Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1942 — Page 1
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Report Hitler Purges Arms Pl
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PRICE THREE CENTS
KEY NAZI BASE BURNING AFTER RAID
The War and You—
MILADY LOSES a0 PER CENT OF GIRDLE'S ‘GIVE
Of Rubber Is Cut; Phones Curtailed.
8v UNITED PRESS Governmental war agencies slowly are changing civilian life “as usual” to civillan life “at war.” President Roosevelt will outline | new major changes next week in| his over-all economic control pro-! gram that will drastically revise many ordinary processes of American life. Although even stranger restric- | tions on what you can buy and what | you can do are scheduled, today's | orders cover such Si Jeges pod ei elasticity—give—of milady what kind of telephone is et can get for the duration, and your grocery store deliveries. In addition, the American housewife got help from the government in that annual problem of keeping the husband away from his goif or fishing to aid in the torture known as spring housecleaning.
The Girdle |
{ The war production board drastically reduced the margin of safe-| tay. upon which corseted and begirdled women depend when they sit, golf or stoop. The WPB cut down by approximately 50 per cent the amount of elastic fabric which mae be used henceforth in the manufacture of} foundation garments. If the order means what it appears to mean, i. e, that the new girdles will stretch only half as] much as those currently in vogue,| women may be forced to a modified | version of the mincing gait and | generally straightened conduct they effected when corsets were non-| elastic and laced tightly up the | back. The order applies to brassieres,| hose supporters, shoulder straps for brassieres and elastic inner belts! for such things as panty girdles as well as to foundation garments.
The Telephone
The WPB curtailed the installation of new telephones and laid the groundwork for a return to the old party-line system of telephonic community news distribution. In other words, the WPB said, if youre a “non-essential” applicant for a new telephone, you'll be lucky to get a party line. with the idea of cutting down on war metals used in telephone equipment, the WPB laid down restrictions that were expected to result in denial of 200,000 applications for main line residential service this vear. Last year approximately 4000,000 such installations weré made,
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Housecleaning
A new task was added today to that traditional plague of American male citizenrv—the annual spring housecleaning. The WPB suggested to mayors of all cities that they suggest to all! housewives that they suggest to all husbands that spring housecleaning would be an excellent time to col- | lect rags, metals and rubber for | the war machine.
Fishing Tackle
Tackle manufacturers were or-| dered to discontinue, as of May 31, use of such critical materials as plastic and cork needed for fancy gear. After June 1 hooks may be | (Continued on Page Five)
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‘Wolff Doesn’t Parcel
Mrs. James Horton
STATE QUOTA IN BOND DRIVE SET
$12,594,300 00 Sales Sought,
During May, Increase 0f $5,000,000.
Indiana's sales quota of bonds for May was set today by the treasury department at $12,594.300. This figure will call for an in{crease of more than $5,000,000 over
| tne average monthly sales recorded | | by Hoosiers from July, 1941, to Jan-
unary, 1942. During that period Hoosiers pur- | chased on an average of $7.904,611 {each month. The quota has not vet been broken down for Marion and
{ other counties, but this will be done by the state war bond savings staff
and will probably be announced
Mondeay. Broadcast Tomorrow
Eugene C. Pulliam, chairman of ‘the state war bond staff, predicted!
| today that the quota would not be
hard to attain. He explained that! since “Pearl Harbor” the monthly
total of war bond purchases by! Hoosiers has taken a decided jump, (from the average $7.9046i1 figure land he estimated that the | bonds purchased bv Hoosiers during
total
April would be near the 12 million dollar quota. During the first world war, he said, Indiana's subscription to lib-
{erty bonds averaged $16.856.166 a
month. Pledgers to Get Sticker Adding impetus to Indiana's at-
| taining its quota, will be the “Mac-
Arthur Week” drive, Monday through next Saturday, to obtain pledges to purchase bonds and stamps. The drive will not be a sales campaign, the bond staff points out. but only a canvass for pledges. A “MacArthur Week” broadcast (Continued on Page Five)
JEWETT INSURANCE CLAIM CHALLENGED
Out Business, Hadley Says.
A statement in a political speech | by Charles Jewett attacking Her- ' man Wolff, 1938 mayor candidate, for his connection with the city | school board's insurance distribution, was challeneged today by | Harlan V. Hadley, Indianapolis In-
surance board president.
