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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 21

SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1942

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Guns Blazing

~ Three U. S. Warships Went Down Off Java,

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

. WASHINGTON, April 4.—Look for the sensational Standard Oil of New Jersey-I. G. Farbenindustrie expose to explode legislatively in several directions. Item one: Legislation to keep foreign subsidiaries of giant Amer-

i ican corporations in line with United States foreign policy. Assistant Secretary of State Berle has suggested it, as result of the revelation

that Standard Oil was selling gasoline to Italian and German lines in South America through Brazilian subsidiary. Airplanes using Standard gas were ferrying spies, fifth columnists, military supplies, back and forth across the South Atlantic. Item two: Patent law revision to prevent future suppression of processes vital to war program, such as synthetic rubber, either by foreign cartel arrangements or domestic monopolies. Item three: Legislation requiring certification by chairman of WPB, currently Donald Nelson, before any practice which violates anti-trust laws

is premitted to speed war production. Aim of this jhew candidates might join the list

procedure, provided in bill by Senator VanNuys (D.

Sen. VanNuys Ind), is to prevent complete suspension of anti- :

trust laws for duration, and to lodge power in Nelson rather than |

war department, which has been trying to stop anti-trust prosecution. Also Truman committee is to be advised when requests come in for abrogation of anti-trust laws; will hold public hearings when it thinks wise.

Baruch Plan Coming Into Favor BERNARD M. BARUCHS stock is going up. His ideas about

DOUBT FEENEY WILL FILE IN FINAL HOURS

Friends, Organization Are Agreed as Deadline Nears |

For Candidates.

By VERN BOXELL A last-minute rush of candidates to get into primary election races before the deadline at midnight tonight was in full swing this aft-

| ernoon.

| Although: political leaders were | unanimous in their statements that | “all is well,” there was the usual! flurry of activity and tenseness, especially in the Democratic ranks where it is rumored that several ‘in the closing hours. Baker vs. Spencer?

Chief interest centered on Sheriff Al Feeney, who has been listed as a probable Democratic mayor candidate to oppose Criminal Court | Judge Dewey Myers. Although the sheriff would make no statement, it was generally believed by his | friends and the regular party or-' ganization leaders who have opiposed him that he would not be! a last-minute entry. This belief was strengthened | when Thomas Blackwell, his per-| sonal attorney, filed his candidacy | for the nomination as judge of su-

Yes or No?

Sheriff Feeney . . . just a few hours to decide.

GET DAYS, FINES FOR WHIPPING

Leslies Sent to Prison and stanchness and valor of America’s

Each Must Pay $200; Daughter Sobs.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. April 4 (U. P) —Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Leslie were sentenced to 30 days in prison and fined $200 and costs each today for the belt-whipping of Miss Constance Davis, fifth grade school teacher.

perior court, room 1, in opposition

the guns of her escorting destroyers. fi C el Ignoring pleas of defense couns The Nipponese bombers had “vir

700 ON PEARY. LANGLEY AND PECOS KILLED

Further Losses in Running Fight With Jap Bombers Revealed by Navy.

WASHINGTON, April 4 (U, P). —Three veteran American warships, including the aircraft tender Langley, fell victim to swarms of Japanese bombing planes in the southwest Pacific, but went down {with their guns blazing defiance to { the end, a navy communique re{vealed today. i | The 26-year-old Langley, the de- | stroyer Peary and the naval tanker | Pecos fell prey to Japanese bombers between Feb. 19 and March 1. | All three fought back fiercely in a glowing demonstration of the

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| fighting men and fighting ships. Unofficial estimates placed the |loss of life in the three attacks at (more than 700 officers and men. | Most of them died in sinking of the Pecos which was carrying survivors of the aircraft tender.

| Smothered by Bombs

The Langley, the navy’s first aircraft carrier before its conversion | five years ago, went down in the Indian ocean south of Java on Feb. ' 27—not by enemy action, but under

