Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1942 — Page 1
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WELFARE LAW
SUIT TO SEEK
NEAL'S OUSTER
High Court Ruling in Skip §
Election to Be Basis Of New Fight.
Thomas welfare director
A move to oust as Marion county
by contesting the law which makes] him responsible to the state wel-| fare department will be instituted | here soon, Circuit Court Judge Earl!
R. Cox said today.
The announcement followed an-| long-standing who! state depart-' ment under a 1937 statute, and the!
other crisis in the dispute between the
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made Marion county the exception. | Claim Law Void
Basis for contending the law un -1 the recent] supreme court decision in the skip-|
constitutional will be
election law which stated that a law]
cannot discriminate against or for
one particular county, said.
Judge Cox|
wrote to Governor Schricker demanding that Mr. Neal be removed but that the governor did not reply to his letter. The latest case of disagreement came at the meeting of the county board yesterday when the board refused to act on the recommendation of Mr. Neal that the salary of an office worker be increased by reason of promotion. Mr. Neal said that he also warned the board if he were not able to appoint nine more investigators to raise the staff to meet state welfare | department requirements that the state would withhold reimburse-! ments for 50 per cent of the salaries of the department staff. He reminded the board that in a similar situation a year ago that the state withheld $60.000 for two months.
Opposed to More Help
Judge Cox, however, said he could see no reason for adding more | vestigators at a time when the relief load should be decreasing instead of increasing. But Mr. Neal said: “The director has the responsibility | of making appointments. No ap-| points can be made without the! approval of the board. The board; has the right and responsibility to) reject any appointment. “But the director must make the decisions. The question arose a year ago and it has come up sev-| eral times in the past. When it was referred to the state department, the state has ruled that ap-! pointments are to be made by the] director with the approval of the | county board. The board is policy-! making, not administrative The! duties of administrator are placed in the hands of the county director.” Judge Cox contends that the] county board was not intended to be a “rubber stamp™ and its function was to be the same as the board of directors of a corporation.
Truck Kills Child,
‘Safer at Home'
DILLSBORO. Ind., April 18 (U. P).—Shirley Wafford, 7. was | killed instantly late yesterday when she was hit by a truck near her home The child and her mother had returned only recently from Panama because the father, a deepsea diver for the navy, believed it was “safer at home,” the mother said.
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RAID I START OF OFFENSIVE, CAPITAL SAYS
‘Congress ny Elated but! | Official Washington Has
Nothing to Say.
WASHINGTON, April 18 (U, P)). —Military men and congressional {leaders today hailed the reported ‘bombing of Tokyo and other important Japanese industrial centers| las heralding the start of a real | American offensive. There was no official information {from the navy or war departments to confirm the Tokyo radio reports’ jof the aerial raids. Observers, as- | suming the Tokyo broadcasts to be true, believed the raids probably
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i - | Sir Stafferd Cripps (left) and Mohandas K. Gandhi, spiritual head of the potent Indian National party. are pictured together after they met for twe hours in New Delhi. Sir Stafford could not swav the Hindu saint and failed when the All-India Congress party rejected the British proposals for Indian dominion. He is now on his way back to England.
RAF FLIES INTO HEART OF REICH
7 Planes Lost as Bombs Crash Within 110 Miles
Of Hitler Hideout.
LONDON, April 18 (U. P)— Great Britain revealed today that it had sacrificed seven of a fleet of 12 giant Lancaster bombing
(until the carriers have returned od | their bases. | united nations, | States, are well-equipped to carry {out such a raid either by sea or {land-based planes. They pointed out that: 1. An American task force early i March raided Marcus island, en[emy base only 990 miles from Ja(pan's biggest port, and that a simitar force of aircraft carriers, cruisers
have slipped within striking distanee of the island kingdom.
