Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1942 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 81
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13, 1942
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JAPS DRIVEN BACK IN ALEUTIANS
Flag day, tomorrow, has special significance this year. In Indianapolis, far removed from the battle fronts, three youngsters pledge allegiance to the flags of their ancestors—three nations with a common cause. Charles Eugene Bohlsen, 11, (left) a cub scout, salutes Old Glory; Susan Metcalf, 10, daughter of an English army officer, pledges loyalty to the Union Jack, and Tao Yuan Chen. 8 sahites the flag of
United China.
A Weekly Sireup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, June 13.—If you're trying to figure your chances with the draft, here's the lowdown, as of
the moment: Look for draft age limits to be lowered to 18 soon
after the November elections.
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Induction of 18 and 19-year-olds should start about February or |
March. All who quaiify for service probably will be in uniform around July 1, 1943. Married men (any man with a wife or with wife and children, regardless of financial status) probably have another year at home with their families; will start being called about July, 1943. Army probably wont need more than a million or a million and a half of them unless things go badly. Soon as allowance and allotment bill is signed, selective service is expected to tell draft boards to: Reclassify all 1-A men who have wives or wives and children ax 3-A.
ete. as 1-A. but don't do it at once. Allowance and ailotment payments won't be available for three or four months: men with this class of dependents won't be called till then, = = = = * =.
Test to Come This Fall
FACTS AND FIGURES: Draft boards can get the 4,500,000
men the army wants by Jan. 1 out of 1-A’s in 20-45 age group. It can |
supply needs at current rate through January and February, But
that’s all. Late :;his fall congress will be warned the army must have the 18-19-year-olds or the married men. It will have to choose. War department will prefer lowering age limits. It wants young soldiers (they're physically fit, have fewer ties, make daring fighters). Senate will go along. It has already gone on record once for drafting 18-vear-olds. House military affairs committee halfway consented. (Wanted to stipulate that boys would have a year’s training before active duty). It's likely to give in when it has to choose between boys and married men.
Army probably will get 1200000 out of 18-19 age group—making
total of 6,300,000 by July next year. Maximum needed (if things go well) seven to eight million.
££ 8 &# 5 &. 4 WATCH FOR a Jap “peace offensive.” If things go badly for Hitler this summer, Japan may suggest {Continued on Page Two)
Reclassifv 3-A men whose dependents are grandparents, sisters,
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MAP 6-POINT | TRANSIT PLAN
Program in Effect July 7: Stores to Close at 5:30; Shifts Staggered.
Getting Mr. and Mrs. Defense Worker to their jobs will be the { objective of an eight-point program ‘which will go into effect here
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{July 7. In a unified effort to solve the city’s wartime transportation prob{lem, the Chamber of Commerce in | co-operation with the Merchants |association and Indiana Railways | have decided on the following steps {as announced by Edward Zink, local | liaison representative of the Office lof Defense Transportation and | chairman of the emergency trans- | portation committee of the Indian{apolis chamber: | 1. Downtown stores will abandon their customary 5 p. m. closing in| July and August. Instead, they will (close at 5:30 p. m. during those two | months. Most stores will open at! [10 a. m. instead of 9:30 a. m. This | schedule becomes effective Tuesday, July 7. Stores will continue their Monday schedule of evening open(Continued on Page Two)
TWISTER KILLS 27 IN OKLAHOMA CITY
Soldiers Help Police Clear | Wreckage.
| ORLAHOMA CITY, June 13 (U. | P.).—Soldiers, police and volunteer rescue workers today cleared away {the wreckage of more than 70 de- | molished homes in a search for vic-
I'S 2% TINE FOR WORKERS AT CITY HALL
Democrats Called on for Election Contributions; Mayor Leads Way.
By WILLIAM CRABB Led by their mayor, city employees today began the “voluntary” contribution of 2 per cent of
During the last week “pledge cards” were passed out by department heads to the various employees. The card already was typed with the employee's name, address, department, the amount the employee was to pledge and the amount of the monthly salary. It then said: “I, the undersigned, voluntarily contribute to the Marion County Democratic Central Committee a sum equal to 2 per cent of my monthly salary payable in two installments of $ (amount pretyped) per month.”
Mayor Early Contributor
Below was a separate line for] each half-month period beginning
Midway Hero at Home
Lieut, Col. Walter Sweeney, who led the American Flying Fortress squadron which attacked the Japanese fleet off Midway is shown with his mother and father, Maj. Gen. Walter C. Sweeney, whom he is visiting in the states. Lieut. Cel. Sweeney's wife and baby were machine gunned but unhurt in the Jap raid on Pearl Harbor. He has
ast January and continuing through Dec. 15. Collections were being made in the office of Purchasing Agent Albert Losche by a clerk assigned by the county committee. Today was payv-day and the collection office was equipped to cash the checks of employees who wanted to pay on their pledges. One of the first contributors this morning was Mayor Sullivan who paid 2 per cent for the year.