Faces Federa | Charges

Baruch’s coming to Washington nearly every week; government for an overall price ceiling, is now admitting piecemeal price-fixing Even Baruch’s wage-freezing plan is gaining favor. Some labor fective action is taken Still unreconciled to overall turb are farm spokesmen. Buying and Most popular of all Baruch proposals now is ceiling oh profits. = ’ = = = 2 = welcome chance to give plausible plan a new trial, avoid wrath of any agreement among groups concerned, solution not requiring legislation. lem: Give it to labor department as labor asks. make Ed McGrady = 2 = = = EJ

war mobilization, war economy, called old-fashioned a few months officials have been beating a path to his hotel door, asking help. hasn't worked fast enough: Canada’s everall plan has been more spokesmen, who fought it, now say they'll stop asking raises if efrid Would have Rept Hour Week -tiling by Surplus Commodities Corp. could control farm ‘prices till Least popular, his insistence on drastic taxation to curb inflated purDON'T BE SURPRISED if Roosevelt works out over-all labor pressure group. $$ & »& x = =» secretary. McGrady, assistant secretary in NRA days, did best New ‘Loophole’ in Tax Return Plan

ago. now are getting respectful attention. Part, at least, of OPA staff. which thumbed down Baruch plan effective. ad and -hall-for-over-surpluses dwindle. chasing power, prevent growth of black markets. policy before congress tackles it. Indications are congressmen would President probably will try to reach Latest suggestion for troublesome man-power mobilization probDeal job so far on labor headaches. TREASURY, which urges mandatory joint returns for husband and

to the incumbent, Judge Joseph Niarkey. There were reports that other possible late entries would send

Qiyde Baker agai Ca pret tion in

‘Dean in the prosecutor's race on

Democratic side. Webb Ends Rumors Organization attempts to bring out new opposition against Muni‘cipal Judge John McNelis in the criminal court race apparently have failed. Joseph Wood, city councilman, reportedly has declined to run and the only other possibility now being considered is Gideon Blain. John Bright Webb, former state senator and representative who had been listed as a possible opponent for Charles Ettinger in the county clerk race, ended the rumors today with the announcement that he would seek the nomination as joint state senator from Marion and (Continued on Page Three)

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[for leniency because “a jail term | [V3 Ve the QERIN SEEUCS I" AT-|ored 11050-ton Vessel in 6 Toil | thur Leslie,” Circuit Judge W. Lynn bombs. But they failed to sink it Parkinson ordered Mrs. Leslie to Valet ; in : :

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Loe [ e court costs are satisfied. career in the prosaic rele of a fleet Sent to State Farm Soler: has been claimed as sunk ; | By the Japanese on at léast three Leslie was ordered to the state gocasions since the start of the war. prison farm at Putnamville until | Fourteen of the ship's crew were his fine and half the court costs are; in the bombing attack. The paid. ; ,.| remainder abandoned ship to perMrs. Leslie gripped her husband S/mit two accompanying destroyers hand as Judge Parkinson pro-i; move in and deliver the coup de nounced sentence. ' Her daughter, grate. Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, who was in ; the courtroom, broke down and Four-Hour Running Fight sobbed. | The survivors, picked up by other Loves Children “Too Much” Oh ja13 pon rane : to the 5400-ton Pecos. On Marc Before Judge Parkinson read the; ;....cce dive-bombers chose the sentence, Mrs. Leslie told from the coe ship for their target and witness Stand that she has beeniy 0g 5 ts the bottom after a giving her husband an opiate with running fight that lasted more thah a hypodermic needle under a doc- four hours ‘tor’'s prescription for several years. : . | Asked if she loved her children, | The erew of the Pecos, aided by

{men from the Langley, fought off Mrs. Leslie broke down and sobbed: po bombers at ey _ ag

- Yes, probably too much.” forced to abandon their sinking

ast aE vy A tha D0 = The Langley, which began her rt = U.S

Bengal and on the approach to] India. | One cruiser and a troop ship were hit and set afire and two other]

Developments on other fronts:

Large formations of British borabers and fighter planes

and transports in the Andaman islands south

wife to do away with tax advantages enjoyed by some, may itself have

7 HURT WHEN AUTO

proposed a “loophole” which could extend similar advantages to married taxpayers, ways and means committee will be told. Under it a husband might contract with his wife (without divoreing her) to give her certain sums of money regularly, deduct these from his income and avoid higher surtaxes, one lawyer believes. She'd : Pod: file 5 Separale return, 4 Soldiers Among Victims “Bboophole,” if any, is in treasury proposal for taxing alimony pay- | : : ments in hands of divorced wife. At present husband pays tax on in- In S. Side Accident. come, including alimony payments to ex-wife; ex-wife pays none. | Treasury wants the woman to pay.

