Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1942 — Page 4

1ST RENT CASE}

Charges Landlord ‘Refused To Obey Ruling Of OPA. -

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: for comment today, but Mrs. Shipp sald that the house was not rented

. for cash July 1, 1941. Instead, it had |

_ been given a former employee as part payment for his services, she said. ; She added that the Haleys had

not moved in until September and agreed to fix the furnace. They did not do, this and during one month «used $6.19 worth of water, Mrs. Shipp contended. The suit asked $500 damages for %“willful and malicious” acts of. the defendant.

PREDICTS QUAKE TO HIT AXIS ARMY

' DENVER, July 14 (U. P)—The war will end this year when “an

earthquake, a tidal wave or both”|

* destroy the axis armies near

Jerusalem, an astrologist predicted¥

today. The forecast was made by A. M. Ziegler, executive secretary of the “astro scientists,” who said it was based on “historical events of the past and their relation to the stars, plus the bible teachings and the fact that the current year marks, an ‘age.’” He also announced that Adolf Hitler had died in 1940, that Marshal Hermann Goering had died more recently and that Gestapo Jeader Heinrich Himmler had be"come the No. 1 man in Germany.

3 SHIPS SUNK IN GULF

AN - EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, July 14 (U. P.).—The sinking of three ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence last week probably was ‘accomplished by two enemy submarines, seamen whose ship ziggagged to safety said today.

ARMOUR TO SEE HULL . MIAMI, Fla, July 14 (U, P.). — Norman Armour, U. S. ambassador to Argentina, leaves here today for Washington where he will confer with Secretary of State Hull.

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Holcomb G. Hoke Made Rifle Grenedes in the First World War.

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it’s certainly helped us do-a better

job than we could have otherwise,” he said. ' There were a dozen or so companies making rifle grenades in world war 1, but only one of them had had any previous experience in manufacturing grenades. Before the war was over, Holcomb & Hoke was making them faster than all the other firms except the experienced one.

Now' Obsolete

The rifle grenade, now obsolete, was just as typical of trench warfare as the tank is typical of lightning war. It was a metal gadget packed with explosives that the soldier could fasten to the muzzle of his rifle and fire into the enemy's trench. It was propelled by the gas which followed the bullet. Then Mr. Hoke and his chief engineer designed a grenade to fire They demonstrated it at Ft. Harrison and it would go several yards farther than the others. The army ordered 10,000 for proving, but the armistice put Holcomb & Hoke back in the but-ter-kist popcorn business. Forty-seven years ago Fred Hoke was a Sunday school superintendent in Sullivan, Ind.

« Met at Church

One Sunday, he noticed a. new face in the congregation. He went

Dedicate Flag for Their Second Wor

[Russians J.

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| valiant Russian defense of Viiionezh |in one of the bloodiest b:

the war and the punishing ¢

_|attacks launched on the

front, far to the northwest, the latest Nazi diversion

' {toward Moscow.

A group of workmen leave their jobs in the Holcomb & Hoke plant just long enough to dedicate their

second war flag.

to Hawaii to destroy enough of “our battleships to give them front

. couple of 1912 models and credit-

‘a dozen. ‘Maybe a couple more

over to get acquainted and met J.|

I. Holcomb. . A year or so later they entered a partnership which has been uninterrupted. In 1905 they came to Indianapolis, starting their first “plant’ here in the second floor of the old horse barn on Shelby st. which now houses city street department trucks.During the last world war the firm had a flag and flagpole. This war found the company without a flagpole so a new one was erected atop the building. The ceremony yesterday was to dedicate the flagpole and congratulate the men for exceeding their quota by 126 per cent. As Mr. Holcomb said: “We don’t want to be the biggest,

but we want to be one of the best.”

