Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1942 — Page 2

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MAAC SUMMONS] LOGAL RECRUIT |

iss Gladys Hole Says

Wardrobe Seems to Be Only Problem. (Continued from Page One)

hy she faces such a pegplexing

problem at present.

Miss Hole joined up because, she i, she wanted to be of service.| is singularly unimpressed with

glamour possibilities.

wouldn't go into the army for

“I thought if I could do, I'd

' 8Bhe had no vision of battling the ps bare-handed in the South Seas putting her finger to the trigger

ir,”

she said, | Was a glad to do it.”

a “second front” Machine gun. Graduate of I. u “rm not Hood. thirsty,” ‘she ex-

place in the world? bh Right now she is getting ready 0 move out of her apartment at 720 N. New Jersey st. A graduate of Indiana university & history major), Miss Hole is 37, B-feet-8 and weighs 147. Very healthy looking. Stands straight, too, just like a soldier.

FURTHER SHOWERS FORECAST FOR CITY

Showers and thunderstorms were predicted by the weather bureau to continue this afternoon and tonight . following a “drizzle” which fell on the city this morning. At 7 a. m. the precipitation totaled more than a | half-inch for the past 24 hours.

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. This map shows the general area in . raging in southern Russia, periling the oll fighting front extends from Voronezh, where a German spearhead has crossed the Don river, southward along the river to the region west of Svovoda, a railroad junction east of the Don. The battle lines then extend southwestward along the west bank of the twisting river and along the Moscow-Rostov railroad where another Russian column has driven to the town of Rossosh (not shown on this map). Rossosh is on the railroad, 110 miles south of Voronezh, and within 200 miles of the Jey elties of Rowtay and Stalingrad,

CAUCASUS BLACK SEA

yhich gigantic battles are I feds of the Caucasus. The

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Boy - Missing in Bataan Once ‘Beat’ Haupt In Chicago. . (Continued from Page One) the possible entry of any more sub marine-borne Hitler agents, Witnesses brought to the butld-

fifth fioor trial room which is bar-

ridors.

Coincident with Mes. Jordan’s offer of testimony against Haupt, her husband, Anthony Jordan, disclosed 'in Chicago that the young Nazi ‘had ysed his son’s name as

{an alias during the brief period of

3icdam : he enjoyed after disemking with the other saboteurs from German submarines, . - Haupt once Invited young Jordan to a party in the Haus Vaterland Chicago, the father ssid, When| BE ighay real, Larry Jordan arrived at the dance he found Haupt in a storm

that young. Jordan knocked Haupt down and “stalked home still and told me that Hans was a Nazi,” the father said.

Sworn to Secrecy In » statement yesterday, Gen McCoy revealed that seven witnesses had testified. in the first two days of the trial, and added: “Each of these witnesses, as well as all other persons present in' the courtroom, except the prisoners, have been placed under oath not to reveal any part of the proceedings unless and until authorized by competent authority. Violation of this oath is punishable by contempt.” ‘ Considering the care with which the saboteurs were guarded, there was little chance of their revealing

“Counsel for the defense,” Gen.

The witnesses, it was believed, were the most damning the government could produce. Among them

bolically laid plot, FBI counterespionage pasits who tracked them down and Mrs, . Gerda Meling of

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Thus, it may be another week before verdict and sentences are announced. They will be announced by President Roosevelt himself.

Plan 'V Mail’ for Australia AEF i MELBOURNE, July 1». gh 2 : postoficemen ha pared the . first United States

army. “V-mail” for early dispatch ly strplane {othe folks at hom, today. -

ricaded to view ‘by newly installed |) double doors blocking: off the cor-}

trodper’s uniform. The upshot was|

will the result of the trial be known.

Herbert Bahr

STUDENT HELD AS GERMAN SPY ge Sh Fao

NEWARK, N. J., July 10 (U. B).—

angry | Herbert Karl Friedrich Bahr, who

tried to slip into the United States as the trusted friend of Nazi-perse-cuted Jews, will get his first taste] of American justice late today when| he is arraigned. as a German spy.

session of United States money and the smuggling of secret writing

conspired with “Karl Bauer and| other . persons unknown.” “Karlj Bauer” was identified as one of

tions in Germany. Berlin’s espionage academy, but he under examination by FBI agents aboard the Swedish liner Drottningholm, whose 942 passengers were not permitted to disembark until

their activities in Europe. Once detected,

Nazi spies who arrived recently by

su Wi Federal agents éex-

pected to make quick work of his| | iZussian “local” resistance had been

trial. Expert in Aviation

Bahr’s assignment may have had to do with aviation, it was believed, since he was considered an expert on aeronautics. A brother |: George, who spells his last name: ; * is employed in Buffalo at e Curtiss-Wright aircraft plant. Eien school . classmates of Bahr alo remembered him as “bel« ign “ntagonistio.” At

October, 1941, for espionage in thir

country. Bahr, who has a wife working

try.” Although the testimony against a maid in the home of a Buffalo the saboteurs was secret, the case|N. ¥Y., doctor and a Soysarai son.

