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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 114
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‘WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1942
MORE MARRIED NEN IN INDIANA
* FACING DRAFT
Manpower Situation Critical As Supply of 1-A Class
Nears Exhaustion.
By EARL RICHERT Despite all that Washington has said and done concerning the protection of family ties, the manpower
situation in Indiana is so. critical that local draft boards will have to continue taking married men (with-. out dependent wives or children) to fill their increasingly heavy calls. “The truth of the matter is that the available supply of single 1-A men practically is exhausted in most of the local board areas ' in the state. - And the primary duty of each draft board is to GET the number of men asked for by selective service.
Needed to Fill Quota
“I don’t know how we are going to raise the army Washington wants unless we take married men,” commented one local draft board chairman today. And the local boards are not
violating instructions when they : order a married man. to report
for induction. They received orders from Washington yesterday -detailing the procedure to be followed in deferring married men in accordance with congressional wishes, but that order stated: . “Local boards are authorized to vary from the general order of selection of registrants with dependents when it is necessary to fill the call, provided the ‘registrants who are selected have been classified as available for military service under former regulations.”
Board Members Irritated
And the order continues, “as rapidly as they can be made available, local boards shall select for induction all registrants without dependents of any kind under the law.” But these registrants without dependents ; are practically all gone now in this state. Local draft board members are irritated considerably over the seven different categories of induction for single and married men set up recently by national selective service headquarteres. They say this creates a false impression among married men, lead(Continued on Page Three)
OVERRULES PELLEY PLEA FOR DETAILS
Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell today overruled a motion by Silver Shirter William Dudley Pelley deed to force the government to file a bill of particulars. Pelley is scheduled to be tried next Tuesday on sedition charges. The motion sought to have the government go into more detail on the charges than was set out in the indictment.
TRAFFIC DEATH SETS YEAR'S TOLL AT 69
Argus Dodson of 3510 E. Morris #t., injurgd when struck by an auto July 10 at Washington and West sts, died yesterday at City hospital. He was 51. Mr. Dodson’s death raised the county traffic toll for this year to 69. Forty-seven of the deaths have occurred in the city.
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JURY WILL GET CRASH EVIDENCE
Death Car Driver Unable To Raise Bond; Two
Victims Critical.
Unable to raise $10,000 bond, John William Lee, 42, of 28 Spencer ave., driver of the car which killed two, persons and injured 15 Monday, remained in Marion county jail today. Leé was charged with vagrancy while police and the prosecutor’s office compiled evidence which they said would be presented to the grand jury. He appeared in Municipal court yesterday and his case was continued until Aug. 5 by Judge John L. McNelis at the request of Sergt. Charles J. Russell of the prosecutor’s staff.
Thyee Still in Hospital
Three of the injured remained in City hospital with Miss Imogene Chandler, 21, of 1603 Cruft st., and Mrs, Mary Wellman, 6414 Central ave., listed as critical. Berl Newcomb, 42, of 5828 S. Leonard st., was in “fair” condition. The accident occurred at Merid-
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ian and Washington sts. when Lee ens consciousness while driving east on Washington. The auto iplunged over the sidewalk and (Continued on Page Nine)
SENTENEY GETS RAID POST Mayor Sullivan today appointed Police Sergt. James A. Senteney as acting assistant chief air raid warden for the city. He will serve under Herbert Fletcher, chief warden.
Early the morning of Dec. 8, 1941—the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed—two * men rushed side by side to the navy recruiting station to enlist. Aubert D. Lee, 43, and his son, Ira Lincoln Lee, 17, were first in line that day, but only the son was accepted. His father went back to Aubert D. Lee their home at 354 W. Raymond st. while the son went to Great Lakes, Ill, for training. Today, the close companionship ‘of Mr, Lee
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Home Front Tips
Low Heels
U. S. Cuts 'em Down
But There'll Be Shoes Aplenty.
