Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1942 — Page 2

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GEN. MARSHALL REACHES LONDON

U. S. Chief of Staff and Harry t and Harty Honking Fly Atlantic in Bomber; Axis Forces Are on March In Libya. {Continued from Page One)

were no specific reports of Japanese gains. Gen. Douglas MacArthur conferred with allied war leaders in Australia on plans for striking

back at the enemy in the islands north of that continent, where unofficial estimates said the Japanese had so far lost about 120 airplanes. This toll may have been boosted by today's allied air raid on Koepang, on Dutch Timor island. A London Daily Mail correspondent in Melbourne reported today that many more American troops had reached Australia and were already encamped, ready to meet any Japanese threat. The correspondent said he accompanied the convoy, as did Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey, new deputy supreme allied commander in charge of land forces.

Hold Lines in Burma

(Blamey's arrival in Australia was announced March 27. He was formmerly Australian commander in the Middle Bast.) The troops came from every corner of the United States, the dispatch said. Discipline was first class, it added. Japanese were reported in London dispatches to have occupied the town of Lorangu, on Manus island, in the Admiralty island group, about 170 miles off the coast of New Guinea. Allied defenders of Burma apparently still were holding their defense lines about 40 to 50 miles north of Prome and a short distance north of Toungoo but the Japanese reported they had bombed the west Burma port of Akyab,| about 75 miles from the Indian] frontier. This port previously had | been erronecusly reported as oc- | cupied by the Japanese and such a move appeared likely soon. There was no new cfficial word of Japanese naval forces, apparently including two or three aircraft

had clashed with allied air and naval forces.

steady reports of resistance and un-

conquered Europe. German and

North Africa.

two days. Bombings of the Alex-! andria naval base continued. The Royal Air Force renewed | daylight attacks on German war industries in France and other] European sectors, where London reported that the big Renault and Matford factories had been knocked | out for a long period. The German high command | claimed that German submarines! had

Thirteen were sunk off the Ameri-

can coast, axis broadcasts said. wegian ships which had attempted to escape from Goteborg, Sweden. to Britain hae been sunk.

WAINWRIGHT'S SON

SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 (U/| P). — Lieut. Gen. Jonathan MIL Wainwright's wife told him by short] wave radio today that their son,

come a first officer in the merchant marine.

because Mrs. Wainwright's voice was carried to Bataan peninsula by short-wave radio station KGEI, and reply was not possible. Gen. Wainwright's pet dog, Seal, was allowed to bark over the short-

carriers, in the Bay of Bengal, but

wave transmitter.

Italian airplanes kept up a steady and increasingiy severe offensive against the British

island of Malta, key to the War INj.,eed in the Nevel region the RusALE 1D ea has Jost} |sian forces would have pushed the Shope pahes in HE ‘AS Germans back 280 miles from Mos-

sunk another 16 allied mer-| chant ships totaling 104,000 tons.|

can coast and the rest off the Afri-|

Germany said also that six Nor- |

TAKES MARINE TEST

Jack, is taking examinations to be-|

The conversation was one-sided |

RUSSIA CRACKS GERMAN LINES

Smash Near Old Border of |

Poland; Break Siege Of Leningrad.

| KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April 8 (U. | P.).—Soviet forces were reported to-

day to have smashed German lines {and entered the province of White

indirect reports suggested that they Russia, only a short distance from

the old Polish border, after killing lor wounding 537,000 German troops

On the European and Mediterra- jn two months of winter war. nean fronts, the tempo of prelimi-| naries to the big battles of 1942 w as | peconquer increasing daily and there were gastern border lies about 150 miles | from Russia's pre-war frontier with | Jer-cover war against the axis in pgland, Russian troops in the north

While Red army troops fought to White - Russia, whose

were said to have broken through German siege lines around Leningrad. If the White Russian frontier was

[ew in that vital sector. Break Through in North |

| ‘The break through on the north- | ern Leningrad front, according to |the official government newspaper | Tevestia, occurred when a spring | thaw melted the ice and snow for- | tifications which the Germans had [built to maintain their encircle{ment of the former Cezarist capital. At one point the Russians found 1500 dead Germans among the dis-| | solving snow forts, it was said. Accounts reaching Kuibyshev yes- | terday indicated that the German seige "lines around Leningrad had ‘been broken and that a relief train carrying supplies to the city had | been sent through the gap.

