Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1942 — Page 1

VOLUME 53—-NUMBER 70

HINT 5000-PLANE ALLIED

WASHINGTON (2

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Seripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, June 1.—What to do about wages. Administration bigshots don’t know, and the problem is rapidly building up to the crisis stage. Look for announcement of some sort of formula soon, though it may not be the final one.

War labor board has had 43 pay-raise cases in four weeks, others coming up. They're backed by some of the most powerful labor groups.

Henderson, McNutt and Davis

bringing up substandard workers (more than half of all wage earners holding down labor artistocrats. Know

got less than $1000 in 1940), they've got to act fast. - = =

IF NATION-WIDE GAS rationing is dropped—due to Roosevelt

NAZIS DIVIDED OVER BOMBING OF EAST COAST

Tension Grows in Reich, Writer Says, But Adds Foe Is Still Tough.

search frantically for some way of |

! ABOARD LINER DROTTNING-

HOLM IN NEW YORK HARBOR,

misstep this week on rubber substit€tes, and congressional frenzy— June 1.—The use of German long-

you can expect even more drastic plans for conserving rubber supply. Top officials aren't fooling when they say rubber may win or lose this

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NATION-WIDE RATIONING

sponse from the nation’s press. James S. Twohey Associates, newspaper analysts, report editorial support from 33 per cent of the press (“It is inevitable to conserve rubber”), “It will paralyze traffic, delay war work, overtax storage facilities”), the part of 32 per cent (“it may be necessary in time

uncertainty on

but will overburden public transportation.”).

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We're Still in the Dark

SOVIET SUSPICION of everything foreign is hamstringing full co-operation between the United States and Russia. EXAMPLE: Red army airmen claim our planes are inferior both to Russian Migs and German Heinkels. tarv observers see how our planes, and other equipment, perform under Aviation experts here think technicians could | fron out the trouble if allowed to work on the spot.

actual battle conditions.

CAMPAIGN TO COLLECT FATS and oils from housewives, hinted at in past is definitely in the cards, but is held up till explanatory posters, ete. can be delivered to some 280.000 meat dealers who will |

serve as collectors.

Industrial needs, including giycerin requirements, are behind t campaign. Far East fats and oil supplies out off since Pearl Harbor. |

Tax Relief Formula Sought TREASURY ECONOMISTS are

corporate and individual taxpayers some help Problem of helping individuals—exemptions for money paid to reduce mortgages, for insurance, for doctor bills—is simple compared | with relief for corporations. But in both cases tax bill drafters face trouble trying to give relief without giving edge to improvident individuals and corporations, putting a premium on bad management. Chances are good that something will be worked out in senate if not in house, Chairman George of senate finance will insist on it; believes towering height of tax rates makes it imperative.

CONGRESS WILL VOTE DRAFT of 18 and 19-year-olds if PresiMany members don’t like it but will agree |

if given assurances that younger soldiers will get at least a year of

dent Roosevelt insists.

training and seasoning. =» = =»

I¥ YOU ARE DEFERRED from the draft because of dependency and your dependent is a grandparent or sister, or brother not living with vou who is only partly dependent on you, look for a card from vour draft board reclassifying you as class 1A soon after the allowance and allotment bill passes—and that won't be long now.

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\range bombers in token air raids on eastern coast cities of the United | States is being agitated by a sec‘tion of the Nazi air ministry in ‘Berlin, but most Germans now take the viewpoint that even success in

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lachieve the total victory once pictured by Hitler. There is no indication that the | Nazi system has reached the breaking point, but there is increasing inner tension and the cracks are) widening in the Reich. Even on] the question of bombing or attempt- | ing to bomb American cities such! as New York or Boston there is a division in the air ministry,

Fear American Unity

opposition from 35 per cent

* & &

But they won't let our mili-

on the United States as an effcive weapon but another group strongly opposed to Such an an stem lon the grounds that {unite the American Bt aia oo, he | {firmly and increase their war ef-

A desperate effort is being sade] to crush the Russian army finally this summer in the realization that’ a two-frent war is inevitable. The |ikelihood. of an attempted invasion ‘of the British isles seems to be becoming remote. Sabotage and go-siow resistance |are on the increase in Germany and the occupied territories in factories, on ships, and even in offices. Executions for acts inimical to the state are put at 10 per day in the reich

alone, . |

» shill to find a way to give.

n paying debts.

