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FRIDAY, JULY 3,

1942

“SUPPLY OF YOUNG MEN DWINDLES; 35-10-44 CALLED

Local Boards to Select But Eventually

Husbands to Meet Quotas.

By EARL RICHERT The flow of men in the 35-to-44-age bracket to Uncle Sam’s army already has started in Indiana.

And with the lists of avai

registrations practically exhausted, it is likely that by the

end of the month local draft

Single Prospects First

Must Summon

lable 1-A men of the first two

MANY GROUPS | IMPEDE FIGHT ON INFLATION

More Breaks Forecast in

Bloc Fights Another.

(Read “One War We're Losing,” ? Page Two.)

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 3.—The administration’s

the nation toward a spectacular showdown on domestic economic

boards will be meeting prac-

tically all of their calls from the new gop.

In taking men from the 35-to-44. group, the local boards!

are following the recent selec- |

tive service directive to take all! single men first, as far as | is possible.

Too Late to Ohange But some calls including married men (without dependents) in this group had been made up before the directive was issued and it was too late to change. Draft officials say, too, that there

are so few single men in- this age group that they will have to take married men to meet. their calls, An example of this is shown by the situation in one Marion county local draft board—a situation that is typical generally. The board is sending some married men, without dependents, in the 35-to-44 group to the induction station this week because they were scheduled for induction before the directive was issued.

Call Two Husbands

This ‘board is scheduled to send anothér group of men in the middle of the month. It was able to find enough single men in the 35-to-44 group to meet that call with the exception of two. Married men were called to fill the quota. In the call for the last part of the month, officials of this board say they will have to call married] men because the available single men will have been exhausted. 86 ar as it is known, the local draft bodrds in calling married men are taking only those with working wives or wives with independent sources of income; men who are not supporting their families or men who have married recently in what draft. officials think might have been an attempt to avoid the draft. No draft boards are known to have used the dependency law yet, calling men with dependents.

' Single Men Dwindle

In commenting on the order to take single men first, one local draft’ official commented: “That's small - comfort to the married men without dependents because we have taken practically every single man we could rake up.” Most draft boards are preparing now to go back over the deferred lists of the men in the first two ‘registrations to try to find more men for the 1-A class. Draft officials say that at the present rate of calls it will not be “too long” before they will have to start taking men with dependents.

policies. At the moment the show is being

Price Ceilings as One|

anti-inflation pro-|§ gram is faltering today and heading

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KURSK SECTOR

| ballyhooed as a contest - between | Price Administrator Leon Hender-

‘Army Lowers Requirements

1-B INDUCTION T0 BEGIN SOON

To Draft Men With

Minor Defects.

WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P.).— A modification of army physical standards, effective Aug. 1, will Ber- lo t induction for service of regular quotas of 1-B men so classified because of minor physical - defects, Secretary of War Stimson disclosed today. Persons with only one eye, or totally deaf in one ear, are among those who will*be liable for limited military duty. The 1-B’s will be assigned to the corps area service command and the war department overhead, to release equal numbers of fully qualified soldiers for task force duties. Inductions Limited

Induction under the new standards will be limited to men wno bring a useful vocation to the army from civilian life. Those subject to call include: Men under or over army weight limits. Men with defective vision if it can be corrected to 20-40 in either eye. Men with defective hearing if not less than 5-20 in one or both ears or if not less than 10-20 in one ear if the other is totally deaf. Men with insufficient teeth if correctable by artificial dentures.

Other Defects Overlooked

Other acceptable defects are lateral deviation of the spine of less than three inches from normal; loss of an entire thumb on either hand or loss of three fingers provided the thumb remains; loss of great toe or other physical defects of the feet which do not prevent the wearing military shoes, and other minor deformities which do not prevent the men from following useful vocations in civil life.

ARMY SUPPLY BILL SIGNED WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P.)— President Roosevelt today signed seven appropriation bills totaling $44,867,764,981, including the record $42,820,003,067 army supply bill for 1943.

