Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1941 — Page 3
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THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1941
. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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Nazis ‘Go To Pieces’ In Hand-To-Hand Combat, Says British Soldier After Desert Struggle
By J. H. YINDRICH (Copyright, 1841, by United Press.) WITH THE BRITISH EMPIRE GARRISON BESIEGED AT TOBRUK, April 14 (Via Cairo and London; Delayed). —Australian infantrymen, British artillerymen and machine gunners and Royal Air Force airplane pilots are beating back attack after attack by German
tank, armored car and infantry forces on this outpost more than 80 miles behind the Axis lines on the Libya-Egypt frontier. Every weapon from the dive bombing plane to the bayonet is being used. The Germans are attacking persistently and in great force. Their tanks have been stopped and their infantrymen have been routed by the bayonets of the Australians. The Germans are fighting like machines; the British Empire men are fighting like men “My opinion of the Germans now is that in hand to hand fighting they are on a par with the Italians,” an Australian told me after he had led a bayonet charge against them. “In a scrap where it is every man for himself, they go to pieces.”
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THE SIEGE OF TOBRUK began four days ago. This morning the garrison of Tobruk beat off the greatest attack so far. In it they destroved 12 German and Italian tanks, took 200 Germans prisoner and shot down at least five German planes. The Germans suffered
Thirty German tanks, sneaking in during the dark night, penetrated the British wire entanglements from the direction of the El Adem Airport to a depth of about two miles inside the outer perieter of the Tobruk defense line which the Italians had built long ago. About 200 infantrymen in trucks followed the tanks.
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The German infantrymen dismounted and scattered when they
reached a point about 1000 vards
from the cross roads where the El
Adem-Tobruk and El Adem-Bardia Roads meet.
As the infantrymen debouched,
British tanks clanked out to meet
the German and Italian tanks and British field guns opened fire. It
was at dawn. Some of the German tanks got
back; others were burned out.
The Germans, especially the infantry, attacked again and again,
only to be thrown back with big 1 The German airplanes came ov
Junkers dive bombers, escorted by Messerschmiats.
on the perimeter defenses. The British machine gunners stood up t
0Sses. ‘er. There were about 30 big black The Junkers dived Australian infantrymen and the
o them, firing with evervthing they
had. Their machine guns and Bren guns brought down three. For half an hour the German planes remained over the semi-
circular area which the empire troops are defending.
I saw eight of
them dive bomb the harbor in line, and then, machine guns spitting, sweep down over the outer line of defenses.
British fighter planes shot dow
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Brought before the Australian brigadier, the German clicked his heels
and raised his hand in a Nazi salute.
I saw two German pilots with
He was still full of fight. bandages around their heads being
taken to hospital and then truckloads of German prisoners.
The first real German attack
fantry attack on the outer defenses
A dust storm was blowing. so than a yard.
was made three days ago, an in-
severe it was difficult to see more
The Germans evidently remembered how a dust storm
had aided the British Army to take Sidi Barrani.
War Maneuvers Begin at Ft. Knox
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Not a thing was visible while the storm was blowing. The Australian infantrymen and the British artillerymen and machine gunners wore celluloid eye shields to protect them as they peered through
the clouds of dust. As 5 p. m. the wind suddenly d
The empire defenders saw clamber from a fleet of trucks. Th
the outer perimeter of the defenses, coming from the El Adem direc-
tion as in today’s attack.
They reached a point about 900 yards from the empire anti-tank
ditch. There was a blast from the Bi
barrage behind the Germans to keep them from getting back. British machine gunners opened a deadly fire, and the attack was
about over, “We just mowed them down,”
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TWELVE GERMAN TANKS advanced toward the outer defenses. A blast of artillery fire sent them scuttling back. Two more
astride the wire, holding it open driven back.
The German prisoners began coming in slacks and the German style
They carried rifle and bayonet.
over sweaters, khaki semi-drill
helmet. British planes were active. Du afternoon they had spotted about 6
ing up about five miles south of the defenses. in a dive bombing and machine gunning attack. The tanks withdrew.
