Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1942 — Page 1
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VOLUME 54—NUMBER 24
‘AEF WANTS TO EXPAND TO EUROPE,’ GEN. MARSHALL SAYS IN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1942
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postotfice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.
War Freezes Frills and Fripperies in Women's Fashions
ASKS CITY T0 BE | SOLDIERS HOST
Service Club Head Says Entertainment Needed For 10,000 More.
Indianapolis will have to gear itself to entertain more than 10,000] soldiers from Camp Atterbury each|
week-end starting in August, Mrs. | Dorothy Buschmann, director of] the Service Men's club, told the City Recreation department staff today. The meeting, attended by Weaver | W. Pangborn, field representative of the national recredtion association, was held to arrange for a new system of entertaining service men—the use of community centers. Explaining the effect of the influx of men from Camp Atterbury, in addition to the several hundred from Ft. Harrison and the naval armory, Mrs. Buschmann said the city will have to support the program. Prefer Games, Dances
She cited the need of churches; organizing entertainment, hotels| donating dance floors and mass dances being arranged in the! streets. She suggested that the community centers organize cadette units with the centers themselves serving | as auxiliary service men’s clubs. Mrs. Buschmann said soldiers] don’t want outside talent to amuse them but would “rather play cards,! ping pong and billiards and go to dances with nice girls in nice places.” Mr. Pangborn complimented the Service Men's club for its accomplishments and said he believed the use of community centers had not ben tried in any other city. Other speakers were Mrs. Samuel White, Miss Helen Wyatt, Mrs. | Elias C. Atkins, Mrs. W. R. Higgins | and Herman Holliday. |
Today's Rumor
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The Gossip Is . «.
That sparkplugs and batteries will be frozen shortly and that auto owners will be “up the ereek” when their| present plugs or batteries give out.
The Facts Are . .
That the WPB office here knows of no such future re-
| Norfolk stvles,
Some of the fashions affected
under a WPB order today:
1. No more suit and coat ensembles of more than two pieces at
one unit price.
2. No balloon sleeves or wide belts.
4. No full dolman sleeves.
WASHINGTON, April-8 (U. P) or down during this war.
~—Women's skirts won't be going, | They're to be “stabilized” at present lengths to save cloth and prevent existing wardrobes from becoming obsolete.
The war production board moved into a field today where no hus-
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What the Style Decree Does
WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P). —Here's how the new fashion order affects the principal garments of a woman's wardrobe:
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band would dare tred—women’s fashions—and issued an order designed to eliminate frills and fripperies from present dress styles and halt
radical fashion changes in future women’s clothes. The order is expected to save millions of yards of cloth annually and
| make possible production of at least
15 per cent more garments out of the same yardage of cloth. . Here are some of the major things that won't appear in the future on women’s clothes: French cuffs on sleeves, balloon
Coats
NO CUFFS, no wool evening wraps; no wool linings; no sleeves cut on the bias; no belt wider than two inches; no wocol cloth lining under fur trimming; no hem more than two inches. MAXIMUM LENGTHS — For size 16 with others in proportion —42 inches for box coat; 43 inches for fitted coat. MAXIMUM SWEEPS—For size 16—60 inches for bux coat; T0 inches for fitted coat.
Dresses
NO SLEEVES WIDER than 14 inches for size 16; no hoods, shawls, capes, scarfs, petticoats, overskirts, or aprons made with dress; no belt or hem more than two inches wide. MAXIMUM LENGTHS — For size 16—43 inches. MAXIMUM SWEEPS—For size 16—7T8 inches for rayon and cot-
ton, 75 inches for wool of less | | than nine ounces, and 64 inches | for wool over nire ounces. |
* Evening Dresses
NO OVERSKIRTS or aprons; no wool evening dresses; no hood; no belt or sash more than two inches wide; no slips with dresses of non-transparent materials. MAXIMUM §LENGTHS — For size 16—89 inches. MAXIMUM SWEEP—For all sizes—144 inches.