Harry Hopkins

New York Society Leader

. WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P.).— Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt’s closest adviser, will marry Mrs. Louise Macy, socially prominent New Yorker, “at an early “date,” the White House said today.

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Jand his second wife died in 1937.

Will Marry

White House Press Secretary Stephen T. Early made the Hopkins’ marriage plans public in response to newspaper inquiries. “If Mr. Hppkins were in Washington today,” Mr. Early said, “he would be-very happy to tell you in person of his engagement to Mrs. Louise Macy of New York City. “He ‘and Mrs, Macy will be married at an early date. As yet neither time nor place. has been decided.” It ‘was believed, however, that the 51-year-old veteran New Dealer and the attractive New York society

would be married in the ite House. Mr. Hopkins has lived there as a close confidant of the chief executive for some time. It will be Hopkins*third marriage. ‘His first marriage ended in divorce, |

He has three sons and one daughter, 10-year-old Diana, who has been living at the White House

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‘son and the administration on one

side and congress on the other, But that is not a fair representation. Instead, it is a battle royal— no holds barred—between the -spe-

cial and superficially conflicting in-|

terests of politicians, farmers, wage earners, employers, housewives, manufacturers, motorists, oil leaders, bond holders and the rest of us, if ‘any.

Backs Subsidy Program

Henderson returns today to capi~ y

tol hill. He will continue his ef-. fort to convince a senate. §

with all the additional employees hf and scope the greater sum would i

.| provide. . He also believes the government

must adopt a subsidy program to}. and}: growers to maintain their opera-|-tions under the price ceilings im-|:

enable some manufacturers

posed in May.

Yesterday's subcommittee meet

ing was a noisy engagement in which the voices of Henderson and

committee. members boomed through . closed doors to reveal the vigorous and fundamental character of the ;

differences under discussion. The price ceiling was badly holed (Continued on Page Two)

WAR TRANSIT PLAN:

IN EFFECT TUESDAY|

Staggering of Work Hours

May Ease Traffic.

Indianapolis’ wartime transportation program will go into effect Tuesday.

Drawn up by a Chamber of Commerce emergency transporta-

defense transportation, entails: 1. Staggered working hours. 2, Full use ot all street railway lines. 3. Diversion of traffic to street railway routes (schedules to be altered to divert bus passengers to street railway routes). 4. Turn-back service, which will utilize shuttle vehicles in outlying districts. i 5. Selective stops of public vehicles, a practice which already has been started. 6. Standard of service in non-

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BRITISH CRUISER, 5 DESTROYERS SUNK

LONDON, July 3 (U. P.).—~The admiralty saig today that the cruiser Hermione and four destroyers had been lost in the Mediterranean in recent convoy operations. The Polish destroyer Arp Kujawiak also has been lost, the admiralty said.

The British destroyers sunk were

the Wedouin, Hasty, Grove and Airedale.

HOOSIER IS NAMED ADMIRAL BY F. D. R. WASHINGTON, July 3 (U, P.) — The navy ahnounced today that Vice Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, com-mander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet since Jan. 1, has been advanced the president. (home is in La Porte, Ind.

with him and prime favorite

tion committee and the office of| the plan]

Admiral Ingersoll’s ar

lush, semi-tropical atmosphere,

Japanese,

of army chow, to the Japs:

“A deck of playing. cards helps lulls in action. |

metal corrugated hut.

A soldier in the background stitches hi: Maps, radio equipment ‘and a field telephone set are. j housed in ‘the

U. 8. fighter pilots in northern Australia are now ‘uartered in a They are guarding dangerous area, the “invasion coast”. surrounding P seas of Timor and Arafura and the: Gulf of Carpentaria. | is seen here taking off from a jungle’ runway to do battle with the

ralia’s’ most © Darwin, ‘the ‘AU S. plane

i | said that “ceaseless German attacks ,| succeeded in piercing - the Soviet . | defenses ‘at a: few places, but ulti- { mately the enemy was driven back

Back from an ‘attack, this American pilot parties «fa hefty plate It shows that he can: ish} in: as well

as dish it out

pilots while away ‘he time during worn clothing.

