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"PAGE 2 By FRANK HEWLETT

(Copyright, 1842, by United Pres.)

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, April 18. —On the night of April 1 the beginning of the end for the Bataan defenders started. But in the days intervening before the fall, every able bodied man in the peninsula and many who were not, fought with everything they had. They had no hope of victory, no hope of reinforcement. The Japanese attacked day and night with dive bombers, high altitude bombers, artillery, and always with more and more men. Every reserve man was in action. As a last resort, Gen. Jonathan NM. Wainwright ordered extra rations issued from his scanty store. The rations were waiting at the last defense line to which the men withdrew. The Japanese sensed the kill, and they drove on relentlessly. The Americans and Filipinos were outflanked on their eastern wing and they were thrown back along the main highway.

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ON THE NIGHT OF April 8 Gen. Wainwright held a conference with his commanders. It was agreed that further resistance was hopeless. The pitifully few men who could be withdrawn wers taken to Corregidor fortress in Manila bay. On the night of April 9, after a sleepless night, 1 watched the nearby wooded tip of Bataan peninsula from Corregidor. The firing went in intermittently. Then it began to dwindle. There was an occasional flurry at the last. The Bataan army which was beaten had been starving slowly for weeks. It was ridden with malaria and dysentery. In the last days there were 10,000 patients in the two field hospitals: anether 10,000 troops had malaria but were able to stick it out; some of these had dysentery also. Rations had been cut in half in January. They were cut in half again in the last weeks. Then the quinine gave out, and the rainy season was coming to mosquito-infested Bataan, one of the malaria pest holes of the world.

RAF FLIES INTO HEART OF REICK

7 Planes Lost as Bombs Crash Within 110 Miles Of Hitler Hideout.

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still light but the British planes, intent on destruction, attacked from low level and two dived to 200 feet above the sprawling works to drop their bombs and see them burst fairly in the target. It was just after 8 p. m. when the planes dropped their bombs. The five survivors landed at their bases well before midnight. : While the Lancasters were flying homeward, a great force of British planes went over to bomb Hamburg, Germany's greatest and mostbombed port.

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OFFENSIVE ON. CAPITAL FEELS

Congress Happy Over Raid But Official Washington Has Nothing to Say.

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Elmo Latta, who won the local Golden Gloves flyweight title in 1941, is stationed at Panama with the marines. Latta, after winning in the local tournament, went on to Chicago and won his § first two | fights \ before dropping - the third. \ He has been in Panama since December. A

of the house naval affairs committee, said “it appears to me that the allied nations are beginning to take the offensive.” | Chairman J. Buell Snyder (D.|J Pa) of the house war department! Warr high : ANN ashington Ce te rts ot ave pt Late schol” graduate | he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. ‘boosting morale, not only at home Charles Latta, S. Holmes ave. | but especially in China and Russia.”| John William Ball, Lg 's T. Ball, R. R. 4, White House Silent 50, Tor gregusted from the naval House Democratic Leader John aviation radio school at Alameda, W. McCormack of Massachusetts Cal. and is awgiting transfer to the

Gave Out

Tth Day of Non-Stop Raids

This was the seventh day of Britain’s greatest and most ferocious aerial] offensive of the war. During the six days ended at midnight British planes had been attacking enemy and enemy occupied territory day and night on a 24-hour-a-day basis. An air armada, the thunder of its motors shaking the ground, crossed the channel toward France early last night. Radio Berlin broadcast that British bombers had showered “residential quarters” of Hamburg with incendiaries. Radio Berlin said five of the bombers were shot down. Augsburg is an important chemfcal manufacturing center and the home of the Messerschmitt plane works. Observers said the raid on that city was the most spectacular of the war, because it was a 1000-mile flight, and Augsburg is 400 miles farther inside Germany than any point the British previously had raided in the daytime It is 35 miles northwest of Munich.

Axis Outdone in Distance

Observers said yesterday's raid and the recent American raid on the Japanese in the Philippnies was further evidence that the allies had out-stripped the axis in long-range bomber production. In yesterday’ sweeps into Germany and northern France numerous Bostons (Douglas bombers). besides the long-range bombers that visited Augsburg. were used. indicating that the R. A. F was increasing the strength of its offensive 100 planes a dav. The Germans raided a south coast town in England last night that they had raided the night before. Their bombers flew and scattered high explosives and fire bombs over a wide residential area. There was considerable damage and some casualties in the at-

tack which lasted almost an hour!

and a half.

CLUB TO HEAR BOULTON

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day.

