Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1942 — Page 1
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By THOMAS L. STOKES Copyright, 1942, by The Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reviewed by U. S. Office of Censorship) .—Bomb Germany out of the war! Give the Cologne-Essen-Emden treatment, whereby
fleets of a thousand British
bombers paralyzed those war
production centers, to the 28 other key industrial cities
of Germany.
The Scripps-Howard Newspapers can state authori-’
tatively, on the basis of a careful survey of production, that a formula is at hand and that physical means are
available for a joint British-American air offensive on an
“immense scale.
THIS WOULD PUT 1000 bombers, carrying 3000 or more tons of bombs, over one after another of those cities, night after night, to annihilate German war production and transportation by the sole use of bombing, against - which the enemy has no present adequate defense. The offensive could begin three months from now, or shortly thereafter, to open a real second front.
The means are provided
by the enormous increase in
American production of long-range bombers. All that is required is a decision by high officials to concentrate airpower against Germany.
RUSSIAN
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LAST STAND TO HOLD OIL AREA
Hint Rostov May Be Abandoned After ~ Timoshenko Withdraws to Defenses For Vital Caucasus Battle.
* By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press
Foreign Editor
The Russian army fought with its back to the Caucasus today for Rostov and the Don river barrier to the Volga industrial center of Stalingrad. While the British eighth army pressed the axis back in heavy’ fighting on the Egyptian desert, the Russians guarding. the northern approaches to the, Caeasys and the
. Near East were reported to have slowed down the enemy offensive on the lower Don. The Russians had taken up new, more favorable positions for a-last-ditch fight designed to prevent isolation of the supply routes for oil’ and American war material from the south.
The Soviet army st<¢d, backed by|
stronger aerial squadrons, including American-built flying fortresses, was intended to halt the broad enemy advance toward the Caspian sea and: the Caucasus oil fields. ; It appeared unlikely the Russians could hold Rostov, where the Nazis said they already had broken into the suburbs, against a long siege.
,Atltack From Three Sides
The Rostov gateway is on the north bank of the Don, near the Sea of Azov. It is under attack from three directions, as well as from the air. .One axis report said that the Germans also had crossed the Don and cut Rostov off from the south, but the last Russian reports put the action about 30 miles northeast of the city on Wednesday. There was little to indicate whether Soviet Marshal Semyon Timeshenko would be successful in stemming the main German push southeastward. The enemy claimed to have bro-
4ken across the Don east of Rostov
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‘FACE GRAVE HOUR, EDEN TELLS BRITISH
NOTTINGHAM, England, July 23 (U. P).—~The war against the axis
has reached a’ climax and “today
we are facing one of the gravest hours of our history,” Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden said in a speech tonight. “This war for freedom is ‘being waged all over the world,” he said.
Egypt our allies and British and imperial forces are locked in one continuous front. The outcome will go far to decide the duration of the war. ” He pledged that, ‘whether the struggle be long or short, the allies will fight until victory.
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NEAR AUSTRALIA
Allied Air Attacks Fail to Stop Invasion Force in
“New Guinea.
MacARTHUR'S HEADQU ARTERS, Australia, July 23 (U. P.)— The Japanese have landed a new invasion force of about 2500 men in New Guinea in their ‘ biggest threat so ‘far to the "allied base of
Port Moresby and, potentially, the Australian continent, it was announced today. A small enemy convoy landed the troops yesterday under heavy and damaging attacks by allied planes at the Gona mission, near Buna on the north side of New Guinea, 110 miles by air line and 120 miles by road from Port Moresby and abaut 420 miles from Australia. In attacks on the convoy and the area where it landed the troops, allied planes sank one large transport and an invasion barge and inflicted heavy casualties on disembarking troops with bombs and machine gun fire, a communique said. An enemy float plane was shot down
{and two allied fighters lost.
Japs Strengthen Position
By their new move, which put them in stronger position both offensively and defensively, the Japanese had advanced their invasion area 155 miles down the north coast of New Guinea. For the first time they had invaded the ‘Papuan area, makes up the southeastern part of ‘the island and is Australian territory. The bases which = the - Japanese held previously, in the SalamausLae area, are in Australian-man-dated northeastern New Guinea. At their new landing point, the (Continued on Page Four)
BRITISH CONTINUING ATTACKS IN EGYPT
Fighting Steadily Growing On Entire Front.
CAIRO, July. 23 (U. P.).—Heavy fighting spread all along the 40mile Egyptian desert front from the Mediterranean to Qattara depre - sion todsy when British imperials, seizing the initiative assaulted axis dug-in positions and halted thelr counter-attacks. The. battle steadily stensityiip, was described as a “battle of material” as the ' imperials struck
forced the axis forces to scatter theip strength along the- wide front|
which:
simultaneously in all sectors and
28 INDICTED AS ‘0BSTRUCTORS' IN WAR EFFORT
Pelley, Asher, Winrod and Mrs. Dilling Among
Those Accused.
