Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1942 — Page 2

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P. m. with a concentrated barrage, the tanks began moving up and at ». .m. the order was fyen for a general advance. : ‘ Already we could see tanks burn- | mg on the sky line. “The British forces showed per- © fect. synchronization. Tanks, infantry, artillery and airplanes

"moved together like parts of a marl chine.

The attack moved fast. +One section of our force bit into

the front tip of the German 90th + light division which was lying along

| the southwestern edge of the Ala-

‘mein perimeter: 60 miles from Alex- - andria;

+ Another ‘section swept directly on

afield. headquarters of the German

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Enemy Forced Back

Other. sections swept in from the on the enemy flank.

~ «A big task force of tanks cut in

. behind a German tank force, turned back due eastward and compelled the enemy to withdraw to avoid en-

* trapment.

...The specific purpose of the imperial attack - was to cut off the enemy's tail by pushing behind him -the coast, & reversal of the tactics the Germans had used against Tobruk and Matruh, and deprive him. of supplies. . The British had expected an axis attack yesterday afternoon and Gen, Sir Claude Auchinleck had : ed to catch the Germans on ‘move. But they continued to in, and Auchinleck went after

‘Lying on my stomach behind a heap of stones hewn from the rock

: u make pill box defenses along the

f. I could check the progress ‘the British sweep by the fast ‘moving sand. clouds which the

; tanks threw up.

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Guns Blaze Away

The heavy tanks moved in close - formation in several lines, with light tanks forming an exterior sereen ahead of them. The British 25-pounder guns and heavy machine guns hammered at the enemy’s northern flank from their coastal positions. Long range enemy anti-tank guns, ranged on a ridge in the dust bowls, blazed away at the British tanks. A ‘detachment of 40 German tanks crept eastward to the south of the British main body of tanks, trying to sandwich them between the flying column and the.main German' armored force. But the New" Zealand artillery drove them off with its usual accurate shooting. I drove along the fringe of the

be British attack area at twilight. Very

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heavy shelling By both sides stirred

. the desert dust into an inferno. The

night was overcast. Flares and gun flashes were like great fire flies all over the landscape. The Germans seemed to be kept guessing what the British would do next,and they began a bombardment: of the Alamein railroad statien, « * Between listening through radio ear- phones to headquarters and hungrily stuffing in bread and jam, liberally coated with flies, a South African sergeant, sprawled on the hot steel floor of his armored car, told me how his crew had just fought their way out of a German trap. “We went out on patrol reconnaissance,” he said, “when we saw

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side of a hill. I thought they were armored cars. Not on your life! They were Jerry tanks. Some more appeared and soon we counted 20 of them swanning around. But we used our pistol”—pointing to a light . machine gun—“and sheered off.” A mile farther on were two British

. armored cars, sheltering just under

the crest of a hill. A young officer . gave me a hand to the turret of one and passed me his binoculars so I could see the enemy down in the ‘depression. The guns were going pretty heavily. * TI made out a group of tents and ‘trucks about a mile away.

Ambulances Spotted “One of our advanced casualty

clearing stations,” the officer said.

“They are under easy range from the German guns, but they are not ‘moving.” We watched the ambulances‘creep ‘over rough tracks toward the main

“camel track leading from north to

south. They got to the coastal rbad and then, speeding up, raced for the year with their wounded. . I drove to the British vantage point on a humpbacked road to

- watch the fighting. There was a

.desultory artillery duel, in which

‘ the Germans were outranging the

‘British. High explosives began

* eracking to our right and we moved

.on. The Germans were ranging on

|| the British.

Tank scraps developed occasion-

b ally in the dust bowl and in the © wadis, the dried stream beds.

1 constantly ran across stragglers. just met three men, actually ‘caked with white dust. They had lost their tank ‘the night before, ] Indians to get themselves out of a tight corner when a big German patrol attacked their box ense post.

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Why the Camouflage:

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Know How to

false optimism.

millions. year of the first world war,

history.

