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AUTO STICKERS 10 SHOW TYPE OF GAS CARDS
Eastern Driver Must Paste It in Car by July 15;
Come in 4 Colors.
WASHINGTON, June 18 (U. P).| —RBeginning July 15 every Bastern | motorist will be required to display | sticker showing the ration card he
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on type holds This system, to put all ecard holdunder public serutiny will go into effect simultaneously with the] permanent Eastern rationing plan These stickers follow the sugof numerous letters reurging us to provide some means of public notification of the tvpe of ration book issued to each car.” Joel Dean. chief of the OPA fuel rationing branch. explained ‘Most of these letters suggested that we bring the ownership of ration books out into the open. With the stickers on the cars, residents of every neighborhood will know who among them has a coupon boek he doesn't deserve. At the same time essential motorists will be protected against being falsely accused possessing undeserved ration books
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Administrator Leon Henintends to carry out his nation-wide gasoline rationing program principally to save tires. he told Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind) in a letter vesterdav Calling the gasoline plan to conserve tires the “quintessence of ridiculousness ” the Indianapolis congressman had protested against extending the plan to the Midwest. He insisted was plenty of gasoline in Indiana
Warns Middies | Against Jealousy
ANNAPOLIS, Md.. June 19 (U P) —Admiral J King, ecom-mander-in-chief of the U. 8. fleet. | cautioned graduating midshipmen at the naval academy todav | against “prejudice” and “narrowminded jealousy” between the army and navy Speaking to 815 first classmen about to become naval officers. | Admiral King appealed for “whole- | hearted co-cperation” between different armed services and between forces “skilled in the use of different weapons.” His remarks were considered significant because of recent controversy over the relative value of sea and air power, and because of | reported conflicts over achieve- | ments of army and navy air forces in the actions off Midway and the Aleutian islands,
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Eddie Ash ..26| Millett Black Market 17, Movies Business ......24| Music ...... Clapper 17] Obituaries .. Comics .......31 Pattern ....... Crossword ....30) Pegler Curious Werld 19] Photography Editorials 18 Questions Mrs. Ferguson 18! Radio Financial .....2¢ Mrs. Roosevelt Forum ..18 Serial Story Freckles .... 30 Sewing Homemaking. .21 Side Glances In Indpis .. 3 Society. .20, 21, In Services ..32| Sports 26. 27, Inside Indpis Jane Jordan Manning .....17
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About the first thing Rue Aléxander (second from the right) did after he won the G. O. P. secretary
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GATES SAYS 60P HARMONY I$ AIM
Pledges ‘No Recriminations’ Against Those Who
Fought Organization.
By EARL RICHERT There will be “no recriminations.” State G. O. P. Chairman Ralph Gates declared today after emerging victorious from the struggle to nominate the regular organizations slate of candidates at the state convention at the Coliseum yesterday. Mr. Gates said he ‘recognized’ that the attempt of the DawsonCapehart group to defeat the organizations candidate, Rue Alexander, and nominate their owh, James M. Knapp, in the secretary of state race was “not a fight against the organization. Both Lieut. Gov. Charles Daw-
son and Homer E. Capehart, seventh!
district chairman, who led the Knapp forces insisted throughout the entire pre-convention activity that they were not fighting the organization but were working for the best interest of the party in trying “to get the best man nominated.” Despite Mr. Gates’ pledge. however, certain Knapp supporters said today that they “harbored no illusions.” They recalled Mr. Gates’ statement on Monday that the conven(Continued on Page Five)
IAPS USE VASTLY INPROVED PLANES
Heavy Reinforcements Are
Thrown Into Pacific.