Still Possess Power

Information which I have been able to get from reliable American sources since being released from [interment at Bad Nauheim corro-

| Russia this summer would fail to

FORECAST: Continued warm and humid tonight and tomorrow forenoon,

MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1942

The R. A. F. raid by 1500 planes of the factory and harbor section of that dropped 3500 tons of bombs on (the city. The attack on Luebeck

One group favors token air raids |

{Cologne was far greater than any | od p revious allied or axis air attack on | was of similar intensity, with 225] la comparable target. tons falling, mostly on the Heinkel | The biggest previous British raids aircraft factories. ‘had been directed against Rostock| One heavy raid was made on

‘and Luebeck on the Baltic coast. A Berlin in 1941, setting the whole

{or weight of bombs. | pounded with thousands of tons of

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Germany is being forced by the R. A. F. to take worse than the luftwaffe gave Britain.

recent attacks in number of planes Hamburg was

| bombs, but over a period of months |

|instead of hours.

It has been estimated that the

| Germans dropped 340 tons of bombs total of 200 tons of bombs was! ‘north side of the Unter den Linden jon Coventry, the first city to suffer

‘dropped on Rostock, destroying most |afire, but it was not comparable to!wholesale destruction on this scale.

REICH GENERAL | ‘SEIZED IN LIBYA

Nazi Second in \ Command _ Prisoner; Rommel Escapes Trap.

CAIRO, June 1 (U.P) —Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel today succeeded in extracting the badly battered spearhead of his axis tank forces from a British trap in the Libyan desert south of El Gazala despite the capture of his second in command by the British. Gen. Rommel withdrew his German-Italian armored units westward, back from Britain's coastal

“Tithe” tomato. © Malicious whisperers have said the Central library grounds is not purveyars of untruths have been in the dark of night a new one was these things are untrue and if you hear such a rumor, don’t pass it on. Call the tomato department

and we'll set. you straight. The tomato did have a hard

time there for® a while. Like we said in the last article. But the crisis is over.

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borate these general impressions: The Nazis, whether from sheer, desperation or from an actual belief {in final victory, are ready to fight like wildcats on ®ny front that! exists or opens up, and that they {still possess tremendous striking

ELECTION YEAR NOTE: Republican Senator Tart introduced |power.

an allowance and allotment bill months ago, but when it came out |

Although internal collapse as the

of senate military affairs committee it carried the names of Democratic [result of external military pressure

Senators Johnson of Colorado and Lee of Oklahoma.

up this year. =

Hitler's Head Throbbing Now

HITLER'S HEADACHE, caused by an overdose of Pierre Laval |

and Benito Mussolini, is growing

Corsica, Tunisia, Nice and the Savoy, the Duce’s folded-arms brand of sabotage will become even more marked. this, Laval will be thrown out by revolting Frenchmen.

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COUNT ON THIS: Fuehrer or Mussolini,

STERILIZATION ACT | Some Areas Get IN OKLAHOMA INVALID,

WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. PD). —The supreme court today held!

unconstitutional the Oklahoma | habitual criminal sterilization act, which provides for the sterilization of any person convicted in Okla-! homa for the third-time of a crime involving moral turpitude. The decision was in favor of] Jack T. Skinner, a former prisoner

in the Oklahoma state penitentiary

at McAlester, He was released Nov. 7. 1839, after serving his third sentence. Skinner appealed from a hearing ordering the operation.

BING CROSBY'S LIP CUT

HOLLYWOOD, June { (U. P).— Crooner Bing Crosby suffered a cut lip in an automobile collision early today.

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If unoccupied France is invaded by Der she will re-enter the war; (Continued on Page Three)

They're both (will cause the eventual downfall of the Nazis, no big internal crackup

| mediate future, Dangerous Enemy

In other words, with everything at stake including their own political existence, the Nazis are still a highly dangerous enemy, although it is

worse. Unless he lets Italy have

But if Vichy yields on

may be predicted within the im-|

apparently failed completely in his

WITH THE AID of commercial stronghold of Tobruk which had | been his objective, after taking a heavy battering from British guns land bombing planes which left the {desert wastes strewn with wrecked and crippled tanks. British middle east headquarters announced that Gen, Ludwig Cruewell, 50-year-old second in command to Rommel, was a prisoner after the shooting down of a reconnaissance plane in which he was surveying the battlefront. Thus the battle of Knightsbridge seemed to have been ended, temporarily at least. Gen. Rommel has

Vitamin B, the plant has perked up and is gaining. Thanks to two gentlemen and scholars who are associated with The Times in a mechanical way. No tomatoes, as yet, understand, but our day is coming. Meantime, the letters keep coming in from those who have tried the new method of plant-

ing a tomato: Dig a hole three feet deep, put about a foot of corn cobs in the bottom, run a pipe down to the cobs, fill the hole and plant the tomato. Then keep plenty of water going down

efforts to smash through to British rear areas and imperil the entire defense system ‘of Lieut. Gen. Neil

| definite that they will be beaten {without and within. Every ounce | of energy has been geared into this summer's effort on both the home! and fighting fronts. I understand

her fleet will join

~~ |that the so-called “outer ring” of | Berlin’s air raid defense girdle has ‘been largely dismantled to free the! ‘guns for use on the eastern front.

