Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1942 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 91
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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942
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SEE OPEN CAMPAIGN ON PROSTITUTES
* State to Fight Syphilis by Ending ‘Pick-ups’ in Hotels, Bars.
By FREMONT POWER drive to rid Indiana taverns s and hotels of “pick-up” prostitutes bell was opened today by the state health board, working through the! alcoholic beverages commission. | Dr. John W. Ferree. health board head. said today he felt that segregated vice districts were well on the way to being stamped out. It is the vice found in taverns and
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censes will be the weapon used :o ‘ bar “pick-ups” from taverns. ‘Would Be Applied Only on tion has agreed to provide informa-| 1943 Income Levies. tion to police officers which will bel Dr. Ferree said he personally ad- —Secretary of the Treasury Henry | vocated the barring of unaccom-, Morgenthau Jr. said today the | however, that “I don't know! . : Cit ruh Last ti 50 | particular situation well| is considering a last-minute p an be a logical means of enforcement.”| at the source next. year would be | limited to 5 per cent instead of 10] which plens for the drive against] Under the new plan now being | “Dick-ups” were drawn were repre- | studied, the 5 per cent “pay-as-you-men's association, three liquor and! ; beer associations and Don F. Stiv or | | to taxes due on 1943 income. Under A two-point program was draw wi} committee at the treasury’s sug-| up at the meeting to enforce anti-| gestion, a 10 per cent withholding ws OE Heh of tavern owners, | to taxes on 1942 income and half pointing out the need for co-opera- to taxes on 1943 income. a ky press conference that he had asked CAPITAL CABS RUN AGAIN | the committee to give taxpayers the —The capital's taxi drivers went! tax in monthly installments next back to work today under a tem- | year instead of in quarterly installeiibiag day-long strike which forced thou- | Sept. 15 and Dec. 15. headquarters sands of people to walk to work or| The plan also calls for increasing | named com- cars. in 1944, States — the European war ® Lynnwood Farm to Purdue Lynnwood farm, famous over the three consecutive vears of the title iis | y-times grand champi n, ity Percheron horses and other) any. 8 pion so | Lynnwood Do r stock, has been presented to the) 1 hy bred by LytnWood David Ross, president of Purdue Purdue university by Mr. and Mrs. | board of trustees, said that “it is president of Eli Lilly & Co. | outstanding farm by the university The 600 acre farm is located near may mean much, not only to its The gift includes the acreage, partment and experiment station, all improvements, personal property but more especially to the farming herds of purebred Percheron horses, dustry of Indiana and the nation. Polled shorthorn cattle, and Berk-| Governor Schricker, informed of Included in the stock are the most valuable and generous gifts Percheron stallions Don Again, win- lever presented to the university. It livestock exposition for the last|versity and the state.” a s
The threat of revoking liquor li-! The Indiana Hotel Men's ascociaused to padlock hotels of ill repute. | WASHINGTON, June 25 (U. P).| ‘|panied women from taverns, add- | house ways and means committee | enough to determine if it would; Whereby deductions of income taxes Attending a meeting yesterday at) | per. cent. jsentatives of the ABC, the hotell earn” tax would be applied entirely state police superintendent. | the plan already adopted by the | sh prostitution measures: {levy would have been applied half (Continued on Page Six) Mr. Morgenthau disclosed at a WASHINGTON, June 25 (U. P.).! option of paying their 1942 income porary agreement on fares after a ments due on March 15, June 13! Gen. Dwight ride overtaxed busses and street-| the withholding tax to 10 per cent Uni _ Lilly Official Gives Famed Lilly cial Gives Fame nation for its breeding of top qual-| Premier Percheron Sire, and his | farm. state as a gift for the benefit of | Charles J. Lynn. Mr. Lynn is vice! expected that the operation of this Carmel, Ind. in Hamilton county. |school of agriculture, extension deand farm equipment. including and purebred livestock breeding inshire hogs. the gift, said “This is one of the ner at the Chicago international|will mean much to both the uni-
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"You Can Still Fight Through’
MELBOURNE, June 25 (U. P.).—Douglas MacArthur today cabled this message of encouragement to Gen. Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck, British com-mander-in-chief in the Middle East: “You can do it. You can still fight your way through. Remember Wellington.” The Duke of Wellington, one of Britain's most celebrated military leaders, directed the final and crushing defeat of Napoleon's army at Waterloo in June, 1815.
