Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1942 — Page 4

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RETRIAL SOUGHT IN AUTO DEATH

i Jury at’ New Castle Unable

..new trial for Carl Current, Indian-

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Man’s Case.

- NEW CASTLE, Ind, May 15 (U. P.) —Deputy Prosecutor E. H. Yer

Bin indicated today he would ask a apolis, charged with reckless homi-

a verdict and was dismissed by Judge John M. Morris early this morning. Judge Morris could not accept the ‘first verdict of the jury which imposed a $100 fine and six months suspended sentence. The jury returned to debate and after three ballots could not reach

‘an agreement.

This family scene is being repeated all over the country. But this one is newsworthy because it's Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Willkie congratulating son Philip after his graduation from a naval reserve midshipman’s school as an ensign. The Willkies are visiting in Rushville.

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NAZIS FALL LIKE WOUNDED GEESE

R. A. F. Pilots’ Battle With Germans Off Libya Is ‘Dream Come True.’

By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN LIBYA, May 15—German soldiers riding in Junkers-88 transport planes poked tommy guns from the windows of their planes and tried to fight off attacking British fighter planes over the Mediterranean, but it was ‘a losing fight and the British shot down 13 transports and saw the Germans die in burning pools of oil. The fight started Tuesday off the Libyan coast and the resultant battle was “the picnic every pilot

down in flames every half mile,”

“I saw the Nazis frantically open the windows and poke out their tommy guns,” a squadron leader “1 could see the winking flame as they fired from every opening. Face Twisted in Horror

“Of the two Junkers my plane bagged I went for the first headon and I could see the pilot's face

wing burning. It was like shooting Only three transports escaped

R. A. F. planes ran out of ammuni-

tion. “The sea looked like a beacon with

of petrol in which Germans were struggling, and as we flew away someone shouted over our radio a parting shot of ‘tallyho, Germans, goodby.’ ” Flames and Smoke Cover Sea

to break through with new troops for Marshal Irwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps when surprised by the British fighters. The transports were accompanied by only two Messer-schmitt-110s, and these also were

The victory constituted one of the greatest air raids of the war and the fight lasted only about 20 minutes. “We ran the gantlet of every kind of fire—cannon, machine gun, tommy gun and rifle, but once we got among them the planes went down like wounded geese,” another pilot said. Flames and smoke covered the sea as far as the horizon.” A Junkers normally carries about 40 fully equipped men plus the crew, so that the British probably accounted for about 500 men in the brief battle.

The German armada was trying

‘LOOSE: TALK’ REBUKE

CANBERRA, May 15 (U. P.).— Prime Minister John Curtin said today that President Roosevelt wasn’t thinking about him Wednesday when he warned the Pacific war council in Washington that loose talk was “providing information of real value to the enemy.” “I have had no rebuke of any sort or description from the president about the leakage of news in my statements and there has been no divulging prematurely of operational news in my statements,” Mr. Curtin said at his. press conference. “It has been inferred that news of Gen. MacArthur's trip from the Philippines was due to a statement of mine. I am aware it was sent by a correspondent who ighored Gen. MacArthur's wishes.” Veteran political correspondents

from New York that interpreted Mr.

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Roosevelt's i rebuke. as having been directed toward. Mr, Curtin. They recalled that Australian newspapers often had been beaten on Australian news by announcements from abroad and that Curtin ‘was most careful in releasing news for publication.

BRITISH LOSE SHIP IN TAKING MADAGASCAR

LONDON, May 15 (U. P.).—The British corvette Auricula was sunk by a mine at the approaches to Courier bay during the occupation of northern Madagascar by British forces, a communique said today. A joint war office and admiralty communique describing the occupation of Diego Suarez and the nearby naval base at the northern tip of the island said the British found the approaches to Courier bay heavily mined, necessitating considerable mine-sweeping operations. No reports of casualties aboard the Auricula have beén received, if was said, but “the circumstances indicate they probably were light.” The small vessel was being used for the landing of some of the first British imperial forces “on the northern tip of the strategic island.

REAL ESTATE BOOM EXPECTED

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. (U. P.). —Mid-Hudson real estate operators report increased business because of the war. Many summer homes and cottages are being leased and sold.

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SUB-PARITY SALE OF FEED GRAIN FOUGHT

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U, P.). —Opposition developed in the senate today to a compromise proposal in the 1943 agriculture department appropriation bill permitting limited sale of surplus corn and wheat at sub-parity prices for feeding purposes. Farm state senators said privately that representatives of corn and

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cuss the proposal. The pending compromise was worked out by the senate appropriations committee in an attempt to solve a controversy between the administration, which sought a free hand in disposing of farm surpluses, and the congressional farm bloc, which sought to insure that surplus stocks be held off the market lest they depress farm prices..

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HELD IN $3,000,000 WOOD FIRES IN EAST

PUTNAM, Conn., May 15 (U. P)). —State Police Commissioner Edward J. Hickey sought a bench warrant today for Edward F. La-

¢asse, 30, Plainfield, accused of setting ‘a series of forest fires in Con-

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him to-this state. Commissioner Hickey said there was no evidence of sabotage in the: fire. LaCasse, he said, seemed t® be a pyromaniac.

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