Then the British planes bombed a
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truck on the trip across the desert.
the German infantrymen, and armored cars which had protected the
Next the British planes spotted
about 100 trucks on the Bardia Road to the east, and 12 heavy trucks
nearby, and bombed and machine gunned them.
ropped and the dust cloud fell.
about 800 German infantrymen ey advanced in close formation on
a former traveling salesman from
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‘itish lines as artillery put down a yo»
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the bayonet. ” wanted to fight. were
for the infantry. They, too, were me but my corporal saved my life. pull-
steel
They wore woolen my rifle till it broke. “‘Don’t kill me. I am a soldier Another shouted:
“ ‘Peace—it is peace,’ and then please.’
ring a break in the storm in mid0 German and Italian tanks formBlenheims roared down
nd machine gunned the trucks of
SOVIET POLICY
air raid, which also was the greatest
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Japan Not Regarded As Dangerous. By A. T. STEELE
The great reinforced concrete hotel where I was dining, shuddered | and swayed. The floor seemed to} shift under my feet. The far wall Copvright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times | 4 oheared for a moment as if it was | and The Chicago Daily News, Inc, | falling. A cloud of dust emerged CHUNGKING, April 17 (U. P.).| from the corners and filtered
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Tanks of Company B, 192d Tank Batallion, rumble down a hill and over a stream in extensive maneuvers at Ft. Knox, Ky, where the Illinois outfit is in training.
U. 3. TO BLOCK FOOD COST RISE
Defendants in 40 Major Cases.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P). —The Justice Department today is planning an attack on alleged artificial increases in the price of food. Within three months the department plans to prosecute 40 major cases involving at least 1500 defendants in the food industry. An official said the anti-trust division hopes to have nearly 150 attorneys
Plans Prosecution of 1500
By Mary Martin
HOLLYWOOD, April 17 (U.P). —Singer Mary Martin and her husband, Film Editor Richard Halliday, sald today that they expected a baby next November. Miss Martin will begin a sixmonth vacation when she completes a forthcoming picture, “Birth of the Blues.” If the child is a girl. it will be named Mary Heller Halliday, the “Heller” denoting a smart, energetic youngster in Texas, Miss Martin's home state. She married Mr. Halliday, a former magazine editor, about a year ago, and has an 8-vear-old son, Larry, by a previous marriage.
working on the food drive by midsummer, The Justice Department already has obtained five indictments in its | investigation of the food industry as a result of grand jury presenta-
| tions at Denver, Philadelphia, Du-
| buque, Iowa, and in the state of Washington. Alleged trade restraints resulting from restrictions of production, price fixing, and allocation of sales] territories will be the objectives of| the anti-trust division's drive, one| official said. Both retailers and! wholesalers are involved.
MEXICO GETS QUAKE SYMPATHY NOTES
MEXICO CITY, April 17 (U. P)).
30, of 433 Berkley of 348 N. Penn-
| 20. of 2832 Ruckle: Ruth | of 2227 N. Meridian, { 19, of 1713 N. New 18, Martins-
Jones,
— April 16— Buck, 25,
Accidents .... Injured Arrests 41 Dead WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic- Fines y tried tions paid U Kpeeding 18 18 $83 Reckless driving i0 8 9 Failure to stop at through street
Disobeving traffic signals Prunken driving All others ..
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chronic myocarditis. rin, 13 a. m Madison Cosby, 62 Eli Lilly & Ceo. Detroit Institute of oO Technology, Department of Fharmacy,|
hie, coronary occlusion. ‘ Clayton Cuilin, 61, at breakfast and dinner, Hotel Severin, & m and 8
8:15 | coronary occlusion p m | Charles F. Piel, 85 Indiana Association of Yee Industries, chronic nephritis. ote] Severin Retty Winters, 9, Optimist Club, Juncheon, Columbia Club, {chronic myocarditis, noon. Alva 8S. James, 68, Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Canary Cot-|carditis. ta noon. Fred Moehiman Peta Tan Delta, luncheon, Columbia carcinoma. Club, noon aJndiana
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— The Foreign Office received notes of condolence today from United States, German, Italian, Japanese, Chilean, Peruvian and Cuban diplomats cn Tuesday's earthquake that
in Central Mexico. Fliers returning own of 30000 near ‘he Pacific Coast, said 70 were dead, 150 injured, 90 per cent of the buildings
from Colima,
$725,000 in that town. The inhabitants were living in gardens and
by the Colima volcano, which erupt-
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8. Weather Burean
Sunrise ' 6:28
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST —Fair today; partly cloudy, showers and thunderstorms tomorrow,
Sunset. ....
