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GAS SCARCITY HEALTH PERIL,
SENATE TOLD
School's Out, So Pupils Help Win War
Eastern Industry Also N Facing a Breakdown, | La Guardia Says. |
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Meanwhile, President Roosevelt | called another conference of gov- | ernment officials to discuss the general gasoline and rubber situation. Called to the meeting were a Production Chief Donald M. Nels Petroleum Co-Ordinator Harold t Irkes. Price Administrator Leon Henderson and Director Archibald Macleish of the office of facts and ficures. One phase of their discusgion iz expected to deal with the president's plan for a campaign of ing scrap rubber.
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collect Wants Rationing
Mr. La Guardia discussed the) need for nation-wide rationing be-| fore the senate committee. “It is true that the Midwest has] gufficient oil, but is manifestly | unfair to ration one part of the| couniry and not another,” he said. | “Any tank car, truck or receptacle] that rv oil be rationed. It way to avoid a catastrophe’’
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REPORT OUTBREAK OF TYPHUS IN SHANGHAI
By UNITED PRESS
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The Japanese controlled Shanghai; radio intimated today that typhus was prevalent in Shanghai. It broadcast a warning that while] innoculations could be given against! typhoid and cholera, “there is no| known innoculation for typhus.” The radio suggested that to guard against typhus, the skin must! be treated with camphor. “Camphor| lockets that are worn next to the gkin are available to all who wish! to buy.” it said.
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state's | telephone.
The end of school doesn’t mean the end of the war bond campaign in the public schools. 45 since Jan. 16, pupils have bought nearly $6500 of insurance in America and they don’t mean to stop Mrs. George J. Valases will be at the school from 9 to 11 a. m. each Thursday to accommodate
now,
HITLER ARMY STORMS RUSS NAVAL CENTER
Moscow Admits Position of Crimean Fortress Is
Growing Grave.
June 10 (U, P).—
| Plane- supported German
MOSCOW, troops,
| pressing forward over thousands of
|their own dead.
stormed the ap- | proaches to Sevastopol fortress to-
|day while sharp fighting flared in
three other key sectors of the 1800mile Soviet front. A dispatch to the army newspaper Red Star acknowledged that the situation at Sevastopol was becom-
‘ing increasingly grave on the sixth
iday of the ferocious big-scale
Ger-
‘man offensive.
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But the besieged Soviet garrison was reported fighting against over-
{ whelming odds and refusing to yield
{ground against an attacking force {estimated at more than 150,000 men,
At schoel |
such pupils as Herschel Hampton, of the 6A grade, and Jane Deming, of the 7B. It's a part of the school |
system’s summer victory program.
WORK OR STUDY |
S THE SLOGAN
2069 Teachers Anointed: Budget of 7 Million Gets Tentative 0. K.
School was for Indianaposchool children at noon today. At the same time, 2080 teachers were appointed for the 1942-43 school year. most of them at increased pay. Many of the children gre expected to take part in the schools’ sum-
mer victory program which ranges from signing pledges to buy stamps
“out”
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Lists of teacher appointments, Pages 6 and 7.
to the planting of victory gardens. Classes for high school students) will be organized in almost any sub-
jject for which there is sufficient] | enroliment. | for the youngsters is: “If you don’t | go to school, go to work.”
One of the Fueboet| i |
The more than 2000 members of | the teaching and administrative! ‘staffs were appointed by the school! board last night on the recom-| mendation of DeWitt S. Morgan.! superintendent of schools. The | board also adopted tentatively a! $7.024,394.55 budget for the coming | school year. The teacher appointments include | 1098 elementary and junior high |
PBI iueY on Pago Thy
STATE COAL STRIKE | REFERRED TO NLRB
WPB Adviser Reports Situ- | ation ‘Serious.’
