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VOLUME 53—NUMBER

MIDWAY FIGHT COSTLY TO JAPS

U. S. INDICATES 8 TO 18 ENEMY SHIPS DAMAGED

American Air and Naval Forces Pursue Tokyo Fleet Westward; Enemy Losses ‘Far Out of Proportion’ to Ours.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoifice, Indianapolis, Ind. Issued daily except Sunday.

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1942

POLICE SURVEY Admiral Nimitz: POSSIBILITY OF

WASHINGTON

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

"While it is too early to claim a major Japanese disaster it may be conservatively stated that United States control remains firm in the Midway area."

WASHINGTON, June 6.— Strategy of present Japanese attack becomes more clear: To capture or destroy every possible base from which Tokyo and other Jap cities might be bombed—including Alaska, Midway, Hawaii, as well as Chinese bases.

Dope here is that if they succeed thev can't be licked for many | years. This is zero hour. If they fail, look for a Pacific second front, with the fighting where it will hurt Japan most—at home. =

At Least 2 Blasts Precede Starch Plant Blaze; Eight Are Hurt.

While police and FBI officials dis- | x cussed the possibility of sabotage, | firemen today continued to pour | | water on the remnants of a blaze ‘which last night destroyed two ‘buildings of the National Starch | Products, Inc, a plant making ma-'

terials for the army, navy and foreigh governments. The plant is located at 1515 Drover st. - Damage was estimated by Fire Chief Harry Fulmer at between | | $150,000 and $200,000, although com- | 'pany officials said they could not! tell how high the loss would run. |

Thousands Watch Battle

= = = " BIGGEST QUESTION here (next to outcome of Mid-Pacific battle) : Will Soviet union give us bombing bases in Kamchatka. or near Vladivostok, in exchange for help in Europe? It's reached the stage of discussion by top officials—a long step forward. Importance of consultations this week in Washington. London, Moscow, can't be over-emphasized. nn

Sharing the Work

IT'S REPORTED: That U. fronts from here on, while teat fighter planes, This may result from current talks here between Donald Nelson and Britain's production minister, Oliver Lyttleton. Bombers can fly the Atlantic, fighters can’t. It would save tonnage. 2 =

ff a gE his By EVERETT R. HOLLLES United Press Staff Correspondent

At least eight and probably anywhere from 12 to 18 Japanese warships and troop transports have been damaged in a great naval battle that moved westward in the far Pacific today with United States naval and air forces in

pursuit of a fleeing Japanese fleet. The Japanese invasion fleet, turned back in defeat from its attempts to knock out the American bastion of Midway island, already appeared to have taken a sound drubbing although the battle still was under way. A spokesman of the U. S. Pacific fleet headquarters at ed S$ BASES Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, said that the Japanese had suffered Bar nase damage to at least two battleships, two aircraft carriers,

two cruisers and two transports and the wording of his This map of Japan's most recent blows against the United States shows Nipponese task forces announcement indicated that the toll of enemy ships was were far from home,

even higher.

MARCUS

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. may build the bombers for European Britain concentrates on building : Eight men were injured, one criti- * cally, in the blaze which followed at least two explosions in the starch company’s “dextrin” building. The work of more than 100 firemen and several squads of police’ | officers was hampered by the several | thousand persons who flocked to the ‘scene and jammed the police and fire department switchboards with inquiries of “where's the fire?” Firemen and policemen, however. ‘were aided materially by the city's] defense plant squad which is com-| ‘posed of picked men from other! defense industries organized to assist in any kind of disaster. This | | was the squad’s first time in action. | Confer With FBI Chief { Whil® Fire Preven‘ion Chief Bernard Lynch visited the scene” this’ | morning in an effort to learn the ‘cause of the explosions, police de‘vectives visited the injured men at their homes and at the hospitals to investigate the cause of the fire. Authorities also conferred with] Julius Lopez, federal bureau of iIn- | vestigation chief. The injured: JAMES McCOY, 18 of 143 N.! {Richland ave. burned critically. C. H. KELLEY, 5i, of 1664 N. Belle Vieu ave. night superintehdjent, suffering from shock, condi:io: | fair. CHARLES COLE, 19, of 2619: W. | Washington st... suffering from shock, condition fair. RAYMOND COLE. 23 of 1438 (Continued on Pake Ta