Call Raid Morale Booster 2. Tokyo would be within easy range of giant bombers based on secret airfields along the China coast. A raid of this kind would require less daring than was displayed by army airmen in last
week's 4000 - mile hop, skip and) attack on:
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“bomb-hell-out-of-'em Japanese forces in the Philippines. In all quarters here there was
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in the grim business of getting | ahead with the winning of the war. Chairman Andrew J. May (D. Ky.) of the house military affairs committee said he believed the raid had taken place and that it was “the ‘beginning of a general offensive. Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga) (Centinued on Pane Two)
Augsburg, far inside only 110 miles from once-safe retreat at
on Germany and { Adolf Hitler's Berchtesgaden. Four of the planes were shot down south of Paris; three more; crashed to earth in the target area. But the planes bombed the great | Maschinefabrik - Augsburg - Nurem- | {berg works, popularly balled the | Man factory, which makes the diesel | motors for German submarines.
APS TAKE GEBU, 20 sor Tr Corman Sivas” CITY OF PHILIPPINES
at St. Nazaire and docks at Le American "Guns on the French coast while mines were deposited in enemy! waters. A fleet of bombers and! fighters also attacked air dromes in! France, Holland and Belgium. —The- Japanese apparently have It was from Augsburg that Rudclf captured Cebu, second largest city Hess, Hitler's heir, took off to fiy in the Philippines, a wer depart-
to Great Britain where he has since Ment communique said today. been imprisoned. ; Guns of our Manila bay forts sil-
The raid was made while it wasienced enemy batteries and blasted
(Continued on Page Two) roads and bridges in Bataan, —— oo Ty Reports from Cebu island, where
12000 Japanese troops landed a U, 3 AIRMEN FIRE |week ago, indicated that Cebu city
is in enemy hands. The city was reported to be burning, although Situation in Burma Battle Remains Critical. |
fierce fighting is still continuing in that general area. NEW DELHI, India. April 18 (U. | tinued throughout yesterday alP) —United States flying fortresses! though on a lesser scale than previ-
Blasting Roads in Bataan.
from our troops. Aerial bombardment and shelling jof Corregidor by the Japanese con-
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official reports from the U. S. navy
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Mother of Japs' Prisoner Debunks Tokyo Radio Story
WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P).—Mrs. Royal C. Johnson, mother of Lieut. Harlan T. Johnson who the Tokyo radio clainis was taken prisoner with five other navy pilots in an attack on “Japanese positions,” said early today that her son was captured during the navy's raid on the Marshall. islands more than two months ago. { gE received a notice from the navy department Feb. 12 that my son missing.” she said | Mrs, Johnson and the aviator's| | a Mrs. Harlan T. Johnson, said | 'they had believed “from the first” | that he had been taken prisoner | and was alive, | His wife did not know on what: {aircraft carrier her husband was! based. seen their men, women and (According to the Tokvo broad-| | children dead, mangled and cast. Mr. .Jjohnson and the other five | bleeding in the streets after prisoners were attached to the U. 8. | Japanese air raids and wist-
It's Happy Day For Chungking
CHUNGKING, China, Apri 18 (U. P.).—Chinese, who had
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aircraft carrier Yorktown.) fully wondered when Japan Both Mr. Johnson's wife and his| | Would be paid back, rejoiced mother said they had not received| | today in reports that Tokyo any messages from the flier, despite| | had been bombed. claims of the Tokyo radio that he Japanese reports of the atadvised them he and the other five| | tacks threw Chungking inte men were well. the greatest uproar since the | | His wife sald she had already| | outbreak of war. The news | | written him a letter to the Zent-| | spread like wildfire. suji prison camp. where the Tokyo Officials previously had said radio said he and the other five] | the bombing of Japan probmen were being kept. ably would mark the turning point in the war because of the vulnerability of Japanese industry.
