Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1942 — Page 2
RITISH HOLDING EDGE IN EGYPT
ow Zealanders, South}:
. + Africans Turn Tables On Axis Troops. (Continued from Page One) Janders’ low casualty figure indi-
Probably the attack has made ‘worse the Italian morale which re- ) ly 1s very brittle, owing gely to the allies’ terrific air attacks.
On Thursday the New Zealanders had taken 370 Italian prisoners with 30 guns and 30 vehicles on the @dge of the Quattara depression.
The prisoners stated that they| were on a ration of about a pint
"prisoners when taken 1 *. that the speed of the en - vance from the Egyptian f was such that the normal exuberance and thrill of the advance never . had a chance to come to the surface, The pace was so terrific the men ~ were too tired to be thrilled by anything, it seems, and their condition was made worse by ceaseless day and night air attacks. German infantry losses, inciden‘tally, appear to have been very high. German prisoners taken ap- ~ pear tired like the Italians, according to reports of eyewitnesses. It appears that some of the German reinforcements recently flown from Europe consist of young, inexperienced soldiers. The war's drain on Hitler's manpower was ‘indicated here a few - days ago when two of several Germean prisoners captured by the . South Africans turned out to be Jews aged 31 and 32, but conscripted only last January. ) ‘When asked why, being of mili-
tary age, they were conscripted so
Jate the two Germans replied, “But we are Jews!”
Tremendous Air Support
The allied air effort to stem the enemy continues on a stupendous scale. Reports from the ground forces - at the front indicate that the enthusiasm of the army has never before been so great for what the royal air force, the South African
. air force and royal Australian air
forces are omy. British planes are continually in the air whereas the luftwaffe is
doing to hamper the en-
. nowhere near as active in the day-
time. British and American air strength is not yet as large as it should be, but fliers these days are operating with an intensity which probably has not been seen since the battle of Britain.
Air Fighters With Beards
$ Night-time Wellington bombers— * mow called medium hombers since the bigger Liberators have come to the Middle East—concentrate with use of flares on some targets which the daytime Boston members of the 8. A.A. F. and the Baltimores of the R.A. F. go for: Enemy concentrations at the front. The Consolidateds of the United States army air corps and the R. A. F. cousin, the Liberators, do their stuff at night and their targets generally are towns and ports. Bombers these days have a habit of coming low and machine-gun-ning the scene of their bombing. Fighter pilots now have a pretty good stubble on their chins, Once in a while they are able to swish some sand off their faces and necks but they certainly are not the kind - of faces you see on recruiting posters. : Spirt of Elation
Their makeup consists of a young beard, old underwear, top ripped across the back, a pair of slacks held up by suspenders, and goggles. That is the way these pilots look when they fly off into action. The way they feel is evident mostly to the enemy. A spirit of heady elation seems to dominate these flying, fighting men--maybe something akin to the spirit that existed among the Britishers during the battle of Britain, from the fire fighters on London's 2ooftops to men fighting in the sky. Strangely, the enemy air activity is very slight in the daytime except for Stukas at the front lines and increased air activity at Malta.
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This first photo of United States action in Alaskan territory shows a fire raging wildly aboard a Japanese transport in the harbor at Eizka in the Aleutian islands. The fire was started by a U. S. homber which scored a direct hit and the craft later sunk.
MARTHUR MEN LASH JAP BASES
Allied Bombers Strike at Enemy Over Vast Area
North of Australia.
MELBOURNE, July 6 (U. P.).— Allied. planes, steadily developing their offensive operations, bombed enemy bases over a 2650-mile front yesterday.
