Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1942 — Page 1
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British Lose Plane Carrier In Battle Off Ceylon
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Jesse Jones
Swing Fists Over Rubber
Big-Wig Spectators at Club Sideshow Differ in Versions but Washington Publisher Whose Editorial Caused It Loses Glasses. WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.
and Meyer
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FOR STUDIES SIGNING UP OF
).—The capital had
its own side-show to the war today—fisticuffs between Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones and Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post.
The secretary, it was reported the Post blaming facilities.
didn’t like an editorial published in
him for the country’s lack of synthetic rubber
Reports differed on whether any blows were landed. although it
was agreed that there were several swings.
included Mr. Meyer's glasses.
The known casualty list
Spectators reportedly were treated to an exchange of expletives, highlighted by some of the better Texas cuss-words.,
The incident toek place last night at a banquet of the exclusive Alfalfa club at the Willard hotel. Those present included two supreme court justices, several senators, a presidential secretary and a goodly representation of other capital big-wigs.
Bit Difficult
To Pull Apart ONE MEMBER of the audience, who reportedly was instrumental in separating the Messrs. Jones and Meyer, refused to be quoted by name, but said, “I wouldn't sav it was easy” to.separate them. When asked if either was mussed up, he said, “One was— a little bit.” How long did it last? “I don’t know.” he replied, “but you know how it is when such things happen—seconds seem like minutes.” Asked if it was true that all of Mr. Meyer's swings missed. as most reports had it, he commented: “That's a lot of hokum.” He refused to add any details. “I didn’t have my smeller on.” he quipped when he was asked if any blood had been spilled.
Here’s Editorial
That Started It THE EDITORIAL which aroused the Jonesian wrath was printed vesterday. things:
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“The plain truth is that Mr. |
Jones fell down rather badly on the job of acquiring and producing sufficient rubber to meet an emergency which we should have foreseen and prepared for with feverish haste. for his failure is a boundless ambition for power that has led te his taking on more jobs than he can successfully manage. “The proof of an official's worth to his country lies in his ability to meet and conquer the kind of obstacles of which Mr. Jones complains. Blaming the other fellow is a confession of defeat—not a mark of merit.” 2 =
Jones Lets Go
And Stalks OFF MR. MEYER. 68. federal reserve board member who was Jones predecessor as chairman of the »soard of the RFC.
Mr. Jones, 68, publishes the Hou-
ston Chronicle. After dinner, the two started to leave the club at about the same time and stopped en route for an exchange of not-too-friendly words, Jones grabbed Mr. Meyer by the coat lapels. Mr. Meyer's glasses fell to the floor. Eye-witnesses said Mr. Mever at this point retaliated with a couple of swings which some said missed and some said connected. Thereupon Mr. Jones was said to have abandoned his lapel-hold and to have stalked off with a final denunciation of Mr. Mever. » = =
F. D. R. Proclaims His Neutrality AMONG THOSE PRESENT were Supreme Court Justices
James F. Byrnes and Stanley F. Feed; Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Wat-
son, secretary to the president; | Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) |
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It said. among other |
The chief reason |
is a former
After a few seconds Mr. |
Jesse Jones , . . He also lets
the heart of Texas.
WIDE AREA FLOODED
West Fork of White River Also Out of Banks.
{ While their tributary streams
were flooding an extensive area today and the weather bureau predicted that the east fork of the White would be out of its banks by | tonight. | The Wabash was 3.2 feet above
| flood stage at Wabash, 3.7 feet above at Lafayette, 1.1 feet above at Cov-
ington and seven-tenths of a foot above at Terre Haute.
Flood Stage Reached
The White's west fork was 3.9 feet sbove flood stage at Elliston and! [five feet above at Edwardsport. The east fork reached the 14-foot. {flood level this morning. The water was within six inches of flood level at Petersburg. which is just below. the junction of the two forks. At Hazelton, about 40 miles below Petersburg, the stream was 22 feet | ‘below flood stage.