TEMPERATURE ~April 17, 1910
BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m... 200%
[€ ae | stoppage entered its 17th day.
SOFT COAL MINING
OUTLOOK CHEERLESS
By UNITED PRESS Little hope was held today for a quick resumption of soft coal mining, clouding an otherwise optimistic defense labor picture. An acute coal shortage threatened steel and the other major industries as the work Some industries had only enough coal for a week more, Though the United Mine Workers of America (C. I. O.) and Northern operators had reached a tentative wage agreement, it appeared unlikely that any coal would be dug until a means was found of bringing Southern operators into the proposed contract, The Southern operators had withdrawn from the joint conference because the union insisted on eliminating a 40-cent-a-day wage differential between Northern and Southern mines, They want the entire dispute certified to the Defense Mediation Board. ; The decrease in strikes in defense industries was noted by William S. Knudsen, Director of the Office of Production Management, in a speech in New York last night. He spoke of the “epidemic of strikes in ‘the past few months,” and said strikes called to take advantage of the emergency were “criminal.”
ARMY CONSTRUCTION AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
WASHINGTON, April 17 (U.P). —Army officials revealed today that the emergency construction program for training centers, ordnance plants and other defense facilities is now ahead of schedule, Delays caused by bad weather,
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MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Partly cloudy tonight and to- ; morrow; showers in northwest and extreme west portions tomorrow afternoon or night: somewhat warmer tonight and in extreme north portion tomorrow. Minois—Partly cloudy, showers and thunderstorms tomorrow and in west-cen-tral and northwest portions late tonight; somewhat warmer tonight; cooler in westcentral and extreme northwest portions omorrow Ohio—Occasional showers and probably local thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer in north portion tonight, Kentucky — Mostly cloudy with local showers and scattered thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar, Temp. Amarillo, Tex. « Clear 2067 4 Boston Chicago “eee Cincinnati Cleveland Dodge City, . tle Rock, Ark Los Angeles Miami, Fla C Minneapolis-St. Paul. Mobile, Ala. ......... New Orleans ........
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site difficulties and labor disputes {have been overcome. The program moved ahead of schedule by a scant 1 per cent on April 5 when 62 per cent of emergency construction was | completed. Of the 271 projects, 42 have been completed, 211 are under construc{tion and work has not started on (the remaining 18. Approximately 150 of those now under construction are more than 75 per cent completed.
2 LOCAL FIRMS GET DEFENSE CONTRACTS
Times Special
WASHINGTON, April 17—Two | Indianapolis firms have received War Department contracts for Quartermaster Corps material, it was announced here today. The E. C. Atkins & Co. was awarded an additional contract for 5000 butchers’ saws at a cost of
ucts Co. received a $1133 order for 550 field bags. Both firms have been filling War Department defense orders for some time
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IN PLANE CRASH
Paul E. Middleton and Eight!
Others Treated at Charleston, W. Va.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, April 17 (U. P.). — Inspectors of the Civil Aeronautics Authority today searched the stripped fuselage of a Pennsyl-vania-Central Airlines Boeing transport which crashed near here late vesterday to determine what caused one motor of the bi-motored ship to fail. Six passengers and three crew
members were given hospital treatment.
