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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 22

Axis Dealt Crushing Blows In World-Wide Air War

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MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1942

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PAY, RENT AND PRICE CONTROL

Officials Say say Anti-Inflation’ Move to Cut Profit

Margin Drastically. By CHARLES T. LUCEY

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 6.— The administration has reached a tentative decision to attempt a broad over-all control of prices, wages and rents—the most complete con-

trol of American economic life ever proposed in an effort to stop inflation. a reliable source said today. The detailed blueprint has been| drawn, it is understood. The fact] that it is all-embracing is being counted on to make it acceptable both to management and labor. The office of price administration heretofore has set ceilings on certain commodity prices and rents, but on a selective basis Some trade unions have voluntarily put aside demands for double pav for overtime, But all such moves at limiting costs have been minor in relation to what is now being considered.

HINT OVERALL |

“Cushions” Prepared

Officials realize the over-all con-| trol would bring far-reaching repercussions, and they are said to be preparing for certain “cushions.” Prices on the refaill wholesale and manufacturers’ levels will be frozen as of the same date, under the plan Where the retailer has a commitment to buy goods from a wholesaler at a price higher than the new ceiling, he may be permitted to “roll back” part of the price difference to the manufacturer. If further adjustments are necessary they may be met by govern-| ment subsidy at the manufacturers’| level. But all adjustments must be| within the over-all price control.

Basic Date Prior to April

understood prices will be as of a date prior to] April 1—a date already selected. | In the Canadian price freezing. there was a relatively narrow lag between wholesale and retail prices, but this gap is expected to be considerably wider in this country. A general effect of the price-!| freezing, it is believed, will be to| narrow the profit margin drastically, | even to eliminate it entirely in some instances. The result, unless provision is made to adjust inequities under the price ceilings, will be to drive many merchants out of business, according to critics. One possible result might be the establishment of “black markets” in which prices charged would be higher than those allowed in a government order, This could have

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¢hnsiderable effect in 1943 or 1044 [ty would have to be found and Mr. | drawing | the thousands.

with goods scarcening . Unless business generally accepts, such an over-all decree in good | faith, it is said. the policing 1 price schedules will be difficult, if | not almost impossible. But many businessmen, officials believe, will] welcome price control as long as it is backed up by wage and rent| controls. Labor is considered likely to be| amenable to wage ceilings if living costs are pegged simultaneously.

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Eddie Ash 6) Johnson 10 Amusements . 5] Millett Carroll Binder 10; Movies Clapper 9 Music Comics . 15] Obituaries ... Crossword . 14] Pegler . Editorials . 10 Pyle Fashions .... 12] Questions Financial .... 4 Radio Forum . 10} Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Funny Bus... 4 Serial Story. . 15] Homemaking . 12! Side Glances. 10] In Indpis. 3| Society ....11, 12! Inside Indpls. 9 Sports cor t Jane Jordan. . 12iState Deaths . 8!

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Tonight At 8 P. M.

is the deadline for entries The Times Want Ad Re- | | sult Story Contest in which $200 in Defense Bonds and Stamps are to be given away. You still have time to | write that short letter and get it to The Times office. Full details are given on today’s Want Ad pages.

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PELLEY IS HERE: BOND EXPECTED

Fuehrer of Silver Shirts Says He Will Plead Not Guilty of Sedition.

Friends of William Dudley Pelley | were expected to post $15,000 bond | | today in behalf of the goateed fueh- |

prought here yesterday to face |

charges of criminal sedition.

Attempts to post bond failed yes- | terday when Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fine- | hout, 1310 B. New York st, who! described themselves as friends of | Pelley’'s family, offered a $27,000 building at Meridian and South sts. and their home as security. U. S. Marshal Julius Wichser ex-

| plained to them that another sure- | Br itish Spitfire were on display and | -

land Mrs. Finehout were expected | jo return today with a second sign- | " Pelley. who gave his address as! 155 Pleasant st, Noblesville, Ind. | said he would plead not guilty to! the charges which resulted from what the U. 8 justice department | described as “seditious statements” | contained in his magazine, “The | tContinued on Page Two) |

INDIA WILL FIGHT IF GIVEN DEFENSE RULE

ASSurance Given Johnson

By Congress Leader. |

NEW DELHI, India, April 6 (U.| P.) —Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of |

+ 10 the All-India congress, has assured |

the United States that India’s masses!

will “fight any Japanese aggression!

or any aggression to the end” if they are given control over their own defense policies, it was reported today.

