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6. 0. P. PARLEY S WIDE OPEN, GATES INSISTS
Denies the Organization Backs Slate Headed by
Rue Alexander.
By EARL RICKERT The Republican state convention here Thursday will be “wide open from the start,” Ralph Gates, state G. O. P. chairman, asserted today. His statement was made in answer to rumors that the state organization was backing a slate of candidates, headed by Rue Alexander, sixth district chairman, and an employee of the motor vehicle license bureau, who is a candidate for nomination as secretary of state. ““There isn't any slate of candidates” Mr. Gates declared emphatically. Has No Choelce
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The state chairman said that) while he was a personal friend of Afr. Alexander, he was not working for him nor was he working against James M. Knapp, speaker of the house, who also is a candidate for the top spot on the state ticket. The Alexander-Knapp struggle promises plenty of fireworks for what otherwise might have been a dull convention. Supporters of Mr. Knapp, many of whom are opposed to the present state G. O. P. leadership, claimed today that his strength is growing “by leaps and bounds.”
Wright for Alexander
“We are actually surprised at the response we are getting to his can-
didacy,” commented one of his most] «
powerful supporters. “Many of the) legislators on whose toes he stepped while he was speaker have told us ther will be for him because they khow he is honest and because they believe he is the best possible man to head the ticket.” Mr. Alexanders support comes chiefly from regular organisation men, including Burrell Wright, Indianapolis lawyer who long has played & prominent role in state Republican politics. Among those backing Mr. Knapp's candidacy is Ifeut. Gov. Charles Dawson. “I'm not against Mr. Alexander.” Mr. Dawson said, “but I believe that Mr. Knapp will make the best man to head the ticket. My only interest is to see the best possible ticket placed before the voters.”
Tucker Keeps Hands Off
James M. Tucker, the outgoing secretary of state, is keeping hands off the entire affair. “The delegates can choose any
candidate ther want as far as I aM ne noon they had collected several
concerned,” Mr. Tucker said. Another contest in which interest is growing is for the nomination of
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—President that America’s sources is now approaching the ficod stage” today virtually assured the united nations receiving lend-lease supplies that the United States would not exact back-breaking payments after the war.
ALLIES PAY ON
LEND-LEASE IN BLOOD-F.D.R.
Reveals United Nations Get Rising Flood of Arms in
Report to Congress.
WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P). Roosevelt, reporting “reservoir of re-
“The real costs of the war cannot
be measured, nor compared, nor paid for in money,” he told congress in his quarterly report on lend-
lease operations. are being met in blood and toil.”
“They must and
‘Highlights of his report included: 1. Lend-lease aid extended
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borhood’s hip boots & .
SALVAGE DRIVE OPENS STRONG
Report Several Hundred Pounds Collected.
A nation-wide campaign for scrap rubber, proclaimed last week by | President Roosevelt, started off strong here today. Some filling stations reported that
hundred pounds. The drive will last until midnight
attorney general. James Emmert,
former Shelbyville judge, and Al-|
bert Ward, former U. S. district attorney here, are candidates and some party leaders who say they ordinarily would be for Mr. Emmert are supporting Mr. Ward on the grounds that the former is “a handpicked candidate of the organizatien.”
APPROVES REPORT
WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P.).
~The senate today approved and | represented C. J. Carlson, regional Middle Eastern bases, it was ssid
sent to the house a conference report on the bill authorizing parment of allowances to dependents of men in The bill would provide payments beginning at $50 a month to a wife without children. Additional allowances would be granted for other dependents,
AFFIRMS $8000 FINES WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. PD). —The District of Columbia court of appeals today affirmed fines totaling $4000 levied last year against the American Medical association and the District of Columbia medical society for their conviction of charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust law.
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he armed services. | with a Boy Scout representative,’
| culture organizations.
Tuesday, June 30. Filling stations will pay 1 cent a pound for the serap, or you may donate it. Some were doing that.
At the offices of Gasteria, Inc, | 1031 E. Washington st, representa- | tives of Indiana oil's industry, the | Boy Scouts and civilish defense | met this morning to perfect the state organization. J. G. Sinclair of Shell Oil, chair-
More Rain Seen
Rain is probably due back in Indianapolis tomorrow, the weather bureau forecast today. While predicting a climb in the temperature today and tomorrow, the bureau added that light showers would be probable tomorrow. Last night Indianapolis blankets from summer
PLACE U. §. PLANES IN TURKEY AT FOUR
Three Others Managed To Reach Syria, Is Claim.