Five Roads Under Water
Although more rain was forecast for this afternoon, J. H. Armington, | chief weather observer. said: “This period of prolonged rainsall | is over. The damage because of the ‘floods should be slight, since it still} is early in the season.” The state highway department reported that five roads were under high water. They are: Road 39, south of Tampico: Road 157, north of Worthington; Road 235, east of Medora; Road 58. southwest of Garden City, and Road I, . south of Road 28.
CANADA'S WAR
of the senate foreign relations |
committee, and Senator William |
J. Bulow (D. S. D.). President Roosevelt was asked at his press conference whether he knew anything about the
scuffle, but he replied with studied
gravity that he had no news.
“Are you in a neutral corner?”
he was asked.
He replied that he hoped news-
papermen did not make him an umpire or a referee.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
ON INFLATION—
Our next door neighbor's sofar successful battle against the fatal whirlwind of inflation holds direct lessons for the United States.
cial writer, has written two com-
prehensive articles on Canada's |
experiment. The first one ap- | Capelln. the navy ced today.
pears today on
loose a few cuss words deep from |
BY WABASH RIVER :
Fred S. Ferguson, Times spe- |
WOMEN, 18:65
Registration on on Voluntary Basis Seriously Con-
sidered, He Reveals.
| WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. PJ). —Voluntary registration of women between the ages of 18 to 65 is being seriously studied by the administration, President Roosevelt dis{closed today. He would not specify {what role the government might | want women to piay in the war ef-
if such a registration is held it will be conducted after the April 27
[ |
He told a press conference that]
registration of men of 45 to 64, inclusive. But how soon after, could not say.
Free Men for Combat
While Mr, Roosevelt refused to
power registration,
called that some administration officials feel that many women can be assigned to essential ' industrial and civilian defense tasks that
bat duty.
complete utilization of the nation's womanpowsér for the war effort— through selective service machinery if necessary. Congress already is in the process of enacting legislation to set up a volunteer women’s army auxiliary corps, which would form an integral part of the army. WAAC members would serve in uniformed capacities at a pay commensurate with the amount paid regular soldiers,
Mobilization of Men
Commenting on the overall prob{lem of manpower mobilization iwhich has not yet been worked out,
he |
would free additional men for com- |
Recruiters Here Carry Plea To the Man on the Street™
Mrs. Roosevelt long has advocated |
discuss any details of a woman-| 53 other than to] say that a large turnout of volun-| teers might be expected, it was re-
RE
Chief Petty Officers Harlon Stine
‘Hey, Bud, Come Join Navy
(back camera) and James
Deitch talk up the navy along the N. Illinois st. theater sector,
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By FREMONT POWER
The navy went out on the streéts today and tapped young prospects
on the shoulder wherever they were to be found.
It’s really against regulations to do this as a direct means of recruiting, but navy officials decided to try it for one day as a publicity
stunt. And it worked pretty well.
Some of the boys blanched and tried to duck their questioners.
Others stood and listened. At least |
one headed for the recruiting sta-|
tion pronto. He might be in the navy now for
e president said he and officials’ studying proposals ielative to the mobilization faced the problem cof setting up the machinery to carry out the program after the men and women have been registered and! the governnient knows what they | jo do. The president said that organ-| {ized labor as represented in his C.
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in the labor department and that {he has no plans for any new super{labor body. The president said a decision on | manpower mobilization probably | ‘would be made within a week.
ROOSEVELT PONDERS ANTI-INFLATION DRIVE
| WASHINGTON, April 10 (U, P.).| | —The administration is contemplatling an anti-inflation drive, Presi‘dent Roosevelt said today, but he would not say whether it involved | jany increase in the treasury tax {bill now being considered. He said [the plans have not fully jelled. Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson and certain other ad-| | ministration officials are known to | feel that taxes should be boosted to absorb an even greater part of indi|vidual incomes than the $7.,000.000.-
. Petty Officers Harlon Stine,
all we know.
Working together Chief |
native | of Shelbyville, Ind. and James Leitch, of Cleveland, O. Chief Stine
were
|has been in the navy 32 years and
this morning he started out from
the same office where he signed The First Prospect
up. |
NAZIS RUSH RESERVE TANKS INTO BATTLE
Reds Report Slaying 3500, Freeing 8000 Civilians.