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tary leaders cannot understand many things and are deeply anxious because they cannot find adequate answers. The Russians cannot understand why Tobruk, which had already withstood a siege of many months, should not have been so

strongly fortified that no conceivable German force could take it except after long and costly assaults. The Russians do not understand how or why, after nearly three years of war, there should be much less than 250,000 British and Empire forces in Egypt which is the keystone to the entire near east. The Russians do not understand why the forces of Egypt should still be weakened as a result of British empire forces being rushed to Malaya from Burma last winter. After all, they rea-

months in which to replace every tank, and every air squadron sent to the Far East, and who could fail to see that not the slightest risk of losing Egypt should be incurred? ” ” 2 MOST OF ALL, the Russian people do not understand why ‘Britain’s land forces have not yet made a stand, cost what it may— why British soldiers have not yet

way the Russians, Greeks, Poles and Serbs know to die. The Russians know full well that only through the will to die flames the will to win.

British defeats in Egypt come as a great deception to the Soviet people. Even the humblest, most uneducated Russian laborer or peasant talks of these things today and shakes his head gloomily and uncomprehendingly. It is highly important ‘that these Russian reactions be understood abroad and in high places as well as low. What about a second front this year, a front on which. the Russians’ greatest hopes are based?

‘bruk and Mersa Matruh are examples of the kind of fighting to be expected from British soldiers when the opening up of a second front is attempted—as it must be attempted. Now they wonder whether British officers and soldiers will prove capable of dying by several hundreds of thousands to make that front a decisive, unsmashable reality. | a ” 2 NOW THE RUSSIANS is badly shaken and it would be a most dangerous kind of folly to make believe that this is not so. It is so—and quite naturally so. No people on earth could pay the price of this fighting will-to-die that Russians have paid, and react otherwise. It boils down to the fact that for the Anglo-American allies there cannot be another Tobruk jor another Matruh in this war. Only the spirit of Sevastopol and jonly the spirit of those Britishers /who charged with the light bri|gade at Belaklava, some 80 years | ago, can retrieve what has already been lost in Egypt. This war, will only be won by many

son, London has had at least six |

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successive abandonments of Tobruk, Sidi Barani and Mersa Matruh cannot be portrayed in diluted phrases or with

These people, fighting virtually alone, have endured the cruelest punishment for mote than one year. dead and wounded are counted in the millions—several

Their

No one nation paid such a colossal price in any one

nor has any nation probably

paid such a price in the same short period at any time in

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ONLY BY REALIZING these facts can anyone outside Russia hope to get some conception of the Russian reaction to the events in Egypt. The Russian people and their mili-

more hundreds of thousands of dead. To convince the Russian people that the allied union is invincible, the other nations’ soldiers must [now prove that they know how to die. The other nations’ military icommanders must also know that, like the Red army’s generals, they assume nothing—that they leave nothing to chance. As far as Soviet Russia is con- | cerned, this is the lesson of Egypt. But it must be taken to heart with the most urgent speed, with ruthless changes of commanders and of methods, and with iron determination.

8 NAZI SABOTEURS COULD GET DEATH

WASHINGTON, July 4 (U. P.)— The eight German saboteurs landed by submarine on American spil must answer four specific charges, each carrying the death penalty, when they go on trial within a few days before a military commission of seven generals. The men were charged specifically |with sabotage, espionage and con|spiracy to commit hoth. Emphasis was made in each charge that they

acted on behalf of the German government. The counts were drawn up at a

[long conference yesterday between

Attorney General Francis Biddle and Maj. Gen, Myron C. Cramer, judge advocate general of the army,

lwho will prosecute the case by di-

rection of President Roosevelt. The commission, first tribunal of its type to assemble since the civil war, is to meet by presidential orders July 8 or as ‘soon thereafter as practicable. Its proceedings will be highly secret. Empowered to impose any sentence it desires, the commission will formulate: its own rules and decide where the trial is to be held.

| |JULY BAND SPONSORS LUNCH Now they wonder whether To-|

The July band of St. Catherine's church will sponsor a luncheon at 12:15 p. m. Wednesday at the church hall, Shelby and Tabor sts.

Chair ladies are Mrs. Edward H. Trimpe and Mrs. Edward J. Gallagher.

