Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1942 — Page 10

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BAN ON TAX BILL CUT CONSIDERED

House Committee Would Permit Adding to It

On House Floor.

WASHINGTON, June 28 (U. P). «Ranking members of the hous rules committee today considered sending the $5.929.000,000 tax bill to the floor under a rule that would permit the house to increase it but not reduce it, Rep. Howard W. Smith (D. Ba), gecond ranking member of the rules committee, said the bill was short of the treasury's goal by $3.000,000,000 and that the type of closed rule under which the house usually considers tax legislation would not permit the offering of amendments to swell the total Rep. Smith's proposal which is gupported by a substantial ways and

Earl C. Townsed Jr.

means committee bloe would result] § in a showdown on the house fioor| #8 |

on proposals to: Impose a general war sales tax. President Roosevelt's proposal to) limit individual income to $25.000 $50,000 for a family—after taxes, which the committee rejected. Require husband and wives (o| file joint income tax returns. Adopt the treasury'’s proposal for Rf 53 per cent normal and surtax rate on corporations instead of the] 40 voted by the wars and means] committee. Adopt the treasury proposed individual income tax rates which are slightly higher in most brackets than the committee's, which range from 12 to 81 per cent.

LAWYERS TO PICNIC The Lawyers’ association picnie will be held Tuesday at the Oscar Jose farm, on 90th st, east of Meridian st, at 3:30 p. m. BEd Steers Jr. is in charge of reservations and Robert Orbison is secretary.

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New officers of the Technical high school alumni association are: Earl C. Townsend, president; Miss Rosemary A, Lawlor, vice president; Miss G. Helen Basey, secretary. Hanson Anderson, school principal, is permanent treasurer of the group The association has given over its offices to defense workers, but it is continuing work on its files

and plans to finish the checking of 19000 alumni before school opens in the fall, Plans for a drive to raise funds for bells for the Stuart Memorial hall tower have been discontinued for the duration.

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HOOSIER LAUDED FOR SEA RESCUE

Monticello Native Showed Skill in Saving Ship's

Crew, Navy Says.

Commander Edward Randolph Gardner Jr, U. 8. N, a native of Monticello, hag been commended by the navy for his part in conducting rescue operations which saved the entire crew of a stricken vessel, He was in command of the destroyer U, 8S 8 Eberle at the time. Commahder Gardner hag two brothers in Indianapolis, J. R. Gardner, chief equipment engineer for the state highway department, 5501 College ave, and Everett L. Gardner, 918 E. 57th st. The commendation was for “skill and seamanship displayed in an action which reflects great crediu upon the naval service.” The navy letter to relatives here read in part: “Although the waters in which the rescue was effected were infested with submarines and although there were gale winds, & rough sea and poor visibility to hamper operations, Commander Gardner conducted the rescue oper ations with such efficiency and dispateh that the entire abandoned ship's crew was saved.”

Appointment of Vern Boxell, for mer assistant managing editor of The Times as assistant to the manager of public relations of the Cur« tiss-Wright Corp, propeller division, was announced:

relations department at Caldwell, N. J, Mr. Boxell will be in charge of public relations for the Indiane apolis plant,

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By RICHARD D. McMILLAN United Press Staff Correzpondent WITH THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY AT MERSA MATRUH, June 26 (U, P) ——Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's invading axis army has reached points southwest and west of Mersa Matruh, striking more than 100 miles into Egypt in a drive toward the rich Nile valley, American-made Douglas Boston light bombers and Curtiss Kitty« hawk fighters of the royal air force joined the mobile armored forces of Gen, Neil M. Ritchie's army in a grim fight to hold back the presse ing enemy hordes until the new des fense line based on Mersa Matruh, 140 miles inside Egypt, could be made ready. The main column of the German invading force drove in arrowhead formation along the railroad from Sidi Barrani, 80 miles west of Mersa Matruh, to a point southwest of Mersa Matruh, Another column, consisting mainly

CENTRAL SESSION

DANVILLE, Ind, June 26-Six students from Marion county, in cluding four from Indianapolis, are attending the first of two summer sessions at Central Normal college, They are Bernice Davis, James Norman Giffin, Vivian Monninger

and Laura Ruschhaupt, all of Indianapolis, Betty Dove, Castleton,

of armored cars and motoroycles, with some motorized infantry, was engaged by British unite on the main sea coast road west to Mersa Matruh, Axis Columns on March

The main body of the enemy

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WASHINGTON, June 26 (U, P). --Existence of two Japanese “mystery ships,” which probably have become full-fledged aircraft car-

riers, was disclosed today. The two 27,000-ton vessels, the Kasiwara and the Irumo, have not been reported sunk or damaged or even present in any battle thus far and therefore may be assumed to be still a formidable part of Japan's naval forces, They are considered mystery ships because, while announced for the merchant trade, they never were completed as passenger liners, Their ‘econversion,” if there ever actually was any doubt as to what they were to be used for, occurred while they were still on the ways and before they were launched. The Kasiwara and the Izumo, therefore, are as effective as any ships dseigned, planned and completed as carriers. They are better than the ordinary merchant ships converted hastily to naval use. There is nothing of a patchwork or makeshift nature of their construetion.

