Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1942 — Page 4
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STILL FIGHTING AT SEVASTOPOL| British Holding, Cairo Says
Russians Deny Na Nazis ‘Claim striking offensive blows at the | almost everything on a decision for $50. when that help is needed, and no 2 ’ enemy rear and flank. near El Alamein. She was told, too, that she need; later. of Naval Base’s
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ict Offensive Unlikely for * Another Six Months, Writer Says.
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“tempt a counter-attack until the - is fully loaded and cocked. 2. The allied bombing of Sala- | ; ‘maua has destroyed the effective- ) “ness of that enemy base. 'y 3. The Japanese ‘have replaced |} WM “losses and rebuilt bases with amaz- ! Ing and effective rapidity elsewhere. "| 4. Bombing squadrons so far have failed to break the enemy's grip on ‘Bny base. Land forces are needed xo, knock out any enemy base. Three months ago I flew over Raaul, Lae and Salamaua and saw at Jeast three Japanese invasion fleets |
yt She The British position there was|not worry. She would be taken| Yhaf, simply, is why they're nave i The, pia Se ont | better than it would be at any|care of until her husband was back(InE the big show out st the fair Fall. : and tu running % other point before Alexandria and|home again. grounds. % Auchinleck was fighting was re-| Cairo and the outcome of the bat-| No investigation of her case was (Continued from Page One) garded-as encouraging to. the Brit- | tle may well decide the fate of the made. She said she was in need.
ish. big naval base. The Suez canal The army knew h part in the attack, announced they| Nazis Claim Break-Through and the road to the Near East. | service. There was oy a. Nara were rushing new reinforcements Si ] The British, with the aid of! If a mother or wife or other aol to“ the eastern front. But at the same time Rommel United States bombers squadrons, pendent should write for help, then If the Germans take Sevastopol,{was attacking along the coast and appeared to be holding air control the army probably would ask the they were Letieyed 0 hisve paid a Slo Sitling slong ne ok Hain. Se over the Egyptian battlefield. Red Cross to visit the home and ortune in and blood: perhaps| pression strike a e see what the condit| . 60,000 men killed and 100,000 to|south flank, Sandstorms vere rag-| Vay Demolish Naval Base |... "0 =n the re be 200,000 wounded. ing along the battle front. But this could not be certain in|is made in a letter and not in perMilitary observers’ in London said| This morning, the German com- view of the fact that the Germans son. that the Russians were believed to|munique. claimed that these ma-| have held back their planes for use| The army, of course, would like have developed other Black sea|neuvers had been successful and primarily as supply transport and |to have that money paid back if the naval bases during the winter. that the axis assault forces had|the Italians today said that axisisoldier or dependent ever finds himCoincidentally with the claims! broken through the El Al:mein re-|air superiority had been established [self able to do so. That way the that Sevastopol had fallen, the Ger-| gion and were “pursuing” the Brit- [in the El Alamein sector. fund could be kept up.
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But a few days later that fleet met {the allied forces in the Coral sea And allied bombers began attacking othe Japanese bases. .Since then I have flown over “these three enemy bases, again, and dhe reconnaissance was both encouraging and discouraging.
Rabaul Maintained
" Bncouraging because Salamaua’s| ance at the: downtown department stores.
effectiveness as an air base has been “destroyed. Discouraging because ‘the same can not be said of Rabaul “and Lae, » At Rabaul the Japanese *constantly * are replacing their heavy bombing losses to keep up the out‘post's fighting strength. . And at both places the Japanese ‘are demonstrating their knack of Yapid reconstruction. I saw intense incendiaries fransform Rabaul’s "wharves and warehouses into leap‘Ing flames. Yet later, reconnais‘sance ‘pilots came back. with the stories of new buildings springing up with amazing speed. , The same
. is true at Lae where hangars, blasted
one night seemed to be almost re-
"stored ‘the next.
The lesson I learned at the ad-
vanced bases was that land troops
are the major consideration in determining any strategy. It is futile to try to win a battle or a war by aerial bombing alone.
