Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1942 — Page 1
By WILLIAM
PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, July 7.—Some of the shrewdest ob-
servers here are convinced
that Hitler's hope is now to
knock out Russia and possibly England and then, with Europe and Africa in his grasp, offer peace to the United
States.
Hitler, they believe, wale to end the war this year regardless of cost. He is afraid of having to fight in 1943
or longer.
Not only do the German people want peace
_.instead of so many “victories,” but there is danger that 100, 000,000 subjugated Europeans will revolt. No matter what happens this summer, therefore, it is believed that the fuehrer must try for peace. Victory in
Egypt, in the Middle East,
in the Caucasus, against the
British and against the Russians, would still leave the United States, the British dominions, and others of the
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united nations in the fight, with the end of the war a very long way off. Hitler would still be left sitting on
his European powder barrel in constant and mortal
danger.
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HITLER'S ARGUMENT for ending the war would be that, with Britain and Russia out of the running, the
United States could not expect to invade Europe and defeat Germany; that with Japan also on its hands, the best the United States could hope for would be a negoti-
ated settlement after a long
Germany, of course, would make her offer She would probably say that as
reasonable.
and ruinous conflict. : sgund most she was
interested only in Europe and the Middle East; she would “give” the United States a free hand in the western hem-
isphere,
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Son's Picture Gives Mother a Thrill
MR CAVALEADE INVADING CITY,
Planes Arrive for Three Day Stay in Local ‘Bond Drive.
An “air cavalcade” promoting the
sale of war bonds. and the recruit-
ing of army air corps men was]
scheduled to roar over the city about 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, and land at Municipal airport for a three-day stay. Included in the cavalcade is a German Messerschmitt, reputedly the first enemy plane ever flown over the United States. Meantime, war bond officials announced that Kay Kyser’s orchestra would play two open-air concerts on the Circle Thursday and Monday afternoons.
Kyser to Play : The Kyser orchestra will play the first of a series of two “Bond Wagon” radio programs on a platform on the Circle from 2:45 to 3:45 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Traffic will be blocked off a block from the Circle on all sides. As the air cavalcade flew in over kK. the Circle this afternoon, a glider “towed by one of the planes was to cut off and soar the rest of the way to the airport. Another glider demonstration was scheduled for 4:30 o'clock this afternoon and two tomorrow at 3 and 7 p. m. The eight-plane cavalcade will be on display for public inspection at the airport until 11:30 a. m. Thursday. ; Plan Bond Rally At 7:30 p. m. tomorrow a bond rally will be held at the port under the direction of Robert A. Adams, county executive chairman. Cavalcade pilots will be introduced and the Indianapolis News Boys band will play. Among the pilots is Lieut. T. B. Marxson, 24-year-old native of Lafayette, Ind. In the cavalcade are the Messerschmitt, a British Spitfire, a British Beaufighter, the American P-39, the American P-40,
the American L-1A, the glider and:
a transport.
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~ master of the Mi here think he n:
his peace plans. in full possession |
He may repeat ti / In all this, it has been omitted. ‘is just as much at: .45of. his one-time £1 end Russia.
U. S. INDIC USS
absorbed entirely remained would be
‘ll ( AN DEFEAT Russia and make himself
dle East by autumn, some diplomatists Ly magnanimously include Britain in
| ntries of " aegis of
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a offer.
There is
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SEES DRAFTING
| OF 20 MILLION
FOR WAR USE
For Concept Change in
Hiring Workers.
. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 7 (U. P.).—This nation must induct
E 19,900,000 persons into war activities ~—military and industrial — during} J and 1943, Brig. Gen. Frank J.}
OF the Sar manpo
10,500, 000 additional men and Wom-
‘fen must be put to work in war in-
dustries this year and 2,500,000 more in 1943. Of the remaining 6,900,000, Brig. Gen. McSherry estimated, 3,400,000 will be inducted into the armed services during 1942 and 3,500,000 next year.
