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i fan and Military Leaders Blamed in Report By Committee.
“I believe the people will make ‘any amount, of sacrifice,” he said. The office of war information re-| | ported Saturday that although the ed States’ produced more airthan any nation in the} - world during June, the number was not as great as the schedule had called for. £0; Unless the. slack is taken up, it - Was - indicated that President Roosevelt's’ goal of 60,000 planes this year would not be attained. :
initiative in the war in the Pasitife,
This map shows where United Stateg forces are striking in the Solomon Islands, Sttempting to seize the
SETS SST OUT WITH JAPS
danced,” the house committee said ~ “shy intention on the part of the Fierce Battle of of Solomon Islands Raging on
ble officials, civilian or tary, to regard it as their job In 4th Day. (Continued from Page Ome)
Troops Held i in
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friendly appeal for the British to accept the congress party independence demand, was being posted today at Bombay. The British government, however, was adopting a stern attitude and its declaration that the all-India
Readiness
As Riots Spread in India
; (Continued from Pagé One)
drants to halt street trafi¢ and stoning policemen. Indian police sdught to meet the situation by. using first their long staves or “lathis” to beat off their attackers and press back the surging mobs. Then they used tear
gas. Finally they were compelled
to fire into the mobs after several
. Laid Out Markers to Guide Enemy. (Continued trom Page One) air base: an enemy bomber 1:3: aitly to hive Son gvet the pein +? direction :
noted his’ compass - continued straight ahead.
ares, TO I a 5 i In a third instanee several bi(::
. |dred grain sacks were strewn ove! | |& field in
arrangement whicig might have ed haphazard fron the ground, but from ‘the air, vial seen to form a perfect “9.” ° : The tail of the “9” was poinic( directly toward an important air plane factory. “You can rest assured,® (ic Reeves said, “that although I c= an’ x
‘tell you where or when these pic-
tures were taken, the treachero. work they exposed has been erase: The same technique will help us | expose the enemy in battles come.” The observers who: discovered tr guideposts belong to the compa: tively new ground air support co. mand, which received a spe: name only in September, 1941, function is te support ground tre:
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"At the Approaches ' To Stalingrad. (Continued from Page One) best aviation gasoline, 55 milés
(The German high command claimed last night that Maikop had
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Ao tons. + ce OFTHE | SIAR 3) SPANGLED ORIGINALLY NE oh "TO THE: SONG» Yanaceson oN SAEAVEN.
by reconnoitering the enemy grou forces and furnishing combat avi: tion for our own ground troops.
Cut ‘V’ in Woods
Their sharp eyes detected # seemingly innocent pattern of ih ‘ground markers, one of the clever: of which utilized a natural lan: which for years had been part 0! quiet rural section. - "The lane itself was harmless unit 1
Today s War Moves
. By LOUIS ¥. KEEMLE
United Press
r Analyst
The American attack on the Japanese in the Solo- . mon islands indicates gréater allied strength in the
southwest Pacific than some
pessimists had ‘supposed.
It tends to offset the impression of a lack of offensive power, arising ‘from recent Japanese gains in
west.)
The Russian communique indi«
‘cated that German wedges, driven
deep into Russian defenses: around Kietskaya and Kotelnikovski, 75 miles northwest and 90 miles south west of Stalingrad, respectively, had not gained.
Burn Fields of Wheat
. THe situation in the Caucasus was of utmost peril. The retreating cossacks ruthlesse ly enforced a scorched-earth policy, The smoke of their burning vile
sions could be heard for miles. Flame raced. across ripe, yellow fields of waist-high wheat, resem-
al Yu | Huge Tank Battle. rapa?
'lages clouded the horizons.” Explow
bling the prairie fires that used to
sweep the American plaing Knocked-out wrecks of German tanks smoldered in fields of tassels ing corn.
