Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1942 — Page 2

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‘7FRO HOUR’ NEAR FOR HITLER PUSH

Japs May Smash at U. S Or Siberia as Nazis Strike Near East.

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the allies must maintain on that world front Chinese aispaiches recently have put increasing emphasis on reports of Japanese preparations to attack Siberia in co-operation with Hitler's expected drive on the Black sea front The seizure of Kiska's good harbor might well be to protect the Japanese flank in Siberia and prevent American aid to Russia. There was little doubt, however, that the Aleutian operations are now on a considerable scale and the might well be aiming sat Dutch Harbor

enemy

Russian News Indecisive

Danger to Hawaii also was reemphasized by Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons in advising non-essential civilians to leave the islands because the yare not immune to attack Thus, on the first anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Russia. the united nations faced one of the grimmest stages of the war and the prospects of the U. S. opening a second front in western Europe this summer still were concealed in the secret conferences of President: Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.

! The most encouraging news still} came from the Russian front. where Russian tanks were attacking and scoring gains on the Kharkov, Bryensk and Volkhov fronts, but these were indecisive so far and meant only that the Russian army still} was barring the northern end of the &xis pincers on the Near East de-| gpite severe allied losses in Libya. ! The fierce battle of Libva suddanly became the battle of Egypt and the Suez when encircled Tobruk on the Mediterranean coast, 100 miles from the Egyptian border. 77 Ai.

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] ‘fell to a whirlwind axis siege after the bulk of the British eighth army had fallen back to the Egyptian | border. : The German and Italian armored forces pushed on to take Bardia and! | battle the British along their new| | frontier line in the vicinity of Sidi; | Azeiz. Col. Gen. Erwin Rommel, who has] bested three different British com-| manders in the battles of the desert, ! also pushed 40 miles south from Tobruk and took Bir El Gobi, in-| dicating that he may try to out-| flank the British frontier line and push on 125 miles to the Egyptian] irailroad center at Marsa Matruh, | | then on another 165 miles to Alex-! andria naval base. There was strong possibility that! the axis air forces might cut loose

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FALL OF TOBRUK Justice Roll O'Byrne Seeks Same Post

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West coast war developments are shown by this map. The Japs extended their Aleutian island foothold from Attu to Kiska. Seaside, Ore, was shelled by an unidentified enemy craft, believed a Jap submarine, after Estavan Point on Vancouver island was shelled by a submarine.

crs nw ne es JAPS CREEP UP ‘Lack of Aggressive Spirit’

oben a Mediterranean route of sup-

i ply) and Alexandria, and that para- i chute troops from Crete 250 == ALEUTIAN STEPS away might be landed behind the British lines. i

Brighter Than Year Ago

On the Russian front the Russian high command acknowledged that, after 16 days of pitiless siege, the! Germans had succeeded in driving a wedge into the northern defenses of Sevastopol and that the defenders were fighting “yard by yard” in new “intermediate positions.” The Germans told of street fight- ed by ing in the northern bay district, a The occu

Get Fingerhold on Kiska, 200 Miles East of Attu; | U. S. Sinks Crusier. |

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| mentioned was one of those reportthe navy. i

of the last fort in that sector.

vastopol the outlook all along the that vessels of the enemy invasion 1800-mile Russian front was not as fleet had been seen’ in Kiska harbor, | forbidding as it was a year ago and|one of the best natural anchorages President Mikhail Kalinin of the! in the Aleutian chain. Soviet Union asserted, in a message! Invasion Force Small on the one-year anniversary of war, that the Germans “no longer are! : powerful enough to execute a gen-| 2S! ‘ eral offensive 20 along the a] Attu, was small. It said “tents and

peas Si gar mmions i minor temporary structures were | DEMOCRAT LEADER DIES [observed to have been set up on| TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 22 (U.| land.” ‘ P.).—James J. Fagan, Vigo county! The weather has been the major Democratic chairman and prom-! factor on action in and around the inent Indiana political leader, died! Aleutians, and thus far has been Saturday following a long illness : favorable to enemy operations. He was 62. = There has been no mention in comiia re | muniques yet of any fleet action by | the U. S. navy in that area, all re- | ports referring only to aerial activlity. The fog, which is almost al- | ways present in the area, hampers] | aerial observation and attack tac-! | tics. Last Saturday a spokesman for the 13th naval district at Seattle | said the action in the Aleutians was! “a strange struggle of give and] take,” with the enemy “getting ‘smacked whenever there is rift in| the fog banks.”