Presents Estimates
Brig. Gen. McSherry, WMC director of operations, presented his estimates of manpower and womanpower requirements at the 16th an-
‘jnual meeting of the Institute of | Public Aflairs at the University of
hadn’t heard any-
saw—Lieut, James Mullane, who
graduated from Butler university last year and went into the army when the national guard was federalized, inspects an American military police detachment—‘“somewhere in England.” | 5 looking down the barrel of one of the M. P.’s guns. He is the nephew
Lieut. Mullane is seen
of Mr. and Mrs. Halford L. Johnson, also of the Washington blvd.
‘address.
Virginia,
e said the nation had “an ample
‘|supply of potential workers if we
can bring them into our active labor force” but listed four ways in which
our employment concepts.” were:
They
" Four New Concepts
1.. Employers can no longer afford to set arbitrary age limits; they must consider using men over 45. 2. Employers must appreciate the value of women in skilled, semiskilled and unskilled occupations. 3. Employers can no longer afford to discriminate against Negroes and workers of other minority groups. 4. Aliens, where it is possible under government restrictions, must be considered for war production jobs. : “As the labor market becomes even tighter,” he added, “it will be necessary for us to arrange for a complete inventory of available women workers. The time has not come as yet for universal registration of women, but when it does, it
next few days to accommodate the
Nine OPA District Rationing Offices to Open in County|
Nine district rationing offices, small models of the county board in the war memorial, are to be established over the county within the
consumer.
This is one of the first moves made by the state office of price administration as it broadens its organization to meet demands of an
ever-growing program of price controls and rationing. The new! plan
DIES IN AUTO CRASH AS DRIVER SLEEPS Woman Victim in Accident On Highway 67.
Albertine ‘Buckner, 28, of 1711 Northwestern ave., was killed early today when the driver of the car in which she was riding went to sleep and it crashed on road 87 northeast of 56th st. The driver, Henry Vance, 30, of 2051 Sheldon st. was not injured. ‘Another passenger, » Mildred Blanford, 29, of - Cleveland, was injured and was taken to City hospital, where her condition was reported
According fo information given| b state. police, Vance’s 1
was announced today by James D. Strickland, state OPA head, who said the organization of the branch offices was being handled by Walter Raynes of the state OPA organization. The personnel and boundaries of the districts are to be announced within a day or so along with the locations of the district offices. When the offices are in effect, individuals who desire to transact matters with the OPA will ‘be asked to contact the office in their district. The offices will handle all
rationing and are intended to take
the load off the county board. Personnel of the offices is being
selected by the state OPA. It was|® known, too, that some appointments]
will be taken care of by the WMC.
|0LD SPARE NEEDED
TO GET AUTO PART
Exchange Rule to Become Effective July 15.
‘WASHINGTON, July 7 (U. P)— Motorists after July 15 must turn in an old spare: part for every new piece of automotive equipment they
today.
which applies to toothpaste and shaving cream, where
have already beén made on the rec- Gri
ommendation of the eoumty Totioning board. :
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“we must definitely change many of].
buy, the war production board ruled The principle is the same as that
On the |
GERMANY — Commu 28 of 38 allied me; and one American |
. of Voronezh in mas:
port severe enemy
American and Britis: New Zealanders’ bi Field Marshal Ror: back his southern El Alamein.
raid on German Holland.