KUIBYSHEV, April 10 (U. P).—
First they approached a young | Germany is putting reserve tanks still were rising, the Wabash and{I. O.—A. F. of L. labor “cabinet” |fellow looking at a jewelry store into action on every front, but the the west fork of the While river wants the mobilization set up with-| window on W. Market st.
“Ever think about joining the] navy, son?” Chief Stine asked. “Nope. I'm married.” “Well, we could take you anyway. *No, 1. And the fellow sped down street. “Some of these guys get scared to death,” Chief Stine laughed.
the
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Russians also are using fresh ar-
mored forces and have killed 3500 {Germans and liberated 8000 civilian
» | prisoners; press dispatches said to-
day. The Tass agency said 4470 Ger{mans were killed several days ago on a narrow sector on the northwest front when they sent newly
“Yeah, they think we're going: to |arrived reserves into the line in an
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5 KILLED IN CRASH OF ARMY BOMBER
Find 4 Bodies in Wreckage, Fifth Nearby.
BAKERSFIELD, Cal, April 10 (U. P).—A U. S. army bomber crashed near Bagdad, killing its five occu-
1000 plan proposed by the treasury. | pants, army officials at Minter field
| Presumably a full-fledged anti-| | inflation drive would embody other | {controls besides taxation. There is | |considerable sentiment for some! form of regulation to control retail prices directly, rather than the in-! direct method of placing ceilings on wholesale prices now he effect.
SLAVS GET ULTIMATUM
i LONDON, Aprii 10, (U P)— {German authorities have posted proclamations in Jugoslavia demanding an end to guerrilla war-| fare by Monday and threatening | ‘execution of 16,000 hostages, Jugosilav refugee covernment| spokesman said _toaay.
‘were found in the wreckage. 'body of the fifth was found near
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{announced today.
The plane was one of a group of |seven making a flight from Mather !field, Sacramento, to Arizona, offi-! cials said. The bodies of four of the men The
the plane with his parachute unopened. It was not determined whether he attempted to jump or had. been. thrown out when the plane struck the ground. The plane had made a brief stop at the Kern county airport before proceeding eastward. Shortly after ait left here, it crashed. Minter field authorities said the] {victims have not yet been identified.
Wild Motor Boat Torpedo
WASHINGTON, April 10 (U,
| Narragansett bay, R. I, yesterday
Strikes Naval Cargo Vessel
P.) —A torpedo accidentally dis
charged from a motor torpedo boat ran wild for 10,000 yards through ship
and struck the naval
The Capella, of 4070 tons, was assisted by tugs shoal water. The navy said it was in no immediate
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effort to counter-attack. Tanks of Czech, Polish and French manufacture, as well as ‘those from German factorizs, are
{being used, and many came from
the plants as recently as February, the dispatches added. Meanwhile Solomon A. Lozovsky,| Soviet spokesman, announced that | the indications are Russia will the Germans on the Eastern front this year. When asked if the Russians would fight on German territory in 1942, he said:
“It is impossible to say where the/against We | {tions in the Australian zone, but i Lieut.
decisive battle will take place. will see how it works out.” The newspaper Izvestia said tanks
captured by the Russians and be-
ing repaired for use against the axis included some from Skoda, Krupp, Mercedes and Packard plants. Origin of the Americanmade Packards was not stated, however. Reports indicated that both sides are preparing for big tank battles.
'WANTED— 10 REFRIGERATORS
refri Beaton “cuble lent conditl Oniy N. Grant after 6:30
ELECT! feet, eo $30.
The want ad above ape peared in The Times one day. It cost 36c. The advertiser received 11 calls , . sold the refrigerator for $30. So, there are at least 10 other TIMES’ readers looking for a used refrigerator. Tell them about the one you want to sell. Phone . . .
