Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1942 — Page 4

The Cob Method

Attempt to Mop Up Big Bend of Don River in Drive Toward Volga; Pincers Smash Increases

Rostov Peril. (Continued from Page One)

Loss of this link not only would sever the armies of Marshal Timoshenko, but would deprive the country of the ‘Baku oil productions leaving only the inadequate trans-Cas- ~ pian route for allied war supplies via Iran. A hint ‘that the Russians were . fighting only a rear guard action until the Don ' was reached had come on Wednesday from axis sources and today’s German communique again report"ed the Russian army retreating, with in addition to a claim of some 18,000 prisoners in the Voronezh

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base which in its turn has got to be filled up from England, the United States, and to some extent from

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BRITISH | NAZIS IN:

’ u. s. Bombers re Wake Healy

0 ‘advanced in their short, offensive | last, week-end.

Raid on Axis Base at ‘Benghazi. : (Continued from Page One)

(apparently operating independently of the R. A! P.-for the first time) started big fires in a hammering attack yesterday on the harbor. The British communique, covering Wednesday's operations, said that the Germans had regained ground at the Hill of Jesus (Tel El Eisa), to which British forces had

Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel used air-borne reinforcements from Crete in regaining ground on the British coastal flank. (Reinforcements also are stream-

Sinai highway lifeline that stretches 180 miles between Palegfine and the Suez, United Press ndent George Palmer reported from Haifa,

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~ Bus and streetoar com) anies are being urged to discourage patrons by urging them ti walk if less than two miles from work ". + + other transit trends ::o to‘ward more Siaggereg schoo!. business, factory rush hours. more ‘seat and st: nding room, greater bus invasion of "passnger” parkways. oi Auto Repair

Officials admit that one s2: tion of the auto * =in-your=ci:l-when-you-get-a-new-one” ¢: der depends largely on good Will and patriotism of both custoirsr and distributor . . . the section forbids

part which can be restored ‘) working order . . . impossible ic police; the main object of this section is to encourage conservation . .. it gives customer grounds for complaint if he thinks a dealer is tryin: to sell him a part unnecessarily ad gives dealer a chance to save hi: precious new parts for really serious repair jobs.

BLOCK Hoke els Plenty Thick Along Cigar Front IN EYPT 3

Hemisphere 1943 rice crop’ will be clove #ltuation,” to, is Took’ up 6,000,000 pounds of them shipped from Zanzibar during the i 3% months. :

“Sour Note on SWests Chocolate manufacturers are go-

ing to have to figure how to stretch|

their cocoa bean supplies . . . imports from Africa and South America are now down to 25 per cent of normal . . . expect fewer choco-

late coverdd bars and candies or less rich chocolate. mixtures . . . 1943 may see chocolate quite a luxury.

More Parts

‘Converted auto factories have scrapped many of their old dies but are saving two kinds: Those which

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be hard/to replace a egghead fender on an old model car from now on, put axles, driving shafts, pistons and other. essentials will probably be available, if you are patient.

Save Your Hats

Hats of fine wool and fur felts or imported straws / should be carefully cleaned and handled, as few new ones will be made for the duration . . . next year will probably see more re-used and reprocessed wool felts and all sorts of novelty weaves, including the new milk “wool. »

Patriotic Dining

With peaches and chicken poth on the victory food special list— from July 16 to Aug. 5th for peaches

ers—it’s a chance to give some mouth watering dinners and still be patriotic.

Canned Citrus

Expect to see canned drange and lemon juice and grapefruit back

slightly higher rate . . . market prices on citrus for canning have jumped so high above the 110 per cent parity limit, since retail ceiling was removed, that a lid is necessary

AXIS CONCEAL TROOPS IN' CRETE ,

50,000 Reported Ready to Bolster Rommel in Mid East Campaign.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 15 (U. P.) > — (Delayed) —Fifty thousand ‘' German and Italian troops are concens= trated in Crete, in the Mediter= ranean between Greece and Africa, to join.the forces of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel for a drive on the Middle East, military sources said today. The Germans, to coronal the steady flow of men to Crete from Greece, have resorted to repressive measures and many Greeks have been arrested and ‘executed, it was asserted.

