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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1942
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How America Stands Six Months After Pearl Harbor
It will take time to finish training milliong—yes, millions—of men for the showdown battlefields. It will take time for these men to follow the hombers
The first war end Sunday. Where de we stand and what ic the antlook® United Prest men have shught the ancwers from qualified authorities in every government department.
Here are their views,
six months af the
Re UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON, June 5-—We maior military battles of this war but we are beginning now to win the battle of production. This means that we definitely are turning the cor. ner toward ultimate military triumph on land, on sea and in the air. Victory ig not yet in sight. But it is there. That is about how things shape up after our first tix months of war which will end this week.
have heen losing
GAS RATIONING Maior Sea VERDICT WAITS
Conferees With FDR Fail To Reach Decision: 100 In House ‘Revolt.’
WASHINGTON, An important conference President Roosevelt and high gov-
ernment leaders on the question of
nationwide gasolin® rationing end- : In ; ent carrier and probably other vessels t \ ed today With an announcement. a. outpost on Midway island that the White House will issue a} yesterday. “in 8
ready have lost the first Jo in the Far Pacific where U, pursuit of an enemy fleet. The U. S nounced that
Juanes (op) between
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statement on the situation
matter of days | suddenly intensified fighting on sea |
La |and in the air along & vast battle moned to the White House by Mr. | | front reaching from Alaska to Aus-| Roosevelt, indicated that ne final | tralia. decision was reached today. It marked a sudden shift in JapArchibald MuacLeish, director of anese strategy, the purpose of which the office of facts and figures, acted still remains obscure. as a spokesman for the group. A report at Ottawa that there “A statement will follow in the had been a third raid on Dutch nearish future.” Mr. MacLeish said. | Harbor has been disproved. Col. J. He then defined the “nearish fu-|L Ralston, Canadian defense min. | ture” as “a matter of days.” ister who gave the report to the i house of commons, later said that i House Group Protests was without foundation. newspapermen Dispatches from Honolulu and for a definite idea as to what, if Australia said that the Japanese any. decisions were reached today, attacks on Dutch Harbor and upon Afr. Macleish described the confer- Midway, which lies 1563 miles south- | west of the Alaskan Aleutian islands base, may have been for either one of wo main purposes:
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When pressed by
ence as “routine.” In what wav would you call a conference of this type “routine?” reporter asked Mr. Macleish To serve a¢ & diversion for a " He shrugged his shoulders and bigger assault—upon the United declined to say anything more States west coast, upon Pearl HarWhile the White House meeting |... or against the U. 8. supply route was in progress an angry bi- at (Continued on Page Five) i isan group of approximately a house members unanimously on sd a resolution opposing nationwide | gasoline rationing unless a report showing it to be necessary is filed with congress,
Card Holders Face Quix
The American Automobile association, asserting that diminishing traffic was evidence that motorists are voluntarily conserving their) tives, appealed for a 90-day post-| pray Rutenberg, president of the ponement of nation-wide rationing Indianapolis waste material uso The petroleum industry war coun-|gjation, today declared that none! cil, representing the large oil com- of the members of his association
JUNK DEALERS SAY HLAGK CLAIM FALSE
Jaycee Report Is Untrue, Association Head Asserts. |
With Japs Looms
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
A maior naval and air battle in which the Japanese al-
. Pacific naval command at Pearl Harbor anattacks on the enemy after the damaging of a Japanese battleship, an aircraft
just before noon
The unsuccessful attack on Midway, only 24 hours after two Jap- | anese air raids on the Alaskan naval base of Dutch Harbor, highlighted
{ported that 24 more hostages had
A wise old soldier told the United Press that if we must loge any part of the war we had better lose the first part, not the last, That was the way we won World War I. In six months, we have been hard hit and hurt. More
had news from the military
fore our swelling ranks of men and machines of war bear erughingly on the axis in all-out, non-stop hit 'em-with-
the-ringposts offensives.
Washington cautions against the delusion that the war can be won and ended quickly.