CORASHES INTO HOUSE

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An auto that went out of control on the South side early today and crashed into a house bn ught injury to seven persons, four of them soldiers attached to Billings General hospital qf Ft. Harrison. The accident occured at Madison and Southern aves.

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John L. Lewis’ third labor organization, now in formation outside the ranks of C. I. O. and A. F. of L, may make a working agreement with the G. O. P., insiders say. Lewis, a life-long Republican exeept for the two times when he supported Roosevelt, is said to be swinging back te old Gompers dictum that labor shouldn't lean on government for help. Reports are (Continued on Page Three) | E. 13th st., the driver; Miss Pauline | Davis, 26, Elkhart, Ind.; Miss Goldie

Thit Times series is designed to help sou. If von hear a rumor doen't pass it on. Call us or write us and we'll check it for vou. If it's true, we'll tell vou so. If not, we'll give

Sorry To Tell You—'

THE EASTER morning forecast: “Much colder with showers to- | morrow forenoon with fresh to strong winds.” The afternoon? The weather | bureau won't predict. The war, you know.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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m. 58 m ...4 lam. .. m.

83 . 49 12 (noon) .. 67

tempted to negotiate a turn into That men in the 45-to- HOLLYWOOD, April 4 (U, P).— went to the hospital. Hunter was | That the government 'as he left for a northern Califor-! provides for no armed me... 33 1pm . 69 PLAN PRISONER EXCHANGE tee today approved a proposal for, LAUNCH CRUISER DENVER

1! ~~ Shaw, 25, of 418 N. New Jersey st. ' and Hollis Cotton, 23, Lloyd Meade, Today S Rumor | JACKIE COOGAN AND 121, Johrr T. Etinne, 24 and Laverne| = Ellis, 22, all of Ft. Harrison. 20 WIFE SEPAR ATE Police said that when Hunter atoe — Southern ave, the car struck a ; ; utility pole, skidded across the! vou the facts. Marriage a Mistake, Says street and back again and crashed | ; : into the home of Fred Ratcliff, 2504 The Gossip Is . . . Former Film Star. Madison ave. All but Miss Shaw and Mr. Cotton | 6i-age class registering Jackie Coogan, the “kid” of the charged by police for drunkenness! April 27 will be subject to silent movies, now an army pri- and driving while under the in-| draft for service either in vate, and his second wife, the for. DUeNce of liquor. the army or defense in- {mer Flower Parry, have separated. | i dustries. | Their marriage less than a year We re The Facts Are . . . (ago “was a mistake,” Coogan aig) will first register these [ole Cowie i yeild men only for the purpose SALT Lib Yemlulion. hat of completing its informa. °U Marriage was a mistake,” he ti the manpower of said. “We thought we would try lon on po Ol to stick it out on account of the America. The selective - baby, but it was no use. It didnt service law at present work” service for these men. ’ That is the word from SENATE UNIT 0.K.’S ‘ Col. Robinson Hitchcock, WAR PROFITS CURB y ive service di- | I © di- | wasHINGTON, April 4 (U. py 8 . | The senate appropriations commit- | LONDON, April 4 (U. P)—The 'igid control of manufacturers’! CAMDEN. N. J., April 4 (U. P).— | foreign office announced today that Profit on government war contracts. | The U. 8. cruiser Denver, fourth cepatriation of “some sick and! The committee approved the of its class to be built by the vounded imperial prisoners from Plan by a vote said by members| New York Shipbuilding Corp. will he Middle East” was due to start{to have been “practically unani- be launched late today at the comthortly in the Mediterranean area. mous.” pany’s Camden yards. %

The injured were Donald V. Hunter, 22, of 657]

The leslies Were Seonvicted bY 8/ship. Two-thirds of the combined

belt before her pupils because 11-vear-old Danny Leslié told his parents the teacher hit him with a book.

Stay in Spinning Plane at 3000 Ft.