The navy indicated that the in-| on force on Kiska, like that on

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“It's a weird, wild country up! there.” he said. “There are great | patches of fog and rain in which | {an enemy can hide, as a band of | guerrillas may hide in the brush.! There are literally thousands of) small bays and inlets. The Japs! know the country, but so does thes navy.” i Delegate Anthony D. Dimond of Alaska viewed the new occupation as “fraught with danger.” Not only does it put the enemy in position | to cut off aid to Russia in case of! a Japanese attack on Siberia but it! gives them facilities for an attack

on the western hemisphere, he $ a0 said. ‘ He said there also i$ great danger

that the enemy now would organize {land air bases on Kiska; that would give them a “powerful advantage! over our carrier-based aircraft, the | jsame as we had and used so effec-! ‘tively in the Midway battle.”

Action May Be Defensive

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SUB SHELLS, SINKS SMALL SHIP IN GULF

Bv UNITED PRESS A small Norwegian merchantman sunk in the Gulf of Mexico June 17 was torpedoed by an axis subma- | | rine which first shelled it furiously,’ | survivors said today. They said the raider attacked!

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(torpedo which sank it. Al Chris-| itensen, a Norwegian sailor, was!

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Norwegians and two Swedes. were!

rescued by a coast guard boat after!

| drifting for 30 hours and were taken to a gulf port.

AUXILIARY 42 TO MEET

: U. S. S. Indianapolis auxiliary 42 1 will meet at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the | Service Men's club, 128 S. Wabash st. Officers will be elected and a report made on furnishing a reereation room at the signal corps school at Butler. '

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DIES IN CYCLE CRASH KANSAS CITY. Mo., June 22 (U. P.)—Charles D. Dillman, 19, North Manchester, Ind., employee of an aircraft factory, was injured fatally yesterday when the motorcycle on which he was riding with a com- | banion collided with a street car.

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Is Blamed in Libya Defeat

By RICHARD D. M'MILLAN

United Press Staff Correspondent

CAIRO. June 22.—British Empire | wonder where Rommel the Egyptian frontier next?” awaited today, minus an estimated | Throughout the campaign the criticism’ and The Daily Herald, la-| 25,000 of their comrades made pris- | British never counter-attacked on | por party organ, said bitterly: Tobruk, an axis attack the scale of which they were cap-| which it was feared would develop | able.

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bush. How has it happened? This correspondent went through the last disastrous phase of the Libyan campaign with the best equipped army the British had ever put into the desert. ‘His answer to the question everyone is asking is: “Lack of aggressive spirit.” That is no reflection upon fighting troops themselves. fought doggedly, tirelessly, bravely and determinedly. But in the direction of the entire fighting machine there seemed a disposition to wait and see rather than act.

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At headquarters, out in the desert, | «¥ | hit |

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Nevertheless, he was a bogey to

many of the British higher up. | There were two big features to {the campaign: The German use ‘of 88-millimeter, (3.46-inch) anti-

tank guns and 4 disastrous ambush | of anti-tank guns into which Brit- | {ish armored forces fell south of To- |

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a surprise, knew the Germans had them. But {the British continued to rely 25-pounder gun with a shorter range.

Today's War Moves

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air fields. which will be of use in

Suez. Rommel's air force has been augmented in recent weeks, and

planes are likely to play an im-|

portant part in any attempt to

sweep eastward through Egypt.

It is possible that Remmel may!

pause for a few weeks to re-shape his forces and organize Tobruk to

take full advantage of its facilities]

before attempting a drive into Egypt. On the other hand. haying knocked off a sizeable chunk of British manpower and equipment, he may elect to press his advantage before the imperial forces can get their second wind. 2 Considered in relation to what is going on Rommel’s drive suggests a pattern for Hitler's supreme bid for the oil of the middle east. The siege of Sevastopol apparentlv is nearing its end and its fall

PLAN TO DRIVE YOUR CAR? BUY A STAMP!

