Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1942 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 93
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“We'll Divert Nazi Strength From Russia,’ FDR and Churchill Say, Implying 2d Front
WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill today promised to divert German strength from Russia in “forthcoming operations”—presumably by opening a second European front. In a joint statement following Mr. Churchill's safe
return to London. the leaders of the two great English- . that the
over-all picture is more favorable to victory” for the united
speaking nations said they have “no doubt . .
nations than it was when they conferred last August and again last December. It was emphasized, however, that a tremendous task lay ahead before that victory would be achieved.
THE TEXT of the statement follows: “The week of conferences between the president and the prime minister covered very fully ail of the major problems of the war which is conducted by the united nations on every continent and in every sea. “We have taken full cognizance of our disadvantages as well as our advantages. We do not underrate the task. “We have conducted our conferences with the full knowledge of the power and resourcefulness of our enemies. “In the matter of the production of munitions of all kinds. the survey gives on the whole an optimistic pic-
ture. The previously planned monthly output has not
reached the maximum but is fast approaching it on schedule.
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WAR DECLARED ON VANDALISM AT CITY PARKS
‘Drinking Fountain Wrecked At Rhodius Pool in Latest Qubreak.
vandals today. In the third case of vandalism in
“BECAUSE OF the wide extension of the war to all parts of the world, transportation of the fighting forces, together with the transportation of munitions of war and supplies still constitutes the major problem of the united nations. “While submarine warfare on the part of the axis continues to take heavy toll of cargo ships, the actual production of new tonnage is greatly increasing month by month. It is hoped that as a result of the steps planned at this conference the respective navies will further reduce the toll of merchant shipping. : “The united nations have never been in such hearty and detailed agreement on plans for winning the war as they are today.
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The city declared war on its park)"
Report Ritchie Loses Command
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 27 (U, P.) —Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie today was reported relieved of command of the British eighth army in Egypt. Ritchie succeeded Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham as commander of the eighth army after Cunningham's offensive threatened to bog down in Libya. Ritchie carried the drive forward against the Nazi forces of Marshal Erwin Rommel but was forced to iall back from Benghazi and finally was defeated southwest of Tobruk, opening the way for the axis
USED 20CENT BOMBSIGHTS IN RAID ON TOKYO
'Skimmed Above Pagodas, Yanks Reveal as 23 Get DFC in Capital.
—The American B-25 bombers which wrought havoe in Tokyo and
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“WE RECOGNIZE and applaud the Russian resistance to the main attack being made by Germany and rejoice in the magnificent resistance of the Chinese army. Detailed discussions were held with our military advisers on methods to be adopted against Japan and the relief of China. “While exact plans, for obvious reasons, cannot be disclosed, it can be said that the coming operations which were discussed in detail at our Washington conferences, between ourselves and our respective military advisers will divert German strength from the attack on Russia. “The prime minister and the president have met twice before, first in August, 1941, and again in December, 1941. There is no doubt in their minds that the over-all picture is more favorable to victory than it was either in August or December of last year.”
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S. ADDS AIR MIGHT IN BRITAIN; MAP JOINT ATTACKS ON SUBS CHINESE PLEA
FOR AID HEEDED
War Leaders Report Over-All Picture More
Favorable Than Year Ago, but
Warn of Tremendous Task.
=~... -By JOE ALEX MORRIS £ United Press Foreign Editor
The prospect for a second front against the axis mounted
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today when the United States and Great Britain moved to relieve attacks on Russia and China and to offset gains in the ' battle for Egypt. “The coming operations . .. will divert German strength from the attack on Russia,” President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in a joint statement report-
other Japanese cities April 18 were equipped with improvised bombsights costing 20 cents each. This was revealed by the war department today as decorations were pinned on 23 members of raiding expedition which Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle commanded, Those decorated included 2d
less than a week last night, some-| one wrecked the Rhodius swimming | pool drinking fountain, broke sev-| eral floodlight bulbs and delayed | the opening by more than three; | hours while 50 wistful youngsters| 'had to wait for the pool to be put| {in order. . During the last week vandals also have wrecked several swings at Mayer Chapel, broken windows inj the school across the street and torn down swings at Camp Sulli-
van. | Can't Replace Equipment
drive into Egypt.