MELBOURNE, June 18 'U. P) — Japan has thrown heavy reinforcements of new. vastiv improved fighter and bomber planes into the southwest Pacific front against the allied air forces, already outnumbered. 2 United States army air corps spokesman said today. The fighters are faster and more maneuverable than the Japanese cero fighters, they can climb higher, and they are armed with two 20-caliber cannon and four light machine guns each. The new bombers are two-mo-tored planes with a top speed of 270 miles. They have defensive cannon and more machine guns. The Japanese made their third raid in three days vesterday on
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New Guinea, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today in his They succeeded only
MacArthur said.
Two enemy bombers and one
to go get a “square” meal. But it t Shown above wishing him good H. Clark, all of Muncie.
Wickard Slams Food Hoarders
WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P)—Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard assured Americans today that they would be well fed for the duration of the war, despite a threat
unpatriotic hoarding.” Myr. Wickard, writing in the current issue of Collier's, said food was being hoarded “not only by consumers, but by processors and middlemen all down the line.”
MERIT LAW 0. K. PARK HEADS SAY
Joseph and Gisler Declare Rooney's Work Was Being Duplicated.
Indianapolis park without qualification, for the merit system in the appointment of playground employees, Jackiel W. Joseph, board president, declared today. The board's $36.000 from
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action in cutting its proposed budget
and the elithination of the post of!
assistant recreation director has nothing whatever to do with the appointment of qualified personnel, Mr. Joseph and Albert Gisler, a member of the board, commented jointly. The board president declared that the board had investigated thoroughly the administrative system in the recreation department and nad discovered that the work done Director Frank Luzar and As;istant Director Patrick J. Rooney was being duplicated by each. Mr. Rooney's appointment one advocated originally by mayor's advisory committee.
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mittee had done a “magnificent job” in assisting in the setting up of the merit system and that the park board had no intention
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WELLTRANED Face Vital Problems SECOND FRONT, FORCE EAGER | On Allied Strategy MID-EAST AID FOR ZERO HOUR VEE ARE DISCUSSED
The top question of the Churchill-Roosevelt council Second Front Talk Rising
of war under way today appeared to be that of opening a second front, but other vital matters under discussion probably included: Prime Minister Arrives In Britain in Worry With Strategists as Over Near East. War Turns Darker. LONDON, June 19 (U. P.).!
WASHINGTON, June 19 —A formidable allied army |
(U. P.).—President Roose« | with the most modern equip- velt and Prime Minister Wine ‘ment is ready and eager to! ston Churchill conferred see ‘move into a second front cretly somewhere in this na|egainst the axis in Europe or tion today on establishment (the Near East if President) of a second European front Roosevelt and Prime Minister | NO. 3 ie, prota: norsased x ii | Winston Churchill give the Increased co-operation between British forces and United States jie ne Shin gan er | order, army air corps units which have gone into action in the Balkans and | 3 o ” Ang, ay | The prospects of a second front Near East during the last 10 days, bombing the Italian fleet in the loward Egypt. in 1942 was the subject of increased speculation as a result of]
four-day Mediterranean naval and air battle and striking at axis objec- Mr. Churchill's arrival with his tives in the Black sea area, including the Rumanian oil fields. ranking war leaders was announced British reverses in Libya, heavier ‘axis attacks in the Russian Cri-
by the White House last night with NO. 4 mea and the fact that powerful |
the statement that the talks bes tween the Anglo-American leaders The urgent problem of keeping the allied sea routes open, com- | Would deal with the “conduct of the striking forces are being built up bating the axis’ U<boat warfare and correlating United States, British in the British Isles. and empire shipbuilding in an effort to keep abreast of and overcomThese forces, which might be
war and the winning of the war.” The question of a second front on ing the vast loss of tonnage. “used in Burope to force Hitler to! | weaken more distant fronts or
the European continent was upper= most in Washington speculation on ‘might be rushed to other world sectors. include: !
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The British reverses in the Near East where the eighth imperial army, in a forced withdrawal of nearly 100 miles, fell back to the Egyptian border today and fears that unless the tide is turned the axis may gain control of the Mediterranean,
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Means of maintaining a flow of arms and supplies to Russia where the situation remains serious, although the Soviet army is holding the Germans to small gains, delaying Adolf Hitler's hopes of crashing through to the Caucasus,
ook him a long time to eat it beluck are (left to right) Herbert S.
