Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1942 — Page 2
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SEVASTOPOL GUNS TURN BACK NAZIS
Soviet Garrison, Sunnorted by Black Sea Fleet and Air Force, Repulses Major Assaults and Inflicts Heavy Losses.
MOSCOW, June 8 (U. P.).—Sevastopol, Russia's great
Black sea naval base, now in its 219th day of siege, battled the third major assault by axis forces today. For the last three days, fighting against superior odds, the garrison, supported by the Soviet Black sea fleet and the Russian air force, has]
been turning back large-| Ey I Se |erac egiments, several Ruscale attacks and inflicting| |manian brigades and hundreds of heavy losses, official dis- [tanks and planes were thrown back. patches said. | The entire civilian population—
ld men, women and children—is At the other end of the 1800-mile | battle line, on the Karellan front. {engaged in anti-aircraft defense
flerce air battles were fought when *"} ES Swf Sal he fortress’ siege guns pound German planes attempted to raid {ont d day at the attackers, and objectives behind the Soviet lines, 3 A at a a the official Tass news agency. ported. Other sectors paratively quiet. Later, Tass said, Russian bombers | raided German bases, destroyed 43] planes on the ground and damaged | 20.
[fantry and one of calvary, seven
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Civilian Morale
Civilian morale was " to he (high at Sevastopol, which is the) last Crimean outpost on the i Entire City Joins Battle sion route ot the Caucasus, despite The Germans tried to storm from (Russian bombing and bombardment. land and sea the unyielding defenses| The siege is assuming the proporof Sevastopol, the Russian army tion of that in 1854, during the] néwspaper, Red Star, said. Crimean war. Then, Sevastopol
{Russian Stormovik planes are mak- | T® ling short work of enemy motorized |
AGREE U. S. ALSO MUST WIN PEAGE
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Russians Drive Nazis From Village
Red army men are shown dislodging the Germans from this village in a section of the Russian western front where, fi. to latest reports from Moscow, a fresh attack has begun against the Nazi lines,
U. S. Drives for Knockout Of Japs' Battered Fleet
(Continued from Page One) stroyer, which was sunk, and dameg to perhaps two addi-
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One Attempts Suicide and Logansport Calls Off Party for Tonight.
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bigness” of what he had done and was “filled with remorse for fooling a whole town.” his life “was the only way out.” Dark-haired Albert posed as a gunner in the Canadian royal air force and Paynter, a six<foot blond, said he was a pilot. Albert claimed he had shot down 70 planes. ter, modestly claimed only 66. Their most exciting experience occurred only a few weeks ago, they told listeners. They were, they said, on a reconnaisance flight 600 miles from England in a two-seater plane when shot down by six Messerschmitts. On the way down they accounted for two of the German planes. Their own plane fell into the sea and they had only five days rations which they managed to stretch over a period of 16 days on a rubber life-raft. A boat hove into sight, they said, and one of them swallowed salt water so he could call for help with his thirst-parched throat. The boat took them to New York where, they claimed, they reported to the British consul and were given 21 days leave on the basis of their experience.
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Sereen Actress Myrna Loy and John D. Herts Jr, vice president of a New York advertising ageneoy, are shown after their marriage Saturday.
DENY DELAYING | RESERVOIR ROAD
Commissioners Say Water Officials Are Holding Up Oaklandon Work.
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MONDAY, JUNE 8, '1942
AUSSIES ALERT AFTER SHELLING
Blackout 1200-Mile Strip Following Sub Attacks on
Sydney, Newcastle.
MELBOURNE, June 8 (U. P).~— Defense authorities ordered a 1200mile strip of the New South Wales coast, industrial heart of Australia, blacked out to a depth of 100 miles inland effective tonight as the result of the shelling of the suburbs of Sydney and Newcastle by Japanese submarines early today. Some informed quarters believed that a formidable fleet of enemy submarines might be lurking off shore preparatory to a large-scale effort to blockade the southeast coast and cut off American supplies, possibly in support of an impending
| [itvasion attempt.
Shells Believed German
The communique announcing the shelling of the Sydney and New castle suburbs—which did little damage-—in the area where the Jap« anese have lost seven and perhaps eight submarines during the past week, suggested a hit-and-run ate tack designed to test shore defenses and upset civilian morale. Army Minister Francis M. Forde, announced that the government could be relied on to take all steps to prosecute the search for the shelling submarines, and for others : undoubtedly off the southeast coast.
a assault was comparable, it held out against French and British | gaid, to the first offensive agatiict | {forces for 349 days, and attempts | the Crimean naval base last No- to lift the siege led to the battles] vember, when six divisions of in- of Balaklava and Inkerman. These
It was believed at Sydney that the shells which the Japanese sube marines fired were of German origin.
Ayres and William Bosson said that they are ready and have been willing for some time to approve road contracts if specifications protect
Paynter made the story credible because he knew much about planes. He later told Mr. Landis
tional enemy cruisers.
viser to FDR Reach De- G
S. Destroyer Sunk
[Were comparable to this campaign’s| AL. gl DGET IW Yl battles at Kerch and Feodosyia.