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2 ARE PENALIZED IN TIRE RATIONING CASE

Two persons who confessed to tire rationing violations were given heavy sentences here vesterday by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. He fined the LaSalle Motor Sales Corp. of Boonville $1000, sentenced its president, Charles I. Hart, to 18 months in prison and fined him $500, snd sentenced its secretary treasurer. Russell W. Baker, to one year and one day in prison and fined him $250. Baker's sentence was suspended and he was placed on probation for {three years after Judge Baitzell ex-

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as guilty as Hart. The indictment returned here Feb. 13 alleged that a truck load of tires was removed from the sales room to the basement Hart's home in an attempt to avoid the rationing order. Both men pleaded guilty to conspiracy to falsify their dealers’ report of stocks of new tires and tubes.

COULTER CALLS FOR STRAIGHT THINKING

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pressed tie opinion that he was net! | from a point still nearer the coast.

(said that “from now on Japan can | expect to be on the receiving end.” White House Secretary Stephen T. Barly said “I know nothing |about” the bombing. Senator Lister Hill (D. Ala) said | the raids were “just a heginning— hardly a token compared to what | we are going to give the Japs.” | Senator Sheridan Downey (D.| Cal) declared that “we have got to| be prepared to take it and give it! —and T hope we can give more than we take” Unofficial sources, recalling the March raid on Marcus island by an American task force, including a carrier, said it appeared likelv now that a stronger naval force probably has penetrated through the Japanese defenses to launch planes

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There were other possibilities. however, such as the basing of long range bombers on the mainland of Asia. Believe Risk Justified These sources believed that the undoubted effect of such a foray on the Japanese people, plus whatever material damage to Nipponese war {industries resulted, would justify the ‘risk. * If conducted by ecarrier-hased naval planes, it would require some time for official

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John graduated from Technical high school and had been employed by Roy Burns, Bloomington, Ind. grocer, soon will be eligible for a petty officer rating.

Join Air Corps Harold L. Ballard, 913 E. Market st, and Charles W. Heathco, 85 N. Hawthorne lane, were enlisted in

the army air corps Thursday and

are on furlough pending assignment

to air fields.

They were sworn in at the avia-

tion cadet examining board 1, located in the Y. M. C. A. building, Lafayette, Ind. tests and physical examinations are given there daily, except Sunday, for youths between 18 and 26. in-

Mental aptitude

terested in becoming pilots, navigators or bombardiers.

‘Commission Near

Samuel J. Copeland Jr. son of Dr. Samuel Copeland, 3703 N. Sherman drive, who has been in officers training school in the quartermaster's department at Camp Lee, Va., will receive his commission as a second ‘lieutenant April 25. Dr. Copeland will attend the ex-

confirmation. ercises at which his son will fe= American warships in enemy waters ceive the commission. After a short |

“Our boys. shoot straight. Ti g] [variably blackout their radio sets furlough, the younger Copeland will

rest of us must think straight,” iJohn G. Coulter. candidate for the | Republican congressional nomination, said at a series of political meetings last night. “Straight thinking about the war and what is necessary to win it would lead to large Republican gains in this district,” he added. ‘There is at Washington a battlefront that must be firmly held—an unceasing battle against groups and interests that are more concerned with advantage to themselves than in winning the war. | “To win this battle against those ‘who would reap profit from this | war, Republican reinfor¢ements are jnecessary. Our boys must not be (betrayed by any conflict of inter-

{ests or slackness of effort on our

part.”

| MARSHALL IN IRELAND

| BELFAST, North Ireland. April (18 (U. P).—Gen. George C. Maryshell, United States chief of staff, |arrived today to inspect American |expeditionary force: training in | northern Ireland. He was accom{panied by Harry ©. Hopkins,

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|to prevent betrayal of their positions to Japanese forces and announcements of their activities thus must aweit their return to home bases. : Carriers Probably Used

Most observers felt that if the Tokyo radio reports on the bombing | raid are authentic, the attacking’ planes most likely were U. 8. naval craft operating from one or more carriers from waters close to the island kingdom.

anese reportedly have a sizable naval force in the Indian ocean and that the remainder of its fleet undoubtedly is spread out guarding the extended supply lines to the southwest Pacific. In this connection, they recalled that the American task force under Vice Admiral William F. Halsey {which raided Marcus and Wake islands in late February and early idarch encountered little opposition fin its daring foray. Striking within 1000 niles of | Yokohama, that attack virtually deIstroyed all base facilities at the two outposts in the screen of bases protecting both Japan proper and its supply lines to the southern war area.

