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TERRORISM BREAKS OUT IN FRANCE

HOOSIER FIELD HOSPITAL FOR WAR FORMED

Unit, Manned by About 700, To Travel en 35 Cars; Dr. C. J. Clark, Chief.

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Formation of an all-Hoosier general hospital for providing medical care to American soldiers who receive wounds on some overseas front was announced today. Equipment for the mobile unit— seven railroad carloads of it—already is assembled. The skeleton of the personnel ‘already has been set up. The entire unit, consisting of about 75 officers chosen from the medical profession, 120 nurses and some 500 enlisted men to be obtained through selective service, probably will be activated in the near future. Takes Old Unit's Name The unit will be known as the 32d General Hospital. It inherits part of the Base Hospital 32 of the first world war. The “old 32” was a Hoosier outfit and was commanded by the late Dr, E. D. Clark. Dr. C. J. Clark, clinical professor of cardiology at Indiana university's medical school and chief of the medical staff at City hospital, is in charge of the organization of the “new 32d.” He is a distant cousin of Dr. C. D. Clark.

Obtains Commission

A commission as a lieutenant colonel in the medical department has been received by Dr. Clark. He will head the medical division of the military hospital. Organization of the unit is handled by the Indiana university medical center here. A lieutenant colonelcy also has been issued to Dr. Charles F. Thompson, associate professor of orthopedic surgery. He will head the surgery division. Col. Thompson served as an am-

bulance driver in the 38th French)

division in the first world war. He won the croix de guerre and received a citation signed by Marshal Petain. Name Other Officers

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grade of colonel, and an executive officer with the grade of lieutenant colonel, will be selected by Dr. James C. Magee, the army's surgeon general. There also will be 22 majors, 28 captains, 15 first lieutenants, two second lieutenants and two chaplains. Women nurses in the unit will hold the rank of lieutenants. About half of the enlisted men will receive specialists’ ratings, such as laboratory, X-ray and dental technicians, pharmacists and male nurses. Weigh 325 Tons

Equipment weighs 325 tons. It consists of 100,000 items, ranging from a dentist's forceps to an operating table. Twenty Pullman cars, five bag-

gage cars, five flat cars and five box!

Yars will be needed to haul personnel and equipment, Miss Charlotte Anderson of Riley hospital will head the psysiotherapy department and Miss Joan Duffy will direct the dietary department. Most of the officer personnel will come from Indianapolis, Evansville, South Bend, Whiting, Terre Haute, New Castle, Logansport and Bloomington.

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Twirls Opener

Oral Hildebrand . , . First on the firing line.

HILDY TO HURL BEFORE 12,000

Fans Await Indians’ 41st Start in Association

Against Birds.

PROBABLE LINEUPS

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By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor This is the day to pu$ yeur troubles away and go out and root for

the home team. And approximately 12,000 sports goers planned to do that very thing, in a trek to Victory field, the wig- | |wam of the Indianapolis Indians {where the Redskins were booked to [tackle the Columbus Red Birds in {the 1942 lid-lifter, first step in the | 154-game schedule of the American (association's 41st season. : Under new ownership and new management and with new “name” ‘players in their lineup, the Tribesters were geared for the “big” game like nobody's business, They hoped to make the American | association debut of Manager Gab{by Hartnett a rousing success by {turning back the league's defending | champions. | The latter are just as determined to deliver for Red Bird Manager | (Continued on Page 22) | ——————— ee tei

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PAYROLL DEDUCTION FOR BONDS URGED

House - to - House Bared by Morgenthau.

WASHINGTON, April 16 (J. P)). —Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., opposing a wartime forced savings plan, said today that 30,000,000 workers soon will be offered an opportunity to buy war bonds through voluntary payroll deductions. . Mr. Morgenthau revealed that the treasury plans to “ring every doorbell in America” at least once a month to promote a voluntary war bond sale. He presented the administration’s views on the controversial savings plan at a house ways and means

||/committee hearing on the $7,600-

000.000 revenue bill for 1942. He declared the voluntary payroll deduction system was “pleasing” to President Roosevelt. Mr. Morgenthau introduced to the committee representatives of the C. I. O. auto and electrical workers and of the General Motors Corp., to explain the workings of the bond sale plan at the General Motors plant.

GOODYEAR TESTS RUBBERLESS TIRES

AKRON, O, April 16 (U, P).— The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is running test cars “on tires Wwithout rubber,” it was disclosed today. Goodyear’s rubberless tire experiment was disclosed after the Ford Motor Co. revealed at Detroit that it had in development a tire which used one-sixteenth of the usual amount of rubber. The Goodye would not add to his statement which said, “we now have test cars on the road which are running on tires without

. Drive,

WAINWRIGHT MEN DESTROY ARMS DUMPS

‘Numerous Casualties’ on Enemy Inflicted, Says Fighting Report.