Mr. Jewett had charged that “Mr. Wolff either writes this insurance himself and receives the commission, or he passes it out in small amounts to complaining competitors.” Mr. Hadley, pointing out that he was speaking for himself and not for the insurance board, said that his firm participates in the school board insurance business “as do a majority of the other members of the Indianapolis Insurance board.” “Our firm’s dealings are directly with the school board,” Mr. Hadley said. “So far as I know, Hermann Wolff has nothing to do with the distribution of this business and receives no commission from any of the firms.” School board officials said Mr. Wolff does most of the appraisal work and receives “about 25 per cent” of the board’s insurance business, but has no connection with the allocation of the remainder. Mr. Jewett, campaign manager for Gen. Robert Tyndall in the Republican mayor race, made the
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Young Wife Dies in Flames of Wrecked Car
Tragedy North of Flackville Climaxes Ride With Husband on Night Before He Was
To Join Navy; Blames Hit-Run Driver.
A 22-YEAR-OLD wife who was spending the last night with her husband before he was to have joined the navy this morning, died in flames about 2 a. m. in an accident one mile north of Flackville on Road 52.
Her husband, who was driving the car, said he was sideswiped by a driver who sped on and left the victim—screaming hysterically—
to die.
A truck driver who helped pull the husband from the flam-
ing car said it had passed him at a “high rate of speed,” hit the edge
of the pavement and turned over. The victim:
MRS. JAMES HORTON, 3429 N. Capitol ave.
The injured:
JAMES HORTON, her husband, driver of the car. He is in City hospital suffering from serious burns on his hands and back.
MISS MAXINE FUNCANNON, 22, of 2251 College ave, who was
_ riding with the Hortons. lJ
Awakened by Screech of Brakes
Burned on the hands, but not seriously.
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MISS FUNCANNON said that Mrs. Horton called her last night,
inviting her to take a ride.
She had been Mrs. Horton's bridesmaid |
and the two had been roommates before the Hortons were married
in January of 1941.
Miss Funcannon said the three had driven to Lebanon, and were
on their way back to Indianapolis.
“It must have been 2 or 3 o'clock this morning,” Miss Funcannon
said today at her home,
it turned over. “Instantly it caught fire.
“when I dozed off.” “Suddenly I was awakened by the screech of brakes. | swerved back and forth. Then it turned around and around. Then |
I was on the right side of the car and
| the automobile turned over on the driver's side.
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“71 OPENED THE DOOR, but I don’t know how I did it. An instant later a man stopped in a truck and said, ‘Are there
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“I was so frightened I don’t know what I did, but I said, ‘Yes,’ and | the man dragged Mr. Horton from the burning auto and placed him | on the grass. It was all he could do.
i “He tried to get Mrs, Horton out then, but it was so hot he ¢ouldn’t. | It seemed a long while before we got help.”
Miss Funcannon said she last saw Mrs. Horton standing up in the
overturned car, her hair ablaze. She was screaming hysterically, Miss
Funcannon said.
“I don't know whether we were hit by a hit-and-run driver,”
Funcannon said.
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Flame Follows Car Like Fiery Snake
THE TRUCK DRIVER who pulled Mr. Horton from the car was { Augustine Foy of 2251 N. Meridian st. | “Evidently our gas tank sprung a leak in the accident,” Miss
Funcannon said. snake and burst into flames. lowing us.’
“A stream of gasoline followed our car like a fiery The flames looked like they were fol-
Mrs. Horton was the daughter of Mrs. H. W. Goodin, rural route 3,
Brazil, Ind.
Roosevelt Is Pleased With
| greater program of production.
He told a press conference that shortage of steel plates and shapes were the principal reasons for the merchant shipbuilding program being behind schedule. Mr. Roosevelt was asked if the current expansion of the steel in-
war program and other basic needs.
{surance because by the time new plants are completed, the nation’s ‘war production facilities might be faced with an additional program.
The two-year production goals set forth by Mr. Roosevelt in January included 185,000 airplanes, 120,000 tanks, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns and | 18,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant shipping. Commenting on a statement by Maritime Commission Chairman Emory S. Land that the shipbuilding program is behind schedule because of “loafing” by labor and management, Mr. Roosevelt said he thought the failure of the program to reach scheduled production was due almost entirely to the steelplate shortage. Mr. Roosevelt said that he did not believe there is any very great slowdown in ship production.