Insists It's Voluntary
Both Mr. Losche and the Mayor stressed that the contributions are voluntary and that there has been or will be no pressure applied to force payment. “It is just a matter of social security,” said Mr. Losche. “If other workers find themselves out of a job on the first of the year, they can receive state unemployment compensation. “We do not have that privilege. If the administration is changed next year we will be out of jobs and that will be all there is to it.”
Seek Election Expenses
The committee, Mr. Losche said, is attempting to raise money to defray expenses of the fall election. The employees’ pledges for the year are to be paid back to Jan. 1 and for the rest of the year by Oct. 1. Mr. Losche said the pledge cards were required to comply with the corrupt practices act which requires that a record be kept of all contri-
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Allies Celebrate Midway Victory
LONDON, June 13 (U. P).— Throughout the allied world governments and peoples took time out today for a week-end of celebrations linked with the United States victory over Japan in the battle of Midway island. Australia celebrated today as MacArthur Day, in observance of the 43d anniversary of the enroll-
GERMANS BOAST 27 | SERA 1S SCOUTS TO AID IN a BERLIN, June 13 (U. P).—Ger- STATE RUBBER DRIVE cession |
man broadcast recorded in New
York bv United Press)—German ny: submarines attacking United States Oil Industry Also Plans for 2-Weeks Campaign.
navy convoys in vicious sea bat- | The oil industry and the boy scouts went into conference here
tles raging over several days have| gunk a destrover and 26 other
ships totaling 149.200 tons, a high {today to arrange for the salvage
command communique said today. “ bas : buck |of “every ounce” of scrap rubber in The losses brought allied sinkings |; giana in the Atlantic off the United | A few minutes after President
States east coast, in the Carribean |Roosevelt announced his huge salvoff the Panama Canal and in the 28% drive, Indiana petroleum deallers met in the Columbia club last
Mediterranean to 40 ships totalling | ;ont to make preliminary plans 212200 tons in the last six days, for collecting the rubber at their the communique added. {thousands of stations. Today they met with Delmer Wil|son, boy scout executive, to discuss (Continued on Page Two)
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‘WAGE FREEZING’ | REFUSED BY WLB
6 .. 7 WASHINGTON, June 13 (U. P.). 14 —The war labor board has ruled 14| unanimously that wage stabilization .++.11 cannot be accomplished by “freezPegler 8! ing existing wage rates” in orderQuestions .... 8 ing an increase of 10 cents an hour Radio ...... . 9 for 1150 employees of Ranger AirMrs. Roosevelt 7 craft Engines, Farmingdale, N. Y. | Schools 6 The board said the wage in-
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tims of a tornado that swept through a sleeping residential section of the city, killing more than
ment of Gen. Douglas MacArthur at the United States Military academy. Tomorrow the allied nations will celebrate, with parades, receptions, dances and church services, the first united nations day.
The storm, which struck last night, killed at least 27 persons and injured approximately 100 others. It followed almost destructive winds that blew with more than)
‘gale force throughout the day. | LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Capt. Leonard Bruhn, provost, 6 a. m. ... 68 marshal at the army base, ordered! 7 a.m. ... YO 400 soldiers and 30 tucks to the) 8 a.m. ... MN area to aid in rescue work. «98m ... 78
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vowed to get revenge on the invaders.
Hoosier Flying With Tinker Lost in Battle of Midway
Capt. Raymond P. Salzarulo, a member of the crew of the flying fortress in which Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker was lost in action in the battle of Midway island, was a graduate of Indiana university in 1037 and had been in the army since that time. He was a chief pilot
on a flying fortress in the army. Gen. Tinker failed to return from an attack on the Japanese fieet off
Midway June 7, the war department -
ee memners of nis ment tor- BG AMERICAN FORGE REACHES IRISH PORT
mation said his plane was last seen Troops Make Swift Trip
descending rapidly toward the sea. The ocean was searched for several days in the vicinity where he was last seen by airplanes and surface Brother of U. S. Worker Without Firing Shot. Capt. Salzarulo was the brother : of Frank Salzarulo, 1709 E. 34th st, A NORTHERN IRISH PORT, in charge of public relations for the|June 13 (U. P.) —A large contingent Indiana division of the U. S. de-|of United States troops arrived at | Randolph and Kelly fields in Texas, | Ss aha | Capt. poe had been stationed | its British allies, is to take the fight | ‘at Hickam field in Hawaii the last to Germany on a second European | four years. Before entering Indi- front. ana university, he attended St.| Included among the reinforce- | Louis Salzarulo, Richmond, Ind. His wife returned to this country in|Services of supply, and more up-to-the spring and now is living with the-minute mechanized equipment, her parents in Follensbhee, W, Va. including tanks. The couple was garried in Hono- The crossing of this new American force was made without the Tired and restive after their | MIDW AY COR Al E A voyage across the submarine infested | y Atlantic, the troops disembarked quickly and, climbing into trucks, B ATTLES ONE ACTIO |were hustled to prepared camps : : Offensive Power of Japan Crippled by Losses.
craft but no trace of his bomber was found. partment of agriculture. this port today to reinforce the Receiving his basic training at orowing American army which, with | Meinrad seminary eight years. | t | | He is the son of Mr. and Mis. ments Were 4 small Selachmeny of Negro soldiers, detailed for the lulu a little over two years ago and| _". (Continued on Page Two) firing of a shot and probably was one of the swiftest. | without fanfare.