RI. 5551 The TIMES
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JAPAN SPEEDS
UP DRIVE TO CONTROL SEAS
Sunk in Week by
Dive Bombers.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
Great Britain lost the aircraft carrier Hermes and American torpedo boats sank another Japanese cruiser in a growing battle for command of the sea approaches id India and Australia. In the Bay of Bengal and the | Indian ocean the Japanese drive for command of the seas appeared
Burma, but there was no clear picture of what strength the united nations might be able to muster against strong enemy fleets. The British admiralty announced that the 10,850-ton carrier Hermes has been sunk by Japanese dive
bomb-wracked Ceylon.
have been sent to the bottom in the new battle zefie in the last 72 hours. Knock Out 18 Jap Planes The Japanese claimed that not only the 22-year-old Hermes but two light cruisers and eight other vessels were sunk off Ceylon, but the admiralty in London said that the reported sinking of the cruisers ‘Quite untrue.” The heavy Japanese assault upon Britain's thinlyesspread naval strength in the Indian ocean and Bay of Bengal did not go unchallenged, however. British heavy bombers struck back in attacks that were said officially, in dispatches from Ceylon, to have scored near misses and probable damage on a Japanese aircraft carrier and knocked out 18 Japanese planes.
Bataan Fall Aids Japs The Japanese claimed that, in
addition to the Hermes and 10 other ships sent to the bottom, 46 allied planes were shot down against the loss of 10 Japanese aircraft, It appeared that the Japanese,
taking advantage of their naval and square feet of floor space to the!
air superiority in the Bay of Bengal and threatening an all-out attack on India, were throwing their strength into the struggle in an effort to get a grasp on victory before India’s 400,000,000 people are brought actively into the war] against the axis. On the Philippines front, an enemy cruiser was sent to the bottom in an attack by torpedo boats on five warships and 10 transports landing troops on the island of
Third English Naval Craft]
to be approaching a climax that| may decide the fate of India and
bombers 10 miles off the coast of It was the third British war vessel known to
BY
'Encouraged’
Lieut. Gen, William S. Knudsen . . “I am encouraged by the progress shown,”
KNUDSEN HERE T0 VISIT PLANTS
Reported New Addition at Allison’s Among Things General Will See.
Coincident with the arrival of Lieut. Gen William 8. Knudsen, chief of the army’s war production division, in Indianapolis today. it was reliably reported that the Allison plant is' being enlarged.” Gen. Knudsen and his party were to inspect Allison's as well as the Link Belt, Marmon-Herrington, Schwitzer-Cummins and International Machine Tool plants. The former General Motors executive is making a tour of several of the nation’s war arsenal centers. He is surveying the capacity and ability of the war industries to speed equipment and supplies to the armed forces.
Officials Are Silent
Actual construction of the addition to the Allison plant was said to be one of the “war activities”
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ALLIES TO TURN TIDE
IN AIR, SAYS BRETT =
‘Says U. S. Fliers in Pacific Have ‘What It Takes.’
GEN. MACARTUR'S HEAD-| QUARTERS, Australia, April 10 (U.!
P).—Australian leaders emphasized | today that a long, hard battle! strengthened Japanese forces lies ahead of the united na-
Gen. George H. Brett declared that the allied air force has! “what it takes” to turn the tide. “Planes and equipment are flow-| ing here at an ever-increasing rate,” | Gen. Brett, the American deputy (Continued on Page Eight)
NEW YORK, April 10 (U. P).— The navy today permitted an offi-
den bomb sight to reveal that Ger-|
the principle of this closely guard- . ed American military secret. The navy also permitted disclosure tHat the bomb sight—still rated the best in the world—also functions as an automatic pilot to guide planes to their targets and hold them true when the bombs are dropped. Theodore H. Barth, president of Carl L. Norden, Inc, made the disclosures on the eve of presentation the Sompany | of the navy’s “B”
a er mend 8
which Gen. Knudsen will see with his own eyes. The expansion will add 200,000 plant, it was said. The enlargement is being built on the south side of the present plant. The project is to be completed by the [Continued on Paze Eight) o
On the War Fronts
(April 10, 1942)
PHILIPPINES: Japanese cruiser sunk off Cebu by U. S. motor boats; all fighting stops on Bataan; Corregidor still holds.
