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This is Shangri- La—a place of awe-inspiring beauty. American aircraft carriers somewhere in the Pacific were revealed today in a dispatch from North Africa as the bases from which Maj. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and his fliers took off in their famous raid on Tokyo.

CITY DETECTIVE TO FACE PROBE

ing’ After Boy Charges ~ ‘Plot’ to Stage Burglary.

An investigation was ordered by Judge Earl R. Cox of circuit court

detective accused by a 15-year-old boy of trying to induce young boys to gommit a burglary. -

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ce “that this he * Judge Cox: said.

ea ue boy, who was in|

circuit court in connection with-a “ habeas corpus hearing, testified that a city several weeks ago and insisted that I get several other boys and stage ® burglary.” | “The detective then gave me his telephone number and asked me to call him after it was dane so he ‘could arrest that nothing would happen to me,” the boy testified. Assails Suspended Sentence

“When I refused to do this, he kicked me, pulled my hair and slapped my face. I took -the telephone number the detective gave

pie and went to another policeman |

and he told me to tear it up.” Judge Cox said “This detective had better get into court nd. do some explaining.” : The boy testified in connection

ing. his release from county jail, where hé has been sent by juvenile gourt as a probation violator. The youth testified that he ran around with a gang of boys whose ‘headquarters was in the home of a woman on S. Meridian st. who, he paid, told them about places they could rob. Juvenile court records reveal the woman was arrested several weeks ago for contributing to the boys’ delinquency, but was given a Ssuspended sentence. ~ “That woman ought to be put in Jail and kept there,” Judge Cox

‘Dungeon’ Charge Probed The youth also revealed that he and two other boys under 15 years of age had been kept in the county Jail compartments with adult crim- . nals. - ‘He testified that two of the boys, 13 and 14 years of age, were placed in a dungeon in solitary confine- . ment last week. “I have been around here for more than 30 years and haven't heard that boys were kept in a dungeon at the jail with hardened criminals,” Judge Cox said. _ “I've been hearing a lot lately about some ideas that police should get tougher with children. I don’t agree with that because I think that juvenile authorities can better “handle children by ‘horse sense’ treatment.”

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Japs 'Bomb'N.Y. In Their Dreams

Teveal ud ‘of a painting ‘depicting -a- Japanese air raid on‘ New York City, . Waxing enthusiastic over the painting by Kokan Kojo, the broadcast said: “The sky over New York is thick with Japanese bombers whose Rising Sun is visible on their wings and they dive and bank toward the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan. “In the streets below, people are killed as tons of steel and masonry crash down from the once great skyscrapers.” The painting is entitled “heaven-sent wings over the enemy city.”

WMC LABOR EDICT GALLED ‘FANTASTIC

Labor. Shortage Figures.

By FRANK. FORD Editor, The Evansville Press EVANSVILLE, Ind. April 19.— This booming - city .on the north bank of the Ohio river is mystified by the war manpower commission's order, effective May 1, listing it as an area of “critical manpower shortage.” We believe here that the figures of the WMC’s- bureau of program planning and review, on which the listing is based, are fantastically exaggerated so far as Evansvilie is concerned. We suspect that the commission’s manpower statistics for other areas may be similarly out of line with

manpower policies founded on these statistics may, as a consequence, be seriously mistaken. Managers of the local war plants were astonished by the WMC bu-

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Bases for Bombing of Folye

Plane Carriers

By UNITED PRESS The “Shangri-La” bases from which Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle

off in U. S. army bombers to raid

Japan one year ago yesterday were aircraft carriers, a United Press dispatch from North Africa disclosed today. The dispatch, passed by censors at allied North African headquarters, dealt with the present activities of Doolittle’s raiders and was

the first report from authentic allied sources as to the place or places from which the historic flight began, Written by United Press War Correspondent Donald Coe from a

carriers to bomb Tokyo. . | Tha told the story. The rest of iCoe’s dispaich, dated April 17, con‘cerned speculation - whether the fliers would be able to’get together J from various North African fields for an anniversary celebration.