They struck at Atamboea, in the Dutch part of Timor island in the northwestern zone, and the LaeSalamaua area and. Florida island in the northeastern zone. : Fighter planes drove off 27 Japanese bombers, escorted by six Zero fighters, which attempted the heaviest raid on Port Moresby, New Guinea, in seven weeks. In Florida island, near Tulagi in the Solomons, the allied planes attacked a new Japanese base at the village of Haleta. The raid on the Lae-Salamaua area on the north New Guinea coast was a big one. The allied planes attacked Japanese installations in waves and started fires throughout he ‘target area. :
MACARTHUR GHALKS UP 30 TO 166 SCORE
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, July 6 (U. P.)—Japan definitely has lost 166 planes, with 118 more probably destroyed in the Australian zone since Gen. Douglas MacArthur started issuing his communiques April 21, an analysis showed today. Loss of 30 allied planes in this period has been admitted. It was indicated that the pattern of the war in the air in this zone distinctly was favorable to the allies. 3 Also, it was indicated the Japanese were paying increased attention to the area northwest of Australia. At the same time it was reported that Japanese submarines were operating in the Indian ocean and the Japanese claimed to be using the Singapore naval base. Apparently Japanese strength has dropped in Gen. MacArthur's zone. The enemy was putting increased reliance on fight= er planes.
NORSE HOSPITALS CROWDED STOCKHOLM, July 6 (U, P).— Oslo dispatches reported today that Norway faced a serious shortage of hospital facilities as the result of the importation of thousands of German wounded. gp
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ramp, jumped over a truck lengthwise and landed on a second ramp. Last night he just failed to reach the second ramp and his car hurtled under the second ramp knocking loose its supports and causing the heavy timbers to fall on his car. It required several minutes to cut away the timbers and twisted automobile and Lucky was dead by the time he reached the hospital. His neck was broken. His assistants said that when Teter’s car made the final turn before reaching the ramp it went into a slide, raising a cloud of dust. They said they heard his motor ‘miss, probably because of some dust clogging the carburetor intake.
They explained that at this point Teter could have gene another lap around the track to gather more speed. Lucky . inaugurated this stunt years ago when he leaped over automobile hoods. The stunt developed until he was jumping over 20 hoods. Then he jumped a truck turned sidewise and one day three years ago in Atlanta he announced he was going to jump a bus—lengthwise. The first jump was successful, but later he cracked up badly when his car leaped entirely over the ramp and rolled. But Lucky climbed out uninjured. The Pitman, N. J., crackup was similar to the one yesterday except the leap wasn’t so far and the impact less. At that time Lucky received several broken bones. Generally, Lucky “had a feeling” when something was going amiss and would have the . ambulance
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SAILING SCHOONERS MAY APPEAR AGAIN
WASHINGTON, July 6 (U. P.).— A fleet of several hundred wooden sailing schooners would be launched in inter-American trade under plans believed nearing completion by the commerce department, Reconstruction Finance Corp., and the office of the co-ordinator of interAmerican affairs. ; The new fleet would carry chiefly coffee, sugar and cocoa, releasing steel ships for other war-time trade. The little wind ships would increase waning stores of coffee, now being considered for rationing.
FOUR DRIVEN FROM PLANT BY GUNFIRE
CHICAGO, July 6 (U., P.)~Four men who may have been saboteurs were driven away from the grounds of the Link Belt Co., a war production plant, by gunfire before dawn
officers disclosed today. The men had dug a hole beneath
tory and one of them had crawled
were discovered by William Damrill, a guard.
Lucky Teter Meets Death As He Misses Hardest Act
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It was in this phase of the leap that Lucky met his death. The car didn’t have momentum enough to reach the ramp and crashed into the understructure. The heavy planks of the ramp fell on the car. This photo was taken when Lucky performed at the, fairgrounds
Saturday, Chicago ordnance district |.
the high fence surrounding the fac-| inside the enclosure when they|:
RUSSIAN LIN? PUSHED BACK
Nazis Drive 100 Mil¢s East Of Kursk in Ukrine Smash. | _ (Continued from Page One)
But last night he was more jovial than ever and throughout the show was wisecracking with the other performers. Both his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Teter, witnessed his fatal leap. His mother was in the stands and his father was in the pits. . Before climbing into his car for the final leap, Lucky addressed the audience, dedicating the stunt to the soldiers. He said: : “I want to thank the officers and soldiers in Indianapolis and I'm! dedicating this last stunt not only to the soldiers here, but to all the boys in Uncle Sam’s armed forces throughout the world.”
