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TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1942 | Entered: as Second-Class Matter at Postofics,

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Scores Of Circus Animals Die In L0SS IN BLAZE

AT CLEVELAND OVER $125,000

“Menagerie Tent Destroyed;

Police’ Patrol Grounds With Machineguns.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 4 (U. P).— x“ Bcores of animals were burned to " death or shot in a fire which broke out in the menagerie tent of the Ringling Bros.-Barnum. & Bailey

@ircus here today.

Police armed with machine guns and high-powered rifles patrolled the circus grounds, shooting animals who were severely burned and keeping order in the huge crowd

which gathered at the scene.

The

confusion. 50

Five “ two-humped camels dead or dying in the

counted, flames.

Two giraffes were reported killed. Circus employees went into action quickly, leading animals away

loud trumpeting of .elephants and shrill neighing of horses| 3 could be heard for blocks around as the animals milled madly in the

Elephants Saved

from the burning cages.

were

The Ringling Brothers circus was scheduled to be in Indianapoils Aug. 20 at the Southeastern

grounds,

Leaping Lena, striped beauty Bailey circus, roared in anguish as onto her cage at Cleveland today.

Leaping Flames Peril Lena

of the Ringling Bros-Barnum & a blazing menagerie tent, collapsed

ONE KILLED IN 2 JAIL BREAKS

Another Wounded and Five Escape Ds Ft. Wayne

And “About 50 dlephaia’ were hah And. SI

from the grounds, some of their hides badly singed. One of them, * the skin burned from three-fourths

One man was killed, another wounded and five men were at large

of his. body and blood streaming|today in jailbreaks at Shelbyville

A

from him, broke away from the <handlers and was shot. Horses were herded into a nearby

‘ parking lot. 26 Animals Shot

Police sald they shot at least 26 animals. The number burned

at Ft. Wayne, Ind. In the Shelbyville break, Ishmael Lewis, 44, was killed as he reportedly attempted to help Harold Miller, 26, of Shelbyville, escape. Miller, awaiting trial on burglary

to death was not immediately ascer-|charges and against whom habitual

tainable. ! Circus

damage at $125,000. They said much of the loss was

officials

estimated : the

criminal charges were pending, was wounded in the legs but Shelby county Sheriff Leonard Worland

frreparable, since tents, wagons and Said he apparently would recover.

steel cages could not be replaced

because of shortages.

~ No performance was in progress| at the time of the fire, The afterhoon show was canceled, but circus

Another alleged accomplice escaped amid gunfire,

Still at Liberty

In the Ft. Wayne break, the following are at liberty:

First Customer

Gets Coffee, $17

Thomas Poolos’ first customer today at his restaurant, 948 Ft. Wayne! ave, put him exactly $17 on the debit side. Mr. Poolos, 50, of 434 N. Davidson st, opened the Red Pickett Inn about 4 a. m. today and just had coffee ‘made when a yotrig man,

from 25 to 28, alighted Trom a taxi, and came in, = The youth had ‘a cup of coffee and after throwing down a nickel to pay for it, pulled out a 38-caliber gun and announced: “Hand over the money. This is a stickup.” Mr. Poolos complied and the bandit waved as he climbed into a taxi and sped away.

ADVOCATES 200-TON LAND BATTLESHIPS!

Man Who Moved Mountain

Advises Huge Tanks. TOURNAPULL, Ga, Aug. 4 (U.

CHAD, 3, DIES

Second Tot During Last 24 Hours.

within 24 hours of each other.

Mr. Reel did not know the accident had happened until he alighted from the truck after he felt a sen-| sation of “passing over some g.” Delores Jean Leach, 5, of 1325% English ave., was killed yesterday evening when she heeded the call of a playmate and ran across the street into the path of an approaching auto.

Near 1941 Tragedy Scene

1941.

rus tur and

ing home for lunch.

prose wn Re truck. Alma Mae sobbed:

meet daddy.’ stop, but he didn’t.”

cab of the truck. Mr. Reel felt “his ruck over something.”

