Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1942 — Page 1
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WEDNESDAY, ‘APRIL 22, 1942
Nazis Crack Down On Unrest;
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Far-reaching changes
side chat.
is said to include:
2. A ceiling—$25,000
would be allowed to retain.
skilled workers.
commodity prices.
6 Major Steps in F. D. R.'s
Anti-Inflation Program
are foreshadowed in the anti-inflation program which President Roosevelt will present to Congress in a special message Monday and later to the nation in a fire-
The President’s program, still subject to revision,
1. A 99 per cent excess profits tax on all corporation earnings over six per cent of capitalization.
ing considered—on individual incomes, justment of income tax rates. tax schedules would apply to the income a person
3. A directive to the war labor board prohibiting any further increases in the wages of high-bracketed
4. A general ceiling over all retail and wholesale
5. Rationing of all consumer goods. 6. Vigorous prosecution of the treasury’s voluntary war bond sale campaign. (Further Details, Page Four)
in America’s economic life
and $50,000 a year are bethrough adThe regular and sur-
WHITE, CHAMBERS
LEAD IN
BAR POLL
Lawyers Put Blue Far Ahead as G. 0. P. Prosecutor Choice, Hagemeier for Democrats; Markey
Also Out
in Front.
With more than half of the ballots counted in the Indianapolis Bar association pre-primary judicial poll, Municipal Judge Dan C. White, Republican, and Judge Smiley N. Chambers, incumbent, Democrat, were leading in the two races for indorsement as probate court judge nominees. Judge White had built up a sizable lead over his oppo-
nent, Edwin McClure, while] Judge Chambers also had a! substantial edge over his op-| ponent, David M. Lewis, for-|
mer prosecutor. In the Republican prosecutor Sherwood Blue was far out in front | over Glenn W. Funk, while on the Democratic side, Oscar Hagemier was leading a four-candidate field with Maurice P, Harrell, a surprise second. Superior Judge Joseph T. Markey, who reportedly is opposed by the Democratic organization, was leading his three opponents for Superior Room 1, with Leo X. Smith and Thomas J. Blackwell, fighting it out for second. 375 Cast Votes
Superior Judge Herbert E. Wilson also was leading Chalmer Schlosser in the Room 5 race. On the Republican ticket the other leaders were William D. Bain for Criminal Court: Mark W. Rhoads for Juvenile Court; Davis Harrison, for Superior Room 1; Hezzie B. Pike, for Superior Room 2; Sidney S. Miller, for Superior 3; Joe Rand Beckett, for Superior 4 and Ralph Hamill, for Superior 5. More than 375 association members cast their ballots by mail, designating their party eflliations. The votes: for each candidate were tabulated by the number of Republicans, independents and Democrats voting for them. The candidates receiving the highest number of votes in each race on both tickets will be indorsed by the bar association in the May 5 primary election.
In the five Democratic races!
where the candidates were unopposed, no ballots were cast.
INDUSTRIAL DEATHS RISE CHICAGO, April 22 (U. P).—Industrial accident deaths during the first three months of 1942 rose 11 per cent above the total for the comparable period a year ago, the national safety council reported today.
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TAX RELIEF FOR SERVICES URGED
Schricker Wants Fighting
Men Exempted From
Gross Income Levy.
