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adequately to exploit them.

Even the Nazis, however, seem to be more dubious

W MATERIALS IN | AFRICA NAZI GOAL

Fighting Stymied Plans.

: By DAVID M. NICHOL Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. EONDON, July 13.—One feature giving a little understood significance to the African fighting is the extent of the vast raw material resources there that would bolster|

the new order’s sagging economy should the Nazis be able

than previously about their ability to achieve this unless in this country.

they can drive their forces through the entire Middle East

United States air forces now are being well supplied with these two-ton bombs, which are similar tq the big ones being dropped by R. A. F. raiders in Germany. The big bombs now are in mass productior

and make contact with the Japs and their own armies in 2 Y ANKS FAIL

Russia. Egypt's fall alone it is believed would be insuffi-

cient .to open the African|

storehouse. Egypt would offer principally cotton. It is not known here how much stocks the British will be able to remove but the process is bélieved to be underway. Should

colonial law, Bremen an institute for colonial investigation, tingen, an institue for colonial agThe civilian training school at Witzenhausen provides a two-year course for potential farm- Stage ers, while a school designed to accommodate 240 women for colonial instruction is located at Rends-

Goet-

On Cherbourg But Plan Of Attack Backfires.

T0 BLITZ NAZIS|

‘Commando Raid’

War Hero's Death

Reunites Parents

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 (U. PJ ~The death of First Lieut. Jack Smith, 24, in a dogfight above the Philippine Islands, has resulted in remarriage of his parents after a separation of 20 years, it was disclosed today. The army’s message reporting

U-BOATS’ TOLL

NOW 380 SHIPS

2 More Cargo Vessels Torpedoed; Think Nazis |

DOWNS BOMBER

ank Flight Leader Tells How Spinning Plane

Smashed Fuselage.

| SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, July 13 (U. P.)—The only allied bomber lost during the Independence day blasting of Lae, New Guinea, was brought down by a Japanese navy-O plane with a dead pilot, Lieut. Bugene Grauer of Miami, Fla., said today: Grauer was the navigating flight leader. During the combat, in a

‘bomber piloted by Lieut. Walter Krell of Greenwich, Conn. he

manned the navigator’s observation

‘dome and directed the bomber’s

firepower. Thus, he could see what

‘went on. “Krell led the formation which ‘unloaded its bombs on Lae and tarted fires,” he said. “Then the eros attacked. One turned in bove us, and our turret gunner, ergt. Pat Nortoh (of, Hartford,

| I11.), poured about 100 rounds into | the Zero’s left wing and cockpit.

“The Zero appeared to jerk

| downward, while the pilot jerked lupward. The Zero careened crazily land I saw the pilot slumped over

As Planes

By RICHARD MOWRER Copyright, 1943. by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News. Inc. SOUTH OF EL ALAMEIN, July 13.—It is only a couple of hours’ drive from Alexandria to this part of the front nowadays—before it took two days—but the desert here

is just as bad as it is elsewhere. In fact, there are parts which are much worse because the sand is so soft that vehicles get stuck easily and unstuck with difficulty. We cross the Alexandria-Tobruk railroad track and head south to the ridge, then climb up and follow the ridge’s backbone westward. The artillery is activee We hear a booming ahead of us. We pass stationary trucks, dispersed over the landscape, and note ‘men digging slit trenches or sitting around Bofors guns. Bofors, these days, have their long barrels mostly horizontal with the ground because they can be used against tanks as well as against planes and the planes overhead are nearly always ours.

Bare-Chested Soldiers

As we drive westward along the ridge we notice bare-chested, tinhatted soldiers looking up into the

No Cry of ‘Where Is RAF’

Pound Rommel leap out of the desert where, unless you knew where to look, you would not know there were guns. We hear shells whirling overhead and in the west we-see black plumes of smoke where they burst. Just ‘now the enemy’s guns are not shelling back, so the temptation to go up to the next rise in ground to have a look is stronger than it would be otherwise. This new place is the artillery’s observation post—a couple of men sit in an armored car with ear=- . phones on their ears and they speak into the mouthpieces slung around their necks, telling the gunners how they are doing.

