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LATE MONDAY STORE HOURS TOSTART HERE

|| Dog Rescued From | White River Named | Skipper. SKIPPER has been launched on

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12:15 P. M. to 8:45 or 9 fers dry land. P. M. Schedule Arranged go For War Workers.

Most downtown Indianapdclis stores 11 not open next Monday until :153 p. m. and they will remain open that day until between 8:43 and 9 p. m. The new Monday hours will be permanent for the duration of the war, Murray H. Morris, manager of the Merchants Association of Indianapolis, said. He explained that the change was made to benefit the growing numbers of war workers, many of whom are on the job six days a week and thus unable to shop during hours previously in

tore hours the other five days the business week will remain the same as at present, Mr. Morris said. 90 Per Cent Co-operate 1 : § Co-operation with the new plan, he predicted, would be more than % per cent by the downtown re-| tailers. Pointing out that the new Monday hours are becoming general over the country, Mr. Morris said that a delegation of Indianapolis merchants visited Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus, O., two weeks ago to study how it had worked there. Cleveland will start the new hours next Monday. i Considerable pressure, he explained, had been brought on Indianapolis merchants to shift the Monday hours, representations being made both by war plant offic’als and the workers.

Monday Change Preferred

Jewelry, variety and ready-to-wear merchants, in addition to the major department stores, will cbserve the new hours, he said. Customers who can shop Monday afternoon were urged to do so as] an accommodation to those who will! be buying Monday night. { Mr. Morris said that Monday had been chosen &s the day most acceptable both to war workers and store employees.

NOTRE DAME GETS 1000 NAVY CADETS:

SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 15 (U. | the river” Mr. Dosey vowed. P.) —Approximately 1000 men re- will throw him ported to navy officials at the Uni- yonder bridge.” versity of Notre Dame today to be- | ; gin a month's intensive training

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Skipper and her rescuer, Charles Dossey.

It is believed that some cne threw the fox terrier into the river off the Morris st. bridge last night. The dog apparently swam to a nearby island, and then, after reconnoitering, was too scared of the water to swim for the bank of the stream. =

SOME ONE discovered the dog's plight this morning, and phoned police. The emergency squad rowed a boat toward the island. Charles Dossey of the city kennels also was in the boat and when the craft became stuck in the mud he jumped out, waded to the island and grabbed the dog in his arms. Then and there the dog was christened Skipper. “If I ever get my hands on the person who threw this dog into “1

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Beginning of the course marked a new step in the navy's training program by which 1000 men a MAGNESIUM 0 ASE month will be put through intensive schooling on the university campus! neato. under the direction of Capt. H. P. : Burnett, U, S. U., professor of naval Menopoly Charged to Five science and tactics. . ei FLO acc. +o CZ | Firms and Officials. RED SUPPLIES STEPPED UP | WASHINGTON, April 15 (U. P).! NEW YORK, April 15 (U. P) — —Supplies to the Soviet Union to-| The Aluminum Company of Amerday were moving forward from the) ica, the Dow Chemical Co.. three United States at a pace promising | other corporations, and six officials early elimination of the lag which|0f the defendant companies recaused President Roosevelt on Célved fines totaling $140.000 today March 17 to demand that ship-{on their nolo contendere pleas to ments be stepped up at once. | charges of restraint of trade and — i monopoly of production and fabrication of war-vital magnssiumn. On the War Fronts one or in (April 15. 1942) {court was toe Magnesium Develop{ment Corp., in which the governiment charged Alcoa and I. G. Farbenindustrie, the German dye trust, had pooled patents relating to

magnesium production and fabrication.

LONDON: Big R. A. F. formations attack Nazi-held western Europe in non-stop offensive, attacking industrial Rubr including Krupp works; Germans reported hastily fortifying coast in fear of British invasion or large-scale commando landings.

VICHY: Laval in Paris, gets Naz advice after becoming chief of Vichy government; Petain re-

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VOTER APATHY. HERE ALRNS| ul * PARTY CHEFS

‘Many Precinct Leaders Are Too Busy This Year for | Campaigning. | By NOBLE REED |

The general public's lack of in-!