STOP-GAP' RUBBER SUBSTITUTE 0. KD

Dow Co. of Michigan May Throughout the Nagi years, until he came home from internment in Make Retread Product. . Germany the other day, the Nazis have hated but respected him. They

WASHINGTON, June 6 (U. P.) — (Continued on Page Two) A war production board spokesman | is — ma]

tan. Men, ba esse 8 ove 300 BRITISH PLANES ATTACK RUHR AGAIN

|of intent for the manufacture of Naples Buried in Waves as

___!thiokol—a rubber substitute. The | {letter of intent, a preliminary to a Blond Tries ¢ Out ARMS PLANT BLAST Air Offensive Spreads. | LONDON, June 6 (U. P.).—Brit-

jcontract for government financing ELWOOD, Iii, May 6 (U. P).— Ist Nylon ‘Chute ain’s great four-engined bomber

of production facilities, was issued by a subsidiary of the Reconstruc-' Workimen resumed their search to-| HARTFORD, Conn. June § (U. | day for additional bodies in the, P).—The first parachute jump planes, to a total of 300 or more, attacked the German Ruhr war in-

tion Finance Corp. Thiokol is one of the earliest wreckage of a shell-loading build-| with & nylon ‘chute was completing demolished by a terrific ex-' ed successfully todav by Adeline dustry center during the night for the third time in five davs of their

types of synthetic rubber made in| ‘this country. plosion at the $30,000.000 Elwood Gray, 24-year-old blond who is ordnance plant. : the only woman licensed paranew devastation raids, the air min- TOKYO Claims Air istry announced today.

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S CERTAIN: That China will get more aid, especially planes. She’s to Japan what Russia is to Germany, *

Predict Drop in U-Boat Toll

ATLANTIC FRONT: Congressmen who have been talking lately with high navy officials predict curve of submarine sinkings will start dropping about July 1. New vessels, other new equipment, new and better-trained men, being thrown into the battle. ”

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destined to be on Hawaii, 1100 miles way. The attack makes sense only if the - Japanese are attempting to draw off our fleet guarding Hawaii in order to attack with air forces in the absence of most of our war vessels. The Japanese also may hope to intercept an inferior force of warships and airplanes sent from Hawaii to reinforee Midway.

have been for reconnaissance, to discover the present strategical disposition of the United States fleet, or they could be initial

thrusts to be followed up, if conditions warrant, by an all-out. attack on Alaska, Hawaii or the Pacific coast.

By ADMIRAL YATES STIRLING U. S. Navy, Retired Written for the United Press

The attacks on Dutch Harbor and Midway island were by two separate forces. They were only a day apart and it is too far from

Dutch Harbor to Midway island for it to have been by one force. It would appear poor strategy The attack-on Midway may be = to wa«'s {ihe at Midway if the of great importance.: Both “vowl& «final and spree attack is

“Very Heavy Damage Indeed” Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pacifie fleet, said that “very heavy damage indeed” had been ine flicted upon the enemy and that “several” ships in the battleship, cruiser, carrier and transport categories had been shelled or bombed. The spokesman, clarifying the admiral’s communique, ‘said this could be taken to mean that more than one ship was (damaged in each class mentioned.