One of the posters used by state war bond headquarters to arouse public attention to the need of buying bonds is this appealing soldier boy-little tot picture inscribed with “We can’t all go .. . but we can all help!” :
POSTERS STIR PUBLIC | INTEREST IN BONDS
Stores to Concentrate on Sales Wednesday.
the downtown Indianapwill suspend sales of all Wednesday war bonds]
A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Most of
olis stores WASHINGTON, June 27.—It may be significant— That more and more long-and-hard-war hints have been heard in the last few days, despite hopeful state-
15 minutes ments issued after the Churchill-Roosevelt conference with
merchandise at noon and
and stamps over the counters for
sell nothing but
Ritchie is 44 and a veteran of tank warfare in the desert. ing that “the over-all picture is more favorable to victory FROM M ATRUH Lieut. Richard E. Miller, bombar-| than it was either in August or December of last year.” ee hi ey A eluioped No specific mention was made of a second front in EurAE | with the Norden sight-—details of |OPe but London disclosed that American air corps personnel British Planes Batter Axis Which still are a secret MTsugws had been arriving in the British Isles, presumably to take Ee rh criti oe the aig Part later in attacks on German war centers, and British | Columns Striking at was planned as a low-altitude raid Pressure for an invasion of western Europe continued strong, Recreation Director Frank Luzar Gateway to Suez lin which the remarkable sight Task Not Minimized warned that equipment ruined can-| : | would net be greatly needed, and The Roosevelt-Churchill statement emphasized that a | not be replaced and if the situa-! CAIRO. June 27 (U. P.).—Ad- | Deacuse it seemed ienvitable that tremendous. task. i heath of 1 ited i but id tion becomes worse, the playgrounds... 120 ve of Nazi Field Marshal| Some planes might fall into Japa- LI § les ahead o1 the united nations but sai will have to close yf the Juratlo® Erwin Rommel’s powerful desert nese hans” mh 4 ‘that the picture on the whole —not for just a few days like they) ; : 1a | ctually, as it turned out, none, 3 lial i did last year when bottles were A OE or Nell Sh & Wish of the planes fell into sapenese| CHURCHILL RETURNS was optimistic mn regard to broken in the bottoms of the swim- |. "5 jiich hace at Matruh today| Nands: One did land on Russian production and that joint ace ming poss: devATLGent investigas ‘as word was awaited that the main $0 The crew oF uiei ship Was T0 F AGE HIS CRITIC ‘tion was being undertaken to '’k depar e | 3 : a Bs De eto pattie for Egypt had started. ene ‘reduce the menace of Nazi U« : . ’ > i 2 I) 3 * : the Rhodius vandalism today Wi] RE A ae I Miles 23 Are Decorated | me ‘boats in the Atlantic. Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred! ; as "| Doolittle watched as Liuet. Gen.| | Detailed discussions were held in { Bradshaw announced he would visit | 48Y’S Sununu, but other enemy | Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army F ate May Depend on Events LH : units were reported within 11 miles | tobi regard to methods against Japan {the parks personally next week to f the British b t int called air forces, presented the distin- Lib d R x | d for relief of Chi th d \have “man-to-man” talks with the | Charing Cross *Yo the southwest, Suished flying cross to his 23 col- TeV a any essay gos 4 : ol Eo - a fo {boys and girls who play there. | Fein ’( leagues at Bolling Field here. _ The sialement was 0hvious'y dew i {where British tanks engaged them! The 23 agreed unanimously that LONDON, June 27 (U. P.).—| signed to reassure public opinion,
The sales suspension was announced by the Indianapolis Merchants association in co-operation with the U. S. treasury department's nation-wide bond drive for July. | The ringing of buzzers and sounding of trumpets at 12 noon will} signal the suspension of merchan- | dise sales and clerks at the counters
: : | will begin selling war stamps and] 3
bonds of all denominations. At some of the larger stores, bond | cashiers in appropriate uniforms!
will stroll through the departments! : 3
with large trays full of stamps and; bonds. All salespersons will have| large supplies of application blanks and assist customers in the speedy purchase of bonds. i Murray Morris, secretary of the Merchants association, said that] more than 200 Indianapolis stores | are expected to participate in He: bond and stamp sales drive. i The U. S. treasury department has notified merchants that the goal | for the July campaign in retail} stores has been set at 4 per cent! of the sales volume for the month.