Sees the Mediterranean

The view is good; we can see far westward and northward and. the thin blue line that we see on the northern horizon is the Mediterranean. Off to the right we make our black specks dispersed over the desert—these are ours. Just ahead of us there are two or three vehicles—they are ours. Farther off where our shells are bursting we see the enemy’s black specks dispersed in the desert— these are their vehicles, or maybe tanks, it is hard to make out. Way beyond a great smear of black

the controls. That Zero would|SKY, shading their eyes against the [smoke -rises into the sky and have ° crashed into us, if Krell|Sun- There are planes around but|spreads out—something that has hadn't steemply banked, avoiding| they are ours. been bombed, we guess. |the crashing fighter. At that, it The men who. were in Belgium,| We watch the shelling for a while |swept a few feet under our belly| Holland, Greece and Crete enjoy|and listen to whirring shells go | with the wing falling apart. this situation no end. Last year’s|over. Suddenly we hear a plane | bitter query, “where is the royal |power-diving, and another, but the Plunges Into Steep Spin air force?” is not heard in this|sky is so bright wi ht that

Told of Sailings.

By UNITED PRESS

Lieut. Smith killed in action

: reached his mother, Mrs. Charles LONDON, July 13 (U.P) ~TwWO Smith, at San Diego. She noti-

dental corps soldiers, who found| fied his father at San Francisco, non-combatant duty too tame, at-| and he asked her to come here.

tempted their own commando raid| They were married again last | jgiceq to at least 380 today w . textile problem. | America to the remodelled ports of

week. iy : - France the navy announced the sinkin The Nazis’ southern France with rail connec- a x = Seéupled d 2 ae Yay In his last letter\to- his mother, St % “Then the Zero swerved upward.| campaign. The -R. A. F. is right|it is hard to see the pl@nes. grandiose plans| tions to German industrial centers. |1anding m =n y SieV| Lieut. Smith wrote, “if I die it | yogse) in the Caribbean May 24. All| It seemed to go straight toward the | here and then some—the South Af-| We start to walk back. Five hunfor ‘Enocal- It is Hamed wo equip porte. for fone lpuasly elon for being Will he Se you ush ve Charles | °F the 22 crewmen abandoned shil|sky, hung there a moment, then Fgan sie Jou, the Reval Austral- id yards behind us a big shell ca” so thorough-| specialize ing, one for phos- ’ : . 2 in lifeboats and reached port. plunged downward in a steep spin.|lan Air Force and at night United |bursts. Ty publicized |phates and ores, another for per-| They were Sergt. Deter King, 27, Smith Ir, i Baki Pha i Ameriean The survivors of another s «1 yelled a warning over the in-|States Army Air Force bombers. “Hey, they're shooting back at. two years ago|ishable foods and so on. ona. Pi, Thoms Cutiberison, 19, a 1d as een 4 in | Panamanian merchantman, ner-command phone, but I guess] We come to a unit headquarters(us!” apparently are| The project remains almost en- Their punishment Mion Hapocied Ww in Ae a eve frst | Pedoed June 23, believed today the last bomber didn't see the|and go inside an armored vehicle] The enemy have started counterin abeyance, |tirely a paper one. Much propa-|be light because they had nj, it ol U-boats are supplied with inform#- | plunging Zero or didn’t have time|outfitted as an office, to: get the|battery fire. Their shells are falling however. The|ganda has surrounded the con- Prime anise Wingien Sian w war, tion about the movements of alliii|to dodge. I saw the Zero plunge|dope. An officer shows us the set-|short but we figure we might as twin Ssiacles to dus rogiam ave struction of a new queen i id ne oe oe ey le es 3 | straight into the bomber’s fuselage, UP on the map. From El Alamein, well be getting back to our car. We manpower and materials, particu-|French merchant fleet, the 19,000 :

cutting clean through the tail. The|a box on the coast, the positions walk back, maybe a bit faster than larly in the form of capital goods, t They went to Plymouth and BE FIND i run southward, then curve normally. HetAe, of An will - wh oi iy - feta BR oni 2a ane moved along the coast, sleeping on Zero Was: smashed mio plegess Sins < So in sufficient quantities until con-|vessel, first scheduled for last sum- | the beach at night to harden them-

looked like shrapnel spray scatter-| westward, just north of the Qattara “ditions approaching peacetime pre-|mer, has been continually post-|Selves for the raid.

‘boats of the survivors. The ing toward the ground. Depression. § y y |E ! HIOPI A H AVEN man commander asked the name “The bomber kept on a few min- On the coast the front is stable. INDI AN APOLIS OWN vail in most of Europe. poned until now there is little like- Lose Food Supply ‘the ship. utes, then went down toward the Then, on this ridge, what is left of Two years ago the Nazis confi-|lihood of the launching until win- “We set out to destroy enemy W

“I told him and he pulled a bf sea in a tail spin. I was too busy|the tanks of both sides are sitting f ; dently expected to negotiate peace|ter or next spring. : A from his pocket and fing after that to observe what hap-|around watching one another. In with England and reach an agree-| It is testimated that 500,000 tons | C.n8S and communication lines, pened.” the south British and New Zealand