Father Is Frantic

what had happened.

he saw his daughter, crushed. Mr. Reel rushed Info Hughes’ home and was so {rantic he had to be restrained while police were called.

! MOSCOW: Soviet army che: German drive in series of strong

Killed Here

Two Indianapolis children, one 5 and the other 3, were dead today in traffic tragedies that happened

Frankalyne Roberta Reel, 3, of 111 S. Concordia st., was killed instantly today when the back wheel of a coal truck her father, Frank, was driving, passed over her head.

On the Wa i Fronts

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counter-attacks, but admits wii. drawals in Salsk region; Germans claim capture of Voroshilovsk, 180 miles deep in Caucasus, end cutting of Rostov-Baku railroad.

LONDON: Government suddenly calls secret session of parliament to hear confidential statemen; by Attlee; speculation centers urpicn second front and Churchill's apsence. :

CHUNGEKING: U. S. bombers score direct hit with 550-pound bomb on Japanese headquarters dwii:g

Chinese troops storm gates of city.

NEW DELHI: American planes, braving monsoon rain, repeatedly

heavy raid on Linchwan base; |]

bomb Japanese Myitkyina air hase

in northern Burma.

of war border

slavia.

LONDON: Mussolini holds council -miles from Jugosiny map campaign or _ crushing ‘patriot revolt in Jugo-

The accident happened about 100 feet from the spot where two other children were killed on March 3,

Frankalyne was killed as she out to greet her father, refrom work for lunch. She r mother, Lalla, were at the home of Frankdlyne’s grandmother, Mrs. Alma Hughes, 102¢ Cedar st. Mr. Reel called to say he was com-

“Frankalyne said, ‘I'm going to

“Then she went out of the shed and she thought he was going to

Apparently, Frankalyne tried to jump up on the right step to the

“pass

He stopped and got out fo see

At the double-tired back wheel, her head

Mrs.

COMMONS GETS ‘SECRET REPOR

Attlee’s Short Statement at "Closed Session Stirs 2d

Front Interest.

LONDON, Aug. 4 (U. PB). ~Whi' e

es battled Jot thei “in an’ ‘hoiir of ‘great peril British house of. commons tocy suddenly was convened in secref, s¢3- , | sion—at the call of the government —to hear a confidential statement that quite possibly had to do wih the heavy urgings for the opening of a second front in Europe. The secret session, lasting on iy 10 minutes, was addressed by Dt» uty Prime Minister Major Clem: at A. Attlee and was attended by seve eral members of ‘the war cabin: — but not by Prime Minister Winston | Churchill. ’ Only yesterday it had been !2ported from the continent—mos; of the reports appeared to be eof us origin—that Churchill had flown: ‘o

Russia to confer with Josef V.8t>in on the second front question.

No Public Statement

YESIL. 5 "| ENGLAND CAN

Democracies Must Stop Nazis in Next 40 Days, Writer Says.

By LELAND STOWE Copyright, 1942, by The Mmdianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. MOSCOW, Aug. 4.—It is time to face the facts. The hour glass of the AngloAmerican democracies is lower than it" has ever been since the declaration of independence. Both the United States and Britain can lose

this war in the next 40 days.

In any case, both the United States and Britain are now in immediate danger of losing this war. This is not hysteria. We need only consider what is now in jeopardy and what may happen — what threatens to happen—by Sept. 15, unless American and British armed forces do something about it, Germany's Russian offensive only needs to smash onward at the pace it maintained throughout the month of July for another 40 days.

Nazis Near Oil

If the southern armies of Field Marshals Fedor von Bock and Paul Ludwig: von Kleist ‘do that, it must be taken for granted that by midSeptember the Nagzis will have conquered.all of the northern Caucasus and seized priceless - Russian oil fields and refineries: at Grozny and Baku. That would give the Nazis’ war machine control. of more than three | time: ‘2s mych oil production . as they now ‘have ‘in Rumania, more than twice what Iran produces annually and five times as much oil as the Mosul fields in Iraq produce annually. , The oil of Baku and Grozny alone might - enable Hitler to win the war.. It is therefore the plainest statement of -fact to say that the future existence of the American and British democracies. depends upon. Germany’s defeat in the Caucasus.

