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TIGHTENING OF RULES ASKED BY SCHRICKER
Driver Under $10,000 Bond In 2 Deaths; Once Had Epileptic Seizure.
Governor Schricker today
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amendments to the state driver’s license law following the accident at Meridian and Washington sts. yesterday in which two pedestrians were killed and 15 injured by a wildly plunging automobile. The driver of the car, John W. Lee of 28 Spencer ave., was treated
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STATEMENT BY JOHN W, LEE
Driver Explains Actions Prior to Tragedy
To Prosecutor.
John W. Lee, driver -of the car which killed two persons and injured 15 at ‘Meridian and Washington sts. yesterday, made a long statemrent to Prosecutor Sherwood Blue. The statement follows, in part: “I have been a heavy drinker for 21; or three years. I usually drink pretty ‘heavy on week-ends. . . This drinking usually leaves. me nervous for one or two days. The first time this drinking became so serious was the Monday after Easter, 1940. The nervous action from the drinking began affecting me the Monddy after Easter, 1940. “I saw Dr. at this time and he advised me to cut down on my drinking. He also thought part of my nervousness was due to so much heavy drinking over the previous week-ends.
Collapsed in Grocery
“Dr, came to my house to attend me for a nervous condition June 15, 1940. He advised me to cut down on my drinking at that time. . . . I collapsed in a grocery store on June 10, 1942, and was taken to City hospital where I was told I had a convulsion. Dr. came to see me the same day and told me I had a ‘nervous (Continued on Page Two)
Lee,
“epileptic seizure,” said Dr. Charles Myers, hospital superintendent. In a statement to Prosecutor
| Sherwood Blue today, Lee said he
had been a “heavy,drinker” for two or three years, that the drinking always left him in a nervous condition and that a ‘doctor had
told him he had a “nervous heart.”
Held Under $10,000 Bond
Lee was held on a vagrancy charge under $10,000 bond. Mr. Blue said he would turn over Lee's statement to the Marion county grand jury. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Safety board ordered Chief* Morrissey to compile a report on driver’s license regulations in other states. “From this report, we will make a formal recommendation that the legislature pass laws that will prevent drivers from getting licenses by merely signing their names to a slip of paper,” Leroy J. Keach, safety hoard president, said. State auto license bureau officials said today Lee gave an oath that he was not afflicted in any way when he filled out his driver's license form last February.
Car Plunges Over Walk His car went out of control when
L. S. Ayres & Co. store. It plunged over the curb, careened off a plate glass show window and hurtled down the sidewalk to Meridian st. before it stopped against a fire plug. The dead were a 3-year-old boy, who had come to IndianaPolis with his mother from their home in Mooresville to “meet daddy,” and a woman who was on her way home with train reservations to visit her son in an army camp. They were: RICHARD HALL, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hall "of Mooresville. MRS. MARTELLA WEIDIG, 1603 Central ave., apt. 301. The injured: MRS. MARY WELLMAN, 6414 (Continued on Page Two)
LOGAL FIRE LOSSES UP
Fire losses during 1941 increased $256,000 over the damage’ recorded during 1940, the annual report of Fire Chief H. H. Fulmer revealed today. Losses last year totaled $746,000 compared to $490,003 during 1940.
Fremont Bids S To Partner
By FREMONT POWER Times Tomato Editor JOE AND I HAVE said goodby. It was a hard thing to do, but I guess it had to be that way.
Joe was a faithful horse, always open to suggestions, and he never
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slackened that smooth, steady gait of his. He'd go clomping along and sooner or later we'd get to whatever garden we were headed for.Sometimes I think he even got to know me in the short time we palled around together. He'd prick his ears when he'd see me coming and maybe swing his head up and down. ‘I Don’t Know’ Maybe he’d do this for anybody. I don’t know. But I thought it was for me, and that’s the reason saying goodby wasn’t easy. Visiting gardens all over Indianapolis is a-big task for even a fine western horse like Joe, and that's the reason we had to say: goodby. I'll have to look for other means of transportation. Yesterday I took a couple of
barn and said, “Here, Joe,” and he nosed into it and licked it up. I patted him on the
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PLANES NES URGED
Shipbuilders oe Brogte Mass Production of ‘Mars’ for
‘Carrying Troops.
" WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P.).— Andrew Jackson Higgins, New Or-
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flying . boat “Mars,” hopes to see President Roosevelt oday about the plan.
The proposal for —— the axis submarine campaign by shifting the emphasis from surface ships to huge flying boats was made by another shipbuilder, Henry J. Kaiser of Oregon. Higgins also expects to confer with him here. The flying boat proposal has touched off a great, new controversy here. As yet there is official silence on the plan, but officials of nearly every war agency had something to say about it.
