Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1942 — Page 1

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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 90

By RICHARD MOWRER

1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

CAIRO, June 24.—After the initial success of the British 8th army, in blocking Gen. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's offensive smash, why are the axis general's forces now in possession of Tobruk and abreast of the

Egyptian frontier?

The answer lies in a cumulation of reasons, the sum total of which is that the axis now has more armor left over from three weeks of clashes than the 8th army has.

Here are some of the reasons:

1. Although at the outset of his offensive, Rommel got into serious difficulties in the big British minefield, the central portion of which became known as “the cauldron.” he managed, in your correspondent’s opinion, ultimately to convert the minefield to his own advantage.

Northdale’s Residents Lost in Number Jumble

Some Who Live in 5700 Block Have 5800 Numbers | And Two Homes Have Same Numbers.

By FREMONT POWER Out in the bright new community of Northdale, just east of Broad Ripple, all is confusion. Some people who live in the 5700 block, Kingsley

drive, have 5800 numbers

and vice versa and at least a couple of the homes have the same number. Some of the residents don't

know where they live, for sure. One woman got up one fine morning, went out on her front porch and there stood a new stove. She knew is wasn't hers— but that's all she did know about it. Another family, in its struggle to get out of the dilemma, simply

put up two numbers on their bungalow. One is 5726. the other 5820

basement and there was the gas man, puttering about. “What are you doing.” asked. “Putting in a meter, lady.” “Well, we already have one.” “Oh. Guess I must be on the wrong street.” And he went on his way, confused. =

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Planning Commission Blames Contractors

THE BIG TROUBLE with the contractors

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planning commission.

Another lady went down in her

who built | Or so says the city | | on the Jacksons’ home.

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should there. This, of course, coincidences Then in 1937, the city planning commission drew up a map of the township which has caused many {Continued on Page Two)

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ATLANTA, Ga. June 24 P) —Agnew Field, a veteran of the first world war, showed his

gratitude to America today by tearing up his home to contribute 1000 used automobile tires to the scrap rubber collection program. His country home, built in the days when used tires were cheap, contains staircases, flower beds and fences made with discarded tires. This week he dismantled his home and yard and showed up with between eight and ten tons of scrap rubber. The contribution was believed here tp be the largest made in the nation by an individual of non-commercial association.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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This is the home of the Dudley S. Jacksons, as anyone can plainly see.

This is the home of Carl M. Russell, despite the 5810 number

This is the solution arrived at by Mrs. George Coupland.

OPA APPROPRIATION IS CUT 66 MILLION

House Committee Agrees

On $95,000,000.

WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P). —A house appropriations subcommittee today decided to slash $66,000,000 from the requested appropriation for the office of price administration in the fiscal year beginning July 1. A presidential estimate submitted to congress recently asked $161,000,-

000 for the OPA.

Chairman Clarence Cannon of the house appropriations committee announced, however, that a subthe OPA

| estimate had agreed on a $95,000,000

allowance.

Congressional dissatisfaction with

some of Leon Henderson's appointments and policies has been re-

| ported.

The irritation has been aggravat-

| ed by opposition to nation-wide gas- | oline rationing. Some members also

10] denounced reported OPA plans for

ja field staff of 90,000 members.

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ARGENTINA TO PROTEST BUENOS AIRES, June 24 (U. P.).

Hold Ev'thing 9|Side Glances.. 10 —The Argentine government will

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9 send “an energetic protest” to Berlin against sinking of the Argentine freighter Rip Tercero, some time today, an announcement said,

the torpedoing and

| —The office of price administration

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AT FIRST he had desperately to carve two passages through the minefield to connect his panzer forces with his rear and his reinforcements. While he was doing this, the situation for him was touch-and-go. These two passages were at first narrow, under the artillery fire of the British and continuously strafed

from the air. Lots of 88-mm. anti-tank guns were rushed up to the cauldron for fear of a British tank attack— but the tank attack did not come. Gradually the two passages through the minefield were widened and eventually joined. A powerful axis bridgehead took shape, astride and just east of the minefield, and pending the establishment of this bridgehead Rommel was quite content not to resume the initiative— aside from pounding away at the free French defenders of Bir Hacheim, on his right flank.