WASHINGTON, April 16 (U. P)). —The big guns of Corregidor blasted Japanese troop and truck concentrations on Bataan yesterday, blowing up ammunition dumps and inflicting “numerous” casualties on the enemy, the war department said today. In its first communique from the beleaguered fortress in Manila bay in two days, the war department said that Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright's gunners had hurled a roaring challenge to the Japanese just one week after the fall of Bataan.

(A Berlin radio broadcast recorded in London quoted Japanese reports as saying that Japanese batteries had silenced American artillery on Corregidor and the whole fortress was burning.)

Continue Cebu Fighting

Meanwhile, the communique said, “fierce fighting continues in Cebu” where superior Japanese invasion troops, supported by naval vessels, were meeting strong resistance from a handful of courageous but poorly equipped American-Filipino forces. The war department said that Corregidor was subjected to five enemy air raids yesterday, but that American anti-aircraft batteries-— which the Japanese claimed to have silenced several days ago—had forced the bombers to fly so high that their missiles were ineffective. The successful shelling of Bataan, the communique said, followed an artillery attack on Corregidor by Japanese guns on both the north and south shores of Manila bay.

FOR GIVES ARMY, NAVY VOICE IN 0CD

Change Puts Landis Under

President’s Direction.

WASHINGTON, April 16 (U. P). —President Roosevelt today reorganized the office of civilian defense in a manner that will give the army and navy an active voice in the operation of the civilian defense program. Under the new setup, James M, Landis continues as director, performing his duties under direction of the president. But Mr. Roosevelt created within OCD a “civilian defense board consisting of the director, who shall serve as chairman; the secretary of war, the attorney general, the secretary of the navy, the director of the office of defense health and welfare services, and such other members as the president may designate.” The reorganization, according to a White House statement, was designed to integrate OCD activities “more closely with those of other war agencies and to gear its program to the war effort.”

Cupid Outfoots Fleet Bud Piel

ALFRED (BUD) PIEL, fleetfooted Indianapolis youth who captains the University of Michigan track team, has been bested by Cupid. He's going to marry Margot Thom, who used to be the sweetheart of Tom Harmon, former Wolverine football hero. Miss Thom announced in Ann Arbor, Mich,, that she and Bud are engaged, but without definite plans for marriage. Peil will report for training in the naval air corps June 30. His father, Alfred L. Piel, 5302 N. New Jersey st, said here today that Bud probably won't be married “until after the duration.” Bud was the star of the Shortridge high school track team four years ago and still holds the city track record of 10.1 seconds in the 100-yard dash and 22 seconds in the 220-yard dash. He was STaduated from Shortridge in 1

Miss Thom is from Buffalo, Wyo.

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RENO, Nev. April 18 (U. P).—|

War Industries Call Thousands of Women

Don't Be in a Hurry, Girls, for You've Got to Train for Job Where You're Needed.

By ROGER BUDROW

WOMEN—PROBABLY THOUSANDS of them—will be needed by Indianapolis war factories to make airplane motors, shell cases, propellers and other war equipment.

How soon? How many?

answered yet.

Those are questions that can't be It depends on how many men are drafted from the

factories, on the size of war orders allocated to local plants and on the

war itself. This much is certain:

As more and more young men go into the

armed forces, more women and older men will be hired to take their

places on the production lines.

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These girls, Mary Guijant (left) and Dorothy Gundlack, are assembling small parts at the Curtiss-Wright propeller factory here.

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IN ADDITION, WAR INDUSTRIES are being expanded to rush

shipments of armaments to the fronts before it is too late.

Several

expansions have been announced recently but more are on the way,

one spectacularly large one in particular.

more women,

That means more workers,

The men who manage the war factories realize they are going to

have to employ more women workers.

They are getting ready now for

that change-over, figuring out what jobs women can do, planning to

build extra facilities for them.

The schools and universities know it, too. Purdue, for example, is urging women to take its classes in engineering drawing, chemistry, physics and mathematics, production engineering and time and motion

study.

There are 58 places in this state where Purdue is offering these classes to women. Many of those who take such courses will get jobs as draftsmen, technicians, inspectors and supervisors. (Continued on Page Four)

Boys of the Backache Brigade Doing Their Bit to Beat Axis

By TIM TIPPETT

THE MEMBERS OF our group are perhaps more numerous than you can imagine. The man sitting next to you in the bus is probably one of us. If he winces when he moves. or groans as he offers his seat to a lady, he is one of our active members. Remeber how the postman limped under his mail bag yesterday and how he moved with the utmost caution when he inserted your share of bills in the box? He, too, is one of us. In the mornings we literally crawl from our beds where once we leaped out if bubbling energy. No longer do we do setting up exercises in the morning. There is no need. :

