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VOLUME 53—NUMBER

e Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Continued warm through tomorrow foremoen. Occasional showers and thundesstorms.

THURSDAY, JUNE

11, 1942

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U.S. BRITAIN, RUSSIA AGREE 2D FRONT VITAL THIS YEA

Smack on

June 11.—American airmen battle of Midway ‘in which “smack on the nose” of Japa

terly smashed an enemy invasion fleet unofficially estimated at more than 50 warships of all types.

A high percentage—pro

—of the Japanese airplanes launched in the enemy's carefully laid and powerfully prosecuted attempt to capture Midway was lost, according to reliable unofficial

estimates.

Japanese loss of life was estimated as high as 10,000 in connection with the sinking or damaging of perhaps 18 of their vessels. The roaring assault of Ameri- |

can torpedo planes, dive-bombers and high level bombers on the enemy invasion fleet and especially on Japanesz aircraft carriers which “belched smoke and flame” was described in detail for the first time by army pilots who brcke up the enemy attack and littered the sea with his wreckage. The evewiiness stories of the American aerial attacks against

two columns of enemy warships emphasized the close co-operation | with both |

of our armed forces, carrier and land-based planes carrying out highly effective operations. = » » Story of Marines, Navy Still to Be Told

NAVAL, ARMY and marine planes pasted the =nemy carriers first until it was doubtful if more than one or two Japanese carriers were able to retrieve the planes they had sent against Midway. The Japanese bombing attack made clear that the enemy hoped to capture Midway as a preliminary the Japanese pilots did not bomb the runways on our airfields, hoping to leave them intact for Japanese use later on. After smashing the carriers, the American fliers turned against the enemy battleships in hope of eliminating the powerful warships and permitting American naval units to attack the Japanese transports if the invasion attempt had continued. It was the army airmen’s story that was told at this base. Theirs was of the army's participation only—and yet to come are the details of the heroic defense of the two coral-reefed islets which form Midway by the United States marines against hundreds of Japanese planes and of the navy's detection, far out to sea, of the great Japanese fleet

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MORE RAIN TODAY,

Of Japs at Midway

Eyewitness Stories of Army Fliers Unfold More Details of Great Victory, but Much More Is Still to Be Told.

By ROBERT MILLER

United Press Staff Correspondent

U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS HEADQUARTERS, Hawaii,

to attack on Hawaii since |

the Nose | FEARS RUBBER

SHORTAGE FOR ARMED FORGES

Patterson Urges Gasoline Rationing in All U. S. And 40 MPH Limit.

WASHINGTON, June 11 (U. P). —Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson today recommended na-tion-wide rationing of gasoline to conserve tires and revealed that the

armed forces faced a possible shortage of 200,000 tons of rubber by

1943. He said army and navy requirements during the 21 months beginning April 1 would be 800,000 tons, contrasted with a reserve in the country of only 600,000 tons. “We hope that the synthetic program will be under way and will make up the difference,” he told the senate banking committee. He added that he was “not sure” whether the 800,000-ton figure included lease-lend requirements.

Await Salvage Drive Plans

“We will need a further amount of reclaimed rubber over and above that 800,000-ton figure,” he explained. He added that the estimate was made after the armed forces had made ‘every possible economy” including taking rubber off tank tracks, Mr. Patterson's disclosure of the rubber shortage facing the armed forces preceded an expected presidential announcement of details of

told today the story of the they dumped high explosive nese aircraft carriers and ut-

bably more than 90 per cent

RESERVOIR ROAD CONTRACT 0. K.D

County Commissioners Add ‘Reservations,’ However, In Taking Low Bid.

After two weeks of bickering, county commissioners today ap- | proved, “with reservations,” the In- | dianapolis Water Co.'s contract for { paving roads to make way for the {huge water reservoir in Lawrence |& Scrap rubber salvage campaign. | township. | He told the committee that the The water company received two Campaign would bring in, accordbids for construction of new roads ing to army estimates, 500,000 to 'around the reservoir two weeks ago | 500,000 tons. and asked county commissioners to | Four-Point Program Urged

approve the low offer submitted by! by | He recommended a four-point

Smith & Johnson. The only other bidder was Grady | Pros am or Eorsersalion of uber, Brothers, whose bid was $40,000 | \nCluding natiof-w ie’ gespline ve: higher than Smith & Johnson. [Sonne xs pi gh 9 to 40 miles an | Fear County Not Protected | hour : | County commissioners refused at | 2 Purchase by the government of that time to approve the Smith & any tires in excess of five per auJohnson bid on the ground that | tomobile. | specifications failed to “protect the| 3. Transfer all possible freight county's interests adequately.” | transportation to railroads. | Commissioners William T. Ayres! 4 Nafon-wide gasoline land William Bosson and County | ing. | Attorney Victor Jose Jr. declared |

ration|antee that the roads will be built | world’s largest oil pipeline to re{promptly and properly and that no| lieve the east’s petroleum shortage. last Monday to furnish an inventory |the contractor's equipment.

