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Jap Fleet Dominates Indian Ocean, Says Churchill

RAF RAIDERS BOMB ITALIAN CITIES

STATE T0 LIST Question Blindfolded Jap Prisoners

ALL OF 4564 GROUP APR. 27

Only One Day Necessary For Draft Registration, Hitchcock Decides.

Indiana will conduct its registration of men between 45 to 64, in-

clusive, on one day, April 27, Col. Robinson Hitchcock, state selective service director, announced today. While national draft headquarters ruled that a longer period was permissible, Col. Hitchcock said it was decided one day would be sufficient. Local draft boards are to be permitted, however, to register physically or mentally incapacitated persons and inmates of institutions a day or two prior to April 27, if the local board desires. |

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The registration of the 45-to-64| age group is designed to complete |

Made weFore the fall of “Batash, ¢ this pletuce shows a group ot iindforted P—— prisoners being led to the headquarters of Brig. Gen. Clinton A were blindfolded to prevent them from recognising the location or any military details. half clothed because they were caught trying to swim from the peninsula.

A. Pierce, on the peninsula, for questioning.

The prisoners They are only

the survey which the draft regis-!

trations have provided of the naSEE ILLINOIS TOWN *

As the group to be registered | April 27 will not be subject to mili-| tary service, there will be no order] 3 Kewanee Business Blocks Damaged; Loss Placed At $2,000,000.

numbers issued. But serial numbers will be placed on the registration cards, Col. Hitchcock said. Registration will bgein at 7 a. m. KEWANEE, Iii April 13 (U.P) — A fire raged for three hours in downtown Kewanee today. burning the majority of buildings in three closely built business blocks, start-

end end at 9 p. m. aided by ing at least 50 smaller fires in

conduct

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mailing address if other than place of residence, telephone number, age and date of birth, place of birth, each man. | company’s watchman, I. A. Shouse, Approximately 339000 are ex-|into the street. pected to register. Before it was brought under conHERSHEY FORECASTS 20% MANPOWER CONTROL | Fire fighting companies were summoned from a half dozen near- | WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P). oy towns, some coming from as far | Speaking on the University of pusiness life of the town disrupted. Chicago round table of the air. Mr. A. L. Stuhlatz fire chief. said Hershey said that much of the re- most of the destroyed buildings sage of legislation now before congress under which the government | CAriousty. Chief Stuhlatz said anwould contribute to the support of other company of militia had been g requested, but had not arrived.

The local draft boards, volunteer registrars, will the registration. Only Few Minutes Needed The registrant. will be askéd to name and address of person who nearby residences and causing an always will know his whereabouts, | estimated $2,000,000 damage. his employer's name and address] The blaze started shortly after and his place of employment. midnight in the rear of the It is estimated that only a few| Kewanee Diy Gocds Co. building Every male who has attained his|trol the fire had spread through 45th birthday on or before Feb. 18 | three solid business blocks, affect1942, and who has not attained fis | ing 63 separate business firms. 65th birthday on April 27, 1942| Whipped by a strong wind, sparks must register, Col. Ri hots said. (from the main conflagration started —Brig.-Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, se- as Peoria’ 53 miles awdy, but the lective service director, predicted | high wind made efforts to control | yesterday that “the nation eventu- ihe blaze difficult. ally will demand” wartime applica-| Three firemen were injured, an tion of compulsory manpower allo- estimated 500 persons thrown out ar. phi pe the federal yere covered by insurance. EE o igen et Kewanee authorities called In! e {Company C of the Illinois reserve oe most efficiently to the |;.: Ha to patrol the fir area, which | was studded with the brick walls of the dependents of men in oy armed forces. He reiterated his a peal that man-power allocation be centralized under a single authority. Lt DECLINES, SAYS KNOX | pis bo. i Predicts Negligible Losses After May 1. BOSTON, April 13 (U. P).—See-

give his name, place of residence, minutes will be required to register with “a huge puff” that blew the smaller fires over this entire city Bt Outside Help Summoned cation. [of work temporarily and the entire He said this would include pas- | chaired buildings left standing preretary of Navy Frank Knox said

EXPECT MACKENZIE KING WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P). —The White House announced to- | day that Canadian Prime Minister | W. L. Mackenzie King is expected to arrive here Wednesday for a meeting of the new Pacific war council. He will stay at the White House,

ee —————— SEEK TAX RELIEF WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. PB). —A spokesman for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce asked the house ways and means committee today for special tax relief for American companies whose foreign properties have been confiscated by the enemy or destroyed by the war.

