Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1942 — Page 13

DAY, JULY 10, 1942

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A SMART ALECK “played a tune” on the stop cord of a Columbia trolley the other day—buzzedy buzz buzz—buzz buzz, etc. The operator was equal to the occasion, though, and when the smarty stepped .on the rear door treadle to get off, the operator “played” the same “tune” on the button opening the doors, making them fly open, closed, open closed, until the other passengers snickered and the smarty blushed. . . . A reader thinks we ought to call attention to the courtesy a Greyhound bus driver showed a former Indianapolis girl who is blind. Stopping his bus at Bloomington, the driver saw the blind girl and her seeing eye ‘dog standing at the end of a long line of passengers. He hopped oft the bus and put her aboard before letting anyone else on. . , , And S. E. Stefley thinks we ought to come out to one of the Steeg pharmacies—

on Central at 25th and 34th sts—and see their fine.

war bond and stamp window display.

There's a War Going On

MRS. NORRIS WARDELL thinks maybe Cecil Brown was right—at least far as the Indianapolis postoffice i& concerned; They are, or at least were a day or two ago, still selling “Defense” bonds and stamps at “Defense” windows. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker surely knows there’s a war going on, she suggests, because “he’s mighty proud of his son in uniform.” The signs might be turned over and “War bonds” printed on the reverse, if paper saving is Adolph’s object. . , . Heiny Moesch drops in the office to get some publicity for the Shrine Baseball day Thursday. The Shriners’ hospitals for crippled children get a percentage of the gate. . . . Everybody's been talking about the low flying airplanes recently and wondering if it ‘isn’t against the law for a plane to “knock the: bricks off our chimney.” Com-

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

mercial planes are required to maintain a specified altitude over cities, but there’s no such restriction on army fliers,

Maybe It’s in Shangri La MARIAN WEHNER reports a comment she heard| on our headline Wednesday: “Nazi Drive Gains Momentum.” Two slow moving elderly women walking ahead of Miss Wehner read the headline and one remarked: “Momentum. Momentum! Is that in Russia or in Africky?” Boy, hand us the world atlas. « + » The July Writer’s Digest lists three Indianapolis residents among the winners in a short, short story contest. They're Stuart Friedman, Catherine H. Pyle and Helen Lortz. Congrats. . . . We'll bet the folks out at the National Malleable & Steel Castings Co., 546 N. Holmes ave., are good and tired of picking up the phone and hearing someone ask: “Insane hospital?” We made that mistake the other day. The patient young woman that answered said: “No, our number is Be. 4750. You want Be. 4740.” We're sorry.

Around The Town

SAWING DOWN a wind-damaged cherry tree in his back yard (29 N, Wallace), Bernard ‘Harmon says he found a horseshoe imbedded. in the stump. No telling how many years it’s been there. . . . Howard Caldwell, of the Caldwell-Baker advertising agency, who has been making a study of his family tree, says he’s relieved to learn none of the family came over on the Mayflower. Considers it a distinction. . Jim Northam, first assistant attorney general, celebrated his birthday Wednesday. It was his 33d. . Speaking of birthdays, State Auditor Dick James proudly is calling attention to the fact that today is the third birthday of Dickie Jr.... A railroad employee tells us he has seen a score or more of oldfashioned carriages headed south on the Illinois Central railroad in recent weeks. He didn’t know why unless the southland is getting ready for one-horse travel.

Ernie Pyle is in Ireland. His stories from the army camps there will start on “or about next Monday. . . . Raymond Clapper has begun a month’s vaeation.

Russia's Power

WASHINGTON, July 10.—Hitler is believed to be headed for the Volga and the Caspian sea with a view to cutting the Russian army in two. Similarly, Marshal Rommel is said to be aiming at the Caspian sea via the Holy Land and the reputed site of the Garden of Eden. Should these moves succeed, they threaten to trap great numbers of . Soviet troops—those defending the oil region of the Caucasus—and to cut the rest of them off from lendlease supplies now flowing through the Persian gulf. : Finally, Hitler is redoubling his

efforts to deprive Russia of war

materials from the United States and Great Britain, via Murmansk and Archangel. But even if the axis made good every on® of these aims, Hitler would still be far from winning the war. He cannot possibly win unless and until he destroys the Russian army, and he may find that impossible. - . Russia is a country- of .190,000,000 people. She is spread out over one-sixth of the habitable globe. It is 5000 giles frei Moscow | ki In between are unimaginable TeSOUTORS, There are enormous industries for the manufacture of steel and everything that steel goes into. And oil and other vital Tequirements.

