Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1942 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 84
BLOCK AXIS PUSH ON MID-EAST
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1
Rival Candidates Meet
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“Glad to meet vou,”
said James M. Knapp (right) to Rue Alex-
ander when the rival G. O. P. candidates were brought together today
for the first time to pose for this photograph.
preside in the house many times,”
“I've watched commented Mr. Alexander, ¥ »
you
Ralph Gates (left),
state G. 0. P.
chairman, who has announced
that the Republican convention here tomorrow would be “wide open
from the start,” today discussed organization plans for the fall cam- |
paign with Ernest Morris of South Bend, national commitieeman.
CANNING SUGAR State GOP in Whirl Over
Battle for Tucker's ol
QUOTA RAISED!
Permits Increase, Say Ration Officials.
By LOUIS ARMSTRONG canning will be house-
More sugar for ailable for Marion county in the near future through 2a
interpretation of OPA ration-
ives het regulations. s soon as registrars can be inucted on the new regulations, Feat will be rationed in accordance with the number of cans of which housewives plan to put
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besides the six which was rationed during the past few weeks be more sugar for fruits the summer and
It means that nds a person
there wiil that ripen during fall months.
ist Deadline Friday
The first canning sugar registraon in county closes Friday and Alex Taggart. county rationing administrator, said that in the remaining dayvs of this week, canning will be distributed as usual —six pounds for persons living in the city and nine pounds for those ural areas. In the first interpretation of regulations, it was thought that this six and nine pounds allotment per person would be all that would be available for canning purposes this year. |
the
sugar
Income a Factor
However, under the new interpretation. housewives will be asked the amount of fruit which they propose to can. The registrars will take into consideration: . Whether the applicant lives in! the city or the country. 2. The amount of canning done last year. 3. Whether the applicant is the high or low income bracket.
41 PERISH AS SUBS SINK 2 U. S. SHIPS
By UNITED PRESS Survivors disclosed today that 41 seamen were killed when axis submarines in the Caribbean sank two American merchantmen fiving Central American fiags. When a medium-size cargo vessel of Panamanian registry was sunk on the night of May 31, the 17 men below decks died and 19 survivors) drifted on rafts 12 days. Seven! others still are missing. A small merchantman of Honduran registry was sunk on the, night of June 6. Twenty-four Americans, including two members) of a U. S. navy gun crew went down with the ship. Thirty-five men were picked up after six days on rafts.
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The battle between the James M. Knapp and Rue Alexander forces
stage today as delegates from India state convention tomorrow.
Supporters of both groups were busy | they walke. activity.
into the Claypool hotel.
The race for the secretary of state nomination far overshadows the other major contest—tihat
petween Albert Ward of Indianap-| clis and James Emmert of Shelbyvville for the nomination as attorney:
general. ‘Like an Axis Claim’ Knapp supporters declared thst their strength was growing and Alexander forces claimed that they had 1300 votes pledged.
Knapp forces termed the oppos-
ing group's claim of 1500 votes as “similar to axis victory claims.” There are 2212 delegates to the convention and a bare majority is needed to nominate. As there are only two candidates for the secretary of state post, that race will be decided on the first ballot taken at the Coliseum tomorrow. One of the features of the Knapp race was the role being played by Lieut. Gov. Charles Dawson who 1s going “to bat” for the house speaker.
Splitting Marion County Vote
In doing so. Mr. Dawson is splitting to an undetermined extent the 311 Marion county votes which Joseph J. Daniels, 11th district chairman, and James Bradford. Marion county chairman, had hoped to deliver for Mr. Alexander. Alexander forces in Marion coun(Continued on Page Eight)
Yugoslavs Seize
1500 Axis Troops
LONDON, June 17 (U. P).— Gen. Draja Mihailovitch's Jugoslav guerrillas have captured 1500 axis troops, including one complete enemy battery, ing in Bosnia, Hercegovina and Montenegro. reports reaching the Jugoslav refugee government here said today. The reports said, however, that axis forces had launched an offensive in those regions and that casualties were heavy on both sides, y
Meanwhile, German authorities |
added 26 more Czech names to the list of those executed in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard (the Hangman) Heydrich Underground reports said
{| evervwhere the Germans went in
Czechoslovakia they were confronted with the name “Lidice” written on walls, houses, trees and telephone poles by patriots.