DETROIT, April 4 (U. P)— The story of how two naval fliers | stuck to their spinning, catapulting plane for more than 3000 feet | trying to keep it from crashing into a small town, and then para-

chuting to safety, was told today |

by officials at the Grosse Ile naval air base. Lieut. Comm. R. C. Young. commanding officer at the base, praised Lieut. Stephen F. Maire, 31, navy test pilot from Trenton, Mich, and Pvt. James A. Vittitoe, 22, a marine, for staying with their ship until they had made sure it would not crash into Flat Rock, a tiny village southwest of Detroit. Maire and Vittitoe, Lieut Comm. Young said lost control of the plane at 4000 feet. They waited until it was less than 1000 feet from the ground, then jumped as the plane crashed into an automobile in a parking lot east of Flat Rock and burst into flames.

2 DEAD, 7 MISSING | IN BOMBER CRASH

BOISE, Ida. April 4 (U. Pp). — Two men re killed and seven missing today in the crash of an army heavy bomber near Bridge, Ida., about 10 miles from the UtahIdaho border, the Gowen field public relations office announced. Wreckage of the big ship was found by a searching plane, Capt. R. 8. Gibbs said. Two men were found dead in the wreckage of the four-motored craft, but the other seven members of the crew were missing. Capt. Gibbs said there was no trace of those missing. Officers believed they may have taken to para-

raided German positions in north-|

= TR 3 wt ¥ Flying Fortresses Fire » od o Li 2 Jap Ships in Bay of Bengal By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor American flying fortresses stiffened the allied front in the battle] | for Burma today, but Japanese shock troops were again pressing al costly advance toward the oil fields north of Prome. The first blows struck by big United States bombers under direc-

tion of Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton in India, fell oii enemy warships | His Silver Shirts organization was of Burma in the bay of |characterized by the Dies committee

» ” o troop ships were believed damaged i (by the flying fortresses. ‘WARNING T0 BRITISH | im

|certain issues were declared none

Masses Must Feel It’s Their ment.

crews of the two ships were believed |ern. France today, bucking a 40lost in this encounter. mile- gale across the English Shag) The Peary, a world war four-|nel, The British fliers appeared | stacker destroyer of 1190 tons, was headed for the invasion coest south! blasted to the bottom off Darwin,lof Boulogne, During the night the| North Australian base, by enemy |R.A.F, bombed airdromes and rail-|

{Continued on Page Three) ‘road freight yards in France.

CAUSE SOUGHT FOR $75,000 BLAZE HERE

Fireman Is Injured in Ace Motors Building.

The gallant defenders of the Philippines awaited + another assault by the Japanese. The enemy was believed reforming his badly | battered lines in Bataan after a series of sharp setbacks and heavy (losses. Anti-aircraft gunners on Corregidor shot down two heavy Japanese bombers and probably damaged two others during the {12th consecutive day of air raids Firemen today sought to deter- On the island fortress. mine the cause of a spectacular The Russians reported only two-alarm fire which swept through! local successes, but indicated the Ace Motors, Inc, 1136 N. Meri-|1at millions of tough reserves, |dian st, early last night, causing trained and hardened all winter in

la $75,000 damage. the Siberian snows be: : . yond the The blaze, which hrought injury { Urals, were ready whenever the

12, one :Areman, | (Continued on Page Three)

spread quickly ‘through the modernistic building # 7 {which was just completed last July, caved in 100 feet of roof and covfered the north central — riOn the War Fr onts {and business district with a blanket | lof black smoke. Discovered shortly after 7:30 BURMA: p. m. by Mrs. M. A. Hall, 2340 Broadway, who was waiting for her husband, a company salesman, the fire apparently started in the parts department where damage amounted to $25,000. The company had a contract to machine small metal} parts for war industries. Spreading to the paint depart-

(April 4, 1942)

U. 8. flying fortresses bomb Japanese cruiser and several troop ships in Andaman islands; heavy Japanese aerial bombing leads new enemy attacks on Prome oil field sector; Chinese regain some ground near Toungoo. Mandalay hospital bombed by| Japs.

INDIA:

War, He Says. |

(Copyright, 1042, by United Press)

NEW DELHI, India, April 4.— Mohandas K. Gandhi, spiritual leader of India’s millions, today approved a statement warning Great Britain that Indian aid is dependent upon making “the masses feel that the war is a peoples war and the government is a peoples government.” Gandhi approved the statement given to the United Press by his ablest lieutenant, C. Rajagopalachari, at a moment when leaders in the All-India congress (majority) party were putting special emphasis on Gandhi's attitude toward the threat of Japanese invasion. “Our duty to the country comes first,” President Maulana Abul | Kalam Azad of the congress said! earlier, emphasizing that efforts at| the moment were concerned chiefly | with “our duty in case of a Jap- | anese attack.” The principal conference on the British plan for post-war dominion | status today was a meeting of Azad and Jawaharlal Nehru with Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell and Cripps, who also conferred with Louis A. Johnson, personal representative of President Roosevelt in India. Mr Johnson will send a report of the conference to the president.