WASHINGTON, July 23 (U.'P). —Indictment of +28 persons. en charges of conducting a nationwide conspiracy to obstruct the war effort through dissemination of seditious publications among members of the armed forces, was announced today by Attorney General Francis Biddle. One woman—Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling of Chicago, author of “The Red Network”—was named in the indictment. Among the 27 men were William Dudley Pelley, already facing trial
,at Indianapolis on sedition charges; } Gerald “Bi Witieod 3,
MORE SAPS LAND'
r of Kansas
reck, recently convicted of violating the foreign agents registration act.
Two Counts in Indictments
Also" accused were? Court Asher of Muncie, Ind., publisher of the “X-Ray,” and H. Victor Broenstrupp of New York and Noblesville, an attorney for, Pelley. The two counts of the indictment charged the 28 defendants with conspiring to impair and influence the loyalty, morale -and discipline of the United States military and naval forces. : The indictment charged: that the defendants employed 30 ' different publications in furthering their conspiracy: and that they made use of the Congressional Record also. The reference to ‘the Congressional Record was not amplified, but presumably it was used by insertion in it of articles and material which supported the allegations of the defendants.
List 28 Organizations
The indictment also listed 28 organizations which it said were used to further the conspiracy.” Among the organizations cited in this connection was the ‘America First Committee, which , before Pearl Harbor was the leading noninterventionist group and numbered among its members several national
figures. No action was taken against
the organization, however. Other - organizations listed were the Silver Shirts; Black Legion; Ku Klux Klan; German-American Bund (also known as AmericanGerman Bund); National ‘Workers’ League of America, Detroit; National Committee to Keep America Out of Foreign Wars; Citizens Committee to Keep America Out of War; ‘Make Europe Pay War Debts
Committee; Islands for War Debts
Committee; . War Debts Defense Committee; Coalition of * Patriotic Societies; Crusading Mothers of America; Citizens’ No Foreign War Coalition; American Guards; Social Republic Society; Committee on Pa(Continued on Page Four)
Lindbergh Kidnap Trial Judge Dead
TRENTON, N. J., July 23 (U. P.)—Thomas W. Trenchard, 78, former supreme court justice and presiding ‘judge at the Lindbergh kidnaping trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home today. Judge Trenchard, who never was reversed in a murder case, had been in retirement since January, 1941. He was starting his fifth consecutive seven-year term on the bench when Hauptmann was brought to trial for the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Austere and dignified—former Governor A. Harry Moore once said no one knew him well enough to call him “Tom”—he reduced
‘the cifous. aspects’ of the famous
in 1940, and George ‘Sylvester Vie-
GREAT LAKES NAMES | HINKLE GRID COACH
Credits Him With Model Toughening-Up Plan.
- GREAT LAKES, Ill, July 23 (U. P.).—The navy announced today appointment of Lieut. Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle, former Butler university athletic director, to coach the Great Lakes naval training station football team. Hinkle has served as assistant to Lieut. Gordon (Mickey) Cochrane and Lieut. Coram. J. Russell Cook, athletics officer, in directing the physical training ‘program at Great Lakes station since he was commissioned last March. The navy credits him with aiding in development of a vast intramural program to toughen thousands of new recruits that has served as a model for American colleges and other branches of the service. Hinkle became Butler head football coach in 1934 and his Bulldogs won seven ' consecutive Indiana intercollegiate conference football championships.
NAZIS DENY REPORT ‘ROMMEL WOUNDED
‘STOCKHOLM July 23 (U. P)—
that Field I may have been German plane was destroyed behind | the axis lines in Egypt today brought a sharp denial from German quarters in Berlin. Sources in contact with Berlin had hinted that Rommel may have
Speculation in Scandinavian circles)
THIS WOULD MA N—’ Curbing the dispersal of long-range bombers in driblets to fronts throught ut the world.
Dispatching two-tt ir tion to England, as it co
ds of American bomber produc es off the line in the next three
months, to function as s'in American task force alongside
the British bomber con
smand.
This would leave one-third of our production for the
other fronts. forces on present fronts.
Nothir2 would be taken from existing Only new production would go
into the offensive again:t Germany.
No new plants, ang no needed.