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congressional leaders. That Vichy's radio has been urging France to re-enter the war—on Hitler's side. That Hawaii's getting a special issue of currency.
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CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS didn't learn as much as they hoped
Churchill. He borrowed a Roosevelt trick, started taiking as soon as they arrived, rose at the end of 30 minutes. Vice President Wallace, rose, too, ended the meeting by saying goodby. Senators Connally and McNary managed a question apiece; that was all.
when they saw
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ONE HOPEFUL NOTE from the conference: Jap production can't do more than replace heavy losses at Midway, other Pacific battles, while U. S. hasn't begun to reach limit of its productive capacity. = = =
: CONGRESSMEN FOUND Churchill calm, not borrows trick perturbed about criticism that might threaten his from F.D.R. tenure. They got a chuckle out of this: President told Churchill how much better off he, Roosevelt, is; he can’t be called up before congress every few days to explain himself. = 5
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' than railroads.
Rail managements, unused to praise from Washington, have been getting bouquets from ODT Director Eastman. But local transportation problem is acute (rubber shortage, of course), and companies will
| be told to step up efficiency or else.
= = = = = 8 WEEK-BY-WEEK declines in railroad car loadings (though war production is rising) reflect seriousness of the ship shortage, not failure of roads. There's not enough sterage capacity at ports, not enough shipping. Scarce materials will be diverted to build warehouses inland.
5 = = RUBBER COLLECTION hasn't been large enough to affect transportation crisis materially. (No one in authority thought it would be.) WPB plans a new drive (to show it is more efficient than Ickes-oil industry organization). But—as we've said before—brace yourself for nation-wide gas rationing. = 2 = = = = OPA PLAN to make all cars wear a gas-ration letter has developed
a bug. Permanent rationing system calls for issuance of a book, and a
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Accompanying the judge on his {visits will be J. C. Nelson, safety | director of the recreation depart-
{ness of the vandalism. Police On Alert
Judge Bradshaw said that if the will see that the offenders are] placed in the juvenile home. | Police Chief Morrissey, meanwhile, reissued his order to patro?| cars to nay especial attention to the (Continued on Page Two)
CHINESE WITHDRAW FROM ALLIED BASE
‘Quit Lishui From Which "Japs Could Be Raided. |
| CHUNGKING, China, June 27 (U. P)—A war communique tonight said that Chinese forces had withdrawn from the city of Lishui —the last Chekiang air base from which Tokyo might be bombed—but that heavy fighting continued in the outskirts. i Both sides suffered heavy casual-| ties in several days of intense fight-| ing at Lishui, including street bat-| tles that ended with the Chinese! withdrawal on Wednesday. | The Japanese had made a power- | ful attack to knock out the allied air base at Lishui in their campaign to eliminate all eastern China bases from which Tokyo might be at-/ tacked by long-range American bombers. The communique said that heavy fighting continued in Kiangsi| | province around Kwangfeng and on the Samshui and Kongmoon sectors
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lin minor operations. | Late dispatches from the front
main battle had started, although {it was generally believed that im- | portant operations might be already under way.