- (Crete is 180 miles: from’ the Itals ian base in Libya. It is only 90 miles from Italy’s base of Rhodes in the Dodecanese islands, whence axis troops might “attack Cyprus pres paratory to an attack on fighting

French Syria.) Many axis troops already have been sent from Crete to Africa, ine formants said, about half of them in junker transport planes.

' Among the thickest tomato plants seen so far on the garden tour were those of Leonard C. Small, 1050 S. Belmont ave. Mr, Small has to step high and lively to get between the rows.

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Of Underpasses. (Continued from Page One)

Stalingrad has advanced another 70 miles from Lisichansk .to the Millerovo area, on: the railroad in the center of the Donetz district,” A Russian front line dispatch said. : Push on by Sheer Weight “At the same time the other prong of the drive has pushed on southward irom Boguchar, apparently attempting to unite with the Millerovo forces for a concentrated assault on the most vital city of the Volga—Stalingrad. “The Red army was pushed back by sheer weight of numbers from both Millerovo and Boguchar after the most desperate resistance.” The German communique claimed that rapid progress still was being made by axis troops south of the bend of the Don river, that enemy men and material “too great to estimate” had been captured or encircled and that the air force had marked the forward areas with battering attacks on Rostov, Novorossisk and other targets, where big fires

were started. - be by way of the Italian Dodecanese Voronezh Fight Rages On islands and the British island of Cyprus, whose eastern extremity is The greatest single battle of the| voy es from Latakia in Syria. southern front still raged around and in Voronezh, but that blazing British forces in Syria have. been city on the German flank had be- depleted to some extent for use in come important mainly as a symbol the Egyptian campaign and a Gerof Russian resistance and as a man stacy ig force would. be a serious threa esate ub enemy Joepesi + in the| The aim, of course, would be for main axis offensive toward - the the Mosul oil fields, Rommel, if he Caucasus Was decreased as the got past Suez meanwhile would try Germans extended their grip along to close in through Palestine and the Don river and pushed into the Trans-Jordan. big bend. But the Nazis still must keep up the attack to protect their flank and to make good on their false claim last week that Veronezh had been taken. planes, artillery and anti-tank guns Dispatches from the front today|were striking at them constantly made it clear that the German highland frequently shoving them back command would pay with the lives|in counter-thrusts that were deof many thousands of soldiers and|signed primarily to slow down the in hundreds at tas Ena alr, German attack and make it as cost- ’ es an effo “save face”|ly as possible. by aking the city. The importance attached by the ussian shock troops continued a| Germans to the southern offensive - series of counter-attacks that|was emphasized by severe fighting, slashed into the enemy flank on|gften of a disversionary nature, on both sides of Voronezh and pushed|other fronts as far north as Leninthe Germans back at some points. | grad.

Battle With Bayonets

Bloody fighting that raged over scores of small wobded hills, through villages that changed hands many times and from building to - building. in the southern outskirts of Voronezh itself. In one counter-attack, the Rusasians hacked. their way with the - bayonet and the hand grenade from house ‘to house to clear the Gerig from a street they had fortiAt points, Soviet press dispatches said the Russian counter-attack was .80. vigorous that the Germans, having failed to crush the city in their north-south pincers, started to build strong steel defense posts and to dig tanks into the ground for use 88 pill boxes,

70: Miles in 3 Days

Over ‘the 10-mile area between the Don and Voronezh rivers, tens of thousands of men and hundreds of tanks were fighting in a hundred or more small battles. The Gérmans had moved large

As the situation now stands, the British ‘are holding, but the balance of strength is delicate and could be upset ‘by. reinforcements to Rommel from Orete, unless the British can get considerable reinforcements of their own, which are not at present in sight. Crete is. 180 miles from .the Italjan base of Derna and Libya an troops can be ferried over by transport planes, while others, with tanks and artillery, can -be sent by boat, despite the British naval and air blockade.