‘A New Page’

Washington sources hailed the squadron’s feat in flying twoengined Mitchell bombers off aircraft carrier decks as a new page in the annals of combat aviation. They said it required the most skillful airmanship to.get the 30,000pound land planes into the air from the runways generally used for planes 17,000 pounds or less. The aviation experts doubted that the carriers were especially ‘equipped for the mission but that the” successful launching of the planes was due to combination of

top flying = personnel, specialized training and perfect carrier: operation. . Japs Suspected The North African dispatch appeared to spike a widespread belief that Doolittle’s fliers took off either from the Aleutian islands off the

| western tip of Alaska or from bases

in China. More accurate apparently was a Japanese naval statement made several days after the raids on

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CLAPPER PULLS AN "ERNIE PYLE'

Raymond Clapper received a letter from a young soldier in Africa. "Ernie Pyle," said Clapper, "could get a good column out of him." Well, Ray, who is now on his way to Sweden, didn't do so badly himself. Read his column

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4 a Observed in By EMMA RIVERS MILNER Two ways lay before the young man and only two—safety with dis-

honor, or death. He chose to die.

11/ he did it. For life is full of promise; Liat the age of 33. Even s0, he walked out upon the hill to be executed under the soft spring sky. His story is dear to Indianapolis.

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| Easter. For months, a committee of Catholics and Protestants has been

HITS ARGENTINE

Consular Aide Charges His Country Is Listening Post.

NEW YORK, April 19 (U. P.).— Raymon Muniz Lavalle, Argentine vice consul to Tokyo, announced his resignation last night in protest against Argentina's service as “the eyes and ears of the Japanese |

sively - about . war . production and morale, are sent trom “Argentina to Japan daily. “Believe me,” Lavalle said in & broadcast over station \ WABC, “I am ashamed of Argentine neutral- | $ ity, for this war is Argentida’s war as well as any other country’s.” Four months after Péarl Harbor Lavalle went from Hong Kong, whege he was consul, to serve as consular attache at Tokyo, where he said he was received by Premier Tojo with a “warmer greeting than he gave to any other diplomat.” Quotes Jap Official

“And why not?” Lavalle asked. “The Argentine has been the eyes and ears of Japan = the western hemisphere,” His information -on- the daily reports of United States activity, he said, came from one former “secretary of the Japanese embassy in ‘Buenos Aires, who proposed a toast “not to Argentine neutrality bus - to Argentine co‘operation.” Lavalle, who watched the bombing of Tokyo by Maj. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle’s raiders a year ago, declared he never had seen “such panic.” “I learned that the commander-in-chief of all. Japanese aircraft committed suicide,” he said. “I know for a fact that his entire staff was removed.”

M'ARTHUR HARRIES JAP PREPARATIONS

Over Wide Arc.

- MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, April 19 (U. PJ). —Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bombers, trying to cripple the Japanese aerial prelude to an expected offensive against Australia, struck at airdromes on a 2000-mile arc from Timor. to New Britain island yesterday, a communique said today. |- Object of the raiding, a smokes | F

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SPEZIA AGAIN BATTERED BY BIG, BOMBERS

Sardina and Sicily Also Hammered in Allied

~ Aerial Pincers.

LONDON, April 19 (U. P). — A strong force of British-based bombers pounded: the Italian naval base at Spezia last night; intensifying an aerial pincers offensive designed to blunt axis sea power in advance of the allied invasion of south Eu(An Italian communique broadcast by the Rome radio said Ameri-four-engined bombers made the

iraid on Spezia.) Striking ‘more than 700° miles

across the English channel and Ger-man-occupied Europe, Britain's biggest bombers loosed a heavy and |:

‘CHUTE: SAVED TOM HARMON

concentrated ‘attack on Spezia, one of Italy's principal naval bases, the air ministry said. ‘One Bomber Lost

Only one bomber was lost, despite the 1400-mile round-trip across welldefended territory. ‘ The four-engined bogibers roared