Although he always maintained he wasn’t superstitious, Lucky was careful to wear one of the “lucky” black boots he’s had for nine years. He wore them constantly until they became so worn out he had to replace them, but he always wore one of the black ones for the “Rocket-Car-Leap.” Born in Noblesville 39 years ago, Earl M. Teter began stunting in 1932 when he was a filling station operator in Ashland, O. He had appeared with his show in most large cities in the United States and Canada. ey ¢ He appeared before 81,000 persons at the state fair last September and a total of 40,000 saw his performances this year.
sumably by opening a pean front. Without direct reference to the front, Izvestia warned hat potential resources of the united nations will be valueless uiiess they are thrown into action jery soon. All Moscow newspaper: | warned the people of a grave mili ary situation that promised great “:ardships and sacrifices in the fiiture, but said that eventual victor) was assured. i On the other main world fronts, the ‘allied position was slichtly improved in Egypt and in ¢ hina. The British, supported | growing numbers of Am¢rican and R. A. F. planes, battled to advantage over the =i armies on the E] Alam:in sector, where another enemy stiong point was captured. It was eji:phasized, however, that the fightin: still was indecisive. Is In China, where ti: United States army air units ations over the week-e1. reported that: allied knocked out a total of 77 Japanese craft on the ground since July 1. ! The week-end allied atigcks hit at His wife, Mrs.. Edna Teter, was enemy bases in the Hariow, Nanreported to be vacationing some-|chang and Canton and ‘engyang where in the South. He -also is|greas. i survived by a sister, Ruth, of Nobles-| The Russian front, hdwever, was ville. the scene of the greates: fighting. Funeral arrangements have not J been completed. Russ Open Counter-/.itack
The chief hope for imigcdiate relief was indicated by a’ report in the German high commgnd’s com- ¢ |munique, saying that powerful Rus- § |sian forces led by big aif and tank units were attacking norih of Orel. This might mean thai the Russian army was openiiiz a big counter-attack designed, to break into the German flank. || A counter-offensive iii the Orel sector would be the logi¢:! move by Soviet Marshal Semyon ''imoshenko against the German bre: k-through on the 150-mile-wide Kirsk-Khar-kov front. i ‘The German claims of establishing bridgeheads on the cast bank of the Don, probably nea: Voronezh, would mean they had [reached a point about 130 miles eal: of Kursk. Report Attacks in {North _ Moscow dispatches, hgwever, said that counter-attacks had cost the enemy tremendous casy:lties. An indication of thesg losses was |given in isolated reports of fighting in which four German r=giments or : 13 YE AR OLD BOY about 12,000 men wers destroyed » "VLU (that is, eliminated 3s effective William Gunnell, 13 - year - old | Military units). i German newspapers said that the Mooresville, boy, died yesterday at|iono awaited offensive had started Riley hospital: of an abdominal|and that a general onsliught along wound received June 26 when he|the entire Russian fron! was to be was shot accidentally.
expected in the next weék. The boy’s father, Marion Gunnell, Nazi-inspired reports iy the Vichy told Dr. Herbert Collins, deputy cor-
radio said that big scale air attacks had been launched ag:iinst Leninpner, that the accident occurred while his son and playmates were
grad and the Soviet nial base at killing rats with a 22-caliber rifle.
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NELSON'S STAND
WPB Chief Defends Self Against Attack on Rubber Policy.
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sential civilian and war needs, he said. - When Mr. Nelson termed the pending legislation “extremely dangerous” and said it would take out of the hands of the president the right to control priorities, Sen. Norris asked: “What is it that you are afraid this agency we propose to set up will do that is wrong?”