G. 0. P. RATIFICATION OF OSTROM IS DU
The recent election of Henry EB, Ostrom as G. O. P. county chairs man by petitions was expected to be formally ratified tonight at a meeting of Republican precinct and
vice precinct committeemen at the ,
Knights of Pythias building,
$0 demand maximum output or to] . move heaven and earth to get it.” : The committee urged. reorganization of the war production board to the extent of co-ordinating a “labor mobilization” program with planes to other and even more urgent theaters of the war. As the United States and allied naval, air. and other forces fought for a foothold in the Solomons yesterday, MacArthur's planes
: _ procurement programs. made heavy attacks on the impor-|;
It. termed “unfavorable” a “curthe New Guinea area and hy reports from Australia tant Lae-Salamaua invasion zone
k pomted ross io £ sastern 2 Sopcerning the extant of military aid sent there: ase, 0 e t earer 3 } 0 e omon battle are necessar extremely meager spparenfly still is in Progress, two Shines stand out| ® 50-day poll. 40 get Rep Ublican agents entered a wooded area ' i voters registered. Jaids from the end of the lane ari) ; J Aiatk 18 Bo weve LL : - there cleared away shrubbery, ou 1s’ made in great down trees and-bared the earth i Itorce and is ¢ in its fourth day. the shape of a “V.” From the al \, The other i 1at the attack was the path and the “V” looked Lx! “aot forced ¢ . but is of our own an arrow. _.thoosing. ¥ » he first time since
and - provincial congress “organiza tions are now illegal under criminal law was broadcast. The government of Mysore issued similar orders. The situation ‘in the’ Calcutta area, where India’s main industries: are centered closest to the route of Japanese invasion, appeared to be less acute although there were a number of arrests in Bengal and
policemen had been injured. ‘Rioting spread. up country to Ahmadabad where police fired on mobmen who stoned them and attemptd to set fire to a police “station. Then the riots spread in Allahgbax, in central India where: police fired low into a pressing crowd, wounding’ several persons in the legs, but killing none.
The committeemen also: were to
saboteurs made use of the fact i : be given instructions for conducting
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ervice was charged that some employment service officials had, like ‘employers, discriminated against ‘ “certain available supplies of labor.” The committee recommended appointment of “labor-utilization in--_spectors” to serve with the manpower commission and in co-oper-ation with the procurement agencies of the army, navy and WPB to assure an orderly distribution of -the labor supply. : It opposed compulsory labor mobilization except as a last resort. * The report said local draft boards . should have definite instructions from national selective service headquarters on occupational deJferments from military service.
x Study Is Proposed
i suggested that it will be nec- .. essary to &dopt a “blanket deferment” policy on occupations until a revised system of individual deferments can be "developed with * “labor utilization inspectors” advising local boards on labor needs.
rent drift” toward vesting control of procurement and production in the hands of the armed services. ~''. Peak Production Lags . _ “The production effort continues to lag,” the report said. “This com‘mittee , . . points out that: “ «1 Six months after the creation of the war production board conNetsion is just geiting under way. “2. Many durable goods industries|,n the Huon gulf coast of northern gre producing more civilian 8004s | Ney Guinea, and the Gasmata and -shan. munitions. Rabaul bases in New Britain island. “3. Peak production is not sched-| Ajnjed combat patrols of Austrauled before the end of 1943. lian and native troops hit strongly . “That close supervision over con-|g; the Japanese forces who had - © fracts let is not being exercised. |pressed half-way across southeast- ~~ “4. Small Arms are still largely ern New Guinea to take the Kokoda excluded from the war production airfield only 5§ miles from the allied program. base at Port Moresby. . “5. That there does not yet exist| At Salamaua ' allied medium # general determination on the part|hombers strongly attacked building of responsible officials to overcome|gres and harbor installations. They all obstacles to maximum output.”