Indiana's 168-day-old coal strike which has tied up production in 14 {of Indiana’s largest deep-shaft
| mines was in the hands of the na-
tional labor relations board today! after Governor Schricker announced | that state officials were at the “end of their rope.’ The matter was certified to the NLRB by the mining branch of the war production board in Washing-' ton when Carl Kellev, technical ad-|
iviser for the mining branch in In-
and Tllinois, position by
diana reported the
long-distance
Mr. Kellev has heen in econstarit touch with Governor Sehricker on the strike situation and has investigated the case in Terre Haute where he found it to be “very serious.” Mr. Kelley was to hear from the NLRB in Washington this afternoon on the next step in settling the strike. The strike began Wien 300 drillers and shotfirers walked off their jobs because of operators’ alleged faliure to come through with a “promised” 40-cent-a-day increase. The mines bureau estimated the nimber of men now owt of work] at
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As a part of the city schools’ summer victory program, the P.-T. A. at school 51 decided to match anything the pupils would put up in the way of buying seeds and plants for victory gardens. A total of $75 worth was purchased. Here (left to right) Barbara, Gene and Donald
Inman, of 2218 Station st, look
plants in their victory gardem at home. They're but three of about 400 pupils at the school who are ro. in the program.
Teacher Dies
School 53 Pupils Mourn Passing of Mrs. Rude.
SCHOOL: WAS out at No. 53 today, like it was at the other schools. But, despite the long-awaited pleasures of a vacation in the good old summer time, many of the pupils of School 53 came back shortIv after being dismissed. They brought donations of money because they wanted to buy a floral tribute for Mrs. Jessie Marie Rude. For the last 20 years, Mrs. Rude had been a teacher at No. 53, located at 422 Ketcham st. Yesterday she died at Methodist hospital, The pupils liked her because, according to those with whom she worked, Mrs. Rude was a sympathetic woman and she took a personal interest in the needs of “her children.” Like others who stay in the pro(Continued on Page Three)
BARS CONFIRMATION WIRES
WASHINGTON, June 10 (U. P). —Byron Price, director of censérship, today asked business firms and individuals to cease mailing confirmation copies of telegrams, cablesgrams, radiograms, and tele-
phone messages between the United |
States and foreign countries.
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official dispatches said. (The Berlin radio admitted today
that Russian forces are counter-at-
tacking outside Sevastopol and that it may require “some time” to seize
the Crimean city.)
over one of the thriving tomato
25,000 Die in One Day Dispatches described bloody hand-|
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FOOTHOLD IN ALEUTIANS CLAIMED BY TOKYO TO OFFSET PACIFIC DEFEAT |
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to-hand fighting and said that slain}
Germans and the wreckage of burned-out tanks virtually the approaches to the vital Black
sea naval base.
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(London reports said the German! attacks were the heaviest of the)
five months of siege and that the battle centered outside Soviet defense positions, only an hour’s ride from the city itself.) A soviet communique last night reported more than 2500 Germans were killed before the city in one day’s fighting. Dispatches said the enemy's death rate was “much higher” German offensive when 35,000 Nazis fell in a 17-day struggle.
Fight on Other Fronts
Heavy fighting also was reported on the Bryansk front, midway between Moscow and Kharkov: in the Kalinin area northwest of Moscow, and on the northwestern front between Leningrad and Lake Ilmen. Stockholm dispatches said that
hundreds of German guns had re-|
newed the siege of Leningrad and that waves of German bombers were hammering the nearby fortresses of Kronstadt and Totleben. The war-weary Finns were said in the Stockholm accounts to be hopeful that Leningrad will fall and that Finland will then have an excuse to quit the war.
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6. 0, P. DELEGATION
‘Doubt His Talk at ‘Parley
Will Help Party.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 10.. — Considerable “off the record” complain- | ling is being done by Hoosier Re-| publicans here regarding the pro- | gram for the Indiana G, O. P, state convention to be held in Indian- | apolis next week. Some particularly dislike the se- | lection of former Senator James E. Watson as a speaker. They maintain that he never hae filled the | role of “elder statesman,” but con-| tinually has to meddle in poli- | ties sineée his defeat by Senator | Frederick VauNuys (D. Ind.) back in 1932. i His hand has been in everything from the precinets up, they say, and while for the most part his efforts have been unsuccessful (such as his attempts to obtain the senatorial nomination) they have been re-| sented. “The Republican party in Indiaha and elsewhere cannot win with reminiscences,” ohe of the youthful Indiana Republicans who did not want his name used declared. “Why should we spend any time talking about the past when the future looms so uncertain as to be frightening?