Half Million Casualties

The army organ Red Star said that the Germans lost 137,000 dead and more than @00,000 wounded during February and March—not | counting thousands who perished. |from disease, the bitter cold “and | guerrilla attacks — in the Soviets’ | winter counter-offensive. In addition to the land fighting, in which tens of thousands of fresh Russian and German reserves were engaged, the war in the air became more intense with the Soviets claiming five-to-one superiority over the Nazis. In the past 10 days, according to Moscow accounts, the German luft- | waffe has lost 613 planes, against the loss of 120 Russian aireraft,

'Mother of 1942’

Mrs. William N. Berry, 52, of Greensboro, N. C,, the mother of 13, has been chosen as the “Mother of 1942" The selection was made yesterday by the Goldemr— Rule foundatoin. Mrs, Felix T. McWhirter, Indianapolis, and Mrs, Leora E. Tcetor, Hagerstown, Ind, were named “associate mothers.

STATE FIGHTS 11TH

NOBLESVILLE, Ind, P.).—The attorney general's office today threw a snag into the 11th

attempt of D. C. Stephenson, for-

mer grand dragon of the Indiana Ku-Klux Klan, to obtain release from state prison where he has served 17 years of a life sentence | for holtzer in 1925. Through Hamilton County Prosecutor Rolland Griffith, the attorney

| general's office filed a plea in abate-

ment contesting Stephenson's writ of coram nobis presented to the Circuit court last February. The abatement plea alleges that the former klansmah's proceeding is a civil suit and should have no connection with the old criminal action. At Indianapolis, Assistant Attorney General Walter C. Lewis said: “Stephenson filed his petition as a part of the old criminal case de-

spite a recent Supreme court ruling |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(NEW HOPE SEEN

FOR INDIA PACT

Offered to Britain hy

Nationalists.

NEW DELHI, India, April 8 (U. P..—Indian Quarters reported today that Nationalist leaders, enlisting the mediatory aid of Louis A. Johnson, President Roosevelt's personal envoy to India, had worked out a new defense formula which they believed would be ace ceptable to Great Britain. There seemed to be hope of reaching a compromise. The British cabinet previously had agreed to a limited Indian control of home defense, as demanded by the all-India congress. This proposal was understood to provide for Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, British commander in Ine dia, to share the defense direction with an Indian defense minister who would at least have a strong

[voice in all but actual ney

| strategy. This plan was rejected by the

[suggested in rebuttal,

STEPHENSON PLEA

April 8 (U.|

the murder of Madge Ober-|

congress but the new formula was thus keeping alive hope for an agreement on self-rule for India.

STATE ARBOR DAY OBSERVANCE SET

Arbor day will be observed in the state tomorrow. Governor Schricker pointed out that under the law it is the duty of school officials to observe the day by planting trees, making provisions for preservation of bird life and con« serving our forest resources. The governor recommended that private citizens, municipal authori ties and rural communities co-op-erate with the schools. He said it is of vital interest to our state that millions of trees be planted as a means of conserving the soil and preventing floods.

RUBBER STRIKE CALLED OFF

AKRON, O, April 8 (U. P)—A “wildcat” sit-down strike by members of the United Rubber Workers

Compromise Defense Plan

strictions on retailers’ stocks go into effect Aug. 17. There were some fields of the

feminine wardrobe that even the WEB did not (“dare”) enter—hats, for example, and lingerie. Neither does the order apply to infants' and toddler apparel (sizes from one to four), bridal gdWns, maternity! dresses, clothing for persons of abe! normal size, burial gowns, or robes and vestments as required by the rules of religious orders o sects, The WPB tried to ease the news as much as possible, assuring women that the order “provides no sweeping curtailment.”