in new fight- |
for the Republican nomination of secretary of state reached the boiling
New Interpretation of Rules .
na's 92 counties arrived here for the
“button-holing” delegates as
scene of most of the pre- convention
Leon Hangs On To Cigar Holder
WASHINGTON. June 17 (U. 2). — Price Administrator Leon Henderson is hanging on to his | rubber cigar holder and Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes hasnt turned in any old rubber vet. Both have excuses, however, I and there are plenty of indications that almost everybody eise is contributing his bit to the scrap rubber collection drive. Henderson, the big gasoline-and-tire-rationing man, must keep a firm grip on his holder, according to his office, because “we make him use it him from chewing his cigars.” And Ickes had been so busy up to a late hour yesterdav getting 400.000 filling stations lined up to receive scrap rubber that he hadn't found time to dig up any himself
WHEAT ALLOTMENT IN STATE INGREASED
Increase of 3023 Acres Allowed by Wickard.
Indiana's wheat acreage allotment for next year was acres, Agriculture Secretary Claude
Wickard announced in Washington | national allotment!
today, but the
acres, the minimum under the law. | 1.412326 acres. AAA offic : here
pointed out that the state's increase; was relatively small.
to keep |!
MAP RULING ON MARRIED MEN
Draft Officials to Confer of last November when the Italo-|
With War Department On Directive.
WASHINGTON, Selective service mapped plans today for a new di-
June 17 (U.
rective to local draft beards to two-pounder guns on his tanks. but!
As Gates Maps Plans . . .
7, 1942
-NEW AXIS GUNS SMASH BRITISH
TANKS IN LIBYA
Rommel Blasts Through
Defense Line by Use
| | Of Artillery.
{British used 253-pound artillery as
By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN LIBYA, June 16 (Delayed). —Batteries of new 3!i-inch anti-tank guns speeded across the Mediterranean during the fierce axis air bombings of Malia, enabled Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel to break the British desert line and drive to within sight of Tobruk.
British officers along the new
tU= shape front before Tobruk said
| today that it was the hard- hitting | | combination of these enemy guns) {and Rommel's tanks which forced | i Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie's imperials back eastward from El Gazala and Knightsbridge.
Studied British Methods
Rommel was said to have apparrently studied the methods used by
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the British in their successful drive
German armored forces were broken and put to rout. In this drive the
{anti-tank weapons, smashing Rom'mel's tanks at fairly long range.
P).| headquarters not
The German desert commander only adopted but improved upon the British tactics, refraining from using anything larger than
standardize deferments of married ordering mobile artillery of greater men in accordance with the de- range and power than anything the
| pendent aid bill for enlisted men in,
the lower grades.
Congressional action was
com- sent
pleted vesterday on the measure. Italian planes launched a heavy Selective service officials have not bombardment of Malta to prevent
British possessed. As result large numbers of 88 millimeter, or 3':-inch, guns weve to him while German and
| decided on details of the directive, interference with the shipment of
which is not expected to be issued the artillery Conferences will be raneaii.
| for some time. ‘held first with war | officials. The bill bears a clause authorize. |
Selisriment;
Force Mine Field Gap
A new German generai, named
ing deferment of married men “who Von Bismarck, was seat to tie have wives or children, ov wives and desert front to execute the plan
children with whom they maintain Whereby the German tanks were
a bona fide family relationship.”
sured for the duration. Pay Rill Signed Chairman Andrew J. Mav (D. Ky.) of the house military affairs
committee, said it was the intent of congress to have the government
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“stop drafting married men until,
local boards have exhausted their] ibply of men without dependents.”
