Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1942 — Page 1
VOLUME 59 NUMBER 73
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FORBCAST: Continued warm and humid tonight and tomorrow forenoon with widely scattered thundershowers.
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapols, he. fasted daily exoept Sunday.
THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1942
Non- Essential Ration Less Than 4 Gallons Weekly Planned. (U.
WASHINGTON, June &
the controversial
fect in 17 states July
a nation-wide basis as
conservation program 2880-Mile Limit
limiting the average motorist
an estimated On the basis of gallon and 48 coupons a year
being prepared, that figures
gasoline a week.
states, If
ure for the average motorisis.
tinue. Six Types of Books
of the eurrent “meal ticket”
ing books for highway uses The
BR supplementary rations for ing board that they need for * “A” books provides.
torcyeles and “A-1”
of this month.
game with the ratiching Wo beara,
LONDON, June 4 (CDN) time England today had tempora
night.
theaded by George)
Maj. Gwilym
Private direction of but there will be no
of the industry.”
WAR 1 GENERAL DIES VICHY, June 4 U. P) Joseph Leon Henry,
at of the first world war and late
mission in Germany,
Pp —Plans being prepared today by | the office of price administration | for a permanent gasoline rationing | § system in eastern states will abolish Fy “Xeanlimited— § eards and probably provide between three and four gallons of gasoline a week for non-essential motorists. The new system will go into ef1 when the present temporary system ends. The permanent plan now being worked out will be used in all 48 states if it iz decided to ration gasoline on a rubber
OPA TO ABOLISH \' GAS CARDS IN NEW SYSTEM
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Plans for the new system eall for to 2880 miles annually. 15 miles to the in the basic gasoline rationing book to slightly less than four gallons of
The 2880-mile figure still is tentative, depending on whether the system continues to apply only to the eastern states or is extended to all
rationing becomes nation-wide, that probably will be the basic figIf the government decides te continue rationing only in the east, then the figure will be reduced so that the present basie quota of gasoline—
three gallons per week—will eon- . | vietim of a mysterious attack with,
Coupon books will take the place | sonal physician to Praha in an ef-
type, | fort to save his life. ration eard. Dealers will colleet the
tickets and in turn must turn them | in to get new stocks from suppliers. There will be six types of ration-
“A” book, containing 48 coupons, will be issued to every motorist and will provide the basic ration. and “C" books will provide,
who can prove to their local ration-| Berlin highway,
Heydrich was wounded last Week, myjiaing raid record was now: "two or three times more (han | (aig ‘vPhe Japanese anticipate Seripps-Howard Foreign Editor those) as he sped in his BUELE e Saturday, Cologne, 1030 planes; tents” in the last 11 months, Hie that their greatest danger lies WASHINGTON, June 4.—The through Praha streets towa © Monday. Essen, 1036 planes; Tues-| Indianapolis Real Estate boards | i, the approach to their shores | | bombing of Dutch Harbor is widely sap by two nigtie: day, Essen, upward of 300 planes; committee on fair rent date de- | which we are going to make regarded here as another vivid | aged men on bicycles Using repeat: | wednesday, Bremen, upward of 300 clared today in protesting the use | fon Alaska. demonstration of the need for ‘planes. fof July 1, 1941, as a ceiling for In- Soviet-American co-operation in
tial” driving more gasoline than the jue yifles.