Our Determination Still Undimmed

EVEN OUR DAILY summons to the office or factory does not halt the forward march of our plot. At our desks we draw blueprints on the back of stray envelopes. As we dine we trace mysterious lines upon the restaurant table cloth. In the evening after the chil dren go to bed, we try and justify our activity to our wives. We even plan to train our children to take up our work. Our hands are stained and our backs are weary but our determination is undimmed by the sweat that smarts our eyes and clouds our spectacles. We suffer, yes, but we do not . For the mark of our

from his pocket fell a seed catalog for all to see. Surely the grocer must suspect us. For hasn't he seen the procession of conspirators warily go ing in the side door of the hardware store and come out staggering under a load of spades, seeds and such. What matter that the radish seed we so lovingly bedded down last spring grew into enormous roots of bitter fiber? What matter that last year’s tomato plants had stems as thick as Jack’s bean * stalk and that the fruit was marble sized?

This Year It Will Be Different—Maybe

THIS YEAR OUR carrot crop will be different. This year we will be able to eat it. We are going to plan with more care, more caution and perhaps even insert vitamin B pills at measured intervals in the cement we love to filter through our fingers Jeeter-like and refer to as “our land.” Spring is here once more and this year flowers take a back seat to their more edible relations, the vegetable clan. Necessity is the mother of invention and with all apologies for the joshing of such a serious cause, “the victory garden,” necessity will make gardeners of us all. The march of the weed is doomed.

TODAY’S BEST LAUGH

STOCKHOLM, April 18 (U. P). —Press reports from Berlin said today that Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, had decreed May “politeness month,” during which competitions in politeness and good humor would be held throughout Germany. The campaign, the dispatches

said, was intended to curb excessive

U.S. PILOTS ADR AF. IN RAIDING RUHR

Russians Capture Dozens Of Strong Points in 1st Major Spring Battle.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Allied aerial squadrons, including American Eagle pilots, pressed a non-stop offensive against the axis western front today and the Red army reported that it had captured dozens of strong points in heavy fighting in the east. But in Burma reinforced Japanese columns drove to within 10 miles of the vital western Burma oil fields and threatened to encircle the entire united nations front. The hammering at both ends of the axis in Europe continues on a big scale following successful American air blows against enemy bases in the Philippines and a new raid on the Japanese base of Koepang on Timor island, north of Australia. On Corregidor fortress and Cebu island of the Philippines—where American heavy bombers this week dumped 110 tons of explosives—the war department said that steady air bombardment and “fierce fighting continues” without important change in positions.

Reverses in Burma

Only in Burma did today’s dispatches tell of serious reverses for the united nations forces, which were under attack on the central Burma front by six Japanese columns which apparently had received about 100,000 reinforcements. British forces were reported driven back to within 10 miles of the oil fields near Minhla, on the east bank of the Irrawaddy river in heavy fighting. This represented a Japanese advance of ahout 15 miles. East of the river the British were holding in the Taungdwingyi front in an effort to cover the flank of Chinese troops fighting near Mpyo(Continued on Page Four)

SCANS EVIDENCE IN STATE ALIEN RAIDS

U. S. Attorney Gets Seized

Arms and Radios.

Evidence gathered by FBI agents and local authorities in raids on homes of 40 enemy aliens in northern Indiana will be turned over to the U. S. district attorney's office in Ft. Wayne, Spencer J. Drayton, agent in charge of the Indiana FBI office, announced today. The raids, in which state police also participated, were in Gary, Ft. Wayne, South Bena and Mishawaka, all important industrial areas, Mr. Drayton pointed out. Although no arrests were made, the following equipment, banned to enemy aliens by proclamation of President Roosevelt, was selted in the raids: 48 side arms and rifles 2038 rounds of ammunition, 32 short wave radio receivers, 19 cameras and one map of a military area. Nationalities of the aliens were not revealed, nor was it disclosed whether they were held by authorities or being kept under surveillance in their hdmes.

COY HURLED FROM AUTO IN COLLISION

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 16.—Wayne Coy, White House liaison officer of OEM, came home with a headache today after spending last night in emergency hospital. He was taken to the hespital following an automobile accident. The family car, driven by Mrs. Coy, stopped for a red light and was bumped by a taxicab and Mr. Coy was hurled head first through the windshield. X-rays disclosed no serious injury and he expects to be back at work shortly. The Hoosier recently was reported to be in line as number two man in the budget bureau, or as top-flight aid to Donald Nelson in WPB.

BRITAIN BANS LACE

LONDON, April 16 (U, P.). — Women will have to get along without lace or embroidery on their garments after June 1, the board of trade decreed today. Men's shirts and pajamas also are

ions of nerves resulting|will

to suffer “austerity” cuts. Shirts ! tel double

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ress in Manila bay, several times.