Meanwhile American soldiers and among his paid enough artillery fighting men in the world when vantage which he signed maintain today Betas Tobruk.
sailors became the highest
President Roosevelt today legislation granting them their first general pay increase in 20 years,
Provides $50 Minimum
increased 3023
The legislation means a substan- | tial boost in monthly pay checks—
ensigns.
apprentice seamen—will now re{ceive $50 a month contrasted with
Indiana's allotment this vear ol The lowest grades privates and
1,409,303 acres and in 1943 it will be!
never allowed to advance without
But this deferment will not be as- strong support from the big anti-| according to informa- |
tank guns, tion obtained by the British. The axis forces finally succeeded | in forcing a gap in the British mine field defense line west of Knightsbridge, brought up addi- | tional artillery and broke up the) imperial positions.
The British destroyed many of]
[Rommel’s guns and caused havoc |
retroactive to June 1—for all grades from buck private and apprentice!
remained unchanged at 55,000,000 Seaman to second lieutenants and Nazis Are Hurled Back i
their former salary of $30 after four
| months of service. | ants and ensigns will receive an
Second lieuten- |
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Mr, Wicked said “America will additional $300 a year to bring their | 'go into the 1943 crop year with ap-| total annual compensation to 0 $1800. ys
‘proximately Wheat supply. Consequently, even witt relatively low yields. the 55,000,000. acre allotment will result in Spuies
well above any probable ee enry-
a two year's
| CHINESE LOSE SHANGJAO
INDICTMENT IS NOT VALID, SAYS PELLEY
| CHUNGKING. June 17 (U. P).—.
A Chinese communique tonight acknowledged the ioss of Shangjao. {eastern anchor of an {stretch of the important Hangchow- | Nanchang railroad still in Chinese |hands, after a heavy battle that | cost the Japanese more than 8000 casualties.
State Chips in
150 Tons in
First Two Days of Campaign
Phil T. Williams, county scrap during the first two days of the car Ewing, special assistant prose|cutor, and Henry Schweinhaut, dep- | of Cocerm report before his county opinion today that this estimate | {uty attorney general, had not been | sworn in properly.
rubber campaign" chairman, laid a
committee today as it held its first of- |
fices, 1031 E. Washington st.
drive. Mr. Williams expressed an was . too low. Previously, it had been estimated
that Marion county would bring in|
80-mile |
Files Plea in in Aualemont at Nazis off guard, knocked them out |
Arraignment.
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tanks, but he had] to gain the ad- | is striving to
across the Mediter- | |
| can flight,
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British convoy
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Where the action teok place in the four-day Mediterranean airnaval battle is shown by this map. bound fer Tobruk. turned back the Italian naval force steaming to attack the convoy.
(1) Italian planes attacked a
(2) American and British planes
| (3) The Italian fleet attacked a second convoy near Pantelleria.
Raid on
United Press St AN ALLIED AIRDROME IN
Hoosier Led U. S. Air
‘Like Shooting Fish in a Rain Barrel,
Man in Recalling Hits. By LEON KAY
Duce’s Fleet
Says Lafayette
aff Correspondent
NORTH AFRICAN DESERT, June
17.—American airmen told today how they dumped heavy bomb loads
| on two Italian battleships in their first war action in the Battle of the Mediterranean and “plainly saw smoke pouring out” of the enemy
dreadnoughts from amidships to “The American planes—all Liberators (Consolidated B-7%4 bombers)—headed off the Italian fleet trying to intercept a British convoy to Malta and three of our planes immediately unloaded, scoring hits,” Maj. Alfred Kalberer, the leader said. “No American were lost, but perhaps two hits were made on the enemy ships.” he added. “It was like shooting fish in a rain barrel,” Maj. Kalberer said. Maj. Kalberer, a native of Lafavette, Ind., said his men per-
planes
| formed marvelously.
«Some of those kids have had
only 400 hours flying but they
SEVASTOPOL BLOCKS KNOCKOUT ATTACKS
22-Hour Battle. MOSCOW, June 17 (U. P).—A| supreme German attempt to knock! out Sevastopol has been crushed in a ferocious 22-hour battle at the | southern approaches to the fortress | Where all available Nazi strength was thrown into seven storming at- | ‘tacks, official Soviet advices said’ today. German pressure on the Kharkov | front, 350 miles north of the be- | leaguered Crimean stronghold, was| leased meanwhile by a Russian counter-attack that caught the]
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| The validity eof the indictment MACARTHUR STUDIES
‘which charged him with sedition ‘was attacked by William Dudley |
PACIFIC STRATEGY
MELBQURNE, June 17 (U. P).—
(Pelley when he was arraigned in Gen pouglas MacArthur and Aus-
Federal court today.