, ” 2 through it with a puzzled expres: ment with France opening Africalof other French shipping is lying King sxisined.,. Soon Me) 2% Doctors and Technicians, on his face,” Capt. Gunnar Gje It was believed that some mem-|Datrols jab at the enemy. . to extensive exploitation. Two years|idle, rapidly deteriorating. to France.” M any of Them Germans of New York said yesterday at bers of the bombers crew had Many Planes Thunder - of fighting and particularly the They - had . onl 1 of ; ? |east coast port. “I guess he di parachuted into the sea. heavy drains on the Russian front The Oil Problem Jey Only: Seven gal ons : : find our ship listed. We had cha: | gasoline for the channel crossing To Aid Selassie. her name just before she left p compelled them to scrape the bot-| Oil is another critical shortage and half way across they. ran into J a tom of the bin of Europe’s stocks|in the way of colonial enterprises. nasty weather which almost cap- Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis T Times poy hy an -Uhis ee of human resources, and no large-| The Nazis are known to have de- sized their boat and did wash away CAIRO, pig 5, ean att Er 20 ir awling 3 AyO-i scale diversion to Africa is be- Yoioned processes for utilizing pea- |.) their food supply. Wook EINE ST Tell rt Te A keved Yoserhls now, ni Of Jo of Wes. a1 Fions beni) Slipping by German patrols, they | from Europe, some of them still] The gun crew tried to shoot Warn South America pa > as e fuel for Xi ir Ee landed near Cherbourg at midnight | pearing, German passports, have|submarine when it surfaced The onl i : on May 4 and were scaling the |peen leaving Egypt to attempt to|mediately after firing the torp J y region where the Nazis|from course North African wines. high cliff there when they heard |start a new existence in Ethiopia are currently stressing their eco-tSupplies were not available in any- German voices. All of ther are Rilo iostors pit rach dived and Sayed under W nomic plans for Africa is in propa-|thing like sufficient quantities, technic) > Tht] 10 minvies afer the ship 5 ganda to South America along the|however, and the Nazis’ colonial Time to Get Out nicians of various sorts, that lines that the Nazis will be able to| program calls for almost entirely| A searchlight began playing on Sherany Phuier Sig nok ani be. do without South America. Toward| mechanized agriculture. the water and the Nazis along the backgroud, of a Lg a Africa and the Middle East gen| Lacking seapower except in the|coast began to awaken. King and|cause of thn Nazi conespiion 2 life erally the Nazis soft pedal their|Mediterranean, another vital link|Cuthbertson decided it was time to Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethioexploitation and continue to extend|in the African program is" the|get out. bia an asked for tathnieal ex. omise of co-operation along the|trans-Sahara railroad whose con-| They returned to their boat but PS te to Re 10 Ethiopia io develop : es of “Egypt for Egyptians.” struction the Nazis describe as “no|in mid-channel the gasoline sup- the country, the British authorities LORAIN, O., July 13 (U. F The fact remains that the Ger-|purely French problem but the obli- | ply ran out. The men were with- in Cairo q uickly 100k Tp the giles State police reported today mans have most detailed plans for|gation of all Europe.” Pespite the out food for 15 days and had only Hon since: at the same time there] ; stepping up production and find-|admitted importance of the pro-|s pint of water for the last week were a good many refugees here. investigate reports of two Japa ing new resources in the so-called|posed line, running from Oran to|they drifted. So those refugees with technical saboteurs Jn northern Ohio de dark continent. A number of their|the Niger basin and connecting| Eventually they were sighted by 2 {knowledge and versed in medicine the fact “the commotion had best engineers have been engaged) Timbuktu with Dakar, it is now|plane which sent a destroyer t0|were given facilities to go to Ethio- down considerably.” tor several years preparing the pro-| possible to provide steel only by|their rescue. pia where there is plenty of oppor- iy Yopons Sibifiated wa gram. The great pre-war trading|tearing up unused trackage in . tunity and plenty of work for such ght and -early yes J y e Tr center of Hamburg is the core of|France. GUARD CHASES PROWLER as they. men in an automob e stoppe this activity. Little ‘more than chain-gang| A man prowling along the south a house at Middleburg Heights Located in the castle of Rein-|labor is used. Even should greater|fence of the Bridgeport Brass Co. > at noon Saturday and asked 2 beck near Hamburg is the Reich|supplies become available it is be- {was pursued early today by Powell SELECTING JURY IN renting a room. | .nstitue for colonial forestry. Ham-|lieved impossible to complete the Bryan, a plant guard. The man Frank Burzelic, 54, gardene] burg university has an institute of|line before 1946 at the earliest.

stocks be cap- Port Project Put Off il JB ay One vital part of the Nazis’ coloSuan sally nial scheme was the rehabilitation

ease the .axis|of rapid transit routes from North

Mr. Nichol

midnight on June 23, and the marine surfaced among the

The 50th recruit in the second “Indianapolis Own” naval air ; squadron is Haynes J. Willis who The thunder of many planes|five years ago was a member of the drowns our talk. - Somebody re-|all-city high school football squad.