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terest in elections is something the |

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° machine politicians never worry |

about. | times. i But there's a new kind of apathy, | | developing rapidly in the last few weeks, that has political “wheel | horses” worried plenty. It is an apathy that is spreading to the machines themselves, gnaw-

They even welcome it at |

(once smooth running motor. | Too Busy, Many Explain

One by oae. the once powerful ward “heelers” are reporting to | their superiors that an increasing {number of their precinct commit|teemen can't devote much time to! | politicking this year. A chairman of one of ihe biggest! | Democratic wards in Indianapolis| {said yesterday that of 15 precinct | committeemen in his ward “only |three are actively interested in! | party work.” | Others had similar reports during 'the last few days as party leaders] {tried te whip into campaign condi- | tion the 366 precinct cogwheels of | | the organizations upon whose health | ' will determine fortunes or defeat at | the polls next November.

High Command Worried

WASHINGTON. April 15 (U. P

k ; . Roosevelt a year ago, died early today of pneumonia. Five key De - ve TiCratic COMminte He was 59 years old and had been ill for several months. He was confined to Walter Reed hospital until recently when he Planes from the islands.

men in one North side ward have | |told their bosses that because of | {extra work in war industries they | wouldn't have time to organize the | ‘house-to-house canvass this year. | Contests for the usually coveted precinct committeeman posts in the | primary went begging in both par-| ties this year. with most of the same men and women refiling. The diversion of interest to war and its effects on everyday life also is leaving its mark on the councils of the high commands. Most Democratic leaders admit openly that there is no unity oi] command in the party right now, | merely cliques formed to promote | one or two candidates.

G. 0. P, Leadership Uncertain

Many of the Republican leaders lalso are not quite sure of where | {the power is concentrating for the! | fall campaign. Attempts will be made to elect a | successor to County G. O. P. Chairman James L. Bradford and he is said to have been listening sympathetically to talk of a “compromise” candidate for the chairmanship. But no one is sure who the com- Tr promise candidate will be, if any. . : County Democratic Chairman Ira Council Urges City to Keep { Haymaker already has announced | . that he will not be a candidate for | Right to Cancel.

| re-election to the chairmanship. ho ; Only Three Weeks Remain | City council today made the latest

“Who's his successor?” chorus the move in the municipal airport lease | party workers. ; controversy. Several have been mentioned but! It handed a letter to the works {nothing definite has been done = 1 hich ‘about rallying the torch for any P0ard indorsing a lease whic one of them. would expire after 10 years but per—And they have only three weeks mit the city to terminate it after Convenor eek om Ba | vonven TL ee Wey Te “I At its last meeting the council

| ass. voted down a lease approved by the three airlines using the airport, by the works board and by Mayor Sul-

Johnson Spoke In City Twice

Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, who died today in Washington, was in Indianapolis twice in recent years and drew large crowds as a headline speaker.

He delivered an address at the Riviera club at a meeting sponsored by the Holliday post, American Legion, in Sep- | | tember, 1939. In November, | | 1940, Gen. Johnson spoke at | | the convention of the Indiana Association of Personal Finance companies at the Claypool hotel.

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Gen. Hugh Johnson Dead

Gen. Hugh S. Johnson , Times Columnist, Long III, Is Victim of Pneumonia J.—Hugh S. Johnson, colorful leader front in the vital Bryansk sector.

of the NRA in early New Deal days whose request for a renewal of And American flying fortresses his commission as a reserve brigadier general was denied by President | bombed the Philippines for the first

WASHINGTON, April 15 (U. P.). —The army signal corps will recruit women on a civilian basis to meet the growing need for radio and telephone personnel, the war department announced today. A recruiting mission will tour the country !in the next few weeks.

duced to role of figurehead: Hitler forces Petain’s acceptance of Laval after threatening to set up puppet gualetier government in Paris; U. S. cancels food shipments to France.

KUIBYSHEV: Russians at ap- WASHINGTON. April 15 (U. P)

proaches to big strategic city— believed to be either Bryansk or Kharkov—after smashing through two German defense lines.

