Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1941 — Page 13

10-Billion War To Equip Army of 2 Million

WASHINGTON, Det. 18 (U.P) — President Roosevelt today signed the $10,000,000,000 supplemental War Appropriation Bill. The measure carries $9,283,000,000 in cash appropriations and $794,000,000 in contractual authorizations. It provides sufficient funds to purchase equipment for a 2,000,000-man Army and critical supplies for a 3,200,000-man Army. It was passed by Congress Monday. The bill is the third largest ap-

propriation in the nation’s history, surpassed only by this year’s first war appropriation and a World War Army measure. It carries more than $1,500,000,000 for aid to America’s allies in the

Bill Signed

war against the Axis and pumps additional dollars into every phase of the nation’s war effort. It contains money to buy tanks guns, ships and planes for both the Army and Navy and to finance con-

struction of dams and reservoirs to provide power for an unprecedented industrial expansion.

GREEKS JOIN XUGOSLAVS NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (U. P)— The Columbia Broadcasting System

today heard the British radio broad-|-

cast that Greek and Yugoslav “freedom armies” had joined forces in the Balkans and were making a

united fight on German and Italian troops. \

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Among Features.

Scottish Rite members and their families will open the holiday season tomorrow night with a Christmas party in the Cathedral. A children’s play will begih the program at 8 p. m. in the auditorium. After the play the children will go to the dining room where there will be a Santa Claus, a Christmas tree and gifts. A dance for the adults will begin at 9 p. m. in the ballroom. The play, “A Swiss Toy Shop,”

taking part are: Lenis N. Firestine, Harold Hadley, Russel D. Fritts, Eugene D. Wilcox, Samuel M. Rat-

cliff, Ira J. Miller, Peggy Million, Crawford Barker and Herbert

Asberger. Dorothy Haupt, William Von Stamm, Wilma Wilcox, Byron Saunders, Shirley Jean"Mavis, Ralph W. Murphy, Lawrence Galloway, Bradshaw Patrick, Wingrove Wolf, Pat Werrick, Rose Marie Steinbeck, Mildred Cornelius, Betty Campbell, Ruth Ellen Raison, Betty Wright and Jean George. Joan Mawson and Francis Meckling will present an acrobatic tumbling act during the intermission. Serving on the entertainment committee are: Carl QG. Seytter, chairman; Crawford H. Barker, vice chairman; John R. Colby, Royal B. Colby, W. E. Bodenhamer, Goréon B. Mess, Arthur E. Patterson, Myron Yorcer, John W. and Frank E. Thornburgh, Harry A. Lindeman Jr., Noble Hilgenberg, Homer T. Perry, Ralph Hamill Herman B. Gray, Robert E. Schreiber, W. S. Akin, Ralph T. Simon

is directed by Harry Pihl, and those|

Autry Gives Prized

Gun, Rosalind Joins Ambulance Unit.

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U.P). —The Japanese war has affecte every angle of the movie world. It has taken away the guns of the horse opera stars and subjected the lovelies to the wiles of bomb

Deanna Durbin . . has a bomb shelter.

Only actress who has a bombproof cellar iz Deanna Durbin. The others are reeeiving sales talk from the men who used to build swimming pools—and now are building them with concrete roofs.

Gene Autry gave his six-shoot-er to the Army. Rosalind Russell joined the Beverly Hills ambulance unit and is learning how to take engines apart. So are Priscilla Lane and Ida Lupino. Lewis Stone, who runs an evacuation corps for the sheriff, asked for station wagons. He got Bette

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BACK IN- AFRICA

Cairo Says Enemy Front Is Shattered During 30-Mile Chase.

CAIRO, Dec. 18 (U. P) Axis forces in eastern Libya are now in full retreat, British General Headquargers for the Middle East said today. The German ahd Italian fronts have been broken, the communique said in headquarters first use of the word “retreat” since the Libyan offensive was started last month. The goal of the present drive is to clear the Axis out of North Africa and open the way for close-range bombing or a direct assault on Italy. The British now are 175 to 200 miles inside Libya. In London, military quarters believed that the next major clash will be at Derna, 100 miles northwest of Tobruk. Axis Forces Annihilation Reliable informants reported that the British forces had cut off the German-Italian line of retreat to the west and that the Axis tank, infantry and artillery forces faced annihilation. “After five days of intensive fighting, during which all of the remaining German and Italian resources have been thrown into battle to try to delay our advance, the enemy's front everywhere has been broken,” headquarters said. “Yesterday our troops relentlessly pursued the enemy in spite of adverse weather conditions over a distance of nearly 30 miles. “By evening the main body of our infantry reached a general line on the Tmimi-Mekili Road.”