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WASHINGTON, June 8 (U. P).— Three newspaper correspondents, a novelist and a presidential adviser agreed on a radio forum last night
[that it is just as important that the
United States win the peace as it is to win the war. The speakers on the American Forum of the Air who discussed “What Are Our Peace Aims” were Raymond Clapper, columnist; Foreign Correspondents Jay Allen and Wallace Deuel; Novelist Louis Bromfield, and Owen Lattimore, special adviser to President Roosevelt on Chinese affairs. Mr. Clapper urged the United States to “insist on its war aims right now”—to see “just arrangements made so that conditions of the last 20 years which led to this second world war will not be repeated and lead to a third world war.”
Common Man Betrayed
Mr. Allen said the the common man in Europe was managed from countries “where democracy was really sick and powerful men feared freedom more than they feared Hitler.” Mr. Bromfield said we must “unlearn all the rubbish about the ‘white man’s burden’ and realize that only a very small part of the population and history of the world is represented by what we call Christiandom.” He decried the ignorance in this
“betrayal” of
{country about India.
War of Liberation
Declaring that this is a war of liberation “from the foulest of tyrannies,” Mr. Deuel said, “the American people are in this war until the end, until we have won it —won it, not only for ourselves, but also for the other peoples who want this freedom too. For the world cannot live half slave ang half free, any more than the nation can.” Mr. Lattimore interpreted Vice President Henry A. Wallace's statement that the entire world must be made free to mean that “we must no longer think in terms of an open door for American citizens and American trade to enter other countries. We must also have an open door to opportunity, progress and
jdemocracy for all the peoples and
nations of the world.”
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Thus the official score now stands at two or three Japanese aircraft carriers and all their planes and one destroyer
sunk and 13 or 14 ships, including three battleships,
damaged. The U. S. losses were an-|
nounced as one destroyer |
sunk by a Japanese submarine, but with only light east) alties, one aircraft carrier damaged and an undisclosed number of | planes lost. As the battle continued in its fifth day hope rose that the tide had | been turned against Japan—six| months after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor—and it was becoming clearer that the Japanese already have suffered the greatest defeat of their brief naval history.
Piece Battle Story Together
The Japanese maintained complete silence regarding the battle, not even mentioning that one was underway, while the island empire celebrated the six month anniversary of the Pearl Harbor sneak attack. Naval experts at Pearl Harbor today began to piece together, from the scant official reports, the story of the battle of Midway. They believed that in the early stages the United States planes army; navy and marine, fought to keep off Japanese planes attempting to attack the two little coralreefed islets which make up Midway. They saw United States navy car-rier-based planes, dive bombers and torpedo planes, rocketing past enemy fighter planes and through a hail of anti-aircraft gun fire to attack the Japanese fleet. Big land based army planes, flying across hundreds of miles of trackless sea, then joined in the fight.
U. S. Losses ‘Light’
Finally, it was believed at Pearl Harbor, United States navy surface units may have closed with the Japanese fleet while carrier-based planes aided in pressing home the attack. Attacks of such daring as those the United States airmen have pressed home in this fight could
BRITISH HURL BACK ROMMEL'S ATTACK
CAIRO, June 8 (U. P.).—British artillery has hurled back a strong counter-attack by Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel’'s armored forces in the Knightsbridge area of the Libyan battle front 28 miles southwest of Tobruk, a Middle Bast headquarters communique announced today. At the southern terminus of the 45-mile main imperial line, Free French forces under Gen. Pierre Koenig are holding their positions after repulsing another attack by enemy infantry and tank units, the | communique said. The axis counter-assault at Knightsbridge was stopped yesterday, frustrating Rommel’s efforts to offset mounting British pressure against his position in the British mine fields between coastal EI Gazala and Bir Hacheim.
Home Defense
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Those who rite the “Vv for Victory must use the “U* in Unity. Are you part of this unified effort of civilian defense? How about your neighborhood — are your neighbors unified in getting every pound of scrap metal, rags and paper into action? Who in .your neighborhood is receiving the hard training to act as air raid warden, or to give first aid service? This united home front is made up of you and your neighe bors. We hope you live in a neighborhood that is prepare
only result in a number of casualties, it was emphasized. It was believed that now some of {these men were afloat on their rubber life rafts, with little food and water, hoping that a patrol plane would see them and send help. Sequel to Coral Sea In Washington, Admiral King reported that American losses in the battle of Midway were ‘relatively inconsiderable” compared with the enemy and hinted that that was a result of American forces anticipating the attacks on Alaska and Midway. He also indicated that the Japanese force may have been located some 500 miles from Midway by revealing that the efféctive scouting radius from Midway was “at least 500 miles.” He said he had no intention of telling the actual reconnaisance limit because the enemy does not know and would like to. He indicated that the navy considered the central and northern Pacific and naval battle as a seguel to the Coral sea clash which he described as “another decisive setback” for the Japanese.