NEW DELHI: Japanese Burma drive threatens main Chinese forces south of Mandalay; Japanese drive toward oil fields nears new British defense lines.

| CORREGIDOR: Gen. Wainwright | says besieged fortress “can and! will be held . . . Spirit of Bataan will continue to live; U. S. bomb-

ers raid Jap bases in Philippines. |

—A major offensive in the home front war against internal enemies was under way today as the government revoked the mailing privileges of “Social Justice,” the weekly publication founded by the Rev. Fr. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit radio priest. The publication was denied the use of the mails on the ground that it had jeopardized the war effort by creating racial hatreds, openly

lauding axis gains and disparaging!

the war aims of the united natiens.

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Mail Ban on 'Social Justice’ Opens War on Internal Foes

.jlating the espionage act of 1917

and matter violating it is “non-! majilable.” The revocations of the mailing privileges was ordered by Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, after consultation with Attorney General Francis Biddle. A representative of “Social Justice” was ordered to appear here April 29 to show cause why the ban should not be made permanent. The move was the latest in a | series of governmental actions de-| | signed to stop seditious activity and (Continued on Page Five)

livan. This would have provided for a 20-year lease which the airlines contended was for long-range development at the airport. The council alsp turned down a recommendation of the Indianapolis Real Estate board ang the Chamber of Commerce aviation committee for a 20-year lease with a 10-year “recapture clause.” Works Board members said they felt that the council's proposal was merely a five-year lease for general purposes. They forwarded the letter to the airlines. The bid for a deep well pump to be installed at airport submitted

by Rowland M. Cotton Co. Inc.,

was the lowest of five opened to-

day by the board. It was for $5854,

—— PLEDGE OF FREEDOM WASHINGTON, April 15 (U. P). —America’s 50,000000 income receivers will be asked to sign a “pledge - of freedom” regular investments in war bonds for the duration of the war, the Treasury Department announced today.

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Soviets Kill 20,000 Nazis A Week: Pound at Important City.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Plans to send American food and clothing to France and French {North Africa were canceled today | because of the government shakeup 1.5 : £ {in Vichy. | Meanwhile allied armed forces {hammered at the axis on two | European fronts and in the Far | East. British bombers kept up a heavy our-by-hour offensive on axis war

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{time since the Japanese invasion forced the withdrawal of American

/was moved to his apartment in| {the Wardman Park hotel. Pneu-! /monia developed and he succumed at 4:45 a. m., today.

| Gen. Johnson's mother, Mrs. {Elizabeth Johnston, and his son. Kilbourne, a lieutenant colonel in the army, were at the bedside. Since 1934, after disagreeing with New Deal policies and after the France, replied that the ships had | death of NRA, Gen. Johnson has not sailed. ! (written a daily column in the In-| He said they would not be per- | dianapolis Times and other news- mitted to leave the country pend- | Papers. His caustic and often salty ing clarification of the Vichy sit- | {remarks have generally been critical uation. | of the administration, and in re-! Mr. Welles said that some pre‘cent years, critical of the adminis- liminary reports had been received tration’s foreign policy. (from the American ambassador to i | veh; Admiral William D. Leahy. = | He added that the reports were not Gen, Johnson's last columm ap- complete enough for a detailed dis- | cussion of this government's pol- | icies in the light of the Laval de-| | velopment. His most recent “run-in” with his | Fear Free! Selvin | former chief. President Roosevelt,| Dispatches from both London | came in April, 1941, when Gen and Moscow emphasized belief that! Johnson, a former army officer who return of Laval to power in Vichy wrote the World War I draft bill|France as a result of Nazi threats and - served .as judge advocate to|Was closely connected with the exGen. John J. Pershing during pected German spring offensives in| (that war, applied to the president | Russia and the Mediterranean area, | for renewal of his commission. which the British air attacks in the Eh ; west and red army blows in the east presen Roosevelt Sanied tne were designed to offset, (Continued on Page Five) | Moscow suggested that Laval = might use the French fleet and the AUSSIE PLANES BOMB TIMOR Vichy air force (recently built up oy . again with Berlin's consent) to aid | MELBOURNE, April 15 (Austral- |, o axis to fight an expected inian broadcast recorded by U. P. al! vasion by the British. San Francisco) —The royal Austral-! There was increasing agitation {ian air force continued its attacks on by such Fascist leaders as Marcel northern Japanese-held bases yes-| Deat, in Paris, for use of French