Governor Schricker today announced that he intended to ask the next legislature, which convenes in January, 1943, to enact laws exempting Hoosiers in the armed forces from paying poll tax and gross income tax on their service salaries. The governor pointed out that under the present laws the poll taxes and gross income taxes would pile up against the individual while they were in service and they would have to pay them after they returned home. Members of the national guard and certain disabled veterans are now exempt from the poll tax. “Taxes are necessary to provide money to run the state government,” Governor Schricker said, “but it has been one of the tenets of the gross income tax program that proper recognition be given both to ability to pay and benefits received. “It does net seem fair to me that we should tax the pay of our sol{Continued on Page Two)
U. S. FORCES NOW IN INDIA, JOHNSON SAYS
NEW DELHI, April 22 (U. P)— United States armed forces are in India and “more are coming,” Col. Louis A. Johnson, President Roosevelt’s envoy to India, said today. {American airforce men and flying fortresses have been fighting out of India for weeks, and it was not clear whether Johnson referred to them or was indicating that infantry also had arrived.) Johnson said the United States was giving much war equipment to India and appealed to the Indians
~{to aid in defeating “our common
enemy.” PREDICTS TRAVEL DIP
Comics 17 Obituaries .... Crossword .... Editorials
Peter Edson ..10 Radio
Mrs, Férguson 10 Mrs. Roosevelt. 9, 14 Serial Story ..17|
Fitianeiz] ..10/ Side Glances..10 I akire .12| Society ... 11, 12 In Indpls. ..... 3| Sports 6, 7 Inside Indpls.. 9| State Deaths . ¢
ROANOKE, Va. April 22 (U. P). —H. 8. Fairbank of the public roads administration today predicted a complete shutdown of all unnecessary highway travel in the near future. February travel on rural
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OLD LAW AIDS STATE IN FIGHT 10 CURB VICE
Health Board to Quarantine Diseased Prostitutes in Defense Areas.
The prostitutes who are swarming into defense plant and army areas may soon find the State Health board a tougher opponent than the law enforcement officers. For the health board is putting int oeffect on a state-wide basis a “quarantine system,” authorized by an old Indiana statute to protect the public health. Under this law, the board may hold an individual, either man or woman, suspected of having a vens ereal disease in quarantine until the health officer investigates.
Can Continue Quarantine
If the individual is found to have a venereal disease, the board then will continue the quarantine, placing the individual in a hospital, if facilities are available, or sending the person home for treatment until the infectious stage is passed. If the individual is sent home for treatment and is found to have violated the quarantine, he or she can be given a severe sentence. The “quarantine system,” police officials say, will serve to keep a number of prostitutes “out of circulation” for a much longer period lof time than they could keep them off the streets or out of houses of prostitution.
‘Merely Fined Now
As it is now, most judges merely fine the prostitutes when they are arrested. The prostitutes pay their fines and then go right back to their occupation, continuing until police officers catch up with them again. Dr. George W. Bowman, chief of the bureau of Venereal diseases of the health board, said that the health department was using the “quarantine system” to aid the public health. “We are not interested in the law enforcement aspects,” he said. He added that the quarantine had been used in the past in individual cases, but never on a statewide basis. Treat Several Prisoners
Several prostitutes arrested by state police and local law enforcement officers in raids last Saturday night at Clinton, where houses have mushroomed along with the growth of the Wabash river ordnance plant, have been quarantined. State police have been active lately in aiding local law enforcement officers in arresting prostitutes in defense areas. “But the prostitutes are still pouring in,” one police official said, “some of them migrating in trailers along with t with the defense workers.
BRITISH NAVY CHIEF IS REPORTED IN U. S.
LONDON, April 22 (U. P).—The Evening Standard said today in a dispatch from New York that Sir Dudley Pound, chief of the British naval staff, had accompanied Gen. George ©. Marshall, chief of staff of the American army, and Harey Hopkins, confidential aid of President Roosevelt, back to Washington, and they were believed to be discussing the battle of the Atlantie.
WASHINGTON, April 22 (U, P)). —Japanese forces are driving ahead in Panay, rich sugar-producing island of the Philippines, and apparently are preparing to launch a new invasion against the neighboring island of Negros, the war department said today. “Reports from Negros,” a communique said, “indicate that the enemy is making an air reconnaisance of that island.”
Philippines island to feel the power of the invader. The communique said that Japanese troops driving forward from their beach head at San Jose on the southwest coast of Panay had
iroads was 7.6 per cent under the same month last year, he said, bug city travel maintained the same level.
Spring Garb
Downstate Blossoms Beckon Those With Tires
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
m ...4 10a m ... 63 m ...4 1llam.. 6 m ... 54 m. ... 58 1pm ... 68 “SOMEWHAT WARMER,” said the weather bureau today, which fitted in nicely with another communique issued hy the state conservation department. According to the latter dis« patch, dogwood and redbud blooms are to *= be seen in southern Indiana now, and spring, they say, is visibly moving northward up the state. Nice day for a drive! your tires?