Vital Road Junction

Mekili is one of the most important road junctions in all Libya. It controls north and south and east and west communications at a point in the desert south of Derna. Headquarters said that on Dec. 13, 14 and 15 German infantry and all remaining German tanks counter-attacked three times with the greatest determination. The brunt of the attack was borne by the Fourth Indian Division at the center of the British line. The communique said that although the Germans temporarily had established considerable local numerical superiority in the area held by the Fourth Indian Division, the Indian troops beat off attack after attack without giving ground.

20 Nazi Tanks Destroyed

“Indeed, during three days and nights of intense fighting in which all available German air forces also were employed in close support of vheir tanks, lorries and infantry the Division and, particularly during the last two days the Fifth Indian Infantry Brigade, actually made headway,” the communique said. The British troops, supported by artillery, finally defeated German counter-attacks in which about 20 German tanks and a number of Axis planes were destroyed. The Royal Air Force obtained “excellent results” yesterday in bombing operations, particularly in large concentrations of mechanical transport at Mekilit where many vehicles were set afire. Other planes attacked detachments moving westward on coastal roads running out of Derna in the direction of Benghasi. The break-through resembled a 1941 version of the successful offensive against the Italians by Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell a year ago, a military spokesman said. German armored strength was shot to pieces, he said. In London a military spokesman said that up to Dec. 16 German and Italian prisoners held at Alexandria totaled 8108.

RABBI TO EXPLAIN FEAST OF GHANUKO

Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht will explain the Jewish Feast of Chanuko and its relation to present world events at the festive services tomorrow evening in the temple of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. Jews the world over are celebrating the eight-day feast which began at sundown Sunday. It commemorates the Jewish defeat of the pagan Syrians and the rededication of the temple at Jerusalem in the second century before Christ. Tomorrow evening, the fifth candle will be lighted in the candlelabrum of the temple to mark the fifth day of Chanuko. A candle is lighted each successive day until eight are burning. The temple quartet will give numbers and the children’s chorus of 20 voices will make the service responses, sing Ernest Bloch’s “America” and other selections. Next Sunday at 11 a. m., a group’ of children of the religious school will present a Chanuko play written by Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt and directed by Miss Lillian Weil. Rabbi Goldblatt is Dr. Feuerlicht’s assist ant.

2 KOKOMO MEN DIE IN TRUCK-CAR CRASH

KANKAKEE, Ill, Dec. 18 (U. P). —A truck and an automobile rounding a curve on State Highway 49 crashed headon last night, killing two Kokomo, Ind, men and injura third critically, nard Fierke, 27, and Keith Parkhurst, 22, were killed. Homer | Hale, third occupant of the automebile, was taken to a Kankakee

The truck driver, Ed Dipley, 31, 8t. Louis, Mo, escaped injury

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FOR MILEY SLAYING

LEXINGTON, Ky., Deo. 18 (U. P)). —A Fayette County jury that deliberated 57 minutes today convicted Tom Penney, 32, ex-convict, of conspiracy and murder in the robberyslaying 6f golfer Marion Miley and her mother, The jury recommended a sentence of death. Penney doesn’t believe in capital punishment, He told a jury last night that he had testified against two alleged accomplices “as a matter of conscience.” In separate trials, Robert Anderson, 36, Louisville night club owner, and Raymond Baxter, 27, sreenskeeper at the club, were convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Penney said he had received no promise of leniency.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U, P)). —Pederal Security Administrator Paul 'V. McNutt said yesterday that all efforts are being made to expedite payments of old age and survivors insurance claims to families of qualified workers killed in Japanese bombing raids in Hawaii. Mr. McNutt said that special arrangements are being developed with the Treasury for certification and payment direct from the Social Security Board's field office in Honolulu, should communications with the mainland be interrupted. Robert W. Beasley, Social Security Territorial Director at Honolulu, reported he was working on a survey of the number of claims to be filed by families of victims.

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