Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1942 — Page 2

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BRITISH HOLDING LIBYA POSITIONS

Beat Off Flanking Attacks, But Great Tank Battle

Looms Near Tobruk.

CAIRO, June 17 (U. P.) —British| forces now defending the approach-| es fo Tobruk and the Egyptian] frontier, have hurled back strong axis attacks on the key imperial] positions at Sidi Rezegh and Acro-| ma, Middle East headquarters an-|

nounced today. (The London Daily Telegraph | said: “Before Rommel's adventur-| ous tactics can become suicidal, his} supplies will have to be lessened or ours increased.”) British hopes have been raised] substantially by announcement of} the arrival of a British convoy at] Tobruk after a perilous trip across] the Mediterranean. The port of} Tobruk, already legendary in the] world’s military annals, remains the| brightest. spot in Britain's North | African situation. Repulse Axis Attacks A communique said the rn semi-circular defense line guarding { the Tobruk perimeter still was in-| tact after day-long attacks on the! Acroma outpost, 13 miles southwest of Tobruk, all of which were re-| pulsed.

By breaking up an axis move in the Sidi Rezegh area, 20 miles) southeast of Tobruk, the British at] least temporarily balked Col. Gen. |

Associate Justice Frank Murph;

Erwin Rommel’s attempt to out-|

" | Nazis unleashed seven strong at-

® ceeded in fighting with bayonets

vy (left), on leave of absence from

the U. S. supreme court, arrives at Ft. Benning, Ga., to begin intensive

| six weeks training for duty as a lieutenant colonel in the U. S. army.

Besicie Tobruk from the east In the area around Sidi Rezegh probably will be staged a grand- ‘

scale tank battle that may determine control of eastern Libya] n g AR POWER

and Tobruk itself. The initial Brit-|

ish success there was regarded as encouraging. British See New Aspect Near East After Big Sea Battle.

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With him is Brig. Gen. Leven C.

15 ALLIED HEROES GREETED IN DEYRO/Y

DETROIT, June 17 (U. P).— hero's welcome was extended a by the 2,000,000 men and women of Detroit to each of the 15 young men

representing the fighting forces of

the united nations on tour. One of the heroes, RAF gunner | from aviation experts that the axis

Sergt. D. N. Huntley, turned from ajmust now combat a third aerial] day-long whirl of activities to send| {front in Europe, added to those in| this message to his parents in South | {Russia and the R. A. F.’s devastion | Africa: “Most impressive thing isioffensive against western Burope. friendliness of the people, having a| The American air force units, wonderful time.” after months of preparation in the | The group, each member of which Near East, were said to have gone already has been decorated for sc-!into action in the Mediterranean at tion on the battle fronts, was!a critical time and to have extended brought to Detroit by the treasury/the areas of potential allied offendepartment to promote the sale of sixe operations to vast areas of the war bonds. Mediterranean and Black sea ree! | gions. | The losses of Benito ire {already battered fleet were re |to have been considerably greater than the allied losses in the great | naval and air battle. | But it was emphasized that the passage of convoys through such] narrow waters was always hazardlous, and it was indicated that the

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smashing blows at the Italian fleet, including two battleships damaged erations which started June 3 w and cruiser sunk,

afire and a 10,000-ton said:

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the Italian] f its base, presumably at Taranto] did not get into contact with our! surface forces. “It demonstrates again that if you

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Though they described the Medi“a limited these authorized inthat certain supplies reached Malta | and Tobruk.

‘Constantly Exposed’ “Merchant ships and their escorts

Mediterranean dominated by enemy an informant said. “Ships leaving Gibraltar come under observation almost immediately, and are shadowed until they |arrive within range of bombers and f tor pedo carriers. They are also constantly exposed to U-boat at-

Allen, commander of the infantry

Scale Trouble

A scale bottleneck caused a lot of headaches among Hoosier service station operators as scrap rubber moved in earnest, Rubber salvage headquarters here reported that many stations were borrowing bathroom scales, weighing rubber scrap in pieces on baby scales and running to the neighborhood grocer in an effort to weigh scrap for that cent-a-pound payment. “To give vou a little idea.” one salvage official said, “we figure there are about 400,000 filling stations in the country that never had any use for a scale before this drive started. Without checking figures, I'll bet the scale business has been better in the last two days than in any other two-day period on record.

REPORT ALEUTIANS BATTLE CONTINUES

PEARL HARBOR, June (CU. [P.) —Well informed te expressed confidence today Japanese threat to | islands would be dissipated as soon | as the weather improved and that |

[the crippled Japanese fleet would | soon make another major mistake. | Belief is general in well informed | {quarters here that the Japanese) | will be blasted out of their Aleutian | |toe-holds and that the Japanese | | leet will be caught in another

There had been no word from | the fog-bound Aleutians since {Monday on the hide-and-seek opith |

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1942

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REPULSE NAZIS | Cited by Legion AT SEVASTOPOL |

Soviet Forces Hurl Back Germans in 22-Hour

‘Knockout’ Battle.