It will take time to lick the ships necessary to arm
Transportation ie the real bottleneck now.
Battle
was believed developing today S. planes and warships are in
are continuing”
which attacked the American Pa(Indianapolis time)
into the heart of Hitlerland
fronts must be expected be-
Our forces are scattered : . and dormant fronts. They It ig a long-haul job. the submarines and to build
and support our offensives. oii) on the defensive; the
RAF POUNDS NORTH FRANCE
More Than 1000 Planes Hammer Coast Area in Daylight Raids.
LONDON, June § (U. P).--Big fleets of British bombers and fight ers, totaling possibly 1000 or move planes, struck at northern France today in relays without any real challenge from the German air force whose fighters appeared to be avoiding battle, Hour after hour the RAF squadrons swept across the channel, ~ | carrying out their fourth big-scale daylight assault in five days, with every indication that by nightfall
Coming Dow
STATE FUNERAL FOR ‘HANGMAN'.
Gestapo Chiefs Reported Fearing New Attacks
From Czechs.
LONDON, June 5 (U, | Nazis prepared a princely funeral for their ace terrorist today, while! surviving Gestapo henchmen frantically hunted patriot-parachutists they feared had landed in Czechoslovakia to take a general vengeance of German officials, The body of Reinhard (The Hangman) Heydrich was borne in “solemn ceremony” from Bulowka hospital, where he died yesterday morning, to Praha citadel, where it
lay in state, the German official news agency said. A state funeral,’ expected to exceed in magnificence | any ever provided for a Nasi, will] be held in Berlin. The Trans-Ocean
P.) ~The
agency res been shot at Praha, where patriots shot Heydrich on May 27, making a total of 267 innocent persons who! have been shot in reprisal. Czech
| were lost, so weak was the opposi- |
panies, passed a resolution Opposing | were involved in “hi-jacking" serap|circles in London said the Germans rationing on & national scale “untill,naterials reported by the Junior|had thousands of hostages in con(Cuties Rue Chamber of Commerce to the may- centration camps to shoot if their or's office snd the police depart detective work continued unfruit-
| Monday's record would be equalled {or perhaps exceeded. On Monday more than 1000 planes bi out the biggest daylight weeps of the war, Weak Opposition in Air
The German defense planes were | reported to have “practically ig- | nored” the attacks for the second straight day, Although hundreds of planes participated in yesterday's sweeps, only three British fighters
neuvers, an explosion Sexiered be them 60 feet in the air.
tion. While bad weather kept the great |
or and coastal command forees heavily raided occupied territory
rine boc Ri BB planes ranged Wickar d fo Gi ve Orders on Food
bodily Injury,
from the docks of Dieppe to airdromes in Holland and returned! without loss, An air ministry communique, WASHINGTON, June 5 (U, PJ). Soveriny Rios of Jesteydey —-Production Chief Donald M, sa Cherie Bn Bing attr Relopit witiay sumOUced » lurnteSpitfires and bombing-equipped tion of a food requirements comHurricanes had attacked the Ger- | mittee under chairmanship of {man air field at Maupertus. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Rake Coastal Towns R. Wickard with complete conIn the afternoon several squad- | trol over production and allocabons o yee SWeph he Amen. ton of al civilian and military $ supplies. de EY cried by | This il be the equivalent, in doeks. i tlogne ve a Pl ini Soria “Many ; me | war administration which corted Bostons in an atiack on the Herbert Hoover headed.
was added. Gérman planes, in weak vengeance raids, bombed northeast
Dunkirk docks in the evening, it
distant Pacific isles one by one; to avenge the heroes of Bataan and Corregidor, Wake and Guam, mass bombing raids, damaging to the enemy as they are, aren't counted on to do the job alone,
forces, the cream of a finely equipped army that will total 4,500,000 by year's end.