Nehru's assurances were under-

{stood to have been given to Louis|

A. Johnson, President Roosevelt's!

envoy to India. during a two and al half hour conference last night at

Cochin house, official residence of | the American minister.

Mr. Johnson, it was disclosed. al

ready has forwarded a special re{port to Mr. Roosevelt on his talk | with the left-wing Nehru regarding the deadlocked negotiations over Britain's offer of post-war dominion

(status for Inglia.

According to information from usually-reliable informants. told Mr. Johnson that American

“suspicion” that the Indians might adopt a course detrimental to a

Nehru!

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These pictures of the air corps taken by official army permission. are blotted out.

display at municipal airport were )

Notice that numbers on the ships

1. Left to right, the B-25 twin-engined medium bomber: {he P-39 Bell Airacobra, with an Allison engine and a cannon that fires through the nose of the ship, and the British Spitfire, which has battled the

Nazis over the English channel.

2. The B-24, four-engined bomber.

3. A back view of the Spitfire,

Parade Tonight Armaments Display Here

fighting men of the army and air jcorps today in what promised to be the most gala—and grim—military celebration here in more than two decades.

Indianapolis pays tribute to the

About 1200 men under arms Ww

‘mechanized armaments into a downtown parade at 7 o'clock tonight. Sixteen pieces of motorized equipment,

from Ft. Knox, were to be put on | display at 2 o'clock this afternoon lin the War Memorial plaza.

Fighters at Airport

At municipal airport, three of | | America’s fighting planes and a

the aviation-minded by] Yesterday officials | estimated that 20,000 people—one of (the biggest crowds ever at the air-port—-filed by to see the ships. In the display, guarded day and night by a Ft. Harrison military po-| lice detail of seven men, are: 1. The B-25, a two-engined medium bomber, manned by a crew of | five and with a speed of 300 m. p. h. i

2. The P-39, the Bell Airacobra, alt

Single motored ship said to be the | t fighter for “medium altitudes” the world. It has blade propeller, meter cannon firing through nose of the Allison engine, 3. The British Spitfire, with a single Rolls-Royce Merlin-type motor, a speed of 400 mp. h. and the battle scars of actual service over the English channel. It is one of

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| Today's s Rumor

This Times series ic designed to help vou If vou hear a rumor don't pass it on. Call us or write us and we'll check it for vou. If it's true, we'll tel! vou so. If not, we'll give vou the faets,

The Gossip Is . «

That blond taken at the Red Cross bank here is taken! to Lilly's and then sold com- |

meretally for as high as $35 a pint.

The Facts Are , . .

That Lilly's merely proeesses the blood (dries it) and | then ships it to wherever the army or navy orders it. As soon as the blood arrives at Lilly's from the Red Crags

center, it is the sole proper.y |» of the arg or navy. cat

a three<|| with a 37- ~milli- || the

|—Chairman Donald Nelson of the war production board was disclosed |

to Follow

ill take some of the army's latest

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Parade Route

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The route for the army day parade at 7 o'clock tonight. If you plan to see it or visit the air corps display today at the airport, don't bring your camera. Police will confiscate it and destroy the film: Seven photographers lost their film yesterday at municipal airport.

NELSON FEARS PROFIT BILL MAY SLOW WORK

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P).

today to believe that statutory limi tation of industrial profits on war contract would interfere in ‘“substantial degree” with the war effort. His views were made known as the senate prepared to consider a sliding scale limit of 2 to 10 | cent on war contract

1200 File as Candidates;

ARTY LEADERS VIEW BIG FIELD

Feeney Declines to Enter |

Race for Mayor.

By VERN BOXELL While the 300 Marion county and 700 state candidates took a breath-

ing spell before beginning the stretch drive, Democratic and Republican: party leaders tightened up their organizations today for the May 5 primary tests. A last-minute rush at the secretary of state and county clerk's office resulted in the large field of candidates who filed their declarations before the Saturday midnight deadline. In Marion county, 158 Republicans and 136 Democrats filed for municipal, county, township and state offices and party leaders expected one of the bitterest intraparty battles in years centered around specific offices.