Jap Fleet Disappeared
Details of the Coral sea battle never have been released, but Ad-
| miral King said they might be during this week “depending upon cer-|
tain developments related to the| actions going on to the westward of Midway island.” “After the Coral sea action, we lost touch with the heavy Japanese forces engaged,” he said. “They disappeared beyond the radius of our immediate means of reconnaissance.” “But, as you know, and as the Japanese, know, we have consider-| able numbers of submarines sprinkled about the western Pacific, | and they were able to give us a good
tion.” By this, Admiral King explained, | it could be deduced that if the Japanese were not ih certain areas, they probably were in others.
ing to defend itself.
he had six hours flying time with
{on various fronts. Repulsing several
that he had studied aircraft since he was eight years old and that
the Polish armed forces with which he enlisted at Windsor, Ont. Paynter claimed he had an honorable discharge. Albert said he enlisted with the Canadian tank corps in Dec. 1941, and was stationed at Borden, Ont. He left for a week-end leave April 8 and never returned. Both have worked in Detroit automobile plants. “I smelled something fishy in their story,” Mr. Lendis said. “There were discrepancies and once when Paynter said he'd been flying 12 hours at a stretch for several months I just couldn't swallow it. They were guests at my house and I had the unpleasant duty of forcing a showdown. They don't know that the service club meeting for tonight has been called off. Albert wanted to go before the meeting and tell the real truth. They're both depressed and unhappy.”
NAZI KHARKOV LINE REPORTED PIERGED
MOSCOW, June 6 (U. P.).—Official reports indicated today that the Germans were throwing increasing numbers of tanks into local |actions, particularly north of Moe= cow. (Russian troops have pierced the German defense lines north of (Kharkov in a renewed offensive in that sector, radio Bern (Switzer(land) broadcast today.) The Soviet communique last midnight, for instance, said that 43 more German tanks had been destroyed or damaged. Soviet aireraft destroyed or damaged 20 Thursday
enemy infantry attacks, supported by tanks, on the northern front, a, Russian unit destroyed or damaged 11 tanks and inflicted heavy losses on the soldiers. On another sector, Russian soldiers fighting defensively destroyed
deal of at least negative informa- five German tanks, the communique Sisters, will meet at 8 p. m. said, On a southern front sector, | morrow at their hall, 612 E. 13th st.|will celebrate Flag Day at 8 p. m.
Russian tanks penetrated a German position, destroyed two German tanks and several guns and machine guns.
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several days for water company of« ficials to submit specifications, “but we've heard nothing from them up to now.”
forced to bids submitted 10 days ago because shore batteries responded and naval the paving failed to include a penalty clause for failure to complete the project promptly and because inspectors were not provided.
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A few houses were damaged and there were a few slight casualties. There was no damage to military objectives.
Shore Batteries Respond
As the shells started over Sydney, Australia’s
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Commissioners said they were refuse approval of two
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craft put out in search of the attacking craft. Shortly afterward, shells struck in the suburbs of Newcastle, 80 miles up the southeast coast. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced the attack in his general headquarters communique which reported also that allied plane raids had been made on two Japanese bases in Portuguese-Dutch Timor island northwest of Australia.
JAPS PUSH CHINESE IN 5-FRONT DRIVE
CHUNGKING, June 8 (U.P. — . Fleets of Japanese planes attacked Chinese positions today on five fronts where an estimated 300,000 enemy troops have opened strong offensives. Southwest of the Chekiang capital, Chuhsien, the Japanese were reported storming the railroad center of Tungsiang. Japanese planes ranged ‘wide- ; spread over the Chinese front line and rear line positions on all fronts, bombing and strafing the troops of Gen. Kai-shek in the Chekiang, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Yunnan and Hunan battle lines. The heavy fighting spread to a new front in Inner Mongolia, 340 miles west of Peiping. The besieged Chinese garrison at Chuhsien (Chuchow) in eastern Chekiang was reported holding out Senator James J. Davis was the |inside the city’s ancient walls alconvention banquet speaker and though the important allied airfield iguest of honor yesterday. Four at Chuchien has fallen. hundred navy mothers of Grant Chungking military quarters ad- ' county were honored. | mitted the Chinese position there (was increasingly grave.
The cost of the entire project is to be paid by the water company, but commissioners had insisted upon their rights to approve the project “to protect the county.” The water company, however, had guaranteed to hire inspectors for the project and had agreed to assume all other responsibilities. Mr. Bosson said that regardless of the water company’s promises “we must have adequate protection.” The two bids had been submitted by Smith & Johnson at $100,600 and by Grady brothers at $149,566.
MARION MAN NAMED STATE MOOSE HEAD
MARION, Ind, June 8-—William D. McNally of Marion was. elected ‘state president of the Loyal Order | of Moose yesterday as the convention closed. Other officers include William Littlefield, Terre Haute, vice president, and Walter Ulrey, Huntington, secretary-treasurer. State officers will meet soon to consider a date for the next convention which will probably be held in Indianapolis. District presidents will be elected at the meeting.
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