RED CROSS is trring to get Japanese consent to send a neutral ship inte Manila harbor with food and medicines for military and civilian prisoners. -

Congressional Headaches Persist

CONGRESS. IN HOT WATER most of this year (pensions, Xcards), is working itself into the prize jam of all on nation-wide gasoline rationing. Some members know it. They warn other members that if congress kills ratiching it will have to bear onslaught of public fury when country wakes fully to the fact that rubber has been wasted. can't be replaced fast enough; possibly that nation has been put in real peril | as result. Mailsacks full of protests have vote-conscious congressmen worried. Question is how much of it has been stirred up by petroleum interests (they insist small amount of crude and larger quantities of reclaimed rubber could keep at least half the country’s cars rolling). Also congress fears a general realization of rubber situation won't come until after election; doesn’t know whether to be more frightened of shortsighted wrath in November or more serious retribution later. Roosevelt has been told by one congressional leader to try to sell gas rationing to the country; to postpone rationing a few weeks, at least, to see if this can be done. =

Oechsner's Secret Memos oP HOOSIERS Tell Unique Hitler Story ASK BAS DATA

By JOE ALEX MORRIS | United Press Foreign Editor

4 May Be Turning Point The naval-air struggle, and its effect upon the balance of naval power, may well prove to be a turning point in the war of the Pacific which ends its first six months today. Admiral Nimitz, in his latest communique on the course of the battle said that “while it is too early to claim a major Japanese disaster it may be conservatively stated that U, S. control remains firm in the Midway area.” Midwest Is Included in The Japanese fleet, undoubtedly a formidable one, ap aiid pears to be withdrawing “but we are continuing the attack,” Rationing Area. said Admiral Nimitz who is noted for his reserve and

WASHINGTON, June 6 (U, P,).— caution. The Indiana Republican delegation As to the United States’ inc ‘PSS P inistra~ sp:o.: ' ongress asked OPA Administra- \...ity had only this report:

tor Leon Henderson today for a ; : : “full and complete statement” of “This tenes) damage is far out of proportion to what we have received.”

reasons involved before the execu- | tion of any gasoline rationing order h ‘W F ts In that connection, it must ’ On t e ar rronrts be remembered that warships

for the Midwest. Pointing to a recent press statement opposing application of gas-| at sea, especially when in | contact with the enemy or in purs suit, do not use their radios which

oline rationing to Indiana, the! ‘group told Mr. Henderson in a letter PEARL HARBOR: Admiral Nimitz would provide information for the enemy and serve as “beams” for

‘that the Midwest “has complied, announces “very heavy damage” with every reasonable conservation to Japanese fleet after attack on ‘to date and would not understand] Midway, With “several” aircraft) oo enemy forces. (further restrictions while its tons carriers, battleships, cruisers and 4. Japanese aircraft carrier, {of potential rubber lie unrefined in transports sunk. damaged earlier in the repulsing | of the attack on Midway, has been struck by three torpedoes of a U. 8,

Ji Seis. RO: British take offensive on The reference to “potential rub. CAIRO: Britis ® oliens Ve ber” alluded to persistent efforts of| Libyan desert, seeking to ex- ; : | terminate axi¢ troops or drive|submarine, Nimitz said. Where Were Japs Going? The fact that troopships were ine

Midwest farm leaders to start al ; | program for making rubber of sur- them to Knignishridge gap. | plus farm products. ra aoning should go no further cluded in the Japanese force made necessary to enable us to it clearly apparent that the Jape Jen or our peak war effort and anese were embarked on an ime to guarantee equitable distribution portant mission, either attempting of essential commodities in those! occupation of tiny Midway, which (Continued on Sstitinued on Page ATve) points like a dagger to the Jap< anese mainland 2588 miles away, or perhaps an even more vital objece Chuhsien, though Japan claims|tive such as Pearl Harbor or the

IR THROWN BACK ough Japan claims tv such as Pur Sitios has [op There was as yet no official indie MELBOURNE: Seven Jap subs sunk | cation of the destination or mission

| in six days; Rabaul raided by of the Japanese fleet which United U. 8. Planes for fifth straight day. (Continued on Page Two):

Demand Ful Facts Before

The story that will make us know Hitler—the little things as well as the big things that motivate one of the most dangerous characters in historyv—has now been brought safely out of Germany. Frederick C. Oechsner, who was central European manager of the United Press, with headquarters in Berlin, until America entered the war, spent 12 years collecting the facts for this story from many and varied sources. Some of these facts were known only to a half-dozen persons. They are the material with which future historians will fill out the complete picture of Hitler, the man. In view of the unusual nature of this material, Mr. Oechsner's own background and reportorial experience are a part of the story. Mr. Oechsner comes from New Orleans, where his familv has lived for more than 100 years. His father was a well-known surgeon there and his maternal great-uncle was the noted Louisiana ‘historian, George W. Cable. He himself was graduated in law at Tulane university, but went into newspaper work immediately after passing his bar examinations. He went to Germany in 1929, has been with the United Press since 1932, ‘and became manager in Berlin at the same time Hitler took power in 1933.