‘Trained Cook Worth Squad of Infantry on Bataan’
By FRANK HEWLETT United Press Staff Correspondent
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, April 24 — Bataan’s fighting quartermasters soured forever the army’s jibes about the quartermaster’s corps being safest. They worked day and night ; beneath shelling and bombing. the Japanese like the infantry and artillery, they fought like heroes against the thing that ultimately proved the main reason for Bataan's fall:
food shortage.
t 1d be sufficient for the i i War program and other basic needs. | Suspects Serving Time for
| He said he could not give this as-|
War Production Progress
WASHINGTON, April 24 (U. P.)—President Roosevelt said today that the mammoth war production program, launched in January, is working out extremely well, considering that the program was called fantastic when he first announced it. At the same time, Mr. Roosevelt foresaw the possibility of an even
4 ARE INDICTED IN 6-YEAR-OLD SLAYING
Other Crimes.
The grand jury in a special re-!
port, today returned an indictment charging four men with first degree murder in connection with the hold-
up slaying six years ago of Harry
Ploch, a Beech Grove tavern owner. All defendants in the case are now serving terms in prison for other crimes and the indictment was rushed down today because one of the defendants is scheduled for release Monday. Indicted are Overland Jackson, Arnold Chelf, John Gordon and Charles Polley. All four were indicted on a murder charge several years ago, but the charge as to Polley was dismissed because witnesses repudiated their statements.
Unable to fight
The
Their job was heart- ..eaking, and their ranks will show many deaths, but few citations. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's army hardly had withdrawn into the mountains and jungles of Bataan, when they began trying to supply a varied diet and conserve a precious supply of canned goods. They threshed and milled Bataan’s rice crop, operated slaughter houses, built fish traps and even distilled sea water to make salt. The Japanese
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(really help will be our Share and
James Horton
BEAVERBROOK ASKS 20 20 FRONT
‘Russia Might Finish Off Axis This Year, He Tells Publishers.
NEW YORK, April 24 (U. P).— Urging a second front against the Germans, Lord Beaverbrook, British lease-lend co-ordinator in Washington, said last night that Russia might settle the war this year and bring the whole structure of the axis crashing down. “Strike out to help Russia. Strike cut violently. Strike even reckless‘ly but in-sny event, such blows that |
contribution to the Russian battle-’ front,” he said. Lord Beaverbrook spoke before | the annual dinner of the bureau of | advertising of the American News- | paper Publishers association, ending its 56th annual convention. Other speakers were Francis B. Sayre, United States high commissioner to the Philippines and Admiral Ernest | J. King, commander in chief of the | fleet and chief of naval operations.
Church Doors Open Lord Beaverbrook said he had heen in favor of a second front since | his visit to Russia last October, and | most Britons felt the same way. Some short-sighted people, he said, had complained that British| aid to Russia was wrong; it was not | right to put weapons in the hands| of Communists. He Said he could | not understand their attitude. “Communism under Stalin has produced the most valiant fighting | army in Europe,” he said. ‘“Perse-| cution of Christianity? Not so. There is no religious persecution. | The church doors are open.
Claim Traitors Shot | “And there is complete freedom to | practice religion, just as there is ireedom to reject it. “Racial persecution? Not at all.| Jews live like toher men. “There are many races in the Soviet Union and not even a color bar. “Political purges? Of course. But it is now clear that the men who were shot down would have be‘Continued on on Page Five)
HINT JAP SPIES BUSY | ON MADAGASCAR
| JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, ! April 24 (U. P.) —Official reports of extensive Japanese fifth column operations on Madagascar, 750 miles off the South African coast, today heightened speculation on a possible allied seizure of the French island. Official sources said that the Union of South Africa might soon recognize Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s| Free French movement, which calims the sympathy of Madagascar's 4,000,000 people, as the next step after yesterday's severance of relations with Vichy France.
plete and most of it still was stacked and unthreshed in pilay state. It was several weeks before the time the army normally purchased
its new rice. The quartermasters slashed red
hut bombings, traffic jams and general confusion kept much of the
.ice from ever arriving on Bataan.
Because rice was the staple food of the predominantly Filipino my, the quartermasters faced a serious situation, but they did the best they could by buying the peninsula's stocks unthreshed, paying
fancy prices for it.