| scored two hits on a Japanese sup- : ply ship, already so heavily ‘dam- . Need Better Organization aged that it was beached, and sent - The report also criticized the pol-| the smouldering flames in ‘its hull : "> of operating “within existing) roaring anew. Jimitations on capacity” and warned| The two great Japanese bases in that such a policy on a permanent) New Britain island, just to the basis may “ultimately result in cut-| northeast of the Huon gulf bases, ting off the increasing flow of vital were attacked by heavy bombers. war products.” At Gasmata allied planes con- - It said that the shortages of crit-|centrated on the landing ground. J teal materials and the difficulties of| At Rabaul, in day and night atmanpower mobilization would dis-| tacks against thé airdromes, allied appear or diminish with betler or-|pombers scored Seon o and more Hgorous pros-ien the runways and sh shot down five of the war enemy ero plames which attacked “The committee recommended that| them. One allied plane was miss- ! the task of mobilizing labor efor|ing, ‘maximum production be centralized] The allied planes were using new one agency. 2000-pound bombs for the first time, * Tt said the war man power com- evidently having saved them for this mission had been “superimposed” on|crucial battle. several agencies, and added that the commission had issued directives to ‘various agencies, with no assurance NIMITZ SAYS /] S ~~ that the latter could pérform the : Ad Ee os HOLDING INITIATIVE , “Instruct Draft Boards’ The report said many industries UNITED STATES PACIFIC do not utilize even the “inadequate” | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL factities of the U. S. employment HARBOR, Aug. 10—(U. P.).— United States sea, air and land forces aided by Australians smashed for the féurth day today into. the Japanese-held Solomorr islands in the first great American offensive of the war. Meager reports to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief in the Pacific, who directed the momentous battle from his headquarters here, made it plain. that the allied forces retained the initiative and their offensive was entering the deg¢isive phase. The entire Pacific was becoming a gigantic) theater of operations of the greatest moment. A strong United States task force had struck suddenly and heavily at the Japanese invasion forces at Kiska, in the Aleutians off Alaska, but there was no word of results there. In Hawaii, the army under Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Emmons, was on a day and night alert and held dramatic | maheuvers yesterday simulating defense against a sudden attempt by the Japanese to invade.
several small demonstrations. ‘Other congress leaders also were arrested in Orissa province, southwest of Bengal.
Call for Strike
in Delhi thousands of angry demonstrators = paralyzed traffic, closed shops in a call for a general hartal (strike) and stoically resisted police. An impressive parade of British and Indian troops, led by. cavalry, moved_through the city -to the old fort, not far from the scene of the demonstrations that blocked -Old Delhi's main. street, Chandni Chowk; but British sources said that the display of armed strength was primarily to demonstrate preparations. to -defend India. against Japan. Mill workers, shop keepers, clerks joined in-ihe .
many direct hitsiand
- Stillwell in New Dethi
Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell, commanding United States forces in southeast Asia, and Lachlan Currie, President Roosevelt's special representative, arrived at New Delhi, the capital, from China as the general strike wave spread to the capital area. At least one person had ‘been killed at Amhadabad, 275 miles north of bay, headquarters of the nationalist All-India: congress whose resolution demanding immediate independehce as the -altere native to mass civil disobedience had precipitated a situation that threatened the defense of India against the Japanese established. in adjoining Burma,
Some Shut Down
Trade was practically at a standstill in all Bombay markets today, despite a firm government order for business as usual. Only markets in Mohammedan areas of the city remained open. Work was interrupted at -some mills and factories because workers struck in support of Mohandas K. Gandhi's freedom-or-death exhortations. Fatal riots,
the country, as Hindu nationalist!
throughout the country. for the first sign of an attempt to sabotage India’s war effort after receipt by
the government of reports that Hindu nationalists might start a campaign to cripple the country’s
war effort.
their leaders. Gandhi Fast Expected
Poona palace of the Aga Khan,
death.”
fast were
of Franklin,
mass arrests and blanket curfews spread throughout
mobs surged through the teaming streets of cities, clashing with police. | Police and troops - were alert
India’s 80,000,000 Mohammedans remained aloof under orders by
It was believed that at any hour,
wizened, "loin-c'othed Gandhi, detained ‘in preventive custody at the
leader of India’s Mohammedans, along with Jawaharlar Nehru. and other outstanding leaders of .the congress, might start a fast “unto
There was every belief that if the
Gandhi's wife was arrested when she announced an intention to address a mass meeting in place of arrested leaders.
830 INFANTRY TO BE REVIVED
Ceremonies at Atterbury To Recall How Division
Halted Austrians. (Continued from Page One)
start at 10:30 a. m., with many distinguished Suests expected to at-
-} tend.