SUGAR RATIONS T0 BEGIN MAY 3
Stamp Books to Be Good For One Pound During Designated Periods.
WASHINGTON, April 22 (U. P)). «Stamp No. 1-in the first war ration book will be valid for buying a pound of sugar during the period from May 5 to May 16, the office
of price administration said today in announcing further details of the rationing program. The announcement means that formal sugar rationing will be in effect from May 5 on. Stamp No. 2 will be valid from May 17 to 30. Stamp No. 3 will be valid from May 31 to June 13 and Stamp No. 4 from June 14 to June 27. All dates are inclusive. Restaurants will be cut to half the amount of sugar used in a base period. The base period will be either the corresponding period of last year, or the amount of sugar used during March of this vear, if records for last year are not available.
Registration Dates Set
Industrial users of sugar for such things as confectionary, ice cream, dairy products, preserves, bottled beverages and desserts will be allotted 70 per cent of the amount they previously used. Individuals will register in the elementary schools on May 4, 5, 6 or 7. Industrial or institutional sugar users will register at high schools April 28 and 29. Under the regulations, one adult representative of each family unit may register and obtain ration books for all the family’s members. Family units do not include maids or other adults who are not blood relatives. Persons going into the armed forces or leaving the United States for more than 30 days must sure render their books to local boards. Rationing books also must be returned within 10 days after the death of a person to whom the book was issued. Violators may be punished by a maximum fine of $10,000 or imprisonment of not more than one
How are
year, or both.
Japs Threaten fo Invade Ninth Island in Philippines
to withdraw from Lambunao,” the war department said. Indications that the Japanese were getting set to attack the presumably light defending forces on Negros followed reports from Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Australia that enemy naval units were active in the Visayan group of isles southeast of Luzon. The Visayans, numbering in the high hundreds, are scattered in the area bounded by Panay, Negros and Cebu on one side and Masbate on the other. The communique supported Gen. MacArthur's earlier report that Japanese aerial attacks on Corregidor and the other American fortresses in Manila bay had diminished in intensity. While enemy planes were scout-
id over Nagde; it appeared that
reinforcing the
the Japanese were invasion troops originally sent Panan
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REDS BLAMED BY GERMANS IN TERRORISM
Many More Executed as Iron Fist Crashes on Occupied Area.
By UNITED PRESS A new and severe campaign of repression against terrorists was launched in France today by German and Vichy authorities, but in Washington four members of the French embassy staff resigned in protest over the elevation of Pierre Laval to power. German authorities in Paris an-
unspecified number, bringing to more than 100 the persons executed in the last week in reprisal for terrorist attacks on Nazi occupation troops. Following the return of Laval to Vichy from Paris, Nazi military authorities in occcupied France said there had been number of communist attacks” on German troops, including one soldier killed yesterday.
Execute “Communists”
A German official news agency broadcast from Berlin said that the Nazi commandant in Paris had announced the execution of a number of alleged Communists in the past few weeks because of “isolated attacks troops.” These presumably were in addi-
Rouen and in Alsace. Additional executions, including 80 hostages at Rouen, were threatened. In Washington, those resigning from the Vichy diplomatic staff included a counselor and a first secretary. The four officials are Leon Marchal, counselor; Baron James Baeyans, first saecretary; Andre Fiot, vice counsel, and Charles Benoit, chief of the embassy code room.
Calls Laval “German Agent”
Marchal said he resigned because he could not serve under Laval, whom he described as “a German agent.” “Laval has been designated by the Germans to keep France in line,” he said. “I no longer can serve in the French foreign service under a man of that kind.” ’ At a press conference later, Secretary of State Cordell Hull reiterated his confidence in the patriotism and wisdom of the French people, saying he believed they would be unquestionably opposed to surrendering completely to Germany. Laval returned to Vichy today from conferences with Hitler's agent, Otto Abetz, in Paris, accompanied by a heavy motorcycle and police guard soon after the alleged communist attacks on German troops wer 2 announced by Lieut. Gen. Errs¢ Schaumburg, deputy (Continued on Page Two)
CLAIM AXIS TORPEDO HIT ARGENTINE SHIP
Navy Scouts Hint That Boat Struck Mine.