They also bought Bataan’s few rice mills and moved them to the rear, for nearly six weeks these dispersed mills produced ample rice for the army, except for a two-day period when the Americans . and Filipinos withdrew their defense line from Abucay and Moron to Balanga and Bagac, that necessitated the moving of some mills. The emergency was met by increasing the bread ration. When the new defense line was established, the mills began operating at top speéd and the Filipinos again happily received two full mess kits (Continued J
FAIL TO MEET DEMANDS FOR HIGHER OUTPUT
Rumors May Be German Propaganda to Lull Americans.
LONDON, April 24 (U. P).— British sources reported today that Adolf Hitler was purging leaders of the German armament industry because of their failure to increase production sufficiently to offset rising American war production. The reports of removal and punishment of the chiefs of the Nazi arms industry came from authoritative quarters, but tre source of the information was nct disclosed. It was asserted that Hitler had ordered the arrest and imprisonment of Heinrich Koppenberg, manager of the Junkers Aircraft Works at Dessau. Koppenberg was said to have been sent to the dreaded Nazi | concentration camp at Dachau.
Ordered 80 Per Cent Increase
The head office of the Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke is at Dessau, where the Junkers dive bombers are manufactured. The reports received here said that Hitler had ordered the armaments chiefs to achieve an 80 per cent increase in German production, which probably had suffered to a limited extent due to the death of Dr. Fritz Todt, the late minister for armaments and munitions and builder of the Siegried Line. Describing the increase in production as “imperative,” Hitler was s&id to have ordered German arms workers to stay on the job at least 12 hours a day, starting last December Reports regarding developments in Germany are normally subject to discounting because they must necessarily come indirectly to allied sources and often are cleverly disguised Nazi propaganda. But the tenor of the British report was contained in this quote attributed to Koppenberg:
Maybe H's Propaganda “It is not’ possible to maintain the present level of production because the entire plant at Dessau is | worn out and almost useless.” The Germans obviously are hard | put to keep up their machinery production in the face of RAF bombardment and heavy wear due to intense production, but if the Des{sau plant production were reduced sharply it would be of great importance in the race for aerial superiority. On the other hand, the Germans might want to spread false belief {that their production was falling | behind in an effort to encourage {American industry Yo iste i easy.
PUNCH BOARD RAID NETS 3 TRUCK LOADS
Police today raided a storeroom at 418 E. 25th st, and confiscated three truck loads of punch boards which were later dumped into the basement of ihe police station. . Raiding officers said there was no warrant for an arrest and the raid was made under a city ordi- | nance that states that police must confiscate “gambling devices when seen.” The punchboards are the property of the United Sales Ca., the former Silent Sales Co., operated by Otto Zendell. Mr. Zendell, out
FDR Certain It Was Shangri-La
WASHINGTON, April 24 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt said today he had been advised officially of the internment of an American plane in Siberian Russia. Banteringly, he then said that the plane apparently was one of the aircraft which came from Shangri-la — fictional utopia in Tibet. Mr. Roosevelt said on Tuesday that bombers which raided Tokyo and three other Japanese war centers ‘were based secretly in Shangri-la. “Will that plane become a lend-lease plane now?” he was asked. He laughed and said he had no information beyond official notification of the plane’s internment.
SOVIET INTERNS U. S. AIRMEN
Unique Diplomatic Puzzle Created by Landing of Tokyo Raid Crew.
By A. T. STEELE
Copyright 1942, by The Indianapolis Times The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
KUBYESHEV, April 24—Diplomats here admitted today that they had no answer for the unique international enigma created by the forced landing of an American bombing plane on Soviet soil (near Khabarovsk) following the raid on Japan April:18.
Five men were in the crew and all are in good health and spirits, | official American circles said today. The American embassy here said that the new United States ambassador, Admiral William H. Stanley, was at present in Moscow and had asked Washington for further instructions. Admiral Stanley received news of the incident in a telephone conversation from American Consul Angus I. Ward in Vladivostok. News of the forced landing was the first allied confirmation of last | Saturday's bombing of Tokyo and three other Japanese war centers. The official Russian news agency, Tass, announced that the American bomber had landed safely in far eastern Siberia after the attack and that the plane and its crew had been interned. The internment was “in conformity with universally accepted international rules” because Russia is not at war against Japan, although she is the fighting ally of the United States in the war against Hitler. Tass gave no hint as to where the American bomber landed. The Soviet Siberian base of Khabarovsk is 400 miles north of | Vladivostok and about 950 miles from Tokyo. From Vladivostok to Tokyo it is 700 miles. Admiral Standley conferred in Moscow yesterday with Premier Josef V. Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. The Soviet official spokesman said yesterday that the year-old Japa-nese~-Russian pact of friendship re(Continued on Page Five)
T5-MILE GAIN MADE BY JAPS IN BURMA
of the city, could not be reached for
comment,
SAVE EM FOR JAPS
FT. DEVENS, Mass., April 24 (U. P.).—Girls attending dances at the service club here complained of scraped ankles. Today this notice was posted: “Gentlemen of the cavalry will please remove spurs while dancing.”