1-A DRAFT CHANGE RUMOR ‘UNFOUNDED
Married Men Keep Phone
Lines Busy. (Another Draft Story, Page 3)
Reports that all married men now in 1-A are to be reclassified as a result of the new four-way draft order set up by national draft head-! | quarters ° ‘are entirely unfounded as far as I know,” Col
day.
Col. Hitchcock said that the tele- 3 SURVIVORS FROM
phones at draft headquarters “were ringing off the walls” with inquiries from married men as to whether they are to be reclassified. The draft chief said that he could
give no definite information on the matter until he received a directive
from Washington but that, as he!
understood it, the new order pertains only to the time for calling men, “As far as I know, there is no provision in the new law or the draft order providing for reclassification,” Col. Hitchcock said.
JEWS FEEL NEW WRATH LONDON, June 25 (U. P).—The
A 200-yard oil slick spells the end of the Nazi raider.
WAR THEATER’ FOR
A Three-Act Drama in the Bay of Biscay
A submarine pops to the surface like a dislodg ed fish.
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EUROPE IS SET UP
Gen. Eisenhower Is Named As Operations Chief.
WASHINGTON, June 25 (U. P.).
| —Establishment | theater
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|lude to eventual opening of a secLond European front by the united | nations—was announced by the war| department today. Designated as commander of the new war theater was Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 51-year-old strategist and until now assistant! chief of staff in charge of the army's operations division. His headquarters will be in Loman: In army parlance a °
| operations” normally means an area!
of actual or prospective combat, 5 distinguished from a training area. The American forces in northern |
Ireland and England thus far have been engaged in training. Simultaneously the war depart-
Robinson Great Hitchcock, state draft head, said ie States.”
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ment released a statement by Gen. Eisenhower on his arrival in England saying “formal establishment of a European theater is a logical (step in co-ordinating the efforts of Britain and the United]
BRITISH CHIEF SEES HOPE IN WAR OUTLOOK
Encouraging Report Is
Given to Group of ~ Congress Leaders.
WASHINGTON, June 25 (U. PJ. —Prime Minister Winston Churchill told congressional leaders today that Britain feels confident she can hold Egypt against the mechanized drive of Germany's desert legions. House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin (Mass) told newsmen in a joint press conference with Speaker Sam Rayburn that Mr. Churchill had given the conferees considerable encouragement on the African situation despite the serious reverses this week. “He indicated that Britain will hold and that there is no danger of losing Egypt,” Mr. Martin said. Mr. Rayburn, House Majority Leader John W. McCormack (D.| Mass.) and other conferees agreed | {hat they, too, were greatly encouraged by the presentation ef the situation on the war fronts made by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in a White House conference.
Optimistic on Russia
Asked whether there had been any discussion of opening a second European front, Mr. Rayburn said “not specifically, but it always comes up.” The legislative leaders also dis{closed that the prime minister had |oftered encouragement on the Rus-| [sian situation. | Another (Churchill had been asked some | “critical” questions regarding Brit- |
conferee said that]
ROMMEL ARMY IS ROLLING ON ALONG COAST
Threatens to Force British Back 140 Miles Despite Heavy Counter Blows by RAF And U. S. Army Fliers
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
Strong axis mechanized columns drove deeply into 2gypt today and threatened to drive the British eighth army back 140 miles to the Mersa Matruh defenses despite hams mering counter-blows by American and British airplanes and allied mobile desert units. Three enemy columns under Nazi Field Marshal Erwin tommel crashed across the Libyan frontier, throwing their main strength into the Sidi Omar sector some 35 miles from the Mediterranean coast, and forced the British to fall back from their frontier forts at Sollum to avoid encirclement. British mobile units opposed the enemy and inflicted “heavy” losses in the desert, but Rommel smashed through to a point southeast of Sidi Barrani, which lies 53 airline miles inside the frontier although the axis units probably had penetrated Egypt as much as 65 or 70 miles by road.