By ELEANOR RAGSDALE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON; July 22.-- Here are more timely advance tips on | what to look for in the way of home front news. The items are based on authoritative information, but are subject to sudden changes when wartime conditions compel federal agencies to alter plans. ‘ ” ” o Though the army is grabbing all the best grades of heavy sole
leather, civilian feet will be adequately shod—without rationing—
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U, 8. GHECKING UP ON AUTO USE STAMPS
91 Arrested in Louisville, Drive May Be Extended.
The “smart guys” who didn’t spend $5 for auto use tax stamps may find they weren't so clever after all. In Louisville yesterday, 91 persons were arrested by federal authorities and will be arraigned in federal court July 30. At the time of these arrests, the officers said the enforcement drive was scheduled for the entire middle west.
18 “on board his ship” “exigencies of war.”
Now, with his son gone, Mr. Ice is left alone. His wife, Ellen Elizabeth, died in 1934. Since his rejection by the navy, he also has been turned down by the army. But he still has high hopes of getting into action through the selective service system. He already has passed his preliminary examination.
“I'd like to go,” he said. “I served three years in the army after the first world war. ‘I couldn't get in when the war was going on because of my age.” On the 26th of last month—two days before Ira’s birthday, Mr. Lee ‘received his last letter from his son
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2 MORE SHIPS SUNK BY SUBS
United Nations’ Vessels Go- :
ing to Bottom Faster Than They Are Built.
By UNITED PRESS United nations ship losses in the western Atlantic since mid-January reached an unofficial total of <16 today with naval announcement of two more torpedoings. Survivors © of a medium-sized American mercant vessel, who arrived on an east coast port, told how a flattened tin can flashed in the sun brought rescue to 18 persons who had. drifted 19 days. One of the 19 missing crewmen sacrificed his life releasing rafts. Sixteen men were killed when a submarine sank a small British cargo ship in the Caribbean on May 28. Thirty-two survived.
Building Behind
Meanwhile, the war shipping administration reported that axis submarines ‘are sinking united nations’ , ships . faster than they can be built. A house committee announced it will open an inquiry into the maritime . commission’s cancellation of its. contract with Andrew Jackson Higgins for 200 Liberty cargo ships. Senator Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.) © announced his committee would probe the Higgins cancellation, the steel shortage that reportedly caused . the cancellation and investigate the feasibility of Mr, Higgins’ plan to build cargo-carry-ing airplanes instead of ships.
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Father Who Wanted fo Joi Navy, Too, Is Informed of Son's Death Aboard Ship
a while so don’t worry. Do not send me anything for my birthday as I may not get it. Tell everyone hello and keep your chin up.” ; Seaman Lee was born in Mississippi and was a pupil at Manual high school here at the time of his enlistment. Besides his: father, he is survived by four cousins, Alvarretta, Maryelsa, Josephine and Joy G. Stoddard, and a great aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs, Ira T. Fletcher, all of Indianapolis.
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NAZIS CONTINUE GAINS IN LOWER DON BASIN: CLAIM BREAK-THROUG
Today's War
Moves
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst
Germany’s next blow at Russia, in the view of informed United States military observers, will be at
Murmansk, the Soviet’s vital arctic Their information is that Ger numbers are being assembléd in
port of supply. an troops in large northern Finland
for an early drive to Murmansk, and they fear that
the port's capture may be only a
That fits in with the opinion of British military observers who hold that the 1942 offensive of the axis is essentially a battle against the Germany has massed a great army in south Russia and is driving eastward, not only
to isolate the Caucasus and its oil,
but to cut off the southern supply lantic, where they are working
route to Russia through Iran. The most important part of her fleet is in Norwegian waters, designed,
planes, route around North Cape to Murmansk and Archangel.
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Be UNITED PRESS Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov conferred with President Roosevelt today, presumably on the question of a second front, while American and British officials in London moved toward a decision on the possibility of an invasion of western Europe. London dispatches said that arguments there for a full-scale western invasion .to relieve the hardpressed Russian armies on the eastern - front were cutweighing proposals for immediate, but limited, diversionary attacks. Following the Washington conference, Litvinov brushed aside questions on the details of the meeting, but before calling on the president he had presented new and urgent pleas to other united nations leaders for immediate allied operations on the continent. Litvinov said he eould not discuss what he and Mr. Roosevelt talked
matter of weeks.
