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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 96

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1942

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ritish Commander Asks ‘Supreme Effort’

LIBYA CHARGED . T0 CHURCHILL

Foe in Commons Debate Also Attributes Untruths To Prime Minister.

“LONDON, July 1 (U. P).—United Hm dive bombing planes have ‘geached or are on their way to va‘vious theaters of the war, the gov"ernment revealed today in commons debate on the conduct of the war. . The debate brought a charge that Prime Minister Winston Churchill bad made “untrue and inaccurate” © statements on the situation in Libya. Oliver Lyttelton, préduction min‘ister, who opened for the govern-

"ment, praised the work of United

States General Grant tanks in . Libya and intimated that had there been Saleh the scale might have

im 1 performed well but ‘Were out-gunned by the bigger Naai tanks.) 3 A Battle of Thoks 2 “It is a match in battle against

A fleld as x the idea that “dive bombers would have affected Libyan battle. are of the opinion that bers are largely ineffective * he said, and added the fall of Bir Hacheim, which Jed to the British withdrawal, had not been due to dive bombing. . Lord Beaverbrook, former produc>on chief, speaking in the house of Jords, said he had not thought there of equipment in Lave and never had heard a sug“gestion of an aircraft shortage.

Impeachment Asked

MWe have no dive bombers Libya because we had none to send,” ~ _he said. “When the Churchill government came into office no prowision had been made for dive . bombers. Orders were placed in the ~ United Staten alter Churchill came into power.” “If you want divided authority Stall the delaya and disputes that come from it, and if you want to (Continued on Page Four)

New Store. Hours - To Start Tuesday

DOWNTOWN stores in Indiwill abandon their cus5 po. m. Sess during

(Ruetday. They will close at 5:30 p. ol this two month Pio, ah mont stores opening at 10 I ainawaa of 3:3 ». m. The of evening

= ns T0 UNIFY LOCAL EFFORTS

Tyndall ohn Still Carries Scars of Wounds

Received in France.

By NOBLE REED Five minutes after C. Harvey

| Bradley, bullet-scarred veteran of

world war 1, was appointed Marion county civilian defense director today, he called for “immediate coordination” of city and county defense units. Mr. Bradley, who is president of W. J. Holliday & Co. was named to the post by Governor Schricker to succeed Gen. Robert H. Tyndall who resigned to conduct his campaign for mayor. The appointment followed an hour’s conference at the governor's office with Clarence A. Jackson, state civilian defense council director; Mayor Sullivan, head of the city defense council, and Gen. Tyndall. ", Seeks Co-ordination

“Activities of the county and city defense organizations must be ‘coordinated into a smooth working unit with both, using the facilities and staffs of the other to accomplish results in preparedness for any emergency,” Mr. dley said. He went into action this afternoon. at the air raid wardens’ headquarters in E. 22nd st, where

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On Sale of Bonds, Stamps

jana retail stores today started r bond victory drive as the

goal of each store will be to

il war bonds and stamps equaling ; eent ‘ol the ‘establishments

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68] Yesterday §| state executive chairman, «ess 16[that the state had met its June

total sales of regular merchandise last July. From noon until 12:15 p. m. today

stamps. Sie. Siipesramces of $wo, Hollywood equaling | comedians, Bdgar Kennudy and Joe Jackson Jr.

stores’ drive is Theodore -B. Griffith, president of Ayres. Eugene

C.' Pulliam, announced

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~ Bradley to Direct Civilian Defense

Discussing plans for co-ordination of city and county civilian defense activities were (left to right) Clarence A. Jackson, state defense council director; Governor Schricker, C. Harvey Bradley, newly ap- | mointed county defense director; Mayor Sullivan and Gen. Rebert H. Tyndall, retiring

county defense

Bulletins WELCH, W. Va, July 1 (U. P.).—An airliner was reported to have crashed three miles from Welch today." First accounts said that 10 persons had been

MARCH FIELD, Cal, July 1 (U. P.).—A fourmotored Consolidated B-24 bomber plane crashed during a routine flight near March field, reportedly killing nine men, the army revealed today. :

ENGINEER KILLED IN SOUTHWIND’ WRECK

12.to 15 on Other Train Hurt in Georgia Crash.