It won't be a quiet Fourth. There’ll be fireworks and parades, circus thrills, speeches and arnly maneuvers. Tomorrow marks the day that America told the world she’d run

‘her own business herself, and no<

body will be allowed to forget it. But most of the bangs and booms will be for the axis and not just! for a show. \ Highlighting the Jug 4 schedul

1 ‘The army emergency relief “cavalcade of thrills >! ,

Army-Navy Parade. Thiills On City's July 4 Frogram

3. A public address by the national director of civilian defense, James M. Landis, 2t 2:30 p. m. tomorrow, at the Mu at. 4, A fireworks ilisplay sponsored by the 12th distric. American Legion at.9:30 p. m. tom: row at Columbia park, 2859 §. East « : » ? van nd government |~ closed tomorrow rémain open to

Banks, stores

% were, strewn, with thousands of Ger-

g ing ‘mere ‘ténse ‘4nd the. ‘magnitude

{on the Kharkov front in the Vol-

| that axis troops have ripped open | the Soviet front for g distance of

.| prisoners at. Sevastopol.

| not specify -

‘from Gzhatsk, west of Moscow, was

180 ‘miles.)

|day’ battle in which the Germans

.Jenemy then moved up fresh mech-

porting that 13 bombers were miss-

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Nazis Lose Thousands of Men and Tanks in Southern Drive.

MOSCOW, July 3 (U. P.). —One of the most savage battles of the war is raging: on the Kursk sector of the southern front where German tanks forced across a strategic river barrier after losing thousands of men and hundreds of tanks and guns. the army newspaper Red Star said today.. The. enemy tanks were attacked by Russian armored forees and the! . engagement is still in progress, the Red Star said. | The banks of. the river “already

man dead, hundreds of tanks and the wreckage of many guns,” the newspaper, said. The newspaper said that fighting in the ‘streets of Sevastopol continued, but that ‘the “whole situstion on’ ‘the southern front: is grow-

vy fighting also “was: ml

chansk region, “where the Red Star

with high losses.” - (A German communique said

180 miles iin the southern area; and have: captured . more than 50,000

AThe German announcement did where the axis had breached the Soviet - defenses but presumably the area running south

referred to, as the German offensive has been under way there for some {time, . . . The Berlin communique evidently meant to imply that the axis forces had advanced en a front 180 miles wide, rather than -a' penetration of

German Losses Heavy

Forcing of the river barrier in the Kursk sector occurred during a fivewere repulsed repeatedly. The anized columns supported by strong air squadrons, some of which had just been transferred from Crete, the newspaper said. The Germans have lost so heavily that they are now throwing in (Continued on Page Two)

EXPLOSIVES DELUGED

PRICE THREE CENTS

IS HURLED BACK SEVERAL MILES

Nazi Forces Reformed Quickly for New : | Assault; U. S. Fliers and RAF Blast -Axis in Non-Stop Attacks.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor

Hard- -hitting allied air and land forces fought back at. perhaps the most powerful axis onslaughts of the war to-' ] day on the Egyptian desert iront west of El Alamein and: on the rolling Russian front from Kursk to Kharkov, : American airplanes were co-operating with the R. A. F..

in: non-stop bombing attacks against the armies of Nazi ‘Marshal Erwin Rommel in the still undecided battle tor

Egypt.

Axis dispatches asserted that United States troops also were fighting with the British at El Alaniein. This lacked. any confirmation but it was known that reinforcements had' reached the British from the Near East.