Suits, Jackets and Skirts SKIRTS—No matching or con-
trasting belts; no wool linings;
no hems exceeding two inches. JACKETS —No vents, bi-sweep, bias cut sleeves, cuffs, hoods, capes, scarfs, muffs, bags or vests with jackets. LENGTH OF SUIT SKIRT—28 inches. Length of jackets—25
| inches, | SWEEP OF SUIT SKIRTS— | Wool of less than nine ounces— |
72 inches; nine ounces or over— 64 inches.
Slacks
NO CUFFS, patch pockets, flaps, or belts. MAXIMUM LENGTH #44 inches outseam measurement, 10 | inches at the iy
ADMIT ALLIED ED SABOTAGE
LONDON, April 8 (U. P.) —A Berlin broadcast today acknowledged that allied agents had organized a large-scale sabotage operation in
and leg-of-mutton sleeves, patch pockets of wool, swirly, pleated skirts of great circumference; long, full daytime skirts and sleeves; wide |belts. Also eliminated will be suit jand coat ensembles of more than two pieces at one-unit price. The order will not affect clothes for this spring and summer, most of which are already made. The restrictions on wollen garments become effective tomorrow in time to apply to next fall and winter clothes. Restrictions on cotton, rayon and other materials become effective June 19 when this summer’s clothes will be completed. Re- | (Continued on YER of PALE TW Two)
TRY VACCINATION AS
TOOTH DECAY GHECK
Satisfactory Experiments
Claimed by 2 Doctors.
CHICAGO, April 8 (U. P.)—The 'day may come when you can throw away you rtoothbrush and get vaecinated for tooth decay, two docJor said today. Writing in the American Dental |association’s journal, Dr. C. P. Can'by and Dr. J. L. Bernier of Charles ton, 8. C, said their experimental vaccinations of 20 soldiers reduced chances of tooth decay in 19 cases. Injection of vaccines prepared with strains of the lactobacillus jacidolphilus, a bacteria obtained | from decayed teeth, produced “a substance having growth inhibitory (properties toward bacteria in the mouth,” the doetors said.
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0 RSE J CLERGY RESIGN
London Sources Say Action Prompted by Revolt Against Quisling.
LONDON, April 8 (U. P.) —Prot« estant clergymen of Norway, in open revolt against persecution by the Nazis and Quislings, have tesigned in mass and intend to test the powers of the Quislings regime next Sunday by preaching as “free clergymen” in defiance of its authority, high Norwegian sources said today. Informants suggested, as had Swedish advices direet from Norway, that the Germans might be forced to declare a state of siege throughout Norway or to remove puppet leader Vidkun Quisling.
They said that about 1100 clevavmen, or nearly all in Norway resigneti and that the German. threatened with the spread ou. volt and passive resistance to the
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REPLACES FATHER ON MEDICAL BOARD
Dr. J. W. Bowers, F't. Wayne, Ind, who has received an army eommisgion, today resigned as a member of the state medical registration board. Governor Schrickér appointed his son, Dr. Gah T. Bowers, also of Ft. Wayne, to serve the unexpired term of his father, which runs until Sep-
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MEN OF BATAAN WITHDRAW 10 NEW DEFENSES
Jap Onslaught by Sea, Air And Land Batters Gen.
Wanwright’s Force.
WASHINGTON, April 8 (U.P) = Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright’s hard-pressed Bataan troops have withdrawn to a ‘previously prepared defense position” following an incessant Japanese onslaught from the air, land and sea, the war department announced today. The brief official advice from Gen. Wainwright gave testimony to the
harrowing and bloody experience of|
his U. S.-Filipino troops under the heavy pounding of a vastly larger enemy. The general withdrawal marked the first time that the U. S.-Filipino defenders had been forced to give substantial ground under the impact of the all-out drive launched by Lieut. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita’s forces.
GEN, MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, April 8 (U. P.)— A headquarters spokesman said today that the Philippines were still part of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's personal command and added: ~ “MacArthur is in constant touch with Bataan and Correégidor. He is receiving regular and direct reports from Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright.”