Airiines to Expand
Air experts are predicting that the time is not far away when huge aircraft will be shuttling the seven seas with men and material for the fighting fronts. ¢ In the midst of the discussion the army air transport command announced that Americal commercial airlines. would extend. their operations immediately to carry men and materials to every war theater in the world where Americans are fighting. Higgins’ arrival today is expected (Continued on Page Seven)
FOOD PRIGES HERE RISE 18% IN YEAR
Up .6 Per Cent From May 12 to June 16, 1942.
Times Special WASHINGTON, July 21.—Indianapolis retail food prices on June 16 this year were 18 per cent higher than on June 17, 1941, the bureau of labor statistics reported today. Food costs rose .6 per cent between May 12 and June 16 of this year, the bureau said. Increases reported for the period from May 12 to June 16 included: Meats, 1.1 per cent; eggs, 2.7; fruits and vegetables, 3.7. Decreases were: Cereals and bakery products, .1 per cent; dairy products, .6; beverages, 3.1; fats and oils, 2.3, and sugar, 7.6. The average in 56 major cities from mid-May to mid-June showed a 1 per cent drop in food items covered by price control and a 4.8 per
‘cent increase in uncontrolled items].
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! CHUNGKING, July 21.(U. P.).—American bombers hav:
Japanese vessels totalling perhaps 4000 tons in the Yangtze a
h iukiang,
it -was, ‘announced today as a ‘military spokesman revealed that in the
battle for southeast China the Japanese had recaptured tel
Wenchow. .
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At the same time it was reported that allied submarines ve beatedly
have attacked Japanese transports in Formosa strait, an important lane for Japanese shipping to the South seas. | The headquarters of Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander in chief of the American, forces in China, annourrced that the United
| States bombers, with a pursuit es-
cort, sank the two vessels, each of from 1000 to 2000 tons, in ag raid yesterday on the river port 90 miles north of Nanchang in Kiangsi province. The American planes returned to their base without damage. Wenchow reportedly was lost again only 24 hours after the Chinese had retaken the seacoast city from the invader. “The submarine attacks off Formosa have been proceeding for four weeks, the New China Daily said, but the extent of their success has not been learned. The newspaper reported that .the Japanese were fortifying Amoy, on the coast opposite Formosa, installing anti-aircraft guns and long range coast guns.
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SEES I T0 SON IN JAP FOTO
Picture of War Fritoners May Include Locz! Foy.
One of the American 5 1 ars pictured in a group taken ot isoners
by the Japanese in Bata: any shown in Life magazine last vee is believed to be Capt.: Hix 'W'. Meier, son of Clifford S. Mest, res N. Emerson ave. Mr. Meier said the sii 85) soldier nearest the camera in the line of prisoners “looks like Hix.” i Due to a heavy growth of and the small outline cf his face, Mr. Meier said he coulil fot be sure but said he had writt ‘0 Life for better identification. | Relatives had not receijed a letter from him since the fill of Bataan and the picture, spa:rently taken by the Japanese ' is the first Svidence: of ‘his whe abouts.
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ATH NAVAL RAID BLASTS MATRUH
400. Shells Fired Fired Into Axis Base; RAF Smashes “= Rommel Airdromes. By UNITED PRESS “The axis-held port of Matruh on the Mediterranean was shelled for the third time in four days by British naval units Monday, the Exchange Telegraph - <at ‘London re-
ported ‘from Cairo today. It was the most effective of the series of sea raids on the German base. Shipping in the harbor was dam-
laged and dock installaticns were i| destroyed.
Warships swept in and plastered the: harbor : works for 30 minutes with. more than 400 shells fired accurately. Enemy ships. were hit in-the attack and several buildings were “blown sky sigh, » the dispaich said. British nava! olanée from warships _dropped bombs during the attack, despite heavy anti-aircraft fire.
Lull in Land Fighting
Meanwhile, Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck’s eighth imperial army held ‘all of its advanced positions along the Egyptian desert line, while in the air the R. A. F. continued its all-out attack on enemy targets. "Land activity was confined mostly to patrol work, but in the air there was no slackening of the pace at which British bombers inflicted heavy damage on axis airdromes, tanks, troops and supply vehicles. Last night the R. A. F. for the first time carried out a night time attack on the actual battle area with medium bombers, causing fires and explosions among tanks, trucks and grounded planes.