WASHINGTON, April 22 (U. P.). —A navy spokesman said today that the Argentine merchant ship Victoria undoubtedly had been torpedoed by an axis vessel when it was damaged 300 miles east of Cape Hatteras. Axis reports from South America said that the Argentine ship, which reached an American east coast port today, had struck American mines. “In an area that far from land there woul dbe no mine fields,” the spokesman said, pointing out that minefields in that area would endanger American shipping. The Victoria is the first Argentine vessel to be torpedoed. Unlike a majority of other Latin American nations, Argentina has remained strictly neutral in the war, refusing thus far to break off diplomatic relations with the axis enemies of this country.
FAMOUS ROOM BURNS
CINCINNATI, April 22 (U. P.).— The room in which Harriet Beecher Stowe prepared material for her book, “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” was
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nounced the execution of 15 more : Frenchmen and a second group of’
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tion to execution of about 85 to 90 Frenchmen at Calais, St. Nazaire, |
Matter at Postoffice,
PRICE THREE CENTS
Russ Claim Gains
AT FRANCE
'We Aren't Condemning,
throws light on both:
Russia’s Hopes Pinned On the Second Front
Just Want to Understand.’
Ilya Ehrenbourg is a distinguished Soviet war correspondent. He describes the fighting on the eastern front and the Russian view of the war situation in general as a Russian.
We Aren't Arguing, We
The following dispatch
By ILYA EHRENBOURG Written for United Press
MOSCOW, April 22.—I saw a new German tank painted green to blend with the spring grass and leaves. smashed by our troops at the beginning of April, before
It was
spring arrived, and curiously it reminded me of a dandy
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“a great]:
who had changed his clothes for the season too early.
Hanging in trees and crawling on their stomachs, these Russians
attack a German-held village as the great thaw comes to end the
Russian winter,
But it wasn’t dandyism.
It was need that drove Adolf Hitler's
spring tanks and divisions into action before spring came.
running streams. car behaves like a galloping horse.
The thaw has slowed up military operations.
There is no snow left now on the fields. As you drive along and bump up and down, your
Roads have become
Here and there—
in Karelia, near Staraya Russa, above the Bryansk front—our troops
Meanwhile, the last ice is flowing down the Desna and the Dneiper. The fields are littered with German machines, the corpses of men and horses, helmets and unexploded shells. The snow has disappeared, revealing a gloomy picture of a war spring. 2 ” 8
Hitler Looks Behind NEVER HAS spring been talked about so much as this year. Hitier has juggled with his word. He wanted to bolster up the spirit of the German people. And now spring has arrived. Two armies are preparing for battle. Meanwhile, Hitler is casting feverish glances behind him. What's troubling him? Is it the high explosive bombs of the British air force? A campaign on a second front by Amerjicans and British? Or a grow=ing revolt .among the nations he has enslaved? However that may be, Hitler has begun his spring offensive against Vichy. The British radio reports that Field Marshal Gerd von Rund(Continued on Page Two) TRIED TO RAM SUB NEW ORLEANS, April 22 (U. PJ). —A medium-sized American mere chant ship 2zigzagging across the Caribbean in a futile effort to escape torpedoing once tried to ram the attacking submarine, survivors who arrived here said today. The death resulting from the sinking on April 13 was the ship’s doctor, Benjamin A. Price, 64, former Missouri resident. The 61 other crew members and five passengers pulled away in three life boats and rowed 15 hours before being picked up by another vessel.
still attack, but these are only isolated operations. will come in May are being preceded by an omnious lull.
The battles that
JAPANESE ATTAGHE IN RUSSIA DEPARTS
German Radio Says Tokyo Interested in Portugal.