Hardly From Australia

Ruling out the Soviet Union which has a nonageression agreement with Japan, the Chinese coast is the nearest point from which land-based bombers could operate against Nippon. Tokyo is at least 1000 miles from the closest spot on the coastline—about the maximum range of the early version of the Boeing flying fortress homber, a range which has been extended in later models. Extreme distances would seem to rule out the possibility that the) planes could have come from

from the secret Philippine bases, from which the American long-! range bombers in last week's raid harassed the invader on _Luson, Cebu and Mindanao islands.

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Joe Gardner Promoted

Joe D. Gardner, a flight instruetor at Gunter field, Montgomery, Ala., has been promoted from the

14 SOLDIERS TREATED FOR WRECK INJURIES

They pointed out that the Jap: | Fourteen U. S. army privates re- |

mained at Ft. Harrison's Billings hospital for checkups today as the

FBI and New York Central rail-:

road continued an investigation of the crash of their troop train near Yorktown yesterday. Ft. Harrison officers said there was no hint of sabotage and the investigations were “routine.” The soldiers were on their way irom Camp Perry, O, to Jefferson Barracks, Mo.,, when the five-coach troop train collided with a freight. Railroad officials said a mixup in signals apparently caused the crash. George Louden of Indianapolis, the troop train engineer, and Gerald McMullen of Bellefontaine, O., the fireman, also were injured.

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THERE WAS PLENTY

1,000,000 rounds of 30-caliber cartridges for rifles and machine guns were destroyed at the last. meter and 155-millimeter guns blazed away until the white

flag was brought out.

I saw the men in Bataan day by day through all the They began the fight as seasoned, strong, carefree fighting men; at the end every man had lost weight and they wete dragging themselves by will power alone

siege.

into action.

They had eaten all the carabao (the Philippines buf-

falo) on the peninsula; they 26th cavalry and most of the stewed monkey and still ther

On my arrival in Australia with the bombing fleet that went from here to bomb the Philippines, I saw a magnificent team of Clydesdale horses. My first thought was what a meal they would have made for a regiment in Bataan.

rank of second lieutenant to first lieutenant. Lieut. Gardner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest I. Gardner, 29 W. 28th st, joined the air corps in July, 1940. He was graduated from Shortridge high school and attended Indiana university.

Caldwell Major Now Capt. Ellsworth N. Caldwell, who formerly served with the 113th observation squadron of the Indiana

national guard at Stout field, has been promoted to : major by order of . the secretary of war. E This is the second time, Maj. Caldwell has been promoted since he has been stationed at Key field at Meridian, Miss., having attained the rank of captain in

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Maj. Caldwell January. Maj. Caldwell concluded 22 years of army service last month. He served as an enlisted man until 1928 when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the air corps. He served 15 months in France during World War I. » » This smiling youth is Pvt. Lewis R. Hayes, who before joining up with Uncle Sam was a Fortville, Ey Ind., boy. : Pvt. Hayes is on duty at prestent with the army © air corps unit

Mobile, Ala., field. His mother is Mrs. Cleta Hayes, who lives in FortEk ville at 506 S. Oak st. Lewis has a brother, Donald Pvt. Hayes G., who is Times carrier.

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Report at Fort

The following men from Board 6 reported to Ft. Harrison Thursday for induction into the army: Pr Partie re es 52 RN

Chester; Herschel Leroy Gauker. 504 West Drive, No. 8: George A. DeWaard. 5901 E.

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ler, 1235 N. Delaware, No. ; James Owen Brown, 4306'2 E. New York, No. 1 Max Webb Owen, 619 N. DeQuincy: Harold Winfield Smith, 890 N. Gladstone; Ray Clevian Hawk, 940 N. Chester; Cecil Lional Powers, 5031 E. New York; Henry Anthony Carter, 5122 E. St. Clair; Robert Hinderliter, 5327 English; Henry

