Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1943 — Page 1

FORECAST : Colder tonight and slightly colder tomorrow forenoon.

‘THUNDERBOLT | BLITZ BY RAF HITS HAMBURG

Submarine Yards and Parts ‘Factories Chief Targets Of Allied Planes.

‘LONDON, Feb. 4 (U. P.). ~United States heavy bombers flown by American crews carried out . their major raid on the Reich today bombing targets in northwestern Germany. The raid was the second ‘American attack upon Germany in eight days. United States planes raided the big German naval base at Wilbelmshaven and industrial targets at Emden and other places in northwest Germany on Jan. 27 in their

first assault on German soil in this}

war. The targets for today’s raid and the type of bomber employed were not immediately revealed. Flying fortresses and Liberators participated in last week's bombing.

Nazis Report It First

The German radio was the first to. report ‘a daylight attack on western Germany today. The raid followed last night's smashing assault on Hamburg, Germany's largest port and great submarine manufacturing center, by the royal air force. DNB, = official German agency, claimed in a radio broadcast that German fighter planes had challenged - and turned back , the raiders. DNB said ‘the raid} “may be considered a failure.” | The air ministry. disclosed that{ the large force ‘of RAP. ‘night| bonibers: the Relch’s second largest city, had started large fires.

| Concentrate on Sub Factories

Thus, the allies were intensitying|

their day and night campaign against German submarine bases and manufacturing centers, seeking to cripple the axis in its warfare against Atlantic shipping. The submarine bases at Lorient, Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg have been blasted by heavy explosives. Submarines parts work at Cologne have been assaulted from the air repeatedly. Sixteen planes failed to return from the attack, an indication that up to 300 or more planes joined in a concentrated raid in which gigantic demolition bombs were interspersed with incendiaries,

Nazis Admit Damage

It was the second time in five nights that Hamburg had been attacked in force. On Tuesday night shattered Cologne, a key center for essential U-boat parts, had been the target for one of the new “thunderbolt blitz” attacks in which tons of demolition and tens of thousands of incendiary bombs are showered within a few niinutes. The air ministry revealed today that its four-ton block buster bombs which are being used with ‘increasing liberality might possibly, in lucky circumstances, devastate an area of six acres in a city.

More submarines are turned out}

of the great Hamburg yards thah any other place in Germany, and Hamburg is Germany's largest port and ‘second largest city, with 1,700,-

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‘Legislating in the Indiana sen- . ate could be a dull business. The bills the senators have to read over and over are hardly inspiring. But they've added dull legislat-

The Legislators Ag ree

ing and uninspired bills to the pleasant smile of Mrs. Zola Maebarrum, their calendar clerk, and found things aren’t so bad after all. Mrs. Maebarrum was Elwood’s first tomato queen in 1937.

Senate Votes fo Keep IHSAA,

Retaining Trester as Czar

of Indiana high school basketball. ? "The vote was 33 to 10. Bitter debate on the bill raged for: more than an: hour, spiced with charges that the I. H S.A Ailsa

dictatorship without fair represen-

tation in its management. Senator James Armstrong (R. Springville), author of the bill, charged that the present association had discriminated against coaches and against the taxpayers and the school pupils. “Passage ‘of this bill is a chance to strike a blow at dictatorship of Indiana high school athletics,’ Senator Armstrong said. : “We. are fighting a battle for the school pupils of Indiana to eliminate the evils that have developed in the management of athletics.” Senator Armstrong assailed - the financial ‘setup of the association on ‘the ground that it is not subject to audit by the state board of examiners.

Fleming Defends Bill

--Sengtors Charles F. Fleming (D. Hammond) and Clyde Black (R. Logansport) - also defended the bill as a measure to “end-the dictatorship over athletics in Indiana.” Senator Black said he was not worried about the insinuations that the bill would put athletics into politics, expressing his belief that political control generally. is all right. Vigorously opposing the bill were Senators William T. Kinder (R. Tipton) and Elgar Higgs (R. Connersville). Senator Kinder denounced the

“000 people.