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the outposts of Sardinia and Sicily to a constant fein of bombs. Bombers : from’ béth west : and pre ob pre concentrating on ‘deetn sea and air power, oTine. to ten up Italy for a possible invasion and to lessen ths possibility - of “anhy axis “Dunkirk” evacuation. from: Tunisia. «+ -

North France Raided

British ‘fighters’ and fighter-bomb-érs ‘joined in- the night's offénsive from. English bases with atfacks on freight train ‘locomotives in North France and enemy destrovers at Lorient on the French Atlantic coast. One fighter was lost. Smoke was observed rising from one destroyer at Lotient aiter a Beaufighter raked it with cannon fire. “Altogether, nine freight: trains were attacked in North France. One locomotive blew up. German planes made retaliatory raids on southeast England last night, presumably ‘for propaganda purposes, but' théy Were so feeble that no one was. injured’ and only slight damage was reported. Two air raid ‘alarms were sounded in London ‘during the night, but only slight damage was reported. The British raid on Spezia was the fourth of the war, the last previous one having occurred Tuesday night, and boosted the total tonnage of bombs dropped by British, American and’ Russian bombers on ‘this year past the 35,000 ark, observers said. The night attacks followed British daylight raids yesterday on the docks at Dieppe on the French channel coast, airdromes in north France and shipping off the Dutch coast. iden The allied offensive against Europe now has been operating around the clock for more than a week. An American communique last night announced’ that reconnaissance photographs of Bremen disclosed that American bombs destroyed or heavily damaged half the factory buildings at the Focke-Wulf plant.

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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, April 19 (U. P.).—Allied fighter planes renewed their attacks on * German transport planes today and by 10 a. m. had destroyed 10 Junkers 52’s and one escorting Messerschmitt 109. :

On the War

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(April 19, 1943)

AFRICA: Allied fighters shoot down| 74 axis planes, including 54 transports, in one of the greatest aerial battles in history off Tunisia, and bag 11 more in other operations for Sunday total of 85 against the loss of 11. French forces score local gains west of Tunis.

AIR WAR: Roval air force home-, based bombers raid Spezia, Italian naval ‘base, for second time in week and fighters and fighterbombers attack: German communications and U-boat base at Lorient,

RUSSIA: Germans lose 1400 more men in developing battle for the ~ Kuban bridgehead of the northwest Caucasus; Soviet army captures strategic line in the Ukraine.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC — Allied planes raid Japanese airdromes on 2000-mile ‘arc above Australia, Jap bases in Aleutians and Solomons bombed.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, April 19.— Allied air forces yesterday, in a record-breaking air ens gagement destroyed 85 axis airplanes, including 58 big Junkers air transports which Cairo sources said might have been evacuating key personnel from Tunisia. 3 Since April 1 the allies have destroyed in combat at least 177 axis aerial transports and definitely wrecked eight on the ground and damaged scores of others. ' The Nazi air fleet, surprised off the north Tunisia coast, also lost 16 fighter planes. Eleven other enemy planes were destroyed in scattered actions and 11 allied craft were lost in all, :

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- Nazis Rush Reinforcements The axis aerial convoy was broken up. by America)

.| the jungle: by natives after wander-| -

ie. divir ng tone to the sea as a single unit of ZU le Bri Spitfires slashed repeatedly intg the Luft ort. Tt vias oie of "the of the greatest aerial ¢ amphs of the v war, {3 (Paris radio said" that the Getans: still were pou reinforcements into. Tunisia by air. ‘A Cairo communiqu said that more than 100 axis airplanes were engaged in the single battle off Tunisia and that 30 probably were destroyed : or damaged in addition to 70 shot down.) ‘At the same time, allied bombers delivered smashing blows against the enemy, raiding Sicily and Sardinia

PARAMARIBO, Dutch Guiana, April 18 (U. P.).—Lt. Tommy (Harmon, former Michigan football star, saved himself .by, bailing. out of his falling plane and was rescued. from

ing for Jour days, it was revealed today. “ After four days, friendly natives

YANK FLIERS AGAIN

found Harmon and took him to an unidentified inhabited place for a short time to recuperate. The former all-America football player insisted that he be allowed to go back into the to search for his comrades, but he was brought to the hospital while an army expedition went into the jungle search. ing for other survivors.