Suez Menace Is Acute

Thus the menace to the Suez canal is still acute. If Rommel starts his new drive and appears to be attaining his objective, there is a strong possibility that the axis may parallel it with an attack on Syria from Crete. There is a limit to the number of ‘troops which can be based on the island, but Istanbul reports there has been a steady flow in and out of Crete for months. A frontal attack on Syria would

Palestine. Hundreds of lorries and every type of armored car sped toward Egypt in a never ending parade, he wrote.)

make parts of older models that are most nécessary, ‘to replace, and]. those for the ’'42—and sometimes the ’40 and ’'4l1—models ., . . it may

to start forcing them down again . however, war shipment demand will make it hard to keep prices down—just as in the case of hogs.

Plenty of Rice

The department of agriculture gives assurance that the Western

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the Ohio and get a horse*in‘Kentucky. He thought there was nothing finer.” Well, Mr. Jines isn’t living now, but the Jines’ admiration for horses continues. Mrs. Jines’ boy, Ralph, works at the Sundown Saddle club and he thinks there’s no better ih than riding a horse. { Now We Go West I patted Joe on the neck and Mrs.] - Jines, said: “Yeh, that’s what Ralph{ - says to do, pat ‘em and keep ‘em humored.” With a wave from me and a lurch from Joe, we were off, headed west. And it wasn’t long before we pulled up at the Leonard C. Small place at 1050 S. Belmont ave. Mr. Small, I might, say, holds a special post of favoritism in the tomato department because he used the corn cob and hole method. That's what I wanted to see. Minus shirt and sporting a fine, even tan, Mr.'S was out in the garden when and Iarrived. J}... “The boys at the plant were| kidding me Mist night, said you'd be out to see that tomato,” Mr. Small told me. And so the next day, there Joe and I were. Mr. Small’'s special method tomato vine, after two transplantings and subsequent setbacks, now has almost 50 green tomatoes on it. He agreed that if he had staked it up when it was younger, it would have grown pretty high. As it is, this plant is sort of a squatter but very heavy on the production side. (/

Jackie, 3, Helps, Too ) Summer Store

Mr. Small is usually gone in the ] FH Hours evening (he’s a maintenance man ; at Mouldings, Inc.) and so Mrs, Small does the watering, aided no doubt by her boy, Jackie, who will be 3 next month. With a hose stuck into the :pipe leading to the corn cobs under ground, Mrs. Small gives the plant a good drink about every evening. Of course, this one vine is only the beginning of the Smalls’ garden. Set out..the regular way are 48} other plants, now bending low un der a good yield. § “Probably set too close, though,” Mr. Small said, and he's probably right. “But it doesn’t look like I'm . going to have to buy many toma- “Blissful” 8 woes.” Which is right again. 4 \ AND i ) 4 Gorgeous solitaire & There is, incidentally, one domes- 0H Na 2 % Q Y A IR yellow gold tic hazard in the Small garden. And E ; ; :

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dive-bomber squads and ‘troops in superior numbers across the Don to reinforce the attack on the city. But Russian Stormovik assault

Other Fronts Aflame

South of Leningrad, the enemy again was attempting forward thrusts, presumably in an effort to improve his positions as far as Lake Ilmen, as well as on the Kalinin front, northwest of Moscow. Southwest and east of Rzhev, 125 miles northwest of Moscow, the entrenched Russian forces were reported holding and repulsing repeated German attacks which were designed to eliminate a threat to the enemy communications :lines. Small enemy groups penetrated the Soviet defenses in a wooded sector but later were destroyed, dispatches said. The Soviet newspaper Red Star also reported a German offensive action on the Brainsk front, west of Orel and southwest of Moscow. A Russian counter attack again forced the enemy to dig in on the defensive, but Nazi air borne troops were being rushed to that sector, apparently to renew the attack.

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