BIG SLASH DUE IN INDIANA WPA
Rolls to Be Reduced to 10.500 by July 31, Jennings Says.
the precise nature of their conversations, in view of the virtual proms ise to Russia by the U. S. and Britain to create such a front.
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Strategy for following up the recent United States victories over | the Japanese fleet in the Coral sea, Midway and Aleutian battles,
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A. E. F. Growing Stronger | About 1500000 highlyv<trained British troops, plus a big Canadian Laying the groundwork for British, American and Russian collaboration in a post-war system of security, touching perhaps upon the matter of territorial matters which Josef V. Stalin has agreed to hold
striking force which some sources sstimate at 200,000 troops and a in abeyance until the fighting is over. NO. 7
formidable force of Poies, Free! rrench, Czechs, Belgians, Norweg-, |ians and Duteh. | Discussion of a post-war plan upon which such American leaders as Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles and Vice President Henry | It was believed possible that Wallace have been expressing straightforward tiews. | Churchill. in view of the latest
Doubt Early Invasion
But serious British reverses in Lioya were causing great concern | here and in London because of their | immediate importance in the allied struggle for control of the Mediterranean. U. S. army airmen already have begun operations in the Mediterranean theater in a successful ace | tion against an Italian fleet.
United States expeditionary in 7 | Libyan developments, might seek lana WPA rolls will be cut from the The R.A. PF. with coming strong
forces in the British isles are being steadily reinforced and have ! B ego 5 R F ° the basing of additional American i ® 4 . i 1 ‘ 40d pe ‘present 16700 to 12500 by July 1 American aid, could provide a pro- ritis etreat rom Libya, flying groups in North Africa. and to 10,500 by July 31, State Ad- tective umbrella for assault forces| . Nazis Step Up Crimea Drive
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY some of the world’s best equipment, | Times Stal Writes {believed to exceed the fire power | | Libya. Creation of a second land front in Europe, according to many ob= ministrator John K. Jennings an- comparable to the support Wain) p 5 y nounced here today. the luftwaffe gave the German] compared to the immediacy of the At the 1938 peak there were 105 - By JOE ALEX MORRIS | 000 on WPA in Indiana. United Press Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON. June 19.—Indi- of German armored strength servers, is still in the future, when forces in Belgium and France.
Mediterranean situation. If a large-scale offensive on the | western European front were to be Conferences of Prime Minister Winston Churchill with President launched soon, it would be necesRoosevelt assumed greatest significance today as the allies battled to sary for the British to furnish the | Stem dangerous axis thrusts at the Russian and Egyptian fronts guard- [bulk of men and equipment, it was ‘ b ing key middle eastern oil fields and communications lines said ville, he asserted. y . ; ie : ) g S. : Mr. Jefinings came to Capiol cles whether allied air support now All of the strength that the united nations can muster may be Hill to call on Senator Frederick | Cone Strong enough to sup- needed in the Mediterranean and Black sea areas instead of on proj- | VanNuys (D. Ind) and Rep. Louis | Port a Tull scale invasion of Europe. | jetced second front in Europe as a, ” on |
Ludlow (D. Ind.). He told them 0 On the War Front
Ships for an invasion army still pesnit of: that his plan for cutting the rolls! June 19, 1942
Shipping Chief Problem He expects the entire WPA setup he R. A. F. has grown in all eventually to be completely liqui- types of planes, and must be strong-
dated in such war industry ben er than the luftwaffe, although (towns as Indianapolis and EVans- there is ng indication in official cir-
Still Not Strong Enough?