Four Watertight Compartments

BEFORE THE WAR I crossed the Soviet Union from Vladivostok to the Polish border. All along the line I found the Russians double-tracking the railways, laying out airports, building furnaces, factories, warehouses, barracks. At Moscow, I remarked about He Two and a half times as large as. the United

Foot by Foot

MOSCOW, July 10. —The titanic struggle in the neighborhood of Voronezh—what history will probably call the Battle of the Don—continues with unbridled flerceness. The desperate nature of the German

pressure may be measured by the fact that they are losing between 150 and 203 tanks a day. Reports from. the Don front indicate that the. Nazis have managed to get only a foothold on ‘the eastern bank of the river in one place where they have ferried light. tanks across, Here the fighting is unprecedently intense. All of the Russian army’s skill and power has been co-ordinated to prevent. further German landings and Russian stormiks (dive bombers) and bombers, supported by arAller aiid infantry, continually strike smashing blows at the ferries and rafts on which the enemy tries to embark heavier tanks and motorized troops. The Soviets’ defense of the ' Don’s western bank appears to rival the defense of Sevastopol. . Field Marshal Feodor von Bock, the Germans’ infantry chief, and Col. Gen. Paul Ludwig von Kleist, their outstanding tank commander, are both expending their forces on a staggering scale in an effort to seize Voronezh and cut the Rostov-Moscow railroad.

Neither Metal Nor Men Spared

ALREADY, IN 12 DAYS, the Nazis have lost hundreds of tanks, scores of planes and many thousands of dead, but they still muster reserves from other sectors and throw them into the meatgrinder.

“In this offensive Hitler is sparing neither metal |

My Day

HYDE PARK, Thursday.—Yesterday moming, after * the girls had had their horseback ride, all of us went down to Poughkeepsie together. Groceries had to be bought, and everyone had some absolutely necessary : thing that they had to acquire. I had a meeting with the school lunch committee, set up

under the auspices of the farm’

bureau and with the help of the ‘home economics extension agent. In. the discussion of our county f school lunch program, several # points came up for consideration. First, no one knows what sur-

association, which nationally voted

By Wm. Philip Simms

States, Russia. had been divided—for defense purposes —into four watertight compartments, each capable of fighting a war independently of the others. One of these compartments was European Russia west of the Urals. Another was western Siberia, from the Urals to Lake Baikal, A third was Central Asia, or Russian Turkestan, and the fourth was eastern Siberia, from Baikal to Vladivostok. The idea wags to make each as nearly self-supporting as possible and, militarily, more or less autonomous. As far back as 1930, Josef Stalin had begun working on this plan. He figured that Russia might be attacked from several directions at once. So po started building an empire within an empire, in western: Siberia. All of European Russia might go, all of eastern Siberia might go, and all of Russian Turkestan might go, and still Russia would be able to fight on in an area nearly as large as continental United States.

Merely Cutting at the Fringe

IN THE URALS and eastward, therefore, Russia today has enormous power in reserve. In that area is what Commissar Molotov calls “a second Baku,” or oil capers. A ass Muscorlte Pittsburghs Detroits, rise Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk; Berezniki, Orsk, Perm, Stalinsk, Novo-Sibirsk and other industrial ‘cities of anywhere from 500,000 population to more than a million. Until a few years ago few of them had anything like 100,000. So Hitler today is merely cutting away at the fringe of the real Russia. It is an important fringe, of course, because European Russia is the oldest and most populdus part. But to defeat Russia, the axis must smash her armies. It must kill them or capture them. Merely to drive them back beyond the Volga and occupy a few more cities won't win for Hitler any more than the capture of Moscow won for Napoleon.

" By Leland Stowe

nor men and on such a heedless scale that the government organ Izvestia’s reporter at the front states, “there can be no doubt whatever that the Germans consider this operation one of the decisive ones’ in this phase of the war.” Soviet reports say that the ‘Germans have only reached the river on one very narrow sector of the front where their wedge has been driven. But on both

. sides of this wedge, along the river's eastern bank,

the Russians hold on tenaciously.