: ; {armed forces to aid Germany. { YerGeY ith 4 Tif on HoeBens.| oye Rusicn fighioy front

Dutch Timor, a communique re- (ho Reg army continued powerful

ported today. The results were not | attempts to break up Hitler's exrevealed. i (Continued on Page Five)

Hold Ships in U. S. Acting Secretary of State Sumner

ence whether return of Pierre Lever to power in Vichy would have any {effect on the announced plans for | sending two ships to North Africa and a Red Cross vessel with milk

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AIRPORT | JAP BASES ON 3 ISLANDS LASHED BY 13 PLANES

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NEAR MANILA,

Enemy Supply Ship Sunk; Jap-Held Ports Damaged Heavily; Yanks Fly Thousands Of Miles for Vengeance Attack.

By DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent

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April 15.—American bomber squadrons, including three flying fortresses, brought ‘dismay and destruction” te Japanese bases—including an airfield near Manila—on three ‘Philippine islands, a communique disclosed tonight. The first of many blows in the counter-attack promised by Gen. Douglas MacArthur was led thousands of miles through the air by Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce of Michigan, (whose 13 bombers dumped huge loads of explosives on Nichols field, near Manila, Batangas port on southern Luzon island; ¥.4 Cebu and the important port ‘of Davao on Mindanao island, PREDICTS LAVAL Much damage was done and . an enemy supply ship was 10 YIELD FLEET sex. while one American ‘plane was lost. Its crew was | sm — ‘saved. Vichy to Stop at Nothing Maj. Gen. Rush B. Lincoln of Ames, iowa, chief of the air corps HE Satisfy Germans, |in Australia and representative of Lieut. Gen. George H. Brett, London Fears. deputy supreme Be ee ay | By HELEN KIRKPATRICK awarded the distinguished : service | CoPyripht, 1943, DY The Indianznolis Times cross io Royce in a dramatic ceree LONDON, April 15—The descent| 01 In a hangar when the lof France from a remnant of a|Sduadron reiurned. great power to the status of a “two- Volunteered for Raid penny half-penny Balkan state” is| Gen. Royce had volunteered to |London’s view of the Vichy govern- lead the successful attack in which | 13 heavy and medium hombers pare Although the facade of a separate | ticipated. government in unoccupied France is | The American raids on bein

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and clothing for the children of | ad occupied the whole of France, the landin

g of 12,000 enemy troops jon Cebu island. In a statement, Gen. Brett said: “Gen. Royce volunteered and was selected to command this most important mission. “His accomplishment undoubtedly will be told in detail at a later date but I now desire to point out thag he typified again the tremendous importance of the air arm.

according to British opinion. Laval, in their view, will stop at nothing in giving the Germans everything they ask for, and this will include the French fleet.

Threat of Starvation

The threat of starvation was the weapon by which the Germans forced Chief of State Marshal Petain to accept Laval and Vichy’'s complete subservience when the marshal had stubbornly resisted : : He took the flight into en for more than three T 8 emy J 0 territory, created dismay and dee 5 : struction at a time most important ’ y e to the S portan ns oy jve lO our forces, and has returned.’ imminence of the spring offensive The flight of Lo & and the necessity for securing her| € 1light o € American squade rear ron (presumably from northern . : Australian bases) ‘must have been ry, Bulgaria and Ru- ® MoT 1 prom their orders 2¢ least 2000 miles out and another

: {2000 miles back, a total of around for the coming months, so Vichy) 4000 miles.

has now received its instructions. | : " These include partial mobilization "01 Vi1% [r(resses are capable in order to guard against a SUrprise ;..4 it was understood. While milie landing by British and American precautions prevented the dise forces. The remains of the French |; cure of any details, it was ree army will be expected 10 resist ANY). ged as certain that the attacks such attempt. . ranked with or topped the greatest The immediate results of bombing flights yet made in the (Continued on Page Five) war,

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claimed that little damage was done.) (This suggested that American forces still were holding air bases in the Philippines and that the bombers from Australia might have made intermediate landings there.)

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