Gen. Millikin and Carp Commander Welton M. Modissette have invited Governor Schricker, Lieut. Gov. Dawson, Mayor Sullivan of]
Indianapolis, Mayor Fred Owens of
Columbus, Mayor Lewellyn Oliver Mayor J. Edward Shook of Shelbyville and President Ira. Smith of the Edinburg town board. Many of the division’s types of equipment will be displayed, ' including the famous field artillery 105 and 155 howitzers, anti-tank guns, transportation vehicles, and also’ methods ‘of field fortifications, such as fox holes and slit trenches. Gen. Millikin announced the following program: 1. Formation of troops in Hollow Square ‘and presentation to division commander. 2. Activation order and assumption of command. 3. Presentation of division to Gen. Lear, with a speech of acceptance. 4, Transfer of the 83d division standard to the new division commander by the president of the 83d division veterans’ association. A short ‘history ‘of the division will be] read. 5. Address of- welcome by Govérmor Schricker. 6. Presentation of colors to commanders of various units. 7. Nineteen-gun salute to the
tional anthem. 8. March in review. The public has been invited.
HIGGINS ACCUSES PEARSON OF LYING
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 10 (U. P.). -—Andrew Jackson Higgins Sr., New Orleans shipbuilder, said’ today he would hold Drew Pearson accountable for a “malicious falsehood” that his shipyard site was a hot tomless pit.” The Washington eoidminist asserted in a broadcast last night that army engineers had found the site ‘unsuitable to hold piling. Consequently, : Pearson said, the U. 8S.
on the yard and cancelled Higgins’ contract for 200 Liberty ships.
time te refute Pearson's charges, said the Liberty plant site was unusually solid.
base. , | grain sacks which showed up shzrp-
fwho is 24, had been in the an
colors and the playing of the na-|
Maritime Commission stopped work
Higgins, who demanded network.
from the air, might lead to the wish taken impression that a farmer ans, gaged in contour plowing had ne finished his task and had turne to other duties.
Easily Seen From Air
But an enemy bomber, dopesil if he had been advised to watch fo such a pattern, would have seen : dark arrowhead laid out in the ux touched vegetation, clearly visi: against the lighter edlor of tic plowed earth. It would have him. directly to an important gir
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The deadly “9,” made of whit ie!
ly against the green field, mighi have meant the destruction of :: important plane factory. It w:s noted that the- field itself wa: : laid out that one of its: corners) i which the tail of the “9” enic: might aldo have sérved as a marke: Just beyond the corner was a clezi + discernible white barn.
LOCAL SOLDIER SH(" IN AFRICA. HOTE
DURBAN, South Africa, Aug. (Delayed) (U, P.) ~Private Joon Kelly of Indianapolis was shot ard wounded while standing at a Agta! bar last night. : Another American soldier, Falph Omar Swartz, 28, appeared b:fo:: a ‘magistrate today in connector with the shooting and was h:l: for a hearing Tuesday. Pvt. Keir is in’ a hospital with a bullet wou:is in his chest. Kelly was leaning against th: =~ when the shot was fired. Ther: hi been no quarrel, witnesses saicl, ¢~ the unidentified assailant escar ec amid the confusion. : After the shot Kelly walked cver to, a doorman, shouted “Ive beso shot,” and collapsed.
Pvt. John Kelly is the sin of Mrs.. Nellie Kelly of 935 Lexingtc ave. 5 Mrs. Kelly said today that Joh,
since February. John has two c¢ih " brothers at: “home; 19 and mn, |
YANKS ‘AND BRITIS gil RAID BENGHAZI BA
CAIRO; Aug. 10 (U. gl army air corps .and British hi bombing planes have made & cessful daylight attack on shipbing at Benghazi, the chief axis bate in Libya, and scored direct hits cn two ships and ‘possibly damaed a third. Light bombers continued ‘successful attacks on axis reinforcernent and supply shipping off the Egjrtian coast and raided extensively hiehind the axis line in the battle area "vest of El Alamein.
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