CAIRO, Ga., July 1 (U. P,) —The engineer of the southbound Chicago to Miami passenger train “Southwind” was killed today when a northbound train ‘crashed headon into the streamliner.’ Twelve to 15 persons on the northbound train were injured, none seriously, according to Cairo hospital officials. The crash occurred on the single track line near Whigham, Ga. The

tion stop and was about to pull back into a switch when the northbound train ploughed into it. : : The engineer of the “Southwind” was George Anderson, 55, of Montgomery, Ala. Witnesses said he jumped just before the crash and was pinned under the locomotive which turned over. No cars on either train left the track.

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BELIEVED TEXAN

As That of Thomas Ever-

sole; Shot 3 Times.

The body of a youth found murdered yesterday afternoon was identified tentatively today as that of Thomas Eversole of San Antonio, Tex. The youth's body was discovered on 46th st. two blocks east of road 52. Believed to be about 20, he had been shot three times in the head. Two of the bullet wounds would have been fatal, according to Dr. Wesley Ward, deputy coroner.

Stories Conflict

Wayne Jennings, 12, of R. R. 17, Box 566, saw the body as he rode down the road on his bicycle. Six months ago he found the body of a suicide in the vicinity. Last night a young man came to the sheriff’s office and told deputies he was sure the dead man was the

“Southwind” had gone past the sta-|

youth with whom he had hitchhiked from Dallas, Tex. He was taken to the morgue to view the body and “positively identified” it as that of Eversole, but deputies said he told so many conflicting stories that they detained him for further questioning. Dr. Ward said the youth had died about 10 or 11 o'clock Monday night. Although dust from the road had settled on the body, officers said it appeared unlikely that it could have been in the sun all day. The body was about 2 feet from the road in a reclining position with the head resting on the left arm. There were no signs of a scuffie at the scene and little blood on the ground.

Body Tentatively Identified

‘erty ships, seven cargo carriers for

SHIP BUILDING FOR JUNE SETS

WORLD RECORD,

Output Is Up 450 Per Cent, But Unequal to Sinkings, Says Official.

‘ WASHINGTON. July 1 (U. P.).— Vice Chairman Howard L. Vickery of the martime commission said today that united nations ship building has not yet equalled total submarine sinkings hut that the American merchant marine is larger today than before P=arl Harbor. Mr. Vickery announced that American shipyards, delivering 66 ships into service im June, set a new world’s record for steel ship construction. June ship deliveries totalled 731,900 tons, he said, and expressed confidence that the president's 8,000,000 ton goal for this year would be met.

Steel Supply Expected ? Achievement of the goal depends, however, upon “a steady flow of steel and other materials in the required amounts,” he said. But he added that he expects no difficulty ‘with steel supplies, June production represented an increase of 450 per cent since Pearl Harbor, Mr. Vickery told a special press conference. Illustrating the speed of American ship-construc-tion, he said that one of the cargo vessels that delivered bombs for use in the battle of ili; Coral sea was

{ a Liberty ship whose keel was laid] LE SE el

Tops 1917 Record ‘The best previous record in American shipyards was set in Septeniber, 1919, when 6183885 tons of steel ships were delivered at the peak of the World War 1 program. Ships delivered this June included 51 Lib-

Britain, five large fankers, two C-2 and one C-3 cargo ship. Asked if ship construction was keeping abreast of submarine sinkings, Mr. Vickery said that only compléte figures whole story, since other united nations also are engaged in shipbuilding. These figures, he said, are confidential.

SUB AND MINE TO INCREASED TO 33

Panamanian Craft Latest Victim in Atlantic. By Science Serviee The sinking of a medium-sized Panamanian merchantman announced today by the navy brought to at least 339 the number of united nations ships sunk by enemy submarines. in the western Atlantic since mid-January. An east coast port received 31 survivors, including wo Norwegian stewardesses who had previously been torpedoed off the coast of Malta last February. The ship's dog mascot also was saved. In the previous 2¢ heurs the navy had announced the sinking of three more ships by submarines, with a total of 67 lives lost.