The communique’s report. on the Bataan withdrawal was brief. It said merely: “In order to rectify the lines in Bataan which had been penetrated by the Japanese, our troops with= drew during the night of April 7 to a previously prepared defense position.” Army spokesmen here were unable to say immediately where Gen. Wainwright's new line was located or how far he had withdrawn from the previous positions stretching from Abucay on the east coast of the little peninsula to the vicinity of Moron, on the left, or China sea, side. But they said that it was a general withdrawal, and an orderly one. They hoped to have more details of the action later today.
Straighten Out Dents
It was not known immediately whether the numerically superior
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By GEORGE WELLER conpighhy Times WITH THE SOUTHWEST “Fa CIFIC COMMAND OF THE U. 8. NAVY, April 8—Many lives were lost by only an arm's length when the naval tanker Pecos came to its end March 1. The Pecos carried survivors of the
seaplane tender Langley. Lieut. Signey Alfred Ernst, paymaster of
7/the Langley was on board.
When the Pecos sank there was only one motor launch and one lifeboat—for some 800 men. “I saw as many as 40 men clinging to a raft 10 feet by 12” said Lieut. Ernst. From the time the attack began, Lieut. Ernst had been in the radio room where signals for help were being sent, but hope of rescue was
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Japanese, supported by tanks and
dive bombers, had forced the Wain-
wright line south of Bataan’s stra tegic east-west highway. The American line at some points had been only about four miles north of the highway. Part of Gen. Wainwright's strate egy, it appeared, was to rearrange his lines as to straighten out dents driven into the original U. 8S.-Fili-pino positions and thus prevent the Japanese from cutting off contine gents of our troops. The military experts here made no attempt to hide their realization that the pressure .of the longawaited Japanese offensive was telling on Gen. Wainwright's men— men, who have no reserves, who must go on resisting day and night, day after day.
Only an Arm's Length From Safety, Pecos Victims Too Weak to Grab Rescue Net
went down and the moon arose and found them ceaselessly rising and falling upon the swells. There was little conversation, for the men were awaiting death. Then suddenly a united nations destroyer came stealing through the moonlight. The Very pistol found aboard Lieut. Ernst’s raft had attracted sheir attention. But the Japs, like the Germans in the Atlantic, also had anticipated a rescue party and had sent a submarine to watch for it. Risking being torpedoed by the submarine, whose pursuing movements could be clearly heard by the destroyer’s listening apparatus, the destroyer, nevertheless, crept through the waters. It was impossible to pause; a single slow-run, lengthwise through hundreds of heads bobbing in the
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A New Front?
Gen. George C. Marshall. . “He sure as hell is not here to look at the bomb damage,” an American officer said as the U. 8. chief of staff arrived in London. 2 ” ”
DISCUSS U. S. AID IN EUROPE
Marshall and Churchill to Draft War Strategy in
Conferences.
LONDON, April 8 (U. P.)~—Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. chief of staff, arrived here unexpectedly to-
day to confer with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He was accompanied by Harry L. Hopkins, lend-lease administrator, and a few staff officers on a bomber flight across the Atlantie. Although there was no official statement, responsible sources emphasized the belief that conferences with British officials would concern world-wide war strategy and disposition of forces. The problems faced by the allied commanders was outlined as follows: 1. There is a growing conviction that the axis will try to take the offensive on all fronts as soon as weather permits, including a Nazi drive into the Ukraine and a possible Japanese attack on Siberia. 2. Every rule of strategy dictates allied action this summer while Hitler is engaged in Russia, but mechanical problems such as short age of ships still makes a major second front seem unlikely. 3. Air and commando attacks on the axis-held continent can be pressed to a tremendous advantage and American forces in northern Ireland are being rigorously trained in such tactics.
TEMPERATURES
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HOGS SET $14.50 RECORD
Hog prices set a new record at Indianapolis today, the fifth consecutive high, when a top price of $1450 was paid, the highest here in 16 years.
consumed alike by cold fear and
the knowledge of approaching death |s
and some were unable to grip the nets. Other lines with nooses were cast out as far as possible for the men to put under their armpits but many lives were lost by only an arm’s length. The submarine was coming steadily closer. Some members of the destroyer’s crew, unable to bear the sight of the scores of heads left behind or plunging vainly through the sticky brown water from too far away, plunged into the waves with lines around their waists, and themselves were nearly lost. “I held off until the nets were reasonably clear of the men stick ing all over them like flies, then managed somehow to catch on,” said Lieut. Ernst.