ANKARA, June 15 (U. P)<Al
man of the petroleum industry's
| rubber scrap drive committee, pre- | which bombed axis objectives on ON DEPENDENT AID sided. The Boy Scouts were repre- the Black sea. cleared Turkish ter-
sented by Delmer Wilson, central] | Indiana ceuncil executive, who also | scout executive at Chicago. | | A chairman was to be appointed for each county and he will work the American Legion, Chamber of} Commerce, motor clubs and agri-
Bors Earn Nickels and Dimes
Samuel Hurd, president of the Indianapolis oil club, was named to handle publicity and to co-ordinate activities of various organizations. Although the house - to - house solicitation was being conducted officially by the boy scouts, the (Continued on Page Eight)
but four of the American planes
ritory on their way to their seeret
authoritatively today. Three planes reported to have landed in southern Turkey actually managed to continue over the frontier to allied-held Syria, informants said, flying so close to the ground because of failing fue] that it was at first believed they had been forced to land on Turkish soil. Three of the planes which took part in the first United States air raid of the war on European soil hed been put under Turkish guard at the airport here and a fourth landed at Arisive, near Ismit 50 miles east of Istanbul
officials declare that wage increases are necessary to keep enough em-
SEEK MORE PAY IN COUNTY JOBS
Department Heads Urge Raises for Workers in
Lower Brackets.
By NOBLE REED As the annual budget-making ordeal gets under way at the court house and city hall, it became apparent today that the biggest expense issue will be wage increases. Nearly all department heads in both city and county governments are preparing to include wage ine rete in their budget requests for Most county government depart ment heads said they will set up their budget requests to provide wage increases ranging from 10 to 15 per cent for workers in the lower brackets.
Raises Called Necessary
This would amount to between $100,000 and $150,000 in the total county budget, or about two cents in the tax rate for 1943, Similar percentages of increase aré expected to appear in the city budgets. Department heads end elected
ployees to run the governmental units. Many of them have reported (Continued on Page Eight)
TEXAN GETS R. A. F. AWARD
LONDON, June 15 (U. P)—Pilot Officer William James Daley, 28, of Amarillo, Tex, a member of the R. A. F's American eagle squads ron, has been awarded the dis tinguished flying cross, the air mine istry announced today.
EX-GOV. TOWNSEND ASSIGNED NEW JOB
WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P). —Secretary of Agriculture Claude 'R. Wickard today appointed former Gov. M. Clifford Townsend of Indiana to be administrator of the agricultural conservation and ad‘justment administration, suceeeding R. M. Evans, recently appointed a governor of the federal reserve system. Mr. Wickard named S. B. Bledsoe, of his own office, to succeed Mr. Townsend as director of the office 'of agricultural war relations.
i ——— RENOMINATED FOR FCC WASHINGTON, June 15 (U. P). —Chairman James lawrence Fy of the Federal :
Landon Wants
MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, June 15 {(U. P).—Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential candidate in 1936, last night warned that reconstruction of the world after the war must be worked out carefully and “must not now become a political issue” “Such an issue would divide our attention when it ought to be centered on one problem alone— winning the war,” he said. winning the war” he said. Mr.
commission today by President RN
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Communications
Planning Free of Politics
Post-War
Mr. Landon asked the adminis tration to refrain from preaching what he termed an “Utopian world” since the strongest nation at the end of the war will have the most weight in deciding peace terms. “We have had the fatal weakness of assuming that everyone in the world wants to live under the same
Landon sald, “and that simply is not true. We must never forget ‘that the world is peopled with different races with different cus toms ideologies.
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through May totaled $4,497,000,000 in goods and services. , . . “We are now making aid available at a monthly rate eguivalent to $8,000, 000,000 a year.” Production Battle Won
9. “The assistance we have rendered to date represents 12 per cent of our entire war effort.” 8. “The battle of production is on the way to being won . . . the pattie of distribution is in its eritical phase.” 4 ©“ .. Lend-lease is no longer one-way. Those who have béen receiving lend-lease aid , . . have taken the initiative in reciprocating. American troops on Australian and British soil are being fed and housed and equipped in part out of Australian and British supplies and ns oo» ‘8. “ .. The major beneit we will
receive for our lend-lease aid will be the defeat of the Axis”
In a special chapter of the report entitled “Lend-Lease and Peace”
Mr. Roosevelt reasserted his deter
mination to “avoid the political and
economic mistakes of international debt experience during the twenties™
Burden Is Equal * . « The financial costs of the
war can and should be met in a way which will serve the needs of lasting peace and mutual economic well-being,” the president's report said
“All the united nations are seek-
ing maximum conversion to war production, in the light of their special resources. If each country devotes roughly the same fraction of its national production to the
war, then the financial burden of
war is distributed equally among [the united nations in accordance
with their abiilty to pay. And although the nations richest in resources are able to make larger contributions, the claim of war against
each is relatively the same,
“Such a financial distribution of the financial costs of war means that no nation will grow rich from the war efforts of its allies. The money costs of the war will fall according to the rule of equality in sacrifice, as in effort.”