Hitler May Swing Turks

‘But Russia’s vast petroleum prize is only one of many trenfendous war factors at stake in the Caucasus. The whole allied world system is linked unalterably to the Caucasus. If the Caucasus falls,” every American cor British front : or

LOSE - STOWE

Charles A. Lindbergh . . . saw opposition to war” before we were attacked.”

LINDBERGH ON STAND BRIEFLY

Prevented From Telling "What He ‘Advocated’ in

America 1st Talks.

Charles A. Lindbergh testified for 12 minutes as a defense. witness at

the. william. Dudley ‘Pelley sedition trial here today and the prosecu-

tion regarded his testimony as of such little significance that there

was no.cross-examination. Defense Attorney Floyd Christian asked Lindbergh what he had advacated in his America First speeches made before Pearl Harbor, but the flier was prevented from answering this question by a prosecufion - objection = which Federal Judge Robert Baltzell sustained. , Mr. Lindbergh, wearing a blue suit, blue shirt, blue tie and black shoes, answered other questions by Mr. Christian in a. soft. voice.

“Before We Were Attacked”

“It, was my impression,” he said in answer to one question, “that a majority of the people in the country were opposed to entering the war

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CASLS

TERRI To, BUT DRIVE

Stalingrad Line Holding as 2-Prong Nazi Push Beats Southward.

By EVERETT R. HOLLES United Press Cable Editer

The battle of the Caucasus raged today with undimine

lished fury as the Soviet

army, making the Germans pay heavily for every foot of ground, fell back toward the mountains before. the twos pronged Nazi drive down from Kushchevka and Salsk, To the north, however, in the Kletskaya region about 70 miles northwest of Stalingrad and its great war factories, the Russians

struck heavily at the axis forces and for the 12th straight day smashed every attempt'to cross the Don, Mostow advices said. Official Soviet dispatches told: of the capture of an important height in the Kletskaya approaches to Stalingrad and the killing of * men of an Italian division which sought to advance behind a w of German tanks. Stab at Heart of Caucasus

The Germans ‘acknowledged strong Russian resistance around Kletskaya, but said their advance in the south had carried 180 miles deep into the heart of the C Cat thie town of § and reaching the Kuban rive rier at several points to thre complete disruption of TF Caucasian railroad lines and great oil fields. United Press advices from cow, disclosing the ‘desperate situa tion of the Russian army in th Caucasus, indicated that the Sovie was unable to move up sufficie reinforcements of men and rials because of disruption of coma munications ‘and, therefore, wa§ compelled to make a fighting withs drawal down through the Cau Official Soviet dispatches. that Marshal Semyon Timoshen Russian forces, Oe every opportunity and exacting huge toll of German lives, checked the Nazi drive at many points. ; Claim Railway Is Cut

: .._|sttonghold in the Middle East, in ” officials expected to stage the reg- P.)~R. G. LeTourneau, who makes| “I didn’t see anything,” he re-| The house of lords also held a i before we were attacked.

ular performance tonight,

Garagantua and Toto, famous gorillas with the circus, were both

reported safe.

4 MORE SINKINGS

ANNOUNCED BY NAVY

By UNITED PRESS

The navy has announced the sinking of four more vessels, making an unofficial total of 430 lost|to enemy submarines and mines in e western Atlantic since the mid-

dle of January.

The four sinkings revealed yester-

day were:

A small Norwegian vessel broken “In half by a torpedo two weeks ago in the Gulf of Maxico.

killed.

A small British cargo vessel torpedoed and machine-gunned in the South Atlantic on May 28. Two were

missing.

Thirteen

Homer Johnson, 18, facing forgery and: burglary charges. Walter J. McCoy, 49, wanted in four states on check forgery charges. Darrell Ulery, 24, held on first degree burglary charges. Raymond Beebe, 23, held on armed robbery charges. : Johnson’s brother, Frank, also attempted to escape but was captured a short distance from the Allen county jail.