PRICE THREE CENTS
LONDON
FLIES ATLANTIC
WITH HOPKINS IN A BOMBER
BULLETIN LONDON. April 8 (U. P.).—~Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. chief of staff, announced tonight after a two-hour conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill that the United States armed. forces, already in northern Ireland, want to “expand to Europe.” Gen. Marshall and Harry L. Hopkins, President Roosevelt’s adviser, conferred with Churchill on “confidential matters” of allied strategy a few hours after their surprise arrival in England from the United States. “We came to Britain to discuss with the prime mine ister a highly confidential matter with which the president entrusted me,” the U. S. chief of staff said after his conference with Churchill. Significance was attached to Gen. Marshall’s statement that “we want to expand to Europe” by his recent assertion in Washington that the United States must prepare to undertake a major offensive against the axis “at the earliest possible moment.”
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editop Allied preparations to meet an expected axis bid for victory in 1942 and to strike back on world-wide fronts were speeded today by American officials in Great Britain, Russia and the Far East. U. S. Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall was believed to have given impetus to plans for counter-blows in Europe—
probably with the aid of American forces—when he arrived
in London with Harry L. Hopkins and a few staff officers to confer with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The arrival of the Americans after flying the Atlantie in a bomber aroused a new squall of rumors that a second front would be opened to weaken the expected Nazi summer offensive in Russia. This theory, however, still was doubted by responsible London observers, who believed that Gen. Marshall would discuss world-wide strategy and possibly American participation in commando and air thrusts against the axis-held continent. Marshall May Go to Cairo Gen. Marshall's journey was described by the White House in Washington as “a perfectly normal wartime mission.” There were reports that the chief of staff might later go to Cairo, where dispatches indicated that the axis forces were again taking the offensive. German and Italian forces, estimated at 135, 000 men including fresh armored divisions, began an advance in the Libyan desert southeast of the communications center. of Mekili, which observers believed presaged a drive for new positions before the summer heat sets in. In Russia, U. S. Ambassador William H. Standley said that the rate of American supplies to the Soviet armies should fulfill commitments by the end of April despite a lag this winter due to the Pacific war. “Russia is the vital front,” he said. ‘“‘America will do everything to overcome supply obstacles. The best way, to help Britain is to help the Russians kill Germans.”
List 537,000 Nazi Casualties The Red army efforts in this connection were reported - good, with the Red Star listing 537,000 German casualties including 187,000 dead in February and March. The Russians also reported they had pushed forward on the central front into White Russia, apparently northwest of Smolensk in the Nevel sector, and had broken through enemy “snow and ice” fortifications in the Leningrad area. Washington dispatches reported that Russia had massed 122 divisions (possibly 1,500,000 men) on the flank of an expected German spring offensive into the Ukraine, where the Germans had an estimated 100 divisions, probably all
|south of Kharkov.
Bomb Japanese Bases The Red army reserves, under Marshal Klementi Voroshilov, presumably were prepared to strike southward toward the Sea of Azov to trap the Germans when Hitler tarts his push toward the Caucasus oil fields. These reserves were moved west from the Urals where they had
undergone intensive training. In the Far East, the American-Filipino forces on
Bataan peninsula were forced back last night to previously
prepared defensive positionsbut on other sectors there (Continued on Page Two)
On The War Fronts:
(April 8, 1042) LONDON: U. 8. Chief of Staff Gen. LIBYA: Axis forces, estimated at George ©.. Marshall and Lend-| 135,000 men, believed starting Lease Administrator Harry Hop-| new desert drive. kins‘ arrive; R. A. F. renews. daylight attacks on Nasi war industries. ; BATAAN: Japs force general withdrawal of U. 8. forces to previ-
RUSSIA: Red army recaptures 30
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