tralian army and government lead-
Attorneys for the pro-Fascist sil- ers contemplated today a series of lver shirt leader filed a plea in conferences on the Pacific strategy
abatement charging that the grand’
situation in the light of Japan's
jury which returned the indictment defeats in the Coral sea, Midway {contained no women and that Oe}
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island and Aleutian engagements and the sudden fiaring of big scale aerial fighting in this war theater. No announcement was made: of the result of the conferences but
Similar pleas were filed in behalf | Army Minister Francis M. Forde of Lawrence A. Brown and Miss | announced that the rapid expansion
“It’s going along pretty swell,” Mr. about 10 per cent of the total state Agnes M. Henderson, Pelley’s asso- ‘of the allied fighting forces made Williams reported on the third day, collection. On the basis of 150 tons'ciates in the Fellowship press of it necessary to take over hotels,
of
2 paign.
“A lot of people who were negligent about bringing in their rubber have promised to get it in Saturaay,” the county chairman said. Although Mr Williams said he ‘as unable to say how much rubber had been collected so far, J. G. Sinclair, state chairman.
had een collected. in the ste
the two-week collection cam- in
the state so far, that would mean 15 tons in the county. However, Bowes Seal fast Corp. already has donated nearly tons of scrap rubber itself.
rubber is the trimmings from vul-
canizing operations, company officials explained, and about 100
‘pounds of it is accumulated daily.
The Roscoe Turner Aeronautical |
7 estimated yesterday that 150 tons{Corp. has
tom of
four
‘Noblesville. ‘will be next Tuesday. 'trial date was set for July 28.
‘who pleaded not guilty to aiding] [Gene Alger, convicted postoffice; (burglar, in his escape from Marion’ county jail several months ago.
Among the 36 other defendants night, This who were arraigned today was Wal- however, heartening, were not conter Raymond Cox of Indianapolis ciusive,
Hearing on the plea clubs and golf houses in some areas, A tentative te house
troops. Prime Minister John Curtin, in a radio speech to- | said the Pacific victories, '
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performed like veterans,” he said.
Attacked Ar By R. A. F. Planes ’
An R.A.F. communique said that on Monday night British torpedo |
n planes again attacked the Italian
fleet and torpedoed one of the battleships.
In all, the American and Brit- | ish planes sank an Italian 10,000- |
ton cruiser, battered two destroyers and two cruisers, hit both enemy battleships on which fires broke out and shot down more than 14 enemy airplanes on Monday. “We sighted the smoke of the Ttalian craft about 30 miles away after flying about 508 miles,” Maj. Kalberer said. “They were steaming along entirely unaware of our presence and on a course that would have | eventually intercepted the British convoy about 255 miles distant.” = ” »
Each Plane Had Specific Target Maj. Kalberer said that each
target. ing was over a big battleship.
a load of British-made semiarmor piercing bombs on the battleship. “Five of our bombs hit the ship, the foremost one hitting the funnel. Other dropped aft. “About 20 hits were scored cn one battleship and 15 on the other, in addition to near misses.” He revealed that on the return trip they were pursued bLy two Messerschmitts and shot down one.
F. D. R. SIGNS BLIMP BILL WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P). —President Roosevelt today signed legislation authorizing the navy to increase the size of its fleet of blimps to 72 in an effort to in-
of the Ameri- |
American plane had its specific | “Flight ‘A’ which I was lead- |
Each of my three planes aropped |
stern. roams
two were United States
U, S. PLANES HOLD
MEDITERRANEAN KEY
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RMEN BOLSTER ALLIES AGAINST DRIVES IN LIBYA AND RUSSIA
Nazis Stopped Near Tobruk, Repulsed In Ukraine.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
Armed forces of the united
‘nations, bolstered by Amerie
‘can air power in the Mediters
| ranean, battered axis drives
to a halt in Libya and southern Russia today in continue
|ing battles against an enemy ‘pincers toward the Middle
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‘American Air Power May
Turn the Tide.