Hostess Irene Coates, 22. of
cf Royal Oak, Mich. suffered frac-
| tures of the back. Miss Coates’ in-
| jury was believed to be serious although not critical. Howard M. Jardin, 35, of Pittsburgh, suffered a possible fracture of the back. The others were released after treatment. They were: Capt. Russell Wright, pilot, of Sewickly, Pa.; First Officer and Co-Pilot William Riley, Pittsburgh: A. H. Crawford, Charleston, W. Va.; J. R. Johnson, Rockford, Ill.: E. Clark Bobbett, Ashland, Ky. and Paul E. Middleton, Indianapolis.
Paul E. Middleton is owner of the P. E. Middleton Co., civil engineers and surveyors, 528 Architects & Builders Building. He left Indianapolis Tuesday on a business trip. He lives at 4643 N. Capitol Ave.
‘CHAIN STORE CHIEFS
WILL MEET IN CITY
Chain store executives from several adjoining states will join in the annual meeting of the directors and membership of the Indiana Chain Store Council. Inc., tomorrow at the Columbia Club. Officers and directors elected at the morning session. Speakers are to include Hassil Schenck, Indiana Farm Bureau president; C. B. Denman, agricultural counsel for the National As[sociation of Food Chains, Washing(ton, D. C, and Dr. Melvin Anshen, {associate professor of marketing at | Indiana Udiversity. Among the topics to be discussed will be the part chain stores are undertaking in the national defense program.
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—China is anxiously and impatient- through the room, in which hun(ly awaiting clarification of Russia's gyeds of patrons sat stolidly, rising |policy toward this country. De- (4 their feet now and then when mands dispatched to Moscow for| {hey thought the Germans had elucidation of the Soviet attitude, | made a direct hit on the hotel. | as a consequence of the Russo-| speculated on how long the Japanese neutiaiity: pact lave not iaster and the decorations, and the |
di Ri Sg that if the building itself, could stand the . shocks.
pact means only what it says, and it is less dangerous| Great fires colored the sky a {to China than to the countries of | bright orange as we emerged into the South Pacific. They naturally the streets and myriads of sparks are deeply exasperated by the de|carried by the wind from burning [facto Soviet recognition of Man-| rooftops floated through the heavy [chukuo. What concerns them much |smoke. The glare in the sky threw more is whether Soviet Dictator | the city into sharp relief. Bombs |Josef V. Stalin and Japanese For-| crashed in all directions. The sideeign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, in|walks were strewn with shattered their Moscow conversations, came to! glass. The noise of the planes grew any informal understanding re- and then diminished. We gaped at |specting the suspension or diminu- seeing taxicabs and double-decked [tion of Soviet aid to China. busses running along despite the The weight of opinion here is that| raid. Russian assistance will continue.| My first raid astonished me be-’
A 23-year-old Australian who took part in today’s bayonet fighting,
Sydney, was one of a patrol of
seven men which routed 40 Germans and brought back one prisoner. “About 300 German infantrymen, supported by tanks, had made five attacks on our part of the line,” he said. I took six men with me, in order not to
“Then about 40 Ger=
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“WE WERE UNDER GERMAN machine-gun fire and we went out We lay down about 100 yards from the Germans. people were blazing away over our heads. Then we tore into them with I got the shock of my life because not one of them
Our
“I bayoneted four of them and my bayonet stuck in the fifth. He was the only bloke who showed any fight. pulled me down on top of him. Another Jerry was coming up behind
He grabbed my rifle and
He finished the German,
“I bashed several other Germans over the head with the butt of Then I picked up a stone. hand grenade the remainder of them groveled. One of them shouted:
Thinking it was a
of Germany.’
in French, ‘sil vous plait'—‘if you
“I must have killed about 12 of them altogether.”
CHINA SEEKING Just Like He Expected
By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, April 17.—As the newest arrival from America of the London staff, I have been asked to describe by reaction to my first
London has experienced in the war.
Scores of earthquake shocks, Vesuvian showers of sparks floating in |a smoke laden sky and the boom and dark cf hundreds of guns pursuing the German planes across the capital constituted the setting.
cause it was just like the accounts of air raids which I read before I came here. The fire watchers, air raid precautions wardens, police= men and hundreds of fire trucks racing to fires, were all playing the role which I had expected in this London drama.
