Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1942 — Page 1
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New American Tanks Defeat Rommel In Libya
GAS RATIONING octenement AXIS DESERT
DELAY PUSHED BY SCHRICKER
Urges Henderson to Wait Until ‘the Need Is More Apparent.’
Governor Schricker today asked Leon Henderson, price administrator, to postpone gasoline rationing for the Midwest “until the necessity is more apparent In a telegram, the governor said he feit it his duty “register an official! protest” against rationing in behalf of the citizens of Indiana. Earlier, had given his support to a protesting committhat gasoline wouid economically cripple 50.000 Hoosiers as well
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the governor
ee, and declared curbs some as complicate transportation problems of public conveyances and the
state's thousands of war workers.
“Pleasure Trips at Minimum”
The governor said in his tele-
1 persuaded that our people are making every effort to conserve the rubber supply by complying with the president's request for reduction in driving speed, and that tle could be gained by forcing their cars off the highways through rationing of Sassi. Pleasure trips re being held at inimum and all transportation lities are now needed to carry our . people to and from their work. Public transportation facilities cannot carry the load and will be compietely demorialized by the gasoline rationing program. Our people stan .every war necessity, not convinced of gasoline at this time.’
i ready to meet but they are shortage of
any
Lose $40 Million in Taxes not - include it the Governor protesting comthat the state imated $40.000.000 tax revenue, should placed in operation in
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‘Members of the protest committee representing Indiana civic groups, trade associations and industries met with the governor yesterday. The committee reported the state's 18 refineries overflowing with gasoine and that no transportation
problem in receiving gas was ap-!
parent here. The committee also declared that operations had been curtailed 75 per cent in the state refineries because of lack of storage space
STANDARD OIL DENIES DELAY OF SYNTHETIC
FLEMINGTON. N. J. June 2 (U PO) —W. 8S Fansh, president of O11 Co. of New Jersey told the annual stockholders meeting today he had writien Senator Harry S. Truman f(D. Mo.) a denial of charges that Standard Oil had deceived Truman's committee which is investigating the national defense program The accusation was made by Thurman Arnold, assistant attornev ceneral, in a statement to the committee on Standard Oils connections with the synthetic rubber sit-
Standard
Farish denied that any action of the company’s had “delayed the production of synthetic rubber this country or hampered any other item of our war effort.” On the contrary, _he said, agreements
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he United States with several valsable products, such as 100-octane aviation gasoline, synthetic toluol, paratone, buna rubber, vistan rubber and butyl rubber.
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'Rommel’s Libyan drive on Tobruk * { The British
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Gen. Kurt Daluege, veteran
storm troop leader said to pos- | sess the necessary Nazi qualifica- |
tions for the job, succeeds wounded Reinhard Heydrich as “protector” of Bohemia and Moravia.
NEGROES TO GET
PAY AS FIREMEN
Safety Board Bi Three Put on Department but Not Given Work.
Three Negroes who were appoint- |
éd to the fire department but were] refused assignments were ordered placed on the department payroll effective June 11 by the safety] board todav. The action followed protests by! the Indianapolis branch of the] Nationai Association for the Ad-! vancement of Colored People Association spokesmen charged, that Negroes on the fire depart-, ment eligible list were being discriminated against and that other applicants farther down on the eligible list were being given jobs.
Only One Negro Company
Fire Chief plained that
Harry Fulmer exthe department has;
only one fire company composed of |
Negro members and that there were no vacancies in this company for! the eligible Negro applicants. F. E. France, a spokesman for the Negro delegation. said the merit law requires appointment of eligibles according to their examination grade regardless of race, creed or politics and urged that the eligibles be placed in other com-
panies if there were no vacancies in| i
the Negro compauy. No Vacancies, Says Chief
Safety Board Member Donald Morris said that “under the law, the fire department has been in error mn this matter and we must correct it.’ “I haven't any vacancy on the department for these men. ., . I don't know where I will use them,” said Chief Fulmer Police Chief Morrissey was questioned by the board about the selection of Negro officers from the merit The Chief explained that no men on the eligible list are skipped over. “Appointments are made according to rating.” he said
REPORTS EIGHT DEAD IN PATROL BOMBER
Survivor Walks 7 Miles
After California Crash.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 P) —A navy PBY Catalina patrol bomber crashed in the hills of San Mateo county on the San Francisco peninsila today and a survivor, Ensign G. H. Apitz, 22, reported eight men aboard the plane were Killed. Ensign Apitz, gravely injured, stumbled into the community of Half Moon bay and gave the first report of the crash. He told A. Picchi. the town's night watchman, he had walked seven miles since he left the wreckage at midnight. He reached Half Moon bay at ¢ a. m. Scarcely able to talk. Ensign Apitz told Mr. Picchi the plane crashed Dear a dam The 12th navv district headquar-
iists.
ters said ground and aerial search- Greenfield state police headquarters Clarendon road. 0
ing parties were sent out to hunt
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FORCES FLEE FROM BRITISH
U.S. Made ‘Gene ‘General Grant’ :
Mobile Fortresses Get Credit for Victory.