“D” books will be issued for mo- former Czechoslovak capital in an and “A-2" books| effort to save his life, extracted |
for trucks, busses and similar ve-| hicles. Only “A” and “D” books will be
issued during the registration period. expected to be the last 10 days To obtain books for supplementary rations, the motorist will have to file an application for
ENGLAND TAKES OVER Moroenthau Opposed to COAL MINES CONTROL
—Warry — government control of the nation's coal mines and a new plan for the collection and distribution of milk. Both measures were anounced last
Establishment of a new ministry Lloyd to supervise and control the country’s fuel is the first step taken to increase coal production. the mines gives way to government supervision “fundamental alteration in the financial structure
—Gen 72. former chief of the inter-allied military mission the Versailles peace conference
a
member of the allied control comdied here to-| |
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dav, TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES Eddie Ash ....20 Jane Jordan ..19 BOOES .....cais 16 Millett .........18] Business ......17 Movies ........12 Clapper ..15|Obituaries .... 8 Comies.... 24, 25 Patterns ......19 Crossword ....25 Pegler ........18 Editorials .....18 Questions ..... 16 Edson .........18/ Radio | Financial .....17 Mrs. Roosevelt 15 Forum ........168 Schools 5 8 Freckles ..23 Serial Story ..25 ° Ghai .........15 Side Glances .18 Hold Bv'thing .15 Society ... 18, 19 Homeitiakine 18 Sports .... 20, 21 . In Indpis.. 3 State Deaths . 8 In Serviees 7 Stowe ... 10 Inside Indpls.. 15 Voice in Bal. 12
Isaacs wecases. 16 Weller sseases ll] council
Seeks Divorce
RAIN RUIN ON | GERMAN PORT
| jacking” by junk dealers.
'R. A. F. Hammers Bremen As Commandos Raid |
French Coast. LONDON, June 4 (U. B.).—Strong | R| forces of bombers and fighters swept G across the English channel today in| a continuation of the R. A. F.s| stepped-up aerial offensive follow- | ing a night assault by hundreds of bombers upon the great German
port of Bremen. While the R. A. F.5 fourth dev-| astation raid in five days hammered | Bremen, its submarine base and war | factories, British commandos, landed on the French coast between | Boulogne and Le Touquet in a dar ing reconnaissance raid into the] heart of the Nazi anti-invasion zone. | | The day shift of the British laerial offensive centered its attack | ‘upon the Calais region, and for the | second straight day it was reported | that German defense planes had re-| fused to give battle.
Paulette Goddard JUAREZ, Mexico, June § (U P.).—Paulette Goddard has filed suit for a Mexican divorce from Charles Chaplin and a decree will be granted her later today, it was announced by Judge Rosas Sebaillos of the Juarez civil court.
HANGMAN DIES: TERROR GROWS
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PACIFIC OCEAN
Use Plane a Minute | Military quarters estimated that
Czechs Hage New Wave of =bout 6000 British planes have been used in the large-scale at-| Reprisals for Attack tacks on Germany and .western Europe since Saturday hight—an/
laverage of a plane a minute—when fan armada of about 1500 planes]
On Heydrich.
LONDON, June 4 (UP) —Ger- launched the devastating assaults CA RBA : many announced today that Rein- with an attack bh Cologne. 3 u S BASES/ : In addition the air ministry re- a hard Heyvdrich, 38-vear-old ges- vealed that more than 1000 British 0. «be \ tapo “hangman,® has died from fighter planes had engaged inh a | wounds inflicted by assassins in single day's operations over the Ger-
The relation of Dutch Rare to Japan’s Kurile islands and to Seattle is shown in this map. |
REALTY BOARD | SIBERIA BASES | FIGHTS CEILINGS | ovres.”."",| NEEDED BY U.S.
P) ~The Japanese attacks on | Dutch Harbor did not surprise Higher Costs to OWES | | oe oo Raid on asks Shows | Cited in Protest to
man occupied areas. The raid on the French coast by the British commandos was a combined army. navy and air force operation. They struck at the new German invasion-defense line opposite the southeast English coast and returned successfully uhder cover of warships’ guns and fighter planes with valuable information and prisoners to be questioned. It was estimated that in what lis now only a “small” raid. the roval| air force used 300 or more planes against Bremen, Germany's second port, 310 miles across the North sea.
Praha eight days ago and an immediate new wave of Nazi terror was expected in Czechoslovakia. The deputy chief of the gestapo,
[Sapen Realizes
bullets and bomb on May 27, died after Adolf Hitler rushed his per-
Spread Death and Torture
At least 202 Czechs, many of them prominent officials and university professors seized as hostages after the attack, aiready have been killed in the widespread German reprisals.