Saved to Fight

Capt. Jesus Villamor . , , heroic ace of the Philippines air corps, rescued by U. S. bombers from Corregidor, now is in Australia and preparing to fight the Japs again.

STORY OF RAID TOLD BY ROYCE

‘Japs Still. Don’t Know What Hit Them,” Says Philippines Hero.

By DON CASWELL United Press Staff Correspondent

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, April 16 (U. P.).—Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce said today that about 110 tons of bombs were dropped on the Philippines in the “two-day picnic” attack of 13 American bombers and added, “I'll bet those damned Japs still don’t

know what hit them.” Gen. Royce, the leader of the mission which challenged Japan’s hold on the Philippines, said that during the two-days assault he communicated with Lieut. Gen Jonathan M. Wainright, commander of the besieged garrison at Corregidor fort-

Bring 25 Passengers

The American airmen who staged | the 4000-mile round trip attack fought off ferocious attacks of Japan’s best fighter planes to return safe after four days in territory dominated by the Japanese air force and navy, participants revealed today. They brought back 25 passengers, including the liaison officer of the Chinese army, Capt. Jesus Villamor, heroic ace of the Philippines air corps, and 15 members of the United States army air corps who will join Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces here and take part in the develop(Continued on Page Eight)

I. TO DECIDE VICHY STAND IN NEXT 48 HOURS

Two Anti-Nazi Attacks Occur in Paris; Troop Train Derailed.

By UNITED PRESS A fresh wave of terrorism

broke out today in Nazi-held France as Pierre Laval prepared to assume full power over the Vichy government with a cabinet of his own ¢

choosing. The unrest came as striking dee velopments -in American and Vichy relations were forecast within the next 48 hours. An early break in relations was regarded as possible, Two anti-German attacks ocCe curred in Paris, shortly after La=val’s departure from the city and his return to Vichy to set up his new cabinet. Two other attacks were reported in the northern industrial region. A troop train carrying German troops on leave was derailed by saboteurs and 40 persons were ree ported killed.

Meets Petain and Darlan

Laval was protected by personal bodyguards and strong police core dons as he conferred with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and Francois Darlan, who, after stepping aside as vice premier to make way for Laval, may be named admiral of France, corresponding to ga field marshal in the army...” ? Word of the new outbreaks of anti-Nazi terrorism and sabotage in occupied France reached Vichy as Laval went into his second conference of the day with Petain and Darlan. Two bodyguards accompanied Laval and a strong force of police was assigned to protect the chame

{pion of French-German collabora-

tion who was shot and. seriously wounded by a would-be assassin in Paris a year ago. Laval may announce his new cabinet tonight, and issue a state= ment as to his policy in dealing with the United States on the one hand and Germany on the other. This may determine whether Amere ica will break with Vichy.

Paris Press Criticizes Leahy

U. S. Ambassador Admiral Wile liam D. Leahy, close friend of Petain, was criticized by the Nazie controlled Paris press today. Dee mands were made that his “evil influence” in Vichy be eliminated. The Paris anti-Semetic weekly Au Pilor assailed Mr. Leahy as & “spy” and alleged that he attempted to buy off French policy through various functionaries of the Vichy regime. Other Paris newspapers accused the ambassador of “blackmail.” Mr. Leahy remained at his em= bassy desk and has not called on either Petain or Darlan or sought an interviey since the agreemens restoring "Laval to power.

On the War Fronts

April 16, 1942

LONDON: R. A. F., with American and Canadian pilots, resumes non-stop offensive against Axis | in west; urgency of British talks with Gen. George C. Marshall, American chief of staff, may postpone Prime Minister Churchill's parliamentary review of war situation.

RUSSIA: Red army captures dozens of enemy strong points in pressing effort to break up Hitler’s offensive plans: first great battle of spring believed raging on Bryansk front but Kuibyshev says Bryansk itself not yet reached.

FRANCE: Pierre Laval forms new cabinet expected to aid Axis war effort; Hitler reportedly shifts Marshal von Brundstedt from Russian front to take charge of occupied France, guarding rear against allied invasion attempt.

BURMA: Six Japanese columns, with 100,000 reinforcements, threaten encirclement of allied positions in central Burma by new flank attack trom Thailand.

AUSTRALIA: Americans report dropping 110 tons of bombs on Japanese in Philippines; allies re-

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Other developments: 1. Acting Secretary of State Sume ner Welles confirmed that American consular officials Bad renewed their suggestions that U. S. citizens in unoccupied France return home, but he stressed that this was a roue tine rather than an extraordinary move. 2. Laval was believed to have been ordered by Hitler to protect the French coast against invasion durs ing the showdown fighting in Russia this summer. It was reported in London that Hitler had withdrawn Marshal Karl R. G. Von Rundstedé from the Russian front and put him in charge of occupation forces in France. 3. The United States was expected to demand categorical pledges of (Continued on Page Four)

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