SUBS FUELED BY | TRAITOR'S SHIPS

Army Discloses How Canal ~ Zone System Worked During Nights. °

CARIBBEAN DEFENSE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, July 4 (U. P).—The “King of Belize’s” schooners anchored in desolate, Caribbean bays. At night, axis submarines followed them, rose to the surface and moved close to the schooners. Fuel pipe lines were thrown aboard the submarines, and the schooners pumped oil into their tanks. - That was the ‘way, the army revealed yesterday a spy ring which

|it has broken with the arrest of

20 suspects conducted part’ of its business with the axis. The “King of Belize’ George Gough, British Honduran businessman the army believes was leader of the spies—operated a fleet of 10 coastal schooners, among other enterprises, directly from the port of Belize, British Honduras. ; British Honduras, an army officer said, in revealing details of -the spies’ operations, was an ideal contact point between agents and submarines. Beautiful night club hostesses wangled information from dock workers and passed it on to the spies, who transmitted it to the submarines. The officer said the submarines themselves furnished the tipoff that they were refueled off Central America. The army noticed that submarines were raiding for ifidefinite periods in the Caribbean. It would have been impossible without land-based refueling points nearby. U. S. authorities did not suspect Gough until an observer contacted a British agent, and they correlated their information. The British, the observer learned, had been working on the case for more than a year.

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On the War Fronts

July 4, 1942

BRITAIN — Six American bombers ‘made first U. 8. raid on Germansoccupied Europe. Two planes, with probably six men, lost.

EGYPT—British striking relentlessly at new axis attempts to assault El Alamein sector in Egyptian desert battle, launching unprecedented air attacks on enemy.

RUSSIA — Germans claim major break through in drive toward Don river, apparently first stage of Hitler's projected offensive against the Caucasus. Russians admit fall of Sevastopol.

AUSTRALIA—Allied planes bomb Japanese base at Koepang and Lae; Japanese raid Port Moresby.

3 MORE SHIPS SUNK BY GERMAN U-BOATS

By UNITED PRESS Disclosure that submarines have sunk three more vessels—one While she was docked—today raised to at least 353 the total of united nations’ merchant ships sunk by axis submarines and mines in the Atlantic since mid-January. The San Pablo, a 3305-ton United Fruit freighter, was sunk in the Costa Rican port of Puerto Limon, by a submarine which slipped up and fired two torpedoes into her. Twenty were injured by the explosions. The other sinkings included a British vessel in the Caribbean on June 14 when 33 men died in two flaming lifeboats. Twenty-one lives ‘were lost in the sinking of a Latvian ship. *

DETECTIVES CALLED IN ON LOCAL MURDER

City detectives were called in today to assist the sheriff’s office in the investigation of the murder: of Oscar (Tommy) Kersey, 17, who was shot to death early this week. Sheriff Feeney requested the help of the city police and Fred Simon, chief of detectives, immediately assigned Detectives Elbert Romeril and Lawrence McLaughlin to assist Deputies Carl Beck and A. J. Thatcher, who have been investigating the shooting. The body of Kersey was found Tuesday on 46th st. near State Road 52 with three bullet holes in the head.

MERLE SIDENER TO SPEAK

“Liberty or Death” will be discussed by Merle Sidener at the meeting of the Christian Men Builders class tomorrow morning in the Third Christian church. Broad Ripple Post of the American Legion members will be special guests. Dr. Clifford B. Chambers is commander and Cecil E. Hartman is chaplain.

Robert Eugene (Bob) Hyland, bicycle policeman in the days of the Lew Shank city administration, died shortly after midnight today at his home, 1950 Bellefontaine st., at the age of 68. When his uncle, Martin Hyland, was police chief during the Shank administration, Bob Hyland was promoted without his knowledge to sergeant. Upon learning of the promotion, he immediately resigned, stating that he wished to remain a bicycle policeman. His wishes were granted. His partner on the force was the late 'Fred Amsten. Together they rode their bicycles out of substation 4, on Prospect st, by

Robert Hyland, Of Bicycle Era, Is Dead at 68

Policeman

Square. For several years up to Dec. 10, 1941, when he resigned from the force, Mr. Hyland had been in the property room of police head~ quarters. Upon his retirement, he had been on the force 33 years. Born in Clay county near Brazil, Ind, Mr. Hyland came here as a youth and was a member of 8t. Joseph’s Catholic church. For two years, Mr. Hyland had been in poor health. Surviving- him is his wife, ‘Margaret.

The body was taken to the Blackwell funeral home, 1503 N. Meridian st. Funeral arrangements have not

Charry Leaves

WR GUNS ROAR ON WARTIME 4TH

Many Remain in Factories Forging Weapons to Guard Freedom.