CEILING SET ON SERVICE COSTS T0 CONSUMERS

New OPA Order Affects 1,000,000 Establishments,

Covers Shoe Shines. WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. PJ).

Qa Boh today completed its price ceiling program by placing controls over all consumer services connected with commodities—including such work as tuning a church organ and patching pants. SN The order becomes effective July 1 and covers approximately 1,000,000 establishments doing an annual $5,000,000,000 business. The

highest prices charged last March by each individual seller of services

But the OPA promised prompt adjustments upward for any seller who can prove that he would suffer substantial hardship through increased costs.

Objectives Unchanged

“The new regulation does not change in any way the main *objectives of the office of price administration, which is to stabilize the cost of living under wartime conditions at levels reflected in the highest prices charged for com-

modities and services during March,| route of attack on Alexandria, the

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THE BULK of the British and axis armored forces were more or less neutralizing one another, clashing occasionally, but mostly glaring at one another. The big British minefield extended north and south in the shape of a two pronged fork, the two prongs beginning south of the cauldron, running southward parallel to and bracketing Bir Hacheim. The axis got in between the two prongs of the minefield and was able to attack Bir Hacheim from the north, with the eastern prong covering its flank against a British attack. Thus did Rommel, in the end, use much of the British minefield to his own advantage. 2. The British system of box defense—fortified islands throughout the desert battleground, capable of meeting attack from any direction—stumped the axis at first and caused the initial rush of armored columns to the coast from the south to slow down and then halt.

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Egypt, battleground for Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Arabians, Turks and British in centuries past, now faces invasion by a German-Italian army thrusting eastward from Libya. Because southwestern Egypt is a mass of desert land, dotted with a few oases, the coastal highway remains the only feasible

Suez canal and the rich Nile valley. Egypt is still technically neutral.

1942” Price Administrator Icon! Henderson said. Services of a seasonal nature can use as a maximum price the highest charged during the corresponding season of 1941, plus a percentage increase figured on the rise in the cost of living between last season and March, 1942.

List Services Covered

Consumer services covered by the new ovder are shoe shining and repairing, pressing, alteration and repair of garments, hat cleaning and blocking. laundry, automobile service, repair of electrical appliances, food locker service, cleaning| and dyeing, fur repair and storage, film developing and printing, clock and watch repair, floor waxing and sanding, mortician services, repair of corsets, cameras, sewing ma-

SUB TOLL OF ALLIED SHIPS REACHES 354

Small Yugoslavian Craft Latest Gulf Victim.

WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P)). — Disclosure by the navy today of another sinking the Gulf of Mexico brought to 320 the number of merchant vessels known to have been sent to the bottom by axis submarine in hemispherical waters. The victim announced today was a small Yugoslavian vessel, torpedoed June 19. The entire crew of

chines, hosiery, luggage, harness,|37 rowed safely to port. ‘bicycles, lawnmower, stoves and! All together, 354 united nations tires. vessels have been victims of torpe-

Exempt are advertising agencies, accountants, detective agencies and others performing consumer services not associated with commodities.

CHINESE RETAKE TOWN

CHUNGKING, June 24 (U.P).— Counter-attacking Chinese troops have recaptured the strategic town of Kweiki on the Chekiang-Kiangsi railroad after stalling a Japanese drive from the east aimed at opening a rail route from Shanghai to Singapore, a military communique said tonight.

does, shells and submarines in this area, but 34 reached port. This compilation, believed conservative, shows 148 ships lost along the Atlantic seaboard, 96 in the ‘Caribbean, 23 in the Gulf of Mexico, 15 in the South Atlantic and 38 off the Canadian coast. The 13 vessels the navy disclosed yesterday had been sunk in the Caribbean went down from June 3 to 14, inclusive. One of the heaviest tolls recorded was on a medium sized United States cargo-passenger ship sunk off the coast. Survivors revealed yesterday that 88 lives were lost.