‘Get Rid of It Quick’ |

THEY WONT SAY SO. but congressmen are secretly cheering abolition of X-cards: it's a way out of that one. Members from non-rationed states hadn’t thought unfavorable publicity on X-cards would carry weight at home: thev've found out differently. “Even your best friends won't listen to any explanation.” one of them wails. “They just say you were a damn fool to take it, and the only thing to do is get rid of it quick.”

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(June 6, 1942)

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Tommy Corcoran Again HOT READING matter for hot weather: Will be provided by

senate patents committee. Its in recess now. but investigators are (Continued on Page Iwo)

FEAR 51 KILLED IN

Going Up! r MOSCOW: Germans throw new tanks into battle along whole front after Bern radio reports

Nazi line pierced near Kharkov.

LONDON: Week -long “devastation” offensive in Ruhr continues; Naples, Italy bombed.

CHUNGKING: Chinese still hold

That Tomato Plant May Even Sprout An Exposition.

Base;

U. S. Built, Say Nazis. How Indianapolis Would Look

CHUNGKING, June 6 (U. ATI »

Chinese defenders of Chuhsien, |

EVEN AN EDITOR, it develops, lkol will be more or less a “stop- undergoes considerable abuse. leap” measure until newer and bet-| proud of my skyrocketing toter kinds of synthetics can be made. | lations officers announced, and 32! workers still were missing. Of the! bv i i 41 injured, 13 remain in the plant BY Te miHesr Tvechile CO. [pifSoset. i wat said SHEP evelig io Snow him ue Manchester, Conn. where Miss | Materials for the manufacture of one-plant garden. The friend Gray works as a parachute rig- thiokol are relatively ample and the was oh a pass from Ft. Harrison appointed in Washington, was ex- manys’ war production, light bombpected to start an inquiry into the| © cause of the explosion today. injury. She said the parachute worked LOCAL TEMPERATURES perfectly and that she felt “all

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By FREMONT POWER War production board officials in- | Times Tomato Editor dicated that the production of thio- | Nineteen bodies had been identi-| . , fled early today, army public re-| Chute jumper in Connecticut. | mato plant on the Central library ) | The parachute was developed ANY thiokol manufactured will be i d ti : used primarily for tire retreading lawn, I Wok & Hien around the nN ed eal Soliton. Throughout the night, as they ) estigation, : : [str pa za ger. She jumped at an altitude | process for its manufacture is much qd 1 ted to ve to him ISttuci ‘again si she heart of Ges of 2000 feet, and landed without simpler than for the newer type a wa plo right” Then she weht back to work.

. | president, said the substitute ma-

‘synthetics. these officials said.

SEAMEN LAND FROM

J. Floyd Smith, company vice |

3 TORPEDOED SHIPS

A GULF COAST PORT. June 6

. how well

- was in the middle of my speech,

(ers and night fighters hurled bombs {and poured machine gun bullets into

the home-front was

progressing. We traipsed across the lawn

and up to the plant. Just as I [planes failed to return. Planes based on the Mediterra-

there came a loud voice: nean and Middle Bast extended the

‘occupied territory. Thirteen British! jeircling Japanese forces and still hold the besieged city, it was an-'

railroad center and important al-|

targets over a wide area of German lied air base in Chekiang province,

have beaten off more thrusts by en-|

nounced today.

