Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1942 — Page 10

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BRITISH DRIVEN BACK TO EGYPT

Main Army Withdrawn! From Libya; Tobruk Put Under Siege.

CAIRG, Egypt, June 19 (U. P.). —Axis mechanized forces slashed through the Gambut sector of the Libyan fighting front today, cut the Mediterranean coastal road, isolat-| ed Tobruk and drove the main British army back to the Egyptian

frontier despite a series of rigs i

blows on the south desert front. | The stronghold of Tobruk, which] the British apparenily are again] going to hold to the bitter end, was thus put under seige by Nazi Col Gen. Erwin Rommel and the bulk

of the eighth army fell back some] |

80 miles to their strong fortifica- | tions on the Egvptian border. (A London military commentator admitted the possibility that Tobruk might have to be abandoned.) i

Fight Rear Guard Action

The axis drive to surround To-! §

bruk was successful due to a break- | through somewhere east of Gambut, ! which lies midway between Tobruk and Bardia, on the north Libyan coast. . | Late advices said that the British | were engaging axis forces in a rear guard action east of Gambut,! which lies about 34 miles east of] Tobruk. | (The German and Italian com-| muniques today claimed that 1000] British soldiers were taken prisoner | in the Tobruk sector and that 10 British tanks and much war material were destroyed. The axis troops are “now in contact” with the forti-

ques said.) RANKS AS MAJOR GENERAI

Weighted down with full equipment, an American doughboy pauses to read mail from home somewhere in This striking picture shows what oru letters mean to men in far off places.

Australia.

Cuban Navy Officer Married By Proxy Finally With Bride

SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 19 (U.P). somewhere off the Pacific coast, and —A Cuban navy officer, on duty his sweetheart, Juliet Pardo-Tima-

with the United States Pacific fleet, fications of Tobruk, the communi-| was married by proxy to his child-

ding ceremony was

hood sweetheart more than a month | May 8. ago and recently was reunited with |

| rio, 24, was thousands of miles away, lin Cavarien, Cuba, when the wed-

performed,

In accordance with Cuban cus-

WASHINGTON, June 18 (U. P.). her in San Diego, where they now tom, which states that a daughter

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day that Dwight PF. Davis, director|it was revealed today.

department disclosed to-| have made their permanent home, | must not leave her home’ untii she

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Adolph Seidensticker, postmaster, said that the new message forms {would be available here next week {and would be given to those in the armed forces without charge. It will cost civilians only three cents to send a letter to a soldier anywhere in the world; the soldier will receive free service. Shipping Weight Reduced Designed to cut bulk and weight for shipping, 150,000 letters of Vmail is comparable to 87,500 regular one-sheet letters. The former weighs 1500 pounds and can be carried in 22 mail sacks while the latter necessitates 37 mail sacks and weighs 2575 pounds. The use of micro-film depends on the distance the message is to travel. If the recipient of the message is located at a distant part of the world, micro-film will be used because of the small space it requires te carry it. In comparison with the regular V-mail and ordinary letters, 150,000 messages on micro-film weighs only 45 pounds and can be carried in one mail sack. An outstanding feature about the use of micro-film is that the war department will retain each message that is sent in that manner until it has been proven that it was delivered. In case of messages being lost in ship sinkings, the war department could make a copy of it from the original and re-send it until the soldier or sailor received it. Enlarged Before Delivery At its destination, each microfilm message will be photographical” ly enlarged and delivered to the recipient. However, in order to photograph, messages will have to be written in black ink or very black pencil. V-mail stations already have been established and filming and reducing stations for photographic purposes have been provided by the war department in various parts of the world. The new uniform stationery will be distributed at postoffices within the next few days and will go on sale shortly after at stationery stores.

MacArthur Proud “Of Father Title

#.W YORK, June 19 (U. P.).— GeX. Douglas MacArthur, in a message to the national fathers’ day committee, said today that he preferred to be remembered by his son “not from the battle but in the home repeating our simple daily prayer.” Gen. MacArthur was chosen by the committee as the first father of 1942. “I am a soldier and take pride in the fact,” Gen. MacArthur cabled from his headquarters in Melbourne, “but I am prouder, infinitely prouder to be a father. “A soldier destroys in order to build. The father builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death, the other embodies creation and life, and while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still.”