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Ickes Favors National Ban On All "Pleasure Driving

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U. P)— Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes today said he favored extension of the pleasure driving ban to the entire country, but with some ‘modifications for residents of oilproducing. areas.

Ickes was asked in & press con-|

ference if he favored relaxing th: present Eastern states pleasure driving ban ir the spring when the

immediate fuel oil crises will be

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over. He replied he was not, saying “I ‘want to see more into the future to make sure we can keep people warm next winter.” Asked for his views on extending the pleasure ban to the whole country, Ickes said:

“I do favor extending the ban to the whole country, with some modifications, ‘of course. For people living right in the oil producing areas, for instance, I think there should be some relaxations, I am not in favor of rationing: for ration-

[tant supplies for essential purposes,

I am in favor of it.” Jokes sald pleasure driving should have been’ in ‘the East “Ictitha before t was. “This would

The state senate today defeated the Bin to: hes : High School Athletic association and reméve A. I “Trester as. czar

SEEK PAY RAISE FOR ASSEMBLY

Bill. Would Boost Salaries To Eight Times the Present Amount.

A bill to increase the salaries of members of the general assembly to $2400 ‘a year, eight: times what they receive under ordinary conditions, was introduced ‘today in. the house of representatives. The bill was ‘the second pay in-

crease proposal to be introduced in the house so far and legislators also have been discussing the possibility of allowing themselves $5 a day, in addition to present pay, for expenses. The present salary of legislators ‘is $10 a day, or $610 for: a full, regular session. i

‘Little Hope for Bill

Sponsors of the various pay increase measures commented, however, that “we will take whatever we can get.” They expressed little hope for the increase to $2400 per year. Regardless, it could not apply to members of the present general assembly. Today’s pay raise bill was introduced by Reps. William Ogden (D. South Bend) and Charles Bond (R. F{. Wayne). A measure introduced yesterday would increase the pay of legislators from $10 to $20 a day for each day actually served. Proponents of the increase bills

point out that' Indiana legislators].

are among the poorest paid in the ‘country and that Illinois, for example, members of: the legislature receive salaries of $5000 annually.

BILL WOULD REQUIRE REPORTS BY UNIONS

A bill to require all: ‘dues-paying organizations, such as labor unions, to open their records to public scrutiny was introduced in the house widay by Rep. Leo M. Dennis (R. The measure would Tequire all such organizations to file with the secretary of state on or before

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. 4, 1943

RAYBURN GS HIS SUPPORT TO

PAY-AS-GO TAX

U. S. Would Lose Nothing Until Judgment Day, Rumi Says. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U. P.)— Speaker Sam Rayburn today indorsed the pay-as-you-go income tax principle and said he thought the plan to be formulated by the be taken up in the house soon.

ment of the principle came simultaneously with the appearance of

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U. P.). —Beardsley Ruml, author of the Rum! pay-as-you-go plan of income tax collection, asserted today that putting his plan into ef-

“Let us turn our tax clocks ahead one year,” he said.

Beardsley Ruml, New York banker and department store executive, before the ways and means commitiee.

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.| department with the reservation that taxes on 1942 income not be skipped, as Ruml proposes.

Opposes Windfalls-

Randolph Paul, treasury general counsel, has indicated the treasury might compromise by agreeing to skip part of the 1942 income tax payments, particularly those in the lower brackets. He has objected to forgiving all 1942 taxes. . He contended especially that per:|OoPen sons with large Incomes in that year, and perhaps with smaller incomes in following years, would get a “windfall” by that process. The treasury also has proposed to collect 1942 income taxes over a period of years.” Under a third plan, it has been suggested that 1942 taxes be collected under the 4 per cent normal and 6 per cent surtax rates as existed under the 1941 payments. ‘Ruml offered. suggestions to catch “windfalls” — that income tax on capital gains not be canceled, and that a special death tax. be provided to recover “what may be considered” windfall. Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C) of the ways and means committee. also objected to Ruml’s skip-a-year proposal. : “You wouldn't forgive me a debt that I could pay if were in business,” he said. “It would wreck every business.” He then asked Ruml if any com(Continued on Page Five)

JOE MITCHELL GIVEN

TERM, BROTHER HELD

Evidence Against Isaac Bounces From Truck.