Hurry! Unless you are regi tered before midnight tonight, you will not be eligible to vote in the May 5 primary election. The county clerk’s office will be open until midnight and special

ALLIES SMASH 200 PLANES IN HUGE BATTLES

Fight to Control Sky Is Waged From Australia

To Russia.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The united nations redoubled a

drive for aerial superiority over the axis today with a week-end record

of powerful bombing blows and the smashing of more than 200 enemy aircraft on world-wide fronts. In the islands north of Australia perhaps 35 enemy planes were de-

stroyed. In a great battle that smashed a Japanese Easter attack on Ceylon island off India another 57 were downed or damaged. But today plgnes from a Japanese aircraft carried attacked harbors in India 500 miles north of Ceylon. On the Russian front, a total of 102 planes were destroyed on Saturday and the Soviets listed 107 smashed up in “several days” fighting. At the Mediterranean island of Malta, another 13 axis planes were downed during renewed attacks.

Start Big Fires in Rangoon

In all it appeared that 212 axis aireraft were destroyed or damaged but the list was incomplete. But in addition to the heavy aerial losses inflicted on the enemy, the United States flying for tresses based in India extended their attacks to the Japanese-held Burma port of Rangoon-starting big fires —and the R. A. F. battered German industries from the Paris suburbs to the Rhineland. The British aerial attacks in west ern Europe hit the big airplane motors factory being used by tne Germans at Gennevilliers, near Paris, and extended to Le Havre,

|and Cologne in the Rhineland, with

more than 300 R. A. F. craft partieipating. Five British planes were missing.

Lose 200 Planes a Week

Reports from Stockholm told of British aerial activity over the Naziheld Norwegian iron port of Nar« vik, leading to reports that British commandos had made a raid on that northern sector in a new blow on the shifting western front. London declined comment on the Narvik reports but the Arctic area recently has become increasingly important as a result of German efforts to sever the allied supply line from America and Britain to Russia. A correspondent of the British Press association, analyzing aerial warfare since Jan, 1, estimated that the axis had lost planes at the rate of 200 a week on all fronts, or about 2600 since Jan, 1. He asserted that some months ago German air losses were so severe that they exceeded production by about 300 planes a month, and that Germany badly needed pilots and observers. At the tip of India, the Japanese suffered one of the most severe aerial defeats of the war when they attempted to attack the strategical-

clerks are on duty. More than 40,« 000 citizens are in danger of disfranchising themselves. If you are one of them, hurry!

Missing from the list was Sheriff Feeney, who had been listed as a probable Democratic mayor candidate for many months. He declined to file at the last minute and issued a statement attacking “selfish and short-sighted” party leaders for “interjecting harmful issues into this eampaign.” “While it would have been a great honor to serve as' mayor of this city where I was born and have lived all my life, I am happy to forego my personal and political ambitions rather than be the unwitting cause of dangerous ill feel-

ly important port of Colombo on

Ceylon island.

British fighter planes roared into the air against about 75 Japanese (Continued on Page Two)

It's a Boy—and a Boy—and a Girl!

“ITS A BOY . . . and a hoy «+. and a girl,” was the word nurses at St. Francis hospital had - for Arthur Burgman, 3231 8S. Keystone ave, who had been pacing the “paternity ward” this morning. Mrs. Frances Burgman gave birth to a boy four pounds, three ounces; another 3 pounds, 15 ounces, and a girl five pounds,

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Woman's Land Army Planned

WASHINGTON, April 6 (U, P.) —Plans for a woman's land army to be recruited by the U. 8. Employment service for work this summer were revealed by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at her press confers ence today. Mrs. Roosevelt said she believed women will be needed for farm work in a number of places. The employment serv= ice will place workers at cur« rent wages in localities where they may be needed. She indicated that farmers will have to agree to an eight hour day and the workers will be volunteers but will be subject to placement like other job applicants. Mrs. Roosevelt suggested that women who would like to’ be farmerettes should be gin training for physical fitness and to learn farm work technique.

300 RAF PLANES BOMB GERMANY

Motors Plant Near Paris Blasted; Bigger British Forays Foreseen.

LONDON, April 6 (U. P.).—More than 300 giant British bombing planes raided the German Rhine-

land, the Paris war industry area, airdromes in occupied France and the French invasion coast during the night, the air ministry said today. The air ministry broke a precedent to make it known that more than 300 planes had taken part in the attack, and it was believed that a new phase of the British spring aerial offensive had been reached in which on every favorable night the royal air force would essay raids overshadowing those of the German attacks on -Britain last year.