Soldiers Give Their Blood— Will You Donate Yours?|

To save the lives of our men in the armed fotoes, Indianapolis citizens are asked to provide 56,000 pints of blood for the Red Cross | blood plasma program by July 1, 1943. To date, 21,000 pints have been given. An additional 35,000 must be donated in the next 12 months, The blood donor center reports that the number of donors registered for the next two weeks is extremely low. The chapter must meet a quota of 100 donors a day. The need for blood contributions is urgent. Call LI. 1441 and make an appointment at your earliest convenience. You will help save the life of a soldier or sailor or marine who is fighting for you.

W. I. LONGSWORTH, Chairman of Indianapolis Red Cross Chapter,

F. D. R. Signs Bill to Defer Family Men, Aid Dependents

WASHINGTON, June 24 (U. P.)—President Roosevelt today signed a precedent-making bill authorizing deferment of family men until the reservoir of single men is exhausted and providing financial aid for dependents of service men in the four lowest ranks. Allowances to dependents vary with the degree of family relationship, providing $50 a month for a wife with no children, $62 for a wife

td rh 0 le So GATE WH ENFORCE LAW ON [GED BEER

out of the serviceman’s pay check, and the balance is contributed by Grocers and Drug Stores Warned to Observe Ban.

the government. For the first time in army history, Enforcement of the state law banning the sale of iced beer by

the policy of preserving established families in connection with military service is authorized by law. Previously, deferment of men with dependents was based solely on finangrocery and drug stores will be started immediately, Bernard E. Doyle, chairman of the state alcoholic beverages commission, warned today.

cial grounds. The statement was in answer to Albert Stump, attorney for 21 groceries and druggists, who yesterday advised the merchants to continue

President Geis Powers

President Roosevelt will have authority to defer any or all men with wives or children, or wives and children living in a “home” relationship. The president has power to order such deferments without regard to financial dependency or family allowances. While the allowances will be considered in cases of financial dependency, they are not deemed conclu(Continued on Page Two)

the Indiana cision to the U. S. supreme court.

#2 2 = The appeal to the highest federal] : court was filed Monday by Mr. On the War Fronts Stump on the ground that the ban ; on iced beer sales by grocers and June 24, 1042 druggists was in violation of the

14th amendment of the U. S. Constitution. A year ago, Superior Court Judge Herbert M. Spencer ruled that the iced beer provision of the state law was unconstitutional but the Indiana supreme court reversed the decision, holding that the law is valid. “The fact that an appeal has been taken to the U. S. supreme court does not in any way affect the mandate of the Indiana supreme court,” Mr. Doyle declared.

PACIFIC COUNCIL TO MEET

LONDON: Motion is introduced in commons holding Churchill government directly responsible for “disaster of Tobruk” and demanding compleie reorganization; Churchill informed of crisis in trans-Atlantic telephone call; may hurry back to Britain from U. Ss.

CARIBBEAN PORT: Fifteen more ships sunk in Caribbean and along U. S. coast, raising to 319 toll of vessels sunk by axis sub-

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, nd. Issued daily except Sunday.

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MOSCOW:

marines and mines; Argentina and Chile—holdouts at Rio De Janeiro confersnce—angered by new attacks.