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While landing at the dam edge during South Wales night ma-
A photographer snapped the picture as the long-range bombers aground, fight- | men were falling earthward. The men suffered more from shock than
TROLLEY SERVICE ON ™{ “Ritente
Rutenberg said authorized ONE LINE DISRUPTED unk dealers only leave their place f business on call and the largest Service on the West Ineianapolis part of their scrap transactions are trolley will be discontinued tempo- | with peddlers who circulate through | rarily from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. tomMOr=- the city collecting waste materials, row on Howard st, between Persh-! ye drive, sponsored by the Junme and Reisner sts, and on Reisner ior Chamber. began yesterday over between Howard and Morris sts’ ihe regular pick-up routes of the “ indianapoits Railways explained |qjty garbage collection trucks. Jaythe interruption of service Was . qe collectors complained to Mayor necessitated by rail removal and re-| gyjjivan shortly after the collection | paving now in progress on Howard carted that they were being “hi- | st. The trolleys will turn around at jacked ” Howard and Pershing sts. and re-|
ten stalin, €OH8 nor: on perch- PAULETTE DIVORCED; (WEDDING SECRET OUT
| HOLLYWOOD, June 5 (U. P).— A Hollywood riddle which for six years has caused futile guessing among film fans from here to Balik Papan was solved today with news from Juarez, Mexico, that the lovely Paulette Goddard has divorced Charlie Chaplin. By roundabout means their public had discovered they were married, but neither ever volunteered any information as to when or where such 23(nivs. Roosevelt. jo, an event Eught Have taken piece, In arez the secret came out. ey oy on 2 SCHOO ois 3 were married in Canton, China, in v {June of 1936, apparently during a
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21 DIE IN ILLINOIS ARMS PLANT BLAST
24 Others Are Injured; 100-Mile Area Rocked.
ELWOOD, Iii, June 5 (U, P).— An explosion so powerful that it ‘rocked the earth like a quake within ‘a 100-mile radius destroyed a shell loading building at the $30,000,000 Elwood ordnance plant today, kill« ing 21 workmen and injuring 24. Army officials announced that the plant as a whole, spread over 23 square miles of flatland 40 miles south of Chicago, continued operations uninterruptedly. Windows in the southern fringes of Chicago were shattered and residents of northern suburbs along Lake Michigan said the concussion was terrific. Army officials and agents of the FBI began an immediate investi-
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‘caused a few casualties at an east
coast points of England and a single plane damaged homes and]
WASHINGTON, June 5 (U. P). ~The people of occupied and unoccupied France are ready to spring at their German oppressors, acting as a mammoth fifth column, when the allies success fully establish a second front against the Germans in France, a thoroughly competent source reported today.
coast town,
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Rabbi Tells Optimists How Canada Goes 'All the Way'
By TIM TIPPETT The story of Canada at war was outlined to members of the Optimist club at their noon luncheon today at the Columbia club. The narrator was Rabbi M. N. Eisendrath of the Holy Blossom temple in Toronto. Rabbi Eisendrath, an American citizen who has’
vears, told his audience how Canada with no navy at the ‘beginning of hostilities now has 350 ships and 27,000 sailors with 13,000 to be added
gation, They declined to speculate | on the origin of the explosion but
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28 Simms ..... .. 9 ‘ os Made with Miss Goddard and her 8 Society 2 23 mother.
19 Sports 24 25 Homemaking ..23 State Deaths .10 VOTE CCC ' ABOLITION In Indpls ..... 3A. T. Steele...18 WASHINGTON, June § (U.P), In Service ....11 Stokes +19 ~The house today voted to abolish Inside Indpls .19 Stowe ...... Seedis 2 voice in Bal. 16
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reports to Joliet police indicated! the blast had followed a smaller concussion, as if a heavy shell had detonated and set off the contents of the loading line. Capt. David P. Tunstall, public relations officer at the plant, said e explosion occurred in a
by next March. He said that with practically no army three years ago, Canada now has 300,000 men with another 100,000 to be added by next March. This ratio is equivalent to an army of nearly five million in the United
worked in Canada for the last 13/®
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now among 30 or more active are still comparatively small
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FINNS FEELING NAZI PRESSURE
‘Report Hitler Issues Demand for Cutting of Rail-
way to Murmansk.
