Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1942 — Page 1

yoLuue 53—NUMBER 43

Night After Night, Giant U. S. Bombers Hop For Battlefields

“MAYBE THEY haven't been seared, but what a relief

y CHARLES T. LUCEY Times Special Writer

© MIAMI, April oo after night, on a large Florida * mirfield whose location must be secret, giant four-motor bombers roll down a runway and take off over water for ‘Africa, the Middle East and beyond, with no more fanfare than might mark an ordinary cross-country flight. ¢ Here are the headquarters for the South Atlantic sec- & tion of the Air Force Ferrying Command, executing one of the most dramatic and least known missions of the war, “and giving new meaning to the old saw that it’s a small

world, after all.

Sit around the officers’ club on this post and you hear

OPA SHOPPERS WILL “POLICE

RETAIL STORES|

Close Watch on Prices Due; |

Three Selling Groups

Face Income Loss.

‘WASHINGTON, April 30 (U. P.). -~Office of price administration officials disclosed today that a number of highly-skilled “shoppers” will be employed to help police the new ig price regulations which go Into effect May 18, eputy OPA Administrator Dexter

Kigezer said that selection of the professional price-checkers had not been completed. Robert E. Sessions, new head of the OPA consumers’ division, revealed that the shoppers will be trained by the bureau of labor sta-

tistics, which keeps a watchful eye | #8

- ‘on living costs. Mr. Keezer and Mr. Sessions did not outline the specific duties of

the professional shoppers but it |}

‘was indicated that their work would consist of unannounced appear-

ances in stores scattered throughout| :

the nation in order to determine

how well the regulations are being

out. ‘Plan to Educate Public .

At fH6 same time, Mr; * Kotler ‘announced that Sessions and his

. . staff would undertake an educa-

‘tional program during the next six weeks to acquaint the “great buying public” with the whys and wherefores of the price regulations. As part of the educational and administrative program, Mr. Sessions said, the OPA hopes to have

8k least one regional office in each state. Efforts will be made to ex-

plain all aspects of the price regulations to such local organizations as women's clubs, civic groups and schools.

Selling Groups Face Cut

The professional shoppers would supplement the policing which housewives are expected to undertake in buying retail articles. OPA officials said, meantime, that the price ceilings will force retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers to take a big cut in gross income when the regulations become effective next month. imum prices fixed "at the highest March levels will reduce " the “spread” between retailers on one hand and wholesalers and manufacturers on the other by about $700,000,000, the officials estimated. The “spread”—a technical term meaning the difference. in gross incomes of the three selling groups— . will be set at rigid levels by the price freezing order.

Retail Groups Protest

. © Retail associations already have ~ protested vigorously, with predictions that “hundreds of thousands” of stores will be forced out of business by the OPA" order. Main complaint is that the order fixes both wholesale and retail prices at the levels of the same month. - During March, the retailers say, they were selling goods purchased at February wholesale prices—which were in most cases © lower than the March wholesale

The Home Front

WASHINGTON, April 30 (U. P.). © =A summary of action on the home ui front: ie Taxes x a “The ways ahd means committee

"is believed ready to approve a ‘cor-

poration tax program far below the treasury’s proposals and much less

; ~ stringent than the one President

t has in mind. The president may be -forced to follow his general statement .on with specific proposals,

Gasoline

Ticial of two government agen8 which disputed the gasoline jloning program last week agree at hardships it will impose have een “greatly exaggerated”; they oy say there'll be Blemty of gasoSigh all “essential” uses

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support the family at 230 S. Sherman

“Me go daddy.”

being that the younger King was more needed on the home front. “I thought I had him convinced,” Mr. King said. But as Mr. King pointed out, Dickie “has a mind of "his own.” When his father had been gone for awhile, Dickie started out to find him, to lend him a hand with his work. A motorist driving in the 100 block, S. Sherman drive, had to stop his car when he found Dickie out in the middle of the street, deliberating.