23 Refused to Leave

Sheriff's officers said that 23 other prisoners who could have made the: break with the five refused to do so, Temaining in their cells. At Shelbyville, Miller reportedly admitted in Major hospital that he used hacksaw blades to cut through the bars of his cell, apparently during last Sunday night’s rain. Blades also were found on Lewis’ body. . Sheriff Worland said he became suspicious earlier in the evering (Continued on Page Five)

the world’s biggest earth-moving machinery, said today it was up to the United states to “get busy and build a fleet of high-speed land battleships that will blow the whiskers off Hitler.” “There's nothing unfeasible about a 150 or 200-ton tank, armed to blast anything Germany's got off the face of the earth, and fast enough to get out, of the way if it misses,” said: LeTourneau, who pushed ‘wo méuntains fogether to make an airport here last year.

BULKELEY GIVEN MEDAL OF HONOR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P.)— President Roosevelt today presented the congressional medal of honor to Lieut. Comm. John D. Bulkeley, the dare-devil niotor torpedo boat hero of the Philippine campaign. His exploits against Japanese ships, planes and land forces were officially .described as “believed to be Without precedent.”

peated again and again.

thing. behind.

hands over his face. A ‘Day of Tragedy

day. lores Jean,

killed. by an automobile. oner said her neck was broken,

ambulance arrived. McCammon, 23, of 531 N. East st.

(Continued on Page Five)

A SLIGHT MISTAKE

“I felt the truck go over someI stopped and looked out

Mr. el stopped and put his

It was a day of tragedy, too, at the Roy D. Leach home, 1325% English ave., apt. 3. For Roy Jr. who is 12 today, it'wasn’t a happy birth-

Last evening Roy's sister, Deran into the street in front of their home and was The corDelores Jean was dead before an The driver of the car, Norman

was arrested on charges of reckless

LONDON, Aug.4 (U.P.).—~AnR.A

brief secret session. A sensation was caused in the house of commons when Sir Staflord Cripps, leader of the house of Jord privy seal, arrived for a closed :ssion, the first since July 16, wien the grave shipping problem was di is= cussed.

nature of the statement Atiice made, or whether a public sta ement would be made: later. Immediately after the secret s:ssion, a bill giving the Uniied States military jurisdiction in all cases involving ‘criminal offern.:es committed by American service rien in Great Britain was passed und sent to the king for his signature,

SPEEDWAY DIMOUT T0 BE HELD TONIGHT

There was no indication of ihel|

Africa, in India and in the Far East falls or totters with it. Suppose there is no' AngloAmerican second front in Western Europe this month, and supposing the Nazis have conquered the Caucasus by mid-September. What will be the inevitable results? Herz are a few of them: Turkey, seeing that the British e|and Americans have madé no move to aid Russia and save the Caucasus, will almost certainly throw in its lot with the Nazis. If. the Nazis win the Caucasus,|: strong pro-German elements in Iran Will be completely unleashed.

Egypt Would Be Periled

If the Caucasus falls for lack of Anglo-Amegican intervention in western Europe, the British and American positions in Egypt, along the Suez and ‘even in Eritrea will be must gravely exposed. These are not pipe dreams. They are inescapable strategic ‘and political consequences of any allied

Most, of the Other defense questions pertained to the flier’s back. ground. ‘The corridor in front of the courte room was packed -with spectators, mostly women, an hour before Mr. Lindbergh was scheduled to take the witness stand at 9:30 a. m - U, S. Marshal Julius Wichser seated as many of the spectators as possible, ‘even’ crowding about 30 inside’ the courtroom railing, but he had to turn more than 50 away. ‘At- the conclusion of Mr. Lindbergh’s testimony, Defense Attorney Oscar Smith said that the defense would rest because they had been unable to get their other two witnesses, Ex-congressman Jacob Thorkelson of Montana, and Virgil Jordan of the National Indusrial Con(Continued on Page Five)