U. 8. CRUISER LAUNCHED CAMDEN, N. J, June 10 (U, P). —The cruiser, U. 8. S. Santa Fe, whose keel was laid one year and three days ago, was launched in a closed ceremony today in the Camden vards of the New York Shipbuilding Corp.
‘were born on or between Jan,
Fled Dog, Says Man Atop Bank
SHORTLY AFTER midnight today, police received reports of a man atop the one-story American National bank, 4209 College ave, They sped to the scene, captured their man and questioned him. His story: A dog chased him up there. Pending further checks, police arrested him on a vagrancy charge {ifiqeF 3 7100) Sond a $1000 hond.
1870 20 YEAR GROUP, TO REGISTER JUNE 30
Urged to Report in Their
Residential Area.
All 18 to 20-year-old boys who
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1922, and June 30, 1924, will register for selective serviee June 30, Col. Robinson Hitcheock, state selective director, said today. Registration hours will be from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. at places chosen by the 152 state draft boards. Registrants were urged to sign in their residential localities, but if that is impossible they may register at any of the designated places. Ins valids or shut-ins may be registered in institutions or their homes, but arrangements should be made in ad= vance, Col. Hitchcock said. Cards for the fifth registration will be gray and the information required is practically the same as that in previous registrations. Dr, Clement T. Malan, state schools superintendent, said that the facilities of school equipment, space and personnel will be put at
than during last December's,
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Full- Time Vaudeville Certain With Purchase of Keith's
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Ensign G. H. Gay, Houston, Tex,, pictured at a Honolulu hospital convalescing from injuries received in the great naval battle off Midway
island. He is the navy airman who got'a “fish-eye” view of the battle
after his bomber had been shot down.
Ann Davidson is the nurse.
SUBS FORCED
No Sinkings Near E. Coast | In Last Two Weeks, Senator Reports.
WASHINGTON, June 10 (U, P.). —Members of the special senate committee investigating the war program said today after a secret session with Secretary of Navy Frank Knox that the navy's anti- | submarine campaign has succeeded |in driving most U-boats away from |the immediate Atlantic coastal waters and forcing them to opera { about 50 miles ut, | Chairman Harley M. Kilgore (D. W. Va), of a subcommittee which {has been holding hearings on the | shipping situation, was asked after | the meeting what progress had been | reported in combating the subma- | | rine menace. | | “There haven't been any ship] | sunk within 50 miles of the coast | for two weeks now,” Kilgore replied. Chairman Harry 5S. Truman (D. My > the full committee added: must remember this: It hy possible with the present rok Bui to patrol the five oceans. You have to put the equipment
now it is most heeded at Midway.” |
Overwhelmed by motion picture competition 12 years ago, old-time vaudeville made a full-fledged comeback in Indianapolis today, as it is doing in seven other large U S. cities. The revival of the stage enter tainment, which was running for a nine-weeks’ trial here, was éstab= lished with the purchase of the B. F. Keith theater on N. Pennsylvania st. by Keith's Operating Co., a group of Chicago showmen. The theater structure was purchased from the United Theaters Ce. of Cincinnati, co-owners of R. K. O. Midwest theaters. In addition, the new concern has taken over United Theater's 95-year lease on the ground which is owned by
the disposal of the draft boards.
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| onstration of synthetic
an estate. |
‘Makes’ Rubber In 10 Seconds
WASHINGTON, June 10 (U. ) —A dramatic 10-second demrubber production was staged before a senate committee today by an official of the B. F. Goodrich Co. who said the process would enable his firm to produce 165,000 tons a year beginning next June. The Goodrich official, K. D. Smith, mixed ameripol latex, a Goodrich development, with acetic acid in a beaker and lifted out a tiny, white, butadiene synthetic rubber ball=all in 10 seconds. He threw the ball to the floor and it bounced about six feet,
aU, S. INDIGTS FIVE ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES
' Wealthy Russian, Minister
Among Accused.