U. S. Fliers Bomb Benghazi Again American air corps B-24 bombers joined with the R. LA. F. in one of the heaviest attacks of the war on the Libyan ‘base of Benghazi in an effort to break up Rommel’s supply lines and other allied planes battered the German transports land tanks in the forward battle zone. But Rommel obviously had been able to strike before the crippled eighth army could get set and dispatches from
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ain's reasons for keeping the bulk| Cairo and London indicated that Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie
fof its army at home on the British | isles. ‘This conferee said that the might not be able to make a strong stand short of Mersa
| prime minister fenced with his| Matruh, which is 140 miles inside Egypt. |Questioners on that point, but had The present axis penetration to Sidi Barrani has already
| assured them of Britain's ability to! 'hold Egypt. (edged past the high water mark of the Italian invasion of
Pacific Council Meets 11940. Mr. Rayburn said that the ne The axis gains provided a threat to the Alexandria /minute conversations had covered naval base some 250 miles eastward at a time when axis the general situation in Russia, 5).mjeg on the Russian front were hammering at great cost
North Africa and the Pacific. United | nations shipping losses and the pros-| into the Crimean naval base of Sevastopol and driving tank
pects for keeping the sea lanes open wedges into the Soviet lines on the Kharkov front. were also discussed, Mr. Rayburn
said. , |
The congressional leaders met| r a ies : a with Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill | There. was no decisive change on either the Sevastopol
following war department announce- or Kharkov. front, but Moscow dispatches continued to speak i : Trop ene or) of growing enemy offensive operations near Kharkov and tablished in London, possibly as an told of the almost complete destruction of Sevastopol—once important step in the eventual a beauty spot of the Crimea. {opening of a second land front oY yy ; ravens ; n . Shorty alter toe congrsional The Germans, using great fleets of bombers, wera conference. Mr. smashing into the defenses of the Crimean naval base and Churchill convened an extraordinary reported bitter house-to-house fighting, but claimed no big (Pacific war council meeting, with ains. {Canadian Prime Minister W, L. g The Russians acknowledged some loss of ground, at a high cost to the enemy, on the northern sector.
| Mackenzie rele King 8 also ise standing, wo UUGLES i as. i Be a A ry
that new enemy offensive operations had started there. The axis victory on the Egyptian border was attributed ‘More Than Twice as Large
to Rommel's ability to strike quickly. The blow to the eighth army under Lieut. Gen. Neil M, (Continued on Page Seven) As Mammoth C-54. SANTA MONICA, Cal, June 25 (U. P).—A giant military airplane
with the cargo capacity of two box §& cars and the transport efficiency of a 30-car train is “far beyond the! drafting stage” at Douglas Aircraft | Cqp., it was revealed today. ( The mammouth cargo ship and|
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Today's War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst
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The British are facing a test in Egypt which, if it troop carrier, which is more than! turns out adversely, is capable of doing incalculable twice as large as the C-54, biggest | damage to the allied cause.
NORSE SHIP LANDED
NEW YORK, June 21 (U. P).— Thirty-one survivors of a medium-
pedoed and sunk- by an axis submarine several hundred miles off the southeast U. S. coast have ar= rived at an east coast port. They said the raider surfaced after sending a torpedo into the ship on June 10, and its commander shouted to them: “The next time you'd better stay home!” The survivors included two who had been crew members on two
Nazis are intensifying their drive other ships torpedoed in the Atagainst the Jews in German-occu- | lantic. pied territories and their satellite] The captain of the vessel said the
countries of Europe, reliable reports reaching London indicated today.
ship sank within 15 minutes after being togpedoed
lof about 125,000 pounds.
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transport ship now being built for| 4 J The loss of Tobruk, which caused such violent ree the army, will have a gross weight | action in London and Washington, was a mere incie Its speed | dent compared to the consequences should the will be “considerably above” 200] severely mauled British eighth army be unable to miles an hour, the Douglas maga-| hold at Mersa Matruh, the only remaining stronghold before Alexandria, zine “Airview” disclosed. [the naval base 200 miles to the east. If Marshal Erwin Rommel is able Since the speed of the new ship| to take Alexandria, the Suez canal is probably doomed and the gateway would permit it to ‘make 15 trips|/opened to the Near East and 2
as Rommel’s communication lines will be precariously stretched and difficult to maintain. Rommel's strength® is not fully known, but there are indications (Continued on Page Seven) ” " ”
while a freight train is making one,| Caucasus. each plane would have the efficiency] However, the British will be in of 30 freight cars, it was pointed a stronger defensive position at out. Matruh then they were within the The new plane is more than five| Libyan desert. It is a rail head and times as efficient as the world’s can be kept easily supplied, where-| biggest commercial airliner, the 2 wa»
Douglas DC-4. The C-54 is a fourmotored military version of the War News on Inside Pages U: 8. Production: Surpasses AXIS ............oneverves Sa Map of Rommel’s Drive Europe Doubts Second Front ............ King Peter II Talks to F. D. R. ..... vive enrs seed Skill Needed by Churchill .., 5 visvsssvesssnanilB Questions on Local Rents Answered ......osve.esececssnsnssncnass 20
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