0. E. S. TO INITIATE An initiation and aninversary party will be held at 8 p. m, Tuesday by Indianapolis chapter 393, O. BE. 8, at the temple, 1522 W. Morris st. Miss Nita Suffridge is worthy matron and Edward Lehman worthy patron.

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STEP UP DRIVE ON SEVASTOPOL

Nazis Apparently Try to Score Knockout for

War Anniversary.

MOSCOW, June 19 (U. P.).—Gen. Fritz Von Manstein’s 11th German army of 150,000 men stepped up the fury of frontal assaults upon besieged Sevastopol today in what appeared to be a desperate effort to take the Crimean fortress before Monday's one-year anniversary of the war in Russia. More than 350 miles to the north on the Kharkov-Donets river front Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s Red army forces were said in official advices to be holding the enemy to a standstill, barring the northern gateway to the Caucasus in savage fighting. ro HA (The German high command claimed that the las? Russian defense line north of Sevastopol had been pierced and all but one of the fortress’'s northern fortifications overwhelmed.

Report Showdown Near (The Germans claimed to be within less than two miles of the naval harbor of Sevastopol, but admitted that Russian marines from warships of the Black sea fleet had landed near Kerch to the east of Sevastopol and on the coast near Yalta, southeast of Sevastopol, apparently in diversion attacks.) (In London, British military commentators believed that the fate of the Black sea fortress might be decided within a few days.) Hundreds of women of Sevastopol, members of the Russian army and trained under fire, are ready to enter the battle which has raged for 14 days and nights without letup.

DEFENSE OFFICE OPEN The civilian defense office, district 41, at 663 E. 49th st, will be open from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. today to fingerprint all persons under its jurisdiction.

respondents, Frank Hewlett, are among 19 newspaper men, radio newsmen and press photographers who are to be honored by the National Headliners’ club for outstanding journalistic achievements. Announcement of the year’s awards was made today by Don Rose of The Philadelphia Bulletin, chairman of the awards committee. Those elected to membership in {the “headliners’ hall of fame” wiil be presented sterling silver plaques at the annual awards banquet in | Atlantic City June 27. | Mr, Carroll will receive an award

for his series of exclusive dispatches [from Russia in which he informed | American newspaper readers for the first time of Russia’s war potential and correctly evaluated the Soviet Union's will and ability to resist Nazi invasion, United States.

Described Bataan’'s Fall

Mr. Hewlett is to receive a headliner’s award for his coverage of the siege and fall of Bataan. He is {continuing to cover the war developments in Australia. The list of awards follows: Associated Press, general excelence of background maps. J. Kingsbury Smith, International News Service, Washington. Ciifford Prevost, Akron Beacon Journal, Atlantic. Frank Hewlett, Philippines. Pierre Huss, International News | Service, Middle Europe. Harold Denny, New York Times, Libya and Italy. Wallace Carroll, Russia. Life magazine and Richard Wilcox and Robert Landry, for first exclusive picture story of the U. S. navy at war. Quenton Reynolds, Colliers, consistenly outstanding magazine reporting. Cecil

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Two United Press Writers On Headliners’ Honor List

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, June 19, casting system, radio coverage of]

(U. P.) —Two United Press war cor-| the sinking of the British battleWallace Carroll and ships Repulse and Prince of Wales.

Bert Silen, Don Bell, Ted Wallace, National

of Manila by the Japs.

Royal Arch Gunnison, Broadcasting system, series of out-

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Robert Martin, Paramount News, best foreign newsreel on capture of

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letin, consistent excellence of fea« ture stories. M. G. M. News of the Day, best domestic newsreel on FBI and the Nazis. Al Willard, New York Daily News, best still picture “The Cheerful Chinese.” Warren Glaser, New York Mirror, for expose of the birth certificate racket. Jerry Doyle, Philadelphia, sistent excellence of cartoons.

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