Five Bombers Missing

“A strong force of bombers last night attacked targets in the Rhineland, particularly Cologne,” the air ministry communique said. “The Gnome-Rhone works and other factories at Gennevilliers near Paris, which are making war material for the enemy, and docks at Le Havre also were bombed. “Bombers and fighters attacked | airdromes in occupied territory. “Five bombers are missing.” Hundreds of tons of bombs were | hurled on Cologne, a center of Ger-| man war industry and a -key rail-| road center, and on other anges! in the Rineland. The Gnome-Rhone motor works; 10 miles outside Paris, was mak- | ing airplane motor parts and other | mausrials for the Germany, |

CAPS ALL THE WAY IN CALDER FINALE

Joe Turner Hero: of Series Bringing Cup to City.

By EARL RICHERT

Ii it weren't for Adolf and Tojo, there probably wouldn't be more] than a handful of the thousands] of hockey fans in this town working | today. They'd be out celebrating the |

|8-t0-3 shellacking our Caps gave

the Hershey B’ars at the Coliseum last, night to win the fifth and deciding game of the Calder cup finals and bring home their first Ameri-

As it is, most of them did their celebrating after the game last] night and approximately 500 of them will gather at the Columbia club at 6:30 p. m, today to honor

, Herbie Lewis, with an appre-

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can hockey league championship. |BURM A:

the victorious Caps and their man- CEYLON:

SEA SQUADRON RAIDS SHIPS IN BAY OF BENGAL

Attacks Made as Axis Radio

Seeks to Balk Pact At New Delhi.

(Map of Indian Ocean, Page 16)

LONDON, April 6 (U. P.), —Japanese carried the war to India today by attacking shipping off the east coast and bombing two Indian coastal cities. A strong enemy naval force, ine cluding aircraft carriers, was ree ported by the All-India tadio te have attacked allied shipping in the Bay of Bengal and sent small air squadrons to bomb the harbors at Vizagapatam and Cocanada, on the middle of the east coast of India.

Move North From Ceylon

The Japanese squadron appate ently had moved northward about 500 miles along the Indian coast after 75 of its airplanes attacked Colombo harbor on the island of Ceylon, where the British shot down 27 enemy planes and downed or damaged probably 30 others. Enemy thrusts at India were timed with axis propaganda broade casts designed to disrupt British nee gotiaticns to bring an

independent 5 India into the war on the side of -

the united nations. German radio broadcasts cone tinued to report-—apparently ere roneously—that the Japanese had landed on the west Burma coast near Akyab and close to the Indian frontier, Axis broadcasts also quoted Jape anese Premier Hideki Tojo as warne ing the Indians that Japan ‘would strike to break British power in Ine dia and urging the Indians to ree volt.

Some Casualties Reported

Cocanada, where the Japanese bombers caused a few casualties, is the capital of the district of Go« davery with a population of around 50,000. It has an important export trade. Vizagapatam, 80 miles further north, is a seaport and capital of the district of the same name. It also has about 50,000 population. It |suffered some harbor damage. The Japanese apparently had sent the strong naval squadron from |either Singapore or the Andaman islands to the southern tip of India for the attack on Ceylon and coastal cities. The Japanese have control of the |Bay of Bengal as a result of their conquest of Malaya and southern juts, as well as the Andaman

On the War Fronts

(APRIL 6, 1842)

LONDON: RR, A. F. bombs Nazle used airplane factory near Paris and sweeps across occupied coast to Cologne and Rhineland sector, using more than 300 planes in ate tack.

INORWAY: British commando raid

on important northern iron port of Narvik reported.

RUSSIA: Red army reports 40,000

Germans killed and 161 planes re« captured since March 23; gains reported on Smolensk front; Nazi forces massed for spring offensive south of Kharkov said to have been broken up.

Japanese push north of Prome and Toungoo as allied fight to hold until reinforcements can arrive; U. 8S, flying fortresses bomb Rangoon.

Japanese suffer biggest aerial defeat with loss of 57 planes downed or damaged out of 75 attacking Colombo from aircraft carriers.

AUSTRALIA: Total of 35 to 40

Japanese planes destroyed over week-end; Dutch fighting on Java,

(Today's War Moves, Page 13)