Water company officials agreed | (were “not satisfied entirely” with |

d Ak 3 i Meanwhile government . officials (that specifications failed to guar-; rushed plans for construction of the

Dr. John F. Spaunhurst, who had

| with reservations,” Mr. Jose said. |

attended every meeting of Kiwanis club since he joined more

the

Want Your

One of the nicest things about your life guarded by such young Sturm, Mary Elizabeth Clark and

life saved?

the Garfield park pool seeking lifeguard positions. playgrounds open Monday, Now, who wishes to be first fo have his

Life Saved?

being out of school now is having ladies as (left to right) Martha Dorothy Arnold. They're seen at City pools and

TOLL AT MIDWAY S 10,000 JAPS

U. S. Victory Now Believed Much More Decisive Than Reported.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The axis threw fresh masses of men and weapons into strong drives on the Russian, Libyan and Chinese battlefronts today while reports from the Pacific indicated that the American naval -air victory over the Japanese fleet was even more decisive than- had been reported. American airmen including pilots of big flying fortresses returned to their Hawaiian bases with firsthand accounts of dumping tons of bombs upon the enemy fleet in thé battle of Midway, scoring direct hits on aircraft carriers and many other ships. They estimated that the Jap-

anese fleet totaled more than 50) ay the implications of

On the War Fronts

June 11, 1942

WASHINGTON—R ussia, Britain and U. S. agree second front is vital this year,

HAWAII — American airmen de- - scribe complete rout of Japanese invasion fleet of more than 50 warships in Midway battle; Jap casualties may be more than 10,000.

RUSSIA — New German offensive develops around Kharkov; Russian defenders of Sevastopol hold.

CHINA—Three strong Japanese columns make important gains in eastern China.

CONSIDER JAP PUSH ON AUSTRALIA NEXT

Allied Heads Expect Face Saving Try After Midway.

MELBOURNE, June 11 (U. P.).— Chiefs of the united nations command and Australian leaders dis-

cussed in a series of conferences tothe Jap-

Pact Fails to Mention Post-War Boundar-

ies in Europe.

LONDON, June 11 (U, P.) —Great Britain and Russia have signed a 20-year military and post-war pact and have agreed upon the “urgent necessity” of opening up a second front against the axis in western Europe this year, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the house of commons today. The pact is limited, however, to the defeat of the axis in Europe and Russia is specifically exempted from going to war against Japanese with whom she still maintains a delicate

neutrality. Under the provisions of the new Anglo-Russian pact—hailed by allied

diplomatic triumph—a- seat is reserved for Russia in the peace conference and she is assigned in advance an important role in the postwar reconstruction,

Pact Signed May 26

At the same time the Soviets obtain British consent to the urgent pleas which Josef Stalin and other Russian leaders have been making for a second front, hitting Germany from the west while Adolf Hitler's armies are tied down on the 1800- | mile Russian front. Eden announced that the 20-year treaty—enlarging upon the BritishSoviet mutual aid pact concluded on July 12, 1941, following Germany's attack upon Russia—was signed in London on May 26, a half hour {before Molotov left for Washington (to carry on negotiations there, Finishing touches were applied {when Molotov returned to London, | len route home to Moscow. Eden] said Molotov now is in Moscow. The treaty does not specifically mention post-war frontiers—a matter vitally affecting the Poles, for instance—and this question presumably will become a subject for discussion within the limits of the post-war negotiations.

Eden Explains Treaty

Eden explained in detail the new treaty which, he said, “confirms our alliance with her (Russia) during the war” and is aimed at all nations aligned with Germany in aggression in Europe. “The treaty further provides that we will collaborate with one another and with the other united. nations in the peace settlement and during the ensuing period of reconstruction (Continued on Page Four)

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government leaders as a brilliant|:

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Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov « + « His name means “Hammer.”