Bv UNITED PRESS New American tanks, known as “General Grants” and mounting | high-powered .75 millimeter guns, { were credited today with pulling victory out of the bag for British forces that stopped Col. Gen. Erwin
‘and Cairo. who piloted and fought in the new machines could to express their praise for the desert battleships, Richard D. McMillan, United Press correspondent, reported from the] Libyan front. “These are the best tanks the: war has known since the very be- | ginning.” one of the crew members! told Mr. McMillan. “They can take! anything the Jerry can give whilej the offensive gunpower is astonishing. They are wizards.”
Shipped in Great Secrecy
“There has been no previous American tank even comparable ol this.” another said. “Give us mo 1% them and North Africa is oo. The Grants were shipped to Libya | in the greatest secrecy. Mr. McMilIan said. They have been coming. ver for months under the he&viest! camoutiage and under the cover of | arkness they moved from the | ee ports to their desert sta- | ‘tions. Today the Grants are moving up close on the heels of the Germans | and engaging tanks remaining in Rommels westward retreating forces. | Gen. Rommel's plans for a major axis offensive across the Libyan! desert upon Tobruk and Egypt had | “gone completely awry” in a fierce battle that still continues south of Tobruk after the capture or destruc'tion of about 260 axis tanks, a Britlish communique at Cairo said today. New Tanks Spread Panic {| The Grants’ firepower is igreat and their guns so accurate that they spread panic among the! Nazis’ motorized units, to Mr. McMillan. “Thev smashed one German tank! ‘after another, picking them off} with the ease of marksman at a shooting gallery.” Mr. sa reported. “Thev scattered the Geri units with the effective fire of their! { 75's which are equally effective at short or long range thanks to a vertical pivot which permits them to be swung up or down. “The 73's are augmented by two-| (Continued on Page Five) |
Suicide Was Aim; They Reached It
SYDNEY, Australia, June 2 (U. P)—Two Japanese submarines have been raised from the mud of Sydney harbor and divers are searching for a third certainly sunk and others that might | have been sunk in a suicide attack Sunday night, it was announced today. The extent to which the submarines were damaged was not disclosed, but naval experts will take them apart for examination. Allied planes were ranging over thousands of square miles of ocean off Rastern Australia, | searching for the mother ship | from which the minute submarines were launched. Norman J. O. Makin, minister | for munitions and navy, confirmed in the house of representa- | . tives that the three submarines | known to have entered the harbor Sunday night were destroyed, making the attack, as far as its suicidal aspects were concerned, a complete success.
TRUCK KILLS DRIVER OF HORSE AND WAGON
An Indianapolis man was killed today when a truck and semi- | trailer struck his horse and wagon on Road 52 near New Palestine. The victim was Lipman Joseph, 76, of 732 Union st. He died at Methodist hospital at 11 a. m. after being struck four hours earlier. The driver of the truck, Russel ‘Ray, 1910 E. Minnesota st., according to state police, was taken to
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‘and the first two heat victims of | Joe Burkett. 29. of 1552 W. Wash |
How Huge Bomber Fleet Filled Sky Over Cologne
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RUSSIA STRIKES
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raid on Cologne.
This gives you an idea of the British bombing force that obliterated An even 1000 bombers are sketched in the The British had 500 more raiding nearby in the Ruhr and Rhineland the same night. The picture was made during an earlier daylight
ON NORTH | FRONT F.D.R. Asks War Declared on
Claim Wedge in in Nazi Lifes At Leningrad; List 432
Planes Shot Down.
MOSCOW, June 2 (U, P) —Red army troops have driven the Ger- | mans back and seized “advantage- | ous positions” in sharp fighting on’ the northern fronts between Moscow and Leningrad, the Russian high command said today in a communioue wiich reported a lull on the southern Kharkov front. Reports of sharp local
WASHINGTON, June 2 (U, P.