1 1088 “Don River; il | Spearhead Is Pushing

He faces charges of Nazi espione ||’ age, passport fraud, unlawful pos- i

chemicals. - He was alleged to have|

those who gave Bahr his instruc-|: i: On the Don basin front generally,

flunked his first post-graduate test

they. had been questioned about, the Syearclab

South on Rostov.

er to the region west of Svoboda

it5% bank of the twisting river and fag the railroad to Rossorh, which

»Grerman AR w= train ds of wounded were reported aving to the rear—to cross the toward Voronezh illustrated the rtance with which the enemy ded the problem of protecting 5 flank. : Thrust Toward Rostov ‘he . Germans, in probably the zgest tank battle in history, had unded incessantly at - Russia's

Sut the greatest danger to the 1 army may lie in the Rossosh vance, which is aimed to sweep ‘ith of the Don river bend in an reloping : attack toward Rostov, 18 key to the Caucasus. . This. thrust now has advanced t 150 miles eastward from| narkov’ through Stary Oskal and umably has cut the Rostov-nezh-Moscow. railroad which is i great importance in supplying ia Soviet army in: the south. - Purthermore, the Don swings far 6 the east in this area, providing 0 natural defense line for the Rus-

Battle Near Kalinin

e German communique reported that axis forces were pursuing the “beaten” Russian armies but the Tne high command acknowledged that heavy fighting still was in irogress along the river banks, reorting that repeated attacks were niade on Russian river crossings.’ The Nazis also acknowledged the

Bahr talked as freely as the eight

and now are on trial in|

i ty from Stockholm ‘said ‘that ‘Hit- . lor finally had given up his direct i ioommand of the armies, which he

| Meld Marshal Walther von Brauch-

| Marshal Erwin Rommel behind a

“ussian army counter attacks northwest of Voronezh. but for the urth day reported that these ows had been “repulsed in heavy Z ghting.” The communique claimed that

‘oroken on the Don basin front, but it refrained from repeating last Tuesday's exaggerated claims that ine Russian army was fleeing and that Voronezh—which a German spearhead apparently reached only io be destroyed—had fallen. The Russians reported heavy fighting on the Kalinin fron®, north‘west of Moscow, where they said “hey had killed another 4000 Ger1nans and destroyed 27° fans and live armoréd ears... i.

British Progress in Egypt | Dispatches of doubtful authentic-

. said he led by intuition, and that

isch had been restored to the high ‘command, representing an army vicpry over the Nazi party. . On the Egyptian front, the British apparently were making some— Hub not much—progress in their efforts to pin the axis forces of Nazi

| semi-circular line west of El Ala1 mein on the Mediterranean coast. | Dispatches were beginning to reI flect considerable concern over the i failure of Gen, Sir Claude Auchinleck to get a real counter-attack oing against Rommel’s entrenched uns, especially in view of the short iritish communications lines and he possibility that delay would give

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SEATTLE, July 10 (U. P).—The “Sea Ranger,” a mew twin-motored flying: boat capable: of hunting" and destroying enemy submarines and ships far from established shore bases, was ready today to be turned

was pronounced a complete success. ‘Boeing Aircraft Co. which makes the famed flying fortresses for the

jarmy, built the new ship behind

locked doors after a year of secret experimentation. The navy designated the new ship as XPBB-1, but Boeing christened it the “Sea Ranger.” Edmund T. Allen, head of the Boeing flight and aerodynamic division, was at the controls yesterday when the first 25-minute test flight was made from Lake Washingion. With a six-man crew aboard, the boat made four practice take-offs from the lake, then soared into the air for maneuvers over Seattle’ and

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JORger evans Sh 453 navy lie now in service. :

AUTO INJURIES FATAL MARION, July 10 (U. P.) —Stanley Houk, 35, died today at Wabash from injuries received in an auto collision near there Tuesday. Fred Barnhart, 75, Wabash county farmer, was killed instantly in the crash,

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