Under Attack Like Cologne's

Five thousand acres of Cologne south and Blackford st, on the west, |were heavily damaged by the R. A.| British destruction in Cologne, F's 1500-plane raid last Saturday however, was not thus concentrated, night, aerial photographs revealed but was scattered over the city by in London today, according to the areas depending upon military tare

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am ...81 1pm More than 11,000 Japanese have

been killed outside the ancient walls of Chuhsien, it was stated, in fierce fighting in which “Chinese troops fighting with high spirits have repulsed all Japanese onslaughts.” (The Japanese: radio, in a dis-| patch datelined “outside the walls of Chuhsien” said that Japanese troops early Saturday occupied the.

offensive to a front of more than 800 miles by bombing Naples, Italy’s {third city, in waves and, by admission of the Italian command, ' starting fires. And as the night force winged homeward, with distant explosions still shaking the southeast English coast as the result of their bombings in the Boulogne area, hundreds ‘of British day shift planes raced into the rising sun to resume the pround-the-clock “devastation offensive ”

United Press. | gets. Paul Ghali, correspondent of the: A rough comparison would be to Indianapolis Times and the Chi- say that if similar destructio cago Daily News, reported from should have been wrought in I Bern, meanwhile, that reports from dianapclis, most of Beech the “best private sources” to Swiss would be in ruins, all the newspapers were that 150,000 peo-| White river between ple had been evacuated from Co- Raymond sts. the whole st logne this week. {lhe area around the anion This would be more than a third | south to Merrill st. uy 3 sire, Shieh 5s only about| the population of Indianapolis. the east and west by © land. | Descriptions of the damage done and Pennsylvania St, h (The German radio, in a Tokyo by the raiders published by London tween the Washix dispatch, claimed that the Japanese today made it possible ,to compare York sts, from the ¢ i ‘had seized the airdrome “which had the devastated area with Indianap- to Pine st, the Lilly SEES AXIS PRESSING FINNS ‘been improved by U. S. army en- Olis. tical plant, the WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P.).— gineers as a base against Japan” Five thousand acres is approxi- ‘Maryland an Secretary of State Cordell Hull, ‘and that the city itself was sur-| mately eight square miles. Similar|tween Delaw asked about the recent visit of Adolf | rounded. and its fall imminent. destruction concentrated in down-|the section Hitler to Finland, said Soday it ap (The capture of Tungtain, | a city town Indianapolis oul | have dev- || parently 30000 in Che rovinee, |astated the whol

terial “works better than silk” in | (U. PP) —Survivors from three ‘united nations inerchant ships sunk by axis submarines, have been land-

parachutes. ed at Gulf ports, the navy an-|

FOOD SHIP FOR U. §. x Sut » PRISONERS HINTED The entire crews, totaling 46 men, For an instant I just started,

were saved from two of the vessels, being easily dumbfounded. Then WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P.).— a medium sized Norwegian freighter| it dawned on me, the man had The Red Cross and the state departe ‘and a small unarmed British cargo; me—without passport, fingerprints 8 ment are continuing efforts to send ‘ship. Ten of a crew of 35 on al or other credentials to prove my 4 medium-sized American merchant-| editorial standing. - ¢ ® shipload of food and medical sup- man lost their lives when a single | Dejected, I got off the grass like g plies to American prisoners’ of War torpedo sent the ship to the bot- he said, and the friend looked at : in Japan, Senator Dennis Chavez tom in two minutes. me, apparently expecting me to 9 (D. N.M)) said today. come back with a wisecrack, Senator Chavez said major ob- which I didn't. 3 stacles to the plan were failure so COMPANIONS No MORE But though I may suffer temFreckles 12 Serial Story . 13 far to get permission from Japan SEATTLE, June 6 (U. P.) —Louis porary loss of prestige, the toFinancial 8 Side Glances 8 to land at Manila and difficulty in Companion, 43, won an interlocu- mate plant goes on and on. And i 4. 5 obtaining a neutral ship. “There is tory divorce from his wife, Pearl, that’s just not “newspaper talk.”

10, er Toa niles. a declared. tog lal, Superior Sule: With fio Sate fair maybe we § State Deaths. 6 “that both : \ t xpositior

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IT WAS a janitor standing in | the library window.

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