After his brother, Joe Mitchell, had been sentenced to $100 and 180 days on a gaming charge yesterday. Isaac (Tuffy) Mitchell, was arrested on a charge of violating the 1935 slot-machine act. Isaac Mitchell was nabbed following 2 police raid on a poolroom at 248 Indiana ave. where a pinball machine was confiscated. Joe Mitchell had been booked Tuesday by police who had found baseball pool tickets in his tavern at 408 Indiana ave.

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endar year. “The report would have to-include the names of dues-paying

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Both Sides Krows to Have Sustained Losses in Air-Sea Battle. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U. P).— The new battle for the Solomons— really a series of. widely-scattered

air-sea engagements—was ‘believed to be still in progress today with

both sides sparring for a knockout ;

opening. : Both the American and Japanese forces ‘have suffered losses but, the

navy department said, “the military!

situation does not’ permit publication of more details at this time.” The navy’s second communique on the current. operations said only that “air and surface engagements between U.. S. and enemy forces in the Guadalcanal area of the Solomon islands are continuing. »

Major or Minor?

There was considerable confusion here as to the magnitude of the action.’ The navy’s original communique said ‘that the Japanese activity indicated a “major effort” to regain full control of the Solomons, but Navy Secretary Frank Knox characterized. the exchange of blows as a “reconnaissance in force.” Japan, which previously had

{claimed two American battleships

and a cruiser sunk and another bat-

tleship and two cruisers damaged

off Rennell island, today reported another cruiser sunk and another damaged off Ysabel island Feb. 1. One Tokyo broadcast monitored in. Chungking said the Americans were using .10 battleships, 10 aircraft carriers and 20 cruisers in the battle. , This was an’ indication of the unreliability of the Japanese reports, since so far as is known America has only three carriers available. This broadcast said the Japanese fleet was “numerically inferior,” apparently to prepare .the Japanese public ' for an annouricement of heavy losses. :

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{No More White Undies for AEF

Tims pesiat 4 : . Feb. 4— ; [ore whit UH derwear Hud “on soldiers’ _washiines in the Solotiiofis of “Tunisia. It will be olive drab, the color of the uniforms. So will ‘the towels and handkerchiefs. The reason is not that olive ' drab doesn’t show dirt. It has been learned the hard way that enemy aviators can spot a troop concentraiion by the white underwear drying on a bush. Here at the quartermaster depot where the army buys all its clothing (one and half billion dollars’ worth a year), the change to olive colored underclothes is one of the substitutions iequirell by war experience .r shortages.

COFFEE LIMITED TO { LB, EACH 6 WEEKS

Depleted Inventories Bring

On Curtailment.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U, P). —The OPA today revealed that during the next rationing period beginning Feb. 8, consumers will have to stretch their one-pound ration of coffee over six weeks instead of five. It said the curtailment was necessary because of depleted shipping and the need of maintaining imports of strategic war materials. Stamp No, 25 of war ration book) one will be good for the purchase of one pound from Feb. 8 until midnight, March 21, Stamp 28, valid since Jan. 4, expires at midnight, Feb. 7.

QUISLINGS GRIEVE, TOO

MONTREAL, Feb. 4 (U. P)— Norwegian puppet fuebrer, Vidkun Quisling, has ordered national mourning throughout Norway for three days because of the defeat of the Nazi army at Stalingrad, the

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tache here Feporten today.

TS BEST NEWS YET, EXPERT IN LONDON §

Soviets Break Germans Line at Three Places On Ukrgine Front; Berlin Admits Trap Shut on Caucasus Army.