Boy, 10, Lands 52-Pound Fish
JACKSON HILL, Ind. April 17 (U. P.).—Ten-year-old Bill Ravis thinks he has the fish story of the day—and he has photographs and witnesses to prove it. Bill went fishing yesterday in a mine pond near his home. His tackle consisted of a light pole, a tiny bluegill hook and some No. 8
sewing thread. He only caught one fish—but it was a buffalo fish and it weighed 52 pounds.
However, this supposition is based not on Soviet assurances, which so far are lacking, but on purely realistic balancing of cause and effect. The Chinese opine that Stalin is too shrewd a statesman to make any move which might weaken Chinese resistance to Japan or | encourage Sino-Japanese peace.
Want Position Cleared
| It was Japan's invelvement in {China that , forestalled a RussoJapanese war in 1939. Continuance of the Sino-Japanese conflict is a better guarantee of Japan's continued neutrality toward Russia [than a whole dossier full of unbacked treaty promises. This, the Chinese hope, canny “Uncle Joe” realizes. Nevertheless, {Chinese suspicions will not be laid to rest until the Soviet position is {made officially clear. While figures cannot be disclosed, it is no secret that China has received very substantial help from Russia during the past half year, especially in the form of airplanes. The Russo-Japanese accord certainly will give Japan greater peace of mind and will encourage her push to the south program, but beyond that, what?
Guarantees Missing
Strauss Says:
Barring the possibility that there is more to the pact than meets the eve, perhaps the most significant feature of the Russo-Japanese |agreement is its absence of guar|antees. There is no mention, for instance, of a mutual reduction of Russian and Japanese defenses, re|spectively, of Siberia and Manchu|kuo as a token of good faith. Unless [such assurances were given secretly, it is difficult to believe that Japan can risk a diversion southward of more than a limited number of her 25.000 troops in Manchukuo. Regardless of Moscow's paper | promises, Japan cannot ignore the |presence of 400,000 Soviet soldiers jaround the northern frontiers of [Manchukuo and Korea. Moreover, [Japanese militarists have often remarked that a Russo-Japanese pact without guarantees and without suspension of Soviet help to China, would have little meaning. 1t is considerations like these that me ke the Chinese wonder what else, if anything, was discussed in the [Kremlin talks. If nothing, then it does look as though the Stalin government got the best of the deal.
Revive Farmer Hit by Lightning
PLYMOUTH, Ind. April 17 (U, P.) —~Clarence Albright, 41-year-old farmer living near Argos, was struck by lightning while at work yesterday but was revived by means of a pulmotor at an Argos hospital. His condition was reported critical.
Mediation
WASHINGTON. April 17 (U. P). —The House Naval Affairs Committee today approved an amendment to the Vinson Bill extending its
labor disputes in all defense production. The original bill by Chairman Carl Vinson (D. Ga.) would have required mediation only in industries filling contracts for the Navy. The amendment, proposed by Mr. Vinson, would encompass all firms supplying the Army and other defense activities as well. The committee adopted unanimously an amendment clarifying the procedure for handling labor disputes. The amendment provided that labor and management must
attempt in good faith to settle any mittee—also {dispute by conference. If this fails,
the dispute would go to the U. S. Conciliation Service for an attempt at settlement lasting at least five
days. If this fails, either side may take it to the Defense Mediation
Extension of Compulsory
compulsory mediation features to]
Recommended
| Board, which would have 20 days to seek a settlement. During this entire period labor | would not strike and management | would attempt a lockout. Rep. Warren G. Magnuson (D. Wash.) sought to strike out the provision requiring the parties to waive strike or lockout rights, but was defeated 15 to 2. The Senate's defense investigating committee, headed by Senator Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.) called Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox | to testify today. Mr. Truman said [his inquiry would concern itself | With more technical aspects of de- | fense for a while, and that investi- | gation of the labor situation would | not come until later, The House Military Affairs Cominvestigating defense | progress—arranged to send investigators to the Ford River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Mich. to determine the accuracy of reports of sabotage of essential equipment during the recent strike there,
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