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of an important village and de-| stroyed a motorized column. The fiercest fighting of Sevastopols 14 days of Nazi siege with its “colossal” casualties for the enemy was said by the official army organ Red Star to have occurred during the past 24 hours, with the Germans making a desperate attempt to overwhelm the defenders. a oa At 4 a. m. yesterday the enemy Gk threw all of its available reserves,!

\including sappers and detachments | RAF RENEWS RAIDS | brought up from deep in the rear, {into the storming attacks along a ON NAZI INDUSTRIES |

| highway south of the city. i From then until midnight the LONDON. June 17 (U. P.).—Up-| wards of 300 British long-range] bombers attacked German war in-| dustry targets in the Ruhr and | Rhineland during the night after] an eight-day lull, due |

Two Howe high school juniors, Marjorie Harvey and Joe Weaver, have received the American Legion school awards, given each year to the boy and girl of the third year class who are judged | to have the qualities of honor, loyalty, scholarship, courage and compan grap. A

| tacks, supported by swarms of tanks {and heavy artillery, and finally suc-

land grenades in seizing the first row lof Russian trenches. The Red Star said the Germans {were then halted by a Russian bay|onet charge, which drove the Nazis {from the line of trenches, (The German high command, in ' a communique today, said that “‘de- | spite stiff enemy resistance” the | German siege army had stormed and taken Siberia fortress and sev-

to . bad | weather, in their devastation raids. | Eight bombers were lost in last | night's operations, which included laying mines in enemy waters, It was understood that if the improved weather continued air mar- | shal 8ir A. T. Harris would order a|

leral other fortified positions around | Sevastopol. The Germans earlier [had claimed the taking of Stalin [fort in the city's ring of defenses.)

resumption of raiding on a 1000-plane-a-night basis, and Britons watched eagerly for the first indication that the United States army

that thel

air force was joining in the attack, as it had done in an air-naval bat-

DOWNED IN BENGAL | BAY, U. S. CREW SAFE in the Mediterranean.

| Now DELHI June 17 (4. Pose] Us S EXILES IN SPAIN

| The seven-man crew of a United! VICHY, June 17 (U. P.).—Three | states bomber has returned to In-| special trains carrying 350 Amer{dia after being shot down in the ican citizens who formerly resided Bay of Bengal by Japanese ground in Germany and Poland crossed the | fire it was disclosed today. They] Franco-Spanish frontier at Hen- | spent two days on an uninhabited | daye yesterday en route to Lisbon. lisland and rowed their rubber raft| The trains came by way of Paris] | for a day and a half. and Bordeaux under German guard.

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HALT AXIS PUSH ON OIL FIELDS

Allies Block woke Pitners on Middle East From Libya, Russia.

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west of Tobruk, and Sidi Rezegh, {east of Tobruk, were repulsed, but | fighting continued. In Russia, a supreme German effort to take Sevastopol was de|feated in a 22-hour battle. Russian |counter-attacks on the Kharkov [front were successful at some points, Evidence continued to pile up indicating that Hitler was making a great effort to strike at the key | communications lines and the oil fields of the Middle East. He had | made little progress, however, and | Turkish speculation suggested that | the allies might be planning to open | |strong new air fronts against the, |enemy with the aid of the American army air corps. The axis desert corps did not at-| | tempt an attack on the main British | | forces at Bl Adem, directly south of | Tobruk. New battles of greater | magnitude were expected on the | desert front without delay.: The allies were encouraged, however, by the work of the American] army air corps in its first big ac-| ‘tion against the axis during the |four-day battle of two convoys that | fought their way through to Tobruk land Malta with needed supplies de-

|spite considerable losses.

It was said that the long-range American consolidated B-24¢ bombers, known to the British as Liberators, were expected to play an increasingly important role in patroling the Mediterranean and guarding against any axis attempt to strike through the Middle East to Syria or make a flanking attack on the Suez canal.

"INJURED IN FALL Robert Mosiman, 31, of 4818 N.| Pennsylvania st, was injured last | night when he fell at Kentucky ave. He was taken

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had been hit by American plane] bombs and Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, army air corps chief, said one Japanese cruiser had been sunk and an aircraft carrier hit.

PETAIN CALLS FOR END TO DISCONTENT

VICHY, June 17 (U. P.).—Marshal Henri Philippe Petain told the French people today. on the second anniversary of the nation’s military collapse, that the government must

to stamp out growing discontent, | public anger and greed. The 86-year-old chief of state | who set up his “peace cabinet” at | Bordeaux two years ago today and | appealed to Germany and Italy for an armistice, spoke over the radio| ¢n “one of the cruellest dates in oo history” and admitted that his recovery program has suffered many|

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PLEADS GUILTY IN BANK SHORTAGES

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