HARTFORD, Conn. June 10 (U, P.) A federal grand jury returned an indictment today, charging a wealthy Russian refugee, two former officers of the German imperial army, a Chicago GermanAmerican bund leader, and a Philadelphia Lutheran minister with conspiring to violate the espionage
| where it is most needed. Right|act and divulge military informa-
tion to Germany and Japan.
Anton Scibilia, resident manager of Keith's, said today that Keith's Operating Co, in which he is a partner, intends to present a combination vaudeville and motion plc-
.| ture bill the year round.
“After nine years,” he said, “we have found that Indianapolis audiences want vaudeville, Our shows have attracted patrons from nearly every community in central Indiana. More than 100,000 persons have passed through our doors since we opened.” New air condition equipment and new seats are being purchased as quickly as priorities permit, Mr. Scibilia said. In addition to Indianapolis, vaudevilie houses have reopened in New York, Boston, Washington, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chi-
Fear of U. S. Attack To Turn War Tide Is Reflected.
By EVERETT R. HOLLES United Press Cable Editor
Japan officially admitted part of its heavy losses in the battle of Midway island today, but sought to offset its first big naval defeat in history by reporting that Aleutian island footholds had been seized near the American naval base of Dutch Harbor. Tokyo announcements, however, betrayed increasing fears that the
United States may turn the tide by an attack on the island empire. The communique issued by Japa~ nese imperial headquarters acknowledged loss of an aircraft carrier and 35 planes and damage to two other warships, while claiming that two American carriers and 134 airplanes were destroyed.
Claims Are Confused
Later, even this enemy claim was confused by a propaganda broad= cast claiming that two American carriers of the 19,900-ton Enters prise-Hornet, class and a third of the same type had been sunk, as compared to one carrier damaged announced in Washingten. Despite the week-late efforts of the Japanese to exaggerate American losses and claim that their attack had frustrated United States plans to bomb Tokyo from Dutch Harbor, the enemy statements” served . chiefly to emphasize the American success off Midway. That would not necessarily mean that the Japanese had failed to get a foothold on some of the many small islands in the Aleutian chain as claimed by Tokyo, although the latest word from Washington was that operations in that area com- _ tinued.
Japan's Worst Beating
| fighting on
But the Aleutian thrust by the Japanese obviously was secondary to the battle of Midway island, where a big scale atempt was made by the Japanese navy to break through the American defenses. This attempt was repulsed with the sinking or damaging of up to 15 Japanese ships and heavy loss of airplanes. This enemy failure, regardless of the losses ‘suffered by either side or of the possibility that the attempt may be renewed, constituted the most severe beating the Japanese navy has ever taken. In the Aleutian island operations, Tokyo broadcasts indicated that land might be in | progress, Washington gave no information on this phase of the Pacific battle, but it appeared likely that the Japanese had landed or attempted to land on some of the many very small islands west of Dutch Harbor. Whether these footholds might
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On the War Fronts
June 10, 1942.
TOKYO: Japan begins naval losses in Pacific battle, listing two aircraft carriers, cruiser and 35 planes destroyed or damaged; reveal fears of U, 8. attack upon Japanese mainland from Alaska.
MOSCOW: Germans held to no gains in six-day siege of Sevastopol, Crimean stronghold; thousands of Nazis killed; German guns pound Leningrad,
CHUNGKING: Army of 150000 Japanese pushed twin-drive against Kiangsi-Chekiang raflroad line in eastern China. :
CAIRO: British armored forces. Free French in repulsing 11th sls assault on Bir Hachein on south ern flank of British desert des fenses.
MELBOURNE: Allied plenes stroy or damage 13 oy fighters during nese bases at Lae