OLD REBEL NOW STALIN'S HEIR

Record a Typical One of Plotting Against Czars,

Exile, Escape.

WASHINGTON, June 11 (U. P.). —Josef Stalin selected his closest friend and associate, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, to conduct secret mutual assistance negotiations with the United States and Britain in the Soviet union’s hour of peril. Molotov, Soviet commissar of foreign affairs, is frequently referred to in Russia as the “Czarevitch”— the man popularly expected to succeed Stalin. The friendship between the two men goes back to 1912 when they worked side by side to found the Bolsevik newspaper “Pravda,” then chiefly an underground journal. Molotov — whose name means “hammer”—was horn the son of a shopkeeper in Kukarka, now Sovietsk, in southern European Russia, 52 years ago. His parental name was Skryabin, but he adopted his present pseudonym, as was customary, when he joined the revolutionary movement in 1905.

LONDON SIGNS 20-YEAR TREATY WITH SOVIET: - MOLOTOV MEETS

FDR

Plans to Rush Supplies Also Are Mapped at

Secret Parley.

WASHINGTON, June 11 (U. P.).—President Roose velt and Soviet Foreign Come missar Vyacheslav M. Molotov have conducted historic cone ferences here in which ‘full understanding” was reached on the “urgent tasks of create ing a second front in Europe in 1942,” the White House announced today. The secret conversations began immediately upon Molotov’s arrival here on May 29. He left on June 4, Prior to his conversations with

_|Mr. Roosevelt and other American

leaders, Molotov had signed a 20year mutual assistance pact with Great Britain. The existence of this pact was announced in London today to= gether with word that Russia and Britain, as well as this country, were agreed on necessity of establishing the second front,

Discuss Plans to Speed Supplies

The White House made no mens tion of any similar pact between the United States and the Soviet Union and did not elaborate on the “full

of a second European front this year. It said, however, that Mr. Rooses velt and Molotov also had discussed “measures. for speeding up the supe plies of planes, tanks and other kinds of war materials from the United States to the soviet union.” The White House did not go inte any details as to how, when or where the united nations would proceed to establish a new European front to relieve the tremendous pressure being wielded by Hitler's armies on the Russo-German front, General expectation is that it may be some months before any sizeable land forces attempt to follow up the big air offensives.

U. 8. Chiefs Plan Invasion?

As Britain's R. A. F. launched its powerful air offensive against the heart of industrial Germany a few weeks ago, American military leade ers arrived in London to discuss the role which this country is to take in direct action against the contie nent. Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the U. S. army air forces, and one of the conferees in London,

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SAYS WEATHERMAN

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his home, 4631 Boulevard place. He fiers’ accounts, it appeared that the|it was indicated that they con-

{enemy losses might have been high- [sidered the possibility of an early

area in the Urals. After his exile,

U, 5. SHIPS SERVING

LOCAL TEMPERATURES ww id 10 a mr. rn ooo 19 Ham ... . . 15 12 (noon) .. Ww Ipom ...

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The seventh consecutive day! with rainfall was predicted here to day by the weather bureau. “Thunder showers today and tonight” was the forecast. In a 24-|

Vacation Swim.

GRAVEL PIT DRAGGED FOR BODY OF YOUTH

Fails to Return After First

i | A practicing osteopath here for /.. than the 14 to 18 vessels official-| 41 years, Dr. Spaunhurst served ly réported sunk or damaged. eight years on the State Medical "my. crippled Japanese fleet fled (board. He was the first osteopath westward in panic, the pilots said, | to Ted the EPPO ent. — from a sea littered with wrecked] was president of the American ghing ang thousands of bodies. On Electronic Research association and | ayo One, (edited the association magazine at 10000 or more. for several years.

Japanese attack in this area in an attempt to retrieve tarnished prestige. Gen. Douglas MacArthur conferred with Prime Minister John Curtin and later Mr. Curtin at-

estimate placed the Japanese dead|tended a meeting of the Australian

advisory war council.

Dr. Spaunhurst’s Kiwanis attendance record was exceeded nation-

WITH BRITISH FLEET

Powerful Task Force Sent

To European Waters.

LONDON, June 11 (U. P.).—A powerful American naval task force,

he entered the polytechnic school of St. Petersburg. He devoted his efforts largely to organizing bolshe-

vik groups in schools of higher education in the then gay czarist city. Frequent arrests led to his banishment from St. Petersburg, and he went to Moscow where his revolutionary work again led to exile, this time for three years to Irkutsk, in Siberia. But he escaped and returned

hour period ended at 7:30 a. m. today, .28 inches of rain had fallen.