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on, army and civilian defense offiials warned: The enemy may choose a holiday “to strike. In Indianapolis the celebration started at 10 a. m. with a down- . town parade of army detachments, ‘patriotic organizations and others. a At 11 a. m., Nelson E. Craig, Indian2 3 _apolis’ hero-father who has lost three sons in action in the war, was

Rabbi at Beth-El Takes | {to adjust the war bond thermome-

|| ters at the Circle, signifying that Germantown Pulpit; {Marion county met its June quota. Here Nine Years. i

Landis to Speak 4 At 11:30 a. m. James M. Landis, Elias Charry, rabbi of the Beth-E! national director of civilian defense, Zedeck Congregation here for nin: was to be feted at a luncheon at the Columbia club. At 2:30 Mr. years, has resigned to become rab Lands Was uy fake 5 public adof the Germantown, Pa. Jewisi dress at the Murat. Center Sept. 1. || About 150 navy recruits were to Rabbi Charry, who came heii be sworn in en the Michigan st.

from Youngstown, O. |1 steps of the war memorial at 11:30

1s formes a. m. and at 1:30 p. m. the emer president of the Indianapolis Ziot} | gency relief show was to start at

ist district. , Last month he wd the state fair grounds. The show elected president of the Ohio Valle (was to be repeated at 7:30 o'clock A d ians | tonight. ons, Pine a The 12th district, American le- ’ ' 'igion, was to hold an all-day celeHis new congregation, started iy \pration today at Columbia park, years ago, consisting of 300 famili-:|3859 8. East st, with fireworks at in a community of about 800 Jewis!: [9:30 o'clock tonight. families. Rabbi and Mrs. Char; [Defense districts 21 and 22 also and their son and daughter, wii:

were to hold an all-day program, in--“leluding an incendiary bomb celebrahave lived at 3242 Washington blvc., will leave the middle of this moni:

tion by the fire department at 9 p. m., at Rhodius park. I Although gasoline and rubber rato take a vacation in the East he- tions restricted many a celebration, fore assuming his new duties, + ,|the national safety council it Rabbi Charry who has been acti; y -councll saw in Jewish affairs during his reg. dence here expressed regret in les -

as a blessing. The council predicted a 25 to 30 per cent decrease ing Indianapolis and hope that I.is new work will be as “fruitful an id

in accidental deaths but still estihappy.”

mated that at least 350 persons in

Rabbi Elias Charry

America today would lose their lives D

in traffic, drownings and other misOF SEVASTOPO.

haps. Last year 500 were killed on the July 4 week-end. Germans Hurl Fresh Min Into Offensive on South: Central Front.

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Donates Curls

FITCHBURG, Mass., July 4 (U. P.).—Nine-year-old Carleen Gabriel was happy today in the

part--in the war effort by contributing her 20-inch, brown curls. Carleen, a third-grade pupil, decided several weeks ago that she would like to help and she had her long locks cut. The hair will be sent to the Bendix Corp. of Baltimore, which previously tested a sample and found it perfect for use in precision instruments.

Hungarian allies were helping Lim in his long-heralded “summer fensive.” It said that the Russigns had fought the Germans in directions of Kursk, Belgorod apd Volchansk” throughout the nigh!

Hungarians Killed “In the Kursk sector a unit coin-

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A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington . Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

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accident investigation bureau isn’t set up. One has just been created, under able officers, but it’s strictly within the army. It's recognized that all accidents can’t be eliminated, that AAP is performing gigantic task. But congress wants to make sure accident rate isn’t out of proportion.

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BIGGEST CONGRESSIONAL mail still comes from constituenis wanting to be commissioned officers in the armed services. Few wait a place on the firing line, many want safe posts, congressmen report.

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ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S most closely guarded secrets is the program of the office of scientific research and development, headed by Dr. Vannevar Bush and staffed by some of the nation’s most eminent scientists. The house, told that this’ agency has developed some hundred devices, formulas and methods of value to the armed services, voted $73,000,000 for next year’s researches. 5 » ” » o NO NEED FOR priorities on railroad shipping facilities, Transportation Chief Eastman says. He's told rail managements and shippers that previous experience indicates they'd mean only inefficiency and confusion.