and Bulgaria,
nations as now engaged in military activities against the united nations. Hungarian and Rumanian legions have been active in Russia and the Bulgars have helped police Jugoslavia. | Shortly after sending his message to congress Mr. Roosevelt sent a telegram to President Avila Camacho of Mexico, welcoming Mexico into “that community of nations ‘united in fighting for the preserva-
actions
Russian units on some sectors of {the Leningrad front destroyed 500 {Germans in two days, & midnight | communique reported. The communique credited a cavlalry unit with driving a wedge into the German lines. It said the Germans had made furious counter-|Avila Camacho formally proclaimed attacks to regain lost positions, but Mexico at war with the axis last | failed, and that on another north- night. ern sector Russian tank units and| In becoming the 10th Latin ‘motorized troops had destroyed American nation to ally herself with ‘more than 100 Germans, guns and a tank. {the solid bloc of North American Recapitulating fighting in the air, | countries now at war with Germany, ‘the communique said the Germans | Italy and Japan. The other nine; had lost 432 planes from May 24 Latin American countries actively at to May 30. The Russians lost 134. (The British Broadcasting Co. mala, Haiti, Dominican Republic, said that Radio Helsinki reported Honduras, Panama, El Salvador and last night that Russian aircraft had Nicaragua. Bombe]. Vist Mine Finland). ! Message Read in House
STORM MAY BRING RELIEF FROM HEAT
In another move, Secretary ‘State Cordell Hull and Chinese! Foreign Minister T. V. Soong signed a pact bringing China into the master lend-lease agreement, with provicions for post-war economic collaboration. The agreement was the same in all substantial respects as
Two Overcome as Mercury (hat signed on Feb. 23 by the United Reaches Record 92.
| States and Britain. The president's war message was LOCAL TEMPERATURES Mm ... 72 Sam.
read in the house by a clerk and | Democratic Leader John W. Mec288 | othe of Massachusetts obtained 73 11a m 8 unanimous consent to make the . TT 12 (noen).. 90 matter the first order of business mS fpwm. o (Coitiiued on Page Five)
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The weather bureau offered only | a “possible thunderstorm” this after- | {noon as relief for the heat wave! which yesterday recorded the sea- | 'son’s high temperature of 92 degrees)
Incomes in U. S.
Reach New High
WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P). —Individual incomes in the United States totaled $8,784,000,000 in April of this year, almost 25 per at ph Fey He was taken to City | cent higher than in April, 1941, ital where his condition was] the commerce department reid as as “fair.” | ported today. tchell Inder, 27, of 276 N. Lynn April's expanded income payPoy was overcome yesterday while! ments amounted to an annual rate ‘walking in the 700 block of Indiana! ‘ave. He was taken to City nospital| for emergency treatment. The weather bureau's forecast also was for “continued warm and humid | this afternoon and tonight.”
TRUCK DRIVER KILLED A truck driver was killed last night in a collision at 38th st. and
the year. !
, was overcome last night
! 000,000,000. The annual peak rates were $92 100.000.000 in 1941
ment said.
rise in income index were the gains in manufacturing and government payrolls and in agricultural income, these factors re-
The the rapid transition to a
President Welcomes Mexico to Allies Side: Hull Brings China Into Master Lend-Lease Pact.
tion of freedom and democracy.” |
{war are Costa Rica, Cuba, Guata- |
of |
of $109,000,000,000, a record figure. | The march annual rate was $106.-
and | $83,600,000.000 in 1929, the depart- |
Chiey accountable for the April |
| |
) —President Roosevelt today asked
congress to declare existence of a state of war with Ruinania. Hungary | the three axis satellites which proclaimed themselves at war with this country a few days after Pearl Harbor. He sent a special message to congress describing the three Balkan “instruments of Hitler”
and pointing out tat they are
CAPITAL ‘GOES DEAD’ IN FIRST RAID TEST
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Even Cabinet Conference | Is Broken Up.
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WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P.) — The capital went dead to all out- | ward appearances for 15 minutes
| daylight air raid practice test since | the start of the war. The city’s 38 sirens screamed the | alarm at 10:21 a. m, and 60 seconds later all traffic was frozen. Streetcars stopped in their tracks, busses and automobiles wheeled to the curb | | and parked, pedestrians took refuge! inside stores and theaters. The only movement on the streets juntil the all-clear sounded was that of helmeted air raid wardens! and auxiliary police, motorcycle of - | ficers and official automobiles bear- | ing police and civilian defense] | authorities on inspection tours. The city was as quiet as it was motion1888S, At the White House, all office work ceased abruptly and staff] members got out their gas masks! ‘and went to prearranged points of safety. ‘ | At the state department, stretcher | {bearers { “wounded” through the corridors. | Secretary of State Cordell Hull, | Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson | land Secretary of Navy Frank Knox were in conference when the sirens! started. . They broke up their conversations, went into the corridors. | At the treasury building, author-| |ities took advantage of the occasion | to give 2200 employees gathered in! ‘the dimly lighted corridors a pep! talk over the public address system, on war bond buying.
Seeks Inquiry Into Shortages
WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. | | P.).—Rep. John D. Dingell (D. Mich.) has introduced a resolution in the house calling on | | Speaker Sam Rayburn to appoint a five-member committee to investigate the shortages of gasoline and rubber.