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today that the Atlantic coast inshore patrol has been strengthened by “over 100 small craft and 100 planes” and that by May 1 damage inflicted on U. S. shipping by enemy submarines off the eastern coast “will be negligible.” Completing an inspection tour of]

Street Flushers Also Say Spring

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

12 (Noon).. 55 47 12285 p.m... 57

FROST COVERED MOST of the state last night but the weather bureau predicted warmer weather tonight, with not much change in temperature during the day. gi Flood waters following the recent heavy rains pushed southern Indiana streams still highé# today as the excess drained toward: the Ohio river basin. Northern Indiana streams were falling, Although they were expected to be open by tonight or tomorrow, the following roads were closed today: 39, south of Tempico; 157, north of Worthington: 161, north of Richland City, and 235, east of Medora. In Indianapolis, six street flushers—huge trucks which spray into service last night, the street department's acknewiedgement of Spesfg.

SENATE WAITS FOR'S ANTI-INFLATION PLAN

Wage and Price Price Message

Due in Two Weeks.

WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. PJ). —Senator Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo), in a senate speech today

{urged President Roosevelt to sub-

mit his anti-inflation program to congress as soon as possible ind called for wider use of, the price control law to prevent grice spirals in the meantime. It was learned that the president plans to submit his program in a special message within two weeks. It is expected to embrace general rice Axing, wage control, still Fig taxes, and compulsory savA tative executive orders on price fixing already have been |drafted. It was reported that Price Administrator Leon Henderson orzinally had intended to issue early this week an order fixing all retail prices, however, it was understood that this order was being delayed so that the entire anti-infla-tionary program could be presented as a whole. Senator Clark, a member of the senate finance committee, took note of reports that several members of the house ways and means committee now at work on the $7,600. 000,000 tax program are inclined to favor a general sales tax. He served

conference at Boston navy yard

Atlantic coast ports here with Vice notice that a group in the senate Admiral R. R. Waesche of the U. S. would oppose any such levy.

coast guard, Mr. Knox told a press’ ‘ 3 BALKAN STATES fare, we have taken the necessary) GET U. S. WARNING

[measures to protect shipping.” WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. B). Discussing his tour, which in-|—Acting Secretary of State Sumcluded New York, Philadelphia, (ner Welles today in effect warned Baltimore, Norfolk, Jacksonville and Miami, Secretary Knox said that, which have declared war on this “Boston and Philadelphia are the | country—that the United States

that “ ‘although we can never reach perfection in anti-submarine war- |

Tooter sud he visited from the Will declare war on them if they

standpoint of protection “from fire . the axis campaign against

and sabotage” RX . Welles his tetas ; % explained to press URGES LABOR STATUS FROZEN conference that the United States

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JAPS FEAR GUNS ON CORREGIDOR

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IS POINTED OUT T0 COMMONS

3 Enemy Battleships and 5 Plane Carriers Range Bay of Bengal.

LONDON, April 13 (U. P)— Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in a formal statement in commons, today revealed the gravity of Japan's threat to India and the vital allied lines of supply through the Indian ocean and the Bay of Bengal. Making it clear that the Japanese fleet dominates the northern part of the Indian ocean and the Bay of Bengal, Mr. Churchill indicated Britain’s air fleet already has been virtually knocked out in its effort to halt Japan's westward push there. The Japanese fleet was said to be headed by at least three battleships —bne a 16-inch gun dreadnaught of the Nogato class—and five aircraft carriers, from which swarms of planes are being launched to strike at allied naval strength, at Ceylon and India’s coast cities.

British Cruiser Damaged

At the same time the British announced that another cruiser, of the T7270-ton Leander class, had been damaged seriously by Japanese

Fly Too High for Accurate Bombing; Defenders Sink

Several Boats.

WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P). Japanese airmen still respect the ait of Dorrégidor’s gunners. They are fiving at altitudes so high that their bombing has only slight effect. Latest reports from the besieged fortress said Japanese planes attacked the island 10 times yesterday making 22 raids in the last 48 hours. The island forts exacted retribue< tion by sinking a number of small

of Bataan. Whether the boats were being assembled in an attempt to invade the fortress was not revealed.

Under Artillery Crossfire

The fortress also has been under a crossfire of artillery from Cavite, ot the south shore of Manila bay, and from the lower tip of Bataan peninsula, on the north shore of the bay’s entrance. It appeared that the Japanese were attempting to use the same technique on Corregidor that finally forced the land forces on Bataan to capitulate. Physical exhaustion —just plain lack of sleep—of the American-Filipino troops was a major aliy of the‘Japanese.