Four A. E. F. contingents have |been landed in the British isles, beginning on Jan. 26. For reasons of $ security no indications of their ‘strength has been given, but it is {not likely that their numbers are in WASHINGTON — Churchill holds any sense large enough for full council of war with Roosevelt; | Scale action on the continent. question of opening up second| White House Secretary Stephen front in Europe and British re-|T. Early, in announcing Churchill's verses in Middle East believed |atrival last night at a surprise press key topic. conference, said reporters would be | “perfectly justified” in speculating
ed States naval units are reinforc- | coastal city of Tobruk by Nazi Col. (Continued on Page Five) Gen. Erwin Rommel's desert armies, | HSE eae { which pushed eastward against]
IN Q | British rear guard in the Gambut| 9 RL FE HOPE | sector as the British main army fell INU. §. BOMBERS rn Step Up Russian Drive
back to strong positions on the British tanks slashed at the
are the great problem. but the Unit-| 1 The encirclement of the Libyan had been approved here by Fran-
cis Dryden, acting WPA administrator. He came here to confer with Mr. Dryden. he said. “The WPA appropriation was cut 60 per cent in the house and I] expect to see the senate approve] (the new low figure,” Mr, Jennings
ptian frontier.
‘the most difficult
The new United States air force in and the whole eastern Mediterran-
| CAIRO-— British fall back to Egyptian frontier under Rommel's blows: Tobruk again under siege.
S$ enemy’s southern flank to aid the Gambut delaying operations but it
Powerful Air Force | | was feared that even Tobruk might
Being Establish g ed. , | later be abandoned. CHUNGKING, June 19 (U. P).—' The gravity of the threat to Egypt |
MOSCOW-—~Women prepare to enter battle of Sevastopol on 14th day of siege; Germans defeated in attempts to cross Donets river
China may be one of the Pacific| 830 Was emphasized by a United
that the conferences would deal with the second front question. The second front received its first big boost last week when the White House, announcing the conferences between President Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M.
Mr. | Joseph said that the mayor's com-|
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declared. { Older Men to Stay “So far as Indiana is concerned that will mean a 60 per cent cut in| the rolls and alse in administra: tive personnel. The latter will be] to make since some of the men have been in WPA! administration since its inception “However, there are plenty of iobs in the war industry areas of
the state and no good man need go The 10,000 or s0 who remain on WPA largely will! be o'der persons who cannot catch]
without work now.
on to the straight-line production of modern industry.
area's most powerfui combined offensive and defensive units. Authorities said today that they are convinced that the American air fleet will be powerful enough to! | support any limited Chinese offen- | sive, while at the same time sup-, plying the balance of firepower
“We also must spend about 10} heretofore lacked by the Chinese in
per cent of our funds for war industry training purposes. unless a
lowering the standards established | consolidation of all such training
for playground workers.
is eventually worked out here.”
Nazis Save Face by Shooting
Alleged Slayers of Heydrich
LONDON, June 19
Heydrich had been captured and executed in Praha. | Radio Praha announced last night. |
two hours after Germany's time- ities forbade further printings of limit for the surrender of the slay-| the Bible, notifying the Norwegian, Bible society that it could no long-
ers of the gestapo’s hangman exe pired, that the patriot Killers had been trapped in a church and shot while resisting arrest.
(U. P.).— and unrest, broadcast from Belgrade Czech nationalist quarters doubted that the situation around Valjevo, mations, today that the assassins of Reinhard [in Western Serbia, where patriot!
fighters are active, had “become normal.”
In Norway, occupation author-
er purchase paper. In Danzig and western Poland, German officials decreed that only
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| their efforts to stop Japanese invasion forces. The new force at first may be | comparatively small. but it may! { help turn the tide of the Chinese | war. i The Chinese have confidence, too, in the leadership. They point out that Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chane] nault, leader of the AVG, established one of the war's best fighter records and that Col. Caleb V. leader of the bomber for-| is one of America’s fore-| most bombardment experts. |
QUEEN WILHELMINA TO VISIT LEE, MASS.