2,500,000 Japanese | cluding 1,000,000 dea,
chowNanchang rail
sunk in the Arctic. | RUSSIA — Germans
Brig. Gen. McSherry Calls|
ward the Caucasus. | =
CHINA — Chungkil 3
of war in-China. « loss of last footho '
War
Fronfs 5
July 1, 1050)
que claims chant ships Tloavy cruiser
aim capture »ffensive toRussians re-
josses in big] battles on Don rive:
EGYPT—Americar/
built tanks, planes and sonets force ‘mel to pull
pank west, of
i ‘quarters \reland. a successful atfack on: an} ™ allied Arctic. convoy in two
| irdromes in
hy g estimates
i asualties in-
| in five years fiinese admit on Hang-
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‘Protective With: Southern Fle.
hitting allied land al today broke up sevens and forced Field N Rommel to make a 1)
Egyptian desert beld:
, the British ap a limited ‘initiative : for Egypt seémed into its second and phase. Front reports sail} peared unwilling to presumably . hoped to regroup his for
Significantly, a or Rommel'’s forces
ROMMEL F TO REFORY
drawal on his southe:
JRGED LINE
i ~awal’ on
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Reported. CAIRO, July 7 al
P.) —Hard- . air attacks axis columns arshal Erwin
ybective withflank in the El. Alamein. forces
yrhaps decisive
Rommel ap“nin battle and
orce a delay ‘for a new
s announced | imns had been : attacks were
the enemy
southwest of El Al: ein. imunigue said.
Europe, they would’ be reorthe Reich. Some might be
nd others partitioned, but those that J independent within Germany’s Lebens-
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has “offered” to leave Britain
* her empire if she will call off the war.
will be observed that mention of Japan
reason to believe that Hitler
raid of his Far Eastern ally as he was
Besides, he does not like
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LS. CONVOY TO RUSS RIDDLED, BERLIN CLAIMS
Voronezh Fall Disputed; Allies Silent on Arctic’ Battle.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor
The Nazi high command today claimed’ capture of the Don river city of Voronezh
blows at the Russian front today, but in Egypt the axis columns were forced back again. An advance of about 125 miles from the Kursk area to the Don river by masses of German infantry, tanks and artillery was acknowledged by Moscow, which reported that the Red army had launched a powerful tank blow at the enemy north flank, near Orel, and was fighting stanchly for Voronezh.
Fields Covered With Dead
The first phase of the Russian counter-attack on the Orel sector was. described as successful but it was not known whether Marshal Semyon Timoshenko would be able to press a full-scale offensive and it was emphasized that the Russian
critical despite repulse of repeated enemy efforts to cross the Don. The Russians said that the first German - efforts to force the Don were repulsed and that the battlefields were “carpeted with enemy dead” but delayed dispatches indicated that the situation was desperate and that enemy was surging closer to the Moscow-Rostov railroad, which Berlin claimed had been cut.
U-Boats and Planes
Allied sources declined comment on the convoy battle in the Arctic. In the past, the German claims of , air and submarine successes against allied convoys in the Arctic have been exaggerated. According to the Berlin claims, a convoy of 38 American and British- merchant ships, strongly pro(Continued on Page Four)
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] Foday s War Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst
. Britain’s success in stémming the Rommel drive "1 Egypt was offset today by Germany’s advance to {>a Don river and Voronezh, key industrial center on {oe railroad artery leading to Rostov and the {iaucasus.
Although Moscow fails to confirm it, the German
gh command’s claim to have crossed the Don and robably is true or will soon come to pass, judging the German advance eastward from the Kursk area. good. It is the most important German gain since
from Baku across the Caspian sea to Astrakhan and thence by rail, but it is a" longer and slower route. Equally serious is the severance of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s e of communications with Rostov, ch, as gateway to the Caucasus, is the primary German goal in tb Lpresent drive. It is doubtful that the Germans will attempt to continue their drive eastward from Voronezh, since there {are no important objectives in that
position on the Voronezh front was
casus. The oil still can be shipped
the way Nippon has appropriated to herself all Asia. Half of the earth’s population is to be found in 4
There live a billion people. NO WONDER HITLER
” 2 FJ thinks his Jap pals are
ing to hog more than their share of the loot. So Hi who had no qualms against turning on the Russians year, may turn on the Nipponese this year—if, hy so
ing, he can purchase the peace he so badly needs.