Japs Always Prepared The Japanese demonstrated the correct tactics throughout the Pacific, In Malaya alone they used more than 700 modern aircraft. They . showed extraordinary skill - at throwing large bodies of troops ashore with speed and safety, always covered, with ample ‘aircraft. Japan’s major victories always have been with an army whose keynote is practicality. They never approach any adventure without thorough preparedness, full respect for their enemies, apd a set of tactics based on an assumption of their infantry’s superior numbers. The "Americans, Australians and British were slow to assimilate these tactics although Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters now is aware of them. - That is why I don’t expect major allied activity possibly for the rest of this year. Six more months may give United States supply agencies time to get the needed material to Australia. Whatever the difficulties contrat ing the suppliers in the southwest Pacific, they must be overcome before MacArthur’s offensive can be launched . effectively and with “any | hope. of success. i An Economic Headache
THe: Japanese undoubtedly are e of the allied position in Auspor ‘but the Coral sea and Midway battles must have stalled their tactical/ ‘machine. The bombing of Tokyo and other Japanese cities by Brig. Gen. James Doolittle also concei bly may have led the Japanese to nge any plans they may have had ‘as regards Australia, Ei contracted an economic
headache by the conquest of the bulk
of thé Pacific's natural resources— without markets, plus millions of hungry, restive peoples which any te adventure toward Australia would only aggravate. Thus it appears that a stalemate has “developed for the moment in the Australia theater, but that continept must remain the allied Pacific: stronghold. To do so. it must receive more and more offensive
in sufficient force to wrest air supremacy from the Japanese.
Joe Jackson Jr. (left) and Edgar Kennedy, Hollywood comedians, drum up war bond and stamp salés in a downtown department store -as the retailers’ month-long victory drive opened yesterday. The two
- sold ‘more than $1000 in bonds and
Indianapolis retailers were off to a fast start in their war bond “victory drive” today. At the H. P. Wasson & Co. store, officials said that more than $90,000 in bonds alone were sold in the first day of the campaign. At L. S. Ayres & Co. and Wm. H. Block Co. where Joe Jackson Jr. and Edgar Kennedy, Hollywood comedians, made personal appearances, more than $1000 in each store was sold during the
stamps in each 20-minute appear-
Hollywoodians' 20-minute appeard ances. At Block's more than $15,000 in series E bonds were sold by the early afternoon and 1500 war stamp corsages, at $1 each, were completely sold out. Kennedy and Jackson used the latter's come-apart bicycle to tie up traffic and attract crowds at Washington and Meridian sts. and Market and Illinois sts. Kennedy frequently used his most familiar screen mannerism, wiping his , face with his hand.
Commons Upholds Churchill, - Who Warns of ‘Mortal Peril’
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not received the attention they deserve” in Britain.
6. Although the summer is half |gane, Hitler has not been able to start his major offensive against
Russia. : India’s Army Larger
7. A massed Japanese invasion of Australia would be “most -hagard-
ous” at present and the allied | “utterly unexpected by the house of watchword : throughout the south-|commons, the public, the war cab-
east Pacific is “atta 8. The army in India is “larger than ever before in history” and Ceylon is “now strongly defended by naval, air and military forces” against a Japanese offensive. 9. A newer and faster tank than the present heavy British tank, known as the Churchill, has been designed and will soon be in production, but most British air marshals still “have little use” for dive bombers. (The government has been criticized for failure to develop dive bombers but had said that they were arriving now from the United States.)
Tobruk Fall Unexpected
10. The United States and Britain are now more closely together and more determined to win the war regardless of risks and sacrifice than ever: befare as a. result of Church-
Jill's ‘talks with President Roosevelt
‘on movement. of men, supplies and ships" and replacement of losses at sea. The vote of confidence in Churchill,. who rejected “any middle course” such as demands that he drop the ministry of defense post, was greeted by loud cheers. The prime minister's speech emphasized the “hard deadly struggle that lies ahead of the army of the Nile” in Egypt. “I am not going to express any opinion regarding what is going to happen,” he said. “I never have made arrogant boasting predictions. I shall say nothing regarding the future except to invite the
house and the nation to face with
‘courage whatever it may unfold.”
Churchill said in his speech that| poard request. in the last six- months about 50,000 Bras tn eq
been sent around the Cape of Good| FREE 3- YOUTHS WHO fighting strength, including planes | Hope, South Africa, and that “when PUT ROCKS ON R AILS
they get around the cape it is decided where they will go.” He
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did not say whether these included American troops. Churchill, disclosing that news of the fall of Tobruk first reached him when he walked into President Roosevelt’s room at Washington, said that he did not consider the struggle in Egypt “in any way. as being decided” at present. The prime minister said that the fall of Tobruk in a single day was
inet and the chief of staff,” as well as Gen. Auchinleck.