Why a Second Front Is So Vital

IT IS CLEAR that the German strategy is concentrated on cutting the Rostov-Moscow railroad at whatever cost, although even that would in no way choke off communications from the Caucasus with central Russia. The railroad from Baku through Stalingrad passes more than 100 miles northeast of Voronezh and its junction at Michurinsk, formerly Joslov, would still be a long, hard way from the present Don front. It is important to point out that 100 or 200 miles in July, 1942, is an entirely different matter for the Germans than the same distances were a year ago. : : In 11 days of incessant offensive in the Voronezh direction the Nazis have had to battle terrifically for every foot of progress and have had to pay the full price for every yard. It is true that not even the bravest troops in the world can hold positions indefinitely in face of great numerical superiority in manpower, tanks and motorized equipment. That is why a second front’s necessity cannot conceivably be regarded as anything less than an urgent necessity. 8 Even so, the battle of the Don is proving to be Hitler's costliest experience in Russia.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

teacher groups should be more active than they have been in the past. Lastly, I was told that it would be ‘extremely difficult to make people believe that school lunches had anything to do with war work. This last point is the main reason why I wanted to write about this meeting, I am quite sure that if some peaple feel this way. here, there are many, many others who feel the same

YANKS IN RAF HELP PUMMEL AXIS IN EGYPT

Young Pilots From Al Parts of U. S. Sent to Fight in Desert.

By HENRY T. GORRELL ° United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE R. A. F. IN EGYPT, July 10.—American slang is becom-

the royal air force. Young pilots from all parts of the. United States who joined the British air force before Pearl Harbor was arriving in increasing numbers.

tion for the first time. ‘Pilot. Officer Bob Mannix; Daytona Beach, Fla., ran into the Ger= mans on his first major job with an international squadron which includes Rhodesians, South Africans, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, Englishmen and Scotsmen.

Meets 20 Nazi Planes

The squadron, on its first big fighter sweep over the German lines, ran into 20 German Messerschmitt109s. It downed two and sent the

jrest scurrying: homeward in‘ panic.

Covered with dust but grinning happily through his three-day growth of beard, Mannix mentioned the raid to me at the squadron mess. “I didn’t get any Jerry planes—1I just wasted a lot of the king's ammunition. Buf the gent I tied on to out there headed back for his sauerkraut and frankfurters mighty fast,” he said. Gave Valuable Aid

It appeared that actually he gave

'| valuable aid to his squadron leader,

C. O. K. Pegge, of London. Pegge tangled with three Messerschmitts at once. He downed one but might have been shot down himself had not Mannix jumped in at the right moment. “Only six out of the 20 Messerschmitts showed any fight” said Mannix, ._ “It looked to mie as if we were up against a crowd of Jerry rookies fresh out of the Alps. They didn’t give us the fight we expected.

Flew in Eagle Squadron

“As soon as they saw us—Whoosh! Most of them skinned off.” Mannix said that he believed the greatest credit in the campaign should go to the American-made

Douglas Boston ight bombers, which ee “bombing the

‘daylights ‘out. of Jerry every day.”

Mannix, who flew in England with |ish the Eagle squadron, composed of Americans serving with the R. A. F., has just arrived in the desert. There are two other Americans with his squadron, Pilot Officer Bob Crot of Chicago and Flight Sergt. |William Pershing Benedict, San Quentin, Cal.

INDIANAPOLIS’ OWN EXAMS SET JULY 22

Young. Hoosiers wishing to join the second “Indianapolis Own” naval aviation squadron should complete their preliminary applications as soon as possible, the recruiting. office advised today. The Naval Aviation Cadet Selection board from Chicago will be here July 22-24 to give final examinations for the unit, which is expected to number 100. However, before an applicant may appear before this board, he must pass a

.|preliminary physical and mental ex-

amination given by local recruiting officials. Each also must have three letters of recommendation, evidence of high school graduation, three photographs and his parents’ permission if he is under 21. The squadron is open to any unmarried American male citizen who is a high school graduate and between 18 and 27 who can pass the examinations. On successful completion, cadets will receive ensigns’ sonunissions and go on duty as navy pilots. :

Indiana Rurcl

Blackout Held

FT. WAYNE, July. 10 (U. P.).— Indiana’s first rural district test blackout under the telephone exchange system, held last night at Arcola, was a complete success, according to Lieut.-Col. M. G. Henley, Indianapolis, fifth corps army laison officer attached to the. Indiana state civilian defense SWuneil, The blackout included the small town of Arcola and all farms in the Arcola telephone exchange. ri rrrmm——

GRAND JURY INDICTS

have a very serious effect on work Which needs. to be| a

done, and important to the boys who are fighting. : ‘These boys are fighting to win a war war, and they looking forward to a world in the future be the kind of a world for which they were Vv to fight.