tape and hurried their purchases,
Swift ny Threatens
To Trap Allies.
LONDON, April 24 (U, P.).—A the eastern Burma threatened to outflank the whole allied defense line today despite strong Chinese resistance in the Taunggyi sector only a little more than 100 miles southeast of Mandaiay. Japanese forces that out-num-ered the Chinese by perhaps 10 to one smashed northward along the main road from Loikaw to the Taunggyi area, which is the hub of a road and railroad network that commands the entire central region. That section, in Japanese control, might threaten the allied forces with encirclemen:.
KILLED IN DOG HOUSE
NASHVILLE, Ind. Aprii 23 (U. P.) —~Louis Hobbs, 6-year-old som of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Hobbs of Nashville, wanted to “play house” and the only availalbe place was his dog house. He climbed in the kennel and started a fire on the floor. Neighbors found his body curled
swift, 75-mile Japanese advance in|
SAY CHURCHILL AND FDR AGREE ON 2D FRONT
RAF Damages Baltic Port; Daylight Offensive on
Europe Renewed.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Allied aerial blows—posesibly preliminary to bigger counter-attacks — hammered axis supply bases today in Europe, on the Baltic sea and the southwest Pacific as reports came from London that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill have agreed on strategy for opening a second European front. Large numbers of British planes, renewing the R. A. P.s daylight offensive against Nazi targets, swept over the sea in a southeasterly die rection from London. Meanwhile, pilots returning from a bombing attack during the night on Germany's Baltic port of Rose tock, key supply base for Hitler's armies in Russia, reported the port city was “lit up from end to end by spreading fires” after the raid, Great damage to the base was ree ported. Rabaul Blasted Again
In the southwest Pacific; the Jape anese main invasion base at Rabaul, New Britain, again was battered by American and Australian planes, which attacked shipping and bare racks and machine-gunned enemy troops. Japanese fighter planes were driven off by the big bombers, Indicating that the heavy British aerial offensive and lightning come mando raids on Nazi-held Europe are forerunners of even more “age gressive” action, dispatches from London said President Roosevelt's message to Mr. Churchill fully approved of the decisions reached by British strategists and U. S. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. These strategic decisions were be= lieved to call for a new front im western Europe to relieve the prese sure on Russia. The R. A. Ps spring offensive .is a necessary prelude to any second front action.
Bomb Aircraft Factory
In the Rostock raid last night, the supply base was badly smashed and vast damage was done to the large Heinkel aircraft works, the air ministry reported. A large force of heavy British bombers, carrying the heavieste type bombs, made the round trip of nearly 1000 miles for the attack, Four of the raiding bombers are missing. Canadian airmen who particie (Continued on Page Five) ” ” ”
BULLETIN
VICHY, France, April 24 (U. P.), —Anti-Nazi violence spread today from occupied to unoccupied France when two bombs exploded in Montpelier near the Mediterranean coast, about 75 miles from Marseilles, and caused heavy property damage.
On the War Fronts
(April 24, 1942)
LONDON: R. A. F. raid leaves large fires in Germany's Baltic supply port of Rostock; Germans report British pierce “outer defenses” of Berlin; luftwaffe raids English coastal towns, killing 16.
AUSTRALIA: U. 8. and Australian planes bomb shipping, wharves and other targets at Japan’s Ras= baul “invasion base;” machine gun Japanese troops; MacArthur's assistant chief of staff says threat of invasion of Australia has passed peak.
KUIBYSHEV: Russians intem American bomber and crew which made forced landing in eastern Siberia after bombing Tokyo; U. S. ambassador confers with Stalin and Molotov; Red army breaks German inner defenses at Bryansk on central front.
BURMA: Japanese advance 73 miles toward Mandalay.
LONDON: Roosevelt tells Churchill
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