3 SHIPS SUNK OFF AMERICAN SHORES

ment, the fire caused the roof to collapse on two cars owned by customers and two others belonging to the company. William Lynch, fireman at Engine house 5, is in City hospital recovering from a deep gash on his arm caused by flying glass.

REPORT 3000 HOMES IN LUEBECK WRECKED

day that British planes in their raid on Luebeck last Saturday destroyed 3000 houses, including the former

STOCKHOLM, April 4 (U, P).— Press reports from Berlin said to-|

Hopes for agreement on/ independence plan slightly increased by attention of All-India congress party leaders to threat) of Japanese invasion; Cripps talks to Louis Johnson, Roosevelt's representative.

PHILIPPINES: Corregidor island today that three more merchant ‘undergoes 12th successive day of bombbardment; two more enemy american shores, bombers shot down.

Small Y. S., Latvian and

Canadian Craft Lost. WASHINGTON, April 4 (U. PJ).

serves reported moving into front; tc coast.

Russians punch forward in Kalinin and Sk var : land a small Canadian vessel were

LONDON:

R. A. F. renews day- several weeks ago, the navy said. light raids on German o !

This brought to 11 the number

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chutes or walked away from the plane after the cratkup. A

home of Thomas Mann, world famous novelist now in the United]

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SILVER SHIRT CHIEF'S TRIAL WILL BE HERE

Accused of Statements to Injure This Country And Help Enemy.

WASHINGTON, April 4 (U. P.).— The justice department today ane nounced the arrest of William Dude ley Pelley, founder of the “Silver Shirts of America,” on charges of “intent to interfere with the Oopere ation or success of the military or

naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies.” Pelley was taken into custody in Darien, Conn. on orders of Attor= ney General Francis Biddle. He will be tried in Indianapolis, where a warrant has been issued by a United States commissioner. He was charged with seditious activity under the 1917 espionage act. A conviction might lead to a maximum sentence of up to 20 years’ imprisonment or a $10,000 fins or both.

Charges False Statements

Pelley’s apprehension was ane nounced by Charles Fahy, acting attorney general, who said that Pelley had made “false statements” intended to interfere with the suce cess of the military and naval forces of the United States and intended to promote the success of our ene mies,” in his magazine “The Gali lean.”

North Carolina oi violating the

state's blue sky law regulating sales of securities. : Testifying before the Dies com

‘mittee in February, 1940, he praised

the work of the committee in come batting “un-American activities.” The committee, however, denounced him as “a self-styled Hitler” and “a® racketeer engaged in mulcting thousands of dollars annually from his fanatical and misled followers.”

“Shirts” Called Fascists

as “probably the largest, beste financed, and certainly the best publicized” Fascist organization in the country. Pelley’s magazine, “The Galilean,” suspended publication recently when

mailable by the postoffice departe

Born in Lynn, Mass., in 1890, Pelley for several years centered his activities in Asheville, N. C., where he founded the “League for Liberae tion.” Later he established there the foundation for Christian economics and Gallahad college.

Arrived in State Ahead of Sheriff

William Dudley Pelley and his Fellowship Press arrived in Indiana a little more than a year ago just ahead of a North Carolina sheriff, The goateed fuehrer of the Silver Shirts since then has published the “Roll Call,” a newspaper, and a magazine, ‘Revelation,” both of which gave way about the time (Continued on Page Three)

STUDY APPOINTMENT OF U. S. FOOD CZAR

WASHINGTON, April 4 (U, P.).— Plans for a food czar, with powers resembling thse of Herbert Hoover during the last world war, were being discussed today by several in= terested government agencies. The proposed czar would co-or-dinate the activities of numerous agencies now dealing in some respect with food. Officials said there is consider able support for a separate agency. WPB Chairman Donald M.. Nels

son is inclined to favor a branch in

the department of agriculture, ase sociates said.

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