SCORE ON SOLOMONS

3 Jap Ships, Air Bases Are Latest Targets.

Suffering From Exposure

Mich.

Harmon was reported safe by the war department Saturday. He had been missing on a flight over South Ameriea since April 8, and on April 14 ' the war department “formally notified his family at Ann Arbor,

One of football's all-time greats, Harmon played in Michigan's backfield in 1938, 1939 and 1940, setting a new national scoring record and making all-American his last two years. He is a native of Gary, Ind.

WASHINGTON, April 19 (U. PY. —American fliers continued to smash at enemy shipping concentrations in the Shortland island area of the Solomons, heavily damaging two cargo -vessels and leaving one of them in a sinking condition, the navy announced today. Near hits—usually damaging— were scored close to a third ship. Other U. 8. airmen struck at two enemy bases in the Solomons, hitting the runways and plane dispersal areas at Munda and Kahili. Large fires visible for 30 miles,

where flying fortresses and, Mitchell bombers hammered ermo and Porto Torres, starting: fires, hitting several ships and d aging enemy airfields, Eleven planes were destroyed in sca actions on Sunday, when 11 witiedt: craft were lost in all, The sensational attack on the axis air convoy near Cap Bon, northern Tunisia, was carried out by the desert air force, which put on a show that exceeded any single engagement even in the battle of Britain. { All of the victims were German planes en route from Tunisia Sicily, possibly carrying some en troops no longer needed in the Northeast Tunisian siege war. Fiftyeight JU-52 transports, 15 Messer= schmitts 109 and two ME-110s were destroyed.

“An Airman’s Dream” : American, royal air force and

Harmon was brought to an army

were started at Kahili, Japanese |South African pilots took part in

hospital here suffering from expo-

be satisfactory.

Harmon and other members’ of the crew jumped by parachute

‘sure but his condition was said to

bomber base on the south coast of Bougainville island. The communique also reported nine more raids on Kiska, and an

the engagement. Nine allied planes were lost, but one pilot was rescued. The big battle came late in the afternoon when allied desert air force fighters were waiting for the

from their faltering craft, the “Old 98,” named after the football numerals he made famous. However, two were reported to have been. killed and Harmon,

attack on nearby Attu island.

LINDA DARNELL WED TO ARMY SERGEANT

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wandering alone in the jungle, found his way back to the plane but was unable to locate those who

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HOLLYWOOD, April 19 (U. P.). —There was no honeymoon today for Film Actress Linda Darnell and Sgt. Peverell Marley, who were married in a surprise ceremony Saturday night at Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Darnell was back in front of the cameras while Marley, 41 and a former studio cameraman, had returned to his Culver City army post. It was Marley who filmed Miss Darnell’s first screen test several years ago. The test led to her present contract with 20th CenturyFox. :

GETS 18 MONTHS IN IMPROPER WELDING BALTIMORE, April 19 (U. P.).— welding

at the :Bethlehem-Fairfield ship-

sentenced to serve 18 months in the federal reformstory. admitted the faulty weldsaid he did it to increase

DETROIT: April 19 (U. P.).—Nich-

Junkers transports to attempt & dash to Sicily. Pilots of Warhaw! with Spitfires flying above them, saw what they later described “an airman’s dream.” Before them, flying low over the’ water, was a big formation of en enemy planes. They counted perhaps 100 JU-52's in addition to strong Nazi fighter escort, “Like a well-drilled team the War= hawk squadrons dived as a sing unit’to the attack,” an official state~ ment said. “They went slap in among the JU-52's while the Spit= fires took the attention of 3 fighter escort. “Fire from the Warhawks ki up fountains of water as the opened up on the heavy, lumberi transports, many of which around and attempted to land. “One by one, they went most of them wreathed in flan Some hit the sea. Others, to (Continued on Page Two) i

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