Dempsey Enlists In Coast Guard
NEW YORK, June 13 (U. P). —Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion who was charged with being a “slacker” in world war No. 1, joined the U. S. coast guard reserve today, ready for active duty as a senior lieutenant. Dempsey, in a dress uniform, said, “I'm happier than the day when I won the world title,” while being sworn in at the customs house.
By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, June 13. — Japan's losses in the battles of Midway island and the Coral sea have crippled its offensive power and endangered its recklessly extended communication lines, well informed sources said today. America's victories have most likely removed the threat of a Japanese attack on the United States’
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Landing Made on Stepping Stones to Alaska; Failure of Midway Attempt Lessens Danger to Hemisphere.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
American armed forces sought to break a Japanese foothold in Aleutian island outposts today following striking successes in both the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans. Although enemy forces landed on rocky Attu island and were sighted at Kiska some 700 miles west of Dutch Harbor, dispatches from the world’s battle fronts indicated important progress in allied operations on both major sea fronts. On the Atlantic ocean front, s»rival of new A. E. F. contingents in northern Ireland competed three months of intensive operations against enemy submarines during which the United States navy avoided loss of any of the thousands of American and Canadian troops taken with vast equipment to the European “invasion” front.
Limited to Caribbean The decline in the number of sinkings along the Atlantic coast recently indicated that the only sector where Nazi submarines are now operating successfully is in the Caribbean. In the Pacific, naval experts reported that crippling blows had been dealt to the Japanese sea offensive power in the battles of Midway and the Coral sea, which boosted to 61 the number of enemy warships sunk since the war started. The Japanese, losing three or four aircraft carriers off Midway, have now had a heavy percentage of their carriers put out of action. These encouraging—but by no means decisive—results of naval operations coincided with heavy fighting on land in Libya, Russia and China where the axis had seized the initiative on all three fronts.
Forced Into Mountains »
In the Aleutian fighting, air attacks already have driven the Japanese from the populated area into the 3000-foot high: mountains of Attu and, as weather permits, further opera-
from the Alaskan mainland. The Japanese stab into the Aleutians appeared to be primarily defensive—to block American naval attacks from | Dutch Harbor toward Tokyo ‘or to protect the Japanese flank if an attack is made
cn Russian Siberia. But the operations also might be of great offensive importance if other enemy attacks in the Pacific should be successful. The Japanese. probably planned to take Midway and advance on Hawail and to use the northern island stepping stones for advances. toward Dutch Harbor and Alaska. ’
Which Was Real Attack?
German and Japanese broadcasts today took the tack that the Aleutian blow was the real Japanese strategic aim and that the attack on Midway was made to “divert the
ITS SUPREME TEST
Nazis Use Rumanians as ‘Cannon Fodder.’
MOSCOW, June 13 (U. P.).—The valiant garrison of Sevastopol was making a supreme effort to crush the massed infantry, tank and plane assaults of the German 11th army today, and Nazi casualties were reported as “frightful.” Front line dispatches said that
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tions are being pressed against the enemy, still 1500 miles.
the axis had been sending in masses of reinforcements but had been halted after some gains. The Russian communique reported the Germans had been using their Rumanian allies as “cannon fodder.” Yesterday, the communique asserted, Rumanian soldiers carried out four psychological attacks—that is, marched abreast with a brass band playing headlong into Russian positions—and were met by rifle and artillery fire and hurled back. The German offensive there, now in its eighth day, was believed to have reached its peak and a decision was expected soon. Although the situation was “very strained” on a number of sectors, the Germans were far from taking Sevastopol, Russia's great Crimean naval base.
U. S. BOMBERS RAID RUMANIAN OIL FIELD
ANKARA, Turkey, June 13 (U. P.).—A force of at least seven great four-motored United States planes have carried out a large-scale bombing raid over Rumanian oil fields, it was reliably reported here today. There was no official confirmation from any quarter of the mission on which the bombers had been, but seven of them were forced down in Turkey, at least four by antiaircraft fire.
REPORT BRITISH MOVE STOCKHOLM, June 13 (U. P).— Helsinki to t
enemy.” : One Japanese admiral went so far as to say that the Japanese fleet, as a result of the battle of Midway and the landing on Attu,
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On the War Fronts
ALASKA: American forces attack Japanese landed on Attu island, in westernmost part of 1500 mile Aleutian chain, enemy ships also seen at Kiska, 700 miles west of Dutch Harbor,
HONOLULU: Naval experts see Japanese sea offensive power badly crippled as result of Midway and Coral sea battles, boosting total of enemy warships sunk to 61.
RUSSIA: German attacks pressed against endangered Sevastopol but Soviets report counter-attacks on Kharkov front.
TURKEY: Four American planes make forced landing after carrying out mysterious mission, possibly over Russian territory.
LIBYA: Axis armored forces again repulsed in severe fighting in EI Adem and Acroma sectors, 15
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