Rent Cut Today | Throughout the winter, new men

WASHINGTON, June 1 (U, Pp) have been called up incessantly, | —Civilian front developments: some as young as 17, and every man | RENTS — Thousands in South! ‘who could possibly be released for ‘Bend, Ind, and 19 other defense- active duty has been replaced on rental areas pay less rent today. the home front, in some instances ‘Government control in those sec¢- by persons physically defective. | tions becomes effective today with | Women and children have been |some maximum ceilings going back: pressed Into the battle ¢ into the battle of BOER

“TIN CANS — Salvage campaign, MAYOR NAMES CITY TRANSPORT DIRECTOR

being started in 36 selected cities. | Officials hope to coilect 250,000 tons Edward Zink t to Serve Under Eastman.

of tin cans a year. FRUIT JUICES — Price ceiling lifted on these, but price chief warns its no excuse for sharp price’ increases.

The appointment was made at the of Mr. Eastman, who exthat Mr. Zink will act as linison director to work out transportation problems in Indainapolis as they affect national wartime pro-

; BARRAGE BALLOONS SUARDING W. COAST,

‘might have been a major defeat.

the pipe. “Hank, the city farmer”—or so he signs his name—wants to know if he “will be held liable for damages if some of the tomatoes fall off and kill some of the neighbors’ children.” Hank figures the vine will grow to such an extent the children will be playing under its shady expanses. Well, Hank, The Times does not give legal advice. > This, although we perform

| M. Ritchie’s imperial army. He failed because he was unable to get supplies and reinforcements through the two gaps his tanks created in the British lines. But by extricating his tanks through the {same gaps he had escaped what

Losses on both sides in the battle were described as “large.” LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am ... 1 10am . 8

fertilizer and a spot or two of |

Tomato Plant Thriving, All Rumors to Contrary

By FREMONT POWER Times Tomato Editer

SEVERAL NASTY rumors have been going around about The

SARIN BNE

that. the tomato row Standing on the one originally planted. These saying that the old one died and transplanted. Listen, faithful ones,

NAZI SLAUGHTER

At Least 200,000 Slain in Baltic States; Millions Herded Into Ghettos.

(Joserh W. Grig] Bas, as manager of the United Press Together with his staff, Be wa interned when Germany declared war Na the United States and was amon merican newspermen recently exe - d_ in Lisbon or axis nationals who in America. He now is member of the Uni Press London staff.)

8 8 8 By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent

Soridly i

OF JEWS BARED

LONDON, June 1.—Adolf Hitler's agents, in the most terrible racial

ID SMOKE COVERS

COLOGNE RUINS FOR THIRD DA

Arnold Happy Over History's Biggest Air Attack, Says U. S. Planes Will Join; Canterbury Attacked by Germans.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

United States bomber and fighting squadrons soon will

fold the fury of the R. A. F.’s great week-end assault that

pounds of bombs.

biggest in the history of aerial warfare, was revealed the chief of the U. S. army air corps, Lieut. Gen. Henry H Arnold, and British officials to have been merely a foretaste of what is in store for Germany.

| stated. “No Plone Being Held Back”

Today British planes staged a carnival of “victory rolls™

Rhine metropolis is still “completely hidden” by the smoks from thousands of fires.. British air circles said they did » not contest German radio statements. that ‘the center” of Cologne was “devastated,” since it must be assumed that the city is “the most damaged and devastated and blasted section on earth since a man-made earthquake dropped on it from the skies.”

“which he and other U. S. war leaders have been holding London and announced that a balanced force of American

“ «.. We are determined to get every possible

| the absolute minimum ree quired for tactical trainings . ... My visit, has, 1 hopes

On the War

Fronts

(June 1, 1942)

LONDON-—Germans bomb ancient Canterbury in reprisal for wrecking of Cologne by 1500 British planes, biggest attack in history of aerial warfare; Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold says U. S. air fleet soon will join offensive.

MELBOURNE — Three Japanese midget submarines reported sunk in Sydney harbor after suicidal attempt to repeat “Pearl Harbor” attack; allies bomb Japanese bases on Timor island and New Guinea.

air arms shall join in an ai# offensive against which ‘he cannot meet, or survive. . Gen. George - ya Marshall (chief of army staff) said the other day that American troops will land in France. that no offensive against Nazi-occu«=

air superiority, have it,” Gen. Arnold said. The Germans retaliated last night with an attack on ancient Cantere

choosing “kultur targets” and cause ing heavy destruction that lef

wrecked industrial Cologne under the impact’ of 6,720 ,000 4

bombers and fighters soon will join the attacks on Germany. )

bury, cradle of British Christianity, with a force of about. 25 rae

persecution in modern history, have | killed at least 200,000 Jews in Russia, | CAIRO — Gen. Ludwig Cruewell, Poland and the Baltic states and{ commander of German Afrika driven millions from their homes| Korps, captured when plane is into medieval ghettos. shot down in Libyan battle; axis Foreign correspondents - in Ger-| tanks withdraw westward through many were never able to get exact] two gaps in British mine-field line figures on the dead, for they were| to escape entrapment.