OTTAWA, June 19 (U. P).— |Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether-| ‘lands, who arrived here from Great | | Britain yesterday on her first plane
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Molotov, said they had reached a . , on Kharkov front. | full understanding “with regard to
MELBOURNE—Japanese turn new. | the urgent tasks of creating a sec= improved fighters and bombers ond front in Europe in 1942.” loose against allied bases defend-| Mr. Churchill's third trip to meet ing Australia. Mr. Roosevelt was the best kept secret of the war. There had not been even a hint that the president was expecting the prime minister or that an important announcement was pending
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Today's War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst
The British reverse in Libya so far is only a tace tical defeat but it has much graver implications. Control of the eastern Mediterranean may be at stake, and the loss of such control would be a body blow to the allies. Domination of that area, it is now apparent, depends mainly on supremacy in the air. The advice to the Americans was The Italian fleet, crippled by British and American coveyet “hoi Aurion gone Stats IY on Seid sr maiiie nw Tyng lua sites : w ecide the issue, m in the Br eet into the Sylar gficidls inv Zeypt, Who iif eT pocket of the Mediterranean and open a good supply route to formed businessmen and other civil '1ihya, Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel will!
ians still there that it was consid- have a chance of driving east to hon, which the British so far have ered advisable for them to leave. |Suez. been unable to match, have blasted
There are 358 Americans in Egypt | ; : . the British tanks from their path. in 55D! This wowd make the allied post-1 La uve rion Gon: Neil Ritoing’s
States warning for 400 American civilians to leave Egypt as rapidly as possible. 2. Axis attacks on Sevastopol, as a preliminary to Hitler's proposed summer offensive (toward the Cau(Continued on Page Five)
AMERICANS TOLD T0 LEAVE EGYPT
Suggestion Is Made by
State Department. WASHINGTON, June 19 (U. P).
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being advised by the state department to evacuate as rapidly as pos- | sible, is was learned today.
og fighter were downed, and the al17 lies lost two fighters.
Czechs here believed that the the German language would be trip, will accompany her daughter, nd 42 Americans in Anglo-Egyp-German claim was a matter of face- permitted after Sept. 1, the third/ihe Orown Princess Juliana, and tian Sudan, according to the most saving. The gestapo’s offers of huge anniversary of Adolf Hitler's march her granddaughters, the Princesses recent data valiable,
tion in the entire Middle East pre-| carious. Only the Persian gulf]
route would be open to supplies, and
forces back to a defensive stand along the Egyptian border and at Halfaya pass.
BEY OF TUNIS DEAD VICHY. June 19 (U. P).—Sidi Ahmed TI. Bey of Tunis, died un-
28 expectedly todav at his La Marsa 17! State Deaths. .11 paiace in Tunis, and his son. Sidi . 8 Mohammed El Traieb, immediately Weller ........ 9 assumed power,
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rewards for information had brought no clues previously from civilians in Czechoslovakia, they said, and it was unlikely that the assassins had been exposed to the Germans.
Germany, apparently desirous of) | wounded.
toning down reports of terrorism A ¢ ef
into Poland. 'Bestrix and Irene, to Lee, Mass, The action was in keeping with its facilities already are taxed In their rear they have left the Reports from Vichy said dis- sometime next week, the Aneta the state department's policy of "he flow of material for Russia. valuable port of Tobruk, once again 'sidents had sent a time-bomb| (Dutch) News agency said today.|warning Americans abroad when-| Rommel has amply demonstrated|ynder siege. Its possession would through the mails to the prosecut-| It was announced last week that ever it appears likely that transpor- |his ability in desert warfare and his|pe a big asset to the Germans as (ing attorney of a court in the oc- Crown Princess Juliana had taken tation facilities might be disrupted|tank equipment is admittedly|y pase of supply. cupied territory. Me was gravely | summer home at Lee, which is in and Americans might be caught in superior to the British. The British apparently are the Berkshires. war zones. The German 83-millimeter can-|solved to defend it.
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