U. $. REQUISITIONS
| a PRODUCTION NEAR RECORD
ABERDEEN, Md., April 18 (U. P), —Vice President Henry A. Wallace declared today that by July, the United States will be producing more war material than any nation
Some 8000 Japanese troops, who in their third major raid in the ously.
in the world.
landed on the island of Panay, near Cebu, are meeting stiff opposition India-Burma war theater heavily’ attacked the great Japanese inva-
Docks and harbor installations at the great Burmese port, near which! 40 Japanese transports with tens of thousands of fresh Japanese troops were reported three days ago, were
By DICK THORNBURG Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 18. — A story of a union labor boycott that followed a farmer's product from [hay to milk was unfolded by a house ‘judiciary subcommittee today in ‘hearings on the Monroney and situation re- pobhs bills, which would extend i ‘anti-trust laws and anti-racketeer-ing laws to include unions. SLAP-HAPPY JAPPY? E. C. Kimball of Ventura county, NEW YORK, April 18 (U. P.).— Cal. representing the California The Japanese must avoid worry Farm Bureau federation and the over air raids or “the Americans Agricultural Council of California. and British will clap their hands told the story. and laugh at us,” Mamoru Shige- A farmer in the Imperial valley,’ mitu. former Japanese ambassador Mr. Kimball told the committee, in Lendon, said at Tokyo today, ac- emvloved a truck driver to haul his cording to a British broadcast.
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gun fire without damage to planes! or personnel. The allied Burma mained critical,
bay to a customer-dairyman in told the committee.
ALL CARGO VESSELS
Farm Spokesman Claims Labor ‘Several Hundred Affected Boycott From Hay to Milk 8 War sissing order.
WASHINGTON. April 18 (U. P)). |Hines, Cal. The teamsters union ne war shipping administration ts a S20 men, | 8S requisitioned “all essential because the truck driver was not a Ocean-going tankers and dry cargo union man. , vessels owned by American citizens,” Mr. Kimball's example of sec- Admiral Emory S. Land, adminis-
ondary boycotts in this instance trator, announced today. sounded like the tale of the house The announcement said the action that Jace Bu When the Sirs: affected “several hundred vessels.” man e, union sai d the Ik produced by the cow The government already has wat “hot.” taken title to or is using 75 per cent “Thus the hot<cargo principle of U. S. freighter tonnage. | was first applied to the farmer who ‘produced the hay, then to the dairyman, then to the cow that ate the hay, and then to the milk the cow produced,” Mr. Kimball
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| Tokyo's nightmare is no longer a dream. Allied planes have started the bombing of Japan's islands with their great cities of flimsy houses. The above map shows the location of Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and elation over the news from Tokyo, Nagoya, all under air attack. It also reveals the vulnerable spots whenever the allied air offensive reaches
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| Explosives Crash Down on Yokohama, Kobe
And Nagoya During Five-Hour Attack: Damage Minimized. by Foe.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
American bomber squadrons carried the war to Japan with surprise raids on Tokyo and three other great enemy war centers today in the boldest of many united nations aerial blows from France to the tropical islands of the southwest Pacific. The glow of fires—greatest fear of Japanese in cr owded, flimsy cities—spread in the wake of high explosives crashing down on Tokyo (7,000,000 population), Yokohama (650,000 population), Kobe (800,000 population) and the vast navalindustrial city of Nagoya (900,000 population).
News of the attack came only from Radio Tokyo imme« diately after the five-hour aerial attack which was launched from many directions and which the Japanese said resulted in destruction of nine attacking planes. The Japanese obvi
‘ously did not know where the attackers were based, but the
‘Tokyo report, that machine-gun fire was directed at targets suggested that the planes were small craft from a carrier rather than long-distance heavy bombers. Earlier specula~ tion that flying fortresses had flown from bases in China, however, was strongly discounted.