TIRE DEALERS GET CALL FOR INVENTORY
Indiana tire sellers must report to the State Office of Price Admin. istration their inventories of. all serviceable tires—new, used, retreaded and recapped—as of June 30. - James D. Strickland, OPA director, said the figures must be filed by July 15 in duplicate with the dealers’ local war price and rationing boards. .| The reports are ' required under the terms of a new amendment to the revised tire rationing regulations. They must be filed by tire dealers, automobile supply .companies, motor vehicle dealers and automobile finance companies. They are to show each seller’s stocks of passenger car and truck tires and tubes, tractor and farm equipment tires and “all other” tires not mounted on a vehicle. Similar reports ‘must be filed quarterly hereafter with the remaining “due - dates” the 15th of October, January and April. All ' transfer of tires and tubes also must be reported. The dealers also must take an inventory at the close of each month and must maintain a file containing all certificates turned over to them by purchasers of. tires and tubes. These records are to be made available to the OPA or- to the local
Three boys who placed. rocks on
| railroad: “because we wanted to see
“1 [Marion county Herbert J. Read,
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the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio
the train flatten them out” were released by police today after they were given a lecture by juvenile authorities. The youngsters and their parents
school Tuesday. The rocks were found on the track in the rear of Burgess ave. 5300 block, by Charles Brydon, 5334 Burgess ave., who notified police. The boys were taken to the juvenile aid division where they admitted placing the rocks on the tracks. They said: they ‘had put tin cans
IS IN NEW QUARTERS
The federal rent administrator for
has moved his office from the Murat temple to. the .sixth floor of ‘the § | Board of Trade: building. The new telephone, number is- Franklin; 2411. Because of the tremendous num-
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mans appeared to have begun their grand scale offensive in Russia. They were striking near Gzhatsk, 112 miles west of Moscow, in a drive apparently aimed at Moscow, itself, and at Kursk, 175 miles below Moscow. Moscow reported that the Gzhatsk drive had begun with heavy defeats for the Germans. British broadcasting corporation correspondent Paul Winterton, said the German attack was “three-pronged” by “several dgivisions” and that the Russians had smashed the German seventh army.
ish toward the Nile delta =nd Alexandria. The axis claimed -the c: \pture of El Alamein. These claims were not otherwise substantiated, although the enemy communiques have been less exaggerated than usual in regard to positions in the Egyptian advance,
British Risking Everything
If the claim of a break-through should be confirmed, it would not necessarily mean that the British
had lost the battle, but indications
If the battle surges closer
there.
Alexandria, it was expected that the British would demolish that|with the army. key naval base and destroy or re-| about it. move eight French warships, including one old battleship, interned
The loss of Alexandria would
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mean that the British fleet had lost control of the eastern Mediterranean except for relatively insignificant areas around Cyprus and on the Syria-Palestine coast, regardless of London’s suggestions that naval operations might be
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Proves Wonderful
ERE WAS THE PICTURE, three months age. Strewn around mil-
lions of American farms was a wealth |
of scrap metal. From the steel mills
came a constant. cry for scrap. But the farm scrap’ didn’t: come in. It was scattered far and wide, hard to find, expensive to gather. No system existed to collect it.
- So we went to the 8,500 Harves-
‘ter dealers in rural communities,
asking them to help get in the farm scrap. The whole field organization
of our company tackled the job. Pro-
‘motional and publicity campaign: "were launched to erry the story to - the farmers.
Civic committees were organized to help. Dealers hauled scrap in their trucks. They persuaded their farmer friends to bring along a load whenever they came to town. They pro-
vided a place to dump. scrap. When
-a good big pile was ready, the near-
est scrap dealer was called in to buy. The steel mills got that scrap. They will continue to get it!
SCRAP— rubber and siotal ils a
vital need in war. Turn in your scrap now. Every ounce will help
to bring the Victory nearer!
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RESULT: More than 1,350,000 tons of scrap iron and steel collected from the fields and barn yards of American farms and farm communities. And more coming every day. That’s 35,000 railroad carloads of scrap. Melted down, it’s enough to build 30,000 medium tanks for the Army. Or 100 cargo vessels for the battle of ocean transport.
The farmers and businessmen of rural America have revealed an iron mine in the fence corner—an arsenal This job is being done a as volunteer war work—done by men who ask no reward, done not only by Harvester dealers and personnel but by dealers of competing companies, by local merchants and organizations. Anyone who wants to help is welcome. And they do want to help.
Nobody in the farm equipment industry makes a dime on scrap. We don’t. The farm equipment dealers don’t. All money from scrap sales
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goes to the farmers who bring in the scrap. The work of organizing, collecting and marketing i is free. Now this plan of farm-scrap collection is being carried forward by the entire industry through the Farm Equipment Institute and dealers’
"associations, with everybody boost-
ing the scrap along. It is closely coordinated with the salvage plans of the W.P.B. and the American Industries Salvage Committee. | THE POINT Is: The producers of America, men who know how to do things — farmers, opérators of small businesses, representatives of large business—working together, are doing another good job to help win the war. They are licking one more problem that some said was difficult and some said was impossible. In Tokyo, in Berlin and Rome, they’re finding out what it means to war with a nation where people, like motors, are self-starting. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER-COMPANY 180 North Michigan Aveumo Chicago, Jilimeis
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