spring drive on the Russian front and at preventing German naval forces from interfering with the flow of BritishAmerican aid to Russia's arctic ports. Vast Region Bombed The aerial attack, which appears to have been one of the biggest yet undertaken by the R. A. F., coincided with a continuation of the naval-air struggle for control of the arctic route of supply to Russia and mounting signs that Adolf Hitler may be ready to start his spring offensive on the southern "Russian front. Attacked by the British armada which included long-range bombers of the latest type—some of them undoubtedly from the United States —were Nazi-operated war factories in the Paris suburbs, targets in Belgium and Holland, ports, airdromes, railroad centers and docks and shipping at Le Havre, big French port. , Some of the planes dropped mines in waters to bottle up German Uboats and naval units from attacks on allied convoys along the northern supply route, similar to one last week-end in which five Nazi warships and submarines were either (Continued on Page Eight)

Topcoat to Get Heavy by Night

LOCAL TEMPERATURES a. m. .42 10 a.m. ... 56 am ...43 Nam ... 61 am ... 45 12 (noen).. 63 a. m. . 49 1 p.m... 64 YESTERDAY at 8 a. m. the government thermometer read 37. Today it was 45. And the weather bureau said it would be even warmer today and tonight. The financial editor was bothered by a summer fly which started dive-bombing him early today while he was trying to figure things up for the paper.

The Man Behind the Gun Has a Big Job

It takes a good man to handle 50-caliber machine guns on a mosquito boat and Charley Kiefer looks as if he can do the job. He's pictured during maneuvers off the Panama canal zone. His assignment is to keep enemy planes from strafing the small but potent boat.

ARMY TO SHOW NEW WEAPONS

Plaza and Airport Display To Precede Parade Monday Night.

An Indianapolis at war will observe army day next Monday under conditions which haven't existed for more than 23 years. This time it's more than just a show! Equipment seen in a downtown parade at 7 p. m. Monday may be in action against the axis this time next year—or this time next month. And the planes which will be shown at municipal airport may be spitting death on Berlin or Tokyo before spring comes again. This time it’s war. Army air corps headquarters in Washington announced today they would have the latest type American and British fighting planes on display at the airport. There will be a modern British Spitfire. Alongside it will be a Curtiss P-40 fighter, a famous model which has made war history on all fronts and is now standard equipment in fighter squadrons of the Middle East.

Also in the display will be one of the new DBT's, dubbed the “Havoc”| in}

by the British who use them night battles. It's considered one (Continued on Page Eight)

TIRPITZ HAVEN FOUND

LONDON, April 2—(CDN)—Air reconnaissance by the royal air force has revealed that the German battleship Tirpitz is lying in a carefully selected hideout in a fijord, approximately 50 miles north of Irondheim. Photographs show her position so well protected that nothing but an extremely accurate attack with heavy bombs, from a great altitude, would be likely to cripple her,

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 Catholic women won't attend defense meettngs in Protestant churches. That the Catholic church forbids it.

The Facts Are . . .

That Catholics may attend defense meetings in any church, no matter what the denomination or the place. And that’s according to Mrs. Thomas J. Murphy, president of the Indianapolis Catholic women’s council.

JAP DIVE. BOMBERS ASSAULT BATAAN

Sharp Fighting Between

Patrols Lasts 24 Hours.

WASHINGTON, April 2 (U. P.) — The war department reported today that sharp patrol fighting occurred on Bataan during the past 24 hours and Japanese artillery and dive bombers blasted at our positions. A communique said that big-scale ground action had died down since yesterday and was now confined to “aggressive patrol activity” by both sides. The communique indicated that both sides, after fierce hand-to-hand fighting in the previous 48 hours, now were engaged in seeking information as to each other's strength. :

slavian consular official cried lustil lifeboat nearly filled with water.

the few words of English at her The mother, a sturdily built woman 28 years old with blond hair and bright blue eyes, showed how little effect the ordeal had

|according to a most reliable source here. General mobilization is exi pected to be announced by April 15.

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upon her when she climbed virtually unassisted up the side of a rescue vessel on a cargo net. The naked new-born babe had been handed up to a husky seaman: Mrs. Mohorovicic was en route to this country to join her husband. who is attached to the Jugoslavian consulate in New York, when the medium sized vessel aboard which she was traveling k with her twoyear old daughter Visna was torpedoed by a German submarine. She, Visna, the baby and 86 other survivors were rescued after 40 hours in lifeboats by units of the U. S. navy. Of the 122 seamen and passengers aboard when two torpedoes crashed into the side of the ship, including Gen. M. Djoukanovitch of the Jugoslavian legation in Washington. Three gnembers of the aun

of the fact that he was born “somewhere in the Atlantic” in

y today and showed little evidence a crowded

“It wasn't so bad,” said the mother, Mrs. Desanka Mohorovicie, in

command.

crew, which stayed aboard the vessel until the last minute to fire at the submarine, were known to be dead. One survivor said he thought the crew had hit its mark with one of the shells. There was a possibility that some 'of the missing may be aboard other ‘rescue vessels that have not arrived in port yet. The story of Mrs. Mohorovicic’s experience is certain to become an epic of the Battle of the Atlantic— a battle which already has resulted in almost unbelievable tales of human courage, forbearance and endurance.