Sees Priority Danger
“It would be dangerous because it would take out of the hands of the president the right to control priorities, among other things,” Mr. Nelson replied. “Why do you consider this legislation necessary, Senator?” “Because you are doing nothing about increasing the rubber supply
Sen. Norris said. Mr. Nelson, who requested an appearance before the subcommittee to deny charges made by a Ft. Worth, Tex., rubber dealer, asserted that “there is only one thing I am jealous of, and that is the integrity of the war production board.” He added that he was “quite shocked” at the charges made by the dealer, Harold Sims, that the rubber branch of the WPB had
thorizing construction of a rubber reclamation plant by Mr. Sims. “When such charges are made, they are thoroughly investigated,” Mr. Nelson told the subcommittee, adding that no basis was found for Mr. Sims’ charges. Sen. Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.) also criticized Mr. Nelson for his objections to the proposed legislation.
considerable scale along the Kalinin front, northwest of Moscow. On the Egyptian front, the most powerful American and British air forces ever assembled in the Middle
axis columns of Marshal Erwin Rommel on the El Alamein sector, 60 miles from Alexandria, pushing back Nazi bulges on the desert front and destroying many hundreds of enemy fighting and supply vehicles.
British Hang On, Advance!
The British position was definitely better, although officials still declined to claim that the battle was won or that Rommel was definitely halted. The axis said only that fighting continued and that the luftwaffe bombed Alexandria and Port Said. What happened in the last week, however, already had stemmed the threat of immediate and crushing defeat for the allies and opened the possibility that the axis forces could be driven back. The Germans had advanced to Qibliya ridge, five miles south of El Alamein. When the British were driven from that ridge, Rommel believed he had won the battle of El Alamein and the German communique said as much. But again the Brtish didn’t know
and land reinforcements. arrived, they held their ground and finally recaptured the ridge. New Zealand troops, charging with bayonets after a dash in trucks across the desert, struck at the German flank on the ridge and won the engagement after British artillery and tanks had hammered
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MELBOURNE, July 6 (U. P.).— Three American pilots, flying the last available dive bombers in the Netherlands East Indies, made a vain attempt to sink a Japanese invasion fleet of more than 43 transports in the Java. sea, it was revealed today. ; The fliers—Capts. Harry Galusha of Little Rock, Ark. and Julius Summers and Lieut. J. W. Ferguson —dived through anti-aircraft fire to sink three enemy transports before they were forced to retire. “On both our outward and inward flights, we flew over allied and Jap warships engaged in battle,” Capt. Galusha told Norman Stockton, war correspondent for the Melbourne Herald. “We knew four days before the battle that a big Jap invasion fleet was:-on its way to Java.” ’ Forces Wiped Out By this time, Capt. Galusha said, the allied air forces in Java practically had heen wiped out. Only three dive-bombers, 11 fighter planes and a few flying fortresses remained when the Japanese launched their invasion. “We decided to take out our three
throw against the Japs,” he said. “Our ovders were to ignore the warships and concentrate on the transports about 60 miles north of Soerabaja. “Soon after passing the coast, we flew over an allied fleet of 11 ships steaming westward parallel with a Jap fleet of 16 heavier ships. They were about four miles apart and exchanging fire. “Another fleet of enemy warships —three battle cruisers and 14 other cruisers and destroyers—was about eight miles from the allied fleet,
dive-bombers in a last desperate |
3 U.S. Pilots With Last of Planes Fought to Save Java
Jap warships. Our ships were out numbered at least three to one.” , Capt. Galusha said farther north they counted 43 transports in a Japanese invasion fleet accompanied by 15 destroyers. ? “We picked out the biggest trans-. ¥ ports, came. in at about 15,000 feet, then went into 80-degree dives. We screamed down, released our bombs and three transports seemed ‘to» buckle in the center. I guess if we would have had as many dive bomb= ers as the Japs had transports there_ wouldn’t have been any invasion of” Java.” Capt. Galusha said they then returned to their base, destroyed the three dive bombers and were evacuated to Australia with other allied fliers. Twelve hours. later the Japa= nese fleet forced the outnumbered allied ships to withdraw and the invasion of Java began.
LONDON RAID FILMS TO BE SHOWN HERE
English films of the London air raids will be shown tomorrow in the World War memorial under the auspices of Air Raid District 34. The program, open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p. m. Capt. E. A. Kirby, district officer of the Lon=don fire brigade, will explain the film which was loaned by L. S. Ayres & Co. : The pictures were taken during-{ the “blitz” from September, 1940, to May, 1941. Air raid wardens and their assistants especially are urged to attend, according to Estil Van Dorn and Gilbert Inman, commit-
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