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in the Mediterranean. The Wasp is nyo of the navy’s missioned on April 25, The. navy disclosed oy a a ique that the Wasp had made several ferrying trips to Malia with R. A. F. planes, but did not reveal when’ the trips were made or where they started. (London advices, - however, said that the Wasp had been in action in the Mediterranean for at least two months, and it appeared that the delivery of reinforcements was prior to the Nazi drive of some 200 miles inte Egypt.) During one of the ferrying trips, the nayy said, enemy planes attacked Malta just after a group of R. A. F. pilots had taken off from the Wasp. Fight Off Enemy Fliers “Completely surprised by the increased number of defending fighters, the enemy suffered considerable losses,” the communique added. “The planes which took off from the Wasp engaged the enemy over Malia before landing on the island. After landing and hastily refueling at the airdrome, they were again in the air, continuing to repel the enemy attack within 30 minutes after arrival.” The communique said that. the “expertly timed arrival of the reinforcement planes on the Wasp was most fortunate for the heroic defenders of the British stronghold and the. cause of the united nations.” : The communique did not elaborate on that point.

20 Minutes From Sicily It was emphasized that the Wasp accomplished all of its trips without damage either to the escorting

self. The identity of the escort!

J. J. Fitzgerald, Insurance ~ Company President, Dead,

James Joseph Fitsgerald, nation

i a day at his home, 4832 Graceland ave. He was 64 ana aa Ben J)

JAPAN: Jdapabese forces shifteq | Insurance Co. and the Hoosier Adnorthward in what London mili- (Justment Bureau of Indianapolis.

vessels was not disclosed. Malta, the most bombed spot in| the world, has beeni a keystone in the British defense of the Mediterranean. Malia is only about 20 minutes’ ‘bomber distance from Sicily. Iis position makes it a vital

As One Jammed Gun to Another

AKRON, 0. July 1 (U.P). —

Carries Planes to Malta

The U. S. aircraft carrier Wasp, which, according te a navy announcement today, has made several trips fo carry American planes | te Malta, was commisisoned April 25, 1940.

U.. 5.Ship Ferries British R Aircraft to Island Base

WASHINGTON, July 1 (U. P.)—The U. s. aircraft carrier Wasp has carried British plane .reinforcements fo besieged Malta, the navy said today in officially disclosing the Presence of American naval vessels

CERMANS CAIN IN KURSK AREA

Attack Ceaselessly Lose Thousands of Men, Russ Report.

MOSCOW, July 1 (U. P.).—Axis forces attacked persistently and in considerable strength on the cen-

tral (Moscow) and southern fronts today, making some gains in the important Kursk sector, but falling back before a strong Red army counter-attack that killed more than 2500 enemy troops about 112 miles west of Moscow.

LONDON, July 1 (U. P.). — A German broadcast tonight said

that “the fall of Sevastopol appears to be imminent.”

Front line dispatches said that

following a recent lull the Germans |}

had renewed heavy operations near Gzhatsk, 112 miles west of Moscow; and about 45 miles from the Mozhaisk-Smolensk highway. A Russian counter-attack beat back the mass assault and routed the 7th German infantry division, with more than 2500 dead. Slight enemy gains were made on the Kursk front farther south and at Sevastopol, where powerful Ssaults were in progress.

(The German radio claim Ru-

manian troops had captur 5 4 , (Continued on Page vg

but:

JAPS MOVE TOWARD SIBERIA IN ALL ‘SQUEEZE’ ON SOVIET

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Major Battle Rogos) 60 Miles From Alexandria.

United Press Foreign Editor

Axis armed forces drove

Russian fronts today despite a “supreme effort” by British defenders of Suez and Red army counter-attacks that cost the enemy heavy losses.

There appeared to be no question now that Hitler was attempting all out pincers offensives through Egypt and the Ukraine toward the Near East. -

And London military spokesmen said that Japan was moving armed fofces northward to Manchukuo for a possible attack soon on the Soviet Union in Siberia.

that a major battle already may have started in the El Alamein sector, and indicated that it might be the decisive engagement in defense of Egypt. The fighting around El Alamein meant that although the columns of Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel had advanced some 200 miles info Egypt, they had pushed eastward only about 30 miles from El Daba in the last 24 hours. This seemed to represent a slowing of the axis advance and official British statements that successes had been scored in the running battle in the desert and that “as number of” enemy {fanks were knocked out tended to support this conclusion. Last Strong Point Stormed

There was definitely no assurance, however, that Rommel’s main strength had been sapped since the extent; of the British successes Wer not even indicated.

tion. He called for the “stick it out” in a supreme

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MELBOURNE, July 1 (U. P)—

have killed or wounded 60 Japanese troops and captured war equipment in a raid on the big enemy base at Salamaua, New Guinea, it was announced today. They New Guinea mountains at dead

Allied commandos, opening land|® "| operations in the Australian Zone,

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