REV M'NE AL T AKES marks, “that’s the Boston mail serv-| Mr. Willis also won letters for 1 ice again,” and everybody feels|basketball and track at Shortridge

pretty good over the thought that|and later won the player award as PULPIT IN MICHIGAN in a few minutes the S. A. A. F’s|a member of the Purdue football Boston bombers will unload their |squad. : : A veteran pastor who has been| bombs on the enemy. His enlistment brings the second ‘|preaching to Hoosiers for 19 years| The British bombing relays are squadron’s roster to the half-way will leave the state in September.|so steady that men on the ground |mark toward its goal of 100 memThe Rev, Malcolm D. McNeal of the| refer to them as the “Boston mail |bers. Other new recruits include - ‘|Prentice Presbyterian church, E.|service.” Later, when the planes| Eugene W. McCarty of 1036 High st. 38th and Bancroft sts., has accepted | come back, the men look up and|and Isaac H. Collins of Greenwood. a call from the First Presbyterian|count, “all 12 back! Only 11 came| A board of naval air cadet exchurch at Buchanan, Mich. back the time before.” aminers will be here July 22, 23 and The Rev. McNeal announced his| We go on then; we have to leave|24 to enlist the remainder of the 2 a’ |resignation at the services yester-|our car and go the rest of the way|squadron. Unmarried high school day. He will leave Sept. 1. on foot. British guns on our left|graduates 18 to 26 who are in good

Born in Tipton, the Rev. McNeal| are blazing away: orange flashes'health are eligible for the squadron, . attended Tipton schools and was

gradyated from the Tipton County high school. He was graduated in 1918 from Muskingum college, New Concord, O., and in 1921 from the Lane Theology Seminary at Cincinnati. He also did graduate work at Butler university. - Rev. Mr. McNeal has been at the , | Prentice. Presbyterian church for t (seven years and before coming here served at the Hopewell Presbyterian church near Franklin.

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escaped.

“Resting Place of a Heinkel” a German raider brought down on the English Coast.

See a Photographic Exhibit of

BRITISH AIRCRAFT

Ayres’ Tearoom Foyer, Eighth Fleor, July 13 Through July 26th

An exhibit of 79 magnificent photographs of British Aircraft ranging from the great Sunderlands and Catalina flying boats, through the Tomahawk, Spitfires and Harvard Trainers, in actual flight and operations at:their jobs all

over the world.

In all 33 typos of planes are shown, aswell as oh os of the R.A. F. personnel, the Eagle Squadron; scenes of airfields in Libya and England: Aerial photos

taken over enemy territory showing bombs falling; wrecked enemy machines

and operations at sea.

MURDER TRIAL HERE

A jury was being selected today in the trial of John Steward, 55-year-old city junkyard employee, charged with the second-degree murder of his housekeeper, Minnie Jones, last February. The trial is being held before Judge Dewey E. Myers in Marion county criminal court where it is charged that Steward on the night of Feb. 8 beat Mrs. Jones so badly that she died. The defendant is alleged to have become enraged because the housekeeper returned home late that night. Steward lives at 121 S. California st.

the home of R. F. Wolfkamme Middleburg Heights, talked to of the men. He said the man iy “short and slim,” looked like & year-old boy and was either Jit nese, Chinese or Filipino.

As the report spread, the me: e-

came “heavily armed” and automobile became “laden

dynamite” with which to sab

the Illuminating Co. power d bution plant at Middlesburg He:

DROWNS AT LAFAYETT} | LAFAYETTE, July 13 (U. James Edward Phillips, 18, due university freshman; drqin Saturday in a Lafayette swinjit.

He was the son of Mr a

BONUS DIVIDED 139 WAYS LOS ANGELES, Cal. (U. P.).— The offer of the North American Aviation, Inc.,, for bonuses to employees for suggestions for speeding up and improving airplane production resulted in 2660 suggestions. A total of 139 were accepted and the

«| $10,000 prize was split 139 ways.

HOOSIER JAP PRISONER WASHINGTON, July 13.—One Hoosier—Robert G. Martin of Decatur—was listed by the war department today as among the 297 American civilians captured at

g| Wake island who now are interned

by the Japanese at Shanghai.

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