' SPY CASE RESTS

HARTFORD, Conn. Aug. ¢ (U. P.) ~The government today rested

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its case against the Rw. Kurt E, E.|

But it was admitted that the site uation north of the rail and oi} pipeline route to Baku on the Cas pian remained exceedingly grave. The German high command ported the capture of Voroshilovskt —named for one of Russia's great military leaders—and a advance ‘that reached the Kuban river at “several places” to tighten a pincers upon the great Maikon oil fields about 70 miles inland frons the Caucasign Black sea coast. : Voroshilovsk, only 10 miles ni of the Rostov-Baku railroad which is Russia’s only link with her: riches of the south, was said. the Germans to have been after bloody streét fighting. The official German news agency, amplifying the communique ss that German forces had ‘pressed and cut thé railroad between mavir and Mineraine Vodi, the ter 140 miles northwest of Geo and about 420 miles from Baku.

An American tugboat lost, appar- F. airdrome guard stopped a man|Prest-o-Lite Whistle failure fo save the Caucasus—and|Molzahn, Philadelphia Lutheran

ently after striking a mine. A mess girl and her husband, the ship's

cook—were missing.

A trawler, shelled by a submarine in the North Atlantic.

killed.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

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es 65 10a. m. .., 7 +85. 11a. m.... 92 +++ 65 12 (moon) ,. 73 we 1pm. ... 7

Five were

R. A. F. CROSSES CHANNEL LONDON, Aug. 4 (U. P)—A large force of British fighter planes swept across thé English channel toward the Calais - Boulogne area today, apparently in an attack on

The ceremony took place in the president's office. In announcing it, the White House said that the president “takes pleasure in presenting the medal of “honor,” the nation’s highest award, to the young New Yorker who commanded

dressed as an air commodore as he

dered the man -to *report. to the guard room.” But the man never got to the guard room,” He turned out to be

inland targets of northern France.

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more disorder today in Municipal court 4. Sullenberger and his wife, Pearl, 32, appeared as defendants in a case brought by Edward Thorpe; 45, of 918 Biddle st., who was accompanied

Gladys, 38. ‘The Thorpes said the Sullenbergers had long, drunken parties in their home and that Mrs. Sullenberger used violent language in the erieh presence of the Thorpes’ two ters, 5 and 6. The two homes ave

orderly, Kenneth Sullenberger, 30,

to the court room. by his wife,|

a squadron of the fast, small boats.

tenced them to 60 days each. As the Thorpes turned to leave, Sullenberger struck Mrs. Thorpe on the back of the neck. She staggered| and grabbed a railing to keep from Salling. She later was given first a alieiberger then struck Mr. Thorpe. Eugene Fife, deputy pribeoutar. then landed a right to Sullenberger's jaw. Fife and Patrolman Leonard Forsythe, deputy bailiff, rough +Sullenberger before the

90 days for contempt of court.

Judge Harrison sentenced him fofto

tour.

Disorderliness Follows When Jud ge e Finds This Couple Guilty of Dterderfiness

charges and this time he was handcuffed.

did a few minttes before

Guilty or not guilty?”

fried to get past. The sentry or-|

wil

Begin Defense Test.

Speedway City residents awaiting a blast from. the Presi O-Lite Co. steam whistle at

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the Duke of ent on; ai inspection

from the jail to answer these

You don't look so mad ss you " Judge fs

“Judge, I'm tty of that charge; lenberger replied

o'clock tonight which will signal tie first dimout in the county’s defense 3 preparations. Floyd Farley, defense director of |the dimout area, said today that tie test will last for 20 minutes duri g which time homes are to rem:in dark, no cigarets or flashlights «re to be ‘lighted and dogs are to be

He said street lights will renin

save it at the only time it can be Saved. This month—now.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P). —President Roosevelt has arranged to spend most of the day studying|

commission which tried the

8|the verdict reached by his special| military

eight would-be Nazi saboteurs, but! I there appeared to be only a slight |g n

minister, = accused of - spying fe Germany and Japan. =

Early Says FDR May Not Reveal Spy ¥ Verdict Te