Axis Says Contact Made
| British bomber and fighter squad-
rons were battering the enemy armored forces and airplanes on the ground. (Axis broadcasts said that Romattack continued eastward and that contact had been made with the Matruh garrison, but gave no indication that a major assault had been launched by Rommel.) British and German light tank formations had clashed savagely over a wide front while Rommel pushed eastward, against steadily stiffening British resistance, the (Continued on Page Two)
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| ment, who will explain the serious- | [21led io Dake clear whether thei.
| United States
| they were ready, willing and anx- | ious to make a return trip to Tokyo. | “But we want the little general | (Doolittle) running it,” one ser-
|geant added. Sgt. Edward J. Say-|
| lor, Bursett, Mont., said he wanted to bomb Japan again but would like “some home cooking” first.
President Roosevelt presented the
congressional medal of honor to Doolittle at the White House May 19. viously that all 79 men who accompanied the famous speed {lier would receive the DFC.
today have just returned to the for reassignment. (Continued on Page Two)
URGES WORK ON 4TH
WASHINGTON, June 27 (U. P.). —War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson today asked workers in war production plants to keep at their jobs July 4 so “they will be acting in a spirit worthy of the men who gave this nation liberty and in-
dependence.”
Nazis Believed
Firing 2-Ton
Shells Against Sevastopol
By DR. FRANK THONE Science Service Writer
WASHINGTON, June 27—Shells fired from the new 24-inch German siege gun, reported in action against Sevastopol, must weigh two tons or more apiece. Sixteen-inch shells, used in American and British ordnance, vary in weight from 2100 to 2400 pounds. Fourteen-inch shells weigh about 1600
to 1700 pounds; 12-inchers
these figures suggest a weight of 4000 pounds or more for a 24-inch shell. Two-ton airplane bombs are nothing uncommon nowadays; both sides have been using them for many months. However, artillery shells of the same weight would offer several advantages. One drawback of airplane bombardment is the impossibility of correcting the aim after a bad shot.
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill mapped plans here today for| a critical parliamentary debate on | | war developments that have pushed | ‘the British back to Matruh in Egypt | land forced the Russians to give! ground in hard fighting on the! Ukraine front. | Mr. Churchill, talks
| flying home from with President Roosevelt, found the battle fronts little {changed . in the last 24 hours, but impending major battles in Egypt land Russia —possibly supplemented | ‘by an axis paratroop thrust at the (Continued on Page Two) on »
‘On the War Fronts
(June 27, 1942)
MOSCOW: Russians say powerful Nazi forces have been stemmed southeast of Kharkov; Sevastopol holds firm as Germans assault Crimean naval base for third week.
CAIRO: Rommel’'s armored forces mass within 15 miles of Matruh; attack against British army expected any moment; British forces through all Middle East on alert for parachutist attack.
LONDON: British planes attack occupied territory as Germans threaten dire vengeance for 1000plane raid on Bremen.
AUSTRALIA: Allied planes down six to 10 Japanese airplanes in fighting “off bomber attack on Port Moresby; four allied planes lost. Japanese ship hit north of Lae. .
CHUNGKING: Chinese forces withdraw from Lishui, the last base in China from which Tokyo
to satisfy Russian calls for direct assistance and to strengthen Mr, Churchill in next week's parlia= mentary debate on conduct of the war in general and the Libya dee feat in particular.
Shipping Is Grave Problem
The promise to divert German strength from Russia came only two: days after the war department here disclosed establishment of a Euro pean theater of operations for U, S. army forces, under direction of Maj. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the army's ace strategists, Undisclosed thousands of U. 8S, troops already are in the British Isles. “Because of the wide extension of the war to all parts of the world, transportation of the fighting forces, together with the transportation of munitions of war and supplies still constitutes the major problem of the united nations,” the two leaders said. While Mr. Churchill was at the White House, he and the president called in ranking shipping experts of Great Britain and the United States to work out means of solving this major transportation problem, The statement today gave no cone crete indication as to what these steps will be.
Saw Soong and Litvinov
The references in the statement to Russia and China reflected the detailed talks held earlier this week by the president and the prime minister with Dr. T. V.
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the Chinese foreign minister, who
asked them for added air support, and Soviet Ambassador Maxim Lite vinov, Unusual importance was ate tached to these conferences, and this importance was supported by the president and the prime mim ister in their statement today. ;