“It shows good sense and judgment if they can bust up what we are doing in Alaska and the Aleutians,” Mr. Dimond
members of congress or Alas Russ and America Must OPA Division.
kan Delegate Anthony J, Di- | Be United in Pacific. Costs to landlords have increased
mond. By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
German specialists, sent to the | dianapolis rents. | In a survey report sent to Karl Th an unprecedented statement, gsyqers, rent division director of the | the government through its British | office of price administration in Broadcasting Corp. warned WOrkers | washington, the committee declared |in 10 towns just across the English ie average increase here in rents channel, in the areas which the ines July 1, 1041, has been $266. commandos raided that the Royal phe Jetter was signed by Barl B. air force had been ordered to bomb rpeckemeyer, committee chairman. Whose towns. | The report further claimed that ch town has a big cement yenis on 71 per cent of the units bo ee for the German en-|curveyed have not increased any gineers who are building anti-in-|ginee that date. vasion defenses on the channel! | coast.
the Pacific and Far East as well as in Europe. It was not without irony that at a moment when congress was preparing to vote war against Hun-| gary, Rumania and Bulgaria at Russia's request, Japanese bombers were laying their eggs on the vital Alaskan outpost.
French Towns Warned
J U.S. GENERALS CONFER WITH CHIANG
Chinese Report Japanese Would Preclude Raids
Forces Hurled Back. If our alliance with
CHUNGKING. June 4 (U. P.).—A| Wholly reciprocal, we Income of workers, on the other ghinese counter-attack that recap- have excellent bases | hand, are 20 to 40 per cent higher, tyred two strategic points and now | Siberia and Kamchatka. This the committee charged. 'is “directly threatening” the Japa-!Wwould not only largely preclude If the rent ceiling date ls not jee at Kinhwa in Chekiang prov-|such Japanese exploits as the raids SHanged, Mr. Teckmeyer said, land- {nee was reported today as Gen. | against Dutch Harbor but would rds will make a “tremendous ‘Chiang Kai-shek conferred here [make it possible for our Jimmy FE of appeals” to the local ad- ity the United States’ three top| Doolittles to blast Tokyo and other ministrator, military leaders in Asia. | Japanese centers regularly.
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SUGGESTS PAYROLL TAXES START JAN. 1
Russia were should now in Eastern
AXIS HURLED BACK IN LIBYA FIGHTING
Levy During 1942.
WASHINGTON, June 4 (U. P). Deduction of income taxes from paychecks with the start of 1043 rather than for part of this year is
favored by the treasury, Secretary Commenting on the report, Dr. Meeting with Gen. Chiang were Nor is that all. If eastern SiHenry Morgenthau Jr. said today {Continued on Page Four) Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, | beria and Kamchatka are imporThe delay in applying a with- Rommel Foroes Desperately commander of all United States ant (0 ad ke Zh unig Vv are ess importan
SHOWDOWN NEAR ON forces in China, Burma and India; Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, com- | CAIRO, June 4 (U. P.). — British | SERVICE PAY RAIS
E mander of U. S. air forces in India, | laire L. Chennault. | armored forces have hurled back | WASHINGTON, June 4 (U. P). and Brig. Gen. Clal O axis units from a strong point in' The senate may face a showdown
holding tax. which has not been approved yet by congress, would give) earners the rest of this vear to pre-
pare for double taxation in 1843. If the treasury’s vroposal becomes
to Japan. If she gets them, she (Conuinved on Page Nine)
Battle Free French.
JAPS ARE STRIVING
e Indianapolis Times
| “situation at Dutch Harbor is at present quiet.” Japanese raiders—four bombers and about 15 fighters—
| initial skirmish, but damage and casualties were light,
‘marily to test our defenses,”
‘son told a press conference:
expect.”
‘be in Alaska or along the West coast.
' Harbor action, disclosed that a second fight of Jap planes
(resulting from the bombing attack. There was no announce ‘ment as to the nature of other damage, if any.