Officials Not Optimistic

Some quarters here speculated that the Japanese would attempt to wear down the garrison before making a final water-borne assault, probably from the Cavite shore and from Bataan peninsula. Officials here remained hopeful but not optimistic about the chances of the Corregidor garrison holding out for an extended period of time. They were not revealing, if they know, how much food, water and ammunition the garrison has at its disposal but it was believed the fort's stores could not be in too good shape. Communication between Cebu and the Manila defenses have been cut off for 48 hours and nothing is known of the present situation there. The last reports told of Japanese troops establishing half a dozen béachheads in the face of fierce American and Filipino resistance. The invaders at that time had been able to make only shght

Japanese boats on the southern tip}

planes off India. The Japanese radio claimed that 55 ships had been sunk and 20 damaged and 120 planes destroyed in the battle of the Indian ocean. The Nationalist leaders of India, faced with a Japanese invasion after collapse of the defense and political talks with Britain; rallied the na-« tion’s millions to defense of their homeland. Even Mohandas K. Gandhi, who withdrew from the negotiations because of his non-violence creed, announced that “I and my followers will refuse any help, even water, for the Japanese even if it should cost our lives”

British Planes Knocked Out

Leaders of the All-India confrees said that, despite the breakdown of the talks, India would not interfere with the defense plans of Britain and the United States in the India region. The powerful Japanese battle fleet in the Indian ocean—including not only three warships and five carriers, but numerous heavy and light cruisers and destroyers—was sighted steaming for Ceylon April 4—the day before the attack on Ceylon, Mr. Churchill said. Mr. Churchill admitted that practically all of a fleet of British bomber, torpedo and fighter planes which attacked the Japanese fleet off Trin(Continued on Page Eight)

JAPANESE 20 MILES FROM BURMESE OIL

AVG and i RAF Battling Against Severe Odds.

CHUNGKING, April 13 (U. P) — Strong Japanese forces heavily supported by artillery and bombers struck to within 20 miles of Burma's rich oil fields today and drove a new wedge between the Irrawaddy and Sittang rivers in an effort to crack the center of the British<Chinese lines. Amerfean volunteer pilots and royal air foree units struggled to halt the Japanese drives and were réady for an “all-out” battle to regain aerial command of the Burma front despite the enemy's numerical (Continued on Page Eight)

progress inland.

NEW YORK, April 18 (U. P) — The war will last a minimum of five years, and “we will need at least > Col. Rddie “ backer,

ace, told the combat unit at Mitchel Id today. Col. Rickenbacker, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corp, who has flown 15000 miles throughout the United States visit<

rh. Brod, Suct of tie

ing combat units at the request of ||

Balks at Draft

Gregory Carhart, 29, a former Lehigh university engineering student, whe threatens “to shoot it out” with anyone attempting to force him to report for army induction remained unmolested today in his isolated self construct ed cabin near Chesterfield, Mass. Since failing to appear for induetion, Carhart has spent most of his time on guard, armed with a 12-gauge shot-gun.

JAPAN WARNED BY RUSS PRESS

Beware of Prattle About Invasion of Siberia, Tokyo Is Told.

By M. 8S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April 13.< Germany is sending hundreds of fighter and bomber planes to the eastern front as a prelude to her anticipated spring offensive, but the Nazis never will regain air mastery over Russia, the communist party organ Pravda said today. The Pravda statement was published shortly after it was ane nounced that waves of German tank units attempting to move toward Russia's rich Caucasus oil fields had been thrown back by the Red army in 12 consecutive attacks on the southwest front. Claim Bryansk Encircled

At the same time, Pravda warned Japanese militarists “whose heusds are turned by military success” to beware of “prattle about an annexa« tionist war in the north” (Siberia) if Japan desires to maintain its neutrality pact with the Soviet union. “For the ncutrality pact to con-

tinue, Japan must have the same or toward the agreement as | the Soviet Union. She must hold strictly and consistently to the

agreement and undertakings, leave

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HOFFMAN CALLED IN JURY'S AXIS PROBE