INDIA: Battle for India rages on sea and in air; British report sinking of aircraft carrier Hermes by Japanese planes off Ceylon.
TRALIA: Japanese planes raid Port Moresby, New Guinea; Lieut. Gen. George H. Brett said U. S. has taken offensive against Japan
in air and will press attacks on’
“ever-increasing scale.”
LONDON: Gen, George C. Marshall, U. 8S. chief of staff, confers with
0.5.
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ALL FIGHTING HAS ENDED IN BATAAN AREA
Corregidor Is Under Fire From Batteries Set Up
On Peninsula. (War Moves Today, Page 21)
WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.).—American forces still fighting in the Philip pines exacted partial revenge for the loss of Bataan by sinking a Japanese cruiser supporting new enemy land. ings on the island of Cebu, the ‘war department announced today.
But the nearly 37,000 Americane Filipino forces trapped on Rataan all appeared to be doomed either te death or capture. Faint hopes that some of them could be evacuated to Corregidor were dashed by a report from Lieut. Gen Jonathan M. Waine wright.
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GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD. QUARTERS, April 10 (U. PP.) On a sheet of cheap writing paper, Gen. Douglas MacArthur today write his tribute to the men of Bataan: “No army has ever done so much with so little. . . . The Bataan- force went out—as it would have wished——fighting to the end of its flickering, forlorn hope.” The hero of the Philippines was saddened as he wrote his brief tribute with a pencil, but his aides said he was determined to avenge the fall of Bataan,
He advised that all communicae . tions between Bataan and Core regidor, the island fortress whose big guns are still thundering dee flance to the Japanese, had been cut off for nearly 24 hours.
Land Troops in Cebu
“It is apparent,” the communique added, “that fighting on the pene insula has ceased.” The communique reported that the enemy, with hordes of troops ree leased by the fall of Bataan for fighting elsewhere, apparently was landing troops in Cebu, one of the Philippine islands in a chain exe tending southeast of Luzon. It is between Panay and Mindanao, 400 miles south of Bataan. “A fleet of five warships and 10 transports is off that island,” the war department said. “Our torpedo boats attacked the enemy vessels, sinking a Japanese cruiser.”
Thousands Are Trapped
The entrapment of thousands of American and Filipino troops on Bataan has temporarily nullified to a considerable extent the power of mobile artillery and 1aortars on Cor= regidor to fight back against enemy forces on the southern tip of the peninsula, Gen Wainwright ree vealed. Although Japanese batteries on Bataan and on the south shore of Manila bay repeatedly shelled Core regidor and the other island forts, “our guns did not return the fire of
top British strategists.
hard labor for those of his “slave! labor” forces who sabotage Nazis’ munitions production, :
RUSSIA: Fierce battles rage along entire front; more than 4400 Ger-| mans killed as Soviets repulse! counter-attacks at undisclosed
point.
that examination of German plaries| shot down as recently as a few |
cial of the plant making the Nor-/ months ago showed the use of a Eddie Ash ...
sight of astounding crudeness.
many has failed completely to s0l¥®| These sights, he said, have not Cl8PPer -....
“even the remotest suggestion of the function of the Norden sight. All the whoop-de-do about the Nazis having the secret of the sight is baseless, at least according to the construction of their own bomb-aiming sight.” Reports that the secret of the Norden sight had reached Nazi Germany have circulated for years, but gained strongly several months ago when Herman Lang, a former Norden foreman, was sentenced ho v ¢ n for
land
Financial ..
in Sem
the enemy artillery in Bataan bee GERMANY: Hitler orders death or|
cause the exact position of our troops in that area was not known it was desired to avoid the chance of subjecting them to our own fire.” Corregidor was raided frequently throughout yesterday by heavy Jape anese bombers, the communique said, The communique brought out that
{Corregidor now for the first time
Norden Official Says Nazis Fail to Solve Bomb Sight
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