The Russians admit German gains on Kharkov and Sevastopolufronts

WASHINGTON, June 24 (U, P.). -—President Roosevelt today called a special meeting of the Pacific war council for tomorrow at the White House. Prime Minister Winston

Churchill of Great-Britain will be presents

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THE AXIS had to eliminate at least two of these boxes before it could go on. One was Bir Hacheim, the other Knightsbridge. The axis tried to overrun them. It failed. Then the axis decided to take one box at a time; hit them hard, one after another. First on the list, after the original attempt to take Knightsbridge, was Bir Hacheim. The axis command was content to restrict its initiative to attacks on Bir Hacheim, while remaining mostly on the defense elsewhere. The free French at Bir Hacheim turned out to be a very tough proposition. Days passed and the whole axis offensive was stalled. Rommel went to the Bir Hacheim sector personally to supervise operations there. He flew into a rage. That little rise in the desert, defended by a little group of free Frenchmen, was holding up everything! (Continued on Page Three)

XIS MAY RISK DESERT THRUST

Rommel Army Pushing South From Coast;

Kharkov Drive Grows in Fury; Churchill Facing Crisis.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

Axis twin offensives against the Russian Ukraine and Egypt edged forward today toward the war riches of the Near East. The two drives—aimed against the Caucasus oil fields and the Suez canal—still were in their preliminary stages, but were pointed for control of key allied communications routes and resources in the Near East and, possibly, a junce tion eventually with the Japanese. :

Dispatches from Moscow told of powerful (German attacks behind strong aerial squadrons and as many as 200 tanks that forced the Russians to give ground on the Kharkov front.

It was indicated that Hitler again was attempting to get his major summer offensive underway in the Ukraine.

Rommel Prepares to Strike

It previously had been estimated that the axis had 500,000 men on the Ukraine front and 500,000 others in reserve. The rapidly-spreading battles near Kharkov momentarily overshadowed the desperate fighting still in progress at the Crimean naval base of Sevastopol, where the Ruse sians acknowledged further but undecisive German gains at the cost of many dead and wounded. Dispatches from the Egyptian border told only of preliminary engagements on Libyan soil at the northern or coastal end of the British defense front, west of the strongly fortified Sollum sector.

Churchill Faces Crisis

But heavy dust clouds indicated that Nazi Field Mar shal Erwin Rommel was pushing his main columns southe eastward from Gambut in an effort to strike in the Sidi Omar area, thus risking a dash across a waterless desert region to outflamk the Sollum defenses. The main engagements may already have started on the Sidi Omar front, London military commentators said, since news from the desert battlefields is often delayed. But there was no definite word that Rommel had struck with his main forces or that any penetration of Egypt had

been achieved. Meanwhile, in London Prime Minister Winston Churchill faced a bitter debate on the Libyan defeat to be

followed by a vote on a motion of censure against conduct (Continued on Page Two)

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Today's War Moves

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst

News from the war fronts indicates that Hitler has started his delayed “spring offensive,” now that sume mer is here. The Germans are exerting strong pressure on the Kharkov front, where they are advancing and the Russians admit their troops have been “forced back to new positions.” The Germans have thrown in heavy reinforcements, perhaps the bulk of their army in the south, which sad been held in reserve for the big drive. Despite heavy losses, the Nazis appear to be gaining at Sevastopol, whose fall probably would be preliminary to a push across the Kerch strait to the caucasus. In Libya, all signs point to an immediate attempt by Marshal Erwin Rommel to drive through Egypt for the Suez canal. His troop movements, as reported by British reconnaisance planes, indicate thta instead of stopping to reorganize after the capture of Tobruk, he has decided to press his present advantage in men and equipment. All of which adds us to a final, all-out attempt to reach the oil

It is Hitler's last chance, but even if he succeeds, he will not have won the war. To stand a chance of doing that, he first must knock Russia out, Even if the Caucasus is lost, the Russians appear to have every chance of continuing to fight on into 1943, and Hitler's prospects of carrying on through next year, even with replenished oil supplies, are questionable. By that time or long before, the® allies almost certainly will have opened up a second front in western Europe.

fields of the caucasus and Middle] Hitler's war p ionalready de East-by<the end pfsummer, (Continued ?

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