Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1942 — Page 4
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TERROR FLARES War
AGAIN IN FRANCE
Nazis in Paris Attacked, “Troop Train Wrecked as Laval Adds to Power. (Continued from Page One)
neutrality as the minimum price of continued relations with this country There was doubt in some quarters whether even the strongest assurance by France would be considered satisfactory fo the United States if developments show that Laval is to have unhampered control of French policy. Mr. Welles probably will ask French Ambassador Gaston HenryHaye tonight for a full explanation of the new cabinet’s policies and its intentions toward Germany Paradoxically, that demand is expected to be made when HenryHaye calls at the state department to protest Mr. Welles’ recent note on American recognition of the Free French government of equatorial Affica. Vichy angrily rejected that note a few hours after Lavals rise to power was revealed and degeribed it as a propaganda document couched in insulting terms. Mr. Welles’ note had referred to “that handful of Frenchmen who + « . have sordidly and abjectly, under the guise of ‘collaboration.’ attempted to prostitute their counEconomic Ald Suspended The United States has suspended economic aid to French North Africa and shipments of food and clothing to the children of unoccupied France. Mr, Welles said yesterday that plans for resumption of the shipments, formulated during the general accord with. Vichy reached April 7, were being held in abeyance. The ships were being loaded in New York but the projected kailings were abruptly cancelled. Some Washington observers have felt that Germany would benefit more than the United States by a break in relations between Vichy and this country. While relations are maintained, the people of France have the hope of eventually winning freedom from Nazi overlordship. Once the prop of American friendship were removed, the French people would have only the bitter alternatives of revolt against
their leaders or subservience to their German conguerors. Also, Laval and his colleagues| could then enlarge the scope of their collaboration, turning over the! French fleet to the Germans and Italians, furnishing military and naval bases on French territory and giving Germany more economic assistance in the form of manpower,
Industries fo Open Up Many New Jobs for Women
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While most of Indianapolis sleeps, girls are attending classes from 1 a. m. to 7 a. m. at Technical high school, learning to run lathes, drill presses and other machinery, There aren't so many girls out there yet but more classes will be added when needed.
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Eligible for Jobs After Training
OUT AT OLD SCHOOL 81, girls are being taught how to inspect parts. When they finish their courses, they will be eligible for eivil service jobs with the government. These training courses Aare somewhat of an experiment because although the women and girls are learning what they want to know, the schools and univertrain them. It mey develop that it takes longer to train women for some jobs than it does men, or it may take less time. So, after a time, the courses may be streamlined a little more to fit women’s abilities. Industries are experimenting, sities are also learning how to also. The big Allison airplane engine factory has hired some girls. When the news got around. there was a rush on the Allison employment office which was overwhelmed by girls who wanted to work there. Actually, Allison is hiring very few girls how but it realizes that the time is coming when onefourth to one-third of its jobs
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Girls Make Good On ‘Prop’ Plant Jobs
THE CURTISS-WRIGHT propeller factory already is using girls on the production lines. One foreman admitted that he was worried when he was told he would have girls in his department. But now he praises them and would like to have more. Girls are especially good. he said, at routine work that takes nimble fingers and patience, such as soldering, relay assembly, bending wire around small parts. On such work thev are better than men, Apparently the major concerns are planning to pay women as much ag men—provided they do as much work and as well. In many cases, however, it will be necessary to “dilute” jobs; that is. break them down into several jobs so women will be able to do the work. In sweh eases, women probably will not get as much pay as men who do the whole job.
THE INDIAN U.S. PILOTS FLY WITH RAF
Russians Capture Dozens , Of Strong Points in 1st Major Spring’ Battle.
(Continued from Page One) hla, about 40 miles north of Toun-
The six enemy columns including
3 that thrust out from Thailand in
an effort to flank the Chinese under Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell were in action in central Burma in an ef-
WN fort to win a decision before the
After spending half the night at Technical high school learning to operate machines, these women and girls wash up before going home or to work.