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P-T. A. associations of five schools served by the Brightwood, Oak Hill, Morris Square and Washington Park playgrounds will have a jitney supper and fish fry at the North Rast Community house tomorrow at 5 p. m, Approximately 300 people can be accommodated. The proceeds will be used to buy shirts and caps for the boys’ softball teams and shirts for the girls’ kickball teams at the four recreation centers, The committee in charge of the event includes Mesdames IL. H. Forbes, L. A. Sturgeon, Charlton E, Hostetler, D, T, Graves, Ethel Kreis and Mildred Holmes.

OPTIMISM REDUCES SALE OF WAR BONDS

WASHINGTON, June 26 (U, P). —Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. said yesterday that a wave of optimistic war reports prior to last Sunday had resulted in a slump of war bond sales throughout the country. Asked at a press conference whether the sales improved after the bad news of Tobruk and further Japanese incursions in the Aleutians, Morgenthau said: “They certainly have." He doubted the June quota of $800,000,000 bond sales would be reached but that he felt July's $1, 000,000,000 quota would be attained.

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Mr, Boxell was born in Marion, Ind, March 18, 1910, and was educated in Marion schools and Ine diana university, After two years as a reporter on the Marion Leader=Tribune, Mr, Boxell served in the I. U, publicity department in 1927 1928. He joined The Times staff in 1929 as a reporter and assistant sports editor and subsequently became as sistant news editor, news editor, city editor, and in November, 1938, assistant managing editor, A member of Delta Upsilon and Sigma Delta Ohi fraternities, Mr, Boxell at present is president of the Indianapolis Press club, He is mars

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Rommel Moves Vast Supplies Back of Armies in Egypt

its salt marshes which form a diffi cult obstacle for tanks,

Marshes Natural Defense

The salt marshes, nearly 60 miles wide at this point, are a natural defense against attack toward the lower end of the Alexandria-Cairo main highway, The speed of the German advance is explainad at headquarters as due first to Gen, Ritchie's decision not to (tempt to hold Solum and Hell« fire pass and secondly to the need to reorganize the bulk of the British armored forces to prepare for larger battles ahead. The Solum and Hellfire positions were untenable unless Gen. Ritchie was willing to risk being outflanked, as the Germans were able to move down the escarpment to the south. In fact, some of them did. It appeared here that the high command’s decision to withdraw from the frontier passes was the only one possible, It was impossible to defend the line along the Bardia road and the Fort Capuzgo track toward Hellfire pass,

Where Will British Fight?

Now it was the British task to try to pick its own battlefield, on which their armored divisions would take the field in force again while the main covering force attempted to hold off the spearhead of the German Africa Corps, It was uncertain yet whether Rommel, in addition to his coastal attack, would try to drive eastward through the Kattara depression in spite of its salt marsh traps. These marshes stretch practically from the Siwa Oasis, 185 miles southwest of Mersa Matruh, to the coast, At their widest point east to west they extend about 200 miles. They are coriss-crossed by hard tracks, but these are few and nar row and should make any enemy force a vulnerable target.

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LASH JAP BASES OFF AUSTRALIA

MacArthur's Fliers Start Strong Drive to Win

Air Superiority.

MELBOURNE, June 26 (U, P), =Gen, Douglas MacArthur's planes, in one of the heaviest aerial assaults ever launched in the southwest Pacific, struck the first blow today in a fight for control of these southern skies. Operating over a 2000-mile front, American and Australian airmen raided Dili, in Timor island of the northwest invasion zone, and Rabaul in New Britain island of the northeast zone. They spread ruin through the target areas, smashing airdromes, grounded planes, barracks and supply dumps and started fires at Dili and Rabaul which the plane crews saw from 60 miles away as they flew homeward,

Drive Off Jap Planes

In addition to the main raids, allied planes successfully attacked

on the north coast of New Guinea.

force of Japanese gero fighter

planes

base on the

coast,

No doubt was held here that the allied raids on Dili,

supremacy of the air,

for it, and hard. Score Direct Hits

enemy troop quarters at Salamaua, || They also drove off a determined |; which attempted to raid! Port Moresby, the allied advanced |: New Guinea south |} Gen. MacArthur announced that the allies came through this big|; series of engagements without loss. |}

Rabaul and |} Salamaua opened a finish fight for |§

Both sides had been organizing | Gen, MacArthur hit first |g

Seizing the initiative in the dark|:

MacArthur's men were still needed urgently to permit him to wrest control of the air, Some quarters believed that if the allies could get air supremacy Gen, MacArthur would be ready at once to begin pushing the Japanese back from New Guinea and the Australian mandated islands which they seized early in the war,

BLACKOUT 18 SUCCESS PITTSBURGH, June 26 (U.P) Western Pennsylvania's first black out test of the war ended at dawn today, and the results could hardly have been more successful had

enemy raiders actually appeared over the sprawling industrial area to unload their bombs,

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allied planes, probably including

Rabaul from their secret bases.

planes roared in at low altitude and bombs on enemy occupied buildings. concentrated on

and building areas. They bombed

returned with their

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up those Japanese it did not kill by plastering the troop barracks with | bombs and machine gun bullets. It was understood that the allies]

had used a number of new secret Plane reinforcements for Gen.

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