Hoosier automobile owners were

| reminded today by Will H. Smith, | { collector of internal revenue, that

they must purchase their new $5 use tax stamps before July 1. Failure to have the stamp affixed

to an automobile in use after the deadline makes the owner subject to a fine of not more than $25 or imprisonment for 30 days, or both. The stamp must be placed in the lower corner of the windshield farthest removed from the driver's position, Mr. Smith said.

He suggested that, in affixing the |

stamp, the car owner should dampen the windshield rather than the adhesive side of the stamp. This method has been recommended to keep the stamp intact upon the

windshield.

He also suggested that as a precaution against loss or theft the owner should make a record of the serial number which appears on the use tax stamp. The new $5 stamp will be good for the next fiscal year. The stamps now on the automobiles are not good after the end of this month.

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postoffices and at the offices of collectors of internal revenue.

GETS RED CROSS POST Glendale Burton, Butler university senior, has been appointed field director in military and naval welfare service by the Red Cross. Mr. Burton, who lives at 2963 N. Talbot t., will be stationed at the eastern

at Alexandria, Va.

UPSTATE CANDIDATE DIES

HUNTINGTON, Ind. June 22 (U. P.).—Reuben Schreck, 49, Demo-

torney, died at his home here yesterday. Survivors are the wife, three children and a brother.

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{ will be ready to push across | Kerch strait into the Caucasus.

| be paralleled by a push down from { Kharkov and against Rostov.

| movement would be accompanied by Rommel’s push from Libya and it is not impossible that a fourth movement may be attempted, in the area between Turkey and Egypt. It would not be surprising if the axis shortly makes another mass effort to reduce the island fortress of Malta. With Malta out of the way, a push from Crete and the Dodecanese islands towards Cyprus {and the Syrian coast is possible. { The threat to the British position in the eastern Mediterranean

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at Alexandria.

Army Drank and Fought in 1820's

Times Special WASHINGTON, June 22.— Here is the full text of a general order to the army issued from ihe adiutant and inspector general's office: | “Conformably to the act April 14, 1816, authorizing the president to make such alterations in the component parts of the ration. as a due regard to the health and comfort of the army may require, it is hereby ordered, that in future, no issues will be made of the whisky part of the’ ration to boys under 18 vears of age, nor to women attached to the army.” The order is dated May 11, 1820, and signed by a Gen. Parker. Tt is reprinted in the Army Times, published here, under the headline: “Them Were the Days.”

100 ATTEND REUNION More than 100 former residents of Lawrence county attended their 110th annual reunion yesterday at

|the Riverside park grove. : V. M. Armstrong was elected president, H. E. McCormick, vice president, and Adam Wagner, secs retary. The group decided to hold next year’s meeting on the fourth Sunday in June instead of the third Sunday so there would be no conflict with Father's day.

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LONDON, June 22 (U. P.).—Par-|the supreme court bench in 1931 he |

liament and public, angry and anx- | practiced law in Kokomo. He is a

; {Mason and a member of the Primiy wl jietis, today demanded an explana | tive Baptist church, He is married {tion by the government, preferably |, 4 has three children.

| by Prime Minister Winston Shureh| Expect White to Switch {ill himself, of what they called the | “grave and humiliating disaster” in! Meanwhile, Democrats were | Libya. the worst since Singapore. [awaiting the announcement of E. | It was quite evident that what- | Curtis White of Indianapolis as a | aver good news Churchill might candidate for the state auditor's | bring back from Washington, could nomination. | hardly overshadow what had hap-| Mr. White had already cast his pened at Tobruk. {hat into the secretary of state's race Maj. Clement Attlee, deputy prime but party leaders are said to have | minister, or Sir Stafford Cripps, | persuaded him to make the switch, leaders of the house of commons, | thus leaving Winfield K. Denton of

was expected to make a statement Evansville unopposed for the top |

|as soon as the house met. |spot on the ticket. | But parliament and the public/ In return for making the change, ‘wanted a statement by Churchill party leaders are said to have prom-

himself and a promise that the!ised Mr. White, a former state sen-

causes of the Libya disaster would |ator, support in the auditor's race. ‘be investigated thoroughly and ac- | No one else has announced for that tion would be taken. post. Party interest is focusing at presPapers Chorus Criticism ” 8 pres

political opinion chorused their as yet for that post.