Battle of Midway Changed

Our Prospects in Pacific (Continued from Page One) ;

transport and suppy ships, it’s safe to guess that no vast preponderance of numbers or tonnage was what beat them, i Whether the Japs lost four carriers, as stated in the navy estimates, or six as one might gather from a study of army bulletins; whether three battleships were sunk or two or only one—this is not so important as the fact that they are no longer a menace to Hawaii or the United States west coast— Nor, for that matter, to the Aleutians! There is no longer any doubt, official or otherwise, that the United States can muster in the Pacific a preponderance of carriers. The most generous estimates would give Japan four class A ships of this type, though it is quite possible that she has only two.

battleships and no battle crisers, Japan nine battleships and no battle cruisers. In those days. aircraft carriers had not yet taken on their new role as capital ships. Britain, Japan and the United States had six each. Japan even then had some reticence about disclosing her. plans for the next year or two. On Dec. 7, 1941, if anybody knew how many battleships Japan had—or how many carriers—he wasn't telling anybody.

Outranked Our Navy

JAPAN, up to and including the day of the Pearl Harbor massacre, was still battleship-con-scious and battleship wary. There is no doubt in anybody's mind now that the Japanese came

The Heat Is Off

THERE IS no longer hope to launch any such fantastic armada against any Pacific objective as that which she sent against Midway. This, it seems, takes the heat off Australia as well as Hawaii. - A counter-attack up through the Coral sea to drive the Japs out of New Guinea, Borneo and the Solomons is not only possible, but feasible. Yamamoto’s long supply line along the Chinese coast is definitely threatened for the first time since Pearl Harbor. We are off the defensive in the southwest Pacific. Ships and men concentrated to stave off the southward spread of Hirohito may now be released for more useful work. : If we set our minds to it we shall be able to get help to the Chinese.

line parity. The last edition of Jane's gives Japan nine carriers built and two. nearing completion — two which nobody to ‘date appears to have seen. : Japan’s. battleships, including a

ing the list with the Haruna generally believed sunk by Colin Kelly, in this inventory stand! at

are on the ways, but at the moment nobody is likely to. care much. The important point is that at the beginning of the war Japan had nine, possibly 11 carriers. At the same time the United States had seven with several building and two oceans to sail them on.

We Have Edge Now

CONSIDERING such facts, it isn’t too difficult to figure why ‘the Japanese came roaring down onto the Hawaiian islands a month ago, full of confidence that a half of their fleet would give them the Pacific. - * At that time the Lexington had been sunk, putting our total carrier strength—if no greater than that listed in Jane’s—at six, with one operating off Malta. So, when Yamamoto’s outriders came down like the wolf on the fold on the morning of June 4 with four battleships, four to six carriers, 16 cruiserss 30-odd destroyers and some 20 assorted

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‘Great Battle of History

THE SMASHING of the Jap fleet in the North Pacific will have an effect on the strategy of all the warring nations from England to Ecuador. The battle of Midway deserves a higher rating that it has received by a war-<harried public. It was one of the most farreaching and decisive engagements ever fought since man first took his wars out onto the sea.

Nol we're pleased that passengers seem to enjoy their meals so much on our railroad.

We know. the temptation to sit around and chat after a good dinner. Normally we'd be glad to have you do so. But these days, although we want you to take your time while dining, we'd appreciate it if you didn’t linger at the table after you've finished your meal.

Currently many dining cars are serving troops, + and material to build new ones is not available. At the same time essential civilian train traffic is steadily increasing, especially of late with the curtailment of other means of transport. All of which means that there are many more passengers to be served without extra equipment with which to do it.

In waging America’s war of movement, nothing is more helpful than the cooperation of our passengers. So if you're kept waiting for dinner, please be patient. And when you’re through your meal, won’t you kindly leave the diner promptly, so that others may be served as soon as possible.

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On the Kalinin front, t

|sians reported that 10,000 c

had beén killed and that | losses were 7000 casualtics 5000 missing. i

The Germans claimed that

' |Russians had been annihili fed or

ing, near Rzhev. Another - Soviet - offensivdl launched several days ago not bhwest of Voronezh, at a point west Don river, in an effort to cra; hi

onslaught, led by large num Russian tanks and cavalry “pushed the enemy southward’ no positions were given to iii the full extent of the operatic diversion. i The Germans several da had reported that this count had been repulsed with 1 almost 300 Soviet tanks anc was no definite indication that it had succeeded in slowii: the Nazi main offensive tows il southeast. On two sectors of the I front (around Rzhev) the R said their successful counterhad. reduced the size of th taken by the® Germans an compelled the enemy to te the defensive.