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stip ip the Atlantic. Daughter Visna, also among the resoffed,

Wite of Jugoslav Official Bears Son in Lifeboat

NORFOLK, Va., April 2 (U. P.).—The four-day-old son of a Jugo-

Mrs. Desanka Mohorovicic, in Norfolk, Va., hospital holds her son, boat with , Jesse, Born ir a'water-filled lifeboat after her

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BURMA'S LAST PORT IS TAKEN BY INVADERS

Fleet of 12 Warships Brings Transports; Air

Drive Launched.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

Japan appeared to be throwing maximum strength into the Burma war today, pushing a powerful naval squadron to within 75 miles of threatened India and launching heavy air attacks on allied lines near the central Burmese towns of Prome

and Toungoo.

The concentration of armed forces on the Burma front indicated that the enemy was hoping to strike at that united nations sector immediately in an effort to prevent alignment of India as a full partner in the allied front, or to attack India before such an agreement can materialize. A fleet of 16 Japanese ships, ine cluding four transports and 12 ware ships, landed at least 5000 troops at the west Burmese port of Akyab, an important base on the Bay of Bengal only 75 miles from the Indian border and 310 miles from Calcutta.

Burma Loses Last Port Akyab previously had been aban doned by the British and its seizure completed Japanese occupation of’ all Burma ports. : The seizure of Akyab gravely increased the Japanese threat to India at a time when Sir Stafford Cripps was struggling against fore midable odds to overcome the All India congress (major) party’s obe jections to Britain's plan for poste war independence. Mr. Cripps insisted that he was still hopeful and that negotiations would continue next week, ree portedly as a result of a British offer to give the Indians a greater immediate voice in control of home defense. 3

Land Assault Awaited i The congress party rejection of the phan as it was offered, however, was helieved to be virtually unani= mous and Indian sources said tha the prospects for an agreement were poor unless other. and important concessions were made. On the Burma land front, the British in the Prome sector and the Chinese in the Toungoo area had successfully set up new lines in exe pectation of a new Japanese assault. ‘Enemy bomber squadrons began

G00D NEIGHBOR POLICY BRUISED

Harrison Soldiers Mistook 4 Dark Men as Foes And Attacked.

Two privates from Ft. Harrison were in jail today after they scrambled Uncle Sam’s “good neighbor” policy in South America. As Ike Blair and James F. Craycraft, both 21 and members of the medical department, explained it to Judge John L. Niblack in Municipal court; it all happened this way: Pvts. Blair and Craycraft heard four men conversing in a foreign tongue at Meridian and Washington sts.,, just as the downtown stores were closing yesterday.

Size Up the Situation

The four men were dark, and therefore Pvts. Blair and Craycraft concluded they were Italians. Pvt. Blair reminded Pvt. Craycraft that America is at war with Italy. Pvt. Craycraft did what every good soldier should do: He . estimated the military situation. blasting at these positions today as His estimate was as follows: Ja prelude to new attempts to drive Two American soldiers against| northward toward the oil fields {four “Italians.” ¢ about 100 miles from Prome and True, the Americans were out-|toward Mandalay, some 200 miles numbered, but the “Italians” were|from Toungoo. 3 handicapped because they were car- Port Darwin Bombed rying bundles. . Chinese sources said that the Simultaneously, Pvt. Blair and enemy would be forced to pay a Pvt. Craycraft, took joint command | stil] higher price for any attacks on of the American “army,” and—at-|the new allied lines. tacked! In the Philippines there was “aga When the police arrived, the cas-| gressive patrol” fighting and fur ualties were: ther enemy bombing and artillery *. A black eye on the counte-|attacks on American forts in Mas nance of Pvt. Blair. nila bay. 2. Four armfuls of packages, pur-| In Australia, the Japanese again (Continued on Page Eight) bombed Port Darwin—their first

night time raid—but operation FULL LIBERTY if ow’ otherwise appeared slight. 3

On the War Fronts British Offer of Dominion

(April 2, 1942) LONDON: British long-range bombAfter War Rejected. NEW DELHI, India, April 2 (U.

ers attack Nazi-operated factories P.).—The dominant All-India con-

in Paris suburbs and objectives in Belgium, Holland and western Germany; loss of 15 R. A. P, gress informed Sir Stafford Cripps tonight that India must be granted “full freedom” without awaiting the

planes admitted. STOCKHOLM: Ten Norwegian ships end of the war and that Britain's offer of post-war dominion status

intercepted by Germans while trys cannot be accepted.

Ing to run the Nazi Baltic blocks ade, : MOSCOW: Russians report victories over Germans on Leningrad and central fronts. The congress’ reply to the British plan, handed to Mr. Cripps by Pres-| NEW DELHI: British cabinet ree ident Maulana Abul Kalan Azad of| Dborted ready to agree to creatiom the congress and Jawaharlal Nehru,| Of defense co-ordination portfolio was believed, however, to carry an| for India. implied invitation to the British MELBOURNE: U. S. and Ause cabinet to alter its proposals and tralian air forces achieve “co prevent collapse of the negotiations. me The British were understood to be willing to offer India an immediate voice in control of home defense, a

plete unification” of operations, CHUNGKING: Transports, protects major stumbling block, in an effort to head off a breakdown in the

ed by at least 12 warships, land thousands of Japanese troops at Burmese port of Akyab, 75 miles talks. from border of India.

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