Jap Jones Mentioned

“Let us pray that the western]

When they got Col. Gen. second front, when it comes, will! would like to have the nominee into a gigantic domble thrust for | Erwin Rommel's forces inside their | be organized with a vastly better ap- | from Allen county, and in that con{mine fiields, instead of attacking|preciation of the “enemy's capacity | nection the names of Jap Jones, The battle of Libya had been they dallied for days and then their than we have shown in Libya.” pation of Kiska was not| turned into the battle of Egypt by effort was on a paltry scale. part of the city itself. after the fall & surprise, since one of the navy's|® German victory in which a power- | A remark often heard around! : : | first announcements on enemy ac- | ful British tank force had been | headquarters was: Dark as the outlook was for Se- tion in the Aleutian area reported Wiped out in a deadly desert am-| “Don’t let Rommel

| highway commission member, and | Clifford Borgmann, former Allen RAEI Re © county treasurer, are being menLONDON, June 22 (U. P)— |g 8 Prime Minister Winston Ungrel | Also receiving some mention as a said today in a war ann Ve realy | possible candidate for the treasurer message to Premier Josef Stalin | ..:\0tion is State Senator Mark8f JUSSike ‘ . er Sunderland of Muncie, who reThe fighting alliance of our |... yu was elected Delaware county two countries and of our other | chairman.

allies, to whom there have gh Whatever happens in this race, it been joined the vast resources of .., watched closely, as it is re-

the United States, will surely | .,,.teq that friends of Samuel Jack-

bring our enemies to their knees.” | >

There was fear here, as the Russo- | German war entered its second year, | Adolf Hitler might essay a.

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oh a | gTEat offensive designed to smash!

‘the allied hold on the eastern end of the Mediterranean basin and] take over the middle east. |

Some pictured the Germans concentrating on the southern front in Russia and at the same time driv{ing through Egypt and attacking

Fear German Drive

: | With pos- Cyprus and Syria from Orete and ‘bombing attacks on Alexandria and |session of the entire Crimea, Hitler the Italian Dodecanese islands. the |

Political quarters said Churchill {had better talk convincingly when

A drive at Kerch would naturally he returned.

Britons had been led to believe {that Tobruk was impregnable and |

These two northern arms of the |that their army in northern Africa

had equality in men, tanks and planes. Yet Tobruk had been lost and the British army had been! thrown out of Libya. Almost the only encouraging hotel came from the conservative times: | “The presence in this area of new! heavy American bombers and of units of the American navy, combined with the probability that our Mediterranean fleet will before long |

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HOOSIER CANDIDATE DIES

HUNTINGTON, June 22 (U. P.). {—Funeral services will be held {Wednesday at Marion, O., for Reu-| ‘ben Schreck, 49, Democratic candidate for Huntington county prosecutor, who died at his home here

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son of Ft. Wayne, former attorney general and regarded as a likely i gubernatorial candidate in 1944, are anxious to keep any Allen county man from being placed on the state ticket this time. This situation, Jackson forces re- ' portedly figure, would be a boon to | their candidate in the ‘44 gubernatorial race, since they could then | say that their county and the fourth | district was deserving of the post.

BLAST KILLS THREE AT POWDER PLANT

| UNIONTOWN, Pa. June 22 (U. | P.)—Three men were killed and | two were injured today in an ex- | plosion which wrecked a unit of the Liberty Powder Co., a division of Olin Corp., located at Mt. Braddock, six miles north of here. The blast did not damage any of the other buildings of the plant scattered over a large area. Officials of the company said they | did not know what caused the ex-

ent on the nomination for state | plosion which occurred in a gun Newspapers of every shade of | treasurer, no one having announced | cotton packing unit of the plant.

The company reportedly is engaged lin defense work. | The F. B. I. immediately opened an investigation. Army intelligence jofficers also were reported at the jon’ A detachment of state motor | policeman was assigned to guard |the plant.

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