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Hull Speaks | il At 8:30 Tonight
WASHINGTON, July 25. iw. P.).—Secretary of State Cordgll Hull broadcasts to the h:tion and the world tonight at 8:80 p. m. (Indianapolis. time} fn the progress of the war. | Already indorsed by Presi dent Roosevelt, the speech is expected to be a major |prpnouncement on the war effoit and will be carried around ihe world by shortwave in ‘nine languages. (1
PEACE POW-WOW | SET BY COUNTY GOP
Bradford Men 10 fo Question - Tyndall on. Unity, |
By EARL RICHERT - Marion - county's battle-geair G. O.P. chieftains are to gather tonight at the Hotel Lincoln ic: a peace pow-wow that they Iliope will be the final event in the long negotiations to bring all the fribesmen into one camp again. i The leaders of the James Fiadford and Gen. Robert Tyncall fac tions agreed last week upon Einry E. Ostrom, unsuccessful open
mary mayoralty fight, as a
: |promise choice of county cheinan
succeed Mr. Bradford. ih { But although the leaders :giied,
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ENEMY OFF EUROPE Vessels With British : Fleet
Have Been in Action,
LONDON, July 23 (U. P.).—Several warships of the United States
|navy task force with the British {home fleet have been in action and | subjected to attack, Rear Admiral
Robert C. Giffen, commander of the task force, announced today. ' Admiral Giffen said that the United States vessels suffered neither damage nor fatalities, al- +! though “there may have been some wounded.” In a statement, the United States admiral said that cruisers, battleships and destroyers .at present make up his force based in Britain and which operates under direct command of the British home fleet. “We are carrying out orders in the tradition of the British navy,
he said, The attack on the U. S. naval forces was carried out by axis planes. : :
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HOUSE PASSES BILL FOR SECRET ‘WEAPON
WASHIN N, July 23 . P).— The house yesterday unanimously passed and sent to the senate a bill}. authorizing $974,634,000 for naval shore facilities, including a $30,000,000 item which Chairman Carl Vinson of the naval affairs committee said was for “a kind of secret training and a kina of secret
Vinson also said that the bil au )
of course leavened with our ideas,”
THIS PROGRAM WOULD wt up abomber task force a of at least 2000 planes—with 1000 of them in operation .
- constantly, 1000 in reserve.
Each month, taking due account of weather cond tions, this force could drop 50,000 tons of bombs on Ger: man cities—5000 tons apiece on 10 cities, or, for each of them, nearly double the load which laid waste Cologne. Once organized and started, this rain of terror by bombs could go on month after month. ~~ Two events have produced the favorable situation wherein an air offensive on this scale can be projected. ; . In the first, credit goes to President Roosevelt for his foresight. In a letter. to Secretary of War Stimson over a year ago, on May ‘5, 1941, he ordered “a substantial increase in heavy-bomber production.” ” ”
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THE ORDER INSTITUTED an expanded program, with utilization of automobile plants, calling for 500 long range bombers a month by the middle of this year. It set up plants so vast that their present operations exceed those of the total United States automobile industry at its height. The president’s order was widely hailed at the time as designed to create a great fleet of bombers to blast Nazi factories and communications. ] The second event was Britain's terrific raid on Cologne last May 31, followed quickly by other mass raids on Essen, Emden and other cities, opening the eyes of the world to the paralyzing force of air-power when concens trated in a thousand planes dropping 3000 ‘tons of bombs in a single raid. y 8 # » ®
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Briton Proved What Could Be Done :
THE DOUGHTY BRITISH air marshal, Arthur: Travers Harris, realized hig drearh. He proved what could be done. But he could not keep it up. The results of American mass production are needed to bring the time when it can be done that way night : after might, until the other industrial centers of Germany
Air Marshal Harris gave the cue when he said : i . “If I could send 20,000 bombers over Germany tor night, Germany would not be in the war tomorrow. If 1 could send: 1000 bombers over Germany every night, it would end the war by autumn.” ‘By late autumn, under the formula ere. laid down, bh such an air offensive could begin. - Enough bombers will be feady.
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Germany Must Not Be Permitted to Prepare
ON BEHALF OF A concentrated air offensive, it is urged that this might lessen the task of a land offensive, which otherwise would not only be infinitely costly in lives and material but would require personnel and supplies and shipping in staggering quantities—not now available —considering Germany's intensive preparations to meet such an offensive. : Germany is not now Drebared to meet an air offensive. 5 The recent raids over Cologne, Essen and other cities % revealed that. : But, it is emphasized, she must not be given time to g prepare. ir Russia, the people of England, our own people, are crying for a second front to take the pressure off Russia. It is vital to Russia in her present straits. An all-out air offensive would do that.
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We Cannot Lose—We MM it Win This Way ~ IN A RECENT INTERVIEW in'a Moscow newspaper ‘which was calling for a second front, Maj. Gen. Mikhail Gromov, who was on the flight five years ago from Moscow to California -across the North Pole, advised American pilots that “the only way to attack the Germans at this juncture is with large numbers of bombers and fighters alike.” England's recent .bombing activity has roquival the retention of a large German air force in western Europe, ° but it has not been able to stop the raids. The bombs created a constant threat to Germany's centers of produztion, and continual, wearing anxiety among her people, ~All these factors would be intensified by a concen= trated, continuous bombing attack in mass scale. The ‘war cannot be lost by such an air offensive, It might be won that way.
This is the first of a series of five articles by Mr. Stokes. Tomorrow's subject is: 150,000 tons of bombs in three
On the War Fron
July 23, 1942
BRITAIN: Government refuses in-| RUSSIA: formation to house of commons| Iu Rosie regarding second front . plans; by . American generally believed invasion willl making big
not be speeded up at present. Caucasus
EGYPT: British. repulse axis coun- AUSTRALIA: ter jabs and consolidate gains on all fronts in’ desert offensive west| :