homes and ancient edifices. in ruins, A heavily censored dispatch from Canterbury indicated that the city’s

years, had been wrecked and pers haps destroyed, and that parts of the town were a mass of flames, (Continued on Page Five)

killed so indiscriminately that no records were kept. Thousands lie in unmarked graves, many in mass graves they were forced to dig before the firing squads of SS troops cut them down. Hitler on Jan. 30, 1939, declared |" (Continued on Page Five)

nfany other civic services, such as telling people that RI-5551 is not the Red Cab number.

Tam ....% Nam ...8 8am ... ¥5 Noon Sam ...% 1pm

2 With Relatives in City Listed as ‘Missing’ by Navy

When Lieut. David: Nash finally gets the Japs out of his hair, he’s going to have a wonderful surprise waiting for him at home. It’s a nine-month-old baby girl whom he’s never seen. The girl, Julia, is with her mother, Mrs. Honoria B. Nash, staying now at the Marott hotel. Lieut. Nash was one of two men

87 MORE GZEGHS DIE

greatest in histor

T0 AVENGE HEYDRICH

14 Nazi Army Officers:

Reported Arrested.

LONDON, June 1 ¢U. P.).— Refugee Czech sources reported today that 87 more persons, 17 of them women, were executed in the 24-hour period between Sunday noon and noon today in reprisals for the attempted assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, deputy Gestapo chief at Praha. Reports reaching London*said- 45 persons were put to death in the Moravian town of Brunn, and that the entire civil administration was wiped out in the small town of Pyn. These new executions presumably were in addition to some 82 others victims put to death zince the attempt. last Wednesday to assassinate Heydrich. Earlier, the European revolution radio reported that 14 high-rank-

alone.

Shoes Fall Off

KUNMING, China, May 30 (Delayed) (U. P.).—Murray Bruce, an American technician from Gardner, Idaho, reached Kunming shoeless and exhausted today after a 300-mile “hike” over mountains and jungle wastes from Myitkyina, Burma. Mr. Bruce, formerly employed by the Burmese army signal corps, fled from Myitkyina with Japanese advance units only five miles behind. For a week, he said, the Japanese trailed him along mule trails while torrential rains pounded the jungles. . “When ‘I reached Yenyueh, China, the Japs had occupied the

ing Nazi army officers were ar-

city,” he said. “I saw a Jap flag and barely escaped being captured by a Jap patrol.” Mr. Bruce continued westward, walking until his shoes fell off

rested in connection with the murder attempt. The Che Europes revolution Tadic) is clandestine broadcasting station

Today’

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

Britain's smashing air raid on Germany,

In Fleeing Japs

s War Moves

y, gives a clue to the program Brite

ain and the United States are preparing for Germany, before 1942 is over. That the aerial offensive will be followed by a land’ invasion ‘there can be little doubt. H. Arnold, chief of the United States army air corps, describing American plans for early participation in the war, made it 'plain that the two allies do not expect complete victory by bombing He said: Past experience hase proved time and again that we

Lieut. Gen. Henry

must have a - balanced: force of ground, sea and air commands with the fullest co-operation among all three) for : victory.” !

| Marshall, army chief of staff, |clared that American troops willl landing in France. Military experts are generally agreed that bombing, while it may bring the enemy to the point 'whes he is ripe for defeat, must in end be supplemented by land § This the Russians already have an they are making deadly use’g When the United States gets réquired number of men to British isles, Hitler will find k sélf ‘trapped between two’ g

|armies. His only possible hg |escaping defeat seems to he {knock the Russian army ouf

summer, but with June. here, he is making ‘no pei progress in that direction. Germany meanwhile will. jected to an aerial Gen. Arnold nope. she." can “meet, defeat. or survive,” ican planes are going to Br

in Germany. baled to be operved officers of Adolf

‘Prussian tipped mount ns, going

and will be going in

The Cologne attack by a fleet of 1500 British planes,

in the sky over London and reconnaissance fliers sent to Cologne to take pictures of the damage reported that the

join the aerial offensive against Germany, increasing threes §

Soon a great armada of 5000 allied planes—United | States and Brivish.will be flying against the Reich. it was |

Gen, Arnold ended the secrecy around the consultations’ 5%

plane into ie il No combat planes are being kept back i i the United states beyond |

hastened the day when our ?

pied Europe can succeed withou$ j and we mean to

famous cathedral, dating back 773 i

§ ah

Only last Friday, Gen. George on

the enemy | defeat |

It is obvidus 4