| LONDON, June 17 (U. P.).—Britlish aviation experts predicted today |that the striking power of United | States army air corps units may | “change the whole aspect” of the war in the Mediterranean where {British and American planes inflicted heavy casualties on the Italian fleet in a four-day battle. It was acknowledged, however, that the battle in which American Consolidated four-motor bombers participated was only a “limited suecess” because of “considerable losses” (to allied convoys, en route to Malta {and Tobruk. The role of the Consolidateds— |cheered in big headlines in the Brit‘1sh press today—brought statements (Continued on Page Two)
DELAY PRICE REGULATION WASHINGTON, June 17 (U. P.). —Price Administrator Leon Henderson postponed until July 1 the effective date for enforcement of | the general maximum price regulations applying to transportation, storage, and related service:.
army
East. The summer campaigns, swinging toward a peak on widely separated fronts, presented grave threats to the allied defenses in both north 'Africa and the Ukraine. But for the moment at least the axis had failed in two new flanking thrusts against Tobruk and in (powerful attacks at the Crimean [naval base at Sevastopol and on the Kharkov front, where the Russian regained local initiative. British Face Supply Problems Problems of supply were the greatest danger to the British in Libya as was emphasized by “cons siderable” on two allied convoys, but supplies were relivered to Tobruk and Malta with the aid of American and R. A. F. fliers, who blasted at least seven Italian warships. : Losses to the British as well as the axis in the Libyan battle have (been heavy, it was emphasized in London dispatches, and still more tanks and other weapons must reach the Tobruk defenders if the Nazi offensive toward Egypt and the Suez canal is to be thrown | back decisively. At the same time, Malta must be maintained as a base for attacks on enemy supply lines to north Afrie a, In Lybia, axis thrusts at Acroma, (Continued on Page Two) ” » ”
On the War Fronts
June 17, 1942
LIBYA: British turn back flanking attacks at Acroma and Sidi Rezegh on both sides of Tobruk; brace for major desert tank battle.
MEDITERRANEAN: British cone voys get through with considere able losses to Tobruk and Malta with urgently needed supplies; American army air corps in Mide dle East expected to strengthen allied defenses henceforth.
RUSSIA: Soviets report German supreme attack on Sevastopol turned back in 22-hour battle; red army seizing initiative in counter attacks on Kharkov front,
BRITAIN: R. A. F. renews bombe
bardment of Ruhr and Rhineland °
war factories with 300 planes after eight-day lull; eight planes lost.
AUSTRALIA: Japanese raid Port Darwin with 32 planes for fourth straight day; also attack Port Moresby; allies blast Timor, Sala« maua, Lae and Gulf of Huon bases.
Today's War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst After their Coral sea and Midway setbacks the
Japanese appear to be momentarily on the defensive
in the Pacific.
That is one interpretation, although not necessars
ily the correct one, that may be placed on the
Japanese operations now in progress in the Aleutian
heavily in carriers and other warships in the Coral sea and Midway engagements, is presumably centered in the north Pacific. There has been nothing to indicate that anything resembling an invasion fleet is near Australia. American and Australian war planes have been inflicting steady punishment on the Japanese bases north of Australia, particularly on Timor, New Guinea and New Britain. When the allies start their northward push from Australia to recover the Indies and the Philippines, these bases would be ot the
islands and off northern Australia. Japanese raids on Port Darwin in northern Australia apparently are designed to knock that naval-air base out of commission rather than as a prelude to an invasion attempt.
The heavy
The Japanese fleet, which suffered
would be the opening wedge of & step-by-step allied march. The Japanese have greatly strengthened their air force in that area and have made four raids on Port Darwin in as many days. The Japanese landing on Attu at the tip of the Aleutians and their penetration of the Rat islands like wise may be of a defensive nature, The westernmost Aleutians lie only about 700 miles from Japan's Kurile islands and are stepping stones along which Japan fears ase sault on her islands by American
bombers. The Japanese do not yet know where Gen. James N. Doo-
ttle raiders came
losses due to axis attacks.
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