Policeman Finds Him

Patrolman Alex Dunwoody, who lives at 117 N. Sherman drive, drove by, stopped and offered to help get Dickie back to wherever he belonged. “I want my daddy,” Dickie said and he put his arms around Patrolman Dunwoody’s neck but he didn’t cry. Patrolman Dunwoody drove home with Dickie and Mrs. Dunwoody gave him a big orange. Dickie liked that and he also liked “Toby,” a dog at the Dunwoody house. - The patrolman called headquarters to report where Dickie was, in case his mother called.

Hated to Leave “Toby”

And -it wasn’t long until she did. A couple of policemen came and got Dickie, who, much against his wishes, had to leave “Tqby” at the Dunwoody home. So Dickie got to ride home in a police car and a newspaper photographer bought him an ice cream cone. It’s been a big day for Dickie.

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Arctic Patrol...17| Men in Service 4 Eddie Ash ....26 Nat Barrows... 9 24| Obituaries ..

Organizations . 7

Crossword ....30 Denny savis»s418 Editorials .....18 Edson

Pegler ........18 PYIG .v.coinsesll Questions oe ssnl8 Mrs. Roosevelt. 17 Serial Story...31 Side Glances..18 Society .20,22,23 Sports <.25,26, 27 State Deaths... 7

Hold Ev'thing.17 Homemaking ..22

Too Eager to Help Dad

Dickie King . .. he was going to help out.

Buf Dickie Was Determined And Got Lost in the Effort

By FREMONT POWER Dickie King, who is 2%, decided today he'd start doing his part to

When his father, H. B. King, an electrician, left for work today, Dickie accompanied him onto the porch and announced:

Whereupon Mr. King and his son went into a conference, the theme

FORECAST: Continued warm tonight and tomorrow forenoon. .

men talk almost casually about dipping low” over elephant

herds deep in Afriea, of fallin

selves from Jap strafings in Australia, of meeting African chieftains who speak perfect English and serve

and soda.

THEY ARE SILENT about the night one came in off the North Atlantic with something like 8000 pounds of ice on his ship and just did get down in time in Newfoundland, and the

other night when a ferrying command pilot wound up a west-east crossing with 314 hours of blind flying and dropped out of the fog to cut the heart of a little north European island for which he'd been aiming.

RAF BOMBS PARIS WAR PLANTS: JAPS CAPTURE KEY BURMA CIT

drive.

TODAY IS HOTTEST APRIL 30 ON RECORD

Mercury Pases 85 Noon; Warm Tonight.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ...65 10a. m....79 7a.m. ...66 11 a.m, ... 84 8a. m. ... 70 12 (Noon).. 86 9a m . 715 1pm... 8

at

Today was the hottest April 30 in the history of Indianapolis. The mercury passed the record of 85 at noon and the weather bureau predicted continued warm tonight and tomorrow forenoon. The record was established in 1894 and repeated in ’95, 99 and 1901. But since the weather bureau was established here in 1871, never had the temperature gone gbove 85 until noon today.

CALL 4 IN STUDY OF RECORD MUTILATION

Four witnesses were called to testify before the grand jury today in connection with the investigation of the mutilation of criminal court records. The jury had been called into special session today by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue especially to probe the mutilation. Court records relating to a 1927 petit larceny conviction against Thomas J. Sullivan, candidate for Democratic sheriff nomination, were

THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942

g under bushes to save them-

scotch

YOUNG MEN still in their twenties or early thirties, they talk of places on the other side of the world as most people do of the nearest county seat. feat which set the country wild a few years back—is now just a matter of duty with them. ; Their tales are of robust adventure and there's hardly

a phrase for the hazards meeting them world-around.

But no one of them tries

feeling of relief that came when they first saw land after the first long ocean crossing. “About 30 minutes before you're ready to hit land, everyone who can get there is up front with his eyes bugged out waiting for it,” says Maj. Elbert Reynolds, officer with several Atlantic crossings behind him.

Entered as Second-Class Inaianspolis, Ind. Issued daily except

Matter at Postoffice, Sunday.