Outlines Next Step
The president said the next step in the war against the axis would
be for “our military, industrial ang shipping experts” to direct the fil force of the “flood stage” war production enemy power.”
“against the centers of
“Great Britain and the United (Continued on Page Eight)
30 NORTH PACIFIC GLASH IS PREDICTED
Plane Carrier Included in
Jap Invasion Fleet.
By FRANK TREMAINE
cific where United States forces
are striking at Japanese who have toe<holds on thé remote Attu and
kind of government we do,” Mr. Uy
Nazis Execute 15 as Food Riots Flare
In Hamburg.
LONDON, June 15 (U. P.). —Hamburg, Germany's greatest port, where the disintegration of the German home front began in the last year of the World war, has been the scene of bloody food rioting, apparently authentic reports reaching Stockholm and other neutral cities, said
today. The reports said that 26 Germans had been executed and hundreds had been arrested as the gestapo
any cost. Seven policemen were killed and several were wounded by rioting civilians armed with revolvers, the reports said. Scene of 1918 Mutiny
Hamburg has been long known at the major German city with little sympathy for the Nazi cause. In Hamburg, the sailors of the kaiser’s fleet mutinied against their officers in 1018 which started the events that led to the collapse of German home front and the armistice. It is the chief German port, the city which has suffered most from the cessation of world trade that came with the war and has been pounded most severely by the royal air force. Just before and after the 1018 armistice, Communists engaged in bloody street fighting there and made an attempt to set up a revolutionary government. In the years immediately following the World war, it was a center for world-wide communist activity. City Hostile to Nasuis
The strongest opposition to the Nazis centered in Hamburg in the days when Hitler was slugging and bullying his way to power with the backing of some German industrial« ists. Powerful workers organizations, many of them led by Communists, engaged in frequent clashes with the Nagis at public meetings and in street fights that sometimes as« sumed the proportions of pitched battles. This hostility toward the Nazis never was entirely wiped out by Hitler's gestapo raids and concentration camp methods after the Nagis came into power and allied circles believed that Hamburg and Cologne were the most fertile ground in Germany for war weariness and disintegration.
Fight Over Coffee Beans
The current food rioting started, dispatches said, when stevedores, loading coffee from “prewar stocks” inte trucks for transport to the Russian front, threw some of its over an iron barrier into the street. Passers by fought for “the preci« ous coffee beans,” according 10 these reports. } The food riot report came a few hours after the secret “European revolution' transmitter” had broads cast from the German side of the Atlantic what it called five facts. These facts, it said, “show that the German rear is too weak to support the front where Hitler must achieve victory within four months or fail”
On the War Fronts
June 15, 1042
MOSCOW: Russian Black sea fleet and cannon-planes join defense of besieged Sevastopol; Germans throw reserves into See vastopol and Kharkov battle in
tires Italian civil service under military control; bomb explodes at Nasi headqaurters in Paris,
PEARL HARBOR: Third great naval<air battle of Pacific believed brewing as U, 8. forces
moved in to stamp out unrest at|®
two«pronged drive toward Osu |} casus; Leningrad under constant assault. g
Stays With Ship
Capt. Frederick C. Sherman (above), commander of the U. S. aircraft carrier Lexington, was the last man to leave the ship as it exploded and sank after being damaged by enemy bombs during. the battle of the Coral sea, the navy announced. As he was sliding down the ropes to the water, flames reached the ship’s torpedo lockers and the blast destroyed America’s oldest aircraft carrier.