New Styles Not Banned

“It simplifies non-functional features,” the board said. “It elimi nates voluminous sleeves but permits long sleeves. It prohibits allover pleating but permits its use as embellishment.” The order will not “standardize” present styles or prohibit new fashfons. The WPB emphasized that it only prohibits an increase in the amount of material used in currently popular styles and eliminates frills. : Measurement standards purposely were made liberal in order not to outmode present wardrobes and stocks, it was said. To do this would defeat the purpose of the order, which is to conserve as much material and cloth as possible.

All Sizes Accommodated

To determine average measure ments set in the order, the WPB apparel section conducted surveys in 25 of the largest cities. The averages set are representative of what the women are now wearing and not what WPB ‘clothing experts thought they should be, officials said. The order permits variations in

ments of “regular women,” “little women,” “stout women,” ‘“misses,” “junior misses,’ “teen age,” “girls” and “children.” ° The order permitting only two pieces of any ensemble to be sold at one unit price was included “in the hope of saving material by discour= aging women from buying matching jackets and blouses. . .. A matching jacket can be worn with only one dress, whereas a jacket of neutral color or pattern might be worn with several dresses.”

ASKS NEW TRIAL IN EMBEZZLEMENT CASE

BLUFFTON, Ind. April 8 (U. P.). —Defense attorneys for James G. Lawver, former Huntington county deputy treasurer, today were preparing a motion for a new trial after a Wells circuit court jury last night found Lawver guilty of embezzlement. Lawver was tried here before Judge John Decker on a change of venue after he was accused of embezzlement and grand larceny in a Huntington county grand jury indictment, He was charged with misappropriation of funds from a $30 check. Lawver served as deputy under Mrs. Pauline Fairchild, who is now serving a prison term for embezzling more than $23,000 in county money. The jury found Lawver not guilty of the grand larceny charge,

TOWNSLEY’S FATHER DEAD

DANVILLE, Ind. April 8 (U. P.). —Edgar Lee Townsly, 77, retired druggist and father of Raymond B. Townsley, former state commander of the American Legion and now & member of the state defense coun-

sizes to accommodate the require-

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that such action should be taken as|(C. I. O.) at the Goodyear Tire Si

a separate civil case. “We are not disputng his right to bring action but are objecting on technical grounds to the way he brought it.”

| Rubber Co, which threatened seri-| [ove interruption of war production in the balloon department, was (called off today at union lenders’ demands.

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REPORT NORSE CLERGY RESIGN

London Sources Say Action Prompted by Revolt Against Quisling.

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entire country which never, on the darkest day, has knelt to the Nazis or their Quislings. Norwegian sources believed that Quisling, desperate and envisaging the loss of his job, might try to par the clergymen from their churches next Sunday. “If this 1s done there undoubtedly will be trouble throughout Norway,” a spokesman said. On Easter Sunday, according to the Stockholm accounts, every cler= gyman read to his congregation a statement explaining the reasons for his resignation and today the enraged Quisling threatened to “render the bishops and their followers harmless.”

At the same time the Naei-con-trolled church ministry laid down conditions under which laymen might preach in place of the resigned clergymen. Some reports also indicated that nearly all Norwegian schools remained closed with more than 2000 schoolmasters under arrest, as well as 11 officials of the Quisling ministry of education.

ARMY CALLS I. U. DEAN

BLOOMINGTON, April 8 (U. P.). —Dean Arthur M. Weimer of the Indiana university school of business, today was appointed captain in the U. S. army quartermaster corps and ordered to report April 17 at the service of supply division, ; Washington. He has been granted la leave of absence for the duration.

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