Flying the ocean-—a

to minimize the tremendous

a young

FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

it is! You get a big grin that

ears and then moves all over your face.

grins.”

CAPT. LARRY THOMAS,

starts 'way back around your Even your hair

with both Atlantic and Pacifie

ferrying missions in his record, remarks that, “When you.

took off from America, you didn’t know whether you'd be

greeted by natives waving spears, but you find that some

|things about ‘darkest Africa,’ are surprisingly up to date.

“Once on the ground over there, the only thing you™ think about is rest—20 hours of it. When you wake at last

you look around and begin to (Continued on

COMMITTEE IN HOUSE TABLES

Gen. George and Writer Die in Air Crash; Jacoby First Far East War Press Casualty

MacARTHUR'S HEADQUAR-

BILL ON LABOR

Issue Dropped for Session, Says Vinson as Group

+{#his. time, the committee voted 13

Heeds FDR Plea.

WASHINGTON, April 30 (U. P). —The house naval affairs committee today in effect killed the SmithVinson bill to control profits, place new curbs on labor, and extend the basic week from 40 to 48 hours. Apparently heeding President

Roosevelt's request to congress to avoid action on labor legislation at

{to 12 to lay

voting 16 to 9 to table any attempt at reconsideration.

Gen. George as a man career stood out since he was a young officer.”)

measure, It. clinched the detion by: u

"TERS, Australia, April 30 (U. P.).— Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today that Brig. Gen. Harold H. George, 48, United States army air corps, and Melville Jacoby, 25, correspondent for Time and Life magazines, had been killed in an air accident. (The war department has posthumously awarded the distinguished service medal to Gen. George, the

war department announced today in Washington.

(Secretary of War Stimson praised “whose

Gen. George, a native of New

York, lived in Los Angeles. He went through the Philippines campaign as Gen. MacArthur's air officer, and came with Gen. MacArthur fo Australia. He is survived by his wife, :

have served as a model for a war correspondent at the front. Mr. Jacoby was a veteran war correspondent in the Far East. He mef his wife, Annalee Whitemore, a former Hollywood script writer, at Chungking as she was working for the China relief com=-

mittee. They married at Manila

' last November.

She came to Australia from Corregidor five weeks ago. Gen. George rose from the’ rank

of private to brigadier general, not

alr ofticlale. of the:

having been a West Pointer. He enlisted in the New York national guard in his native Lockport, N. Y., to serve during the Mexican border crisis. He was mustered into the regular army when the United States entered World War I, and became a flier.

In 1918, he attacked a formation

of four German Fokkers near Ban

theville, France, and shot down and. drove two off.” For this he received the distinguished service

regarded Gen, George as one of the Mr. Jacoby, he said; could well| cross.

The motion to table was offered by Rep. Michael J. Bradley (D. Pa.) and applied to both the original Smith-Vinson bill and a modified substitute drafted by Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.). Rep. Vinson said the two votes meant that the “bills are through for the rest of this session.”

Election Ahead, Vinson Warns

The senate also has put aside labor legislation in deference to the pregident’s request. In regard to the profit aspects of the/ Smith-Vinson bill, administration spokesmen have contended that profits can best be curbed through adequate tax legislation. Prior to the tabling of the legislation, Mr. Vinson told his colleagues that “the American people are going to vote in November and they are going to vote in every district of the United States.” “The American people,” he said, “are going to have something to say about racketeering in plants— profiteering by war contractors and racketeering by labor leaders.”

“people Want Issue Settled”

Rep. James W. Mott (R. Ore.) and Melvin Maas (R.,- Minn), strongly urged against action that would preclude further consideration of labor aspects of the bill. Both said they were not prepared to vote for the legislation, but noted that because of the tabling action they had no opportunity to presents amendments designed “to perfect the bill.” “The people want this issue settled,” Mr. Mott said. Chairman William H., Davis of the war labor board meantime said the board’s policy toward wage increases would continue flexible— “put less flexible than it has been.”