Tokyo Admits Fires Started Radio Tokyo at first said allied planes had bombed the world’s third largest city. Later it was heard in a Chinese language broadcast recorded by CBS in San Francisco as saying: “American planes raided Tokyo for the first time.” After hours in which it asserted first that no damage
RUSS HOPE TO FREE KEY DNEIPER CITY
Claim Finnish Defenses on
Karelian Front Pierced. |
KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April 18 (U. P.).—The Soviet press reported increasing Russian guerrilla activity fon the southwest front today and expressed belief that the Red army soon would liberate Dnepropetrovsk, key industrial city on the big bend of the Dneiper river 120 miles be[low Kharkov. Dispatches from the southwestern front said Soviet guerrilla forces {had “blow up” the German army | headquarters wit.ain the city limits {of Dnepropetrovsk. Warehouses stocked with German supplies and department store also were reported demolished by Russian
One press report told how com-
Soviet peasants in the Smolensk including five Nazi generals, during the past nine
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On the War Fronts
(April 18, 1942)
PAN—American bombers attack goon Kobe, Yokohama and Nagoya.
AUSTRALTIA—Allied bombers again attack Japanese invasion base at| Koepang; MacArthur, with new instructions, is creating supreme staff for united nations.
BURMA — U. S. flying fortresses! batter Japanese reinforcements at! Rangoon.
GERMANY — British bombers in daring low-level attack bomb vital German submarine engine factory at Augsburg, only 110 miles from ‘Hitler's mountain retreat.
PHILIPPINES — Japanese capture Cebu city which is aflame but fighting continues fiercely elsewhere on Cebu island; enemy landing forces opposed on Panay island; bombing of Corregidor continues,
RUSSIA—Red army believed nearing Dnepropetrovsk, key city on big bend of Dnieper river; Russians break through Finnish defense lines in Karelia in imper-
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had been done and then that damage was slight, Tokyo ———— admitted that incendiary bombs had caused fires at Nagoya and Kobe, two of Japan's greatest cities. The attacks extended over a 275-mile area of the south coast of Honshiu, the main Japanese island, along which all pon s greatest cities are strung.
7-Hour Alarm, Berlin Says
Tokyo had an air raid alarm period extending from ‘shortly before noon to around 4 p. m. Berlin said the air raid alert lasted seven hours. The alarm was sounded throughout the Japanese ise land group from Hokkaido in the far north to Tohoku and Kuyshu in the southwest. Admission that the allied planes had used incendiary bombs meant that Japan for the first time had been brought face to face with its deadliest peril—mass fires along the flimsily built homes of wood and paper which form large parts of her cities. Central defense headquarters at Tokyo said fires at Nagoya and Kobe had been brought under control by 4 p. m, It said incendiary bornbs had been dropped at six places “in the vicinity of ” Nagoya and that three places at Kobe were hit with fire bombs. There was no report as to the damage at Yokohama.
Nerve Centers Attacked
Kobe is the greatest ship building center and port of Japan and one of the greatest in the Far East. It is on the inland sea at the head of Osaka bay and about 300 miles southwest of Tokyo. It is a center for match face tories, spinning mills and many other industries. But Yokohama, only 20 miles from Tokyo, also is a ‘big shipping center with four great naval shipyards, five ‘drydocks (of which two can handle battleships) and a nums‘ber of big construction slips. Nagoya, also on the coast southwest of Tokyo, is one of Japan's greatest manufacturing centers and of vital ime ‘portance in war production. In striking at these targets, the American bombers were attacking the nerve centers of Japan's war effort. Japan and all the world had known long before the war that every city in it was vulnerable to fire bomb attacks and that after the first enemy plane had flown over the country its people would never, so long as the war lasted, sleep another night feeling secure.
Apparently Caught Unaware
Tokyo asserted that nine allied planes had been shot down by interceptor planes in the vicinity of crowded, fire fearing Tokyo with its 7,000,000 people. Broadcasts which spoke of thousands strolling the streets when the air raid alarm sounded, just before allied planes began flying over Tokyo from all directions, indicated that the city was caught completely unaware. Tokyo said that noon-day rush crowds kept on their (Contin Page Two)
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