By UNITED PRESS Japan revealed today that its military attache to Russia was returning home, and axis broadcasts indicated that the Japanese were
taking a surprising interest in Por-
tugal. A Tokyo radio dispatch said Col. Machitake Yamaoka, Japanese military attache at the embassy at Kuibyshev, had left Hsingking last night for Tokyo. A German broadcast announced that Kaizo Inone, new air attache to the Japanese legation at Lisbon, had paid his first call on Portuguese military authorities Monday. British listeners meanwhile quoted the Tokyo radio that commanders of Japanese home defense forces would be court martialed as the result of Saturdaj’s air raids on Japanese cities. : A Tokyo broadcast said casualties in Saturday's raids were not beyond those usually. sustained. in fires. However, hundreds of lives and thousands of homes are sometimes destroyed by fires in Japan.
RECRUIT FARM HELP WASHINGTON, April 22 (U. P.). —The U. S. employment service today announced plans to recruit high school and college students, both boys and girls, for farm work during vacations to replace men called to the armed forces.
'Only the Fuehrer Knows — Last Question Stumps Nazi
LONDON, April 22 (U, P)—A Netherlands submarine + commander told today how he employed “practical psychology” to break the haughty reserve of a captured German captain. The Dutch submarine had torpedoed a Nazi steamer and taken its crew aboard when the Netherlands commander began captain,
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Nazi replied indignantly, “Where were you going?” The commander inquired. And again the Nazi answered, “only Mein Fuehrer knows He gave the same answer when asked about his cargo, from what port he had sailed and his destination. . Finally the Hollander asked: “And who was your father?” “Only Mein Fuehrer . . . “The
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HINT SECOND
FRONT T0 BE OPENED SOON
Russ Claim .Break-Through On Central Sector; 40
Towns Captured.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
Great Britain's black-hood-ed commandos stabbed bold ly into the French coast and battered German troops in a two-hour raid early today amid growing indications of impending big-scale fighting in western Europe. The commando raid was “a small reconnaissance,” according to thee London communique, which said the Germans were driven back and their coastal defenses penetrated while the British naval forces off shore blasted two armed enemy trawlers. British casualties were light. But behind the new raid by the commandos—who may be joined soon by American units—was a series of important developments suggesting that the united nations are determined to open a “second
front” in one way or another to aid the Russians this summer.
Russ Break Nazi Lines
told of Red army attacks that broke into the German defense line on the central sector, presumably the general area of Smolensk, where 40 villages were taken in an advance that was continuing despite hard tank battles. Russian forces also were reported to have broken into the Finnish frent on three sectors and advanced six miles. These successes encouraged dee mands in the British parliament for closer military collaboration with the Russians and for opening of a second front in Europe, where the labor peer, Lord Strabolgi, said that he hoped there would be a “blow up” very soon.
U. S.-British Invasion Talked
Lord Selborne. replying to Stra bolgi, hinted that an Americane
.| British invasion of Europe was dis
cussed during the recent visit to London of Gen. George C. Marshall, American chief of staff, pointing out that such a move naturally would be of great strategic impore tance this summer. The commandos crossed the chane nel to the Boulogne sector, about 30 miles from the English coast, last night, apparently with support of light naval forces. The attack was made in the early morning hours, with warships moving up to (Continued on Page Two) ” ” 2
On the War Fronts
(April 22, 1942)
LONDON: British commandos raid . French coast in Boulogue sector.
FRANCE: Terrorists outbreaks ine creasing according to German ane nouncement of ‘great number” of communist assaults on occupied soldiers, apparently a prelude to new executions and ruthless repression by Laval-German combination.
RUSSIA: Red army smashes through three Finnish defense sectors and breaks through Nazi lines on central front; reports 891 German planes destroyed in month.
MALTA: Defense forces down or damage 44 axis planes in two days; R. A. F. bombs axis air bases in Sicily to weaken offensive against Malta.
BURMA: Japanese renew, strong attacks on three sectors, 'intensi=fying efforts to break Chinese dee fenses on Salween-Sittang rivers.
AUSTRALJA: Allied planes again bomb Rabaul base of Japanese, starting big fires.
TOKYO: Defense commanders face courtmartial as result of last week’s surprise bombing of four Japanese cities.
PHILIPPINES: Japanese claim 62,« 600 prisoners, including 10,600 Americans on Bataan peninsula.
Dispatches from the eastern front
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