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New Inheritance Tax Suggested

Stiff new inheritance tax is latest proposal for making up tex bill's two-billion-dollar deficit. Present law taxes estates, not inheritances. New proposal would retain death duties, impose a new tax as estates are liquidated and property passes over to beneficiaries. Proposal would hit several large estate trust funds set up before there was any estate tax, or while it was very low. Headliners hit —among pthers—would be Brenda Frazier Kelly and Marshall Field IIL « Treasury hasn't yet okehed the plan.

8 8 ‘8 2 ” SPEAKER SAM RAYBURN will have something to say on proposal of Rules Committee Chairman Sabath for separate house votes on mandatory joint income-tax returns, sales tax, othef revenueraising plans. What he’ll say is “no!”

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” ” ” n 2 2 : BUT SABATH SEEMS to have got away with sidetracking the floor six weeks ago. Sabath said he wanted to hear testimony from Hobbs anti-racketeering bill. Hobbs asked a rule for debate on the labor leaders, But they've never been summoned. ” ” ” Ld ” 8 BATTLE OF LIBYA may cause a shift in production program. It showed up desperate need for tractor-dra.vn artillery. Tank production may be cut, tank-blasters built instead. ” » 2 Good news (it's needed!): American arms are costing less than estimated, being built with fewer man-hours, Nelson told congress. s

To Cut or Not to Cut

TWO-BILLION-DOLLAR cut already made in war plant building program may be doubled. It would speed up arms production in next 12 months, slow it down in 1944. Decision probably won't be made till after battle for Egypt.

2 2 0» 8 =» =x MANPOWER COMMISSION will talk over idea, urged by some congressmen, that small businessmen forced out by war program be given preference for government jobs. 8 ” 2 ” ” ” ~ POLITICAL MIRACLE-OF-THE-YEAR: Rep. James W. Wadsworth, lifelong conservative Republican from upstate New York, has been offered the Democratic county leaders of his district. May run on both tickets. He's been for Roosevelt foreign policy.

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manded by, Partenov killed sev al thousand (enemy) officers and #* most of which were from the garian corps,” it said.

E “In the same fighting our unif set afire 63 German tanks. On angther sector, several dozen army tanks were destroyed and a large rumber of men put out of action. | “Our aviation in air combat destroyed 13 planes. “In the Volchansk direction our troops are - resisting with Bi eat courage and beating off nume:ous enemy attacks.” Fifteen thousand German officers and men were killed and more! than 250 tanks destroyed in one <cay’s fighting around Kursk, last nidnight’s Soviet communique sat. Russian tank power had come into its own, Red Star rep: ted, and hundreds of big tanks | were dueling on the 135-mile front, particularly between Kursk and 3Belgorod, which ‘is 50 miles no rthwest of Volchansk.

Sevastopol Falls

Russia announced last nigh’ that the gallant garrison of Sevs:‘opol had withdrawn yesterday an¢ that the Germans had entered a ¢ity in ruins. Sevastopol, Russia's :reatest Crimean naval base, ong: was of the most beautiful cities in Europe. The Germans, a serial] |communique said, had hurled “200,000 soldiers and more than 400 ‘anks and 900 planes against Sevsstopol. The final assault, whic: the Russians said had raged ced:=lessly for 25 days, cost the Ciimans 150,000 men and ‘officers of ‘which at least 60,000 were killed, th: communique said. In the eight j-onths that the Germans had besieged Savastopol, they lost a tgial of 300,000 men, killed and wen gnded, it asserted. More than 250 German tari ts, 250 guns and 300 planes were lost n the final assault, the comun ‘nique added. it 11,385 Russ Killed Ii

“From June 7 to July 3, “Soviet troops lost 11,385 killed, 21,099 wounded and 8300 missing; 86! ranks; 300 guns and 77 planes,” the communique continued. At the end of its’ resi iztance, Sevastopol had been pound: d into rublle by German guns and alanes. It was cut off from land com/runications with the rear. It had 0 airdromes, and ammunition and food were disappearing. Where the garrison is ne: -was not disclosed. Presumably it now was fighting on in the litiiz peninsula below Sevastopol. |

ONE OF CHIEF /DS EXILED BY FRANCO

MADRID, July 4 (U. FH .—Gen. Frandisco Franco today issid a decree confining Lieut. Gen. ‘ionzalo Queipo de Llano, one of {he most famous Franco military lex ders of the civil war, to forced res énce at

Malaga, in Andalusia. Qu: po is in

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