LONDON, June 5 (U. P.).-Adof Hitler was reported in advices from | (the European continent today to be | [exerting strong pressure on his [Italian and Finnish allies to provide greater support for a big-scale offensive against Russia, including an attempt to cut the Murmansk-Len-ingrad railroad. Stockholm reports said that Hit ler's surprise visit to Finland yesterday, ostensibly to felicitate Finland's Marshal Karl Gustav Mannerheim on his 75th birthday, actually was to demand that the Finns abandon their lukewarm attitude to join in a big assault against Leningrad and Murmansk,
Mannerheim Reluctant
Mannerheim, it was reported, is reluctant to send his Finnish troops into any big-soale offensive and would prefer to remain on the defensive, Furthermore, it was reported in Stockholm that the Finnish leader fears a United States declaration of
grad railroad line, key artery for allied war supplies arriving at MurMansk
A United Press dispatch from
RETALIATION IN KIND PLEDGED BY PRESIDENT
‘Inhuman Form’ of Warfare in China Will Be Regarded as Action Against U. S,, Nipponese Are Warned.
WASHINGTON, June 5 (U. P.).—President Roose= velt, charging that Japan has used “poisonous or noxious gases” in the Chinese war zone, warned Tokyo today that the United States is prepared to retaliate “in kind and im full measure” if the Japanese continue that type of warfare,
The president emphasized that the further use of gas .
by Japanese forces in China would be regarded in the same light as if that “inhuman form of warfare” were waged
against this country. “We shall be prepared to enforce complete retribution,"
the president said. “Upon Japan will rest the responsi-
bility.” The president's statement was prepaved for him by the
state department. Chinese Charges Confirmed It made no attempt to identify the poisonous or noxious gas which the Japanese had used, but said that the reports: of its use were authoritative. Chinese leaders have on several occasions charged te Japanese with gas warfare,
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has given CU
Germany a similar warning that Britain will use gas if the
| Nazis do.
The president's statement follows:
“Authoritative reports are reaching this government
of the use by Japanese armed forces in various localities of China of poisonous or noxious gases.
Position Is Made Clear : “I desire to make it unmistakably clear that, if Japan. persists in this inhuman form of warfare against China or against any other of the united nations, such action will be regarded by this government as though taken against the United States, and retaliation in kind and in full measure
| will be meted out.
“We shall be prepared to enforce complete retribution. Upon Japan will rest the responsibility.” Mr, Roosevelt kept within the framework of that Dried statement in discussing this country’s general policy about retaliation against the use of gas. “Will we retaliate with poisonous gas wherever it is used ?” the president was asked after he had read his statement. He shrugged his shoulders, indicating that he did nol care to answer. “Oh, why don’t you ge ahead and say so,” a newspa« perman urged. The president then explained that his brief statement had been carefully written out for him by
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‘On the War Fronts
June 5, 1942
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PACIFIC: Major naval-air battle believed developing after U. S. repulses Jap attack on Midway
island, damaging enemy battle~ ship and airplane carrier; allied planes sink two more Jap submarines in battle for supply lines off Australia; Alaska quiet.
CHINA: Fierce fighting under way around Chuhsien, important allied air base, which the Japanese are storming with 60,000 to 80,000 troops.
LIBYA: Lull reported; British turn
back axis: fanks:in axis tanks in rSRirvishes,
LARGEST GONVOY REINFORGES INDIA
British Ships Carry Troops, U. S. Tanks and Planes.
NEW DELHI, June 5 (U. P.), — The largest British convoy ever to
the state department and it was impossible for him fo say morg at this time. Asked directly what this coune try’s policy would be if the gas ree ports from Europe prove authorie
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inquiry as “too iffy.” Never Signed Gas Pact
There are many difterent types of poisonous gas which have a burne
ing or paralyzing effect on human beings. Among the noxious gs are tear gas and nauseating gas.
the two most important
reach India has landed thousands ciety
tative, the president dismissed wey
The United States and Japan are
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