German Planes Cover Advil

“The hostilities revolve ari very strategic road, the si route linking two large groups, and the enemy is to maintain control of this one dispatch said. “In two heavy battle the Russians

the road at several places. “The Germans are con: pouring in. aircraft, which | must withdraw from ‘other © to cover their infantry. “The battle area, southwg Rzhev, extends to about 125] northwest of Moscow at the | tion of important roads ang roads.” i The fighting around Vi was comparable to the siege vastopol in its fury and in t which the Germans have psi

hillock, grove and settleme an inferno of fighting tanks, artillery, machine g infantrymen as the German to the city’s suburbs. In a desperate attempt to|| the city, the Germans threw i third motorized division, to the masses of tanks, infant; artillery which had crossed th The Germans attacked tightly-packed mass with dis to their losses on a small sec As they met the determine sian army with the guards troops at its head, a heavy b of artillery and machine gu broke out while Russian swept over the battlefield altitude, .with their machin

‘| blasting the packed German

tions. Fight From Every Hous¢ Hundreds of guns, hurling into the area, sent up pili smoke and dust which soon

-|the entire battlefteld, disy

from the front said. Villages and collective farm tiny hillocks, were taken a;

tions they had lost. From rooftops and churchi suburban villages which n in the battlefield, Russian rained machine gun and lig lery shells on the advanc mans. Infantrymen fought from and ditches as the enem; proached the suburbs, and the began fighting in the village s

Under Constant Fire

three bridgeheads on'the east of the Don.. Russian artillerf planes kept the river under stant fire. One bridgehead after anoth reduced, but the Germans, heavy losses, poured men acro river to establish more. ‘Their were described as gigantic. Fighting, almost equalling tli: Voronezh in ferocity, cont without pause in the Bogucha tor, 140 miles to the southes the northern end of the big of the Don.

was ||

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guns let go. The blast knocked me

off the ladder, and one of the gun crew grabbed all the live ammuni-

‘ltion I was carrying and heaved it

over the side. 1 was out for eight hours. It was when I came to that I found out my pants had been blown off. I asked for them. The crew showed me some shreds of cloth. I still have the

a then until. we got into the iceberg zone, we were intermittently attacked, but bad weather helped us some." Somewhere in the far north, the Russians took us over, and we were reasonably safe from U-boats. The Russians didn’t take chances. When they heard or saw anything, they dropped depth charges. There was plenty of trouble—10 or 15 air attacks a day—when we reached Murmansk itself. The Russians poured the ack-ack at them. The German bombing was good, but they say around Murmansk: “Maybe 15 planes start over; only 10 get over, and we'll

‘about the size of it.

Loses Pants

That was Between the guns and the fighter defense, few German planes got through. : We were in Murmansk two or three weeks, and during that time about 19 bombs dropped near our ship. The only damage, however, was a couple of racked plates. The bombing got so bad I wouldn't take a shower bath. I did twice. We were attacked and there I was naked as a baby, without a lifebelt. We were on the alert nearly all the tirhe. : I worked in the galley and didn’t get much rest. There would be an attack when my watch was over, and I would have to help get coffee for the boys at the guns. That was- 8 job, considering that they drank from 25 to 30 cups .each a

day. . : RATA it to one

take care of them.’

But I've got an kid on the ship, Walter Cullin of Philadelphia. He was 16 and .a messboy, but he wasn’t scared of

anything. He hauled coffee to the

gunners at all hours, whether we’ were being attacked or not, and he

‘was always forgetting his lifebelt, 1|On Convoy Trip to Murmansk

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It seems to me that what American seamen need on that long voydge is air protection. We'll take our chances on submarines, and every man on our ship agreed on’ that. But when a big Focke-Wulf comes over, we got that helpless feeling. Nothing's going to help

|it except air protection.

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