Lewis Sieg,

son, Beech Grove; lis Bennett,

Robert Walkerton, Ind.; William EI 14 N. Kealing: Harold Edward Cunning3

am, 852 N. Keystone; Roy Edward Shook, 25 College; Odes Allen Spears, 322 N. LaSalle; John Herman Kennington, 711 | Bhelby: David Aaron Elliott, 28 E. 16th | No, 301; Vernon Nagle, 17 E. ith: Glendon {Dale Bowers, 35 Layman; Donald Charles | Meyer, 5802 Brookville: Robert Newton Montgomery, 2340 Broadway: Richard Warren Shores, 6309 Washington blvd. Robert Howard Wilmoth, 3520 E. Washington Herbert George Ingram, 315 N. Arlington; Henry Schweitzer, R. R. 10, box 358; Daniel Francis Mischler, 221 N. Gray: i Charles Grundv Morse, 2217 Broadway; | Lawrence Herbert Carver, 1435 LaGrande, iNo. 2; Allan Robert Vestal 431 N. Gray; | LeRoy PErnest Harmon, 3615 E .Washington; John David Paul, 5342 E. Washington; Herbert Merlin Linville, Detroit; olla Wilson Sims, Chicago. Bruce Brown, 509 N. Riley: Price, 548 N. Gray, Ernest Alfred Schenk, 49835 Sheldon: Philip Longacre Johnson, 940 N. LaSalle; George Silas Russell, 3703 E. Washington, No. 7: Theodore Nohl Meixner, 910 N. LaSalle; Charles William Bauer, 4212 EB. Washington; James Mahlon Mitchell, Joliet, Ill.; Clifford Wade Rosenbarger, 1032 College, No. 2: Jack Pape, 6306 B®. Washington; Woodrow Wilson Imboden, 1617 N. New Jersey, Harold Edward Terry, 5478 Hibben: John Franklin Allen, 402 E. 28th: James Albert Wilson, 3026 E. Washington: William James Nimal, 1935 N. Meridian: Frank Guthrie Arford, 406 S. { Sheridan: John Bdward Unger, 6061 E.

WASHINGTON, April 18 (U. P) If war ration book No. 1 is ever : used for anything beside sugar, it probably will be for coffee, tea or Ment of the raid, Tokyo had broad-

fats, it was learned today.

Representatives of the office of price administration stressed, how. |than 400 houses in the village of

the beverages or fats.

! They said the books were not!

adapted to gasoline rationing. Rationing of clothing probably woul® follow a point system comparable to Britain's current technique=if that ever becomes necessary. With the registration of some 130,000,000 Americans scheduled for May 4 to 7, it would be a relatively simple matter to extend the sugar rationing system to other widelyused commodities, such as tea or

This could be done by designating a special coupon in the war ration book No. 1 as good for a food other than sugar. At the present time each of the first four stamps will be used to purchase a pound of

| sugar every two weeks. Officials

said that their “guess” on

of ammunition. More than $2.50, for a single cigaret.

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Dozens of times, I heard

In Heroic Battle For Bataan

IN BATAAN, I saw soldiers pay as much as 5 pesos,

I saw men form queues so

that each could take a puff at the one cigaret which one

men say such things as:

“When 1 hit Frisco I'm going to the best restaurant

T-bone steak in town.”

had eaten the horses of the rest of my life.” pack mules. They had eaten e was not enough food.

some more Japanese,

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way as did streetcars and busses, thinking that it was a practice alarm. : Emphasizing Japan's constant fear for the safety of its Emperor Hirohito, whom it believes to be a more than human descendant of the goddess of the sun, Tokyo went out of its way to announce that the imperial family was “well.”

Seek to Minimize Damage

There had been no report of an indisposition to any member of it. Tokyo in its first reports of the raid said that heavy damage was done to homes, schools, hospitals and cultural institutions. It sought later to minimize the damage and said that homes, a school and a hospital

were hit. Tokyo said that two planes raided Nagoya, Japan's third city. Kobe on the south coast, 10 miles

they put off from aircraft carriers. | The nearest point on the China| coast, ahove Shanghai, is nearly 1100 miles from Tokyo and that area is occupied by the Japanese.

There are American flying fortresses in Australia, far "out of

and order rice and salmon. Then I'm going to push them aside and laugh at them while I put down the biggest

I remember a young Alabaman who said: “I'm never gonna leave home again when I get there. I'll be willing to hoe cotton from sunrise to sunset for the

These men are now prisoners of the Japanese. Among them, I believe, is Capt. Arthur Wermuth of Chicago, “the one-man army,’ more than 100 Japanese single handed. Capt. Kermuth and his heavy-weapons company went up into the front line toward the last to get themselves

’ who is credited with killing

American Bombers Carry War to Tokyo; Nine Planes Shot Down, Japanese Report

dinary achievement while participae ting in an aerila flight.” This achievement was to fly to the great plane's extreme range and take complete photographs of an “enemy base.” Announcements of United States naval and air attacks on Japanese or Japanese-held areas customarily have been delayed considerably, sometimes for weeks. This is a matter of military necessity to some degree at least because attacking naval formations would use their radios as little ag possible while in enemy areas. Tokyo was broadcasting a musical program, aimed at foreign countries, when it interrupted with the first statement on today’s announcement. The announcer spoke in English. The music was resumed; then the same statement was broadcast in Japanese. As heard in San Francisco, the Japanese-language statement said:

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north of the great industrial city of Osaka, was raided by a single plane, according to Tokyo. An important shipbuilding and industrial city, it has gained much importance since the 1823 earthquake.