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_ to make his peace bid more attractive he may offer help. the United States against Japan. All this may be just talk. But should Hitler m: to master Europe, North Africa and the Middle East summer, he would not be running true to form if did not at once begin a peace drive. He has done so h tofore after each advance—the reason being that
stands very much in need of
. 2 8 8
‘Air Commander
Sore A Mr IS
Maj, den. Carl Sata
ARMY MOVES UP FOUR GENERALS
Two of Them—Eisenhower And Spaats—May Figure In Second Front.
By UNITED PRESS The army today revealed four important new appointments, two of which may have a bearing on American plans for a second front in Europe, Maj. Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower, recently appointed commander of U. S. forces in the European theater of war-operations, was nominated today by President Roosevelt for promotion to the rank of lieutenant general. Maj. Gen. Carl Andrew Spaatz, formerly assistant to the chief of the air corps, was revealed in. a routine announcement of medal-giving to have been named co der-in-chief of U. S. air forces in the European theater. Maj. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer today took over the duties of chief of staff for tHe army air forces, succeeding Maj. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, who has been assigned to another “very important post,” as
yet unrevealed. Gen. Stratemeyer
has been commander of the army air forces southeast training center at Maxwell Field, Ala. Brig. Gen. Thomas T. Handy, who succeeded Gen. Eisenhower as assistant chief of staff for operations, was nominated for -promotion to major general. Gen. Spaatz, 51, was a pioneer army pilot and fought the Germans over the western front in World War 1, winning the distinguished (Continued on Page Four)
AXIS HARASSED BY MOUNTING UNREST
Guerrilla Forces Attack
Nazis in France.
By UNITED PRESS Mounting unrest presaged new anti-axis outbreaks in occupied Europe today as passive resistance gave. way to guerrilla warfare in France and insurgent Chetniks harassed 'Italo-German occupation forces from mountain refuges in western Montenegro. Advices reaching London de= scribed guerrilla sorties against the German: army’ in ‘occupied France.
At least 12 bands of armed guer-|
re, SAA to. bs alking sui.
peace.
ND HEADS; 'S LOSE MORE GRO
Other States Named in Jury’s Bills,
NEW YORK, July 7 (U P.).—A federal grand jur
today indicted 29 national ang |sectional leaders of the |man-American bund for
bs
{piracy to defeat the’
of the selective service a and cause violations of the alien: registration act.
Federal agents in eight states were rounding up -those named," United States Attorney M Te Correa announced, that: the government intends to “put the bund out of business.”
Nominally defunct since the United States and Germany wen to war, the bund has been operat= ing clandestinely through “sit 3 societies” and “sports clubs,” he intimated.
File Other Complaints
In addifion to the indictm federal attorneys filed denaturaliza: tion complaints against some those indicted and .other | members and axis sympathizers, cluding the bund’s former Fritz Kuhn, now serving a Sing prison term as a thief. Two indictments were ret 1 The first charged 26 of the bun with conspiracy to counsel members -to resist service in armed forces in violation of the i lective service act. The indictme charged that the bund had tinued its conspiracies up to present time although it had b nominally defunct since Dee. 7 +3
Charge Propaganda
“It was a part of such conspiracy the indictment charged, “that. bund, while furthering the politi activities, public relations and lic policies of a foreign gov would nevertheless pretend purport to be an American Org ization devoted solely to the furths ance of the interests of the Uni States . and the principles of Constitution . . . to that end wo! assume the false and mislead character and name of ‘a mi organization of free Americans,” under cloak ‘of such iisrepresen tion and prétense would seek: carry out and attain its true ject, the furtherance of the litical and propaganda aims of |
LI Pa
sserting
CON
* | German Reich.”
The second indictment charged conspiracy to conceal bund tions in the filling out of registration forms. If named : bundists, including Gerhard K alleged leader who was brought: this country from Mexico last w end. It charged that the bund is (Continued on Page Four)
CHUNGKING ADMITS
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CHUNGKING, July 7 (U. Chinese forces have evs Hengrons in eastern Kiangsi |