Young Pew Weds Ex-W aitress, 22
PHILADELPHIA, July 21. (U. P.)—Walter C. Pew Jr. son of the general manager of the Sun Oil Co., and Sopnie Boychuk, 22-year-old attend- § ant of one of the company’s service stations, .were ' married last night. The ceremony was performed by Justice - of § the Peace Frank C. Kromer, who was not aware of the couples identity until he Miss Boychuk examined the marriage license: - Miss Boychuk, daughter of Rus-sian-born parents and a former « waitress, worked at her job at the
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GROWING PERIL TO RUSS SPURS LONDON ACTION
Churchill Reports to King George Aften Parley With U. S. Leaders; Nazis Sweep on Rostov From 3 Sides.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press
Foreign Editor
The axis offensive to isolate the Caucasus struck at the gateway city of Rostov and edged closer to Stalingrad today in a drive that sharply revived prospects of an allied second
front in western Europe.
German official claims were that Rostov was being ate tacked from three sides after being set afire by dive bomb« / ers and that an advance of 90 miles had been made by an the Don river bend to within = 85 miles of Stalingrad on the Volga. : Nazi air squadrons were reported by the Garin high command to be pounding the Russians on the lower Don front, destroying bridges and ranging south of Rostov to
axis spearhead striking into
break communications lines.
Confer on Second Front
This Nazi picture probably was exaggerated but Mos« : cow dispatches, renewing emphasis on the need for allied help, reflected a desperate situation, and London sources
again suggested that Japan,
with more than half of hep
best troops shifted to the north, might be ready at any;
moment to strike at Siberia.
As a result, London dispatches said that some united nations thrust in the west was more likely than ever. The necessity for censorship and secrecy made second front developments highly uncertain, however, and it was
emphasized that tremendous
difficulties must be overcome.
About all that was known was that Prime Minister Churchill and his aids and American representatives had reconsidered the situation in London in the light of the
threat to the Caucasus and of
the agreement with the Soviet
Union on the urgent necessity of a second front in 1942. Churchill Meets With King
Churchill then had luncheon with King George. This might be the most significant concrete development, since
it is customary to inform the king when important deci
sions have been made, but no official indication was given
HUGE RAF SQUADRON BLASTS NAZI BASES
Russian Bombers Set Big
Fires in Koenigsberg.
LONDON, July 21 (U. P.)— Speedy Spitfire fighters, some manned by an American Eagle squadron, and four-motored Well-
ington and American-built Boston bombers, attacked enemy installations from Le Havre to northwest Germany last night as the Russians reported that their bombers had blasted Koenigsberg, industrial capital of northwest Germany.
Radio Moscow said that a “large group of planes” set 38 fires in Koenigsberg, famous for its ironfoundries, machine shops and locomotive works, which now probably are turning out submarines. The Spitfires, almost 200 of them, shot up every military target they could find -in low-level raids last night from Octeville, near Le Havre, to Le Treport, 70 miles to the north. The Bostons attacked a power station. The Wellingtons attacked objectives in northwest Germany, the air ministry said without elaboration. One of the fighters failed to return.
‘TREASON’ WARNING TO LABOR INDORSED
WASHINGTON, July 21 (U. P.). —Two public members of the war labor board told A. F. of L. and C. 1. O. leaders today that drastic action—“even to the application of the laws of treason”—will be taken
: | against labor groups that defy
board efforts to settle jurisdictional disputes. Chairman William H, Davis indorsed the warning, made = by Wayne L. Morse at a public hearing on the dispute between the A. F. of L. Building Trades Council and the United Electrical,. Radio
and Machine Workers (C. I. O) Gen
ence. On the other hand, it was
tude should be taken toward the
developments
as. is the military advantage of anything that would divert axis strength from Russia. London dispatches also reiters ated the possibility that next yeaf
an earlier date than desired. Doubt ‘Limited Invasion’
There were several approaches ta the second-front problem—a :fag
intensified and regular commande raids or an attack on the northern Norway coast in an effort to elimie nate Nazi air and submarine bases from which the enemy has battered allied convoys to Russia. These, however, are only half-way measures and while advantageous
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On the War Fronts.
July 21, 1942
ful attack from three directions
gateway city of Rostov;
Russians redouble. countertacks in Voronezh sector.
leaders, including Prime Minister Winston'~ Churchill, reconsider possibility of opening second front to. relieve Russians. :
EGYPT: British aerial attacks res newed as lull continues ‘in fighting; Matruh shelled in fourth raid by British naval force.
CHINA: U. S. bombers sink two Japanese ships on. Yangtze. ]
as to the purpose of the audie
emphasized that a cautious attie
might well be too late and thag it was a question of whether the allies must ‘take a greater risk at
would certainly fail to force. Hitler :
RUSSIA: Germans report powers
launched against the Caucasus Naz column pushes southeastward to within 85 miles of Stalingrad,
BRITAIN: American and British
prospects of ‘a second front until are more definite, The political urgency of an .invas -|sion of western Europe is obvious:
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greater aerial offensive in the west, Li
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