As two towns in the Kinhwa sector were recaptured from the Japa-| the Knightsbridge battle area and today on whether buck privates and Rp P repulsed an enemy thrust at the |apprentice seamen will have their | os ese
law, taxpayers will be paying on nese it was reported also that the| southern salient of their main monthly pay increased to $42 or $50.
1942 and 1943 incomes starting next defenders had killed 2000
T0 KEEP INITIATIVE
Jan. 1. tr t th - The treasury department had Dibyan desert line, a Middle East, The vote may come on a motion besieging Saree . ro! a 'proposed that 10 per cent of the headquartesr communique said to- by Senator Robert M. La Follette of Chuhsien, 45 miles east of taxable income be collected at the day. (Prog. Wis) to discharge senate Kinhwa. (U. S. Massing at Power source and the proposal now is Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel's forces conferees who ae discussing con- | under consideration by congress. Were battling desperately To relieve flicting versions of the army pay LOCAL TEMPERATURES Causes Alaska Rai : ——— lincreasing allied pressure, as the|bill with representatives of the! ga m. ... 72 10 a. m. 84 aid J © D | combined imperial and Free French house. But there re gone Shion Yam... 93 11la.m 88 By JOE ALEX MORRIS {troops kept the initiative. [tions that the motion mig post 8 a. m..... 18 12 (Noon) .. 89 United Press Foreign Editor un ealers Six miles west of Knightsbridge, boned until Monday. Sa.m...58 1pm 90
American preparations for offensive blows in the Pacific—matching new British thrusts by sea and air against western Europe-—appeared today to have forced Japan to ate tempt a series of counter-attacks on allied bases and supply lines from Alaska to Australia. Two enemy bombing attacks on the important American base at Dutch Harbor, lying far west of the Alaskan mainland, were followed by Japanese submarine thrusts against the allied sea lanes off Australia,
the desert crossroads 28 miles south(Continued on Page Four)
On the War Fronts
June 4. 1942
WEST COAST: Entire west coast on alert after two Japanese air | raids on Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
'Hi-Jack' Scrap
POLICE WERE called into the ' Junior Chamber of Commerce salvage campaign today to guard contributions in front of Indianapolis residences against “hi-
City Man Had Peaceful Time At Dutch Harbor in War |
Dutch Harbor, scene of the first] At that time the United States i : aerial bombing of North America, had two boats based there for paday behind the regular city gar- yesterday, was a quiet fishing vil-| troling duties, with small port fabage wolischioh SFucks. Before Vie LONDON: Hundreds of R. A. F. lage during the first world war, cilities and a radio station. trucks had gone very far on their | planes bomb German city of Bre- peopled with Eskimos and a tew | Mr. Longsdorf was on the Bear of route, they realized that junk col- | men: British commandos raid. | whites. |Oakland, a doughty old wooden
The collection drive began to-
lectors had been ahead of hue, French invasion coast. | John G. Longsdorf, executive as- [boat built in Scotland in the 1880s. Witere one oi was sunk and two pleking up the scrap salvage y [sistant at the Indianapolis Power|She saw service in Alaskan waters OLers attacked. material. : AUSTRALLL: Gen. MacArthur ee & Light Co, was a radioman on for 40 years and then the govern- It seemed obvious that Tokyo— Mayor Sulliven | ee Ykilsee rie nls. maine — woul one of two patrol boats based ment retired her and she was tied Mh yas silent oh Be Dijen avoid and he order a ce squad | § | there. lup at Oakland, Cal. or raias—was attempting to avo cars to patrol the Thursday routes Port alter enemy fore undetses, “Nothing ever happened,” he Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd ‘lost of the initiative of an ever | of garbage collection. Police made attacks on vital allied supply line said, “but the place must be a Ibt bought her for $1000 for an Antarc- | Widening front. |
to Australia,
several runs today, but made no different now.” iic expedition in 1933 and at pres-| The attack may have been Bre-, arrests. Collections of scrap LIBYA: Axis attacks on British “The only time a rifle was fired, ‘ent she's plowing the North Atlantic | {liminary to an attempt to seize metal, rubber and rags will be forces repulsed. was for military services for one of |seas—back in government service. [positions on the Aleutian islands for
sold by the Jaycee to authorized During tho junk dealers and the: proceeds will
be given to the county defense
(the boys who died from natural | RUSSIA: Germans continue thrusts! causes.” to “feel out” weak points of Rus- The population was only several warm in June but the ice cakes and |terrupt mobilization of American sian lines. snow still had not melted. | iking power,
‘was believed to be an attempt to knock it out, either in
summer Mr. Longs-|an attack toward Alaska, but more stepping stones for an American indorf was at Dutch Harbor, it was likely was primarily designed to in-| vasion of Japan.