British Position “Not Bad”

‘The outcome of the enemy offensives. toward the ‘Nile river, and into the Russian Ukraine—a gigantic pincers oper. ion. against the Near East—was still far from decided. ; futhe swirling desert a: . axis iorces were smashed ack or Thursday in “their main assault and a. British counter attack from the south forced Rommel to retire several miles to the west, where he Fe; formed for a quick new assault. ‘London and. Cairo military spokesmen were encouraged by the results of the fighting and said the British position was “not bad” today. He But they warned against over-optimism as to the otits 4 come of the battle, which still was in progress. Rommels, strength was not known, ‘but there was no question ‘that he would keep. on striking with everything he could muster,

Axis Driving Hard in Caucasus

About the same situation existed on a greater scale on’ 5 the south-central front in Russia, where the Germans have’ aimed three strong spearheads at the Russian army in the Kursk-Kharkov sector in an effort to break through toward the Caucasus. 0 The biggest axis ‘attack was “in the direction of Kursk,”, where a five-day air and mechanized assault on a strategie: river ‘left thousands of German dead and hundreds of® wrecked tanks on the field but achieved a crossing of th river. The German tanks that got across were attacked by. the Russians and the battle. still was raging. On both the Egyptian and Russian fronts, ‘the axis claimed gains: but withdrew Thursday’s reports that the British army in Egypt was being pursued toward the Nile delta and Alexandria, 60 miles east of El Alamein. ;

Axis Gets Air Reinforcements

- Axis broadcasts acknowledged that the British were striking back strongly, but said a “breach in the British line” had been widened, that “strong points” had been captured, that 2000 British prisoners were captured. fad

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ON BREMEN BY RAF

300 Bombers | Make ath Raid in Eight Nights.

LONDON, July 3 (U. P). — A strong fleet of long-range bombing planes, estimated to number: upward of 300, made the fourth large royal air force raid in eight nights on Bremen, key German submarine and war factory area, last night. Many fires were left burning in the city, already devastated by three previous raids in the first of which, on the night of June 25, a force of upward of 1000 big planes, each with tons of bombs, hurled destruction on factories, docks and building yards. An air ministry communique re-

ing indicated the size of the latest raid. It was estimated that in eight nights a total of - 2000 planes had bombed Bremen. ‘Short range ‘planes heavily at tacked German airdromes in Holland and Belgium: last night in diversionary attacks. |

BANK REPORTS ORDERED

‘WASHINGTON, July 3 (U. P)— The comptroller, of currency today | issued a call for the condition of national banks as of June 30. Ross H.. Wallace, director of the Indiana

department. of financial institutions,

It was too early and dispatches from the front were too long delayed to indicate whether the British under Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck had been successful in bresking the fores (Continued on Page Two)

War Analysis

By CARROLL BINDER

Richard Mowrer, who since 1939 has been watch= ing at close range the struggle for. the Middle Eas and who brings to his task an exceptional know of military matters, cabled from Cairo on Tuesday . | _ that the situation had become desperate and if not : quickly remedied “may have worse consequences for = the British and their allies than the collapse of France.” In anoth dispatch Mowrer said that the present battle may determine who going to lose ine war. The exceptionally severe censorship again pres ® 8 vailing in Egypt and the ;

East prevents the correspond! On the War Fronts|swom siving a clear picture pop July 3, 1942

present or prospective si na : reser : TR EGYPT—British communique says, On or about June 24, the Mid axis ‘attacks on El Alamein sec-| Eastern authorities began herplte tor in Egypt repulsed and Brit-|ting the correspondents to . ish counter-attack on south flank| with reasonable freedom and. for * forced enemy to fall back to west.|brief interval the peoples. w 3

jdestinies are at stake got a RUSSIA — Germans crash aurvds) ‘accurate idea of how things river barrier in: Kursk sector of

oing. : south-central front; claim 50,000} ¥ But by Sunday those ‘determ

prisoners at Sevastopol. - ‘to keep the “people back. home

'BRITAIN—R. A. F. bombs Bremen | |the dark had succeeded in rem with about 300 planes for fourth! 28 the correspondents. The time in week. of the dispatches’ this week ¢!

‘indicated that correspondents 3 AUSTRALIA — Allied planes wreck Dot being permitted to portray airdrome and wireless station in at

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