WOMEN ARE GOING into farm work, too. At Elwood and elsewhere in this area, International Harvester Co. is training “tractorettes,” women who will run tractors and do other farm work. A mother and daughter, several high school girls and the wife of a man who recently lost his WPA job are taking the tractor course. “Here's why I am learning to run this machine,” said a girl at a drill press in the Technical high school shop. “My husband just left for Panama. He's in the air corps. I've got a job but it’s not doing anything that would help him.”
= ® 2 THERE ARE GOING to be many disappointments, however, if women go out to the war factories now hunting a job. Most factories aren’t ready for them
rainy season immobilizes the armed forces in May.
Fierce Blows in Europe
The Japanese gains in Burma— threatening the gateway to India and the Chinese supply line—were partly offset by powerful allied blows against the axis in Burope, where the R. A. F. kept up a nonstop aerial offensive with the aid of American Eagle and Canadian pilots and the Red army cut deeper into the German lines protecting Hitler's
ansk. The aerial offensive against Hitler in western Europe entered its fifth day of intensive fighting with every indications that the British air force intended to keep on hammering enemy targets every hour.
the German industrial cities of the {Ruhr last night and big formations of Spitfires and Hurricane fighterbomber planes resumed the attack on the Buropean coast as soon as daylight permitted.
ping and any other targets that could be found were attacked by the planes, which frequently have been forced to fight off strong enemy fighter squadrons.
Drop Tons of Bombs The air ministry, reporting four
vet and neither are most of the Job-seekers ready for jobs. The factories and schools work closely with the U. S. employment service. The employment managers tell the government job service how many workers they will need and the schools gear their training programs accordingly. Thus, they give ghis advice: If you want to do war work, don't take up the time of the factory personnel managers until you find out if they are hiring women vet and until you know you are trained sufficiently to hold down a job. There will be plenty of places on the production lines for women when the time comes.
British craft missing, said that a German torpedo boat was one of the targets damaged by a diving Spitfire’s cannon. So great was the force of bomb explosions on the French side of the channel today that the English
who thrilled at Spitfire and Hurricane fighters (the Hurricanes newly fitted with bomb racks), and American-built bombers filling the air with the roar of their motors, steaming across in continuous formations toward France.
were now being dropped by the royal air force. Targets of every sort were being attacked throughout the day and night. So terrific was
the attack that
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Big British bombers ranged over |
Factories, railroads, docks, ship-|
coast shook beneath the watchers!
Hundreds of tons of bombs a day
there were few challenges now by | German fighter planes and the | British bombing planes were at- | tacking at low level. | ‘The British aerial attacks were | designed primarily to break up the enemy rear lines and thus weaken | Hitler's preparations: for a summer | offensive in southern Russia, but they also were regarded as a token of the allies determination to reply ruthlessly to any attempt by the new Vichy government under Pierre Laval to give further military aid to the axis. On the Russian fighting front, the Red army reported it had
broken 30 fierce German counter
attacks on the central sector and had taken domens of enemy strong points, most of them in the Bryansk area.
The Germans had one of their best “hedge hog" defense systems in the Bryansk area, designed to protect that city of 400,000 which is the anchor of the main part of their south-central front. For weeks the Russians have been infiltrating into this system, which consists of a series of many small and large fortified points extending like spearheads out from Bryansk. For the last few days they have been fighting on the outskirts of one of these large fortified towns and dispatches from Kuibyshev to
day said that the first major battle of the spring appeared to be in progress there.
London dispatches, piecing together recent reports from Russia, had suggested that the town under attack was Bryansk itself and the British radio broadcast a dispatch purportedly from Kuibyshev saying that fighting was in progress outside Bryansk. Today, however, dispatches from Kuibyshev said that the Russians had not yet permitted announcement of the name of the town under attack but that it was not Bryansk. The battle is raging, however, on the Bryansk sector. Dispatches from Chungking said
Son | a that the 240-mile central Burma front was ablaze and that the Japanese had opened a third front by pushing a column westward from Thailand in an effort to flank the Chinese in the Myohla sector, about 150 miles south of Mandalay, Chungking said that the Japanese had landed 100,000 reinforcements from 40 ships in an effort to speed up their offensive. In the island north of Australia, the allied air forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur continued their pounding attacks on Japanese bases, raiding Koepang again in what appeared to be almost continuous bombing attacks on three or four main enemy bases,
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