German submarines infest the At-
havoc with united nations shipping. The latest Japanese move in the
in [south Pacific, according to American co-operation with land-based | observation, is toward the Solomon to cut the arctic supply|and Fiji islands, which lie northeast and east of Australia, Task forces
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Front Plea:
Dunkirk.
millions of lives to win the war.
been made in London. of high military, naval,
so important that King George was | being kept advised of their progress—were secret but indications were that when the second front is opened it will be on an all-out basis. Reasons given by informed circles as to why a limited offensive
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R. A. F. Unopposed by Axis Planes in Desert Bombings
CAIRO, July 22 (U. P.). — The R. A. F. had complete freedom of the skies over the desert battlefields yesterday i when they plastered an
|enemy truck concentration of 1000
vehicles and reports today indicated they had a clear field again when they resumed bombing of the battle areas. Whether the enemy gave up its efforts to check the aerial raids voluntarily or wus forced to abandon the field to the British fighters and bombers was not known, ‘but reports showed that not a single light bomber or fighter-bomber was mo-
lested throughout yesterday's operations. Axis fears that the allies soon
periority through additional U. S.
of the day which fell into British hands. - “Behind the British lines the royal air force personnel are laying out many new air fields in preparation for a big influx of American bombers,” it said. Besides hitting the truck concentration . yesterday British bombers also scored direct hits on two enemy ships . at Suda bay, Crete, it was announced.
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about and wo all’ questions relating to a second front he muttered “no.” Sources close to the Soviet emhassy, meanwhile, asserted that the. united nations’ position was more critical than it had been since
If the Soviet army is knocked out, they contend, it may take years and
Similar pleas for quick action to divert German strength from the Russian front were said to have Results of the London conferences
economic and political figures of both nations—
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Germans Are Hurled Back in Fighting - At Voronezh.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS - United Press Foreign Editor
The battle of the Don river spread from bomb-wrecked Voronezh in a great are southward to the Caucasus today, with the Germans claiming a break-through east of the partly enveloped city of Rostov and the Russian army reported massing reserve forces for defense of Stalingrad.
According to a Nazi communique, axis advance forces crossed the
lower Don on a broad front about 60 miles east of Rostov in their drive to the Caucasus, while other forces, including offensive units {from Taganrog, collapsed the Sovi=
pushed close to the gateway city.
ported less than 90 miles from Stalingrad, was said to be advancing into the eastern bend of the Don" without meeitng serious ree sistance. :
Russ Gain at Voronezh
These claims, obviously exaggers ated in some respects, were coun< tered by Moscow reports that fighte ing continued north of Rostov des
spite advances by the enemy and that the Soviet army was gaining in severe battles on both sides of the Don at Voronezh. Soviet dispatches said that fight= ing in the Voronezh sector was nearing a decision. It was indicated that the Voro= nezh battle might be of increased importance as the anchor of a ree serve army moved west from the Urals by Soviet Marshal Klementi Voroshilov, presumably for a coune ' ter-offensive against the enemy drives on Stalingrad and the Cause casus. Get Materials From U. S.
This reserve army, according to reports via Turkey, was poised on the German northern flank between Vorcnezh and Stalingrad, where the Russians have been reported mass ing men and material, tanks and planes from America and Britain. The Russians obviously were still hoping for an early second front attack against western Europe to draw strength from the Nazi offen= sive in the Don river bend, where the situation continued extremely grave.
Nazis Silent on Losses
“The resistance of the enemy on a planned basis in the area of Ros tov has collapsed,” the German communique claimed. “German and allied troops stand before the fortified bridgehead ex: tending in a semi-circle before city. -East of the Donets, 9 (Continued on Page Three) i .
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