REPORT HITLER-DUCE MEET

» NEW YORK, April 30 (U. P.).— The Tokyo radio said today in an English - language broadcast that “well-informed German circles” believed Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini would meet within the next few days. The broadcast was recorded by the (nited Press listen-

discovered missing last Monday.

Two boys, 13 and 14 years of age, were on their way to reform schools today after telling stories of multiple burglaries unequalled in juvenile court history here. Testifying: at their trials in juvenile court yesterday, the boys described their tactics in 38 house and how they disposed of $1200 worth of loot and $589 in They planned and executed burglaries with the cunning of a

18] Yoios 18 in Bal... 14 Ww.

ging for three. days through the sludge of a sewer in the northeast

ing post here.

Police recovered several hundred dollars worth of jewels after dig-

side of Indianapolis. Other valuable jewels never will be recovered because the boys

showed police the spet where they tossed a score of pieces in Fall

very successful.

lights on our beaches and the safety of our sailors there will be no

Thirty-five survivors of two merchant vessels torpedoed by enemy submarines in the Atlantic were brought to New York by Pan American clipper plane today. said the sinkings had taken probably 20 lives.

in their brief career of crime.

MAPS RULES FOR E. COAST LIGHTS

Voluntary Measures Fail, Stimson Says in Move To Guard Ships.

WASHINGTON, April 29 (U. P). —Control of lighting along the Atlantic seacoast on a voluntary basis has failed and military authorities will have to enforce dim-out regulations, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said at a press conference today. “It is imperative to control lighting on the seacoast to prevent the silnouetting of ships leading to their destruction,” the secretary said. He cited a first-person account from a witness of a sinking off the Florida coast. The witness said the glare of lights from the vicinity of Saint Augustine had definitely helped the enemy detect and sink the ship. Lauds Control at Miami “This sinking occurred long after efforts were made to get lights there diminished voluntarily,” he said. He said he had personally witnessed the results of light control at Miami, where the dim-out is

“If it is a choice between white

question as to the decision,” he said.

35 SHIP SURVIVORS LANDRPp NEW YORK, April 30 (N. P.).—

They

vealed that the boys had spent $304

More Cheers for Soldiers Urged

WASHINGTON, April 30 (U. P.).—Secretary of War Henry L.. Stimson today urged communities to give a bigger hand to their boys who are being called into the armed forces. The war department laments greatly the fact that local communities are presenting fewer brass bands and less fanfare for the new soldiers than they did during the last war, Mr, Stimson told a press conference. ) “We must remember that it is a hard journey for a boy going from civil life to- become a soldier,” he said. “That is when his friends can help him.”

‘PEAGE OFFENSIVE’ BY NAZIS REPORTED

New Weird Offers to Split Up World Hinted.

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Writer LONDON, ‘April 30—Spring rumors of an axis peace offensive, which yesterday centered on Italy, swung to Germany today in the form of a report that the Nazis had put out peace feelers within the last six weeks to Great Britain and

.| the United - States through Turkey,

Switzerlani and Sweden. As in the case of the Italian rumors, the new one was received with skepticism here on the ground that while no doubt the axis would like peace on its own terms, it must, know that the allies, now bringing their tremendous resources toward the peak of striking power, were hardly likely to bite.

An authorized diplomatic com-|

mentator dismissed the new reports with the comment (1) that no such peace proposals had reached Lon(Continued on Page Fifteen)

2 Boys Who Robbed 38 Homes Sent to Reform Schools

became the target for teh practice while one boy dragged it

They had purchased a complete outfit for a new baby the ‘mother

over a field with a long string to simulate a fleeing animal. The boys said they broke into most houses by carefully cutting holes in the glass doors and then turning the locks inside.

creek. Police found that the water

When asked why they did all these things, both boys merely their shoulders. “It’s the weirdest case of juvenile

crime I've ever heard of,” said Judge Wilfred Bradshaw as he orgrat one boy taken to White's

BRITISH VOTERS PROD CHURCHILL

Defeat in Two By-Elections * Shows Demand for 2d Front This Year.

