Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1942 — Page 6

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WOMEN SEEN AS | TRUCK DRIVERS |

Eichhorn Makes Prediction At Annual Meeting of

Bus Operators.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. April 8 (U. P).—There’ll be no more remarks about women drivers in the near future, unless you want to walk. Frederick H. Eichhorn, chairman of the Indiana Public Service Commission predicted before the Indiana Bus Operators association that most of Indiana's busses and trucks soon will be driven by women and girls. Mr. Eichhorn listed a husky physique and a probable minimum age limit of 18 as requirements for the women drivers, who will be drafted by truck and bus companies now losing most of their drivers to the armed forces. The bus operators closed their annual convention with the election of Simpson Parkinson of Ft. Wayne as president, succeeding Joseph H. Gregg of Brazil

NAVY TO BUILD 2 NEW BLIMP BASES

WASHINGTON, April 8 (U. P). —The navy announced today that new lighter-than-air bases to accommodate the expanding blimp patrol will be built at Perrine, Fla,

southwest of Miami, and near Santa

Ana, Cal | When these bases are completed, |

TWO SHIPS SINK; ONLY 3 SURVIVE

American Merchantmen Are Submarine Victims; 36 Lives Lost.

NORFOLK, Va, April § (U. P) Loss of two more American merchantmen to axis raiders off the Atlantic coast cost at least 36 lives, with only three sailors surviving the sinking of one of the vessels, it was revealed today. The heaviest toll was suffered on a small merchant ship that was shelled by a submarine. Three of the crew were known to have been saved. Nine men were missing and presumed lost following the April 4 torpedoing of a medium-sized vessel. Twenty-eight men, including a West Point cadet and a free-lance writer and a businessman were saved. They were landed at the naval operating base here Easter Sunday by two rescue vessels.

Saw “Balls of Fire”

A seaman who “kept seeing balls of fire come at me over the water” today described how & Submarine poured between 50 and 100 shells into the small merchantman. The vessel plunged to the bottom in two hours. The seaman, Ernest Cartwright | of Norfolk, and two other crew members were the only survivors of

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There are several reasons in favor of an attack on the Germans in Norway. One is that Hitler has reduced his forces of occupation there by about two-thirds for use on the eastern front. Another is that the Norwegians, far from being supine under the Hitler yoke, are bitter with revolt. It is certain that if the allies come,

‘Ithey Will rise to arms almost to a

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst New speculation about an allied offensive against Ble axis has been set off by the remark in London of Gen. George OC. Marshall, United States chief of staff, concerning American “expansio ” overseas. The respdnsible heads of the allied nations have no intention of being stampeded into a hasty and ill-

offensive will succeed. If is no secret that allied strategists have given full gonsideration to the northern route through Norway.

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front” against Hitler. British and until they are reasonably sure the

man. Rebellion simultaneously would be fanned in the other occupied countries of Europe, where Hitler likewise has been compelled by the Russian struggle to reduce his forces. Hitler apparently is worried “over Norway, and is increasing his forces

senses the danger of an allied attack. He has an unknown number of his warships, including the giant battleship Tirpitz, on guard in Norwegian waters. It also seems significant that Hitler has sent his ace European blitzkrieger, Feld Marshal Gen. Siegmund Wilhelm List, to Norway. List is one of Hitler's most trusted trouble shooters. He mopped up in Austria and reorganized the army there, was an outstanding leader in the Polish campaign and, in 1941, led’ the German army in Bulgaria and crushed southern Jugoslavia and Greece, Where List is, there generally is action.

SUSPECT BRUNET AS SPY LOS ANGELES, April 9 (U. P). —Police today held on suspicion of espionage an attractive 18-year-old brunet who gave her name as Rubie

there again because of the popular unrest and possibly because he

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here. Another 10 or 11 men were missing, Cartwright, who was in his cabin when the attack began the night of April 2, said the vessel was running in a “total blackout” when the submarine approached off the starboard and opened fire from 600 yards. He believed he owed his life to the fact that, on reaching deck, he crawled on his stomach to escape being hit by “flying shrapnel or pieces of the ship.”

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He went over the side, finally reaching a lifeboat carrying Sabino

Gomez and Jack Burros, the other survivors, and four other men who died of wounds sustained in the | shelling. Gomez and Burros are | from Providence, R. I. While he was in the water Cart- | wright said, “I kept seeing bhlls of fire come at me over the water. Whenever I saw one coming, I] ducked.” Cartwright said he felt the high| percentage of casualties was due to) the fact that no member of the crew seemed to know that he should take cover and that no one was giving orders. The medium-sized vessel was hit by one and possibly two torpedoes as it was proceeding without lights. The first explosion, the only one definitely known to have been caused by a torpedo, set the vessel afire. “Scrammed”

“She puffed right up into flames,” | Norman Leo Sampson, third assist-| ant engineer of Staten Island, N. Y., said. “I stopped the engine and scrammed. I don’t know how I got out of there, but I did. The chief engineer was in charge and there was no panic up there on the afterdeck where we got a boat over.” The missing men from this ship were seen in a lifeboat drifting toward flaming oil. ' M. C. Mabry, 19, West Point cadet, was on a six-months furlough due to eye trouble. He signed aboard the vessel believing the sea air would improve his health. “It did,” he said. “In spite of the torpedoing, I feel much better.” Merlin Johnson, a free - lance writer of New York was making his second trip as an ordinary seaman.

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DETROIT, April 9 tU. P).—The United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.) challenged industry today to match their “sacrifices to further the successful prosecution of the war.” A U. A. W. war emergency conference of two days ended last night, after 1400 delegates, representing 700,000 workers, had ‘completed adoption of a “victory through sacrifice program” urging that profits be limited to 8 per cent of invested capital, and abolishing double pay for Sunday and holiday work. They reported to President Roosevelt that they had followed his suggestions to relinquish certain wage

increase the production of war material. “May we suggest, Mr. President, that our actions at this conference constitute a direct challenge to em= ployers of the country,” their report said.

CHARGES NAZIS GIVEN OIL MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April 9 (U. P.) —Judge Julio Cesar de Gregorio charged today that German agents in South America have been obtaining fuel oil for Nazi sea raiders and operating an organized system of “naval espionage’ against united nations shipping.

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