200 BOMBS FALL ON PORT DARWIN
27 Jap Fighters Subject Port to Its Heaviest Aerial Attack.
DARWIN, Australia, June 15 (U. P) =A force of 27 Japanese bombers, protected by fighter planes, subjected the Port Darwin area to its heaviest aerial bombardment today, dropping about 200 bombs as allied
planes battled the raiders at high altitude. It was the third strong Japanese attack upon this vital united nations base in three days but casualties were few and damage was slight considering the number of enemy planes involved. In an earlier raid four Japanese planes were damaged. Most of the 200 bombs dropped by the raiders were light “daisycutters,” or small shrapnel bombs intended to inflict casualties rather than destroy or damage objectives, Allied planes engaged the escorting Japanese “Zero” fighters in dog fights and one Japanese fighter was seen losing height, with smoke pouring from its motor. The renewed raids upon Port Darwin followed a lull existing since April 25,
TREASURY SUGGESTS MORE EXCISE TAXES
WASHINGTON, June 15 (U, P.. ~The treasury today suggested, without making definite recommendations, that excise taxes could be imposed on sugar, salt, tea, coffee, electric power, fuel gas, barber and beauty shop services and similar items to make up the $2,000,000, 000 deficiency in the 1942 war reve enue program. The proposed taxes were submit ted to the house ways and means committee, at the committee's suggestion, as the group neared the end of the new tax bill still $2,000,000,000 short of the treasury’s $8,700,000,000 goal.
AXIS SAYS BIG BRITISH CONVOY IS SHATTERED; CLAIMS LIBYA ADVANCE
Major Battles Rage on 3 Russ Fronts in
Nazi Drive.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
One of the greatest land, sea and air conflicts of the
war raged in the Mediterrae nean theater today, with axis" communiques claiming both a smash through the British lines west of Tobruk and a successful attack on a pow= erful allied convoy off the North African coast. In the sea battle over a vast Mediterranean front between Sare dinfa and Tunisia, the Italians claimed that five torpedo and dive bomber attacks had sunk two Brite ish cruisers, one destroyer and four merchant ships and damaged a battleship, an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, a destroyer and’four cargo Ships—a total of 15 vessels in all. The Italians admitted the loss of 20 airplanes and said the British had lost 15 in the battle which still continued today. The British had no comment, The Germans reported they had attacked a second British convoy off Libya, sinking one merchant
ship and damaging a destro two other ships. yor and
Claim Libya Break-Through = - ;
The naval and air action was closely connected with developments in the battle of Libya and the Brite ish convoy apparently was intended to strengthen the allied position in North Africa against heavy attacks by the axis tank and air forces under. Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel. A special Italian communique on the Libyan battle southwest of TO bruk said that axis forces attacke ing the Acroma sector had broken through in a drive to the north, cut across the coastal road leading westward from Tobruk to El Gazala and reached the Mediterranean coast, This, it was asserted, encircled a large British force in the El Gazala sector and resulted in capture of prisoners as yet unestimated.
Russian Fighting Intensified
Although the British had indie rectly indicated that the axis had scored some success west of Tobruk, there was no official word from Cairo as to development of the battle ‘after this morning’s communique, It said that Rommel was attacking in an effort to ene circle El Gazala and that the Brite ish were counter-attacking him from the south. The Mediterranean developments were disclosed as fighting intensie fled on key sectors of the Russian front, including Sevastopol, Khare kov and Leningrad. The long-awaited and perhaps decisive summer campaigns again appeared to be getting unde on the Russian front. ,
Nazis Seize Initiative
Desperate fighting was in proge ress at Sevastopol, where the Russian Black sea fleet joined in the battle. On the Kharkov front, the Germans claimed to have smashed across the Donets river, Near Leningrad, axis sea and aie attacks were reported on a large scale. Although the Germans had seized the initiative on key Soviet fronts, they were meeting powerful ree sistance and frequent countere attr ks, and had failed to force a déiision on any important sector. It appeared likely, however, that Hitler was throwing massed strength into the eastern front,
the Caucasus.
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meaning. The Kharkov drive presumably is to strengthen the German line and rectify the damage caused by Marshal Semyon Timoshenko in his May offensive,
The Germans possibly are aimE ys h GR
Today's War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The increased tempo of the fighting in southern Russia is a further indication that the Germans ine tend to make their main drive this summer against
The present flerce assaults in the Kharkov ree gion and on Sevastopol look like the opening stages of that offensive. which ought not to be long delayed, there can be no possible inkling of how Russian resistance is going to fare this summer. The fall of Sevastopol or local advances around Kharkov will not have much
Until the Germans open the full
to the big push, which would be southward towards Rostov from Kharkov and eastward towards Rostov from the Taganrog area the Sea of Asov. :
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