LONDON, April 30 (U.P.).—Demands for a second European front in 1942 and closer co-operation with the Soviet Union arose today from two victorious candidates who defeated Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s war government in byelections for seats in commons. W. J. Brown, independent, elected in the Rugby district, characterized his election as “a command for the opening of a second front and victory this year.” “My election is a call to the government to settle political differences with Russia and achieve all unity of, strategy,” Mr. Brown declared. : G. L. Reakes, independent and former labor party man, denied that his election: was a defeat for Churchill, although he polled 12,596 votes in the Wallasey. district to 6548 for the government candidate, John Pennington. “It is a victory for Churchill, and our enernies now know that Wallasey wanis a vigorous prosecution of the war with a fight to the finish,” Reakes said. Conservative party chieftains were concerned from the fact labor party men are demanding an end of the political truce with the government conservative party.

RUSS SPEAK KINDLY OF THE AIRACOBRAS

Allison-Powered Planes Are Praised by Pilots

By ILYA EHRENBOURG Soviet War Correspondent

MOSCOW, April 28 (U. P)— (Delayed.)—Sunshine has been followed by rain and warm weather by cold weather on the front. Nevertheless, spring has come. Several days ago, I visited an airdrome in the war zone. The ground was almost dry and fierce combat was going on in the air,

familiar - (American-made) Tomahawks and the: new - (Americanspeak of the latter ‘with special

Among our fighters I saw theold|

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SUPPLY ROAD 10 CHINA CUT BY NIPPONESE

Giant Aerial Battle Is Watched by Crowds on Dover Cliffs.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreirn Editor

Britain, continuing its non stop aerial offensive against the Nazis, bombed Germans dominated war plants in the Paris sector today and the Red army held the initiative with 2 new stabs at the Ger. on the eastern front. But in the ar Easi, it appeared that Burma and the supply route to China were lost. A Chungking come

munique announced the capture by the Japanese of Lashio, key allied base in northern Burma. One of the biggest aerial battles of the year was reported irom Dover straits as the R. A. F., using an estimated 4000 planes in a sustained eight-day offensive, renewed daylight, attacks after sprending fire and bomi damage through the Gnome-Rhone motor works and the Goodrich rubber plang Just outside Paris.

War highlights included: ,

Intense derial fighting wag ree ported from the Russian front, where the Soviet press said 247 German planes had been destroyed in the last eight days for a total of 900 planes and 2000 fliers lost by the Nazis in three weeks, The Ruse sians also reported that their troops were holding the initiative in scate tered, but severe lanc battles, and that they had killed some 45,000 Germans during the six months siege of Sevastopol, in the Crimea, Despite the Japanese victory in Burma, increasing the threat of an invasion of India, dis~ patches from Allahabad, where the Nationalist All-India Congress party is meeting, said that Mohandas K. Gandhi was opposed to more than passive resistance to the Japanese, The congress president, Maulana Azad, took much the same position, declaring there would be no sure render to the enemy, hut that none violent methods would be employed, 3 In the southwestern Pagifie, American and Australian planes: again bombed the Japanese base of Lae on New Guinea island, knocking out possibly 20 enemy aire craft. Koepang and Sumalaki in the Dutch East Indies also were

Arthur Drakeford said that Amerie can Catalina bombers were playing an amazing role in the offensive against enemy bases. ’ Crowds on the Dover cliff tops 5 witnessed the great #Inglish coast air battle which seemed to develop (Continued on Page Fifteen) 5

(April 30, 1042)

.|LONDON: R.A. F. renews daylight

attacks, battles G over Dover straits after eight hights heavy raids on Nazi | war plants in Paris suburb blasted. i

RUSSIA: Red army, holding initise tive in south-central and Crim sectors, reports 45,000 Germar killed in six-months siege of 1 sians At Sevastopol; press ss German pines destroyed in

BURMA: Japanese drive into

bombed. Australian Air Minister