Japs Fish For Clues

After the first statement that there had been no damage at Kobe and Nagoya, the Tokyo radio breadcast the following communique, recorded by the United Press at New York: “Osaka—Central defense headquarters announced at 3 p. m. (1 a. m. Indianapolis war time): “Three enemy planes raided Nagoya and Kobe. Only slight damage wags caused. “At 2:30 p. m. two enemy planes raided Nagoya. Although they dropped bombs damage was slight. “One enemy aircraft raided Kobe around 2:30, dropping incendiary ‘bombs, but no serious damage was caused. Apparently mystified as to the at|tack base of the planes, Tokyo at | once began fishing for clues.

| No Allied Confirmation

It first reported that six American navy aviators of the aircraft carrier Yorktown were prisoners in

Japan, but this was a misfire because it was known these fliers were | | captured many weeks ago in a navy raid on the Marshall islands. Next Tokyo circulated "an un-| [confirmed rumor” that a United | States aircraft carrier had been ‘sunk today off the Japanese east! coast. Washington did not bite. The war department in Washington said it had no confirmation that there had been an air attack on Tokyo. The navy department

formation. Likewise, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's southwest Pacific headquarters in Australia said it had no

132 Days After Pearl Harbor

The raid on Tokyo came 132 days after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The radio interrupted a routine program ‘to give you this flash” in the first official statement “of the raid, which said: “Enemy bombers appeared over Tciyo for the first time since the outbreak of the current war of greater Bast Asia. “The bombing inflected telling damages on schools and hospitals. “The raid occurred several mine utes past noon on Saturday. “The invading planes failed to cause any damage to military establishments.

Termed Inhuman

“Casualties in the schools and | hospitals are not yet known. | “The inhuman attack on these cultural establishments and the residential districts is causing widespread indignation among the

populace.” It was noted that a little while

Australia, some 3500 miles away, or ever, that no preparations were underway for immediate rationing of

what the ration book stamps might be used for were based on: (1) transportation difficulties in bringing goods to the United States and (2) war-engineered shortages of materials. Both tea and coffee are imported and shortages have arisen through transportation handicaps. Tea stocks have been stretched by war production board orders limiting sales. The coffee supply has been curtailed by axis U-boat attacks on freighters from Latin American ports. Fats and oils are hit both by shortages of imports from the Far East and by accelerated demands for them in war production. For example, glycerine needed for mune itions requires some fats and oils,

before broadcasting the announce{cast that fire had destroyed more

|Oguni in northern Japan and that it was feared casualties would prove high. Tokyo is in southern Japan. The raid increased mystery over a Tokyo broadcast Thursday night, which took occasion to deny reports, alleged to have been put out by a British news agency, that three allied planes had bombed This seemed to suggest that today’s raid might have been the second— not the first, as the Japanese said— on Tokyo. Mystery also was attached to the base the allied planes used, unless

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range, and in India overland from China. Brig. Gen. Ralph Rqyce, who led the bold flight of United States army air corps heavy bombers in an attack on the Philippines last week-end, said on his return to Australia that Burma was the vital spot from which to attack the Japanese. He said that if the allied nations could get sufficient heavy bombers in Burma they could strike across China and cut Japan's southward communications from the Philippines, and could be used, with refueling bases in China, for raids on Japan. Tokyo's announcement at once brought vividly to mind the award on April 13 at Honolulu of the distinguished flying cross to four officers and five enlisted men who carried out “a hazardous and important mission over enemy territory” and displayed “heroism and extraor-

. « «+ A number of bombs were dropped. The enemy planes did not attempt to hit military establishe ments and only inflicted damace on grammar schools, hospitals and cultural establishments, These planes were repulsed by a heavy barrage from our defense guns. The previous training of the Tokyo populace for air raid defense was put into immediate practice.” About 90 minutes later Japanese eastern army headquarters gave vu its statement, saying the damage was slight and asserting that nine raiding planes had been destroyed. This statement was amplified to say that the planes failed to ape pear over the center of Tokyo, but “batted about, releasing a few bombs on the outskirts of the city.” It said Japanese interceptor planes at once took chase and “the hostile planes were seen winging at high speed but were made easy

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