By UNITED PRESS One arm -of the Red army pincers closing in on Rosto today threatened Bataisk—only 10 miles south of the bi g axis base—and the onward surge of the Russians held 3

promise that there might be shores of the Sea of Azov.

a “German Dunkirk” on J

CBS recorded a British Broadcasting Corp. report t 0 Moscow that said the Germans already were attemptin flee across the Kerch straits in Crimea and that they w under heavy attack from planes of the Russian Black

RUMANIA, FINNS

MAY ASK PEACE

Nazis Take . Steps

vent Axis Satellites From Quitting War.

LONDON, Feb. 4 ,(U. P.).—Semiofficial circles today received reports that Germany was increasing pressure on axis satellites, Finland, Hungary, Rumania and ‘Bulgaria, in an effort to frustrate any plans these countries might have for negotiating separate peace with the allies. Rumania and‘ Finland, particularly, at the southern and northern

{extremities of the front on which

Germany attacked Russia so confidently in June, 1941, showed signs that they were nearing the cracking point. A United Press Ankara dispatch revealed that Hamdullah Suphi Tanriover, Turkish minister to Rumania, had suddenly returned home after an interview with Marshal Ion Antonescu, the Rumanian dictator, and reported that he was believed’ to have taken with him-a peace feeler which he hoped Turkey would. transmit to the united nations. Stockholm = dispatches reported that Finland, starving and long insistent that Germany must send it more food if it was to hold out, was seething with anger over a statement made last Saturday by Field Marshal Hermann Goering that Russia’s winter war of 1939 on Fin(Continued on Page Five).

F. D. R. DECORATES GUADALCANAL HERO

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today decorated Maj. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift of the marine corps with the congressional medal of honor for his brilliant record in ‘commanding United States forces on Guadalcanal from last Aug. 7 to Dec. 9.

Vandegrift thus became the first}

marine of the present war to receive both the navy cross and the congressional medal. He was awarded the navy decoration last October on Guadalcanal by Adriiral Chester A. Nimitz, Pacific fleet cotnmander.

Public Warning Systems Will Blanket All County in Surprise Dimout Tomorrow Night.

Exact time of tomorrow night's dimout is known only to the o

will be altered through the Indianis control getter and. hose in

the infractions and weaknesses de-

All lights in homes, business places and certain industrial plants

veloped in the last dimout, Jan. 2.)

are to be blacked out. Automobile} and

fleet. Rostov, which would be o of the richest prizes of Soviet winter offensive, wal

threatened from three “direct northeast, southeast and sou

London military observers the fact that the Russians severed the last German route retreat from the Caucasus by road, left the axis forces no native except to try to escape ac the sea of Azov. There were ¥ possible routes for the axis fre —one at Kerch and one € north at Yeisk. The military perts in London called today’s from the ‘Russian front “the k yet.” Break Through at Three Poin

Farther north there was an mile front extendling from the road north of Kursk to a 10 miles east of Voroshilovgrad, Donets basin center which seen likely to fall to the Red army In the center of that line the axis stronghold of Khark ward which the Russians conti to press. They had captured. railroad junction of ry miles southeast of Kharkov were moving forward, front patches said. At Krasny Liman, miles southeast of Kharkov, Russians were 85 miles inside Donets basin industrial section The Red army had. through the German lines at th points on the Ukraine front g at two places had reached the mans’ 1941 line. 250,000 Men Penned Up

Berlin tacitly admitted that entire Caucasus army, numbs up to 25 divisions or 250,000 x or more, had been penned into narrow northwest corner of front. : Berlin reports received in

planned a retreat from the Ce weeks ago and now had “more less” finished it after des railroads and highways. The Germans still were re stubbornly on several sectors Moscow said there was no. ind of a general retreat. Berlin's admission of imp catastrophe in the Caucasus only a few hours after the tion of three days of official ing for 330,000 or more men ficed at Stalingrad by Adolf

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(Feb, 4, 1943) RUSSIA—Red army driving