WASHINGTON, April 13 (U. P.). —Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R. Mich.) was scheduled to testify today before a special district grand jury investigating axis activities in the United States. Special Prosecutor William P. Maloney said Rep. Hoffman would be questioned concerning the distribu tion of copies of his speech, “Roose« velt is a Judas,” by organisations under investigation by the grand

jury for alleged subversive activities

300,000 Pilots Needed by U. S. to Fight At Least Five Years, Says Rickenbacker

ing of inferiority, either in your cas pacity to fight or in the capacity of your planes to fly. Man for man and plane for plane, Uncle Sam has the greatest aerial fighting machines in the world today.” The ace, also president of Eastern Airlines, told the pilots to be like the minute men at Concord, “Wait until you can see the yellow of their eyes” he said. “Hold your fire. Don't spray your shots all over the sky.” The Ggrmans and the Japanese

are not “supermen,” he said, and

added that “we licked the Germans

AIRMEN LEAVE TRAIL OF RUIN IN AXIS AREAS

Growing Allied Sky Fleets Range From Ruhr To Genoa in Biggest Forays of Year; Bases Smashed Off Australia.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

Growing air fleets of the united nations lashed at axis offensive bases, leaving a trail of destruction from Italy to Germany and in the Far East today, but the Japanese ine creased their pressure in the Bay of Bengal and against the Philippines island fortress of Corregidor. On land and sea the united nations struggled to hold their own against Japan's superiority off the shores of war-menaced India and in Burma where the Japanese admittedly were driving closer to Mandalay and the rich oil fields. The axis suffered heavy blows over the week-end in synchronized allied aerial offensives, one against Japan's 2200-mile “invasion front” along the islands off northern Australia and the other against a 500-mile European front from Germany’s industrial Ruhr to the war production centers of northern Italy.

25 British Planes Lost

Britain's biggest bombers, stepping up their spring attack in which bombs at times fell on axis objectives at the rate of a ton a minute, carried out over the week-end their: biggest assaults since last September. The intensity of the attacks was disclosed in Britain's admission that 25 planes were lost, some of them in air battles over occupied France described as the fiercest since the battle of Britain in September, 1940. A large force of R. A. F. bombers swept over northern France again today, bent on further attacks upon Nazi factories which have been working at top speed to equip German divisions for Hitlers spring drive.

French Plants Bombed

British, Czechoslovak and Polish pilots rode together into last night's attacks that heaped hundreds of tons of bombs on the heart of Germany's war industries in the Ruhr while other R. A. F. planes, in a 1500-mile round-trip flight, smashed at factories in the Milan-Turin-Genoa triangle of northern Italy for the first time in seven months. At Turin, with its Italian royal arsenal and Fiat motor works, the raiders found the city brilliantly lighted and completely unprepared for attack, as though battered Italy already was out of the war. Neither planes nor anti-aircraft batteries challenged the raiders. At Genoa the large Italian shipbuilding docks and come munications were blasted in the R. A. F.’s sixth attack of the war on the city. Short-range R. A. F. bombers struck during the night at industrial northern France where, in daylight ate tacks Sunday, some of the most furious air fighting of the

war occurred. New Commando Chief

Freight yards at Nazi-held Hazebrueck, 35 miles inland from Calais, were bombed and the 30-mile strip of invasion

‘coast between Dunkerque and Calais was set ablaze.

Many observers believed that the R. A. F.’s springtime offensive would be followed soon by small-scale invasions of the European continental coast by means of bigger and bolder commando raids, supported by planes and naval units. The British announced that Capt. Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of King George VI-and son of a famous world war naval leader, has been named chief of the commandos succeeding Admiral Sir Roger Keyes. The announcement indicated that new secret commando attacks, from Brest to Narvik, might be one of the first results of the consultae

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On The War Fons:

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superiority, destroy three enemy

bombers near Toungoo. LONDON: Britain's biggest bomb-

ers spread destruction along 500mile front from German Ruhr to northern Italy, heap tons of bombs on Nazi war plants, French centers and Milan<TurinGenoa triangle; lose 26 planes in fierce air fighting.

AUSTRALIA: Flying fortresses and Australian fighters claim 25 to 30 Jap planes and heavy destruction in week-end attacks on Jap-

LONDON: Churchill reveals fore midable Japanese fleet in Indian ocean headed by at* least three battleships and five aircraft care riers; says British air force vire tually knocked out trying: to stem Japs near India.

KUIBYSHEV: Communist .newse paper Pravda warns Japanese militarists to cease prattling about an “annexationist war” against Siberia or neutrality pact anese invasion bases at Rabaul,| with Japan will be dropped; Reds Lae, Koepang and Solomon is-| repulse dozen strong German lands. tank-led attacks; Bryansk ree

ported encircled. CHUNGKING: CAIRO: Field Marshal Erwin Rome

mel's withdrawal of axis column