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Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria to Good to Be True is
First Reaction After
Cologne Bombing.
By LELAND STOWE
| Copy righ, 1942. hy The Indianapolis Times The Chicago Daily News, Inc.
MOSCOW, June 1.—The royal air force's record-breaking bombings of
Cologne and Essen is the first en-
couraging news on a big scale to reach Russia from the outside world — in’ many months. Muscovites first heard about it with a hesitant “too good to be true” look on their faces; then, when |given details, with enthusiasm and [eg ond the shadow of a doubt, oy rome point in the air war! against Germany has given a very important psychological lift to the
Soviet army and Russian people
and it comes at a perfect moment.
Feuhrer Loses Initiative?
R. A. F. DROPS 3000 TONS ON KRUPP PLANT
Nerve Center of German Arms Industry Is Left
In Flames.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
Great Britain's royal air force dumped 3000 tons of bombs on the huge Krupp arms works at Essen early today in the fourth devastae tion attack on a German war center. Using 1036 bombers, the Britisky aerial armada apparently smashed the Ruhr industrial center as efe
fectively as it had previously blaste ed Luebeck, Rostock and Cologne, | Prime Minister Winston Churchill (grimly pcinted out that these four attacks were merely the beginning of an offensive that—with American aid—would subject the reich to “an ordeal the like of which has never been experienced.”
British Lose 35 Planes
Dispatches to the United Press said that foreign military experts in Europe put the maximum number of dead and wounded at Cologne at about 5000 and that the R. A. F,
sion inside Germahy. The second devastation attack in four days cost the R. A. F, 35 bomb fers, but it prompted British officials {io say that there was no reason why the nightly onslaughts should not be increased to as many as 4000. planes, and it led to frantie German efforts to improve anti-air raid precautions. The British aerial offensive against German war centers over= showed all other military develop= ments for the time being. Great fires spread in the wake of ithe terrific attack of the R. A. F's “close pack” bombing of Essen, the nerve center of Adolf Hitler's war production. The loss of 35 bombers in the Essen raid compared with 44 lost in Saturday night's huge assault on Cologne, or about 3 per cent, which is only half of the losses which had been anticipated by many British | air experts.
‘Only the Start’—Churchill
Prime Minister Churchill, ane nouncing the Essen bombing bee fore a jubilant house of commons,
The colossal, British raid on the said that the two big assaults were
great German industrial center is staged just after Soviet troops stole
several the United States, Mexico completed | today during its first full-fledged | the initiative from the Nazis in
the Kharkov sector and, by two weeks of the bitterest kind of fighting, regardless of sacrifices imposed, completely foiled Hitler's
plans for a blow at the Caucasus marked the introduction of a new
through Rostov.
It comes before Hitler's much]
| ballyhooed “crushing” spring offen- | sive has been launched and when!
signs increasingly indicate that the] Germans’ big blow may possibly be; several weeks overdue because the | Nazis high command still has a
[lot of unsolved critical problems on
its hands.
29 MORE FACE DEATH ‘IN PLOT ON HEYDRICH
LONDON, June 2 (U. P.).
Twenty-nine more hostages and pa-| triots faced imminent death before |
German firing squads on the conti-' nent today.
attack upon Reinhard (The Hang-/ man) Heydrich, for which at least {161 martyrs have now died.
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Apparently none of the executions
the start, that “Germany’s cities, harbors and centers of war production will be subjected to am ordeal the like of which never has been experienced by any country in continuity, severity and maghie
tude.” The said,
big-scale raids, he phase of total war and Britain's
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On the War Fronts
(June 2, 1042)
LONDON—Krupp arms works at Essen, Germany bombed by 1036 R. A. F. planes within 48 hours after devastation of Cologne by massed force of more than 1000 planes.
LIBYA—Rommel's panzer forces fleeing westward on desert after defeat by British in first round of new Libyan drive. CHINA-—Fighting under way in at least six of China’s 24 provinces | as Japs continue “knockout” | drive.
RUS \—Eastern front lull cone
Within less than a week, the an entirely new pnase, and from present indications it may be the forerunner of the final one.
Only the forerunner, however.
The final phase
will open when an allied army lands on the European continent, or Germany collapses internally. "The staggering British air raids on Germany, first on Cologne and now on Essen, with many more to come, constitute a real second front which may spell the doom of Hitlerism. The percéntage of British plane losses. in these raids, about 3 pee
| cent, is low enough to make it seem. | probable that they can be continued |
jon the same scale almost indefi-| | nitely.
Even if the losses should increase and British plane produc- | tion be unable to keep up with the pace, America’s promise to put its
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gives assurance that there will be no let-up. The tangible value of the raids is great. They accomplish at least four important results: First and foremost, they strike at (Continued on Page Five)
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