FINAL HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
ORE RAIDS COMING
DUTCH HARBOR
FIRST TARGET, U. 5. WARNED
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Navy Reveals Japs. Dropped No Bombs on Second Visit; Entire Pacific Coast Ordered to Be on Alert.
WASHINGTON, June 4 (U. P.).—High authorities warned today that the Japanese are likely to strike fure
‘ther blows at North America, following up vesterday’s ate ‘tack on Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
The navy announced in a noon communique that the It said the
had dumped high explosives and incendiary bombs in their
The Japanese attack “appears to have been made prie the communique said. In line with that idea, Secretary of War Henry L. Stime
“I warn you this is not the only and last raid we may
Believe Planes Based on Carrier He declined to speculate whether the new attacks might
The navy communique, the fourth issued on the Dutch
over the naval and military base yesterday ‘failed to drop any bombs and appears to have been engaged solely in ree connaissance.” The reconnaissance doubtless was for the purpose of observing results of the first raid, and perhaps ‘in preparation for a further attack. ~The navy added that the planes were believed to have ‘heen based on a Japanese aircraft carrier, but emphasized that nothing definite is known about their takeoff point.
Incendiary Bombs Dropped Summarizing the present situation at Dutch Harbor and the results of yesterday's action, the communique said: “The situation at Dutch Harbor is at present quiet, Yesterday's first raid by the Japanese appears to have been made primarily to test our defenses. “High explosives and incendiary bombs were dropped but, as previously announced, our casualties were light and damage was not extensive. The few fires which were started were qiuckly extinguished.” A previous communique had mentioned storehouse fires
Expect Further Action In emphasizing that the first attack probably was launched to test Dutch Harbor's defenses, the navy indicated that further Japanese action there might be expected. Mr. Stimson, in making a direct warning on that score, recalled that only last week he had said that the United States must expect reprisals from the Japanese as a face saving gesture for the powerful blow struck at Japanese industrial centers by Brig. Gen, James H. Doolittle and | his special air squadron. Asked whether his warning applied to the continental United States as well as to outlying possessions, he said he would place no geographical boundaries on where the enemy might strike. Mr. Stimson declined to say why the Japanese chose Dutch Harbor as their first target in reprisal for Tokyo.
West Coast on Alert Mr. Stimson's warning focussed attention on the state or rigorous alert now in effect from the northernmost ‘reaches of Alaska, down the North American Pacific coast ‘to the Panama canal. The Japanese struck twice at Dutch Harbor in what
preparation for further thrusts against other North American objectives or for an attack on Siberia.
Panama canal officials said the alert which had been in (Continued on Page Four)
Today's War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor cannot be appraised on the basis of the scanty information so far available, but the size of the first raid—four bombers and 15 fighters—does not suggest that the Japanese were attempting to knock out the Alaskan naval-air base in one swift blow. When details of the second raid are received, that point may be clarified. In the meantime, it is reasonable to speculate that the raid may have been a feeler, to test out the American defenses and the feasibility of overcoming them by a large-scale attack. American military men are convinced that the Japanese will try to|certain that American bombers take the Aleuthians and perhaps) would take that route to Kamchate Alaska, because the islands form ka to join the Russians in an aerial attack on Japan proper. That is one thing the Japanese really dread. It is barely possible that the raid (Continued on Page Fou),
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