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Eddie Ash ....22Isaacs 16

: ; ally by only one member—a Syra- | Police today were dragging a |cuse, N. Y., Kiwanian who joined a | Southwest side gravel pit—posted for | few months before he did. : | ‘no swimming™—for the body of 1. While on vacations, Dr. Spaun-year-old Ervin Johnson of 823 E. hurst often traveled as far as 100 Georgia st. Ervin went swimming yesterday |afternoon, the first day of school vacation, and did not return home.

illness, Kiwanis club members here called on him at his home each week to maintain his meeting at-

miles to attend meetings at other Kiwanis clubs.. During his recent

| The End of a Struggle— Edward Never Gave Up

Edward R. Mattingly, a young man with a great heart, died last night at City hospital. For almost six years the youth fought on, happily and with cour-

including at least one battleship,| Secretly to St. Petersburg.

was serving with the British home fleet today, under its commander-in-chief, Admiral Sir John 'C. Tovey. Arrival of the American ship was officially revealed in a court circular saying that King George VI “has complet®d a visit to the home fleet during which his majesty aiso

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went into action with the R. A. F, to wreak terror and destruction in German war production centers. Gen. George C. Marshall, v. Ss, army chief of staff, addressing the graduating class at the American military, academy, West Point, N, Y., at about the same time, declared that American troops “will land in France.” They already are in the British Isles. While American participation in

On Russian Front:

By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, June 11.—A new German offensive threatening to dee

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15 Jane Jordan ..19] Meantime, fu- , 25 Movies ........21 neral services 21 were conducted 16 | Obituaries .... 8 for the boys’ Edson ..16 Pegler ..18 grandmother, Mrs.

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tendance recerd. When the Kiwanis Club had its] | baseball team following the first] world war, Dr. Spaunhurst was al-| ! ways on hand to attend to the play-

,which was.

age, to regain the use of his body, paralyzed from the shoulders down. The struggle is over now but Mattingly never quit fighting.

saw units of the United States navy now attached to the home fleet.”

THREE SHIPS ADDED

velop into a major onslaught involving millions of men and thousands of planes and tanks raged around Kharkov today. But front line dispatches said that the enemy was suffering many thousands killed in heavy fighting outside Sevastopol and in the streets of a large town on the Kalinin front.

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, |e was so far out they couldn't tell

Lucille Foley, of the same address, who had cared for {the boy since he was 1. She was [54 and died Mon{told police today of seeing a boy go down in the pit yesterday, but that

ers’ bruises and aching muscles. He was born at Fulton, Mo, April 3, 1867, and attended Westminster College at Fulton. He graduated

Kirksville, Mo., and the Still Osteopath school.

Miller of Kirksville in 1892. She died in 1924. He is survived by a sister,

{who it was. The pit is known as Mrs. Rosamond Penn, with whom

[the old “streetcar company gravel pit” and is located on W. Minne-|he lived. sota st, west of Eagle creek just Funeral services wil be at 2 p. m.

outside the city limits, at the Flanner

from the State Normal school at

He was married to Miss Harriet

While studying for the priesthood at St. Meinrad college six years ago, he went to Westlake with several of his school friends for a swim. He tried a dive, but the water was too shallow. Young Mattingly struck bottom with his ‘head and his neck was broken. That was on July 19, 1936. Since that time the stout-hearted young man fought to regain the use of his body

“The Germans still are hurling fresh legions into the approaches to the fortress of Sevastopol in the Crimea,” according to a dispatch to the newspaper Izvestia. “The approaches to the great Black sea naval base are cluttered with the bodies of thousands of slain Nazis, rotting under a merciless sun.” But dispatches disclosing outbreak of several battles on several key sectors reported:

KHARKOV:

TO SUBMARINE TOLL

By UNITED PRESS

Two small Gloucester fishing boats and a British merchant ship were added today to the toll of the Atlantic coast submarine warfare announced by the navy department. The wooden fishing craft were sunk by an axis submarine about 65 miles off the New England coast

June 2. The attacker shelled the craft a a=]

The Russians “broke through

made in their lines by the Russian army as a prelude to launching Hite ler’s long-heralded major offensive by more than 1,000,000 men in the Ukraine. : KALININ: Dispatches said thas “a furious battle is raging” around a large inhabited point where the German garrison had been encircled on the front northwest of Moscow,

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