Unless we at home carry on our job, there will not|

make: the school lunch program their. main interest

coming year, has in some smaller localities in the 0 disband for

the year, because of the % gas.

ing familiar in the desert messes of| |

Most of them are going into ac-| |

2 ON TIRE CHARGES

A Marion county grand jury yes-|

About 3500 Kingan & Co.,

UNVEIL PLAGUES LISTING NAVIES

Governor, nt l. Header Robb and Col. Hitc/isock Speak at Rites;

g Kingan

The names of 372 form

military service today large plaques in the e the plant and office. One of the plaques wai unveiled yesterday at noon servic event was attended by Tiovernor Schricker, James Robb, I=presenting the C. I. O.; Col. Fobinson Hitchcok, state director’ ||of selective service, and by coli pany officials headed by W. B® | Sinclair, president. The plaque was unveile| hy Frank 'B. Forkner, whose son, ‘Ei Told Dale Forkner, was the first fo ner Kin-

in military service. Yous Forkner was killed in an accident, . while Se1vi9E Wil he-0. S. army in Brits Columbia.

Fighting for . .

In speaking to the employees, Mr. Sinclair said that “We are fighting for the peaceful way of life, that no. dominant race shall rule the world. “We want every man Wr no has left us for military service to/:ome back. to work for us,” he saif| revealing that about 10 per cent ¢i the company’s employees are i military service. | He said that a larger snd larger portion of the compani's products are going to the services and to lend-lease outlets. |

We Furnish Foe

“We are not buildin} tanks or planes,” he said, “but w¢ are doing just as important a job ov furnishing the food so necessity for victory. ” Paying his respects #4 the workers, Governor Schricke: fold them that they “now are‘'do ever before to help the ‘oun “Freedom never wag| handed us on a siiver platter,” hg said, “but was won by sweat and ii2 A promise that labg: ‘would do its part to win the wa was made by Mr. Robb, who ‘urged the workers to “work a little hatder, to do a little more to help win {nis war.” After the unveiling of ‘the plaque ine 5s leaders, | Mr. Robb attended a luncheon ¢ pared by Kingan & Co.| or the military services. f

military

traployees Souiordny attended. the unveiling of one of two. — honoring 372 former somspany eiployess now iservice,

11 Die in Coral Sea to Give Lifeboat Space to Wounded

SAN FRANCISCO, July "10 (U. P.) —Fifteen men, survivors from a bombed U. S. navy tanker in the Coral sea, willingly went overboard from their lifeboat to make room for wounded comrades, it was dis-

| closed today.

Only four survived the pounding seas, but the wounded were rescued. The story of courage and sacrifice was told here by Ed A. Flaherty, 22, electricians made third class from St. Louis, Mo., and Douglas J. Nelson, 22, signalman third class from Laurel, Mont. Both men previously were aboard a cruiser but were transferred to

|the Neosho as “passengers.” Flaherty ‘receive severe burns in the bombing of the Neosho. Nelson was uninjured, and was placed in charge of a group of wounded. “The wounded,” said Flaherty,

The boats’ were extremely overcrowded. - Lieut. . Henry Bradford ordered every unwounded man overboard to shift for himself. The! lieutenant went first and 14 enlisted men followed him. ® “The lieutenant and three others later were saved. The rést drowned. The sea was very rough and it must

have been tough swimming.”

Today’

s War Moves

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The great batile of the Don, now at its height,

“were taken into two whale-boats.|.

claims to have

Despite this massed effort, the Russians are holding, have reached Voronezh and Rossosh on the Moscow-Rostov railway and

probably is the supreme test of the Nazis’ ability to get anywhere in Russia this summer. ... Hitler has thrown a tremendous force into: this comparatively harrow sector of about 110 miles: Into that area he has concentrated about 1,000,000 men and at least 2000 tanks—maybe much more, if Russian destroyed 250- tanks in a single day is correct. The Germans

ROMMEL'S ‘PAUSE’ EXPLAINED IN ROME

ight, 1942, by The Maiahapolls Times Cops a ne Chicago Daily New

BERN, July 10.—The need to wait on the further advance into the

Caucasus of the northern branch of the axis pincer is given as an explanation of Gen. Field Marshal Erwin Rommels “pause” by the Rome correspondent of ‘Tribune De Genve this morning. He suggests that the pause may continue for some: time. This usually well-informed source also stresses the fatigue of the axis troops. and the necessity for a halt to regain breath. In contrast to axis ‘statements, the writer adds that Rommel’s extended }ines now favor the allies. Observers here wonder whether such explanations are not part of the axis propaganda to lull allied

vigilance in this most important

sector.

SPONSOR FISH FRY ; Indianapolis White Shrine, patrol 6, will hold a fish fry at 5 p. m. today .and tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Hazel Bilodeau, 6169 Primrose ave. Mrs, Katherine Armbruster is captain.

“—By William Ferguson

apparently have crossed the Don at points. This progress, however, is not commensurate with the force employed and the' German failure to make a decisive break-through so far is an encouraging sign. The Germans apparently have changed their tactics since last year. Then they were out to annihilate the Russian armies on an incredibly long front. This year they are striking for limited objectives. Their first success was at Sevastopol, taken at such cost that it was perhaps rightly described by Col. Petrov, official Soviet war correspondent, as a pyrrhic victory. A Long Way to Go The Germans found last year that they could not annihilate the Russian army and their boasts of having crushed it, which the world was inclined to believe for a time, arose to mock them. } This year the Germans are not talking of annihilation but are trying desperately to carve their way through to the Volga and down into the Caucasus. ‘The present drive apparently is aimed at Stalingrad on the Volga. It has succeeded so far in interrupting the Moscow-Rostov railway, but there is another line which runs northwards from the Caucasus through Stalingrad, far to the rear of the present battle front. Whether the German claim of three days ago that they had taken Voronezh was premature is immaterial. Even if they do take it, they will have won only an important point, not the battle. They still will have nearly 300 miles to go to the Volga.

Superhuman Job Ahead

Unless Marshal Semyon Time oshenko’s army goes to pieces, which is an extremely remote possibility, the Germans have a superhuman job ahead. As for the prospect. of Timoshenko’s army collapsing, it is best expressed in the title of a current book, “Russians Don’t Surrender. ” Timoshenko’s strength, and that of Russia, lies in the indominatible fighting spirit of his men and the vast distances which comprise Russia. The Russians need not surrender but fall doggedly: back, drawing the enemy deeper and deeper into the

‘|country and whittling away his

strength. : One front would succeed another!

until there are no Germans or Russians left.

VICHY REJECTS SHIP PLAN BERLIN, July 10. — (German broadcast, recorded by U. P. in New York) —A transocean news. agency

| dispatch from Vichy said’ today that vjthe Vichy government, in \ {delivered to the state department.

a note Washington, had

SUB SINKINGS BOOSTED T 10 In :

Italians Bak | Effort to Save Ship Damaged In First Attack.

By UNITED PRESS A Dbarnacle-covered Italian subse

marine foiled the brave attempt of a torpedoed Panamanian merchante man’s crew to resail their ship when = it did not sink, survivors who reached an east coast port related today. The entire crew of 34 escaped. They were attacked June 14 in the South Atlantic about 400 miles east of South America. After two hours in lifeboats, they returned to the vessel, still afloat. They got aboard and had firey : going .in the engine room when the submarine surfaced and fired three shots from deck. guns, forcing thém to abandon ship: again. ‘Torpedoed a second time, tke ship sank. “The sinking - had been announced previously by Brazilian authorities, In addition the navy:announced toe day the torpedoing of a small. Amer= ican cargo ship off the coast of Suth America on. May 4 and the sinking of a medium sized Belgian = vessel in the Caribbean.

Think U-Boat Sunk

The new losses brought to 371 the number of united nations ‘vessels = whose sinking in the Atlantic has been announced by the navy. The sinkings of :a ‘medium-sized British cargo ship and a small’ Norwegian merchantman were announced yese terday. Meanwhile survivors landed in an East coast port said that an axis U-boat, which blasted two allied merchantmen from the Caribbean within two minutes of each other in a daring daylight raid June . “must have been sunk” by depth charges from a umited nations ‘rese cue vessel. The 47 survivors did not know the identity of the other ‘ship: or the fate of its crewmen. The British vessel was torpedoed and sunk with a<loss of four lives May 14. The navy announced that it had been attacked twice in eight hours, apparently by two sube marines. : \ :

PLANT RESTORATION NO. 1 POST-WAR JOB

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. July 10 (U. P).—America’s most urgent task at the end of the war will be that of putting industrial equips ment back into top condition, economist. William Wilson Cumber= land told the Institute of Publis Affairs at the University of Virginia today. The result of this move, he said, will be that “costs for commodities which this country is fitted to pro duce will be on the best possible competitive basis.” “We must not make the mistake which Great Britain in : made at the close of the first world war, namely, to send capital abroad for the rehabilitation of plant and machinery in war-devastated coun= tries, and even in former enemy countries, with result that industry was not modernized found itself at a competitive advantage,” he added.

* ALLIES BOMB TIMOR

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, July 10 (U. P.).—Allied planes obtained direct hits on numerous buildings in a raid on the Japanese barracks area at Dili, in the Portuguese area of Timor island northwest of Auge tralia, a united nations communis que said teday.

VON RUNDSTEDT IN HC LONDON, July 10 (U. P.).eral Field Marshal Karl Rudolf ‘Rundstedt, Nazi military con ‘er in France whose last visit 0